[Wikitech-l] Demo for XMPP-Based RC-Notifications

2010-08-17 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hi all. I have wanted to push RC-messages via XMPP for a long time. I have now a working demo on the toolserver: join enw...@conference.jabber.toolserver.org with any jabber client to see the human readable part. The demo works by polling the API, for production use,

[Wikitech-l] Vector skin failures on mobile phones - any timeframe for a fix?

2010-08-17 Thread David Gerard
Vector is still a miserable failure for mobile phone users. Is there any timescale for this being fixed? At the very least, graceful degradation put into place? Latest bug report (from a friend in a Facebook conversation): mazing. conservapedia still works on my mobile, wikipedia doesn't.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architectural revisions to improve category sorting

2010-08-17 Thread Aryeh Gregor
The code is currently enabled in trunk and is still awaiting review. It's basically complete, but there are some issues left: * What sortkey algorithm to use? Currently it just ASCII uppercases the words, which is okay for a proof-of-concept but doesn't actually solve bug 164. * What should be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architectural revisions to improve category sorting

2010-08-17 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Дана Tuesday 17 August 2010 20:37:44 Aryeh Gregor написа: The code is currently enabled in trunk and is still awaiting review. It's basically complete, but there are some issues left: * What sortkey algorithm to use? Currently it just ASCII uppercases the words, which is okay for a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architectural revisions to improve category sorting

2010-08-17 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote: For some time now, I am thinking about a stupidly simple solution: php -r 'for($i = 0; $i 65536; $i++) { echo pack(nx, $i); echo \n; }'| iconv -f ucs-2be -t utf8 | sort | php -r 'foreach(file(php://stdin) as $v) {

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architectural revisions to improve category sorting

2010-08-17 Thread Conrad Irwin
On 17 August 2010 13:06, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote: Дана Tuesday 17 August 2010 20:37:44 Aryeh Gregor написа: The code is currently enabled in trunk and is still awaiting review. It's basically complete, but there are some issues left: * What sortkey algorithm to use?  

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vector skin failures on mobile phones - any timeframe for a fix?

2010-08-17 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Aren't most mobile browsers supposed to be redirected to mobile.wikipedia.org anyway? BTW, we are slowly fixing Vector issues for obscure browsers. For example, I just recently fixed Vector for the PS3's browser. To fix these issues we need 2 things: A complete description of the environment

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architectural revisions to improve category sorting

2010-08-17 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Дана Tuesday 17 August 2010 22:11:32 Aryeh Gregor написа: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote: For some time now, I am thinking about a stupidly simple solution: php -r 'for($i = 0; $i 65536; $i++) { echo pack(nx, $i); echo \n; }'| iconv -f ucs-2be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architectural revisions to improve category sorting

2010-08-17 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote: All right; but right now we are not paying attention to character context too, and not properly sorting even single characters. I mean, we are sorting Ђ before А! Surely this would be an improvement? Yes, but it would

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vector skin failures on mobile phones - any timeframe for a fix?

2010-08-17 Thread David Gerard
On 17 August 2010 21:39, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: BTW, we are slowly fixing Vector issues for obscure browsers. For example, I just recently fixed Vector for the PS3's browser. To fix these issues we need 2 things: A complete description of the environment and display

Re: [Wikitech-l] Storing data across requests

2010-08-17 Thread Michael Dale
On 07/29/2010 10:15 AM, Bryan Tong Minh wrote: Hi, I have been working on getting asynchronous upload from url to work properly[1]. A problem that I encountered was that I need to store data across requests. Normally I would use $_SESSION, but this data should also be available to job