Re: [Wikitech-l] Two ways to grant rollback and patrol right ?

2009-02-18 Thread Andre Engels
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Jason Wong jwongw...@ymail.com wrote: The discussions about the open of rollback and patrol right are in progress at Chinese Wikipedia (zh.wikipedia.org). Some suggested that we can have two ways to grant right to the qualified users. One is auto-promote (by

[Wikitech-l] API breakage a few hours ago

2009-02-18 Thread Robert Ullmann
The API return in XML for queries with no result elements was broken a few hours ago. I believe the culprit is r46845 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/46845 which does say it is a breaking change, but the break intended is that applications may see query-continue earlier than

Re: [Wikitech-l] API breakage a few hours ago

2009-02-18 Thread Tim Starling
Robert Ullmann wrote: [...] now it returns query recentchanges= Filed in Bugzilla at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17552 -- Tim Starling ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] API breakage a few hours ago

2009-02-18 Thread Nicolas Dumazet
(Did you read http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.api/911 ? ) And for future reference, mediawiki-api mailing list might be more convenient to flag api-related issues ;) Cheers, 2009/2/18 Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org: Robert Ullmann wrote: [...] now it returns

[Wikitech-l] Error After Upgrade on Ubuntu

2009-02-18 Thread Chris Spencer
Hi, I'm running Mediawiki 1.11.2 on Ubuntu 8, and after a recent update, I'm now getting the error: Warning: Missing argument 5 for MediaWiki::initialize(), called in /usr/share/mediawiki/index.php on line 89 and defined in /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/Wiki.php on line 52 Fatal error: Call to a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Error After Upgrade on Ubuntu

2009-02-18 Thread Jan Luca
Have you run php /usr/share/mediawiki/maintenance/update.php or php5 /usr/share/mediawiki/maintenance/update.php in the shell. Gruß Jan Luca -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Chris Spencer

[Wikitech-l] Microsoft’s IE 8 incompatibility w ith wikipedia.org

2009-02-18 Thread shi zhao
see http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2072 Microsoft's IE 8 incompatibility with wikipedia.org -- Chinese wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/ My blog: http://shizhao.org twitter: https://twitter.com/shizhao [[zh:User:Shizhao]] ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Microsoft’s IE 8 incompatibility with wikipedia.org

2009-02-18 Thread Brion Vibber
On 2/18/09 1:20 PM, shi zhao wrote: see http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2072 Microsoft's IE 8 incompatibility with wikipedia.org I'd kind of prefer if they just fixed their browser. :) What remaining IE8 issues are there? The first beta was so unusable in general we didn't bother

[Wikitech-l] [SPAM] Re: Error After Upgrade on Ubuntu

2009-02-18 Thread Michael Daly
Jan Luca wrote: Have you run php /usr/share/mediawiki/maintenance/update.php Could I have an official response on the relative appropriateness of the above versus: cd /usr/share/mediawiki/maintenance php update.php At one time, following Jan's advice was not likely to work and running the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Microsoft's IE 8 incompatibility with wikipedia.org

2009-02-18 Thread Lane, Ryan
2009/2/18 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: Yeah, I think we should just wait until they fix their browser... We're standards compliant, aren't we? Your reply was probably a joke, but, just in case it wasn't; Microsoft may be getting OEMs to ship with IE8:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Error After Upgrade on Ubuntu

2009-02-18 Thread Roan Kattouw
Chris Spencer schreef: Hi, I'm running Mediawiki 1.11.2 You should really be running a more recent version, like 1.13.4. Is 1.11.2 the version you upgraded to, or the one you upgraded from? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Microsoft's IE 8 incompatibility with wikipedia.org

2009-02-18 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/18 Lane, Ryan ryan.l...@ocean.navo.navy.mil: 2009/2/18 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: Yeah, I think we should just wait until they fix their browser... We're standards compliant, aren't we? David didn't say that, I did. Be careful with your quoting! (Who were you actually replying to?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Error After Upgrade on Ubuntu

2009-02-18 Thread Nicolas Dumazet
The version available in Ubuntu reps is sadly 1.12.0 for intrepid [0] Apparently Ubuntu 9.04 (release date in the end of April) will support MW 1.13.3 [1] If update.php is not run on version update, we should probably get more details and report this on ubuntu launchpad. :) [0]

Re: [Wikitech-l] Error After Upgrade on Ubuntu

2009-02-18 Thread Chris Spencer
It turned out this was partially my fault. A few months ago, version 1.13 was somehow manually installed overtop the standard version from the Ubuntu repo. I guess the update reverted enough files to break everything. Thanks for the help. Chris On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Nicolas Dumazet

Re: [Wikitech-l] [SPAM] Re: Error After Upgrade on Ubuntu

2009-02-18 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Michael Daly michael.d...@kayakwiki.org wrote: Jan Luca wrote: Have you run php /usr/share/mediawiki/maintenance/update.php Could I have an official response on the relative appropriateness of the above versus: cd /usr/share/mediawiki/maintenance php

[Wikitech-l] Mobile gateway testing

2009-02-18 Thread Brion Vibber
We're trying to get some more traffic onto the new mobile gateway for testing -- and figuring out how best to get people to the mobile-optimized site if they hit a regular Wikipedia link while on their mobile phone. For the moment I've slipped in some JavaScript onto English Wikipedia which

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile gateway testing

2009-02-18 Thread Chad
Is the new stuff in subversion? I know the hawpedia- based code was. -Chad On Feb 18, 2009 9:00 PM, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote: We're trying to get some more traffic onto the new mobile gateway for testing -- and figuring out how best to get people to the mobile-optimized site if

[Wikitech-l] edit form oddity -- newly missing input type

2009-02-18 Thread Steve Summit
Sometime between yesterday and today, the edit summary field on en.wp's edit page lost its type=text attribute. It now reads: input name=wpSummary size=60 value= id=wpSummary maxlength=200 tabindex=1 / Lo and behold, type=text is the default, so it doesn't actually break a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Two ways to grant rollback and patrol right ?

2009-02-18 Thread Jason Wong
If follow this system to grant right, is it possible to revoke the right from a user? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile gateway testing

2009-02-18 Thread Brion Vibber
On 2/18/09 6:08 PM, Chad wrote: Is the new stuff in subversion? I know the hawpedia- based code was. It's being tried out in git so far -- http://github.com/hcatlin/wikimedia-mobile/tree/master -- brion -Chad On Feb 18, 2009 9:00 PM, Brion Vibberbr...@wikimedia.org wrote: We're trying