Re: [Wikitech-l] JobQueue on Redis initial test deploy today

Hiya MZ, > > I looked at your original e-mail and this e-mail, but I'm still not sure > what Redis is or how it relates to the MediaWiki job queue. I looked for > more information at [snip lots of places] > Are there docs somewhere for those interested? (Apologies if docs have > been posted to

[Wikitech-l] Survey: best times for volunteering

Hi, please find 5 minutes for this survey: http://www.doodle.com/minqnd6ngz9npfdv In an *average* week, when are you more available to volunteer a couple of hours? Multiple choices are good. No registration required. VERY IMPORTANT: select your timezone! Deadline: end of Sunday, May 21. We

Re: [Wikitech-l] JobQueue on Redis initial test deploy today

On Monday, April 15, 2013 at 7:02 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > (H. Just before hitting send, I thought to check mediawiki.org > (http://mediawiki.org). There > are some notes at , but I'm not sure > if these relate to Redis/MediaWiki generally or Wikimedia wikis

Re: [Wikitech-l] JobQueue on Redis initial test deploy today

Greg Grossmeier wrote: > >> If all goes well with the testing, we should be able to switch over >> fully by this coming Monday. > >All went well, we're now fully on Redis. > >You can rejoice now. Hi Greg. I looked at your original e-mail and this e-mail, but I'm still not sure what Redis is or ho

Re: [Wikitech-l] What needs fixing re LevelUp; complain till Apr 16

20%, LevelUp and (I believe) whatever model comes after are victims of collateral damage caused by a root problem: lack of time, lower priority. Are we paid by the Wikimedia community to maintain an infrastructure and deliver specific features at specific times? Or are we paid to build and mai

Re: [Wikitech-l] emails in html or in nicely formatted plain text?

On 04/14/2013 02:04 PM, Yury Katkov wrote: > Hi everyone! > > Is there a way to configure email notifications and emails so that the > users of the wiki receive emails in html format? Or in text format > without wiki-markup. I haven't found any extension that can do that. This is planned for the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interested in contributing to jQuery.IME

On 04/15/2013 12:30 PM, Gaurav Chawla wrote: I need to know, whether the projects can overlap, like two students submiting proposal for the same project?? > I am working on the proposal for the same project that Kaushal mentioned (extensions for jQuery.IME), so can we both give proposals for th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

On 04/15/2013 11:32 AM, Željko Filipin wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:00 AM, reporter wrote: MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for April 08, 2013 - April 15, 2013 Fresh charts are waiting for you at the usual place: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla_Weekly_Report 9996 open issues, from whi

Re: [Wikitech-l] JobQueue on Redis initial test deploy today

> If all goes well with the testing, we should be able to switch over > fully by this coming Monday. All went well, we're now fully on Redis. You can rejoice now. Greg -- | Greg GrossmeierGPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @gregA18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikivoyage and Universal Language Selector

On 15/04/13 21:40, ro...@rogerchrisman.com wrote: > Hi, > > What is the best way to install, modify and configure the Universal > Language Selector extension so that I can see how it might work with > Wikivoyage? > > I created an account at > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rogerhc but i

[Wikitech-l] Database Maintenance - Wednesday April 17th @ 18:00 UTC

There is scheduled database maintenance on Wednesday April 17th from 18:00 - 20:00 UTC (11am - 1pm Pacific) for Wikidata and the English and German Wikipedias. During this window there may be brief (30 seconds - 2 minutes) moments where affected wikis are read-only. The purpose for the maintenance

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Security Release: 1.20.4 and 1.19.5

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.20.4 and 1.19.5. These releases fix 3 security related bugs that could affect users of MediaWiki. Download links are given at the end of this email. * An internal review discovered that specially crafted Lua function names could lead to XSS.

[Wikitech-l] Wikivoyage and Universal Language Selector

Hi, What is the best way to install, modify and configure the Universal Language Selector extension so that I can see how it might work with Wikivoyage? I created an account at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rogerhc but it is not clear to me what my next step should be towards above sta

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interested in contributing to jQuery.IME

Hi Quim, I need to know, whether the projects can overlap, like two students submiting proposal for the same project?? I am working on the proposal for the same project that Kaushal mentioned (extensions for jQuery.IME), so can we both give proposals for the same project? Regards Gaurav ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pushing Technical changes to Wikimedia projects

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Brad Jorsch wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Martijn Hoekstra > wrote: > > In other words, all discussion is welcome, with or without proto, but > don't > > expect final community buy in before we have been able to toy around with > > it. > > And even th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:00 AM, reporter wrote: > MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for April 08, 2013 - April 15, 2013 Fresh charts are waiting for you at the usual place: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla_Weekly_Report Željko ___ Wikitech-l mailing l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Starter kit ?

Hello Mathieu, welcome! These days we are getting many new potential contributors thanks to Google Summer of Code and Outreach Program for Women. We want to know what can we do better for you! On 04/13/2013 07:45 AM, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaW

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pushing Technical changes to Wikimedia projects

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Martijn Hoekstra wrote: > In other words, all discussion is welcome, with or without proto, but don't > expect final community buy in before we have been able to toy around with > it. And even then, some people will ignore the prototype and then complain anyway wh

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interested in contributing to jQuery.IME

Hello Kaushal, welcome! On 04/15/2013 09:28 AM, KAUSHAL SINGH wrote: I would like to work on idea of Extension/Plugin development for web Browsers and confidently submit an improvement proposal. If you are interested in http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#jQuer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gadget-Reviews

On 04/15/2013 07:13 AM, Brad Jorsch wrote: The situation may improve somewhat when we finally get around to creating the "central code repository" that has been on the back burner for some time now Is there a wiki page / Bugzilla enhancement request about this project somewhere? Sounds like a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pushing Technical changes to Wikimedia projects

On Apr 15, 2013 5:06 PM, "Denny Vrandečić" wrote: > > One problem is that the necessity to link to a working test environment > does not allow to develop ideas with the community before they are > implemented. Nobody is asking of you to have a testable with every idea you bounce of the mailinglis

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gadget-Reviews

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Brad Jorsch wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Lukas Benedix > wrote: >> I can't find any rules like this for Gadgets, but I see lot's of Gadgets set >> default in several Wikis. I think Gadgets can be designed badly and have >> security flaws as well as Ex

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

On 04/14/2013 06:34 AM, anubhav agarwal wrote: Hey Quim, Thanks for such a detailed response. Sorry for being inactive for these few days, I was undergoing some coursework evaluations. I hope they went well. First things first! You have some homework to do here as well. It is time to start dr

[Wikitech-l] Interested in contributing to jQuery.IME

Hello, I am Kaushal, a student at the Indian Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi (B.Tech. 2014), in Electronics and Computer. I am experienced using Javascript/jQuery, PHP, HTML/5 and am a Web Application Development enthusiast. I came to know about Wikimedia via GSoC 2013 accepted organizati

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

On 14/04/13 15:41, anubhav agarwal wrote: > I don't we could take in account the roll back for automated learning. It > is not necessary that the person who edited the document, then rolled it > back did because it was a spam. Getting the right data to train from is hard, since wiki is so flexible

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pushing Technical changes to Wikimedia projects

Those are very good points, both of them. Thanks. 2013/4/9 Matthew Flaschen > On 04/09/2013 12:18 PM, Denny Vrandečić wrote: > > I thought that in order to discuss these design decisions with the > > community before hand, telling them on their respective village pump is > > sufficient. Not so

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pushing Technical changes to Wikimedia projects

One problem is that the necessity to link to a working test environment does not allow to develop ideas with the community before they are implemented. 2013/4/9 Amir E. Aharoni > 2013/4/9 Steven Walling : > > One system that I find a lot of potential value in is the Wikitech > > Ambassadors mai

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problems with file deletion on Commons

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Eugene Zelenko wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to bring to attention of developers and system administrators > problems with file deletion on Commons: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Daily_DR_issue > > Sorry, if it's known iss

[Wikitech-l] Problems with file deletion on Commons

Hi! I'd like to bring to attention of developers and system administrators problems with file deletion on Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Daily_DR_issue Sorry, if it's known issue, but it persist for several days and definitely affects administrat

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gadget-Reviews

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Lukas Benedix wrote: > I can't find any rules like this for Gadgets, but I see lot's of Gadgets set > default in several Wikis. I think Gadgets can be designed badly and have > security flaws as well as Extensions… so there shouldn't there exists some > review proc

[Wikitech-l] Reminder: Next bugday: Apr 15, 16:00-20:00UTC on old reports without updates for 18 months

back. > Join IRC, say hello and that you're here for the bugday, and have fun. > > This information and more can be found here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/20130415 > > For more information on Triaging in general, check out > https://www.mediawi

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

(Sorry for late reply, I was traveling and only had scarce Internet connection.) On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:21:27 +0200, Daniel Friesen wrote: This sounds like a really ugly and hacky way to handle this issue. A little, sadly. But it will *work*, unlike what we have right now. This is somethi

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

(Sorry for late reply, I was traveling and only had scarce Internet connection.) On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:25:06 +0200, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: "The timestamp would be updated manually by whoever is making those changes" -- could we introduce some clever automation to propose an update every

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gadget-Reviews

On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:48:31 +0200, Lukas Benedix wrote: I fully agree on that. There are to many Gadgets to review all of them, but I think there should be a design- and codereview at least before a Gadget is set to default. I think this is at the discretion of the admins of whatever wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gadget-Reviews

Am Mo 15.04.2013 13:38, schrieb Bartosz Dziewoński: On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:31:13 +0200, Lukas Benedix wrote: I can't find any rules like this for Gadgets, but I see lot's of Gadgets set default in several Wikis. I think Gadgets can be designed badly and have security flaws as well as Extensio

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gadget-Reviews

On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:31:13 +0200, Lukas Benedix wrote: I can't find any rules like this for Gadgets, but I see lot's of Gadgets set default in several Wikis. I think Gadgets can be designed badly and have security flaws as well as Extensions… so there shouldn't there exists some review proce

[Wikitech-l] Gadget-Reviews

Hi, Is there any written policy about the review-process for Gadgets? For Extensions I found a document, that says an Extension should: get a design review, be internationalized, get a code review and finally get a deployment review. [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_an_extension_for_de

Re: [Wikitech-l] Scribunto REPL (debug console)

Le 2013-04-15 10:09, Yuvi Panda a écrit : I wrote a small little tool ages ago to help with Gadget development: http://github.com/yuvipanda/mwuppet It lets me write on Vim and push to the wiki whenever I want. I've the following line in my .vimrc that makes this simple: command Mw :w | :! mw

Re: [Wikitech-l] Scribunto REPL (debug console)

Le 15/04/13 09:53, Mathieu Stumpf a écrit : > > It may me think, it would be nice to be able to develop on desktop and > push the code when ready. I heard that git enable to add "porceleins" to > extend what it manage. Did anyone already thought about a "gid mw" to > interacte with a mediawiki art

Re: [Wikitech-l] Scribunto REPL (debug console)

I wrote a small little tool ages ago to help with Gadget development: http://github.com/yuvipanda/mwuppet It lets me write on Vim and push to the wiki whenever I want. I've the following line in my .vimrc that makes this simple: command Mw :w | :! mwuppet % I'm sure this can be extended easily

Re: [Wikitech-l] Scribunto REPL (debug console)

Le 2013-04-14 12:25, Ori Livneh a écrit : Small Python script to run an interactive Scribunto session in your terminal, using Scribunto's API module: https://gist.github.com/atdt/5382043/raw/d083ff757066200728c0b50992ab6c7bb108acb1/scribunto-repl.py :) Thanks, It may me think, it would be