Re: [Wikitech-l] Do we have any data in wikidata / wiktionary that could be used for mechanic translations?

2014-05-23 Thread Kristian Kankainen
There exists more free and openly accessible parallell texts beside the EU ones. One bigger project is OPUS[1], which contains free software translations and subtitles for example. Another kind of text that is suitable for statistical machine translation is comparable texts. They are texts

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.23.0-rc.2 release candidate is out

2014-05-23 Thread Markus Glaser
The second release candidate for 1.23.0 (1.23.0-rc.2) is now available for download. The changes since 1.23.0-rc.1 are as follows: * (bug 56269) Avoid uncommitted transaction notices in thumb.php and img_auth.php. * (bug 52342) Preference Remember my login was removed. * (bug 65434) Vector:

[Wikitech-l] Page Language selector

2014-05-23 Thread Kunal Grover
Hi, I am working on developing the Page Content Language selector for core as a part of my GSoC project. Me and my mentors had some discussions and came up with these ideas. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SPQRobin/Page_language I would like to invite everyone give their ideas and/or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Page Language selector

2014-05-23 Thread Jeremy Baron
On May 23, 2014 11:09 AM, Kunal Grover kunalgrove...@gmail.com wrote: I am working on developing the Page Content Language selector for core as a part of my GSoC project. Me and my mentors had some discussions and came up with these ideas.

[Wikitech-l] Roadmap and deployment updates - Week of May 26th

2014-05-23 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap and Deployment update. The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_May_26th A quick list of notable items... == Monday == * No planned deploys **

Re: [Wikitech-l] FlaggedRevs gone from mediawiki.org

2014-05-23 Thread Steven Walling
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: I've just undone the mistake I made almost 5 years ago getting FlaggedRevs turned on for mw.org with no consensus[0]. The average review time was 58 days. There were over 50 pages pending review (I didn't bother paging)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming jQuery upgrade (breaking change)

2014-05-23 Thread Krinkle
On 23 May 2014, at 03:11, Gergo Tisza gti...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: A rough timeline: * 12 May 2014 (1.24wmf4 [9]): Phase 1 – Instrumentation and logging starts. This will run for 4 weeks (until June 9). * 19 May 2014

[Wikitech-l] [RFC] Extension registration

2014-05-23 Thread Legoktm
Hi everyone, I've written an RfC about changing the way extensions store metadata about themselves and also how we load them. It's at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Extension_registration. A brief summary: Extensions register a lot of things, like classes, hooks,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Config class and 1.23

2014-05-23 Thread Legoktm
On 4/29/14, 1:56 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: Looks like we are still working on merging the Make abstract Config class truly implementation-agnostic changeset.[0] [0] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/109850/ The patch currently has three +1's (including myself) and one -1; it's just

[Wikitech-l] Short Wikimedia IRC downtime - Monday June 2nd at 17:00 UTC

2014-05-23 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Hello all, We have a short downtime planned for the Wikimedia IRC server coming in a couple weeks. This is irc.wikimedia.org, aka the IRC server that some bots follow as a recent changes feed. Why: We're moving the Wikimedia IRC service from the Tampa, FL datacenter to the Ashburn, VA