I am pleased to announce Marielle Volz joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Software Engineer for the Editing team.
Marielle will be working remotely from London, UK. She made her first website[1] in 1997 with Adobe PageMill 2.0[2], which according to one review at the time, "has terrific tables by today's standards for an HTML editor, although they're not bad by any standard."[3]. When her house finally got the internet in 1999, she first discovered the "view source" button. It wasn't until 5 years later in 2004 that she registered her first Wikipedia account, wherein she developed a lovely addiction to that damnable website.
During a brief period of insanity (i.e. all of her undergraduate and graduate education) she considered becoming a Scientist, before realizing it's actually more fun to sit inside on a computer all day editing Wikipedia articles about Science rather than Doing Science and actually going outside, which, with the advent of vitamin D supplementation, is wholly unnecessary, and perhaps one could even say, *inadvisable*.
Only now, having recently become a member of the 10 year club, has finally joined two of her passions: "making internet stuff" and "Wikipedia internet stuff" to work on VisualEditor, an HTML editor. To that end of continuing to edit articles about Science, and also making internet stuff, she did the FOSS Outreach Program for Women program this Summer[4], and started developing a node.js service Citoid[5] to make it easy to insert citations using a URL/DOI/Title in VE/Wikitext.
She'll be continuing to do that, and maybe other things, but mostly that, as a contractor starting last month.
Please join me in welcoming Marielle to the Wikimedia Foundation.
--tomasz
[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20030126114223/http://www.tufts.edu/as/engdept/mp... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMill [3] http://web.archive.org/web/20080620021417/http://www.soc.org.uk/bulletin/pag... [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mvolz/OPW_proposal_round_8 [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid
Welcome Marielle :) On Oct 27, 2014 11:48 AM, "Tomasz Finc" tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
I am pleased to announce Marielle Volz joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Software Engineer for the Editing team.
Marielle will be working remotely from London, UK. She made her first website[1] in 1997 with Adobe PageMill 2.0[2], which according to one review at the time, "has terrific tables by today's standards for an HTML editor, although they're not bad by any standard."[3]. When her house finally got the internet in 1999, she first discovered the "view source" button. It wasn't until 5 years later in 2004 that she registered her first Wikipedia account, wherein she developed a lovely addiction to that damnable website.
During a brief period of insanity (i.e. all of her undergraduate and graduate education) she considered becoming a Scientist, before realizing it's actually more fun to sit inside on a computer all day editing Wikipedia articles about Science rather than Doing Science and actually going outside, which, with the advent of vitamin D supplementation, is wholly unnecessary, and perhaps one could even say, *inadvisable*.
Only now, having recently become a member of the 10 year club, has finally joined two of her passions: "making internet stuff" and "Wikipedia internet stuff" to work on VisualEditor, an HTML editor. To that end of continuing to edit articles about Science, and also making internet stuff, she did the FOSS Outreach Program for Women program this Summer[4], and started developing a node.js service Citoid[5] to make it easy to insert citations using a URL/DOI/Title in VE/Wikitext.
She'll be continuing to do that, and maybe other things, but mostly that, as a contractor starting last month.
Please join me in welcoming Marielle to the Wikimedia Foundation.
--tomasz
[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20030126114223/http://www.tufts.edu/as/engdept/mp... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMill [3] http://web.archive.org/web/20080620021417/http://www.soc.org.uk/bulletin/pag... [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mvolz/OPW_proposal_round_8 [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
I am pleased to announce Marielle Volz joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Software Engineer for the Editing team.
Welcome Marielle!
and started developing a node.js service Citoid[5] to make it easy to insert citations using a URL/DOI/Title in VE/Wikitext.
To put that into perspective: she's working on a feature in VE that will let you paste in a URL to, say, a New York Times article, and will then automatically generate and insert a {{cite news}} template for you with all the right information (title of the article, author, date, etc.). Some of you may have seen the demo that she and Erik did at a metrics meeting earlier this year. This is really exciting, because it's a big step forward towards the goal of making even relatively complex tasks like inserting citations more convenient in VE than in wikitext.
Roan
and started developing a node.js service Citoid[5] to make it easy to insert citations using a URL/DOI/Title in VE/Wikitext.
To put that into perspective: she's working on a feature in VE that will let you paste in a URL to, say, a New York Times article, and will then automatically generate and insert a {{cite news}} template for you with all the right information (title of the article, author, date, etc.). Some of you may have seen the demo that she and Erik did at a metrics meeting earlier this year. This is really exciting, because it's a big step forward towards the goal of making even relatively complex tasks like inserting citations more convenient in VE than in wikitext.
Not going to lie, that sounds really cool. Can't wait to see that finished.
Welcome Marielle. I wish you the best of times in everything you do here.
Thank you, Derric Atzrott
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Roan Kattouw rkattouw@wikimedia.org wrote:
To put that into perspective: she's working on a feature in VE that will let you paste in a URL to, say, a New York Times article, and will then automatically generate and insert a {{cite news}} template for you with all the right information (title of the article, author, date, etc.).
Interesting and useful project! I wonder – will this work only on enwiki, or will it work in other languages and for other news websites around the world?
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
So there's a user gadget which only works with en wiki because the template fields are hardcoded in:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mvolz/veCiteFromURL
I made this approximately midway through the internship this summer so use with caution :).
Under development is work on the TemplateData extension to map the parameters in a given template to parameters from an external application[1]. This will allow TD to describe the relationship between the parameters produced by the citoid service, and the templates' parameters, in a "map".[2]
Also under development is a mediawiki extension.[3] This will use the data from the TemplateData "maps" as well as a special Mediawiki namespace message[4] to determine which template to use for each citoid data type.
So the answer is that this is being designed to work on any mediawiki installation in any language, by configuring it with a) a special Mediawiki namespace message, and b) a "map" in each template's TemplateData.
As for non-wiki sites, the idea is the service itself, citoid, would be useable any site. Right now it is heavily relying on Zotero[5] to do most of the work, but also has a back-up scraper if Zotero doesn't have a translator[6] available. We're also working on citoid to be able to take any identifier, not just URL, such as DOI or ISBN or PMID (or maybe one day title!)
Right now we have a special "mediawiki" format for citoid designed to be used in conjunction with the TemplateData extension, but export is also available in the native Zotero format[7], and we'll be adding other export formats (such as CSL) as well.
[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/167389/ [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mvolz/Weekly_Reports/SampleTD [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/168746/ [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mvolz/Weekly_Reports/MediaWiki:Citoid-te... [5] https://github.com/zotero/translation-server [6] https://github.com/zotero/translators [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid/API
-Marielle
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Petr Kadlec petr.kadlec@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Roan Kattouw rkattouw@wikimedia.org wrote:
To put that into perspective: she's working on a feature in VE that will let you paste in a URL to, say, a New York Times article, and will then automatically generate and insert a {{cite news}} template for you with all the right information (title of the article, author, date, etc.).
Interesting and useful project! I wonder – will this work only on enwiki, or will it work in other languages and for other news websites around the world?
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Hi,
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Marielle Volz marielle.volz@gmail.com wrote:
[…] So the answer is that this is being designed to work on any mediawiki installation in any language, by configuring it with a) a special Mediawiki namespace message, and b) a "map" in each template's TemplateData. […]
Thank you for the detailed answer, and I am looking forward to using the feature!
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
Welcome! Awesome introduction indeed. בתאריך 27 באוק 2014 20:49, "Tomasz Finc" tfinc@wikimedia.org כתב:
I am pleased to announce Marielle Volz joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Software Engineer for the Editing team.
Marielle will be working remotely from London, UK. She made her first website[1] in 1997 with Adobe PageMill 2.0[2], which according to one review at the time, "has terrific tables by today's standards for an HTML editor, although they're not bad by any standard."[3]. When her house finally got the internet in 1999, she first discovered the "view source" button. It wasn't until 5 years later in 2004 that she registered her first Wikipedia account, wherein she developed a lovely addiction to that damnable website.
During a brief period of insanity (i.e. all of her undergraduate and graduate education) she considered becoming a Scientist, before realizing it's actually more fun to sit inside on a computer all day editing Wikipedia articles about Science rather than Doing Science and actually going outside, which, with the advent of vitamin D supplementation, is wholly unnecessary, and perhaps one could even say, *inadvisable*.
Only now, having recently become a member of the 10 year club, has finally joined two of her passions: "making internet stuff" and "Wikipedia internet stuff" to work on VisualEditor, an HTML editor. To that end of continuing to edit articles about Science, and also making internet stuff, she did the FOSS Outreach Program for Women program this Summer[4], and started developing a node.js service Citoid[5] to make it easy to insert citations using a URL/DOI/Title in VE/Wikitext.
She'll be continuing to do that, and maybe other things, but mostly that, as a contractor starting last month.
Please join me in welcoming Marielle to the Wikimedia Foundation.
--tomasz
[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20030126114223/http://www.tufts.edu/as/engdept/mp... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMill [3] http://web.archive.org/web/20080620021417/http://www.soc.org.uk/bulletin/pag... [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mvolz/OPW_proposal_round_8 [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid
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Great news!
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
I am pleased to announce Marielle Volz joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Software Engineer for the Editing team.
(snip)
she did the FOSS Outreach Program for Women program this Summer[4]
Marielle's hiring makes this post obsolete:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/18/new-foss-outreach-internships-female-t...
What is more, she is also helping new FOSS OPW candidates:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T564
Thank you Marielle and thank you Editing team!
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mvolz/OPW_proposal_round_8
On 27 October 2014 11:48, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
During a brief period of insanity (i.e. all of her undergraduate and graduate education) she considered becoming a Scientist, before realizing it's actually more fun to sit inside on a computer all day editing Wikipedia articles about Science rather than Doing Science and actually going outside, which, with the advent of vitamin D supplementation, is wholly unnecessary, and perhaps one could even say, *inadvisable*.
No kidding. I've had the same revelation myself. ;-)
Welcome Marielle.
Dan
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