[Wikitech-l] HTTPS Login

2013-02-28 Thread Tyler Romeo
Is there anything else that is holding up enabling wgSecureLogin on WMF wikis? It'd be spectacular if we could actually enable it and take another step in the right direction for security. If there's anything on the software end that needs to be fixed before it can be turned on, I'd be happy to hel

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pad for deploy tracking (was Re: Etherpad Lite labs server going down today at 22:00 UTC (14:00 Pacific) for upgrade)

2013-02-28 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Oops, emailing from phone mistakes :) -- Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity. On Feb 28, 2013 8:18 PM, "Greg Grossmeier" wrote: > Off list: mind sharing that pad with me? :) > > -- > Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity. > On Feb 28, 2013 5:31 PM, "Matthew Flaschen" > wrote: > > > On

[Wikitech-l] Pad for deploy tracking (was Re: Etherpad Lite labs server going down today at 22:00 UTC (14:00 Pacific) for upgrade)

2013-02-28 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Off list: mind sharing that pad with me? :) -- Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity. On Feb 28, 2013 5:31 PM, "Matthew Flaschen" wrote: > On 02/28/2013 05:35 PM, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > I've been in quite important meetings with 15+ attendants where Etherpad > > Lite has been used exclu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Purpose of #wikimedia-dev

2013-02-28 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Chad wrote: > These are all fine and dandy solutions, but please keep your > various companies' policies in mind. It's not worth losing your > job just to hang out on IRC :) > This would be my reasoning. Trust me, if I wanted to I could find a way to get to IRC,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs server going down today at 22:00 UTC (14:00 Pacific) for upgrade

2013-02-28 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 02/28/2013 05:35 PM, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > I've been in quite important meetings with 15+ attendants where Etherpad > Lite has been used exclusively -- so, clearly not for purposes that are > testing or staging. So, Labs is the wrong place to have this. Can you > coordinate with us (operat

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 guidelines??

2013-02-28 Thread Quim Gil
On 02/28/2013 03:14 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:02:16 +0100, Quim Gil wrote: Our default recommendation to newcomers has been to try to fix a bug from From? Er... sorry (multitasking with just one brain has these things): https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_li

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 guidelines??

2013-02-28 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:02:16 +0100, Quim Gil wrote: Our default recommendation to newcomers has been to try to fix a bug from From? Quim probably wanted to link the list of bugs marked as 'easy': https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=%21easy%20-%21patch-in-gerrit (here I'm

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 guidelines??

2013-02-28 Thread Quim Gil
Hello Tejas, On 02/28/2013 05:34 AM, Tejas Nikumbh wrote: Hi, I am Tejas Nikumbh, an undergrad at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. I will be participating in GSoC this year. [GSoC 2013]. In order to imporve my chances for getting selected this year, I would like to start contributing earl

Re: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs server going down today at 22:00 UTC (14:00 Pacific) for upgrade

2013-02-28 Thread Mark Holmquist
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 02:35:12PM -0800, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > I've been in quite important meetings with 15+ attendants where Etherpad > Lite has been used exclusively -- so, clearly not for purposes that are > testing or staging. So, Labs is the wrong place to have this. Can you > coordina

Re: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs server going down today at 22:00 UTC (14:00 Pacific) for upgrade

2013-02-28 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:53:45AM -0800, Mark Holmquist wrote: > As absurd as this is for me to be sending out a warning about taking > down a labs service, this seems appropriately courteous especially > given the amount of use this instance has been getting. I've been in quite important meeting

Re: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs server going down today at 22:00 UTC (14:00 Pacific) for upgrade

2013-02-28 Thread Mark Holmquist
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:53:29PM -0800, Mark Holmquist wrote: > All right, the server is going down now and should be back up within the > hour. Stay tuned for more. > > Thanks all for your patience. The server is back up, and appears to be working well now. If you see the server down (usuall

Re: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs server going down today at 22:00 UTC (14:00 Pacific) for upgrade

2013-02-28 Thread Mark Holmquist
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:53:45AM -0800, Mark Holmquist wrote: > The Etherpad Lite server at http://etherpad.wmflabs.org/pad has been > surprisingly popular of late, which has revealed an issue in our version. I > think the issue has been fixed in the latest version of Etherpad Lite, so I'm > g

Re: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs server going down today at 22:00 UTC (14:00 Pacific) for upgrade

2013-02-28 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 28/02/13 11:53, Mark Holmquist wrote: > The Etherpad Lite server at http://etherpad.wmflabs.org/pad has been > surprisingly popular of late, The version that is on the production box is a bit old and has issue with SSL connection. I guess most of us have migrated to the labs one which does not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with CentralAuth in MobileFrontend

2013-02-28 Thread Juliusz Gonera
On 02/27/2013 05:13 PM, Paul Selitskas wrote: Do you use the same protocol in Wikipedia and other projects? When I first log in via HTTPS and then somehow get to HTTP, I need to log in. We use the same protocol. We enforce HTTPS after login, and later use protocol agnostic URLs. -- Juliusz

Re: [Wikitech-l] Purpose of #wikimedia-dev

2013-02-28 Thread Platonides
On 28/02/13 18:48, Brion Vibber wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > >> it's blocked in my office as well, there are many ways to get through >> the firewall... most simple is just to install a bouncer or use irssi >> in a terminal of remote server if port 22 is open... >>

Re: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs server going down today at 22:00 UTC (14:00 Pacific) for upgrade

2013-02-28 Thread Greg Grossmeier
> As absurd as this is for me to be sending out a warning about taking > down a labs service, this seems appropriately courteous especially > given the amount of use this instance has been getting. Thanks, Mark, for the heads up. Greg -- | Greg GrossmeierGPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B

Re: [Wikitech-l] What can be done with a watchlist too big to edit?

2013-02-28 Thread Max Semenik
On 28.02.2013, 18:22 Jaroslaw wrote: > I do a lot of work on Commons, while using a setting that all pages > I edit go to my watchlist. In the past I was able to control the > size of my watchlist by occasionally purging it by editing raw > watchlist. However when Cat-a-lot gadget become available

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with CentralAuth in MobileFrontend

2013-02-28 Thread Juliusz Gonera
On 02/27/2013 06:36 PM, Chris Steipp wrote: I'm not able to reproduce the error (auto login is working for me) in Chrome 25 or Firefox. If someone is still able to reproduce this, can you let me know if: * The images from various Special:AutoLogin pages are loading when you login * You do (or do

[Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs server going down today at 22:00 UTC (14:00 Pacific) for upgrade

2013-02-28 Thread Mark Holmquist
The Etherpad Lite server at http://etherpad.wmflabs.org/pad has been surprisingly popular of late, which has revealed an issue in our version. I think the issue has been fixed in the latest version of Etherpad Lite, so I'm going to hastily schedule a deployment in two hours' time. Please be awar

Re: [Wikitech-l] Purpose of #wikimedia-dev

2013-02-28 Thread Brian Wolff
Given where chad works, im going to go with amazing things ;-) On 2013-02-28 2:07 PM, "Petr Bena" wrote: > Of course it is. Amazing things happen on irc. And what happens in > your office? huh? > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Chad wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Brion Vibber wr

Re: [Wikitech-l] Purpose of #wikimedia-dev

2013-02-28 Thread Petr Bena
Of course it is. Amazing things happen on irc. And what happens in your office? huh? On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Chad wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Petr Bena wrote: >> >>> it's blocked in my office as well, there are many

Re: [Wikitech-l] Purpose of #wikimedia-dev

2013-02-28 Thread Chad
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > >> it's blocked in my office as well, there are many ways to get through >> the firewall... most simple is just to install a bouncer or use irssi >> in a terminal of remote server if port 22

Re: [Wikitech-l] Purpose of #wikimedia-dev

2013-02-28 Thread Brion Vibber
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > it's blocked in my office as well, there are many ways to get through > the firewall... most simple is just to install a bouncer or use irssi > in a terminal of remote server if port 22 is open... > Note that if just the *port* is firewalled yo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Translate extension design walkthrough

2013-02-28 Thread Scott MacLeod
Hello Pau and the Language Engineering team, I just noticed your email, Pau, so missed your presentation. Greetings from the San Francisco Bay Area. While I haven't looked at the YouTube video record yet, I would like to inquire how to collaborate further with the Language Engineering team. I'm

Re: [Wikitech-l] Better non-MySQL db support

2013-02-28 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
Matthew Flaschen wrote: > No, I was just talking about defining the indices (obviously, the query > planner is out of luck if you don't define them properly). E.g. in the > PostgeSQL tables.sql file: > > CREATE INDEX archive_name_title_timestamp ON archive > (ar_namespace,ar_title,ar_timestamp);

Re: [Wikitech-l] Better non-MySQL db support

2013-02-28 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
Daniel Friesen let us know: > For reference this is the RFC that was discussed in my thread on the > subject. > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Abstract_table_definitions > > Should probably dig up some gmane/archive links for both this and that > discussion and add them

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proper category collation support finally implemented!

2013-02-28 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:28:43 +0100, Paul Selitskas wrote: The result in the link you provided is ideal. Г and Ґ are in one bucket, while У and Ў are separated. That's what we need. Ah, that's great, I misunderstood. :) -- Matma Rex ___ Wikitech-

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proper category collation support finally implemented!

2013-02-28 Thread Paul Selitskas
The result in the link you provided is ideal. Г and Ґ are in one bucket, while У and Ў are separated. That's what we need. Great job done! On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:33:57 +0100, Paul Selitskas > wrote: > >> I had to add 'be-tarask' to $t

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proper category collation support finally implemented!

2013-02-28 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:33:57 +0100, Paul Selitskas wrote: I had to add 'be-tarask' to $tailoringFirstLetters and set $wgCategoryCollation explicitly to make this thing work. Yes, it's not enabled by default. That should probably wait until the support is more battle-tested :) Can charact

Re: [Wikitech-l] Better non-MySQL db support

2013-02-28 Thread Freako F. Freakolowsky
On 28. 02. 2013 04:29, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: I can't think of a clean way to abstract that anyway, as just needing an index hint for MySQL does mean the same is needed on Oracle, and vice-versa. Please don't use index hints on Oracle ... since 9i you get far better performances using CBO

Re: [Wikitech-l] What can be done with a watchlist too big to edit?

2013-02-28 Thread John
I have a basic pywikipedia script that can purge a watch list On Thursday, February 28, 2013, Katie Chan wrote: > On 28/02/2013 14:22, Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W. wrote: > >> I do a lot of work on Commons, while using a setting that all pages I >> edit go to my watchlist. In the past I was able to con

Re: [Wikitech-l] What can be done with a watchlist too big to edit?

2013-02-28 Thread Katie Chan
On 28/02/2013 14:22, Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W. wrote: I do a lot of work on Commons, while using a setting that all pages I edit go to my watchlist. In the past I was able to control the size of my watchlist by occasionally purging it by editing raw watchlist. However when Cat-a-lot gadget become

Re: [Wikitech-l] What can be done with a watchlist too big to edit?

2013-02-28 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
IIRC EditWatchlist used to be more robust before the recent restructuring: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39510 Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] What can be done with a watchlist too big to edit?

2013-02-28 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2013-02-28 10:22 AM, "Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W." < jaroslaw.w.tuszyn...@saic.com> wrote: > > I do a lot of work on Commons, while using a setting that all pages I edit go to my watchlist. In the past I was able to control the size of my watchlist by occasionally purging it by editing raw watchlist.

[Wikitech-l] What can be done with a watchlist too big to edit?

2013-02-28 Thread Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W.
I do a lot of work on Commons, while using a setting that all pages I edit go to my watchlist. In the past I was able to control the size of my watchlist by occasionally purging it by editing raw watchlist. However when Cat-a-lot gadget become available I initially did not configure it properly

Re: [Wikitech-l] Purpose of #wikimedia-dev

2013-02-28 Thread Petr Bena
it's blocked in my office as well, there are many ways to get through the firewall... most simple is just to install a bouncer or use irssi in a terminal of remote server if port 22 is open... On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:40 AM, Tyler Romeo wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Platonides wrote

[Wikitech-l] Messages from badoo system

2013-02-28 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, I apologize but it seems that badoo for some silly reason, scanned my e-mail account and spammed all contacts I have there with some kind of invitation or whatever. I have no idea why it happened, but I will try to investigate it. Please discard or ignore that message. Thank you

[Wikitech-l] ★ Wikimedia developers, Petr Bena left a message for you

2013-02-28 Thread Badoo
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[Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 guidelines??

2013-02-28 Thread Tejas Nikumbh
Hi, I am Tejas Nikumbh, an undergrad at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. I will be participating in GSoC this year. [GSoC 2013]. In order to imporve my chances for getting selected this year, I would like to start contributing early on to Open Source development via Wikimedia. Here's a litt

Re: [Wikitech-l] Module namespace

2013-02-28 Thread Niklas Laxström
As observed, it is not possible to translate extension namespaces at translatewiki.net [1][2]. All the usual routes can be used, depending on your technical skills: * File a [[Support]] request at translatewiki.net * File a bug in Bugzilla against the extension * Submit a patch to Gerrit -Nikla