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

2013-04-29 Thread Roan Kattouw
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

2013-04-29 Thread Roan Kattouw
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

2013-04-29 Thread Roan Kattouw
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

2013-04-29 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2013-04-26 17:17, Gerard Meijssen a écrit : Hoi, Why use such an old browser and why should anybody care if it works ... Current version of Firefox is 20.0.1 Thanks, Gerard Because that's the version which is installed on one of the workstation I use and for which I have no required

[Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 Proposal - jQuery.IME extensions for Firefox and Chrome

2013-04-29 Thread Praveen Singh
Hello, I have drafted a proposal for my GSoC Project: jQuery.IME extensions for Firefox and Chrome. I would love to hear what you think about it. I would really appreciate any kind of feedback and suggestions. Please let me know if I can improve it in any way. My proposal can be found here:

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 Proposal - jQuery.IME extensions for Firefox and Chrome

2013-04-29 Thread oren bochman
Interesting proposal. I would imagine that this does not impact most page-views since Js files are cached. It might be better to fix this bug by a tighter integration of the JavaScript with the Resource loader to lazy load the required elements as needed In such a case the solution would be

[Wikitech-l] Developing a GSoC Idea - Visual Editor

2013-04-29 Thread Vivek Rai
Hi, My idea of contribution to Visual Editor is in a very naive state and I don't know whether it will in full feature state before the deadline of GSoC this year. Sorry for being late. -- At the time, we are focusing at giving the users a real time, true 'visual' experience of editing on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-04-29 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 03:00 +, reporter wrote: Reports marked FIXED : 908 This number is obviously wrong, and I don't know yet why. It should be around 200 instead. andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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

2013-04-29 Thread David Gerard
On 27 April 2013 09:25, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 April 2013 15:42, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Lukas Benedix bene...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: You can share your feedback on

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

2013-04-29 Thread Lukas Benedix
Am Mo 29.04.2013 10:09, schrieb Mathieu Stumpf: We should care because we care about all potential contributors, and we don't want to make discrimination based on gender, sexual orientation nor the browser available to them. SCNR: The VisualEditor is not working in IE6, which is used by

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

2013-04-29 Thread Subramanya Sastry
On 04/29/2013 03:34 PM, David Gerard wrote: On 27 April 2013 09:25, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: ... That doesn't quite address the issue: surely it's a problem if it's claiming to take feedback but the feedback is going nowhere. (I've been trying it and flagging seriously buggy

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

2013-04-29 Thread David Gerard
On 29 April 2013 12:01, Subramanya Sastry ssas...@wikimedia.org wrote: As Roan clarified in his emails on this thread, the debugging data collected is sent to the Parsoid server and is stored there. We (the Parsoid team) do look at it and use that for debugging and fixing bugs. Cool, thank

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC / OPW mentors README

2013-04-29 Thread Željko Filipin
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: There is more good reading at https://www.mediawiki.org/** wiki/Mentorship_programs/**Possible_mentorshttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_mentors I am listed as a mentor at Outreach Program for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-04-29 Thread Željko Filipin
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 5:00 AM, reporter repor...@kaulen.wikimedia.orgwrote: Reports changed/set to RESOLVED : 1015 Is this one correct? It is usually 200-300. Željko ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-04-29 Thread Željko Filipin
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 5:00 AM, reporter repor...@kaulen.wikimedia.orgwrote: MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for April 22, 2013 - April 29, 2013 Fresh charts: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla_Weekly_Report Reports changed/set to RESOLVED : 1015 Reports marked FIXED : 908 Looks

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-04-29 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 14:15 +0200, Željko Filipin wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 5:00 AM, reporter repor...@kaulen.wikimedia.orgwrote: Reports changed/set to RESOLVED : 1015 Is this one correct? It is usually 200-300. Same problem, should be 284:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-04-29 Thread Željko Filipin
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Same problem, should be 284: Do you know the correct number for FIXED, so I can fix both charts? Željko ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC / OPW mentors README

2013-04-29 Thread Quim Gil
On 04/29/2013 04:55 AM, Željko Filipin wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: There is more good reading at https://www.mediawiki.org/** wiki/Mentorship_programs/**Possible_mentorshttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_mentors I am

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developing a GSoC Idea - Visual Editor

2013-04-29 Thread Quim Gil
Hi Vivek, On 04/29/2013 02:56 AM, Vivek Rai wrote: Hi, My idea of contribution to Visual Editor is in a very naive state and I don't know whether it will in full feature state before the deadline of GSoC this year. Sorry for being late. There are still several days to go before the deadline.

[Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-29 Thread Brion Vibber
Just curious -- what's the state of forcing HTTPS for all user sessions? It's simple common sense at this point to protect all our users from session hijacking on local networks or MITM attacks. I see some Gerrit activity on adding preferences or special groups for HTTPS, which seems a horrid

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-29 Thread James Forrester
On 29 April 2013 09:12, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: Just curious -- what's the state of forcing HTTPS for all user sessions? It's simple common sense at this point to protect all our users from session hijacking on local networks or MITM attacks. Now a bug:

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC / OPW mentors README

2013-04-29 Thread Quim Gil
More about this: On 04/27/2013 04:58 PM, Quim Gil wrote: SELECTING CANDIDATES After the deadline we will meet to prioritize GSoC and OPW candidates. The first step is to tell Google before May 6 (quoting): #amazing proposals The amount of amazing proposals submitted to this organization

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-29 Thread Chris Steipp
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: Just curious -- what's the state of forcing HTTPS for all user sessions? It's simple common sense at this point to protect all our users from session hijacking on local networks or MITM attacks. I see some Gerrit

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-29 Thread Steven Walling
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote: Personally, I think giving users safe defaults, but the option to shoot themselves *often* is the most secure option, because most users will use the secure defaults, and people who want another option will go to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-29 Thread Tyler Romeo
Some relevant info: Here's the Gerrit change implementing the user preference - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/47089 Also, $wgSecureLogin was deployed once to WMF wikis, but apparently a bug occurred that was not present on my test environment. Once we figure out what the source of that issue

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-29 Thread Chris Steipp
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: Some relevant info: Here's the Gerrit change implementing the user preference - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/47089 Also, $wgSecureLogin was deployed once to WMF wikis, but apparently a bug occurred that was not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-29 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Using $wgSecureLogin with CentralAuth, if a global account logged in and unchecked the box to continue using SSL, then SUL didn't correctly log them in. This has been fixed in some of the updates to SUL that we're

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC Project Idea

2013-04-29 Thread Platonides
On 26/04/13 22:23, Kiran Mathew Koshy wrote: Hi guys, I have an own idea for my GSoC project that I'd like to share with you. Its not a perfect one, so please forgive any mistakes. The project is related to the existing GSoC project *Incremental Data dumps * , but is in no way a

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 Proposal - jQuery.IME extensions for Firefox and Chrome

2013-04-29 Thread Praveen Singh
Hi Oren, Thanks for the feedback. If I have got your point correctly, then the browser extensions would not impact or slow down the page loading. My project scope does include on demand loading of the input methods, but I am not very sure how to go about integrating Resource Loader with the

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

2013-04-29 Thread Roan Kattouw
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] GSoC Proposal :Jquery.IME improvements

2013-04-29 Thread Nithin Saji
Hi Everyone, After unsuccessfully editing the proposal template wiki I have finally made a very crude draft of my proposal. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Diadara536/GSoC Comments are welcome and appreciated Nithin Saji (diadara on freenode) ___

[Wikitech-l] Pre-Release Announcement for MediaWiki 1.19.6 and 1.20.5

2013-04-29 Thread Chris Steipp
This is a notice that on Tuesday, April 30th between 20:00-21:00 UTC (1-2pm PDT) Wikimedia Foundation will release security updates for current and supported branches of the MediaWiki software. Downloads and patches will be available at that time, with the git repositories updated later that

[Wikitech-l] Special Tech Talk: Big Data Tools

2013-04-29 Thread Quim Gil
This week we have a Tech Talk special edition: Big Data Tools by David Schoonover May 1, 19:30 UTC / 12:30 PDT Overview of the big data tools we have available at the Wikimedia Foundation. We'll be writing real queries to explore real data from the mobile site! More details and timezones at

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC2013/OPW Proposal: VisualEditor RTL Support

2013-04-29 Thread James Forrester
On 28 April 2013 13:04, Moriel Schottlender mor...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, This is my second attempt for a proposal, but I think this is a project that is *much* better than my previous one, and has a much bigger demand. I'd love to work on this as a GSoC project! Before I submit

[Wikitech-l] GSoC Application

2013-04-29 Thread Aayush Sharma
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Aayush251/gsoc Please review my GSoC application. -- Aayush Sharma aayush.sha...@studentpartner.com Skype : aayush251 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki API 2.0 (was GSoC Application)

2013-04-29 Thread Quim Gil
On 04/29/2013 02:18 PM, Aayush Sharma wrote: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Aayush251/gsoc Please review my GSoC application. Hi Aayush, please write more specific emails in a mailing list. It will help getting more people looking at your proposal. You could also have pasted the

[Wikitech-l] Offline Wikipedia (was GSoC Project)

2013-04-29 Thread Quim Gil
On 04/26/2013 01:27 PM, Kiran Mathew Koshy wrote: Hi guys, I have an own idea for my GSoC project that I'd like to share with you. Its not a perfect one, so please forgive any mistakes. The project is related to the existing GSoC project *Incremental Data dumps * , but is in no way a

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC2013/OPW Proposal: VisualEditor RTL Support

2013-04-29 Thread Moriel Schottlender
James Forrester jforrester at wikimedia.org writes: On 28 April 2013 13:04, Moriel Schottlender moriel at gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, This is my second attempt for a proposal, but I think this is a project that is *much* better than my previous one, and has a much bigger demand.

[Wikitech-l] project idea for wikimedia

2013-04-29 Thread anurag bhattacharjee
I am a 3rd year student doing graduation on computer science and engineering in a public engineering university in Bangladesh. this year i have developed a project on constitution of Bangladesh. where i used XML parsing technique. i want to develop an application for android device which can give

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC Project

2013-04-29 Thread Emmanuel Engelhart
Dear Kiran Before commenting your proposal, let me thank: * Quim for having renamed this thread... I wouldn't have got a chance to read it otherwise. * Gnosygnu and Sumana for their previous answers. Your emails points three problems: (1) The size of the offline dumps (2) Server mode of the

[Wikitech-l] Upcoming change to section edit links

2013-04-29 Thread Steven Walling
Hi all, To resolve bug 41729, patch 49364 was recently merged. This means that there's going to be a small design change for section edit links, and probably more relevant for this list, the way the HTML for them is generated will change. This is likely to break any custom gadgets, scripts or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming change to section edit links

2013-04-29 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2013-04-29 8:01 PM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, To resolve bug 41729, patch 49364 was recently merged. This means that there's going to be a small design change for section edit links, and probably more relevant for this list, the way the HTML for them is

Re: [Wikitech-l] project idea for wikimedia

2013-04-29 Thread Quim Gil
Hello Anurag, On 04/29/2013 03:40 PM, anurag bhattacharjee wrote: I am a 3rd year student doing graduation on computer science and engineering in a public engineering university in Bangladesh. this year i have developed a project on constitution of Bangladesh. where i used XML parsing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-29 Thread Paul Selitskas
There are some situations when HTTPS won't work (for example, blocked by provider or government). How does one disable HTTPS without actually accessing a HTTPS version if the user is redirected from HTTP automatically? HTTPS was once blocked in Belarus, thus disabling access to above mentioned

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

2013-04-29 Thread Roan Kattouw
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

[Wikitech-l] Single User Login finalisation: some accounts will be renamed

2013-04-29 Thread James Forrester
All, The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users (like cross-wiki notifications). These changes will mean users have the same account name everywhere, will let us give you new features

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-29 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Paul Selitskas p.selits...@gmail.comwrote: There are some situations when HTTPS won't work (for example, blocked by provider or government). How does one disable HTTPS without actually accessing a HTTPS version if the user is redirected from HTTP

[Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013: UploadWizard: Book upload customization Proposal

2013-04-29 Thread nazmul chowdhury
Hi, My name is Nazmul Chowdhury, I would like to participate in the GSoC 2013, working on the UploadWizard: Book upload customization (potential mentor: MarkTraceur). My proposal can be found here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rasel160. Any feedback is much appreciated. Thank You, Nazmul

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC Project

2013-04-29 Thread Kiran Mathew Koshy
First of all, let me thank everyone who has commented on this thread. Sorry about not responding earlier. My exams are going on. You can certainly expect more response from me once they are over. On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart emman...@engelhart.orgwrote: Dear Kiran

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-29 Thread Paul Selitskas
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Paul Selitskas p.selits...@gmail.comwrote: There are some situations when HTTPS won't work (for example, blocked by provider or government). How does one disable HTTPS without actually

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 Proposal - jQuery.IME extensions for Firefox and Chrome

2013-04-29 Thread Praveen Singh
Hi I have implemented a small prototype Chrome extension related to this project. It is a simple browser extension (currently for Google Chrome only), that provides multilingual input support on any webpage. Source code and installation instructions can be found at: