On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 5:19 PM David Barratt wrote:
> However, there will have to be a significant number of major changes before
> that can be a reality.
>
Which kind of changes?
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In general I would prefer to keep vulgar language out of the projects, as
it doesn't bring anything positive.
Research shows that swearing causes stress [1], and there are many ways of
showing dissatisfaction without using coarse language.
For instance, I would appreciate if there would be more in
a meeting held under the Chatham House Rule, anyone who comes to the
> meeting is free to use information from the discussion, but is not allowed
> to reveal who made any comment. It is designed to increase openness of
> discussion." See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_
@Nemo: It could be that the priority change was not seen as aggressive, and
probably it was not initially as we have the "be bold" tradition. However,
that changes as the issue heats up and becomes an edit war. In this case it
didn't get to that point (less than 3 reverts, although the reverts migh
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 9:38 AM Stas Malyshev
wrote:
> Wouldn't it be easy to just log out and read any task (or even use
> incognito mode/private browsing in the browser)? It is certainly a small
> inconvenience, but I am not sure how it is very important, given a very
> simple workaround.
Su
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 7:26 AM Federico Leva (Nemo)
wrote:
> Pointing out trollish brehaviour is positive help for self-correction.
>
What you call "trollish behaviour" is to "provoke others (chiefly on the
Internet) for their own personal amusement or to cause disruption". Unless
there is soli
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 12:08 PM, Andre Klapper
wrote:
> The source website is linked from the date header.
>
I'm aware of that, but in my opinion that is not visible enough.
> That's a question for the blog maintainers that you could file at
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/
Hi Daniel,
I like the new design, however I am missing some information about the
source of each post. Would it be possible to add the source website to each
post?
And another more general question I have is, could the Planet be linked
from the Wikimedia blog? I feel that it is quite hidden now,
Hi Adam,
Thanks for your well-intentioned letter. Do you know about Wikidata and the
recent developments to support machine-readable Lexicographical data? I
would like to invite you to take a look at:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data
The system is still at its early sta
Hi Daniel,
The usual procedure is explained here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_account_creation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Mass_account_creation
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Six-account_limit
Normally to request a temporary lift of the IP cap, they shou
wrote:
> Micru, thanks, I think Datasets sounds like a good name too!
>
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:44 PM David Cuenca Tudela
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <
> > bjor...@wikimedia.org
> > > wrote:
> >
> >
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Yuri Astrakhan
> wrote:
>
> > Gift season! We have launched structured data on Commons, available from
> > all wikis.
> >
>
> I was momentarily excited, then I read a little farther and discovered thi
I also find that it is quite hidden, wouldn't it be better to show it by
default? As it is now there is no hint that the link will open the graph.
Cheers,
Micru
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Yuri Astrakhan
wrote:
> he.wiki has already enabled it by inserting Graph:PageViews template into
> t
Amir,
First of all a big thank you as a speaker of Catalan and fervent advocate
of minoritary languages.
OTOH, I would like to bring awareness to the topic of translation engine.
Apertium is no longer supported as a GsoC project, I guess the project will
keep alive but it worries me that downstre
It seems that the "Visual Editor age" can now be entered fully :)
Looking forward to the Wikisource adaptation of Visual Editor!
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 9:34 PM, rupert THURNER
wrote:
> Fantastic, many thanks to all involved!!
> On Mar 20, 2015 1:15 AM, "Gabriel Wicke" wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
> Tagging describes Phabricator projects a lot better than nesting. In
> Phabricator, projects are tags and tags are projects. This means that even
> if the "subproject" concept is officially missing today, you can organize
> your work in a similar
Wouldn't be better to have nested projects? GsoC might need a project per
year with subprojects for each student to manage their task, is project
nesting possible on Phabricator?
And what about sister projects? Will each one have a project?
Thanks
Micru
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Quim Gil
After reading your blog post, I must agree with this:
"And I'd like to [...] exclude destructive communication from my life (yes,
there's some amount of burnout on toxic people and entitlement)."
I wish that in your new environment you find a better environment to grow
professionally with less att
Feedback in a Spanish social news aggregator
http://www.meneame.net/story/wikimedia-pone-prueba-prototipo-diseno-wikipedia
Some relevant comments:
- "Brandon is one of the most brilliant persons I ever met, and he brings
us the interface of the future Wikipedia"
- "thanks to this I discovered that
: July 15, 2014 at 14:32:19
> To: Wikimedia developers >
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] "Not logged in" page
>
> Yes someone please submit a patch and I will help us get a fix for this
> merged.
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński
> wrot
I like it and I hope it gets to the point where it can be deployed as beta.
And that right panel looks a perfect place for users to place some gadgets
of their choice. That would be wonderful!
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Trevor Parscal
wrote:
> I want to suggest that we give Brandon a lo
Sometimes while not logged in I try to access my Watchlist and then the
"Not logged in" page appears. It is quite useless since then you have to
click again to go to the "Log in" page. Wouldn't it be better to just
redirect to the "log in" page instead of showing that dumb "Not logged in"
page?
Or
Hi Sumana,
I hope you are well and getting ready for wikimania? :)
There is this rfc on mediawiki that I did everything possible to promote,
to gather feedback from 3rd parties, etc. but now it is all done. From this
point on I cannot bring it any further.
What to do in this cases? Mark it as cl
I guess that could be the future DDH?
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Data_%26_Developer_Hub
Or perhaps the list of GsoC projects?
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_past_projects
Micru
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 7:39 AM, ENWP Pine wrote:
> Hi, a few of us had an offline discuss
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Andrew Gray wrote:
> Definitely agree that we needed something like this. There's a lot of
> confusion about what Wikidata is for, and what is and isn't appropriate for
> it - both from outsiders and from within the Wikimedia community. I've seen
> vague "it's dat
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Dan Andreescu wrote:
> I like Visual:, any +1s? +2s?
>
I give it a +0.5 :) I also like "Render" but its meaning has become too
attached to 3d graphics...
Anyhow if we have a "Visual" and a "VisualData" namespace, they could be
associated to each other:
https://www
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Cristian Consonni
wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer, "How can I put this open data on Wikidata is a
> question that I have been asked many times", this page was needed.
>
Thanks for your comment!
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
> Thanks Mic
Hi,
During the Zürich Hackathon I met several people that looked for solutions
about how to integrate external open datasets into our projects (mainly
Wikipedia, Wikidata). Since Wikidata is not the right tool to manage them
(reasons explained in the RFC as discussed during the Wikidata session),
As a continuation to the community wish expressed last year to start a
musical score transcription project [1], I'm investigating what is needed
to make it happen.
The biggest hurdle seems to be how to separate content from layout. On the
one hand users should be able to define which part to work
I hope that you can reserve some interesting topics for people who arrive
on Fri night/Sat morning :)
Thanks!
Micru
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 3:59 AM, Quim Gil wrote:
> Wikimedia Hackathon participants, please have a look at
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Zürich_Hackathon_2014/Schedule
>
> It
Hi,
Thanks to all who have submitted their comments on the proposed page
namespace association handling and the necessary database schemas:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Associated_namespaces
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Associated_namespaces/Database_s
Hi Sumana,
Thanks for moving the RFC forward! I hope some MW experts can join and
provide their very necessary advice!
Cheers,
Micru
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> Micru's Associated namespaces RfC is up for discussion this week.
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/
Oh, so you mean: "Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion"
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9890
It has been 7 years open maybe some day...
Micru
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Eugene Zelenko wrote:
> Hi, Micru!
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:13 AM,
Hi Eugene,
you already can upload scores to Commons and transcribe them on Wikisource
as agreed on this RFC
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Musical_score_transcription_project_proposal
Thanks,
Micru
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Eugene Zelenko wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I think wi
Hi,
I have started drafting a RFC to associate namespaces:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Associated_namespaces
Comments and proposals are very much appreciated.
Cheers,
Micru
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t; It works for me.
> >
> > On Monday, March 17, 2014, David Cuenca wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > When I type "bach" on the top right en.wp search box, I only have the
> > > option to select "Bach" from the list. This optio
Hi,
When I type "bach" on the top right en.wp search box, I only have the
option to select "Bach" from the list. This option however takes me to
"Bạch" (with a dot under the "a").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%E1%BA%A1ch
However when I type the url I'm taken to the right article
https://en.wiki
Hi Inderpreet,
Welcome and thanks for reaching out, there is definitely the need of a 3d
viewer for mediawiki and brl-cad could add some of the needed features.
Probably you could contact Bryan Davis, since he offered himself as GsoC
mentor for such a project:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentor
s for sharing. Do you think it would be worthwhile to add OAuth to the
list?
Cheers,
Micru
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
> On 08/21/2013 08:35 AM, Mark wrote:
>
>> On 8/16/13 11:48 AM, David Cuenca wrote:
>>
>>> A manual system where a group of
;t help to use "percentages".
>
> Best I know of is dimension reduction and measuring path length, but
> that too fail for some combos of vandalism/reverts.
>
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 5:08 PM, David Cuenca wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:58 AM, John Erling
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:58 AM, John Erling Blad wrote:
> We don't use votes... ;)
>
I think Lydia was referring to the votes on the bugzilla bug page, 14 votes
so far :)
>
> If we forget about the implementation of badges and discuss the
> contributions; there are no single correct way to w
In Wikidata there is an open bug to implement badges (see email below by
Lydia), with the open question if this should be handled by the Mediawiki
software itself or in some other way. "Template: Link FA" and
"Template:Link GA" is the system currently used in all Wikipedias [1]
In addition to this
that I put on
> twitter during Wikimania:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=D8pwr-Uizf4<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8pwr-Uizf4>
>
> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:04:44 -0400
>> From: David Cuenca
>> To: Wikimedia developers
>>
>> >
>>
>&
I think this is going to be great news for WorkingWiki
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WorkingWiki
Cheers,
Micru
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Greg Grossmeier wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I made a new debian package, which resolves the security issues you
> > mentioned.
> > It is availa
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:39 AM, C. Scott Ananian
wrote:
> My main point was just that there is a chicken-and-egg problem here. You
> assume that machine translation can't work because we don't have enough
> parallel texts. But, to the extent that machine-aided translation of WP is
> successful
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:30 PM, C. Scott Ananian
wrote:
> This statement seems rather defeatist to me. Step one of a machine
> translation effort should be to provide tools to annotate parallel texts in
> the various wikis, and to edit and maintain their parallelism.
Scott, "edit and maintain
After Erik's email about supporting open source machine translation [1],
I've been researching options and having talks with several machine
translation researchers about what would be the best way to integrate MT
into Wikipedia. Unfortunately I couldn't find a single solution that, on
its own, wou
Dan,
Great move with the extension, I think it as good way to integrate the GWT
into Commons. I would like to make you aware of this proposal to move
Commons towards linked data:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata_for_media_info
Obviously this move would simplify the work for you
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:34 AM, John Erling Blad wrote:
> There are good reasons why users want to turn off VE and the most
> important reason are not what most people in the thread seems to
> think. Users that have learned to use a crappy direct editing user
> interface tend to be faster on usi
I'm glad that Tim is bringing some facts and numbers that back up what the
community is demanding.
To do otherwise will be to play tug-of-war which will lead to an even worse
outcome.
Besides of enabling the preference, a good approach would be to activate or
deactivate that preference depending o
Good idea, it could also help to know which are the links more used in a
disambiguation page to sort them by importance.
Micru
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Nicolas Vervelle wrote:
> Interesting idea...
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Jon Robson wrote:
>
> > I understand there is an
Nice design! Will it work across projects?
Micru
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Brandon Harris wrote:
>
> Those are messages in which the reader has been "mentioned".
>
>
>
> On Jul 14, 2013, at 1:12 AM, Aarti K. Dwivedi
> wrote:
>
> > Some usernames have a leading @ before their mess
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Mathieu Stumpf <
psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote:
> Oh, I wasn't aware of this wikisource specificity? Is that related to a
central djvu repository?
No, it is only related to the existence of a central project. However Matt
Flaschen says that mediawiki.org coul
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Mathieu Stumpf <
psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote:
> Interesting, but why make a central code repository only for
> Wikisource ?
There are several reasons for this.
- trying to support all projects at once might be too much for a grantee to
do in 3 months.
-
. This could be the first experiment of having a
centralized repository of modules.
What do you think of this? Would be anyone available to mentor an Outreach
Program for Women project?
Thanks,
David Cuenca --Micru
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On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:33 AM, David Cuenca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At ca-ws we have started creating musical scores and we have found out
> that when transcluding two pages into one, it is only possible to generate
>
Hi Brandon,
Thanks for the announce and also for the effort of letting the door open
for suggestions and feedback. I regard "Flow" as an excellent tool for
centralizing all communications in one spot and I really hope user
involvement is as high as this tool would deserve. So far the test page
loo
Hi,
At ca-ws we have started creating musical scores and we have found out that
when transcluding two pages into one, it is only possible to generate two
independent audio files instead of one with the whole score.
Example with two pages
http://ca.wikisource.org/wiki/P%C3%A0gina%3A30_can%C3%A7ons
Excellent news! Congratulations to everyone involved!
Cheers,
David
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Parth Srivastav
wrote:
> Hi Quim
>
> Great news, Congrats to the entire team
>
>
> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Rahul Maliakkal >wrote:
>
> > Hi Quim
> >
> > Great News, Youve struck Gold. Che
Brion,
Have you checked if Vexflow renders svg properly on you Macbook/Ubuntu?
Maybe you can get some ideas from its code.
http://vexflow.com/
Thanks for working on this,
David --Micru
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> I've done a little weekend hacking experimenting with ad
Hi Anthony,
Your proposal seems quite suitable to annotate texts in Wikisource, since
the text is constant and you will not have problems using the highlighted
text as anchor.
Another participant has suggested storing the annotation as JSON in a new
namespace "Annotation:", I think there is a plug
Hi Mathieu, hi James,
There is this GsoC proposal that plans to explore the integration of an
annotation system in Mediawiki:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rjain/Proposal-Prototyping-inline-comments
The idea is to see how well and in which ways the OKFN Annotator could be
deployed:
http://o
I have started a page in Meta to discuss the options of either creating a
Wikisource version dedicated to musical scores or an independent project
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Musical_score_transcription_project_proposal
Micru
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:34 AM, John Vandenbe
Dear all,
I have started a new RFC with some proposals for the interproject links and
you can add more if you want.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Interproject_links_interface
It has been a long standing issue and one of the most voted enhancements in
Bugzilla
https://bugzil
This is really amazing! Specially for Wikisource :-)
Is multi-page score transclusion with "Extension:Proofread page" able to
generate a global midi/score file or each page has to be treated as an
independent entity?
Micru
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Antoine Musso wrote:
> Le 23/04/13 04:
Hi Cheng,
As you say there are many recommendation systems, some of them already work
or used to work with wikipedia (like StumbleThru) or just to find
interesting articles (like reddit.com/r/wikipedia ).
In my opinion those systems are better developed externally because if not
done right, they c
Hi there,
I'm trying to find the Special:ActiveUsers page that used to show activity
statistics.
Where did it go? Has it been replaced by something better?
Thanks,
Micru
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Hi!
I'm looking for a co-mentor for this project:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Merge_proofread_text_back_into_Djvu_files
There is already someone that would be giving guidance on Tesseract OCR,
now I'm looking for a second mentor to advise on Mediawiki issu
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