Dear users, developers and all people interested in semantic wikis,
We are happy to announce SMWCon Fall 2015 - the 12th Semantic MediaWiki
Conference:
* Dates: October 28th to October 30th 2015 (Wednesday to Friday)
* Location: Fabra i Coats, Art Factory. Carrer Sant Adrià 20 (Sant
Andreu), Barcelona.
* Conference wikipage:
https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2015
* Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in
Semantic MediaWiki, e.g., users, developers, consultants, business
representatives, researchers.
SMWCon Fall 2015 will be supported by Institut de Cultura de Barcelona
(http://lameva.barcelona.cat/barcelonacultura/en/), Amical Wikimedia
(https://www.wikimedia.cat) and Open Semantic Data Association e. V.
(https://opensemanticdata.org/).
Following the success of this format the SMWCon will have one tutorial
day preceeding two conference days.
Participating in the conference: To help us planning, you can already
informally register on the wikipage, although a firm registration will
later be needed.
Contributing to the conference: If you want to present your work in the
conference please go to the conference wikipage and add your talk there.
To create an attractive program for the conference, we will later ask
you to give further information about your proposals. Tutorials and
presentations will be video and audio recorded and will be made
available for others after the conference.
Among others, we encourage contributions on the following topics:
Applications of semantic wikis:
* Semantic wikis for enterprise workflows and business intelligence
* Semantic wikis for corporate or personal knowledge management
* Exchange on business models with semantic wikis
* Lessons learned (best/worst practices) from using semantic wikis or
their extensions
* Semantic wikis in e-science, e-learning, e-health, e-government
* Semantic wikis for finding a common vocabulary among a group of people
* Semantic wikis for teaching students about the Semantic Web
* Offering incentives for users of semantic wikis
* Challenges and obstacles for Semantic Wikis in business environments
Development of semantic wikis:
* Semantic wikis as knowledge base backends / data integration platforms
* Comparisons of semantic wiki concepts and technologies
* Community building, feature wishlists, roadmapping of Semantic
MediaWiki
* Improving user experience in a semantic wiki
* Speeding up semantic wikis
* Integrations and interoperability of semantic wikis with other
applications and mashups
* Modeling of complex domains in semantic wikis, using rules, formulas
etc.
* Access control and security aspects in semantic wikis
* Multilingual semantic wikis
For any other question and sponsorship opportunities, please do not
hesitate to contact Toni Hermoso <toniher at cau.cat>
Hope to see you in Barcelona!
Lia Veja, Karsten Hoffmeyer
(Program Board)
Hi,
I will be migrating wm-bot's database server to new box running
postgres today. It shouldn't harm any log collection in channels where
logging is enabled, but it will make it impossible to use the SQL
based viewer at http://tools.wmflabs.org/wm-bot/logs for a while (I
hope just few hours).
The reason for the outage is that migration will take 2 parts: First I
replace bot core with version that uses postgres - that shouldn't take
more than 1 second. Since that moment new logs will be written to
postgres, but old would still stay in MySQL. Then I will have to move
all data to postgres, logs table has millions of rows and about 8GB so
that might take a while...
So, there should be no outage in logs but web viewer won't be working
for a while.
The reason for migration is that MySQL doesn't scale very well, is
missing lots of useful features (roles, tablespaces and lots of other
advanced stuff that is very useful on labs - it supports nfs based
storage and so on), and the old server basically ran out of space.
Hooray! Frances, you've been wonderful to work with during Inspire and
beyond, and I'm so glad you'll be sticking around on this new team :)
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Sati Houston <shouston(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Welcome Frances!!
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Edward Galvez <egalvez(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Welcome!
>>
>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Alex Wang <awang(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Congrats, Frances! You've been an awesome addition to our team and I
>>> have really valued your thoughtfulness, especially during the Inspire
>>> Campaign.
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Patrick Earley <pearley(a)wikimedia.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Wonderful, Frances! Glad to have you here!
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Floor Koudijs <fkoudijs(a)wikimedia.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So happy to hear this Frances!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Floor Koudijs
>>>>>
>>>>> Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
>>>>>
>>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>>>
>>>>> +1.415.839.6885 x6806 (landline)
>>>>>
>>>>> +1.415.692.5289 (cell phone)
>>>>>
>>>>> fkoudijs(a)wikimedia.org
>>>>>
>>>>> education.wikimedia.org
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Heather Walls <hwalls(a)wikimedia.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Great news! I'm so excited to hear this!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Heather
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Dan Duvall <dduvall(a)wikimedia.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Welcome to WMF, Frances! I'm looking forward to working with you
>>>>>>> (more)!
>>>>>>> On May 25, 2015 9:39 PM, "Bryan Davis" <bd808(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm excited to announce that Frances Hocutt has been hired as a
>>>>>>>> Software Engineer on the Community Tech team starting 2015-05-26.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> She has gotten a good start on getting things done by writing a
>>>>>>>> great introduction blurb for me to forward on:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Frances is looking forward to starting on a [new team doing cool
>>>>>>>> but unspecified stuff]. Frances has been with the WMF for most of the last
>>>>>>>> year, first as an OPW intern and then as a developer for Community
>>>>>>>> Resources. Frances has primarily worked in the MediaWiki API ecosystem: she
>>>>>>>> wrote the standard for API client libraries, evaluated a number of them,
>>>>>>>> and developed wiki bots to support this Inspire campaign and the Co-op
>>>>>>>> mentorship project on English Wikipedia. She also has contributed patches
>>>>>>>> and product management to Wikimetrics. Before starting work in F/OSS,
>>>>>>>> Frances worked as a medicinal chemist, studied organic chemistry and
>>>>>>>> materials science, and founded a hackerspace. She moved to the Bay Area in
>>>>>>>> January. She enjoys giving talks, mentoring new programmers, and practicing
>>>>>>>> various fiber arts.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Frances can be found as fhocutt on IRC, Fhocutt as a volunteer, and
>>>>>>>> Fhocutt (WMF) officially.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> 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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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
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>>>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>>>> 149 New Montgomery Street I San Francisco, CA 94105
>>>>>>
>>>>>> annual.wikimedia.org
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>> Wikimedia Foundation
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Welcome!
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Alex Wang <awang(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Congrats, Frances! You've been an awesome addition to our team and I have
> really valued your thoughtfulness, especially during the Inspire Campaign.
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Patrick Earley <pearley(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Wonderful, Frances! Glad to have you here!
>>
>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Floor Koudijs <fkoudijs(a)wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> So happy to hear this Frances!
>>>
>>>
>>> Floor Koudijs
>>>
>>> Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
>>>
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>
>>> +1.415.839.6885 x6806 (landline)
>>>
>>> +1.415.692.5289 (cell phone)
>>>
>>> fkoudijs(a)wikimedia.org
>>>
>>> education.wikimedia.org
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Heather Walls <hwalls(a)wikimedia.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Great news! I'm so excited to hear this!
>>>>
>>>> Heather
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Dan Duvall <dduvall(a)wikimedia.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Welcome to WMF, Frances! I'm looking forward to working with you
>>>>> (more)!
>>>>> On May 25, 2015 9:39 PM, "Bryan Davis" <bd808(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm excited to announce that Frances Hocutt has been hired as a
>>>>>> Software Engineer on the Community Tech team starting 2015-05-26.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> She has gotten a good start on getting things done by writing a great
>>>>>> introduction blurb for me to forward on:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Frances is looking forward to starting on a [new team doing cool but
>>>>>> unspecified stuff]. Frances has been with the WMF for most of the last
>>>>>> year, first as an OPW intern and then as a developer for Community
>>>>>> Resources. Frances has primarily worked in the MediaWiki API ecosystem: she
>>>>>> wrote the standard for API client libraries, evaluated a number of them,
>>>>>> and developed wiki bots to support this Inspire campaign and the Co-op
>>>>>> mentorship project on English Wikipedia. She also has contributed patches
>>>>>> and product management to Wikimetrics. Before starting work in F/OSS,
>>>>>> Frances worked as a medicinal chemist, studied organic chemistry and
>>>>>> materials science, and founded a hackerspace. She moved to the Bay Area in
>>>>>> January. She enjoys giving talks, mentoring new programmers, and practicing
>>>>>> various fiber arts.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Frances can be found as fhocutt on IRC, Fhocutt as a volunteer, and
>>>>>> Fhocutt (WMF) officially.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> 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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>>>>
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>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>> 149 New Montgomery Street I San Francisco, CA 94105
>>>>
>>>> annual.wikimedia.org
>>>>
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Wikimedia Foundation
Community Tech is glad to welcome Niharika Kohli as a Software Engineer.
Her first day will be 2015-05-26.
Here's the great blurb she wrote for me to forward on to the lists:
Niharika lives in New Delhi, India where she's recently completed her
undergraduate in IT. She's formerly been an OPW (now Outreachy) intern with
Wikimedia for Round 7 where she had fun working on the compact language
selector project with the Language Engineering team. She's also been a
Google Summer of Code intern where she worked on a whacky Django project in
a tiny five person organization.
Niharika's been working as a contractor with the Foundation since November
on the Wikimania Scholarships and Grants Review applications. She's also
been having a lot of fun bullying around Wikimedia's GSoC and Outreachy
interns (one of the perks of being an org-administrator).
Niharika enjoys cooking Indian food in her spare time. She's also fond of
travelling, roller coasters, board games, messing around with gadgets and
other nerdy stuff like solving the Rubik's cube. She's thrilled to be
working with Wikimedia which is her first real job.
--
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
I'm excited to announce that Frances Hocutt has been hired as a Software
Engineer on the Community Tech team starting 2015-05-26.
She has gotten a good start on getting things done by writing a great
introduction blurb for me to forward on:
Frances is looking forward to starting on a [new team doing cool but
unspecified stuff]. Frances has been with the WMF for most of the last
year, first as an OPW intern and then as a developer for Community
Resources. Frances has primarily worked in the MediaWiki API ecosystem: she
wrote the standard for API client libraries, evaluated a number of them,
and developed wiki bots to support this Inspire campaign and the Co-op
mentorship project on English Wikipedia. She also has contributed patches
and product management to Wikimetrics. Before starting work in F/OSS,
Frances worked as a medicinal chemist, studied organic chemistry and
materials science, and founded a hackerspace. She moved to the Bay Area in
January. She enjoys giving talks, mentoring new programmers, and practicing
various fiber arts.
Frances can be found as fhocutt on IRC, Fhocutt as a volunteer, and Fhocutt
(WMF) officially.
--
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
\o/ Wooo! Welcome :)
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Anne Gomez <agomez(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Yay! I'm so glad this is official. Welcome, and I'm excited to work more
> with you.
>
>
> On Monday, May 25, 2015, Bryan Davis <bd808(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm excited to announce that Frances Hocutt has been hired as a Software
>> Engineer on the Community Tech team starting 2015-05-26.
>>
>> She has gotten a good start on getting things done by writing a great
>> introduction blurb for me to forward on:
>>
>> Frances is looking forward to starting on a [new team doing cool but
>> unspecified stuff]. Frances has been with the WMF for most of the last
>> year, first as an OPW intern and then as a developer for Community
>> Resources. Frances has primarily worked in the MediaWiki API ecosystem: she
>> wrote the standard for API client libraries, evaluated a number of them,
>> and developed wiki bots to support this Inspire campaign and the Co-op
>> mentorship project on English Wikipedia. She also has contributed patches
>> and product management to Wikimetrics. Before starting work in F/OSS,
>> Frances worked as a medicinal chemist, studied organic chemistry and
>> materials science, and founded a hackerspace. She moved to the Bay Area in
>> January. She enjoys giving talks, mentoring new programmers, and practicing
>> various fiber arts.
>>
>> Frances can be found as fhocutt on IRC, Fhocutt as a volunteer, and
>> Fhocutt (WMF) officially.
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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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Hi gerrit replication is broken causing gitblit to not update. there is a patch at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/213216/ ready to be reviewed please could someone review it. it is an important patch.
Hi,
With the release of MediaWiki 1.25, the lifetime of MediaWiki version 1.19.x
LTS ends.
Users still using MediaWiki 1.19.x are advised to upgrade to version 1.25.0
(latest stable) or 1.23.x (legacy and LTS version).
-Chad Horohoe, MW Release Manager
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