Re: [Wikitech-l] Gitblit down?

2013-07-23 Thread Chad
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:01 PM, K. Peachey wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Chad wrote: > > Things should be much better since this afternoon. > > > > You gave into the server kittehs demands for fresher tuna? > > I blocked silly Chinese and Korean web spiders that don't know how to b

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gitblit down?

2013-07-23 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Chad wrote: > Things should be much better since this afternoon. > You gave into the server kittehs demands for fresher tuna? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailma

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gitblit down?

2013-07-23 Thread Chad
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 15:28 -0400, Derric Atzrott wrote: > > Anyone else having issues getting at Gitblit? I've not been able to get > at it > > for the past half hour or so. > > It's intermittent but happens quite often for the last days:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Tim Starling
I wrote: > I think users should be encouraged to use VE by making VE really > awesome, and by promoting its awesomeness, rather than by trying to > trick them into using it. To clarify: I didn't mean to imply that the VE team were trying to trick users. They are not. I just mean that if you consid

Re: [Wikitech-l] Page view stats failure

2013-07-23 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Jul 24, 2013 12:43 AM, "Ikuya Yamada" wrote: > It seems that the page view statistics data does not contain the > actual data for the last few hours. > > http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/2013/2013-07/ > > Are there any failures on the server-side? Just looking at file sizes I ca

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > I know that this crafty UI was introduced to encourage users to use > the new editor. The trouble is, this assumes that users have no idea > which editor they want to use, and thus will happily use whatever > editor the JS can trick them into

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gitblit down?

2013-07-23 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 15:28 -0400, Derric Atzrott wrote: > Anyone else having issues getting at Gitblit? I've not been able to get at it > for the past half hour or so. It's intermittent but happens quite often for the last days: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51769 andre -- And

[Wikitech-l] Page view stats failure

2013-07-23 Thread Ikuya Yamada
Hello, It seems that the page view statistics data does not contain the actual data for the last few hours. http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/2013/2013-07/ Are there any failures on the server-side? Thanks, Ikuya ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Rob Moen
My apologies for the ham handed email.  I'm supportive of the opt out feature while ve is in beta.  Going forward I agree with the notion that experienced editors know what editor they want to use before the page completely loads.  I like the idea of a preference to select a default editor.  — S

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Rob Moen
I personally know for a fact nobody is trying to trick the user in this case.   We are simply trying to make editing easier for new editors without confusing them.  As a membwr f the visual editor team, I'm supportive of our advanced and seemingly more important editors opt-out during the beta.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Tim Starling
On 23/07/13 04:36, Erik Moeller wrote: > 1) Section editing behavior - the hybrid link display is mildly > annoying, and doesn't work for touch interfaces; I think it's a bit more than mildly annoying, and I think it's the main reason users are so desperate to disable VE completely instead of simp

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Ori Livneh
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Alex Monk wrote: > I might have missed something, but is there any schedule for when > VisualEditor will be considered 'out of beta'? Not so soon that we couldn't afford to let this thread die down for a bit. ___ Wikit

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:55 PM, James Forrester wrote: > I hope that as few users as possible will > choose this way to degrade their experience and deprive the community of > their input. Instead of endlessly arguing the point about this, I'd rather > my team and I spending our time working to m

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Alex Monk
Thank you for changing your mind. I might have missed something, but is there any schedule for when VisualEditor will be considered 'out of beta'? Or is it simply a case of the VE team deciding that it's stable enough? Alex Monk On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:55 AM, James Forrester wrote: > Because

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread James Forrester
On 22 July 2013 18:35, James Forrester wrote: > On 22 July 2013 11:45, Tyler Romeo wrote: > >> Putting all of the issues aside, I'd like to know what the reason is for >> hiding the preference. Let's assume for a second that VE does not hinder >> users at all, that it's JS footprint is nonexiste

[Wikitech-l] Toss around a project idea in IdeaLab, maybe get a grant?

2013-07-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab IdeaLab is an incubator for people to share ideas to improve Wikimedia projects and collaboratively develop them into plans and grant proposals. I'm cross-posting to the developer and researcher lists because I could imagine some of you following thi

Re: [Wikitech-l] !ask

2013-07-23 Thread MZMcBride
Ori Livneh wrote: >Can we deprecate usage of '!ask' on IRC? > >> ori-l: !ask >> wm-bot: Hi, how can we help you? Just ask your question. > >It's annoying when people ask to ask, but the people who do so do it out >of insecurity or lack of experience, and so they're the last people we >should be sic

Re: [Wikitech-l] Branching Scribunto for 1.19

2013-07-23 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 07/23/2013 12:05 PM, Łukasz Garczewski wrote: > I'd appreciate if you could let me know when the code is available. I branched this. Still have things to work on: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/75142/ -- http://hexmode.com/ Love alone reveals the true shape of the universe. -- "Ev

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE and

2013-07-23 Thread Robert Rohde
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > We disagree on that one then. VisualEditor is meant to hide wikitext > entirely. The primary focus is on people that don't know wikitext. I > agree that we should keep nowiki-fication to a minimum and get rid of > the other bugs that cause th

Re: [Wikitech-l] dirty diffs and VE

2013-07-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:55 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Subramanya Sastry > wrote: > > http://parsoid.wmflabs.org:8001/stats > > > > This is the url for our round trip testing on 160K pages (20K each from 8 > > wikipedias). > > Very minor point .. there are ~40

Re: [Wikitech-l] dirty diffs and VE

2013-07-23 Thread Subramanya Sastry
On 07/23/2013 06:55 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: http://parsoid.wmflabs.org:8001/stats This is the url for our round trip testing on 160K pages (20K each from 8 wikipedias). Very minor point .. there are ~400 missing pages on the list; i

Re: [Wikitech-l] dirty diffs and VE

2013-07-23 Thread John Vandenberg
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: > http://parsoid.wmflabs.org:8001/stats > > This is the url for our round trip testing on 160K pages (20K each from 8 > wikipedias). Very minor point .. there are ~400 missing pages on the list; is that intentional ? ;-) One is 'Mos:time'

Re: [Wikitech-l] dirty diffs and VE

2013-07-23 Thread Subramanya Sastry
On 07/23/2013 06:02 PM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: On 07/23/2013 05:28 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: VE and Parsoid devs have put in a lot and lot of effort to recognize broken wikitext source, fix it or isolate it, My point was that you dont appear to be doing analysis of how of all Wikipedia con

Re: [Wikitech-l] dirty diffs and VE

2013-07-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:24 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > >> Was a regression testsuite built using the issues encountered during >> the last parser rewrite? >> > > Yes, mediawiki/core/tests/parser/parserTests.txt (which predates parsoid) > has been continuously updated throughout the development

Re: [Wikitech-l] dirty diffs and VE

2013-07-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:13 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > > http://parsoid.wmflabs.org:8001/stats > > > > This is the url for our round trip testing on 160K pages (20K each from 8 > > wikipedias). > > Fantastic! How frequently are those tests re-run? Could you add a > last-run-date on that page

Re: [Wikitech-l] dirty diffs and VE

2013-07-23 Thread Subramanya Sastry
On 07/23/2013 06:13 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: On 07/23/2013 05:28 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: Hi John and Risker, First off, I do want to once again clarify that my intention

Re: [Wikitech-l] dirty diffs and VE

2013-07-23 Thread John Vandenberg
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: > On 07/23/2013 05:28 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Subramanya Sastry >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi John and Risker, >>> >>> First off, I do want to once again clarify that my intention in the >>> previous >>> po

Re: [Wikitech-l] dirty diffs and VE

2013-07-23 Thread Subramanya Sastry
On 07/23/2013 05:28 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: Hi John and Risker, First off, I do want to once again clarify that my intention in the previous post was not to claim that VE/Parsoid is perfect. It was more that we've fixed sufficient b

Re: [Wikitech-l] dirty diffs and VE

2013-07-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:28 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Subramanya Sastry > wrote: > > Hi John and Risker, > > > > First off, I do want to once again clarify that my intention in the > previous > > post was not to claim that VE/Parsoid is perfect. It was more

[Wikitech-l] dirty diffs and VE

2013-07-23 Thread John Vandenberg
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: > Hi John and Risker, > > First off, I do want to once again clarify that my intention in the previous > post was not to claim that VE/Parsoid is perfect. It was more that we've > fixed sufficient bugs at this point that the most significa

Re: [Wikitech-l] !ask

2013-07-23 Thread Chad
[14:54] <^demon> !ask del [14:54] Successfully removed ask -Chad On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote: > Yeah I agree. Whenever I see it used I cringe a little bit thinking about > how the other person is reading it. > > --Tyler Romeo > On Jul 23, 2013 5:51 PM, "Ori Livneh" wrot

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE and

2013-07-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:14 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > There is an enhancement for that. > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51897 > > IMO the current behaviour isnt correct. There are so few instances > that nowiki is desirable, that the current VE should refuse to accept > wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] !ask

2013-07-23 Thread Tyler Romeo
Yeah I agree. Whenever I see it used I cringe a little bit thinking about how the other person is reading it. --Tyler Romeo On Jul 23, 2013 5:51 PM, "Ori Livneh" wrote: > Can we deprecate usage of '!ask' on IRC? > > > ori-l: !ask > > wm-bot: Hi, how can we help you? Just ask your question. > > I

[Wikitech-l] !ask

2013-07-23 Thread Ori Livneh
Can we deprecate usage of '!ask' on IRC? > ori-l: !ask > wm-bot: Hi, how can we help you? Just ask your question. It's annoying when people ask to ask, but the people who do so do it out of insecurity or lack of experience, and so they're the last people we should be siccing our bots on. I've us

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Chris McMahon
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Daniel Barrett > wrote: > > Risker asks: > > Of course those tags weren't added by the editors, VE doesn't > let you do that directly. What I think Robert was talking about > (thanks for that analysis, BTW!)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Long term strategy for math on wikipedia

2013-07-23 Thread Peter Krautzberger
@praveenp do you know if bug 48032 is fixable with texvc? @Derk-Jan could you give some background on your "MathJax is a nightmare" comment? Have their been specific reports or complaints? Or is this something specific out of development (like the float issue)? It seems MathJax is slower on Wikipe

Re: [Wikitech-l] ContentHandler hook deprecations

2013-07-23 Thread S Page
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: > I see now that setting $wgDevelopmentWarnings = true will manifest usage of > deprecated methods in PHP's error log, ... > > I'll do my bit by enable this setting on MediaWiki-Vagrant :) > I did my bit by mentioning it in https://www.mediaw

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
I am a Parsoid developer. I was participant #6 in the thread. As noted, reponses #14 and #16 were also from VE developers, and our contributions have continued. From my perspective the devs involved have done a pretty good job of picking out technical content from the discussion and acting on it

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE and

2013-07-23 Thread John Vandenberg
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Steve Summit wrote: > VE will (correctly, from its point of view) translate that to > "[[pagename]]" in the page source. > > This is a likely enough mistake, and the number of times you > really want explicit double square brackets is small enough, that > it's wort

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 23/07/13 21:12, Bartosz Dziewoński a écrit : > On a side note, I find it interesting how none of the actual VE and > Parsoid developers replied here, apart from Roan, Chris and Subbu on > off-topic technical issues (thanks for that). I am myself not replying because I don't want to be involved.

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC] IMPORTANT: Mentor Midterm Evaluations 29 July - 2 August

2013-07-23 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Raylton P. Sousa wrote: > If you both will be traveling, who will do the work of the org adm. > Eg. on IRC Me. I am available on IRC until Monday. I would assume you are all old enough to come to me with pressing questions until then :) And as I said I will try to

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC] IMPORTANT: Mentor Midterm Evaluations 29 July - 2 August

2013-07-23 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Chris McMahon wrote: > Just confirming that nothing is required for OPW and that this is only for > GSoC Correct. This formal evaluation is for GSoC. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Technical Projec

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE and

2013-07-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
Whoops, didn't realize this thread had been forked off while I was out to lunch, and so I responded to the other thread. Sorry about that :( On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Steve Summit wrote: > This is a likely enough mistake, and the number of times you > really want explicit double square bra

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: > Risker asks: >>Why do you think those tags were added by the editors? > > I can't speak for the original poster, but the last time I used VE, > it added unwanted tags by itself. > You can see an example in my most recent bug report: > htt

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE and

2013-07-23 Thread Steve Summit
Risker wrote: > On 23 July 2013 15:32, Robert Rohde wrote: >> * Corrupted page content that appears to be caused by the unfamiliar >> UI (e.g. [[Foo]]) > > Why do you think those tags were added by the editors? I assume that since it's VE's job to be wysiwyg, and to insulate the user from the lo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Tyler Romeo
Please change the subject and use a different thread if you intend to discuss the usefulness or accuracy of VE, because as I just said, that's not the subject of this thread. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel Barrett
Risker asks: >Why do you think those tags were added by the editors? I can't speak for the original poster, but the last time I used VE, it added unwanted tags by itself. You can see an example in my most recent bug report: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51829 DanB _

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread John
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Derric Atzrott < datzr...@alizeepathology.com> wrote: > > >Since the devs implemented resource loader it has become > >harder and harder to block the poorly developed bloat that has crept into > >mediawiki. I used to be able to isolate the JavaScript file causing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gitblit down?

2013-07-23 Thread Chad
It's been flakey the past few days. I've been trying to get to the bottom of it. -Chad On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Derric Atzrott < datzr...@alizeepathology.com> wrote: > Afternoon, > > > > Anyone else having issues getting at Gitblit? I've not been able to get > at it > for the past half

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Risker
Why do you think those tags were added by the editors? Risker On 23 July 2013 15:32, Robert Rohde wrote: > In the interest of gathering slightly larger statistics, I manually > reviewed 200 VE entries on recent changes. > > I am classifying these as > > * "Good" edit > * Test edits / newbie e

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Robert Rohde
In the interest of gathering slightly larger statistics, I manually reviewed 200 VE entries on recent changes. I am classifying these as * "Good" edit * Test edits / newbie errors likely to happen in either editor (not VE's fault) * Obvious vandal edit (not VE's fault) * Damaged source that rende

Re: [Wikitech-l] ContentHandler hook deprecations

2013-07-23 Thread Ori Livneh
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: > Daniel was diligent about adding wfDeprecated calls to the deprecated > methods that the older hooks calls. I wonder if we could add a Jenkins > check that flags usage of deprecated features. A sophisticated version > would trace the execution

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC] IMPORTANT: Mentor Midterm Evaluations 29 July - 2 August

2013-07-23 Thread Chris McMahon
Just confirming that nothing is required for OPW and that this is only for GSoC -Chris On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Quim Gil wrote: > GSoC mentors: read this email through and submit your mid-term evaluation > between 29 July - 2 August in Google Melange. One per project is enough. If > the

[Wikitech-l] Gitblit down?

2013-07-23 Thread Derric Atzrott
Afternoon, Anyone else having issues getting at Gitblit? I've not been able to get at it for the past half hour or so. Thank you, Derric Atzrott Computer Specialist Alizee Pathology ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.or

Re: [Wikitech-l] ContentHandler hook deprecations

2013-07-23 Thread Ori Livneh
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > Do you have any recommendations for how we should handle deprecations? > Is this done on a case-by-case basis? > Most of the deprecated hooks have ContentHandler-aware replacements with compatible signatures. The mapping is as follows

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On a side note, I find it interesting how none of the actual VE and Parsoid developers replied here, apart from Roan, Chris and Subbu on off-topic technical issues (thanks for that). -- Matma Rex ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Job Offer: Technical Position for WLM 2013

2013-07-23 Thread Cristian Consonni
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
On 23 jul. 2013, at 18:06, Subramanya Sastry wrote: >> A leading line feed in a parameter - what the? >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Sam_%26_Cat_episodes&curid=39469556&diff=565437324&oldid=565416618 > > This is something I'll have to investigate. This is probably ac

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC] IMPORTANT: Mentor Midterm Evaluations 29 July - 2 August

2013-07-23 Thread Raylton P. Sousa
? 2013/7/23 Raylton P. Sousa > If you both will be traveling, who will do the work of the org adm. > Eg. on IRC > > > 2013/7/23 Lydia Pintscher > >> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Quim Gil wrote: >> > PS: fwiw I'm starting a week of holidays tomorrow and then I will be >> flying >> > to Hon

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC] IMPORTANT: Mentor Midterm Evaluations 29 July - 2 August

2013-07-23 Thread Raylton P. Sousa
If you both will be traveling, who will do the work of the org adm. Eg. on IRC 2013/7/23 Lydia Pintscher > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Quim Gil wrote: > > PS: fwiw I'm starting a week of holidays tomorrow and then I will be > flying > > to Hong Kong for Wikimania on Aug 1-2. If you need a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Listing missing words of wiktionnaries

2013-07-23 Thread Jean-Frédéric
Hello, Here is what I would like to do : generating reports which give, for a > given language, a list of words which are used on the web with a number > evaluating its occurencies, but which are not in a given wiktionary. > > How would you recommand to implemente that within the wikimedia > infra

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Subramanya Sastry
Hi John and Risker, First off, I do want to once again clarify that my intention in the previous post was not to claim that VE/Parsoid is perfect. It was more that we've fixed sufficient bugs at this point that the most significant "bugs" (bugs, not missing features) that need fixing (and are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Tyler Romeo
I just want to be absolutely clear, for the purposes of solving this problem and staying on topic, we are *not* discussing: * Whether VE is a good product or not (it clearly is) * Whether VE should be deployed or not (it already is) * Whether VE should have an option to be disabled (it already has

Re: [Wikitech-l] Branching Scribunto for 1.19

2013-07-23 Thread Łukasz Garczewski
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > I've been working on a client's website that uses a lot of citations and > runs 1.19. After a bit of profiling over the last few days, the use of > some of Wikipedia's templates stood out. I decided to try and backport > Scribunto to

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC] IMPORTANT: Mentor Midterm Evaluations 29 July - 2 August

2013-07-23 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Quim Gil wrote: > PS: fwiw I'm starting a week of holidays tomorrow and then I will be flying > to Hong Kong for Wikimania on Aug 1-2. If you need and org admin Lydia > Pintscher will be able to help you. As Quim said I am available to answer any question you migh

Re: [Wikitech-l] Long term strategy for math on wikipedia

2013-07-23 Thread Max Semenik
On 23.07.2013, 19:30 C. wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:20 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman < > d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> So what I would actually propose for the short term (next few years) in >> case we really want to go the direction of MathML is the following: >> 1: img tag + --data-math

Re: [Wikitech-l] Listing missing words of wiktionnaries

2013-07-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Bináris wrote: > Once you have a "list of words which are used on the web" (this must be got > from an outer source, nothing to do it within Wiktionary), the easiest way > is to run a bot, e.g. Pywikipedia. > Rather than writing a bot, you might consider generati

Re: [Wikitech-l] Long term strategy for math on wikipedia

2013-07-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:20 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman < d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com> wrote: > So what I would actually propose for the short term (next few years) in > case we really want to go the direction of MathML is the following: > 1: img tag + --data-math=formulaID in HTML > 2: script to detec

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Derric Atzrott
>> However, from a user's standpoint, it still doesn't make a ton of >> sense to do it that way. If I just want to add a category, I shouldn't >> have to invoke an editing surface at all. Similarly, if I want to turn >> a page into a redirect, I shouldn't have to edit the page at all. As >> most of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Derric Atzrott
>Since the devs implemented resource loader it has become >harder and harder to block the poorly developed bloat that has crept into >mediawiki. I used to be able to isolate the JavaScript file causing the >issues (I remember BITS geolocation being a major hog) and just block it. >Now thats not po

[Wikitech-l] [GSoC] IMPORTANT: Mentor Midterm Evaluations 29 July - 2 August

2013-07-23 Thread Quim Gil
GSoC mentors: read this email through and submit your mid-term evaluation between 29 July - 2 August in Google Melange. One per project is enough. If the primary mentor can't make it then the secondary mentor needs to step in. VERY IMPORTANT Missing this deadline means the cancellation of your

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Denny Vrandečić
2013/7/23 MZMcBride > What we need is for you and Erik to recognize that you're wrong and to > make this right. Is there anyone besides you and Erik who agree with the > position you're taking here? > They are not alone. I also agree with their position, and I sincerely hope we are not alone. E

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > On the first point, right now, we're approaching categories and > similar page metadata from the point of view of the editing surface as > an entrypoint. This makes sense if you simply try to map all aspects > of markup (which is inherently p

Re: [Wikitech-l] Listing missing words of wiktionnaries

2013-07-23 Thread Emilio J . Rodríguez-Posada
http://storage.googleapis.com/books/ngrams/books/datasetsv2.html 2013/7/23 Bináris > Once you have a "list of words which are used on the web" (this must be got > from an outer source, nothing to do it within Wiktionary), the easiest way > is to run a bot, e.g. Pywikipedia. > > 2013/7/23 Mathie

Re: [Wikitech-l] Listing missing words of wiktionnaries

2013-07-23 Thread Bináris
Once you have a "list of words which are used on the web" (this must be got from an outer source, nothing to do it within Wiktionary), the easiest way is to run a bot, e.g. Pywikipedia. 2013/7/23 Mathieu Stumpf > Hello, > > Here is what I would like to do : generating reports which give, for a >

[Wikitech-l] Listing missing words of wiktionnaries

2013-07-23 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Hello, Here is what I would like to do : generating reports which give, for a given language, a list of words which are used on the web with a number evaluating its occurencies, but which are not in a given wiktionary. How would you recommand to implemente that within the wikimedia infrastru

Re: [Wikitech-l] Long term strategy for math on wikipedia

2013-07-23 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
> I'm wondering if the lack of reactions so far is positive or negative. It's negative, it shows that few people have the confidence to think they have something worthwhile to contribute on this niche area. :( Output: I'd love to support MathML as primary direction, but I still see huge problems

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread John Vandenberg
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: > On 07/22/2013 10:44 PM, Tim Starling wrote: >> >> Round-trip bugs, and bugs which cause a given wikitext input to give >> different HTML in Parsoid compared to MW, should have been detected >> during automated testing, prior to beta deplo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Chad
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Steve Summit wrote: > Here's a thought experiment: if visual editing had existed (with > reasonable functionality) since day 1, would there ever have been > a way to disable it, let alone a hue and cry over a lack of a way > to disable it? > > This isn't a good an

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Risker wrote: > You pretty much had one chance at A/B testing, and it's done now. You > can't repeat the tests as long as VE is the default editor. > That's not correct at all. It's still entirely possible to deliver different editing environments to randomized

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Erik Moeller
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Tim Starling wrote: > I tried editing [[Argentina]] on my laptop just now, it took 45 > seconds of CPU time and 51 seconds of wall clock time before the > percentage CPU usage began to drop. It's pretty slow. Yes, that's why I said "performance on long pages can

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Risker
On 23 July 2013 02:32, Subramanya Sastry wrote: > On 07/22/2013 10:44 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > >> Round-trip bugs, and bugs which cause a given wikitext input to give >> different HTML in Parsoid compared to MW, should have been detected >> during automated testing, prior to beta deployment. I d

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-l] Importing/Exporting Wiki

2013-07-23 Thread Yury Katkov
If you want to export the data from one instance of MW and import it to another instance of MW then XML Dumps will do very well. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_XML_dumps - Yury Katkov, WikiVote On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Ryan Rick Acta wrote: > Hi, > > Do you know what

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread K. Peachey
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013, Subramanya Sastry wrote: > > 500+ edits are being done per hour using Visual Editor 500+ people are making edits with the default editor, I'm pretty sure (without doing stats on it) that a lot of them wouldn't be experienced enough to kill it off -- -- Sent from Gma

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Tim Starling
On 23/07/13 15:23, Erik Moeller wrote: > Editing this page in Firefox on a 6-year-old system only slightly > faster than the tester's specs today takes about 5 seconds to > initialize. In Chrome it takes about 3 seconds, in the ballpark of > reloading the page into the source editor. Note that Gabr