Re: [Wikitech-l] Making inter-language links shorter

2013-04-19 Thread Lars Aronsson
On 04/18/2013 06:50 PM, Pau Giner wrote: As multilingual content grows, interlanguage links become longer on Wikipedia articles. Articles such as Barak Obama or Sun have more than 200 links, and that becomes a problem for users that often switch among several languages. For how many users is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making inter-language links shorter

2013-04-19 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2013-04-19 12:05, Lars Aronsson a écrit : On 04/18/2013 06:50 PM, Pau Giner wrote: As multilingual content grows, interlanguage links become longer on Wikipedia articles. Articles such as Barak Obama or Sun have more than 200 links, and that becomes a problem for users that often switch

[Wikitech-l] Works on annotations

2013-04-19 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
I think I red some things on annotations in the Visual Editor, but I can't find it again. Do you have relevant informations on the subject? I like to use template like {{why|blabla}} and {{according to who|blabla}}, but in the same time I can see that while making a contribution call to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Heads up: small new feature in ConfirmEdit

2013-04-19 Thread Platonides
On 19/04/13 00:21, Steven Walling wrote: Hi all, This is a heads up that we've added a small new feature which hopefully will make things less painful for users across the projects: the ability to refresh the CAPTCHA you're presented without refreshing the entire page. It should work

[Wikitech-l] Support for 3D content

2013-04-19 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Hi, Reading the 2012-13 Plan, I see that multimedia is one the key activities for Mediawiki. So I was wondering if there was already any plan to integrate 3D model viewers, which would be for example very interesting for anatomy articles, or simply 3D maths objects. MediaGoblin[1] show that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Support for 3D content

2013-04-19 Thread Quim Gil
On 04/19/2013 06:03 AM, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: Hi, Reading the 2012-13 Plan, I see that multimedia is one the key activities for Mediawiki. So I was wondering if there was already any plan to integrate 3D model viewers, which would be for example very interesting for anatomy articles, or simply

Re: [Wikitech-l] Support for 3D content

2013-04-19 Thread Chris McMahon
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote: Hi, Reading the 2012-13 Plan, I see that multimedia is one the key activities for Mediawiki. So I was wondering if there was already any plan to integrate 3D model viewers, which would be for example very

Re: [Wikitech-l] Support for 3D content

2013-04-19 Thread Nicolas Vervelle
You also have a Jmol extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Jmol It's working on wiki.jmol.org On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Chris McMahon cmcma...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote: Hi, Reading the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Support for 3D content

2013-04-19 Thread Eugene Zelenko
Hi! Extension and viewer for Chemical Markup Language were created long time ago. However it's still not reviewed for security issues to be included on WMF projects. See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16491. On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Mathieu Stumpf

Re: [Wikitech-l] Support for 3D content

2013-04-19 Thread Dan Andreescu
Sounds like NicoV started work again to try to address those issues. We should take a look at the Amsterdam Hackathon or Wikimania. On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Eugene Zelenko eugene.zele...@gmail.comwrote: Hi! Extension and viewer for Chemical Markup Language were created long time

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Engineering Roadmap Update - 20130417

2013-04-19 Thread Greg Grossmeier
quote name=K. Peachey date=2013-04-19 time=15:09:58 +1000 On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: We used to do that: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Roadmap ... How about just something simple like *

Re: [Wikitech-l] Survey: best times for volunteering

2013-04-19 Thread Quim Gil
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, please find 5 minutes for this survey: http://www.doodle.com/minqnd6ngz9npfdv 22 people answered. If you couldn't find the time yet please do it before the end of the week. We are simply asking in which time slots you are

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Engineering Roadmap Update - 20130417

2013-04-19 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: Mostly it is the function of multiple people editing the document together at the same time in the same room. Until that problem can be solved on wiki, then a big wiki table probably won't be functional, at least

[Wikitech-l] Tutorial on Semantic MediaWiki in Russian

2013-04-19 Thread Yury Katkov
Hi everyone! In Semantic MediaWiki we have great but very long documentation. I've tried to write a small introduction to SMW. It's only in Russian now (I know that some amount of Russian MediaWikers are reading this mailing list), but I think to write something similar in English (maybe to IBM

[Wikitech-l] GSOC idea : Mobilize Wikidata

2013-04-19 Thread Yanna Wu
Hi, My name is Yanna and I'm interested in this mobilizing Wikidata idea. I have read the thread about the topic and I agree with the idea that we can first use MobileFront to see the result. My suggestion regard to the data-editing feature is that we should remove the column of edit button and

[Wikitech-l] Several GSoC / OPW candidates after the same project (was Re: GSOC idea : Mobilize Wikidata)

2013-04-19 Thread Quim Gil
Hello Yanna, thank you for your interest contributing to Wikimedia! On 04/19/2013 09:41 AM, Yanna Wu wrote: My name is Yanna and I'm interested in this mobilizing Wikidata idea. I have read the thread about the topic and I agree with the idea that we can first use MobileFront to see the result.

[Wikitech-l] [GSoc2013] Interested in developing Entity Suggester

2013-04-19 Thread Nilesh Chakraborty
Hi, I am a 3rd year undergraduate student of computer science, pursuing my B.Tech degree at RCC Institute of Information Technology. I am proficient in Java, PHP and C#. Among the project ideas on the GSoC 2013 ideas page, the one particular idea that seemed really interesting to me is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tutorial on Semantic MediaWiki in Russian

2013-04-19 Thread Paul Selitskas
That is a nice starter guide! Thank you, Yury! On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Yury Katkov katkov.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone! In Semantic MediaWiki we have great but very long documentation. I've tried to write a small introduction to SMW. It's only in Russian now (I know that some

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making inter-language links shorter

2013-04-19 Thread Pau Giner
Thanks for all the feedback! I'll try to respond below to some of the issues raised: *Which is the problem?* As it has been mentioned, one of the most effective ways of hiding something is to surround it in the middle of a long list. This produces two problems: - *Lack of discoverability.*

Re: [Wikitech-l] Heads up: small new feature in ConfirmEdit

2013-04-19 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 04/19/2013 07:59 AM, Platonides wrote: Although, is Refresh the best term for the UI? It should be pretty clear based on context and the icon. People have seen this before on other sites. However, it's easy to change the text later if needed. Matt Flaschen

[Wikitech-l] Call for new list moderators

2013-04-19 Thread Chad
Hi everyone, As you may have remembered reading. Huib--our longtime volunteer moderator for mediawiki-l and wikitech-l--resigned from his positions back in February[0]. I let this slip longer than I should've, but I'd like to now make the call for a new batch of list moderators for mediawiki-l

[Wikitech-l] Deployment Highlights Update - Week of April 22nd

2013-04-19 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Hello and welcome to the latest installment of the Deployment Highlights email. The full calendar for next week lives at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_April_22nd For the week of April 22nd we have the following interesting deployments: == Monday == * MediaWiki

[Wikitech-l] [Language Engineering] Bug triage on Wednesday, April 24 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT

2013-04-19 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
What: Translation User Interface bug triage Date: April 24 2013 Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 1000-1100 PDT (Timezone conversion: http://hexm.de/r0) Channel: #mediawiki-i18n (Freenode) Etherpad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-i18n-2013-04 Questions can be sent to: runa at wikimedia dot org Hello,

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Engineering Roadmap Update - 20130417

2013-04-19 Thread Greg Grossmeier
quote name=Greg Grossmeier date=2013-04-18 time=08:52:03 -0700 I'll work on copying over the current version of the Roadmap to ethercalc today/tomorrow. Actually, if anyone wants to help: https://ethercalc.org/WMF_Engineering_Roadmap I *think* all of the content is copied over, but the

[Wikitech-l] browser tests now targeting beta cluster

2013-04-19 Thread Chris McMahon
Over the last week Željko and I changed the QA automated browser tests to target test environments on the beta cluster as well as on test2wiki, where they had been running for some time. This was possible because of a number of improvements made to beta since the QA Quarterly Review and the f2f

Re: [Wikitech-l] browser tests now targeting beta cluster

2013-04-19 Thread Greg Grossmeier
quote name=Chris McMahon date=2013-04-19 time=14:12:47 -0700 Over the last week Željko and I changed the QA automated browser tests to target test environments on the beta cluster as well as on test2wiki, where they had been running for some time. This is awesome work, guys, thank you! Greg

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Design] Making inter-language links shorter

2013-04-19 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Also, did you think of the accessibility issues in your solution? Here I especialy think of people with view disabilities, for who js often mean no way to get the content, while a long list of hyperlinks is manageable. Le vendredi 19 avril 2013 à 20:19 +0200, Pau Giner a écrit : Thanks for all

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tutorial on Semantic MediaWiki in Russian

2013-04-19 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le vendredi 19 avril 2013 à 21:02 +0300, Paul Selitskas a écrit : That is a nice starter guide! Thank you, Yury! I'll be definitely interested to have the english version. Well, to be honnest, I would prefer some magical recipe for Russian instant learning, but I doubt anyone can provide such a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tutorial on Semantic MediaWiki in Russian

2013-04-19 Thread Yury Katkov
Any ideas where to publish the English version? I was quite surprised when I found out that there is no collective blog in english internet as our Habrahabr. I was thinking about IBM Developerworks but maybe they need something closer to the programming. Can I try to propose the article to

[Wikitech-l] No cascade protection on Mediawiki namespace

2013-04-19 Thread Techman224
Right now the MediaWiki namespace is protected from editing. However, if you add a template to a Mediawiki message and the template is unprotected, any user could edit the message by editing the template, creating a backdoor. There is no option to cascade protect MediaWiki messages on wiki, and

Re: [Wikitech-l] No cascade protection on Mediawiki namespace

2013-04-19 Thread Tyler Romeo
This sounds like an issue. If others agree, I could work on this. On Apr 20, 2013 1:09 AM, Techman224 techman...@techman224.ca wrote: Right now the MediaWiki namespace is protected from editing. However, if you add a template to a Mediawiki message and the template is unprotected, any user

Re: [Wikitech-l] No cascade protection on Mediawiki namespace

2013-04-19 Thread K. Peachey
Why not just protect the template when you add it? I think you may be over thinking this just a tad. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l