[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2014-04-30 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 James Forrester changed: What|Removed |Added CC||jforres...@wikimedia.org S

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-11-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #24 from Daniel Friesen 2011-11-23 08:35:29 UTC --- (In reply to comment #23) > > No, that's not "today's standard system", that's the verbose XML cult of > > thought. > > You mean the Internet and the Semantic Web (including othe

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-11-22 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #23 from Gregor Hagedorn 2011-11-23 07:21:57 UTC --- > No, that's not "today's standard system", that's the verbose XML cult of > thought. You mean the Internet and the Semantic Web (including other serializations than xml) is a c

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-11-22 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #22 from Daniel Friesen 2011-11-23 06:44:30 UTC --- (In reply to comment #21) > (In reply to comment #18) > > I'd rather have some new scheme for namespace string keys, rather than > > continuing the ugly all-caps style we have now

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-11-22 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #21 from Gregor Hagedorn 2011-11-23 06:29:25 UTC --- (In reply to comment #18) > I'd rather have some new scheme for namespace string keys, rather than > continuing the ugly all-caps style we have now. For example, the user > name

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-11-22 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #20 from Daniel Friesen 2011-11-23 03:16:43 UTC --- I guess I might have thought of extension registration being called in an extension setup function. Though perhaps making use of caching so after the actual registration it's ligh

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-11-22 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #19 from Brion Vibber 2011-11-23 01:03:25 UTC --- I fully endorse Tim's notes in comment 18. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You ar

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-11-22 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 Tim Starling changed: What|Removed |Added CC||tstarl...@wikimedia.org --- Comment #18

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-10-26 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #17 from Gregor Hagedorn 2011-10-26 12:57:20 UTC --- (this is getting a tad too philosophical and away from the original bug - this was namespaces, not interwiki :-) - but I cannot resist the temptation:) You describe a "lock it d

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-10-26 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #16 from Daniel Friesen 2011-10-26 11:05:55 UTC --- (In reply to comment #15) > > A special page updating a sidebar could potentially have to simultaneously > > edit > > a half dozen pages. Check that the current user has edit per

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-10-26 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #15 from Gregor Hagedorn 2011-10-26 10:19:54 UTC --- > A special page updating a sidebar could potentially have to simultaneously > edit > a half dozen pages. Check that the current user has edit permissions on all of > them, if a

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-10-26 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #14 from Daniel Friesen 2011-10-26 09:54:32 UTC --- (In reply to comment #13) > 1. Having a nice editor for mw:Sidebar would be nice. But nothing in the > present format prevents this, it just does not happen due to resource > limi

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-10-26 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #13 from Gregor Hagedorn 2011-10-26 09:24:08 UTC --- 1. Having a nice editor for mw:Sidebar would be nice. But nothing in the present format prevents this, it just does not happen due to resource limitation. If it were not in Media

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-10-26 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #12 from Daniel Friesen 2011-10-26 09:02:52 UTC --- (In reply to comment #11) > That was a hornet nest, ok... I am almost convinced by the circular loading > argument. Except I have a preference for wikis, that is: put things into

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-10-26 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #11 from Gregor Hagedorn 2011-10-26 08:36:23 UTC --- That was a hornet nest, ok... I am almost convinced by the circular loading argument. Except I have a preference for wikis, that is: put things into a transparent, editable objec

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-10-26 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #10 from Daniel Friesen 2011-10-26 07:31:39 UTC --- (In reply to comment #9) > I agree. Registering and exporting/importing symbolic names like > name="SMW_PROPERTY" would make a lot of sense and be more flexible than > relying >

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-10-26 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #9 from Gregor Hagedorn 2011-10-26 07:05:00 UTC --- I agree. Registering and exporting/importing symbolic names like name="SMW_PROPERTY" would make a lot of sense and be more flexible than relying on the key="102" etc. numbers. T

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-10-25 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #8 from Daniel Friesen 2011-10-26 06:32:04 UTC --- I had an extension to this idea in dumps/export/import. We update the dump format to also include the ="USER" ="SMW_PROPERTY" etc... key that the namespace was registered with. At

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-09-30 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #7 from Daniel Friesen 2011-09-30 09:16:32 UTC --- (In reply to comment #6) > > Could you come up with an example of where namespace numbers are required > > to be > > in ascending order. I don't see how our config requires that.

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-09-30 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #6 from Gregor Hagedorn 2011-09-30 08:55:18 UTC --- > Could you come up with an example of where namespace numbers are required to > be > in ascending order. I don't see how our config requires that. for example http://www.media

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-09-30 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #5 from Daniel Friesen 2011-09-30 08:35:32 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #3) > > Different namespace numbers on different wikis shouldn't matter. > > I think it does if you manage multiple wikis. AFAIK in

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-09-30 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 Gregor Hagedorn changed: What|Removed |Added CC||g.m.haged...@gmail.com --- Comment #

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-09-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #3 from Daniel Friesen 2011-09-23 23:11:00 UTC --- Different namespace numbers on different wikis shouldn't matter. On the second part dynamically registered namespaces should be in a separate area from site-specific ones. Heck wi

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-09-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 MZMcBride changed: What|Removed |Added CC||b...@mzmcbride.com --- Comment #2 from MZM

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-09-21 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 --- Comment #1 from Brion Vibber 2011-09-21 17:30:17 UTC --- Probably should resurrect the old NamespaceManager idea -- sane thing would be to actually have a table describing the namespaces and such. :) Looks like an old old version is sitti

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-09-21 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 Chad H. changed: What|Removed |Added Priority|Normal |Low CC|

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-09-21 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 Mark A. Hershberger changed: What|Removed |Added CC|m...@everybody.org | Severity|normal

[Bug 31063] MediaWiki should use a reservation system for namespaces

2011-09-21 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063 Mark A. Hershberger changed: What|Removed |Added Priority|Unprioritized |Normal CC|