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

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?

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

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 do

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

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 proof

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

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Nikola Smolenski 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) > { echo var_

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

On 17 August 2010 13:06, Nikola Smolenski 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?  Currently it just

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

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:17 PM, David Gerard wrote: > 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): > > > "maz

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

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 a

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

Дана Tuesday 17 August 2010 22:11:32 Aryeh Gregor написа: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Nikola Smolenski 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 ut

Re: [Wikitech-l] Storing data across requests

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Chad wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Platonides wrote: >> Bryan Tong Minh wrote: >>> Also, on places where no memcached or equivalent is available (i.e. >>> CACHE_NONE), this will not work. >> >> Then you could be using the objectcache table in the datab

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

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Nikola Smolenski 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 probably be easi

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

On 17 August 2010 21:39, Ryan Kaldari 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 behavior (preferably with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Storing data across requests

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

[Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads namespaces active on Wikimedia wikis but Lqt not active

It looks like some change in the software for Wikimedia recently caused four namespaces for LiquidThreads to become active in many (all?) Wikimedia wikis, even if LiquidThreads is not reported as installed on Special:Version for the wiki. An issue was created by MZMcBride noting a breaking API