Re: [Wikitech-l] What do you want to learn?

2012-10-30 Thread Petr Bena
I want to learn with puppet, but there is no testing repository to use. Every change needs to be approved by ops and that usually takes several weeks :/ or it used to. On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: TL;DR summary: reply to tell me what you want

Re: [Wikitech-l] What do you want to learn?

2012-10-30 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 30/10/12 07:42, Petr Bena a écrit : I want to learn with puppet, but there is no testing repository to use. Every change needs to be approved by ops and that usually takes several weeks :/ or it used to. Hello, Faidon wrote a class to easily setup an instance so it will use a local puppet

Re: [Wikitech-l] What do you want to learn?

2012-10-30 Thread Ori Livneh
On Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Antoine Musso wrote: Le 30/10/12 07:42, Petr Bena a écrit : I want to learn with puppet, but there is no testing repository to use. Every change needs to be approved by ops and that usually takes several weeks :/ or it used to. Faidon

[Wikitech-l] Display of math using LaTeXML

2012-10-30 Thread Moritz Schubotz
Summary: I'm looking for people to discuss about the parsing of math. Dear all, I came up with a proposal for a new version of the rendering of the math tag. I proposed to use LaTeXML to convert the LaTeX expressions in the math tag to MathML. If the browser is not capable of displaying MathML I

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.20rc2 is about 50 times slower (on openSUSE)

2012-10-30 Thread Johannes Weberhofer
I think that this issue is no show-stopper for releasing MW 1.20, as there is a clear solution for the problem. Johannes Am 26.10.2012 07:48, schrieb Niklas Laxström: On 26 October 2012 01:07, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/10/12 19:03, Bryan Tong Minh wrote: Your log file:

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.20 release ready?

2012-10-30 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Unless something comes up, I don't see a reason why the RC2 release shouldn't be the 1.20 release. One bug that was fixed since the RC2 release is Bug 40641 - Links to COPYING and CREDITS on Special:Version should not trigger a download dialog There is a work-around for this, though, so I'm not

Re: [Wikitech-l] What do you want to learn?

2012-10-30 Thread Isarra Yos
If I said I wanted to learn everything, how entirely unhelpful would that be? Not that I really do know enough at this point to be any more specific... Could a mentor help with dealing with the people, though? As an en.wikipedian I have found developers to be somewhat harder to deal with

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.20 release ready?

2012-10-30 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote: Unless something comes up, I don't see a reason why the RC2 release shouldn't be the 1.20 release. One bug that was fixed since the RC2 release is Bug 40641 - Links to COPYING and CREDITS on Special:Version should

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reminder: Tech chat tomorrow

2012-10-30 Thread Erik Moeller
This is starting in 25 minutes on #wikimedia-dev and Hangout. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2012-10-30 -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

[Wikitech-l] Tools for fighting vandalism

2012-10-30 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Hi all, is there any paid effort for developing tools (cross-platform) for fighting vandalism on Wikipedias? Is there any tool similar to Huggle that run on Linux? Or are there tools similar Huggle for Linux? Thanks, Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Wikimedia Brasil Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for fighting vandalism

2012-10-30 Thread Raylton P. Sousa
Try it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Huggle/Wine 2012/10/30 Everton Zanella Alvarenga ezalvare...@wikimedia.org Hi all, is there any paid effort for developing tools (cross-platform) for fighting vandalism on Wikipedias? Is there any tool similar to Huggle that run on Linux? Or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for fighting vandalism

2012-10-30 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga ezalvare...@wikimedia.org wrote: is there any paid effort for developing tools (cross-platform) for fighting vandalism on Wikipedias? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Admin_tools_development Steven

Re: [Wikitech-l] All wmf imagescalers now running ubuntu 12.04 precise

2012-10-30 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
On 25 okt. 2012, at 11:36, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 24/10/12 20:08, Peter Youngmeister a écrit : Hi All, As of this moment, all imagescalers are now running ubuntu 12.04 precise pangolin. This should close a number of bugzilla tickets, as well as remove the final blocker

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for fighting vandalism

2012-10-30 Thread Alchimista
Well, there *are* (or where) some java basic tools, but as far as i know, are few and not compared to Huggle. For now, you can use Huggle on linux using Wine, it's not the same thing, not everything works, not everything is fast, but globaly works withou any major problem. Alchimista 2012/10/30

[Wikitech-l] Developer's Reading List

2012-10-30 Thread Yuvi Panda
During the live streamed Brown Bag tech meet, a lot of people kept referring to things they've learnt from one blog or the other. I thought it would be useful to have a page where we collect links to tech blogs that the developers frequent. Would be a very useful discovery tool. Went ahead and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clean up prototype.wikimedia.org

2012-10-30 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
See previous discussion at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Test wikis It would be nicer to have answers to the general problem rather than constantly ad-hoc solutions which create confusion. Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer's Reading List

2012-10-30 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 10/30/2012 05:05 PM, Yuvi Panda wrote: During the live streamed Brown Bag tech meet, a lot of people kept referring to things they've learnt from one blog or the other. I thought it would be useful to have a page where we collect links to tech blogs that the developers frequent. Would be a

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.20rc2 is about 50 times slower (on openSUSE)

2012-10-30 Thread Platonides
On 26/10/12 07:48, Niklas Laxström wrote: It tries to acquire the lock until MGS_WAIT_TIMEOUT has passed, which is 10 seconds. The lock is there to prevent multiple threads building the cache concurrently. For reasons unknown to me, there is another lock inside -lock() -unlock() which again

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for fighting vandalism

2012-10-30 Thread Platonides
On 30/10/12 21:15, Alchimista wrote: Well, there *are* (or where) some java basic tools, but as far as i know, are few and not compared to Huggle. For now, you can use Huggle on linux using Wine, it's not the same thing, not everything works, not everything is fast, but globaly works withou

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.20 release ready?

2012-10-30 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 10/30/2012 02:56 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: I think it would make more sense for you to make the announcement than someone here, if you're up for it. Sounds good. After some off-list discussion about issues soon to hit the repository, I'll hold off on announcing and releasing until late Sunday

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.20rc2 is about 50 times slower (on openSUSE)

2012-10-30 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe Johannes has XCache installed and working, but it doesn't have enough space to store the message cache, so it is always a miss, and his threads are constantly racing to rebuild it. Do we have a known minimum cache

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for fighting vandalism

2012-10-30 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Thanks for the tips! On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: The next Huggle version is expected to work on Linux. But it's not there yet. Yes, I've noticed that on [[:en:WP:Huggle]] page. I've checked out the branch of this c# version, but I didn't see any

[Wikitech-l] Using Eclipse to review code

2012-10-30 Thread Ori Livneh
Hey, I've been looking for an alternative to Gerrit's code review interface and came across Mylyn, a plug-in for Eclipse with a connector for Gerrit. I'm happy to report that it does work well with our Gerrit setup. Now you can choose between two UX disasters :) I'm not a fan of Eclipse, but

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using Eclipse to review code

2012-10-30 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 10/30/2012 08:03 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: I've been looking for an alternative to Gerrit's code review interface Gerrit, for all its problems, does not require the reviewing developer to install extra software and Eclipse is quite a bit of software if the developer isn't already using it. I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Switching to Timed Media Handler on EnWiki (was: Commons)

2012-10-30 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: Ok, so after this, and a couple of brief offlist discussions, we've made a slight change to the plan [to deploy TimedMediaHandler]: Here's what we'll do: 1) Wednesday, October 31: Deploy to en.wikipedia.org first.

[Wikitech-l] Short URLs for Wikimedia Commons files

2012-10-30 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Hi, wouldn't be nice? Where to propose it? Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Wikimedia Brasil Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Short URLs for Wikimedia Commons files

2012-10-30 Thread MZMcBride
Everton Zanella Alvarenga (a.k.a. Tom) wrote: [Short URLs for Wikimedia Commons files] wouldn't be nice? Where to propose it? Hi. Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate? Draft ideas for new features should be proposed at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment.