Re: [Wikitech-l] MATH markup question

2011-01-24 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Maury Markowitz maury.markow...@gmail.com 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

[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 Maury Markowitz
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com 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] 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

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-wiki

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,

[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

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 hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Hi, We got the email validation stuff sorted out properly tonight. We even have javascript tests (thanks

Re: [Wikitech-l] user email validation ready

2011-01-24 Thread Brion Vibber
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Conrad Irwin conrad.ir...@gmail.comwrote: 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

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

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 br...@pobox.com: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Conrad

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 conrad.ir...@gmail.comwrote: 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

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 custom

Re: [Wikitech-l] user email validation ready

2011-01-24 Thread Brion Vibber
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Billinghurst billinghu...@gmail.comwrote: 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

Re: [Wikitech-l] user email validation ready

2011-01-24 Thread Brion Vibber
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com 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