Re: [Wikitech-l] user email validation ready

2011-01-24 Thread Brion Vibber
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Platonides wrote: > The original spec had feedback based precisely on enwiki numbers. > http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-August/00.html > > So about 100? Note that there are invalid addresses marked as confirmed > in wikipedia. > Ok so

Re: [Wikitech-l] user email validation ready

2011-01-24 Thread Brion Vibber
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Billinghurst wrote: > It would seem that the bugzilla > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23710 > would fall under that category, and to note that it is still marked as > new. Can it be tied to this process? > That's an issue about clickable links

Re: [Wikitech-l] File licensing information support

2011-01-24 Thread Platonides
Krinkle wrote: > Before I respond to the recent new ideas, concepts and suggestions. > I'd like to > explain a few things about the backend (atleast the way it's currently > planned to be) > > The mw_authors table contains unique authors by either a name or a > userid. > And optionally a cus

Re: [Wikitech-l] user email validation ready

2011-01-24 Thread Platonides
Brion Vibber wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Conrad Irwin wrote: > >> Out of interest, do you know what percentage of emails in the database >> don't validate under the new scheme? >> > > That's actually a wise thing to check -- most fails will probably be > legitimately bogus entries,

Re: [Wikitech-l] user email validation ready

2011-01-24 Thread Billinghurst
It would seem that the bugzilla https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23710 would fall under that category, and to note that it is still marked as new. Can it be tied to this process? Regards, Andrew Quoting Brion Vibber : > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Conrad Irwin wrote: >

Re: [Wikitech-l] File licensing information support

2011-01-24 Thread Krinkle
Before I respond to the recent new ideas, concepts and suggestions. I'd like to explain a few things about the backend (atleast the way it's currently planned to be) The mw_authors table contains unique authors by either a name or a userid. And optionally a custom attribution can be given (f

Re: [Wikitech-l] user email validation ready

2011-01-24 Thread Brion Vibber
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Conrad Irwin wrote: > Out of interest, do you know what percentage of emails in the database > don't validate under the new scheme? > That's actually a wise thing to check -- most fails will probably be legitimately bogus entries, but if we can find any that don't

Re: [Wikitech-l] user email validation ready

2011-01-24 Thread Conrad Irwin
Out of interest, do you know what percentage of emails in the database don't validate under the new scheme? Conrad On 24 January 2011 13:55, Ashar Voultoiz wrote: > Hi, > > We got the email validation stuff sorted out properly tonight. We even > have javascript tests (thanks Krinkle)! > > Revisi

[Wikitech-l] user email validation ready

2011-01-24 Thread Ashar Voultoiz
Hi, We got the email validation stuff sorted out properly tonight. We even have javascript tests (thanks Krinkle)! Revisions got reviewed by Brion and bugs 959 & 22449 are now fixed. I opened bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/26910 as a merge request for Roan. Thanks everyone! -- Ashar Vou

Re: [Wikitech-l] File licensing information support

2011-01-24 Thread Michael Dale
On 01/22/2011 01:15 PM, Bryan Tong Minh wrote: > Handling metadata separately from wikitext provides two main > advantages: it is much more user friendly, and it allows us to > properly validate and parse data. This assumes wikitext is simply a formatting language, really its a data storage, struc

Re: [Wikitech-l] File licensing information support

2011-01-24 Thread Platonides
Happy-melon wrote: > Eeeww > > What's any different between this and a {{#author: }} parser function apart > from the inability to access it from the wikitext? As noted, it's perfectly > possible for the data to be in a separate field on the upload form, either > by default or by per-w

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-01-24 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey all, The Google Summer of Code 2011 program has been announced [0]. I'm assuming the WMF will be participating like last years; can someone confirm this so the GSoC 2011 page [1] can be updated? Fun fact: since that page exists since last GSoC, it's now one of the top results when doing a Goo

Re: [Wikitech-l] MATH markup question

2011-01-24 Thread Maury Markowitz
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > We'd be talking about translating LaTeX input to MathML output > automatically here -- no MathML input in the wikitext. Ahhh, I get it. And yes, that does make sense to me. ___ Wikitech-l mailing l

[Wikitech-l] HTML math rendering… easy upgrade?

2011-01-24 Thread Maury Markowitz
Take a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headway Note that when the HTML renderer has to make a fraction, it leaves way too much whitespace between the numerator and denominator. I realize why this is happening, but can't this be adjusted with CSS? Maury

Re: [Wikitech-l] MATH markup question

2011-01-24 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Maury Markowitz wrote: > I used to think that too. Then I looked at the examples on the wiki > page on the issue. Although I find TeX rather opaque, a much worst > issue is obscurity through verbosity, which not only makes the formula > difficult to understand, but