Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of the new PDF Renderer

2014-01-25 Thread Aya Mahfouz
Dear All, Is it possible at the current moment to test the new PDF Renderer online for RTL languages? And is it possible to adjust the page layout? I see that the default is the two column layout. Thanks, Kind Regards, Aya Saif El-yazal Mahfouz On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Liangent

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to retrieve the page, execute some time expensive operation and edit the page ONLY if it wasn't changed meanwhile

2014-01-25 Thread Liangent
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 01/22/2014 12:35 PM, Petr Bena wrote: this explanation should be in the documentation ;) anyway I guess I need to use both of them? basetimestamp (the timestamp of the revision your edit is based on) should

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit upgrade Tuesday

2014-01-25 Thread Chad
Thankfully no it won't be changing. 2.8 still has the old screen by default. -Chad On Jan 24, 2014 10:55 PM, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Will the default UI change after the upgrade? I've grown quite used to the current way Gerrit looks. gerrithub (for instance) has the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of the new PDF Renderer

2014-01-25 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi Liangent, Does [1] this answer your question ? It is a page they use for testing. Thanks, Gerard http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/納粹德國海軍 On 25 January 2014 08:56, Liangent liang...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't look at the new renderer carefully, but I guess it's a Parsoid-based one. Hope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's improve our password policy

2014-01-25 Thread rupert THURNER
hi steven, thanks for this proposal. what i trap into consistently since years is not beeing logged in, when i want to. i'd really appreaciate if this is shown clearly, on all wiki's. i never can remember which ones indicate it and which ones not. mediawiki.org indicates it, btw ... and i was

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of the new PDF Renderer

2014-01-25 Thread Liangent
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi Liangent, Does [1] this answer your question ? It is a page they use for testing. Thanks, Gerard http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/納粹德國海軍 It's mentioned as a test case but where's the output (expected and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of the new PDF Renderer

2014-01-25 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Jan 25, 2014 9:55 AM, Liangent liang...@gmail.com wrote: It's mentioned as a test case but where's the output (expected and actual) of that article? You may find some answers in the initial mail that started this thread. -Jeremy ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of the new PDF Renderer

2014-01-25 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Yes, zhwiki is still an issue because of LanguageConverter. I will be fixing that issue in both Parsoid and the PDF renderer. (As soon as I fix some long-standing bugs in image handling for Parsoid/VE.) It's a bit tough to test the renderer on-line at the moment, because you have to import your

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's improve our password policy

2014-01-25 Thread Isarra Yos
On 25/01/14 13:02, rupert THURNER wrote: for the password policy: display a strength indicator is great. anything more? i would say just leave it to the user. rupert. This. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of the new PDF Renderer

2014-01-25 Thread Aya Mahfouz
Hello C.Scott, Could you kindly try importing the following articles from the Arabic Wikipedia and then sending me the resultant pdf files? https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/كأس_العالم_لكرة_القدم https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/إسلام https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/مكلارين_پ1

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's improve our password policy

2014-01-25 Thread Steven Walling
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Isarra Yos zhoris...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/01/14 13:02, rupert THURNER wrote: for the password policy: display a strength indicator is great. anything more? i would say just leave it to the user. rupert. This. We should probably have this discussion on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dynamic search results as category pages

2014-01-25 Thread Jamie Thingelstad
You could do something exactly like this very, very easily using Semantic MediaWiki and Concepts. Jamie Thingelstad ja...@thingelstad.com mobile: 612-810-3699 find me on AIM Twitter Facebook LinkedIn On Jan 24, 2014, at 9:55 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 24, 2014 1:54 AM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dynamic search results as category pages

2014-01-25 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Of course - I am actually modeling this feature on Semantic MW. It's just that I doubt WMF will enable SMW on the cluster any time soon :) On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Jamie Thingelstad ja...@thingelstad.comwrote: You could do something exactly like this very, very easily using Semantic