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  • PTE Request for EasyMap I…

    PTEProject Translation Editor A Project Translation Editor (often referred to as PTE) is a person, who has access to validate strings on a specific project (for example BuddyPress, WooCommerce or Twenty Fourteen) for one specific locale. A project translation editor can approve strings that are added by translation contributors. Per project translation, editors are appointed by a general translation editor after…

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  • Call for Testing: WordPress for Android 18.0

    WordPress for Android version 18.0-rc-1 is available for testing on the BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design…

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  • Meeting Notes | Themes Team and Theme Authors Regarding Requirements Change

    Date: 28th July 2021 Purpose: This meeting was called to discuss the proposed requirements changes for themes.  Meeting Video: WordPress.Tv Attendees Themes Team: Ganga Kafle (@kafleg) Carolina Nymark (@poena) Attendees Theme Authors: Shiva Shanker Bhatta Ashish Shrestha Theme Ansar Yam Chhetri  Ankit Dubey  Umesh Ghimire  Prashant  Quamruz Zaman Meeting Overview:  On July 20, the team…

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  • PROPOSAL: Learner achievements on profiles

    A planned feature for Learn is integration with WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ profiles. There’s already an open issue on GitHub for…

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  • Provider API – Wikimedia Commons

    We call the following endpoints from Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=allimages&prop=imageinfo&gailimit=40&gaisort=timestamp&gaistart=YYYY-MM-DDT00:00:00Z&gaiend=YYYY-MM-DDT00:00:00Z&iiprop=url|user|dimensions|extmetadata&iiurlwidth=300&format=json https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=allimages&prop=imageinfo&gailimit=40&gaisort=timestamp&gaistart=YYYY-MM-DDT00:00:00Z&gaiend=YYYY-MM-DDT00:00:00Z&iiprop=url|user|dimensions|extmetadata&iiurlwidth=300&format=json&gaicontinue=SOME_PICTURE.jpg For both of these, we replace YYYY-MM-DD with dates (we only pull data for images uploaded/updated between these dates). We use the second query if there are more than 40 images between the specified dates, giving a continue location as the next picture (represented by SOME_PICTURE.jpg). These requests each…

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  • Provider API – Thingiverse

    The Thingiverse APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. is queried in a number of different ways. First, to get a list of ‘things’ to retrieve, and then in a series of steps for each…

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  • Provider API – RawPixel

    We call the following endpoint from rawpixel.com: https://api.rawpixel.com/api/v1/search?freecc0=1&html=0&page=X Here X is a page offset. Such a request returns a JSONJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. of the following form: { “html”: “”,…

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  • Provider API – Phylopic

    We call the Phylopic APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. in two different ways: http://phylopic.org/api/a/image/list/modified/YYYY-MM-DD http://phylopic.org/api/a/image/ITEM_UUID?options=credit+licenseURL+pngFiles+submitted+submitter+taxa+canonicalName+string+firstName+lastName We extract a list of UUIDs from the response to the first request, which we then use to…

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  • Provider API – Met Museum

    We call the objects endpoint from the Met Museum’s APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. in two ways: https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/objects/?metadataDate=YYYY-MM-DD https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/objects/XXXXX The only information we use from the first type of call is a list of object…

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  • Provider API – Flickr

    Flickr APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. We run an hourly job to pull the last hour’s uploads from Flickr. You can find the documentation for Flickr API here. We currently use the flickr.photos.search method to query…

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