[Wikitech-l] Proposal regarding norms for meeting/deadline announcements

2018-10-15 Thread Pine W
Hi Wikimedia-l and Wikitech-l, Keeping in mind the large numbers of subscribers on some Wikimedia email lists, the endless valuable uses for the time of knowledgeable volunteer Wikimedians, the significant financial costs for the time of many of the staff and contractors on these mailing lists,

Re: [Wikitech-l] How much data can we plan to upload on Wikidata infrastructure? [Was: Fwd: Re: [wikidata] [glam] [Toulouse] Projet de partenariat CNES]

2018-10-15 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 15.10.2018 um 12:45 schrieb Eran Rosenthal: > I'm not sure Wikidata/Wikibase is the right platform for real-time/near > real time data or such raw data from sensors. Indeed. This is a very common misunderstanding. I wonder how it can be avoided. Perhaps it would help to present Wikidata more

[Wikitech-l] Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting

2018-10-15 Thread Michael Schönitzer
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English & German. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all

Re: [Wikitech-l] non-obvious uses of in your language

2018-10-15 Thread Trey Jones
Thanks for the technical details, Bartosz! One would hope (but should confirm) that link prefixes are treated with the same basic logic as link postfixes/trails, so assuming pre- and post-link trails are enabled, "pre[[target]]post" is all linked, but "pre[[target|linktext]]post" is only linked

[Wikitech-l] RFC Discussion Reminder - Tomorrow: RfC: Release notes automation

2018-10-15 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, A reminder that TechCom is hosting an IRC meeting tomorrow (Tuesday 16 October) on: RfC: Release notes automation This RFC proposes a workflow to automate the creation of the release notes. The proposed method is to declare the release notes in

Re: [Wikitech-l] non-obvious uses of in your language

2018-10-15 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On 2018-10-15 16:34, Trey Jones wrote: I'm not sure how much impact it would have on existing link specifications to make the change, but I think MGChecker has a good solution. The "[[target|linktext]]extra" format allows you to specify exactly what part of the text should have a link, while

Re: [Wikitech-l] How much data can we plan to upload on Wikidata infrastructure? [Was: Fwd: Re: [wikidata] [glam] [Toulouse] Projet de partenariat CNES]

2018-10-15 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 12:46 PM Eran Rosenthal wrote: > I'm not sure Wikidata/Wikibase is the right platform for real-time/near > real time data or such raw data from sensors. > > Dependening on the usage I think the following should be considered: > * What resultion (time resolution/spatial

Re: [Wikitech-l] non-obvious uses of in your language

2018-10-15 Thread Trey Jones
I'm not sure how much impact it would have on existing link specifications to make the change, but I think MGChecker has a good solution. The "[[target|linktext]]extra" format allows you to specify exactly what part of the text should have a link, while "[[target]]extra" would be understood as a

Re: [Wikitech-l] How much data can we plan to upload on Wikidata infrastructure? [Was: Fwd: Re: [wikidata] [glam] [Toulouse] Projet de partenariat CNES]

2018-10-15 Thread Eran Rosenthal
I'm not sure Wikidata/Wikibase is the right platform for real-time/near real time data or such raw data from sensors. Dependening on the usage I think the following should be considered: * What resultion (time resolution/spatial resolution) is really needed for readers? (Probably averaging/down

[Wikitech-l] How much data can we plan to upload on Wikidata infrastructure? [Was: Fwd: Re: [wikidata] [glam] [Toulouse] Projet de partenariat CNES]

2018-10-15 Thread Mathieu Lovato Stumpf Guntz
Hello, That might not be the most appropriate canal for this question, but I didn't have a better idea, so please let me know if you have better suggestion for my future demands. So, if you read French you can read the thread bellow, but basically to give some context to my question, we are

[Wikitech-l] Extension test failures on PHP 7.2

2018-10-15 Thread Kunal Mehta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, On 10/8/18 7:43 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 9:04 AM Kunal Mehta > wrote: >> In preparation for Wikimedia production switching to PHP 7.2, we >> need to get CI running using 7.2 (and for the rest of the >> MediaWiki world