Hello,
I am forwading here an online survey for open source developper, I think
some people in this list could be interested in helping this student ;)
Ashar Voultoiz
[[w:fr:Utilisateur:Hashar]]
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This is a forwarded message from benno.luthiger_AT_id.eithz.ch :
Dear Open Source developer
I am doing a research project on "Fun and Software Development" in which
I kindly invite you to participate.
You will find the online survey under http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/. The
questionnaire consists of 53 questions and you will need about 15
minutes to complete it.
With the FASD project (Fun and Software Development) we want to define
the motivational significance of fun when software developers decide to
engage in Open Source projects. What is special about our research
project is that a similar survey is planned with software developers in
commercial firms. This procedure allows the immediate comparison between
the involved individuals and the conditions of production of these two
development models. Thus we hope to obtain substantial new insights to
the phenomenon of Open Source Development.
With many thanks for your participation,
Benno Luthiger
PS:
The results of the survey will be published under
http://www.isu.unizh.ch/fuehrung/blprojects/FASD/.
We have set up the mailing list fasd(a)webboard.ethz.ch for this study.
Please see http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/mailinglist_en.html for registration
to this mailing list.
_______________________________________________________________________
Benno Luthiger
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
8092 Zurich
Mail: benno.luthiger(at)id.ethz.ch
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Not really entirely technical, but... I just wanted to say the meeting
in Lyon went well. I am exhausted :-)
Actually, the live demo did not went well. I was able to show about 3 or
4 pages, main page, one or two articles, user page... and when I came
back to show more of our great features... slooooooowwwwwwww.
Fortunately, someone had showed the assistance the basics of wiki
edition to the audience, so I guess everyone got the idea anyway :-)
But thanks a lot anyway for those who helped make it run better
(or...just run at all, for those who remember last fall).
Anyway, the meeting went well. There were a bunch of very interesting
presentations (I guess that I should cook something about meta data one
day), and very interesting people. Several journalists in particular
(some from newspapers who did not answer to our last press release...I
guess I know who to contact next time) and the vice president of les
amis du monde diplomatique (http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/) and I
guess we really must contact better these people...
This was also the opportunity to have the first 3 french wikipedians
meat-space meeting (I think), since Alain and Yann Forget were here as well.
So, all in all, I had fun, and I recommand to anyone to try one day to
present Wikipedia to public audience, either to journalists or to
teachers, or information systems specialists, politicians ... I think we
must not hesitate to approach all sort of people.
I've disabled the tokenizer in the 1.3 parser for now. The old doQuotes
function seems to perform better.
Simplified benchmark results (ab -n100 -c2):
1.2: 0.84/s
1.3 with tokenizer: 0.43/s
1.3 with doQuotes: 0.74/s
There are mainly two issues that aren't done yet:
* timelines -> strip()?
* french space/ number space formatting
The {{foo{{bar}}}} issue is still outstanding, there are ideas on how to
tackle this but it's not yet done.
Gabriel Wicke
> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 19:11:06 +0100
> From: "sannse" <sannse(a)tiscali.co.uk>
> Subject: [Wikitech-l] SQL queries - a suggestion for limited access
>
> I'd very much like to update [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links]]
> on a regular basis.
>
> I'm sure this has been suggested before (maybe by Angela somewhere?) but
is
> there a possibility of allowing specified users to run specified SQL
> queries? This wouldn't have to be coded for perhaps, just a trust system
> where a number of people are given access, but only on the condition that
> they *only* run queries that have been checked and agreed.
I second sannse suggestion. We in Hebrew Wikipedia used the SQL query to
create lists for maintenance. E.g. articles that does not contain links. It
is really needed specially since the special pages cache was not updated
since April.
Meir :->
Tim forgot to actually announce this.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] MediaWiki 1.3
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 00:38:31 +1000
From: Tim Starling <t.starling(a)physics.unimelb.edu.au>
Reply-To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
To: <foundation-l(a)Wikimedia.org>, <wikipedia-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
We're going to be upgrading the software on the live site to the current
development version, over the next 24 hours or so. However, we won't be
releasing a tarball just yet. Before we do that, we want to obtain
translations for the new interface text, and also to fix a few
user-friendliness issues with the installer. We'll probably upgrade the
smaller wikis first, and do the English Wikipedia fairly late in the peace.
There might be short periods of downtime during this process.
A list of new features is at
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_roadmap
-- Tim Starling
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Aromanian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromanian) is a Romanian
language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_language) dialect.
A new Wikipedia is requested for this language on the Romanian Wikipedia
(http://ro.wikipedia.org) by Aromanians who don't know where else to
turn. Romanian wikipedians have "offered" temporary demo space for the
Aromanian Wikipedia main page at
http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Prota_padzin%C3%A2
As far as rigid official ethnography language codes are concerned, all I
was able to find regarding Aromanian was ISO 639-2, along with a "SIL"
language code, as described in
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=RUP
On the other hand, UTF-8 should be more than ok for this language as far
as technical concerns go.
Please let me know if there are any other concerns or problems regarding
the creation of this new Wikipedia, and I'll be glad to clarify them.
The ideal URL for the new Wikipedia would be http://ars.wikipedia.org,
but any alternate suggestions are welcome.
Also, if there are any problems with or concerns against creating this
Wikipedia, please do let me know so I can explain the respective issues
to (and clarify them with) the Aromanian users on the Romanian Wikipedia.
Thank you for your time,
[[w:user:Gutza]]
Hello all,
At the moment category pages show subcategories with their "Category:"
prefix (take a look at
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki for an example). I
think this can be fixed by changing the line 333 of Parser.php to
"array_push ( $children, $sk->makeKnownLink ( $t, $x->cur_title) ) ;"
(this works for my local install but it is possible I've completely
misunderstood what should be happening).
I've also written some code to make the subcategories and articles list
on category pages more readable (but I don't know how safe my code is),
what is the best thing for me to do with the code now?
Tobin.
I'd very much like to update [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links]]
on a regular basis.
I'm sure this has been suggested before (maybe by Angela somewhere?) but is
there a possibility of allowing specified users to run specified SQL
queries? This wouldn't have to be coded for perhaps, just a trust system
where a number of people are given access, but only on the condition that
they *only* run queries that have been checked and agreed.
The restrictions could be as specific as necessary:
eg: sannse is permitted to use the query (Disambiguation pages with links)
between (specified hours), on a Sunday only, no more than once every three
weeks.
If someone went outside their conditions they would obviously lose the
access.
What do you think? Possible? Practical?
--sannse
>What I don't get is why you want to parse the raw wikitext.
<snip>
Because who said the interface would use HTML to display things? :)
The base library will have an abstract parser, and an HTML parser, but you could add a PDF parser, latex, you name it.
So I/we don't want to work with HTML, but with wikitext.
You could also envision the ability to export an article of the offline encyclopedia to PDF - and again, html probably isn't the right tool for that...
>As I recall Tim is working on something like that. Maybe while none of
>these projects is very far along yet, these efforts could be merged into
>one?
Yes, I think it'd be best. But others may have diverging opinions ^_
Med & I posted a message on Meta:Babel (village pump of meta) a while ago, but no one replied, so we assumed there wasn't really any project like that. Didn't even think of asking on wikitech, shame :)
Nicolas