Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki release candidate 1.15.0rc1

2009-05-16 Thread jidanni
Tim Starling writes: > A new user preference has been added, allowing the user to specify > their gender. Be sure to also mention how to disable interrogating users' gender. Please implement 'Allow not asking users their gender' https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18761 ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Database Abstraction

2009-05-16 Thread Chad
Exactly. Using wgDbType outside of the database should never be necessary. -Chad On May 16, 2009 12:59 PM, "Roan Kattouw" wrote: 2009/5/16 Freako F. Freakolowsky : > Why was this approach opposed? > I am working on Oracle abstraction at the moment and i was planni... What I think DJ Bauch mean

Re: [Wikitech-l] Log

2009-05-16 Thread Roan Kattouw
2009/5/16 Jan Luca : > Hello, > > > > how can I create a log? > Do you just want to add a log entry, or do you want to add an entirely new log type? In the latter case, look at $wgLogTypes [1], for the former look at the LogPage class [2]. For example usage, look at extensions which add logs, such

Re: [Wikitech-l] Database Abstraction

2009-05-16 Thread Roan Kattouw
2009/5/16 Freako F. Freakolowsky : > Why was this approach opposed? > I am working on Oracle abstraction at the moment and i was planning to > implement such a function. > > DJ Bauch wrote: >> I would much rather see a function added at the Database >> class level to form compound queries from subq

Re: [Wikitech-l] Log

2009-05-16 Thread Soxred93
I use this to make a log: Initialize log page: $wgLogTypes[] = 'newlog'; $wgLogNames['newlog'] = 'newloglogpage'; $wgLogHeaders['newlog']= 'newloglogpagetext'; $wgLogActions['newlog/newlog'] = 'newloglogentry'; Add new log entry: //Log it $log =

[Wikitech-l] Log

2009-05-16 Thread Jan Luca
Hello, how can I create a log? Gruß Jan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Database Abstraction

2009-05-16 Thread Freako F. Freakolowsky
Why was this approach opposed? I am working on Oracle abstraction at the moment and i was planning to implement such a function. DJ Bauch wrote: > I would much rather see a function added at the Database > class level to form compound queries from subqueries, since the > alternative is to introdu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Database Abstraction

2009-05-16 Thread George Herbert
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Domas Mituzas wrote: > George, > > > Eventually, supportability and bugfixes for newer versions surpass > > those for > > older versions. > > True, though we don't hit bugs too much in 4.0, it is somewhat > rocksolid for us. > Eventually not going for 5.4 will be b

Re: [Wikitech-l] Database Abstraction

2009-05-16 Thread Domas Mituzas
George, > Eventually, supportability and bugfixes for newer versions surpass > those for > older versions. True, though we don't hit bugs too much in 4.0, it is somewhat rocksolid for us. Eventually not going for 5.4 will be bad situation (once innodb plugin 1.0.3 features get merged in, e.

Re: [Wikitech-l] More aggressive DEFAULTSORT

2009-05-16 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, An upgrade to MySQL 6 would make a big difference for language and collation support. We need to first make use of improvements that are out there before we consider "roling our own". Thanks, GerardM 2009/5/16 Bart > MySQL is open source -- what sort of changes did you have in mind?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Database Abstraction

2009-05-16 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, There are several parts to that question. Typically you upgrade for the benefit of new functionality, security fixes and performance improvements. These are all sound reasons why we should upgrade. Reasons why not to upgrade are prerequisites for the upgrade are not in place, the logistics of

Re: [Wikitech-l] More aggressive DEFAULTSORT

2009-05-16 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
* Aryeh Gregor [Fri, 15 May 2009 13:55:22 -0400]: > Wikimedia is nowhere *close* to the largest MySQL user. It's a > mid-sized MySQL user at most. It's one of the largest *websites* > using MySQL, but there are data warehouses and whatnot that have > vastly larger databases, and definitely more