1)Alphabetical order captcha:We can use Html5's drag and drop Api to list a particular Set of images into one category .for example in the example mentoined in the demo here ,i made a collection of diff words starting with letters A,B,C ....as an output i grouped up words with starting letter A diff from words with starting letter B,C....As,i used text in this example we can use images of diff animals such as cat's and dog.....and by drag and drop we can group images of cat and that of dog in diff categories.2)Annotation captcha:We can use Images With annotations from commons determine the subcategoriy the annotations belongs to and then give relevant options to the users ;for example in the file we can search from names of different annotations to which they corresponds to from wikipedia(names given here are those of mountain) and then give the the option's much relevant to the image.3)Effect captcha:We can use image as a question which are changed by the effect produced php's gd library and the use the same file with another effect and then ask user to match the two files.....for example:the image1 can be used as a question asking user to click on the image that matches with the question image and as an answer we can give this spiral image of the original image.Similarly we can give filters to different images producing different options asking user for right answer.4)Direct captcha:We can ask to user direct questions like ask for selecting cat out of options consisting of images of cats and humans.....an example by pginer demonstrate this example5)Ask User to click on given effect: Asking user to click on images consisting of spiral effect's out of options which consist of images with spiral and other effects(example:greyscale).6)Drag and Drop character in Correct Place: We can use drag and drop api of html5 to ask user to form an particular alphabet or no out of the pieces of character provided .Here is an example to form an character "A" and an digit "8" out of the same pieces of character.This drag and drop capability can be further enhance to form a particular shapes.For example form a clip art from a particular set of piece of shapes....for example the image given hereinserts the correct nose as asked in the in the questions out of the possible options provided.Most,Importantly i think creation of an index system would be fruitful since it would rank the inappropriate images on the basis of users response (rank is negative for an image if user needs to reload a captcha) to a provided captcha.This as the time passes will provide us with relevant images which are user friendly and equivalently secure to use.......In addition i sincerely appreciate a point mentioned by Gmansi of creation of jigsaw puzzle for the images but in my view point there will be listing of some particular category of images and those ranked higher in indexing system to be used as jigsaw puzzle.as an additonal help we can use Extension Assira to make our extension smarter.please give your valuable suggestions as we can work to improve this amazing project. at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:CAPTCHA :)
Thank YouAalekh Nigam"aalekhN"
I figured out following way we can approach the project:1)Alphabetical order captcha:We can use Html5's drag and drop Api to list a particular Set of images into one category .for example in the example mentoined in the demo here ,i made a collection of diff words starting with letters A,B,C ....as an output i grouped up words with starting letter A diff from words with starting letter B,C....As,i used text in this example we can use images of diff animals such as cat's and dog.....and by drag and drop we can group images of cat and that of dog in diff categories.
2)Annotation captcha:We can use Images With annotations from commons determine the subcategoriy the annotations belongs to and then give relevant options to the users ;for example in the file we can search from names of different annotations to which they corresponds to from wikipedia(names given here are those of mountain) and then give the the option's much relevant to the image.
3)Effect captcha:We can use image as a question which are changed by the effect produced php's gd library and the use the same file with another effect and then ask user to match the two files.....for example:the image1 can be used as a question asking user to click on the image that matches with the question image and as an answer we can give this spiral image of the original image.Similarly we can give filters to different images producing different options asking user for right answer.
4)Direct captcha:We can ask to user direct questions like ask for selecting cat out of options consisting of images of cats and humans.....an example by pginer demonstrate this example
5)Ask User to click on given effect: Asking user to click on images consisting of spiral effect's out of options which consist of images with spiral and other effects(example:grey scale).
6)Drag and Drop character in Correct Place: We can use drag and drop api of html5 to ask user to form an particular alphabet or no out of the pieces of character provided .Here is an example to form an character "A" and an digit "8" out of the same pieces of character.
This drag and drop capability can be further enhance to form a particular shapes.For example form a clip art from a particular set of piece of shapes....for example the image given here inserts the correct nose as asked in the in the questions out of the possible options provided.
Most,Importantly i think creation of an index system would be fruitful since it would rank the inappropriate images on the basis of users response (rank is negative for an image if user needs to reload a captcha) to a provided captcha.This as the time passes will provide us with relevant images which are user friendly and equivalently secure to use.......
In addition i sincerely appreciate a point mentioned by Gmansi of creation of jigsaw puzzle for the images but in my view point there will be listing of some particular category of images and those ranked higher in indexing system to be used as jigsaw puzzle.
As an additonal help we can use Extension Assira to make our extension smarter.
please give your valuable suggestions as we can work to improve this amazing project. at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:CAPTCHA :)
Thank YouAalekh Nigam"aalekhN"
From: "Aalekh Nigam"<aalekh1993(a)rediffmail.com>
Sent: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 23:32:16
To: "wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org"<wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Captcha Idea Proposal for GSOC 2014
1)Alphabetical order captcha:We can use Html5's drag and drop Api to list a particular Set of images into one category .for example in the example mentoined in the demo here ,i made a collection of diff words starting with letters A,B,C ....as an output i grouped up words with starting letter A diff from words with starting letter B,C....As,i used text in this example we can use images of diff animals such as cat's and dog.....and by drag and drop we can group images of cat and that of dog in diff categories.2)Annotation captcha:We can use Images With annotations from commons determine the subcategoriy the annotations belongs to and then give relevant options to the users ;for example in the file we can search from names of different annotations to which they corresponds to from wikipedia(names given here are those of mountain) and then give the the option's much relevant to the image.3)Effect captcha:We can use image as a question which are changed by the effect produced php's gd library and the use the same file with another effect and then ask user to match the two files.....for example:the image1 can be used as a question asking user to click on the image that matches with the question image and as an answer we can give this spiral image of the original image.Similarly we can give filters to different images producing different options asking user for right answer.4)Direct captcha:We can ask to user direct questions like ask for selecting cat out of options consisting of images of cats and humans.....an example by pginer demonstrate this example5)Ask User to click on given effect: Asking user to click on images consisting of spiral effect's out of options which consist of images with spiral and other effects(example:greyscale).6)Drag and Drop character in Correct Place: We can use drag and drop api of html5 to ask user to form an particular alphabet or no out of the pieces of character provided .Here is an example to form an character "A" and an digit "8" out of the same pieces of character.This drag and drop capability can be further enhance to form a particular shapes.For example form a clip art from a particular set of piece of shapes....for example the image given hereinserts the correct nose as asked in the in the questions out of the possible options provided.Most,Importantly i think creation of an index system would be fruitful since it would rank the inappropriate images on the basis of users response (rank is negative for an image if user needs to reload a captcha) to a provided captcha.This as the time passes will provide us with relevant images which are user friendly and equivalently secure to use.......In addition i sincerely appreciate a point mentioned by Gmansi of creation of jigsaw puzzle for the images but in my view point there will be listing of some particular category of images and those ranked higher in indexing system to be used as jigsaw puzzle.as an additonal help we can use Extension Assira to make our extension smarter.please give your valuable suggestions as we can work to improve this amazing project. at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:CAPTCHA :)
Thank YouAalekh Nigam"aalekhN"
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Liebe Community
Ich heisse Leonie, bin 26 Jahre und Studentin der Medien- und
Kommunikationswissenschaft an der Université de Fribourg (Schweiz). In meiner
Masterarbeit beschäftige ich mich mit EUCH,
den deutschsprachigen Wikipedianerinnen und Wikipedianern aus Deutschland,
Liechtenstein, Österreich und der Deutschschweiz.
Mein wissenschaftliches Interesse besteht darin, die Zusammensetzung der
deutschsprachigen Community besser zu verstehen. Aus diesem Grund bin ich auf eure
Mithilfe angewiesen und wäre dankbar für eine rege Beteiligung bis Freitag, 28. März 2014.
Der folgende Link zum Online-Fragebogen führt euch direkt zur Umfrage: https://student.unifr.ch/survey/go/index.php/341639/lang-de-informal
Die Beantwortung dauert rund 10 Minuten. Deine Anonymität ist
selbstverständlich gewährleistet.
Ganz im Sinne der unbeschränkten Zugänglichkeit von Informationen stelle ich
meine Arbeit im Juli 2014 unter eine freie Lizenz. Als Dankeschön für eure Zeit
und Unterstützung spende ich ausserdem für jeden auswertbaren Fragebogen einen
Euro bzw. einen Schweizerfranken an das jeweilige Wikimedia-Chapter.
Gerne könnt ihr euch bei Fragen an mich wenden: leonie.ehrl(a)outlook.com
Viele GrüsseLeonie
Hello all,
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension
Bundle 2014.02. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.22.2 and
MediaWiki 1.21.5 releases.
* Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.02.tar…
* sha256sum: 5c5636332b38a7ce9ac12fac74f0402afdc592aa58795b51dc4747877db340da
Quick links:
* Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB
* Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n
* Report bugs to: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org
* Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode
Release notes for each extension are below.
-- Kartik Mistry
== Babel, CLDR, CleanChanges ==
* Only localisation updates.
== LocalisationUpdate ==
* README was updated to include better installation instructions.
== Translate ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Allow capital letters in MediaWiki style variables (insertables)
* Bug 60500: Added AppleFFS module for iOS/Mac OS X Localizable.strings files
* Remove shortcut activated from "paste source". It's similar to
"revert changes" button, which does not have the insertable class and
thus the number indicating shortcut key won't be visible.
* Added new hook TranslateMessageGroupPathVariables
* Bug 61459: Removed $wgTranslateExtensionDirectory option.
* The magic-export.php was updated to handle failures more gracefully.
* Bug 50954: In the translation interface, 'Add documentation' link
now changes to 'Edit documentation' as soon as documentation is added.
* Bug 54194: The ApiQueryMessageCollection module no longer throws
exceptions on invalid input.
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Detect tofu before applying any default fonts. See:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/WebFonts#How_web…
for technical documentation about how tofu detection works in ULS.
* Bug 60304: Added enableWebfonts preference. Each wiki can be
configured to load the fonts by default using the new global variable
$wgULSWebfontsEnabled. Its default value is true (to load fonts).
* ULS is now much lighter for the browser thanks to many changes:
** Bug 56292: All SVG images were optimized to reduce their size even
50% in some cases.
** I18n related jquery.i18n and messages code is now loaded only later
after user interacts with ULS.
** We removed a dependency to a big JavaScript module which was no
longer needed to support anonymous preferences.
* Bug 60815: Add Marwari (rwr) and Ottoman Turkish (ota) to the
languages supported by ULS.
=== Fonts ===
* Add Iranian Serif and Iranian Sans Bold fonts.
* Removed Amiri font from Persian.
* Replaced Xerxes font with Artaxerxes.
=== Input methods ===
* Bug 53695: For languages which have no input methods, the "Use
native keyboard" option is now shown as selected by default.
* Added Venetian input method.
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Brion and Tim hope to chat with Jon Robson, Pau Giner, Juliusz Gonera, and
other interested folks about the current UI styling RFCs. More information:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-02-27
These meetings move around so we can sometimes accommodate Europe,
Australia, or various bits of North America, depending on who needs to be
in the meeting. This time the meeting's 00:00 UTC until 1:00 UTC on Feb 28:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2014&month=2…
San Francisco: Thursday, February 27 at 4 PM
Berlin: Friday, 28 February at 1 AM
Mumbai: Friday, 28 February at 5:30 AM
Sydney: Friday, 28 February 2014 at 11 AM
As usual, it's in IRC, in #wikimedia-office on Freenode.
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Minutes and slides from this week's quarterly review of the
Foundation's Core features team are now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_r…
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> to increase accountability and create more opportunities for course
> corrections and resourcing adjustments as necessary, Sue's asked me
> and Howie Fung to set up a quarterly project evaluation process,
> starting with our highest priority initiatives. These are, according
> to Sue's narrowing focus recommendations which were approved by the
> Board [1]:
>
> - Visual Editor
> - Mobile (mobile contributions + Wikipedia Zero)
> - Editor Engagement (also known as the E2 and E3 teams)
> - Funds Dissemination Committe and expanded grant-making capacity
>
> I'm proposing the following initial schedule:
>
> January:
> - Editor Engagement Experiments
>
> February:
> - Visual Editor
> - Mobile (Contribs + Zero)
>
> March:
> - Editor Engagement Features (Echo, Flow projects)
> - Funds Dissemination Committee
>
> We'll try doing this on the same day or adjacent to the monthly
> metrics meetings [2], since the team(s) will give a presentation on
> their recent progress, which will help set some context that would
> otherwise need to be covered in the quarterly review itself. This will
> also create open opportunities for feedback and questions.
>
> My goal is to do this in a manner where even though the quarterly
> review meetings themselves are internal, the outcomes are captured as
> meeting minutes and shared publicly, which is why I'm starting this
> discussion on a public list as well. I've created a wiki page here
> which we can use to discuss the concept further:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_r…
>
> The internal review will, at minimum, include:
>
> Sue Gardner
> myself
> Howie Fung
> Team members and relevant director(s)
> Designated minute-taker
>
> So for example, for Visual Editor, the review team would be the Visual
> Editor / Parsoid teams, Sue, me, Howie, Terry, and a minute-taker.
>
> I imagine the structure of the review roughly as follows, with a
> duration of about 2 1/2 hours divided into 25-30 minute blocks:
>
> - Brief team intro and recap of team's activities through the quarter,
> compared with goals
> - Drill into goals and targets: Did we achieve what we said we would?
> - Review of challenges, blockers and successes
> - Discussion of proposed changes (e.g. resourcing, targets) and other
> action items
> - Buffer time, debriefing
>
> Once again, the primary purpose of these reviews is to create improved
> structures for internal accountability, escalation points in cases
> where serious changes are necessary, and transparency to the world.
>
> In addition to these priority initiatives, my recommendation would be
> to conduct quarterly reviews for any activity that requires more than
> a set amount of resources (people/dollars). These additional reviews
> may however be conducted in a more lightweight manner and internally
> to the departments. We're slowly getting into that habit in
> engineering.
>
> As we pilot this process, the format of the high priority reviews can
> help inform and support reviews across the organization.
>
> Feedback and questions are appreciated.
>
> All best,
> Erik
>
> [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Vote:Narrowing_Focus
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings
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Chrome beta (version 34) now includes native 'srcset' support:
http://www.chromestatus.com/features/4644337115725824
This means that on high-density screens like a Retina MacBook Pro, the 1.5x
or 2.0x-size image will be loaded automatically by the browser, and our
JavaScript hack disables itself. I've confirmed that this works as expected
with Chrome 34 beta and 35 'canary' builds.
This means faster page loads on hi-dpi devices and less unnecessary default
loading of 1.0x-size images when they're not going to be used.
Presumably this is also coming to Chrome for Android, where it's more
important due to the large number of Android devices running at 1.5 or 2.0
(or even 3.0) display density (hdpi/xhdpi/xxhdpi):
http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html#Screens
-- brion
Hi, I am Inderpreet Singh, this is my first mail and I hope I am on
correct mailing list. I am currently working on an online geometry
viewer that was developed under BRL-CAD (brlcad.org) as one of it's
GSOC projects last summer. It's in it's very basic stage. It currently
allows you to upload a CAD model (.g file) and view it 3D in the
browser. I was planning to add a feature that would allow users to
embed their models on websites and share it, (think of it as
http://codepen.io/ for CAD). Also, we were planning to add a mged
command interface so that we can edit the CAD model online using mged
commands. We were having discussions over these when someone among us
pointed out that there is a need of similar extension for mediawiki. I
would really love to know more about the requirements and propose
BRL-CAD (one of the oldest open
source repositories in world) on a server with web-interface as a full
open source candidate for the required tool.
--
Inderpreet Singh
Ekoankar Sahai
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