Re: [Wikitech-l] selenium browser testing proposal and prototype

2012-04-06 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: I've seen this assertion waved around again and again, but don't see where it originates from, besides the very unreliable fact that we just don't talk much about ruby around here. When I said community not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Development process doesn't work (yes this is another complaint from another community member)

2012-04-05 Thread K. Peachey
2012/4/5 Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com: I don't know if this is a part of some joke https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/LiquidThreads_3.0/status but it seems that someone wrote some code Yes, Werdna was working on it for a bit (hes currently attached to other WMF projects currently as to my

Re: [Wikitech-l] selenium browser testing proposal and prototype

2012-04-05 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Chris McMahon cmcma...@wikimedia.org wrote: For various reasons, I think the best language for this project is Ruby.  I realize that is a controversial choice, and I would like to explain my reasoning.  First let me address what I think will be the most serious

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal to complete manually complete unification of all accounts

2012-04-05 Thread K. Peachey
Why would we not want blocked accounts to be processed? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal to complete manually complete unification of all accounts

2012-04-05 Thread K. Peachey
Indef user on one project != (always) a project wide issue. Not doing so, would potentially cause issues the same as we already do where the accounts can't unify because they exist elsewhere. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Live testing of Ashburn search infrastructure

2012-04-04 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Peter Youngmeister p...@wikimedia.org wrote: at 15:00 UTC, tomorrow, 4/4/12. (Or 4/4/12, for those not using American date formatting.) [[ISO 8601]] can help in situations like this. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inactive sysops + improving security

2012-04-04 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: I have seen there is a lot of wikis where people are concerned about inactive sysops. They managed to set up a strange rule where sysop rights are removed from inactive users to improve the security. However the sysops are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Development process doesn't work (yes this is another complaint from another community member)

2012-04-04 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: I started working on two extensions in October, more than 6 months ago. Both were approved by community on Village Pump and it was agreed to deploy them to english wikipedia. One of the extension had hundreds of lines and is

Re: [Mediawiki-l] wiki auxiliary: for files you cannot upload to Mediawiki

2012-03-30 Thread K. Peachey
Just set your wiki to support uploading the file types you want? While yes, we are a bit strict out of the box, these settings can be altered to allowed whatever you desired to be uploaded. We have better office format support in the 1.18.X (or was that back in 1.17.X?) releases as well iirc

Re: [Wikitech-l] Email addresses for wikimedians

2012-03-30 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: Also, when we do find a good hostname to use, I think it should be universal and tied to a SUL username (not per-wiki or per-project), so it shouldn't contain the name of a project (wikipedia, wiktionary, commons, ..) and

Re: [Wikitech-l] I don't want a full git clone, I just want an rsync(1) style diet git clone

2012-03-27 Thread K. Peachey
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git#Latest_development_version_of_MediaWiki should behave the same as updating from SVN in the past (as to my understanding). ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Localisation commits status update

2012-03-26 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote:  (both from svn and git, git taking precedence over git) I heard you like Git… ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] git source code links

2012-03-25 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Do note that we now have a broken link for every extension using this template that is not deployed by WMF... Cheers Revert then ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] git source code links

2012-03-25 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: Much better approach: to find a live way to have separate links - for extensions with and without repos in git ! Yes, you can do that after you revert the change that breaks a large percentage of the extension links.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Setting $wgCategoryCollation to 'uca-default' on WMF wikis

2012-03-20 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:54 AM, Helder helder.w...@gmail.com wrote: So, how could we check whether Portuguese wikis would break by doing this change? As Tim said: * Set one of the test wikis (Testwiki, Testwiki2) to Portuguese * change to said collation * do some editing * see if it breaks

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Extension used in WikiMedia's fundraising drive

2012-03-15 Thread K. Peachey
That would be the CentralNotice[1] extension. although, If it just a single wiki you can just use a SiteNotice[2]. [1]. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CentralNotice [2]. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Sitenotice ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Guidelines for the use of iframes?

2012-03-14 Thread K. Peachey
That should be reverted right now per our privacy policy and any others on site. No different than share button usage. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-introducing UNCONFIRMED state to bugzilla

2012-03-13 Thread K. Peachey
Why is it even restricted? We don't restrict closing bugs. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:GoogleMaps changed in r113648

2012-03-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: I changed the download link in the Extension info box download = {{WikimediaDownload|Maps}} Do not go and randomly change extension download links to others (even if they match functionality), Go back and revert that. If a

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTTPS preference?

2012-03-10 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:41 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: I've been using Google Chrome lately. :-( But it looks like HTTPS Everywhere now finally supports Chrome: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere, so I suppose I can resolve this for myself. :o Finally! (Although it's still

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git, Gerrit and the coming migration

2012-03-06 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Diederik van Liere dvanli...@gmail.com wrote: My concern is not about the UI of Gerrit, I know it's popular within WMF to say that it's UI sucks but I don't think that's the case and even if it was an issue it's only minor. We are changing from a CR system where

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP 5.4 has been released

2012-03-05 Thread K. Peachey
It's been awhile since I have been at school, But... print 0x00+2 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2012-03-05 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: Well it's not *still* running, it's been broken plenty of times in the meantime :) Wasn't that just the email address becoming unsub'ed from the list, or did it actually break at one point?

Re: [Toolserver-l] MMP interwiki-bot

2012-03-03 Thread K. Peachey
Perhaps someone starts work on a list, of who does what and where (with any relevant options), (on TS wiki?) so people can start discussing what and who could be useful to the MMP so the people have some sense of what needs to be done. ___ Toolserver-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Database dump of Bugzilla

2012-03-03 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:11 AM, John Du Hart compwhi...@gmail.com wrote: I'm currently investigating alternative bug tracker and project management software for MediaWiki. To do that I'll be installing some different software on the Labs and importing existing bugs for evaluation by the

Re: [Wikitech-l] PDF Download

2012-03-03 Thread K. Peachey
CCing in the PP dev team, Since I don't know if any of them are on this list. On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Nasir Khan nasir8...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, From the very beginning, there is a problem in the PDF Download tool and that is it can not properly render the Bengali and some of the other

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC'12 Proposal : List of Ideas

2012-02-28 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Shivansh Srivastava shivansh.b...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I transferred the contents to  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Shivansh13 Cheers Just to nitpick, It would be nice if users could put their GSoC proposals on/in a sub-page in their user space.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who can make Gerrit/Labsconsole accounts?

2012-02-28 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:24 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: ... snip... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/System_administrators as having shell access can make a Gerrit/Labsconsole account, and should say yes to everyone who asks, except for known malicious persons. Doubt

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who can make Gerrit/Labsconsole accounts?

2012-02-27 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: As long as everyone's information is known in advance, it can be scripted, yes. On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Surely this could be scripted. -Chad Does they all need new accounts

Re: [Mediawiki-l] After Upgrade to 1.18 - every page blocked

2012-02-25 Thread K. Peachey
Did you update all your extensions when you updated the install [to 1.18]? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Patch submitted: authentication on Wikipedia via user_name OR user_email

2012-02-22 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Bináris wikipo...@gmail.com wrote: Great, thanks! What will this do if I have multiple user names on the same e-mail? What will this do if I have multiple user names on the same e-mail AND the same password? (For me it would be a good solution to choose the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2012-02-21 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:00 PM, reporter repor...@kaulen.wikimedia.org wrote: MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for February 13, 2012 - February 20, 2012 Status changes this week Bugs NEW               :  304 Bugs

Re: [Toolserver-l] Where did nightshade go?

2012-02-20 Thread K. Peachey
There is technical issues, Have a look at https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-1198 ___ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Where to host wikimedia related software projects

2012-02-20 Thread K. Peachey
MediaWiki Wiki if they work on any mediawiki install by default(ish). If they needs hacks to work, ideally elsewhere ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Where to host wikimedia related software projects

2012-02-20 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: Hacks to MW core or to their software? Either If just their software (which I think is the case) - doesn't seem any different from extensions which need some additional configuring. Config Settings != Hacking to

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects

2012-02-14 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: 3. jQuery drop down menu - I wanted to implement this functionality on every page. I had seen the SignUP API wanted this universally. If there are security issues with AJAX, then there is no need to even implement the jQuery

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects

2012-02-13 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Shivansh Srivastava shivansh.b...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Page Preview (onmouseover) - A small Dialog box, that could display the Intro para of the hypertext/link in an iframe or related text. (1 week + testing) . I'll need to discuss this more There is a nice

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC Complete Rewrite of Mobile Frontend Rename MobileFrontend2

2012-02-12 Thread K. Peachey
I've read a few of the CR threads and onwiki discussion about this and I'm surprised by the negativity expressed towards the vol. developer for whatever reason whom is planning to work on this, While yes this extension does plan to have the same or similar feature set in the end, it is planning on

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC Complete Rewrite of Mobile Frontend Rename MobileFrontend2

2012-02-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: I think this is an agrument in favor of doing so in a branch, rather than the other way around. A delrose/delinsfolder/ins by any other name would smell as sweet. I think Aaron's argument that IDEs may go bonkers from

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC Complete Rewrite of Mobile Frontend Rename MobileFrontend2

2012-02-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:51 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: No humor allowed. Mailing lists r srs business. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration - updated schedule workflow descriptions

2012-02-11 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: Which reminds me, does LocalisationUpdate support git? Or Extension Distributor? AFAIK No and No, For the latter I believe Tim (As to my understanding when I last saw that discussed) is going to set up a RO Git -

Re: [Wikitech-l] Regarding GSoC 2012

2012-02-10 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/02/12 18:54, Aashish Mittal wrote: 2. Convention extension for converting mediawiki wiki into website for conference. I have been through the links, but I would like to get a better technical understanding of this

Re: [Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

2012-02-08 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.org wrote:        Let's be clear about our (admittedly informal) policy here: What is informal about our process? * Community gains consenus for feature to be activated (and the desired config if required) * Bug gets filled in

Re: [Foundation-l] Cartman Gets an Anal Probe English Wikipedia's featured article today

2012-02-07 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: Casting aside the infantile slogan, Wikipedia is not censored, I think having the pilot of South Park on the Main Page is quite appropriate; the subject is significant. Fred Really, It's not that much different than

Re: [Mediawiki-l] An Administration Page

2012-02-05 Thread K. Peachey
Chad (^demon) did do some work to start supporting a DB based config setup, although I don't believe he had the time to really work on that so it has stagnated (If anyone else wants to pick it up and do some work on it) ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list

Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Old English Wikipedia image dump from 2005

2012-01-31 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Ariel T. Glenn ar...@wikimedia.org wrote: You don't need an account to read the content, only to edit. Ariel I believe they mean watchlisting (so they get email notifs) (If email alerts are even activated over there)

Re: [Wikitech-l] One-time run of maintenance scripts to fix years-old utter brokeness

2012-01-27 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: execute it immediately... I don't really know why ops didn't do that, I was in though that it's cronned to run certain jobs It is cronned for only for the small wikis, I believe[Citation Needed].

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] COMPLETED: Mailing lists server migration today

2012-01-22 Thread K. Peachey
This really should be filed in bugzilla. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] What happened to MediaWiki-CVS

2012-01-19 Thread K. Peachey
Archives are disabled on -cvs, hence they are empty :p ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Foundation-l] Stewards keeping editing rights on en.wiki for emergency edits... yeah...

2012-01-18 Thread K. Peachey
Can someone remind me, Which ones of these are emergency edits? (Plain text format: http://pastie.org/private/2xom9n0uxeoeodmksokxbw) N19:15 User:Leinad/common.js‎ (diff | hist) . . (+37) . . Leinad (talk | contribs) (←Created page with 'function insertBanner(a) { return; }')

Re: [Wikitech-l] Text browser users won't see your important site notice

2012-01-18 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:00 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Making sure articles look good in w3m ensures they are machine processable -- as you never know what kind of machine might be processing your article. No, Machine accessible interfaces should be using the API to access it...

Re: [WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia blackout

2012-01-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: Really, if it's on Central Notice, it doesn't need to be anywhere else. It was a little difficult to miss. Since a large majority of users block CN messages because of the large amount of what some would call spam in

Re: [WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia blackout

2012-01-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote: One can't really complain about not being inform about things if they choose to block out one of the major channel of public notice I'm not going to start the whole debate on If CN is a notice service, what it should be

Re: [WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia blackout

2012-01-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: I find it highly unlikely that most people have blocked them. You don't strengthen your argument by using hyperbole. I based that comment it on the few hundred Omg how do we get rid of these notices on the notice

Re: [Toolserver-l] interwiki.py

2012-01-16 Thread K. Peachey
Perhaps you should look at why people are running with different settings then standardize. Interwiki bots should all be doing the roughly the same job, shouldn't they? so whats with the different settings? ___ Toolserver-l mailing list

Re: [Toolserver-l] interwiki.py

2012-01-16 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:02 AM, Tim Landscheidt t...@tim-landscheidt.de wrote: We could also move the pressure: Labs' bot running infra- structure doesn't seem to be /that/ far from opening.  If interwiki bots were running there, it would allow the foun- dation to judge whether pushing for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 13937: Correcting edit summaries (if own, last, recent)

2012-01-16 Thread K. Peachey
I feel it should have it's own logging, Since this could be abused (eg: Harrsement other community members), We would probably want to delay email notifs as well if we had this feature so they got sent with correct edit summary. ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Wikitech-l] Want student help with your MediaWiki project?

2012-01-13 Thread K. Peachey
Perhaps we/the mentors could get them working on a easy bug or two at first, just to ease them into the MediaWiki world. Perhaps if there are any closely related to the projects they choose to work on. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Want student help with your MediaWiki project?

2012-01-13 Thread K. Peachey
Perhaps we/the mentors could get them working on a easy bug or two at first, just to ease them into the MediaWiki world. Perhaps if there are any closely related to the projects they choose to work on. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] No autodetection in Mobile Frontend extension

2012-01-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: Quick questions: * Does anybody actually want to use MobileFrontend to implement a feature-phone gateway on other sites? That was one of the plans for it... ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Files with unknown copyright status on MediaWiki wiki

2012-01-04 Thread K. Peachey
Commons folk doesn't magically delete anything unless there is a reason, nor do they instantly delete in most cases. If peoples uploads are continently getting tagged for deletion, They should look at why they are getting tagged. ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Files with unknown copyright status on MediaWiki wiki

2012-01-03 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Just consider that those files have been created by their uploader and that they granted a license for use on mediawiki.org I'm pretty sure we can't assume anything with licensing, The uploader must state the license they

Re: [Wikitech-l] Better publicizing MediaWiki API and tool development with MediaWiki

2012-01-01 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:13 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: The question becomes what the target of such a link should be. I think there are a few possibilities of where it could go, on MediaWiki.org and Meta-Wiki. I'm not sure which site is most appropriate here and I'm not sure which

Re: [Wikitech-l] Email notification sender

2012-01-01 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 5:13 PM, M. Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote: Correction: Wikipedia is the largest part of the projects. Why do people always want to pretend otherwise, or lament that fact? Never said otherwise, Huib just said Wikipedia was one of many WikiMedia projects.

[Wikitech-l] Files with unknown copyright status on MediaWiki wiki

2011-12-31 Thread K. Peachey
We currently have a large number of file uploads with no licensing data on MW wiki! And we should really start doing something about it, As some people may have noticed last week(ish) I went though and tag most (if not all) of the uploads from this year that didn't have the licensing data. The

Re: [Wikitech-l] Files with unknown copyright status on MediaWiki wiki

2011-12-31 Thread K. Peachey
1. Category:Images with unknown copyright status https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Category:Images_with_unknown_copyright_status 2. Category:Files with unknown copyright status https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Category:Files_with_unknown_copyright_status

Re: [Wikitech-l] Files with unknown copyright status on MediaWiki wiki

2011-12-31 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl wrote: * Notify all uploaders with unknown copyright files * Sort out https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Files_with_unknown_copyright_status * Move all good files to Commons * Delete all bad files * Disable local uploads

Re: [Wikitech-l] Standards for communication between antivandalism tools

2011-12-26 Thread K. Peachey
If believe we have/had evil plans to move away from IRC for things like this to something like XMPP[Citation Needed]. Wouldn't a system like this slow down the vandal checking, because it would need to check the feed, do its business and then check again before attempting to save. Or would it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Donate page on wikimediafoundation.org broken

2011-12-19 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:43 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate is linked on the front page. It redirects to http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:LandingCheck ...

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki:Common.js is not loaded for Special:Preferences?

2011-12-17 Thread K. Peachey
No it's not, For security reasons. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] irc bot

2011-12-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mr. Nelson :P I don't know if you are making fun of my bad english (I am not a native english speaker, so that's why) or from the choice of programming language, however if it's the second I already explained why it's

Re: [Wikitech-l] irc bot

2011-12-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Russell Nelson russnel...@gmail.com wrote: On the other hand, if you DO program it in assembly language, I'd want to see a copy. Just to admire it. :-) Do I hear LOLCATS calling? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] irc bot

2011-12-15 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: - Old bot is written in java and nearly no one has access to source code, neither is managing it, the bot is still running without problems rather thanks to original creator who did a great work and made a very stable code,

Re: [Foundation-l] The Mediawiki 1.18 image rotation bug on Commons and on all Wikimedia projects

2011-12-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote: 1 - Bug or feature ? It is a bug. ... snip ... It is somehow intentional, because it seems that the devs have suddenly decided that the exif orientation tag should be taken into account, while in the past users used had to

Re: [Mediawiki-l] User migration

2011-12-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) stephen.berg@nrlssc.navy.mil wrote: Tried that, it broke the wiki.  Some pages wouldn't come up at all, just a blank web browser window.  That's why I exported all the pages from the old wiki/server to the new wiki/server.  My

Re: [Toolserver-l] Cleaning dumps in user-store

2011-12-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: How hard can it be to get enough disk space on the toolserver? I think many chapters contribute money to its operation. Is it not enough? Getting the HDD space in the TS isn't as simple as just grabbing a few server level

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2011-12-11 Thread K. Peachey
Custom, https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/tools/bugzilla/bugzilla-4.0/extensions/WeeklyReport/ ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] [MediaWiki-l] Skin-Synagonism

2011-12-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Kaseluris-Nikos-1959 kaseluris.ni...@gmail.com wrote: Please, If commiters are interesting in my skin's functionality, docode review and commit my skin for me. Reporting bugs to me, I'll do my best. Have you considered apply for commit access[0] yourself? That

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Memory Leak Issue

2011-12-06 Thread K. Peachey
Turn off your extensions one by one and see if it still happening? Also apart from ExternalData what other extensions are you running? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Diff colors update

2011-12-06 Thread K. Peachey
As i've pointed out else where, especially to be considerate for our colour blind friends (depending on what group they are in), We should be consistent with out colour schemeing, Although this should be the only usage in core (as far as I know), We have seem to have started using blue for buttons

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki 2.0

2011-12-06 Thread K. Peachey
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:2.0 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Account Creation

2011-12-03 Thread K. Peachey
I believe there was someone working some ajax (extension possibly?, maybe some core work?) to improve that on the sign up page, No idea what ever happened to that… ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wikitech-l] error lasted more than 10 minutes....

2011-11-28 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:50 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: I asked roughly the same thing yesterday (more along the lines of shouldn't it take someone ten minutes to add memcache support to the extension?).

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why Wikipedia Is Important.

2011-11-26 Thread K. Peachey
Even with Wikipedia around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Magic words for user rights?

2011-11-26 Thread K. Peachey
I don't think there is anything currently like that implemented in ParserFunctions due to caching issues that would arise from that I believe. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla vandalism

2011-11-25 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongm...@gmail.com wrote: There is also another, impersonating brion, which does not appear to have been cleaned up. Most of that has been (Its what Ariel was referring to just before), But it was done mostly with email off to prevent people

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla vandalism

2011-11-24 Thread K. Peachey
As I pointed out on IRC, but just repeating it in here in case someone else actually wants to attempt it (Regarding the create via admin panel). [00:22] p858snake|l mutante: don't use that function to create accounts [00:23] p858snake|l it doesn't send the emails to create it or lets you set the

Re: [Toolserver-l] Unplaned maintaine on this Saturday

2011-11-22 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Simon Walker stwalkers...@googlemail.com wrote: Last weekend? Who stole the TARDIS? ___ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please preload a space in the page for the banner

2011-11-21 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: Hell no! When I say I don't wanna see any fundraiser banners, it means i don't wanna see ANY banners related to the fundraiser, no mater how pretty they look. Otherwise they will just go on the AdBlockPlus list. You should

Re: [Wikitech-l] svn auto-props http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Subversion/auto-props#Setting_auto-props up to date ?

2011-11-06 Thread K. Peachey
Do you commit anything with file extensions apart from those or the ones on the default list? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting the first image of a page

2011-11-02 Thread K. Peachey
Have a look at how the popups gadget does it. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making developer access easier to get

2011-10-29 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: * However, I am now ensuring that we are more lenient with extensions developers than we are with people applying for core commit access.  We still, of course, watch out for security issues in submitted code

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Open-Edge (education) conference - Sydney, 9 Oct

2011-10-21 Thread K. Peachey
Was it in the moderation queues maybe and someone cleaned them out? ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

[Wikitech-l] r100000

2011-10-16 Thread K. Peachey
r10[1]. Congrats Ryan. [1]. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/10 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committers

2011-10-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: Pick one from here https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?component=LiquidThreadsresolution=---list_id=36047 Most of those look like they will be fixed by the rewrite, so there isn't much point sending time on it till the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Giving up on LiquidThreads

2011-10-11 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: The Swedish Wikisource community has decided not to file any bug report for the fact that LiquidThreads has again crashed after the upgrade to MediaWiki 1.18. So you aren't going to file a bug so everyone else has to suffer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration planning

2011-10-10 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote: Skimming over the plan on the wiki page, I don't see anything about a contingency or failsafe plan, which is something I'd really like to know! Just go back to using SVN :)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google's cached pages are much faster than wiki*edia's

2011-09-30 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 8:48 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: So if you can't beat 'em join 'em. Somehow use Google's caches instead of your own. Something, anything, for a little more speed. No we won't be doing that... Ever. It's because they are loading a pure HTML representation of the page,

Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-09-30 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 1:15 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Anyway, there is no way for a normal user to file a proper bug report about it, as it is all hidden in javascript that he does not see. All users are welcome to file bugs at bugzilla, and this method is frequently pushed/mentioned to

Re: [Foundation-l] Meta main page

2011-09-26 Thread K. Peachey
I wonder if the Page Translation[1] feature of the Translate extension[2] would make it easier to manage this, It appears to (but not written), that when the main translation (en for example) is touched that it will mark the other ones for needing updates. [1].

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