Re: [MediaWiki-l] Remove the mustache from the logo?

2015-02-27 Thread Trevor Parscal
I think we can all agree that Ryan could have made the joke much more funny if he had created an RFC[1] for the logo change, held several public IRC meetings about it over a few months until consensus was reached, and then worked with the design department to refine the artwork and the community de

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Extension:UsabilityInitiative vs own extensios

2012-11-13 Thread Trevor Parscal
You might need to enable some features using the new (since the split off from UsabilityInitiative) global. This is out of my config: require_once( "$IP/extensions/WikiEditor/WikiEditor.php" ); // Turn on toolbar and dialogs for everyone $wgWikiEditorFeatures['toolbar']['global'] = true; $wgWikiE

Re: [MediaWiki-l] removing support for older MediaWiki skins (Legacy skins Nostalgia, Simple, MySkin, and Standard)

2012-10-25 Thread Trevor Parscal
Cross-posting from Gerrit. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/25170/ I support this change because: - 1. Getting rid of legacy templates simplifies our template system and makes it much easier for us to improve it or migrate existing skins to a new system. - 2. The user experience wh

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Can an extension detect transclusion?

2012-07-25 Thread Trevor Parscal
TemplateInfo[1] did this. The way TemplateInfo works is that there's a parser hook that can be used in the template namespace. When you transclude the template, the parser hook returns an empty string. When you render the template page the parser hook renders a table describing the data inside the

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Nothing show in VisualEditor sandbox

2012-05-29 Thread Trevor Parscal
This code is under heavy development. You might want to switch to the dmrewrite branch to see the latest. As of this moment dmrewrite branch has code that will show a page, but it's not fully functional. - Trevor On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Chee-Yang Chau wrote: > I have installed VisualEd

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Using Vector extension with variant of Vector skin

2012-01-30 Thread Trevor Parscal
Since it doesn't look like you changed any of the IDs or classes around, I think it's just that you didn't configure it properly yet. The Vector extension has a global config object that controls which modules are enabled and how. See: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Vector In your case,

Re: [Mediawiki-l] podcast producer and MediaWiki

2011-06-02 Thread Trevor Parscal
More like http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MwEmbedPlayer - Trevor On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Dvorkin, Asya wrote: > Thank you! > > Are you talking about VideoFlash extension or some other one? > > Asya > > > On Jun 1, 2011, at 5:16 PM, Trevor Parscal wro

Re: [Mediawiki-l] podcast producer and MediaWiki

2011-06-01 Thread Trevor Parscal
You can enable file with .mv4 file extensions to be uploaded, but thumbnail and player support will require an extension. There are a few options there I believe, but not sure if any support mpeg4. On Jun 1, 2011 12:58 PM, "Dvorkin, Asya" wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Is it possible to use podcast pro

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Font-Family Dynamic Download

2011-05-08 Thread Trevor Parscal
There's some tricks to getting this to work on the greatest number of browsers possible. I would suggest taking a look at: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator - Trevor On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Brian Bell wrote: > Greetings! > > I am wanting to be able to display a font family

Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Wikitech-l] Dropping IE6 support (was: MediaWiki security release 1.16.4)

2011-04-14 Thread Trevor Parscal
*For reading*, we aim to support any browser with 0.1%[1] use or more. This has both culled things out, like IE 5.5, and surfaced things like NetFront (Sony Playstation Browser). *For security*, if it's possible to protect the site or our users, and we have money in the bank, we should be doin

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Sidebar Customization

2011-04-08 Thread Trevor Parscal
Take a look at the Vector extension. It offers a variety of progressive enhancements for the Vector skin. - Trevor On Apr 8, 2011, at 2:02 AM, Henny Savenije wrote: > How do you make those menu's in the sidebar collapsable? Looks very neat. > > At 01:56 AM 4/8/2011, you wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 5

Re: [Mediawiki-l] (no subject)

2011-01-31 Thread Trevor Parscal
Srsly! - Trevor On Jan 31, 2011, at 5:43 PM, Steve VanSlyck wrote: > I did not need to see these medical ads, not did I like the redirect. Why > did you send this, Chad? > > - Original Message - > From: Chad > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > > Date: Mon, 31 Jan 201

Re: [Mediawiki-l] vector components many blank lines

2010-12-07 Thread Trevor Parscal
ng it explicitly it's predictable. - Trevor On 12/7/10 10:17 AM, Trevor Parscal wrote: > Aren't we back to micro-optimizing again? > > - Trevor > > On 12/7/10 9:24 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: >>>>>>> "TP" == Trevor Parscal writes: >> T

Re: [Mediawiki-l] vector components many blank lines

2010-12-07 Thread Trevor Parscal
Aren't we back to micro-optimizing again? - Trevor On 12/7/10 9:24 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: >>>>>> "TP" == Trevor Parscal writes: > TP> debug=true to the URL > > Say, if debug=false is the default, then perhaps these production URLs >>

Re: [Mediawiki-l] vector components many blank lines

2010-12-07 Thread Trevor Parscal
These blank lines should not - under any circumstances - be here. But I do know why they are... Tim Starling modified the standard distribution of JSMin[1] in some good and some bad ways. These blank lines are the result of one of these modifications which I find to be misguided. He's basically

Re: [Mediawiki-l] vector skin repeated images?

2010-12-07 Thread Trevor Parscal
We (Roan and I) performed careful analysis very early on of the effects of data-uri embedding and found clear evidence that even in cases where relatively large images were repeated the resulting CSS with embedded images was significantly smaller than the raw data of the CSS and image files whe

Re: [Mediawiki-l] MW 1.16.0 usability extension default skin not working

2010-11-09 Thread Trevor Parscal
Your user account is set to vector? - Trevor On 11/9/10 4:18 AM, Dr Bob JAnsen wrote: > Trevor writes > > Vector does away with the book background image in favor of a gradient. > > But the question is, why is the Vector skin being display at all when the > local settings file is configured to u

Re: [Mediawiki-l] MW 1.16.0 Usability Extension - Default Skin not working.

2010-11-08 Thread Trevor Parscal
Vector does away with the book background image in favor of a gradient. - Trevor On 11/8/10 9:51 PM, Dr Bob Jansen wrote: > I have a wiki that uses a default skin (a copy of the Monobook skin but > with a background image defined in headbg.jpg file in that skin's > directory). After installing th

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Usability extension

2010-10-08 Thread Trevor Parscal
Yeah, there's a whole lot of JavaScript and a bunch of extra requests. In 1.17 this is resolved by using the new ResourceLoader[1] system. - Trevor [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader On 10/8/10 1:27 AM, Jim Sutton wrote: > Has anyone experienced a performance issue with MediaWik

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problem with custom skin path

2010-09-29 Thread Trevor Parscal
Why not just use symlinks? - Trevor On 9/28/10 11:07 PM, Daniel Steiner wrote: > Hi > > I'd like to use a common skin path for two different wikis to share file > resources. > > Directory structure is as follows: > > /DOCUMENT_ROOT/wiki1 > > /DOCUMENT_ROOT/wiki2 > > /DOCUMENT_ROOT/Common/skins

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wikitext grammar

2010-08-06 Thread Trevor Parscal
The current "parser" is, as David Gerard said, not much of a parser by any conventional definition. It's more of a macro-expander (for parser tags and templates) and a series of mostly-regular-expression-based replacement routines, which result in partially valid HTML which is then repaired i

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Coloring Cells in Tables

2010-03-08 Thread Trevor Parscal
On 3/8/10 5:10 PM, Tech Geek wrote: > So I am trying to achieve the same thing as the OP of this thread wanted > [1]. > > Basically, to get "green" color for "yes" and "red" color for "no" in the > cells just like a standard comparison table on the Internet Wikipedia [2]. > So I defined my table (s

Re: [Mediawiki-l] supporting multiple languages

2009-11-01 Thread Trevor Parscal
On 11/1/09 10:18 AM, Robert Carter wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a site that requires the ability to switch languages. I would > like to accommodate both languages in the same mediawiki installation > and provide links on the page that will set a cookie to switch display > of content to one lang

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Branching the vector skin in skins/

2009-10-05 Thread Trevor Parscal
On 10/5/09 2:00 PM, Brian J Mingus wrote: > I made a bunch of modifications to the vector skin but I would like to keep > the original skin available and not get svn conflicts so it makes sense to > copy my new skin over to a new name. I changed all the obvious variables and > made sure to get the

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Template Nesting

2009-06-15 Thread Trevor Parscal
On 6/14/09 5:05 PM, Jack D. Pond wrote: > I don't know if this is the best way to do this, so any advice is > appreciated. > > I have a set of information that needs to be included in two different > tables. It seems that the simplest approach might be to create a template > of parameters and then

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Editing categories alone (like section)

2009-06-06 Thread Trevor Parscal
Depending on the approach, this may fall under some of the areas the Wikipedia Usability Initiative (of which I am a developer) is planning to cover. I invite you to communicate your ideas and progress with us - we are always excited about talking to, and learning about the work of, people

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Safari 4 Public Beta

2009-02-26 Thread Trevor Parscal
On 2/25/09 8:22 PM, Darren VanBuren wrote: > of course, Safari 4 isn't a drastic change, and it's not going to > break anything. > > Darren L. VanBuren > = > http://oks.tumblr.com/ > > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 20:17, Techman224 wrote: > >> Has anyone tried a Mediawiki si

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Pre-like tag, with wrapping?

2009-02-09 Thread Trevor Parscal
On 2/9/09 8:12 AM, Platonides wrote: > Trevor Parscal wrote: > >> To integrate the HTML code into an article or template you will need >> to use the tags around the HTML tags. >> >> - Trevor >> > > Sorry Trevor, that's simply false. H

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Pre-like tag, with wrapping?

2009-02-09 Thread Trevor Parscal
I'm sure there's a template that you could use (on wikipedia) or make ( on your own private wiki) which wraps your text in a div with some special CSS. The pre tag means preformatted, which is why unlike other HTML tags it pays attention to whitespace like tabs new lines and more than one

Re: [Mediawiki-l] centos RPM

2009-01-30 Thread Trevor Parscal
On 1/30/09 10:15 AM, Robert Hagens wrote: > Anyone know of an RPM for Centos installation of media wiki. > Thanks, > Rob > > > > Robert Hagens | Chief Technical Officer| Envysion, Inc. > 950 Spruce Street | Louisville, CO 80027 > 303.590.2365 office | 303.590.2351 fax > rhag...@envysion.com | www.e