Re: [Wikitech-l] The Zürich Hackathon and you
What do you need schedulewise? On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 02/08/2014 06:25 AM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: On 02/06/2014 07:17 PM, Quim Gil wrote: Hi, the registration to the Zürich Hackathon will open very soon. \o/ I'm looking forward to this as I plan on bringing along some newbies. \o/ \o/ \o/ * defining the schedule How much of the previous years schedules can be reused? How much do you want to reuse? :) We are still in need of 2-3 volunteers to drive the schedule. I don't think it is much work and, as said, I can help. Mark, would you like to volunteer providing the MediaWiki-not-Wikimedia perspective? Anybody would like to provide the Wikimedia perspective(s)? What about other perspectives? Come on, it is a good chance to step in and do some good. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Maybe you knew early on that your track went from point A to B, but unlike you I wasn't given a map at birth! Alyssa, Chasing Amy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Please identify your Wikimedia handlers
On 11-jul.-2013, at 13:45, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, We are working on better community metrics at http://korma.wmflabs.org/ - pulling from different sources. If you are contributing via Git/Gerrit, Bugzilla, IRC or mailing lists like this one please help us identifying your multiple handlers at https://doc This is quote usefull Information for researchers as well so i hope that the resultats will be available. I noticed you're not tracking the dates for affiliation? People change jobs or move from a volunteer to a paid position etc. henna ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Amsterdam hackathon workshops
For all Amsterdam hackathon attendees We've made a first draft of the programme for the Amsterdam Hackathon. We have room for 6 workshops which will be run twice over the course of the Hackathon. Which topics should we cover in them? Based on your motivations, we've made a list of the top 8 topics that seem to be of interest. Please take a look at the page and let us know which topics you'd be most interested in: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013/Topics For some of these workshops we're still looking for presenters. Are you interested? Let us know! (hackat...@wikimedia.nl) Think you could fill a 1h (interactive) workshop for one of these topics, but you're not sure? I'll help you create a workshop and help you practice beforehand. Finne (henna) On behalf of the programme committee ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Wikimedia Hackathon Amsterdam 2013: Registration opened
couple years ago somebody did stay for a couple years ;) (altho that was the chapters conference and there was a vulcano involved) henna On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: I have one question :) why the registration form is asking me which year and month I will depart? Are you afraid some attendees are planning to stay for several years? :D On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl wrote: Hi everyone, Wikimedia Nederland invites all developers to the Wikimedia Hackathon. The Wikimedia Hackathon will be in 2013 from 24-26 May. The registration is now open and also includes the possibility to apply for a travel, accommodation or full scholarship. You can find the form at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFg2SmRRbkpxNmxCcFNFdlduVlJuTUE6MQ#gid=0 The hackathon is an opportunity for all Wikimedia community developers and sysadmins to come together, squash bugs and write great new features tools. Unlike the previous years (2012, 2011, etc.) this Hackathon won't be in Berlin, but in Amsterdam. The event is open to a wide range of developers. We welcome both seasoned and new developers as well as people working on MediaWiki, tools, pywikipedia, Wikidata, gadgets, extensions, templates … . Please suggest and discus topics at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013/Topics . You can indicate that you're coming at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013/Attendees and/or https://www.facebook.com/events/167285526755104/ . This doesn't replace registration, it's just to let others know what you're up to. Keep an eye on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013for updates! Maarten ___ Labs-l mailing list lab...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Maybe you knew early on that your track went from point A to B, but unlike you I wasn't given a map at birth! Alyssa, Chasing Amy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Going to FOSDEM
from the FOSDEM ML: Should we grab one of these slots? Dear All, FOSDEM is nearing and it is promising to become awesome again. Like last year, we will provide two 'community meeting rooms' (formerly called BoF rooms). The concept is simple: any project/community can reserve a timeslot (15 minutes to an hour), during which they have the room just for them. It is meant for ad-hoc discussions, meet-ups or brainstorms. It is not a replacement for a devroom and it certainly is not meant for talks, so there will deliberately not be a projector. The rooms are cosy and small with around 30ish seats. Reservation can only be done on site and *during FOSDEM*. The reservation sheets are at the infodesk in the H building. The rooms are not far from that infodesk. Reservations are on a first-come, first-serve basis. See you soon, Tias Sent from my iPhone On 28-jan.-2013, at 23:50, Željko Filipin zfili...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: If you bring a good jacket, the street outside is fine for chats. And remember to add with beer in every sentence of this paragraph. :) Warm jacket and cold beer it is then. :) What about staying around on Saturday at 18h, after the sessions? +1. fwiw my session is on Sunday at 15:35 (Ferrer - Lightning sessions) and I will stay in Brussels on Sunday night, with free agenda so far. I am also there on Sunday night, no plans so far. Željko ___ 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] Going to FOSDEM
I grabbed community/BOF room 1 (h3227) tomorrow @ 12h for a meetup Sent from my iPhone On 2-feb.-2013, at 13:12, Finne Boonen hen...@gmail.com wrote: from the FOSDEM ML: Should we grab one of these slots? Dear All, FOSDEM is nearing and it is promising to become awesome again. Like last year, we will provide two 'community meeting rooms' (formerly called BoF rooms). The concept is simple: any project/community can reserve a timeslot (15 minutes to an hour), during which they have the room just for them. It is meant for ad-hoc discussions, meet-ups or brainstorms. It is not a replacement for a devroom and it certainly is not meant for talks, so there will deliberately not be a projector. The rooms are cosy and small with around 30ish seats. Reservation can only be done on site and *during FOSDEM*. The reservation sheets are at the infodesk in the H building. The rooms are not far from that infodesk. Reservations are on a first-come, first-serve basis. See you soon, Tias Sent from my iPhone On 28-jan.-2013, at 23:50, Željko Filipin zfili...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: If you bring a good jacket, the street outside is fine for chats. And remember to add with beer in every sentence of this paragraph. :) Warm jacket and cold beer it is then. :) What about staying around on Saturday at 18h, after the sessions? +1. fwiw my session is on Sunday at 15:35 (Ferrer - Lightning sessions) and I will stay in Brussels on Sunday night, with free agenda so far. I am also there on Sunday night, no plans so far. Željko ___ 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] Going to FOSDEM
fyi, If you've never been at the beerevent before. It gets VERY crowded. henna On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Željko Filipin zfili...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Should we meet? +1 It's not easy since everybody has busy agenda but suggestions are welcome. My talk[1] is on Saturday after lunch, I plan to spend the most of Saturday in testing and automation devroom[2]. Bytenight Bye Bye Garage[3] on Saturday evening looks interesting. I have no plans for Sunday yet. For starters, my jetlag and me will be at https://fosdem.org/2013/** practical/beerevent/ https://fosdem.org/2013/practical/beerevent/ on Friday evening. +1. I should arrive to Brussels at 5:30pm. I will go to the hotel and then to the beer event. If anybody else arrives to Brussels around 5:30, we can go to the hotel together. My theory is that traveling in group increases chances of arriving to the destination. I guess we are all at the same hotel (NH Grand Place Arenberg). We can even go to the event together. Depending on how fast I get to the hotel I could go to the event around 7-8pm. Željko -- [1] https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/testing_mediawiki/ [2] https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/testing_and_automation/ [3] http://www.hackerspace.be/Bytenight_Bye_Bye_Garage ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Maybe you knew early on that your track went from point A to B, but unlike you I wasn't given a map at birth! Alyssa, Chasing Amy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Going to FOSDEM
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Željko Filipin zfili...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Finne Boonen hen...@gmail.com wrote: fyi, If you've never been at the beerevent before. It gets VERY crowded. This is my first time at FOSDEM. Are you suggesting we should not go, or just to prepare? :) No, just that it might not be the easiest place to meet up with people due to the crowd. It waxes and wanes and it's perfectly fine if you like crowds/are there early. Otherwise if you're looking for a meetup for MW people I can suggest a few alternative places. henna Željko ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Maybe you knew early on that your track went from point A to B, but unlike you I wasn't given a map at birth! Alyssa, Chasing Amy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Evaluating Google Summer of Code
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: I think you touch the most important point here. I'm one of the main people who manage GSoC for KDE. KDE is the biggest org taking part in GSoC this year in terms of number of students mentored. In addition we are running our own program (Season of KDE) next to it. So in total I'd say we've mentored about 100 students through these programs this year alone. We didn't get there by accident. You know what the main benefit of GSoC is in my opinion? Getting an organisation into the mindset of mentoring - into the mindset of yes we need to train new people because they can do awesome things even if they screw up sometimes on the way there. +1000. I 3 that way of thinking and I'd very much like our community to have the same attitude towards GSoC. We're a community working towards education of the world. Participating in GSoC as a mentoring organization is a right fit. Agreed. GSoC imho is not about getting code written but getting people involved in our community. As such we should look and see how many people remain involved after GSoC. Finne -- Maybe you knew early on that your track went from point A to B, but unlike you I wasn't given a map at birth! Alyssa, Chasing Amy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Volunteers for Wikimania mobile app?
http://m.fosdem.org/ Is the one that's used by Fosdem which works quite well, and works on most devices. henna On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: Certainly take a look at the official Wikipedia and Wiktionary apps on github to see how we've bult them. https://github.com/wikimedia Stop by in #wikimedia-mobile if you need any help. --tomasz On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, As someone involved with Wikimania programming - I'm wondering if there are volunteers interested in developing a Wikimania mobile app. It may not be feasible given the short timeline, but I've seen a number of conference apps coming out over the past week and figured it should at least be pondered. :) Essentially the idea would be to include schedule, local info, maps, etc. Things that can be pulled from the Wikimania 2012 wiki. Perhaps something PhoneGap based? Any thoughts or interest? -greg aka varnent ___ 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 -- Maybe you knew early on that your track went from point A to B, but unlike you I wasn't given a map at birth! Alyssa, Chasing Amy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] sep11.wikipedia.org
After the sep 11 attacks a lot of articles where added to Wikipedia about people who died in the attack etc. These articles weren't considered encyclopedic but we didn't want to delete the articles either so they were moved to it's own dedicated wiki, sep11. regards, Finne 2011/9/11 Краснов Кирилл krasnovfo...@gmail.com: Sorry, what is sep11.wikipedia.org? Is it project Wikipedia Org? Why not domain jan01.wikipedia.org, mar08.wikipedia.org, etc? 2011/9/10 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com: Benjamin Lees wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Looks fixed to me (redirects to archive.org) sep11.wikipedia.org redirects to archive.org, but sep11.wikipedia.org/wiki/ still redirects to sep11memories.org. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Maybe you knew early on that your track went from point A to B, but unlike you I wasn't given a map at birth! Alyssa, Chasing Amy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [FOSDEM] Call for devrooms closing
Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Mattias 'Tias' Guns mg...@fosdem.org Date: 13 oktober 2010 14:53:59 GMT+02:00 To: Fosdem Announce fos...@lists.fosdem.org Subject: [FOSDEM] Call for devrooms closing Reply-To: FOSDEM visitors fos...@lists.fosdem.org We would like to inform all interested parties that the call for devrooms is running at its end. Coming Saturday, 16 October at 23.59 the call for devrooms closes. Until then, proposals for organizing a devroom can be submitted on http://fosdem.org/call_for_devrooms. We welcome, and will favor, proposals involving multiple, collaborating projects. Acceptance notification will be sent out and announced here around the 23th of October. The FOSDEM staff. ___ 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] Google web bugs in Mediawiki js from admins - technical workarounds?
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 17:00, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:53 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: I understand the problem with stats before was that the stats server would melt under the load. Leon's old wikistats page sampled 1:1000. The current stats (on dammit.lt and served up nicely on http://stats.grok.se) are every hit, but I understand (Domas?) that it was quite a bit of work to get the firehose of data in such a form as not to melt the receiving server trying to process it. OK, then the problem becomes: how to set up something like stats.grok.se feasibly internally for all the other data gathered from a hit? (Modulo stuff that needs to be blanked per privacy policy.) What exactly are people looking for that isn't available from stats.grok.se that isn't a privacy concern? I had assumed that people kept installing these bugs because they wanted source network break downs per-article and other clear privacy violations. On top of views/page I'd be interested in keywords used, entryexit points, path analysis when people are editing (do they save/leave/try to find help/...) #edit starts, #submitted edits that don't get saved. henna -- Maybe you knew early on that your track went from point A to B, but unlike you I wasn't given a map at birth! Alyssa, Chasing Amy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Dealing with Large Files when attempting a wikipedia database download.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_database has some information on how to deal with the large files henna On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 21:43, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: David Gerard schrieb: 2009/4/10 Jameson Scanlon jameson.scan...@googlemail.com: Does anyone on the wikitech mailing list happen to know whether it would be possible for some of the larger wikipedia database downloads (which are, say, 16GB or so in size) to be split into parts so that they can be downloaded. For whatever reason, whenever I have attempted to download the ~14GB files (say, from http://static.wikipedia.org/downloads/2008-06/en/ ), I have found that only 2GB (presumably, the first 2GB) of what I have sought to download has actually been downloaded. Is there anyway around this? Could anyone possibly suggest what possible reasons there might be for this difficulty in downloading the material? Downloading to a filesystem that only does maximum 2GB files? Also, several http clients don't like files over 2GB - this is because the large number of bytes in the Length field causes an integer overflow (2GB is the 31 bit limit). wget likes to die with a segmentation fault on those. I found that curl works. But of course, the file system also has to support very large files, as Gerard said. Finally: yes, it would be nive to have such dumps available in pieces of perhaps 1GB in size. -- daniel ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Maybe you knew early on that your track went from point A to B, but unlike you I wasn't given a map at birth! Alyssa, Chasing Amy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] developer meet-up is out of room
Any idea when the registrations will get a confirmation? thx Finne/henna On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:26, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: We have been completly overrun by registrations for the developer meet-up in Berlin. That’s exhilarating, but forces on me the sad duty to tell you: we are out of room, we are closing registration early. So: if you have not yet send a registration mail, you will not be able to attend! Sorry. We may even have to reject some registrations we have already received. There’s some good news too, though: anyone interested my join us at the c-base for the party on saturday March 4., starting 8pm. The developers will be there and people from the chapter and board meeting will also come. This will be a good opportunity for getting to know Wikimedians from all over the world. Regards, Daniel ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Maybe you knew early on that your track went from point A to B, but unlike you I wasn't given a map at birth! Alyssa, Chasing Amy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
