Re: [Wikitech-l] New feature: tool edit

2015-02-21 Thread K. Peachey
What if it a bot builder builds one? On 22 February 2015 at 10:35, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote: What if a techie vandal builds a one-click disruption framework? Il 15/02/2015 10:54, Petr Bena ha scritto: I think it's pretty clear what I am proposing here :P there is a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Types of allowed projects for grant funding (renamed)

2015-02-21 Thread MZMcBride
Brian Wolff wrote: Maybe the grant includes funds for hiring code review resources (ie non-wmf people with +2. We exist!). For what it's worth, you're exactly the type of person I would like to have working at the Wikimedia Foundation. I love your posts here; thank you for taking the time to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Types of allowed projects for grant funding (renamed)

2015-02-21 Thread Isarra Yos
This, all of this. On 21/02/15 21:26, Brian Wolff wrote: However that's not a reason to have no IEG grants for tech projects ever, its just a reason for code review to be specifically addressed in the grant proposal, and for the grantee to have a plan. Maybe that plan involves having a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thread subjects

2015-02-21 Thread MZMcBride
Bináris wrote: could we by any chance return to the conservative Netiquette way of creating subjets, or the New Era of inadequate subjects has just begun, and we trend to soil the list with these marketing-based whatnots? Shall I go to the details or are we all informatics-minded people here? Hi.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Progress report: Hierator

2015-02-21 Thread Ricordisamoa
Thank you! The new glyphs look much better! Il 21/02/2015 22:17, Max Semenik ha scritto: Hi, this is a status update for my WikiHiero rewrite! [1] I've made a first pass on comparison, based on all hieroglyphic texts on English Wikipedia: [2] You can see the difference yourselves, in my

Re: [Wikitech-l] New feature: tool edit

2015-02-21 Thread Ricordisamoa
What if a techie vandal builds a one-click disruption framework? Il 15/02/2015 10:54, Petr Bena ha scritto: I think it's pretty clear what I am proposing here :P there is a real problem and this is a real solution. Regarding vandals would have fun with that I think you are over estimating them,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Types of allowed projects for grant funding (renamed)

2015-02-21 Thread Marielle Volz
I agree with Pine. The way I read the IEG strictures was that they would reject projects that required might need any code review at all; whether that's true or not it definitely discourages some projects that might be really useful. As it stands, most of the projects I read through in the last

Re: [Wikitech-l] post project funding

2015-02-21 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com writes: Politically, I think its dangerous how WMF seems to more and more become the only stakeholder in MediaWiki development. We do have the MediaWiki Stakeholders group. The people involved there would argue that they have funded MediaWiki-focused development.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread Hong, Yena
[[m:Synchbot]] is what you are looking for. -Revi [[User:-revi]] -- Sent from Android -- 2015. 2. 21. 오후 5:56에 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada emi...@gmail.com님이 작성: 2015-02-21 8:45 GMT+01:00 Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com: Is it necessary to request deletion of a local user page in order to get

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread Marielle Volz
Could we get uploading privileges allowed for normal users (such as myself) on meta? Otherwise profile photos will require special privileges. On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Hong, Yena li...@revi.pe.kr wrote: [[m:Synchbot]] is what you are looking for. -Revi [[User:-revi]] -- Sent from

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 21.02.2015 um 13:14 schrieb Marielle Volz: That's what I was going to do originally, but then I looked at my profile picture on en wiki[1] I saw this message: Do not copy this file to Wikimedia Commons. While the license of this image or media file, uploaded and used on (a) Wikipedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread MZMcBride
Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada wrote: It seems so. In my case, I created years ago a lot of redirects to my English userpage from many Wikipedia languages, and now I have to request the deletion for all them. Not very useful. Not very useful is a slightly rude comment to make, in my opinion. You

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread Emilio J . Rodríguez-Posada
2015-02-21 8:45 GMT+01:00 Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com: Is it necessary to request deletion of a local user page in order to get the global page to be automatically transcluded? Pine It seems so. In my case, I created years ago a lot of redirects to my English userpage from many Wikipedia

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tests will verify the completeness of $wgAvailableRights

2015-02-21 Thread hoo
Hi Everyone, just wanted to quickly let you know that MediaWiki will verify that extensions register all rights they define in $wgAvailableRights (or using the UserGetAllRights hook). To make sure your extension complies with that just add all the rights your extension defines to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread Isarra Yos
On 21/02/15 15:21, MZMcBride wrote: Instead of deletion, blanking the user page might be a neat way of triggering the global user page to re-appear (a version of pure wiki deletion). Though, of course, some users might want a 0-byte user page. With interface messages, setting the content to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread Erwin Dokter
On 21-02-2015 12:14, Marielle Volz wrote: Could we get uploading privileges allowed for normal users (such as myself) on meta? Otherwise profile photos will require special privileges. We have Commons for that. Meta does not allow non-free or fair-use images anyway. Regards, -- Erwin Dokter

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread Marielle Volz
That's what I was going to do originally, but then I looked at my profile picture on en wiki[1] I saw this message: Do not copy this file to Wikimedia Commons. While the license of this image or media file, uploaded and used on (a) Wikipedia contributor(s) user page(s), may be compliant with

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When the local language is not among the selected languages, it helps to show a level 0 for the local language. What do you think, is this feasible ?? Thanks, GerardM On 20 February 2015 at 20:32, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: This is awesome! When do we get a global

[Wikitech-l] w3c editing task force

2015-02-21 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, I just found out that w3c has an editing task force, which tries to address the nightmare that is contenteditable: http://w3c.github.io/editing-explainer/tf-charter.html Does Wikimedia participate in it in any way? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread Erwin Dokter
On 21-02-2015 13:14, Marielle Volz wrote: That's what I was going to do originally, but then I looked at my profile picture on en wiki[1] I saw this message: Do not copy this file to Wikimedia Commons. [...] I took that to mean that profile pictures in general were discouraged from being

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-21 Thread Hong, Yena
Well, image upload for userpage use is explicitly permitted on Commons[1], as long as it is used and copyright status is fine. (To get meta uploader right, you need a clear use case, and it is rarely given. Meta does not allow EDP (fair use), so if it is fair use, it cannot be hosted on Commons

Re: [Wikitech-l] Types of allowed projects for grant funding (renamed)

2015-02-21 Thread Pine W
(Now continuing this discussion on Wikimedia-l also, since we are discussing grant policies.) For what it's worth, I repeatedly advocated for allowing IEG to support a broader range of tech projects when I was on IEGCom. I had the impression that there was a lot of concern about limited code

[Wikitech-l] Progress report: Hierator

2015-02-21 Thread Max Semenik
Hi, this is a status update for my WikiHiero rewrite! [1] I've made a first pass on comparison, based on all hieroglyphic texts on English Wikipedia: [2] You can see the difference yourselves, in my opinion the general quality is considerably better, and far more hieroglyphs are supported.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Types of allowed projects for grant funding (renamed)

2015-02-21 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2/21/15, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: (Now continuing this discussion on Wikimedia-l also, since we are discussing grant policies.) For what it's worth, I repeatedly advocated for allowing IEG to support a broader range of tech projects when I was on IEGCom. I had the impression that

Re: [Wikitech-l] post project funding

2015-02-21 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2/21/15, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: In general WMF has a conservative grant policy (with the exception of IEG, grant funding seems to be getting more conservative every year, and some mission-aligned projects can't get funding because they don't fit into the current molds of the