Hello, I hope I'm not being inappropriate posting to these lists, but I'm looking to hire a mediawiki expert on a consulting/freelance basis to help me with a project.
I am developing a website that will serve as a directory for real estate agents (essentially one page per agent). I'm looking for somebody to do the following for me: *Set up the mediawiki software on a server *Help design layout of appropriate templates and other add-ons *Write scripts for pywikipediabot, and use it to translate data into the wiki *Assist in writing scripts to datamine the web for real estate agent information
Please email me to discuss the project further.
Thanks, --Misha Zaitzeff
On 14 July 2010 20:49, Misha Zaitzeff misha.zaitzeff@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, I hope I'm not being inappropriate posting to these lists, but I'm looking to hire a mediawiki expert on a consulting/freelance basis to help me with a project.
Probably not for wikitech-l, which is about Wikimedia-related stuff, but probably quite OK for mediawiki-l, at least until "MediaWiki wrangling" is a common daily skill and the list is flooded with ads ;-)
(After the week I've had beating Semantic MediaWiki around and gaining *considerable* experience, I'd be tempted to apply if I wasn't already in a really very nice full time job ;-)
- d.
As Robert pointed out, I'm obviously going to pay the going rate for an expert.
Alas, I know the pain of having a full-time job. I have a programming background, but do to time constraints, would rather concentrate on the portion I know well (data-mining the web), and find someone for the mediawiki stuff.
Should be a nice little project for the right person!
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:47 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 14 July 2010 20:49, Misha Zaitzeff misha.zaitzeff@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, I hope I'm not being inappropriate posting to these lists, but I'm looking to hire a mediawiki expert on a consulting/freelance basis to help me with a project.
Probably not for wikitech-l, which is about Wikimedia-related stuff, but probably quite OK for mediawiki-l, at least until "MediaWiki wrangling" is a common daily skill and the list is flooded with ads ;-)
(After the week I've had beating Semantic MediaWiki around and gaining *considerable* experience, I'd be tempted to apply if I wasn't already in a really very nice full time job ;-)
- d.
"David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote in message news:AANLkTinUK__Q-LnpjAfH7p1pU5JRIuEYb8629_0a_bOb@mail.gmail.com...
Probably not for wikitech-l, which is about Wikimedia-related stuff,
It's for MediaWiki related stuff, not specifically Wikimedia.
However, it is for MediaWiki development, not for support issues, so you are correct that mediawiki-l is probably the right place to post this kind of question.
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Mark Clements (HappyDog) gmane@kennel17.co.uk wrote:
It's for MediaWiki related stuff, not specifically Wikimedia.
However, it is for MediaWiki development, not for support issues, so you are correct that mediawiki-l is probably the right place to post this kind of question.
It's for Wikimedia operations as well as MediaWiki development. The latter tends to take up much more of the list traffic in practice, though.
On 15 July 2010 18:35, Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
It's for Wikimedia operations as well as MediaWiki development. The latter tends to take up much more of the list traffic in practice, though.
Indeed, staff-ization of WMF made more and more of communications internal, for better or worse.
Domas
*puts on robe and El Santo mask* the WMF sounds a lot like wrestling org. Or a Linux desktop. http://fmwwrestling.us/WMFArmyNews2007.html
Is MediaWiki appropiate for these uses? Sounds like something that ask for very structure organization, and easy to use interface. MediaWiki can be lots of things, but don't look like a XML Database. (The semantic web has been namedroped here. But, anyway...)
You guys sould implemente sudo in MediaWiki, so the command "sudo make me a sandwitch" works with mediawiki :-) (I know mediawiki has not been designed for different level access users).
Maybe Wikipedia sould use a different font for the text added on the last revision of a page, like... font-family: script. Obviusly, wikis are handwritting, not typewritting. Wikis are not books, are notes on a book. You *no* need a canvas renderer for mediawiki pages.
* Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com [Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:35:38 +0300]:
Indeed, staff-ization of WMF made more and more of communications internal, for better or worse.
Maybe some people (like me) annoyed leading developers by interfering into their conversations. Though I've learned a lot while reading these email conversations. I wonder, what's the right place to stay in current developments right now. Probably it's http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RFC and also something else? Dmitriy
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Dmitriy Sintsov questpc@rambler.ru wrote:
Maybe some people (like me) annoyed leading developers by interfering into their conversations. Though I've learned a lot while reading these email conversations. I wonder, what's the right place to stay in current developments right now. Probably it's http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RFC and also something else?
Insofar as discussion still occurs in public and I know about it, wikitech-l and #mediawiki are still the best places, with mediawiki.org a distant third. If you're being a nuisance, you'll probably be told to shut up; if you haven't been, you probably aren't being a nuisance, so don't worry about it.
Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com writes:
wikitech-l and #mediawiki are still the best places, with mediawiki.org a distant third.
And, if it helps, almost every bit of my communication happens in public. And I usually operate remotely, which only encourages open communication.
This past week I was in San Francisco, and before that Gdansk, so there were some f2f discussions that I did not record and then put online.
However, I do post my weekly reports in public (http://bit.ly/6XqYao) in which I tried to distill my “take-aways” from these conversations. Feel free to read them and offer me feedback.
Mark.
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Mark A. Hershberger mah@everybody.org wrote:
And, if it helps, almost every bit of my communication happens in public. And I usually operate remotely, which only encourages open communication.
Yes, I've definitely noticed this. You participate seriously in the development community, and at least I appreciate that and thank you for it. Unfortunately, you're one of the only paid developers who does this, except some of the ones who were originally drawn from the development community.
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Domas Mituzas wrote:
Hi!
It's for Wikimedia operations as well as MediaWiki development. The latter tends to take up much more of the list traffic in practice, though.
Indeed, staff-ization of WMF made more and more of communications internal, for better or worse.
Domas
We could learn from IBM's experience with the open source community. They famously made it company policy for staff developers to communicate through the Linux community forums rather than through internal company methods. This was key to their acceptance and success in the open source world, in particular early in their involvement.
While there is a small cost in forcing communication to be public rather than private, the dividends are usually worth it.
- -Mike
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