Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML versioning information in skins?

On 04/07/2013 07:10 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > tl;dr: Let's add class="skintimestamp-MMDD" to in all skins, > so we can make HTML+CSS changes without breaking the sites. > > [Resending as it doesn't seem to have gotten through the first time.] > > We need HTML versioning inf

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Developer guidance for MobileFrontend extension

Thanks Matt ! Much appreciated :) On 11 Apr 2013 16:19, "Matthew Flaschen" wrote: > On 04/11/2013 06:25 PM, Yuvi Panda wrote: > > Forwarding to wikitech-l, since I'm unsure how many people follow > mobile-l > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Writing_a_MobileFrontend_Friendly_Reso

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013: Improve support for book structures

Thomas PT hotmail.fr> writes: > > Hi! > Your proposal looks very good. I'll be very happy to help you as co-mentor on this project if is no GSoc > project for Proofread Page. > > Some comments: > 1. You should keep in mind that the extension will be used by Wikibook and Wikisource communities s

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sort on category

It certainly can be done (and done without need for silverlight) on smallish categories (to pull numbers out of a hat, things with less than 1000 pages probably would be fine). I doubt the silverlight control would work with a category that has a million entries in it (and yes there are categories

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sort on category

On Apr 11, 2013 7:26 PM, "Matthew Flaschen" wrote: > On 04/11/2013 11:46 AM, Small M wrote: > > Are there any current tools that allow for this type of category intersection/joining? > > See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CatScan also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_int

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sort on category

On 04/11/2013 11:46 AM, Small M wrote: > There's an article for Microsoft Pivot at [1] . Originally it was a > standalone application (which is no longer supported), and now is a > silverlight control (PivotViewer). HTML5 is usually preferred to plugins, so > some made an HTML5 version at [2]. S

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clicktracking being phased out

On 04/11/2013 06:54 PM, Lukas Benedix wrote: > Can you tell me why this is going to be removed and what insights you > got from it? It's being removed in favor of EventLogging, which we believe is technically better and more flexible. For some of the research these extensions make possible, see h

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Developer guidance for MobileFrontend extension

On 04/11/2013 06:25 PM, Yuvi Panda wrote: > Forwarding to wikitech-l, since I'm unsure how many people follow mobile-l https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Writing_a_MobileFrontend_Friendly_ResourceLoader_module mentions a efEnableMobileModules hook. The actual hook is EnableMobileModule

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clicktracking being phased out

On Apr 11, 2013 6:54 PM, "Lukas Benedix" wrote: > Can you tell me why this is going to be removed and what insights you got from it? I believe it's being deprecated in favor of the EventLogging extension. In any case the mediawikiwiki extension pages should be updated. -Jeremy __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clicktracking being phased out

RIP Clicktracking. On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: > > > > > > On Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > >> We are in the process of phasing out Clicktracking. An example of this >> is https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/46205/ . If you are relying on >>

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Developer guidance for MobileFrontend extension

Forwarding to wikitech-l, since I'm unsure how many people follow mobile-l -- Forwarded message -- From: Jon Robson Date: Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:53 AM Subject: [WikimediaMobile] Developer guidance for MobileFrontend extension To: mobile-l I was prompted by a MediaWiki discussi

[Wikitech-l] Proposal for merging now: (bug 38783) add git HEAD date to Special:Version for core and extensions

RE: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/54986/ code working live on http://openid-wiki.instance-proxy.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Version Ready for merge into core. Can some please merge, thanks. I invested a lot of efforts to fix (implement) "add git HEAD commit date to Special:Version for core and

Re: [Wikitech-l] wav support to Commons (was Re:Advice Needed)

On 04/11/2013 10:48 AM, Quim Gil wrote: I'm just trying to be consistent: a GSOC project can't force the agenda of a Wikimedia project. Also conservative when it comes to manage GSOC students expectations. These bug reports have been open for years, and I don't want to guarantee to a GSOC stu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clicktracking being phased out

On Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > We are in the process of phasing out Clicktracking. An example of this > is https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/46205/ . If you are relying on > this for an extension, you should explore other options, such as > https://www.medi

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013: Improve support for book structures

+1 mentor 2013/4/11 Thomas PT > Hi! > Your proposal looks very good. I'll be very happy to help you as co-mentor > on this project if is no GSoc project for Proofread Page. > > Some comments: > 1. You should keep in mind that the extension will be used by Wikibook and > Wikisource communities s

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013: Improve support for book structures

Hi! Your proposal looks very good. I'll be very happy to help you as co-mentor on this project if is no GSoc project for Proofread Page. Some comments: 1. You should keep in mind that the extension will be used by Wikibook and Wikisource communities so these communities must be involve in the pr

Re: [Wikitech-l] New git-review version revives year-old bug

I added the workaround and background to , which also covers gerrit rebase failures. On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > About a year ago, we were struggling with a git-review bug that caused > lots of bogus warnings to ap

[Wikitech-l] Motivation for working on a free software project

Hello, I'm a student of a master in free software in Spain. For performing a academic work, I ask for your cooperation by answering the following questions: 1. - In what ways began collaborating in an open source project? 2. - What is your motivation to participate in a free software project: soci

[Wikitech-l] Sponsoring travel to Wikimedia Hackathon

Hi, you have probably heard about Wikimedia Hackathon 24-26 May in Amsterdam (Netherlands) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013 There are about 100 participants registered, and we have some room for more. Registration is free but you need to sign up. There is also some travel

[Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013: Improve support for book structures

Hi! I'm Molly White, or GorillaWarfare on the WMF projects. I'm planning to submit a proposal to the WMF for this summer's Google Summer of Code (and probably also the Outreach Program for Women) and was hoping to get some feedback. See my proposal at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:GorillaWarf

Re: [Wikitech-l] wav support to Commons (was Re:Advice Needed)

On 04/11/2013 12:00 AM, David Gerard wrote: On 11 April 2013 00:29, Quim Gil wrote: As of today this falls in the category of "NO to projects depending on unconvinced maintainers". In this case the Commons maintainers. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope/Allowable_file_type

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sort on category

There's an article for Microsoft Pivot at [1] . Originally it was a standalone application (which is no longer supported), and now is a silverlight control (PivotViewer). HTML5 is usually preferred to plugins, so some made an HTML5 version at [2]. Sorry for the confusion. The collections used f

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sort on category

On Apr 11, 2013 10:56 AM, "Small M" wrote: > It was done before (albeit using a dedicated viewer which is now a silverlight control). So it can be done. First a warning: I can't imagine a MediaWiki feature ever being enabled on WMF wikis if it works only with silverlight. And you said HTML5 demo.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sort on category

One of the demo collections originally shown in pivot was wikipedia article's sorted by category. Though the collections are no longer up, you can see videos at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZuFUZpEZ-A?t=2m30s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgxCvdoXpwM It was done before (albeit using a ded

Re: [Wikitech-l] wav support to Commons (was Re:Advice Needed)

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > On 4/10/13 4:29 PM, Quim Gil wrote: > >> On 04/10/2013 03:16 PM, Rahul Maliakkal wrote: >> >>> In my GSOC project , i plan on adding *.wav support* to commons > > I don't see any email on this list that includes that quote, nor does >

Re: [Wikitech-l] wav support to Commons (was Re:Advice Needed)

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 4:59 AM, Quim Gil wrote: > On 04/10/2013 03:16 PM, Rahul Maliakkal wrote: > >> In my GSOC project , i plan on adding *.wav support* to commons >>> > As of today this falls in the category of "NO to projects depending on > unconvinced maintainers". In this case the Com

Re: [Wikitech-l] wav support to Commons (was Re:Advice Needed)

On 11 April 2013 00:29, Quim Gil wrote: > As of today this falls in the category of "NO to projects depending on > unconvinced maintainers". In this case the Commons maintainers. > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope/Allowable_file_types > If the Commons community is happy to