Hi everyone!
I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. I'm Lydia and just
started working for Wikimedia Germany. Some of you might know me from
my work in Free Software projects.
I'll be a part of the team working on Wikidata
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata) - the goal of the project is
to create something similar to Wiki Commons for data). It's a huge
undertaking for the German and global community. Wikidata is a project
I am passionate about and I am even more passionate about doing it
right. Doing it right in this case obviously means making sure
everyone's input is heard and taken into consideration. My
responsibility will be exactly that - working with all of you to make
it a successful project. A lot of things concerning how, when and
where this will be used in Wikipedia are still up for discussion and
decisions need to be found in the community. I will be here to
facilitate this.
I assume many of you have not heard from me before so let me tell you
a bit about myself. I studied computer science at the Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology. There I worked on a program to plan
robot-assisted laser surgeries on human skulls and wrote my diploma
thesis on collaborative and transparent Free Software development. I'm
passionate about enabling people to make awesome happen around Free
Culture. I've spent most of my spare time in the last 7 years on
community work in KDE (http://kde.org). This includes running its
mentoring programs, co-founding its community working group, serving
on the board of the non-profit behind it and generally making sure
everything is running smoothly. I've also helped out other projects
occasionally like Kubuntu, VLC/VideoLan and openSUSE in that position.
Not long ago I released a free book called Open Advice
(http://open-advice.org) that is a collaborative effort to make it
easier for people to start contributing to Free Software. You probably
know 4 of the authors from around Wikipedia. When it comes to
MediaWiki I have done developer engagement for Semantic MediaWiki Plus
for the last two years and am on the steering committee of the
non-profit behind Semantic MediaWiki. Due to my day only having 24
hours (even if some people claim otherwise) I have not had a chance to
get into contributing to Wikipedia. Thankfully that's going to change
now. (As a very regular user: Thank you!)
For the next days/weeks my focus will be:
* collecting ideas/doubts/other input for Wikidata that you already
have for me now (I'll work through any existing discussions I can find
- if you want to make sure I see something please do send me a link.)
* creating some resources to explain the project better
* setting up some infrastructure to keep everyone updated on the
status and able to contribute
* work on collecting input in a structured manner and addressing it together
If you have any questions please let me know. I'll be around on the
English and German Wikipedia, IRC, XMPP, Skype or whatever else you
prefer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_(WMDE) ).
You can subscribe to the Wikidata mailing list at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l and join the
IRC channel #wikimedia-wikidata on freenode.
Cheers
Lydia, who is really looking forward to working with you
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Community Communications for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Eisenacher Straße 2
10777 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Hi all,
in prepartion for the big bang I am reading pages like
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Workflow but I miss a recommondation
for a good Git GUI, especially for Win 7.
Has anyone tested TortoiseGit? Is it a good choice for developers who
use TortoiseSVN since years?
Does it support git-review too?
Thanks for your help.
Raimond.
Hey,
I'm seeing some weird behavior and can't figure out what's going on.
I have some code making a request to the API to obtain the thumb url of an
image: http://dpaste.org/nuOfX/
This code is used here, and right now the first two images are full size
and the third is a thumb:
http://education.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:CampusAmbassadors
No idea why it's working for some and not for others. Stranger yet, I
cannot reproduce this issue locally, running the same code. This is with
trunk and with instant commons on.
Cheers
--
Jeroen De Dauw
http://www.bn2vs.com
Don't panic. Don't be evil.
--
Hello,
Some people have been asking me which aliases I have been using. I have
dumped them on the new [[Git_aliases]].
The most useful is the lg alias I have found on stackoverflow, it will
show an ASCII graph along oneline commits. See the page for complete
alias and screenshots :-]
[[Git_aliases]] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/aliases
--
Antoine "hashar" Musso
In Russian Wikisource I was looking at a book, where lists of literature
references contain a mix of Russian and German titles. This book was
OCRed for Russian, so when the print says "Barentz" in Latin letters,
the OCR text says "Вагепгг", which are Cyrillic (Russian) letters that
look similar, but actually transcribe to the nonsense "Vagepgg".
When proofreading such a text in a wiki edit box (using the ProofreadPage
extension, as Wikisource does), it would be a great help if all Cyrillic
letters (a range of Unicode characters) in the edit box could be coloured
different from the Latin ones. Is this possible to achieve with a personal
or site-wide Javascript, stylesheet or gadget?
What I would like is a gadget that allows the user to decide if Unicode
range XX to YY in the edit box should be coloured in ZZ,
Here is a diff link to the page in question,
http://ru.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D…
The large print is the text of an encyclopedic article.
The small print is the list of literature references.
--
Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
I'm happy to announce the availability of the first beta release of the new
MediaWiki
1.19 release series.
Please try it out and let us know what you think. Don't run it on any wikis
that you really
care about, unless you are both very brave and very confident in your
MediaWiki
administration skills.
MediaWiki 1.19 is a large release that contains many new features and bug
fixes. This is a
summary of the major changes of interest to users. You can consult the
RELEASE-NOTES-1.19 file for the full list of changes in this version.
*********************************************************************
What's new?
*********************************************************************
MediaWiki 1.19 brings the usual host of various bugfixes and new features.
Comprehensive list of what's new is in the release notes.
* Bumped MySQL version requirement to 5.0.2.
* Disable the partial HTML and MathML rendering options for Math,
and render as PNG by default.
* MathML mode was so incomplete most people thought it simply didn't work.
* New skins/common/*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy
piles of
generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
* The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the
user link.
* Searching blocked usernames in block log is now clearer.
* Better timezone recognition in user preferences.
* Extensions can now participate in the extraction of titles from URL paths.
* The command-line installer supports various RDBMSes better.
* The interwiki links table can now be accessed also when the interwiki
cache
is used (used in the API and the Interwiki extension).
Internationalization
- --------------------
* More gender support (for instance in user lists).
* Add languages: Canadian English.
* Language converter improved, e.g. it now works depending on the page
content language.
* Time and number-formatting magic words also now depend on the page
content language.
* Bidirectional support further improved after 1.18.
Release notes
- -------------
Full release notes:
https://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_19_0beta1/phase3/RELEA
SE-NOTES-1.19
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.19
**********************************************************************
Download:
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.0beta1.tar.gz
GPG signatures:
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.0beta1.tar.gz.si
g
Public keys:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html
I've started an RFC page for extending CSS within ResourceLoader.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/ResourceLoader_CSS_Exte…
The general idea is to allow css-like extensions to the css within
ResourceLoader to make writing it much more sane. Things like nesting
support, implicit vendor prefixes, and a method for site css to use
uploads in a sane way.
Some parts of the idea also pave the way to making it possible to safely
allow css to be embedded securely into arbitrary WikiText and edited by
any user. Making it possible to have sane page layouts which can be
drafted in easy ways and also have infoboxes without horrid inline styles
or admin privileges.
The talkpage is also open for any ideas on other extensions to css we
could make.
--
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]