[Wikidata-l] Massive category move on it.wiki

2014-02-25 Thread Vito
Hi all! I had to move (via category.py) ~3200 categories on it.wiki, as you know moving a category actually means replacing&deleting so I don't think bots will be able to update the relevant wikidata's entries. Any suggestion to update them? Anyone would be able to update it from a list of all

Re: [Wikidata-l] New code, speed, Wikisource and more

2014-02-25 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Bene* wrote: > Ok, after the (feeling) tenth purge it finally also works for me. :-) Maybe > you should note this somewhere if the problem occurs more often. Yeah. Hoo and Katie are looking into it atm. It looks like a caching issue. Hopefully fixed soon by huggi

Re: [Wikidata-l] New code, speed, Wikisource and more

2014-02-25 Thread Bene*
Am 25.02.2014 22:15, schrieb Lydia Pintscher: I've also just noticed this. A purge fixed it for me though. Please let me know if it does not for you. Ok, after the (feeling) tenth purge it finally also works for me. :-) Maybe you should note this somewhere if the problem occurs more often.

Re: [Wikidata-l] New code, speed, Wikisource and more

2014-02-25 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Bene* wrote: > Hi, thanks for the great improvements. > > Maybe this is my problem, but when loading > the > item links are not rendered correctly and the label of the item is not > c

Re: [Wikidata-l] New code, speed, Wikisource and more

2014-02-25 Thread Bene*
Am 25.02.2014 20:54, schrieb Lydia Pintscher: Hey folks :) We have just deployed new code. The most important changes are: * We cut down loading time of items significantly. Have a look at this graph: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Item_Loading_Ti

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about progressive loading

2014-02-25 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Magnus Manske wrote: > Wow, that IS a big difference! > > Looking at the network load for Q1339, there is still a four-second period > where JavaScript does ... something it doesn't need to do. Yeah there are still some things to work on including loading some of

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about progressive loading

2014-02-25 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:07 PM, David Cuenca wrote: > Just noticed about it! Yesterday I took me almost 5min and many "unresposive > script errors" to load Russia, now it is under a minute of computer freeze > :) > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159 > > Not optimal but definitely a big leap forwa

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about progressive loading

2014-02-25 Thread Magnus Manske
Wow, that IS a big difference! Looking at the network load for Q1339, there is still a four-second period where JavaScript does ... something it doesn't need to do. But, the site has regained its usefulness! Congrats, honestly! Cheers, Magnus On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:07 PM, David Cuenca wrot

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about progressive loading

2014-02-25 Thread David Cuenca
Just noticed about it! Yesterday I took me almost 5min and many "unresposive script errors" to load Russia, now it is under a minute of computer freeze :) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159 Not optimal but definitely a big leap forward. Great work! Still curious about progressive loading (at leas

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about progressive loading

2014-02-25 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:55 PM, David Cuenca wrote: > While reading this [1] and observing how other website load large pages > without freezing my computer, I was just wondering why progressive loading > of items was not an option for Wikidata. > > Is it too difficult to implement? Or impossible

[Wikidata-l] Question about progressive loading

2014-02-25 Thread David Cuenca
While reading this [1] and observing how other website load large pages without freezing my computer, I was just wondering why progressive loading of items was not an option for Wikidata. Is it too difficult to implement? Or impossible with mediawiki? Or just undesirable for some other reasons? T

[Wikidata-l] New code, speed, Wikisource and more

2014-02-25 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Hey folks :) We have just deployed new code. The most important changes are: * We cut down loading time of items significantly. Have a look at this graph: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Item_Loading_Time.png We're not done yet with performance improvements but this is already a

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata Toolkit: key facts, roadmap, how to join

2014-02-25 Thread Scott MacLeod
Hello Markus, Fredo, Julian, Michael and Lydia, I'm writing to follow up on the following, Markus - "You are invited to contribute code/feature requests/use cases. If you have a concrete task that you would like to solve, please let us know, and we will see what we can do " - vis-a-vis WUaS. I'

[Wikidata-l] GSoC 2014: Annotation tool for feeding wikidata

2014-02-25 Thread Amanpreet Singh
Hi! I am glad to know that mediawiki is selected as one of the mentoring organization for GSoC 2014, Cheers to Quim and all. I have selected a mentorship project from Project list named Annotation Tool that extracts informatio

[Wikidata-l] Want to do outreach for Wikidata as part of the Outreach Program for Women?

2014-02-25 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Hey folks :) It is time for GSoC and the Outreach Program for Women again. We'll not be taking part in GSoC this round because I can't make sure we have adequate mentoring capacity for coding projects. However I am offering a non-coding project as part of the Outreach Program for Women. I'd love t