Wikitech-l January 2016

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Canceled: January Lightning Talks
by Megan Neisler 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

Hi all, The Lightning Talks have been canceled for this month. Please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks to view recordings of past Lightning Talks and add your name to the Ideas/Nominations section if you are interested in presenting at the next one. An email will be sent 2 weeks before the next scheduled Lightning Talks. Thanks! Megan Neisler, Kevin Leduc and Rachel Farrand -- Megan Neisler Project Coordinator- Engineering Wikimedia Foundation mneisler(a)wikimedia.org <mguss(a)wikimedia.org>

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XML dumps
by Lars Aronsson 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

The XML database dumps are missing all through May, apparently because of a memory leak that is being worked on, as described here, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98585 However, that information doesn't reach the person who wants to download a fresh dump and looks here, http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html I think it should be possible to make a regular schedule for when these dumps should be produced, e.g. once each month or once every second month, and treat any delay as a bug. The process to produce them has been halted by errors many times in the past, and even when it runs as intended the interval is unpredictable. Now when there is a bug, all dumps are halted, i.e. much delayed. For a user of the dumps, this is extremely frustrating. With proper release management, it should be possible to run the old version of the process until the new version has been tested, first on some smaller wikis, and gradually on the larger ones. -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

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New tutorial for interactive graphics on Wiki
by Yuri Astrakhan 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

I just finished writing a tutorial on how to build interactive Vega graphs for Wikipedia. And yes, we could build video games this way too :) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Interactive_Graph_Tutorial

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Updating the MediaWiki Debian package
by Legoktm 10 Jan '16

10 Jan '16

Hi, Over the past few months, I've been working with LFaraone, Faidon, and Moritz on updating the super old 1.19.x Debian package of MediaWiki to use a more modern version (currently 1.25.x) and just generally improve the quality of it. (Yes, it uses MySQL by default, not postgres!) It's currently waiting in the "new" queue[1], but if you'd like to test it out, I've uploaded the debs at [2]. If you find any bugs or have feature requests, you can let me know or file a request in the MediaWiki-Debian[3] Phabricator project. The debian/ files used to create the package can be found in Gerrit in the mediawiki/debian repository[4]. [1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html [2] https://people.wikimedia.org/~legoktm/debian/ [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-debian/ [4] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/projects/mediawiki/debian,dashboards/defau… -- Legoktm

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Scholarship Deadline for Wikimania is Today
by Quim Gil 09 Jan '16

09 Jan '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Ellie Young" <eyoung(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Jan 9, 2016 12:56 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Scholarship Deadline for Wikimania is Today To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" < wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia Mailing List" < wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Reminder: Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2016 which is being held in Esino Lario, Italy on June 22–27, 2016 are now being accepted. Applications are open until Saturday, January 09 2016 23:59 UTC. Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and shared accommodation. Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, who will determine which applications are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2016 scholarships, please visit: https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on: https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page and the associated FAQ ( https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ ) before submitting an application. If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org <wikimania-scholarships(a)wikimedia.org> or leave a message at: https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scholarships -- Ellie Young Events Manager Wikimedia Foundation eyoung(a)wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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IPv6 block range size
by Bináris 09 Jan '16

09 Jan '16

Hi, I cannot find a piece of information about $subject. As help page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Range_blocks/IPv6> was moved from Meta to MediaWiki, it gives now a general talk instead of actual information. It says: "Like IPv4, IPv6 rangeblocks are limited by $wgBlockCIDRLimit <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgBlockCIDRLimit>, which by default allows rangeblocks of up to /64 in size (before MediaWiki 1.20wmf5, which changes the default to /19)." All right, but what is the actual value for WMF wikis, and where is this information available? -- Bináris

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Google code-in progress statistics; opportunity to join
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

In addition to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_at_Google_Code-in_2015.png, which shows we've completed more tasks in the first half of the contest than in the entire last year, we have some nice statistics about Wikimedia compared to other orgs. The best news for me is that not only we involved many students with easy beginner tasks, but they go farther from there: we're the third org with most students with 3+ tasks completed. You can still become a mentor, or add new tasks if you're already one: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015#Mentors.27_corner If you don't know what tasks to mentor, I just added ~50 suitable reports you can pick from (mostly MediaWiki, so any MediaWiki dev can help): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/google-code-in-2015/ The more mentors we have, the less worries about making the 36 hours deadline for reviews. :-) Nemo -------- Messaggio inoltrato -------- Il giorno giovedì 7 gennaio 2016 01:42:11 UTC+1, Robert Spier ha scritto: Hi Org Admins and Mentors, Here are some interesting statistics about task completion counts. Thanks to Freso for suggesting some metrics. Thanks to Google Sheets for making the analysis easy. As of 1/6/2016 15:47:58 TZ=America/Los_Angeles #students >= 1 task completed #students >= 3 tasks completed #tasks completed by 1st place student #tasks completed by 10th place student Apertium 20 10 22 3 Copyleft Games 61 5 7 1 Drupal 23 4 11 1 FOSSASIA 286 87 40 21 Haiku 43 10 15 3 KDE 33 11 19 5 MetaBrainz Foundation 70 11 17 3 OpenMRS 48 9 16 2 RTEMS Project 47 11 30 3 Sugar Labs 98 17 38 4 Sustainable Computing Research Group ( SCoRe ) 32 7 14 2 Systers, an Anita Borg Institute Community 23 6 13 2 Ubuntu 194 35 26 6 Wikimedia 91 18 28 8 -R

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Part 2: The right way to inject JavaScript?
by Daniel Barrett 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

Last week, I asked the right way to inject raw JavaScript so that "mw" and "jQuery" were defined. I was helpfully pointed to ResourceLoader::makeInlineScript(), which wraps the JS in the appropriate magic: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-December/084408.html Now, what is the right way to include a remote JavaScript file? If I simply use OutputPage::addScript() like this: $myOutputPage->addScript('<script src="http://remote.com/myfile.js"></script>') it fails because the remote JavaScript file references the "jQuery" object like this: function ($) { //... code here }(jQuery)); I get "ReferenceError: jQuery is not defined" on the last line. I guess the remote script is getting evaluated before ResourceLoader brings in jquery.js...? Thanks very much for any advice. DanB

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Trouble while setting up mediawiki-vagrant
by Devang Gaur 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

Hi, I've been trying to set up mediawiki-vagrant on my machine.But Vagrant crashes everytime. It says that vagrant home directory(address) has spaces, even though I've installed C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant . and cloned medaiwiki-vagrant at C:/myMediawiki/vagrant. Need help.

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Raw notes from Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016
by Joel Aufrecht 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

The index of notes for the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016> is located here: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikiDev16-AllNotes. If you are aware of notes that aren't indexed here, please add them. Because Etherpad is not the preferred permanent medium for Wikimedia notes, please consider migrating your notes to mediawiki.org and linking them from the session calendar (first link). Thanks, *--Joel Aufrecht* Team Practices Group Wikimedia Foundation

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