Re: [Wikitech-l] Problems with file deletion on Commons

2013-04-15 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Eugene Zelenko eugene.zele...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I'd like to bring to attention of developers and system administrators problems with file deletion on Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Daily_DR_issue Sorry,

Re: [Toolserver-l] srwiki_p database incosistency

2013-04-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Marlen Caemmerer marlen.caemme...@wikimedia.de wrote: Hello, ... I wrote to the database gurus at WMF about that some weeks ago but I got no mail back and I dont know how to resolve this issue. Sorry to have to say this but I am afraid even a new setup s3

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clicktracking being phased out

2013-04-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 5:46 AM, FastLizard4 fastliza...@gmail.com wrote: I thought we weren't supposed to use blink tags because they attracted Weeping Angels. :P That which holds the image of a angel... ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] Finding images within dumps

2013-04-10 Thread K. Peachey
Some of these images may be located on a remote wiki, In this case it would be Commons, so they won't have a local file description page in most cases. You will need to grab a copy of the commons dumps for these. On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Keith Schacht krscha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've

Re: [Toolserver-l] mayapple config cron jobs

2013-04-10 Thread K. Peachey
Was this issue filed in JIRA? On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Dr. Trigon dr.tri...@surfeu.ch wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 PING! Any news here? Why was this ignored? Greetings DrTrigon On 30.03.2013 14:37, Dr. Trigon wrote: Hello everybody! Hello nosy! Do you

Re: [Toolserver-l] Login and account

2013-04-10 Thread K. Peachey
I would recommend opening a ticket in JIRA. On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Dr. Trigon dr.tri...@surfeu.ch wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello beloved Admins! Today I recognized that my account has expired (what a pitty) so I tried as usual to login and renew but

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-04-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Željko Filipin zfili...@wikimedia.org wrote: Done: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla_Weekly_Report Željko I hope you are going to go edit the descriptions for those files and add the appropriate license tags?

Re: [Wikitech-l] whatcanidoforwikipedia.org

2013-04-07 Thread K. Peachey
Why not just point it to a page onwiki somewhere? that way everyone can contribute! (we could even semi-protect it I guess...) On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 8:17 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Thanks for working on this.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: Wikitech contributors

2013-04-04 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: So yeah; perhaps SMW has issues that makes deployment to the bigger content wikis problematic, but rejecting it for the smaller data-based ones on a kneejerk is, at best, misguided. It wasn't knee jerk the time it was

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Alternative domains for Commons

2013-03-28 Thread K. Peachey
How is that meant to pervent confusion? you are just sticking a extra .api in the address. On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: What about inserting another domain just to prevent confusion and to keep current redirects, which would ONLY allow api, such as

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement *please read*

2013-03-28 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Mathias Schindler mathias.schind...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Steven Zhang cro0...@gmail.com wrote: We all started talking about Sue Gardner for President 2016 on IRC today. I'd vote for her... In order to do so, there are two minor

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Will Beback, Arbcom and Community oversight

2013-03-24 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Peter Southwood peter.southw...@telkomsa.net wrote: Is there a policy that requires that he do so? Mailing list wise, No. But it is considered good ettique to do so. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] JobQueue

2013-03-23 Thread K. Peachey
AFAIK we already do that for some entries, Reedy will know more, I will let you investigate his mind for more knowledge on that. On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.org wrote: Don't forget about the potentials of a priority based queue! (That being said I actually

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: I suggest renaming of pages Cross-site scripting = Cross-site scripting (XSS, XSSI) and Cross-site request forgery = Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)

2013-03-22 Thread K. Peachey
What actual benefit with having their abbreviation in the title archive? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC

2013-03-22 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Željko Filipin zfili...@wikimedia.org wrote: Most of these projects seem to be extension (and PHP?) centric. Can we have more diversity? Browser test automation? Not an extension, not in PHP, but in Ruby[2]. OPs don't want [any more] ruby on the clusters, So

Re: [Wikitech-l] FlaggedRevs at www.mediawiki.org

2013-03-19 Thread K. Peachey
What is your Username?, My crystal ball is still getting repaired. On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: If possible, could I get the flag as well. I've run into the same problem before. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Github/Gerrit mirroring

2013-03-14 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: Can we please be real here? The reason more contributors come in through GitHub than through Gerrit is because they *already have a GitHub account*. My browser is always logged into GitHub, ?!? Unless you magically had a

Re: [Wikitech-l] WebRequest and PHP bug 31892 fixed 6 years ago

2013-03-13 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:22 PM, vita...@yourcmc.ru wrote: Also I don't understand the need for PathRouter - my IMHO is that it's just an unnecessary sophistication. As I understand EVERYTHING worked without it and there is no feature in MediaWiki which depends on a router. Am I correct? I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Replacement for tagging in Gerrit

2013-03-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: 4) A Gerrit-based tagging plugin would need some engineering that might not be apparent at first blush, for example: who can set tags and remove them? Does that vary by tag? How could I, for example, keep track of all

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: Someone could probably make an extension that integrates with MediaWiki, so all user has to do is go to special:recordAudio and they could record/upload from there. Perhaps that would make a good gsoc project (Not sure if

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's non-disclosure agreement

2013-03-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Tomasz W. Kozłowski odder.w...@gmail.com wrote: ... #1: Does anyone know who might be able to provide a copy of an example NDA signed by WMF staff for use on Meta (at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Non-disclosure_agreements)? #2: If it isn't possible to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] fiction: WMF policy of paying less than market

2013-03-08 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 5:31 AM, Leslie Carr lc...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Leslie Carr lc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Though I do feel that the WMF salary is discriminating against my right to fly

Re: [Wikitech-l] Seemingly proprietary Javascript

2013-03-06 Thread K. Peachey
I'm pretty sure I have memories of this exact thread happening when minification was first introduced, With counsel at the time (Mike) weighing in on the matter. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pictures from a developer's life

2013-03-04 Thread K. Peachey
The original tumblr blog where they appear to be from (with more) http://devopsreactions.tumblr.com/ ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] [API] Can't edit with API in custom namespace

2013-02-22 Thread K. Peachey
Is the API logged in as a user with permissions that cover editing the namespace? On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Al Johnson alj62...@yahoo.com wrote: I hope someone can help. I have a custom namespace. I can edit via API in the _main_ namespace, thus, my custom bot is logging in, getting

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's support of OTRS

2013-02-21 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:02 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: James Alexander wrote: Yeah, I have to agree sadly that we need more tech support and this has been a thing that has been ongoing for a while. I personally think it should remain in the foundation for many reasons (the least of

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Sue Gardner interview on ABC Radio

2013-02-14 Thread K. Peachey
Perhaps we should find out from the SLQ what license that is under, If its under a decent license It might be worthwhile uploading it to commons (in the appropriate format) On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Thehelpfulone thehelpfulonew...@gmail.com wrote: Alternatively you can play back the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Sue Gardner interview on ABC Radio

2013-02-14 Thread K. Peachey
Perhaps we should find out from the SLQ what license that is under, If its under a decent license It might be worthwhile uploading it to commons (in the appropriate format) On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Thehelpfulone thehelpfulonew...@gmail.com wrote: Alternatively you can play back the

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Deepen the Conversation with Sue Gardner, Wikimedia] If you missed out on tickets you can still lis...

2013-02-13 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Richard Ames rich...@ames.id.au wrote: No sound!!! WFM (at the moment). ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] URLs for autogenerated documentation

2013-02-08 Thread K. Peachey
Before we get too entrenched in the address layout, can we have a better url than doc, it doesn't really scream out what it does, Something along the lines documentation or development (probably not so much) suggest better about what the address will contain. On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 1:37 PM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Minimalist MediaWiki? (was Re: Merge Vector extension into core)

2013-02-06 Thread K. Peachey
I don't think people are arguing to keep it lightweight like Tiddly or UseMod but rather on a similar platform on what we already have and to keep the core in a position where it can have features that would be widely used by most installations and the cruft that is more rarely used to be housed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Merge Vector extension into core

2013-02-05 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: I have no real opinion on if this should happen or not,. though if it does, I think it'd be better to bundle it as the extension it is now rather then merging it into core. This keeps the code nicely separated and

Re: [Toolserver-l] Status of enwiki_p databases

2012-12-31 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Mono monom...@gmail.com wrote: That tool probably only accepts the manual input to indicate database corruption. I believe that is what Mz was inferring to. ___ Toolserver-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] mwEmbed gadget

2012-12-31 Thread K. Peachey
The gadget should be updated, prototype has finally be killed off (December 14th it happened). On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: Lately, when I visit a Wikipedia page, it just doesn't stop loading. The indication in Firefox (on Linux) just continued to

Re: [Wikitech-l] mwEmbed gadget

2012-12-31 Thread K. Peachey
AFAIK its replaced by a extension anyway, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MwEmbed for more info. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Can I turn-off wiki exports?

2012-12-25 Thread K. Peachey
Even if you did this, Without checking I imagine it will require hacking at the core since I doubt we already have a config switch for this, People can still scrape the page or grab it via the API... As long as the person can see the page, they will be able to copy it... On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla upgrade [was: bugzilla.wikimedia.org downtime: Now.]

2012-12-11 Thread K. Peachey
On Wednesday, December 12, 2012, Andre Klapper wrote: On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 19:30 +0100, Krinkle wrote: wikibugs-l as Bugzilla account isn't actually used afaik. … That is contrary to wikibugs-l@ which seems to be an existing and working email address. Yes it's a mailing list that anyone

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTTP Error 504 Gateway timeout when running a robot

2012-12-09 Thread K. Peachey
What user agent is your tool sending? On Monday, December 10, 2012, Strainu wrote: Hi, I tried falling back to non-api, but I seem to be unable to login (probably a framework problem of some kind). Hopefully someone from ops will shed light on this on Monday. Thanks, Strainu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla upgrade [was: bugzilla.wikimedia.org downtime: Now.]

2012-12-07 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: So the aim of the patch was to completely omit bugmail in case of CC list only changes, in order to make IRC + wikibugs-l@ less noisy? ... In any case, I'd like to challenge reapplying this patch, because: 1)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sul on external Scripts

2012-12-07 Thread K. Peachey
Are you referring to using Wikimedia CentralAuth accounts to auth against other provider wiki sites? Or using your own CentralAuth setup for your site(s)? On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Marco Fleckinger marco.fleckin...@wikipedia.at wrote: Hi, I know it is technically possible to use the SUL

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sul on external Scripts

2012-12-07 Thread K. Peachey
What the WMF is looking at for stuff like that is becoming a OpenID provider so services and tools can act as Consumers, But that is some way away currently. Ryan would be the one to poke about that iirc ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Really Fast Merges

2012-12-05 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Why do you need a UID? The autoincrement id we use in most tables can (should) serve as UID. It needs a little care when sending the inserts, but it's straighforward. It can easily be done by a layer on top of our db

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia Australia Public IRC meeting today at 5PM AEDST

2012-12-01 Thread K. Peachey
don't you mean #wikimedia-au? On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Steven Zhang steven.zh...@wikimedia.org.au wrote: Hi everyone, The Wikimedia Australia public meeting will start today, 2nd December 2012 at 17:00 hours (5:00pm Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time (AEDST) ) in

Re: [MediaWiki-l] rewriting old MediaWiki skins

2012-11-20 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com wrote: I don't know what's the usual procedure with backporting things; maybe it could be landed in 1.20.1 or something. -- Matma Rex / Bartosz Dziewoński We tend to not back-port unless its to fix [major] breakage.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help needed to complete and expand the Wikimedia glossary

2012-11-20 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote: * Also, I've started to clean up the glossary, but it still contains dated terms and definitions from a few years ago (like the FundCom), so boldly edit/remove obsolete content. I don't believe these ever become

Re: [Wikitech-l] editing channels - How was this edit made?

2012-11-19 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: Sooo... when do we set him as 'moderated'? I've already notified one of the list moderators, We don't need to discuss and bring any more attention to this. ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release notes updating

2012-11-13 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Brad Jorsch bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: You *should* update release notes. This statement about having the release manager do all release notes is incorrect. I've never heard that release

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

2012-11-06 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: The way we’d get there: I’m prepared to resign from my engineering management responsibilities and to focus solely on my remaining role as VP of Product, as soon as a successor for VP of Engineering has been identified. We

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

2012-11-06 Thread K. Peachey
(Double Post, Since this was crossposted in the first place, and to make sure I hit both lists, Sorry Wikitech) On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: The way we’d get there: I’m prepared to resign from my engineering management responsibilities and to focus

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

2012-11-06 Thread K. Peachey
(Double Post, Since this was crossposted in the first place, and to make sure I hit both lists, Sorry Wikitech) On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: The way we’d get there: I’m prepared to resign from my engineering management responsibilities and to focus

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clean up prototype.wikimedia.org

2012-10-29 Thread K. Peachey
Inline Comments On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I thought I'd put together a list of stuff I found running on prototype.wikimedia.org. I have no control over terminating the machine itself, but I intend to clean up stuff that is no longer

Re: [MediaWiki-l] What to do with an overstressed server?

2012-10-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 8:25 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: We live on a 4GB Linode. I don't have a full handle on what we've got on it - it's accreted in an ad-hoc fashion with some horrible bodges - but there's several MediaWikis, only one of which (rationalwiki.org) has any

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.20 release candidate (and triage announcement)

2012-09-23 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote: On 09/23/2012 12:54 PM, Krinkle wrote: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/[...] Link shortened: http://hexm.de/lp There is no need to shorten urls in emails, Please don't.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Initial stab at responsive images for high-density displays

2012-09-18 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: * adds $wgResponsiveImages setting, defaulting to true, to enable the feature Shouldn't experimental features be defaulting to false till it gets tested a bit? ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] New experimental feature on IRC

2012-09-11 Thread K. Peachey
You might want to remove the Active since section, MWBot was set to not record channel joins and quiets in the logs for a user privacy point of view (from what I could find and read), this seems to be hitting on that area. (And yes, I know a user could run a anaylais of their own on the log lines

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML wikipedia dumps: Could you please provide them, or make public the code for interpreting templates?

2012-09-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 8:01 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: page) is just absurd. There's enormous value in the HTML dumps. This subject came up in December 2011 and from the comments in that thread, it seemed as though the only reason the HTML dumps have been updated is that nobody

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC Project Update (ConventionExtension)

2012-08-26 Thread K. Peachey
During your time in GSoC, what type of things did you mentor explain? Because i've had a quick peruse of your gerrit change sets and I know they are only minor but I do see a few things that our Coding Conventions cover as well as stylize (which is a script that is can be run)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fixing the archives (was: Re: Can we make an acceptable behavior policy?)

2012-08-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 8:10 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: I wonder if it makes sense to post the mailing list archives to Meta-Wiki or some other wiki. It seems to have a number of advantages over the use of pipermail: * built-in search via Lucene; * control over the content

Re: [Wikitech-l] Nightly tarballs?

2012-08-01 Thread K. Peachey
I believe there is already a process of this happening on the TS (don't remember the address), or it did used to happen. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-18 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Marcin Cieslak sa...@saper.info wrote: Maybe this is because of the discussion format which was framed as for and against Gerrit. Is it possible to setup a copy of Phabricator in labs? What is needed to help with this? //Saper John had one running just as

Re: [Wikitech-l] [[Template:WikimediaDownload]]

2012-07-15 Thread K. Peachey
*Sigh* I have already told people not to break the template like this previously. Someone (since i'm too tired to even log into mw wiki atm) should revert that template change. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Take a lesson from dreamhoststatus.com

2012-07-11 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:06 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: No link to it in the footer of http://en.wikipedia.org/ etc. pages. We should have a link to every project of ours and the subsequent language variants as well in the footer? ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP namespacing and traits

2012-07-05 Thread K. Peachey
Haven't we already discussed this like ten million times around? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical hurdles for enabling $wgHtml5 on Wikimedia sites?

2012-06-28 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: We've had it enabled on mediawiki.org for ages, with minimal death and mayhem.  There are two issues listed as blockers: We don't have half of the delautomated crap/delinsAnti-vandal and random other tools/ins running

Re: [Wikitech-l] bot activity in #mediawiki on freenode

2012-06-25 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: This isn't discussion about git, but feeds we have in #mediawiki, feed from git is definitely not the only one Then please feel free to move it to a

Re: [Toolserver-l] Dude, where is my logfile?

2012-06-22 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:25 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Did you read https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-1252? Your reply makes it seem as though you did not. Log rotation isn't needed here; a ban on the use of interwiki.py is what's needed here. Oy vey. Wasn't that done?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Relations with freenode and wikimedia

2012-06-21 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: But I am not talking about creating a new network, but providing some of our resources to freenode. They would likely operate and manage it without assistance from wmf ops. (Last I saw) Freenode wants full root access on the

Re: [Wikitech-l] bot activity in #mediawiki on freenode

2012-06-21 Thread K. Peachey
I would prefer to see wikibugs stay in #mw to be honest, There is sometimes support stuff in there, as well as other important stuff. I'm sure people don't want to be flicking IRC channels every X, and wikibugs wasn't that high of traffic either... ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] bot activity in #mediawiki on freenode

2012-06-21 Thread K. Peachey
Wikibugs is more active than gerrit? I've been sitting in the irc channel less than 30min (not the best user case) but that experience tends to suggest otherwise. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Revoking +2 (Re: who can merge into core/master?)

2012-06-16 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: whobrokeitthistime.wikimedia.org? :) Roan Point it to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BLAMEWHEEL ? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] question about purpose of usernames with @ characters

2012-06-06 Thread K. Peachey
CentralAuth uses it so you can refer to a user on another wiki when you need to do global stuff. EG: TStarling@dewiki or TStarling@enwiki ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Give create gerrit repo right to all WMF engineers

2012-06-05 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Alolita Sharma alolita.sha...@gmail.com wrote: It is unacceptable to have developers waiting in queue to get create-repo access 'some day'. We've lost at least a couple of weeks worth of productivity in Ori's case (for E3) since he's been unable to firstly get

Re: [Wikitech-l] Set $wgUseCombinedLoginLink = false on WMF cluster?

2012-05-28 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: or goes by with no comment.  In fact, we should probably just enable it on mediawiki.org if there's no objection on list. Lets not? A. Stuff like this should be the same no matter where you are on the cluster B. The MW

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla downtime

2012-05-26 Thread K. Peachey
I wonder if anyone changed the gadget on en.wiki (or elsewhere) recently, since iirc that showed very much the same but Tim would be able to confirm if I'm remember right about how it showed. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] The bugtracker problem, again

2012-05-22 Thread K. Peachey
We don't assign that group automatically anymore by default afaik. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Toolserver-l] Toolserver user phe account expired

2012-05-21 Thread K. Peachey
Toolserver users need to renew their accounts every so often[1] (Three monthly is combing to mind, but someone else would need to confirm (and they are given warnings I believe)), and if a user fails to do that it is automatically locked, It's unfair to all TS users if user accounts are allowed to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extensions queue for Git conversion

2012-05-21 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Andrew Otto o...@wikimedia.org wrote: Chad, I'm not sure if this matters for what you are doing, but I recently moved this  http://svn.mediawiki.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/udplog/ to  https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=analytics/udplog.git;a=summary Is

Re: [Wikitech-l] The bugtracker problem, again

2012-05-13 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: I'm convinced all other fields can be done without and removing them will improve the workflow of the developers and the Bugmeister. Including, but not limited to: - Platform (Hardware/OS) - See also - Web browser - URL

Re: [Wikitech-l] The bugtracker problem, again

2012-05-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:40 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Interesting post. Can probably be summed up technical tool doesn't work well for non-techies. Film at 11. Mark H. and I have had previous discussions about generally improving user feedback tools. The Wikimedia Foundation's

Re: [Wikitech-l] The bugtracker problem, again

2012-05-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 6:38 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: We're complaining about the reporting. How is Bugzilla for connecting developers and bugs? How do developers actually get connected to problems? Particularly problems where the reporter isn't clear on the component.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Bug in v1.18.3

2012-05-11 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Bertrand Caplet bertrand.cap...@okira.net wrote: Hi, I wanted to inform you that there is a bug in 1.18.3 on login page.. You might already know that. I installed v1.19 and no bug. Descriptive bug report is descriptive. Also bugs should be filed in our

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inline styles trouble on the mobile site

2012-05-11 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 10:26 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Maybe we're not talking about the same thing, then? I see plenty of inline styling throughout the page source of this page. E.g., table class=infobox vcard style=width: 25em; font-size: 88%; line-height: 1.5em I believe you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia MediaWiki configuration files are now in a public version control system

2012-05-10 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:27 AM, [[w:en:User:Madman]] madman.enw...@gmail.com wrote: I assume that https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/ still has the latest changes that have been deployed? Yes ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia MediaWiki configuration files are now in a public version control system

2012-05-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Sam Reed re...@wikimedia.org wrote: No history of these files have been imported. Any reason for this? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia MediaWiki configuration files are now in a public version control system

2012-05-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Patrick Reilly prei...@wikimedia.org wrote: We've got passwords in the repo.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia MediaWiki configuration files are now in a public version control system

2012-05-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: Some of the ops that fullfill shell requests paste diffs into BugZilla comments, which is awesome. Wasn't that only Jeluf(spelling?) that did that, But yes, If you do a request and then close it, Please link to the

Re: [Toolserver-l] Interwiki bot MMP planning

2012-05-08 Thread K. Peachey
I think, Unless we get any more people steeping forward (since there is only like less than 10 people discussing it atm), THen just stick everyone in the MMP. But you would need to check with DaB to see if they are happy with that. ___ Toolserver-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] BugZilla Portal (NEW)

2012-05-03 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:14 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Nice job on this. :-) This appears to mostly be an index of Bugzilla search queries. Do you know if there's been any progress on making the Bugzilla database available in a replicated form (on the Toolserver or Wikimedia Labs

Re: [Toolserver-l] Interwiki bot MMP planning

2012-04-28 Thread K. Peachey
Did this ever get advertise on the en.wikipedia bot owners noticeboard? I was meaning to do it at one stage but never got the time. ___ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org)

Re: [Wikitech-l] CIA IRC bot kicked out

2012-04-23 Thread K. Peachey
The user was probably op'ed and saw the messages, since CIA-* is globally +q (quietened) in the channel. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Spam

2012-04-23 Thread K. Peachey
That looks like the standard password reset request email. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] CIA IRC bot kicked out

2012-04-23 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Is there any point in keeping the CIA bots in #mediawiki ? We might as well remove it. We did try once, And its been broken (non mw) since then. On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: [Wikitech-l] CIA IRC bot kicked out

2012-04-23 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see any need to keep CIA around anymore. We don't use the the #mediawiki instance of CIA-* (it's been broken ever since we moved it out of #mediawiki and into another channel), The only one we use is sitting in

Re: [Wikitech-l] MathJax enabled on mediawiki.org

2012-04-18 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: … I've set up a page here to report track issues: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math/MathJax_testing … Erik Can we not use wiki pages for bug reporting… Bugzilla is so much better for that ;) Listing bugs

Re: [Wikitech-l] [[How to deploy code]] updated

2012-04-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: Am 18.04.2012 04:24, schrieb Roan Kattouw: I have gone through https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/How_to_deploy_code Why is this there and not on http://www.mediawiki.org ? Because its about the WMF cluster admin and/or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia skins directory

2012-04-16 Thread K. Peachey
1.18 shouldn't be failing anymore since reedy put a symlink in place for it. Ideally people would code things like that (aka stuff that isn't actually MediaWiki) shouldn't be doing it to be dependant on MW skin folders, eg: build their own css files, Because like this is pointing out, things can

Re: [Wikitech-l] Some tag for attribution within the article

2012-04-13 Thread K. Peachey
How is this any differnt from using E:Cite (aka ref/ref) as is? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Too many random test wikis

2012-04-07 Thread K. Peachey
* labs.wikimedia are the old old old labs/test projects, These are no longer (and any that still wanted - wmflabs) * prototype.wikimedia are oldish test setups, and most should be moved to wmflabs if still wanted *.wmflabs.org are instances hosted on our Labs setup[1] which is our virtuazlization

Re: [Wikitech-l] Too many random test wikis

2012-04-07 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: All of these are going away. something.labs.wikimedia.org have already been closed. I'd *love* to delete them permanently, but we have no reasonable means of doing so in the production cluster. We have done it before, But that

Re: [Foundation-l] help.wikimedia.org - QA site

2012-04-06 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Jan Kučera kozuc...@gmail.com wrote: new projects suck, because there are (close to) none Well propose a non sucky one then? TBH I don't class a QA site really as a new project. Since that bug (if memory serves correctly) is just about setting one up for

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