Re: [Wikitech-l] QRCode - QRpedia

2013-12-09 Thread Emmanuel Engelhart
Hi Rodrigo, I have open a bug for this: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58204 Your request is legitimate, it seems important too me to go ahead on this. If someone is motivated to implemented this feature, it would be a pleasure for me to review his patch. Otherwise, I will try to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making MediaWiki extensions installable via Composer

2013-12-09 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, On 9 December 2013 04:22, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: That'd be fanatic if it happened for many other reasons as well. For all intents and purposes it is a big caste in the sky though. I expect this to not happen in the coming years, unless there is a big shift in opinion

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering report, November 2013

2013-12-09 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in November 2013 is now available. Wiki version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/November Blog version: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/09/engineering-report-november-2013/ We're also proposing a

[Wikitech-l] Estensione per l'embedding di video

2013-12-09 Thread Cristian Consonni
Ciao gvf, Francesca ha cercato disperatamente di embeddare un video in Wikina, non sapendo che però non si può fare. Pensavo avessimo in passato installato qualche estensione per farlo, ma ho ricontrollatto in Speciale:Versione[1] e non mi pare. Ho visto che c'è questa estensione che potrebbe

[Wikitech-l] Draft for Bugzilla etiquette guidelines

2013-12-09 Thread Andre Klapper
Heya everybody, based on a discussion on the teampractices@ mailing list ([1],[2]) I have published an initial draft for potential Bugzilla etiquette guidelines. It tries to explain workflows and helpful behavior in Bugzilla, as things work slightly different than on wikipages (not only on a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Estensione per l'embedding di video

2013-12-09 Thread Mark Holmquist
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 06:09:53PM +0100, Cristian Consonni wrote: Ciao gvf, Hi, Cristian. First, as this is a primarily English list, many of the people who might be able to help you may be unable to this time, because of your language choice. Luckily we have the Internet [1]. It's unclear,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Draft for Bugzilla etiquette guidelines

2013-12-09 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Dec 9, 2013 6:13 PM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: Heya everybody, based on a discussion on the teampractices@ mailing list ([1],[2]) I have published an initial draft for potential Bugzilla etiquette guidelines. It tries to explain workflows and helpful behavior in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Estensione per l'embedding di video

2013-12-09 Thread Cristian Consonni
2013/12/9 Mark Holmquist mtrac...@member.fsf.org: On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 06:09:53PM +0100, Cristian Consonni wrote: Ciao gvf, Hi, Cristian. First, as this is a primarily English list, many of the people who might be able to help you may be unable to this time, because of your language

Re: [Wikitech-l] Draft for Bugzilla etiquette guidelines

2013-12-09 Thread Jon Robson
Thanks Andre This is much needed. Would we be able to link to such a thing from within the Bugzilla interface to give it more visibility? On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 9, 2013 6:13 PM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: Heya

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in update

2013-12-09 Thread Quim Gil
Google Code-in: 3 weeks past, 4 weeks to go. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In We have 113 tasks completed, 22 currently in progress, and 30 open. The graph looks very good so far: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_at_Google_Code-in_2013.png What the graph doesn't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Module storage is coming

2013-12-09 Thread Gabriel Wicke
On 12/08/2013 11:55 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote: I'm sure this has already been taken into consideration, but keep in mind that code that is executed using eval() in Javascript is *not* optimized by the V8 compiler like normal script resources are. Are you sure this is still the case?

[Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-09 Thread K. Peachey
For wider discussion --- From: bugzilla-daemon at wikimedia.org Subject: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia siteshttp://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3cbug%2d58236%2d3%40https.bugzilla.wikimedia.org%2f%3e Newsgroups:

[Wikitech-l] FWD [Bug 58235] New: Remove skin selection from Wikipedia and Wikimedia site Special:Preferences for new user accounts

2013-12-09 Thread K. Peachey
For wider discussion From: bugzilla-daemon at wikimedia.org Subject: [Bug 58235] New: Remove skin selection from Wikipedia and Wikimedia site Special:Preferences for new user accountshttp://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3cbug%2d58235%2d3%40https.bugzilla.wikimedia.org%2f%3e

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-09 Thread Liangent
MediaWiki:Common.js can also create disagreement and defaults change without notice. Actually what I did sometimes is to move code from MediaWiki:Common.js to default gadgets, so it can be disabled per user (for example, some users are using a too slow computer or network), and at the same time,

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-09 Thread Paul Selitskas
Yep, that's what I did too a year a two ago. Since some parts of front-end code work quite differently in Common.js and gadgets, it's bettet to put modular stuff (esp. ones that users would like to opt-out of) in gadgets. On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Liangent liang...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD [Bug 58235] New: Remove skin selection from Wikipedia and Wikimedia site Special:Preferences for new user accounts

2013-12-09 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2013-12-09 5:03 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: For wider discussion From: bugzilla-daemon at wikimedia.org Subject: [Bug 58235] New: Remove skin selection from Wikipedia and Wikimedia site Special:Preferences for new user accounts

Re: [Wikitech-l] Module storage is coming

2013-12-09 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I am somewhat concerned about the implications for JS debugging here. Debugging JS problems with the live sites is already pretty complicated: 1. debug=true won't reproduce some bugs (usually race condition related) 2. Sometimes old code gets cached with the new cache-busting timestamp (due to a

[Wikitech-l] API edit call in a maintenance script

2013-12-09 Thread Toni Hermoso Pulido
Hello, I'm trying to perform an API edit call in a maintenance script using this example in MW 1.19.9 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Calling_internally $user = User::newFromId( 1 ); // Using WikiSysiop $page = WikiPage::newFromID( $id ); $titleText = $page-getTitle()-getPrefixedText();

[Wikitech-l] DSA-2814-1 varnish -- denial of service

2013-12-09 Thread Jacobo Nájera
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2814 Thanks, Jacobo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] API edit call in a maintenance script

2013-12-09 Thread Liangent
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Toni Hermoso Pulido toni...@cau.catwrote: Hello, I'm trying to perform an API edit call in a maintenance script using this example in MW 1.19.9 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Calling_internally $user = User::newFromId( 1 ); // Using WikiSysiop $page =

Re: [Wikitech-l] SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook and documenting skin template variables

2013-12-09 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 12/06/2013 01:37 PM, Jon Robson wrote: Currently we have an issue live on all wikipedias which makes a language button show up on all pages - even those without articles. x https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diggers_%26_Dealerstitle=Diggers_%26_Dealers When the language button at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Module storage is coming

2013-12-09 Thread Ori Livneh
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am somewhat concerned about the implications for JS debugging here. Debugging JS problems with the live sites is already pretty complicated: 1. debug=true won't reproduce some bugs (usually race condition related)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Engineering Community team updates

2013-12-09 Thread Quim Gil
Tomorrow Tuesday the Engineering Community team is doing its monthly IRC meeting in #wikimedia-meetbot at 17:00 UTC. You can propose topics here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Engineering_Community_Team/Meetings#2013-11-12 Last week we had our regular team meeting, where we mainly discussed a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Module storage is coming

2013-12-09 Thread Ori Livneh
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I am somewhat concerned about the implications for JS debugging here. Debugging JS problems with the live sites is already pretty complicated: 1.

[Wikitech-l] Re-evaluating MediaWiki ResourceLoader's debug mode

2013-12-09 Thread MZMcBride
Ori Livneh wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am somewhat concerned about the implications for JS debugging here. Debugging JS problems with the live sites is already pretty complicated: 1. debug=true won't reproduce some bugs (usually race

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki RFC reporter bot

2013-12-09 Thread MZMcBride
Hi. I filed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58250 if you or someone you know feels like writing a small script that can report new and status changes to MediaWiki requests for comments on a weekly basis to this mailing list. I think such a script would directly improve

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-evaluating MediaWiki ResourceLoader's debug mode

2013-12-09 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 12/09/2013 09:29 PM, MZMcBride wrote: * Minification is a form of obfuscation and it harms the open Web. That's true iff there isn't a readily available way of getting the non-obfuscated source. For normal day-to-day browsing you /want/ to shave those extra ms off (all the more so if you are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-evaluating MediaWiki ResourceLoader's debug mode

2013-12-09 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 12/09/2013 09:29 PM, MZMcBride wrote: * You can specify debug=true. ** Specifying the URL parameter can damage reproducibility. ** URL parameter is non-obvious to just about everyone. I can't think of a more straight-forward name. It's also clearly documented. * Minification is a form

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-evaluating MediaWiki ResourceLoader's debug mode

2013-12-09 Thread MZMcBride
Matthew Flaschen wrote: On 12/09/2013 09:29 PM, MZMcBride wrote: * You can specify debug=true. ** Specifying the URL parameter can damage reproducibility. ** URL parameter is non-obvious to just about everyone. I can't think of a more straight-forward name. It's also clearly documented.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Module storage is coming

2013-12-09 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Gabriel Wicke gwi...@wikimedia.org wrote: Are you sure this is still the case? https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2315 seems to suggest that this was fixed in V8 last year. Not sure if it's related, but looking at the bleeding edge compiler.cc code

Re: [Wikitech-l] Module storage is coming

2013-12-09 Thread Ori Livneh
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Gabriel Wicke gwi...@wikimedia.org wrote: Are you sure this is still the case? https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2315 seems to suggest that this was fixed in V8 last year.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Module storage is coming

2013-12-09 Thread Gabriel Wicke
On 12/09/2013 08:33 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Gabriel Wicke gwi...@wikimedia.org wrote: Are you sure this is still the case? https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2315 seems to suggest that this was fixed in V8 last year. Not sure if it's related, but