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Wikimedia XML data sets released on Amazon Public Data Sets
For our community members that do analysis on Wikimedia project data, I’m happy to announce the release of our XML snapshots within Amazon Public Data Sets.
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/09/new-public-data-set-wikipedia-xml-data.html
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Supporting translatewiki.net
Translatewiki.net is a core part of the MediaWiki ecosystem. While not a Wikimedia Foundation project, it’s used by hundreds of volunteers to improve the localization of MediaWiki and its extensions, alongside other open source projects, which has
FlaggedRevs test wiki awaits you!
Apparently due to some miscommunications, a lot of people didn’t realize that the FlaggedRevs labs test wiki has been active and waiting for people to poke at it for a month, since just before Wikimania!
We need interested people to be get up as local administrators to try out the the per-page stabilization settings (accessed via [...]
Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet
I’d like to share some exciting news with you all… After four awesome years working for the Wikimedia Foundation full-time, next month I’m going to be starting a new position at StatusNet, leading development on the open-source microblogging
Theora 1.1 Released
Theora 1.1 has been released. This release reflects the efforts of xiph.org developers who over the past year have done incredible work to greatly improve the core free codec video library. This effort has been support by Mozilla Foundation, Red Hat
LocalisationUpdate in testing
Ok, we still need to complete automation of update runs for LocalisationUpdate, but it seems to be working!
It’s not the most glamorous of extensions, but you can see here an updated message (”Den här sidan” where the current deployed message file says “Denna sidan har”)!
– brion
Server Donation Entry Period Ending
Just to let folks know, we have had quite a large interest in our donation of some of our decommissioned servers. In fact, I have way too many emails!
So to be fair, rather than just stop today, we will stop accepting submissions for this next Monday, September 24th. That means if you want your proposal/request [...]
LocalisationUpdate and ProofreadPage second try tomorrow; Collection too
Updates are coming back for LocalisationUpdate and ProofreadPage extensions, which we tested then pulled Tuesday due to performance problems.
Roan’s redone LU to store the message updates in serialized files instead of the database, which we
Commonist, CommonsHelper fixed
I’ve put in a fix for uploader tools and bots that have been broken since the last update — these bot tools didn’t expect the upload form to change, so they don’t pass in new required fields such as the edit token which was added to the form in the latest update.
Since the edit token [...]
LocalisationUpdate deployment delayed
Problem #1 — causes huge increase in CPU load on web servers
Problem #2 — completely kills THE ENTIRE SITE when you DISABLE it because serialized LUDependency objects in the message cache can’t be reinstantiated.
Sigh… Why can’t life be easy :)