On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> > The code exists and has been revamped a few times in response to reviews,
> > but I'm not sure whether there are actually any assigned resources for
> > p
on
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/TimedMediaHandler/statusabout earlier
discussion of a September-ish production test, but not sure if
that's current.
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eral modern
browsers that can do fancier uploads). Michael Dale can probably give some
updates on this, but it'll be a bit yet before it's ready to go.
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ant to being able to tell
which part of your document is which.
And heck, even if not everything gets fixed along that kind of path, just
being able to *have* pages and other resource types that *are*
well-structured mixed into the system is going to be hugely useful for the
non-Wikipedia projects
My current thoughts are to concentrate on a few areas:
1) create a widget/gadget/template/extension/plugin model built around
embedding blocks of information within a larger context...
2) ...where the data and rendering can be reasonably separate... (eg, not
having to pull tricks where y
I'm taking the liberty of putting foundation-l on temporary moderation.
Seriously, guys -- take the "who's a bigger jerk" threads offlist.
The regular list mods may reconfigure any way they like once they wake up.
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On 10/9/09 11:33 AM, Gregory Kohs wrote:
> Brion says:
>
> ++
>
> A few thousand dollars in rent for the Usability Initiative's space...
>
> ++
>
> It may be equally accurate to say that I have earned "a few thousand
> dollars" this y
ht perhaps remember this from the thread "WMF seeking to
sub-lease office space?", which you started last month:
http://www.mail-archive.com/foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg07460.html
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willing to live a little bit on the bleeding edge though, I
know Andrew would love the testing feedback!
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On 10/2/09 1:21 AM, Aphaia wrote:
> Brion,
>
> congrats on your new opportunity and project and I'm bit on a relief
> to hear you would like to stay on our community, and I still remember
> the days you was a volunteer developer with great devotion (in those
> days e sta
On 9/28/09 5:27 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/9/29 Brion Vibber:
>> It seems to work just fine, actually. The extension is on, the
>> configuration is being loaded for the right database, and things seem to
>> function when I test them.
>>
>> Quick steps to try i
rt poking it, so it looks like we've got this finally
resolved. :)
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On 9/28/09 5:19 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> Brion Vibber wrote:
>> On 9/28/09 5:15 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
>>> I also forwarded this to the English Wikipedia mailing list...
>>
>> Yay! :)
>>
>> Also added on the tech blog:
>>
>> http://techblog.
On 9/28/09 5:15 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> I also forwarded this to the English Wikipedia mailing list...
Yay! :)
Also added on the tech blog:
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/flaggedrevs-test-wiki-awaits-you/
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On 9/28/09 4:57 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> Switching it in for thie page to "The stable revision; if not present,
> then the current/draft one", I now see the little 'sighted' box on the
> article page and have the review interface at the bottom (though some of
> th
On 9/28/09 4:57 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> 3) "This page does not have a stable version; page stability settings
> can be configured."<- click this link [ideally that next form will be
> better integrated into the protection form in future]
>
> http://flaggedrevs.la
On 9/28/09 4:18 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> On 9/28/09 1:04 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> plan, and Brion is hoping to invest some of his remaining time with it
>>> in helping to get the extension
On 9/28/09 1:04 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> [snip]
>> plan, and Brion is hoping to invest some of his remaining time with it
>> in helping to get the extension ready for en.wp. It's not trivial: The
>> scalabilit
On 9/28/09 2:23 PM, Domas Mituzas wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> And you'll still have commit access, so I
>> hope to keep seeing "Revert rXXX, totally broken"
>
> Don't be so harsh on Brion, not every commit of his has been totall
t;
> No reason he can't keep coding. He just won't be paid for it. :)
The more things change, the more they stay the same? ;)
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#x27;t email each other? Hah!) But
that's something that could disappear quickly as long as it's a world
where there's only a small number of big players...
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ct for WMF tech
management issues starting October 12, until the new CTO is hired. I'll
support the hiring process as much as I can, and we're hoping to have a
candidate in the door by the end of the year.
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ly updating daily starting today. :D
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reading. I'll poke at it later if nobody else has whipped one up. :)
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g worked on). We *are* hiring a
new CTO with a strong administrative background, as you recommend.
What's left?
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gt; one.
Please don't bother wikitech-l with such things; that's just a reference
to a list of patched vulnerabilities culled from our own security releases.
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May I respectfully suggest that further discussion on this thread be
taken offlist until new arguments come to light which have not already
been posted?
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like
exporting feeds of news articles is still missing, leading to a lot of
workarounds and manual effort being expended.
* Wikisource -- better native support for side-by-side translations,
annotations, and extracting/citing primary source material from the
other sites like Wikipedia would be very hel
king with OpenStreetMap to integrate mapping, using our own rendering
servers with a copy of the public data and making it easier to stick
maps in wiki pages for starters, with easier ways to get into the
upstream system to improve location name translations and mapping data.
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but it's larger than ours).
> Is the staff currently using the Wikia
> sublease space going to move too?
Yes; the purpose of finding a larger space is to have enough room for
our current and forseeable future staff.
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s/assistants from the local team were usually pretty good about
getting the microphones around or else reminding the speaker to repeat
questions, but of course this gets forgotten sometimes.
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On 8/28/09 2:49 PM, Robert Rohde wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
>
>
>> Robert, is it possible to share the source for generating the
>> revert-based stats with other folks who may be interested in pursuing
>> further work on the su
er hand is good. It seems to
> be better received by the community when WMF fulfills a modest
> expectation than when it reveals a wonderful surprise.
Under promise, over deliver. :)
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pedia already?
Robert, is it possible to share the source for generating the
revert-based stats with other folks who may be interested in pursuing
further work on the subject? Thanks!
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That's been deployed for a while, eg:
at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo
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to poke at? [I would recommend moving further detail discussion on this
end of things to wikitech-l.]
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On 8/13/09 11:43 AM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> Because we haven't had a chance to finish final review& fixups on it.
> Should be done in the next few days. (Why are there like 500 replies to
> this from people we've already talked to directly and know what's up?)
Quick st
Because we haven't had a chance to finish final review & fixups on it.
Should be done in the next few days. (Why are there like 500 replies to
this from people we've already talked to directly and know what's up?)
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might be conflated with the PARC stats on the community that have gotten so
> much attention from the media lately. That's all.
a) I doubt it
and
b) I gave an example response of why that's not a bad thing
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dly pre-transcoded into Ogg Theora -- thanks IA
guys and gals!)
As this matures some more and the backend support gets merged into our
live deployment, this'll be rolled into the advanced editing tools the
Usability crew is working on.
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tive is essential in
resolving such community issues -- Wikipedia was much more
newbie-friendly in its first couple of years than it is today, and we
need to recover that spirit.
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looking squeaky clean as well: if we use tracking cookies for
statistical purpose they're more likely to be per-session cookies, not
permanent ones, and we would never use sneaky techniques to hide them
from users.
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ledge has to yield to documentation and process and
> organizational knowledge.
Oh yes, this is already very much an ongoing process as we've been
increasing the ops staff this last year.
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On 8/7/09 3:39 PM, James Forrester wrote:
> 2009/8/7 Brion Vibber:
>> On 8/7/09 3:06 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>> It's not just about resumes, it's also about being taken seriously
>>> when communicating with others. A "Head Software Architect" w
titles are only useful when they're actually descriptive;
otherwise they're just fluff. Certainly when I'm doing hiring I'm far
more interested in asking what somebody did at their previous job than
in what it was called...
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ce the former shows you are the boss, that latter could be one of
> many.
Having many folks at that level is be a condition dearly to be wished for!
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uld the Senior Software Architect report to the CTO?
> If so, that means Brion has, technically speaking, proposed his own
> demotion - there aren't many people big enough to do that!
It sure beats letting the organization succumb to the
http://en.wikipedia.org
written down! ;)
As far as things apply to _types of content_ that's a much trickier road
to navigate; we want to concentrate not on limiting _what_ can be posted
but _how it's presented_ and discussed... preferably civilly and
respectfully.
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idate to fill the CTO position (full job description will go up
soon), at which point I'll be freed up to concentrate on being a
full-time Senior Software Architect. (Yes, I'll review your patch!)
I will of course continue to work closely with our eventual CTO... the
idea is to find some
else needs cleaning up in recent changes channels,
interwiki links, or other output.
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Cetateanu Moldovanu wrote:
> *Hi, I want to remind you that on 26 Nov 2008
> **http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-November/047554.html**
>
even
support , so only Apple is not supporting Ogg out of the box of
those implementing it so far.
(Desktops are relatively versatile and upgradeable however; mobile
browsers which can't easily be replaced or given codec plugins might be
more interesting terri
en't for Wikimedia using it, this work probably wouldn't have
> gone into enabling native browser support for it. So thanks to all for
> your work on this. :-)
Woohoo! :D
Welcome to the cool kids' table, Google! ;)
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> gets vandalism, though we now have FlaggedRevs [which could use a config
> change; it's in bugzilla :D]
Found it in the general sea of issues and have moved it to Rob's work
queue. :)
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) where people concerned with such things
> can generate appropriately-censored co
ose politics they disagree with, etc --
but that's where the market demand for filtering is currently served.
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but
would rather they read the text than see the pictures, even if they're
drawings.
Ultimately it may be most effective to implement something like this
(basically an expansion of the "bad image list" implemented long ago for
requiring a click-through on ce
s with neither
floating boxes nor the various badge icons that a lot of templated put
in above the line is on the task list. :) Once it's back permanently we
can dump the temporary gadgets.
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taking as a model for that purpose -- it
gets you some important stuff without taking you out of your editing
environment.
Style guides, licensing recommendations, etc are another level of help
page which needs more consideration, but remain of secondary importance.
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so long making their decision! :) Here's holding out for 2011 and 2012...
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f our visitors without causing problems for others. If you have
technical suggestions for alternate implementations, they're welcome in
a more relevant channel such as wikitech-l.
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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:28:11 -0700
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To: website-exclus...@webwise.com
an Amazon...
It's already slated, it's just been a wacky wild week. :) Should be done
today.
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l experience) proposals.
[snip]
> For more information, see the Call for Papers:
> http://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/tiki-index.php?page=Call+for+Papers
Just a reminder to all that the CfP is still open for posters,
demonstrations, and WikiFest proposals -- the final deadline for these
is April 24
y to set up a renaming infrastructure -- none of the
renames are high priority, and there are plenty of things most members
of this list would rather see us do first. :)
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we'll keep an eye out on these lists too. :)
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/04/planning-to-tighten-torblock-restrictions/
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more permanent logo within a few weeks.
It's been about 6 years. :)
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w what we're working on and give
feedback before we push things out:
* http://techblog.wikimedia.org/
I'd very much like to make sure that we've got regular contacts among
the various project communities who can help coordinate with us on
features, bugs, and general thoughts whi
the beasts that run Wikipedia and her sister projects...
He'll be helping us out with operations, monitoring, and documentation
of our servers, making sure everything's running smoothly and improving
our responses to and anticipation of problems.
Welcome aboard, Fred!
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we'll set it up.
(Reminds me -- Greg, can we make sure we've got yours going again?)
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On 2/22/09 4:49 AM, River Tarnell wrote:
> currently the dump process is a bit broken. what is the Foundation's position
> on this?
Well, you could have just asked me. :)
http://leuksman.com/log/2009/02/24/wikimedia-data-dump-update
on the usability front and making
> the code available to public, so I look forward to collaborating with
> the Wikia technical and product teams to exchange ideas and learn from
> their work."
>
> There is a certain amount of logic in working with one of the biggest
> non-W
e, and a lot of service data that needs
to be monitored and digested... if you think you've got the chops for
it, send us your CV by the end of January!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/System_Administrator
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provements into the live Wikipedia
environment and general MediaWiki releases over the course of the project.
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and recompressing it
into something small enough for people to download and make use of.
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we'll
split spare capacity on some physical resource at a fair market rate].
This is not a particularly closer relationship than we have with other
companies and organizations in the fields of wikis and open
source/content stuff.
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> Please see my reply on wikitech-l. :)
Archive link:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-December/040611.html
(Cross-posting is great for announcements, but trouble for
discussions... :D)
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Please see my reply on wikitech-l. :)
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eople "cannot possibly find pictures" or that the site
is "useless" is ridiculous and undermines the legitimate portion of your
position (that it would be good to add more multilingual features to
Commons).
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cause nobody made one.
>
> There is of course Duesentrieb's checkusage, but that only works per image.
Native support for usage tracking would be rather useful; I'm going to
bump priority on this...
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At some point we'll probably do some more consolidation on the CSS and
JS files that get loaded most frequently to reduce the number of server
round-trips on a first hit.
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[snip]
We're already aware of the UNICEF study & extensions and will be
reviewing them alongside other ongoing usability testing and development
projects throughout 2009.
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x27;re in the queue:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14648
and will be reached as time permits.
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Nathan wrote:
> Wow, someone had more than 10,000 edits in February of 2002.
That's probably "Conversion script". :)
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agreement."
The purpose of using language codes on the web as we do is explicitly
for interchange with browser software, end users (as a navigation marker
in the URL), and content reusers.
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those but couldn't find
them since the codes were not referenced in the bug entry summary.
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aphy.
There was later a request to rename 'be-x-old' (using a non-standard
code) to 'be-tarask', a IANA-registered subtag which is rather more
descriptive. IMHO this change should not be terribly controversial -- if
we're not closing it, we may as well give it its offi
might confirm if the correct default
> amounts were guessed correctly, or if the least chosen amount should be
> substituted for a different one.
Mmm, we could probably do that. :)
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> (Rand? :) )
Worth considering, but no guarantee for this year. :)
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Dovi, you're already in the queue which is being worked through; should
be done within the next few days.
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Dovi Jacobs wrote:
> Gerard, thank you for your kind comments. I think the system you have
> set up at Betawiki is ex
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