[Wikitech-l] collapsible-navigation

2010-06-03 Thread Bo Boz
Hi, Really like how the new collapsible-navigation is implemented in Wikipedia. Can I find that code somewhere and can I use it (GPL?) Thanks, Bo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion

2010-06-03 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
* Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com [Tue, 25 May 2010 20:58:54 +0200]: 2010/5/25 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com: Having Wikimedia servers send HTTP requests to each other instead of just doing database queries does not sound like a great idea to me. You're hitting several

Re: [Wikitech-l] collapsible-navigation

2010-06-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/6/3 Bo Boz mrbo...@gmail.com: Hi, Really like how the new collapsible-navigation is implemented in Wikipedia. Can I find that code somewhere and can I use it (GPL?) It's part of the UsabilityInitiative extension [1], which is released under the GPL just like MediaWiki itself. Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committers

2010-06-03 Thread Tisane
news:hu4pf3$55...@dough.gmane.org... Extension access only: * Cobi Carter (cobi): ClueBot A ClueBot extension would be pretty awesome, in a somewhat terrifying way... :-D any details on what's in the pipeline here? I think he just wants to commit it as-is to /trunk/tools. --

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committers

2010-06-03 Thread Platonides
Tisane wrote: A modified version is already there: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wikibot Hopefully at some point we can come up with a more distinctive name than Wikibot. Now there is some discussion, by the way, as to whether bot maintenance should be moved to a different SVN

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC] Extension management platform

2010-06-03 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Marco Schuster ma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org wrote: just one thing which makes Wordpress AutoUpdate suck and would be great if you'd take care of it while designing: check for the permissions of ALL files you try to overwrite / update BEFORE trying the update -

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Friesen
Dmitriy Sintsov wrote: * Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com [Tue, 25 May 2010 20:58:54 +0200]: 2010/5/25 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com: Having Wikimedia servers send HTTP requests to each other instead of just doing database queries does not sound like a great idea to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion

2010-06-03 Thread Platonides
Daniel Friesen wrote: ^_^ hackish isn't that bad in some sense. I'm currently experimenting with some farm code that works completely outside of MediaWiki rather than as a extension sitting inside of it. Using a sandbox it can get access to the MediaWiki install and extract info from it in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion

2010-06-03 Thread Happy-melon
Dmitriy Sintsov ques...@rambler.ru wrote in message news:830714463.1275562997.168145444.10...@mcgi21.rambler.ru... * Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com [Tue, 25 May 2010 20:58:54 +0200] Having a something like FarmRequest or FarmApi classes would be a great think for wiki farms (I run a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Friesen
Platonides wrote: Daniel Friesen wrote: ^_^ hackish isn't that bad in some sense. I'm currently experimenting with some farm code that works completely outside of MediaWiki rather than as a extension sitting inside of it. Using a sandbox it can get access to the MediaWiki install and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion

2010-06-03 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
* Happy-melon happy-me...@live.com [Fri, 4 Jun 2010 00:33:30 +0100]: One way to achieve this would be to develop the MediaWiki class to actually be what it originally promised: an object representing a wiki, of which there can in principle be more than one instantiated at any one time.