| 24 Dec 2019 |
 Bryan Hilderbrand | Looks good revansx! | 23:33:33 |
| 25 Dec 2019 |
 revansx | thanks! .. just made some minor changes.. will send it out tomorrow (26th) | 17:26:51 |
| 26 Dec 2019 |
 Georgios Mavropalias | Merry Christmas everyone! | 05:59:17 |
| 27 Dec 2019 |
 rundg | By adding 5 extensions , I've enable 'Social Discovery' in my wikis. | 16:14:19 |
| rundg | That is to say that now MediaWiki emits OpenGraph Protocol tags for FaceBook and TwitterCard tags for rich media sharing on Twitter. | 16:15:08 |
| rundg | This rich-media preview should work in this forum too... eg. https://beta.familysearch.org/wiki/en/West_Virginia_Deaths_and_Burials_-_FamilySearch_Historical_Records | 16:15:59 |
| rundg | The extensions are:
OpenGraphMeta - Open Graph Protocol
Description2 - automated text extracts
PageImages - automated image extracts
TextExtracts - automated text extracts
TwitterCards - Twitter Card meta tags | 16:16:37 |
| rundg | Rich media previews increases click-through rates which in turn increases your Google SEO and other algorithms for content relevance. | 16:18:42 |
| 30 Dec 2019 |
| revansx | Just posted an announcement of EMWCon 2020 to mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org and semediawiki-user@lists.sourceforge.net and am trying to get it posted in the "Mediawiki" and "Mediawiki Extensions" rooms here on Riot. Here is the RIOT announcement:
ATTENTION MEDIAWIKI ADMINS, DEVELOPERS, AND USERS!
APRIL 1-3, 2020 --- SANDUSKY, OHIO USA
We are excited to announce EMWCon Spring 2020, the Enterprise MediaWiki Conference [0], happening from April 1-3 in Sandusky, Ohio USA. The conference will have two days of talks followed by a one day Create Camp. There will be many opportunities to interact with others using and developing MediaWiki.
Quick Link: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2020/Announcement | 18:15:20 |
 cicalese | @room ATTENTION MEDIAWIKI ADMINS, DEVELOPERS, AND USERS!
APRIL 1-3, 2020 --- SANDUSKY, OHIO USA
We are excited to announce EMWCon Spring 2020, the Enterprise MediaWiki Conference [0], happening from April 1-3 in Sandusky, Ohio USA. The conference will have two days of talks followed by a one day Create Camp. There will be many opportunities to interact with others using and developing MediaWiki.
Quick Link: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2020/Announcement
| 18:18:31 |
| revansx | Nice ,, Thanks! | 18:20:48 |
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| 3 Jan 2020 |
 thomasoneill | Is there a meeting today? | 16:17:47 |
| Bryan Hilderbrand | Yes, meeting in about 10 minutes. | 16:19:28 |
| thomasoneill | bryandamon: Thank you! https://meet.google.com/mdd-ufhn-ksb, right? | 16:21:04 |
| Bryan Hilderbrand | That's correct! | 16:21:53 |
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| 4 Jan 2020 |
| thomasoneill | I had another idea about the blog, if it has not already been done, I would reach out to admins such as https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Shirayuki asking them to keep an eye out for extensions worth highlighting. | 01:41:32 |
| 5 Jan 2020 |
 richardheigl | do we have a contact person at fandom? or is somebody from fandom in this group? | 15:39:28 |
| cicalese | Máté Szabó: ^^ | 16:11:28 |
 Máté Szabó | Hey :) I guess feel free to ask me anything and I can forward the question if I am not sure about the answer | 16:34:15 |
| richardheigl | Hi Máté! That's great. We try to start a MediaWiki commmunity blog. I wrote an email a few minutes ago to a few people and will share this here in a few minutes, too. It would be great if someone from FANDOM would join in, because there are many developments going on there that deserve attention and have no place else. Maybe you can pass this on or maybe you would like to get involved yourself. :-) | 16:38:50 |
| richardheigl | Hi all
sorry for cross-postings, but I would like to post this call for contributions here as well, because the right people are together here.
-- MediaWiki blog: Call for contributions --
Our joint project, mediawiki.blog, is going to be live in the near future. To truly be "our" project, we are asking you to contribute articles.
At the last SMWCon in Paris I suggested that we should push communication about MediaWiki with a new MediaWiki news channel as a joint project.
The concept is a community blog like opensource.com but focused on MediaWiki and more open and accessible to would-be contributors. Anyone will be able to create an account and post contributions. Contributions will be curated and reviewed by a small editorial team to make sure they meet some minimum standards before they are accepted and published to the front page.
In the new year, with funding and design for the blog provided by Hallo Welt! for the MWStakeholders, my idea is becoming a reality.
This will be a place where we can report on new developments, events, experiences and new services as well as announcements, RfCs, field reports, best practices and howtos, texts about MediaWiki and whatever else seems important to us.
The blog deliberately closes the gap between the Wikimedia Techblog, which focuses on issues concerning the Foundation, the mailing lists, various social media channels and the blogs that you already run yourself.
We want to create a easily accessible, casual, gathering place for the larger world to find information pertinent to the third party community. We will be able to refer to service providers and developers, point to you as authors and active contributors and show that MediaWiki is much more than a craft project.
Of course, we would like to have posted a few articles so that the blog already has some content when we make a larger, more public announcement and that is where you come in: we need contributions from users like you. Could you contribute a small article for the start?
Something will come from Hallo Welt! about a Push&Merge function and two-factor authorization.
To help you think of things to write about, here are some ideas of the sort of things we would like to see (but feel free to add your own ideas):
• Announcements about new or updated extensions,
• things that happened at EMWCon or the Hackathon,
• Yaron's podcast,
• stuff about containers,
• about Meza,
• about Wikidata,
• Translatewiki,
• new semantic templates and Semantic MediaWiki,
• new developments from Wikimedia,
• SAML,
• hosting, or
• skins
...
Please think about what you are working on and if you want to write a few lines about it and send me a mail until 31 January 2020 with your ideas and texts to: heigl@hallowelt.com. We will put them into a temporary blog and start to sort them out and develop a content structure (e.g. categories). As soon as the final blog system is ready, the content will move there.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me. I know that a joint project always sounds good at first, but now it is time to actually do the work and make it happen.
And of course everyone who wants to join the editorial team is very, very welcome!
I look forward to your feedback.
Richard (for the MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group)
PS: Spread the word! You are welcome to forward this mail to people who could and should write something.
| 16:48:08 |
| 6 Jan 2020 |
 Sam Wilson | is the blog going to run on MediaWiki? :) | 01:19:35 |
| richardheigl | Unfortunately not. We thought about it, but at least for the moment Wordpress is the better (blog) solution, because there are already many necessary functions ready. For example spam protection for comments, maintained responsive templates etc. We don't have the resources to rebuild and maintain all this on a usable level.
But exactly this also shows why we have to promote MediaWiki and build an ecosystem. Resources are missing and therefore extensions, templates, service providers, maintainers... | 06:31:46 |
| richardheigl | * Unfortunately not. We thought about it, but at least for the moment Wordpress is the better (blog) solution, because there are already many necessary functions ready. For example spam protection for comments, maintained responsive templates etc. We don't have the resources to rebuild and maintain all this on a usable level.
But exactly this also shows why we have to promote MediaWiki and build an ecosystem. Resources are missing and therefore extensions, templates, maintainers... | 06:32:39 |
| Sam Wilson | yes that makes sense. Wordpress is pretty great. | 06:42:00 |
| Sam Wilson | I'm attempting to use MW (with cargo) to blog, but it's pretty clunky! | 06:42:22 |
| richardheigl | Yes, but there are so many other interesting developments that make MediaWik really unique. People should be able to read about that in a well-designed blog. I'd like to have that very much. | 06:51:43 |
| Sam Wilson | sounds great | 07:02:54 |
