[Wikitech-l] Ideating on GSOC project : Mobilize Wikidata

2013-04-09 Thread Pragun Bhutani
Hi, I plan to propose a GSOC project through Wikimedia this year, based around the idea of mobilizing Wikidata. I'd like to share my understanding of the problem and gain some feedback on that, as well as some more input from the community. * * *Problem at hand:* * * Unlike Wikipedia, which

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jenkins tests 'LOST'?

2013-04-09 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 09/04/13 02:13, Matthew Walker a écrit : Does anyone know what this means: mwext-CentralNotice-merge : LOST This happens whenever Zuul has not been able to retrieve the Jenkins job status. This is usually cause by Jenkins restarting or being to busy to handle the incoming HTTP requests.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-04-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Željko Filipin zfili...@wikimedia.org wrote: Done: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla_Weekly_Report Željko I hope you are going to go edit the descriptions for those files and add the appropriate license tags?

Re: [Wikitech-l] New git-review version revives year-old bug

2013-04-09 Thread Željko Filipin
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.comwrote: The workaround is the same as last year: if git-review complains and you see bogus commits in the list, respond no to abort, run git fetch gerrit, then rerun git-review. This will ensure git-review has an up-to-date

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ideating on GSOC project : Mobilize Wikidata

2013-04-09 Thread Nischay Nahata
At first glance this looks too big a project for GSoC. On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Pragun Bhutani pragu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I plan to propose a GSOC project through Wikimedia this year, based around the idea of mobilizing Wikidata. I'd like to share my understanding of the problem

Re: [Wikitech-l] New git-review version revives year-old bug

2013-04-09 Thread Niklas Laxström
On 9 April 2013 00:54, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: The workaround is the same as last year: if git-review complains and you see bogus commits in the list, respond no to abort, run git fetch gerrit, then rerun git-review. This will ensure git-review has an up-to-date view of the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ideating on GSOC project : Mobilize Wikidata

2013-04-09 Thread Denny Vrandečić
I would hope that the widgets we have developed for the Wikidata desktop UI - especially the Entity Selector widget - would be reusable on mobile. It would also be extremely good to look in what the mobile team is doing for Wikipedia. Since both is MediaWiki in the backend anyway, I would assume

[Wikitech-l] Next bugday: Apr 15, 16:00-20:00UTC on old reports without updates for 18 months

2013-04-09 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi everybody, Please join us on the next Wikimedia Bugday: Monday, April 15th, 16:00-20:00 UTC [1] in #wikimedia-office on Freenode IRC [2] We are going to take a look at old reports, trying to reproduce some plus provide feedback. Currently these are about 140 tickets (see [3] for a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-04-09 Thread Željko Filipin
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 10:06 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: I hope you are going to go edit the descriptions for those files and add the appropriate license tags? Done. I have used page that UploadWizard creates at Commons[1] as a template, but SourceTemplate:Own and Licensing

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Advice Needed

2013-04-09 Thread Rahul Maliakkal
Hello, I am actually in big dilemma,my GSOC project implements audio recording by HTML5 using a method getuserMedia().Right Now no browser perfectly supports it so audio recording itself is an issue. I have read articles about this and its the NEXT BIG FIX for many browsers .The extension will

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Advice Needed

2013-04-09 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi Rahul, Am 09.04.2013 14:52, schrieb Rahul Maliakkal: I am actually in big dilemma,my GSOC project implements audio recording by HTML5 using a method getuserMedia().Right Now no browser perfectly supports it so audio recording itself is an issue. as far as I know at least audio works on the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ideating on GSOC project : Mobilize Wikidata

2013-04-09 Thread Quim Gil
On 04/09/2013 02:39 AM, Denny Vrandečić wrote: I would hope It would also be extremely good to look I would assume I don't think Can the Wikidata and Mobile teams please answer with the best of your knowledge to the questions at Bug 43065 - WikibaseRepo to be mobile friendly

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-04-09 Thread Quim Gil
On 04/08/2013 06:07 AM, Željko Filipin wrote: Done: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla_Weekly_Report Thank you! About http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Total_reports_still_open.png , I would show the curve excluding the open Lowest reports, since this is the way we are soft-wontfixing

[Wikitech-l] Bugs in 1.21rc2

2013-04-09 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Yesterday, I made the RC2 release and listed only one known bug in the release. I decided to look through bugzilla for other as-yet-unaddressed bugs. I'd like to get these fixed before the tarball release May 15th. Please feel free to take them on so that we can get them fixed. *

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-04-09 Thread Željko Filipin
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: About http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**File:Total_reports_still_open.**pnghttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Total_reports_still_open.png, I would show the curve excluding the open Lowest reports, since this is the way we are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment highlights - week of April 8th

2013-04-09 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Risker, I find myself unconvinced by your argumentation as I perceive it as inconsistent. On the one hand, you suggest that before we enable the option to access data from Wikidata using either Lua or a parser function should be discussed and decided by the community beforehand - the same

[Wikitech-l] Pushing Technical changes to Wikimedia projects

2013-04-09 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Technical changes on the Wikimedia projects can be hairy. We are currently having a discussion about the Wikidata deployment to the Wikipedias, and there have been many examples in the past of deployments that raised discussions. One of my statements in this discussion is that the a priori

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project Idea for GSoC 2013 - Bayesian Spam Filter

2013-04-09 Thread Quim Gil
Hi Anubhav, On 04/07/2013 06:05 PM, anubhav agarwal wrote: Hi, I am Anubhav Agarwal, a B.Tech 4th Year student at IIT Roorkee. I wish to apply for GSoC 2013 and I am thinking about Bayesian Spam Filter as a project for the same. I have drafted the Idea on my

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pushing Technical changes to Wikimedia projects

2013-04-09 Thread Tyler Romeo
What kind of changes are we talking about here? What exactly falls under the category of design decisions? Because, for example, my Gerrit change that converts Special:Userlogin into a FormSpecialPage is a design change (in the software sense of the word), but the change based on it to add the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pushing Technical changes to Wikimedia projects

2013-04-09 Thread Steven Walling
On Tuesday, April 9, 2013, Denny Vrandečić wrote: Technical changes on the Wikimedia projects can be hairy. We are currently having a discussion about the Wikidata deployment to the Wikipedias, and there have been many examples in the past of deployments that raised discussions. One of my

[Wikitech-l] Pushing Technical changes to Wikimedia projects

2013-04-09 Thread Steven Walling
On Tuesday, April 9, 2013, Tyler Romeo wrote: What kind of changes are we talking about here? What exactly falls under the category of design decisions? Because, for example, my Gerrit change that converts Special:Userlogin into a FormSpecialPage is a design change (in the software sense of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pushing Technical changes to Wikimedia projects

2013-04-09 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2013/4/9 Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com: One system that I find a lot of potential value in is the Wikitech Ambassadors mailing list. I hope that mailing list grows and can be the place where we make announcements that should be communicated widely. Yes, that, but to make it really

[Wikitech-l] Project: New contributors (was Proposal: Wikitech contributors)

2013-04-09 Thread Quim Gil
On 04/05/2013 03:19 PM, Quim Gil wrote: Thank you very much! All the input received this week has been very useful to bring the proposal to a new level. CHANGES In fact I kept doing changes until settling with http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:New_contributors The problem is still the

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Design] Wikimedia Iconathon Remote Participation

2013-04-09 Thread Waldir Pimenta
On 09/04/13 04:19, Steven Walling wrote: On Monday, April 8, 2013, Waldir Pimenta wrote: Apart from that, where were the results posted? All I found were pictures from the event, spread across several categories. I've collected them on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project: New contributors (was Proposal: Wikitech contributors)

2013-04-09 Thread Yury Katkov
Shall we talk here or on the discussion page? On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 04/05/2013 03:19 PM, Quim Gil wrote: Thank you very much! All the input received this week has been very useful to bring the proposal to a new level. CHANGES In fact I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugs in 1.21rc2

2013-04-09 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi Mark, On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 09:43 -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: Yesterday, I made the RC2 release and listed only one known bug in the release. I decided to look through bugzilla for other as-yet-unaddressed bugs. considering the six tickets that you listed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugs in 1.21rc2

2013-04-09 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 04/09/2013 04:10 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41100#c5 says it's worth to mention in the release notes, and https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46934 might be worth to keep an eye on / add to the list of six tickets. Thank you so much

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugs in 1.21rc2

2013-04-09 Thread Greg Grossmeier
quote name=Andre Klapper date=2013-04-09 time=22:10:34 +0200 ... bug numbers galore ... You know, if we can get the Bugzilla weekly report more accurate, these would be good summaries to have, something like: # of bugs affecting current REL # of bugs affecting current REL with patches # of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project: New contributors (was Proposal: Wikitech contributors)

2013-04-09 Thread Quim Gil
On 04/09/2013 10:42 AM, Yury Katkov wrote: Shall we talk here or on the discussion page? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_talk:New_contributors please, as you already did. :) Thanks! -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pushing Technical changes to Wikimedia projects

2013-04-09 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 04/09/2013 12:18 PM, Denny Vrandečić wrote: I thought that in order to discuss these design decisions with the community before hand, telling them on their respective village pump is sufficient. Not so it seems. No single channel would find acceptance to communicate with the community.

[Wikitech-l] Jenkins/Zuul scheduled maintenance on Friday

2013-04-09 Thread Antoine Musso
Hello, On Friday April 12th at 13:00GMT the Wikimedia operations team is going to add two SSD disks on the gallium server. The downtime is expected to last up to two hours. Plan of action: - server is bought down and disks are added, server restarted (est: 30min) - Zuul/Jenkins restart (est:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: Wikitech contributors

2013-04-09 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 04/06/2013 12:38 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote: The idea to invent a new name (Wikimedia) in 2003 was a mistake, as everybody in outreach can testify. With hindsight, it was probably a mistake to make the names so similar. I do think there should be distinct names. Wikimedia has great projects

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pushing Technical changes to Wikimedia projects

2013-04-09 Thread Tilman Bayer
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote: On Tuesday, April 9, 2013, Denny Vrandečić wrote: Technical changes on the Wikimedia projects can be hairy. We are currently having a discussion about the Wikidata deployment to the Wikipedias, and there have

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pushing Technical changes to Wikimedia projects

2013-04-09 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 04/09/2013 12:57 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: 2013/4/9 Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com: One system that I find a lot of potential value in is the Wikitech Ambassadors mailing list. I hope that mailing list grows and can be the place where we make announcements that should be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment highlights - week of April 8th

2013-04-09 Thread Risker
On 9 April 2013 12:15, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote: Risker, I find myself unconvinced by your argumentation as I perceive it as inconsistent. On the one hand, you suggest that before we enable the option to access data from Wikidata using either Lua or a parser