[Wikitech-l] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2013-07-15 Thread Kiran Mathew Koshy
LinkedIn I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Kiran Mathew Kiran Mathew Koshy Undergraduate Student at Indian Institute of Technology, Patna Patna Area, India Confirm that you know Kiran Mathew Koshy:

[Wikitech-l] [IRC] wm-bot major update

2013-07-15 Thread Petr Bena
Hi all, wm-bot, our fellow irc bot [0] has became more popular than I expected [1] and currently is being used in more than 90 channels. Unfortunately, freenode has a limit for maximum channels per user which is AFAIK little over 100 per user Because I don't want to restrict users from being

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please identify your Wikimedia handles

2013-07-15 Thread Quim Gil
On 07/13/2013 04:49 PM, Katie Chan wrote: On 13/07/2013 14:34, Finne Boonen wrote: I noticed you're not tracking the dates for affiliation? People change jobs or move from a volunteer to a paid position etc. That. As someone who works for a chapter, according to instructions I have to

[Wikitech-l] ContentHandler Questions

2013-07-15 Thread Derric Atzrott
Good Day, I'm thinking about creating another Mediawiki extension here at my work (well actually, more likely starting over on one I haven't touched in several months) and I have a few questions about ContentHandler and if it is an appropriate mechanism to make use of in this extension.

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

2013-07-15 Thread Alex Monk
Sending to wikitech-l instead, mediawiki-api is just for the MediaWiki API itself, not Wikimedia server stuff. Alex Monk On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Robert Crowe rob...@ourwebhome.com wrote: It looks to me like I was blacklisted for EN Wikipedia API requests. My website has been using

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

2013-07-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
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?

2013-07-15 Thread Robert Crowe
That's completely understandable. I'm just glad to hear that it was nothing personal! I can confirm that my website is back up, or it will as soon as the cache finishes invalidating. Thanks for fighting that fire Roan, I'm sure it took a lot of hard work to get things back. Thanks, Robert

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project idea

2013-07-15 Thread Brion Vibber
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'd recommend against building any specific 'app' for a web-based OS like this, but if we can have a Chrome Web Store entry that

[Wikitech-l] Suggestion for solving the disambiguation problem

2013-07-15 Thread Jon Robson
I understand there is an issue that needs solving where various pages link to disambiguation pages. These need fixing to point at the appropriate thing. I had a thought on how this might be done using a variant of EventLogging... When a user clicks on a link that is a disambiguation page and

[Wikitech-l] Diff 0.7 released!

2013-07-15 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey all, I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Diff 0.7. This release focuses on fixing bugs, adding tests and removing deprecated methods. The notable fixes are: * MapPatcher will now no longer stop patching after the first remove operation it encounters * MapPatcher now always

Re: [Wikitech-l] mod_pagespeed and MediaWiki

2013-07-15 Thread Max Semenik
Thanks for your comments, Ilya! On 16.07.2013, 2:19 Ilya wrote: Re, Opera: Checked with the team, this is an oversight on our part. Easy to fix, we just didn't whitelist the Opera UA. Re, non-JS handling and purging: can we discuss this a bit more? Is the concern that the noscript variable

Re: [Wikitech-l] mod_pagespeed and MediaWiki

2013-07-15 Thread Asher Feldman
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Ilya Grigorik igrigo...@google.com wrote: +asher (woops, forgot to cc :)) On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Ilya Grigorik igrigo...@google.comwrote: Anyway, I've already started working on something I noticed in mod_pagespeed - a much better JS minification,