Wikitech-l May 2015

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Please fix: breaking change for third parties
by Jeroen De Dauw 27 May '15

27 May '15

Hey, I'd like to draw some additional attention to the fact that the MediaWiki release tags and branches have disappeared from the git repo mirror on GitHub. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100409 Having this disruption for anyone who relies on this mirror be addressed in a timely manner would be great. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Developer at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3

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Wikimedia group on GitHub
by Sébastien Santoro 27 May '15

27 May '15

Hi, When I looked my GitHub homepage today, I've seen there were a lot of holes on my commit calendar. After investigation, I noticed it were an hundred commits on Wikimedia repositories who weren't noted. Then, I noticed I weren't in the Wikimedia group anymore. Could I know why, as I'm currently active, according https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:merged+owner:Dereckson,n,z. -- Sébastien Santoro aka Dereckson http://www.dereckson.be/

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Semantic MediaWiki Conference Fall 2015: Call for Participation
by [[kgh]] 27 May '15

27 May '15

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)

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[IRC] wm-bot's IRC logs web viewer quick outage
by Petr Bena 27 May '15

27 May '15

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.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Frances Hocutt
by Siko Bouterse 27 May '15

27 May '15

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 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> Wmfall mailing list >>>>>>>> Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Wmfall mailing list >>>>>>> Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Heather Walls >>>>>> Wikimedia Foundation >>>>>> 149 New Montgomery Street I San Francisco, CA 94105 >>>>>> >>>>>> annual.wikimedia.org >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Wmfall mailing list >>>>>> Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wmfall mailing list >>>>> Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Patrick Earley >>>> Community Advocate >>>> Wikimedia Foundation >>>> pearley(a)wikimedia.org >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wmfall mailing list >>>> Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Alexandra Wang >>> Program Officer >>> Project & Event Grants >>> Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home> >>> +1 415-839-6885 >>> Skype: alexvwang >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wmfall mailing list >>> Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Edward Galvez >> Program Evaluation Associate >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wmfall mailing list >> Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > > -- Siko Bouterse Director of Community Resources Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate <https://donate.wikimedia.org> or click the "edit" button today, and help us make it a reality!*

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Frances Hocutt
by Edward Galvez 26 May '15

26 May '15

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 >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Wmfall mailing list >>>>>> Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wmfall mailing list >>>>> Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Heather Walls >>>> Wikimedia Foundation >>>> 149 New Montgomery Street I San Francisco, CA 94105 >>>> >>>> annual.wikimedia.org >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wmfall mailing list >>>> Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wmfall mailing list >>> Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Patrick Earley >> Community Advocate >> Wikimedia Foundation >> pearley(a)wikimedia.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wmfall mailing list >> Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall >> >> > > > -- > Alexandra Wang > Program Officer > Project & Event Grants > Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home> > +1 415-839-6885 > Skype: alexvwang > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > > -- Edward Galvez Program Evaluation Associate Wikimedia Foundation

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Welcome Niharika Kohli
by Bryan Davis 26 May '15

26 May '15

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

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Welcome Frances Hocutt
by Bryan Davis 26 May '15

26 May '15

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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[MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki bug fix release 1.25.1
by Chris Steipp 25 May '15

25 May '15

Hello everyone, The ConfirmEdit extension in the 1.25.0 tarball contained a syntax error in two JSON files. We deeply apologize for this error, and thanks to Paul Villiger for reporting the issue. A new 1.25.1 tarball has been released which fixes the issue. Users using git can update to the latest REL1_25 branch. Full release notes: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_25/RELEASE-NOTES… https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.25 ********************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-1.25.1.tar.gz http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-core-1.25.1.tar.gz GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-core-1.25.1.tar.gz.s… http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-1.25.1.tar.gz.sig Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html _______________________________________________ MediaWiki announcements mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Frances Hocutt
by Aaron Halfaker 25 May '15

25 May '15

\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 >> > > > -- > *Anne Gomez* // Product Manager, Fundraising > https://wikimediafoundation.org/ > > > *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate > <http://donate.wikimedia.org>. * > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > >

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