Mediawiki Workshop 2010
Erik Moeller
FOSS.IN 2010
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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
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

http://baseswiki.org Info about non-judicial grievance mechanisms based on semantic media wiki

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

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Commit_accesss

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

/* amazing talk!! */ +1
I am in love with Wikipedia.
so am I

WE SHALL CONTRIBUTE! .
I will.

Amen

Original @ http://eiximenis.wikimedia.org/MediaWikiNotes

This is my initial study i want to share with everyone… have a look.

And please mail me your suggestions or questions.

Thanks

Anyway , this is all about my experience of delivering a workshop outside my college to all unknown peoples @IMS Ghaziabad organized by Young Engineers IIT Kanpur. Its great to be a part of that , Rest i will add later as it important to give the download link of presentation now.
Click here to download that:
linux workshop @IMS Ghaziabad

*Please read this article by giving 10 minutes from your busy life.
Really good…. ** *

* The President of India DR. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam ’s Speech in Hyderabad . *

Why is the media here so negative?
Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our
achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing
success stories but we refuse acknowledge them— Why?
We are the first in milk production.
We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.
We are the second largest producer of wheat.
We are the second largest producer of rice.
Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transferred the tribal village into a
self-sustaining, self-driving unit.

There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed
in the bad news and failures and disasters.

I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was
the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken
place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had
the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed
his desert into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture
that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments,
deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Why are we so NEGATIVE?

For full story http://gpraveenkumar.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/dr-a-p-j-abdul-kalam-s-speech-in-hyderabad/

Debian creator, Ian Murdock, first announced his new distro to the Linux development news group on 16th August, 1993. In his initial posting, he promised a sleek, slim distribution with the most up-to-date of everything! I’d say he succeeded in his aims. Google Groups has archived the message and you can read it here.

It’s been a long road from there to here, but Debian is one of the best distros out there, so Happy Birthday Debian!

As a majority of users still use windows and Linux on same machine but the main problem is we have to restart our machine again to use other OS, like if we are using LINUX(UBUNTU my preference) ,then to boot Windows(Vista) only option available is restart

But now by using Virtual Box , i can boot my installed Vista from UBUNTU.
Here is how I did:

1. Install virtualbox package: “sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose“

2. Locate your windows partition: ”sudo fdisk -l”

This is on my system:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 6445 51769431 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 6446 10270 30720000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 10271 13491 25872682+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda4 18415 19457 8370176 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5 10271 13309 24410736 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 13310 13491 1461883+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

So here windows partition is ‘dev/sda1′ (the one with NTFS filesystem format and active marked as *)

3. Now need to create a .vmdk file (file format used by virtualbox to emulate hard-disk) and make it point to our real disk sda in our case .
Run:
sudo vboxmanage -convertSettings internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/.VirtualBox/vista_physical_partition-sda.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda

4. change permissions of .vmdk file to your own user
sudo chown ~/.VirtualBox/vista_physical_partition-sda.vmdk

5. Now start virtualbox as root and create a new virtual machine.

New –> Next –> enter your virtualmachine name & choose windows vista as OS type –> Next
Allocate at least 512MB of ram (1Gb will be good, but LINUX also require atleast 500MB so be careful while allocating RAM), –> Next
Hard-disk, click EXISTING –> “add” and go to ~/.VirtualBox/vista_physical_partition-sda.vmdk –> Select –> Next –> Finish

Further configuration :
Machine –> Settings
Under General section, allocate at least 50Mb of ram for video
Under Advanced tab ensure “Enable IO APIC” is checked and click on OK (check other options also like enabling sound in corresponding sections)

ALL DONE !! Start your machine and enjoy!!!

Comments welcome !!
IMPORTANT : While creating this machine i had used whole disk so when you start this machine it will boot as your normal system.With GRUB and other options. Please dont boot LINUX from LINUX or WIndows from inside Windows, else you will face serious problems.

People generally search google and other forums for solutions of UBUNTU related problems.
There is a place can be useful for many of UBUNTU related problems.Visit http://www.nabble.com/Ubuntu-f12717.html
for details and for archived mailing list.

Yes finally UBUNTU 9.04 is released and available for download, i had tested the alpha and beta also and the final version is surely a better experience and a nice stable improvements over UBUNTU 8.10.
Boot time is much faster than Win XP, Vista and even than previous SUSE UBUNTU and FEDORA also. Fast, secure, lite system with all needy applications and with a great customization features.

I personally suggest every LINUX or Windows user to at least use it once.Some important upgrades or improvements are

* GNOME 2.26 desktop environment
* Latest X.Org server
* Linux kernel 2.6.28.
* Ext4 filesystem support
* Included in Jaunty is a simple menu which can be used to set preferences for notification icons, such as where they pop up on the taskbar.
* A number of improvements to the Ubuntu start-up process bring significantly improved boot performance to Ubuntu 9.04.

You can download it from following locations :

From Our GLUG Server :
http://lug.nitdgp.ac.in/download/linux/isos/

Other Sources :

Ubuntu ISO image 32 bit i386 DVD ISO (4.2 GB)
Ubuntu ISO images 64 bit DVD ISO (4.3 GB)
Ubuntu Linux Desktop 9.04 CD 32 bit i386 (697M)
Ubuntu Linux Desktop 9.04 CD 64 bit (697M)
Torrents:
i386 32 bit Desktop DVD

If you are facing any problems regarding usage of UBUNTU , you can contact us on our mailing list at nitdgplug@googlegroups.com
or on our IRC , written aside in my blog.

“Join the next generation of computing, Open Source, and Linux/GNU! “

It is really helpful to figure out projects specific to some fields.

http://tinyurl.com/gsocideas

For example,
Try to use C language or java or python as keyword to search! Hope it can help all to find your project.