Re: [Wikitech-l] Project idea

2013-07-11 Thread Steven Walling
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > "Chromebooks have in just the past eight months snagged 20 percent to 25 > percent of the U.S. market for laptops that cost less than $300..."[1] > > I have no idea how many pageviews we get coming from ChromeOS devices, and > I suspect it's

[Wikitech-l] Project idea

2013-07-11 Thread Steven Walling
"Chromebooks have in just the past eight months snagged 20 percent to 25 percent of the U.S. market for laptops that cost less than $300..."[1] I have no idea how many pageviews we get coming from ChromeOS devices, and I suspect it's hard to differentiate from regular Chrome visits on other system

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: C. Scott Ananian joins Wikimedia as Senior Features Engineer

2013-07-11 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, Welcome to community the Scott! Looks like we are one good engineer stronger now :) Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. ~=[,,_,,]:3 -- ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.w

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: C. Scott Ananian joins Wikimedia as Senior Features Engineer

2013-07-11 Thread S Page
Nell + OLPC/Litl nth-gen + (Wikipedia + WikiBooks) + WP:Zero = the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer: a Propædeutic Enchiridion for us thetes! ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age ) Welcome C. Scott and thanks for all your past, present, and future contributions. -- =S Page software

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: C. Scott Ananian joins Wikimedia as Senior Features Engineer

2013-07-11 Thread Gabriel Wicke
Welcome back to the team, C. Scott! With you on board we'll make much more progress with our secret mission of converting MediaWiki to HTML5 ;) Gabriel On 07/11/2013 03:24 PM, Terry Chay wrote: > Hello everyone, > > It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that C. Scott Ananian[1] > has joi

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: C. Scott Ananian joins Wikimedia as Senior Features Engineer

2013-07-11 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Terry Chay wrote: > Hello everyone, > > It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that C. Scott Ananian[1] has > joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer. > Welcome! I'm excited to hear you're officially with us now. Roan

[Wikitech-l] Announcement: C. Scott Ananian joins Wikimedia as Senior Features Engineer

2013-07-11 Thread Myles Gray
Congratulations, C. Scott! Welcome aboard! On Thursday, July 11, 2013, Tomasz Finc wrote: > Excellent. Glad to see you joined C. Scott. > > --tomasz > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Terry Chay wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that C. Scott Anani

Re: [Wikitech-l] mod_pagespeed and MediaWiki

2013-07-11 Thread Max Semenik
On 12.07.2013, 1:26 Tyler wrote: > Found this article today on Google's mod_pagespeed: > http://techportal.inviqa.com/2013/07/11/speedy-sites-with-apache-and-mod_pagespeed/ > Have we ever tried testing MediaWiki against mod_pagespeed? It might be > pretty useful considering it automatically handl

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: C. Scott Ananian joins Wikimedia as Senior Features Engineer

2013-07-11 Thread phoebe ayers
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Terry Chay wrote: > > Scott lives and works in Cambridge, MA[5]. He is a square dancer[6] and > theatrical lighting designer. I have it on good word that he’s a demon on > MIT Mystery Hunt [7]—not sure if he’s on the same team as our Board Members > or not [8], bu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving a page to a category page.

2013-07-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
Soon...https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/65176 *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: > On 7/11/13, Beebe, Mary J wrote: > > We would like to make

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving a page to a category page.

2013-07-11 Thread Brian Wolff
On 7/11/13, Beebe, Mary J wrote: > We would like to make pages into category pages. If we try to move a page > to a category namespace it will not let us. Is there a configuration > variable to do that? > > Thanks, > Mary > > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailin

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: C. Scott Ananian joins Wikimedia as Senior Features Engineer

2013-07-11 Thread Tomasz Finc
Excellent. Glad to see you joined C. Scott. --tomasz On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Terry Chay wrote: > Hello everyone, > > It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that C. Scott Ananian[1] has > joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer. > > Before joining us, Scott was Direc

[Wikitech-l] Announcement: C. Scott Ananian joins Wikimedia as Senior Features Engineer

2013-07-11 Thread Terry Chay
Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that C. Scott Ananian[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer. Before joining us, Scott was Director of New Technologies at One Laptop per Child where he, among other things, worked on Nell, a platform to allow

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adding to the skin toolbox

2013-07-11 Thread Beebe, Mary J
That makes sense. I was trying to do it the hard way. Thanks Daniel, Mary -Original Message- From: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Friesen Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 5:53 PM To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.o

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adding to the skin toolbox

2013-07-11 Thread Daniel Friesen
BaseTemplateToolbox is the cleanest hook to use. There's also SkinTemplateToolboxEnd which is hideous but existed before BaseTemplate. So ideally use BaseTemplateToolbox, unless you happen to have an ancient pre-BaseTemplate skin that's still hardcoding the toolbox. https://www.mediawiki.or

[Wikitech-l] Adding to the skin toolbox

2013-07-11 Thread Beebe, Mary J
I am using the Vector skin. I have an extension very similar to whatlinkshere. It needs to take the current page as the parameter just like whatlinkshere. I would like to add it to the toolbox, but actually I do not care where it is in the navigation but the toolbox seems the most logical. We

[Wikitech-l] Moving a page to a category page.

2013-07-11 Thread Beebe, Mary J
We would like to make pages into category pages. If we try to move a page to a category namespace it will not let us. Is there a configuration variable to do that? Thanks, Mary ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lis

Re: [Wikitech-l] mod_pagespeed and MediaWiki

2013-07-11 Thread David Gerard
On 11 July 2013 22:26, Tyler Romeo wrote: > Found this article today on Google's mod_pagespeed: > http://techportal.inviqa.com/2013/07/11/speedy-sites-with-apache-and-mod_pagespeed/ > Have we ever tried testing MediaWiki against mod_pagespeed? It might be > pretty useful considering it automatica

[Wikitech-l] mod_pagespeed and MediaWiki

2013-07-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
Found this article today on Google's mod_pagespeed: http://techportal.inviqa.com/2013/07/11/speedy-sites-with-apache-and-mod_pagespeed/ Have we ever tried testing MediaWiki against mod_pagespeed? It might be pretty useful considering it automatically handles JS/CSS/HTML/image minimization and doma

[Wikitech-l] Browser test automation workshop on July 18

2013-07-11 Thread Quim Gil
We are running a 100% online version of the browser test automation workshop with Cucumber we held recently in San Francisco: Thursday, July 18, 16:00 UTC Etherpad - IRC - Hangout More details and time zone conversion: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2013-07-18 If you plan to come, pl

[Wikitech-l] request for help: JS userscript that uses MW edit API

2013-07-11 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#The_Wikipedia_Adventure.2C_Help_Wanted:_an_automatic_edit_button_script Jake (User:Ocaasi) needs some help and has written up a spec -- I include part of it here: Background: The Wikipedia Adventure (TWA) is an onboarding game--a gu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please identify your Wikimedia handles

2013-07-11 Thread Quim Gil
On 07/11/2013 03:41 PM, Derric Atzrott wrote: Additionally, not everyone who uses the Mailing list and associated items that are asked about on the Google Form has a Wikitech account. I, for instance, don't have a Wikitech account, but do contribute to the Mailing list whenever I feel I can (and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please identify your Wikimedia handles

2013-07-11 Thread Derric Atzrott
>>> PS: why a Google form and not something better? See >>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51050 :) >> >> That page does not mention anything of the sort. > >True, strictly speaking. Let me explain: > >Ideally this information would be defined by Wikimedia contributors >through th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please identify your Wikimedia handles

2013-07-11 Thread Quim Gil
On 07/11/2013 02:48 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: * Quim Gil wrote: PS: why a Google form and not something better? See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51050 :) That page does not mention anything of the sort. True, strictly speaking. Let me explain: Ideally this information w

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please identify your Wikimedia handlers

2013-07-11 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Quim Gil wrote: >PS: why a Google form and not something better? See >https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51050 :) That page does not mention anything of the sort. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjo...@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/441568

[Wikitech-l] Please identify your Wikimedia handlers

2013-07-11 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, We are working on better community metrics at http://korma.wmflabs.org/ - pulling from different sources. If you are contributing via Git/Gerrit, Bugzilla, IRC or mailing lists like this one please help us identifying your multiple handlers at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RFUa2zBAOol