[Wikitech-l] Re: Join the Mobile Apps Team Meeting!

Fyi there is some discussion over using zoom nowadays: https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/16/open-source-developers-urged-to-ditch-zoom-over-user-data-controversy/ Rupert Amal Ramadan schrieb am Do., 21. Sept. 2023, 10:54: > Hello! > > We're excited to invite you to our Mobile Apps Team online

[Wikitech-l] Re: Goto for microoptimisation

On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 6:10 AM Tim Starling wrote: > > For performance sensitive tight loops, such as parsing and HTML construction, > to get the best performance it's necessary to think about what PHP is doing > on an opcode by opcode basis. ... > I am proposing > > if ( $x == 1 ) { >

[Wikitech-l] which programs convert? keep metadata when transforming metadata

hi, fotos and films are converted quite often in the wikimedia space. metadata is not so often preserved. what programs one would need to adjust to preserve the metadata? i know of ffmpeg for videos. for fotos is it convert from gimp? anything else? some other aspects one would need to pay

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to make oauth authentication with wikipedia?

On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 4:30 PM, Bryan Davis wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 12:37 AM rupert THURNER > wrote: > > > > if one takes an example, lke https://tools.wmflabs.org/video2commons/, > is > > this implemented like it should? is there any difference

[Wikitech-l] phone cannot play mobile site video, but standard site video

why is it that the excellent player is available on the standard wikipedia view, and not on mobile view? is this just my configuration? as eyample: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_orbit * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_orbit the effect is that my mobile can play the standard view

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to make oauth authentication with wikipedia?

On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 8:16 AM, Sam Wilson wrote: > On 29/07/18 00:35, Gergo Tisza wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 10:37 AM Sam Wilson wrote: >> >> I've been wondering about how this sort of thing would work as well, in >>> the context of a Piwigo plugin that I've been working on for

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Multimedia] Video output changing to WebM VP9/Opus soon

i tried VP9 uploading a video with a spinning wheel made with a samsung galaxy s5, mp4, original size 99.5MB. i removed the sound beforehand though: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:180522-alpaca-spinnen-gotthard-passh%C3%B6he-silent.webm using: https://tools.wmflabs.org/video2commons/

Re: [Wikitech-l] Introduction

On Mar 19, 2017 2:17 PM, "Brad Jorsch (Anomie)" <bjor...@wikimedia.org> wrote: On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 7:23 AM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thur...@gmail.com> wrote: > where is this beginners page hidden, Is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_h

Re: [Wikitech-l] Introduction

ha, how embarrassing! i used google to search "wikimedia projects programming beginner" and google found the beginners guide for python programmers, which is not what i wanted :) https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers . then i went to https://www.wikipedia.org/ and i was lost as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making Wikipedia speak to you

i wanted to endorse it because i like the idea - but it links to a commercial site, ispeech.org. this confuses me a little. nothing is mentioned about open source software in the lines of: http://www.findbestopensource.com/tagged/text-to-speech rupert On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 6:58 PM, André Costa

Re: [Wikitech-l] Communication about proposed and planned UI changes

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 6:50 AM, Tyler Romeo wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Pine W wrote: > > > My proposal would be that proposed UI changes which affect large > > proportions of the user base should be announced 3 months in advance. > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit screen size

Isn't Gerrit more for developers who as a consequence anyway run multiple browsers and therefore do not care so much that it does not support Ie? On Sep 26, 2016 20:14, "Paladox" wrote: > There new skin called polygerrit fixes all the issues described here. It > is

[Wikitech-l] Voting reusable

From time to time mails like below pass by where I wish that voting should be generalized on a technical level. So that any organization participating in the wikiverse would be able to conduct votes and reuse voting rights. Would this be something of broader value? Best Rupert --

Re: [Wikitech-l] update: wikipedia.org portal

MZMcBride wrote: > rupert THURNER wrote: >>quim, i would not be angry if you would show a little bit more empathy >>towards a client, a volunteer. if mzmcbride is right and there is a >>well established procedure to change this page which was not followed, >>the pers

Re: [Wikitech-l] update: wikipedia.org portal

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 1:07 AM, MZMcBride wrote: >> It's frustrating and annoying that your happy team hijacked this portal... > (snip) > Hostility and anger are not welcomed in this mailing list, neither in the > rest of Wikimedia spaces. Any problems can be reported and

Re: [Wikitech-l] tags are a usability nightmare for editing on mediawiki.org

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Niklas Laxström wrote: > 2016-04-03 11:29 GMT+03:00 Jon Robson : >> The Translate tag has always seemed like a hack that I've never quite >> understood. > > I am happy to direct to our documentation [1] anyone who

Re: [Wikitech-l] tags are a usability nightmare for editing on mediawiki.org

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Adam Wight wrote: > On Apr 3, 2016 1:30 AM, "Jon Robson" wrote: >> The Translate tag has always seemed like a hack that I've never quite > understood. > > +1. Couldn't we use Parsoid data tags to identify paragraphs? It

[Wikitech-l] productivity of mediawiki developers

hi, is there a statistics about mediawiki developer productivity? i just fell over a couple of pages and i am quite impressed i must say: * gabriel, https://github.com/gwicke, 2'300 commits last year * jeroen, https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw, 3'700 commits a year * ori, https://github.com/atdt,

Re: [Wikitech-l] tags are a usability nightmare for editing on mediawiki.org

On Apr 1, 2016 18:32, "Brion Vibber" wrote: > > Lots of pages on mediawiki.org are pretty much uneditable because they're > strewn with spanning multiple paragraphs that make VisualEditor > completely unusable and the source editor very difficult to use. > > I'm trying to

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Update from the Wikimedia Performance Team

I appreciate a ton what you guys achieve, many thanks!! Rupert On Dec 7, 2015 23:28, "Gilles Dubuc" wrote: > Hello, > > This is the monthly report from the Wikimedia Performance team. > > ## Our progress ## > > * Availability. We've done a major overhaul of the ObjectCache

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Survey: Please help us understand third-party use of Wikipedia's content

On Dec 3, 2015 20:56, "Bryan Davis" wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Sylvia Ventura wrote: > > Dear Wikipedia data/API user, > > > > The WMF’s Engineering, Product and Partnerships teams are conducting a > > short survey to help us

Re: [Wikitech-l] Superprotect is gone

Excellent, many thanks Quim!! On Nov 5, 2015 18:35, "Quim Gil" wrote: > Superprotect [1] was introduced by the Wikimedia Foundation to resolve a > product development disagreement. We have not used it for resolving a > dispute since. Consequently, today we are removing

Re: [Wikitech-l] svn/git backends (was: Re: Project Idea " Extension: Offline MediaWiki ")

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 5:58 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Purodha Blissenbach > wrote: > > There has been a project in the past that converted a MediaWiki code base > > from SQL to use svn or git as message

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code of Conduct: Intro, Principles, and Unacceptable behavior sections

On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/5/15, rupert THURNER <rupert.thur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Matthew Flaschen < > mflasc...@wikimedia.org> > > wrote: > > > >> There is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code of Conduct: Intro, Principles, and Unacceptable behavior sections

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > There is consensus at > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Draft#Next_steps > that the best way to finalize the CoC draft is to focus on a few > sections at once (while

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Code of conduct

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 16 August 2015 at 04:06, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: that is an impressive list, amir. WMF hast its terms of use: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use (TOU) . admitted

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code of conduct

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 2:28 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 08/13/2015 06:09 PM, David Gerard wrote: On 13 August 2015 at 22:30, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: Oliver, I must be a little blind but I do not see examples of unfriendly behaviour

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Code of conduct

that is an impressive list, amir. WMF hast its terms of use: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use (TOU) . admitted, an illegible monster compared to the simple statements below, like contributor covenant. i honestly do not think that an open movement like the wikimedia movement should

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code of conduct

On Aug 13, 2015 10:16 PM, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 13 August 2015 at 16:10, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 07/08/2015 02:17, Matthew Flaschen a écrit : We're in the process of developing a code of conduct for technical spaces. This will be binding, and apply

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] VisualEditor on Wikipedia now faster with RESTBase

Fantastic, many thanks to all involved!! On Mar 20, 2015 1:15 AM, Gabriel Wicke gwi...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Jared Zimmerman jared.zimmer...@wikimedia.org wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama?veaction=edit just loaded in 2 seconds. Much

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia REST content API is now available in beta

Hi Gabriel, I am so glad to read about this excellent achievement! Is the wikitext the original wikitext wich could be changed and saved back? And the difference is a real difference which would allow kind of patrol applications? Rupert On Mar 10, 2015 11:23 PM, Gabriel Wicke

Re: [Wikitech-l] Idea for new desktop / mobile kiwix like application

Petr, do you think it would be an option to use git version control as a storage format instead of openzim? Which would facilitate edit and merge back changes? Rupert On Jan 23, 2015 11:59 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I know most of you hate reinventing a wheel so I first

Re: [Wikitech-l] Idea for new desktop / mobile kiwix like application

, it is technically possible but probably not suitable. I don't want to create offline wiki. Just a reader of a wiki, so no complex versioning is required for that. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 6:00 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: Petr, do you think it would be an option to use git

Re: [Wikitech-l] Which old RFCs to discuss on next week's RFC chat

Not sure who is allowed to comment here, so I hope mentioning a +1 to the ones which I understand sufficiently and like might be okay. On Dec 4, 2014 10:41 PM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: Hi all! ... * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Itemise_protection This

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [African Wikimedians] Afripédia Douala

fyi, a feedback from duala, cameroon, concerning uploading fotos to commons. -- Forwarded message -- From: Kasper Souren kasper.sou...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:01 AM Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] Afripédia Douala To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simplest UI for creating editing Phabricator tasks

Am 27.08.2014 17:02 schrieb Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org: On Wednesday, August 27, 2014, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: is there a way to simply order tasks so one can retrieve a list? top of list then gets fixed first? There are workboards for projects, which are a bit

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simplest UI for creating editing Phabricator tasks

is there a way to simply order tasks so one can retrieve a list? top of list then gets fixed first? rupert Am 27.08.2014 09:18 schrieb Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org: Hi, Users of the future Wikimedia Phabricator will have a very simple and straightforward interface to create and edit tasks.

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

imo this is an intereating question but too far reaching. simpler to understand and keep in mind are minimum display size, resolution, viewer and editing application. with it automatically restricts itself to a couple of operating systems, browsers and native apps. rupert Am 15.08.2014 23:21

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feature request.

at 10:02 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: that would be a hullarious feature! which is btw available in some other opensoure and proprietory wikis. TWiki is an open source wiki and also has (had?) a concept of blocking a page while someone else is editing. This feature might

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feature request.

that would be a hullarious feature! which is btw available in some other opensoure and proprietory wikis. rupert Am 04.08.2014 11:47 schrieb Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexf...@gmail.com: Hi all, I'm Rexford, and just posting here for the first time. Please inform if this place isn't the right

[Wikitech-l] flow allows to mail change?

hi does flow allow to mail the added text. and allows to reply via mail? rupert ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] tool for quickly uploading 10000 images with description

glamwikitoolset might be an option as well. http://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GWToolset/Technical_Design rupert Am 07.07.2014 17:03 schrieb Yury Katkov katkov.ju...@gmail.com: It's a nice one, thanks! I will need to add just a little bit to it to suit my needs! - Yury Katkov On

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-GH] Wiki Loves Earth Begins!

hi, is there a possibility to get a banner on enwp for ghana to wiki loves earth, as this is this years main contest there? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2014_in_Ghana rupert -- Forwarded message -- From: Enock Seth Nyamador kwadzo...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] Forget mailing lists and on-wiki discussions; Twitter's the place!

Am 07.04.2014 01:20 schrieb Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com: On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski tom...@twkozlowski.netwrote: 1. I am deeply uncomfortable with the fact that you are choosing un-free fonts over free ones. 2. I am deeply uncomfortable with the fact

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki, Cookies and EU Privacy Policy 95/46/EG

Am 10.03.2014 17:01 schrieb Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch: Am 10.03.2014 16:54, schrieb Chris Steipp: 1) catch the click on the Login link to show a banner first to ask for the users consent, on acceptance forward the user to the login page 2) modify the login process

Re: [Wikitech-l] Multimedia team architecture update

+1 If this helps to get it on the list Am 07.03.2014 12:28 schrieb Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: Hoi, When Commons gets the Wikidata treatment, almost everything that has to do with meta data will gain wikidata statements on the Wikidata item that reflects a media file (sound

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Design] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: So, what would be the downside of listing a font like Arimo for sans-serif and Libertine for serif first in the stack? While not affecting

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Design] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

hi steven, ryan, thank you so much for jumping in here. could you please elaborate a little on and in a more structured way: 1. why a change is needed? 2. what are the problems with webfonts? 3. why ubuntu (or replace it with any other free font) is not good enough? 4. why there is no budget to

Re: [Wikitech-l] The Zürich Hackathon and you

Now in cc Am 07.02.2014 10:26 schrieb Željko Filipin zfili...@wikimedia.org: On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: you can ask any questions about the event to Manuel, CCed. It could be just my mail client (gmail) but I do not see anybody in cc. Željko

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's improve our password policy

hi steven, thanks for this proposal. what i trap into consistently since years is not beeing logged in, when i want to. i'd really appreaciate if this is shown clearly, on all wiki's. i never can remember which ones indicate it and which ones not. mediawiki.org indicates it, btw ... and i was

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikidata-l] Italian Wikipedia complements search results with Wikidata based functionality

Hi gerard, that sounds really exciting! Is it necessary to change a setting to see this behaviour? If not i d appreciate if you could give an example where one could see this best. Rupert Am 02.12.2013 18:50 schrieb Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: Hoi, The Italian Wikipedia is the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architectural leadership in Wikimedia's technical community

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: ... in March 2011 and June 2011, Brion Vibber, Mark Bergsma and Tim Starling were announced as Lead Software Architect, Lead Operations Architect and Lead Platform Architect of the Wikimedia Foundation, respectively. At

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions

Hi, would you be open to a data center outside the US in future, and if no, why not? Rupert Am 18.10.2013 22:05 schrieb Ken Snider ksni...@wikimedia.org: The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Operations team is seeking proposals on the provisioning of a new data-centre facility. After working

Re: [Wikitech-l] GitHub-based triangular workflow

Am 15.09.2013 17:13 schrieb Merlijn van Deen valhall...@arctus.nl: ... As you may be aware, the git-review based developer experience on Windows is less than perfect - especially compared to the old TortoiseSVN based workflow. Merlijn, as i m not contributing code here but am very interested

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM app: create account?

it to save images for later upload. I agree that this would be great to have in the future. --tomasz On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/9/1 rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com: hi philip, would it be possible to add an account creation

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Wikimedia Commons mobile photo uploader app updated on iOS and Android

hi brion, thank you so much for that! where is the source code? i tried to search for commons on https://git.wikimedia.org/. i wanted to look if there is really no account creation at the login screen or it is just my phone which does not display one, and which URL the aplication connects to

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Wikimedia Commons mobile photo uploader app updated on iOS and Android

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: Hey rupert! On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 10:21 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: hi brion, thank you so much for that! where is the source code? i tried to search for commons on https://git.wikimedia.org/. i

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia's anti-surveillance plans: site hardening

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Faidon Liambotis fai...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 08:04:24PM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: Hi, I'm a grad student at CMU studying network security in general and censorship / surveillance resistance in particular. I also used to work for

[Wikitech-l] trace gitblit, was: Re: Wikimedia's anti-surveillance plans: site hardening

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Ken Snider ksni...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Aug 17, 2013, at 1:33 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: hi faidon, i do not think you personally and WMF are particularly helpful in accepting contributions. because you: * do not communicate openly

Re: [Wikitech-l] trace gitblit, was: Re: Wikimedia's anti-surveillance plans: site hardening

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:48 PM, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote: yes ken, you are right, lets stick to the issues at hand: (1) by when you will finally decide to invest the 10 minutes and properly trace the gitblit application? you have the commands in the ticket:

Re: [Wikitech-l] git.wikimedia.org dead?

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 6:27 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: faldon, can you attach the trace to the bugzilla ticket please? On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Faidon Liambotis fai...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 12:51:15PM +0200, rupert THURNER wrote

Re: [Wikitech-l] git.wikimedia.org dead?

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:11 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 6:27 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: faldon, can you attach the trace to the bugzilla ticket

Re: [Wikitech-l] git.wikimedia.org dead?

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 2:25 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Leslie Carr lc...@wikimedia.org wrote: looks like the robots.txt isn't being served - so googlebot is grabbing

Re: [Wikitech-l] git.wikimedia.org dead?

faldon, can you attach the trace to the bugzilla ticket please? On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Faidon Liambotis fai...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 12:51:15PM +0200, rupert THURNER wrote: As chad points out, its being served now it's plural (robots.txt) many

[Wikitech-l] git.wikimedia.org dead?

hi, https://git.wikimedia.org/ seems to be dead. rupert. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] git.wikimedia.org dead?

On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 4:49 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: rupert THURNER wrote: https://git.wikimedia.org/ seems to be dead. Yup. It keeps happening: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/51769. would it be possible to help debugging this? rupert

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE: why editing a paragraph opens the whole page?

On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 3:56 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 08/02/2013 07:43 AM, rupert THURNER wrote: hi, in visual editor, would it be possible to edit only a paragraph, when one clicks the edit link on a paragraph? if not, why not? currently an a decent laptop

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE: why editing a paragraph opens the whole page?

, it's explained why it would be so incredibly difficult to implement section editing. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 4:12 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur

[Wikitech-l] VE: why editing a paragraph opens the whole page?

hi, in visual editor, would it be possible to edit only a paragraph, when one clicks the edit link on a paragraph? if not, why not? currently an a decent laptop, clicking the edit link on whatever page or section takes at least 4 seconds. this is unexpectedly slow. i tried to create a bug to

[Wikitech-l] kraken available?

hi, magnus mentioned on the cultural partners list that there should be a non-overloaded alternative (kraken) to stats.grok.se to have tracking for baglama and other view trackers? when is this available? rupert. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Support for multiple content languages in MW core

many thanks for this proposal, erik! what i would love to be considered in this context as well would be native language. to give an example: i am speaking english and german. therefor i like to read the contents in the original version, as long as it is available in this language. e.g. wmch s

Re: [Wikitech-l] Replacement for tagging in Gerrit

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Christian Aistleitner christ...@quelltextlich.at wrote: Hi, On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 08:28:25PM -0700, Rob Lanphier wrote: The Bugzilla-based solution has some of the advantages of the MediaWiki-based solution. We may be able to implement it more quickly

Re: [Wikitech-l] Page view stats we can believe in

acording to http://stats.grok.se/da.d/latest90/mandag has been viewed 127 times in the last 3 months, and ranks on 927. the raw pagecount files are here: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ i then took an arbitrary file and looked into it, at midnight, i guess UTC, feb 1st. as all

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: IRC office hours with the Editor Engagement Experiments team

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 02/04/2013 03:58 PM, Steven Walling wrote: Sorry for cross-posting, but for MediaWiki developers, this is a good opportunity to ask any questions you might have about the newly-released Extension:GuidedTour,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: RFC: Introducing two new HTTP headers to track mobile pageviews

the reason to use two fields instead of one makes it much easier to implement or performant? On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 1:08 AM, David Schoonover d...@wikimedia.org wrote: Huh! News to me as well. I definitely agree with that decision. Thanks, Ori! I've already written the Varnish code for setting

[Wikitech-l] wikiscan / similar for english wikipedia

hi, is there any possibility to have a list of users with contributions similar to: http://wikiscan.org/?menu=userstatsuserlist=Cat%C3%A9gorie%3AUtilisateur+participant+au+projet+Afrip%C3%A9dia for the english wikipedia? kr, rupert ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: MediaWiki Groups

hi quim, you managed to confuse me :) i thought that it is a great idea to finally implement groups, and access control lists in mediawiki as first class citizen, like e.g. moinmoin has it. one enters one ACL line on top of the wiki wiki page see here for details: