Re: [Wikitech-l] Recompression results

2010-03-17 Thread Tim Starling
Platonides wrote: > You mention on bug 22624 the possibility of normalising the entire > archive table to MW 1.5+ format. > What are the chances of moving them back to revision and use revdelete > for all deletions (removing archive table)? > > See bugs 18104, 21279, 18780. Can you copy that qu

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Xmldatadumps-admin-l] 2010-03-11 01:10:08: enwiki Checksumming pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 :D

2010-03-17 Thread Felipe Ortega
Let alone that, for some of us outside USA (and even with a good connection to the EU resarch network) the download process takes, so to say, slightly more time than expected (and is prone to errors as the file gets larger). So other +1 to replace bzip with 7zip. F. --- El mar, 16/3/10, Kevin

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Xmldatadumps-admin-l] 2010-03-11 01:10:08: enwiki Checksumming pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 :D

2010-03-17 Thread Felipe Ortega
--- El mar, 16/3/10, Kevin Webb escribió: > De: Kevin Webb > Asunto: Re: [Xmldatadumps-admin-l] 2010-03-11 01:10:08: enwiki Checksumming > pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 :D > Para: "Tomasz Finc" > CC: "Wikimedia developers" , > xmldatadumps-admi...@lists.wikimedia.org, xmldatadump...@lists.wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Broken videos

2010-03-17 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Marco Schuster wrote: > I hope no one is ever insane enough to use this. Imagine those people > with cellphones and no data transfer flat (~70% of mobile internet > users) - their bills will skyrocket when even a single video is set to > auto-preload. On Wed, Mar

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Xmldatadumps-admin-l] 2010-03-11 01:10:08: enwiki Checksumming pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 :D

2010-03-17 Thread Jamie Morken
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:15:24 +0100 From: Platonides Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] [Xmldatadumps-admin-l] 2010-03-11 01:10:08: enwiki Checksumming pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 :D To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowe

Re: [Wikitech-l] Cite extension- extra functionality

2010-03-17 Thread Conrad Irwin
On 03/17/2010 08:48 PM, Nimish Gautam wrote: > Hey all, > > I wanted to change the "cite" extension to have some extra functionality. > > As citations have gotten more common, I've noticed an emerging use case > where people will copy and paste text from wikipedia to HTML-enabled > tools such a

[Wikitech-l] Cite extension- extra functionality

2010-03-17 Thread Nimish Gautam
Hey all, I wanted to change the "cite" extension to have some extra functionality. As citations have gotten more common, I've noticed an emerging use case where people will copy and paste text from wikipedia to HTML-enabled tools such as email clients or IM clients to share information. Unfort

Re: [Wikitech-l] Broken videos

2010-03-17 Thread Marco Schuster
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Trevor Parscal wrote: > On 3/17/10 1:02 PM, Marco Schuster wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Aryeh Gregor >>  wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Platonides  wrote: >>> Would it help adding a  to the first video in the page? >>

Re: [Wikitech-l] Broken videos

2010-03-17 Thread Trevor Parscal
On 3/17/10 1:02 PM, Marco Schuster wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Aryeh Gregor > wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Platonides wrote: >> >>> Would it help adding a to the first video in the page? >>> >> In Firefox, yes. Does anyone else implement that?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Broken videos

2010-03-17 Thread Marco Schuster
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Platonides wrote: >> Would it help adding a to the first video in the page? > > In Firefox, yes.  Does anyone else implement that?  If it's only > Firefox, we could just as well replace Cortado with > to be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sajax and Jquery documentation in MediaWiki

2010-03-17 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
* Platonides [Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:43:38 +0100]: > The core patches should be moved into hooks, so you don't have to patch > the same thing every time. > Unfortunately, not every hack is possible to implement via the hook. For example, user groups are weak, there is no Group class or at least a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Recompression results

2010-03-17 Thread Platonides
You mention on bug 22624 the possibility of normalising the entire archive table to MW 1.5+ format. What are the chances of moving them back to revision and use revdelete for all deletions (removing archive table)? See bugs 18104, 21279, 18780. ___ W

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sajax and Jquery documentation in MediaWiki

2010-03-17 Thread Platonides
Dmitriy Sintsov wrote: > Sure, I do. However, the old core was privately patched, so custom > patches has to be ported to new core. Also, newer versions of extensions > sometimes work with new core, sometimes they don't. > Sorry, I've probably asked too much. > Dmitriy The core patches should be m

Re: [Wikitech-l] Broken videos

2010-03-17 Thread Platonides
Aryeh Gregor wrote: >> BTW, the current video handling doesn't work without javascript. I >> thought we provided a link in such case. Now there's just an useless button. > > There's always a link on the File: page itself, no? Yes, there's an info image which leads you to the File: page. Where you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sajax and Jquery documentation in MediaWiki

2010-03-17 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
* Platonides [Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:40:40 +0100]: > Dmitriy Sintsov wrote: > > Sometimes newer versions of extensions have important fixes, but > > unfortunately these extensions versions may be incompatible with older > > versions of MediaWiki, at the same time. It probably will be harder to > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Broken videos

2010-03-17 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Platonides wrote: > Would it help adding a to the first video in the page? In Firefox, yes. Does anyone else implement that? If it's only Firefox, we could just as well replace Cortado with to begin with as soon as the page loads. In Chrome and Safari, we do

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sajax and Jquery documentation in MediaWiki

2010-03-17 Thread Platonides
Dmitriy Sintsov wrote: > Sometimes newer versions of extensions have important fixes, but > unfortunately these extensions versions may be incompatible with older > versions of MediaWiki, at the same time. It probably will be harder to > backport. Ok, nevermind. > Dmitriy So you also update mediaw

Re: [Wikitech-l] Broken videos

2010-03-17 Thread Platonides
Gregory Maxwell wrote: > In any case, none of the video on wikimedia sits is "autoplay" in the > sense that it starts on its own. The video tag itself is set to > autoplay, but the tag doesn't get inserted into the page until the > user clicks. No video surprises. (Unfortunately this process doe

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Xmldatadumps-admin-l] 2010-03-11 01:10:08: enwiki Checksumming pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 :D

2010-03-17 Thread Platonides
Jamie Morken wrote: > Also I wonder if it is possible to convert from 7z to bz2 without having > to make the 5469GB file first? If this can be done then having only 7z > files would be fine, as the bz2 file could be created with a "normal" > PC (ie one without a 6TB+ harddrive). This would be