[Wikitech-l] [Google Summer of Code 2019 / Outreachy Round 18] Call for projects and mentors!

Hello everyone, We are now recruiting projects to promote in Google Summer of Code 2019 and Outreachy Round 18! Both these programs have a similar timeline for the summer round. Accepted candidates will work with mentors from May to August 2019. Through both these programs, we bring new

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2018: Call for projects and mentors

Hello all, We are approaching towards the beginning of the student application period in two weeks time. If you have a project in mind that you would have the time and interest to mentor, please create a task on Wikimedia Phabricator and add a Google-Summer-of-Code-2018

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2018: Call for projects and mentors

Hello everyone, Wikimedia has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2018! We already have recruited six project ideas and mentors, but we are looking for a minimum of *14-15 ideas* more, as Google Summer of Code is a neat platform to bring new developers :)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code

Hi, On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 14:13 +0700, Arif Hidayat wrote: > I am Arif Hidayat from UIN Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau, Pekanbaru. I've learn > about cms. I so interest about developing cms especially mediawiki. > My favorite programming language is php but I can use java programming and > other

Re: [Wikitech-l] google summer of code

Hi Harisandy, Thanks for your early interest. Glad to hear you'd like to get involved! On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 14:31 +0700, Mhs TEKNIK INFORMATIKA Harisandy wrote: > I harisandy . student uin Suska Riau > I am a programmer at PT . Sela Express Tour , I have the ability in the > field of java

[Wikitech-l] google summer of code

I harisandy . student uin Suska Riau I am a programmer at PT . Sela Express Tour , I have the ability in the field of java desktop and CodeIgniter PHP framework , Yii , laravel . Here I am interested in several projects in the offer google , I hope google can respond to my request . thank you

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code

I am Arif Hidayat from UIN Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau, Pekanbaru. I've learn about cms. I so interest about developing cms especially mediawiki. My favorite programming language is php but I can use java programming and other component of website like css and js. I hope can submit my google summer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2016 and Outreachy results out, Congrats interns

On Sat, 2016-04-23 at 13:44 +0530, Tony Thomas wrote: > The best approach would be to open up a Conpherence with your mentors > ( I hope they appreciate it ), and asking the same. If you do not find any > lucky with that, kindly ping or add in the org-admins too, and we will > get this resolved.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2016 and Outreachy results out, Congrats interns

Congratulations to all the candidates selected -- and their mentors! Also an encouragement to all the candidates that worked hard but could not get an internship. Our statistics show that applicants going after a second round have a very high success rate. I also want to thank volunteer org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2016 and Outreachy results out, Congrats interns

Hello Aashaka, On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Aashaka Shah wrote: > I had also submitted a GSoC proposal for "Improving static analysis tools > for MediaWiki", but I suppose the better candidate got selected. What I > would like to know, for the next round of GSoC/

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2016 and Outreachy results out, Congrats interns

Congratulations to all selected interns! I had also submitted a GSoC proposal for "Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki", but I suppose the better candidate got selected. What I would like to know, for the next round of GSoC/ Outreachy is, how exactly was the better candidate decided?

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2016 and Outreachy results out, Congrats interns

Hello all, Google released the selects for GSoC 2016 yesterday, and Wikimedia is happy to welcome its 8 interns: 1. Accuracy Review of Wikipedia - Priyanka. Mentors - James Salsman, Fabian Flock 2. Extension for page creating/editing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2016 portal now accepting applications

Hello all, This is a reminder that the *deadline *to apply for Google Summer of Code 2016 with Wikimedia Foundation falls in *< 24 hours* at Friday, *March 25* at 19:00 UTC. Please make sure that you have your *pdf *copy of proposal in the application system at g.co/gsoc well before, to avoid

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2016 portal now accepting applications

Thanks for that one Abdeali. Just wanted to notify that the application deadline for Outreachy round'12 falls in 4 days - 22 March, 2016 07 pm UTC. If you are eligble, and interested in applying - please refer Life_of_a_successful_project#Coming_up_with_a_proposal

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2016 portal now accepting applications

Hi, Just a note here: This time there is no copy of the proposal on the GSoC portal. They allow students to specify a URL (expected to be public) where the proposal can be. They recommend a public google drive link, but you can give an alternate URL too. Hence, students can directly give the

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2016 portal now accepting applications

Hello all, Google announced the start of accepting proposals for GSoC 2016 few hours ago. Interested and eligible candidates should submit their proposals at http://g.co/gsoc before the deadline of Friday, March 25 at 19:00 UTC. Wikimedia evaluates your proposal Phabricator task, but it is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2014 starts NOW

Last email before starting my holidays. I just submitted the Wikimedia application for GSoC 2014. That is all the bureaucracy we needed to fill at this point. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014 Two people have volunteered as org co-admins. Thank you! Let's decide our

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2014 starts NOW

Google Summer of Code 2014 has started. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014 (Thank you Raylton for creating this page) The first step is to apply as Wikimedia organization before February 14. I can do this, with your help: * We need another org admin ready to work. I was

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2013 applications are closed

We are no longer accepting applications for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2013. We are always accepting new volunteer contributors: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2013 - Project Proposal (Centralized Search Engine)

Hello, I have proposed a project to WikiMedia through Google Summer of Code 2013 internship program. The project is based on Central Search Engine having capability to bind all the WikiMedia services till the date and showing the results of search term on a common place with best possible

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Google Summer of Code '13] Project Idea - Inspire Me Button

On 23 April 2013 11:00, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: Tracking reader activity on Wikipedia is a _very_ touchy subject for a whole host of legitimate reasons, and to be totally honest I don't think you're going to be able to implement any recommender system based on people's

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Google Summer of Code '13] Project Idea - Inspire Me Button

Thanks for all the feedback to my proposal. I really appreciate it. If we want to provide personalized recommendations, user data does need to be connected for the best results, and yeah things could probably get a little iffy with the privacy policy. In terms of gathering data for the

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Google Summer of Code '13] Project Idea - Inspire Me Button

On 04/23/2013 07:35 PM, Cheng Xing wrote: Because of the privacy policy, (1) and (2) are out of the game. The third one might get around this issue, though. 3) Facebook App From a privacy point of view a Facebook is a lot worse, since your data goes to a 3rd party instead of staying in

[Wikitech-l] [Google Summer of Code '13] Project Idea - Inspire Me Button

Hi Wikimedia Developers, My name is Cheng Xing, and I'm interested in working with Wikimedia for GSoC this summer. I sent the email below to the mailing list few days ago, but it didn't seem like it went through, so here it is again. Thank you for your time! Sincerely, Cheng --

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Google Summer of Code '13] Project Idea - Inspire Me Button

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

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Google Summer of Code '13] Project Idea - Inspire Me Button

How do you intend to get the data you need to pick a page? For something like this to work properly traditionally I'd expect it would involve storing personal information that currently isn't stored. Something that would require controversial changes to Wikimedia's privacy policy. Have

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Google Summer of Code '13] Project Idea - Inspire Me Button

I believe E:Getting_Started is already working on something like this. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Google Summer of Code '13] Project Idea - Inspire Me Button

Hello Cheng, thank you for sharing your proposal. On 04/22/2013 09:54 AM, Cheng Xing wrote: I realize that this could become quite a big project, so if I get the chance to work on this, I will do a small part (possibly the basic infrastructure of the system) for GSoC, and I am more than willing

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Google Summer of Code '13] Project Idea - Inspire Me Button

On 04/23/2013 12:37 AM, K. Peachey wrote: I believe E:Getting_Started is already working on something like this. It's similar, though Inspire Me seems targeted towards interesting things to *read*, whereas GettingStarted is meant for interesting things to *edit. Also, GettingStarted is not

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Google Summer of Code '13] Project Idea - Inspire Me Button

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Cheng Xing cxing...@gmail.com wrote: For example, if a programmer clicks the Inspire Me button on Wikipedia, articles such as the Whitespace programming language, Rubber Duck Debugging, etc. would show up. Things that the user probably doesn't know about,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2013

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Sébastien Santoro dereck...@espace-win.org wrote: I concur and offer to document that. Something like this text could be used in this purpose. == Tips == === Push to Gerrit to show your code. In code review we trust. === MediaWiki uses a continuous

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2013

Hello, On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Bawolff Bawolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: One thing I would like to see is code from projects being merged into core at a regular basis instead of just at the end. Obviously that might not be possible for all projects depending on what your project is,

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2013

Surprised? Me too! Please read / watch / discuss https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013 *Nothing* about GSOC 2013 is confirmed at this point, but there is no harm in starting collecting ideas and recruiting participants. Your feedback is welcome at the wiki page - or here if you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2013

hi, Can you explain the roles of mentors and admins? Also what is requirement for participants? I suppose it's for students? On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Surprised? Me too! Please read / watch / discuss

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2013

One thing I would like to see is code from projects being merged into core at a regular basis instead of just at the end. Obviously that might not be possible for all projects depending on what your project is, but many that modify core can be done in incremental steps. I don't know about last

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code project: improving language support and Incubator usability

Hello, I am one of the Google Summer of Code students and I will be working on improving language support in MediaWiki (in particular with regards to language names) and improving the usability of Wikimedia Incubator (following my previous work on the Incubator-specific extension). More

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code - Integrate upload from Flickr Taxobox (Ryan Kaldari)

Hi there, I have finished my proposal. I know the deadline is soon but I will appreciate any feedback. I also know there is more than one proposal for this project, but one week ago when I posted my interest in this project I couldn't end my proposal on time. Anyway I still want to participate.

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code project - books for Wikisource/Wikibooks

Aashish Mittal is working on a project proposal to facilitate books for Wikisource/Wikibooks: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Aashish.mittal/GSoC_Application Ashwini Kumar has this as one of several plans for a summer project: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ashwini/GSOC_2012_Application

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code - Integrate upload from Flickr Taxobox (Ryan Kaldari)

Hi there, I'm Currently working on a major in Computer Science and Technology and I want to get involved in the open source community (I am a newbie). From the listed ideas, Integrate upload from Flickr and Taxobox caught my attention and I am working on a proposal, but I didn't want to wait

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code - Integrate upload from Flickr Taxobox (Ryan Kaldari)

On 03/27/2012 06:35 PM, David Palacios wrote: Hi there, I'm Currently working on a major in Computer Science and Technology and I want to get involved in the open source community (I am a newbie). From the listed ideas, Integrate upload from Flickr and Taxobox caught my attention and I am

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code intro

On 03/19/2012 03:29 PM, Filip Tanurovski wrote: Hi, I don't know if this was the right way to reply (I don't know if I should write here, or reply to a particular person) :) As I said in my application for the mailing list, I would like to participate in this years GSoC2012 by contributing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code update how we'll run it

On 03/10/2012 12:40 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I submitted our application to Google and we're just waiting for March 16th, when we'll hear whether we've been accepted. We were accepted. Students won't be able to formally apply till March 26th, but until then we encourage students to

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code update how we'll run it

I submitted our application to Google and we're just waiting for March 16th, when we'll hear whether we've been accepted. I can't handle all the student-helping on my own, so please try to guide prospective students -- point them to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012 and encourage

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code project

Hi. I'm seeking feedback for my Google Summer of Code project. A description is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Drakefjustin/Fill-in-the-blanks Cheers, Justin ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code project

On 04/02/2011 07:30 AM, Justin DRAKE wrote: I'm seeking feedback for my Google Summer of Code project. A description is available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Drakefjustin/Fill-in-the-blanks Justin, I have taken a look at your project, a fill-in-the-blanks extension for MediaWiki.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code project

Thank you for your interest, Sumana. I'll answer both your questions: 1) I'm thinking this would be an opt-in feature; those who opt-in have a Quizz switch/button/tab for every article. If the extension becomes popular then having the switch/button/tab by default (and opt-out for logged-in users)

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2011

Hey all, The Google Summer of Code 2011 program has been announced [0]. I'm assuming the WMF will be participating like last years; can someone confirm this so the GSoC 2011 page [1] can be updated? Fun fact: since that page exists since last GSoC, it's now one of the top results when doing a

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2010 accepted students announced

Hi everyone! Google earlier today announced the selected students for Google Summer of Code 2010. We're happy to report we've received six students, listed here: http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/home/google/gsoc2010/wikimedia We had a lot of really great proposals this year, and a really

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2010 accepted students announced

Thanks Rob :) Congrats to all my fellow students! -- Jeroen De Dauw * http://blog.bn2vs.com * http://wiki.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! -- ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:55 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote: The reason I suggested a separate IRC channel, since i wrote about it at night and my crazied ramblings probably didn't resemble much, (or communication venue in general, for example people have pointed out a mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:16 PM, m b meadowla...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, are we signed up for GSOC 2010 yet? I've heard some concern voiced since there is only an hour left. Reference http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs#timeline Yup, our

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:55 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote: The reason I suggested a separate IRC channel, since i wrote about it at night and my crazied ramblings probably didn't resemble much, (or communication venue in general, for example people have pointed out a mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

* Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com [Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:14:16 -0500]: And this is where we've seen a difference. Some people like Jeroen have really integrated themselves, hanging around, asking questions, becoming a part of the community. I'd like to see our developer community grow as a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Dmitriy Sintsov ques...@rambler.ru wrote: There should be a lot of free time to hang around. For example, IRC is really inefficient - you ask a question and often you have to wait for a long time (sometimes never). (That was a question how to add tooltips to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

On 03/12/2010 09:01 AM, K. Peachey wrote: Perhaps a separate IRC channel for the GSOC students/mentors (#wikimedia-gsoc?) (and who ever else wants to hangout in there) so that it doesn't get flooded with random questions and such and wouldn't be as hectic (or scary) for the newer irc users.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

Perhaps a separate IRC channel for the GSOC students/mentors (#wikimedia-gsoc?) (and who ever else wants to hangout in there) so that it doesn't get flooded with random questions and such and wouldn't be as hectic (or scary) for the newer irc users. That would be worse, splitting what

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:58 AM, jeroen De Dauw jeroen_ded...@yahoo.com wrote: Perhaps a separate IRC channel for the GSOC students/mentors   (#wikimedia-gsoc?) (and who ever else wants to hangout in there) so that it doesn't get flooded with random questions and such and wouldn't be as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:58 AM, jeroen De Dauw jeroen_ded...@yahoo.com wrote: I agree that a seperate IRC channel is probably not a good idea. (There are enough mw channels already, and in most of them people give really great support, and there is no reason to cut the students off the main

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010/3/12 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com: I don't think this is a good idea for the same reason as a separate IRC chat.  Wikitech-l is low-traffic enough that it's reasonable to just use that, unless we're talking about an awful lot of GSOC discussion. I agree, separating GSoC

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

Personally I would like to see us welcome the GSoC students on existing mail-lists rather than creating special ones because one goal of WMF Staff envolvement this year is to entice the best students to stick around after GSoC is over and integrating them into the real community may better

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

The reason I suggested a separate IRC channel, since i wrote about it at night and my crazied ramblings probably didn't resemble much, (or communication venue in general, for example people have pointed out a mailing list) is because as someone pointed out (someone, Dmitriy i think it was without

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

Hello all, I'm still finding my way around these channels. I've never used lists or IRC before these last few days. I'm definitely excited about the prospect of involvement in GSOC here. Not just because of the stipend but for the mentoring, and the opportunity to get intimate with Quiz.php

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

K. Peachey wrote: The reason I suggested a separate IRC channel, since i wrote about it at night and my crazied ramblings probably didn't resemble much, (or communication venue in general, for example people have pointed out a mailing list) is because as someone pointed out (someone, Dmitriy i

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Danese Cooper dcoo...@wikimedia.org wrote: The deadline for application from Open Source Projects to Google Summer of Code 2010 is looming (in about 48 hours), and I'm coordinating the formal Wikimedia Foundation entry.  There has already been some excellent

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.comwrote: Do we have to sign up mentors beforehand, or can we add them later as well? I *think* we can tack on mentors later, but it's important that we have a good roster of mentors by tomorrow's deadline. Rob

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Danese Cooper dcoo...@wikimedia.org wrote: The deadline for application from Open Source Projects to Google Summer of Code 2010 is looming (in about 48 hours), and I'm

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: I'm with Aryeh on this one. I can't really commit to full-time being able to mentor someone--I have work, school, et cetera--but I'm around often enough to be able to lend a hand or two if needed. Plus if we get our

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@robla.net wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: I'm with Aryeh on this one. I can't really commit to full-time being able to mentor someone--I have work, school, et cetera--but I'm around often enough

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

I'm totally +1000 on this point. Its not simple to extend involvement post GSoC, but it can be done (and should be our goal). Danese On 3/11/10 12:14 PM, Chad wrote: Absolutely! I think it's going to be exceptionally important to encourage students to be active on IRC and generally

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

On 3/10/10 4:27 PM, Danese Cooper wrote: Good afternoon Wikimedians, The deadline for application from Open Source Projects to Google Summer of Code 2010 is looming (in about 48 hours), and I'm coordinating the formal Wikimedia Foundation entry. There has already been some excellent

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

I'm interested in working with Nikka on translatewiki.net. He did some coding for us last year on it (and frankly he's the only developer on this project) but he was feeling a little shortchanged since his mentor, while supportive, was not really a developer. This presupposes that I can be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

Thanks Trevor and Ariel! For anyone that's interested, if you haven't already, be sure to add yourselves to the list of mentoring candidates at the top of this page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010 (be bold!) Thanks! Rob On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Ariel T. Glenn

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

A clarification: his mentor was not able to provide development advice/help; this has nothing to do with their general qualifications as a mentor. I was supposed to be available unofficially during that tiem frame and that did not work out. Στις 10-03-2010, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 17:00 -0800, ο/η

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Wu Zhe w...@madk.org wrote: Asynchronous daemon doesn't make much sense if page purge occurs on server side, but what if we put off page purge to the browser? It works like this: 1. mw parser send request to daemon 2. daemon finds the work non-trivial, reply

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

2009/4/24 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com: How long does it take to thumbnail a typical image, though?  Even a parser cache hit (but Squid miss) will take hundreds of milliseconds to serve and hundreds of more milliseconds for network latency.  If we're talking about each image

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

All true. The images should not be rethumb'd unless resolution changes, a new version is uploaded, or the cache is otherwise purged. However, on initial rendering, the thumb generation can be a large part (especially if rendering multiple images) of overall page execution time. Being able to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

2009/4/24 Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com: All true. The images should not be rethumb'd unless resolution changes, a new version is uploaded, or the cache is otherwise purged. Repeat: this is what we do already (not sure if that's what you're trying to say, but should implies differently). Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

I'm agreeing with you. By should I meant this should be happening already and issues with this are bugs. -Chad On Apr 24, 2009 1:32 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/24 Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com: All true. The images should not be rethumb'd unless resolution changes,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

On 4/24/09 10:32 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote: 2009/4/24 Chadinnocentkil...@gmail.com: All true. The images should not be rethumb'd unless resolution changes, a new version is uploaded, or the cache is otherwise purged. Repeat: this is what we do already (not sure if that's what you're trying to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

Hoi, At the moment we have an upper limit of 100Mb. The people who do restorations have one file that is 680Mb.. The corresponding jpg is also quite big !! Thanks, GerardM 2009/4/24 Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com 2009/4/24 Aryeh Gregor

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

Roan Kattouw wrote: The problem here seems to be that thumbnail generation times vary a lot, based on format and size of the original image. It could be 10 ms for one image and 10 s for another, who knows. yea again if we only issue the big resize operation on initial upload with a memory

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

Hoi, The library of Alexandria uses it for the display of their awesome Napoleontic lithographs.. It would be awesome if we had that code.. It is actually open source.. Thanks, Gerard 2009/4/24 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com 2009/4/24 Aryeh Gregor

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

On 4/24/09 11:05 AM, Michael Dale wrote: Roan Kattouw wrote: The problem here seems to be that thumbnail generation times vary a lot, based on format and size of the original image. It could be 10 ms for one image and 10 s for another, who knows. yea again if we only issue the big resize

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

with a memory friendly in-place library like vips I think we will be oky. Since the user just waited like 10-15 minutes to upload their huge image waiting an additional 10-30s at that point for thumbnail and instant gratification of seeing your image on the upload page ... is not such a big

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote: Best to make it explicit rather than presume -- currently we have no such locking for slow resizing requests. :) Yes, definitely. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

Michael Dale wrote: yea again if we only issue the big resize operation on initial upload with a memory friendly in-place library like vips I think we will be oky. Since the user just waited like 10-15 minutes to upload their huge image waiting an additional 10-30s at that point for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

Also relevant: 17255 and 18201 And as this would be a new upload ssytem, also worth mentioning 18563 (new-upload branch) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 07:08:05PM +0100, David Gerard wrote: There was a spec in earlier versions of HTML to put a low-res thumbnail up while the full image dribbled through your dialup - img lowsrc=image-placeholder.gif src=image.gif - but it was so little used (I know of no cases) that I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

Michael Dale md...@wikimedia.org writes: I recommended that the image daemon run semi-synchronously since the changes needed to maintain multiple states and return non-cached place-holder images while managing updates and page purges for when the updated images are available within the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

Michael Dale md...@wikimedia.org writes: I recommended that the image daemon run semi-synchronously since the changes needed to maintain multiple states and return non-cached place-holder images while managing updates and page purges for when the updated images are available within the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

Michael Dale md...@wikimedia.org writes: I recommended that the image daemon run semi-synchronously since the changes needed to maintain multiple states and return non-cached place-holder images while managing updates and page purges for when the updated images are available within the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

Aryeh Gregor wrote: I'm not clear on why we don't just make the daemon synchronously return a result the way ImageMagick effectively does. Given the level of reuse of thumbnails, it seems unlikely that the latency is a significant concern -- virtually no requests will ever actually wait on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

Thanks for taking care of the announce mail, Roan! I spent all day yesterday at the dentists... whee :P I've taken the liberty of reposting it on the tech blog: http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/04/google-summer-of-code-student-projects-accepted/ I'd love for us to get the students set up on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Marco Schuster ma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.comwrote: * Zhe Wu, mentored by Aryeh Gregor (Simetrical), will be building a thumbnailing daemon, so image manipulation won't have to happen

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

Yesterday, the selection of GSoC projects was officially announced. For MediaWiki, the following projects have been accepted: * Niklas Laxström (Nikerabbit), mentored by Siebrand, will be working on improving localization and internationalization in MediaWiki, as well as improving the Translate

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

2009/4/22 Michael Dale md...@wikimedia.org: Marco Schuster wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.comwrote: * Zhe Wu, mentored by Aryeh Gregor (Simetrical), will be building a thumbnailing daemon, so image manipulation won't have to happen on the Apache

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:16 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/22 Michael Dale md...@wikimedia.org: Marco Schuster wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.comwrote: * Zhe Wu, mentored by Aryeh Gregor (Simetrical), will be building a

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On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Marco Schuster ma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org wrote: Wow, I'm lookin' forward to this. Mighta be worth a try to give the upper the ability to choose non-standard resizing filters or so... or full-fledged image manipulation, something like a wiki-style photoshop.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code: accepted projects

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: The main issue with the daemon idea (which was discussed at length in #mediawiki a few weeks ago) is that it requires a major change in how we handle images. Right now, the process involves rendering on-demand, rather than

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code needs you... to mentor student projects!

We're a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code again this year, and we're dead set on making it our awesomest summer ever! One key thing though is making sure that students and potential students have access to a mentor who can answer their questions and just help steer them into

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