Re: [Mediawiki-api] Getting list of possible result properties

2011-11-10 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Petr Onderka gsv...@gmail.com wrote: Is this information available somewhere? Is trying the query and seeing what properties are returned the best I can do currently? Unfortunately, no, at least not programmatically. Do you think it would be a good idea if I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Search completion

2011-11-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Helder helder.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! This may be unrelated to the problem you describe, but when I access https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?debug=1uselang=en I get the following errors on Firefox 7.0.1: Error: $(body) is null

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tracking gadget related bugs in Bugzilla

2011-11-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Analog to the MediaWiki extensions product, I suggest that we create a MediaWiki gadgets category, initially with only an [Other] component. We could make it part of the gadget publication process to a shared repository

Re: [Wikitech-l] summary of a wikipedia article

2011-11-08 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:49 PM, priyank bagrecha bagi.priy...@gmail.com wrote: How can I use the mediawiki api to parse summary of a wikipedia article or multiple pages at once if possible. Do you want HTML or wikitext? By summary do you mean an edit summary in the revision history, the first

Re: [Wikitech-l] GIT irc feed of changes to repo

2011-11-07 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have noticed that on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git_conversion is that *Not done* Commits via IRC I don't know if you want to use bots like CIA, but if you would like to use more customized output of bot feed, I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Native HTTPS support live on all projects

2011-11-04 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: On 03/11/11 22:47, Roan Kattouw wrote: Not really. I've been asking for a list of all non-HTTPS-enabled .wm.o domains so I can complete the exemptions list, but it hasn't been produced so far. Maybe it will be 'easier

Re: [Wikitech-l] New permission for moodbar

2011-11-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Petr, I mean the number of times [[Special:FeedbackDashboard]] is viewed; thanks for asking me to clarify. Best I can find is http://stats.grok.se/en/201110/Special%3AFeedbackDashboard Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Native HTTPS support live on all projects

2011-11-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: I can confirm the development version of the ext has the updated https://*. wikipedia.org/ rules (but have the issues with all domains been worked out yet there?) Not really. I've been asking for a list of all

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania-l Digest, Vol 68, Issue 4

2011-11-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Justin, canadians also need visa to be in USA, so ask for a canandian visa doesn't help. Canadians don't need a visa for most short visits. But by Canadians I mean people with a Canadian passport. If you have a Brazilian

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue

2011-11-01 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Mateus Nobre mateus.no...@live.co.uk wrote: Last year I was selected to attend Wikimania 2011 at Haifa (the best moments ever in my life, btw, would love to support Washington too, ops  :D) and WMF contacted me six months before. In this ''six months before''

Re: [Wikitech-l] declining Google Code-In

2011-10-30 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: We can do some pair-programming during the Brighton week-end if you want :) I'll match that offer. If a couple of us take turns showing Lewis (and/or other people!) around, it won't feel too cumbersome for anyone. Roan

Re: [Mediawiki-api] API Question

2011-10-28 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Joe Osowski josow...@plos.org wrote: I'm still seeing the same behaviour. :-( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?srprop=sectiontitlesrlimit=25srsearch=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0008776action=queryformat=xmllist=searchsroffset=25srwhat=text Very strange, the servers

Re: [Mediawiki-api] API Question

2011-10-28 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Joe Osowski josow...@plos.org wrote: Is there a tracking system for these such issues?  Should I submit a bug? https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ Roan ___ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] etherpad-lite

2011-10-28 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Hunter Fernandes h.g.f...@gmail.com wrote: On your etherpad installation @ http://etherpad.wikimedia.org the scroll bar is malfunctioning. Both in chrome and firefox. Oh trust me, we know, we feel the pain on a regular basis. That's what Niklas was talking

Re: [Mediawiki-api] API Question

2011-10-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Robert Stojnic rainma...@gmail.com wrote: Could be that one of the hosts has a stale copy of an index? r. How do I check for that, and how do I fix it? Roan ___ Mediawiki-api mailing list

Re: [Mediawiki-api] API Question

2011-10-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Joe Osowski josow...@plos.org wrote: I don't know how to fix it, but just refresh this link a few times: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?srprop=sectiontitlesrlimit=25srsearch=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0008776action=queryformat=xmllist=searchsroffset=25srwhat=text

Re: [Wikitech-l] So how does WMF set up its Apaches?

2011-10-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:40 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: I was afraid of that. (Someone else I asked says the same.) /me queues another yak up for the shaving Most of our puppet config was recently made public in a git repository, see

Re: [Mediawiki-api] API Question

2011-10-26 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Joe Osowski josow...@plos.org wrote: #1 Is there a way to specify order for this command? #2 Did I find a bug with one your lucene indexes? This looks like it would be #2. Apparently the same search alternates between returning two different result sets, of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: MediaWiki unit testing and non-MySQL databases

2011-10-26 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi!  Have you been following this thread?  Maybe you'd like to comment. I think you may have meant to send that to a specific person by private e-mail, rather than to the list? Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Gabriel Wicke

2011-10-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm certainly glad to have him back. I wasn't around back then (I've been around for quite a while, but not for quite that long), so I haven't experienced the divine qualities Tim attributes to you first-hand. But if

Re: [Wikitech-l] Heads up: Online coding challenge

2011-10-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, so that's what happened to me :0 We call this recruitment by privilege escalation :D . It worked on me something like 4 times over. Roan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] etherpad-lite

2011-10-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: I just do not know, whether you have read about ETHERPAD LITE https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite/wiki It needs only a fraction of the resources of Etherpad. I believe Neil Kandalgaonkar was working with the Etherpad Lite

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikipedia lacks a share' button

2011-10-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:27 PM, John Du Hart compwhi...@gmail.com wrote: There's also the technical problems this would incur. Each of these buttons require yet another HTTP request each, which would make the hard work by RL team moot. That depends on whether the icons are hosted offsite or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 189

2011-10-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know why it needs to trim the images generated by LilyPond, but there's probably a reason for that. Assuming that LilyPond code doesn't allow to open files, or execute programs, the current version of LilyPond is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 189

2011-10-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Neil Harris n...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote: Linux provides the setrlimit() system call for this purpose -- you could either call it as a wrapper around lilypond, or hack it into a de-fanged version of Lilypond. If you're going to be running an auxiliary

Re: [Wikitech-l] WikiEditor dialogs and caching? (fwd)

2011-10-18 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Daniel Barrett d...@vistaprint.com wrote: Brion asked: So where's your code being loaded from? Site or use JS pages? Some literal JS files output from an extension? Something else? From a physical JS file (e.g., myfile.js) handed to ResourceLoader by my

Re: [Mediawiki-api] [Mediawiki-api-announce] [Wikitech-l] Protocol-relative URLs enabled on test.wikipedia.org

2011-10-13 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: It has been reported that this breaks iOS clients [1]. To give the authors time to fix their clients, I have instated a temporary hack that expands protocol-relative URLs to fully-qualified URLs even in the HTML

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader and IE's stylesheet limits

2011-10-13 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Daniel Barrett d...@vistaprint.com wrote: This is a question about an infrastructural detail of ResourceLoader and how it interacts with Internet Explorer. (It's my first post to wikitech-l, so apologies if it's the wrong forum.) You're in the right place,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Native HTTPS support live on all projects

2011-10-08 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 11:38 AM, William Allen Simpson william.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote: As a user of HTTPS Everywhere ever since it was announced, I look forward to the improved rulesets. Apparently, my ruleset is already included in the development version of HTTPSEverywhere. That is to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Native HTTPS support live on all projects

2011-10-08 Thread Roan Kattouw
On 10/9/11, shi zhao shiz...@gmail.com wrote: https://en.m.wikipedia.org not support This is a known issue, see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31333 . Roan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Namespace added to XML answer ?

2011-10-06 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Nicolas Vervelle nverve...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is it normal that a namespace has been added to the XML answer of the API with MW 1.18 ? Someone requested this on Bugzilla and I implemented it. I was quite busy lately, so I may have missed the announcement

[Mediawiki-api] [Mediawiki-api-announce] API XML output now has a namespace

2011-10-06 Thread Roan Kattouw
Per https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24781 , the XML output returned by the API has a namespace since 1.18. 1.17: api 1.18: api xmlns=http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/api/; Apparently this breaks for some people using XPATH expressions, although comments on Bugzilla indicated this

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Namespace added to XML answer ?

2011-10-06 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Nicolas Vervelle nverve...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, thanks for answers.  Well, I'm using XPath in Java to find informations in the XML answer. Unless I missed something, I think I have to change a lot of things, and can't have my tool compatible with both 1.17 and

[Mediawiki-api] [Mediawiki-api-announce] Fwd: API XML output now has a namespace

2011-10-06 Thread Roan Kattouw
a namespace To: mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: MediaWiki API announcements discussion mediawiki-api-annou...@lists.wikimedia.org On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: Per https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24781 , the XML output returned

Re: [Mediawiki-api] [Mediawiki-api-announce] API XML output now has a namespace

2011-10-06 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Nicolas Vervelle nverve...@gmail.com wrote: Any estimation for the delay before r99135 will be deployed ? It's to know if it's useful for me to make changes in my tool to deal with the new namespace. I'm deploying it right now. Roan

[Mediawiki-api] [Mediawiki-api-announce] Alternative for list=categorymemberscmnamespace introduced in MediaWiki 1.18

2011-10-05 Thread Roan Kattouw
With MediaWiki 1.18 now being deployed to WMF wikis (the final set of wikis is slated to get 1.18 tonight starting at 23:00 UTC), I've heard reports of people using list=categorymemberscmnamespace=6 and getting an empty result, even though there are files in the category. This is a symptom of the

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-api] Attention developers (Gadgets, user/site scripts, Toolserver tools, MediaWiki extensions, ..)

2011-10-05 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, If you write, maintain or are otherwise active in development, and directly or indirectly make use of MediaWiki, then you should subscribe to:        mediawiki-api-annou...@lists.wikimedia.org That is a mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mystery of most-viewed pages on En.Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Gregory Kohs thekoh...@gmail.com wrote: Does the Wikimedia Foundation's technology team have any insight or comment on the finding that (other than the Wikipedia Main Page and the 404 error page), in September the most popular page on the English Wikipedia was

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mystery of most-viewed pages on En.Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: There seem to have been a lot of page views concentrated around September 22-26. Missing link here: http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Mathematical%20descriptions%20of%20opacity Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mystery of most-viewed pages on En.Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: There seem to have been a lot of page views concentrated around September 22-26. This could be something as innocent as someone running a broken bot that's supposed to fetch lots of different articles but instead

Re: [Wikitech-l] Some post-1.18 issues found on Meta

2011-10-04 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote: PHP fatal error in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.18/extensions/CentralAuth/CentralAuth.i18n.php line 19586:  Allowed memory size of 125829120 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7864320 bytes) Those things

Re: [Wikitech-l] Native HTTPS support live on all projects

2011-10-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: Great news, excellent work! Are there any plans to 'translate' diff links or history links to their secure counterparts? Which diff/hist links, where, exactly? Most of them should have been taken care of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: API for Extension:ExpandTemplates?

2011-10-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Dan Bolser dan.bol...@gmail.com wrote: I think I sent this to the wrong address initially, here it is again (sorry if I'm just getting confused), Dan. -- Forwarded message -- From: Dan Bolser dan.bol...@gmail.com Date: 1 October 2011 10:37

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

2011-10-01 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: The central notice banner is only shown to logged in users. Why are we even loading the notice in a separate out of band http request. And not bothering to cache it at that. It is cacheable (public, max-age=300,

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Mediawiki Wikipedia API bug

2011-09-30 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Alex Sm alexsm...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like this hack for iOS clients doesn't play well with secure server: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/api.php?action=parseprop=texttext={{fullurl:test}} outputs this incorrect link without s in http:

Re: [Mediawiki-api] GET vs POST

2011-09-29 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Jani Patokallio jpato...@iki.fi wrote: Greetings, I seem to recall that once upon a time the API requires all requests to be POST, That was never the case. Some modules, like login, edit, etc., do require POST, but action=query requests have always allowed both

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Mediawiki Wikipedia API bug

2011-09-29 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Michael Douma micha...@idea.org wrote: Regarding the change from http://; to //, this also broke our iOS app, WikiNodes.  Our popular Wikipedia browser app is now nonfunctional. We'd be grateful if you could roll back the change for approx 10 days. We can

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Mediawiki Wikipedia API bug

2011-09-28 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: It would be really great if you could allow us some flexibility in this area though -- could you maybe put in a temporary workaround in action=parse to resolve the protocol relative links? That might work. I'll look

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Mediawiki Wikipedia API bug

2011-09-28 Thread Roan Kattouw
load. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api

Re: [Mediawiki-api] [Mediawiki-api-announce] [Wikitech-l] Protocol-relative URLs enabled on test.wikipedia.org

2011-09-28 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: Per the below, protocol-relative URLs are now enabled on test.wikipedia.org and will be rolled out to the rest of the wikis over the course of the next few weeks. What this means is that URLs used in the interface

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Mediawiki Wikipedia API bug

2011-09-28 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Wouldn't be a bad idea to add an addendum to the blog post on protocol-relativeness for people who might not be on the list. Good idea, I'll get

Re: [Mediawiki-api] writing user options?

2011-09-28 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Jim Tittsler j...@onnz.net wrote: Is there a write method available for changing user options or email address?  I would like to make an AJAX-driven alternative to a couple of the user preferences. No, you currently cannot change user preferences from the API.

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Mediawiki Wikipedia API bug

2011-09-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
, the API will output http URLs rather than protocol-relative URLs in almost all cases. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-4.2 ___ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Mediawiki Wikipedia API bug

2011-09-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
to load local resources off of the hard drive (stylesheets, images, etc.) due to security limitations. Ouch. That's a painful way to break, but also a really nasty hack. Don't they have to do something special to make /wiki/Some_page work with that hack, anyway? Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] originals via API, but thumbs local?

2011-09-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
thumb caching Disable local thumb caching and you should get a remote thumb URL. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Counting revisions in 2011090

2011-09-26 Thread Roan Kattouw
in set (0.00 sec) As you say, there are gaps in the rev_id sequence due to undeleted revisions and possibly the occasional transaction-rollback-induced gap. The real real number would be SELECT COUNT(*) FROM revision; but that'll probably take like half an hour to count all rows. Roan Kattouw

Re: [Wikitech-l] Counting revisions in 2011090

2011-09-26 Thread Roan Kattouw
has to count row-by-row. Since there are gaps in the revids, MAX(rev_id) COUNT(*). Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Counting revisions in 2011090

2011-09-26 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/9/26 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com: Wouldn't it be able to use the index in rev_id to return it in O(1) ? It takes ages in the toolserver view, but I guess it would be the 428660376 rows it shows in the explain

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration planning

2011-09-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: *  Code review tool:  barring unforeseen complications, we're planning to use Gerrit.  We need to make sure it'll be a suitable replacement for our existing tool I've talked to some of the ops folks a bit, and we've

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Adding MD5 / SHA1 column to revision table (discussing r94289)

2011-09-18 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: Did you try any of the non-secure hash functions?  If you're going to go with MD5, might as well go with the significantly faster CRC-64. I included MD5 because MediaWiki currently uses it for some things, and SHA-1 because it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adding MD5 / SHA1 column to revision table (discussing r94289)

2011-09-17 Thread Roan Kattouw
think it's more likely we'll use SHA-1 hashes rather than MD5 hashes. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adding MD5 / SHA1 column to revision table (discussing r94289)

2011-09-16 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: For some applications, I use the technique of representing the 128 bit of md5 or other checksums        as base-62 character strings        instead of hexadecimal (base-16) strings. MediaWiki already uses a similar

Re: [Wikitech-l] list of pageids belonging to a category from snapshot

2011-09-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
. This refers to page_id in the page table, where you can find the page name (by combining page_namespace and page_title) The other fields are various things you probably don't need Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help us document MediaWiki's history

2011-09-13 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Sumanah, you probably want to conduct an interview with Magnus and lcrawte You probably meant lcrocker, right? Lcawte was a bit young at the time :) Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re quests about log system

2011-09-11 Thread Roan Kattouw
contents are swapped out, and the blob is re-encoded. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re quests about log system

2011-09-10 Thread Roan Kattouw
://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55495 Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2011-09-07 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 9/7/11, Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson rnnel...@clarkson.edu wrote: Thank you for contributing emptiness? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adding MD5 / SHA1 column to revision table (discussing r94289)

2011-09-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Asher Feldman afeld...@wikimedia.org wrote: Is code written to populate rev_sha1 on each new edit? I believe that was part of Aaron's code that got reverted, yes. Offline generation of hashes is definitely possible, but the only reason you'd do it is to minimize

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

2011-09-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
to the Internet Archive) so we can download them from there, or ship a data carrier to a datacenter (Washington, Tampa or Amsterdam) somehow. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) P.S.: CCing Phoebe because my post to foundation-l will bounce since I'm not subscribed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Protocol-relative URLs and HTTPS enabled on foundationwiki and commonswiki

2011-09-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: Depending on where these URLs come from exactly (I forget how CentralAuth obtains them), we could make them use https or be protocol-relative

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

2011-09-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: 2) encourage adding FC interfaces to previous branches where possible (and to also make releases out of those branches including the interfaces) By forward compat do you mean stuff like

Re: [Wikitech-l] Protocol-relative URLs and HTTPS enabled on foundationwiki and commonswiki

2011-08-31 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: Note that this should get fixed once all the sites are running on https, since we can bump all the cookie-setters onto the current protocol. In the meantime, do consider https://commons.wikimedia.org/ to be very experimental!

Re: [Wikitech-l] divergence in commit review backlog statistics for trunk

2011-08-28 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'd like an accurate, visually pleasing way to count how many unreviewed revisions there are in trunk, for when I'm encouraging volunteer code review.  TL;DR version: it would be great if someone fixed up RobLa's

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Is it possible using the API to determine whether a revision was reverted?

2011-08-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Jordan Malof jmmal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone, Is it possible using the API to determine whether a particular editors revision was reverted? MediaWiki doesn't keep track of reverts as such. A revert is just a revision that happens to undo an earlier

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ramping up to 1.18 deployment

2011-08-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Mark A. Hershberger mhershber...@wikimedia.org wrote: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/29246 -- API errors occasionally with    unknown error 231 That one has kind of had my name on it for a while. I've assigned it to myself and will tackle it either tonight or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Customizing edit form

2011-08-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
do it. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Less than 100 new revs for 1.18 (yay!), please look at your fixmes

2011-08-20 Thread Roan Kattouw
I've been doing some code review today, and updated the revision report at https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/MediaWiki_roadmap/1.18/Revision_report . The number of new revs in 1.18 dropped to 92 today, the first time it's below 100. Yay! A side effect of reviewing code,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reclaiming a lost account on a private wiki: impossible

2011-08-16 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongm...@gmail.com wrote: You should put Special:PasswordReset in $wgWhiteListSomething. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Manual:$wgWhitelistRead Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] sidebar statistics

2011-08-16 Thread Roan Kattouw
on the data as it comes in, which is a good thing cause it means less work for me :) Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] sidebar statistics

2011-08-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: In the Hebrew Wikipedia there's been some discussions about changing the links in the sidebar. Is there a clever way to do it by using click statistics? For example, can we get statistics about how many

Re: [Wikitech-l] Firefox webdeveloper reveals errors

2011-08-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:26 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Unknown property 'zoom'.  Declaration dropped. @ http://transgender-taiwan.org/load.php?debug=falselang=zh-twmodules=mediawiki.legacy.commonPrint%2Cshared%7Cmediawiki.special%7Cskins.vectoronly=stylesskin=vector*:1 Expected

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2011 video on Commons?

2011-08-12 Thread Roan Kattouw
(say a stack of DVDs) and mail it to the datacenter by snail mail. But RobH can tell you more about that option, should you need it. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mark your calendar: MediaWiki hackathon, New Orleans, 14-16 Oct.

2011-08-12 Thread Roan Kattouw
this notion, meeting up with local Wikimedians in some way, maybe even inviting them to hang around the venue even if they're not coders, sounds like a great idea. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikimania-l] CD

2011-08-11 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Is not for no reason, they just think all of us are looking forward for the possibility of live in the dream land that is America, and can't believe we would come back after be there[1]. This is not as exaggerated as it may

Re: [Wikitech-l] W3C validation links, and extended edit links

2011-08-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
ResourceLoader feature. Yes, you will have broken CSS precendence order for site/user CSS. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikimania-l] Thanks for all the fish... and lessons learned

2011-08-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
), but if you're hosting a future Wikimania and do need them, please make sure to document their schedules very well. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l

Re: [Wikimania-l] CD

2011-08-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
-shirt. One security person recognized it immediately, another asked which conference we'd attended and I could just point to my chest and say 'that one'. Short of the t-shirt, the lanyard helps too, of course. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikimania-l mailing

Re: [Wikimania-l] Thanks for all the fish... and lessons learned

2011-08-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote: Everyone during the registration process had the option to select which lines and titles will be printed on his badge. We didn't want to print things that people not asked (as some people even select not to print their

Re: [Wikimania-l] Thank you Wikimedia Israel!

2011-08-08 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 6:47 PM, KIZU Naoko aph...@gmail.com wrote: +1 +1 indeed. Wikimania 2011 was an awesome conference. Everything the organizers could control came close to perfection; they did a great job. The only thing you guys couldn't do was avoid the Wikimania Heat Curse, but that's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Protocol-relative URLs enabled on test.wikipedia.org

2011-08-05 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: Over the past couple days Roan Kattouw and I have been pushing out changes to enable protocol-relative URL support. We've gotten to a point where we think it is stable and working. We've enabled this on test.wikipedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] https via GPU?

2011-08-04 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Peter Youngmeister p...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey, I looked at this a little while ago for a previous job. I think that it's a pretty awesome idea, but sadly I could never even find source for their research, much less any reports of it being successfully

Re: [Wikimania-l] streaming from Haifa?

2011-08-04 Thread Roan Kattouw
. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] State of 1.18 code review/deployment

2011-08-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote: Sounds good -- can we get a firm commitment that this is our schedule? I think RobLa wants the reverse: a firm commitment from *us* that this is our schedule. It looks good to me too. Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Loading jQuery

2011-08-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
wouldn't know how to debug this without more information. Is the JavaScript console reporting any JS errors? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] State of 1.18 code review/deployment

2011-08-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:54 AM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: *  482 revs for code review.  September 16 completion? Given your data-based approach, that sounds good to me. Also consider that het deploy will be 'done' at some point and Aaron will have more time to spend on review.

Re: [Wikimania-l] Presentation format / software / OS?

2011-08-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
to just hook up your own laptop to the projector? Organizers? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ask the Developers panel at Wikimania

2011-07-31 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: Hi all! Ask you may know, there will be an Ask the Developers panel at Wikimania. However, there are no developers to ask, yet :)  To make this work, we need a few lead WMF developers on the stage, ready to answer

Re: [Mediawiki-api] wikipedia commons - how do you get the license of a image?

2011-07-28 Thread Roan Kattouw
%A9raire_tugged_to_her_last_Berth_to_be_broken.jpg is in the public domain. MediaWiki doesn't keep track of a file's license. License information on Commons is displayed using templates, but those only have meaning to the humans that see them not to the software. So I guess the answer to your question is: you don't. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] SQL: Stored Procedures and MediaWiki update.php

2011-07-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
with these substitutions applied Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Rebranching 1.18

2011-07-18 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: Chad Horohoe (^demon on IRC) is going to be the one rebranching. Rebranching is now done, see https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/92475 and friends. I'm about to take a few things

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