Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC proposals: Wikidata language fallback and conversion ( + one backup: category redirects )

2013-04-27 Thread Liangent
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Paul Selitskas wrote: > How about if I don't want such fallback to work for me? What if I'd > like to see what is labeled and what is not? Have you considered this > a user option with a flexible fallback schema or a site-wide > preference with a fixed one? > > In

Re: [Wikitech-l] Works on annotations

2013-04-27 Thread James Forrester
On 19 April 2013 03:28, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: > 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 s

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mathematical equations GSoC / OPW project (was Re: GSoC and OPW Participation)

2013-04-27 Thread James Forrester
On 26 April 2013 23:12, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > A little off topic, but is there any documentation so far on > VisualEditor plugins? The reason I ask is that at some point, I'd like > to port ProveIt over to VisualEditor. I'm happy with helping to improve > the VE plugin documentation along th

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC proposals: Wikidata language fallback and conversion ( + one backup: category redirects )

2013-04-27 Thread Daniel Friesen
We already have a way to handle that kind of thing with normal language fallbacks. &uselang=qqx. Wikidata should be able to do something similar trivially. -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:05:18 -0700, Paul Selitskas wrote:

[Wikitech-l] GSoC / OPW mentors README

2013-04-27 Thread Quim Gil
GSoC / OPW mentors are facing 10 intense days selecting our next group of interns. Some suggestions: ALWAYS * Be nice and welcoming, especially in your first messages exchanged. There will be time for wikitech-style blunt straightforwardness. ;) * Rely as much as possible in public channels

[Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 proposal

2013-04-27 Thread Or Sagi
Hi all, I'm glad to announce my GSoC 2013 proposal for translatewiki.net Android application. please review it at: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Orsagi/GSoC_2013_proposal and feel free to leave your tips and comments. Thanks, Or ___ Wikitech-l maili

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC proposals: Wikidata language fallback and conversion ( + one backup: category redirects )

2013-04-27 Thread Lukas Benedix
Hi, If I understand your proposal on User:Liangent/wb-lang right you want to write an extension or implement the language-fallback in directly wikibase. I thougt about doing something about the missing-lang-issue by myself and think writing a gadget would have a higher possibility to get it

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

2013-04-27 Thread Nilesh Chakraborty
Awesome. Got it. I see what you mean, great, thank you. :) Cheers, Nilesh On Apr 28, 2013 2:56 AM, "Lydia Pintscher" wrote: > On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Nilesh Chakraborty > wrote: > > Hi Lydia, > > > > That helps a lot, and makes it way more interesting. Rather than being a > > one-siz

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

2013-04-27 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Nilesh Chakraborty wrote: > Hi Lydia, > > That helps a lot, and makes it way more interesting. Rather than being a > one-size-fits-all solution, as it seems to me, each property or each type > of property (eg. different relationships) will need individual attentio

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

2013-04-27 Thread Nilesh Chakraborty
Hi Lydia, That helps a lot, and makes it way more interesting. Rather than being a one-size-fits-all solution, as it seems to me, each property or each type of property (eg. different relationships) will need individual attention and different methods/metrics for recommendation. The examples you

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC proposals: Wikidata language fallback and conversion ( + one backup: category redirects )

2013-04-27 Thread Paul Selitskas
How about if I don't want such fallback to work for me? What if I'd like to see what is labeled and what is not? Have you considered this a user option with a flexible fallback schema or a site-wide preference with a fixed one? In general, this is a very good Wikidata feature yet not implemented.

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

2013-04-27 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Nilesh Chakraborty wrote: > > I have a question - when someone creates a new statement, for suggesting > "properties", I can use collaborative filtering to make suggestions. > Example, explained in the simplest terms - suppose there are X cities in > the dataset.

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

2013-04-27 Thread Nilesh Chakraborty
Hi Lydia, hello Denny, Thank you so much. I have to apologise for my delayed response, got caught up with university lab exams and assignments; the semester is drawing to an end. Firstly, Lydia - thanks for the link. The Data model primer really helps. I've been browsing the pages on wikidata.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] $wgUseMathJax

2013-04-27 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2013-04-27 4:34 PM, "Moritz Schubotz" wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to improve the variables of the math extension. I think > $wgUseMathJax is misleading. > > I'd like to change $wgUseMathJax to $wgAllowMathJax and set it to true > by default. In the same style I'd like to introduce $wgAllowL

[Wikitech-l] GSoC proposals: Wikidata language fallback and conversion ( + one backup: category redirects )

2013-04-27 Thread Liangent
Hello, I've drafted my proposal about language fallback and conversion issues for Wikidata at [1]. Currently Wikidata stores multilingual contents. Labels (names, descriptions etc) are expected to be written in every language, so every user can read them in their own language. But there're some p

[Wikitech-l] $wgUseMathJax

2013-04-27 Thread Moritz Schubotz
Hi, I'd like to improve the variables of the math extension. I think $wgUseMathJax is misleading. I'd like to change $wgUseMathJax to $wgAllowMathJax and set it to true by default. In the same style I'd like to introduce $wgAllowLaTeXML and $wgDebugMath. What are your suggestions? Best re

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help required for thinking of a project idea .

2013-04-27 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
Hi Ishitva, Thank you very much for your interest. Please have a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013. This page answers your question and more! Cheers! On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 1:42 PM, ishitva goel wrote: > Hello everyone > > I am interested in working for MediaWiki for

[Wikitech-l] Help required for thinking of a project idea .

2013-04-27 Thread ishitva goel
Hello everyone I am interested in working for MediaWiki for Google Summer Of code 2013 , but I haven't been able to think of any idea yet . I don't know which project I can work upon . Please help me think of an idea , so that I can proceed with my proposal . Thank you Ishitva __

[Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-I] [GSoC 2013] Mobilize Wikidata Proposal Draft

2013-04-27 Thread Pragun Bhutani
Hello, I've written down my proposal regarding my GSoC project, Mobilize Wikidata. I'd really appreciate some feedback on it. I welcome any queries that you may have and would love to get tips on how to improve it. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Pragunbhutani/GSoC_2013_Proposal Thanks! --

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias

2013-04-27 Thread David Gerard
On 26 April 2013 15:42, K. Peachey wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Lukas Benedix > wrote: >> You can share your feedback on >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:VisualEditor/Feedback >> but 'visual editor' -> 'review and save' -> 'something is wrong' -> 'report >> problem' is not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias

2013-04-27 Thread Claudia Müller-Birn
On Apr 27, 2013, at 12:05 AM, Lukas Benedix wrote: > I'm not a non-tech-user, but I don't like using bugzilla. > here is the new bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/47755 > > > btw: > > While testing the "black-hole" feedback-mechanism I found another issue with > VisualEditor. > > There ar