[Wikitech-l] Try out MediaWiki Vagrant

2013-03-28 Thread Ori Livneh
Vagrant is a command-line tool for automatically provisioning virtual machines according to scripted specifications. The mediawiki-vagrant project bundles together specifications for quickly and easily provisioning a virtual machine running MediaWiki, suitable for development work. I announced

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Alternative domains for Commons

2013-03-28 Thread Petr Bena
What about inserting another domain just to prevent confusion and to keep current redirects, which would ONLY allow api, such as commons.api.wikipedia.org the *.api.project would just be some kind of universal api gateway for all domains On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Juliusz Gonera

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Alternative domains for Commons

2013-03-28 Thread K. Peachey
How is that meant to pervent confusion? you are just sticking a extra .api in the address. On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: What about inserting another domain just to prevent confusion and to keep current redirects, which would ONLY allow api, such as

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Alternative domains for Commons

2013-03-28 Thread Petr Bena
or MAYBE, even more evil: commons.wikimedia.api.wikipedia.org -- where first two domains commons.wikimedia would point to existing domain, that would actually allow you to enable this gateway instantly on all projects for all domains, so that you could use api of fr.wikisource using wikispecies

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Alternative domains for Commons

2013-03-28 Thread Petr Bena
because right now commons.wikipedia.org is already redirecting to wikimedia if you change this behavior now, you may confuse some people who were expecting it to redirect... but I don't really care On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 8:44 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: How is that meant to

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Alternative domains for Commons

2013-03-28 Thread Seb35
A small issue in this proposition: sub-subdomains are not currently covered by the https certificate. ~s Le Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:41:41 +0100, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com a écrit: What about inserting another domain just to prevent confusion and to keep current redirects, which would ONLY

Re: [Wikitech-l] Try out MediaWiki Vagrant

2013-03-28 Thread Dan Andreescu
This is awesome, I've used it as a total MediaWiki noob to poke around at the internals. One suggestion I'd have is to include a script that populates some sample data in the db (pages, users, edits, etc.). Does anyone have such a thing, should we dump a particularly active test setup from

[Wikitech-l] Next Bugday: Skin and page rendering, April 2nd, 16:30 - 20:30 UTC

2013-03-28 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi, Please join us on the next Wikimedia Bugday: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 from 16:30 UTC until 20:30 UTC [1] in #wikimedia-office on Freenode IRC [2] We will be triaging skin and page rendering bug reports [3] as proposed on the Bugsquad project talk page [4]. Everyone is welcome to

[Wikitech-l] Wikidata queries

2013-03-28 Thread Denny Vrandečić
We have a first write up of how we plan to support queries in Wikidata. Comments on our errors and requests for clarifications are more than welcome. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Queries Cheers, Denny P.S.: unfortunately, no easter eggs inside. -- Project director

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-03-28 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 27/03/13 15:35, Andre Klapper a écrit : OpenStack also have live graphs at http://status.openstack.org/bugday/ for their bugdays (e.g. https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/BugDays/20121213BugSquashing ), but I have no idea about the implementation, plus bugdays look dormant there. If anybody

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-03-28 Thread Andre Klapper
On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 15:35 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: OpenStack also have live graphs at http://status.openstack.org/bugday/ for their bugdays (e.g. https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/BugDays/20121213BugSquashing ), but I have no idea about the implementation, plus bugdays look dormant there.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata queries

2013-03-28 Thread Petr Onderka
How will be the queries formatted? Do I understand it correctly that a QueryConcept is a JSON object? Have you considered using something more in line with the format of action=query queries? Though I guess what you need is much more complicated and trying to fit it into the action=query model

Re: [Wikitech-l] Try out MediaWiki Vagrant

2013-03-28 Thread Željko Filipin
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: I hope you check it out, and that you find it useful. Feedback would be much appreciated. I have tried it at two Mac machines, it worked without any problems. Željko ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Try out MediaWiki Vagrant

2013-03-28 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
I tried it out on my Windows XP, and on `vagrant up` it promptly took all the 1.5 GB of free space on disk C: and crashed (I purposefully keep my system partition small). Is it possible to make it write the big files (the downloaded OS image and the virtual disk) into somewhere else than

Re: [Wikitech-l] Try out MediaWiki Vagrant

2013-03-28 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Ori, thanks for the great dev environment :) As mentioned in another email, I would like to have the following added to default vagrant installation. Having default dev environment would allow us to quickly get new developers up to speed almost without any walk-through steps. * redirect from /

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Alternative domains for Commons

2013-03-28 Thread Juliusz Gonera
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if that is actually good for anything :) but it would surely allow you to bypass cookie restrictions everywhere (for api's only). On the other way, I think we could just think of using some different technology

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Alternative domains for Commons

2013-03-28 Thread Juliusz Gonera
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Seb35 seb35wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: A small issue in this proposition: sub-subdomains are not currently covered by the https certificate. That would make only commons.api.wikipedia.org not work, but not commons.wikipedia.org, right? -- Juliusz

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Alternative domains for Commons

2013-03-28 Thread Seb35
Le Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:45:03 +0100, Juliusz Gonera jgon...@wikimedia.org a écrit: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Seb35 seb35wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: A small issue in this proposition: sub-subdomains are not currently covered by the https certificate. That would make only

Re: [Wikitech-l] Try out MediaWiki Vagrant

2013-03-28 Thread Ori Livneh
On Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: As mentioned in another email, I would like to have the following added to default vagrant installation. Having default dev environment would allow us to quickly get new developers up to speed almost without any walk-through