[Foundation-l] Strategic Planning Office Hours
Hi everyone, The next strategic planning office hours are: Wednesday, 04:00-05:00 UTC, which is: -Tuesday (8-9pm PST) -Tuesday (11pm-12am EST) There has been a lot of tremendous work on the strategy wiki the past few months, and Task Forces are finishing up their work. Office hours will be a great opportunity to discuss the work that's happened as well as the work to come. As always, you can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net and filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. More details at: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours Thanks! Hope to see many of you there. Philippe Beaudette Facilitator, Strategy Project Wikimedia Foundation phili...@wikimedia.org mobile: 918 200-WIKI (9454) Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] 2008/2009 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Jay Walsh wrote: > Hi all, > > In the next day or so Rand and the fundraising team will be sending out an > email to all of our donors (about 230,000 - thanks to a tremendous > fundraiser) recapping the campaign sharing our 2nd annual report, which you > can also read here: > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report Late to the party -- but just to reiterate what others have said -- this is a really lovely document, nice work. I especially like the article anatomy spread -- it's very well done and could make a nice separate handout on its own (with the timeline cut out). I also really like the choice of quotes on the back... we should get Nicholson Baker to speak sometime at an event :) A couple notes for next time: * I don't think the photo of Jimmy is identified anywhere? The photo credit is given but it doesn't say who he is :) perhaps this is intentional... stealth founder... like a stealth bomber but so much cooler. * the timeline is quirky and fun and I like it. But I wonder if some of these events could be tied back to wikip/media better. E.g. there's a note about swine flu; but it could also be noted that our articles on swine flu got over 200,000 hits/hour in the same time period, making wikipedia the 2nd most popular website in the U.S. on the subject.[1] There's a ton of interesting Wikimedia events, meetup dates, project milestones, etc. that could populate such a timeline instead of/in addition to general world events -- such a timeline might help give context to the diversity and scope of the projects better than prose can. Having just written up an (incomplete!) summary of 2009[2], I am quite aware of how hard it is to keep track of everything going on in Wikimedia-land -- especially after the fact! I think we should create some kind of in-progress history page on Meta -- a place to chronicle milestones and significant events as they happen, and work on filling in a timeline of past events.[3] There was also a suggestion for last Wikimania from user:Henna that we put up big pieces of paper on the wall to create a timeline of wikimedia history in-person. Sadly that didn't happen at Wikimania, but it's still be a cool idea for a future conference -- or maybe an ongoing project at the office, if there's wallspace? Visitors could help edit the timeline -- byom (bring your own marker) :) -- phoebe 1. According to Erik Zachte, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-05-11/News_and_notes 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-01-11/2009_in_review 3. there's http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Goings-on but it could be usefully expanded to include more stuff, in a different format -- easytimeline to the rescue? -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers gmail.com * ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Mediawiki to C++ , here we go
This is exactly what I was working on : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/02/facebook_hiphop_unveiled/ Compile php to c++. mike ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Mediawiki to C++ , here we go
Hi, > This is exactly what I was working on : Where can we read more about your work? Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Mediawiki to C++ , here we go
http://www.phpcompiler.org/lists/phc-general/2009-February/000894.html On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Domas Mituzas wrote: > Hi, > >> This is exactly what I was working on : > > Where can we read more about your work? > > Domas > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Mediawiki to C++ , here we go
Hi! > http://www.phpcompiler.org/lists/phc-general/2009-February/000894.html Great progress! Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Mediawiki to C++ , here we go
That is old news, I have stopped working on it, not because I dont think it was a good idea, but because phc was not working. They have cancelled the project. I was looking into roadsend recently, but this new hiphop php compiler is exactly what we need. When I find time, will try compiling my test cases with it. This could be a real boost for the wikipedia! A native optimized binary version of the bloated php code, amazing! mike On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Domas Mituzas wrote: > Hi! > >> http://www.phpcompiler.org/lists/phc-general/2009-February/000894.html > > Great progress! > > Domas > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Mediawiki to C++ , here we go
Hi! > That is old news, I have stopped working on it, > not because I dont think it was a good idea, but because phc was not > working. They have cancelled the project. Poor you. You wasted your bandwidth on project that was doomed :( > I was looking into roadsend recently, I was too! But they're rewriting everything anyway ;-) > but this new hiphop php compiler > is exactly what we need. I wouldn't be so sure about "exactly" part. > When I find time, will try compiling my test cases with it. Great! > This could be a real boost for the wikipedia! At FB it shaves off about 50% of execution time. I'm not sure how you quantify "real boost". > A native optimized binary version of the bloated php code, amazing! Why would you call the code 'bloated'? It is relatively clean code, that lots of people would envy (except few guys who'd say they can build much better software, though wouldn't have anything to show). Do note that this is translation of dynamic language code, it doesn't make it as efficient as code written for native compilation. Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Mediawiki to C++ , here we go
On 3 February 2010 00:15, Domas Mituzas wrote: > Do note that this is translation of dynamic language code, it doesn't > make it as efficient as code written for native compilation. OTOH, given that wikitext is defined as "what the parser does", it's the only current realistic prospect for something faster ... Wonder how it does at parser-function-laden nested templates. - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Mediawiki to C++ , here we go
David Gerard wrote: > On 3 February 2010 00:15, Domas Mituzas wrote: > >> Do note that this is translation of dynamic language code, it doesn't >> make it as efficient as code written for native compilation. > > > OTOH, given that wikitext is defined as "what the parser does", it's > the only current realistic prospect for something faster ... > > Wonder how it does at parser-function-laden nested templates. The template part of the parser is defined by: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Preprocessor_ABNF Not by "what the parser does". It can easily be ported from PHP to C++, since that was a design goal when I rewrote it for MW 1.12. In fact, the Preprocessor_Hash implementation was meant as a model for a C++ port, not as a permanent and useful part of MediaWiki. -- Tim Starling ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] 2008/2009 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report
On 01/25/2010 10:26 AM, Cary Bass wrote: >> "M" before the abbreviation of a unit means 1,000, but on its own >> > it is far more commonly used to mean 1,000,000. "m" never means >> > 1,000 - it means 1/1,000 when used with the abbreviation of a unit, >> > but on its own it usually means 1,000,000 too. >> > I beg to differ, Thomas. It may be an Americanism (I would have to > find a source for that), but "M" is generally understood to refer to > thousands in currency. It comes directly from the Latin "Mille". > If there's one mailing list in the world where readers will forgive me for digging into this, I imagine it's this one. The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Bloomberg all use "m" after currency to denote million. E.g.: "Yahoo! reported a profit of $153m in the fourth quarter." [1] "Boston Scientific To Pay $22M To Settle DOJ Investigation" [2] "Avatar takes $242m globally in first weekend" [3] "Waterland May Bid $100M for MetLife's Taiwan Unit, Times Says" [4] The New York Times, as far as I can tell, always writes the word out. And Reuters seems to use both mln and m. The only common use I can think of where M doesn't represent millions is in the advertising term CPM, or cost per mille: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_per_mille William [1] http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15406816 [2] http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091223-710631.html [3] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/94f9e866-ee99-11de-944c-00144feab49a.html ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
