Month: September 2016

• The RevisionSlider

  The RevisionSlider is an extension for MediaWiki that has just been deployed on all Wikipedias and other Wikimedia websites as a beta feature. The extension was developed by Wikimedia Germany as part of their focus on technical wishes of the German speaking Wikimedia community. This post will look at the RevisionSliders design, development and use […]

  September 18, 2016

  Posts, Tech

  diff, extension, mediawiki, revisionslider, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, wish, wmde

• WMDE: Metrics & Data Gatherings

  Below you will find an internal WMDE presentation covering the general area of WMDE Metric & Data Gatherings from 2016. This presentation follows on from the initial introduction to engineering analytics activities. The presentation skims through: WMDE Grafana dashboards The Wikimedia Analytics landscape Grafana & graphite Hadoop, Kafka, Hive & Oozie EventLogging, Mysql replicas & […]

  September 6, 2016

  NoFeed, NoHome, Presentations, Tech

  eventlogging, for-wmde, grafana, graphite, hadoop, hive, kafka, metrics, oozie, Presentation, statsd, Wikidata, Wikimedia, wmde

• Add Exif data back to Facebook images

  2019 Update: This script now exists with an easy to use GUI 2018 Update: I touched this script again in March 2019 moving it to Github and updating it with Docker support I start this post not by talking about Facebook, but about Google Photos. Google now offers unlimited ‘high resolution’ images within its service where […]

  September 4, 2016

  Posts, Tech

  DeleteFacebook, exif, facebook, facebook-data-image-exif, google, googlephotos, photos