Sorry for cross-posting!
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 4-5 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
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
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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.
In the past, administrators of MediaWiki installations faced a
challenging installation procedure when they tried to enable rendering
of mathematical formulae. As of February 22, no configuration or
custom installation is required with the latest versions of MediaWiki
core and the Math extension, if your wiki is connected to the
internet.
This is how it’s done:
For wikis connected to the internet: Simply download the latest
versions for both of Mediawiki core [1] and the Math extension [2] and
that's it. The latest version can be obtained by selecting “master” in
the extension distributor.
For wikis not connected to the internet:
Download the latest version of Mediawiki core [1] and the Math extension [2].
Install the node module mathoid [4]. We recommend using Node version 8
LTS [5], if node.js is not installed on the server. Mathoid can be
installed to any location of your server that is accessible to the web
server. For instance, in the location of the Math extension.
After having installed and tested (e.g., by running npm test) the
mathoid installation, point your MediaWiki to this location by adding
the following config to your LocalSettings.php file:
$wgMathoidCli = ['/srv/mathoid/cli.js', '-c', '/srv/mathoid/config.dev.yaml'];
Replace /srv/mathoid with the location of your mathoid installation
and run update.php [6].
If you have any issues with the installation, please file a
phabricator ticket using the following link
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=MediaWiki…
Links and further reading:
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git
[2] Documentation of the Math extension
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math**
[3] Extension distributor
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/Math
[4] Mathoid node package https://www.npmjs.com/package/mathoid
[5] Node homepage https://nodejs.org/en/
[6] How to run the database update
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Update.php
Scientific Paper: Moritz Schubotz, Gabriel Wicke: Mathoid: Robust,
Scalable, Fast and Accessible Math Rendering for Wikipedia. CICM 2014:
224-235 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.6179.pdf
Required versions:
* For offline Math rendering MediaWiki core must include patch
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/399768/
** The math extension must include patch
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/372100/
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Moritz Schubotz
Researcher
isg.uni-konstanz.de/people/moritz-schubotz
+49 1578 047 1397
Hello everyone,
On behalf of the Parsing Team @ the WMF, I am announcing our plans to
replace Tidy with Remex on the next set of wikis.
On March 13th, we plan to turn off Tidy on about 100 wikis that have
fewer than 25 issues in all high-priority linter categories [1].
On March 14th, we plan to turn off Tidy on mzn, ko, nl, war, ceb
wikipedias [2].
Later in the month, probably March 20th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all
wikiversities [3] and wikimedia chapter / user group wikis [4]. This
step requires a bit more investigation to identify if all those wikis
are ready for the switch.
In February, we replaced Tidy on all wikinews wikis [5], private wikis
[6], and a bunch of miscellaneous wikis [7]. Once we are done with this
round in March, about 600 wikis on the wikimedia cluster would have had
Tidy replaced. We plan to complete this switch on all wikis (about 900)
by July 2018.
If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a comment on the
associated phabricator tickets or leave a message on mw.org [8].
Thanks,
Subbu.
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188010
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188869
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188880
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188881
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188000
[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188009
[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188008
[8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:Linter
Hi everyone,
In honour of Women’s History Month, I will be coordinating a series of
conversations with community members about Women in the Wikimedia movement
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia…>,
and what their experience is like contributing to our projects.
Our conversations will focus on women within three strategic areas of our
work: Programs, Technical Spaces, and Leadership positions. Each
conversation will have two community members presenting on their work, and
15-20 minutes at the end for conversation, follow up questions, and
discussion. The goal of these discussions is to foster understanding of
challenges and inequalities that women face throughout our movement, and to
engage with our communities to help better address them.
These conversations will be online events, streamed on our YouTube channel
<https://www.youtube.com/c/WikimediaLearningandEvaluationCE>, and hosted on
BlueJeans. If you would like to participate in these events, please add the
event to your calendar, or sign up on wiki:
-
Women in Wikimedia programs: Thursday, March 8, 2018, 17:00 UTC (add to
calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NzNqdGxuNWttazNwMGZ…>)
(sign up on wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia…>
)
Presenters: Monika Sengul-Jones (OCLC Wikipedian in Residence) and Luisina
Ferrante (Wikimedia Argentina education coordinator).
-
Women in leadership: Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 19:00 UTC (add to
calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MGJqaXQzaTlmb3ZpMnJ…>)
(sign up on wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia…>
)
Presenters: Mervat Salman (Wiki Arabia 2015 organizer) and Natalia
Szafran-Kozakowska (CEE Spring coordinator, and Polish Wikipedia sysop)
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Women in technical spaces: Wednesday, March 21st, 15:00 UTC (add to
calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MzFqMWV2YXZlc3VrYjJ…>)
(sign up on wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia…>
)
Presenters: Josephine Lim (Mediawiki contributor) and Ciell (organizer of
all-women hackathon in the Netherlands).
If you find this conversation series interesting, I would greatly
appreciate your support spreading the word. Please feel free to invite
anyone you think might have something to add to the conversations.
I look forward to seeing many of you online!
Best,
María
*María Cruz * \\ Communications and Outreach project manager, L&E
Team \\ Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_
<https://twitter.com/marianarra_>