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The Brilliant Idea Barnstar |
| Thanks for your work on WikiShare, an idea whose time has come!
Please keep me posted on your progress, so we can explore possible collaborations as this project develops. Fabrice Florin Product manager New editor engagement Wikimedia fflorin@wikimedia.org Fabrice Florin 21:54, 21 January 2012 (UTC) |
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| Thread title | Replies | Last modified |
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| Did my first template for the page review | 0 | 22:01, 14 May 2012 |
| AddThis bar collapased by default | 1 | 14:13, 15 April 2012 |
| Wikipedia Stories Project | 0 | 00:41, 12 April 2012 |
| Automatic taxobox | 1 | 04:17, 29 March 2012 |
| Extension 'addthis' stop working on firefox | 2 | 14:13, 15 March 2012 |
| Subversion trunk locked | 2 | 20:39, 5 March 2012 |
| Extensions for corporate wikis | 0 | 14:40, 17 February 2012 |
| Page drive | 2 | 23:47, 25 January 2012 |
| why "third-party" | 3 | 23:29, 30 December 2011 |
| Thank you for the wafels | 4 | 00:08, 22 December 2011 |
| Help from WP | 4 | 07:09, 6 December 2011 |
Hi, The bar is collapsed by default and I need to click on "Share" to access the addthis full links page, then go forward and this time, the bar is expanded... Isn't there any option/trick to change this default behavior? Thank you so much for your support.
That's a good idea! I'll add that to the upcoming features list. :)
Hi!
My name is Victor and I'm a storyteller with the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm chronicling the inspiring stories of the Wikipedia community around the world, including those from readers, editors, and donors. Stories are absolutely essential for any non-profit to persuade people to support the cause, and we know the vast network of people who make and use Wikipedia have so much to share.
Rob Lanphier suggested that I speak with you about the development side of Wikipedia.
I'd very much like the opportunity to interview you to tell your story, with the possibility of using it in our materials, on our community websites, or as part of this year’s fundraiser to encourage others to support Wikipedia. Please let me know if you're inclined to take part in the Wikipedia Stories Project.
Thank you for your time,
Victor Grigas
vgrigas@wikimedia.org
I have a doubt regarding the taxobox. The thing is should it be developed using only Javascript?
We can design maybe a small app using python and django to a major extent.
Cheers, Ashwin
What would be the best approach for the creation of a widget?
Hi,
svn: Working copy '/mnt/upload6/private/ExtensionDistributor/mw-snapshot/trunk/extensions' locked
I wanted to help with the extension review, but this is killing it for me...
Don't bother with ExtensionDistributor. Even when it's not locked, it's usually out of date. Try checking out a copy of the extension from SVN instead.
Exactly. :)
Hi! On the IRC channel #Mediawiki sumanah told me to contact you since I'm writing an extension for my department wiki. I'll tell you more if you are interested, just E-mail me.
Hi Varnent, I have already started to tidy up some extensions pages and make them more comprehensive/appealing. However I just realise that I am the only one. Is the official start still to take place? Cheers
I'm out of town for a conference until next week and plan on pushing a "launch" of it then. Although I'm still contemplating the best ways to do that. Any input would be appreciated. :)
Not a big deal I guess but why "third-party wikis" - I have my own wiki, isn't that a "second-party wiki"? I'm not sure this is really that much clearer than "non-Wikimedia Foundation wikis" which seemed pretty clear to me. Just wondering why you're making this change.
There was a lot of IRC discussion on how to refer to non-WMF wikis. I'm of the mindset that we need to be consistent in our use of terminology across the manual for ease of reading. The Manual:Glossary#Third-party definition references the chats where "third-party wiki" was discussed as the most commonly used existing term by WMF and core developers. While I'm not personally convinced "third-party" is the best possible term, I've conceded it makes the most sense at this point. I also tend to feel that any term with "WMF" is both longer and too "WMF-centric" - which is a complaint I've heard from folks and have made myself about MW documentation.
As to why third-party over second-party - the IRC transcript has a good excerpt by Ryan Lane: "wmf is a first party user. we create the software. everyone else that uses it is third party". Basically a reference to the technical terminology of third party that any non-orginal owner (WMF) or primary consumer (enWP, etc.) is then third-party (non-WMF wikis). Also consistent with how we refer to "third-party extensions" in the documentation and home page.
I'm certainly open to feedback on better terms to use - but do think there should be consistent use of the terms and for now, "third-party wiki" seems to be it.
Thanks for the reply - makes (some) sense. ;-) I'm good with it for now - so long as we keep the redirects in place, I don't really care (there are incoming links from meta). Hmm, this e-mail link worked the one on Project:support didn't, these LQT links are inconsistent. :-\
Tasty, aren't they?! Cheers
lol - indeed - although I just noticed the WikiLove extension doesn't seem to like the LiquidThreads...hmmmm
I guess this will be fixed with LQTv3.0 whenever this may come to reality. I am touching wood.
Amusingly enough, it's apparently more complex than that - lol: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33260
Hi, do you know that everything in our Help namespace must be PD, while the WP content you're importing is CC-BY-SA?
I'm not a copyright lawyer - does it qualify for PD once its trimmed and references to WP related areas are removed? Seems like a waste to have to write all help documents from stretch when there is a good base of wording available to be tweaked.
No, the text has to be completely rewritten, see w:Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. Sorry, I'm deleting all these pages.
That's a rather annoying hassle. No wonder the help section is so stagnant. Can they be placed in the Project namespace or somewhere to help folks using this wiki? Or outreach to the original authors of the help page to seek permission to release into PD? Seems like a waste of time to duplicate work already done elsewhere and using a similar free license.
Ah well - either way I'll maybe come back to those later - not sure how eager I am to reinvent the wheel. :) Thank you for catching it so quick.
