Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki core has reached to its 400th contributor

2017-02-09 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
https://www.openhub.net/p/mediawiki tends to be more accurate (people at least can easily de-duplicate email addresses etc.) and says 700+. Do help https://www.openhub.net/orgs/wikimedia by adding more repositories and claiming more email address/commit IDs for yourself. :) Nemo

[Wikitech-l] Video transcode prioritization changes in progress

2017-02-09 Thread Brion Vibber
We're in progress of deploying a small change to the video scalers[1], which should improve availability of newly uploaded video and audio files. The queue will now be split in two, one which covers low-resolution conversions for relatively short files, and one which covers long files and high-res

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners [including non-techies!]

2017-02-09 Thread Rachel Farrand
Reminder! This talk starts in 1 hour! On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 4:35 PM, Rachel Farrand wrote: > Please join for the following talk: > > *Tech Talk**:* A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners > [including non-techies!] > *Presenter:* Asaf Bartov > *Date:* February 09, 2017 > *Time:

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikivideo-l] Video transcode prioritization changes in progress

2017-02-09 Thread Brion Vibber
Ok, the video scaler queue change is now live: SD and low-resolution video output runs on a new, high-priority queue, with HD video output and transcodes of files over 15 minutes in length run on the old queue. Note that existing queued conversions will continue to run on the low-priority queue un

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikivideo-l] Video transcode prioritization changes in progress

2017-02-09 Thread Brion Vibber
Quick update -- I tested some batch-reencoding of missing low-res files and have flooded the high-priority queue. :) Thanks for your patience as we get the balance right. I'll add a throttle to TimedMediaHandler's requeueTranscodes.php so I can "fire-and-forget" on the background jobs without dist

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikivideo-l] Video transcode prioritization changes in progress

2017-02-09 Thread James Hare
Should people refrain from uploading videos at this time? On February 9, 2017 at 5:01:51 PM, Brion Vibber (bvib...@wikimedia.org) wrote: Quick update -- I tested some batch-reencoding of missing low-res files and have flooded the high-priority queue. :) Thanks for your patience as we get the bal

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikivideo-l] Video transcode prioritization changes in progress

2017-02-09 Thread Brion Vibber
Looks like the high-prio queue is back to normal, all is well. :) Please continue uploading. -- brion On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 5:02 PM, James Hare wrote: > Should people refrain from uploading videos at this time? > > > On February 9, 2017 at 5:01:51 PM, Brion Vibber (bvib...@wikimedia.org) > wro

[Wikitech-l] Multilingual maps: how to pick each feature language?

2017-02-09 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
TLDR: if browsing a map for French wiki, and a city only has a Russian and Chinese name, which one should be shown? Should the city name have different rules from a store or a street name? ... I have been hacking to add unlimited multilingual support to Wikipedia maps, and have language fallback q

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners [including non-techies!]

2017-02-09 Thread Asaf Bartov
Here's the (3-hour) footage of the detailed Wikidata tutorial delivered today: on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Gentle_Introduction_to_Wikidata_for_Absolute_Beginners_(including_non-techies!).webm on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVrAx3AmUvA the slides: https://co