[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Seeking feedback on new "Organizations" feature on Ohloh

2012-10-16 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, what about having Wikimedia features as organization in Ohloh? The proposal is interesting considering the current state of things: MediaWiki seems to be stalled with the SVN to Git migration, and it is close impossible to find out what other projects come from this community. This would

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki + Vagrant

2012-10-16 Thread Ori Livneh
On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Andrew Bogott wrote: > Yep, that makes perfect sense. I'm at a conference this week with > limited time and network access, but I want to learn all about vagrant > when I get back. > > -A I created a project skeleton: https://github.com/atdt/wmf-vagra

Re: [Wikitech-l] Media Author/License information in the database

2012-10-16 Thread Platonides
On 11/10/12 17:46, Strainu wrote: > I did something last year for exporting the files from WLMRO to > Europeana: > http://code.google.com/p/wikiro/source/browse/trunk/robots/python/pywikipedia/monumente/europeana_image_list.py > It was done very quickly and it probably has some bugs. Platonides >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tentative specs for MW releases

2012-10-16 Thread Chad
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > On 10/16/2012 11:45 AM, Tyler Romeo wrote: >> There should be some general >> idea of at least what is planned for a release before the code is actually >> written. > > This would mean getting any non-WMF contributors (the volunteers)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tentative specs for MW releases

2012-10-16 Thread Tyler Romeo
> As a sort of compromise, maybe we could write up a list of new features > MediaWiki administrators would find useful a month before the release is > planned. By that time, we've got a very good idea of what is going to > be in it. This seems like a good idea. Even if we never follow through wi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tentative specs for MW releases

2012-10-16 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 10/16/2012 11:45 AM, Tyler Romeo wrote: > There should be some general > idea of at least what is planned for a release before the code is actually > written. This would mean getting any non-WMF contributors (the volunteers) to spec out what they planned to work on before hand and be committed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Media Author/License information in the database

2012-10-16 Thread Strainu
2012/10/16 Jean-Frédéric : > [2] Awsome Jean-Ferderic, thanks! Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tentative specs for MW releases

2012-10-16 Thread Tyler Romeo
I am aware of the RELEASE-NOTES file. However, it is only updated once a feature has been merged into the codebase, There should be some general idea of at least what is planned for a release before the code is actually written. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Majo

[Wikitech-l] Commit summaries

2012-10-16 Thread Harry Burt
Hey all, Unfortunately the combination of using commit summaries in release notes and the mass-merger of Wikidata code means that we now about several hundred somewhat cryptic commit summaries in the release notes [1]. IMHO it might be a good idea for everyone to get into the habit of using clear

Re: [Wikitech-l] Media Author/License information in the database

2012-10-16 Thread Jean-Frédéric
Hi, we should provide a way to retrieve [Commons license & author] easily. > This is tracked at [[bugzilla:17503]] Though it is not as good as what you are looking for, license is well exposed through HTML elements. Author is as well (but fail in many cases). Some external tools already rely on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki + Vagrant

2012-10-16 Thread Andrew Bogott
On 10/16/12 3:11 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Andrew Bogott wrote: Does a single-instance install provide a sufficient test platform for 80% of the likely patches, or does all of the interesting stuff require a full-blown cluster? Define "sufficient" :). Most devel

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tentative specs for MW releases

2012-10-16 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 10/16/2012 10:43 AM, planetenxin wrote: > I like the idea of LTS releases which are very useful in enterprise > environments with focus on stability and maintenance. > > We typically build our MediaWiki Enterprise stacks on Ubuntu Server LTS.. How many of these stacks do you deploy? Would you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tentative specs for MW releases

2012-10-16 Thread planetenxin
I like the idea of LTS releases which are very useful in enterprise environments with focus on stability and maintenance. We typically build our MediaWiki Enterprise stacks on Ubuntu Server LTS... /Alexander Am 15.10.2012 03:26, schrieb Mark A. Hershberger: I said I would lay out my thoughts

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki + Vagrant

2012-10-16 Thread Andrew Otto
> If you don't want to use Puppet or Chef, you can just configure an instance > by hand (by SSHing into it, usually) and regenerate a Vagrant box from the > result. Actually, even if you do want to use Puppet, a VM can be useful. I have a local VM (not Vagrant) set up that I use to test new p

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tentative specs for MW releases

2012-10-16 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 10/14/2012 09:29 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote: > I also think > we should have better plans on what is actually going to be in each > release. In other words, a site administrator should be able to know what > new features are planned for the next release before the actual release has > been made. Mayb

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki + Vagrant

2012-10-16 Thread Ori Livneh
On Monday, October 15, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Andrew Bogott wrote: > Does a single-instance install provide a sufficient test platform for > 80% of the likely patches, or does all of the interesting stuff require > a full-blown cluster? I don't want to guess percentages, but a significant amount of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki + Vagrant

2012-10-16 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Andrew Bogott wrote: > Does a single-instance install provide a sufficient test platform for 80% of > the likely patches, or does all of the interesting stuff require a > full-blown cluster? Define "sufficient" :). Most development is done on "single instance" co

Re: [Wikitech-l] Best policies for WikiFarms

2012-10-16 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
16 Октябрь 2012 г. 11:08:52 пользователь Nathan Larson (nathanlarson3...@gmail.com) написал: > > I doubt WMF uses wgCacheDirectory at all. It's default is false and WMF > has Memcached. It doesn't even affect WikiFarms since it's not set by > default. You have to explicitly set it yourself. >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Best policies for WikiFarms

2012-10-16 Thread Nathan Larson
> > I doubt WMF uses wgCacheDirectory at all. It's default is false and WMF > has Memcached. It doesn't even affect WikiFarms since it's not set by > default. You have to explicitly set it yourself. > It's absent from InitialiseSettings.php but in CommonSettings.php it's set as $wgCacheDirectory =

Re: [Wikitech-l] Best policies for WikiFarms

2012-10-16 Thread Ryan Lane
> Anyways, adding and deleting wikis is outside of the scope of our builtin > config tools. > Why? This is how Wikimedia creates wikis, but it's Wikimedia specific. I don't see why this can't be made more generic with a little bit of effort. - Ryan ___