Wikitech-l October 2016

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productivity of mediawiki developers
by rupert THURNER 29 May '17

29 May '17

hi, is there a statistics about mediawiki developer productivity? i just fell over a couple of pages and i am quite impressed i must say: * gabriel, https://github.com/gwicke, 2'300 commits last year * jeroen, https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw, 3'700 commits a year * ori, https://github.com/atdt, 1'700 * james, https://github.com/jdforrester, 1'200 * yuri, https://github.com/nyurik, 900 * matt: https://github.com/mattflaschen, 400 commits rupert

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Fwd: [Commons-l] Programmatically categorizing media in the Commons with Machine Learning
by Pine W 04 Apr '17

04 Apr '17

Forwarding. Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Jordan Adler" <jmadler(a)google.com> Date: Aug 11, 2016 13:06 Subject: [Commons-l] Programmatically categorizing media in the Commons with Machine Learning To: "commons-l(a)wikimedia.org" <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: "Ray Sakai" <rsakai(a)reactive.co.jp>, "Ram Ramanathan" < ramramanathan(a)google.com>, "Kazunori Sato" <kazsato(a)google.com> Hey folks! A few months back a colleague of mine was looking for some unstructured images to analyze as part of a demo for the Google Cloud Vision API <https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/05/explore-the-galaxy-of-images…>. Luckily, I knew just the place <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_needing_categories>, and the resulting demo <http://vision-explorer.reactive.ai/>, built by Reactive Inc., is pretty awesome. It was shared on-stage by Jeff Dean during the keynote <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgWHeT_OwHc&feature=youtu.be&t=2h1m19s> at GCP NEXT 2016. I wanted to quickly share the data from the programmatically identified images so it could be used to help categorize the media in the Commons. There's about 80,000 images worth of data: - map.txt <https://storage.googleapis.com/gcs-samples2-explorer/reprocess/map.txt> (5.9MB): A single text file mapping id to filename in a "id : filename" format, one per line - results.tar.gz <https://storage.googleapis.com/gcs-samples2-explorer/reprocess/results.tar.…> (29.6MB): a tgz'd directory of json files representing the output of the API <https://cloud.google.com/vision/reference/rest/v1/images/annotate#response-…>, in the format "${id}.jpg.json" We're making this data available under the CC0 license, and these links will likely be live for at least a few weeks. If you're interested in working with the Cloud Vision API to tag other images in the Commons, talk to the WMF Community Tech team. Thanks for your help! _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

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Deploying the Linter extension to Wikimedia wikis
by Legoktm 11 Dec '16

11 Dec '16

Hi, Arlo and myself have been working on a new MediaWiki extension to expose Parsoid's "lint errors" to users. A little bit of background, Parsoid has a linter that identifies some issues in wikitext that while may not result in user-facing errors, are still not wanted in wikitext. An example might be [[File:Example.png|foo|bar|baz]]. In this case, "foo" and "bar" are ignored, and "baz" is the actual caption - but the bogus image options should be removed. Other errors include missing end tags, obsolete HTML tags, fostered content, etc. The main advantage of this over tracking categories is that we know the location in the wikitext so it should be easier to identify the error and fix it, as well as knowing whether the issue was caused via a template or not. The main ticket tracking deployment is <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148609>. -- Legoktm

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Introduction for Gsoc 2017
by MAYANK JINDAL 10 Dec '16

10 Dec '16

Hi, My name is Mayank Jindal. I am third year undergraduate student currently studying at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. I want to take part in Gsoc-2017 from Wikimedia. I have knowledge of C, C++, JAVA, Python, Android app development and Web development and beginner in *Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence.* I am very enthusiastic to learn new skills which would be required. Kindly guide me to proceed further. -- Kind Regards, Mayank Jindal, Third year undergraduate student, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Mobile : +91- 7076670299 || 8875432718

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Wikimedia Developer Summit Weekly
by Quim Gil 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

Original version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Td5wfd70vptn8eu4 The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017 is 13 weeks away! PARTICIPANTS * 68 people have requested an invitation. * 19 of them have requested travel sponsorship as well. Join us: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit. The deadline to request travel sponsorship is Monday, October 24th. PROPOSALS * 8 proposals submitted - https://phabricator.wikimedia. org/project/view/2205/ ** 1 in backlog ** 2 in Unconference ** 2 missing basic information ** 3 to be pre-scheduled https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_ Summit/Call_for_participation The deadline for submitting new proposals is Monday, October 31. MAIN TOPICS https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Program On track: * A plan for the Community Wishlist 2016 top results * Building on Wikimedia services: APIs and Developer Resources * How to manage our technical debt Missing basic information * A unified vision for editorial collaboration * Building a sustainable user experience together * How to grow our technical community Missing two facilitators * A unified vision for editorial collaboration * How to grow our technical community Missing one facilitator * Handling wiki content beyond plaintext * Building a sustainable user experience together * Artificial Intelligence to build and navigate content ORGANIZATION * Meet the Program committee. https://www.mediawiki.org/ wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/Program_committee -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Deploying the UrlShortener extension to Wikimedia wikis
by Legoktm 12 Nov '16

12 Nov '16

Hi, YuviPanda, prtksxna, and myself (with help from Tim and Aaron) have been working the UrlShortener extension, which is designed to implement the URL shortener RfC[1] (specifically Tim's implementation suggestion). I've filed T108557[2] to deploy the extension to Wikimedia wikis. We'd like to use the "w.wiki" short domain, which the WMF is already in control of. A test wiki has been set up mimicking what Wikimedia's configuration would be like: http://urlshortener.wmflabs.org/, and has an accompanying "short" domain at us.wmflabs.org (e.g. http://us.wmflabs.org/3). Please play with it and report any bugs you might find :) [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/URL_shortener [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108557 Thanks, -- Legoktm

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Need example code in Javascript to login API
by Shrinivasan T 04 Nov '16

04 Nov '16

Hello all, I am trying to develop a chrome extension to work with wikipedia. Started exploring javascript for login api. Got this example. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Example_login_code_in_JS_%28using_JQuery%29 Stored the code as test.html and opened in chrome. Got the following error. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'null' is therefore not allowed access. How to solve this error? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:CORS The examples here are not helpful. Please guide me on how to login to mediawiki via javascript? Thanks. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer : http://FreeTamilEbooks.com

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What happened to RobLa?
by Florian Schmidt 04 Nov '16

04 Nov '16

Hi all, just a moment ago I noticed, that Rob Lanphier seems to (silently) does not work for the WMF anymore? At least based on a comment on his WMF-account's talk page[1] and a commit in gerrit[2] it seems he doesn't work at the WMF anymore. However: What happened? I haven't seen any public info about this? Can someone explain what happened? I'm really interested in it, as I really like RobLa, both as a person (at least from what I saw/read so far) and the professional /technical input and things he did. Would be nice, if someone could bring some light into the darkness :P Best, Florian [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:RobLa-WMF#Goodbye_and_thanks [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/318656/2

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CI maintenance on Thursday 3rd Nov 16:00 UTC
by Tyler Cipriani 03 Nov '16

03 Nov '16

The Wikimedia continuous integration system will be unavailable while some scheduled maintenance is done. When: Thursday 3rd 2016 for two hours between 16:00 UTC to 18:00 UTC. Impact: During that time, you will still be able to send patches to Gerrit but no CI jobs will be run nor will patches be automatically merged when someone votes "Code-Review +2". All patches sent during the operations will be sent to the CI system for you as a convenience. Why: The maintenance will move the core of the CI system (Jenkins and Zuul) from an aged server to a fresh new machine. More info: It will be done by Antoine Musso, Tyler Cipriani and Daniel Zahn. You will be able to watch progress on IRC in the #wikimedia-operations channel. See also: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95757

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1.28 branching release dates and such :)
by Chad 01 Nov '16

01 Nov '16

Hi! Soooo, it's that wonderful time of year where we start prepping for a new general release of MediaWiki! This one will be 1.28.0, and it'll be based on all of the 1.28 wmf branches we've been doing over the past 6 months. Step 1 is cutting the branch, which I plan to do tomorrow from the same branch point which we cut the 1.28.0-wmf.23. This is slightly different, in that we won't be cutting from master a few days after the WMF branch, and takes some of the pressure off of creating 1.29.0-wmf.1 the following week. So here's the timeline: Tomorrow (Oct 25) - Cut REL1_28 from wmf.23, master goes to 1.29-alpha Tues (Nov 1) - First deployment of 1.29 to WMF [wmf.1, obviously] Wednesday (Nov 2) - Do rc.0 [giving us a few days for any backports that came up in wmf.23 rollout] Following two Wednesdays (Nov 9, 16) - Do rc.1 and rc.2 Wednesday (Nov 23) - Final release of MW I'll be updating MW.org shortly. Tyler Cipriani's assisting me with this release, so expect to see some RCs with his name (and signatures) on them :) -Chad

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