mediawiki (FOSS.IN miniconf)

Today I attended a miniconf on mediawiki that took place on the sidelines of FOSS.IN. It was a very interesting talk by Erik Moeller. During the talk Erik kept making notes using etherpad (http://eiximenis.wikimedia.org/MediaWikiNotes). I have copied them below. It was really amazing to know about the kind of effort that goes into making these things happen (which sadly the user community, that includes me, takes for granted). It was also nice to know about a bunch of allied technologies and a number of new enhancements that are coming to mediawiki. I was really fascinated by the new enhanced editor and I downloaded and installed the svn trunk when the talk was on to get a feel of the interface. I will be soon upgrading the wiki at office.

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Mediawiki Workshop 2010                                     

Erik Moeller           

FOSS.IN 2010             

[Miniconf]

Mailing list for developers: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Manual about how to write a MediaWiki extension: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extensions

Subversion check-out instructions: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Subversion

Get commit access: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Commit_accesss

Wikimedia configuration files for MediaWiki: http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/ 

Wikipedia's configurations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version  

IRC: irc.freenode.net #mediawiki #wikimedia-tech

http://dbpedia.org DBPedia - extract info from Wikipedia

SPARQL - RDF extraction for DBPedia

http://semantic-mediawiki.org Semantic Media Wiki - semantic storage for MediaWiki

example:bases wiki http://baseswiki.org

http://baseswiki.org  Info about non-judicial grievance mechanisms

http://svn.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Subversion  Repository

how to enable the new toolbar of wikipedia in my mediawiki? WikiEditor extension is the answer and it works if we change the user preference.

browser toolbar: Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/6401 click add to Firefox and then after 5 secs.addon is installed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/?useskin=monobook   : old theme of wikipedia (new version: Vector)

http://www.wikia.com -wysiwyg ediing   

http://www.wikia.com/Special:LandingPage?uselang=

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.org   : the sarcastic wikipedia

http://svn.wikia-code.com/

http://www.dbpedia.org/UseCases

http://atlas.gnowledge.org

View Your Mind - a better alternative for mind mapping than freemind perhaps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_Portal/Opentask   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject

http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Screencast

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BLP  -- Biographies Guidelines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Twinkle - tool for friendly reverts

http://grouplens.org/ conducts research on user interaction 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org  - Mobile version

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard - do login first!

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Media_review

http://wikibhasha.com/ a conversion utility where articles may be easily converted into indic languages

http://www.openstreetmap.org/ an open source map( edit and contribute :) )

http://liquidthreads.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:LiquidThreads_testing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes

http://translatewiki.net - localizatioin translation communities, language communities, and free and open source projects.

http://stats.wikimedia.org   --

http://download.wikipedia.org

http://www.openwebanalytics.com/  alternate to google analytics