Wikitech-l October 2016

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89 discussions

Missing Section Headings
by Marc Riddell 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

Hello, I have been a WP editor since 2006. I hope you can help me. For some reason I no longer have Section Heading titles showing in the Articles. This is true of all Headings including the one that carries the Article subject's name. When there is a Table of Contents, it appears fine and, when I click on a particular Section, it goes to that Section, but all that is there is a straight line separating the Sections. There is also no button to edit a Section. If I edit the page and remove the "== ==" markers from the Section Titles, the Title then shows up, but not as a Section Heading. Also, I don't have any Date separators on my Want List. This started 2 days ago. Any thoughts? Thanks, Marc Riddell [[User:Michael David]]

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How to make commits from mirrored Wikimedia repos show up on your GitHub profile
by Bartosz Dziewoński 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

I know it has been annoying a couple of people other than me, so now that I've learned how to make it work I'll share the knowledge here. tl;dr: Star the repositories. No, seriously. (And yes, you need to star each extension repo separately.) (Is there a place on mw.org to put this tidbit on?) ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Brian Levine" <support(a)github.com> (GitHub Staff) To: matma.rex(a)gmail.com Cc: Subject: Re: Commits in mirrored repositories not showing up on my profile Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:47:19 +0200 Hi Bartosz In order to link your commits to your GitHub account, you need to have some association with the repository other than authoring the commit. Usually, having push access gives you that connection. In this case, you don't have push permission, so we don't link you to the commit. The easy solution here is for you to star the repository. If you star it - along with the other repositories that are giving you this problem - we'll see that you're connected to the repository and you'll get contribution credit for those commits. Cheers Brian -- Matma Rex

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Research FAQ gets a facelift
by Dario Taraborelli 25 Jun '24

25 Jun '24

We just released a new version of Research:FAQ on Meta [1], significantly expanded and updated, to make our processes at WMF more transparent and to meet an explicit FDC request to clarify the role and responsibilities of individual teams involved in research across the organization. The previous version – written from the perspective of the (now inactive) Research:Committee, and mostly obsolete since the release of WMF's open access policy [2] – can still be found here [3]. Comments and bold edits to the new version of the document are welcome. For any question or concern, you can drop me a line or ping my username on-wiki. Thanks, Dario [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:FAQ [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research:FAQ&oldid=15176953 *Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>

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bluejeans
by Jeremy Baron 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

Hi, On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:36 PM, David Strine <dstrine(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > We will be holding this brownbag in 25 minutes. The Bluejeans link has > changed: > > https://bluejeans.com/396234560 I'm not familiar with bluejeans and maybe have missed a transition because I wasn't paying enough attention. is this some kind of experiment? have all meetings transitioned to this service? anyway, my immediate question at the moment is how do you join without sharing your microphone and camera? am I correct thinking that this is an entirely proprietary stack that's neither gratis nor libre and has no on-premise (not cloud) hosting option? are we paying for this? -Jeremy

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New DB_REPLICA constant; DB_SLAVE deprecated
by Aaron Schulz 04 Jul '20

04 Jul '20

As of 950cf6016c, the mediawiki/core repo was updated to use DB_REPLICA instead of DB_SLAVE, with the old constant left as an alias. This is part of a string of commits that cleaned up the mixed use of "replica" and "slave" by sticking to the former. Extensions have not been mass converted. Please use the new constant in any new code. The word "replica" is a bit more indicative of a broader range of DB setups*, is used by a range of large companies**, and is more neutral in connotations. Drupal and Django made similar updates (even replacing the word "master"): * https://www.drupal.org/node/2275877 * https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692/files & https://github.com/django/django/commit/beec05686ccc3bee8461f9a5a02c607a023… I don't plan on doing anything to DB_MASTER, since it seems fine by itself, like "master copy", "master tape" or "master key". This is analogous to a master RDBMs database. Even multi-master RDBMs systems tend to have a stronger consistency than classic RDBMs slave servers, and present themselves as one logical "master" or "authoritative" copy. Even in it's personified form, a "master" database can readily be thought of as analogous to "controller", "governer", "ruler", lead "officer", or such.** * clusters using two-phase commit, galera using certification-based replication, multi-master circular replication, ect... ** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology)#Appropriateness_of_… *** http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/master?utm_campaign=sd&utm_medium… -- -Aaron

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O'Reilly free books
by Amir Ladsgroup 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

O'Reilly just published some of their popular books for free, either as part of open access movement or some kind of marketing (or both). I find them useful to Wikimedia developers. It supports several types of e-books so you can read it in your kindle, etc.: * Performance, Operations, Release engineering: http://www.oreilly.com/webops-perf/free/ * Data, AI, Analytics: http://www.oreilly.com/data/free/ * Programming, architecture, Open source culture: http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/ * Security: http://www.oreilly.com/security/free/ * Web platform, design: http://www.oreilly.com/web-platform/free/ This is a rather unusual type of email so I wasn't sure I was doing the right thing so I just sent it to wikitech-l. Please spread the word if you think it's okay or tell me if you think not. Thanks. Best

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productivity of mediawiki developers
by rupert THURNER 29 May '17

29 May '17

hi, is there a statistics about mediawiki developer productivity? i just fell over a couple of pages and i am quite impressed i must say: * gabriel, https://github.com/gwicke, 2'300 commits last year * jeroen, https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw, 3'700 commits a year * ori, https://github.com/atdt, 1'700 * james, https://github.com/jdforrester, 1'200 * yuri, https://github.com/nyurik, 900 * matt: https://github.com/mattflaschen, 400 commits rupert

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Fwd: [Commons-l] Programmatically categorizing media in the Commons with Machine Learning
by Pine W 04 Apr '17

04 Apr '17

Forwarding. Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Jordan Adler" <jmadler(a)google.com> Date: Aug 11, 2016 13:06 Subject: [Commons-l] Programmatically categorizing media in the Commons with Machine Learning To: "commons-l(a)wikimedia.org" <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: "Ray Sakai" <rsakai(a)reactive.co.jp>, "Ram Ramanathan" < ramramanathan(a)google.com>, "Kazunori Sato" <kazsato(a)google.com> Hey folks! A few months back a colleague of mine was looking for some unstructured images to analyze as part of a demo for the Google Cloud Vision API <https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/05/explore-the-galaxy-of-images…>. Luckily, I knew just the place <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_needing_categories>, and the resulting demo <http://vision-explorer.reactive.ai/>, built by Reactive Inc., is pretty awesome. It was shared on-stage by Jeff Dean during the keynote <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgWHeT_OwHc&feature=youtu.be&t=2h1m19s> at GCP NEXT 2016. I wanted to quickly share the data from the programmatically identified images so it could be used to help categorize the media in the Commons. There's about 80,000 images worth of data: - map.txt <https://storage.googleapis.com/gcs-samples2-explorer/reprocess/map.txt> (5.9MB): A single text file mapping id to filename in a "id : filename" format, one per line - results.tar.gz <https://storage.googleapis.com/gcs-samples2-explorer/reprocess/results.tar.…> (29.6MB): a tgz'd directory of json files representing the output of the API <https://cloud.google.com/vision/reference/rest/v1/images/annotate#response-…>, in the format "${id}.jpg.json" We're making this data available under the CC0 license, and these links will likely be live for at least a few weeks. If you're interested in working with the Cloud Vision API to tag other images in the Commons, talk to the WMF Community Tech team. Thanks for your help! _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

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Deploying the Linter extension to Wikimedia wikis
by Legoktm 11 Dec '16

11 Dec '16

Hi, Arlo and myself have been working on a new MediaWiki extension to expose Parsoid's "lint errors" to users. A little bit of background, Parsoid has a linter that identifies some issues in wikitext that while may not result in user-facing errors, are still not wanted in wikitext. An example might be [[File:Example.png|foo|bar|baz]]. In this case, "foo" and "bar" are ignored, and "baz" is the actual caption - but the bogus image options should be removed. Other errors include missing end tags, obsolete HTML tags, fostered content, etc. The main advantage of this over tracking categories is that we know the location in the wikitext so it should be easier to identify the error and fix it, as well as knowing whether the issue was caused via a template or not. The main ticket tracking deployment is <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148609>. -- Legoktm

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Introduction for Gsoc 2017
by MAYANK JINDAL 10 Dec '16

10 Dec '16

Hi, My name is Mayank Jindal. I am third year undergraduate student currently studying at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. I want to take part in Gsoc-2017 from Wikimedia. I have knowledge of C, C++, JAVA, Python, Android app development and Web development and beginner in *Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence.* I am very enthusiastic to learn new skills which would be required. Kindly guide me to proceed further. -- Kind Regards, Mayank Jindal, Third year undergraduate student, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Mobile : +91- 7076670299 || 8875432718

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