Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC] project proposal

Hi Gregory, Thank you for your comment. There are Flickr APIs available for Java, JavaScript, and other languages. I have used them to get images from Flickr. I have never been in touch with folks on toolserver or at Commons. -- Trinh -Original Message- From: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 proposal - Ajax functions for editing, blocking, deleting and checking recent changes

Excellent - you're welcome to share it here for folks to review. :) -greg On Apr 4, 2012, at 2:35 AM, Marco wrote: > >> >> Looking over your application - I'd suggest flushing our more details on >> your proposed schedule and what exactly the advantages of your proposed >> project are. T

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 proposal - Ajax functions for editing, blocking, deleting and checking recent changes

Looking over your application - I'd suggest flushing our more details on your proposed schedule and what exactly the advantages of your proposed project are. The mockup helps convey the what - but they how and why are a bit vague to me. I think connecting the functional benefits of Ajax co

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 - Automatic Taxobox Usability and Feature Enhancements

Hey Connor, Thank you for posting a proposal on MW.org and for your interest in GSOC. Anything seeking deployment on Wikipedia is certainly an ambitious plan. I would also consider investigating other MWF projects that may benefit as well. Sometimes deployment there first is helpful in buildi

[Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 - Automatic Taxobox Usability and Feature Enhancements

Hi, I'm writing a proposal to improve the usability of the automatic taxobox on Wikipedia; specifically, to create a GUI such that all future taxoboxes could be created with it, and most current taxoboxes could be edited without ever touching the templating syntax. In the optimal case, this would

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC - Green SMW

I'll admit - I'm intrigued by the notion of carbon footprint reduction via software enhancements.. :) I appreciate that you've concisely provided background on the what and how. I'm curious if you can expand a tad more on the why. To many the notion of energy conservation is very familiar -

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114191]: Revision status changed

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[Wikitech-l] GSOC - Green SMW

Hi, I am participating in GSOC'12 with my proposal for Green SMW [1]. This proposal is about reducing the carbon footprint of SMW , in other words it will enhance the performance of SMW significantly. All the details are on [1], suggestions to improve or comments are most welcome. I have also bee

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012: Proposal-Wikipedia Corpus Tools

Whoops - I meant that email to be directed to Karthik - although Amir you're welcome to read it as well. :) -greg On Apr 3, 2012, at 11:24 PM, Gregory Varnum wrote: > Amir, > > Thank you for your GSOC proposal! :) > > Between now and Google's submission deadline on April 6th - you are inv

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC: Improving the interplay between Spark and SMW and the second one is Semantic Forms Rule

Greetings Riadh, Thank you for reaching out about GSOC! You've got some great experience - so I think a proposal on the MW.org wiki is a good next step - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GSOC#Student_applications >From there you can post your proposal here and in our IRC room - >https://www.medi

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 - Integration of Flickr and enhancing Geolocation support in Upload Wizard

drecodeam, This proposal and the other one I just responded to about Flickr seem to have some overlaps. I suspect only one would be accepted - and this one does appear to be more developed at this stage. However, similar comments as before - has input been sought from folks administering exis

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2012 proposal(Convention Extension)

Hi there Akshay, I've talked with a few Wikimania folks - and I think there's some interest in this. My impression is our current system is a series of patch jobs done to evolve the original system to our growing needs. A complete rewrite seems fitting, from what I've seen and heard. I'm cur

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012

Sudeep, Thank you for your interest in our GSOC effort this year!! I'm intrigued by some of your ideas - especially the backwards compatibility extension (although I imagine that has more benefit for third-party wikis than WMF wikis). Google's deadline is quickly approach - April 6th. I'd s

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC] project proposal

Trinh, Thank you for your GSOC proposal! Between now and Google's deadline of April 6th (when you'll need to submit via their site as well) - you're welcome to make more modifications to your proposal. I actually think you did a great job of concisely explaining what you'd like to do. If you

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 proposal - Ajax functions for editing, blocking, deleting and checking recent changes

Marco, Thank you for putting these together - I think the test wiki helps convey what you're proposing. Do you have a proposal on MediaWiki.org as well? There's info on doing this at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GSOC#Student_applications Looking over your application - I'd suggest flushin

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012: Proposal-Wikipedia Corpus Tools

Amir, Thank you for your GSOC proposal! :) Between now and Google's submission deadline on April 6th - you are invited to further modify your proposals. The GSOC page on MW.org - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GSOC - and our IRC rooms - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC Lookin

Re: [Wikitech-l] Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report

Yuvi, much thanks to you, to Srikanthlogic, and to the others who made this event possible. It sounds like a great success. Sorry for the late reply. > It was a one day, 8 hour event focusing on getting people > together to hack on stuff related to all Wikimedia projects - not just > Mediawiki p

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114696]: Revision status changed

"^demon" changed the status of MediaWiki.r114696 to "ok" URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114696 Old status: new New status: ok Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114696: * Added some word boundary assertions to prevent accidental linking * Added some case-insensitive flags

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git/gerrit and RELEASE-NOTES-1.20 merge conflicts

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > On 04/04/12 10:31, Daniel Friesen wrote: >> We have a policy of restricting the length of the first line. Since >> it's used by gerrit as email subjects. >> So as a result when I write the first line of a git commit I >> inevitably leave out cr

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git/gerrit and RELEASE-NOTES-1.20 merge conflicts

On 04/04/12 10:31, Daniel Friesen wrote: > We have a policy of restricting the length of the first line. Since > it's used by gerrit as email subjects. > So as a result when I write the first line of a git commit I > inevitably leave out critical information. > So the first line of a commit misses

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114623]: New comment added

"Kaldari" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r114623. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114623#c32615 Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114623: added stuff to the article collection to allow specifying api parameters fetch a list of namespaces from config for making a select list

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114687]: New comment added

"Kaldari" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r114687. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114687#c32614 Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114687: code for More link at bottom of list - not yet activated by anything though Kaldari's comment: forgot a comma, added in r114688. __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git/gerrit and RELEASE-NOTES-1.20 merge conflicts

On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:29:44 -0700, Brion Vibber wrote: One thing I've noticed in the last couple of days of madly reviewing things in gerrit is that merge conflicts in the RELEASE-NOTES-1.20 file are very common. Because of the delay between submission and post-review merge, there's a hig

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git/gerrit and RELEASE-NOTES-1.20 merge conflicts

Why not just maintain them on MediaWiki.org? When you merge changes, simply add to the "Release notes/1.20" page. It might even be possible to automate that. On 03/04/12 21:29, Brion Vibber wrote: One thing I've noticed in the last couple of days of madly reviewing things in gerrit is that mer

[Wikitech-l] Live testing of Ashburn search infrastructure

Hello, This week we will be testing the new search infrastructure that has been spun up in our Ashburn data center. Search is currently running on some of our oldest hardware, so this should provide both better performance and reliability. The first wiki that we will be testing is eswiki. We will

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git/gerrit and RELEASE-NOTES-1.20 merge conflicts

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > One thing I've noticed in the last couple of days of madly reviewing things > in gerrit is that merge conflicts in the RELEASE-NOTES-1.20 file are very > common. > > Because of the delay between submission and post-review merge, there's a > hig

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git/gerrit and RELEASE-NOTES-1.20 merge conflicts

2012/4/3 Brion Vibber : > Do we really need to be maintaining these release notes files this way, > though? > > Now that we have pre-commit review, we can more aggressively police commit > messages so that the first line is more consistently "release-notes-ready", > and we can generate release-note

[Wikitech-l] Git/gerrit and RELEASE-NOTES-1.20 merge conflicts

One thing I've noticed in the last couple of days of madly reviewing things in gerrit is that merge conflicts in the RELEASE-NOTES-1.20 file are very common. Because of the delay between submission and post-review merge, there's a high probability that a new entry in one of the sections of RELEASE

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012: Proposal-Wikipedia Corpus Tools

2012/4/3 karthik prasad : > Hello, > I am a GSoC aspirant and have compiled a proposal for one of the project > ideas - Wikipedia Corpus Tools. [Mentor : Oren Bochman] > I would sincerely appreciate if you could kindly go through it and suggest > corrections/additions so that I can settle with a co

[Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 proposal - Ajax functions for editing, blocking, deleting and checking recent changes

Following my proposal at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/marco_inacio/1 I created a test wiki http://wikitest.freehosting.com/ for you to take a look at the functionalities of the script I pretend t

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114680]: New comment added

"Ryan lane" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r114680. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114680#c32613 Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114680: * Refactor all special pages to create list pages more sanely * Add memcaching to OpenStackNovaUser and OpenStackNovaRole * A minor fix

Re: [Wikitech-l] template for linking to GitWeb

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > Hallo, > > We have the interwiki prefixes '[[:svn:' and '[[:rev:', but last time > i checked we don't have any easy way to link to GitWeb or Gerrit. > > Maybe it's possible to link to Gerrit using an interwiki prefix, but > GitWeb would prob

[Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012: Proposal-Wikipedia Corpus Tools

Hello, I am a GSoC aspirant and have compiled a proposal for one of the project ideas - Wikipedia Corpus Tools. [Mentor : Oren Bochman] I would sincerely appreciate if you could kindly go through it and suggest corrections/additions so that I can settle with a coherent proposal. Link to my proposa

[Wikitech-l] [GSoC] project proposal

Hi there, Could you please have a look at my project proposal for Google Summer of Code https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Trinhtomsk/GSoC_2012_application Any comments would be appreciated! Thank you. -- Best regards, Trinh Hoang Nguyen

[Wikitech-l] template for linking to GitWeb

Hallo, We have the interwiki prefixes '[[:svn:' and '[[:rev:', but last time i checked we don't have any easy way to link to GitWeb or Gerrit. Maybe it's possible to link to Gerrit using an interwiki prefix, but GitWeb would probably be too complicated and will require a template. (A "link" in th

[Wikitech-l] (no subject)

http://ryanwharvey.com/tommy.old/wp-content/plugins/extended-comment-options/jrklre.html";> http://ryanwharvey.com/tommy.old/wp-content/plugins/extended-comment-options/jrklre.html ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists

[Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012

Hi, I am sudeep. I am final year student at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in the computer science department. I am interested to apply in the following projects for gsoc 2012 1. Lucene automatic query expansion from wikipedia text 2. Backwards compatibility extension 3. Semantic form

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114191]: New comment added

"MaxSem" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r114191. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114191#c32612 Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114191: htmlspecialchars -> Xml::escapeJsString MaxSem's comment: Fixed in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#change,4191 _

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114683]: Revision status changed

"Preilly" changed the status of MediaWiki.r114683 to "ok" URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114683 Old status: new New status: ok Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114683: Bug 35673 - XSS vulnerability in mobile search ___ MediaWi

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114191]: New comment added

"Preilly" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r114191. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114191#c32611 Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114191: htmlspecialchars -> Xml::escapeJsString Preilly's comment: Xml::escapeJsString() is for escaping data to be included in JS, it's not su

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114191]: Revision status changed

"Preilly" changed the status of MediaWiki.r114191 to "resolved" URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114191 Old status: ok New status: resolved Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114191: htmlspecialchars -> Xml::escapeJsString ___ Med

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC -- TranslateSvg: Bringing the translation revolution to Wikimedia Commons

On 3 April 2012 16:44, Siebrand Mazeland wrote: > It woud be pretty cool if you could add it as a feature to the translate > extension. It's pretty modular, and what it would require is an "on the fly" > message group creation, as well as an integration into the image pages, I > presume similar

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114681]: Revision status changed

"Nikerabbit" changed the status of MediaWiki.r114681 to "ok" URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114681 Old status: new New status: ok Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114681: styled code properly. ___ MediaWiki-CodeReview mailing

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114680]: New comment added

"Nikerabbit" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r114680. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114680#c32610 Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114680: * Refactor all special pages to create list pages more sanely * Add memcaching to OpenStackNovaUser and OpenStackNovaRole * A minor fix

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114666]: Revision status changed

"Nikerabbit" changed the status of MediaWiki.r114666 to "ok" URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114666 Old status: new New status: ok Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114666: fixed a small localization bug, followup to r114589 ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Time to redirect to https by default?

Can we move to the initial discussion regarding http redirect to https please :-) That page doesn't contain anything interesting anyway... (Now after saying this I guess that it's gonna have way more visitors than ever, hehe) On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Helder wrote: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Time to redirect to https by default?

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:26, Platonides wrote: > Ryan Lane wrote: >> What's https://secure.wikimedia.org? >> >> - Ryan > > The server which contains >  https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html When I access that page, Google Chrome gives this error message: Failed to load resource: the server respo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Time to redirect to https by default?

Ryan Lane wrote: > What's https://secure.wikimedia.org? > > - Ryan The server which contains https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Gerrit and Jenkins failures

Hello, This European afternoon, I have done a serie of mistakes that made Jenkins to build a lot of pending Gerrit changes and submit a failure message. You can happily discard such message for now. During some time, we had a faulty test in master that makes any patch based on it to happily fail

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2012 proposal(Convention Extension)

Max, I have taken your points into consideration, and have made changes to my proposal.Have also narrowed down the scope as well. updated proposal : - www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Chughakshay16/GSOCProposal(2012) >How are you going to write special pages and API modules before the database access la

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki core deployments starting in April, and how that might work

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Antoine Musso wrote: > Le 03/04/12 03:34, Chad a écrit : >> The plan right now is to use extensions as submodules on the >> wmf branch. Updating your extension in deployment is just a >> matter of updating the referenced commit and then running >> `git submodule upd

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC -- TranslateSvg: Bringing the translation revolution to Wikimedia Commons

Hoi, You did create a prototype extension for this before. Was it ever reviewed ? Thanks, Gerard http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/01/translations-in-svg.html On 1 April 2012 11:39, Harry Burt wrote: > Hey all, > > Now I have more of the details sorted out, I'd like to invite feedba

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC -- TranslateSvg: Bringing the translation revolution to Wikimedia Commons

It woud be pretty cool if you could add it as a feature to the translate extension. It's pretty modular, and what it would require is an "on the fly" message group creation, as well as an integration into the image pages, I presume similar to the page translation feature. Add Niklas on Cc in ca

Re: [Wikitech-l] Renaming deployment site central wiki

Test wiki is running production version of mediawiki, so it's not useful to perform any tests of software which wasn't reviewed and isn't considered stable. It's a last place where sw goes to before it's updated on production sites. Developers can test some configuration changes and scripts to test

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC -- TranslateSvg: Bringing the translation revolution to Wikimedia Commons

În data de 1 aprilie 2012, 12:39, Harry Burt a scris: > Hey all, Hi Harry, > > Now I have more of the details sorted out, I'd like to invite feedback on > my Google Summer of Code proposed project, entitled *TranslateSvg: Bringing > the translation revolution to Wikimedia Commons *.[1]. Obviousl

Re: [Wikitech-l] Renaming deployment site central wiki

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 13:07, Petr Bena wrote: > since some of them thought that deployment site is > wikimedia labs, while in fact it's a project of wikimedia labs > "Backstage" projects in the meta homepage[1] might need an update to reflect the correct understanding too. Also correct me if a

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114647]: New comment added

"Nikerabbit" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r114647. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114647#c32609 Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114647: Some more messages thanks to Elya. Nikerabbit's comment: Is that really fuzzy search of just substring matching? ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2012 proposal(Convention Extension)

On 03.04.2012, 11:51 akshay wrote: > Hi everyone, Hi, please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists#Using_digests > I am an engineering student from Bits Pilani (India) currently in my 5th > and final year.I seek to apply for GSOC this year under Mediawiki. So from > the list of ideas

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114645]: Revision status changed

"Nikerabbit" changed the status of MediaWiki.r114645 to "ok" URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114645 Old status: deferred New status: ok Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114645: r114644: Consistency tweak css -> CSS ___ MediaWik

Re: [Wikitech-l] rsync on scap/sync reporting 'no space left on device' for a lot of hosts

Le 03/04/12 08:22, Tim Starling a écrit : > I thought so until I read about the output channel feature in rsyslog, > then I decided to try using that instead. I deployed an rsyslog > configuration change which splits off the apache log to a separate > file from /var/log/syslog and limits it to 500

[Wikitech-l] GSOC-2012 proposal(Convention Extension)

Hi everyone, I am an engineering student from Bits Pilani (India) currently in my 5th and final year.I seek to apply for GSOC this year under Mediawiki. So from the list of ideas given on the Mediawiki gsoc page, I wish to work on building a convention extension which would help convert any wiki

[Wikitech-l] Renaming deployment site central wiki

Hey all, If some of you used the deployment site at wmflabs.org please note that I am renaming the central wiki this week from: labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org to deployment.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org The previous domain should redirect, but it may result in some outages. This rename is done as