Re: [Wikitech-l] Australia (was Re: conferences, Hacker School, Code for America)

2013-07-19 Thread Quim Gil
On 07/06/2013 04:30 PM, Quim Gil wrote: On 07/03/2013 09:22 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: The linux.conf.au call for talks closes July 6th, *Australian time*. http://linux.conf.au/media/news/1 CFP Extension Announced linux.conf.au 2014 - linux.conf.au !!! Now it's July 20. http://linux.conf.

[Wikitech-l] Bugzilla: Tips and Best Practices

2013-07-19 Thread Andre Klapper
This is a reminder that I've been regularly blogging about small & not so easy to discover functionality in Wikimedia's bugtracker located at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org . Today's blogpost is about creating reports and tables in Bugzilla to get a better overview of the bug reports that you are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Australia (was Re: conferences, Hacker School, Code for America)

2013-07-19 Thread Luis Villa
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > > > I went to (and presented at) linux.conf.au in 2012, and I had an > awesome time. The quality of the talks and the number of high-quality > talks is amazing. I highly recommend it. Historically they also treat speakers *really* well. The

Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for Comments: New Search

2013-07-19 Thread Nikolas Everett
Everyone, I'm reviving this old thread to update everyone on the status of the RFC: We've continued working on implementation and everything seems to be proceeding smoothly. We evaluated Elasticsearch and were super impressed and decided it was very likely to be worth switching from Solr4 to it.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Australia (was Re: conferences, Hacker School, Code for America)

2013-07-19 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Quim Gil wrote: >> CFP Extension Announced linux.conf.au 2014 - linux.conf.au !!! >> Now it's July 20. >> http://linux.conf.au/media/news/27 > > > ... and this is tomorrow. > Beware that because of Australia's far-east timezone, it's already tomorrow there :) Roan

[Wikitech-l] CSS: Make hlist class part of MediaWiki core

2013-07-19 Thread Jon Robson
One of the things mobile did early on in its lifetime was turn off all modules by default to give modules the opportunity to sort out their JavaScript/design (mostly the latter) to be mobile optimised and turn themselves on. The result of this is various pages are badly styled on mobile as their s

Re: [Wikitech-l] CSS: Make hlist class part of MediaWiki core

2013-07-19 Thread MZMcBride
Jon Robson wrote: >Note that said I know that .hlist has more meaning in various projects - >it also introduces additional styling changes such as dots between lists >in certain contexts. That said I think we should be striving to reuse as >much as possible - and this to me suggests that the commun

Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for Comments: New Search

2013-07-19 Thread C. Scott Ananian
I wonder if there are queries or use cases we can support that *aren't* already better handled by google. Granted, users of private wikis can't simply use the 'site:' trick to reuse Google search results -- but users of private wikis also probably don't need superduper scalability. Trying to brai

[Wikitech-l] Git config trick.

2013-07-19 Thread Ori Livneh
In ~/.gitconfig, add: [url "ssh://your_usern...@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/extensions/"] insteadOf = "ext:" Now you can: git clone ext:UploadWizard ! --- Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimed

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki extensions as core-like libraries: MediaWiki's fun new landmine for admins

2013-07-19 Thread C. Scott Ananian
It might also be worth going a "wikibase" release (on its own schedule or else scheduled shortly after each MW release), that contains a particular MW version along with version of the extensions that have been tested to work with it. This is the usual way in which these sorts of dependency chains

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki extensions as core-like libraries: MediaWiki's fun new landmine for admins

2013-07-19 Thread Ryan Lane
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:20 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > It might also be worth going a "wikibase" release (on its own schedule or > else scheduled shortly after each MW release), that contains a particular > MW version along with version of the extensions that have been tested to > work with i

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki extensions as core-like libraries: MediaWiki's fun new landmine for admins

2013-07-19 Thread Ryan Lane
I attempted to install Wikibase the other day and made a fun discovery. Installing it properly requires the following (12) extensions: WikibaseClient Wikibase DataModel WikibaseLib Wikibase Repository DataValues DataTypes ValueParsers ValueView ValueValidators ValueFormatters Diff Scribunto And t

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 120, Issue 53

2013-07-19 Thread Edmund
unsubscribe me On 19 July 2013 19:10, wrote: > Send Wikitech-l mailing list submissions to > wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > or, via email, send a message wit

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git config trick.

2013-07-19 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote: > This is one of the most useful things I've ever learned. Thanks! > It's close, but the '-p' option to just-about-every-git-command still wins the "most useful" prize. But close! I'll suggest a little variant: [url "https://gerrit.wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 120, Issue 54

2013-07-19 Thread Edmund
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 120, Issue 54

2013-07-19 Thread Edmund
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Git config trick.

2013-07-19 Thread Tyler Romeo
This is one of the most useful things I've ever learned. Thanks! *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: > In ~/.gitconfig, add: > > [url "ssh://y

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git config trick.

2013-07-19 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Ori Livneh wrote: > In ~/.gitconfig, add: > > [url "ssh://your_usern...@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/extensions/"] > insteadOf = "ext:" > > Now you can: > > git clone ext:UploadWizard > > ! > "!" indeed. Sweet trick, dude, thanks! Roan __

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki extensions as core-like libraries: MediaWiki's fun new landmine for admins

2013-07-19 Thread Tyler Romeo
Man, if only PHP had some sort of dependency management system. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: > Hey, > > What if you want to use

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki extensions as core-like libraries: MediaWiki's fun new landmine for admins

2013-07-19 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, What if you want to use wikibase 1.23 and MyAbominationExtension 1.5 that > requires an incompatible version of DataValues and MyAwesomeExtension 1.0 > that requires an incompatible version of ValueView? > If you have releases of certain software that have requirements that cannot satisfied

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 120, Issue 54

2013-07-19 Thread Derric Atzrott
Give them time Edmund. Alternatively, you can go to the following URL and remove yourself. https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l Thank you, Derric Atzrott -Original Message- From: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org]

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki extensions as core-like libraries: MediaWiki's fun new landmine for admins

2013-07-19 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 07/19/2013 02:46 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote: > Man, if only PHP had some sort of dependency management system. The real question is: why doesn't MediaWiki use Composer? http://getcomposer.org/download/ We've discussed this here before, though, so it really isn't anything more than a rhetorical ques

Re: [Wikitech-l] CSS: Make hlist class part of MediaWiki core

2013-07-19 Thread Jon Robson
Done: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51692 Just also noticed LiquidThreads would look a lot nicer on mobile if it made use of it! :) On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Jon Robson wrote: > One of the things mobile did early on in its lifetime was turn off all > modules by default t

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki extensions as core-like libraries: MediaWiki's fun new landmine for admins

2013-07-19 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Ryan Lane wrote: > What if you want to use wikibase 1.23 and MyAbominationExtension 1.5 that > requires an incompatible version of DataValues and MyAwesomeExtension 1.0 > that requires an incompatible version of ValueView? > You file a bug report against MyAbomin

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki extensions as core-like libraries: MediaWiki's fun new landmine for admins

2013-07-19 Thread Ryan Lane
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: > Hey, > > What if you want to use wikibase 1.23 and MyAbominationExtension 1.5 that > > requires an incompatible version of DataValues and MyAwesomeExtension 1.0 > > that requires an incompatible version of ValueView? > > > > If you have rel

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git config trick.

2013-07-19 Thread Paul Selitskas
Father of God^WGit. Thanks, works like a charm! On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: > In ~/.gitconfig, add: > > [url "ssh://your_usern...@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/extensions/ > "] > insteadOf = "ext:" > > Now you can: > > git clone ext:UploadWizard > > ! > > --- >

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki extensions as core-like libraries: MediaWiki's fun new landmine for admins

2013-07-19 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > The real question is: why doesn't MediaWiki use Composer? > http://getcomposer.org/download/ > > We've discussed this here before, though, so it really isn't anything > more than a rhetorical question. > > Ryan's post just shows us, onc

[Wikitech-l] Alternative editor?

2013-07-19 Thread Derric Atzrott
Good day, Now I finally do have a question that might make some sense. I'm attempting to replace the editor for Mediawiki for certain pages. Are there any examples of how to use the AlternateEdit hook beyond looking at the code for Mediawiki itself? Are there any extensions that make use of

[Wikitech-l] basic regressions dashboard

2013-07-19 Thread Antoine Musso
Hello, Jenkins has a few jobs that only triggers after a commit has been merged in. That is a nice way to track a regression introduced in a project. It is a bit hard to find the jobs in the myriad of them so I have created a very basic dashboard on the CI website: https://integration.wikimed

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki extensions as core-like libraries: MediaWiki's fun new landmine for admins

2013-07-19 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 19/07/13 22:28, Tyler Romeo a écrit : > From what Antoine found out from the composer people, basically what we'll > have to do to make MW use Composer is that we need to separate the entry > points from the backend classes (in other words, put everything except > index.php, api.php, etc. in one

[Wikitech-l] Authnz System RFC

2013-07-19 Thread Tyler Romeo
Hey all, I'd much appreciate it if you could take a look at an RFC I wrote: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/AuthStack The RFC is for a complete re-design of MediaWiki's authentication and authorization system, and involves the rewrite of SpecialUserlogin, SpecialChangePassword,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 120, Issue 54

2013-07-19 Thread Ryan Lane
Also, email filters are your friend. Make a temporary one to move this list's mails to your trash until you are removed. On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Derric Atzrott < datzr...@alizeepathology.com> wrote: > Give them time Edmund. > > Alternatively, you can go to the following URL and remove

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git config trick.

2013-07-19 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 19/07/13 19:40, Ori Livneh a écrit : > In ~/.gitconfig, add: > > [url "ssh://your_usern...@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/extensions/"] > insteadOf = "ext:" > > Now you can: > > git clone ext:UploadWizard Oh my god I should read the doc. Tip variant: [url "ssh://gerrit.wikimedia.

[Wikitech-l] Goodbye gerrit-wm, welcome lolrrit-wm!

2013-07-19 Thread Yuvi Panda
(The bot is temporarily being called lolrrit-wm instead of gerrit-wm until we get some issues fixed. lolrrit-wm is not a permanent nick for the bot!) Hello! The old gerrit-wm was a bunch of python scripts running as hooks in the production cluster, which were hacky and not too well maintained. Cha

Re: [Wikitech-l] Goodbye gerrit-wm, welcome lolrrit-wm!

2013-07-19 Thread Ryan Lane
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Yuvi Panda wrote: > (The bot is temporarily being called lolrrit-wm instead of gerrit-wm > until we get some issues fixed. lolrrit-wm is not a permanent nick for > the bot!) > > Hello! The old gerrit-wm was a bunch of python scripts running as > hooks in the produ