Re: [Wikitech-l] Adding a gadget to VisualEditor

2019-09-26 Thread Mukunda Modell
I have often thought of extending visual editor and found minimal documentation to get me started. Thanks for the pointers Marielle, and thanks Alain for starting the thread. Please let us know if you have any success, maybe this could be the beginning of some useful documentation around extending

Re: [Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2019-09-18

2019-09-26 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hi Máté, Sorry for the late reply! Am 20.09.19 um 14:13 schrieb Máté Szabó: > Hi Daniel, > > Thank you for the update. I was wondering, how does the new Front-end > Architecture Working Group relate to the existing Front-end Standards > Group?[1] Does it replace the previous group or do they

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2019-09-25

2019-09-26 Thread Alexandra Paskulin
Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Discussed: Strategy for PHP interface changes < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193613>. This RFC proposes policies and strategies to mitigate problems arising from the need to change PHP interfaces that are implemented by

Re: [Wikitech-l] Note: Contents of mw-config's InitialiseSettings has moved to VariantSettings

2019-09-26 Thread James Forrester
On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 at 10:09, James Forrester wrote: > If you don't write or deploy Wikimedia production config patches, you can > ignore this. > > This is a note to highlight a change, which will be obvious as soon as you > try to rebase a patch: the parts of configuration that vary per-wiki,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Neural nets, and Lua?

2019-09-26 Thread John Erling Blad
Forgot to say why this is important. Neural nets, especially recurrent neural nets (RNN), can do inflection and thus make reuse of Wikidata statements possible inside the text. A lot of languages have quite complex rules for inflection and agreement. An alternative to RNN is finite state transfer

[Wikitech-l] Neural nets, and Lua?

2019-09-26 Thread John Erling Blad
A project that could be really interesting is to make a Lua interface for some of the new neural nets, especially based on the Tsetlin-engine. Sounds nifty, but it is nothing more than a slight reformulation of an old learning algorithm (type early 70th), where the old algorithm has problem

[Wikitech-l] PDF preview missing (429 Error generating thumbnail)

2019-09-26 Thread Lars Aronsson
On September 16, ten days ago, I got a relapse and started to contribute to Wikisource again. I found some nice PDF files and uploaded them to Commons, a total of 81 issues of the official gazette of Finland from the winter 1878. I have since then been proofreading several pages from the first