Re: [Wikitech-l] News about stolen Internet credentials; reducing Wikimedia reliance on usernames and passwords

2014-08-07 Thread Casey Brown
/Template:User_committed_identity on enwiki, something I've never really understood the point of. :-) -- Casey Brown (Cbrown1023) caseybrown.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 35306: Global (to a wiki farm or family) message delivery (thoughts)

2013-10-03 Thread Casey Brown
replacement for the EdwardsBot hack, and a good extension that accomplishes this need and has been tested and vetted. There's no reason not to enable it now and then disable it if it becomes obsolete with the new extension you're developing. -- Casey Brown (Cbrown1023) caseybrown.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bringing OpenID as a provider to Wikimedia projects

2013-02-23 Thread Casey Brown
similar switching costs. Would the fact that Bugzilla uses your e-mail address publicly for everything (rather than a separate account name) cause any problems when switching to OpenID? -- Casey Brown (Cbrown1023) caseybrown.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] SSL certificate

2013-01-22 Thread Casey Brown
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 4:14 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: They were. I hope that will be fixed quickly. The easiest way to do that would be to redirect them to wikimania.wikimedia.org, which already redirects to the proper year through Wikimedia's redirects.conf. -- Casey Brown

Re: [Wikitech-l] SSL certificate

2013-01-08 Thread Casey Brown
that's there is a redirect, so we can't actually use it for anything other than that. -- Casey Brown (Cbrown1023) caseybrown.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] What is the procedure to change the owner of a WM mailing list?

2012-03-19 Thread Casey Brown
be changed because he is no longer active on-wiki. If you can contact him and ask him to give you the password, though, that's better. You should only request sysadmin intervention if necessary. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reclaiming a lost account on a private wiki: impossible

2011-08-16 Thread Casey Brown
to request a new one. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sep11 Wiki

2011-08-16 Thread Casey Brown
. The current situation is that the actual wiki is down and inaccessible -- so this thread is mostly about saving it. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sep11 Wiki

2011-08-15 Thread Casey Brown
not really related to our mission and is a little USA-centric. That's what I always thought was the reason it was moved off, at least. You were probably around back then though, so you'd know better. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile bug Triage ? non-WMF devs wanted!

2011-08-15 Thread Casey Brown
. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extensions needing a maintainer

2011-07-21 Thread Casey Brown
/Security_issues_with_authorization_extensions -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] changing cc lists default assignees, reducing useless bugmail

2011-07-20 Thread Casey Brown
next to CC List: 9 users (edit). A list of the CC users appears and there's a little checkbox that says Remove selected CCs. So I would think that it *is* possible to remove anyone from a CC list at any time by anyone, not just admins. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Wikitech-l] Api Calls

2011-07-02 Thread Casey Brown
=Steward_requests%2FGlobalaction=historysubmitdiff=2693470oldid=2693415 -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension bundling for 1.18

2011-06-09 Thread Casey Brown
up. If I remember correctly, the main argument was that the other language files are mostly for end-users, not for sysadmins who want to just save as much space as they can. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension bundling for 1.18

2011-06-08 Thread Casey Brown
and are frequently used. If they're not already in core, we should probably do the next best thing and bundle them. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2011-05-16 Thread Casey Brown
than opened! \o/ -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2011-05-04 Thread Casey Brown
://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/admin/wikitech-l/?VARHELP=privacy/sender/accept_these_nonmembers -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Future: Love for the sister projects!

2011-04-04 Thread Casey Brown
/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors ? -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Future: Love for the sister projects!

2011-04-04 Thread Casey Brown
one being more of an announce list. People could send messages to both lists, and then most discussion would take place on wikitech-l. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] universal login not always working

2011-03-12 Thread Casey Brown
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 7:45 AM, William Allen Simpson william.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote: How to fix this? Have you tried http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Anmelden or http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Anmelden/signup? -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] [Announce] Brion Vibber to rejoin Wikimedia Foundation

2011-03-08 Thread Casey Brown
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Lewis Cawte lewisca...@googlemail.com wrote: YAY Is it me, or was teh staff page out of date? I thought he was still CTO :/ I'm pretty sure it's just you, and I hope it's just you. :-) Can you paste the URL of the page you're referring to? -- Casey Brown

Re: [Wikitech-l] Expensive parser function count

2011-01-11 Thread Casey Brown
the page village pump page was obviuos. That's good, but also keep in mind that, generally, you shouldn't worry too much about performance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PERF. (Had to throw in the little disclaimer here. ;-)) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Wikitech-l] Checkuser mailing list

2010-10-19 Thread Casey Brown
=17390 -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.17 release target (Re: UsabilityInitiative extension...)

2010-09-20 Thread Casey Brown
. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-13 Thread Casey Brown
understanding of private-l is that it's the Wikimedia shell/root sysadmin discussion list, it just has a very bad name. I could be wrong too though. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

[Wikitech-l] New mailing list: newprojects

2010-08-22 Thread Casey Brown
interested in knowing about new wikis are welcomed to subscribe too. :-) [1]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/newprojects [2]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix [3]http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Add_a_wiki -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vector skin failures on mobile phones - any timeframe for a fix?

2010-08-18 Thread Casey Brown
that when they Google something, it gives them a link to the article on en.wikipedia.org, not the mobile site. You should probably tell them not to worry and that they'll automatically be redirected to the article on the mobile version (m.en.wikipedia.org). -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Wikitech-l] prototype vs. test (was: Interlanguage Extension - going on)

2010-08-06 Thread Casey Brown
Test Wikipedia. Before the Wikimedia sysadmins do a scap/major code rollout, they first roll-out the code changes to testwiki to verify everything works in the regular Wikimedia environment. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] What is exactly needed for setting up a new language edition of WM project?

2010-08-02 Thread Casey Brown
in Messages*.php. Anything else needed? ...and anything else wanted in a perfect world? (For example, a logo isn't technically *needed* but it's easier to have them setup and get everything working right away, in the initial bug request, than to try to track someone down later.) -- Casey Brown

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Commons-l] InstantCommons serving up non-free files

2010-07-26 Thread Casey Brown
be able to do it in a way that would preserve the file history. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Wikimania 2010: Call for Participation Extended

2010-05-22 Thread Casey Brown
. (Pacific Time) See the Call for Participation for more details: http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/CFP Thank you for helping make Wikimania 2010 a successful event. :-) See you in Gdansk, July 9-11! With best regards, Wikimania Team -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Wikitech-l] Updating strings for FlaggedRevs for the Flagged Protection/Pending Revisions/Double Check launch

2010-05-22 Thread Casey Brown
it now. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla cleanup

2010-05-15 Thread Casey Brown
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: I managed to resolve bug 23534 as FIXED just fine. You're a bugzilla admin, so you have more rights than the average user does. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla cleanup

2010-05-15 Thread Casey Brown
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Everyone please try again :) Works. \o/ -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload protection on commons

2010-04-15 Thread Casey Brown
/show_bug.cgi?id=6579 -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Commons new file feed

2010-03-14 Thread Casey Brown
recent changes feed (irc.wikimedia: #commons.wikimedia). As for the office screens, I've heard about regular RC visualizations and featured-picture slideshows, but I'm not sure about upload ones. It shouldn't be too hard to implement if they already have RC/featured-picture slideshows. -- Casey Brown

Re: [Wikitech-l] Uploads on small wikis

2010-03-12 Thread Casey Brown
://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4125 -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Only 132 / 252 SVN users have valid USERINFO data

2010-02-19 Thread Casey Brown
/USERINFO_file -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] importing enwiki into local database

2010-02-08 Thread Casey Brown
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Stefano Ronzoni endya...@excite.com wrote: REMOVE ME FROM THIS MAILING LIST!! You can remove yourself: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/options/wikitech-l/endya...@excite.com -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia 503s

2010-01-31 Thread Casey Brown
). Presumably more info will be available later. Tim said that he's researching a chain of events and writing something up at the moment. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status dashboard creation

2010-01-13 Thread Casey Brown
/). The toolserver also has something similar: http://status.toolserver.org/ Anyway, any suggestion on additional features, or requirements are welcomed. I don't have any suggestions, but I just want to say that this is a good idea. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Wikitech-l] search in Hebrew on www.wikipedia.org

2010-01-11 Thread Casey Brown
/Www.wikipedia.org_template/temp Either way, I've made the changes, it should be updated already. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unified gadgets (was: stats.grok.se)

2010-01-08 Thread Casey Brown
the Fundraising banner. ;-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abuse of CheckUser rights

2009-09-27 Thread Casey Brown
violations or misuse of CheckUser should be addressed to the Ombudsman commission. Information on how to contact them is available on Meta-Wiki: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman_commission -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] LanguageSelector on strategy wiki

2009-09-10 Thread Casey Brown
or just having it not cache as much? Well, I *think* we requested this on foundationwiki a few years ago... but we got turned down because of the squid-setup issue. (I can't find a bug though.) If you get it on strategywiki, can we get it there too? :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Wikitech-l] site requests for Hungarian Wikipedia

2009-08-06 Thread Casey Brown
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Rob Halsellrhals...@wikimedia.org wrote: Creation of new projects do indeed fall under site requests. ...but there's also a specific tracking bug to make everyone's lives easier. :-) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16976 -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Thanks to the WP Tech people

2009-07-31 Thread Casey Brown
=Special:CentralNoticemethod=listNoticeDetailnotice=boardvote-voting and it doesn't mention that notice. Downtime is disabled: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CentralNoticemethod=listNoticeDetailnotice=Downtime -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code updated

2009-06-17 Thread Casey Brown
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: (keeping on default CC list, of course) As far as I know, this shouldn't be needed either. I believe wikibugs is setup to watch all bug changes. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used

Re: [Wikitech-l] list archives public but not searchable

2009-05-27 Thread Casey Brown
find it. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] list archives public but not searchable

2009-05-27 Thread Casey Brown
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:37 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: I think I remember some discussion about it, but can't find it. !! If you looked, you'd see that Brian just sent the whole thing to the list again. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] flagged revisions

2009-05-20 Thread Casey Brown
://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18244 -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] This wiki has a problem error page lacks beg notice

2009-04-27 Thread Casey Brown
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:25 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: (I also recall there being a multilingual error page. Is this one en:wp-specific?) That's a different one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/amp; ;-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used

Re: [Wikitech-l] tran-subst-antiation

2009-04-19 Thread Casey Brown
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:05 PM, William Allen Simpson william.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote: It doesn't allow parameters. It does, just don't subst it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplates?input={{uw-v1|Article|subst=subst:}}+ -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2009-04-05 Thread Casey Brown
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Soxred93 soxre...@gmail.com wrote: People are so cruel... why can't they thank Werdna for his fine work on AF? The reward for work well done is more work. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees: December 2008

2009-03-11 Thread Casey Brown
doesn't help much. Neither does berating the developers over stupid things... -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] research-oriented toolserver?

2009-03-09 Thread Casey Brown
users. Really? We just got a new root (Werdna) and normally regular roots do not handle new accounts anyway -- that job rests with the WMDE contact, currently DaB, doesn't it? -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address

Re: [Wikitech-l] Flagged revs trial on en:wp?

2009-03-01 Thread Casey Brown
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:16 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: What's the holdup in the flagged revisions trial on en:wp? Is there a bug? -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost

Re: [Wikitech-l] Flagged revs trial on en:wp?

2009-03-01 Thread Casey Brown
. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Flagged revs trial on en:wp?

2009-03-01 Thread Casey Brown
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Casey Brown cbrown1023...@gmail.com wrote: The developers do not normally do configuration changes without a bug (even trivial ones, which this one certainly isn't...).  They're used to document the request, requester, to make sure that the change was authorized

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drafts extension in testing

2009-01-17 Thread Casey Brown
issues: when it's ready? :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Now hiring for Wikipedia Usability Initiative

2009-01-09 Thread Casey Brown
might be a first step. :-) I don't know how she's planning on handling it yet, or if she wants suggestions now or later. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2009-01-04 Thread Casey Brown
. I'm thinking it was an error, not just a *very* unproductive week. ;-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change redirection on wikimania.wikimedia.org

2009-01-03 Thread Casey Brown
/wikimania-l/2008-December/001283.html Austin probably still has the information if needed. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost. ___ Wikitech-l