Krinkle wrote:
> There's a bot in #wikimedia-toolserver reporting activity on [toolserver-l],
> I'll see if I can get a similar thing going for [wikitech-l]. In which channel
> would we want this though ?
>
> I assume #wikimedia-tech although, like Ryan said about dev/ops related,
> perhaps better
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Aryeh Gregor
wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
>> Wikimedia doesn't technically use delta compression. It concatenates a
>> couple dozen adjacent revisions of the same page and compresses that
>> (with gzip?), achieving very good compre
Op 19 jan 2011, om 00:11 heeft Ryan Lane het volgende geschreven:
>> I'm not doing much on IRC, and apparently I'm not alone with that
>> here.
>>
>> Assuming that someone reporting a problem to wikitech-l will start a
>> new thread (as I did), how about auto-posting each new thread subject
>> l
It seems a complely different topic, but: is there something to learn about
text saving from the smart trick of TeX formulas storing? I did a little bit
of "reverse engineering" on that algorithm, I did never find anything useful
application from it, but much fun. :-)
Alex
2011/1/19 Aryeh Gregor :
> We used to do this, but the problem was that many articles are much
> larger than the compression window of typical compression algorithms,
> so the redundancy between adjacent revisions wasn't helping
> compression except for short articles. Tim wrote a diff-based histo
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
> Wikimedia doesn't technically use delta compression. It concatenates a
> couple dozen adjacent revisions of the same page and compresses that
> (with gzip?), achieving very good compression ratios because there is
> a huge amount of duplicatio
> I'm not doing much on IRC, and apparently I'm not alone with that here.
>
> Assuming that someone reporting a problem to wikitech-l will start a
> new thread (as I did), how about auto-posting each new thread subject
> line from wikitech-l on IRC automatically?
>
> (here I am again, throwing tech
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Ryan Lane wrote:
> Thankfully, I do read wikitech-l often, but please, please, report
> this on IRC as well, if possible everyone.
I'm not doing much on IRC, and apparently I'm not alone with that here.
Assuming that someone reporting a problem to wikitech-l wil
Maciej Jaros (2011-01-18 15:42):
> Tim Starling (2011-01-18 02:03):
>> On 18/01/11 07:41, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
>>> 2011/1/17 Tim Starling:
* It automatically drops accents, since accented letters sort the same
as unaccented letters (at the primary level).
>>> How locale aware is it? For
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Magnus Manske
wrote:
> I get long wait times for images from Commons (>10sec even for small
> thumbnails). The browsers (Commons, Firefox) also seem to load the
> same image repeatedly, even though it should be in cache.
>
> I'm in the UK. Everything else seems nor
Same in the U.S. Seeing tons of missing thumbnails, although they do
seem to load after a few minutes.
Ryan Kaldari
On 1/18/11 1:10 PM, Magnus Manske wrote:
> I get long wait times for images from Commons (>10sec even for small
> thumbnails). The browsers (Commons, Firefox) also seem to load the
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Krinkle wrote:
> Op 18 jan 2011, om 22:10 heeft Magnus Manske het volgende geschreven:
>
>> I get long wait times for images from Commons (>10sec even for small
>> thumbnails). The browsers (Commons, Firefox) also seem to load the
>> same image repeatedly, even tho
Op 18 jan 2011, om 22:10 heeft Magnus Manske het volgende geschreven:
> I get long wait times for images from Commons (>10sec even for small
> thumbnails). The browsers (Commons, Firefox) also seem to load the
> same image repeatedly, even though it should be in cache.
>
> I'm in the UK. Everythin
I get long wait times for images from Commons (>10sec even for small
thumbnails). The browsers (Commons, Firefox) also seem to load the
same image repeatedly, even though it should be in cache.
I'm in the UK. Everything else seems normal (well, I'm in the UK, but
otherwise... ;-).
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On Jan 18, 2011, at 2:00 PM, Chad wrote:
> +1 here. a::b syntax is less keystrokes having to use an array. Also
> lets us remove the stupid hack from r68760[0] (probably similar things
> elsewhere in the code)
Can't forget the hack that is MWFunction::callArray, which is also a hack that
is int
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:10 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
> I don't think JSON support is particularly important since it can
> easily be simulated, and I don't think you should use the filter
> extension in MediaWiki, regardless of whether it is supported.
>
I agree about filter. Having native JSON su
Tim Starling (2011-01-18 02:03):
> On 18/01/11 07:41, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
>> 2011/1/17 Tim Starling:
>>> * It automatically drops accents, since accented letters sort the same
>>> as unaccented letters (at the primary level).
>> How locale aware is it? For example, in Swedish accented letters co
On 17.01.2011 19:53, Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
> On 17/01/11 17:11, Daniel Kinzler wrote:
>> * There will be a hackathon hosted by Wikimedia Germany in (late) May,
>> probably
>> in Berlin, but that's not decided yet. This will mostly about hacking, with a
>> strong focus on GLAM related stuff. There
On 17.01.2011 19:38, Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Daniel Kinzler wrote:
>> * There will be a hackathon hosted by Wikimedia Germany in (late) May,
>> probably
>> in Berlin, but that's not decided yet. This will mostly about hacking, with a
>> strong focus on GLAM relat
2011/1/18 Tim Starling :
> On 18/01/11 07:41, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
>> And i don't know what to do when in the Lithuanian Wikipedia you sort
>> names of places in the UK - should Islington come before or after
>> York?
>
> Before.
>
>> $collator = new Collator('lt')
>> print $collator->compare( 'I
2011/1/17 Platonides :
> Jérémie Roquet á écrit:
>> I guess I should really dive into MediaWiki development…
> Feel free to send us patches. :)
> See my previous message about using CentralAuth for that. CentralAuth
> extension is not really an entry level extension, but you may have luck
> since y
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