[Wikitech-l] Codex code splitting: ResourceLoader now supports loading individual Codex components

see the epic task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T349423> on Phabricator. Roan Kattouw Software engineer on the Design Systems Team at the Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-l

[Wikitech-l] Announcing Codex 1.0

Today the Design Systems Team is announcing the release of Codex 1.0! What is Codex? Codex is the new design system for Wikimedia. Over the past 2 years, the Design Systems Team and contributors from

[Wikitech-l] Soliciting input on server rendering of user interfaces discussion (includes server-side rendering)

ere I list different server rendering methods and make a simple (probably too simple) proposal for when to use which. If you're interested in this topic, please go to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T322163 and participate in the discussion there. Roan Kattouw Lead engineer on the Design Sy

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki now supports ES6

and Ed Sanders for code reviewing the linter changes and releasing new versions of all these packages. Roan Kattouw On behalf of the Vue migration team (Anne Tomasevich, Eric Gardner, Volker Eckl, and myself) [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility/IE11 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to invalidate a ResourceLoader URL that depends on user-generated content?

Yes, it takes 5 minutes for just about everything to update in ResourceLoader. This is also true for ResourceLoaderSiteStylesModule: when you save an edit to e.g. MediaWiki:Common.css, you don't immediately see the styles change. However, previewing edits to MediaWiki:Common.css does work, because

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unbreak now! problem in this week train Watchlist

This sounds like it could have been caused by https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/416198 ‪On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 10:29 AM ‫יגאל חיטרון‬‎ wrote:‬ > Hello. There is a regression problem, that started on this week deployment. > I can see it in group 1 from yesterday evening. I do

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Changes to SWAT deployment policies, effective Monday April 30th

Will multi-file, single-directory syncs still be allowed? In other words, can I deploy a change to the Foo extension that touches many files with scap sync-dir extension/Foo ? On Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 15:15 Greg Grossmeier wrote: > Hello, > > I have made two changes to SWAT

Re: [Wikitech-l] First step for MCR merged: Deprecate and gut the Revision class

Thanks! Context for those who don't want to read a couple hundred lines of IRC logs: I was cooped up in the house all day and noticed it was about to get dark, so I really did take a walk (relatively abruptly) after dealing with the worst of the issue. During this walk I thought things over and

Re: [Analytics] [Ops] stat1002 and stat1003 deprecated. Please use new stat boxes

I would love to migrate to stat1006 from stat1003, but stat1006 is unusably slow right now while stat1003 is snappy. Connecting to analytics-store from stat1006 times out sometimes, and even when it doesn't, simple DESCRIBE queries take 5-15 seconds. I just talked to Adam Wight on IRC and he's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikis paused at 1.28.0-wmf.18 (was: Re: Upgrade of 1.28.0-wmf.19 to group 1 is on hold)

What are your plans for when you'll deploy wmf.19, branch wmf.20 and deploy wmf.20? I ask because I have a patch lined up that I wanted to merge today right after the wmf.20 branch cut, because I want it to spend the full week on beta labs before it goes to production. I can merge that patch

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Canary Deploys for MediaWiki

On Jul 25, 2016 16:12, "Bryan Davis" wrote: > > I think Alex is "more right" here. If you are introducing a new $wmgX > var you really should always sync-file the changed InitialiseSettings > file first and then the CommonSettings that uses it. There's no really > good reason

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Canary Deploys for MediaWiki

Note to deployers: when syncing certain config changes (e.g. adding a new variable) that touch both InitialiseSettings and CommonSettings, you will now need to use sync-dir wmf-config, because individual sync-files will likely fail if the intermediate state throws notices/errors. (It was a good

[Mediawiki-api-announce] [BREAKING CHANGE] meta=notifications outputs array instead of object since 1.27.0-wmf.22

As of 1.27.0-wmf.22 (deployed to WMF wikis April 26-28) and MediaWiki release 1.27 (specifically, this change in Echo), meta=notifications will return its result as an array rather than an object. Previously, the

[Mediawiki-api] [Mediawiki-api-announce] [BREAKING CHANGE] meta=notifications outputs array instead of object since 1.27.0-wmf.22

As of 1.27.0-wmf.22 (deployed to WMF wikis April 26-28) and MediaWiki release 1.27 (specifically, this change in Echo), meta=notifications will return its result as an array rather than an object. Previously, the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta feature now available on all wikis

ns go away? > > Cheers, > > P > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On > > Behalf Of Roan Kattouw > > Sent: Friday, 13 May 2016 8:04 PM > > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > &g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta feature now available on all wikis

round, see the blog post we published yesterday: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/05/12/cross-wiki-notifications/ On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Roan Kattouw <rkatt...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > In late 2015 and early 2016, the Collaboration team worked on building a > cross-wiki notific

Re: [Services] [Engineering] [Breaking Change] Scap change for deployers now live!

Closing the loop from IRC: 'sync-common' is now 'scap pull'. All the other commands were just prefixed with 'scap', e.g. 'sync-file' became 'scap sync-file'. It would be nice if https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_deploy_code and

[Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta feature now available on all wikis

a bug, please report it on Phabricator [7] or on the feedback page. Thanks a lot to the Collaboration team [8] as well as community liaisons Nick Wilson (Quiddity) and Benoît Evellin (Trizek) for their work on this over the past few months. --Roan Kattouw (User:Catrope) [1] All French wikis, all Hebrew wiki

Re: [Analytics] Echo schema eventlogging

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Neil P. Quinn wrote: > *Schema:Edit contains no useful information that isn't already in the >> database apart from which button people use to thank each other,* > > > I assume you mean Schema:Echo? :) > YES. Yes. ECHO, not Edit. I saw

Re: [Analytics] Echo schema eventlogging

[Reviving old thread] I was looking at our EventLogging data today, and discovered that Schema:Edit contains no useful information that isn't already in the database apart from which button people use to thank each other, and if we really care about that we can measure it separately without

[Wikitech-l] Today's RFC meeting on IRC: Standardise on how to access/register JavaScript interfaces

My apologies for the short notice. Normally we announce these more than one hour in advance, but I forgot. In today's RFC meeting, we will discuss the following RFC: * Standardise on how to access/register JavaScript interfaces

Re: [Analytics] Echo schema eventlogging

If the data is going to be retained but would just become harder to query (i.e. still in Hadoop but not in mysql), maybe we could nuke data that's more than a year old (or 6 months old or something) from mysql? On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Andrew Otto wrote: > We could

Re: [Wikitech-l] i would like that i need not set standart spacing in my code

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Jon Robson wrote: > All code standards are currently being enforced by jscs. > They recently closed an issue to add auto-formatting > https://github.com/jscs-dev/node-jscs/issues/516 There's also the --fix flag to jscs, which automatically

[EE] 1.27.0-wmf.2 deployment update

1.27.0-wmf.2 is being deployed to WMF wikis this week. The highlights for Echo and Flow are: - User talk page notifications are now correctly marked as read when visiting the talk page. - The notifications popup no longer looks broken

[EE] This list is being retired, please use wikitech-l

The EE list is being retired. Any emails that were sent here should be sent to wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org instead. ___ EE mailing list EE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee

Re: [Wikitech-l] New RFC: better JS minification

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > Thanks, I thought I was alone with being confused by this e-mail. As > Jérémie correctly states we'll likely to get __less__ bugs with a more > maintained library. Less than zero? No one has managed to find a single bug

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Risker wrote: > I am certain once the team has a chance to refocus, they may choose to > examine workflows that are common across multiple Wikimedia projects that > would benefit from improvement. Off the top of my head, creating a >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 6:21 AM, David Gerard wrote: > Did the stuff to port LQT threads/pages to Flow ever make it to > production quality? > > It was used to convert all LQT pages on mediawiki.org, including [[mw:Support desk]] which is probably the largest LQT page that has

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Roan Kattouw <roan.katt...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't think we currently have good documentation on how you can convert > your own wiki, but AFAIK "simply" running the convertAllLqtPages.php > maintenance script on a wiki that has bo

Re: [Wikimania-l] Q: Where to get Lucha Libre mask

There were a lot of stands selling masks outside of Arena México (20 minute walk from the Hilton) when we were there on Friday, but I suppose they might only be there when there's a lucha libre event at the arena. On Jul 19, 2015 14:46, Takashi OTA supertakot+wikima...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,

Re: [Wikimania-l] Hotel wifi fast generally but very slow on Wikipedia

Anecdotally, I can say that the hackathon network was very slow this morning (I used the Hilton one since then), and that ssh to WMF servers on the Hilton network had pretty bad latency. On Jul 15, 2015 20:20, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Ralf

Re: [EE] wmf13 deployment update

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Roan Kattouw rkatt...@wikimedia.org wrote: Over the next few days, wmf13 will be deployed to WMF wikis. We mostly worked on small fixes this week and on the cawiki deployment, so there aren't that many exciting things in wmf13. Some of the more noteworthy

[EE] wmf13 deployment update

I try to send out these emails on Tuesdays, apologies for the delay. Over the next few days, wmf13 will be deployed to WMF wikis. We mostly worked on small fixes this week and on the cawiki deployment, so there aren't that many exciting things in wmf13. Some of the more noteworthy things new in

[EE] Weekly deployment update

I try to send out these emails on Tuesdays, apologies for the delay. Over the next few days, wmf12 will be deployed to WMF wikis. We mostly worked on small fixes this week and on the cawiki deployment, so there aren't that many exciting things in wmf12. Some of the more noteworthy things new in

Re: [Mediawiki-api] [Mediawiki-api-announce] Changes to meta=siteinfo with formatversion=2

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: Note that formatversion=2 is still considered slightly experimental, in that backwards-incompatible changes like this can still happen. If you see any other changes like this that should be made, please report

Re: [Multimedia] IE Wikipedia [Microsoft] (Ref# 741977)

on this thread may not be used to this. On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Roan Kattouw rkatt...@wikimedia.org wrote: Copying in: * Multimedia team because this concerns video playback * Oliver because he maintains ua-parser * Erik Z because he maintains browser statistics * Timo because he

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Marielle Volz joins Wikimedia as Software Developer

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am pleased to announce Marielle Volz joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Software Engineer for the Editing team. Welcome Marielle! and started developing a node.js service Citoid[5] to make it easy to insert

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC meeting this week

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 AEST. Roan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Mediawiki-i18n] Bug in JS implementation of plural?

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I think I found a bug and wanted to check if I'm doing it wrong, or if it is indeed a bug and if so if there is somewhere I can track it? {{PLURAL:$1|$3 started this topic|A|0=B|2=C|3=$3}} mw.msg( flow-topic-participants,

[Wikitech-l] Tell my favorite conference about your Wikimedia tech

The linux.conf.au conference, which I have presented to and love going to, just opened up its call for talks: http://linux.conf.au/cfp . They want talks about all kinds of open source programming stuff, not just Linux: Trevor and I presented about ResourceLoader in 2012, and James and I presented

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tell my favorite conference about your Wikimedia tech

On Jun 12, 2014 4:08 PM, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote: I got a balloon ride the year I spoke. It was trumped the next year by a helicopter ride. Definitely an amazing trip. Wow, when was that?! I got no such thing :) In 2012 they did take all the speakers a show (and dinner) at a

Re: [Wikimania-l] Registration payment options

On Jun 4, 2014 10:37 AM, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote: On 6/4/2014 10:14 AM, Joseph Fox wrote: Pretty sure the difference is that in the US, “debit cards” as we Brits know them are rare. Not at all, debit cards are a routine feature for checking accounts in the US. But yes, if

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

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: 1. When editing via the API, allows the user to choose whether or not to flag an edit as a bot edit using the bot parameter. I'm responsible for this part of the mess. I don't remember why it was done this way though. I

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [ve-tech] [spike] Determine where the performance problems are with VE

On May 15, 2014 10:27 AM, Roan Kattouw rkatt...@wikimedia.org wrote: Ed has been fixing some things to do with shields and phantoms. I'll send you some Gerrit links in a minute. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133236/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/130823/ The former should address

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [ve-tech] [spike] Determine where the performance problems are with VE

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm still waiting for Kaldari or someone in mobile to merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/131892 before I can confirm the current state. It definitely seems to be marginally improved on desktop and mobile (with desktop

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Rob Moen takes on new role in Growth team

Thanks for all your work on VE, Rob, and best of luck on the growth team! Roan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmap and deployment highlights - Week of April 14th

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: * VisualEditor fixes: ** Adding a reference adds an empty one; editing a reference inserts a new one ** fix JS error on opening redirect pages +Enable VisualEditor on French Wikinews per community request

Re: [Wikimania-l] Setting ticket prices

On Mar 23, 2014 3:30 PM, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote: (how does the LinuxConf.au distinguish whether one is hobbyist or professional)? They give additional perks to piratical l professional attendees, like more swag, a listing on the web site (IIRC), employer name on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Grrrit-wm down for a few hours

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! I was a terrible maintainer, and forgot to migrate grrrit-wm to eqiad tools before the cutoff date. As a result, it will be down for a few hours as Coren does a batch migrate of all the things. Apologies for the

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [ve-tech] Re: MobileFrontend-en.m.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org-linux-firefox - Build # 349 - Failure!

On Feb 13, 2014 4:28 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.org wrote: I could, but I'm having DNS issues. Basically, you need to update MediaWiki core, so you get the latest oojs-ui, which adds such support. In short - they are out of sync. This is on beta labs, so while I suppose it's

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfsf] Announcement: Kunal Mehta joins Wikimedia as Features Contractor

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Kunal Mehta[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as contractor in Features Engineering. Sweet! Welcome, Kunal! Roan

[Mediawiki-api-announce] [BREAKING CHANGE] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Update to Echo api

Fowarding on behalf of Benny and legoktm. This change in the Echo API was announced on wikitech-l earlier, but failed to make it to the API list. it will be removed once ... from the message below has now happened: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/84870/ will be merged today, and will be

[Mediawiki-api] [Mediawiki-api-announce] [BREAKING CHANGE] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Update to Echo api

Fowarding on behalf of Benny and legoktm. This change in the Echo API was announced on wikitech-l earlier, but failed to make it to the API list. it will be removed once ... from the message below has now happened: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/84870/ will be merged today, and will be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Module storage is coming

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: We'll gradually enable module storage on all Wikimedia wikis over the course of the next week or two. Ori deployed this to the live site earlier today :) . For reference, the original post about module storage is archived at

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE/Migration guide for gadgets developers

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Roan, how did that go? Any links? :-) The code ended up being written and merged. The documentation ended up not being written before Wikimania, and then Life happened. Some Time Soon I hope to get around to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Killing 1.XXwmfYY branches -- another idea?

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: wmf-foo - 1.22wmf19 wmf-bar - 1.22wmf20 wmf-baz - 1.22wmf21 wmf-foo - 1.22wmf22 wmf-bar - 1.22wmf23 This looks like it's exactly the same concept as slot0/slot1/slot2 in Ryan's git-deploy proposal. The objection that I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Killing 1.XXwmfYY branches -- another idea?

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: I actually like this idea a lot and it's way less confusing than my idea. Unless anyone's got any objections I'm going to go ahead and do this for all the 1.20 and 1.21 wmf branches. Sounds good to me. Roan

Re: [Wikimania-l] a thought: break events

On Aug 15, 2013 8:20 PM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: I've been to three Wikimanias but not the last two, so my comments may be out of date. But the format where you have multiple concurrent threads each with three talks run one after another between breaks quickly gets

Re: [Wikimania-l] People staying on after Wikimania in Hong Kong?

On Aug 11, 2013 12:18 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! I'm staying on for an extra week in Hong Kong after Wikimania (yay vacations!), and wondering if there are more people staying on I could catch up with? I'm here until Wednesday morning. Thinking of doing a day trip to

Re: [Wikimania-l] Meet the VisualEditor team!

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Wikimaniacs, if you'd like to meet with the VisualEditor team and talk to us about how to improve VE, we are doing daily workshops in N112 at 1-2PM (i.e. starting now). There will also be VE team members in that location

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration: complete

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: With the moving of pywikibot to Gerrit today, the last projects actively using SVN have been moved over to Git. As such, SVN is now a read-only service and the migration is done (of course any old SVN projects can always be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Communication plans for community engagement

Nathan nawrich@... writes: I think your anti-Americanism is misplaced. Let's look at some of the key people involved in the VisualEditor project. Erik is German, James F is British, Roan Kattouw is Dutch, Timo Tijhof is Dutch. If you were to skim the list of the engineering staff

Re: [Wikitech-l] dirty diffs and VE

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:49 PM, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.org wrote: For what it's worth, both the DOM serialization-to-a-string and DOM parsing-from-a-string are done with the domino package. It has a substantial test suite of its own (originally from

Re: [Wikitech-l] dirty diffs and VE

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:10 AM, Marc Ordinas i Llopis marc...@wikimedia.org wrote: As Subbu said, I'm currently working on improving the round-trip test server, mostly on porting it from sqlite to MySQL but also on expanding the stats kept (with things like performance, etc.). If you think of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Daniel Barrett d...@vistaprint.com wrote: Risker asks: Why do you think those nowiki tags were added by the editors? I can't speak for the original poster, but the last time I used VE, it added unwanted nowiki tags by itself. You can see an example in my most

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE and nowiki

Whoops, didn't realize this thread had been forked off while I was out to lunch, and so I responded to the other thread. Sorry about that :( On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Steve Summit s...@eskimo.com wrote: This is a likely enough mistake, and the number of times you really want explicit

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE and nowiki

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:14 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: There is an enhancement for that. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51897 IMO the current behaviour isnt correct. There are so few instances that nowiki is desirable, that the current VE should refuse to

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE/Migration guide for gadgets developers

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Eran Rosenthal eranro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, When the ResourceLoader was deployed (or even before it) to production, there were migration development guides for gadget/extension developers: -

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:41 AM, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote: Minimal java-script load my ass, Your language and tone are inappropriate. Please keep it civil. I guess you must be using a fiber-optic connection. Most pages already have a lag due to the amount of JS needed to run the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Alternative editor?

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.com wrote: Are there any extensions that make use of this hook? Does VisualEditor? No, VisualEditor doesn't use this hook. Instead, it uses JavaScript to insert edit links and/or modify existing ones. The editor itself is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Australia (was Re: conferences, Hacker School, Code for America)

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: CFP Extension Announced linux.conf.au 2014 - linux.conf.au !!! Now it's July 20. http://linux.conf.au/media/news/27 ... and this is tomorrow. Beware that because of Australia's far-east timezone, it's already tomorrow there

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git config trick.

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: In ~/.gitconfig, add: [url ssh://your_usern...@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/extensions/] insteadOf = ext: Now you can: git clone ext:UploadWizard ! ! indeed. Sweet trick, dude, thanks! Roan

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Blacklisted?

There was an API outage yesterday (Sunday July 14th) between roughly 12:00 and 14:00 UTC (5am-7am Pacific Time). As part of our firefighting we blocked the IPs that were hitting the API the hardest at the time. We didn't have time to do outreach because things were on fire and falling over; I'm

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-api] Blacklisted?

There was an API outage yesterday (Sunday July 14th) between roughly 12:00 and 14:00 UTC (5am-7am Pacific Time). As part of our firefighting we blocked the IPs that were hitting the API the hardest at the time. We didn't have time to do outreach because things were on fire and falling over; I'm

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: C. Scott Ananian joins Wikimedia as Senior Features Engineer

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that C. Scott Ananian[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer. Welcome! I'm excited to hear you're officially with us now. Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] [SOLVED] Re: ResourceLoader support question: how to construct a value in CSS from PHP

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: I found the solution ( $wgExtensionAssetsPath ) Why do you need this? You shouldn't need this. Paths relative to the CSS file should be remapped automatically and should Just Work. Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Australia (was Re: conferences, Hacker School, Code for America)

On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: I also think that linux.conf.au could be a good chance to spread our word in Australia. You are encouraged to apply. I went to (and presented at) linux.conf.au in 2012, and I had an awesome time. The quality of the talks and the

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHPUnit tests fail from Jenkins but work fine locally

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote: Mobile web is trying to merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/69585/ but PHPUnit tests are failing when Jenkins executes them. What's weird is that we've executed PHPUnit tests on our various local machines -

Re: [Wikimania-l] UK Visa Bond

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexf...@gmail.com wrote: The news item: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/after-india-protests-uk-says-no-final-decision-on-rs-2-7-lakh-visa-bond-384665 The government intends to run a pilot scheme for such bonds, tightly targeted at a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Brian Wolff's summer gig, with Wikimedia!

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone, Many of you already know Brian Wolff, who has been a steady contributor to MediaWiki in the the past several years (User:Bawolff), having gotten a start during Google Summer of Code 2010[1]. Brian is back

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:42 AM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: The report a problem link sends the report privately to a Parsoid server. From your video, it appears that the API call to do so failed - could you file a Bugzilla item with more details so we can investigate?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Claudia Müller-Birn c...@inf.fu-berlin.de wrote: Hi James, Thanks for clarifying. I am just wondering why the two feedback mechanisms send to different targets which I personally find a bit confusing. What has been the decision behind it? They are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Lukas Benedix bene...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: I'm not a non-tech-user, but I don't like using bugzilla. here is the new bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/47755 Per my earlier post, I've closed that bug as INVALID (as feedback collection does actually work),

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:36 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Cool, thank you :-) Every time I've used it lately, it's messing with the ref tags. Just now I literally moved a comma and it decided messing with the ref tags would be just the thing to do ... Yeah, sorry about that :( .

[Wikitech-l] VisualEditor on wikitech.wikimedia.org

Because Faidon idly suggested that we should install VisualEditor on wikitech as a way of dogfooding, I went ahead and did it. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=PowerDNSdiff=68284oldid=14633 is the first VE edit :) Inside baseball note: this uses the Tampa Parsoid cluster, not the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Temporarily disabling l10n update

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: Does that mean that scap is also prohibited? Scap runs the same script to clear blobs. We can sabotage that script, but that will cause all i18n updates to JS to propagate more slowly, regardless of whether they came from

[Wikitech-l] New git-review version revives year-old bug

About a year ago, we were struggling with a git-review bug that caused lots of bogus warnings to appear. When running git review, you'd get a warning saying you're about to submit multiple commits, followed by a list of lots of other people's commits that have already been merged. I fixed this in

Re: [Labs-l] Help needed with instance proxy

2013/1/29 Silke Meyer silke.me...@wikimedia.de: Hi Ryan and all, you proposed me to try the instance proxy to access several web services on different labs instances via one IP address. I found https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proxy - but that's still really short. How do I use it???

Re: [Labs-l] More Puppet questions

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Andrew Bogott abog...@wikimedia.org wrote: Nope! puppetmaster::self causes puppet to use the local files in /var/lib/git/operations/puppet (aka /etc/puppet) rather than the official puppet files and manifests. Once a change has been merged it becomes part of

Re: [Labs-l] Sumana Harihareswara as tools community liaison for Labs

On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Robin Krahl m...@robin-krahl.de wrote: I have not requested Nova credentials yet, so I was not able to test everything. But even now I am missing some important information: Whom do I need to contact for Nova credentials? Special:NovaKey says: ‘Please ask a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Lee Worden worden@gmail.com wrote: Very exciting - congratulations! I know these are early days for the VisualEditor, but is there a plan for extension developers to be able to hook in to provide editing for the things their extensions support? Yes,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Daniel Barrett d...@vistaprint.com wrote: Will the method for hooking into VE be the same as for WikiEditor? Or will extension developers need to support both editors in two different ways? It won't be the same as for WikiEditors, because the two are very

Re: [Wikitech-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: I would definitely be willing to serve as a guinea pig, working to integrate ProveIt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ProveIt_GT). Awesome! Roan ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Nobody Wikidata bugs: notify when you start working on a bug

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, thanks to the metrics reports now we know that the top bug fixers in November were Nobody (228) and Wikidata bugs (83)... followed by Michael Dale (28), Roan Kattouw (23), etc. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki

Re: [Labs-l] labsconsole upgraded

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Hazard-SJ hazard...@yahoo.com wrote: Or we could use this as well since it will tell about other versions than 1.21 as well. This information also exists in a nicer format at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/Roadmap . Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] problems merging changes from master - remote branch

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote: ! [remote rejected] HEAD - refs/publish/esisupport/bug/41286 (change 32896 closed) It looks like https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/32896/ is a commit that you submitted to esisupport at some point, then abandoned,

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF's webpage

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Luke Welling lwell...@wikimedia.org wrote: Is there a reason not to use the Yahoo championed approach of embedding a version number in all static file names so you can set a very long

Re: [Wikitech-l] Off-and-on CSS and rendering issues, Bits related?

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: * Missing Gadgets tab (also with Vector skin): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Missing_Gadgets_Tab This was fixed last night. It has nothing to do with bits, it was caused by

Re: [Wikitech-l] jQuery 1.9 will remove $.browser (deprecated since jQuery 1.3 - January 2009)

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: I can understand the rationale behind removing jQuery.browser: apparently most developers are too stupid to be trusted with it. Maybe the idea is to use per-project reimplementation of jQuery.browser as an intelligence

Re: [Wikitech-l] Creating custom skin based on Vector in MediaWiki 1.20

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov ques...@rambler.ru wrote: However, 'skin.vector' module includes both styles and scripts. And setupSkinUserCss() adds styles only. So 'dependencies' did not help, vector styles are loaded later, anyway. What can I do with that? Unfortunately,

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