[Wikitech-l] Renameuser right for administrators on Wikimedia wikis

2009-04-02 Thread MZMcBride
Hello -- Given that the Renameuser extension now uses the job queue for renames involving over 10,000 edits (and thus no longer locking the site for large renames), is there any technical reason not to give administrators the renameuser right? And, if there are no technical prohibitions, is this

Re: [Wikitech-l] all those sess* files in /tmp

2009-04-02 Thread Brion Vibber
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Like yo, do you fellas see what I do on your machines? > $ find /tmp -name sess\* 2>&-|wc -l > 95853 *snip* > Any better way than "leaving all those candy bar wrappers on the floor"? The session file save path and garbage collection frequency are configurable in PHP's

Re: [Wikitech-l] all those sess* files in /tmp

2009-04-02 Thread Andrew Garrett
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:19 AM, wrote: > Any better way than "leaving all those candy bar wrappers on the floor"? Every PHP program ever does this. This is what /tmp is *for*. If you are sensible and put your /tmp on a ramdisk then it get clears per restart anyway. A non-issue. If you really di

Re: [Wikitech-l] Providing simpler dump format (raw, SQL or CSV)?

2009-04-02 Thread Brion Vibber
Ed Summers wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:57 AM, howard chen wrote: >> Given that the current dump process is having problem, why not provide >> a simple fix such as providing raw table format , SQL files or even >> CSV files? > > Please pardon this newbie question: is there a succinct explan

Re: [Wikitech-l] A proposal to simplify and improve footnote markup in Wikipedia

2009-04-02 Thread David Gerard
2009/4/2 Håkon Wium Lie : > Also sprach Aryeh Gregor: >  > (For those more familiar with CSS/JS than with MediaWiki, I'm >  > referring to user subpages here, e.g., >  > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Simetrical/monobook.js.  I'm not >  > referring to stuff people have in their browsers, which

Re: [Wikitech-l] A proposal to simplify and improve footnote markup in Wikipedia

2009-04-02 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Håkon Wium Lie wrote: > Right. While user CSS/JS is an interesting feature (in fact, it's a > fundamental feature in CSS), it would be a loss if it prevents the > HTML code from being improved. Wikipedia should be bold, both in the > content and in the style and str

Re: [Wikitech-l] A proposal to simplify and improve footnote markup in Wikipedia

2009-04-02 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
Also sprach Aryeh Gregor: > > We have done other big changes in the past. Almost all > > creations/renamings of mediawiki messages need local community action! > > The real problem is user CSS/JS, I suspect. People tend to copy-paste > that, and changes to document structure can break a lot

Re: [Wikitech-l] A proposal to simplify and improve footnote markup in Wikipedia

2009-04-02 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Platonides wrote: > We have done other big changes in the past. Almost all > creations/renamings of mediawiki messages need local community action! The real problem is user CSS/JS, I suspect. People tend to copy-paste that, and changes to document structure can br

Re: [Wikitech-l] A proposal to simplify and improve footnote markup in Wikipedia

2009-04-02 Thread Platonides
Aryeh Gregor wrote: > In theory. The problem is organizational: the people who change the > software, the people who change the stylesheets on any particular > wiki, and the people who sync new versions of the software to the site > constitute a few hundred different groups, mostly pairwise disjoi

Re: [Wikitech-l] all those sess* files in /tmp

2009-04-02 Thread Platonides
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Like yo, do you fellas see what I do on your machines? > $ find /tmp -name sess\* 2>&-|wc -l > 95853 > $ find /tmp -name sess\* ! -empty 2>&-|wc -l > 42637 > $ find /tmp -name sess\* ! -empty 2>&-|xargs more 2>&-|less > /tmp/sess_d4espd7ur01k7rq75f83ff7t45 > :::

[Wikitech-l] all those sess* files in /tmp

2009-04-02 Thread jidanni
Like yo, do you fellas see what I do on your machines? $ find /tmp -name sess\* 2>&-|wc -l 95853 $ find /tmp -name sess\* ! -empty 2>&-|wc -l 42637 $ find /tmp -name sess\* ! -empty 2>&-|xargs more 2>&-|less /tmp/sess_d4espd7ur01k7rq75f83ff7t45 :: wsUserID|i:3;wsUserName|s:4:"Jini";wsTo