Re: [Wikitech-l] wikipedia lacks a share' button

2011-10-30 Thread Marco Schuster
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: - It doesn't scale very well. If you do try to add more vendors and users do enable most of them, you still end up loading from each enabled vendor slowing things down. With the exception of the FB Like/Recommend

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikipedia lacks a share' button

2011-10-29 Thread Marco Schuster
Hi, On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: This is the reason why we absolutely cannot have the Facebook Like button: Facebook makes you use an FB-hosted button image (and JS too, I think), collects data from every user that views the Like button even if

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed Authentication Schema for Wikimedia projects

2011-10-20 Thread Marco Schuster
Nice idea, but most users hate inputting a password/drawing on the screen to unlock it. So if you lose your phone or it gets stolen, all your credentials are lost and in the hands of an unknkown attacker. Also, phones tend to break during day-to-day usage (beverage spills, falls from desks).

Re: [Wikitech-l] testing mobile browsers?

2011-07-09 Thread Marco Schuster
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Håkon Wium Lie howc...@opera.com wrote: Opera comes in two flavors for mobile devices: Opera Mini and Opera Mobile. Opera Mobile is, indeed, close to the desktop version in the sense that it runs the same display, javascript engine etc. on the device. The

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special:Search goose chase

2011-06-19 Thread Marco Schuster
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:40 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: The main issue (to me) is that it says Did you mean: [bold blue link], which in this context I think most users would expect to be able to click and go directly to the article. It should be simple enough to query the page

Re: [Wikitech-l] wiki/ prefix in URL

2011-05-17 Thread Marco Schuster
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:00 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Is there something else on these virtual hosts other than a few regexes which are extremely unlikely to be used as page names (i.e. \/w\/.*\.php). Anything beginning with /w/ must be disallowed as a page title for this to

Re: [Wikitech-l] search=steven+tyler gets Steven_tyler

2011-05-15 Thread Marco Schuster
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: You cannot fix the problem by doing accent/diacritic normalization. i and I are the same letter in English but different letters in Turkish.  You cannot get around that.  We'd need to have a separate

Re: [Wikitech-l] integration of MediaWiki and version control system as backend?

2011-05-10 Thread Marco Schuster
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org wrote: I don't believe anybody has successfully done this for MediaWiki, and to my knowledge this is would be difficult to impossible. Our backend storage has to implement SQL in some way. What about LDAP? It's used for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki Inter-Searchability

2011-03-21 Thread Marco Schuster
Hi, On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Tod listac...@gmail.com wrote: Is this possible?  Is the wiki search driven by a crawler that would follow the links on that new wiki home page?  If not, is there an approach I could follow to be able to provide search capability against a select number of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Highest Priority Bugs

2011-03-16 Thread Marco Schuster
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: Normal shell users can execute all but one of the steps required for wiki creation: root access is needed to create the DNS entry for the new subdomain. Previously we just had RobH handle all wiki creations, but he's

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2011-01-10 Thread Marco Schuster
, inflexible, PHP is inferior language, use ASP.NET instead and so on. ASP.NET? Only if you want all your sourcecode exposed. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing Section Headings

2011-01-03 Thread Marco Schuster
friendly, so if there's an easy fix, I would apply it. There is some CSS conditional stuff for IE5/Mac, didn't we have a CSS fix file especially for this browser? Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de

Re: [Wikitech-l] Commons ZIP file upload for admins

2010-11-30 Thread Marco Schuster
, requiring third-party plugins, both for the OS and servers, and 7zip is not really widespread. RAR and ZIP are the dominant formats in cross-platform data exchange. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de

Re: [Wikitech-l] Refresh of the Mediawiki logo

2010-11-11 Thread Marco Schuster
be changed? I think this not being a photo does not make it better than the photo version. It's entirely unclear there's enough of a problem to be solved here. I think it does look better than the older version, nice work. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco

Re: [Wikitech-l] Resource Loader problem

2010-11-10 Thread Marco Schuster
Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Cross wiki script importing

2010-11-02 Thread Marco Schuster
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Firesheep

2010-10-25 Thread Marco Schuster
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Commons ZIP file upload for admins

2010-10-25 Thread Marco Schuster
not be allowed to upload JARs (or things that look like something else, but infact can be loaded and executed by the JRT) to Wikipedia. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de

Re: [Wikitech-l] Convention for logged vs not-logged page requests

2010-10-19 Thread Marco Schuster
sure this is to prevent users from using Wikipedia as spy-javascript-hoster, but why does http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Krinkle/global.jsaction=raw work then? Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft

Re: [Wikitech-l] About wiki links: could they point to page id?

2010-10-04 Thread Marco Schuster
certainly hope this won't change anytime soon, on Wikipedia at least. It 'd be nice to have the page_id as optional parameter... but I think you can get the page's title via the API. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft

[Wikitech-l] Static dump of German Wikipedia

2010-09-27 Thread Marco Schuster
-info-lastmod).html(page was last changed at foobar)? -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] Static dump of German Wikipedia

2010-09-24 Thread Marco Schuster
. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Static dump of German Wikipedia

2010-09-23 Thread Marco Schuster
and an error message, but shouldn't this be a 404 or 500? -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is the $_SESSION secure?

2010-09-23 Thread Marco Schuster
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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] Static dump of German Wikipedia

2010-09-23 Thread Marco Schuster
running live. That's why static dumps (or ?action=render output) are the thing you need when you want to create offline versions or things like Mobipocket Wikipedia (which is my actual goal with the static dump). Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, now in trunk!

2010-09-07 Thread Marco Schuster
, no. The various browsers all have their problems with standards even now, and I don't expect they'd get a jquery (or whatever JS framework) clientside implemented without having all sorts of problems. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developing true WISIWYG editor for media wiki

2010-08-03 Thread Marco Schuster
of wikitext, I fear rewriting the parser in Javascript is the only way to get a 100% compatible wikitext editor... Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] accessibility problems with vector

2010-06-20 Thread Marco Schuster
to force IE8 to standard-conforming mode? Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC] Extension management platform

2010-06-02 Thread Marco Schuster
list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] a wysiwyg editor for wikipedia?

2010-06-01 Thread Marco Schuster
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:42 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Marco Schuster ma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Jacopo Corbetta jacopo.corbe...@gmail.com wrote: In our experience, the biggest obstacle is to get

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion

2010-05-25 Thread Marco Schuster
to target wiki values. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2010-05-17 Thread Marco Schuster
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical means for tagging content (was: [Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content)

2010-05-09 Thread Marco Schuster
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Broken videos

2010-03-17 Thread Marco Schuster
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Broken videos

2010-03-17 Thread Marco Schuster
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 3/17/10 1:02 PM, Marco Schuster wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com  wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Platonidesplatoni...@gmail.com  wrote: Would it help

Re: [Wikitech-l] modernizing mediawiki

2010-03-03 Thread Marco Schuster
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Re: [Wikitech-l] modernizing mediawiki

2010-03-02 Thread Marco Schuster
even be lots easier to just move all settings stuff except MySQL data into the DB. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] hiphop progress

2010-03-01 Thread Marco Schuster
Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] hiphop progress

2010-03-01 Thread Marco Schuster
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: Marco Schuster schrieb: The point of $IP is that you can use multisite environments by just having index.php and Localsettings.php (and skin crap) in the per-vhost directory, and have extensions and other stuff

Re: [Wikitech-l] User-Agent:

2010-02-16 Thread Marco Schuster
everything without UA sucks totally. Sure, the API and other abuse-prone stuff can be blocked, but ordinary article watching should ALWAYS be possible, no matter what fucked-up UA you use. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft

Re: [Wikitech-l] User-Agent:

2010-02-16 Thread Marco Schuster
and for all. Marco PS: Oh, and please, please make the 403 msg something that people can figure out what's wrong, it takes AGES if you are a newbie to scripting. -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de

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

2010-02-14 Thread Marco Schuster
. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ 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

2010-02-14 Thread Marco Schuster
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.comsimetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Marco Schuster ma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org wrote: What about turning wgUseTidy off for some time? Maybe some night hours... so that our

Re: [Wikitech-l] confirm dfe03c58a0a....

2010-02-10 Thread Marco Schuster
Hi all, I just got this email from bugzilla. Apparently Google Apps has screwed up something again so the message itself doesnt annoy me, but why are the users' passwords still sent in CLEARTEXT in these days?? Can someone (tm) of the mailman admins or tech guys please fix this up? Thanks, Marco

Re: [Wikitech-l] (no subject)

2010-01-28 Thread Marco Schuster
either in rendered form http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TITLEaction=render or in raw form http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TITLEaction=raw (this is page source). Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft

Re: [Wikitech-l] enwiki database dump schedule

2010-01-28 Thread Marco Schuster
it was going to actually complete for the first time in years, is now broken. Thanks a lot. How are the old revisions backed up, by the way? Just replication to a remote datacenter? Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft

Re: [Wikitech-l] Failed to Download any pages-articles.xml.bz2 file

2009-12-15 Thread Marco Schuster
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Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikiEN-l] Extracting main titles from enwiki-latest-all-titles-in-ns0.gz

2009-12-12 Thread Marco Schuster
was missing a the: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 400_Years_of_the_Telescope -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts looking for a developer

2009-12-04 Thread Marco Schuster
/Group_Contacts#Names ). Thanks in advance. -- Ryan User:Rjd0060 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unicode equivalence

2009-12-01 Thread Marco Schuster
it, and older / crappy browsers / OSes can display still correctly. Sure, it adds a JS dependency, but I do think we can require JS for that. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki] Enhancement: LaTeX images quality (eliminate white background)

2009-11-29 Thread Marco Schuster
anything look ok on it - as long as a IE6 user is still able to read the text, it's ok IMO. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki] Enhancement: LaTeX images quality (eliminate white background)

2009-11-29 Thread Marco Schuster
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.comsimetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Marco Schuster ma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org wrote: Who cares about that browser?? ~15% of our users use it. If our goal is to make a broadly

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki] Enhancement: LaTeX images quality (eliminate white background)

2009-11-17 Thread Marco Schuster
avoid aliasing effects on sane browsers without making things look extremely ugly on IE6. Aren't there various workarounds using JS and filters for IE6? Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de

Re: [Wikitech-l] __TOC__ handling

2009-09-06 Thread Marco Schuster
sensitive :p Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia iPhone app official page?

2009-09-04 Thread Marco Schuster
that TortoiseSVN had far less downloads... it simply is the only way to make SVN usable on Windows. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Version control systems (was: Wikipedia iPhone app official page?)

2009-09-04 Thread Marco Schuster
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 1:34 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: [subject changed] 2009/9/5 Marco Schuster ma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org: On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Wheee! TortoiseSVN indeed spoils us Windows users, as it's made version

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiktionary API acceptable use policy

2009-09-03 Thread Marco Schuster
it with WM DE. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia iPhone app official page?

2009-08-29 Thread Marco Schuster
and whatever is hidden in the deep world of svnroot. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki not responding to patches

2009-08-13 Thread Marco Schuster
Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] w...@home Extension

2009-08-02 Thread Marco Schuster
)coders. Really? If they simply don't publish the source (and the binaries), then the only possible way for an attacker is fuzzing... and that can take long time. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de

Re: [Wikitech-l] w...@home Extension

2009-08-01 Thread Marco Schuster
YouTube and the other video hosters protect themselves against hacker threats - did they code totally new de/en-coders? Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Watchlistr.com, an outside site that asks for Wikimedia passwords

2009-07-23 Thread Marco Schuster
ownership by a talk page edit. This was the way Interiot used in his old edit counter... (is this one still active?) Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] For the Germans: PHP Release Party in Munich July 17th

2009-07-10 Thread Marco Schuster
Forwarding this to vereinde-l and wikide-l. Marco On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Brion Vibber brion.vib...@gmail.com wrote: Thought this might be of interest to some of our folks in and around Germany: http://phpugmunich.org/dokuwiki/php_release_party Wouldn't hurt to have a MediaWikian

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: switch to HTML 5

2009-07-08 Thread Marco Schuster
for usability. We should not recommend Chrome - as good as it is, but it has serious privacy problems. Opera is not Open Source, so I think we'd best stay with Firefox, even if Chrome/Opera begin to support video tag. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure slower and slower

2009-07-08 Thread Marco Schuster
, it doesn't help anyone. People click away these warnings very often and don't bother to actually read them... this is something most people forget in security themes. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure slower and slower

2009-07-06 Thread Marco Schuster
or the cookies. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] On templates and programming languages

2009-07-02 Thread Marco Schuster
Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] On templates and programming languages

2009-06-30 Thread Marco Schuster
linking working across different libc versions?) BTW, what about Mac OS / FreeBSD hosts? Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] On templates and programming languages

2009-06-30 Thread Marco Schuster
Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikimedia, wikipedia and ipv6

2009-06-15 Thread Marco Schuster
. Same for deliberately published data or personal insults with clearnames of users, wikide-l had this some times. Dunno about such experiences on other lists. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de

Re: [Wikitech-l] more bugzilla components

2009-05-26 Thread Marco Schuster
have IPv6 enabled? If yes, switch it off. Shoulda help you. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki editor wysiwyg

2009-05-11 Thread Marco Schuster
the MW markup - they end literally there where no man eh coder has been before. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki editor wysiwyg

2009-05-11 Thread Marco Schuster
markup first (something that should have been done long ago). What about correcting stuff from old behavior to new parser via bots/update scripts, even for old revisions? Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de

Re: [Wikitech-l] OpenID MediaWiki Extension v.0.8.4.1 - Identity Providers UI

2009-04-19 Thread Marco Schuster
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Re: [Wikitech-l] OpenID MediaWiki Extension v.0.8.4.1 - Identity Providers UI

2009-04-18 Thread Marco Schuster
field for the user to input desired username. Besides that, it's ENORMOUSLY cool. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dealing with Large Files when attempting a wikipedia database download - Focus upon Bittorrent List

2009-04-18 Thread Marco Schuster
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Skin JS cleanup and jQuery

2009-04-17 Thread Marco Schuster
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.comsimetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Marco Schuster ma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org wrote: Are there any plans to use Google Gears for storage on clients? Okay, people have to enable

Re: [Wikitech-l] Skin JS cleanup and jQuery

2009-04-17 Thread Marco Schuster
). That sounds kinda interesting, even if the accuracy on non-GPS-enabled devices isn't that high... can this in any way be joined with the OSM integration? Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de

Re: [Wikitech-l] Skin JS cleanup and jQuery

2009-04-16 Thread Marco Schuster
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Mailing lists problems

2009-03-30 Thread Marco Schuster
. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dump processes seem to be dead

2009-02-25 Thread Marco Schuster
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Dump processes seem to be dead

2009-02-23 Thread Marco Schuster
via BitTorrent? -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschätsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia giving 403 Forbidden

2009-02-21 Thread Marco Schuster
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Re: [Wikitech-l] empty parts in print preview and print

2009-02-16 Thread Marco Schuster
bug. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschätsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help by Extensions

2009-02-10 Thread Marco Schuster
included anywhere. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschätsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] war on Cite/{{cite}}

2009-01-31 Thread Marco Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Domas Mituzas wrote: Hello, I understand the need for cite, thats why it is still there :) But... (...) What about converting these to ref tags? Unfortunately, {{cite}} is the only template I can profile/account

[Wikitech-l] Crawling deWP

2009-01-27 Thread Marco Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I want to crawl around 800.000 flagged revisions from the German Wikipedia, in order to make a dump containing only flagged revisions. For this, I obviously need to spider Wikipedia. What are the limits (rate!) here, what UA should I use and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Crawling deWP

2009-01-27 Thread Marco Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Rolf Lampa wrote: Marco Schuster skrev: I want to crawl around 800.000 flagged revisions from the German Wikipedia, in order to make a dump containing only flagged revisions. [...] flaggedpages where fp_reviewed

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] Crawling deWP

2009-01-27 Thread Marco Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: Marco Schuster schrieb: Fetch them from the toolserver (there's a tool by duesentrieb for that). It will catch almost all of them from the toolserver cluster, and make a request to wikipedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] 403 with content to Python?

2009-01-25 Thread Marco Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Platonides wrote: Marco Schuster wrote: I used HDBot API x.y (PHP $phpversion) as UA. No idea what triggered the filters. Perhaps the mention to php, although I'm not being blocked when using that UA, so can't

Re: [Wikitech-l] 403 with content to Python?

2009-01-24 Thread Marco Schuster
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 1/23/09 2:36 AM, Andre Engels wrote: Two questions: 1. Why is this User Agent getting this response? If I remember correctly, this was installed in the early days of the pywikipediabot, when Brion wanted to block it

Re: [Wikitech-l] 403 with content to Python?

2009-01-24 Thread Marco Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Marco Schuster wrote: Is there any list of those UAs or UA parts available? I had this problem some time ago with my bot which used a custom UA string and got

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drafts extension in testing

2009-01-21 Thread Marco Schuster
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO we still need some kind of saving into firefox storage, for cases like a read-only db. Instead of 'You can't save, the site is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-latin characters broken in donation comments

2008-12-01 Thread Marco Schuster
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Brion Vibber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tei wrote: Is me or maybe form need charset=*UTF-8* added to it? Considering that the part that's broken isn't even *on* our form, I'm pretty sure it's not something on our form. :) The name gets put in at PayPal's

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Commons-l] Support for Chemical Markup Language

2008-11-29 Thread Marco Schuster
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Brian Salter-Duke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:50:08 +0100, Platonides [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16491 That users can embed javascript is not acceptable to run it on Wikipedia. Other

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-22 Thread Marco Schuster
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Daniel Kinzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Anyway, HTTP doesn't support feedback during upload (or any feedback, really), and HTML does not offer a way for multi-file uploads (which would also be quite handy). Any solutions I have so far seen for that are based

Re: [Wikitech-l] Language committee and language setup

2008-11-15 Thread Marco Schuster
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Brion Vibber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, While you are at it, please have a look at bug 15013... It has been waiting today for 121 days.. 121 days after registering in Bugzilla. If there are any issues please let them be known.