Re: [Wikitech-l] New SVN committer

2009-03-24 Thread Chad
Welcome Jan! Just a friendly reminder to commit a USERINFO file :) -Chad On Mar 24, 2009 3:12 PM, "Brion Vibber" wrote: Added Jan Gerber ('j'). Jan is the developer of Firefogg, and will be helping out with some of the open video player & sequencer work with Michael Dale that Kaltura's sponsor

Re: [Wikitech-l] You too can clean out the tons of database Default Messages

2009-03-24 Thread jidanni
> mediawiki-l@, please OK, sorry. Next time... >> I don't know why the design decision was made to just leave those >> Mediawiki: namespace items sitting in the archive and text tables. But > Just run update.php. It does all that crap for you. I am sorry but update.php just calls deleteDefaultMess

[Wikitech-l] New SVN committer

2009-03-24 Thread Brion Vibber
Added Jan Gerber ('j'). Jan is the developer of Firefogg, and will be helping out with some of the open video player & sequencer work with Michael Dale that Kaltura's sponsoring. -- brion ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org http

Re: [Wikitech-l] change Media tag to point to external file editing

2009-03-24 Thread Brion Vibber
On 3/24/09 3:55 AM, Gregor Rot wrote: > i would like to change the Media tag to point to external editing of > wiki media files, for example: > > [[Media:my_file.pdf]] > > now generates a link like: > > http://myserver/images/d/d3/my_file.pdf > > but i have configured external file editing and woul

Re: [Wikitech-l] all the world's alphabets right there on the edit page

2009-03-24 Thread Brion Vibber
On 3/24/09 3:50 AM, MinuteElectron wrote: > 2009/3/23 Brion Vibber: >> On 3/23/09 9:17 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote: >>> Since all of this requires JavaScript to work anyway, a quick and dirty >>> first step to un-bloating stuff would be to move all of the charinsert >>> stuff to a separate .js file whos

Re: [Wikitech-l] You too can clean out the tons of database Default Messages

2009-03-24 Thread Eugene Zelenko
Hi! I asked similar question week ago. Can anybody from Wikimedia stuff answer this question? Eugene. PS We have new sysadmin there. May be it's good task to start? On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Andrew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:02 PM,   wrote: >> I don't know why the desi

[Wikitech-l] Re: A proposal to de-table Wikipedia infoboxes

2009-03-24 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Hay (Husky) wrote: > > I don't know if making such an infobox that does not support IE6 and > > IE7 is a good idea. I've now added code to make IE6/IE7 degrade gracefully: http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/infobox/ > It

Re: [Wikitech-l] You too can clean out the tons of database Default Messages

2009-03-24 Thread Andrew Garrett
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:02 PM, wrote: > I don't know why the design decision was made to just leave those > Mediawiki: namespace items sitting in the archive and text tables. But Just run update.php. It does all that crap for you. -- Andrew Garrett _

Re: [Wikitech-l] You too can clean out the tons of database Default Messages

2009-03-24 Thread Domas Mituzas
On Mar 24, 2009, at 1:02 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Gentlemen, if your personal Mediawiki wiki has been around since early mediawiki-l@, please -- Domas Mituzas -- http://dammit.lt/ -- [[user:midom]] ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@li

[Wikitech-l] You too can clean out the tons of database Default Messages

2009-03-24 Thread jidanni
Gentlemen, if your personal Mediawiki wiki has been around since early 2007, you might want to clean out the thousands of Mediawiki: namespace rows that were left in the database by maintenance/deleteDefaultMessages.php . Wouldn't it make you feel good to clean out thousands of wasted rows, leaving

[Wikitech-l] change Media tag to point to external file editing

2009-03-24 Thread Gregor Rot
Hi everybody, i would like to change the Media tag to point to external editing of wiki media files, for example: [[Media:my_file.pdf]] now generates a link like: http://myserver/images/d/d3/my_file.pdf but i have configured external file editing and would like a link like: http://myserver/i

Re: [Wikitech-l] all the world's alphabets right there on the edit page

2009-03-24 Thread MinuteElectron
Hello, 2009/3/23 Brion Vibber : > On 3/23/09 9:17 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote: >> Since all of this requires JavaScript to work anyway, a quick and dirty >> first step to un-bloating stuff would be to move all of the charinsert >> stuff to a separate .js file whose sole purpose is to add the >> charins