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reporter | 2 Nov 2009 04:00
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Bugzilla Weekly Report

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for October 26, 2009 - November 02, 2009

Status changes this week

Bugs NEW               :  118                                 
Bugs ASSIGNED          :  7                                   
Bugs REOPENED          :  17                                  
Bugs RESOLVED          :  83                                  

Total bugs still open: 4066                                

Resolutions for the week:

Bugs marked FIXED      :  55                                  
Bugs marked REMIND     :  0                                   
Bugs marked INVALID    :  11                                  
Bugs marked DUPLICATE  :  8                                   
Bugs marked WONTFIX    :  10                                  
Bugs marked WORKSFORME :  3                                   
Bugs marked LATER      :  5                                   
Bugs marked MOVED      :  0                                   

Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics 

New Bugs Per Component

UsabilityInitiative                 7                                   
Semantic MediaWiki                  5                                   
Site requests                       5                                   
Page rendering                      4
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Eugene Eric Kim | 2 Nov 2009 08:07
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strategy discussion

As many of you know, Wikimedia has embarked on an ambitious strategic
planning process. The goal is to come up with a five-year strategic
plan for the Wikimedia movement.

Obviously, tech plays a critical role in all of this. We're in the
process of taking a deeper dive into tech-related issues, and as part
of that, we want to hold regular, logged discussions on IRC. Our first
session will be on Monday, November 2 at 21:00 UTC (8am EDT; 1pm PST;
10pm CET). We'll be talking on #wikimedia-strategy on freenode.

Hope that many of you will be there. I'd also encourage you to
participate on the wiki at:

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Technology_infrastructure,_interface,_and_innovation

and

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Emerging_strategic_priorities/ESP_5_key_questions#Questions:_Technology_infrastructure

Let me know if you have questions. Thanks!

=Eugene

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OQ | 2 Nov 2009 09:02
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Re: Webzzle

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:36 AM, stevertigo <stvrtg <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> So, cheezy
> product with a cheezy name that nobody will want to use, wants a
> former Wikimedia board member to juice its personell roster...
>
> That's what it looks like to me, and I just read your email four minutes ago.
>

Well they went ahead and started adding[1] links[2] to 'demo' how much
it would help Wikipedia. Just seems like search engine results to me.
They've petitioned feedback on the Village Pump[3], which thankfully,
or unfortunately depending on how you look at it, happened before they
got the banstick[4] for violating existing policy. And as I mentioned
on VPP, it just seems like a solution in search of a problem.

1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Champagne_(wine)&diff=prev&oldid=323369829
2 - http://www.webzzle.com/explorer/webResource.kol?action=20020&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FChampagne_%28wine%29&title=Champagne%20%28wine%29%20-%20Wikipedia%2C%20the%20free%20encyclopedia/
3 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Improve_the_external_links_section
4 - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User%3AWebzzle
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Steve Bennett | 2 Nov 2009 14:14
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Re: Webzzle

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Andrew Garrett <agarrett <at> wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I don't know why they bothered using a demo to explain their
> technology, clear explanations like "organize the real-time knowledge
> web" and "explore the knowledge web in 1-click" just speak for
> themselves.

To be fair, it's clear the guy's English isn't too good.

Thing is though, I just don't see the value in this kind of vague mash
up. Wikipedia is great. Google is great. Trying to mash them together
in some vague "knowledge web"...what problem is this solving? Seems
like it would require some huge critical mass to be useful, but the
concept (whatever it is) is so nebulous it will struggle to attract
contributors.

This is intriguing though:
>The Webzzle technology is protected by international patents. General Internet Company, the startup
behind Webzzle, gives free access to the patents and free use of the technology

Steve
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Benjamin Lees | 2 Nov 2009 15:33
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Re: strategy discussion

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Eugene Eric Kim <eekim <at> blueoxen.com> wrote:

> Our first session will be on Monday, November 2 at 21:00 UTC (8am EDT; 1pm
> PST;
> 10pm CET). We'll be talking on #wikimedia-strategy on freenode.
>

I don't think the American times are correct.
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Roan Kattouw | 2 Nov 2009 15:40
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Re: strategy discussion

2009/11/2 Benjamin Lees <emufarmers <at> gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Eugene Eric Kim <eekim <at> blueoxen.com> wrote:
>
>> Our first session will be on Monday, November 2 at 21:00 UTC (8am EDT; 1pm
>> PST;
>> 10pm CET). We'll be talking on #wikimedia-strategy on freenode.
>>
>
> I don't think the American times are correct.
21:00 UTC is indeed 10pm CET and 1pm PST, but it's 4pm EST (note that
EDT is Eastern Daylight Time).

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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Eugene Eric Kim | 2 Nov 2009 15:57
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Re: strategy discussion

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/11/2 Benjamin Lees <emufarmers <at> gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Eugene Eric Kim <eekim <at> blueoxen.com> wrote:
>>> Our first session will be on Monday, November 2 at 21:00 UTC (8am EDT; 1pm
>>> PST;
>>> 10pm CET). We'll be talking on #wikimedia-strategy on freenode.
>>
>> I don't think the American times are correct.
> 21:00 UTC is indeed 10pm CET and 1pm PST, but it's 4pm EST (note that
> EDT is Eastern Daylight Time).

Sorry about the confusion. I believe Australia uses the EDT
convention, but I may be mistaken. U.S. is actually on Eastern
Standard Time (EST) right now.

What I meant was 8am Sydney time. :-)

=Eugene

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Steve Bennett | 2 Nov 2009 18:30
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Re: strategy discussion

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Eugene Eric Kim <eekim <at> blueoxen.com> wrote:
> Sorry about the confusion. I believe Australia uses the EDT
> convention, but I may be mistaken. U.S. is actually on Eastern
> Standard Time (EST) right now.

Yeah, it's confusing. The term AEST or AEDT is less ambiguous:
http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/au/est.html

Steve
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Soxred93 | 2 Nov 2009 18:47
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Re: Webzzle

Wanna know the best part about Webzzle?

It's blocked at my school. :)

That'll surely help them...

-X!
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javi bueno | 3 Nov 2009 18:49
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API (query action) ( mediawiki - 1.12 )


Hi, I'm trying to get the content of an article through API ( PHP code ) .

I logged through POST request, but when I tried to do the query action I saw the following message :

"unknown_action: Unrecognised value for parameter 'action'"

I don't kinow if I am doing anything wrong.

This is my code :

<?php
$url = "http://localhost/wiki/api.php";
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

$data = array('action' => 'login', 'lgname' => 'myuser', 'lgpassword' => 'mypassword');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$data);

$result= curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

$url = "http://localhost/wiki/api.php";
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
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