Hello,First of all sorry for inappropriate way of presenting the content , As advised by community members
I present my ideas regarding Multilingual, usable and effective captchas at my proposal page for GSOC-2014 given here : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:AalekhN/GSoC_proposal_2014
I therefore request all members to please go through the proposal and give your viewpoint/advice regarding the content of the proposal.
Thank YouAalekh Nigam"aalekhN"https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:AalekhN
TL;DR SUMMARY: check out this short, silent, black & white video:
https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/ -- anybody interested in a side
project on in-browser audio/video decoding fallback?
One of my pet peeves is that we don't have audio/video playback on many
systems, including default Windows and Mac desktops and non-Android mobile
devices, which don't ship with Theora or WebM video decoding.
The technically simplest way to handle this is to transcode videos into
H.264 (.mp4 files) which is well supported by the troublesome browsers.
Unfortunately there are concerns about the patent licensing, which has held
us up from deploying any H.264 output options though all the software is
ready to go...
While I still hope we'll get that resolved eventually, there is an
alternative -- client-side software decoding.
We have used the 'Cortado <http://www.theora.org/cortado/>' Java applet to
do fallback software decoding in the browser for a few years, but Java
applets are aggressively being deprecated on today's web:
* no Java applets at all on major mobile browsers
* Java usually requires a manual install on desktop
* Java applets disabled by default for security on major desktop browsers
Luckily, JavaScript engines have gotten *really fast* in the last few
years, and performance is getting well in line with what Java applets can
do.
As an experiment, I've built Xiph's ogg, vorbis, and theora C libraries
cross-compiled to JavaScript using
emscripten<https://github.com/kripken/emscripten>and written a wrapper
that decodes Theora video from an .ogv stream and
draws the frames into a <canvas> element:
* demo: https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/
* code: https://github.com/brion/ogv.js
* blog & some details:
https://brionv.com/log/2013/10/06/ogv-js-proof-of-concept/
It's just a proof of concept -- the colorspace conversion is incomplete so
it's grayscale, there's no audio or proper framerate sync, and it doesn't
really stream data properly. But I'm pleased it works so far! (Currently it
breaks in IE, but I think I can fix that at least for 10/11, possibly for
9. Probably not for 6/7/8.)
Performance on iOS devices isn't great, but is better with lower resolution
files :) On desktop it's screaming fast for moderate resolutions, and could
probably supplement or replace Cortado with further development.
Is anyone interested in helping out or picking up the project to move it
towards proper playback? If not, it'll be one of my weekend "fun" projects
I occasionally tinker with off the clock. :)
-- brion
Dear Hackathon attendees,
101 people have filled the registration form of the Wikimedia Hackathon,
hurray! This data point two months before the event plus the efficiency
of Wikimedia CH allow us to say that participation and logistics are on
track.
Now, what about the content?
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014/Topics
If we are calling this event a Hackathon, the activities driving the
schedule must be projects to hack about. If I understood correctly the
proposals listed so far, we seem to have only one hacking sprint. We
need more!
All the better if these activities have a goal defined, a coordinator,
and a URL to document the work before, during, and after the event. A
hint about the preferred duration of your activity is also welcome, as
it will help shaping the schedule.Many proposals already have some of
these elements.
Signing up for the activities you plan to attend will also help
everybody defining a better schedule and preparing better sessions.
Thank you!
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
I wish to edit the documentation of Wikidata help pages. For that need to
learn some advanced editing options like creating anchors for topics in a
page. Where can I find a possible help ???
hi,
I am B.Tech. (CS) 3rd year student from India. I have 4 years of
programming experience. I am comfortable with c/c++ , Php, Javascript,
HTML, MySql.I have developed some small web based projects in PHP and using
MySQL in my 2nd year.
As someone already is working on my previous selected project (Catalogue
for MediaWiki extensions). After going through the ideas list again I found
interest in project "A system for reviewing funding requests" as I am
comfortable with the required skills.
I am new, I need some guidance from the mentors for the procedure. And Let
me know if I missed something.
(Karan Dev)
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey rupert!
>
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 10:21 PM, rupert THURNER
> <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi brion,
>>
>> thank you so much for that! where is the source code? i tried to
>> search for "commons" on https://git.wikimedia.org/. i wanted to look
>
> Android: https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/apps%2Fandroid%2Fcommons.git
> iOS: github.com/wikimedia/Commons-iOS
>
>> if there is really no account creation at the login screen or it is
>> just my phone which does not display one, and which URL the aplication
>
> Mediawiki doesn't have API support for creating accounts, and hence
> the apps don't have create account support yet.
created https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53328, maybe
you could detail a little bit more how this api should look like?
rupert.
This is in about 90 minutes in #wikimedia-office .
-Sumana
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 7:48 PM
Subject: RFC review tomorrow on TitleValue and passwords
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Tomorrow, Chris Steipp will talk about the threat model for passwords
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Passwords , and Daniel
Kinzler will discuss the new TitleValue patch
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/106517 and updated RfC
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/TitleValue . If we have
time, we'll talk about the inline diff proposal, but I fear we might have
to push that to another time.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-03-05
I'm sorry for the last-minute time decision (90% my fault, 10% timezones).
Please of course feel free to leave comments on the RFCs before and after
the meeting as well!
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 at 2100 UTC on Wed 5 March:
http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=5391959,5128581,2950159,2147714&h=5…
San Francisco: 1pm-2pm, Wed. March 5th
Berlin: 10pm-11pm, Wed. 5 March
Sydney: 8am-9am, Thurs. 6 March
As usual, it's in IRC, in #wikimedia-office on Freenode.
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
This may be extremely ambitious, but I'm keen to kick off development
around the creation of a map namespace during the Zurich hackathon.
The goal would be to setup an editable map namespace that could be
used for a variety of things, one of which would be adding a map view
to the Special:Nearby page provided via the mobile site. The goal is a
proof of concept not necessarily anything production ready (but that
would be great if we could get to that point!)
Please let me know if you would also be interested on hacking such a
thing - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014/Geo_Namespace
- or if doing so would be a terrible idea (but if you have to go down
that route please provide constructive reasoning on what would be a
less terrible idea)
Excited to hack on cool things in Zurich!