On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 3:27 PM, quiddity pandiculat...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
As far as i can tell, the arguments (on enwiki) usually boil down to:
*providing a share this link is a tacit endorsement/free advertisement of a
Max Semenik schreef op 2015/01/09 om 16:41:
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Kevin Wayne Williams
kwwilli...@kwwilliams.com wrote:
Not sure where to reply to a top-post to a bottom posted thread, so I will
shoot for the middle and hope people can keep track of this knot. Your
counterexample
On 9 January 2015 at 15:26, Jared Zimmerman jared.zimmer...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
I'd be really interested knowing how our inbound referral traffic from
social sites differs from that from inbound traffic to social and news
sites from social referral traffic. When we talk about reader decline,
I'd be really interested knowing how our inbound referral traffic from
social sites differs from that from inbound traffic to social and news
sites from social referral traffic. When we talk about reader decline, we
rarely talk about how much a small increase in social referrals could
offset that.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
As far as i can tell, the arguments (on enwiki) usually boil down to:
*providing a share this link is a tacit endorsement/free advertisement of a
website we dont like. Selecting who to show could present neutrality
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Kevin Wayne Williams
kwwilli...@kwwilliams.com wrote:
Not sure where to reply to a top-post to a bottom posted thread, so I will
shoot for the middle and hope people can keep track of this knot. Your
counterexample (which can be manually done today, so I've got
When ContentHandler support was added to MediaWiki in 2012, the content
type and content model of a revision is stored with it. However, the DB
tables for WMF wikis did not have the new columns, so
$wgContentHandlerUseDB was set to false on our wikis.
Eventually the database jobs to add and
On 9 January 2015 at 07:48, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu Jan 08 2015 at 8:40:05 PM Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com
wrote:
How should we go about migrating extensions? I've come up with a few
different ideas:
1. Package the extension registration code into an
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote:
(Personally i think the tipping for commits is an interesting idea.
Although tiping for bugs would seem better as those are concrete issues
where a commit could be anything.
From tipping to bounties and even internships,
Website garnering registrations by donating few cents of dollar for
each merged commit. They started a while ago but looks like it's
expanding. Just FYI in case you've not received one yet.
Nemo
Messaggio inoltrato
Oggetto:You received a tip for your commit
Data:
Yes.
1. penny-shavings for commits sets up terrible motivations.
2. these people are claiming money in developers' names without permission.
3. there's no evidence the whole thing isn't the scam it looks like.
On 9 January 2015 at 08:18, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
Link for those
Link for those interested:
http://prime4commit.com/projects/208
I really dislike these kinds of sites. It’d be one thing if it was just
donations, but developers can claim their tips and basically get paid for each
commit, and it rubs me the wrong way gameifying our volunteer community like
Hi,
On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 18:51 +0100, Jefsey wrote:
I have loaded 1.23 in /wiki
I have symlinked it in my /home/wiki-site/www directories.
It works without problem. However, when I try
That sounds like a problem with configuring MediaWiki and better suited
for
Currently our approach on social media is that Social media websites
aren't useful for spreading news and reaching out to potential users and
contributors. [1] I challenge this though. Is it really true? Twitter
has 254 million active monthly users, with 500 million tweets sent per day
[2],
On Thu Jan 08 2015 at 8:40:05 PM Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi!
Tim merged my patch[1] which implements the extension registration RfC[2].
For extensions (and skins!) to use this they need to be converted to
have extension.json (or skin.json) files. A maintenance script,
Running several wiki farms with central code repositories I know this.
The fix is to set the environment variable MW_INSTALL_PATH, eg.:
/home/wiki-site/www/wikifoo $ MW_INSTALL_PATH=$(pwd) php maintenance/update.php
--quick
/Manuel
Am 09.01.2015 18:22 schrieb Andre Klapper
Il 09/01/2015 20:59, Strainu ha scritto:
2015-01-09 21:24 GMT+02:00 Rob Moen rm...@wikimedia.org:
Currently our approach on social media is that Social media websites
aren't useful for spreading news and reaching out to potential users and
contributors. [1]
Actually, this seems like vandalism.
On 2015-01-09 11:59 AM, Strainu wrote:
2015-01-09 21:24 GMT+02:00 Rob Moen rm...@wikimedia.org:
Currently our approach on social media is that Social media websites
aren't useful for spreading news and reaching out to potential users and
contributors. [1]
Actually, this seems like vandalism.
I would like to see more social media features in mediawiki. You can
flame me off-list, I'm just registering an opinion.
I think we also need to maintain our core competency -- WMF should not
be building a twitter or facebook or google plus clone, clearly. But
social features built around the
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote:
There is indeed a mighty debate about this. When we discussed the simple
idea of a WikiShare extension to post articles on social media sites - it
raised a hell storm that I still have war flashbacks from.
I'm
2015-01-09 21:24 GMT+02:00 Rob Moen rm...@wikimedia.org:
Currently our approach on social media is that Social media websites
aren't useful for spreading news and reaching out to potential users and
contributors. [1]
Actually, this seems like vandalism. See [5] for (what I believe to
be) the
In my opinion, we've been at odds with social media because...
1. social media contributions are rarely the kinds of contributions we
desire and;
2. social media websites often operate in ways that conflict with our
values and;
3. social media behaviors are not often seen has
I'd say: hit social media! Make MediaWiki and Wikimedia look like a
*happening place*.
Everyone [*] who runs PHP is looking seriously at HHVM right now, and
that's entirely because WMF moved to it.
The Phabricator migration made it to lwn.net, which is low-traffic but
high-quality.
Basically,
And if we're digging in the history, let's also publicly shame the
culprit, User:DroneOfTheWiki:
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Social_mediadiff=1041046oldid=1038651
Strainu
2015-01-09 21:59 GMT+02:00 Strainu strain...@gmail.com:
2015-01-09 21:24 GMT+02:00 Rob Moen
On Jan 9, 2015 3:24 PM, Rob Moen rm...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Currently our approach on social media is that Social media websites
aren't useful for spreading news and reaching out to potential users and
contributors. [1] I challenge this though. Is it really true? Twitter
has 254 million
Brian Wolff schreef op 2015/01/09 om 15:17:
I think its important to separate two types of social media interaction:
*allowing people to post their favourite article (share this links)
*meta level interaction (stuff about the community)
Nobody objects to the second afaik. The first is like
As always, if there is a way to do something, there will be a way to abuse
it. Remember when we enabled IPv6 support some people started moaning that
new style IPs are vandalising even though the rate of vandalism wasn't
different between IPv4 and IPv6 anons? This is the same situation: to your
If you're interested, the Wikipedia app has functionality which lets you
share interesting snippets of articles to the social medium of your choice.
We have special Tweet a Fact functionality in alpha on Android; when you
highlight text in the app, and you tap the little chat bubble in the menu,
Max Semenik schreef op 2015/01/09 om 16:01:
As always, if there is a way to do something, there will be a way to abuse
it. Remember when we enabled IPv6 support some people started moaning that
new style IPs are vandalising even though the rate of vandalism wasn't
different between IPv4 and IPv6
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_January_12th
A quick list of notable items...
== All Week ==
* HHVM will be
On 15-01-09 03:19 PM, Trevor Parscal wrote:
3. social media behaviors are not often seen has helpful to our mission.
That's a near-universal attitude amongst old hands; and has spawned a
number of We are not Facebook meme and a great deal of knee-jerk
reaction to any feature that can
There is indeed a mighty debate about this. When we discussed the simple
idea of a WikiShare extension to post articles on social media sites - it
raised a hell storm that I still have war flashbacks from.
Personally, I think the arguments against at least the ability to easily
share articles on
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote:
@Prateek I've made a few improvements you may want to import.
Thanks Timo!
Done!
https://github.com/prtksxna/persistent-toc/commit/fe0a0653b56e7a4e3c9f025c32359942e0f22f54
Moved the script to Github for easier patching.
On Fri Jan 09 2015 at 12:10:39 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com
wrote:
Website garnering registrations by donating few cents of dollar for
each merged commit. They started a while ago but looks like it's
expanding. Just FYI in case you've not received one yet.
Nemo
Keep calm,
Your current balance is 0.11 XPM.
Woo, a whole eighth of a cent (USD). Soon you'll be able to buy a little
pseudo-brass token, then a private floating island!
(Personally i think the tipping for commits is an interesting idea.
Although tiping for bugs would seem better as those are concrete
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