Re: [Wikitech-l] Responsive web design

2012-07-28 Thread John Elliot
I don't know who Brandon is. I'm planning on bundling MediaWiki with a product of mine and I'd like it to work well with smart phones and other mobile devices. I'm not sure that I would have the time or expertise to get the Athena theme done by myself and just wanted to know if it was on the

Re: [Wikitech-l] The Death of OAuth 2

2012-07-28 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:37:16 -0700, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 06:13:52 -0700, Diederik van Liere dvanli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The lead author of Oauth 2.0, Eran Hammer, has withdrawn his name from the OAuth 2 spec:

[Wikitech-l] 8 simple ways for improving Gerrit

2012-07-28 Thread Chad
Hi everyone, We've wanted to change the Gerrit UI to be less ugly for quite awhile, and I think a good first step is getting rid of the puke green/yellow color schemes. Gerrit has the ability to change these colors without using CSS-- it's done with the theme configuration[0]. I'm awful at

Re: [Wikitech-l] 8 simple ways for improving Gerrit

2012-07-28 Thread Chad
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, We've wanted to change the Gerrit UI to be less ugly for quite awhile, and I think a good first step is getting rid of the puke green/yellow color schemes. Gerrit has the ability to change these colors without

Re: [Wikitech-l] The Death of OAuth 2

2012-07-28 Thread Diederik van Liere
Anyone want me to go back through the specs and make a list of some of the things that are wrong with both Yes! I think that would be hugely helpful! Diederik ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] The Death of OAuth 2

2012-07-28 Thread Platonides
On 28/07/12 15:38, Diederik van Liere wrote: Anyone want me to go back through the specs and make a list of some of the things that are wrong with both Yes! I think that would be hugely helpful! Diederik Maybe more appropiate for a wiki page, though, where you can easily and provide

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha for non-English speakers II

2012-07-28 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Usability of CAPTCHAs Or usability issues in CAPTCHA design, Jeff Yan and Ahmad Salah El Ahmad (Newcastle University, UK) http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/jeff.yan/soups08.pdf Pages 3 and 4: Friendly to foreigners? In theory, text-based CAPTCHAs are intuitive to world-wide users and have little

Re: [Wikitech-l] Responsive web design

2012-07-28 Thread Trevor Parscal
I think a better answer to your question is: nothing that's been officially resourced at this time. We currently have a 2-device strategy, which means we redirect some devices to a mobile site, and the rest remain at the normal desktop site. The closest thing to responsive design we have in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha for non-English speakers II

2012-07-28 Thread Platonides
On 28/07/12 16:55, Everton Zanella Alvarenga wrote: In the conclusion: Contrary to the common belief, text-based CAPTCHAs can be difficult for foreigners. It is worth reading and likely the same for references there in. The first sentence is similar to what I have experience in 3 classes.

Re: [Wikitech-l] 8 simple ways for improving Gerrit

2012-07-28 Thread Krinkle
On Jul 28, 2012, at 5:21 AM, Chad wrote: [..] 1) backgroundColor -- pretty self explanatory, default is #FCFEEF for anonymous users and #FF for logged in users. 2) topMenuColor -- the color in the top menu area, the puke green, #D4E9A9 3) textColor -- self explanatory, default is

Re: [Wikitech-l] 8 simple ways for improving Gerrit

2012-07-28 Thread Chad
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: The 7--+1 simple ways for improving Gerrit. After 5 comes 6, you know ;-) Indeed, I seem to have forgotten how to count. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] Request for comment -- Extension management

2012-07-28 Thread Daniel Renfro
To all developers: I would like to gather some feedback for an idea that has been around for a while -- implementing an extension manager for Mediawiki. The topic came up a few times recently at Wikimania 2012's Ask the developers session and got me thinking. I've been developing with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata code review

2012-07-28 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi Daniel, More inline: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: as a follow up to Jeroens mail, I'd like to give a quick overview of things that need to happen before we can roll out phase I of Wikidata on the first Wikipedia (scheduled for late

Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for comment -- Extension management

2012-07-28 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:33:42 -0700, Daniel Renfro bluecu...@gmail.com wrote: To all developers: I would like to gather some feedback for an idea that has been around for a while -- implementing an extension manager for Mediawiki. The topic came up a few times recently at Wikimania 2012's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for comment -- Extension management

2012-07-28 Thread Daniel Renfro
Thanks Dantman, (1.) I agree, maybe it's better that I don't take over an existing RFC -- it sounded like a good idea at first! (2.) A configuration database for Mediawiki would be awesome. Extension:Update is trying to do the same thing and I think the extension repository can benefit