[MediaWiki-l] Don't forgot: only 4 more days to become eligible to vote in Board elections

Hi all, Just a small reminder for any developers that they only have 4 more days to become eligible to vote in the 2022 WMF Board of Trustees election. Developers can confirm their eligibility by reviewing the below list: * are Wikimedia server administrators with shell access * or have made at

[Wikitech-l] Don't forgot, only 4 more days to become eligible to vote in Board elections

Hi all, Just a small reminder for any developers that they only have 4 more days to become eligible to vote in the 2022 WMF Board of Trustees election. Developers can confirm their eligibility by reviewing the below list: * are Wikimedia server administrators with shell access * or have made at

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 at 07:42, Mario Gómez wrote: > … > These blocks from English Wikipedia are now also imported to Spanish > Wikipedia, as well as global blocks (the ones by Tks4Fish). The blocking > system has received some tuning over time to decrease the number of affected > users, but

[Wikitech-l] Re: Best practices for extensions

On Tue, 1 Feb 2022, 3:00 am Thiemo Kreuz, wrote: > … snip … > * What about CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md? Isn't this required by now? Historically (aka when the file first got mass added) there were arguments that ensured about that, From memory the outcome was that the file is not required but none the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: General Maintenance at Commons

I will note that a majority of those tasks only have a commons tag due to herald rule that adds it ro any task with file-management. And may not be actual issues Afaik no one managing that workboard (the site tags are generally managed by members of the relevant communities)

[Wikitech-l] Re: Upstream shutdowns

There is also one of the search systems migrating to non O/S from memory... elastic? On Wed, 2 Jun 2021, 11:11 am Brian Wolff, wrote: > Also HHVM and Blazegraph. > > -- > Brian > > On Tuesday, June 1, 2021, Kunal Mehta wrote: > >> On 5/29/21 5:59 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: >> >>> It sounds like

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Surveys using third party tools on Wikimedia projects

On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, 7:18 am Valerio Bozzolan via Wikimedia-l, < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Apologies for my TL;DR > > Interesting topic. I'm recently working on making ethical surveys more > and more widespread, starting from here: >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical Decision Making Process Update and Change

Are the Gerrit permission requests that techcom used to handle going to the new forum or another team? On Tue, 26 Jan 2021, 12:20 pm Kate Chapman, wrote: > Hello all, > > I’m pleased to announce that the Technical Decision Making Process[0] > proposed as an evolution of the Wikimedia Technical

Re: [Wikitech-l] The future of UploadWizard

That comment may be referring to improving the core uploader so the extension can be depreciated. Has UW gone under a code stewardship request? On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, 8:33 am Strainu, wrote: > As the deafening silence of this thread probably shows, a discussion is > not really possible. The WMF

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Syntax Highlighter question

SyntaxHighlight changed rendering libraries from Geshi a few years ago to Pygments. Information on how to write custom lexers (custom language highlighters) in Pygments can be found here: https://pygments.org/docs/lexerdevelopment/ On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 at 13:58, John wrote: > I am assisting in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism, yet again

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250508 On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 09:53, Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l wrote: > > Hi, > > It seems that they just gave a link to that website, which...eh... > When I opened it, I heard one sentence of the stream before I stopped it > and read the rest of the webpage:

Re: [Wikitech-l] List related to repositories which haven't mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer

Perhaps it would be best to create a task for this request. On Fri, 6 Mar 2020, 4:46 pm Zoran Dori, wrote: > Hello, > can someone to update list https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P10500 which > contains repositories which haven't mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer. > > I found in list that much

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Required rebuildAll.php run

What type of script is it? How does it create the pages? API? Direct db edits? On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, 8:58 pm Sebastian Trueg, wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am running a script which periodically generates a lot of Wiki pages > which are all categorized via a [[Category:XXX]] statement. > > Every

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Snøhetta and Wikimedia

Domain Registered on: 2020-01-02 Linked Wiki page is still getting edits: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_movement_brand_project=history On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 at 09:36, Pine W wrote: > > Umm. > > Looking at https://brandingwikipedia.org/, I

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Introducing: Professional.Wiki

Continuing this is unrelated to the list thread, if you would like to continue this discussion, please create a new thread with a descriptive subject relating to your email. On Thu, 9 May 2019, 3:57 pm Pine W, wrote: > The mailing list description says that the permitted types of announcements

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator Login Error

It's been used on and off as required for the past few years. On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 18:55, RhinosF1 Wikipedia wrote: > > Do we know when it was implemented and why? Is it part of the response to > earlier security issues? > > On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 09:51, K. Peachey wrote: &g

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator Login Error

It's a anti-spam measure, One of the Phab administrators will approve when available. On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 18:28, RhinosF1 Wikipedia wrote: > > Hi all, > Is there any reason Phabricator accounts would be marked not approved? > I've not noticed this happening before but there's been a report on

Re: [MediaWiki-l] non-server side wiki dumps

There is also MWOffliner which might work you, which is maintained by the kiwix team iirc. On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 00:04, Isarra Yos wrote: > > Not exactly the same thing, but there is a set of grabber scripts > designed to get and import an entire wiki via the api, but these are > currently

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Help needed with CentralAuth

Hi Huji, If they are fresh wikis, Try having a look at doing a Shared Database setup[1], compared to centralauth. [1]. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Shared_database On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 at 12:05, Huji Lee wrote: > > Admittedly, I never learned how to properly set up and configure >

Re: [Wikitech-l] wgEmergencyContact - n...@wikipedia.org

Its not long used, see the documentation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEmergencyContact On 30 May 2018 at 06:41, Martin Urbanec wrote: > Hello, > > is it intended to have *n...@wikipedia.org * in > wgEmergencyContact in CommonSettings.php? > > Martin >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Refactoring MonoBook

On 18 March 2018 at 10:56, Isarra Yos wrote: > > There are also some problems that need addressing down the road: that I'm > not sure how safe it is for caching and the like to just go moving > images/css files around willy-nilly, that there are no 'standard' skin > practices

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Limited External Mirror

You could try DumpHTML and then have a chron task to copy the selected outputs to a area where areas can access them On 30 December 2017 at 09:40, Bryan Hilderbrand wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks for all the responses. I suppose I'll try the Collection extension > for now

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome messages at arwiki

Have you asked the user how the finding the users? Have you considered other steps than just jumping to mailing list? Where are the complaints from the other users to show this is a long running issue? On 29 December 2017 at 19:20, John Erling Blad wrote: > Users on other

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Stakeholders' meta-repository of extensions not in gerrit

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions_in_GitHub_version_control https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions_in_Google_Code_version_control https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions_in_SourceForge_version_control On 24 December 2017 at 09:05, Mark A. Hershberger

Re: [MediaWiki-l] The [Maniphest] [Created] emails

. > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 4:29 PM, K. Peachey <p858sn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Phabricator isn't broken, gmail will group based on the first email > > (or when it splits the thread at 100? emails) so it re-uses the same > > subject heading in the display. > &g

Re: [MediaWiki-l] The [Maniphest] [Created] emails

Phabricator isn't broken, gmail will group based on the first email (or when it splits the thread at 100? emails) so it re-uses the same subject heading in the display. The easiest fix is to disable "Vary Subjects" which can be found in your Phab settings under Email format then it will email

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Advertizing Wikimania (youtube) livestreams on centralnotice

I notice those youtube links didn't use the nocookie domain or display warnings about external youtube links, example being the previous WP Zero Petition On 18 August 2017 at 22:45, Lodewijk wrote: > Hi all, > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Discussion on adding a CODE_OF_CONDUCT file to all Wikimedia repos

On 10 June 2017 at 08:52, Gergő Tisza wrote: > > … snip … > > We started adding a CODE_OF_CONDUCT file with a link to all repos (this is > a new convention for declaring what a project's code of conduct is, > promoted by Github) No, CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md was added, which is a

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Introducing the MediaWiki Platform Team!

On 4 April 2017 at 05:43, Jasmine Smith wrote: > Question, will the 'new features' mainly benefit the wider MediaWiki > community or the wikimedia foundation? > > Are site owners able to request features? > > Jasmine. Site owners have always been able to suggest new

Re: [Wikitech-l] Open source JPG algorithm that reduces file size by 35%

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160834 On 19 March 2017 at 05:30, Pine W wrote: > Perhaps of interest to Mobile and Performance folks: > > https://research.googleblog.com/2017/03/announcing-guetzli-new-open-source-jpeg.html > > Pine >

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Using a hook to change the logo

You can set a blank logo, then use [[Mediawiki:Group-user.css]] to overwrite the displayed logo. On 18 January 2017 at 13:59, Jean Valjean wrote: > I have a super-secret wiki. Therefore, I want to set up my wiki so that > when a user is logged in, the logo will

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Embed audio files: {{listen}} declaration and creation of Module:Listen page

You will need E:TimedMediaHandler as well to actually handle the audio (and/or video) files so they can be played. On 12 January 2017 at 19:34, David Carrasco de Busturia wrote: > Hello, > > I have

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Username collisions when merging domains?

Honestly, I would deal with this above MediaWiki, because otherwise you will end up with maintenance work going forward, in addition to possibly having to repeat this for other business areas going forward. Easiest way is to get them into a central AD, Domain Trusts will probably be the easiest

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

Hi Pine, Any chance to provide information or examples of these documents that would need to be replaced if/when colours are changed? To my knowledge, There is no where in MediaWiki core that relies on colour only to convey information to the clients/end users. The colour is used to enhance

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

On 10 December 2016 at 19:07, Gergo Tisza wrote: > For reference, these are the changes being discussed: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F5022813 Is there any reason this is being discussed on a File compared to a task? Is there any reason security has been changed on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] (no subject)

On 15 November 2016 at 18:36, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: > Rather than IRC or video, which both have significant problems for > this type of open engagement, perhaps WMF could install a modern group > chat system, like Zulip, or another Slack-like tool. > ...snip... There is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Recently proposed patchsets by new contributors awaiting code review

On 12 October 2016 at 23:21, Andre Klapper wrote: > == pywikibot/core: == > > since 2016-09-25 (2nd time listed here): > Checks the type of isbn and modifies accordingly > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/312726/ Might be better to send that one to the pywiki mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Small old unreviewed MediaWiki Core patches waiting in Gerrit

On 12 October 2016 at 23:29, Andre Klapper wrote: > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/211034/ > Move up devunt's name to Developers > /CREDITS I think we have combined both those lists into one and just have CREDITs now sorted alphabetically.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] accessing page views for articles on MW1.26

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HitCounters is the extension you need. On 14 September 2016 at 00:00, Andrew Geary wrote: > Is there a way to obtain the page views for articles on MW1.26? In the > previous versions, the page views would be listed on the bottom of the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wimedia on line?

Hi Peter, There is currently a report of a user experiencing similar issues in our Phabricator instance at . If you could either post a tracert onto this email or into the phabricator ticket would be of great assistance. On 10 September 2016 at 15:20,

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Localisation fallback between Slovak and Czech languages

On 22 August 2016 at 03:17, Sébastien Santoro wrote: > … > If you don't have a Phabricator account, you can use e-mail and I'll > forward your opinion. Everyone has a account on Phabricator if they have a account on the Wikis. (On the login screen, hit the Mediawiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to find a repository?

"nasty bug" abd "useful" are very subject views. Perhaps be more considerate to everyone views on this mailing list nemo? On 26 July 2016 at 16:52, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > To make the links to projects useful, one needs to visit every single > project's "manage >

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki pingback

On 22 July 2016 at 10:29, Ori Livneh wrote: > Starting with version 1.28, MediaWiki will provide operators with the > option of sharing anonymous data about the local MediaWiki instance and its > environment with MediaWiki's developer community via a pingback to a URL >

Re: [Wikimania-l] Certificate of attendance

On 22 June 2016 at 22:19, Michele Lavazza wrote: > Those who need it should send me an email (michele.lava...@gmail.com) which > includes their full name and address. Sending PPI (Private Personally Identifiable) information to a PRIVATE gmail account‽‽

Re: [Wikitech-l] git.wikimedia.org (Gitblit) going away on June 29th, redirected to Phabricator

On 22 June 2016 at 07:16, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > One known issue to call out: Diffusion does not list commits by person. > However Differential (the code-review tool) does this (not just for new > commits). There is no easy/maintainable way to redirect those, >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Which Phabricator project for site issues?

What type of site issue is it? You can always file in Wikimedia-General-or-Unknown and other users will help with the correct tagging. On 27 May 2016 at 18:57, Strainu wrote: > Hi, > > Is Wikimedia-Site-requests the correct project to log issues with a > specific Wiki? If

Re: [Wikitech-l] FW: File with an unknown copyright status on MediaWiki.org

I've created a redirect to our template for that On 26 May 2016 at 19:21, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez wrote: > I'm trying to fix the ones I've uploaded, but the {{Mediawiki screenshot}} > template is not in mediawiki.org. > > Is just adding a license like {{cc-by-sa-4.0}}

Re: [Wikitech-l] FW: File with an unknown copyright status on MediaWiki.org

On 25 May 2016 at 20:40, Ricordisamoa wrote: > , while on mediawiki.org no one cares. That's not true, It's a project I plan to work on shortly (just need to finish a few other things first). And it's not a simple case of just hitting delete on everything.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Hey guys how ı can leave this e-mail list?

On 25 April 2016 at 22:01, Muhammed Tatlısu wrote: > Muhammed Tatlısu > 34080/İstanbul-Türkiye > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l#manage and follow the form details. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] My username

On 24 April 2016 at 15:37, Muhammed Tatlısu wrote: > Hı, I requested to change the user name (Kingbjelica to Müdür) > Now I want to cancel it. > > Where? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who runs the Wikimedia Shop ?

On 21 March 2016 at 22:47, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: > > The extra control is hypothetically nice, but in practice one-off services > that are different from the rest of the infrastructure (as a shop would be, > like the blog, OTRS, etc) tend to be *extremely* expensive and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] My posts going to spam

If you are using gmail, Set a rule that *@lists.wikimedia.org never go to the spam folder. (If you are using rule to label them, it can be done at the same time.) On 1 March 2016 at 09:48, SarahSV wrote: > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 3:10 PM, George Herbert

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Knight Foundation grant for search and discovery

On 7 January 2016 at 22:45, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > ... > > I am also struck by the fact that the grant is really a very paltry one, > compared to the resources the Foundation is investing in this. The > MediaWiki page on Discovery[2] lists sixteen people working on this. >

Re: [MediaWiki-l] [Cargo] Submitting a patch?

Have you added your public key in Gerrit? ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/settings/ssh-keys) On 6 December 2015 at 18:01, Ed wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a small patch to submit. I got dev access. However, I'm getting a > "Permission denied (publickey)" error when

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sick of the subject "(no subject)"

I think that is a tad inappropriate, when it's been pointed out it's most likely a bug in gmail causing it. You can always create a filter in your email client of choosing if you don't want to see what, the two(?) threads that are active atm. On 4 December 2015 at 19:55, Richard Ames

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sick of the subject "(no subject)"

venting more than > > making a serious threat. Assuming this is indeed unintentional, nobody > > has anything to worry about. > > > > Austin > > > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 11:12 AM, K. Peachey <p858sn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I think that is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner (again)

I would assume you are also going to provide some input some comment into the discussion other than just dumping a pile of quotes in here? On 3 December 2015 at 07:06, Lisa Gruwell wrote: > I thought this might be a good point in the conversation to share some of > the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner (again)

I might have missed it, but I can't see any attribution for the image… as I doubt it will be a click through to the file page. Which style guide was used for the creation of this ad? ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Deploy freeze(s) in effect for the next 7 weeks (ish, read for more details)

On Thursday, November 26, 2015, Brian Wolff wrote: > >> FTR: "High Priority" means security and data loss, really. There may be > >> other exceptions but they need pre-approval from at least myself and > >> sometimes Katie. > > Thanks for keeping us informed. I'm excited to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Advertising in Central notice?

E:QuickSurvey is currently under development by the WMF for this. On 8 November 2015 at 18:52, Steinsplitter Wiki wrote: > Some thoughts: > Pete, Thanks for bringing this up here and taking action on meta. I was > concerned seeing the link to a commercial company

Re: [Wikitech-l] Audit of inline styling in the main namespace of the English Wikipedia

Is this direct usage of the styling, or does it include styling introduced by templates as well? On Monday, October 26, 2015, MZMcBride wrote: > Hi. > > I was curious about the prevalence and types of inline styling (or more > specifically, inline CSS) in articles on the

Re: [MediaWiki-l] how to make mediawiki make TOC with less than 4 sections ?

There should probably be a bug raised in Phab about this. On 16 October 2015 at 03:25, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > On 2015-10-14 16:44, shirish wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> A temporary way to generate Table of Contents (TOC) is to write >> __FORCETOC__ or _TOC_ before starting

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wanted messages

[[Special:AllMessages]] On 25 July 2015 at 20:40, Ad Strack van Schijndel ad.strackvanschijn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there a way to get a list of messages that are used in the wiki, for example with {{int: a-message }} but that don't have a message defined for it? Thanks! Ad

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Word document saving as MediaWiki.txt file

Which plugin? On Thursday, June 18, 2015, Vinodini Arya vinodinia...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Need help for resolving below issue. I started using MS word plugin for MediaWiki by using - file save as step. Q1. This was successful for few small word documents but failed for 2 documents

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Towns

I believe Wikimedia AU did some work with this type of stuff… On Friday, May 1, 2015, d...@bisharat.net wrote: What is the status of the Wiki Towns effort? I first heard of it at Wikimania 2012, but looking at the list of actual projects, it appears to have had limited appeal. Noting also

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Towns

I believe Wikimedia AU did some work with this type of stuff… On Friday, May 1, 2015, d...@bisharat.net wrote: What is the status of the Wiki Towns effort? I first heard of it at Wikimania 2012, but looking at the list of actual projects, it appears to have had limited appeal. Noting also

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Request

Just dont read the thread? On Monday, 6 April 2015, Aleksey Bilogur aleksey.bilo...@gmail.com wrote: Is that not the function of the mailing list? I'm certainly learning a lot. I oppose such a move. On Apr 5, 2015 2:36 PM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: There has

Re: [Wikitech-l] New feature: tool edit

What if it a bot builder builds one? On 22 February 2015 at 10:35, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote: What if a techie vandal builds a one-click disruption framework? Il 15/02/2015 10:54, Petr Bena ha scritto: I think it's pretty clear what I am proposing here :P there is a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extensions licensing

On 8 February 2015 at 19:32, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks! This is a nice cleanup. https://www.mediawiki.org/ wiki/Category:Extensions_with_unknown_license has 1379 pages now, is your bot going to continue working there? That category is a bit dodgy, It's based on a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stance on Social Media

Assuming that we even use icons! I think a text drop down box which lists the various networks that one could share onto would work just as well. On 12 January 2015 at 15:35, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Tim Starling wrote: Yes, there's a risk we could end up with an alphabetical list

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Gendergap-I] Re: Fundraising banners (again)

The view at 3200x1800 http://i.imgur.com/IY28Tmp.png On 6 December 2014 at 17:59, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: Why would you need an IT team to track the A/B testing? 100% of the code for the banners and banner delivery is publicly accessible and there is a detailed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

On 6 December 2014 at 20:47, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Whining about effective fundraising is just that.. Please help us with approaches that bring in the additional money to do even more in stead. Thanks, GerardM Oh, I don't know, maybe have smaller ads which

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator outage due to network issues, 11/29

ASAP? when it's already hitting approx. five hours of down time? On 30 November 2014 at 18:14, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: As noted in the server admin log [1], Phabricator is currently down due to a network outage impacting one of our racks in the Ashburn data-center. We're

Re: [MediaWiki-l] script for SQLite installation

Is there any reason you can't use the pre-existing install methods? On 23 October 2014 03:08, JFC Morfin jef...@jefsey.com wrote: I wish to write a complete script set to install and manage small specialized wikis under SQLite and using the same MediaWiki code. I know how to create the

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

Perhaps someone could trail making a gadget that will display the template loaded into the m.* mobile experience so its's easier for users to have a look as a starting point? On 9 October 2014 14:09, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Helder wrote: This is why we have proposals like

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC meeting this week

Tim was probably thinking of AEDT On 9 October 2014 06:14, Roan Kattouw rkatt...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: * Australia AEST: Thursday 07:00 Ironically, Tim miscalculated the time in his own timezone :D it's 08:00

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

Templates aren't protected by default =). If they are protected there is generally a good reason such as heavy usage, you can always put a comment on the talk page and tag it with {{EditProtected}} which will summon someone with sysop rights. You can also setup a /Sandbox page with the proposed

Re: [Wikitech-l] IRC bots for phab

On 29 September 2014 02:08, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote: [[You spend way too much time (and other people's time too) on exaggerating or rehashing issues beyond their true proportions. You already knew that new user registration at that instance was disabled before the start of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

Probably the original IRC discussions. On 19 August 2014 17:22, Merlijn van Deen valhall...@arctus.nl wrote: On 19 August 2014 07:36, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: Personally I don't think in it's current state/design it is overly suitable for deployment onto MediaWiki wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

I was meaning to comment on the overall GSoC proposal before the acceptance stage and didn't get a chance. Personally I don't think in it's current state/design it is overly suitable for deployment onto MediaWiki wiki as it will introduce a external factor on the page load for each visitor,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dropping unused repos (was: Extension unit tests!)

What issues are they causing by being there? On Tuesday, August 12, 2014, addshorew...@gmail.com wrote: That is one thing we should take into account when clearing them out. We should look at the date of last commit or the date of creation and if they were in the last 6 months of so possibly

Re: [MediaWiki-l] installation help sought

Why can't you install it via the web installer? Can you post what the script path setting is in your local settings file? On Monday, August 11, 2014, Greg Bennett greg.t.benn...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings Have used MediaWiki for years at work, but have never had to install it before. So

[Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

Lets all welcome the new overlord Erik. Add a new protection level called superprotect Assigned to nobody by default. Requested by Erik Möller for the purposes of protecting pages such that sysop permissions are not sufficient to edit them. Change-Id: Idfa211257dbacc7623d42393257de1525ff01e9e

[Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

Lets all welcome the new overlord Erik. Add a new protection level called superprotect Assigned to nobody by default. Requested by Erik Möller for the purposes of protecting pages such that sysop permissions are not sufficient to edit them. Change-Id: Idfa211257dbacc7623d42393257de1525ff01e9e

Re: [Wikimania-l] For anyone who didn't see it or needs the link

Please use a descriptive subject line next time. Thanks. On Monday, August 11, 2014, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thank you for creating this awesome encyclopedia https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WPZeroPetition -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Unacceptable -- CheckUser abuse gone uninvestigated

On 2 August 2014 17:18, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: ... i personally do not care about the russavia case in particular i must say. but i care about the (non-)care of persons having access to account data triggered by a bad policy. imo * checkuser usage must be requested

Re: [Wikitech-l] Spam filter rules on the Wiki Loves Monuments Mailing list not working

Can you please file the bug in our bugzilla installation? bugzilla.wikimedia.org under Wikimedia - Mailing Lists. On 1 August 2014 08:39, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, (not really sure this is the right place, please redirect me if needed) Togheter with

Re: [Wikitech-l] User agent policy for bots

It's designed so if there if there is a issue with the bot (eg: it's malfunctioning etc) and causes issues the person whom is in control can easily be identified. As such, The user-agent you chose should reflect that. On 11 July 2014 09:09, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, As

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community RfCs about MediaViewer

Has a bug request been filed? On 10 July 2014 15:03, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: This discussion has closed on English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_Viewer/June_2014_RfC Will WMF deactivate MediaViewer on English Wikipedia per community consensus? Also,

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Please remove me from your mail list

Albert, Heather requested that herself be unsubscribed from the mailing list. They just forwarded a message and changed the subject to accomplish that. On 8 July 2014 03:02, Albert Coder eralbert9...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote: Maybe at

Re: [MediaWiki-l] (Praise) Lower CPU usage for 1.23

On 26 June 2014 22:43, Tommy Heyser tommy.hey...@gmail.com wrote: Wait until you get to 1.24. I had to revert back to 1.23. Tommy Heyser Have you filed a bug for this? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] Request IPv6 address for dumps.wikimedia.org

The request should be made in Bugzilla. On 22 June 2014 04:33, wp mirror wpmirror...@gmail.com wrote: Dear list members, 0) PROBLEM Most of the WMF sites have IPv6 addresses. For example: (shell)$ dig www.mediawiki.org text-lb.eqiad.wikimedia.org. 1393 IN

Re: [Wikitech-l] New tabs for images

It is still accessible, It's just a utter pain to get to. On 4 June 2014 20:35, Petr Kadlec petr.kad...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 1:17 PM, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 1, 2014 5:12 AM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: So here I am working late night

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bot flags and human-made edits

Because humans use it these days, not boys generally in the web interface and it would just make stuff harder for people that use it… On Tuesday, May 20, 2014, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On May 20, 2014 8:39 AM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org javascript:; wrote: On 19 May

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reducing botspam on #wikimedia-dev

tbh -dev (or somewhere else) should be the master channel for bz output. On 19 May 2014 00:36, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone! I just merged a change into the new wikibugs that will help reduce botspam on #wikimedia-dev. wikibugs will no longer report bugs on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons' frontpage probably shouldn't prominently feature a decontextualised stack of corpses.

Have you discussed this on commons, or just trying to bypass them? On Friday, May 9, 2014, Kevin Gorman kgor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all - This is a slightly unusual email for me, in that I'm wearing more hats than I usually do. I'm writing as a community member, but also as someone

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change the installer to make Project: the default option for meta namespace name

On 4 May 2014 05:38, Nathan Larson nathanlarson3...@gmail.com wrote: 4) We don't have any other namespace names (User, Template, etc.) that are, by default, different from one wiki to the next; what is the logic for making an exception for the meta namespace? Because the Template/User

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today deferred

Well randomly cancelling them out of thin air and sending reminders a hour or two before does tend to cause that. Amongst the other issues of course On 17 April 2014 14:34, Steve Zhang cro0...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, We would have someone noting what happens on the hang out in IRC and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed body font stack for Latin

On 12 April 2014 05:49, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to test this locally on the English Wikipedia, and I am quit confident this makes everyone happy because 1) every OS should end up using a native font, and 2) it promotes a free font at the beginning of the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile Operator IP Drift

On 11 April 2014 05:53, Adam Baso ab...@wikimedia.org wrote: Your feedback is welcome here on wikitech-l. Next week we'd like to move the discussion to the wikimediaannounce-l mailing list, but we wanted to first cover it on this main developer list. Announce-l isn't a discussion list, it

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