[MediaWiki-l] New extension: External Content
Hey all, You can now embed external content into your wiki pages via our new extension. Announcement blog post: https://professional.wiki/en/news/external-content Short demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U65NhBwnCMU Best -- Jeroen De Dauw CEO Professional.Wiki | Developer & Architect | Creator Wikidata.org @JeroenDeDauw <https://twitter.com/JeroenDeDauw> | www.EntropyWins.wtf <https://EntropyWins.wtf> <https://EntropyWins.wtf> <https://twitter.com/JeroenDeDauw> | <https://EntropyWins.wtf> www.Professional.Wiki <https://Professional.Wiki> ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list -- mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to mediawiki-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
[MediaWiki-l] New extension that connects Wikibase and SMW
Hey all, You can now use data stored inside of Wikibase directly in your semantic wiki via our new Semantic Wikibase extension! Release announcement: https://professional.wiki/en/news/semantic-wikibase-released Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovZl_ZoGkc0 Feedback is very welcome. You can leave a comment * on Twitter https://twitter.com/ProWikiExperts/status/1301536263401598977 * on Telegram https://t.me/joinchat/MCG84ky2cSjSvfHAgGwY4A * or on this mailing list ;) Best -- Jeroen De Dauw | www.EntropyWins.wtf <https://EntropyWins.wtf> Professional wiki hosting and services: www.Professional.Wiki <https://Professional.Wiki> Entrepreneur | Software Architect | Open Source | Longtermism ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] New extension to visualize links between pages
Hey all, We have created a new extension to visualize links between pages. Visualization is done via an interactive network graph. To learn more see https://github.com/ProfessionalWiki/Network#network We would like to thank KDZ - Centre for Public Administration Research <https://www.kdz.eu/> for funding development. Best -- Jeroen De Dauw, Technical Director of www.Professional.Wiki <https://Professional.Wiki> Entrepreneur | Software Architect | Open Source | Longtermism ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] New documentation and features for Maps
Hey all, The Maps documentation now has a new home: https://maps.extension.wiki The documentation got a big overhaul and now includes previously undocumented features such as distance queries and query templates. The new dedicated wiki should make navigation a lot easier. Since the last release announcement on this list two years ago, no less than 47 releases were made, adding many new features and bringing quality to a new high. You can view the full list at [0]. Here are some recent highlights: * Image layers [1] * Visual map editor [2] * Integration with Cargo [3] [0] https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/Maps/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md [1] https://twitter.com/JeroenDeDauw/status/1260071975558488066 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TictndP793M&t=2 [3] https://twitter.com/JeroenDeDauw/status/1259684751566344193 Best -- Jeroen De Dauw | www.EntropyWins.wtf <https://EntropyWins.wtf> Professional wiki hosting and services: www.Professional.Wiki <https://Professional.Wiki> Entrepreneur | Software Architect | Open Source | Longtermism ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki user survey
Hey all, We are running a survey to find out how MediaWiki can be improved for the typical non-Wikimedia user. Does MediaWiki work well for your company, organization or personal project? What are the pain points and what do you love? Take a few minutes to let us know your thoughts. Please share the survey with (other) MediaWiki users. We are particularly interested in the experience of the typical user rather than the expert. We already know a lot about what expert users want. Hence this survey explicitly is not for MediaWiki developers, wiki consultants, Wikimedia employees and primarily Wikipedia editors. If you are one of those, please do still share the survey. Survey for MediaWiki users: https://forms.gle/Ah9xL5KjroLwLpkGA If you are not using MediaWiki, but are considering to do so, or have investigated it in the past, we have an alternative survey for you. Again we ask everyone to share this survey. Survey for people not using MediaWiki: https://forms.gle/BqFyR6kPRi5z6DtQ6 We will share results of the survey on our blog. Thank you for helping to make MediaWiki even better! -- Jeroen De Dauw | www.EntropyWins.wtf <https://EntropyWins.wtf> Professional wiki hosting and services: www.Professional.Wiki <https://Professional.Wiki> Entrepreneur | Software Crafter | Open Source | Speaker ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Maps 6.0.0 released!
Hey all, I am happy to announce the immediate availability of Maps 6.0. Maps is the extension for to work with and visualize geographical information in MediaWiki. You can find installation and upgrading instructions in the documentation: https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Installation <https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/Maps#maps> This release brings support for GeoJson. You can now display markers and shapes defined in GeoJson files on maps and you can manage GeoJson on special wiki pages in the new GeoJson namespace. This allows for visual editing of map data via standard GeoJson editors. For more info, see https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps/GeoJSON Other improvements made since 5.0: * Added GeoJson namesapce. Pages in this namespace can only contain GeoJson * Added geojson parameter to #display_map, available only for Leaflet * Improved support for the latest MediaWiki versions * Added Geoportail (France) layers for Leaflet (by Gilles Cébélieu) * Improved geocoding service fallback order (by Karsten Hoffmeyer) * Added scrollwheelzoom parameter for GoogleMaps (by hidrarga) * Added support for installation of Maps in non standard directories (using wgExtensionDirectory) (by Tobias Oetterer) * Added egMapsGeoCacheTtl setting (by Máté Szabó) * Added scrollwheelzoom parameter for Leaflet that allows disabling scroll wheel zoom (by hidrarga) * Improved layer support for Leaflet (by Peter Grassberger) * Custom marker icons on Leaflet maps are now scaled correctly (by hidrarga) * Updated Leaflet library from version 1.1.0 to version 1.3.4 * Updated Leaflet plugins to their latest versions * Fixed #display_map parameter imageoverlays: title, text and link are no longer ignored * Fixed #display_map parameter polygons when using Leaflet * Fixed popups for lines, polygons, circles and rectangles when using Leaflet * Fixed display of popups with no content for Google Maps * Fixed fatal error when geocoding fails for addresses in circles and rectangles * Fixed #display_map parameters icon and visitedicon when using a namespace prefix (ie. File:FileName.png) * Fixed icon and visited icon modifiers of #display_map parameter locations when using a namespace prefix * Fixed #display_map parameter circles when using Leaflet * Fixed the visited icon modifier of the #display_map parameter locations (it is no longer ignored) * Fixed fatal error when using #display_map parameter circles * Fixed fatal error when using #display_map parameter rectangles * Fixed #display_map parameter rectangles fill color modifier (it is no longer ignored) * Fixed #display_map parameter rectangles fill opacity modifier (it is no longer ignored) The documentation also got a big overhaul since 5.0. See https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps for the feature overview. If you are interested in contributing to the project, have a look at the issues suitable for newcomers: https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/Maps /issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22 Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw Software Crafter | Speaker | Student | Strategist | Contributor to Wikimedia and Open Source ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Maps extension: new version and documentation
Hey all, I am happy to announce that after a long period of disrepair, the documentation of the Maps extension <https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps> [0] is now in much better shape. Many fixes have been made recently to customization of markers and display of shapes such as polygons and circles. Get the latest version of the extension <https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/Maps/blob/master/INSTALL.md> [1] to use these. The syntax of custom markers and shapes <https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps/Displaying_maps> [2] is now also documented. [0] https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps [1] https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/Maps/blob/master/INSTALL.md [2] https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps/Displaying_maps Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw Software Crafter | Speaker | Student | Strategist | Contributor to Wikimedia and Open Source ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [MediaWiki-l] Aggregate MediaWiki pingback data available
Hey, This is really nice. As an extension maintainer I am particularly interested in the used MediaWiki and PHP versions. Is there a way to combine those two? For instance to show the PHP version distributions for people using MediaWiki 1.29 or later. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw Software Crafter | Speaker | Student | Strategist | Contributor to Wikimedia and Open Source ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Maps 5.0 released!
Hey all, I am happy to announce the immediate availability of version 5.0 of Maps, the extension for to work with and visualize geographical information in MediaWiki. You can find installation and upgrading instructions in the documentation: https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/Maps#maps New features in this release include: * Added persistent geocoding cache (by hidrarga) * Fixed rendering of wikitext in popups of the map result format when using the template parameter (by hidrarga) * Fixed random loading failure of Leaflet maps (by Peter Grassberger) * Image overlays used in #display_map now support geocoding for their locations The main change in 5.0 is simplification of the geocoding functionality, which comes down to removal of many not-so-useful features: * Removed geoservice parameters from the #display_map parser function * Removed geoservice and allowcoordinates parameters from the #geocode parser function * Removed mappingservice and geoservice parameters from the #geodistance parser function * Removed mappingservice, geoservice and allowcoordinates params from the #finddestination parser function * Removed geoservice parameter from the SMW result formats * Removed service parameter from the geocode API module * Removed egMapsUserGeoOverrides setting * Removed egMapsAvailableGeoServices setting * Removed egMapsAllowCoordsGeocoding setting * Removed support for the GeocoderUS geocoding service as it appears to have shut down Other improvements made since 4.0: * Added layer support for Leaflet (by Peter Grassberger) * Added static map support for Leaflet (static=true) (by hidrarga) * Fixed custom marker icon bug when using Leaflet (by hidrarga) * Fixed compatibility conflict with the GitHub MediaWiki extension * Fixed bug in Nomatim geocoder that caused page loading to fail when Nomatim is down * Fixed bug in Nomatim geocoder that caused page loading to fail when Nomatim returned an invalid response * Updated Leaflet from 1.0.0-rc to 1.0.3 * Fixed rendering of area query values (they now work properly in SMW "further result" links) * Fixed type warning in SMMapPrinter::getMapHTML * Added missing geographical polygon type i18n messages * Fixed i18n issue in the mapsdoc parser hook * Fixed encoding of special characters in the Google geocoder (by somescout) * Improved PHP 7 compatibility (by Andre Klapper) * Fixed fatal error caused by double loading of initialization code on some platforms If you are interested in contributing to the project, have a look at the issues suitable for newcomers: https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/Maps/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22 Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw Software craftsmanship advocate | Developer at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Breaking changes in the Maps extension
Hey users of the Maps extension, I'd like to get your input on making breaking changes in the Maps extension [0]. With breaking changes I mean those that remove existing functionality or those that change it in some way that they will behave differently or be broken if you as a user do not take action to migrate. Are there any features that you think are not worth the confusion they cause? Are features you do like confusing to use, perhaps because of something like badly named parameters? In either case, please write me, and perhaps I'll add this to the list of things to be removed or changed. These are the breaking changes already made for the 5.0 release, to give you an idea: * Removed geoservice parameters from the #display_map parser function * Removed geoservice and allowcoordinates parameters from the #geocode parser function * Removed mappingservice and geoservice parameters from the #geodistance parser function * Removed mappingservice, geoservice and allowcoordinates params from the #finddestination parser function * Removed geoservice parameter from the SMW result formats * Removed service parameter from the geocode API module * Removed egMapsUserGeoOverrides setting * Removed egMapsAvailableGeoServices setting * Removed egMapsAllowCoordsGeocoding setting * Removed support for the GeocoderUS geocoding service as it appears to have shut down Only the major releases of Maps (3.0, 4.0, 5.0, etc) contain breaking changes. This is why I'm now looking for good candidates to put in the 5.0, as after this release it won't be possible to make such changes for a year or so. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw Software craftsmanship advocate | Developer at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [MediaWiki-l] Introducing the MediaWiki Platform Team!
Hey, I'd like to clarify two points about my previous email: 1. it is purely my own personal opinion. It is loose from any of the MediaWiki related projects I am "involved" with. 2. The questions I asked are not meant as criticism on the concept of having a core platform team, treating MediaWiki as a product, or improving the design and quality of the MediaWiki codebase. I think all of these are good ideas and hope WMF is very successful in pursuing them. This is why I'm asking hard questions about problems that I perceive to seriously undermine the chances of meeting the stated goals. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw Software craftsmanship advocate ~=[,,_,,]:3 On 3 April 2017 at 09:34, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: > Hey, > > > Like any significant codebase with a long development history, there are > remnants of design choices and experiments that are no longer in use, and > some areas of code are in need of modernization. However, at its core is a > large amount of highly functional, secure, performant code, capable of > supporting a robust platform through the use of extensions and hooks. There > is also a great amount of flexibility to adapt to new requirements. > > This makes it sound like the MediaWiki codebase is pretty well designed. > That is in stark contrast to my view, which is that it is a typical big > ball of mud with serious pervasive issues too numerous to list. So I'm > curious how you arrived at your view. > > > ... > > The stated goals and lineup strike me as very WMF, and something I've seen > often enough before. What makes you think the results will not be poor > leadership and disastrous technical results (in my estimation costing WMF > many millions of USD) like in the past? What will be different this time? > > Cheers > > -- > Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw > Software craftsmanship advocate > ~=[,,_,,]:3 > ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [MediaWiki-l] Introducing the MediaWiki Platform Team!
Hey, > Like any significant codebase with a long development history, there are remnants of design choices and experiments that are no longer in use, and some areas of code are in need of modernization. However, at its core is a large amount of highly functional, secure, performant code, capable of supporting a robust platform through the use of extensions and hooks. There is also a great amount of flexibility to adapt to new requirements. This makes it sound like the MediaWiki codebase is pretty well designed. That is in stark contrast to my view, which is that it is a typical big ball of mud with serious pervasive issues too numerous to list. So I'm curious how you arrived at your view. > ... The stated goals and lineup strike me as very WMF, and something I've seen often enough before. What makes you think the results will not be poor leadership and disastrous technical results (in my estimation costing WMF many millions of USD) like in the past? What will be different this time? Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw Software craftsmanship advocate ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Maps 4.0 released!
Hey all, I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Maps 4.0. Maps is a MediaWiki extension to work with and visualize geographical information. Maps 4.0 is the first major release of the extension since January 2014, and it brings a ton of "new" functionality. For an overview of what's new, see https://www.entropywins.wtf/ blog/2016/11/09/maps-4-0-0-rc1-released/ For installation instructions, user documentation and examples, an overview of all the features, and notes on how to contribute, see the documentation at https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/Maps#maps Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw Software craftsmanship advocate | Developer at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Maps 4.0.0-RC1 released
Hey all, I'm happy to announce the first release candidate for Maps 4.0. Maps is a MediaWiki extension to work with and visualize geographical information. Maps 4.0 is the first major release of the extension since January 2014, and it brings a ton of "new" functionality. This release candidate is meant to gather feedback and not suitable for usage in production. The 4.0 release itself will be made one week from now if no issues are found. For an overview of what's new, see https://www.entropywins.wtf/blog/2016/11/09/maps-4-0-0-rc1-released/ Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw Software craftsmanship advocate | Developer at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [MediaWiki-l] Update reliability
Hey, > - No KML support: > KML support (e.g. display of trails) suddenly was lost when updating maps. I think this has already been reported at https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/Maps/issues/259 and welcome contributions that pinpoint or even fix the issue. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw Software craftsmanship advocate | Developer at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Semantic Result Formats 2.4 released
Hello everyone, We are happy to announce the immediate availability of the fifth feature release in the Semantic Result Formats 2.x series. Semantic Result Formats 2.4 is a feature release that adds several new features, enhancements and bug fixes. It does not contain any breaking changes, so upgrading is both easy and recommended. ## New features and enhancements * Added link support to the media format (by James Hong Kong) * Added displaytitle label support to filtered format (by Simon Heimler) * Improved list and page widget CSS (by James Hong Kong) * Updated jplayer to version 2.9.2 (by James Hong Kong) * Improved compatibility with the latest versions of MediaWiki (by Florian Schmidt) * Improved internationalization (by Karsten Hoffmeyer) * Made installation via Composer more robust (by Cindy Cicalese) * Removed the Ploticus format previously disabled due to security concerns (by Jeroen De Dauw) ## Bugfixes * Fixed RuntimeError when selecting excel format in Special:Ask (by Stephan Gambke) * Fixed bug causing occasional exceptions in the calendar format (by Mark A. Hershberger) * Fixed bug in timeseries format that caused the value 0 to be excluded (by James Hong Kong) * Fixed bug in the calendar parser functions (by James Montalvo) * Fixed bug in the datatables format when having empty printouts (by Fr Jeremy Krieg) * Fixed bug in filtered format that broke the format on browsers supporting the Array.prototype.values() method The full list of changes be viewed at [0]. The installation and upgrading procedure [1] has not changed since 1.9.0. - The Semantic Result Formats development team [0] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticResultFormats/blob/ master/RELEASE-NOTES.md [1] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticResultFormats/blob/ master/INSTALL.md ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Semantic Maps 3.4 has been released
Hey all, I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Semantic Maps 3.4. This release adds support for SMWs record data type and for the Maps tracking category. Support for older versions of its dependencies have been dropped. You now need PHP 5.5 or later, MediaWiki 1.23 or later and Maps 3.8 or later. Installation and upgrading can be done as usual. You can find an overview of the changes in the release notes [0] and links to installation and usage instructions in the readme [1]. This will be the last release of Semantic Maps as a dedicated extension. It's features are being merged into the Maps extension, and will be available there with the Maps 4.0 release. [0] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMaps/blob/master/ RELEASE-NOTES.md [1] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMaps/blob/master/README.md Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw Software craftsmanship advocate | Developer at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Maps 3.8 has been released!
Hey all, I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Maps 3.8. This feature release adds clustering and fullscreen support for Leaflet, a new OSM geocoder and support for the latest changes to the Google Maps API. You can read more about this release at https://www.entropywins.wtf/blog/2016/08/31/maps-3-8-for-mediawiki-released Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw Software craftsmanship advocate | Developer at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Semantic MediaWiki 2.4 released!
MediaWiki/pull/1550> Fixed SPARQLStore XML response parsing for strings that contain UTF-8 characters - #1562 <https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/pull/1562> Fixed fatal error in FeedResultPrinter due to usage of an interwiki assignment - #1568 <https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/pull/1568> Fixed usage of invalid characters/tags in property name - #1594 <https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/pull/1594> Fixed handling of numbers with scientific notation in Special:SearchByProperty - #1597 <https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/pull/1597> Fixed possible ID collision in DependencyLinksTableUpdater - #1598 <https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/pull/1598> Fixed content language setting for InfoLinks - #1589 <https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/pull/1589> Fixed display precision constraint during condition building - #1608 <https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/pull/1608> Fixed that a #info without a message will create an empty tooltip or when used as causing a failure - #1610 <https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/pull/1610> Fixed a potential exception in the postgres implementation when creating temporary tables - #1628 <https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/pull/1628> Fixed exception when NumberValue tries to use a NULL as numeric value. - #1638 <https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/pull/1638> Fixed possible invalid property in case the label contains [ ## Contributors ## - James Hong Kong - Jeroen De Dauw - Karsten Hoffmeyer - Felipe de Jong - Florian Schmidt - Niklas Laxström - Ahmad Gharbeia - Stephan Gambke - Amir E. Aharoni - Siebrand Mazeland - Cindy Cicalese - Hangya - Sébastien Beyou - Aaron Schulz - Jaider Andrade Ferreira - Kunal Mehta - Ori Livneh - Peter Grassberger - Reedy - Vitaliy Filippov - Wolfgang Fahl - Alexander Gesinn - TranslateWiki.net translators The full list of changes be viewed at [0]. The installation procedure [1] has not changed since 1.9.0. To upgrade, you will need to get the new version of SMW, follow the usual upgrading procedure of running MediaWikis update.php, and running SMWs refresh data script [2]. There is a short video showing an upgrade from SMW 2.1.3 to 2.2 at [3]. We already started work on SMW 2.5 and welcome your contributions [4]. - The SMW development team [0] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMW_2.4 [1] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Installation [2] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Installation#Upgrading [3] https://vimeo.com/127356533 [4] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Semantic MediaWiki 2.4 - first release candidate
Hey all, I am happy to announce the first release candidate for Semantic MediaWiki 2.4. This is a development version - do NOT use it in production. Semantic MediaWiki 2.4 is the first feature release after SMW 2.3. It brings new functionality, enhancements and stability improvements. Since it is a feature release, it does not include any breaking changes. Preliminary release notes: https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/docs/RELEASE-NOTES.md Compatibility tables: https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/docs/COMPATIBILITY.md This release candidate is meant to gather feedback and to allow you to do testing against the new version. You can try out the new features on the SMW sandbox wiki at http://sandbox.semantic-mediawiki.org, or upgrade your own wiki. If you find any issues, please report them on our issue tracker: https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/issues The target for the actual 2.4 release is July 3rd. You can follow the release process in this tracking issue: https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/issues/1364 ### Upgrading instructions ### If you are using SMW via Composer, update the version in your composer.json to "~2.4@rc" and run "composer update". If you are using the tarballs, you can download SMW 2.4 RC1 here: https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/releases/tag/2.4.0-RC1 (note that we switched from SourceForge to GitHub) More detailed upgrading instructions will be made available for the 2.4 release. ### Help wanted ### You can help with this release by improving the release notes. If you have any questions, please post them on the release tracking issue. There is also a list of issues suitable for newcomers to the project: https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Anewcomer Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw Software craftsmanship advocate | Developer at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] SubPageList 1.4 released
Hey all, I am happy to announce the immediate availability of SubPageList 1.4 [0]. This release features support for redirects, and improved alphabetic sorting. It also drops support for MediaWiki older than 1.23 and PHP older than 5.5. You can view the changes in the release notes [1]. Installation instructions are unchanged. Upgrading can be done by running "composer update". Consult the installation instructions [2] for more information. [0] https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/SubPageList [1] https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/SubPageList/blob/master/doc/RELEASE-NOTES.md [2] https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/SubPageList/blob/master/doc/INSTALL.md Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw Software craftsmanship advocate | Developer at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Maps 3.7 and 3.6 released
Hey all, I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Maps 3.7. This feature release adds a rotate control for Google Maps, makes minor cosmetic enhancements, comes with newer versions of JavaScript mapping libraries, and improves security. Everyone is recommended to upgrade. You can read more about this release at https://www.entropywins.wtf/blog/2016/06/24/maps-3-7-for-mediawiki-released/ Last month Maps 3.6 was released, which brings a number of new options for marker clustering and several bugfixes. It also changes the minimum version of MediaWiki to 1.23 and PHP to 5.5. You can read more about this release at https://www.entropywins.wtf/blog/2016/05/26/maps-3-6-for-mediawiki-released/ Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw Software craftsmanship advocate | Developer at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Maps 3.5 and Semantic Maps 3.3 released!
Hey all, I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of Maps 3.5 and Semantic Maps 3.3. You can read more about these releases at https://www.entropywins.wtf/blog/2016/04/02/maps-3-5-and-semantic-maps-3-3-released/ Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw Software craftsmanship advocate | Developer at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Semantic MediaWiki 2.3 released!
* Fixed silent annotations added by the Factbox when content contains [[ ... ]] * Fixed resource loading issue on Windows when using $wgResourceLoaderDebug=true * Fixed disabling of $GLOBALS['wgFooterIcons']['poweredby']['semanticmediawiki'] * Fixed re-setting of smw-admin user group permission to its default * Fixed #set rendering of template supported output * Fixed inverse prefix for predefined properties that caused misinterpret Concept queries * Fixed context awareness of ParserAfterTidy in connection with the purge action * Fixed "duplicate key value violates unique constraint" for PostgreSQL on conjunctive and disjunctive queries * Fixed further link to use the format parameter as specified by #ask * Fixed usage of the !~ comparator for properties that have a limited set of allowed values ### Improved handling of removed entities in SQLStore ### In previous releases it could happen that deleted entities (subject, property) reappeared in queries even though they have been removed. This release introduces several changes to eliminate some of the issues identified. * introduced a deletion marker on entities that got deleted, making them no longer available to queries or special page display. * Added --shallow-update to rebuildData.php, to only parse those entities that have a different last modified timestamp compared to that of the last revision. This enables to run rebuildData.php updates on deleted, redirects, and other out of sync entities. Solved an unconditional namespace query [[Help:+]] would display deleted subjects (in case those subjects were deleted) * Added filter to mark deleted redirect targets with SMW_SQL3_SMWDELETEIW * Added filter to mark outdated subobjects with SMW_SQL3_SMWDELETEIW * Added removal of unmatched "ghost" pages in the ID_TABLE ## Contributors ## Code contributors * MWJames * Jeroen De Dauw * Karsten Hoffmeyer (kghbln) * Felipe de Jong (jongfeli) * Vitaliy Filippov (vitalif) * paladox * Amir E. Aharoni * Joel K. Pettersson * umherirrender * Kunal Mehta (legoktm) * TranslateWiki.net We'd also like to thank * yoonghm * cicalese * bogota * plegault3397 The full list of changes be viewed at [0]. The installation procedure [1] has not changed since 1.9.0. To upgrade, you will need to get the new version of SMW, run MediaWikis update.php, and run SMWs refresh data script [2]. There is also a short video showing an upgrade from SMW 2.1.3 to 2.2 at [3]. We already started work in SMW 2.4 and welcome your contributions [4]. - The SMW development team [0] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMW_2.3 [1] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Installation [2] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Installation#Upgrading [3] https://vimeo.com/127356533 [4] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [MediaWiki-l] Updating a 2007 MediaWiki?
Hey, > Not sure how well Semantic extensions handle that, but probably also well enough. I don't know, though this does not seem to be very important. You can just disable SMW while you upgrade and then install it again once you are done (perhaps nuke the old tables first). It's all secondary data anyway, so it can easily be rebuild. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Developer at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Semantic MediaWiki sandbox available
Hey all, I am happy to announce there now is a Semantic MediaWiki sandbox wiki at http://sandbox.semantic-mediawiki.org. This wiki is meant to allow you to easily experiment with Semantic MediaWiki and many of its extensions. The software is updated daily, so you can try out features that are not yet part of a stable release. Many thanks to Karsten Hoffmeyer and wikihoster.net for the creation and hosting of this sandbox! Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Developer at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [MediaWiki-l] Free MediaWIki hosting sites
Hey Breton, Have you seen Referata? http://referata.com Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Developer at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Semantic MediaWiki 2.2 has been released!
Hello everyone, We are happy to announce the immediate availability of the third stable release in the Semantic MediaWiki 2.x series. Semantic MediaWiki 2.2 is a minor release that adds several new features, some enhancements and fixes various issues. It does not contain any breaking changes, so upgrading is both easy and recommended. Thanks to all those who contributed: MWJames, Jeroen De Dauw, Karsten Hoffmeyer, Felipe de Jong, Hermann Schwärzler, Kunal Mehta, Chris Koerner, Yaron Koren, Purodha, m4tx, paladox2015. Together we changed 952 files across a total of 666 sets of changes to the code. Thanks also go to all those who helped with testing and to TranslateWiki.net and its contributors for providing numerous translations. There are various ways in which you can help as well, see our contribution documentation [4]. ## New features ## * Added named args as parameter to CategoryResultPrinter * Added sep as parameter to the TableResultPrinter to define a separator for cell values * Added template support to the #set parser function * Added the --no-cache option to rebuildData.php and the --debug option to rebuildData.php and rebuildConceptCache.php (refs #749, #766) * Added support for wgCategoryCollation setting in CategoryResultPrinter (#699, T40853) * Added the --report-runtime option to rebuildConceptCache.php * Extended rules on how an ImportValue need to contain a valid type definition * Enforced strict type declaration for properties with import references (type of the imported reference takes precedence over any user-defined type declaration) * Added support for in order for a RDF export to point to a "real" file resource * Added information about "improper value for" to the statistics overview and as API parameter (&errorcount) * Fixed exception for usage of Has subobject as free annotation * Added restriction for "manual" annotation use to some pre-defined properties (e.g. Has subobject, Has query) ## Enhancements ## * Replaced defunct SMWRegsitry wiki registration on Special:SMWAdmin with a link to WikiApiary * Reduced the number of pages on which SMW JavaScript and CSS is loaded * Made small performance improvements ## Bug fixes ## * Fixed Missing parentheses in SQL for disjunctions when temporary tables are not used by the SQLStore * Fixed DB error when a #ask query contains order=random for a sqlite or postgres DB platform (disabled smwgQRandSortingSupport for postgres) * Fixed escape character usage in SPARQLStore, SQLStore * Fixed handling of an empty result send by the SPARQLStore Sesame connector * Fixed owl property export declaration * Fixed missing interwiki encoding for the RDF export * Fixed empty searchlabel raw wikitext display for a QueryResultPrinter with limit=0 * Fixed data update when moving a page to a non-enabled semantic namespace * Fixed #set where an error from a previous parse call could have affected succeeding #set error messages * Fixed exception in SMWExportController caused by an empty property reference * Fixed fetching of import vocabularies to be language independent * Fixed pre element rendering for the template "furtherresult" output link * Fixed empty caption for false when using the#x format option * Fixed exception in SMWExportController for use of &stats option * Fixed nesting of self-referenced concepts in a concept query * Fixed inconsistency when using headers=plain in CategoryResultPrinter also fixed the __NOTOC__ hack The full list can also be viewed at [0]. The installation procedure [1] has not changed since 1.9.0. To upgrade, you will need to get the new version of SMW, run MediaWikis update.php, and run SMWs refresh data script [2]. There is also a short video showing an upgrade from SMW 2.1.3 to 2.2 at [3]. Work on SMW 2.3 has already started, and includes performance enhancements and improvements to SPARQLStore support. Again, your contributions are welcome! [4] - The SMW development team [0] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMW_2.2 [1] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Installation [2] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Installation#Upgrading [3] https://vimeo.com/127356533 [4] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [MediaWiki-l] Upgrade to 1.24.2 fails because extension doesn't recognize version number
Hey Ad, Apparently for some reason, the code doing this check is not getting the actual version number. Which implies the problem lies elsewhere and this is just the first thing that is blowing up. My guess is that there is something wrong with when your extensions are getting loaded. I don't quite remember the details, though suggest that you look at the installation instructions of the relevant extensions for MediaWiki 1.24, and make sure you are doing what is outlined there, and no additional (outdated) things. > it must be 1.16 or higher I just realized that the current constraint is 1.17, so perhaps you are simply running a too old version of the extension? Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Developer at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] New extension: Semantic Meta Tags
Hey all, I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of the new Semantic Meta Tags extension. It is a Semantic Mediawiki extension for adding meta tags to a page with content generated from semantic annotations. This extension enables to automatically extend the HTML tags of a page with content generated from selected properties with: * Standard tags (e.g. meta name="keywords") as well as * Summary card and Open Graph protocol tags (e.g. meta property="og:title" or "twitter:description") You can find installation and usage instructions for the extension at https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMetaTags#semantic-meta-tags This extension has been created by James Hong Kong, with some minor contributions by Karsten Hoffmeyer, Jamie Thingelstad and myself. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [MediaWiki-l] Remove downloadable files from SourceForge
Hey, +1, even though this is kinda amusing: > Looking for the latest version? Download mediawiki-1.9.3.tar.gz Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Semantic Breadcrumb Links and Semantic Interlanguage Links released!
Hey all, I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of two entirely new extensions to Semantic MediaWiki! *## Semantic Breadcrumb Links* Semantic Breadcrumb Links is a Semantic Mediawiki extension to aid in-page navigation by building breadcrumb links from an attributive property filter. It uses a pattern match strategy to filter property usage (e.g. Has parent page) that ascribe the location of a page relative to its parent and provides navigational help by generating a breadcrumb trail. You can find installation and usage instructions for the 1.0 release at https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticBreadcrumbLinks#semantic-breadcrumb-links *## Semantic Interlanguage Links* Semantic Interlanguage Links is a Semantic Mediawiki extension to create and manage interlanguage links. This extension creates interlanguage links and provides queryable annotations that can connect pages with similar content for different languages to be accessible via the sitelink navigation by using the INTERLANGUAGELINK parser function. You can see the extension in action at https://vimeo.com/115871518 Installation and usage instructions for the 1.0 release can be found at https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticInterlanguageLinks#semantic-interlanguage-links Both these extensions were created by MWJames. Some minor contributions where made by Karsten Hoffmeyer, Jaider Andrade Ferreira and myself. Enjoy! -- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Semantic MediaWiki 2.1 released
Hello everyone, We are happy to announce the immediate availability of the second stable release in the Semantic MediaWiki 2.x series. Semantic MediaWiki 2.1 is a minor release that adds several new features, many enhancements, addresses numerous issues and adds support for additional platforms. It does not contain any breaking changes. ## Highlights ## ### Support for semantic queries in Special:Search ### This release adds support for semantic queries run directly from MediaWiki's standard search. You can enable this feature by setting $wgSearchType to "SMWSearch". The related configuration parameter $smwgFallbackSearchType allows specifying which search engine to fall back to in case "SMWSearch" returns no results. (#450, #496, #505) ### SPARQLStore improvements ### The SPARQLStore now supports concept queries (#696) and regex like queries ([[Url::~http://*query=*]] OR [[Url::~*ccc*]]) for Page and URL values (#679). Notable performance improvements and many other fixes (can be found in the bug fix list) have been made to broaden the SPARQLStore support. ### Enhanced platform support ### * SMW has partially supported PostgreSQL for a long time. This new release brings SMW's PostgreSQL support to the same level as MySQL and SQLite, making it the third fully supported relational database. * HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine) 3.3 or above is now supported along with all previously supported PHP versions. * Although earlier versions of SMW probably work with MediaWiki 1.24, this new release officially supports it. You can find a full overview in our compatibility matrix [0]. This matrix now also includes planned compatibility for future releases, to the extend this is known. ## Other new features ## * Concepts can now be nested (bug 15316) * Modernized Special:SearchByProperty interface * Added subobject parameter to the BrowseBySubject API module and imporved resolving of circular redirects * Added --page as export option to the dumpRDF.php maintenance script * Made ouput decoding for uri's human readable (bug 35452) * Added --runtime option to rebuildData.php. It allows you to see how much time was spend and how much memory was used. * Added $smwgEnabledEditPageHelp option that enables showing a contextual help text on the edit page * Enabled semicolon escaping for record-type values (\;) (bug T17732) * Added Special:Log support for events enabled in smwgLogEventTypes ## Bug fixes ## * Fixed the SPAPRQLStore to return a FalseCondition instead of an exception for not supported data types (e.g Geo) * Fixed the SPAPRQLStore query selection for subobjects used with a namespace condition * Removes invalid category value links to SearchByProperty on Special:Browse (bug 33449) * Fixed parameter encoding in Special:SearchByProperty for hyphens and spaces (bug 16150) * Enhanced concept pages to provide time and date of the last update * Fixed the SPARQLStore query result display for moved pages (a.k.a. "gost" pages) * Fixed movability for predefined property pages * Fixed data display inconsistency for pre-existing redirects * Fixed circular UpdateJob caused by redirects * Fixed exception in dumpRDF.php caused by resolving a subobject for a redirect * Fixed cache id mismatch for redirects in SQLStore * Fixed exception for when a null is returned by ExportController::getSemanticData * Enhanced SPARQLStore XML result parser to support Virtuoso singelton response * Fixed subobject disjunctive/conjunctive subquery handling * Fixed named subobject encoding in the Exporter to support accented characters * Fixed browse link generation for wikipages in Special:Browse * Fixed the hard-coded upper bound for the offset option of an inline query by replacing it with configuration parameter $smwgQUpperbound * Fixed postgres temporary table generation issue (bug 34855, #455, #462) * Fixed QueryProcessor to allow query conditions to contain = (bug 32955) * Removes service info links from the Factbox * Fixed broken field detection in record-type caused by html encoded strings (bug T23926) * Fixed #REDIRECT detection in MW 1.24+ * Fixed regex search (~/!) for page-type property values (bug T36665, T49073, T33151, T35854) * Fixed regex search support for uri-type property values * Fixed invalid :smw-redi marker when #REDIRECT is removed manually * Fixed probable race condition for SQLStore(postgres) when creating temporary tables * Fixed http header in SPARQLStore to be Sesame complaint The full list can also be viewed at [2]. The installation procedure [3] has not changed since 1.9.0. To upgrade, you will need to get the new version of SMW, run MediaWikis update.php, and run SMWs refresh data script [4]. - The SMW development team [0] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/docs/COMPATIBILITY.md [2] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMW_2.1 [3] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Installation [4] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Installation#Upgrading __
[MediaWiki-l] Semantic MediaWiki 2.0 released!
Hello everyone, We are happy to announce the immediate availability of the first stable release in the Semantic MediaWiki 2.0.x series. Semantic MediaWiki 2.0 is a big release that adds several new features, many enhancements, and addresses numerous issues. ## Compatibility changes ## Semantic MediaWiki 2.0 is compatible with MediaWiki 1.19 up to MediaWiki 1.23, and possibly later versions. Support for both MediaWiki 1.23 and MediaWiki 1.24 was improved compared to SMW 1.9. PHP compatibility remains the same as in SMW 1.9: all versions from PHP 5.3.2 to PHP 5.6.x. For a full overview, see our compatibility matrix [0]. ## Quality and stability improvements ## A great deal of effort has been put into ensuring both existing and new features work well. Not just at present, but also in future releases. And not just with MySQL and one version of MediaWiki, but on all platforms we support. This dedication to quality has resulted in many bugs being discovered and fixed, and makes future regressions much less likely. Continuous integration is now an integral part of the development process behind SMW. As of the 2.0 release, SMW has over 2300 automated tests, which cover two thirds of the codebase. These tests are run automatically for every change made to the code, on machines with different databases, different versions of PHP, different SPARQL stores and different versions of MediaWiki. ## Semantic Versioning ## As of the 2.0 release, Semantic MediaWiki adheres to the Semantic Versioning standard [1]. This makes our version numbers more meaningful and makes it easier for administrators to determine if a new release is relevant to them. ## Improved SPARQLStore support ## Semantic MediaWiki 1.6 introduced support for data synchronization with RDF back-ends. SMW 2.0 makes this functionality a first class citizen through many enhancements and stability improvements. * New and full support for Jena Fuseki 1.0 * Enhanced and full support for Virtuoso 6.1 * Enhanced support for 4store 1.1 ## Improved subobject support ## Support for subobjects has been added to the RDF export. This new capability is used by the RDF store functionality to also synchronize subobjects. (#344) Subobjects now support sorting via the `@sortkey` annotation that stores an individual sortkey per subobject. (#225) ## Notable bug fixes ## * #279 Fixed undefined index in `DataTypeRegistry::getDefaultDataItemTypeId` * #282 Output a message instead of an exception in `Special:WantedProperties` for unknown predefined properties * #308 Fixed caching issue in `DataRebuilder` for duplicate title objects * #312 Fixed fatal error in `CategoryResultPrinter` for when a mainlabel is hidden * #322 Fixed file names containing spaces or non-ASCII characters for downloadable result formats (csv, excel) * #379 Modernized `dumpRDF.php` while deprecating the use of `SMW_dumpRDF.php` (bug 35679) * #425 Deprecated `SMW_setup.php` in favour of `setupStore.php` * #444 Fixed language namespace alias issue * #420 Extended `ContentParser` to mitigate issues caused by the 62856 bug in MW 1.24+ * #405 Added a compatibility fix to mitigate issues caused by the `RefreshLinksJob` in MW 1.23+ SPARQLStore: * #291 Fixed call to undefined method in `SPARQLStore` * #338 Fixed exception in `ResultParser` for an invalid datatype (bug 62218) * #385 Fixed '#' encoding for subobjects in `SMWExporter::findDataItemForExpElement` to enable `SPARQLStore` result display * #387 Fixed `SPARQLStore` namespace query support (e.g `[[:+]]` ) * #415 Fixed `SPARQLStore` usage for `rebuildConceptCache.php` and `rebuildPropertyStatistics.php` * #460 Fixed `SPARQLStore` subobject sub query and pre-defined property query support This list can also be viewed at [2]. The installation procedure [3] has not changed since 1.9.0. To upgrade, you will need to get the new version of SMW, run MediaWikis update.php, and run SMWs refresh data script [4]. - The SMW development team [0] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/docs/COMPATIBILITY.md [1] http://semver.org/ [2] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMW_2.0 [3] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Installation [4] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Installation#Upgrading ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [MediaWiki-l] [Wikitech-l] ExtensionDistributor updates on mediawiki.org
Hey, \o/ Feature request 1: be able to download specific versions of extensions based on the tags their provide. Feature request 2: include dependencies defined in composer.json. Feature request 3: be able to specify a bunch of extensions to download and have a compat check be done (based on the package definitions), after which they are bundled together Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Semantic Extra Special Properties 1.0 released!
Hey all, I am happy to announce the 1.0 release of the Semantic Extra Special Properties extension! This release fixes various issues and makes the extension compatible with the latest MediaWiki, Semantic MediaWiki and PHP versions. It adds several new special properties such as PAGEID and EXIFDATA, as well as providing performance improvements. A more verbose, though also more technical, overview of the changes can be found at [0]. For upgrading you will need to run update.php and it is recommended you also run SMW_refreshData.php. Documentation on how to configure the extension can now be found at [1]. As of this release is is also possible to install the extension via Composer. (Manual installation is still supported.) The package name is "mediawiki/semantic-extra-special-properties". Many kudos go to MWJames for doing essentially all of the development work in this new version. I'd also like to thank Karsten for helping with the documentation and testing. [0] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticExtraSpecialProperties/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md [1] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticExtraSpecialProperties/blob/master/README.md#configuration Enjoy! -- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [MediaWiki-l] Extension Installer v2.2 on 1.21.x
Hey Tom,
> skipped the step, "Copy the example.json file"
Ah, that explains it!
> because I focused on the statement, "The default contents of the json
file specifies nothing should be installed, and looks as follows:" and
nothing else. :)
I have now changed to wording to avoid such confusion.
And will this:
>
> if ( is_readable( __DIR__ . '/../../vendor/autoload.php' ) ) {
> include_once( __DIR__ . '/../../vendor/autoload.php' );
> }
>
> will have to be changed to
>
> if ( is_readable( __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php' ) ) {
> include_once( __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php' );
> }
>
> or ExtensionInstaller to work because we are only going up one directory
> since w/ doesn't exist
>
No, you should not change this, as it is not affected by where you put your
wiki. (The path only goes back to the root of your wiki, not further.)
> Maybe serendipity was telling me to throw everything into the
/ExtensionInstaller directory because I'll have to edit .htaccess to allow
direct calls to /vender through Ugh!
I'm not fully sure what you mean here, though the ExtensionInstaller ought
to be put in the extensions directory, as is done with any other extension.
Cheers
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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Extension Installer v2.2 on 1.21.x
Hey, Which I don't think is what was supposed to happen. > > ExtensionInstaller/ > -extensions/ > ---SubPageList/ > ---Validator/ > -vendor/ > If you use the most recent release of SubPageList, version 1.1, which is over 2 months old by now, this ought to not occur. Is there any reason why you are trying to install 1.0? Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. ~=[,,_,,]:3 -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Semantic MediaWiki 1.9 released!
Dear all, we are happy to announce the immediate release of Semantic MediaWiki 1.9, the next big release after SMW 1.8. It brings many new features, enhancements and bugfixes. ### Platform compatibility changes * Changed minimum PHP version from 5.2. to 5.3.2. * Changed minimum MediaWiki version from 1.17 to 1.19. * Full compatibility with MediaWiki 1.19, 1.20, 1.21, 1.22 and forward-compatibility with 1.23. * Changed minimum Validator version from 0.5 to 1.0. * Added beta support for PostgreSQL. ### New features * SMW (and its dependencies) can now be installed via Composer * Added maintenance script rebuildPropertyStatistics.php to rebuild the property statistics * (271864f) The property type String is now an alias for Text and has no more length restrictions * (38499a8) Special:Statistics now shows a "semantic statistics" version (only when using a recent version of MediaWiki) * (ed52df7) (Bug 50844) Special:Properties now provides a form to search user-defined properties * (a949f04) (Bug 33181) Add page Special:Concepts that lists available concepts * (0c971f8) (Bug 46458) Extend smwinfo API module to provide additional information * (b8aea6c) (Bug 48840) Add a smw-admin right to enable restricted access to Special:SMWAdmin * (9714d04) (a33411f) Add new "browsebysubject" API module to fetch semantic data for a given subject ### Enhancements * (Bug 36309) and (Bug 39019) Add +sep= as multiple value separator for #set and #subobject parser function * (6dd845e) (Bug 34477) Add cache information to concept pages * (Bug 34172) Add individual CSS class injection for further result links * (I2e509e) Improved efficiency of property statistics rebuilding script * (8bcee83) (Bug 44696) Fix XML output for AskApi * (bb35e8a) (Bug 47123) Aggregate numbers based on the label/group * (5cda766) (Bug 46930) SMWSQLStore3Writers::changeTitle only create redirects when appropriate conditions are met * (e4a5fb8) (Bug 31880) Formatting numbers in tables based based on a customizable typeId * (e4a2035) Modify SMW\RecurringEvents to use a subobject as datamodel to represent individual events within a page * (7d1e2ad) (Bug 34782) Add note parameter to #info parser function ### Fixed bugs * The property statistics rebuilding is no longer done whenever you run update.php. * (Bug 42321) Fixed issue frequently causing notices in SQLStore3 * (5fdbb83) Fix offset display in Special:Ask * (9113ad1) (Bug 47010) SMWInfoLink * (af0cbe0) Fix escaping issue on Special:Ask * (ba74804) Fix construction of SMWExpLiteral * (d16a103) (Bug 45053) Fix quantity display support in SMW\ListResultPrinter * (9b2b5c7) (Bug 44518) Do not display elements for |format=list * (Bug 43932) Fix html tag support for non-list results in SMW\ListResultPrinter * (Bug 44275) Fix .data( 'sortkey' ) support in SMW\ListResultPrinter * (fcb7da9) (Bug 42324) fix SQlite support in sqlstore3 * (3507f84) (Bug 21893) Fixed queries that use the like comparator for properties with a restricted set of values ### Platform stability * Over 130 PHPUnit tests have been added * Over 10 QUnit tests have been added * The tests now run on TravisCI ** Compatibility is now ensured against all supported MediaWiki and PHP versions ** Compatibility is now ensured for all supported databases A full list of changes can be found at [0]. Installation and upgrading instructions reside at [1]. [0] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki_1.9.0 [1] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Installation As always, this SMW release is the result of a team effort. We would not have this release without the significant contributions from many great people contributing new functionality, improving documentation, organizing conferences, reporting issues and providing support. We hope you enjoy the new release. Cheers, James & Jeroen ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Wikibase Database 0.1 released!
Hey all, I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Wikibase Database 0.1. https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDatabase/releases An overview of the functionality, installation instructions, usage instructions and technical documentation can be found at https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDatabase/blob/master/README.md For a writeup on why this library was created and some technical notes, see http://www.bn2vs.com/blog/2013/11/01/new-database-abstraction-layer-for-mediawiki/ Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. ~=[,,_,,]:3 -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] SubPageList 1.0 released
Hey, I am happy to announce the immediate release of SubPageList 1.0. This release packs a ton of improvements over the last one, which was almost two years ago. Particular attention has been paid to making the extension more maintainable, solid and flexible. The documentation has also been updated and now includes descriptions for all supported parameters. Installation and usage instructions can be found via the README: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-SubPageList/blob/master/README.md Enjoy! -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. ~=[,,_,,]:3 -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [MediaWiki-l] Running PHPUnit tests from Eclipse?
Hey, I don't know about doing this with the MediaWiki tests, though I'm doing something very similar for the code I work on. All my repos have a phpunit.xml file in their root, so you can just run "phpunit" in there and have all the tests run. Which is the standard way of doing things, and recognized by lots of IDEs and plugins. I'm currently using this handly little Node script to run my tests on file change: https://npmjs.org/package/phpunit-testrunner Or "grunt watch" in the repos where I'm using the Grunt task runner. When running Linux you can write a 3 line bash script that already gets you most of the value. As long as there is a sane test runner that is... What tests do you want to run anyway? Not all MW tests I imagine, as they take many minutes to run, which clearly is to long when you run this on every file change. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. ~=[,,_,,]:3 -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki now has code coverage for PHP
Hey, This is fantastic! Thanks for setting this up. Question: will this be done for all git repos? In particular MW extensions? Remark: currently files that the tests do not hit are not included in the coverage report. This means the overall coverage stats are displayed much higher then they actually are. We ran into the same issue with the Wikidata coverage stats. There is some setting that allows you to include all files in some directory. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [MediaWiki-l] Transclusion from private wiki
Hey, There is also the Push extension [0] which is there to facilitate pushing pages from one wiki (ie a private one) to another (ie a public one). [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Push Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [MediaWiki-l] can MediaWiki show some of the same content on two pages?
Hey, As mentioned, templates will do the job is you just want to embed some other page. However if you want more powerful data re-use, have a look at Semantic MediaWiki: https://semantic-mediawiki.org/ Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [MediaWiki-l] survey radio buttons multiple response
Hey, is there an opportunity to allow multiple responses for radio buttons in > the survey extension (checking more than 1 answer)? > Not if the input type is radio button. You can however make it a dropdown. For instance see the last question here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Survey-dialog.png Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Diff 0.4 released
Hey all, I'm happy to announce the immediate release of Diff 0.4 [0]. Notable changes in this version where moving the diff creation code from static methods in the diff representation classes to dedicated differ classes and the introduction of patching functionality. Next to several code quality and design improvements, a lot of tests where also added. The documentation on mediawiki.org got updated accordingly and new examples where added. [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Diff Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [MediaWiki-l] How to make ImageGallery of articles
Hey, Sounds like what you want to do can be achieved using the gallery format of Semantic Result Formats, see http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Gallery_format Typically you want to send such questions to wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org, not this list :) Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] Maps and Semantic Maps 2.0.1 released
Hey all, I am happy to announce the immediate availability of Maps and Semantic Maps 2.0.1. This minor release includes some important bugfixes for Google Maps, most notably the working of infowindows, which broke due to a change in the Google Maps API. It also improved compatibility with SMW 1.8 and the upcoming 1.9. The releases are tagged as "2.0.1" in git and can also be obtained as zip archive from the extension pages: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [MediaWiki-l] Problem downloading Extension:Cite
Hey, You can get the current most recent version here: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/Cite.git;a=snapshot;h=173be7bbd456fc5d8805af7e48ac5a5027168161;sf=tgz Unfortunately it does not appear to have any release tags. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [MediaWiki-l] [Semediawiki-user] Maps and Semantic Maps 2.0 released!
Hey, > Nice Looking forward to demos at SMWCon :) There will indeed be demo's, see http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2012/New_features_in_Maps_and_Semantic_Maps > BTW, is Semantic Bundle going to be updated with the latest maps soon? This depends, we've not seen a new Semantic Bundle for a while due to the git migration, and no one seems to be willing to update the build scripts. That should be rather simple though, so if any developers wants to help out here... > If not, are there any dependencies that will break if I upgrade to Maps 2.0? Maps 2.0 requires Validator 0.5. So if you have any extensions that use Validator, I'd recommend you get their latest version. There is a compatibility layer that should prevent breakage, but updating is still advisable. In particular Semantic MediaWiki and Semantic Result Formats. Both these extensions have not seen a new release yet using this version of Validator, but they are close to seeing a release, and should be pretty stable at this point. If you don't want to run beta versions you'll be better off waiting another month or so with upgrading your extensions. I'd recommend the same for anyone using OpenLayers and wants high stability, there are some non-trivial open issues which are also present in the 2.0 release. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [MediaWiki-l] [Wikitech-l] New extension: Diff
Hey, > Is there a reason we don't just put this in the core? One of the reasons is that from my experience the MediaWiki core dev community is not very open to such things. I think Tim is illustrating the point pretty well, by implying what I did is total nonsense. Having tried to get this into core would have lead to more insults getting thrown at my head. Of course this is nonsense, as I'm sure some core developer will point out in a reply. Another reason is that although this is a rather generic diff utility, the number of extensions that could make use of this seems rather limited. And I don't think we want to just put any generic component into core without good reason. > It has about 50 lines of useful code wrapped in 1600 lines of > abstraction. I don't think it is the sort of style we want in the core. Unsurprisingly I'm going to Agree with Denny that this is rather harsh. This kind of attitude is not very welcoming to other developers, especially if you make such comments where they are not applicable. And yes, I'm going to maintain it's not applicable. Being the genius that you are, I challenge you to put your money where your mount is to write a 50 line extension that offers the same functionality as this extension. One might discuss the suitability of using a class hierarchy to > represent different DiffOps. But then again, that is the same class > design as in the DairikiDiff engine, included in core as well. > Although you find small things to nitpick over, I'm confident the overall design is sound. The Diff and DiffOps are following the composite pattern, which seems very much like the right choice to me. I would not mind being proven wrong or having other constructive discussion though. "This is crap" is not constructive. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[MediaWiki-l] New extension: Diff
Hey, I'm happy to announce the first release of a new little extension I wrote called Diff. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Diff It's a small utility library which might be of use to anyone creating a new extension :) Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [Mediawiki-l] New Extension: AllTimeZones
There already is such unit conversion code. In parserFunctions extension IIRC :) Sent from my Android phone. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [Mediawiki-l] New Extension: AllTimeZones
Hey, I had a quick look at this extension and have some suggestions: * Escape ALL variables in HTML you are building. You can use htmlspecialchars, the methods of MediaWikis HTML class, and in this case probably want to just construct the whole thing with XmlSelect. * You are not fully following the style guidelines. The spacing is off and you are using underscores in var names instead of lowerCamelCase. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions * Don't use the 'description' in wgExtensionCredits, use 'descriptionmsg' instead, and properly internationalize it. Next to that it looks great, although I'm not completely sure the i18n is all in order when using the native PHP time functions :) Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [Mediawiki-l] [WikiEN-l] Invitation to help beta-test the MediaWiki 1.19 extension for the Wikipedia Education Program
Hey, > The users that are assigned this user access level will inherit privileges from the ep-instructor, ep-campus-ambassador, and ep-online-ambassador, and will be able to administer those user access levels. Other than that, it's a typical autoconfirmed user. For a more complete overview of the rights, see http://education.wmflabs.org/index.php/Special:ListGroupRights Note that the skip captcha one currently assigned to all of the education groups is just present on the demo wiki and won't be copied over to any Wikipedia. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Semantic MediaWiki 1.7.1 released!
Hey all, We are proud to announce the immediate release of Semantic MediaWiki 1.7.1, the next minor version after 1.7, which brings a few cool new features and a ton of bugfixes. Many thanks go to all the people that contributed to this release, without you this release would not have been possible :) == What's new == * Added basic support for OpenLink Virtuoso RDF database. In addition to $smwgDefaultStore = 'SMWSparqlStore', users should set $smwgSparqlDatabase = 'SMWSparqlDatabaseVirtuoso' and use Virtuoso's SPARQL endpoint at ./sparql/ for query and update alike. for further remarks and known limitations, see the file ./includes/sparql/SMW_SparqlDatabaseVirtuoso.php . * Added ability to sort dates as dates in tables generated by SMW (bug 25768). * Added "Last editor is" and "Is a new page" special properties (bug 34359). == Bug fixes == Since 1.7.0.2: * When there are only invalid query conditions, query answering is stopped (bug 33177). * Fixed display of nearby values on Special:SearchByProperty (bug 34178). * Fixed display of URL values (bug 34312, 34044). * Fixed warning when browsing certain property pages (bug 34306). * Fixed failure of SMW_setup --delete when using postgresql (bug 31153). * Fixed division by 0 error when setting the "Corresponds to" property to 0 (bug 32594). * Fixed accept header send with SPARQL query requests (bug 32280). * Fixed unresolved prefixed name in SPARQL queries (bug 33687). * Fixed issues with modification date property occurring when using SMWSparqlStore (bug 30989). * Fixed erroneous SPARQL for property value comparison queries (bug 30993). * Fixed broken +index=x for records (bug 30284). * Fixed querying of subobjects using 4store as a datastore. * Fixed issue with namespace internationalization (bug 34383). Plus these fixed after 1.7: * Fixed creation of concept cache and display of matching objects on concept pages (bug 32592, 32718). * Fixed fatal error occurring for some invalid property definitions (bug 33652). * Fixed error in RSS when using creator or date parameters (bug 33721). * Fixed incorrect offset of export formats (bug 33726). * Fixed bug in "further results" links causing the main column to be displayed twice on Special:Ask (bug 33473). * Fixed incorrect case-sensitivity of the format parameter (bug 31138). * Fixed internationalization of magic words. * Fixed offset and limit value in further results links (bug 33575). == Compatibility changes == None. The next scheduled release of SMW, which is SMW 1.8, will drop support for MediaWiki 1.16.x. == Download == You can get this release from * SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki/files/semediawiki/Semantic%20MediaWiki%201.7.1/ * SVN: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/REL_1_7_1/ == Installation / Upgrading == You can install or upgrade as usual. You will need to run the table update script via Special:SMWAdmin or maintenance/SMW_setup.php. More detailed installation instructions can be found on the SMW wiki: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Installation_1.7.1 A slightly more extensive overview of this release can be found here: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki_1.7.1 Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [Mediawiki-l] update version 1.15 to 1.18
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Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to get page ID and title
Hey, > how can I get the page ID and title Where do you need this? And what MediaWiki version(s) are you developing for? If you are developing for MW 1.18 or later, on a lot of places you'll be able to call ->getTitle either on $this or some object passed along. This method is available on all stuff deriving from RequestContext. For earlier versions you can get the title object via the global $wgTitle. Once you have the title you can get the page name via ->getText or similar methods and the article id via ->getArticleID. btw, such questions are better asked on wikitech: wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [Mediawiki-l] Best way to get html/parsed version of a wiktionary
Hey, > What is the best/easiest way to get a parsed version (including template > resolution) of all entries of a wiktionary (separate html files for each > entry for example). AFAIK action=render: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foobar?action=render Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Semantic Result Formats 1.7 released
Hey all, I am proud to announce the immediate release of Semantic Result Formats 1.7, the next major version after 1.6.2, which brings several new features, internal improvements and bugfixes. == Compatibility changes == * Compatibility with SMW 1.7 and later. * Dropped support for MediaWiki 1.15.x and SMW < 1.7. * Full compatibility with MediaWiki 1.18 and foreward-compatibility with 1.19. == What's new == * Added value distribution support to jqplotpie and jqplotbar. * Added min parameter to jqplotbar to set the minimun value for the Y-axis. * Added pointlabel parameter to jqplotbar and chartlegend, legendlocation, datalabels and datalabeltype parameters to jqplotpie based on a patches by James Hong Kong. * Made array and hash formats compatible with 'Array' extension 2.0 and 'HashTables' 1.0. * Added summary parameter to the icalendar format. * Added warning message to jqplotpie and jqplotbar shown when there are no results instead of a non-working chart. == Download == You can get this release from * Google Code: https://code.google.com/p/semantic-result-formats/downloads/list * SVN: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/extensions/SemanticResultFormats/REL_1_7/ More info on the Semantic Result Formats extension can be found here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Result_Formats Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Semantic MediaWiki 1.7 released
Hey all, We are proud to announce the immediate release of Semantic MediaWiki 1.7, the next major version after 1.6.1, which brings many new features, internal improvements and bugfixes. Many thanks go to all the people that contributed to this release, without you this release would not have been possible :) == What's new == * Added native "internal objects" that can be set using #setobject. * Added support for selecting a default graph when using RDF stores, configuration called $smwgSparqlDefaultGraph * Use of native MediaWiki sortable tables for the table formats. * Added value distribution functionality that can be used by result formats. * Added validation and manipulation of the format paremeter using Validator. * Added 'class' parameter to the 'table' format, which allows setting the CSS class. * Added automatically-generated CSS classes for rows and cells in 'table' format. * Added alpha version of native SMW Ask API with modules 'ask' and 'askargs'. * Added setting to choose which optional special properties are enabled ($smwgPageSpecialProperties). * Added creation date special property (disabled by default) (bug 32165). * Added support for altitudes in geographic coordinates (bug 32698). * Added definitions for missing params (sort, order, searchlabel) to the base query printer. * Added automatic invocation of the SMW_setup maintenance script when running update.php (for MW >= 1.19). * Added support for the Page Schemas extension. == Compatibility changes == * Dropped compatibility with MediaWiki 1.15.x (and earlier). * Dropped compatibility with old-style (SMW < 1.6) query printers. This means that older versions of extensions that add result formats, such as Semantic Result Formats, will no longer work with SMW 1.7. More recent versions will of course work properly. * Full compatibility with MediaWiki 1.18 and foreward-compatibility with 1.19. == Bug fixes == This release comes with a load of bug fixes, of which some are listed below: * Fixed separator and filename parameters for the DSV format. * Fixed display of properties of type URL (bug 30912). * Fixed hide query functionality on Special:Ask (bug 30768). * Fixed display of internal SMW helper constants in certain queries (bug 30969). * Fixed some issues with the category result format (including bug 30761). * Fixed email validation issue (bug 32295). * Fixed incorrect handling of sort and order parameters on Special:Ask (bug 32706). * Fixed display of images to old behaviour after a recent regression. * Fixed fatal error in the concept cache maintenance script (bug 32592). * Fixed factbox links to Special:SearchByProperty containing numerical numbers for wikis in languages with the comma as decimal separator instead of a dot. * Fixed the "hide incoming properties" link on Special:Browse. == Download == You can get this release from * SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki/files/semediawiki/Semantic%20MediaWiki%201.7/SemanticMediaWiki1.7.zip/download * SVN: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/REL_1_7/ == Installation / Upgrading == You can install or upgrade as usual. You will need to run the table update script via Special:SMWAdmin or maintenance/SMW_setup.php. More detailed installation instructions can be found on the SMW wiki: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Installation_1.7.0 A slightly more extensive overview of this release can be found here: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki_1.7.0 Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to add new special page group?
Hey, > That's for Special:Version. Oops. You're right, somehow managed to misread that. Robert, in that case what you have ought to work. It's what I'm doing here, and it works just fine: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/EducationProgram/EducationProgram.php?view=markup#l80 Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to add new special page group?
Hey, > I'd like my extension's new special page to go under a new special page group in Special:SpecialPages Assuming you are developing for 1.17 and later, you can use this hook: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/ExtensionTypes Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [Mediawiki-l] ExtensionDistributor
Hey, > Today tried twice to download ParserFunctions using the extension > distributor in the MediaWiki page but it says: "Unable to contact remote > subversion client". There is another way to download extensions? In case of ParserFunctions, no one makes actual releases with tarballs, so you need to either get it via subversion, or some tool that does that for you and gives you a tarball, such as the extension distributor. You can get a days old checkout of the extension by grabbing the latest dev build of Semantic Bundle, which includes Parser Functions: https://code.google.com/p/semantic-mediawiki-bundle/downloads/list Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki 1.18 release plans
Hey, I'm curious to what the release plans for 1.18 are. 1.18wmf1 has been deployed on the wmf wikis, but still there is no beta release for 1.18. For when is such an initial beta planned, and what's the target data for the actual 1.18 release? Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [Mediawiki-l] Copy batch of pages from one wiki to another
Hey, The Push extension [0] can do what you want. It allows pushing a single page from one wiki to another, or a list, which can be constructed manually or by specifying namespaces or categories, much like you can on Special:Export. This also takes care of transferring embedded files and templates when specified. Pages are handled one by one, so it won't timeout when transferring many pages. [0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:Push Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Semediawiki-user] Improved speed for loading pages in SMW sites
Hey, > Are there ways to speed up the page load time? Not mentioned in the stuff liked by people so far, but highly relevant: Get MediaWiki 1.17 or later when using older versions, so you get all the wins from the Resource Loader: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Resource_loader Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Semantic Result Formats 1.6 released
Hey all, I'm happy to announce the release of Semantic Result Formats 1.6 [0]. This release adds several new features and compatibility with Semantic MediaWiki 1.6. Changes in this version: * Added compatibility with SMW 1.6. * Rewrote math formats for efficiency, correct recursion and handling of multiple numerical properties. * Cleaned up the graph format. * Fixed division by zero issue (oh shii~) in the tagcloud format. * Added parameter descriptions to the graph and ploticus formats. * Added support for SMW 1.6 style parameter handling to the tagcloud format. * Somewhat cleaned up the BibTeX format. * Fixed double HTML escaping issue in the tagcloud format. * Added fileextensions parameter to the Gallery format and added missing parameter description messages. New result formats in this version are: * product * median You can find download and installation instructions here [1]. This version of SRF has been included in the Semantic Bundle [2] that was released yesterday, so can be obtained by downloading SB as well. Thanks to all people that helped out with this release by finding bugs, submitting patches, testing, translating, ect. The Exhbit format is currently broken with MW 1.17 and above, and is in need of a maintainer. If you are interested in taking care of that format, definitely poke me. [0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Result_Formats [1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Result_Formats#Download [2] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Semantic_Bundle Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] New extension: Semantic Watchlist
Hey all, We're very happy to announce the first release of a new (Semantic) MediaWiki extension titled Semantic Watchlist. Semantic Watchlist extends Semantic MediaWiki<http://semantic-mediawiki.org/>by adding the capability to watch/follow sets of properties for groups of pages (that can be specified with categories and namespaces). You can view changes to these properties via Special:SemanticWatchlist, which works similar to the regular MediaWiki watchlist. You can also request to be notified via email when a change is made. There are already two extensions that notify users about changes to SMW property values: Semantic Notifications [2] and Semantic NotifyMe [3]. We decided to create a new extension because we wanted the ability for users to get notifications in ways other than email: via a watchlist on the page, or potentially via other ways in the future as well, like Twitter updates. A writeup of the functionality of this extension, including some screenshots and download links can be found on Jeroens blog [0]. Documentation for the extension can be found on MediaWiki.org [1]. [0] http://blog.bn2vs.com/2011/07/30/new-mediawiki-extension-semantic-watchlist/ [1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Watchlist [2] http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:Semantic_Notifications_Extension [3] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:Semantic_NotifyMe Cheers Jeroen De Dauw & Yaron Koren ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Semantic MediaWiki 1.6 released
Hey all, I'm very happy to announce the release of Semantic MediaWiki 1.6. This release has been in the making over the past four months and includes contributions by many people. It brings significant improvements to SMWs architecture and introduces many new features. The most important changes are listed below: * Full support added for storing SMW data directly within an RDF triplestore, and for answering #ask queries based on this data. * The Type namespace has been abolished. Builtin types now are displayed by the special page Special:Types, and there are no "custom types" any longer. * Changed the way in which units of measurement work. Type:Number now does not accept any units, and a new type "Quantity" is used for numbers with units. * The declaration of Type:Record properties has changed. Instead of a list of datatypes, the declaration now requires a list of properties that are to be used for the fields of the record. * Introduced pre-defined builtin properties for every datatype. * Changed the way parameters in query printers are specified and handled using the Validator extension. * Added UNIX-style DSV (Delimiter-separated values) result format. * Reworked internal data model. * Fixed PostgreSQL issues with the installation and upgrade code. * Added #smwdoc parser hook that displays a table with parameter documentation for a single specified result format. * Fixed escaping issues in the JSON result format. For a more comprehensive list of these changes, see the release notes [0] and blog post I made about this release [1]. As usual, you can also consult the SMW 1.6 page on the SMW wiki [2] and the installation and upgrade instructions [3]. To keep up to date with SMW developments, you can follow the SMW Twitter [4] or Indenti.ca [5]. [0] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/REL_1_6/RELEASE-NOTES?view=co [1] http://blog.bn2vs.com/2011/07/30/semantic-mediawiki-1-6-released/ [2] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki_1.6 [3] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Installation_1.6 [4] https://twitter.com/#!/SemanticWiki [5] https://identi.ca/smw Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [Mediawiki-l] sementics mediawiki compatibility with oracle database.?
Hey, I'm not really familiar with Oracle, but SMW currently only supports MySQL and PostGres. Not sure how hard it would be to support Oracle. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Maps compatibility note
Hey all, A quick warning for people using the Maps [0] (and Semantic Maps [1]) extension from svn: the code on trunk has just became dependent on MediaWiki 1.17 or above. If you are running an older version of MediaWiki and want to continue update (Semantic) Maps 0.7.x from svn, "svn switch" to these branches: * Maps: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/Maps0.7.x/ * Semantic Maps: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/SemanticMaps0.7.x/ [0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:Maps [1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [Mediawiki-l] mediawiki+security
Hey, Why would you want to store passwords in a wiki? They are not really something you collaboratively edit. In any case, MediaWiki is not build with the idea of hiding content in mind, so I highly recommend against using it to store passwords. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] New MediaWiki extension: Push
Hey all, I’m happy to announce the release of a new MediaWiki extension titled 'Push'. It enables you to easily push content of wiki pages to one or more other MediaWiki installs. The extension documentation is located here [0] and a blog post going over the usage of the extension can be found at [1]. Feedback is welcome on the documentation talk page. [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Push [1] http://blog.bn2vs.com/2010/12/15/new-mediawiki-extension-push/ Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://blog.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Semantic MediaWiki 1.5.3 released
Hey all, I' happy to announce that Semantic MediaWiki 1.5.3 [0] has been released and is available for download [1]. This release adds several new comparators, compatibility with the upcoming MediaWiki 1.17 and several internal improvements. Some security enhancements have also been made, so upgrading is recommended. [0] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki_1.5.3 [1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki/files/ Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * http://blog.bn2vs.com * http://wiki.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. 50 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Maps] Unknown Method
Hey, > Fatal error: Call to undefined method Title::isSpecialPage() in... It appears I made the extension incompatible with MW 1.15 in the latest release without realising it. Either downgrade to Maps 0.7, or upgrade to MW 1.16. I will ensure compatibility is regained in the next release. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * http://blog.bn2vs.com * http://wiki.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. 50 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Maps 0.7.1: images as layers
Hey, Maps 0.7.1 [0] and Semantic Maps 0.7.1 [1] are now available for download [2]. The main new feature in this release is the long awaited images as layers [3]. It allows you to display images with OpenLayers, so users can pan and zoom around, and markers can be placed to draw attention to certain area's and provide additional information. [0] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Maps_0.7.1 [1] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Semantic_Maps_0.7.1 [2] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Download [3] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Images_as_layers Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * http://blog.bn2vs.com * http://wiki.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. 50 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Maps and Semantic Maps 0.7 released
Hey, Version 0.7 of both the Maps and Semantic Maps extensions is now available for download [0]. This release is made after 3 beta's and a release candidate, so should be stable. The most notable new features in this release are tag extension support for all the Maps parser functions, more consistent error handling via Validator 0.4 and compatibility with the upcoming MediaWiki 1.17. Most changes are internal improvements, but there are also several bug fixes and minor new features. For a complete list of changes, see the release announcement on the wiki [1]. [0] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Download [1] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Maps_and_Semanic_Maps_0.7_released Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * http://blog.bn2vs.com * http://wiki.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. 50 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Maps and Semantic Maps 0.7 beta available
Hey I'm happy to announce version 0.7 beta of the Maps [0] and Semantic Maps [1] extensions. The most notable new features in this release are tag extension support for all the Maps parser functions, more consistent error handling and compatibility with the upcoming MediaWiki 1.17. Most changes are internal improvements, but there are also several bug fixes and minor new features. More at [2]. You can get the latest beta here [3], or simply get the extensions from SVN trunk. Please report any issues you find on the discussion page of the relevant extension. [0] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Maps [1] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Semantic_Maps [2] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Maps_and_Semantic_Maps_0.7_beta_3_available [3] https://code.google.com/p/semanticmaps/downloads/list Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * http://blog.bn2vs.com * http://wiki.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. 50 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Maps and Semantic Maps 0.6.6 released
Hey, Maps and Semantic Maps 0.6.6 are now available for download [0]. This release addresses some problems with coordinate parsing, wikitext in marker pop-ups and geocoding from behind proxies. It should be the most stable release of both extensions to date, so you are advised to upgrade if stability is important for you. More information about this release can be found on my blog [1] and on the documentation wiki [2]. [0] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Help:Download [1] http://blog.bn2vs.com/2010/08/27/maps-and-semantic-maps-0-6-6-released/ [2] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Mapping_on_MediaWiki Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * http://blog.bn2vs.com * http://wiki.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. 50 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Maps and Semantic Maps 0.6.5 released
Hey, Maps [0] and Semantic Maps [1] 0.6.5 are now available for download [2]. This release contains mainly internal changes to improve code modularity and fix some security concerns. Several bugs have been fixed as well, and a new hook has been added to Semantic Maps. Everyone running 0.6.2 or older is advised to upgrade as soon as possible. More information can be found in this blog post [3]. [0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:Maps [1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps [2] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Help:Download [3] http://blog.bn2vs.com/2010/07/28/maps-and-semantic-maps-0-6-5-released/ Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * http://blog.bn2vs.com * http://wiki.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. 50 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Maps and Semantic Maps 0.6.4 released
Hey, Maps and Semantic Maps 0.6.4 are now available for download [0]. This release contains several new features, amongst which basic KML support for Google Maps, a new OSM service implementation and re-added service links support to the Geographical Coordinates data-type in Semantic Maps. For a full list of changes since 0.6.3 see changes to Maps and changes to SM. Everyone running 0.6.2 or older is advised to upgrade as soon as possible. You can find a more detailed description of the new features and other changes on my blog [1]. [0] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Help:Download [1] http://blog.bn2vs.com/2010/07/08/maps-and-semantic-maps-0-6-4-released/ Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * http://blog.bn2vs.com * http://wiki.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. 50 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Maps and Semantic Maps 0.6.4 rc1
Hey, For the early adopters and people having issues with the latest release of Maps and Semantic Maps: You can now download and try out 0.6.4 release candidate 1 [0]. This release contains mainly bugfixes, but also some new features. View the changes to Maps and Semantic Maps made so far here [1] and here [2]. I will release 0.6.4 in a couple of days, before Wikimania, so please be quick reporting any issues you might find. [0] http://semanticmaps.googlecode.com/files/MapsAndSemanticMaps0.6.4rc1.zip [1] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Maps/Version_history#Maps_0.6.4 [2] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Semantic_Maps/Version_history#Semantic_Maps_0.6.4 Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * http://blog.bn2vs.com * http://wiki.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. 50 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Maps and Semantic Maps 0.6.3 released
Maps [0] and Semantic Maps [1] 0.6.3 are now available for download [2]. This release is one aimed to improve stability and addresses a number of bugs that where present in 0.6.x. Some notable fixed issues are a failure of parsing any coordinates containing a degree symbol that surfaced in 0.6.2, and the failing of non-Google Maps form inputs. Some internal rewriting has also been done, which was needed to address some of these bugs, and will enable future awesomeness increase. The included OpenLayers library has also been upgraded to 2.9.1. (changes to Maps [3], changes to SM [4]). People running any 0.6.x are advised to upgrade. Especially people using Semantic Maps in conjunction with Semantic Forms [5], as both 0.6 and 0.6.1 contain undesired behaviour in the forms. A new release of Semantic Bundle [6], which will include these versions of the mapping extensions, is likely to soon be released as well :) You can also read the release notes on my blog [7] and on the documentation site [8]. [0] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Maps [1] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Semantic_Maps [2] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Help:Download [3] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Maps/Version_history#Maps_0.6.3 [4] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Semantic_Maps/Version_history#Semantic_Maps_0.6.3 [5] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Semantic_Forms [6] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_Bundle [7] http://blog.bn2vs.com/2010/06/20/maps-and-semantic-maps-0-6-3-released/ [8] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Maps_and_Semantic_Maps_0.6.3_released -- Jeroen De Dauw * http://blog.bn2vs.com * http://wiki.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. 50 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Maps and Semantic Maps 0.6.2 released
Hey all Maps and Semantic Maps 0.6.2 are now available for download [0]. This release contains improvements to parameter handling, case insensitivity has been re-added, and using default parameters together with named ones will work more intuitive. In Maps the handling of distances has also been considerably improved: there is a new #distance parser function, additional distance related parameters in #geodistance, and new settings that allow you to customize the default distance behaviour. In Semantic Maps a rather important bugfix has been made which solves a problem with editing articles with forms that contain maps that arose in 0.6.1. (changes to Maps [1], changes to SM [2]). People running 0.6 and 0.6.1 are advised to upgrade. Especially people using Semantic Maps in conjunction with Semantic Forms [3], as both 0.6 and 0.6.1 contain undesired behaviour in the forms. You can also read this message on the documentation wiki [4]. [0] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Help:Download [1] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Maps/Version_history#Maps_0.6.2 [2] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Semantic_Maps/Version_history#Semantic_Maps_0.6.2 [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms [4] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Maps_and_Semantic_Maps_0.6.2_released Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * http://blog.bn2vs.com * http://wiki.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. 50 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Maps and Semantic Maps 0.6.1 released
Maps [0] and Semantic Maps [1] 0.6.1 have been released, and are available for download [2]. This release does not add any new features to 0.6, but contains multiple important bugfixes [3, 4]. People running 0.6 are advised to upgrade. Especially people using Semantic Maps 0.6 in conjunction with Semantic Forms, as the mapping form inputs in 0.6 will output invalid coordinates when editing existing ones or inserting new ones. [0] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Maps [1] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Semantic_Maps [2] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Help:Download [3] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Maps/Version_history#Maps_0.6.1 [4] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Semantic_Maps/Version_history#Semantic_Maps_0.6.1 -- Jeroen De Dauw * http://blog.bn2vs.com * http://wiki.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. 50 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Maps (and Semantic Maps) 0.6 released
Maps <http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Maps> [0] and Semantic Maps<http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Semantic_Maps>[1] 0.6 are now available for download [2]. This is a big update, including a lot of new features, bug fixes, security patches, and most of all, internal improvements, making both extensions more modular and extendible (these changes are not covered here, see the relevant change logs for more info). It is also the first release of Semantic Maps that requires you to run the SMW update script, as it requires a new table layout to store coordinates (more info on this<http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Semantic_Maps#Upgrading_to_0.6> ). The important new features are: - Maps now supports real coordinate parsing and formatting, which allows you to input coordinates in any of the supported notations at any point in the extension, and can also request any output to be in the notation of your choice. This means you can now choose what format Semantic MediaWiki<http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki>shows coordinates in, such as in ask queries. The supported notations are DMS, decimal degrees, decimal minutes and floats. All those can be either directional or non directional. A new parser function has been added that allows you to convert between any of these formats: #coordinates<http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Coordinates> . - New geographical functions: #geodistance<http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Geodistance>and # finddestination <http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Finddestination>. You can use the #geodistance parser function to calculate the geographical distance between two points, from and to any of the supported formats. The #finddestination parser function can be used to find a destination given a starting point, an initial bearing and a distance. - Related to the new geographical functions is a rewritten distance query in Semantic Maps. It now takes into account performance and is scalable, which the old query was not, by using the new storage structure for coordinates. The notation for distance queries has also changed. Instead of using the like operator and a global distance parameter ( like #ask:[[Property: :~coordinates]]|distance=42 ) you now only have to specify your distance locally in the coordinate criteria itself like #ask:[[Property: :coordinates (42 km)]]. Like you can see you can now also specify a unit, which can be any of the supported ones<http://mapping.referata.com/w/index.php?title=Help:Distance&action=edit&redlink=1> . - Support for various width and height notations. Previously Maps only accepted width and height values is px, forcing you to use maps of fixed sizes. Since most people want to have their complete page width visible even on small screens, this resulted in a lot of people using rather small maps, and so wasting screen space. 0.6 allows you to specify the size in px, ex, em, and most importantly, in %. The syntax is what you’d expect: width=”420px”, width=”420em”, width=”42%”. width=”420″ will default to using px, so is backward compatible. When using the % values, maps will even adapt their size when the screen width or the height of the container they are in is changed after the page has loaded. - Not a new feature, but rather one that’s removed: OSM<http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/OSM>support. The OSM service has been completely removed from Maps and Semantic Maps as it was rather broken and not easy to upgrade to the internal structure of Maps 0.6. I’m planning to add it back later on, rewritten from ground up, in 0.6.1 or 0.6.2 or so. Note that you can still view OSM maps on your wiki using the OpenLayers<http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/OpenLayers>service, which has build in OSM layers, and also allows you to define your own layers since 0.5.5. The most notable bugfixes are: - Fixed conflict with prototype library that caused compatibility problems with the Halo extension. - Added automatic icon image sizing for Google Maps and Yahoo! Maps markers. - Various security fixes, mostly preventing XSS attacks. If no serious bugs are found in this release, a minor update can be expected in a month or so. [0] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Maps [1] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Semantic_Maps [2] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Help:Download -- Jeroen De Dauw * http://blog.bn2vs.com * http://wiki.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. 50 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! -- ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [Mediawiki-l] api.php & SMW
I'm not aware of any. There is an extension [0] for doing write queries though. What do you need this for? The Semedia-user list [1] is probably the best place to ask questions like these. [0] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:SMWWriter [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=semediawiki-user -- Jeroen De Dauw * http://blog.bn2vs.com * http://wiki.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! -- On 14 April 2010 23:33, MK wrote: > Are there any extensions to the MW API to do semantic property > queries, eg, to return a list of pages where ?prop=value or some such? > > -- > MK > > ___ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Maps: OpenLayers: What layer do YOU want?
Hey, This is a request for feedback from people who are (or are going to) using the Maps extension with the OpenLayers service. The next version of Maps will feature the awesome ability to define your own layers by putting stuff in LocalSettings, so you're not longer limited to the ones that are hardcoded in. On top of this I'd also like to review the layers that come with the extension as default. This are the services supported as layers ATM: * Google Maps (streets, satellite, hybrid and terrain) * Yahoo! Maps (streets, satellite and hybrid) * Bing Maps (streets, satellite and hybrid) * OpenStreetMap (osmarender, mapnik, cycle map) There are probably a lot of awesome tile sources out there that are useful to a lot of users but that are not in yet. So if anyone knows a data source that he/she would like to be able to use via Maps with OpenLayers, just give me a poke, and a lot of chance I'll put it in :) Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * Wiki: wiki.bn2vs.com * Blog: blog.bn2vs.com * Skype: rts.bn.vs -- Don't panic. Don't be evil.70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Google Summer of Code 2010
Hey all, Google Summer of Code 2010 [0] has been announced [1] by Google's open source team. I'm assuming Wikimedia Foundation will again apply as mentoring organization this year. Can anybody confirm this? Also, who is (or will be) coordinating GSoC efforts? I have several suggestions to improve how things are done compared to last year, and am willing to help :) I'd also like to point out that WE NEED MENTORS. Last year the amount of students that could be accepted, and therefore projects that could be done, was limited by the amount of available mentors, and currently only Yaron Koren has signed up. I'm fairly certain there are a lot of awesome people in the community who would want to mentor a student though. If you are one of them, please add your name to the list of the GSoC 2010 page [2]. Also, please add any idea's you have for projects to this page. [0]http://code.google.com/soc/ [1]http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-discuss/browse_thread/thread/33f783acdf353fba/068f1741e6e0348b?show_docid=068f1741e6e0348b [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010 Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * Wiki: wiki.bn2vs.com * Blog: blog.bn2vs.com * Skype: rts.bn.vs -- Don't panic. Don't be evil.70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Maps and Semantic Maps 0.5 released
Hey, I'd like to announce the latest release of Maps [0] and Semantic Maps [1]. These new versions include a bunch of new features, as well as a lot improvements to the code itself. Some highlights: * Strict parameter validation which allows you to get specific errors or warnings when entering invalid values or parameters. This functionality is obtained by relying on the Validator [2] extension, which saw it’s first release today. This makes Maps dependent on Validator. Every distribution of Maps does include Validator, and Maps will automatically load Validator when it’s not loaded yet, so no extra installation work is required (unless you get the code from SVN). * Static map support makes you able to display maps as plain images instead of via a JavaScript (or other non-html language, for example flash) mapping API. This is very important since it makes viewing the maps possible for people who are browsing the web with a browser that does not support JavaScript (or this other language), or simply have it disabled for some reason. * Added support for GUI parameter selection of Yaron’s new version of SMW’s Special:Ask page to the query printers. * Moved the geographical coordinate data type handling from Semantic MediaWiki to Semantic Maps. For a complete list of changes, see the relevant change logs [3], or my blog post about this release [4]. I created some new documentation, in the form of 2 screencasts; one demonstrating the use of display_map [5], and one covering display_point(s) [6]. The developer documentation on how to extend Maps has also been completely rewritten. To ensure maximum stability, I encourage everyone using Maps or Semantic Maps to update as soon as possible. If you have any suggestions, or find any bugs, let me know! [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Validator [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps/Version_history#Maps_0.5, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps/Version_history#Semantic_Maps_0.5 [4] http://blog.bn2vs.com/2009/12/17/maps-and-semantic-maps-0-5-released/ [5]http://smw.referata.com/wiki/Maps_screencast:_display_map [6]http://smw.referata.com/wiki/Maps_screencast:_display_point Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * Forum: code.bn2vs.com * Blog: blog.bn2vs.com * Skype: rts.bn.vs -- Don't panic. Don't be evil.70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
[Mediawiki-l] Maps and Semantic Maps 0.4 released
Hey, I'd like to announce the latest release of Maps [0] and Semantic Maps [1]. These new versions include a load of under the hood changes, as well as new functionality, and the usual bugfixes. Some highlights: * Added display_map parser function. This parser function is optimized for simply displaying a map without any markers. * Added OpenStreetMap service, using OpenLayers, but optimized for OSM * Added 'smart geocoding'. Maps will now auto-detect if a value is an address, and if so, attempt to geocode. This allowed for the removal of display_address(es). All maps with markers are now handled by display_point(s). For a complete list of changes, see the relevant change logs [2]. I encourage everyone using Maps or Semantic Maps to upgrade as soon as possible, for maximum stability, and use of the new syntax. If you have any suggestions, or find any bugs, let me know! [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps/Version_history#Maps_0.4, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps/Version_history#Semantic_Maps_0.4 Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * Forum: code.bn2vs.com * Blog: blog.bn2vs.com * Skype: rts.bn.vs -- Don't panic. Don't be evil.70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Re: [Mediawiki-l] [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released
Hey, Those services are indeed impressive. Thanks a lot for the awesome suggestion! I'm going to try to add a handler for this service right away :) Cheers, Jeroen De Dauw Forum: code.bn2vs.com Blog: blog.bn2vs.com Skype: rts.bn.vs ; Xfire: bn2vs Don't panic. Don't be evil. 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! From: Joel Natividad To: jeroen De Dauw Cc: semediawiki-de...@lists.sourceforge.net; mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 4:30:17 PM Subject: Re: [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released Jeroen, Have you looked at geonames? They have an impressive list of free web services (http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html). I used them myself for a project 2 years back and its pretty good. Best, Joel On Aug 23, 2009, at 8:12 AM, jeroen De Dauw wrote: Hey, > >I see your point. Would you find the geocoding approach acceptible if an open >source service was available next to the ones of Google and Yahoo? I've been >seraching for such an altternate and open source service before the 0.2 >release, but simply was unable to find a decent working one. If you know one, >please let me know! > >I'm going to poke Yaron about your suggestion to add the DMS notation, if he >thinks it's a good idea, I'll implement it before 0.4. Of course, if someone >feels like doing that, feel free to do so, but give me a poke to avoid double >work. > > >Cheers, >Jeroen De Dauw > > >Forum: code.bn2vs.com >Blog: blog.bn2vs.com > >Skype: rts.bn.vs ; Xfire: bn2vs > >Don't panic. Don't be evil. >70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! > > > > > > From: Temlakos >To: jeroen De Dauw >Cc: semediawiki-de...@lists.sourceforge.net; mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org >Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:47:14 PM >Subject: Re: [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released > >Jeroen: > >Geocoding means using a proprietary service, and getting a license that could >easily be revoked. I don't know how acquainted you are with American politics, >but let me tell you this: Google.com has been playing politics with their >search engine, their tools, everything. They have rigged their searches to >push politically conservative and religiously oriented sites to the bottom of >the rankings--which is why my wiki never bears mention in any search on >Google, but they bear plenty of good mention on other search engines. > >If they have demonstrated their willingness to play politics with their search >engine, what is to stop them from playing politics with any of their other >/proprietary/ APIs? A /proprietor/ reserves the right to refuse service to >anyone, for any reason or no reason. > >I don't want to be held at the mercy of any /proprietor/. That rather defeats, >even violates, the purpose of open-source. I want to be able to do all my maps >on OpenLayers, and stay away from Google, if I can. I'm not even sure that our >license (the GFDL) would even /allow/ us to do anything else. That aside, we >have a policy to stay a million kilometers away from anything that even hints >at a legal encumbrance. > >Besides: some of my sites are ancient, and might not even exist anymore. For >such sites, geocoding, even /open-source/ geocoding, would be flatly >impossible. > >Temlakos > >jeroen De Dauw wrote: >> Hey, >> >> >Does either Maps or Semantic Maps provide a means by which to display a >> map with a marker at a set of coordinates given in degrees, minutes, and >> seconds? >> No, they do not support that notation. It would not be that hard to >> implement, but no one has asked for it before, so I guess the demand is >> pretty low. >> Is simply geocoding the actual addresses with the build in #geocode parser >> function [0] not an option? That way you can avoid having to work with >> coordinates all together. >> >> [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps#Geocoding >> >> Cheers, >> Jeroen De Dauw >> Forum: code <http://code.bn2vs.com>.bn2vs.com <http://code.bn2vs.com> >> Blog: blog.bn2vs.com <http://blog.bn2vs.com> >> Skype: rts.bn.vs ; Xfire: bn2vs >> >> Don't panic. Don't be evil. >> 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! >> >> >> >> *From:* Temlakos >> *To:* jeroen De Dauw >> *Cc:* semediawiki-de...@lists.sourceforge.net; >> mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> *Sent:* Sunday, August 23, 2009 3:18:19 AM >> *Subject:
Re: [Mediawiki-l] [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released
Hey, I see your point. Would you find the geocoding approach acceptible if an open source service was available next to the ones of Google and Yahoo? I've been seraching for such an altternate and open source service before the 0.2 release, but simply was unable to find a decent working one. If you know one, please let me know! I'm going to poke Yaron about your suggestion to add the DMS notation, if he thinks it's a good idea, I'll implement it before 0.4. Of course, if someone feels like doing that, feel free to do so, but give me a poke to avoid double work. Cheers, Jeroen De Dauw Forum: code.bn2vs.com Blog: blog.bn2vs.com Skype: rts.bn.vs ; Xfire: bn2vs Don't panic. Don't be evil. 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! ________ From: Temlakos To: jeroen De Dauw Cc: semediawiki-de...@lists.sourceforge.net; mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:47:14 PM Subject: Re: [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released Jeroen: Geocoding means using a proprietary service, and getting a license that could easily be revoked. I don't know how acquainted you are with American politics, but let me tell you this: Google.com has been playing politics with their search engine, their tools, everything. They have rigged their searches to push politically conservative and religiously oriented sites to the bottom of the rankings--which is why my wiki never bears mention in any search on Google, but they bear plenty of good mention on other search engines. If they have demonstrated their willingness to play politics with their search engine, what is to stop them from playing politics with any of their other /proprietary/ APIs? A /proprietor/ reserves the right to refuse service to anyone, for any reason or no reason. I don't want to be held at the mercy of any /proprietor/. That rather defeats, even violates, the purpose of open-source. I want to be able to do all my maps on OpenLayers, and stay away from Google, if I can. I'm not even sure that our license (the GFDL) would even /allow/ us to do anything else. That aside, we have a policy to stay a million kilometers away from anything that even hints at a legal encumbrance. Besides: some of my sites are ancient, and might not even exist anymore. For such sites, geocoding, even /open-source/ geocoding, would be flatly impossible. Temlakos jeroen De Dauw wrote: > Hey, > > >Does either Maps or Semantic Maps provide a means by which to display a > map with a marker at a set of coordinates given in degrees, minutes, and > seconds? > No, they do not support that notation. It would not be that hard to > implement, but no one has asked for it before, so I guess the demand is > pretty low. > Is simply geocoding the actual addresses with the build in #geocode parser > function [0] not an option? That way you can avoid having to work with > coordinates all together. > > [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps#Geocoding > > Cheers, > Jeroen De Dauw > Forum: code <http://code.bn2vs.com>.bn2vs.com <http://code.bn2vs.com> > Blog: blog.bn2vs.com <http://blog.bn2vs.com> > Skype: rts.bn.vs ; Xfire: bn2vs > > Don't panic. Don't be evil. > 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! > > > > *From:* Temlakos > *To:* jeroen De Dauw > *Cc:* semediawiki-de...@lists.sourceforge.net; mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > *Sent:* Sunday, August 23, 2009 3:18:19 AM > *Subject:* Re: [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released > > Dear Jeroen: > > Does either Maps or Semantic Maps provide a means by which to display a > map with a marker at a set of coordinates given in degrees, minutes, and > seconds? All your examples for simple display of a single point use > floating-point degree quantities. This would force me to hand-convert, > and that seems rather pointless to me. > > What I would like to do is design a template for a settlement, or a > landmark (e.g., mountain, hill, valley), that will include a map of the > immediate region and automatically place a marker at the specified > coordinates in the article on that settlement or landmark. > > A query formatted as a map with many points on it looks great. And it > would be wonderful for an article on a country, because I could place > markers for every city and/or landmark in that country. But when I write > an article for a city or a mountain, I annotate coordinates in degrees, > minutes, and seconds. Or must I get used to specifying them in floats? > > Temlakos > > jeroen De Dauw wrote: > > Hey, > > > > First of all, let me introduce myself. > > I'm Jeroen De Dauw, one
Re: [Mediawiki-l] [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released
Hey, >Does either Maps or Semantic Maps provide a means by which to display a map with a marker at a set of coordinates given in degrees, minutes, and seconds? No, they do not support that notation. It would not be that hard to implement, but no one has asked for it before, so I guess the demand is pretty low. Is simply geocoding the actual addresses with the build in #geocode parser function [0] not an option? That way you can avoid having to work with coordinates all together. [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps#Geocoding Cheers, Jeroen De Dauw Forum: code.bn2vs.com Blog: blog.bn2vs.com Skype: rts.bn.vs ; Xfire: bn2vs Don't panic. Don't be evil. 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! From: Temlakos To: jeroen De Dauw Cc: semediawiki-de...@lists.sourceforge.net; mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 3:18:19 AM Subject: Re: [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released Dear Jeroen: Does either Maps or Semantic Maps provide a means by which to display a map with a marker at a set of coordinates given in degrees, minutes, and seconds? All your examples for simple display of a single point use floating-point degree quantities. This would force me to hand-convert, and that seems rather pointless to me. What I would like to do is design a template for a settlement, or a landmark (e.g., mountain, hill, valley), that will include a map of the immediate region and automatically place a marker at the specified coordinates in the article on that settlement or landmark. A query formatted as a map with many points on it looks great. And it would be wonderful for an article on a country, because I could place markers for every city and/or landmark in that country. But when I write an article for a city or a mountain, I annotate coordinates in degrees, minutes, and seconds. Or must I get used to specifying them in floats? Temlakos jeroen De Dauw wrote: > Hey, > > First of all, let me introduce myself. > I'm Jeroen De Dauw, one of the GSoC students for Wikimedia foundation > this year. During the last 2 months I've been working on 2 new mapping > extensions for MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki > <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki> [0] with Yaron > Koren <http://yaronkoren.com/> [1] as mentor. You can read more about > this at my blog <http://blog.bn2vs.com/tag/semantic-maps/> [2]. > > The first version of both extensions has just been released. These are > the extensions: > > Maps > Maps <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps> [3] is an > extension that provides the ability to display coordinate data, using > multiple mapping services, including Google Maps [4], OpenLayers [5] > and Yahoo Maps [6], and allows users to geocode addresses. > > Semantic Maps > Semantic Maps <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps> > [7] is an extension that adds semantic capabilities to the Maps > extension, and therefore provides the ability to add, view and edit > coordinate data stored through the Semantic MediaWiki extension, using > multiple mapping services. These include Google Maps, OpenLayers and > Yahoo Maps. Semantic Maps and Maps are based on Semantic Google Maps > and Semantic Layers, and are meant to replace these extensions. For > this extension to work, you need to have both Semantic MediaWiki and > Maps installed. > > You can download both extensions via their documentation pages. > Suggestions and feature requests are welcome. > > [0] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki > [1] http://yaronkoren.com/ > [2] http://blog.bn2vs.com/tag/semantic-maps/ > [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps > [4] http://code.google.com/apis/maps/ > [5] http://openlayers.org/ > [6] http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/ > [7] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps > > Cheers, > De Dauw '[RTS]BN+VS*' Jeroen > > Forum: code <http://code.bn2vs.com>.bn2vs.com <http://code.bn2vs.com> > Blog: blog.bn2vs.com <http://blog.bn2vs.com> > Xfire: bn2vs ; Skype: rts.bn.vs > > Don't panic. Don't be evil. > 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! > > > > > -- > > > > ___ > Semediawiki-devel mailing list > semediawiki-de...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel > ---
