User talk:Mvolz (WMF)

GCI task descriptions for TemplateData
Hi

This is again (also see en:User:Codename Lisa). Sorry for the four-days delay; I've been sent on a mission on a short notice. (Actually, I've placed a tag on top of my English Wikipedia user talk page; but these long absences happen far and few.) Anyway, without further ado, here are the GCI task descriptions for TemplateData.

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Find ten templates that accept parameters, have no parameter aliases, and lack TemplateData associated with them
Task level: Beginner

Browse the English Wikipedia articles and find ten templates that accept parameters, have no parameter aliases, and lack TemplateData associated with them.

To complete this task, you need to know what is a template, what is transclusion, what is TemplateData and where TemplateData are placed. For more information, see:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TemplateData

Try to find templates that are visible on a page and are relatively simple.
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Add TemplateData to ten templates that accept parameters and lack TemplateData associated with them
Task level: Beginner

Add TemplateData to ten templates on English Wikipedia that accept parameters and lack TemplateData associated with them.

To complete this task, you need to know what is a template, what is transclusion, what is TemplateData and where TemplateData are placed. For more information, see: • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TemplateData

If the template has a documentation page, TemplateData must be added to that documentation page. Otherwise, it must be added to the template itself.

Try to find templates that are visible on a page and are relatively simple.
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Investigate the TemplateData problem of table cell formatting templates
Level: Intermediate

A documentation page at Template:Yes/doc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Yes/doc) lists several templates. There is a problem with the TemplateData of these templates. Visit each template (not mandatory) find out what the problem is and report back.
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Fully resolve the TemplateData problem of table cell formatting templates
Level: Intermediate

A documentation page at Template:Yes/doc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Yes/doc) lists several templates. There is a problem with the TemplateData of these templates. Visit each template and solve its problem. Make sure they have authentic and accurate template data associated with them.
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Add TemplateData to
Level: Advanced

Add TemplateData to template. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_AV_media) These data must go to the appropriate place in its documentation page, where there is already an incomplete TemplateData
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When you reviewed them please let me know if you have any idea to where it is best for the students to report in. It needs to be talk page capable of reciprocating answers.

Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 11:00, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi again.


 * Here is another task. Hopefully, this will tell me whether it is safe to come up with certain others that I have in mind or not.

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Find 10 templates that invokes a module but lack TemplateData
Level: Intermediate

Modules are scripts written in Lua language; they enable more advanced scenarios that are not supported by Templates and Wikimarkup alone. Modules usually have a template wrapper. For more info, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lua

Find ten templates that invoke a module but lack TemplateData. One approach to finding such templates is to list all Wikipedia modules, check each to see which templates invoke them and visit those templates. (Usually, there are one template for each module.)
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 * Best regards,
 * Codename Lisa (talk) 01:04, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

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Reuse of references from statements in Wikidata in content at Wikipedia
Found T199197, but that is more or less the closest I get. Is there any activity on reusing references from statements in Wikidata in content at Wikipedia? That is make them show up in the “re-use” tab in teh VisualEditor Cite-dialog. Jeblad (talk) 18:47, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Would this be pulling citations from statements that appear in a wikidata infobox or similar template that's included in the page? Not that I know of. Mvolz (WMF) (talk) 10:58, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

Getting Started with the TemplateData Extension
Hello Mvolz, I am Ndubuisi, a Student Software Developer interested in knowing more about the Wikimedia Development Stack through Open Source Contributions. I came across discussions phabricator on some improvements for the template. I have set up the extension on my mediawiki install

I need some clarifications though

Please, What does the Template Data Extension do? I have seen explanation the extension page but they are not simple enough

Also how do I start using this extension in my local mediawiki install?

I really want to start contributing to this extension, and understanding the problems it solves and how to use it will help me get started

Thanks.
 * Hi! Sorry, that task really didn't have enough information! I've updated the phabricator task with more details. I hope that helps, feel free to ask any additional questions on the task! Please note though that the task only has one mentor at present (me), and it would need two to go ahead, so I'm not sure it will be available for this round of GSoC/Outreachy. Although, if it really appeals to you, you can try commenting on the phabricator task that you're interested, and that might make it easier to find an additional mentor! Mvolz (WMF) (talk) 10:35, 30 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the prompt response. I don't really mind if it doesn't make it to GSoC, I just want to get my hands dirty with Wikimedia core, extensions, skins et all. I will be following up on Phabricator, thanks.

Syncing the Zotero translators to Wikipedia
Hi, Apologies if this is not the best location to request, I wonder if you would be able to assist in getting the latest Zotero translators synced from the Zotero repository to mediawiki-services-zotero-translators. It looks like this hasn't happened for a while. I recently got a Bangkok Post translator merged on Zotero (PR #2234 on github.com:zotero/translators) which would be quite useful in some Thailand articles I am working on. I would try to do this myself but I'm not very familiar with Phabricator/Gerrit and don't want to mess anything up. Thanks! Matthewmayer (talk) 12:51, 13 September 2020 (UTC)


 * No worries, that's fine! It's a bit ad hoc. I've submitted a PR to update the translators here: https://github.com/zotero/translation-server/pull/119 Cheers, Mvolz (WMF) (talk) 10:32, 24 September 2020 (UTC)