[Wikitech-l] 1.18 and Pre design

2011-09-24 Thread K. Peachey
I'm no SVN user so i'm emailing instead... As the 1.18 users may have noticed (eg: For example a common place would be CodeReview) the new designs for pre. In r87173[1] the layout was changed and based on consensus in review that was reverted and then 1.18 was rebranched at r92475 so I thought

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.18 and Pre design

2011-09-24 Thread K. Peachey
Bah, I'm sure I checked all the follow ups and their revision numbers. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] On developing extensions and namespace registering

2011-09-20 Thread K. Peachey
Since no one seems to have sent this to the ML and to draw wider attention: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Extension_namespace_registration#Social_tools.27_namespaces ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Fw: [[Paul Rooney Partnership]]

2011-09-16 Thread K. Peachey
If you are trying to imply the article should be deleted, Then nominate it for deletion at [[WP:AFD]][1], instead of canvassing on the mailing list. -Peachey [1]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AFD ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

2011-09-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: But let's take other completed extensions as examples. 1) WikiLove has been enabled on Swedish, Malayalam, Hungarian, Hebrew, Arabic, and Hindi Wikipedia, as well as Commons, all on request of the respective project

Re: [Foundation-l] Tragedy: videos and slides from presentations Wikimanias (lately 2011 in Haifa)

2011-09-03 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/9/3 Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com: That would seem to be a problem. If you are making separate bugzilla requests for each video, you need to come up with a better process. Either make one request for all the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make the life of extension developers easier?

2011-09-02 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: We are relatively strict keeping our new core code backwards compatible (BC). That compatibility does not come free, but who is it for? Well it sort of does come free, just most people don't seem to use it. We

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please fix your FIXMEs

2011-08-31 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote: I asked Mark already, but he hasn't answered (or at least I haven't noticed his answer), so I guess it is appropriate to ask the questions here. How can I change the status of a revision from fixme to new? And how can

Re: [Wikitech-l] Asking for notes on a MediaWiki:Sidebar replacement

2011-08-22 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:49 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Well whatever you do, make sure I can still use something similar to some maintenance/*.php command to update something similar to MediaWiki:Sidebar to several machines. Can still use? AFAIK we have no maintenance script to do that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Cleaning up deprecated html in WikiText

2011-08-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: Note that that's the fault of using an old unmaintained browser: other text browsers like elinks understand at least some CSS (though none of lynx, elinks, nor w3m understood vertical-align: top on a table cell in a quick

Re: [Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

2011-08-15 Thread K. Peachey
Just a point: WMF projects have spilt out before, for example was the September 11 remembrance wiki (sep11.wikipedia) although the fork is now offline, also one of the other plain language specific projects (Spanish Wikipedia comes to mind but I can't confirm) but as far as I'm aware never really

Re: [Toolserver-l] Query-Killer is back in action

2011-08-15 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl wrote: Ah, you are the one who killed the categorization bot. Thanks for announcing that beforehand (not!). It's very annoying that you suddenly just decide to deploy a new toy the screws up our tools. Maarten It was

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile bug Triage ‹ non-WMF devs wanted!

2011-08-15 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Patrick Reilly prei...@wikimedia.org wrote: Some revisions are also apparently being pushed live without any outside review. Yes, this is known. Every effort has been made to get eyes on every change, but some things have been pushed quickly for testing and

Re: [Wikitech-l] State of page view stats

2011-08-14 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Andrew G. West west...@cis.upenn.edu wrote: Note that to avoid too much traffic here, I've responded to MZMcBride privately with my code. I'd be happy to share my code with others, and include others in its discussion -- just contact me/us privately. Thanks,

Re: [Wikitech-l] File:* use cases?

2011-08-09 Thread K. Peachey
The only other thing although more of a MediaWiki side of things, is protecting files from being (re)uploaded or touched (eg: reverted). ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Toolserver-l] Toolserver status

2011-08-08 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:28 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: * http://status.toolserver.org/ is broken s/broken/hasn't been manually updated/ ___ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sep11 Wiki

2011-08-06 Thread K. Peachey
Filed in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30261 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] $wgExtensionAliasesFiles deprecated?

2011-08-01 Thread K. Peachey
Member $wgExtensionAliasesFiles since 1.16 Use $specialPageAliases in a file referred to by $wgExtensionMessagesFiles http://svn.wikimedia.org/doc/DefaultSettings_8php.html#aff2412416793a9bd3d88f881309b790f ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to handle a large change w/ no commit access

2011-07-31 Thread K. Peachey
1. Write up a proposal somewhere (Eg: in your userspace on wiki then share the link around or post it to the mailing list) 2. Apply for commit access (link to the proposal/patches you have done etc etc, we do have the ability to give access to certain sections of the SVN such as branches without

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please don't commit broken code

2011-07-28 Thread K. Peachey
What about for people that want to commit some broken code to get eyes onto or someone else might want it finish if, how about they commit it and clearly mark that its broken and its so that people can look/work at it then immediately revert it? (Which I have seen done a couple of times in the

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Modifying diff colors due to color blindness issues

2011-07-27 Thread K. Peachey
The proposed change is worse for me, they don't stand out in the diffs I suggest we stick to a Yellow and Blue combo, that colour combo has the least and is the most uncommon type of colour blindness compared to the other types which encompass most other colours, thus having the least

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MW tie user rights more closely to email?

2011-07-26 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Jelle Zijlstra jelle.zijls...@gmail.com wrote: That would not necessarily be a good idea. Enwiki has some adminbots that only perform deletions/protections/whatever and don't make any edits. They'd never get autoconfirmed, unless the bot owner would do some

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Why Facebook and others can't see a wiki's most important image

2011-07-23 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 2:17 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Ha Ha, Ha Ha, told you so *for years*. Now when anybody quotes a MediaWiki article on Facebook, there is a 95% chance it will look bad... serves you all right! Plus (Google+? Dare not also test it there to see what happens), it is

Re: [Wikitech-l] improving bugzilla patch review: Splinter?

2011-07-12 Thread K. Peachey
I don't think installing a fancy tool is going to fix anything fast, you need people willing to look at the code first (which no one seems to be doing which is why there is a backlog)... (Also I get 520 bugs that are non resolved with both Need-Review and Patch:

Re: [Wikitech-l] improving bugzilla patch review: Splinter?

2011-07-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:58 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: (Also I get 520 bugs that are non resolved with both Need-Review and Patch: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=doremremaction=runnamedcmd=Patches%3A%20Open%20and%20Need%20Reviewingsharer_id=9593) Forget my

Re: [Wikitech-l] testing mobile browsers?

2011-07-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote: * Blackberry : emulator is Windows only :-/ Would be great to enhance our testswarm with more browsers. Maybe we could contact those mobiles developers to connect to our testswarm? :-) I'm grabbing the BB emulator

Re: [Wikitech-l] testing mobile browsers?

2011-07-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 7:50 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote: * Blackberry : emulator is Windows only :-/ Would be great to enhance our testswarm with more browsers. Maybe we could contact those mobiles

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Ian Baker

2011-07-07 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Alolita Sharma asha...@wikimedia.org wrote: ...snip engineer, welder, machinist, fire performer, drug educator, EMT, and photographer. And he also enjoys flower arrangement and aerial acrobatics. Wow - that’s a lot of cool interests :-) Hello and welcome

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader JavaScript validation on trunk (bug 28626)

2011-07-06 Thread K. Peachey
How is JSMin+ different to the plain JSMin that we had and was removed due to licensing conflicts? (See: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-January/051308.html https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26791) ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Server outage

2011-06-28 Thread K. Peachey
What this message is talking about: Issues with the S4 and S6 clusters. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Handling MIME detection for .docx and friends

2011-06-21 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Ray Van Dolson rvandol...@esri.com wrote: Apologies for replying to my own post, but it looks like this may have been addressed[1] although the modified code is certainly not present in my 1.16 version (perhaps this fix is only in 1.17+?). Ray Yes, there was

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug Triage and mini-sprint for the weekend

2011-06-20 Thread K. Peachey
Relevant bug in regards chucking it into a extension: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29472 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-18 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 2:35 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: These all sound like good ideas to investigate. Just make sure they're in Bugzilla at some point so they don't get lost in a mailman archive. :-)  I think there's a tracking bug for https or secure login somewhere. MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] Testing the new php mobile extension

2011-06-10 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 8:39 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: That's client-side resizing, which is painful enough on a full web browser, much less a mobile device.  The wikicode specifies |thumb|, which should resize the image server-side, surely. I'm not sure what's going on there.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extensions template (Extensions infobox); add shortcut markers (where applicable); MediaWiki Virtual Library : 3rd book Interwiki and Interlanguage Guide

2011-06-10 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: 2. Started to make extensive use of {{shortcut | shortcutname }} on Extension pages, and would like to encourage you to help adding such markers for important extensions or extensions you maintain, too. Will find a way to

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikis and the direction hardware is taking

2011-06-09 Thread K. Peachey
Why couldn't you edit it with the normal web browser in the ipad? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension bundling for 1.18

2011-06-09 Thread K. Peachey
So this is the current list: * CategoryTree Is this really a feature that most people would use? * Cite Is this something that most people really use on external sites? how popular (i'm saying this because i'm probably one of the rarer people that don't run/need it on any of my installs) *

Re: [Wikitech-l] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks needs your help

2011-06-06 Thread K. Peachey
Or we could just get collection fixed... there is nothing complex in those tables that should be killing it. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Showing stub links by default - is it possible in a Wikimedia project?

2011-06-05 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote: On 06/06/11 00:09, Platonides wrote: snip No. Anything other than showing no stubs skips the cache. Since it skips cache, can not we disable that stub highlighter once for all? Logged in users don't get cached versions

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML5 on Wikimedia wikis

2011-06-05 Thread K. Peachey
I believe twinkle was one of the major issues which afaik the new version on en.wiki has fixed this. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review process (was: Status of more regular code deployments)

2011-06-01 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: That's because our phpunit setup is incredibly fragile. I'm trying to fix it. -Chad Instead of the auto tests like we have now, could we some how (might need another testing suite?) perhaps have some sort of commit hook that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review process

2011-06-01 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: Perhaps some of you (as the profs) could hold a kind of a (virtual) teaching class to teach newbies in improving their CR skills? Basically its: * Make sure the commit does what the deltin/delinscommit summary/ins says. * Doesn't

Re: [Foundation-l] deleting old versions of fair-use files

2011-05-30 Thread K. Peachey
The two main points that support the deletion are that it saves space on the server No, it does not, The file is just moved elsewhere on the server where it isn't directly accessible. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] update languages/messages once per week?

2011-05-29 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote: I do not understand the purpose of this daily update, does it serves any specific purpose?  I do not feel like we require up-to-date translations in trunk. Trunk is designed to be up-to-date, if it wasn't done on TW and

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects on May 24

2011-05-26 Thread K. Peachey
We already get spammed enough with notices, which is one of the reasons many people hide them permanently via css so they never intrude again, which would make them pointless for the more established users, also overkill for what was meant to be (from my understanding) only a few minutes of

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects on May 24

2011-05-25 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:31 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Theo10011 wrote: Instead of diverting users to IRC, how about an outage/error page with a twitter/identi.ca feed with updates from the tech team, or at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Renaming projects

2011-05-22 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Last year there where a lot of discussions about projects inside wikimedia that needed to be renamed. The last thing I can remember is that it wasn't possible at that time. However I would like to know if

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committers!

2011-05-20 Thread K. Peachey
we don't even really need that page... we could point to one of the many automated ones -Peachey ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Foundation-l] CentralNotice use

2011-05-19 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:52 PM, church.of.emacs.ml church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all, Do we have any guidelines limiting the use of CentralNotices? I noticed there are a lot lately (fundraising, wikimania and most recently board elections and commons POTY), some of which are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Shell requests backlog

2011-05-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Happy-melon happy-me...@live.com wrote: The default BZ configuration comes, AFAIK, with a REMIND resolution.  This was briefly reenabled during the BZ4 upgrade, but was subsequently disabled again and the bugs I had closed with it reclassed as LATER.  This

Re: [Wikitech-l] search=steven+tyler gets Steven_tyler

2011-05-14 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:33 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: OK, then why can't http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_tyler just do a browser redirect to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Tyler Because then we can't show the (Redirected from X) bar that accompanies the redirects

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tech poster ideas?

2011-05-11 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: 60cm wide). I've been thinking that the walls in Engineering could use some decoration, Do I hear Dogbert/Dilbert comics? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] Expanded Use of Article Feedback Tool

2011-05-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:19 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: I suspect that the remaining users of the classic skin do not constitute an obvious and overwhelming veto. I also suspect that anyone that interested in the classic skin is going to have to submit patches themselves. Since

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Supported Browser List

2011-05-07 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: What does this mean? i believe that might a comment regarding tables having a border defined in html or not. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2011-05-02 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Happy-melon happy-me...@live.com wrote: Wow, now here's a blast from the past... :-D  A lot of these stats are now in the BZ4 report page, but it's still very nice to have the weekly reminder.  Cookie for whoever dug it out and got it going again! --HM Ryan

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Supported Browser List

2011-04-28 Thread K. Peachey
Why create yet another list?, we already have http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Browser ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of SSL access to Wikipedia?

2011-04-25 Thread K. Peachey
Secure server tracking bug goodness: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27946 (Tree Goodness: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=27946) and all the open bugs in the SSL section:

Re: [Wikitech-l] API available for wikiversity project ?

2011-04-24 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Nicolas Vervelle nverve...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is the API available for the wikiversity projecthttp://en.wikiversity.org/? If so what is the API URL ? The API is available and accessible on all the public WMF projects and resides at url/w/api.php for all

Re: [Wikitech-l] New window for external link

2011-04-21 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Alex Brollo alex.bro...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/4/21 K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget can be done to effect all outbound links. Here on the outdated page about it, gives a little bit of information about

Re: [Wikitech-l] New window for external link

2011-04-20 Thread K. Peachey
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget can be done to effect all outbound links. Here on the outdated page about it, gives a little bit of information about why people really dislike it when you do that:

Re: [Wikitech-l] facebook like box in mediawiki

2011-04-19 Thread K. Peachey
I haven't quite looked back to the discussions, but couldn't you have the extension load a local icon/image for the button and then manually construct the url to be clicked in the same style that the wikinews does their template? ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] facebook like box in mediawiki

2011-04-19 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: Then it would violate the free content doctrine, unles you manage to convince FB to release their button images under a free license :P -- Best regards,  Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) Commons has

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gantt extension for MediaWiki

2011-04-14 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Maciej Jaros e...@wp.pl wrote: Hi. I'm getting close to releasing JSWikiGantt extension and I'm wondering if this should go to SVN or not? And in effect should I ask for commit access to SVN or not. I have my own server so I can put my code there, but I'm not

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Sidebar Customization

2011-04-08 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Henny Savenije webmas...@henny-savenije.pe.kr wrote: Thanks, but I couldn't find the UsabilityInitiative extension. I mean when I downloaded that one there was only a readme file. I've fixed the download link at

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Any ideas why $wgReadOnly doesn't work ?

2011-04-04 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Steve VanSlyck s.vansl...@spamcop.net wrote: I'm not the most experienced here but I assume $wgReadOnly would require a TRUE/FALSE argument rather than a text string. No it takes a string so it can display the reason. Did you try to save a page edit whilst read

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC and networking

2011-04-04 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Michael Costello mc3...@columbia.edu wrote: Perhaps entirely outside of the scope of GSOC, I think it would be a fun project to make wikipedia.org and wikimedia.org accessible over IPv6. I noticed that my login was insecure, and that there was no SSL option.  

Re: [Wikitech-l] Future: Love for the sister projects!

2011-04-03 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: * Cross-wiki gadget sharing: if we can avoid fragmenting common scripts, they'll be easier to maintain. Not really, It's just up to the local sysops to decide if they want to do it that way or not. For example, HotCat is

Re: [Wikitech-l] On HTML5

2011-03-29 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:22 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: . I started a whole thread on it back in 2009 before I changed it: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-July/043865

Re: [Wikitech-l] New SVN committer

2011-03-29 Thread K. Peachey
Congrats! and also eol-style on the first commit, double congrats \o/ ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] On HTML5

2011-03-28 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: Well, it still seems to be in place on truck, which is why I'm getting CSS bug reports. Can someone revert it on trunk as well? The brief discussion of the CSS rendering-mode issue on Mediawiki.org seems to be nicely

Re: [Wikitech-l] On HTML5

2011-03-28 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: Well, it still seems to be in place on truck, which is why I'm getting CSS bug reports. Can someone revert it on trunk as well? Which bug reports? can you link to some in Bz or the like please?

Re: [Wikitech-l] FIXME: Wall of Shame

2011-03-26 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: Original Message - From: K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com Since we havn't done one of these in awhile, a wall of shame for fixmes, If it looks weird, copy it into a plain text editor. (I believe you've mispelt

Re: [Wikitech-l] code review criticism (Re: Converting to Git?)

2011-03-24 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Neilk is realist. Either we bring more developers in the system or we drop it and reuse another system already having some developers. It's sitting there in SVN, nothing is stopping people from working on it, In fact Sam

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deleting bad ideas off Google Summer of Code suggestion page

2011-03-24 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@panix.com wrote: There's no point in having our GSoC applicants wasting time working on proposals that we aren't really interested in Who is we the wikimedia foundation? the medawiki developers? someone else? If anyanything they

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-23 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org wrote: It happens to be our home grown tool, and it uses a framework that more of us are familiar with. But it's not such an overwhelming asset that we should consider staying on SVN because of it. In 2011 there are lots of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developing with no possiblilty of using SVN?

2011-03-22 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Joseph Roberts roberts.jos...@ntlworld.com wrote: Thanks all, I'm hoping I can offer many things to the projects. Another thing, is the latest version of XAMPP for Windows sufficient for developing on? TIA - Joseph Roberts Yes, they finally updated the php

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-22 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:00 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: I think you're missing the point that there's no reason why 400 commits should be harder than 1 in this case. Code review comes to mind there. -Peachey ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] On HTML5

2011-03-22 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: As the matter of fact, MediaWiki serves HTML5 by default. The only reason why it is still not enabled on Wikipedia is backward compatibility with numerous screen-scraping scripts/tools. However, they had their last

Re: [Foundation-l] Switching mailing list moderators?

2011-03-21 Thread K. Peachey
Post a request in Bugzilla under Wikimedia/Mailing Lists for the admin password to be reset. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Weekend bugs (aka, highest priority bugs)

2011-03-21 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Victor Vasiliev vasi...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: I have been commenting about this with a steward. His position on this is that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Highest Priority Bugs

2011-03-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: It does?  I get a DNS error: http://phoonzang.wikipedia.org/ I think he means for ones that have the DNS zone but not the wiki created. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] help on usability initiative sandbox wiki

2011-02-20 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com wrote: http://prototype.wikimedia.org/sandbox.4/Special:Contributions/213.5.64.179 I don't know why SUL doens't work there I can't find the proper database suffix on http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/all.dblist Therefore I can't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing CentralAuth login - New proposal

2011-02-19 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Create a multilingual wiki for handling logins, available as https://login.wikimedia.org/ https://login.wikipedia.org/ https://login.wikiversity.org/ etc. I would recommend users.*, that way in the future when we have

Re: [Wikitech-l] stop changing the whitespace in RELEASE-NOTES please

2011-02-19 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:56 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: OK you little snots, I figured out what to do: use wdiff. Please remember to assume good faith and act civil to all people on this mailing list. -Peachey ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Criticism of employees (was VPAT)

2011-02-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Christine Moellenberndt cmoellenber...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am loathe to dive in here, since it was my post that kind of kick-started this whole thing and I certainly don't want to draw any more fire to be honest. Don't worry you didn't kick start anything,

Re: [Wikitech-l] How users without programming skills can help

2011-02-14 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Leo diebu...@gmail.com wrote: One thing that bugged me a while: Why does the bz robots.txt deny any bots? I think having it indexed by google co would'nt exactly make searching harder. Leo Probably because historically you couldn't hide email addresses from

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making code review happen in 1.18

2011-02-13 Thread K. Peachey
Well, if you want 1.18 released before 2012... ;) Bryan Well of course, Where would we be if we let the world end without a new(ish) mediawiki release? -Peachey ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] New two-part schedule for 1.17 deployment

2011-02-10 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: First window This first deployment window will be to a limited set of wikis: ... http://usability.wikimedia.org/ (usabilitywiki) Um, usability is closed and no longer used... Perhaps mediawiki wiki would be a better

Re: [Wikitech-l] A call for skins

2011-02-07 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:44 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: We need to fix Extension:Distributor for skins folder, too. I've asked Tim about that before, It's not hard to do apparently, so just file a bug :p

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability wiki

2011-01-29 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: The main page of the Usability wiki ( http://usability.wikimedia.org ) says that it's discontinued and the whole wiki appears to be locked for editing. I don't remember this being discussed, although i may have

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia status checkers

2011-01-22 Thread K. Peachey
You can try tracerouting it. In Windows XP: * Start * Run * cmd * tracert www.wikipedia.org and that will tell you where your connection is dying. For example this what the traceroute may return: C:\Documents and Settings\AAAtracert www.wikipedia.org Tracing route to text.pmtpa.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] June 8th 2011, World IPv6 Day

2011-01-16 Thread K. Peachey
On the mediawiki side of things: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/IPv6_support On the wikimedia side of things: http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/IPv6_deployment I have no idea on the current stati or is that statues of those pages. -Peachey ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] CodeReview auto deferring

2011-01-16 Thread K. Peachey
Um... I thought since that email discussion took place that sementic no longer wanted their stuff deferred? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Need some input

2011-01-05 Thread K. Peachey
Kittahs Ninjas Pirates ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Foundation-l] fundraiser suggestion

2011-01-04 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: The recent extended unavailability of database dumps is an example of serious failure, but failures like this happen when an organization is understaffed/underresourced and only able to focus on the immediate, not the

Re: [Foundation-l] fundraiser suggestion

2010-12-31 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: now that we have blinking banners, Domas Oh! Oh! can we have marquees as well... and those flashy under construction gifs?? -Peachey ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] How to contact the foundation's legal department?

2010-12-16 Thread K. Peachey
WMF Legal has a email assigned to it, so you can email it via the wiki interface if you would like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/WMF_Legal ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 50, 000 images donated by the State Library of Queensland

2010-12-16 Thread K. Peachey
I noticed you are using a bot to upload these? are you grabbing them from the SLQ website or do you have local file versions of these, because if its the latter we could just get them archived up and get them bulk uploaded by one of the system admins. -Peachey

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Need Liquid Threads help

2010-12-13 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Evelyn Yoder eyo...@gmail.com wrote: So far, so good - we installed Liquid Threads successfully. From a Talk/Discussion page, I can add a thread, so that is working as expected. What I'd like to do is set up a page like this

Re: [Mediawiki-l] What extension is used in the Support Desk page?

2010-12-12 Thread K. Peachey
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LiquidThreads -Peachey ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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