That's probably more a topic for Wiki-research-l than for Wikitech-l
(in particular since they seem to have published formulas rather than
code). BTW, we briefly reviewed this preprint in the Wikimedia
Research Newsletter back when the first version came out:
Dear all,
I am happy to announce that a Memento time travel extension for MediaWiki is
now available for testing and feedback. The extension can be downloaded via [1]
and requires MediaWiki version 1.21.1+. A demonstration wiki equipped with the
Memento extension is available [2].
The
Hey all,
I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Wikibase Database 0.1.
https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDatabase/releases
An overview of the functionality, installation instructions, usage
instructions and technical documentation can be found at
I have long wondered why the WMF Fundraising department seems stuck on
A/B testing instead of multivariate analysis.[1] Does anyone know?
In any case, modern multivariate analysis depends on principal
component analysis[2] (PCA) and it really does work great. I have been
told for years that it is
Wikimedia is one of the ten organizations selected to participate in
Google Code-in 2013! This means that on November 18 we will start having
hundreds of 13-17 year old students looking at Wikimedia tech tasks to
be completed.
The announcement:
Woohoo! Everybody prepare your bugs and feature reqs for bite-sized work
units!
-- brion
On Friday, November 1, 2013, Quim Gil wrote:
Wikimedia is one of the ten organizations selected to participate in
Google Code-in 2013! This means that on November 18 we will start having
hundreds of
I've been thinking of having the Wikidata mobile skin use CSS3 animations
instead of jQuery and adding a two column layout for tablets.
I think this shouldn't take more than a few hours each and I'm pretty sure
I'm capable enough to help students along if they'd like to pick this task
up. Is this
Hi Pragun, I'm very happy to see you around and posting.
On 11/01/2013 10:27 AM, Pragun Bhutani wrote:
I've been thinking of having the Wikidata mobile skin use CSS3 animations
instead of jQuery and adding a two column layout for tablets.
I think this shouldn't take more than a few hours each
Hi,
I'm currently working on the Memento Extension for Mediawiki, as announced
earlier today by Herbert Van de Sompel.
The goal of this extension is to work with the Memento framework, which
attempts to display web pages as they appeared at a given date and time in the
past.
Our goal is for
On 10/31/2013 10:57 AM, Greg Grossmeier wrote:
Also good reading on the topic, from one of the main authors of Opus
(the best audio codec available, and it happens to be big F Free) and
long time Wikipedian Greg Maxwell:
http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/571978/3226db9ce394bf07/
Thanks, that was
On 10/31/2013 08:02 AM, Lukas Benedix wrote:
Maybe you want to read this article:
http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/61927.html
lbenedix
Thanks for the pointer. I somewhat understand where he is coming from.
However, it is still disappointing. Open source projects get licensed
(if partial
On 10/31/2013 05:26 AM, Brion Vibber wrote:
We're churning through some internal discussion with legal on if and how
how this affects our potential options...
Note that the specific thing announced there doesn't include a licensed AAC
*audio* codec which would be required to generate audio and
On 10/26/2013 06:57 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote:
Hi folks,
Here's the RFCs that have the most interest expressed on the
Architecture Summit invite page[1]:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/TitleValue
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Configuration_database
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote:
I would suggest not discussing Deprecating inline styles.
I actually think it should be closed [1]
Can we discuss this one [2] instead ?
[1]
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Scheduled proposed:
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 at 10:00 PM UTC
(2:00 PM in SF, Thu 9:00 AM in Sidney)
On 11/01/2013 12:06 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
WE NEED PEOPLE PROPOSING TASKS
Even if you can't mentor a specific task we still want to know about it.
All we need is a bug report with
gci2013 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In#Candidate_tasks
This is great. I will not be mentoring this
Hi, I responded inline.
On 11/1/13, Shawn Jones sj...@cs.odu.edu wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently working on the Memento Extension for Mediawiki, as announced
earlier today by Herbert Van de Sompel.
The goal of this extension is to work with the Memento framework, which
attempts to display web
On 11/1/13, Marcin Cieslak sa...@saper.info wrote:
I'm not in a position to give you a full answer, but what I would
do I would try to see if I can setup a MediaWiki with $wgInstantCommons =
true
and see how I can make ForeignAPIRepo to fetch older revisions
from Wikimedia via API. Then we
Here's your deploy highlights for next week:
Full schedule for the next two weeks here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Next_2_weeks
== Monday ==
* MediaWiki 1.23wmf2 will be deployed to remaining test wikis
(mediawiki.org, loginwiki, and test.wikidata.org)
** If the above goes
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I responded inline.
On 11/1/13, Shawn Jones sj...@cs.odu.edu wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently working on the Memento Extension for Mediawiki, as
announced
earlier today by Herbert Van de Sompel.
The goal of this
Hi,
No responses to your specific questions, but just to mention I worked some
years ago on an extension [1] aiming at retrieving the
as-exact-as-possible display of the page at a given past datetime, because
the current implementation of oldid is only past wikitext with current
context
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