Re: [Wikitech-l] Flagged revs trial on en:wp?

2009-03-02 Thread Stephen Bain
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > > Options 1 and 2 are near enough to the same thing, since most of the > sysadmins are part of the WMF. I'd be happy to enable it as proposed, > on the basis of the poll, providing that Brion indicates that he has > no objection to that action,

[Wikitech-l] Special:Book render error

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Bimmler
When trying to output a "book" as PDF, I got "An error occured on the render server: error executing command 'render': [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/opt/mwlib/var/cache/pdfserver/d/de' " (To my layman's eye this looks like a general error, that was not specifically caused by any of the articles

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special:Book render error

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Bimmler
Further to that, when I try to output it via PediaPress, I get the same error, though with "...command:'zip_post'" On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Michael Bimmler wrote: > When trying to output a "book" as PDF, I got > "An error occured on the render server: error executing command > 'render': [

Re: [Wikitech-l] Flagged revs trial on en:wp?

2009-03-02 Thread Brion Vibber
On 3/1/09 4:16 PM, David Gerard wrote: > What's the holdup in the flagged revisions trial on en:wp? Last I heard, we're waiting for firm parameters on the test to be decided on by the community. -- brion ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Flagged revs trial on en:wp?

2009-03-02 Thread Erik Moeller
2009/3/1 David Gerard : > What's the holdup in the flagged revisions trial on en:wp? In general, there's a defined process for FlaggedRevs configurations, which I laid out here when we first made this feature available: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-June/043691.html This

Re: [Wikitech-l] Flagged revs trial on en:wp?

2009-03-02 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/2 Erik Moeller : > It's more important, IMO, to get this right than to just hastily roll > out something that will then lead to opposition of the form > "FlaggedRevs is horrible, let's get rid of it". We won't be able to > make it perfect, but if we know the primary use cases in advance, we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Flagged revs trial on en:wp?

2009-03-02 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/2 Brion Vibber : > On 3/1/09 4:16 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> What's the holdup in the flagged revisions trial on en:wp? > > Last I heard, we're waiting for firm parameters on the test to be > decided on by the community. If you accept the 59% result as sufficient consensus, then we have tho

Re: [Wikitech-l] Flagged revs trial on en:wp?

2009-03-02 Thread Platonides
K. Peachey wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Aryeh Gregor > wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:15 AM, David Gerard wrote: >>> The "shell" keyword was a new one to me. >> It may or may not actually be necessary. > For anything thats related to the maintaince of wiki's (eg: updating, > chan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Flagged revs trial on en:wp?

2009-03-02 Thread Erik Moeller
2009/3/2 David Gerard : > - is that a "yes", "no", "maybe", "reply hazy try again later" or what? It's a "no". The support was below typical "rough consensus" support by Wikipedia standards, but bolstered by Jimmy's endorsement. Since Jimmy later committed to attempting to formulate a counter-prop

Re: [Wikitech-l] Flagged revs trial on en:wp?

2009-03-02 Thread Stephen Bain
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > On 3/1/09 4:16 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> What's the holdup in the flagged revisions trial on en:wp? > > Last I heard, we're waiting for firm parameters on the test to be > decided on by the community. The proposal that was put to the poll inc

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special:Book render error

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Down
Is this global, or just on a specific page? Currently unable to reproduce. - Chris On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Michael Bimmler wrote: > Further to that, when I try to output it via PediaPress, I get the > same error, though with "...command:'zip_post'" > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:59 PM,