[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114595]: New comment added

2012-04-02 Thread MediaWiki Mail
"Netbrain" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r114595. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114595#c32608 Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114595: added edit parameter. Wheter to display a edit link for sidebarmenu. Netbrain's comment: fixed code indentation __

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114644]: New comment added

2012-04-02 Thread MediaWiki Mail
"Nikerabbit" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r114644. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114644#c32607 Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114644: applied patch by MWJames provided at bug 35627 Nikerabbit's comment: Wow big commit. Running stylize.php over the php files wouldn't

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114643]: Revision status changed

2012-04-02 Thread MediaWiki Mail
"Nikerabbit" changed the status of MediaWiki.r114643 to "ok" URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114643 Old status: deferred New status: ok Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114643: fix by Van de Bugger ___ MediaWiki-CodeReview mail

Re: [Wikitech-l] rsync on scap/sync reporting 'no space left on device' for a lot of hosts

2012-04-02 Thread Tim Starling
On 03/04/12 15:58, Antoine Musso wrote: > Le 03/04/12 01:30, Leslie Carr a écrit : >> On some machines /tmp is a separate partition, but / is still filled >> up. This appears to be due to a huge amount of php errors filling the >> logs > > Either we should stop Apache logging entirely (since logs

Re: [Wikitech-l] rsync on scap/sync reporting 'no space left on device' for a lot of hosts

2012-04-02 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 03/04/12 01:30, Leslie Carr a écrit : > On some machines /tmp is a separate partition, but / is still filled > up. This appears to be due to a huge amount of php errors filling the > logs Either we should stop Apache logging entirely (since logs are already sent on a central host anyway) or at

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki core deployments starting in April, and how that might work

2012-04-02 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 03/04/12 03:34, Chad a écrit : > The plan right now is to use extensions as submodules on the > wmf branch. Updating your extension in deployment is just a > matter of updating the referenced commit and then running > `git submodule update` on fenari. Which, as a side effect, means that extensi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic Taxobox

2012-04-02 Thread Ashwin Ravichandran
Ryan, *I definitely agree that the Automatic taxobox needs a better user > interface - that is the biggest obstacle to it's adoption. Right now there > is a significant learning curve to being able to use it. I would support a > project to improve the user interface of the existing Automatic taxo

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki core deployments starting in April, and how that might work

2012-04-02 Thread Chad
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Arthur Richards wrote: > Now that April is upon us, is there a more concrete timeline for getting > deployment branches into Git and using them for deployment? As much as I > love making patches between a Git repo and the deployment branch, I'm very > eager for the

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki core deployments starting in April, and how that might work

2012-04-02 Thread Arthur Richards
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > > Regardless of the branching strategy, the goal would be to start as > early as April with much more frequent deployments to production. The > deployment plan would look something like this: > * Deploy 1.20wmf01 to test2 real soon now (say

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114672]: Revision status changed

2012-04-02 Thread MediaWiki Mail
"Tim Starling" changed the status of MediaWiki.r114672 to "ok" URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114672 Old status: new New status: ok Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114672: (bug 35011) Use the correct user name & ID for crosswiki blocks. Previously (r112563), using setI

Re: [Wikitech-l] rsync on scap/sync reporting 'no space left on device' for a lot of hosts

2012-04-02 Thread Leslie Carr
It appears that there are a few issues #1 the cleanup cron is only looking for php* and there are many older files named timeline* On some machines /tmp is a separate partition, but / is still filled up. This appears to be due to a huge amount of php errors filling the logs example below : Apr

Re: [Wikitech-l] Time to redirect to https by default?

2012-04-02 Thread Antoine Musso
On April 2nd, 2012 at 23:35, Ryan Lane wrote: > What's https://secure.wikimedia.org? Some old experiment. Nothing to see here :-) -- Antoine "hashar" Musso ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

[Wikitech-l] rsync on scap/sync reporting 'no space left on device' for a lot of hosts

2012-04-02 Thread Arthur Richards
I just ran scap and saw the following for a lot of hosts: srv285: rsync: write failed on "/usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.19/cache/l10n/l10n_cache-ab.cdb": No space left on device (28) srv285: rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(302) [receiver=3.0.7] srv285: rsync: connect

Re: [Wikitech-l] Time to redirect to https by default?

2012-04-02 Thread Ryan Lane
> Indeed. Detecting a potential MITM is useless if you can't determine if > it's real or not. For instance the switch from RapidSSL to DigiCert > certificate was quite suspicious. > > I don't know how to best publicise it, though. I suppose we would list > them somewhere like https://secure.wikimed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Time to redirect to https by default?

2012-04-02 Thread Platonides
On 02/04/12 20:34, Ryan Lane wrote: >> It's also possible for governments to snoop on HTTPS communications, >> by using a private key from a trusted CA to perform a >> man-in-the-middle attack. Apparently the government of Iran has done this. >> > > We really should publish our certificate fingerp

Re: [Wikitech-l] Committing followups: please no --amend

2012-04-02 Thread Chad
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Tim Starling wrote: > On 27/03/12 19:49, Roan Kattouw wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Tim Starling >> wrote: >>> For commits with lots of files, Gerrit's diff interface is too broken >>> to be useful. It does not provide a compact overview of the chang

Re: [Wikitech-l] Time to redirect to https by default?

2012-04-02 Thread MZMcBride
Ryan Lane wrote: > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Tei wrote: >> Perhaps have a black list of countries that are know to break the >> privacy of communications, then make https default for logued users in >> these countries. >> >> This may help because: >> >>  - It only affect a subgroup of user

Re: [Wikitech-l] Time to redirect to https by default?

2012-04-02 Thread Ryan Lane
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Tei wrote: > Perhaps have a black list of countries that are know to break the > privacy of communications, then make https default for logued users in > these countries. > > This may help because: > >  - It only affect a subgroup of users (the ones from these count

Re: [Wikitech-l] Time to redirect to https by default?

2012-04-02 Thread Ryan Lane
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > That's not what I wanted to say, I wanted to say "https may cause > troubles with caching", In fact some caching servers have problems > with https since the header is encrypted as well, so they usually just > forward the encrypted traffic to serv

Re: [Wikitech-l] Time to redirect to https by default?

2012-04-02 Thread Ryan Lane
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > On 02/04/12 06:14, Ryan Lane wrote: >> TL;DR: we have no plans for anonymous HTTPS by default, but will >> eventually default to HTTPS for logged-in users. >> >> 1. It would require an ssl terminator on every frontend cache. The ssl >> termina

Re: [Wikitech-l] Time to redirect to https by default?

2012-04-02 Thread Daniel Friesen
Serving the login page over http opens login up to MITM attacks by injecting scripts to swipe passwords or modifying the form to only use http. So you've already eliminated half the reason we introduced https. Additionally you cannot control the action="" using a checkbox unless you use JS to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic Taxobox

2012-04-02 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I definitely agree that the Automatic taxobox needs a better user interface - that is the biggest obstacle to it's adoption. Right now there is a significant learning curve to being able to use it. I would support a project to improve the user interface of the existing Automatic taxobox, but fr

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114595]: New comment added

2012-04-02 Thread MediaWiki Mail
"Nikerabbit" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r114595. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114595#c32605 Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114595: added edit parameter. Wheter to display a edit link for sidebarmenu. Nikerabbit's comment: Could you run code-utils/stylize.php on th

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114589]: New comment added

2012-04-02 Thread MediaWiki Mail
"Nikerabbit" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r114589. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114589#c32604 Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114589: added labels to the top nav, updated layout, made it actually be the right width Nikerabbit's comment: 'pagetriage-article-count' =>

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114573]: Revision status changed

2012-04-02 Thread MediaWiki Mail
"Nikerabbit" changed the status of MediaWiki.r114573 to "ok" URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114573 Old status: new New status: ok Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114573: The portable way is to perform a string comparison using just one equal sign [1]. Bash test accepts

Re: [Wikitech-l] Time to redirect to https by default?

2012-04-02 Thread Petr Bena
I believe it would be best if login form was served using http with check box "Disable ssl" which would be not checked as default. The target page of form would be ssl page in case users wouldn't check it. So that in countries where ssl is problem they could just check it and proceed using unencryp

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic Taxobox

2012-04-02 Thread Ashwin Ravichandran
Jelle, I saw the Automatic taxobox. But, it doesn't seem quite user friendly and isn't that what we are working on so that it becomes more feasible? We can use actually use NLP to a major extend using the Text Extraction which can be quite helpful. Cheers, Ashwin _

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2012-04-02 Thread Valentina Faussone
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Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 - Text Processing and Data Mining (Oren Bochman)

2012-04-02 Thread karthik prasad
Dear Oren Bochman, I am very pleased to hear from you. My familiarity with the requirements *on a scale of 5* are as follows: 1. Java and other programming languages :: * 4.5 *...I have done courses on Java, C, C++. I have extensively used Python in my projects. I am very comfortable

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic Taxobox

2012-04-02 Thread Jelle Zijlstra
Virtually all Wikipedia articles that need one already have a taxobox, which will be far easier to process than the lead sentence, so I'm not sure where the need for natural language processing comes in. Also, are you aware of the existing automatic taxobox system on en.wikipedia ( https://en.wikip

Re: [Wikitech-l] Commit problem

2012-04-02 Thread Bináris
Solved, sorry for disturbing. I forgot to set svn+ssh://binbot@ for that directory. -- Bináris ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Commit problem

2012-04-02 Thread Bináris
Hi, I am a Pywikipedia committer, but by this time I have committed to trunk branch only. This was the first time I wanted to upload a new script to rewrite branch, because i18n keyword files belong to rewrite and appear as externals in trunk. The error message is: Access to '/svnroot/pywikipedia/

[Wikitech-l] GSoC: Improving the interplay between Spark and SMW and the second one is Semantic Forms Rule

2012-04-02 Thread riadh chtara
Hello! My name is Riadh Chtara.I'm Tunisian student.Two years ago I got an excellence scholarship from Tunisian Government to study Engineering In France. And today, I study in Ecole Centrale de Lyon which is one prestigious engineering school in France. I love web development . I know many progra

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic Taxobox

2012-04-02 Thread Ashwin Ravichandran
Agreed, but we will be diving into further classification, won't we? Imagine. Elephant: = (Elephantidae Elephas || Elephantidae Loxodonta || Elephantidae Mammuthus) But, we didn't specify what type of elephant? Imagine, we have the Asian Elephant: Then, we know the fact Asian Elephant: = (Elep

[Wikitech-l] ArchiveLinks progress, & naming question

2012-04-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Kevin Brown, who was a Google Summer of Code student last year, has been working on getting a feed of links-to-archive available for the Internet Archive. You can read more at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Kevin_Brown/ArchiveLinks/status He has a question about what to name the feed. Take

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic Taxobox

2012-04-02 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
Ah, that will certainly need human supervision for automatic generation. Chances that we will be able to interpret the line Elephants are large land mammals in two extant genera of the family Elephantidae: Elephas and Loxodonta, with the third genus Mammuthus extinct. into Elephant := genus ( El

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic Taxobox

2012-04-02 Thread Ashwin Ravichandran
Yury, I was thinking more in terms of what the Dbpedia people do. They have a strong algorithm which tends to utilize data. But, *I didn't think about NLP, thanks for the input. *:) I was more into looking deriving the information from the page, itself. Like completely checking the page for all t

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic Taxobox

2012-04-02 Thread Yury Katkov
Could you clarify how exactly do you want to generate data for Taxobox? [1] Do you plan to use Natural Language Processing? Or do you want to do the opposite and you want to parse the template like guys from dbpedia.org? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Taxobox - Yury Katkov On M

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic Taxobox

2012-04-02 Thread Ashwin Ravichandran
Hey Martjin, The data for the Taxobox can be obtained from Wikipedia, itself, can't it? Imagine, we had a to generate the template for the animal "Elephant". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant. We could write a python script which would be able to generate the data and store it in the Taxonom

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic Taxobox

2012-04-02 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
Hey Ashwin, Where are you getting the data for the taxobox? Does it need human supervision? If not, depending on how heavy this is, this could be a very cool Lua Template, where it can be used to generate it dynamically. On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Ashwin Ravichandran wrote: > Hey, > > I am

[Wikitech-l] Automatic Taxobox

2012-04-02 Thread Ashwin Ravichandran
Hey, I am very much interested in the idea of a Taxobox. I have an interesting method of generating it using a basic Python script. It would gather all the data using the basic Python application and would be able to store it in the taxonomy templates and we can display according with respect to t

[Wikitech-l] Upcoming cultural heritage hackathon, autumn 2012 in Denmark

2012-04-02 Thread Ole Palnatoke Andersen
Hello! Various cultural institutions in Denmark are planning a cultural heritage hackathon in the autumn. They are still in the google-doc-phase: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Asi52gKHCCyOdG9naG55Y2xtVnlaLUtyUjRBUWhZQ1E#gid=1 Perhaps someone is interested in chipping in with knowle

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 - Text Processing and Data Mining

2012-04-02 Thread Oren Bochman
Dear, Karthik Prasad & Other GSOC candidates. I was not getting this list but I am now. The GSOC proposal should be specified by the student. I'll can expand the details on these projects. I can answer specific questions you have about expectation. To optimally match you with a su

Re: [Wikitech-l] Time to redirect to https by default?

2012-04-02 Thread Tei
Perhaps have a black list of countries that are know to break the privacy of communications, then make https default for logued users in these countries. This may help because: - It only affect a subgroup of users (the ones from these countries) - It only affect a subgroup of that subgroup, th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Time to redirect to https by default?

2012-04-02 Thread Antoine Musso
On 2012-04-02 09:20, Petr Bena wrote: > That's not what I wanted to say, I wanted to say "https may cause > troubles with caching", In fact some caching servers have problems > with https since the header is encrypted as well, so they usually just > forward the encrypted traffic to server. I don't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Time to redirect to https by default?

2012-04-02 Thread Petr Bena
That's not what I wanted to say, I wanted to say "https may cause troubles with caching", In fact some caching servers have problems with https since the header is encrypted as well, so they usually just forward the encrypted traffic to server. I don't say it's impossible to cache this, but it's ve