Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees: Davos

2009-02-19 Thread David Gerard
2009/2/19 Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net: I'm likely going to put the general issue of biographies on the board's next agenda, for what that's worth. Though as I say, there's no simple blanket solution, and I don't know if we can promise anything beyond more discussion and more awareness

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

2009-02-19 Thread Steve Summit
Andrew Garrett wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Steve Summit s...@eskimo.com wrote: Sometime between yesterday and today, the edit summary field on en.wp's edit page lost its type=text attribute. Is it causing any problems? No, just a curiosity. It was part of some much-needed code

Re: [Wikitech-l] Double redirects

2009-02-19 Thread Russell Blau
Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote in message news:5924f50a0902020609q542047cfme84b9237eec38...@mail.gmail.com... On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Russell Blau russb...@hotmail.com wrote: ... 3) How can the users (not sysadmins) of a given wiki determine what the value of $wgMaxRedirects is

Re: [Wikitech-l] specialallpages setRobotpolicy('index,follow')

2009-02-19 Thread jidanni
http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/06/03/taking-advantage-of-the-x-robots-tag/ seems like a possible useful way to override the MediaWiki body via a custom HTTP header... ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Usage of Wikipedia name

2009-02-19 Thread Jens Frank
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 02:41:14PM -0500, Bilal Abdul Kader wrote: Greetings, I have been searching online for the possibility of using the name wikipedia to name a server but I could not find information about this anywhere. Basically, we are duplicating the enwiki locally at Concordia and

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

2009-02-19 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Michael Rosenthal rosenthal3...@googlemail.com wrote: It is. Even the automatically-granted version? How does that work? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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

2009-02-19 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/19 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Michael Rosenthal rosenthal3...@googlemail.com wrote: It is. Even the automatically-granted version? How does that work? There may be an easy way, but I can see a rather complicated way: You create a

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

2009-02-19 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: There may be an easy way, but I can see a rather complicated way: You create a dummy usergroup which you add people to when you want to remove their autopromoted rights and then include NOT a member of the dummy

[Wikitech-l] Unique Image URLs

2009-02-19 Thread Sergey Chernyshev
Hi, I'm working on optimizing MediaWiki for front-end performance and came across a problem that seems to be an issue even on Wikipedia - images all get requested from the server for the subsequent requests even though all of them didn't change - this means that images that are cached in a

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

2009-02-19 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Wait!! Do you mean Autopromoted groups are recalculated on each request? Yes, that's the point. If the above works, that would be a way to fix the long-awaited bug 4995 (block from uploading). Remove upload from user

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile gateway testing

2009-02-19 Thread David Gerard
2009/2/19 Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org: On 2/19/09 2:42 AM, David Gerard wrote: I notice it doesn't have edit links as yet - any plans? Nothing firm in the works yet but it's one of our goals for it long-term. :) (It's possible to edit in the regular MediaWiki skin on your iPhone... it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile gateway testing

2009-02-19 Thread Brion Vibber
On 2/19/09 4:14 AM, Angela wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:42 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: I notice it doesn't have edit links as yet - any plans? Good question. Is this the same thing as the new mobile platform that was announced before or not? I thought the point of that was

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile gateway testing

2009-02-19 Thread David Gerard
2009/2/19 Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org: That depends on how many people have been announcing new mobile platforms. :) In this work we're mainly targeting the popular has-a-good-browser smartphones. These will be able to do decent editing at least for little bits here and there, and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile gateway testing

2009-02-19 Thread Chad
I think for anything other than casual browsing, using native clients would be better. Perfect use of the API. I've been trying to get one for Android into decent shape. -Chad On Feb 19, 2009 6:03 PM, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 2/19/09 4:14 AM, Angela wrote: On Thu, Feb 19,

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

2009-02-19 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/19 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Wait!! Do you mean Autopromoted groups are recalculated on each request? Yes, that's the point. If the above works, that would be a way to fix the long-awaited bug

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

2009-02-19 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: There is an INGROUPS condition too. Check out http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgAutopromote I checked the DefaultSettings.php documentation instead, which is *supposed* to always be up-to-date. I'll put a

[Wikitech-l] Wider trials of Abuse Filter

2009-02-19 Thread Andrew Garrett
Hi all, After a few weeks on test.wikipedia.org, the Abuse Filter is rolling out for wider testing. For the moment, it's active on MediaWiki.org, but we're interested in deploying it to other small projects interested in targetting pattern vandalism. The Abuse Filter extension allows very