Sorry for cross-posting!
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow 3-4 pm UTC** on
#wikimedia-tech.
The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers,
topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over
"who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_
Advice_IRC_Meeting
This meeting is an offer by WMDE’s tech team. Hosts of todays meeting are:
@addshore & @Tobi_WMDE_SW.
Hope to see you there!
Michi (for WMDE’s tech team)
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Michael F. Schönitzer
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
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Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Hi!
I'd like to announce that the category tree of certain wikis is now
available as RDF dump and in Wikidata Query Service.
More documentation is at:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service/Categories
which I will summarize shortly below.
The dumps are located at
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/categoriesrdf/. You can use these
dumps any way you wish, data format is described at the link above[1].
The same dump is loaded into "categories" namespace in WDQS, which can
be queried by
https://query.wikidata.org/bigdata/namespace/categories/sparql?query=SPARQL.
Sorry, no GUI support yet (probably will happen later). See example in
the docs[2].
These datasets are not updated automatically yet, so they'll be up to
date roughly for the date of the latest dump. Hopefully soon it will be
automated and then the datasets will be updated daily.
The list of currently supported wikis is here:
https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/categories-rdf.dblist - these are
basically all 1M+ wikis and couple more that I added for various
reasons. If you have a good candidate wiki to add, please tell me or
write on the talk page for the document above.
Please note this is only the first step for the project, so there might
still be some rough edges. I am announcing it early since I think it
would be useful for people to look at the dumps and SPARQL endpoint and
see if something is missing or does not work properly, and share ideas
on how it can be used.
We plan eventually to use it for search improvement[3] - this work is
still in progress.
As always, we welcome any comments and suggestions.
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service/Categories#Data_format
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service/Categories#Accessing_…
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165982
Thanks,
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Stas Malyshev
smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
Wikimedia Foundation’s development team working on Content Translation -
the tool that helps you create new Wikipedia articles by translating from
another article, would like to invite you for an online office hour session
scheduled for Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 at 13:00 UTC. This will be an
open session to talk about recent changes to Content Translation and
ongoing development.
You can know more about Content Translation on the project page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation> or even watch a short
video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3btQ5fpn4sA>. We have discussed
Content Translation in the past as part of the office hours hosted by WMF
Language team. The last was in June and you can watch the recording at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Euhu4Q7HF4 .
This session is going to be an online discussion over Google
Hangouts/Youtube with a simultaneous IRC conversation. Due to the
limitation of Google Hangouts, only a limited number of participation slots
are available. Hence, do please let us know in advance if you would like to
join in the Hangout. The IRC channel will be open for interactions during
the session.
Please read below for the event details, including local time, youtube
session links and do let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you
Runa
== Details ==
# Event: Content Translation office hour session
# When: September 20th, 2017 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20170920T1300)
# Where:On IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD-BKoSj-oY
# Agenda:
Recent updates about Content Translation, and Q & A.
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Engineering Manager, Global Collaboration (Contributors)
Wikimedia Foundation
I thought of using the 'layout-grid' Material design component on my
user page
to make the userboxes respond to different screen sizes. It requires
custom CSS
styles that have to be loaded when my user page is loaded. Where should
I place
the CSS styles so that they get loaded each time my use page gets loaded?
N.B. : I can't place them inline, see for yourself [2].
[1]: https://material.io/components/web/catalog/layout-grids/
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kaartic/common.css
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Kaartic
Is there any tool as web application to upload CSV file to wiktionary?
I have a command line tool here
https://github.com/tshrinivasan/tools-for-wiki/tree/master/csv-uploader-wik…
But it seems tough for newbies/windows users to execute this.
Thinking of a web application.
Please share info, if there is some tool already.
Else, will work on making one.
Thanks.
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
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Hi all. TL;DR: We've researched and compiled some guidance around
creating Special Interest Groups (SIGs), and formed a Wiki Replicas
SIG. These are adaptable best-practices for creating a very small
task-focused group. Emphasis on adaptable for individual use-cases.
Details: Following some discussions at events, on talkpages, and in
phabricator,[1]
we have compiled the ideas, researched external groups, discussed how
to best adapt them for our own diverse use-cases, and placed all the
material on mediawikiwiki,
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special_Interest_Groups
with notes and ongoing feedback discussions on the talkpage
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Special_Interest_Groups
The first live example is the Wiki Replicas Special Interest Group.
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Replicas_Special_Interest_Group
and there is a list of possible SIGs on the talkpage
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Txnngx847m0366kq
There are no obligations to use this structure, nor implicit authority
associated with them. It's just a set of best-practices for those who
appreciate such things.
Cheers,
Quiddity, on behalf of the many people who've nudged it along.
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164551
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Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
Hi. It looks wrong, at least for me, and it will take hours until somebody
will pay attention in tab, so I write here.
The sql log tables are dead. In many wikis. Each one in different time.
Enwiki yesterday 17:50, hewiki today moring, ruwiki today evening. I'm 98%
sure it's wrong. 1% it's always like that and I didn't know, and 1% it's
done in purpose. I filed T175487.
Thank you.
Igal