Wikitech-l March 2015

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[VisualEditor] 7th weekly triage meeting; office hour for March
by Erica Litrenta 23 Mar '15

23 Mar '15

Hello all, and apologies for cross-posting. Here are some reminders and announcements about upcoming appointments related to VisualEditor. A *triage meeting* for VisualEditor (the last one for this quarter) is scheduled for* Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 19:00 UTC* [1]. For more information, and to learn how you can participate even if you're not taking part to the Google Hangout, please see the relevant page at mediawiki.org [2]. This *Friday 27 March at 15:00 UTC* an *office hour* about VE will be held on IRC [3]. Previous logs and other information, including how to participate, can be found at Meta [4]. Please notice it will be the last office hour in this format, but we'd like to discuss alternative formulas which are more useful for everybody. Therefore, please see and comment the related Phabricator task [5], or just come and discuss the future of these conversations with us on Friday. Looking forward to meeting you later this week! Elitre (WMF) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_(Product) [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&d… [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal [3] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=15&min=00&sec=0&d… [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92783

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Renaming two extension with same name
by Thomas Mulhall 23 Mar '15

23 Mar '15

Here are links to the extension. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_(Wikimedia) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_(third-party)

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GSoC 2015 participation
by Vicky 23 Mar '15

23 Mar '15

Hi all! I joined to this mailing list because I am a MediaWiki user and I like FOSS, I would like to contribute to Wikimedia Foundation by participating to GSoC 2015. >From the ideas list I liked more Extension to identify and delete spam pages and Newsletter MediaWiki extension, I like web development but I usually don't have much time to expand my knowledge, and this would be a very good occasion for me to both contribute to the community, learn more interesting stuff, know better Wikimedia community, and have the possibility to do this gorgeous stuff full time this summer :) I have recently completed Aerospace Engineering and I am student of Electronic Engineering right now, as hobby I have done web development and design, so I know HTML, CSS, JavaScript and various web development technology such as JQuery and AJAX, while I have basic knowledge of SQL, Python and PHP. I would know which of the ideas I like is priority? I am very motivated to do this project and I would definitely learn a lot of things, moreover i would like to continue to cooperate with Wikimedia community also after the GSoC ends Thanks for this possibility! Cheers! Vicky

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Regarding gsoc 2015
by Arindam Padhy 23 Mar '15

23 Mar '15

How can project ideas being assigned to a student before all students have submitted their proposal. i too wanted to put my proposal but my mentor says he has already selected one student for this project. this is not fair.

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Renaming two extension with same name
by Thomas Mulhall 21 Mar '15

21 Mar '15

Hi should we rename two extensions with the same name since it is confusing which one to use and since they have the same name the api would show the same extension twice and then wikiapriary would think your using both so if one had for example version 1.7 and the other 2.0 that would be confusing. the extensions are DynamicPageList (Wikimedia) and DynamicPageList (third-party) Should we change DynamicPageList (Wikimedia) back to intersection.

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retiring service: contacts.wikimedia.org
by Daniel Zahn 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

Hello, The service: https://contacts.wikimedia.org/ used to be a CiviCRM [1] (but _not_ the fundraising CiviCRM@) formerly used for donor contacts. It was an old ersion, running on a really outdated version of Drupal [2], and I have asked around and couldn't find any active users of it. Former users are either with the WikiEdu Foundation now or switched to Asana. [3] So i disabled the service but did not delete it yet for a grace period. This is the formal notification about retiring service. If you are an (unexpected) user of it or think you want a dump file, please speak up soon via the bug [4] or contact me. [5] Thank you, [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiviCRM [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90679#1102380 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90679 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Dzahn/ -- Daniel Zahn <dzahn(a)wikimedia.org> Operations Engineer

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MediaWiki-Vagrant now has support for install in Linux Containers (LXC)
by Bryan Davis 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

We have working support for installing MediaWiki-Vagrant in an LXC container now! See the instructions in support/README-lxc.md [0] for a description of how to use it from a Ubuntu 14.04 host computer. Patches are welcome giving alternate instructions for other distributions. Note that Vagrant 1.7+ is required for the latest version of the vagrant-lxc plugin that this uses so you will probably not be able to install Vagrant from a package repo unless you are running Debian unstable. Making using MediaWiki-Vagrant a lighter weight experience for users who are running Linux on their laptops. I took a shot at this right after Wikimania last year by figuring out how to use MediaWiki-Vagrant to provision a Docker container. That experiment made a system that we too unstable for me to promote anyone using it as more than a proof of concept. Since then I've "been meaning to" try out LXC by using the vagrant-lxc plugin [1] and last weekend I finally found the time. Thanks to Marko Obrovac and Dan Duvall for helping test this. [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MWVA/browse/master/support/READ… [1]: https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd808(a)wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855

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regarding gsoc 2015
by Arindam Padhy 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

hello i am a b.tech student pursuing my carrer at iiit bhubaneswar,india. i am deeply interested in gsoc 2015 and wanted to do a project under this organization. how should i proceed..?? do we need to solve any bugs..??

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looking for unit testing resources for bot development
by Frances Hocutt 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

I'm working on cleaning up the code[1] for GrantsBot[2] and generally getting it into better and more robust shape. I've started writing basic unit tests to assist in the refactoring process. Since it interacts so heavily with the MediaWiki API, however, this isn't a straightforward process, and it's even more complicated because I'll be rewriting it to use a different client library (so any mocks/stubs I include will need to be rewritten). Does anyone have thoughts on the best strategy for this, or, more generally, pointers to good resources for writing unit tests for API clients? -Frances [1] dev branch: https://github.com/fhocutt/grantsbot/tree/dev [2] a bot run by Community Resources to maintain the IdeaLab on MetaWiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GrantsBot

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[GSoC] An enhanced cross-wiki watchlist as an OAuth tool – looking for mentors
by Jan Lebert 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

Hey everyone, I want to build a "better" watchlist as an OAuth tool – this would include cross-wiki watchlist & notifications support as well as distinct features like inline diffs. I see the opportunity here to experiment with the design and do things differently without breaking any existing workflows. I've made a basic prototype at https://tools.wmflabs.org/watchr/ which currently orientates itself much on the MW watchlist design. It is currently quite limited and only queries a list of hand-picked projects. One of the things I would like to support is dynamic filtering (as shown by the search box in the prototype). See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92955 for a screenshot and more details. It's build with a AngularJS frontend and a python backend. I'm looking for possible mentors, anyone interested? Feel free to ping me in IRC under the nick sitic, I idle around in the usual channels. Thanks sitic

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