Re: [Wikitech-l] What's the best place to do post-upload processing on a file? Etc.

2012-05-09 Thread emw
04:58 AM, emw wrote: Hi all, For a MediaWiki extension I'm working on (see http://lists.wikimedia.org/**pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-** April/060254.htmlhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-April/060254.html), an effectively plain-text file will need to be converted into a static

[Wikitech-l] What's the best place to do post-upload processing on a file? Etc.

2012-05-04 Thread emw
Hi all, For a MediaWiki extension I'm working on (see http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-April/060254.html), an effectively plain-text file will need to be converted into a static image. I've got a set of scripts that does that, but it takes my medium-grade consumer laptop about

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developing MediaWiki extension for WebGL-enabled interactive 3D models

2012-04-22 Thread emw
Thanks for the feedback Platonides. Would requiring Python, GIMP and PyMOL to be installed on the server be workable for a WMF MediaWiki deployment? Not ideal, but is probably workable. Still much better than relying (and potentially DDOSing) on a third party. If you could drop GIMP

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developing MediaWiki extension for WebGL-enabled interactive 3D models

2012-04-22 Thread emw
suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 04/21/2012 08:07 AM, emw wrote: Hi all, I'm in the process of developing a media handling extension for MediaWiki that will allow users with WebGL-enabled browsers to manipulate 3D models of large biological molecules, like proteins and DNA. I'm new

[Wikitech-l] Developing MediaWiki extension for WebGL-enabled interactive 3D models

2012-04-21 Thread emw
Hi all, I'm in the process of developing a media handling extension for MediaWiki that will allow users with WebGL-enabled browsers to manipulate 3D models of large biological molecules, like proteins and DNA. I'm new to MediaWiki development, and I've got some questions about how I should go

Re: [Wikitech-l] State of page view stats

2011-08-12 Thread Emw
Anyway, I don't say that the project is impossible or unnecessary, but there're lots of tradeoffs to be made - what kind of real time querying workloads are to be expected, what kind of pre-filtering do people expect, etc. I could be biased here, but I think the canonical use case for someone

Re: [Wikitech-l] State of page view stats

2011-08-11 Thread Emw
I'd be willing to work on this on a volunteer basis. I developed http://toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/, a page view analysis tool that incorporates lots of features that have been requested of Henrik's tool. The main bottleneck has been that, like MZMcBride mentions, an underlying database