Re: [Wikitech-l] IRC Office Hour on Project Management Tools Review: Friday 28th, 17:00UTC

2014-03-28 Thread Guillaume Paumier
A quick reminder: This will take place in 30 minutes in #wikimedia-office . If all goes well, we'll even have Phabricator's lead developer around to help answer questions :) On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, Guillaume and I will be hosting an IRC

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC FOSS OPW selection process

2014-03-28 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, an update. On Friday, March 21, 2014, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Everybody is invited to join the selection process. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Selection_process Mentors have started evaluating candidates yes/maybe/no in the GSoC and OPW private sites. I

[Wikitech-l] [GSoC] Chemical Markup support for Wikimedia Commons

2014-03-28 Thread Rainer Rillke
Chemical Markup support for Wikimedia Commons has been a feature requested for a long time[1][2] and now I think it's time to act. Please consider my GSoC proposal[3]. I will focus on molecules and reactions, both supported by MDL molfiles, through a media file handler and a JavaScript front end.

[Wikitech-l] [GSoC] Chemical Markup support for Wikimedia Commons

2014-03-28 Thread Rainer Rillke
Chemical Markup support for Wikimedia Commons has been a feature requested for a long time[1][2] and now I think it's time to act. Please consider my GSoC proposal[3]. I will focus on molecules and reactions, both supported by MDL molfiles, through a media file handler and a JavaScript front end.

[Wikitech-l] Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of March 31st

2014-03-28 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap and Deployment update. The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_March_31st Notable items... == Monday == * The new logging tool in use at WMF,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of March 31st

2014-03-28 Thread Nikolas Everett
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: == Wednesday == * Cirrus Search will be graduated from Beta Feature to enabled for all users on all non-wikipedia wikis (eg Commons, etc) ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search I'd prefer to do commons on its

[Wikitech-l] Caching with Varnish

2014-03-28 Thread Shawn Jones
Hi, As part of our extension testing, we've set up varnish in accordance with http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Varnish_caching One of the things we've noticed is that our oldid URIs are cached, whereas Wikipedia doesn't seem to cache those pages. Is there a reason why Wikipedia doesn't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Caching with Varnish

2014-03-28 Thread Brian Wolff
On 3/28/14, Shawn Jones sj...@cs.odu.edu wrote: Hi, As part of our extension testing, we've set up varnish in accordance with http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Varnish_caching One of the things we've noticed is that our oldid URIs are cached, whereas Wikipedia doesn't seem to cache those

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives

2014-03-28 Thread Tilman Bayer
Minutes and slides from Wednesday's quarterly review of the Foundation's VisualEditor team are now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/VisualEditor/March_2014 (A separate but related quarterly review meeting of the Parsoid team took place

Re: [Wikitech-l] Caching with Varnish

2014-03-28 Thread Liangent
No they were deliberately made not cached because otherwise in the event that some sensitive data got oversighted, they may still keep accessible from cached data, and there are even no way to have them go away. On Mar 29, 2014 11:40 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/28/14, Shawn

[Wikitech-l] Some notes on captchas and account creation

2014-03-28 Thread Smolenski Nikola
Yesterday I have held lectures about Wikipedia at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Applied Studies in Belgrade [http://www.viser.edu.rs/?lang=EN] and observed them trying to create a new user and save an article. Since all the students used the same IP, they have all triggered

[Wikitech-l] Some notes on captchas and account creation

2014-03-28 Thread Smolenski Nikola
Yesterday I have held lectures about Wikipedia at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Applied Studies in Belgrade [http://www.viser.edu.rs/?lang=EN] and observed them trying to create a new user and save an article. Since all the students used the same IP, they have all triggered