Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikiEN-l] Images loading slowly?

2010-11-05 Thread Roan Kattouw
it at the moment... There is an ongoing issue with the thumbnail server, which has been acting up all week. We're working on a quick temporary fix. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, now in trunk!

2010-11-05 Thread Roan Kattouw
will end up near the bottom of the body though, so you can't use inline JS to call functions defined in that script. Aren't too much number of extensions would become suddenly incompatible due of that change? As long as they're not using inline JS, they won't break. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] mod_pagespeed?

2010-11-04 Thread Roan Kattouw
there to optimize your site, or you can have humans implement those optimizations in MediaWiki. The latter is exactly what ResourceLoader is doing. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla keywords for deployment queues?

2010-11-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
if those people don't have time because their real responsibilities take up all their time. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) * Back in December 2009, I had to take a few weeks off for fiscal reasons and spent that time processing some of the backlog, which I remember jokingly characterizing as doing Rob's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Geoiplookup

2010-11-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
geoip.wm.o allows querying arbitrary IPs, but there's plenty of other such services out there) and find out the rough location it corresponds to. That means any questions regarding privacy of location fall back to privacy of IP, and that's something we already have a well-established policy for. Roan

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Fetching external links

2010-11-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
links from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP - which would be a list of 6 items (Official website, PHP, Open Directory Project, ...) You can't do this with the API other than just pulling the wikitext of that section and parsing that or something. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla keywords for deployment queues?

2010-11-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
of enabling a feature on a certain set of wikis (possibly all) upon deployment and have requests to extend that set go through the shell request procedure works just fine IMO. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Firesheep

2010-10-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
is a cookieless domain. As opposed to other domains like wikipedia.org and wikibooks.org , wikimedia.org doesn't get domain-wide cookies either, because there are wikimedia.org subdomains not controlled by WMF. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing

[Mediawiki-api] [Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: patrol tokens now depend on rcid

2010-10-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
to be deployed to the Wikimedia cluster, but in the meantime changing your clients to no longer depend on the patrol token to stay the same can't hurt. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Mediawiki-api-announce mailing list mediawiki-api-annou

Re: [Wikitech-l] Convention for logged vs not-logged page requests

2010-10-20 Thread Roan Kattouw
. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Mediawiki-api] search in text restrict categories

2010-10-19 Thread Roan Kattouw
This'll get 50 search results for Albert Einstein, then get the first 50 categories for each of those pages. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Convention for logged vs not-logged page requests

2010-10-19 Thread Roan Kattouw
Never before did we load JS through a special page like that, and with the resource loader coming up it will never be needed ever again, cause we can and will run everything through load.php . It's a one-time anomaly, so no need for any convention. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaboration between staff and volunteers: a two-way street

2010-10-18 Thread Roan Kattouw
complications, I do think Tim should be involved. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaboration between staff and volunteers: a two-way street

2010-10-16 Thread Roan Kattouw
feared, this is an after X plan, where X is the next release. I disagree that that necessarily implies procrastination, however. Sometimes there are valid reasons to do X first, then Y, and I think this is such a case. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Getting 1st line of article

2010-10-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/10/15 Prateek prat...@knoesis.org: Is there any way in which I can do that elegantly? Afraid not. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api

[Wikitech-l] Collaboration between staff and volunteers: a two-way street

2010-10-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
. Volunteers, in turn, should be aware that they have a part to play too. Also, both sides should realize behaviors don't change overnight, and should give each other time to adapt and cut each other some slack in the meantime. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaboration between staff and volunteers: a two-way street

2010-10-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
after having worked at WMF for quite some time. Don't underestimate how long this process takes. We as a community go way back, and outside staffers have missed all that history. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaboration between staff and volunteers: a two-way street

2010-10-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
the words out right. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaboration between staff and volunteers: a two-way street

2010-10-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
with the 1.17 release, but that should be discussed in a separate thread I guess. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaboration between staff and volunteers: a two-way street

2010-10-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Difference between Query-Result and the Wiki-Page

2010-10-14 Thread Roan Kattouw
/Alan_Jackson). Page ID 328877 does not correspond to [[Alan Jackson]], but to [[List of music performers]], see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=querypageids=328877prop=info . Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Template Expansion

2010-10-14 Thread Roan Kattouw
/Special:ExpandTemplates ), but I don't know if and how I could access its functionality from my application and how I could use it for several templates at once. Special:ExpandTemplates has the same functionality as action=expandtemplates AFAIK. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vector extension naming

2010-10-13 Thread Roan Kattouw
don't think any new commenters will. Let's just move Vector and WikiEditor into core soon and be done with it. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vector extension naming

2010-10-13 Thread Roan Kattouw
after which the toolbar will Just Work for them is fine. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugmeister opening at Wikimedia Foundation

2010-10-08 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/10/8 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com: I don't see how the link you provided addresses the post you were replying to at all. I think Ryan meant that the hiring a (full-time) Bugmeister was in the annual plan. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Possible API load increase from upcoming Pending Changes release

2010-10-07 Thread Roan Kattouw
) by default, possibly with a user preference to always load it? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Possible API load increase from upcoming Pending Changes release

2010-10-07 Thread Roan Kattouw
(no way to tell without trying it out), but it makes sense to avoid wasteful requests. Changing the default of the existing preference makes sense to me. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Scripts not get loaded at proper time

2010-10-06 Thread Roan Kattouw
onload hooks fire before imported scripts in Chrome. You could try using jQuery's document ready instead of addOnloadHook() and see if that works. Instead of addOnloadHook( function() { code here } ); do $j( document ).ready( function() { code here } ); Roan Kattouw (Catrope

[Wikitech-l] jQuery upgrade on Wikimedia cluster

2010-10-05 Thread Roan Kattouw
that 1.4.2 breaks. If you are the author of a user/site script or gadget, please do check it for jQuery 1.4.2 compat just to be sure. If stuff breaks, feel free to poke me on IRC and I'll help troubleshoot. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25419

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Query PageID for Links (prop=links)

2010-10-04 Thread Roan Kattouw
(instead of or together with the name). Is there a simple way to do this? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=querytitles=Active_Worldsgenerator=linksprop=info Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Wikipedia Main

2010-10-04 Thread Roan Kattouw
in some database table. The software can't find out what the recommended definition is unless it understands English. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Query about domains of disambiguation pages

2010-10-04 Thread Roan Kattouw
locate it by myself, hence asking for help. The software does not treat disambig pages specially. If you're really just interested in the link targets, you can use prop=links to obtain them like you would with any normal page. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] IRC Office Hours with Zak Greant (Wikimedia Foundation Technical Writer)

2010-10-04 Thread Roan Kattouw
15:00-16:00 Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

2010-10-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
it. I don't understand why this would be insulting, but whatever... These people should file a bug in Bugzilla per the normal site request procedure. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

2010-10-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/10/3 Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com: I don't understand why this would be insulting, but whatever... Following the causes.com link clarifies this: it's a Russian influence thing. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader Debug Mode

2010-09-30 Thread Roan Kattouw
our numbers first, but some preliminary playing around seems to indicate Tim's right about this one. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader timestamp format

2010-09-30 Thread Roan Kattouw
? Colons get urlencoded but dashes are fine, so what about (and I know I'm stealing this suggestion from /someone/, I just can't remember who suggested it to me) 1985-04-12T10-15-30Z ? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader Debug Mode

2010-09-30 Thread Roan Kattouw
, because we have a debug mode to give you unminified (and uncombined) code. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Mediawiki-api] API to get just the Table part of an article

2010-09-28 Thread Roan Kattouw
am not looking at the right place, please point me to appropriate links. There is no API call for this. The best you can do is obtain the wikitext of the entire page and look for tables yourself. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Mediawiki-api mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] using parserTests code for selenium test framework

2010-09-24 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/9/23 Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com: (If using memcached, be sure to clear those out, reinitialize, or otherwise do something that forces old values to be cleared or ignored.) $wgCacheEpoch is a good one for this. The easiest way to change it is to touch LocalSettings.php. Roan Kattouw

Re: [Wikitech-l] Acceptable use of API

2010-09-24 Thread Roan Kattouw
acceptable usage AFAIK, but I do think that the Toolserver would better suit your needs. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is the $_SESSION secure?

2010-09-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
it, on WMF we stick it in memcached, I believe). So unless there's some ridiculous vulnerability allowing people to obtain the value of arbitrary keys in $_SESSION, you should be fine AFAIK. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] API architecture

2010-09-22 Thread Roan Kattouw
SQL query buliding methods but also the possibility to override the default printer? Why these methods are limited to action=query lists and generators only? That's a very good suggestion. Feel free to implement it or, if you can't or don't want to, file a bug requesting it in Bugzilla. Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] API architecture

2010-09-22 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/9/22 Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com: I understand that not every ApiBase derived class needs these, but many could have. Why not make inheritance chain like this: ApiBase - ApiListBase - ApiQueryBase Actually, let's just put that stuff in ApiBase so every module can use it easily

Re: [Wikitech-l] API architecture

2010-09-22 Thread Roan Kattouw
to ApiBase won't break any other ApiBase subclasses. There is no advantage in creating a new class over simply moving this stuff to ApiBase. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] Balancing MediaWiki Core/Extensions

2010-09-22 Thread Roan Kattouw
. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] API architecture

2010-09-22 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/9/22 Dmitriy Sintsov ques...@rambler.ru: 2. I don't have core commit access only extension commit access, however I don't feel like MW guru, so I don't even want to request it. I'll probably file a bug. You can submit patches on Bugzilla too :) Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] using parserTests code for selenium test framework

2010-09-22 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/9/22 Dan Nessett dness...@yahoo.com: How does memcached fit into this? When I looked at BagOStuff, I didn't find a MemcacheBagOStuff class. Is it defined elsewhere? Either memcached.php, MemCached.php or MWMemcached.php, I forget. The class name is MWMemcached. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

[Mediawiki-api] action=parse temporarily disabled on Wikimedia wikis

2010-09-21 Thread Roan Kattouw
again. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.17 release target (Re: UsabilityInitiative extension...)

2010-09-21 Thread Roan Kattouw
to trunk, yes, and I think that's a bad thing. Branching then freezing the branch to various degrees is fine by me, but trunk should remain open to changes that are neither insane nor necessarily very stable. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] UsabilityInitiative extension changes

2010-09-17 Thread Roan Kattouw
to be running happily, by all means go bonkers with it. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Mediawiki-api] inprop=views from en.wikipedia.org -- page view counts for Wikipedia articles?

2010-09-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
is not valid in core either. Looks like Wikia either hacked this in themselves or added it using an extension. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Announce]: Mark Bergsma promotion to Operations Engineer Programs Manager

2010-09-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
engineering, mobile, maybe more), Alolita Sharma (LiquidThreads, ResourceLoader, and more) and Rob Lanphier (FlaggedRevs at least, don't know what else). Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Get full-protecting article list monthly

2010-09-14 Thread Roan Kattouw
the first 500 (or 5,000 if you're a bot or sysop) pages in the main namespace that only sysops can edit (i.e. that are fully protected). If you're not a privileged user and only get 500 entries, you can use the information in the query-continue tag to get the next 500. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: reversion collapsing in edit history

2010-09-13 Thread Roan Kattouw
view. As far as detection goes, the two are completely separate problems: one requires a checksum to be added to the revision table, the other requires the minor/bot flags to be added to that table. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] list of things to do for image dumps

2010-09-10 Thread Roan Kattouw
|dimensionsiiurlwidth=200pageids=3786405|8801158|4120827|1478233 Returns image URL, width, height and thumbnail URL for a 200px thumbnail. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] list of things to do for image dumps

2010-09-10 Thread Roan Kattouw
=imagesgimlimit=maxtitles=Albert_Einsteinprop=imageinfoiiprop=url|dimensionsiiurlwidth=200 Licensing info is not available through the API because it's just some text or template on the image description page; it has no meaning to the MediaWiki software. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
I may or may not get my wish). It's true that the dumps situation is still a problem, but you (OP) should assume some good faith here rather than accusing the WMF of ignoring you, not earning the community's trust or even trying to usurp Wikipedia. You're right, you are being paranoid. Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
requiring people to subscribe to Yet Another Mailing List. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/9/9 Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org: I need an open source irony detector. Hint: it starts with this code: if ( $name === 'domas' ) return true; Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, now in trunk!

2010-09-08 Thread Roan Kattouw
guess we might as well save ourselves the trouble and load them as wiki pages, Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, now in trunk!

2010-09-07 Thread Roan Kattouw
support this better. Or did you mean a hook into the client-side loader? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, now in trunk!

2010-09-07 Thread Roan Kattouw
definitely think this is the future, provided it's implemented reliably cross-browser. Also, you'd probably want to have a fallback library for browsers that have no or incomplete (e.g. missing a jQuery feature that's newer than the browser) native support. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, now in trunk!

2010-09-07 Thread Roan Kattouw
it's excessive for what it's supposed to be documenting (the interface to .suggestions(), which takes 12 arguments of various types and with various semantics, allowed values and default values). Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, now in trunk!

2010-09-06 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/9/5 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com: On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.org wrote: Over the past couple of months, Roan Kattouw and I (Trevor Parscal) have been working on a JavaScript and CSS delivery system called ResourceLoader. We're really

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, now in trunk!

2010-09-06 Thread Roan Kattouw
? The ones you mentioned in this post have either already been solved or are trivially solvable. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-06 Thread Roan Kattouw
(probably best to move stuff to the wikis anyway, though). We often posted the Etherpad link to our usability progress meeting notes in #wikipedia_usability , although to be fair that wasn't done with transparency or non-staff involvement in mind. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-06 Thread Roan Kattouw
now? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, now in trunk!

2010-09-06 Thread Roan Kattouw
for JS/CSS caching and Squid for text and image caching). From what I understood and remember, the Varnish migration is not really a top priority right now and is expected to be completed in a year or so. In the meantime, we can make the mobile redirect suck slightly less. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Separate DB or shared table for GlobalTemplateLinks?

2010-09-06 Thread Roan Kattouw
since it closely ties into one specific core feature. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, now in trunk!

2010-09-06 Thread Roan Kattouw
manipulation of JS and CSS we do (such as wrapping JS in a mediaWiki.loader.implement() call, direction flipping in CSS and image embedding in CSS) don't introduce or remove any lines, thereby preserving line numbers. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, now in trunk!

2010-09-06 Thread Roan Kattouw
=25085 . Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, now in trunk!

2010-09-06 Thread Roan Kattouw
=25085 . Roan Kattouw (Catrope) And I don't understand what this last paragraph is about :) You are trying to reuse the same loader for all gadgets? What I was saying is that when you use a custom registration script, that script is responsible for providing the loader with all the information

Re: [Wikitech-l] [HTML5] Improving Commons upload interface

2010-09-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
arbitrary event that occurred in the past 5 years for everything that's worse now than it was 5 years ago without backing up that assertion with convincing arguments. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) [1] These numbers blow my mind every so often: when I started in July 2007 we were in the r26000s vs

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
and I will advocate for that to happen, but I don't think we need to take things quite as far as you propose. So let's start by getting the powers that be behind that idea and see if we can improve the situation that way first. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
could have solved it that would've happened long ago. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
that used to work on it are now working on other tasks while still supporting the existing UsabilityInitiative / Vector software and performing rollouts such as the one this week. Other such project-specific mailing lists should preferably be public, yes. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Mediawiki-api] How to retrieve TEXT without picture through the API ?

2010-08-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/8/18 陈文 chen...@lingpan.net: Hi How to retrieve TEXT without picture through the API ? What exactly do you mean with text without picture? Wikitext without images? HTML without images? Something else? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Mediawiki-api

Re: [Wikitech-l] Error installing CentralAuth

2010-08-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/8/20 Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com: All databases are localhost, and have the prefix mw_ and I'm sure all databases contain a  user table. They contain an mw_user table, not a user table. You have to set the prefix setting in $wgConf for all wikis. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Rename Special:OldReviewedPages to Special:PendingChanges

2010-08-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/8/23 Michael Walsh bluehairedlaw...@gmail.com: Hi Chad, Thanks for the quick response. Would it be possible to set a localised name? AFAIK that only works per-language, not per-wiki, so that would cause problems when e.g. enwiki and enwikinews use different models. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sentence-level editing

2010-08-13 Thread Roan Kattouw
or core access? If and when you get commit access for extensions, you're encouraged to develop your extension in our SVN repo. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting back to more regular site software updates

2010-08-13 Thread Roan Kattouw
is making it easier to obtain. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting back to more regular site software updates

2010-08-13 Thread Roan Kattouw
hired (or partially hired). People who do work for WMF also have this problem: they are generally more up to speed, but they don't have complete knowledge either. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developing true WISIWYG editor for media wiki

2010-08-13 Thread Roan Kattouw
personal conviction and I'm not aware of any successful editors built this way. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] SVN backups

2010-08-12 Thread Roan Kattouw
on a different box or NFS is involved or whatever, I don't think the power outage could've caused this. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Login successful, but edit token rejected with badtoken on Wikimedia sites only?

2010-08-11 Thread Roan Kattouw
no session or token cookies for enwiki. What happens when you rerequest the token afterwards? Do you get the same token or a different one? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-api] DB connection error

2010-08-11 Thread Roan Kattouw
/apache/common-local/wmf-deployment/includes/db/LoadBalancer.php(685): DatabaseBase-gt;reportConnectionError(\'Unkn', page u'[[fi:aero]]') eh? A database server went down today, and people using the UI were getting the same error message. This has been fixed now. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikipedia is one of the slower sites on the web

2010-08-11 Thread Roan Kattouw
intending on reducing the number of requests made and on keeping the long client-side cache expiry times (Cache-Control: maxage=largenumber) that we already use. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikipedia is one of the slower sites on the web

2010-08-11 Thread Roan Kattouw
? In the latter case, it taking long would make sense, and would actually be slowed down by moving all script tags to the bottom (incidentally, that's what I've done today in the resourceloader branch). Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech

Re: [Wikimania-l] Problematic aspects of hosting the next conference in Haifa, Israel

2010-08-11 Thread Roan Kattouw
it was outweighed by other factors; I wasn't on the jury so I don't know the rationale for this decision. For the record, from what I've seen so far I have high expectations for Wikimania 2011, and the issues mentioned in this thread plus the climate aside, I'm sure it's gonna be awesome. Roan

Re: [Mediawiki-api] How to retrieve category tree through the API?

2010-08-10 Thread Roan Kattouw
of a given category. Neither goes multiple levels deep, though. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sentence-level editing

2010-08-10 Thread Roan Kattouw
more useful, as that'll return 'real' results), but I'm guessing this stage is really just about the UI. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sentence-level editing

2010-08-10 Thread Roan Kattouw
) of that gap with editors that can accomplish other simple-ish tasks. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gartering extension-meta data

2010-08-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
only contain assignments. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] I need an extra tab.

2010-08-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/8/9 Natasha Brown learnrussianspeakruss...@gmail.com: It gave me Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSE, expecting T_FUNCTION in /home/wikitra2/public_html/w/includes/SkinTemplate.php on line 894 Sounds like you have a missing } somewhere (or one too many). Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using LanguageConverter for Portuguese Variants

2010-08-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
to this variable: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18958 From reading that and the commits involved, it seems $wgDisableLangConversion doesn't completely disable language conversion, so that may need to be fixed first. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using LanguageConverter for Portuguese Variants

2010-08-08 Thread Roan Kattouw
. If this is not possible, it can be put in a branch, but trunk would really be preferred here, and disableability should be relatively easy to accomplish. Then when it's agreed that this should go on a prototype wiki, Ryan or I will set up the wiki and configure it, and it'll be all yours. Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interlanguage Extension - going on

2010-08-06 Thread Roan Kattouw
of purging. There's no code for it yet, but I don't think it involves more than updating page_touched in the remote DB and notifying Squid. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] ExtensionDistributor

2010-08-06 Thread Roan Kattouw
and below. Simply grepping the source for 'tar' would've shown that. Interestingly, none of the ExtensionDistributor files have GPL headers. This should probably be fixed. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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