[Wikitech-l] FW: [FOSDEM] News : Call For Developer Rooms
Forwarding a post with a call for developer rooms at FOSDEM 2010 (2010-02-06 to 2009-02-07). Last year we made a request for a dev room and it was denied. A question and a proposal, in case the question is to be answered with 'yes': Q: Would we like MediaWiki to be present at FOSDEM 2010? P: I would like to try and make a proposal with other CMS projects (like Joomla, Drupal, Typo3, Wordpress, etc.) for a dev room. Reason for not applying for a "MediaWiki dev room' is that I expect that this will not be honored because it has too tight a scope. I spoke to one of the people of the program committee last year, and I was advised to find a broader scope. Alternatively we could request a dev room with other wiki engines (tikiwiki, docuwiki, etc.). Personally I have no preference on which projects we would cooperate with, just as long as we will make a proposal that will get us the best chance to have a presence at FOSDEM 2010. Open to suggestions... Additionally, I would like a reply from people interested in coordination of the talks in this event. In case we would get a dev room together with the other CMS/wiki projects, I would expect that we would have slots for ~4 talks on MediaWiki, and possibly one or two talks in cooperation with the other projects on common problems/solutions/whatever. As stated below, if we want to have a chance at getting a dev room, we need to submit a proposal before 2009-11-22. IMO this means that we have to reach consensus on our course of action within a week, so we can get into contact with the other projects we would like to participate with for our request. Reply clearly, reply quickly. Cheers! Siebrand -Original Message- From: fosdem-boun...@lists.fosdem.org [mailto:fosdem-boun...@lists.fosdem.org] On Behalf Of i...@fosdem.org Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 1:28 AM To: fos...@lists.fosdem.org Subject: [FOSDEM] News : Call For Developer Rooms A *devroom* is a room in which projects can organize their own schedule made of presentations, brainstorming and hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer collaboration and cross-pollination between projects, and as such we strongly favor projects with similar goals and domains to host a devroom together. *Distribution projects:* As every year we only have a limited number of rooms, yet every year more and more individual distributions request a Developer Room at FOSDEM. We do not want to have to choose between them, but instead push our mission of a collaboration platform and cross-pollination even further. We will host mixed distribution rooms where talks and sessions will be organized *by topic*. Contributors from all distributions are welcome to join in order to participate, attend, propose topics and sessions. To do so, please subscribe to the distro mailinglist [1]. What we offer: * a room on Saturday and/or Sunday, * a video projector (with VGA cable) * power (C/E plugs) * wired (RJ-45) network with Internet access at the speaker's desk, * best-effort shared wireless Internet access (a and b), * publication of the schedule on the FOSDEM website, including speaker bios and talk abstracts. Conditions for requests: * preference for requests with a general topic, eg. from projects with similar goals/domains, * be involved in Free or Opensource Software (the projects produce and release software under an opensource license or otherwise contributes to opensource activities and communities), * send us a devroom request before 2009-11-22 as described below, Distribution talks are organized collectively on the distro mailinglist [2]. Others can request a devroom by submitting the form below. For further questions, contact devro...@fosdem.org [3]. The number of available rooms is limited so the FOSDEM organization will select the proposals that can get a devroom. *Key Dates:* 2009-11-22: Deadline for devroom requests 2009-11-29: Acceptance notification of devrooms 2010-02-06 to 2009-02-07: FOSDEM 2010 DEVROOM REQUEST FORM For more information, or to fill in the form check out: http://www.fosdem.org/2010/call-developer-rooms [1] http://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/dist2010 [2] http://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/dist2010 [3] mailto:devro...@fosdem.org ___ FOSDEM mailing list fos...@lists.fosdem.org http://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/fosdem ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] FW: [FOSDEM] News : Call For Developer Rooms
On 2009-10-26, Siebrand Mazeland wrote: > Forwarding a post with a call for developer rooms at FOSDEM 2010 (2010-02-06 > to 2009-02-07). Last year we made a request for a dev room and it was denied. > > A question and a proposal, in case the question is to be answered with 'yes': > > Q: Would we like MediaWiki to be present at FOSDEM 2010? There are many European developers, and the success of the Berlin meetup suggests doing something at FOSDEM would be worthwhile. > P: I would like to try and make a proposal with other CMS projects (like > Joomla, Drupal, Typo3, Wordpress, etc.) for a dev room. Reason for not > applying for a "MediaWiki dev room' is that I expect that this will not be > honored because it has too tight a scope. I spoke to one of the people of the > program committee last year, and I was advised to find a broader scope. > Alternatively we could request a dev room with other wiki engines (tikiwiki, > docuwiki, etc.). Personally I have no preference on which projects we would > cooperate with, just as long as we will make a proposal that will get us the > best chance to have a presence at FOSDEM 2010. Open to suggestions... I spent a bit of time discussing this with you and a few of the FOSDEM staff a while ago and this seems like the best way to do it. > Additionally, I would like a reply from people interested in coordination of > the talks in this event. In case we would get a dev room together with the > other CMS/wiki projects, I would expect that we would have slots for ~4 talks > on MediaWiki, and possibly one or two talks in cooperation with the other > projects on common problems/solutions/whatever. I will be coming to FOSDEM '10 and am interested in helping to coordinate talks. -- Robert Leverington http://rhl.me.uk/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Add record to database
I used the RSS to get the page from the internet and I put it in MySql database. -Original Message- From: Liangent To: Wikimedia developers Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:04:15 +0800 Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Add record to database what's the format of article data, xml dump or just plain text? On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:01 PM, 李琴 wrote: > > Hi, > I have already got the article data from the wikipedia and I stored it > on my computer .Now I want to add the article to the local wiki. I have > done a lot of reaserches and I know that there are a lot of things to do. > If add a record to the page table ,then the > revision,recentchange,text,pagelink table and so on will be changed.So I > think maybe there is a easy way to do that . > > Can you tell me what should I do ? Should I simply use > 'insert,update,select...'words? > > Sincerely looking froward you help, thanks > > vanessa lee > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Add record to database
I'm working inside mediawiki php,but I just beginning. Can you tell me when I finished editing a article and clicked the save button,which variable takes the content of the edit box? Or which function handles the rawText? Thanks vanessa lee -Original Message- From: Platonides To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:18:47 +0200 Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Add record to database 李琴 wrote: > Hi, > I have already got the article data from the wikipedia and I stored it > on my computer .Now I want to add the article to the local wiki. I have > done a lot of reaserches and I know that there are a lot of things to do. > If add a record to the page table ,then the > revision,recentchange,text,pagelink table and so on will be changed.So I > think maybe there is a easy way to do that . > > Can you tell me what should I do ? Should I simply use > 'insert,update,select...'words? > > Sincerely looking froward you help, thanks > > vanessa lee If you're working inside mediawiki php. $wgTitle = Title::newFromText( "MyArticle" ); $wgArticle = new Article( $wgTitle ); $wgArticle->insertNewArticle( "Some text", '', false, false ); If you don't want to work with php, use maintenance/importTextFile.php ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] FW: [FOSDEM] News : Call For Developer Rooms
Hey, I'll be present at FOSDEM 2010, and I'm willing to help out with MediaWiki related talks. I've also submitted a request for a lightning talk a while back. This one will be about (if it gets accepted) my Maps and Semantic Maps extensions. If a devroom is allocated for MW talks, it'd me nice to have an SMW presentation, which if no one else feels like giving it, I'm willing to do. 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! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Datamining infoboxes
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 02:55, Andrew Dunbar wrote: > Have you thought about doing the same for Wiktionary? Interesting idea. I don't know much about Wiktionary. Are its pages structured similarly? How difficult would it be to extract structured data from them? What kind of data would you expect to extract? I don't think there is much dictionary data on the Web of Data yet, so extracting data from wiktionary may be an interesting first step in that direction. We haven't really thought about it yet, and it probably won't get to the top of our to-do-list anytime soon, but it's an interesting idea! Christopher ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Add record to database
2009/10/26 李琴 :
> I'm working inside mediawiki php,but I just beginning. Can you tell me when
> I finished editing a article and clicked the save button,which variable
> takes the content of the edit box?
> Or which function handles the rawText?
>
It's in $wgRequest->getVal('wpTextbox1'); I'm not sure you want to be
messing with EditPage's internals, though, because even most MediaWiki
developers think EditPage is scary.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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Re: [Wikitech-l] The State of Trunk
Aryeh Gregor wrote: > The only advantage I can see in a code freeze is to try forcing devs > to spend their time fixing bugs instead of adding features. I think the devs who were already inclined to fix bugs will fix bugs, and the rest of the devs will just have a holiday. We would be crossing our fingers and hoping that they'd come back at the end of the freeze. So yes, I think the only way to do it is to branch and then to do a campaign of bugfix merges. If we branch early, then there will be less features to review and fix bugs in. If we branch later, then we get a fully featured 1.16 release with a minimal divergence from trunk. That's the trade-off as I see it. Anyway, if nobody is going to work on reviewing and fixing Michael's code other than me, then it's going to be a while yet before we're in a fit state to branch. It became pretty clear during the recent staff meeting that I'm going to be pretty busy during the next couple of weeks. I have to: * Review a ton of usability initiative code and oversee its deployment. * Review some fundraising code and make sure that a copious number of fixes get done, then have it ready to deploy within a week. * Do some DBA work, since it seems that I'm the only staff member who knows MySQL. * Fulfill my commitment to have SecurePoll ready for an arbcom election. Roger Davies has just sent me a list of features that he wants implemented before Friday UTC. * Move house (removalists coming on Friday) So I certainly won't have any time to work on the rest of MediaWiki in the next week, and maybe not in the week after that either. -- Tim Starling ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] The State of Trunk
Tim Starling writes: > So I certainly won't have any time to work on the rest of MediaWiki in > the next week, and maybe not in the week after that either. > > -- Tim Starling Yup. It seems you'll be quite busy. Can't another developer handle the fundraising code? Loks like the kind of thing that don't need a special prior knowledge, not being relevant *who* does it*. SecurePoll is also quite separate, but if you were with it, it may be better that you go on with it. *If it's someone competent and trustable, of course. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] The State of Trunk
Platonides wrote: > Can't another developer handle the fundraising code? Loks like the kind > of thing that don't need a special prior knowledge, not being relevant > *who* does it*. SecurePoll is also quite separate, but if you were with > it, it may be better that you go on with it. > > *If it's someone competent and trustable, of course. Four Kitchens has been contracted to write the code, but they don't have much experience with MediaWiki extensions, so they need a fair bit of review and guidance. You can see the relevant code in extensions/DonationInterface. -- Tim Starling ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
