[Wikitech-l] OpenID MediaWiki Extension v.0.8.4.1 - Identity Providers UI

2009-04-18 Thread Sergey Chernyshev
Hi, I'm done with initial implementation of Identity Providers UI for OpenID MediaWiki Extension. Extension now shows a user-friendly (although my design skills are far from perfect) form where they can pick from a list of OpenID providers (generic OpenID URL form is still default). You can see

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dealing with Large Files when attempting a wikipedia database download - Focus upon Bittorrent List

2009-04-18 Thread Brian
I have no problem helping someone get a faster download speech and I'm also not willing to fling around fallacies about how selfish behavior is bad for society. Here is wget vs. aget for the full history dump of the simple english wikipedia - a substantial 3.5x improvement that someone who is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dealing with Large Files when attempting a wikipedia database download - Focus upon Bittorrent List

2009-04-18 Thread Brian
s/speech/speed/ :-0 On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: I have no problem helping someone get a faster download speech and I'm also not willing to fling around fallacies about how selfish behavior is bad for society. Here is wget vs. aget for the full

Re: [Wikitech-l] OpenID MediaWiki Extension v.0.8.4.1 - Identity Providers UI

2009-04-18 Thread Marco Schuster
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Sergey Chernyshev sergey.chernys...@gmail.com wrote: Hope you like it, but I'm still open to suggestions about improving the interface so you all finally install it on your wikis ;) There's a double escape on the confirmation page which redirects to the OID

Re: [Wikitech-l] OpenID MediaWiki Extension v.0.8.4.1 - Identity Providers UI

2009-04-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Mediawikiwidgets breaks when you do NOT want to login using OpenID.. I tried to install OpenID in one of my test environments and I failed at that. This is because I did not understand how to install all the php extras that are needed. Thanks, GerardM 2009/4/18 Sergey Chernyshev

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dealing with Large Files when attempting a wikipedia database download - Focus upon Bittorrent List

2009-04-18 Thread Marco Schuster
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Jameson Scanlon jameson.scan...@googlemail.com wrote: Is it possible for anyone to indicate more comprehensive lists of torrents/trackers than these? Are there any plans for all the database download files to be available in this way (I imagine that there

[Wikitech-l] More Skin JS cleanup thinking...

2009-04-18 Thread Michael Dale
So I was thinking instead of just packaging in jQuery I should package in / move the entire mv_embed folder into the skins directory .. it does not make sense to maintain two branches reinventing what mv_embed.js provides in the process of refactoring other core mediaWiki javascript. We will

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dealing with Large Files when attempting a wikipedia database download - Focus upon Bittorrent List

2009-04-18 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] But if you are running parallel connections to avoid slowdowns you're just attempting to cheat TCP congestion control and get an unfair share of the available bandwidth. That kind of selfish behaviour fuels

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dealing with Large Files when attempting a wikipedia database download - Focus upon Bittorrent List

2009-04-18 Thread Tei
Small comment: If finnaly some guy decide to mirror the files using torrent, I suggest the use of one of these Channels (RSS?) that Azureus support. This client even support the autodownload of these channels. -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] OpenID MediaWiki Extension v.0.8.4.1 - Identity Providers UI

2009-04-18 Thread Sergey Chernyshev
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Marco Schuster ma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Sergey Chernyshev sergey.chernys...@gmail.com wrote: Hope you like it, but I'm still open to suggestions about improving the interface so you all finally install it on