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Mettre en avant une série de fonctions/contributeurs au sein de Wikipédia

One comment • 22:01, 29 January 2020 4 years ago

Amélie Cabon WMFr (talkcontribs)

Bonjour,

Je fais parti de l'association Wikimédia France.

Wikimédia France souhaite profiter du 2 millionième article de la Wikipédia francophone, pour mieux faire connaître l'envers du décor. Administrateur, arbitre, wikifourmis, labélisateur, etc sont méconnus du grand public. Nous nous sommes inspirés du projet Faces of Open Source [1] pour faire connaître une vingtaine de fonctions du wikipédien. A la place du portrait que nous n'avons pas le temps de réaliser, nous allons faire faire des dessins représentant la fonction. Pour chaque fonction sélectionnée, nous cherchons un ou une wikipédienne disposé à répondre à ces quelques questions :

- Qu'est ce qu'un [nom du poste] ?

- Comment fais tu ?

- Pourquoi aimes/participes tu au mouvement Wikimédia ?

Quelqu'un accepterait de prendre quelques minutes pour répondre à ces questions en tant que développeur MediaWiki ?

Dans l'attente de vos réponses, je vous souhaite une belle journée !

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[1] http://facesofopensource.com/

Reply 14:18, 2 July 2018 6 years ago

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Does the development community include testers?

4 comments • 06:50, 13 August 2019 5 years ago

Robert McClenon (talkcontribs)

Does the development community include testers as well as developers? The current controversy over VisualEditor shows the importance of better pre-release testing (as well as that VisualEditor should not have been enabled in article space when it was).

Reply Edited by Krinkle 04:02, 18 July 2013 11 years ago

Nemo bis (talkcontribs)

I don't understand the question. Yes, there are testers. No, they are not developers. Yes, they are part of the MediaWiki community too.

Reply 07:18, 5 July 2013 11 years ago

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Clarity of page

2 comments • 02:09, 7 June 2019 5 years ago

Summary by Retro

The previously contested edits were accepted.

Retro (talkcontribs)

@Tomybrz: What was wrong with my edit? Was it factually incorrect? If developers continue to be involved in this manner, I don't think the sentence should start with "Historically". And I'm almost sure the sentence "Before bureaucrat and steward groups are created" is wrong in tense because the bureacrat and steward user groups were created at one discrete point in time; they aren't continually created (new users are added to the groups, but that's not the same thing as creating the groups themselves.) E to the Pi times i (talk) 14:16, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

Edited 14:16, 9 May 2019 5 years ago

Tomybrz (talkcontribs)

@E to the Pi times i Hi, please excuse me for my undo. I review a second time and it's good (I didn't see "Historically",) so my bad. Sorry again

14:19, 9 May 2019 5 years ago

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Multilingual error messages

One comment • 00:04, 5 January 2017 7 years ago

Braveheart (talkcontribs)

Hi!

I've been trying to either find the German translation of the "Wikimedia Error" page or an appropriate talk page, but could find neither. The source code of the page links to User:Mark, who hasn't edited on en-wp for quite a while now, and this talk page. Could someone please point me in the right direction?

Best

Reply 00:04, 5 January 2017 7 years ago

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Clarification for GPL clauses when using MediaWiki with a commercial/proprietary product/project.

10 comments • 14:11, 9 December 2016 7 years ago

Mohnish kamble (talkcontribs)

Hi,

If I have a proprietary project, that is intended to be distributed commercially, and there is a wiki that is required with it,

can I use MediaWiki for the purpose?

The Wiki portion will be hosted separately and the communication with it from the rest of the project will happen over REST.

Could anyone please help me with understanding the

following passage of GPL-2.0:

"These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the

Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms,

do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part

of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose

permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it."

Both products are separate with respect to functionality.

Besides, the REST API in MediaWiki, I believe, is there for such communications.

Does making a REST call to MediaWiki makes the calling project fall under the GPL's sphere?

Thanks for the product, it works great.

Thanks for your time.

Reply 13:43, 29 November 2016 8 years ago

Qgil-WMF (talkcontribs)

Hi, I am not a lawyer but you can use MediaWiki for private and commercial use without any problem. The GPL license refers to changes in the code of MediaWiki, not on its regular use.

Reply 08:13, 1 December 2016 8 years ago

Legoktm (talkcontribs)

The GPL refers to modification and redistribution of the MediaWiki source code, not any content that may be stored inside of MediaWiki.

Reply 09:27, 1 December 2016 8 years ago

Mohnish kamble (talkcontribs)

Could anyone help in getting an author's approval for the same? :)

Reply 12:52, 2 December 2016 7 years ago

Legoktm (talkcontribs)

Could you clarify who you want an approval from, and what that approval should be for?

Reply 17:49, 2 December 2016 7 years ago

Mohnish kamble (talkcontribs)

Since the authors of the software can choose multiple licensing policies for the same software and can clarify aspects of terms, the authors can clarify like 'Just making calls to REST API of MediaWiki doesn't force you to make the source code of the calling application available'. Is there a separate group of authors or any member who is contributing in this community can be considered as author?

Reply 06:16, 7 December 2016 7 years ago

Qgil-WMF (talkcontribs)

@Mohnish kamble the point of the license of the software (GPL in this case) is that you don't need any explicit approval from the authors as long as you follow the license. As we have discussed above, your intended use of MediaWiki is compliant with its license. That's it, that's all. You don't need anything else to run MediaWiki for your project.

Reply 12:17, 7 December 2016 7 years ago

Mohnish kamble (talkcontribs)

Thank you Qgil-WMF. Could you please take a look at these sections of GPL's FAQ? https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#MereAggregation https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLWrapper

These somewhat make the communication of two systems hazy when one is GPL and the other is not. I just need some assurance that communicating with MediaWiki by a separate program over REST/Web-service doesn't cause any violation regarding its intended use.

Reply 06:38, 8 December 2016 7 years ago

Qgil-WMF (talkcontribs)

You are using MediaWiki as is in your server, not modifying it or redistributing it. "communicating with MediaWiki by a separate program over REST/Web-service" poses no conflict with the MediaWiki license.

Reply 08:15, 8 December 2016 7 years ago

Mohnish kamble (talkcontribs)

Alright @Qgil-WMF. Thanks for your time.

Reply 14:11, 9 December 2016 7 years ago

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Types of developers

One comment • 09:27, 1 December 2016 8 years ago

Qgil-WMF (talkcontribs)

We could update this page with Engineering_Community_Team/Developer_Relations_team#Types_of_developers.

Reply 12:20, 13 September 2015 9 years ago

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NOT offering the MathJax HTML+CSS rendering option does get in the way of their project of supporting the MathML rendering option

2 comments • 01:38, 2 April 2016 8 years ago

Tentacles (talkcontribs)

On all those sites that use MathJax, I can choose the Math renderer to be from: MathML, HTML+CSS, SVG and more options... If Wikipedia had all those options, we could leave everything as LaTeX and all the zillion hours spent on math typography (and writing all those templates for HTML maths) could be spent on writing actual mathematical content. Offering the MathJax HTML+CSS rendering option does not get in the way of their project of supporting the MathML rendering option; NOT offering the MathJax HTML+CSS rendering option does get in the way of their project of supporting the MathML rendering option because people are then inclined to write the math in HTML with templates instead of the LaTeX that MathJax needs as input. Oops... — Tentacles^{✉ mailto:Tentacles} 01:37, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Reply 01:37, 2 April 2016 8 years ago