As you all probably know, the Gerrit migration is going to happen in a
little over 24 hours. For the SVN repositories being migrated (core
and all WMF-deployed extensions), I am doing three special things
today.
First, I am identifying all unreviewed revisions and reviewing those
that 1) I am
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
WMF-deployed extensions
Does this include extension worked on by WMF people and to be deployed on
WMF wikis? In particular, should I quit committing to Education Program or
can I happily carry on?
This
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Daniel Barrett d...@vistaprint.com wrote:
Any advice on how to structure this?
It sounds to me like stripState should have a way to change what a
given strip marker's value is after you've already inserted it. That
in combination with a hook that runs at the right
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Sumana Harihareswara
suma...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I believe the lack of arbitrary labels/tags on changes is a big workflow
problem.[0] The current workaround is to use topic branches (Gerrit
calls them topics; Git calls them branches). To do that, you have to
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
I'm seeing some weird behavior and can't figure out what's going on.
I have some code making a request to the API to obtain the thumb url of an
image: http://dpaste.org/nuOfX/
This code is used here, and
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know why this happens, but you really don't need internal API
requests to get thumbnail URLs. This is much simpler:
$file = wfFindFile
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote:
git-review helps lower some of these barriers since it automatically
rebases against origin/* for you so you get a clean merge on push.
Cherry picking's not that hard, and gerrit actually gives you the command
from the UI to
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:24 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote:
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
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Daniel Barrett d...@vistaprint.com wrote:
Since moving to MediaWiki 1.18, several of our extensions that use namespaces
have broken in the following way. Any advice/explanation would be very much
appreciated! (I don't see anything in the release notes.)
Some
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:42 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote:
One of the major sticking points (that from my understanding is what
the WMF people are hateing on) is the diff views in comparison of CR
to Gerrit, For example we used to have them all display on one page
where as with
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Given that i wrote it 4 years ago and haven't touched it since. I'm
amazed that its still running ;)
Well it's not *still* running, it's been broken plenty of times in the
meantime :)
Roan
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote:
Le 25/02/12 00:48, Platonides a écrit :
There's no way to treat a set of commits as a bundle?
Not really. Each commit is considered by Gerrit as a new change. If you have
a bundle of commits, you either:
1) squash
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote:
2) newbie spamming gerrit
This happen when you first play with Gerrit.
In subversion world, whenever you submit a new patch (svn commit) it is
going to be written down in the central repository. You will not be able to
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
The parser cache expires much earlier in that case. Although we don't
reduce it to lower than one hour due to the presence of such words.
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote:
Basically:
a link on a page like [[Benutzer:Alice]] is not necessarily the same as
[[User:Alice]] (even when the latter exists).
It depends on the current setting of
$wgLanguageCode = en ;
$wgLanguageCode = de ;
(during
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Daniel Friesen
li...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote:
The idea that login is secure because it's on a separate page than the rest
of the site is actually an old mistake.
If a script is included ANYWHERE on the site on the same domain then it's
possible to inject in
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote:
I suppose that the getNamespace fails in this case,
Perhaps a patch in Linker.php is required to set Namespace already if
the page is non-existent.
I don't think so. Even non-existent Title object must have their
namespace
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 ASSIGNED : 67
Bugs REOPENED : 36
Bugs RESOLVED : 428
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:47 AM, Andrew Otto o...@wikimedia.org wrote:
2. Do I need to rebase every time I push for review?
I don't quite understand what is going on here. I've installed git-review
and am using this to push to git. It does a rebase by default. I'm not sure
if I should be
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Greetings all,
I'm pleased to announce that the mobile team has a new team member.
Jon Robson joins Yuvi, Patrick, Arthur, Phil, and Andre as a core
member of the mobile team. In this role he'll provide the team with
the
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Arthur Richards
aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote:
The Wikimedia repository is used by others besides just fundraising,
although the fundraising team is probably its heaviest user. I know that
some folks from Wikimedia Sweden are using it, as is Ryan Faulkner for
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Which reminds me, does LocalisationUpdate support git?
Not yet:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34137
That bug is not about LocalisationUpdate. LU is not a TranslateWiki
tool, it's a WMF-side extension for
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote:
LocalisationUpdate has SVN support built-in, but WMF stopped using
that a long time ago due to performance issues. Instead, the wrapper
script that we use to run the LU update on the cluster updates a local
checkout
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:51 PM, C Stafford c.staff...@gmail.com wrote:
I personally prefer using the php format over the JSON, due to
multiple encoding issues I've hit in the past and not having to deal
with the small intricacies (and potential problems) of the JSON
encoding/decoding on each
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
We're migrating to Git very soon after this release. It would really
suck to have a huge pile of unreviewed commits going into trunk. So,
I'm going to suggest a Git migration strategy that will avoid having a
monsterous
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote:
Our MediaWiki 1.17.0 site recently installed a bunch of extensions that use
ResourceLoader, such as Extension:WikiEditor. To our surprise, some of our
site's unrelated CSS styles stopped working. This was happening
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:01 AM, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote:
If json becomes the new recommended format, does that mean that not
passing a format parameter would result in jsonfm instead of xmlfm?
(Probably not since the jsonfm pretty printer isn't all that pretty at
the moment).
One
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
What are the other problems?
I'm not sure what Max is referring to, other than the fact that I hate
XML (or at least using XML for this API) and generally don't like the
fact that we have to support so many formats. As
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Robert Vogel vo...@hallowelt.biz wrote:
Hi!
** **
Does anybody know if it is possible to upload a base64 encoded file via
the API? I’ve already examined SVGEdit extension by Brion Vibber (
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SVGEdit) to get behind
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Freek Dijkstra softw...@macfreek.nl wrote:
Hi all,
I've created a copy of the Vector skin.
What is the recommended way to register resources (for the resource
loader) for a custom skin?
Vector registers the resources in resources/Resources.php
This is not
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks,
I requested a configuration file for squid weeks ago, but it seems to be a
bit complicated to remove confidential data from it. I suppose we should
split it to multiple files, having some public and private, and
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote:
I still haven't gotten a chance to get to it. There's more involved
than simply sanitizing the files. There's also some puppet work
involved in this, and it isn't really simple to do right. I'll try to
do it on the plane ride
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Markus Glaser gla...@hallowelt.biz wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to profile the JavaScript bit of an extension I maintain. Is
there any recommended method similar to wfProfileIn/Out in MediaWiki? How do
you do profiling on ResourceLoader?
There is no
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Is it supposed to be possible to transmit arbitrary nested data
structures in the API? Or do the format serializers make some
assumptions that limit what we can do?
I added a change yesterday which returns a
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Daniel Friesen
li...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:36:02 -0800, Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote:
*Cough* some random article about making js that is not abusing the
slower parts of the language
http://www.bcherry.net/talks/js-better-faster
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 1/31/12 8:06 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
I hate having to continue
support for XML because it limits the keys you can use in all sorts of
ways.
Right. I'm assuming here that the XML serializer makes some
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Alex Brollo alex.bro...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm using more and more #switch into templates, it's surprising how many
issues it can solve, and how much large arrays it can manage. My questions
are:
1. Is there a reasonable upper limit for the number of #switch
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Helder helder.w...@gmail.com wrote:
What about ptwikibooks' usage of
https://pt.wikibooks.org/wiki/Template:Lista_de_capítulos/Posterior?action=edit
It looks like that finds the current page name in a list of pages,
then returns the next one in the list. I can
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone mind if I create a magic word for current user's language?
It will not fragment parser cache further than it is already because
we already support {{int:}}. Note that this functionality is already
emulatable
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Daniel Renfro dren...@vistaprint.com wrote:
I am working on an extension and would like to add some functionality to the
'usercontribs' api module (api/ApiQueryUserContributions.) I cannot subclass
the ApiQueryUserContributions class and get the functionality
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Fred Zimmerman w...@nimblebooks.com wrote:
Is there any limit on frequency of requests to API?
There is no hard and fast limit on read requests, but we ask that you
be considerate and try not to take the site down. We also reserve the
right to unceremoniously
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
Do we trust that messages do not have evil (XSS) stuff in them? The reason
why I ask is that I was just using .msg from mediawiki.jqueryMsg, and
realized that things in the message do not get escaped. Since the
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:46 AM, William Allen Simpson
william.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm a Firefox HTTPS-Everywhere and NoScript kinda guy, and had no
problems switching back and forth by turning scripts on and off.
Both wikipedia and wikimedia js had to be turned on, though Why?
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Dan Collins en.wp.s...@gmail.com wrote:
So, is anything interesting going to happen when Google suddenly
realizes that all of our pages are nothing but a SOPA banner?
When the Italians did their blackout, Google asked us to block them
(!) from bits.wm.o (our
On 1/12/12, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Greetings all,
I'm pleased to announce that Andre Engles has decided to join the Mobile
team as our data analyst contractor. In this role he'll provide the mobile
team with key metrics to guide our software development efforts. He'll be
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote:
$.holdReady(true);
mediaWiki.loader.load(https://toolserver.org/~netaction/wikitrust.js;);
Note that this will disable all gadgets and custom scripts: $.holdReady(true)
is
a hack to prevent other user scripts
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:44 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Roan. It's also interesting to learn about that clause.
I agree. I asked whether WMF had something like this
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Erwin Dokter er...@darcoury.nl wrote:
Can someone have a look at bug 25697, which is a very minor, easy patch?
I hope to get this one in before 1.19, to go along with the new diff look.
Done.
Roan
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On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote:
I would rather have real, working client-side processing support;
Me too, but I don't like the idea of Yet Another Miniparser that
parses a narrow subset of wikitext. I'm in a meeting now and we've
decided to just go ahead with
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote:
I'll write another post to this thread where I outline my proposed
approach.
As promised.
I originally had a very hacky plan for this [1] , but after talking to
Tim I decided on something different.
Step 1 is to improve
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Siebrand Mazeland s.mazel...@xs4all.nl wrote:
So what is needed to make it more urgent, or can we just start using what is
available in core right now?
As I said earlier:
I'm in a meeting now and we've
decided to just go ahead with the existing client-side
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:49 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm pretty sure we can't assume anything with licensing, The uploader
must state the license they want it to be under.
If something is uploaded by a WMF employee or contractor and was
produced in the course of their work for
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Santhosh Thottingal
santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote:
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/107556
In that CR thread, Neil suggested moving message parsing to the server
side, and I'm running with it. I'll play with it today and tomorrow
and
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 5:53 PM, kracekumar ramaraju
kracethekingma...@gmail.com wrote:
http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?format=jsonaction=querytitles=murkyrvprop=contentprop=revisionsredirects=1
yields json contents for the word 'murky'.
[snip]
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Timothy Helck timothy.he...@gmail.com wrote:
Basically, I would like to replicate the functionality of the
commons.wikimedia.org search page. Ideally I would like to be able to get a
Category listing (ex. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chartres_Cathedral)
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Timothy Helck timothy.he...@gmail.com wrote:
Roan,
I've looked at search, but it only seems to return names of pages, not
images. Is there a way to make it return images?
The regular search doesn't return images either, does it?
Roan
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Dan Nessett dness...@yahoo.com wrote:
I have poked around a bit (using Google), but have not found instructions
for setting up the MW regression test framework (e.g., CruiseControl or
Jenkins or whatever is now being used + PHPUnit tests + Selenium tests)
on a
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Daniel Barrett d...@vistaprint.com wrote:
The following JavaScript works fine in MediaWiki 1.17.1, when placed into a
ResourceLoader-loaded module, producing an alert box:
addHandler(window, 'load', function() {
alert('hello');
});
However, the same code
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote:
What was the purpose of changing colors? Aesthetics? If yes, this is
bikeshedding. If there isn't a really good reason to change the
colors, don't. If you are changing the colors so that they are more
accessible for color
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote:
Green has a meaning of Go or of this is ok in many cultures.
Making either side green gives a bias to the diff. Similarly with red.
Red means Stop or this is not ok. Many people associate red with
blood, and green with
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Russell Nelson russnel...@gmail.com wrote:
Speaking of usability, why is this mailing list called Wiki Tech List Lists
Wiki Media org? Surely there's some extra duplicate redundancy there there?
Do you mean the -l suffix is redundant with the list. prefix? Yes,
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Robin Pepermans robinp.1...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you.
I thought $language and $project wouldn't need escaping because their
values are known: $project can only be one of wikipedia, wikisource, ...
and $language only one of
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Unfortunately, we only have 1 available deployment day left before the
holidays, so if there's any chance someone could review the revision
before 2pm tomorrow, it would be greatly appreciated.
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Often, little things are suitable for many people to look at, but major
subsystem refactorings -- like the landing of Aaron's file backend changes
-- really are specialized and need to be looked over by somebody who's a
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Robin Pepermans robinp.1...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Roan for deploying!
I was also wondering, if language codes were simply added to that
langlist, would they work with the missing.php script? Or do they need
more configuration, e.g. in DNS?
Any language code
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Robin Pepermans robinp.1...@gmail.com wrote:
So I would like to ask if someone can review deploy this (Commits are
here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki?path=/trunk/tools/web-scripts/missing.phpbut
it may be easier to just review current
Welcome Yuvi and Max! I'm glad to see that we're still hiring awesome
devs from the community.
Roan
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On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Gregor Hagedorn g.m.haged...@gmail.com wrote:
Socially, the Add Media Wizard is right direction, but it handles the
workflow of inserting already available resources, it does not involve
the scope of people able to contribute images.
From what I recall, AMW
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Adrien ANDRE adrien.andr...@gmail.com wrote:
But i don't see a way to do thing without excessive parsing and querying.
You don't see it because it's not there :) . MediaWiki doesn't
recognize or store any semantic information about disambiguation pages
(or any
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Leslie Carr lc...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I, for one, appreciate all of the hard work Petr has put into this new
bot and am enjoying the functionality.
Yeah, it's definitely nice to have someone actually maintaining the
code and adding improvements.
Yay Petr!
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Rusty Burchfield
gicodewarr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Here's the demo, where you can edit some canned texts (but not actual
Wikipedia articles, yet):
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Katja Müller katja_muel...@lavabit.com wrote:
Ok, thanks - so this is the way to get access to the titles of deleted
pages (no revision content)? Or is there more meta information available
for researcher status users?
The titles of deleted pages (as well as
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Daniel Barrett d...@vistaprint.com wrote:
I have a parser function that is not being rendered properly by the
experimental Preview tab in WikiEditor. The function does the following:
* It add a custom property foo to the ParserOutput object, with value
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Daniel Barrett d...@vistaprint.com wrote:
class MyQueryPageClassName extends QueryPage {
function getName() { return 'My Query Page'; }
function getSQL() { return select 1 as 'test'; }
getSQL() ?!?
I looked at SpecialPopularpages.php and see a global function
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Daniel Barrett d...@vistaprint.com wrote:
I see these functions are gone in 1.18.0, and I'm happy to do things the
right way... so is there any documentation on using the QueryPage class
within an extension? Or an example that's outside of the core?
Not
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Daniel Barrett d...@vistaprint.com wrote:
you should be able to create a QueryPage subclass in
an extension, set $wgSpecialPages['specialpagename'] =
'SpecialPageClass'; , add to $wgQueryPages (I forget the exact format
there), and you should be all set.
Thanks. I
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Does this list account for the vandalism we encountered?
The vandal's changes are included, yeah, if that's what you mean.
Roan
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On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Khalida BEN SIDI AHMED
send.to.khal...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I need an html dump of Wikipedia but the link http://static.wikipedia.org/
does
not work.
I'd appreciate any explanation or suggestion.
Does http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ not have the data you
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
A test page for the new VIPS image scaler is now available:
https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:VipsTest
There's a weird bug in this page that causes the preview area to be
255x16px under certain circumstances.
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Adam Nielsen a.niel...@shikadi.net wrote:
Is there a way to do this when using the API to perform edits within an
extension? Or would it be better to dispense with the API and call the
various functions manually?
Yes, it would probably be better to use
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote:
Most compatible thing is probably to let it include the images/text form
as-is, then make sure MathJax goes over and replaces them in-place. It
might need tweaks to understand the images (source in alt text).
You may want to
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Guillaume Paumier
gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm wondering if there are actually people reading all the stuff
that's pushed through these channels.
My gut feeling is that the few people reading these feeds are also
those that would know to check the SLA if
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:14 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I agree with Brion. Human updates would be nice. The truncated and often
context-less messages in the current feed are rather useless.
We would have to do it in some sort of convenient way that doesn't
involve logging out of
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think it should be something requiring shell access. There might
be a very skilled secretary to summarise a blog into a tweet but
dangerous to be given a command line. Or you may want to involve some
community
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Asher Feldman afeld...@wikimedia.org wrote:
That page wasn't suitable for high volume public consumption (very
expensive db query + not properly cached), so the site problem persisted
even after the db initially suspected as bad was rotated out.
What happened
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?).
Reedy said it was long-running queries that never timed out that apparently
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Neil Harris n...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
And adding memcached caching with even, say, as little as a 1 minute cache
entry timeout, should dilute that reduced load even more, and put an
upperbound on the load generated, just in case it gets slashdot/reddited
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Neil Harris n...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
I hadn't thought properly about cache stampedes: since the parser cache is
only part of page rendering, this might also explain some of the other
occasional slowdowns I've seen on Wikipedia.
It would be really cool if
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:32 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote:
Wasn't the extension ever reviewed before being enabled? Shouldn't of
the review catch-ed this?
The relevant code wasn't present in the extension when it was
originally enabled (in 2009 I think), it was introduced this year.
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Asher Szmulewicz
asher.szmulew...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
Will the useformat=mobile be supported by MediaWiki API where appropriate?
I am able to do the following for non mobile content
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Maybe we could have a script tag in the head that modifies the
relevant stylesheet rules based on cookies present.
D'oh, of course that's a better solution. And I'm supposed to be a
JavaScript expert *hangs head in
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 12:37 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
A Wikipedia page loads. The last thing to load is the banner. This
pushes the page content down. If you've clicked on a link near the top
of the page, the banner grabs it instead.
This happened last year and it was
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
Introducing a pattern like this in a code base this large is therefore
problematic.
I'm tempted to agree with this. Doing
I think chaining is great for classes where 1) it makes sense and 2)
the class is
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Raimond Spekking
raimond.spekk...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
it seems, that the latest stable version of HTTPS-Everywhere 1.2.1 fully
supports the new HTTPS structure of Wikimedia wikis \o/
Yup :) . There will be some .wikimedia.org domains that are redirected
to
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Jeremy Postlethwaite
jpostlethwa...@wikimedia.org wrote:
How do we change the code revision emails?
Subject:
[MediaWiki r1028XX]: Revision status changed
Body:
Full URL:
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:51 AM, William Allen Simpson
william.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote:
HTTPS-Everywhere 1.2 is out today, with the new rules. Seems to work well.
Yay! I'll have to check if this includes the latest version of my rule
set, but it's good news regardless.
Roan
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, that's what causing it. Although, really, MediaWiki code should
always be aliasing $ to the global jQuery object, which
BannerController and collapsibleTabs clearly aren't doing.
These should be fixed in r102962
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:45 AM, William Allen Simpson
william.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote:
Obviously, he didn't even look at the photo. It's not from Facebook.
He's a fraud. All of his deletion requests should be denied. I'm
formally asking that he resign or be removed as administrator.
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 8:07 PM, William Allen Simpson
william.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote:
He compared her to Madonna. Basically, nothing will convince this
administrator. The administrator has to be taken out of the loop.
We need technical means to handle that message.
No you don't.
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Mark A. Hershberger
mhershber...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Yesterday a friend of mine discovered and filed a bug that highlights
a backwards incompatibility introduced by 1.18.
The bug is Moved ArticleSave hook breaks backward compatibility
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