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

2013-04-12 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 04:10:23 -0700, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com wrote: Thoughts? This sounds like a really ugly and hacky way to handle this issue. This is something that's mostly a WMF issue but this solution would involve all general updates being accompanied by a hack just

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clicktracking being phased out

2013-04-12 Thread Andre Klapper
On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 14:08 -0700, Ori Livneh wrote: Extension was dropped today. Lovely! Should http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ClickTracking get a blinkDo not use, go for EventLogging instead/blink box? AFAIK, ClickTracking depends on UserDailyContribs.

[Wikitech-l] vagrant issues

2013-04-12 Thread Moritz Schubotz
Hi, after updateing my vgrant folder via git deleting the oracle vm folder and recreating the vm I have two issues 1) there is no database wiki; only test without tables. 2) if I log in I get the following message -bash: /etc/virtualbox-version: No such file or directory Your VirtualBox guest

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clicktracking being phased out

2013-04-12 Thread Brian Wolff
On 4/12/13, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 14:08 -0700, Ori Livneh wrote: Extension was dropped today. Lovely! Should http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ClickTracking get a blinkDo not use, go for EventLogging instead/blink box? AFAIK, ClickTracking

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clicktracking being phased out

2013-04-12 Thread Ori Livneh
On Friday, April 12, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: Should http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ClickTracking get a blinkDo not use, go for EventLogging instead/blink box? I'm not sure, to be honest. There's some overlap (both provide some facility for pushing analytic data to the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clicktracking being phased out

2013-04-12 Thread Chad
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: I took the liberty of adding a note to the extension page to say use the other extension instead. For the record, if anyone ever uses blink (or the equivalent code that actually gets through Sanitizer.php) on MW.org, a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clicktracking being phased out

2013-04-12 Thread Lukas Benedix
to cut out this defect of webkit with css: https://github.com/madrobby/blink Lukas Am Fr 12.04.2013 14:12, schrieb Chad: On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: I took the liberty of adding a note to the extension page to say use the other extension instead.

Re: [Wikitech-l] vagrant issues

2013-04-12 Thread Ori Livneh
On Friday, April 12, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Moritz Schubotz wrote: Hi, after updateing my vgrant folder via git deleting the oracle vm folder and recreating the vm I have two issues 1) there is no database wiki; only test without tables. 2) if I log in I get the following message -bash:

Re: [Wikitech-l] vagrant issues

2013-04-12 Thread Moritz Schubotz
Sure. I didn't want to have the data back. My itention was to get a fresh database, afer deleting and recreating the vm. Best Moritz On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Friday, April 12, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Moritz Schubotz wrote: Hi, after updateing

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: suggestions regarding my proposals for gsoc and outreach program

2013-04-12 Thread Richa Jain
Hi, i have written a rough draft for my proposal to outreach program and gsoc and need your suggestions regarding this. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rjain/Gsoc-Prototyping-inline-comments . Thank you. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: suggestions regarding my proposals for gsoc and outreach program

2013-04-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 04/12/2013 10:42 AM, Richa Jain wrote: Hi, i have written a rough draft for my proposal to outreach program and gsoc and need your suggestions regarding this. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rjain/Gsoc-Prototyping-inline-comments . Thank you. Richa Jain, thanks for sending around this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jenkins/Zuul scheduled maintenance on Friday

2013-04-12 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 10/04/13 00:34, Antoine Musso a écrit : On Friday April 12th at 13:00GMT the Wikimedia operations team is going to add two SSD disks on the gallium server. The downtime is expected to last up to two hours. Plan of action: - server is bought down and disks are added, server restarted

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: suggestions regarding my proposals for gsoc and outreach program

2013-04-12 Thread Raylton P. Sousa
But Sumana... If this is integrated into the visual editor... Maybe it can serve as something similar to Inline cleanup templates[1]. No? [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Inline_cleanup_templates 2013/4/12 Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org On 04/12/2013 10:42 AM, Richa Jain

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: suggestions regarding my proposals for gsoc and outreach program

2013-04-12 Thread Quim Gil
On 04/12/2013 08:02 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: On 04/12/2013 10:42 AM, Richa Jain wrote: Hi, i have written a rough draft for my proposal to outreach program and gsoc and need your suggestions regarding this. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rjain/Gsoc-Prototyping-inline-comments .

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: suggestions regarding my proposals for gsoc and outreach program

2013-04-12 Thread Waldir Pimenta
Hi Richa. Your project seems interesting. I wonder if you have already heard of hypothes.is: http://hypothes.is/what-is-it It seems quite similar to what you're proposing, and they have conducted a very detailed study of previous projects:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clicktracking being phased out

2013-04-12 Thread Yury Katkov
Hi everyone! Aren't you too quick about this phasing out thing? First of all the term is pretty weird - if the current maintainer don't want to support the extension anymore we use [[Template:Unmaintained_extension]] and ideally search for new maintainer don't we? The fact that the maintainer is

[Wikitech-l] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

2013-04-12 Thread georgepeter
We are researchers from different parts of the world and conducted a study on the world’s biggest bogus computer science conference WORLDCOMP ( http://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 ) organized by Prof. Hamid Arabnia from University of Georgia, USA. We submitted a fake paper to WORLDCOMP

Re: [Wikitech-l] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

2013-04-12 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:34 PM, georgepe...@hushmail.com wrote: We are researchers from different parts of the world and conducted a study on the world’s biggest bogus computer science conference WORLDCOMP ( http://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 ) organized by Prof. Hamid Arabnia from

Re: [Wikitech-l] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

2013-04-12 Thread Chad
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:34 PM, georgepe...@hushmail.com wrote: We are researchers from different parts of the world and conducted a study on the world’s biggest bogus computer science conference WORLDCOMP (

[Wikitech-l] WMF Deployment Highlights - Week of April 15th

2013-04-12 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Hello and welcome to your latest edition of the WMF Weekly Deployment Highlights! It's a fairly standard week other than the following: - Monday: 1.22wmf2 to the usual first places (test, test2, mediawiki.org) - Tuesday: re-enable AFTv5 on enwiki - Wednesday: Migration of master dbs for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clicktracking being phased out

2013-04-12 Thread Ryan Lane
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Yury Katkov katkov.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone! Aren't you too quick about this phasing out thing? First of all the term is pretty weird - if the current maintainer don't want to support the extension anymore we use [[Template:Unmaintained_extension]]

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clicktracking being phased out

2013-04-12 Thread Yury Katkov
ha-ha, that sounds very innocently. :D Yes, it's one of the dependencies of ArticleFeedback. By the way, I think this project is a-we-so-me because it allows you to check who use the extension: http://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Extension:Click_Tracking - Yury Katkov, WikiVote On Fri, Apr 12, 2013

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Deployment Highlights - Week of April 15th

2013-04-12 Thread Greg Grossmeier
quote name=Greg Grossmeier date=2013-04-12 time=11:22:48 -0700 - Monday: 1.22wmf2 to the usual first places (test, test2, mediawiki.org) One other thing for Monday: There has been downtime almost nightly lately that is being caused by the internationalization cache updates. See this bug:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clicktracking being phased out

2013-04-12 Thread FastLizard4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [replies inline with quoted message(s)] On 4/12/2013 5:03 AM, Brian Wolff wrote: [...snip...] For the record, if anyone ever uses blink (or the equivalent code that actually gets through Sanitizer.php) on MW.org, a unicorn kills a kitten :P

[Wikitech-l] Pre-Release Announcement for MediaWiki 1.19.5 and 1.20.4

2013-04-12 Thread Chris Steipp
This is a notice that on Monday, April 15th between 20:00-21:00 UTC (1-2pm PDT) Wikimedia Foundation will release security updates for current and supported branches of the MediaWiki software. Downloads and patches will be available at that time, with the git repositories updated later that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project Idea for GSoC 2013 - Bayesian Spam Filter

2013-04-12 Thread Platonides
On 09/04/13 18:20, Quim Gil wrote: Hi Anubhav, I have done a first reality check with Chris Steipp, who oversees the area of security and also spam prevention. Your idea is interesting and it seems to be feasible. This is a very good first step! It would require adding a hook to MediaWiki

[Wikitech-l] Rollout plan for removing X-Device variance for mobile page HTML

2013-04-12 Thread Arthur Richards
The mobile team has been working on some significant performance improvements. One of the trickier yet hopefully most rewarding improvement is to remove the need to vary the mobile varnish cache by X-Device header for regular page HTML. Updated code is already live in production[1], however until

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project Idea for GSoC 2013 - Bayesian Spam Filter

2013-04-12 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2013-04-12 7:33 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/04/13 18:20, Quim Gil wrote: Hi Anubhav, I have done a first reality check with Chris Steipp, who oversees the area of security and also spam prevention. Your idea is interesting and it seems to be feasible. This is a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clicktracking being phased out

2013-04-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 5:46 AM, FastLizard4 fastliza...@gmail.com wrote: I thought we weren't supposed to use blink tags because they attracted Weeping Angels. :P That which holds the image of a angel... ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clicktracking being phased out

2013-04-12 Thread S Page
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Yury Katkov katkov.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, [ClickTracking] is one of the dependencies of ArticleFeedback. Note the latest version of AFT drops the dependency. Earlier versions of AFT (and AFTv5, WikiLove, the Vector extension, and a few others) have