On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:06 AM, John wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:52 AM, Anthony wrote:
>> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:22 AM, John wrote:
>> > Anthony the process is linear, you have a php inserting X number of rows
>> > per
>> > Y time frame.
>>
>> Amazing. I need to switch all my databas
I'd like to point out that the increasingly technical nature of this
conversation probably belongs either on wikitech-l, or off-list, and that
the strident nature of the comments is fast approaching inappropriate.
Alex
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2012/5/17 Anthony
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:27 AM, J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov
wrote:
> I'd like to point out that the increasingly technical nature of this
> conversation probably belongs either on wikitech-l, or off-list, and that
> the strident nature of the comments is fast approaching inappropriate.
Really? I
Please have someone at WMF coordinate this so that there aren't
multiple requests made. In my opinion, it should preferably be made
by a WMF employee.
Fill out the form at
https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/html-forms-controller/aws-dataset-inquiry
Tell them you want to create a public data se
The only issues for Wikimedia projects perservation/forking by third
parties are the missing image dumps (which are being created since some
days ago, thanks Ariel) and the usernames/passwords table (not a big
problem in an apocalyptic scenario, where articles and images have top
priority).
We at
On 17 May 2012 12:43, Anthony wrote:
> In fact, I think someone at WMF should contact Amazon and see if
> they'll let us conduct the experiment for free, in exchange for us
> creating the dump for them to host as a public data set
> (http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/).
What dump are you going
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 17 May 2012 12:43, Anthony wrote:
>> In fact, I think someone at WMF should contact Amazon and see if
>> they'll let us conduct the experiment for free, in exchange for us
>> creating the dump for them to host as a public data set
>> (htt
They are XML dumps. Why did you say they are semi-useless?
I'm not sure if all the MediaWiki revision table parameters are available
in the XML dumps, but most of them are.
2012/5/17 Anthony
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:01 AM, emijrp wrote:
> > We at WikiTeam are uploading wiki dumps to Interne
WARNING: The following post is a work of technical fantasy rather than
practical reality.
On the usernames and passwords thing, if we imagine our doomsday scenario
(meteor hits the WMF data centre, the Foundation turn into evil psychopathic
Nazis, whatever), one thing that might be useful and a
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:22 AM, emijrp wrote:
> They are XML dumps. Why did you say they are semi-useless?
Because they are XML dumps, mainly. The data in the WMF database is
compressed in a format which can be easily randomly accessed. The
dump procedure is to uncompress it, convert it to XML
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
> We could also consider the possibility of allowing users to use OpenID or
> OAuth or whatever the web identity mechanism du jour is to allow loose
> affiliation of usernames between MediaWiki installs. That way you can
> establish the link be
On Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 13:34, Anthony wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Tom Morris (mailto:t...@tommorris.org)> wrote:
> > We could also consider the possibility of allowing users to use OpenID or
> > OAuth or whatever the web identity mechanism du jour is to allow loose
> > affilia
On 17 May 2012 13:32, Anthony wrote:
> Because they are XML dumps, mainly. The data in the WMF database is
> compressed in a format which can be easily randomly accessed.
It's a dump. It's not supposed to be randomly accessed. We're talking
about archives, not mirrors.
_
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 17 May 2012 13:32, Anthony wrote:
>> Because they are XML dumps, mainly. The data in the WMF database is
>> compressed in a format which can be easily randomly accessed.
>
> It's a dump.
Not really. Yes, it's called that. And historic
On 17/05/12 12:49, Anthony wrote:
Please have someone at WMF coordinate this so that there aren't
multiple requests made. In my opinion, it should preferably be made
by a WMF employee.
Fill out the form at
https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/html-forms-controller/aws-dataset-inquiry
Tell them
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 07:43:09AM -0400, Anthony wrote:
>
> In fact, I think someone at WMF should contact Amazon and see if
> they'll let us conduct the experiment for free, in exchange for us
> creating the dump for them to host as a public data set
> (http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/).
Just a reminder that this is happenening this morning.
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Date: May 3, 2012 4:01 PM
Subject: IRC office hours with Kul and Amit, about Wikipedia Zero and other
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To:
Hi everyone,
On May 17th at 16:00 UTC, Kul Wadhwa (Head of
It is my great pleasure to introduce two new Community Fellows in the
Wikimedia Fellows Program: Tanvir Rahman and Steven Zhang.
Tanvir Rahman is a Wikimedian who serves the movement locally and
globally, both on- and off-wiki. Tanvir has been an active editor of
Bengali Wikipedia since 2009, he h
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Siko Bouterse wrote:
> It is my great pleasure to introduce two new Community Fellows in the
> Wikimedia Fellows Program: Tanvir Rahman and Steven Zhang.
Congratulations to the both of you, best wishes for your fellowships.
--
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http://en.wikipedia.org/
Congratulations to the both Tanvir and Steven :)
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Siko Bouterse >wrote:
>
> > It is my great pleasure to introduce two new Community Fellows in the
> > Wikimedia Fellows Program: Tanvir Rahman and Steven
wow..congrtz Tanvir..
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Siko Bouterse wrote:
> It is my great pleasure to introduce two new Community Fellows in the
> Wikimedia Fellows Program: Tanvir Rahman and Steven Zhang.
>
> Tanvir Rahman is a Wikimedian who serves the movement locally and
> globally, both o
Congratulations to Tanvir Rahman and Steven Zhang on the announcement of
them being award the honour of 'Community Fellow'.
In particular we wish to pass on our congratulations to Wikimedia Australia
Member, Steve Zhang, for receiving the award and wish him every success with
what promises to
Everyone,
It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday
and will be joining us in San Francisco later this year as a staff
member.
Jam
James, you're emigrating? I never thought I'd see that...
Congratulations, traitor!
On 17 May 2012 17:52, Howie Fung wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
> Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
> Editor team.
On 5/17/2012 10:06 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
James, you're emigrating? I never thought I'd see that...
Congratulations, traitor!
Just wait until he starts speaking like an uhmurricun, I mean American.
--Michael Snow
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>
> It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
> Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
> Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday
> and will be joining us in San Francisco later this year as a staff
> member.
C
Please join me in welcoming James!
Well, in our case it's more like waving good bye, but certainly
congratulations!
KTC
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On 17 May 2012 18:19, Chris Keating wrote:
> >
> > It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
> > Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
> > Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday
> > and will be joining us in
On 17 May 2012 17:52, Howie Fung wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
> Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
> Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday
> and will be joining us in S
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Chris Keating
wrote:
>>
>> It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
>> Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
>> Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday
>> and will be joining
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Thomas Morton
wrote:
> On 17 May 2012 18:19, Chris Keating wrote:
>
>> >
>> > It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
>> > Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
>> > Editor team. James started his work
Congrats James! I 'm looking forward to most tongue in cheek design
documents I have ever seen. :-)
Erik
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On 17 May 2012 18:25, Kat Walsh wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Thomas Morton
> wrote:
> > On 17 May 2012 18:19, Chris Keating wrote:
> >
> >> >
> >> > It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
> >> > Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporti
>
> I do wish someone had been chosen who had some more community experience
> though.
ROFLMAO! :-)
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> Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 18:06:48 +0100
> From: Thomas Dalton
> To: Wikimedia developers
> Cc: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] [Announcement] James Forrester
>joins WMF as Technical Product Analyst
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On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Tom Morris wrote:
>
> Anyway, James F. knows more about Wikipedia than most people on the
> planet. Good hire.
This^
One of the best hire the Foundation could ever make.
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Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi,
This is to inform those interested that User:Prad2609 and I have written a
report on WCI 2011 which is public on meta [1]. A warning on queries; we
probably wont answer those since Prad2609 has unsubscribed from all Wikipedia
mailing lists and retired and Iv got other priorities m
+1 Congratulations, James!
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Guillaume Paumier
wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Tom Morris wrote:
> >
> > Anyway, James F. knows more about Wikipedia than most people on the
> > planet. Good hire.
>
> This^
>
> One of the best hire the Foundation could eve
I'm still working my way through the brownies James left at our office only
a few short days ago...
James, you're always welcome in Dev House. There'll always be a seat
available, and there'll always be a coffee.
Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
0207 065 0992
Disclaimer viewable at
http://uk.wikimedia
Coffee? ... but not tea?
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Richard Symonds <
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
> I'm still working my way through the brownies James left at our office only
> a few short days ago...
>
> James, you're always welcome in Dev House. There'll always be a seat
>
The following translation are now available for the April 2012
"Wikimedia Highlights", which combine some of the most relevant
information from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia
engineering report for April with a selection of other important
events from the Wikimedia movement. Help
No, tea is for staff and board members only.
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Wikimedia UK
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http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer
Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk
On 17 May 2012 21:02, James Alexander wrote:
> Coffee? ... but not tea?
>
(I am joking.)
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On 17 May 2012 21:34, Richard Symonds wrote:
> No, tea is for staff and board members only.
>
> Richard S
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Tom Morris wrote:
> Anyway, James F. knows more about Wikipedia than most people on the
> planet. Good hire.
>
+1
Great choice! :)
Best,
anirudh
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On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 01:02:30PM -0700, James Alexander wrote:
> Coffee? ... but not tea?
Despite the stereotype, brits tend to drink more coffee than tea. ;-)
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On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 09:52:23AM -0700, Howie Fung wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> It?s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
> Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
> Editor team.
Took your time!
Nice to see James at WMF, where he can get into
On 17 May 2012, at 21:33, Kim Bruning wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 01:02:30PM -0700, James Alexander wrote:
>> Coffee? ... but not tea?
>
>
> Despite the stereotype, brits tend to drink more coffee than tea. ;-)
That depends on the brit - I know my average ratio is about 5 cups of tea to 1
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Kat Walsh wrote:
> Also, I am having serious trouble wrapping my mind around James living
> outside the UK.
We've confirmed through experimental visits to San Francisco that
James can in fact exist outside the UK in a stable state. But let's
face it -- we'll eith
Here here!
It's a pile on at this point but I'm not sure I care. I honestly think this
is one of the best hires the foundation has ever made and am so incredibly
excited that I can't explain it properly. There have always been 2-3
Wikipedians who I would have classified as "I'd give up my right fo
I don't think "welcome" is the appropiate word to say him :)
SO I sum myself to the other people on this thread saying instead:
Congratulations!
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On 17 May 2012 22:51, Erik Moeller wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Kat Walsh wrote:
>> Also, I am having serious trouble wrapping my mind around James living
>> outside the UK.
>
> We've confirmed through experimental visits to San Francisco that
> James can in fact exist outside the U
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