[Wikitech-l] Javascript to find other articles having the same external link

2013-08-26 Thread Lars Aronsson
By putting the following code (written by User:EnDumEn) in user:YOURNAME/common.jsany external link gets an extra little symbol (⎆), which leads to a link search for that link. This is very useful for finding other articles that cite the same source. jQuery( a.external ).after( function() {

Re: [Wikitech-l] Javascript to find other articles having the same external link

2013-08-26 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, With sources stored in Wikidata finding where the same source is used as well is implicit. This is a hack, admittedly a nice hack/. Thanks, GerardM On 26 August 2013 09:27, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: By putting the following code (written by User:EnDumEn) in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Javascript to find other articles having the same external link

2013-08-26 Thread Ole Palnatoke Andersen
I'd love to see a similar thing for articles linking to the same book via ISBN. regards, Ole On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, With sources stored in Wikidata finding where the same source is used as well is implicit. This is a hack,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Javascript to find other articles having the same external link

2013-08-26 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, grin the same book or also the same book in translation? /grin Can be theoretically be linked in Wikidata too. Thanks, GerardM On 26 August 2013 10:07, Ole Palnatoke Andersen o...@palnatoke.org wrote: I'd love to see a similar thing for articles linking to the same book via ISBN.

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMFs stance on non-GPL code

2013-08-26 Thread Erwin Dokter
On 26-08-2013 02:59, Tyler Romeo wrote: On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: I'd be surprised if there was a problem with any open source license. Well if it's a MediaWiki extension, it has to be GPL-compatible, otherwise using it as part of MediaWiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Javascript to find other articles having the same external link

2013-08-26 Thread Mark Holmquist
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:07:16AM +0200, Ole Palnatoke Andersen wrote: I'd love to see a similar thing for articles linking to the same book via ISBN. You can do that in the JavaScript just by adding to the selector at the beginning, and you can also get other magic links at the same time.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Javascript to find other articles having the same external link

2013-08-26 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2013-08-26 8:55 AM, Mark Holmquist mtrac...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:07:16AM +0200, Ole Palnatoke Andersen wrote: I'd love to see a similar thing for articles linking to the same book via ISBN. You can do that in the JavaScript just by adding to the selector at

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Wikimedia Commons mobile photo uploader app updated on iOS and Android

2013-08-26 Thread Adam Baso
Rupert, I saw your question regarding Wikipedia Zero. Wikipedia Zero is currently targeted for the mobile web, but I'll take this question back to the business team as to whether we'd be able to support zero-rating of apps traffic at some point in the future, at least in locales where moderate

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki's Login Security

2013-08-26 Thread Chris Steipp
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Seb35 seb35wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: An other solution is the use of one-time passwords [1] for high-security or https-unfriendly users (e.g. logging in) or actions (e.g. checkuser

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki's Login Security

2013-08-26 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.orgwrote: One piece I wasn't able to get into our Auth rework this summer was having 2-step login, so that we could require OATH for some people, but normal users wouldn't have to. But yeah, Yeah...that's a little bit of my

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback/testing wanted: SecureLogin on test2.wikipedia.org

2013-08-26 Thread Chad
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello all, We have enabled the newly updated SecureLogin on http://test2.wikipedia.org Big thanks to Chris and Chad getting this work finalized on Friday and taking a bit of their weekend today/tomorrow. This is

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMFs stance on non-GPL code

2013-08-26 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Stated more precisely: a non-GPL-compatible license for an extension means that the extension can never be distributed with core. The idea that deployment of software on a server entails license obligations is a GPLv3 feature; mediawiki is licensed under the GPL v2 (or later for theoretical

Re: [Wikitech-l] Weighted random article

2013-08-26 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nlwrote: If you compare our current implementation to wheel of fortune [1]; all our articles are evenly spread around. Weighted would be putting bot articles closer to each other so you would hit them less often. You just need

Re: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs instance going down in two weeks - backup time

2013-08-26 Thread Ryan Lane
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: I already have been archiving my stuff from etherpad on wiki, of course, and I've never ever used etherpad.wmflabs.org because I knew everything in Labs can die any time, but this doesn't mean that I don't worry for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs instance going down in two weeks - backup time

2013-08-26 Thread Ken Snider
On Aug 26, 2013, at 2:18 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: Some people may have placed sensitive info in the pads, assuming some level of (misguided) privacy since the pages weren't indexed. We're not planning on doing dumps or even exposing an index. To further clarify, we'll be

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMFs stance on non-GPL code

2013-08-26 Thread Derric Atzrott
Well if it's a MediaWiki extension, it has to be GPL-compatible, otherwise using it as part of MediaWiki violates the core's own GPL license. Wrong. WMF can use any software they like on their servers... even propriatary software. They are _using_ it, not _distributing_ it. Compatible

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMFs stance on non-GPL code

2013-08-26 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.com wrote: I might have to look into licenses again and make sure what I use is GPL compatible. The GPL is such a pain sometimes https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main is a useful guide. --scott --

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMFs stance on non-GPL code

2013-08-26 Thread Trevor Parscal
VisualEditor is MIT licensed. It was originally GPLv2 by default as per my contract with Wikimedia, but early on we got written permission from all authors to change it. We did this because we wanted to ensure maximum license compatibility for re-use in non-MediaWiki systems. - Trevor On Mon,

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMFs stance on non-GPL code

2013-08-26 Thread Ryan Lane
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.orgwrote: VisualEditor is MIT licensed. It was originally GPLv2 by default as per my contract with Wikimedia, but early on we got written permission from all authors to change it. We did this because we wanted to ensure

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMFs stance on non-GPL code

2013-08-26 Thread John Erling Blad
As long as it is a separate extension there is no problem, but if you bundle it in such a way that it is an integral part of the core then you might get into trouble. On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.com wrote: Well if it's a MediaWiki extension, it has to

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMFs stance on non-GPL code

2013-08-26 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 26/08/13 22:03, Ryan Lane a écrit : Aren't our contracts generally written to allow us to use any OSI compliant license, with a preference to GPL 2? My company has a joint copyright agreement with Wikimedia. So I guess the foundation can publish the work under whatever license :) My code is

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMFs stance on non-GPL code

2013-08-26 Thread Luis Villa
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:12 AM, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.orgwrote: The idea that deployment of software on a server entails license obligations is a GPLv3 feature; To be clear, that's AGPL-only, not GPL v3. Luis -- Luis Villa Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Wikimedia Commons mobile photo uploader app updated on iOS and Android

2013-08-26 Thread Brion Vibber
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Adam Baso ab...@wikimedia.org wrote: Rupert, I saw your question regarding Wikipedia Zero. Wikipedia Zero is currently targeted for the mobile web, but I'll take this question back to the business team as to whether we'd be able to support zero-rating of apps

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Commons mobile photo uploader app updated on iOS and Android

2013-08-26 Thread Brion Vibber
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/8/21 Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org: (The Commons uploader apps may or may not eventually roll into the main Wikipedia app on iOS and Android too, we haven't decided for sure yet.) That sound weird (read:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Javascript to find other articles having the same external link

2013-08-26 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 2013-08-26 8:06 AM, Brian Wolff wrote: On 2013-08-26 8:55 AM, Mark Holmquist mtrac...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:07:16AM +0200, Ole Palnatoke Andersen wrote: ... But it looks like Special:Linksearch doesn't support searching for magic links, at least not yet. So I'm

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla: Separate bug report status when patch is in Gerrit?

2013-08-26 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 06/06/2013 11:16 AM, Alex Monk wrote: Also, +1 to a Fixes-Bug: 123 annotation or somesuch, as Timo proposed a couple of months ago in the rather more cryptic Bug 123 vs. Bug: 123. +1 from me as well. Filed as https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53387 Matt Flaschen