Re: [Wikitech-l] RfC update: LESS stylesheet support in core

2013-09-22 Thread Krinkle
On Sep 19, 2013, at 11:19 PM, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.org wrote: @dan: the particular less isn't very powerful issues I'm concerned about are the ones solved by compass. As is well-known, there is no equivalent to compass for less, and is not likely every to be, since less can not

Re: [Wikitech-l] RfC update: LESS stylesheet support in core

2013-09-22 Thread Ori Livneh
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Ok, we've had another round of review and updates, and it sounds like people are pretty content with the functionality and the conventions we're coming up with around LESS usage; and I don't hear many strong objections.

[Wikitech-l] Categories without interwiki

2013-09-22 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Hello, Persian Wikipedia is one of the largest wikis based on number of categories but It's not very common that people consider adding interwiki of categories (they think interwiki is just for articles) so we have tons of tons (before writing my engine that was 30K out of 170K) categories without

Re: [Wikitech-l] Categories without interwiki

2013-09-22 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, What is the problem with people NOT considering interwiki links to categories as being relevant.. They are not the only ones. In a similar way I have asked several times what the point is of interwiki links for disambiguation pages.. The only answer I got was along the lines of because we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Categories without interwiki

2013-09-22 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
That was a very good question! In Persian Wikipedia, there is another engine that adds categories in articles based on usage of them in English Wikipedia and in order to avoid mistakes that engine uses a pretty damn complicated algorithm that I have no clue what's that but It's working properly in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Categories without interwiki

2013-09-22 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, grin your answer is like because they make similar categories like on en.wp it does not answer the question if that makes sense and it does not answer the question why this should be replicated in turn in Wikidata. /grin Thanks, GerardM On 22 September 2013 22:41, Amir Ladsgroup

Re: [Wikitech-l] Categories without interwiki

2013-09-22 Thread Brian Wolff
In the past I was asked do certain statistics based on categories for wikinews. Having interwikis was rather key for that. -bawolff On 2013-09-22 5:26 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, What is the problem with people NOT considering interwiki links to categories as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Categories without interwiki

2013-09-22 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Again this does not answer the question why it makes sense to have interwiki links for categories in Wikidata. Thanks, GerardM On 22 September 2013 23:56, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: In the past I was asked do certain statistics based on categories for wikinews. Having

Re: [Wikitech-l] Categories without interwiki

2013-09-22 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Does it work outside Wikipedia too? I'd like to run it on some wikiquotes; seeing what categories exist in a language but not another is very useful to find out what's going on in the project(s). Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Categories without interwiki

2013-09-22 Thread Risker
On 22 September 2013 15:54, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Persian Wikipedia is one of the largest wikis based on number of categories but It's not very common that people consider adding interwiki of categories (they think interwiki is just for articles) so we have tons of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Categories without interwiki

2013-09-22 Thread John
One thing could be looking for an article in one language but either not knowing the correct phrase or exact spelling but knowing enough to use related categories to find the article on a different language project. And go from there On Sunday, September 22, 2013, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi,

[Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-09-22 Thread reporter
MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for September 16, 2013 - September 23, 2013 Status changes this week Reports changed/set to UNCONFIRMED: 5 Reports changed/set to NEW: 18 Reports changed/set to ASSIGNED : 37

[Wikitech-l] IRC meeting for RFC review

2013-09-22 Thread Tim Starling
I would like to have an open IRC meeting for RFC review, on Tuesday 24 September at 22:00 UTC (S.F. 3pm). We will work through a few old, neglected RFCs, and maybe consider a few new ones, depending on the interests of those present. The IRC channel will be #mediawiki-rfc. -- Tim Starling

Re: [Wikitech-l] IRC meeting for RFC review

2013-09-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
In case live in another timezone: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130924T22 *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I would like to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Categories without interwiki

2013-09-22 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Yes It works, Just give me the languages On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: Does it work outside Wikipedia too? I'd like to run it on some wikiquotes; seeing what categories exist in a language but not another is very useful to find out what's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Categories without interwiki

2013-09-22 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Hi, Persian Wikipedia uses the same system of categorization but not the same categories, If I want to give you an example, categories related to Iran are more deeper and better organized than the English ones but the system is the same Best On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:17 AM, Risker