[Wikitech-l] Preparser: Comments after === became a part of a header in xml representation

2014-08-18 Thread Nikolay Shaplov
When I do preparsing of the following text Some text ===!-- Comment written this way === And a new line after the end of the comment-- It gives me a level 1 header with = as a title (what is expected), but it also put a comment inside of h/h tags: rootSome text h level=1 i=1===commentlt;!--

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preparser: Comments after === became a part of a header in xml representation

2014-08-18 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi, On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 14:11 +0400, Nikolay Shaplov wrote: When I do preparsing of the following text [...] This quite a minor problem, but I think it worth reporting. Feel free to create a minor bug report in https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org under MediaWiki Parser. Thanks, andre --

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

2014-08-18 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Aditya Chaturvedi aditya.iiita...@gmail.com wrote: However, to run the system in production first, we need assistance on how to make these ratings visible on the pages of extension. Has it already been asked anywhere *whether* to make these ratings available

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

2014-08-18 Thread Isarra Yos
On 18/08/14 14:54, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Aditya Chaturvedi aditya.iiita...@gmail.com wrote: However, to run the system in production first, we need assistance on how to make these ratings visible on the pages of extension. Has it already been asked

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

2014-08-18 Thread Chad
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Aditya Chaturvedi aditya.iiita...@gmail.com wrote: However, to run the system in production first, we need assistance on how to make these ratings visible on the pages of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

2014-08-18 Thread Legoktm
On 8/18/14, 8:47 AM, Chad wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: Has it already been asked anywhere *whether* to make these ratings available on mediawiki.org? How useful is it really to know that Extension:ConfirmEdit scored 3 on some

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

2014-08-18 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com writes: On 8/18/14, 8:47 AM, Chad wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org Has it already been asked anywhere *whether* to make these ratings available on mediawiki.org? Yes. This is a GSoC project that was

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] need for an app? (was: Future platforms, devices, and consumers)

2014-08-18 Thread Nuria Ruiz
Offline storage is hard in a browser, as you pointed out; that's too much detail for me to understand quickly, and I have no comment yet. In principle, such concern is valid. Even the w3 held a working group for a while that was around how broken app cache was

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

2014-08-18 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@nichework.com wrote: Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com writes: On 8/18/14, 8:47 AM, Chad wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org Has it already been asked anywhere *whether* to make

[Wikitech-l] broken travis-ci builds of mediawiki

2014-08-18 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
There are build errors in the mediawiki builds on travis-ci, which have been happening for four months. https://travis-ci.org/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/builds Is anyone using that to help with development. I doubt it, given they are broken. Could they be disabled, as those jobs are causing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Graphs demo

2014-08-18 Thread Jon Robson
Yeh it looks like it is supported which is great, but it seems the bit that got me confused was the section 'embedded directly'. I had thought the whole point of a visualisation/graph/map namespace was to separate the data and use JsonContentHandler, not to mix content. My main concern is the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

2014-08-18 Thread Aditya Chaturvedi
I agree to the points raised about ratings and what parameters are best suitable for representing them. However, I believe these are evolutionary features and can only be improved in an agile manner. The key issue I believe is to address the cold start problem and for this I suppose that

[Wikitech-l] Arlo Breault joins Wikimedia as Features Engineer

2014-08-18 Thread Terry Chay
Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Arlo Breault joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer. Note the past tense. :-D Before joining us, Arlo worked as an independent open-source software developer. He’s held various contracts at the Tor Project[1],

Re: [Wikitech-l] Arlo Breault joins Wikimedia as Features Engineer

2014-08-18 Thread Pine W
Arlo, That is a very professional picture. I see that you live in British Columbia. May I invite you to join the illustrious ranks of the Cascadia Wikimedians group and sign up for our email list? We are hoping for formal approval of our group from Affcom shortly. Email list

[Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Marc Ordinas i Llopis (marcoil) joins Wikimedia as Features Engineer

2014-08-18 Thread Terry Chay
Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Marc Ordinas i Llopis joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer. Note the past tense. :-D Before joining us, Marc was a programmer at Collabora[1] open source consultancy where he worked on a window manager for the

[Wikitech-l] Recruiting for Wikimedia security newsletter

2014-08-18 Thread Pine W
Hi, In collaboration with Chris Steipp, I am considering starting a monthly security newsletter for Wikimedia, focused on common risks and mitigation techniques. The target audience is the broad Wikimedia community including developers, WMF and chapter employees, and volunteers with high risk

Re: [Wikitech-l] Recruiting for Wikimedia security newsletter

2014-08-18 Thread Nkansah Rexford
Nice idea, I think rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford | sent from smartphone On Aug 18, 2014 9:38 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, In collaboration with Chris Steipp, I am considering starting a monthly security newsletter for Wikimedia, focused on common risks and mitigation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Future platforms, devices, and consumers

2014-08-18 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, Hi Rexford, What objectives would we achieve if we were to revamp the MediaWiki system from ground up? Even if we pretend that we have infinite financial and human resources to do this, I am not sure what we would accomplsh, and we would likely introduce a lot of new reliability and

[Wikitech-l] GSoC FOSS OPW wrap-up meeting on IRC tomorrow

2014-08-18 Thread Rachel Farrand
Hello! If you are interested in following along, please join us tomorrow (time/location below) for the following IRC meeting: - Google Summer of Code and FOSS Outreach Program for Women interns and mentors are invited to this IRC meeting to showcase the work done and share any ideas for

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Marc Ordinas i Llopis (marcoil) joins Wikimedia as Features Engineer

2014-08-18 Thread svetlana
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[Wikitech-l] Fwd: mwui.wmflabs.org reactivated, showing upcoming MW UI styles ($wgUseMediaWikiUIEverywhere = true; )

2014-08-18 Thread Matthew Flaschen
In addition to what I said below (this was originally sent to design), anonymous editing is now enabled. So feel free to test anonymously or with as many accounts (throw-away accounts are fine on this test wiki) as you'd like. Matt Flaschen Original Message Subject:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

2014-08-18 Thread K. Peachey
I was meaning to comment on the overall GSoC proposal before the acceptance stage and didn't get a chance. Personally I don't think in it's current state/design it is overly suitable for deployment onto MediaWiki wiki as it will introduce a external factor on the page load for each visitor,