Would anyone subscribed to this mailing list have time to help finding
suitably licensed photos on Flickr (or elsewhere) for an article I
worked on recently?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centenary_of_the_outbreak_of_World_War_I
Currently there are four commemoration events listed on that page at
which photos were taken, but I'm struggling to find photos from those
events on Commons or Flickr under a free license.
On Commons I found this image:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liege-Cointe-Tour_Memorial_Interalli…
Which is the venue for one of the events, but ideally any images used
would be taken at the events themselves.
Carcharoth
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Oggetto: [Wikipedia-l] Proposal: automated style guideline checking
Data: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 15:29:47 -0800
Mittente: Jesse Hallett <jesse(a)galois.com>
Rispondi-a: Wikipedia mailing list <wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
A: wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
CC: Rogan Creswick <creswick(a)galois.com>
We have been doing some work at Galois that we would like to integrate
with the broader Wikimedia efforts. We were tasked with finding a way
to help improve user interface consistency, in a very general sense,
so we developed a tool called FiveUI to try and simplify the process
of manually evaluating user interface guidelines on HTML-based
interfaces. We're at the point now where our primary goal is to find
external users; and we're able to do some additional development to
help adapt the tool to fit these user's needs.
FiveUI takes sets of guidelines encoded in Javascript and runs them on
web sites. It works in either an interactive mode with a browser
extension in Chrome or Firefox, or in a "headless" batch mode, which
could be used in a continuous integration environment. Page elements
that do not conform to guidelines are flagged and reported.
We have applied this to Wikipedia by translating portions of the
Wikipedia Manual of Style into Javascript so that article content can
be checked for problems automatically. We have done the same thing
with a subset of the W3C WAI guidelines.
FiveUI is released under an Apache license and we hope that that will
enable the broadest set of uses.
We have already sent a message to the Wikimedia QA mailing list, but
were told that it is the volunteer community that generally takes
charge of enforcing the style guidelines.
The rest of this email goes into detail about how we think FiveUI
might be useful for Wikimedia, but if you want to go play with the
tool right away, you can find it on GitHub:
- http://galoisinc.github.io/FiveUI/
- and http://github.com/GaloisInc/FiveUI
Or the chrome store:
-
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/five-ui/bbccaefdcbnnkpmekjchefnhh…
The install instructions and getting started documentation are linked
from the first url above, or directly here:
- Install docs:
- http://galoisinc.github.io/FiveUI/manual/install.html
- Getting started:
- http://galoisinc.github.io/FiveUI/manual/gettingStarted.html
There are a collection of encoded guidelines available on GitHub as
well. These can be loaded by FiveUI to see some of the things it's
capable of--for example, we've implemented a subset of the W3C's WAI
guidelines here:
- WAI guidelines:
https://raw2.github.com/GaloisInc/FiveUI/master/guidelines/WCAG-1.0/conform…
The accessibility guidelines can help find issues such as missing alt
text, missing (or duplicate) labels, and assorted color issues amongst
a few others. We think these could be useful checks for the Mediawiki
development process; but there are probably other areas we aren't
familiar with that could have a greater impact--we'd like to hear
suggestions!
One area that would possibly be more visible is to integrate something
like FiveUI with the wiki page editing process. We've implemented
automated checks for a number of the guidelines in the Wikipedia
Manual of Style [1]. We imagine either a style checking bot using
these guidelines to mark pages for refinement, or even integrating
with the page preview process to point out possible violations of the
manual of style when editors submit content to the wiki.
We took the liberty of running these guidelines on a small set of
Wikipedia pages, and posted the results here:
-
http://galoisinc.github.io/FiveUI/reports/wikipedia/20140107T2328Z/summary.…
The implementations are also available on github, in the 'guidelines'
directory, if you would like to use them to look at any pages in
particular, or if you would like to see how the rules were
implemented. The Manual of Style guidelines are described in more
detail here:
- http://galoisinc.github.io/FiveUI/manual/wikipediaGuidelines.html
Does this look like a technology that may be useful to you? Are there
different directions we could take with FiveUI that would better
solve problems you run into frequently?
I'm happy to answer any questions, give a screencast demo, brainstorm
ideas, etc.. let me know how I can help.
Thanks!
Jesse Hallett
Research & Development
Galois, Inc.
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style
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designed to help us understand group decision-making and Wikipedia’s
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If you are an adult Wikipedian, we would be grateful if you could spare
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:59 PM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> Wil Sinclair wrote:
>>Hi all, I've started a new wiki called Offwiki: http://offwiki.org.
>>Our community discusses potential changes to Wikipedia and its
>>Wikimedia sister projects that aren't easily discussed in forums like
>>this mailing list. We also try new ideas that we hope will be adopted
>>on-wiki- both social and technical in nature.
>
> Welcome back!
>
> I enjoyed the utensil analogy on the main page. It's very cute. :-)
>
> ---
> Spoon: If Offwiki were common cutlery, it would be a spoon. It's
> not a knife, because we don't make our points here by hurting Wikipedia
> or other Wikipedia-related sites. And it's not a fork, because we're
> here to build a better encyclopedia by making Wikipedia itself better.
> ---
>
> I also applaud the effort in setting up your own MediaWiki installation.
> MediaWiki is a neat platform; it can be a bit brutish at times, but it has
> a lot of nice features, including a decent support structure and a vibrant
> development community behind it.
We have had a number (not enough!) of Wikimedia (usually Wikipedia,
and typically English Wikipedia) discussion sites, but has there been
any previous ones that have used mediawiki? That is, other than
Meta.. ?
IMO it is unfortunate that Wil didnt hasnt made more use of Meta, and
I am curious what the reasoning behind that decision was. There are
very few people banned from Meta, thought it does happen occasionally
and is usually reversed if they can behave.
I am also very curious about who came up with the Offwiki term 'Flounder'.
http://offwiki.org/wiki/Meta:Proposals#Flounders
To me it feels like a very nasty slur against Jimmy Wales.
Also, will Offwiki be multilingual? Does it intend to cover projects
other than English Wikipedia? If not, it isnt very relevant to the
wikimedia-l list, but is of course relevant to wikien-l which I have
cc:d which appears to be its primary focus.
--
John Vandenberg
Until yesterday, I was able to modify the background color of a Wikipedia page
with a style sheet containing the following:
body {
background-color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important;
color: rgb(204, 204, 204) !important;
}
The line for color still works, but the line for background-color does not.
Can someone explain what changed and what I have to do now to change the
background color?
Thanks.
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From: "ENWP Pine" <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com>
Date: Jun 3, 2014 5:02 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] VisualEditor on English Wikipedia
To: "wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Because VE has repeatedly been mentioned in this list as something that is
improving and may help us with acquisition of editors and their knowledge,
I have started to draft an RfC about re-enabling VE on English Wikipedia.
I am not proposing any specific outcome in the RfC. My goal is to set up a
framework which the community can use to decide which of several paths we
would like to take.
This is not my personal RfC, I just happen to think that with recent
discussions trending positively about VE's improvement over the past
several months and with the comments in this list about its possible value
to acquiring new editors, I'm willing to put in some time to draft a
framework for a discussion on-wiki. I am providing this note to let the
community know that someone (me) is drafting a framework for on-wiki
discussion. If someone else wants to start an RfC before I get around to
starting one, that's completely ok.
Cheers,
Pine
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Since we are meant to be doing more with multi-media content I feel that
the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_Play_(video_gaming) article would
be a good place for someone to show what can be done. Since the video needs
to be fairly short and the game needs to be open source I'd suggest [[Speed
Dreams]] as the subject. This would mean that the resulting video would
need to be released under the free art license mind.
--
geni
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From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
Date: 20 May 2014 08:33
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikidata vs Wikipedia
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
WikiData-l <wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Pywikipedia discussion
list <pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hoi,
Amir Ladsgroup has developed reports that show differences between the date
of birth and the date of death as known in the English Wikipedia and
Wikidata.
Such differences may be wrong in either Wikidata or Wikipedia. They are the
ones that need attention, they are the ones where sources makes a real
difference.
At this stage Amir is finalising the code. Given that this software can run
repeatedly, the results will change when the software l earns about changes
in either Wikidata or Wikipedia.
One practical question is where should these reports be located. It can be
in both Wikipedia and Wikidata. It is likely that many similar reports
reporting on different statements will become available.
Thanks,
GerardM
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ladsgroup/Birth_date_report/Conflict_wit…https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ladsgroup/Death_date_report/Conflict_wit…http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/05/wikipedia-vs-wikidata-qualitativ…
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Hoi,
I am working towards the point where all the people who died in 2014 are
known as such in Wikidata. At this time all the people of the en,wp who are
in the category "2014 deaths" are included. At this time there are over
2900 people known in Wikidata as to have died in 2014 [1]. It uses the
AutoList tool by Magnus Manske.
Amir Ladsgroup wrote a routine that checks against the en,wp and adds
missing deaths to Wikidata. He will also compare the values known to
Wikidata with what is known at Wikipedia and report it [2]
In this way there is the opportunity to improve quality in both Wikipedia
and Wikidata. That is one objective. If you can come up with more things we
can do in a similar way, please consider this.. the technology to report on
differences between a Wikipedia and Wikidata is starting to become a
reality.
At this time the job of Amir has run a few times.. What is needed is better
integration with practices on the English Wikipedia and a proper place for
this report. Obviously this report can be run against any Wikipedia that
has a category for the deaths of 2014. It will take some modifications
though.
Thanks,
GerardM
[1]
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist.html?q=claim[31%3A5]%20and%…
[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ladsgroup/Date_of_death_problems
Has the font used to display the title of Wikipedia pages changed? I
noticed things looked different today and have just worked out what
the change is. Is there a discussion about this anywhere, or more
information?
Carcharoth
