Re: [Wikitech-l] Bulk download

2013-09-24 Thread Mihai Chintoanu
Hello, Thank you to all who have taken the time to answer. As more people have asked, here are some details about the project. We want to build a feature in our smartphone app that allows users to read wikipedia articles and we want to make the articles and their images available offline to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jenkins upgrade Tuesday 9:00UTC

2013-09-24 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 23/09/13 19:03, Antoine Musso a écrit : I will be upgrading Jenkins tomorrow at 9:00UTC for a minor upgrade. I will do it after the weekly i18n team rollout. The upgrade should take roughly one hour, during that time any job launched will be reported as LOST in Gerrit and would need to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jenkins upgrade Tuesday 9:00UTC

2013-09-24 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 23/09/13 19:03, Antoine Musso a écrit : Hello, I will be upgrading Jenkins tomorrow at 9:00UTC for a minor upgrade. I will do it after the weekly i18n team rollout. The upgrade should take roughly one hour, during that time any job launched will be reported as LOST in Gerrit and would

Re: [Wikitech-l] Access from China

2013-09-24 Thread Erick Guan
I'm in Shanghai. I can access zhwiki on both mobile device and pc and I am not redirected to https by default. A user in Dalian reported on zhwiki he can access by https, which I think it's a just exception. On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Ryu Cheol rch...@gmail.com wrote: Now I am reading

Re: [Wikitech-l] Access from China

2013-09-24 Thread shi zhao
In China,can chage hosts file, access wp via https. Additional, mobile network and internet are different, different mobile operators are not the same for GFW. For example, China Mobile can't access instagram, but China Unicom can access instagram Chinese wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/ My

Re: [Wikitech-l] Access from China

2013-09-24 Thread Chris Steipp
On Sep 23, 2013 9:47 PM, Ryu Cheol rch...@gmail.com wrote: Now I am reading Some users live where HTTPS is not an easy option due to explicit blocking by government. At the request of these communities, we made an explicit exclusion for users from those particular countries. Simply, users from

Re: [Wikitech-l] Access from China

2013-09-24 Thread Ryu Cheol
Dear Chris, now I see. Thanks! So I need to know to get rid of the cookie that redirect to https when I travel to China. It is all clear. Cheol 2013. 9. 24., 오후 10:48, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org 작성: On Sep 23, 2013 9:47 PM, Ryu Cheol rch...@gmail.com wrote: Now I am reading

[Wikitech-l] How to get search on mediawiki.org not to use synonyms?

2013-09-24 Thread David Gerard
I just went looking for the word referer. The response started with lots of instances of the word reference. Put it in quotes, no difference. Eventually resorted to Google. Is MW.org using the exciting new search engine? Is there any way to search without using synonyms? - d.

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to get search on mediawiki.org not to use synonyms?

2013-09-24 Thread Nikolas Everett
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:00 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: I just went looking for the word referer. The response started with lots of instances of the word reference. Put it in quotes, no difference. Eventually resorted to Google. Is MW.org using the exciting new search engine?

[Wikitech-l] Product Team Announcements: Oliver, Dan, and Nick

2013-09-24 Thread Howie Fung
Everyone, I have a few announcements (apologies for the delay as this was posted to an internal WMF staff mailing list a few weeks ago). First, I'd like to announce Oliver's transition to Product Analyst (contractor, full time). As many of you know, Oliver has been working with us for the past

Re: [Wikitech-l] Product Team Announcements: Oliver, Dan, and Nick

2013-09-24 Thread Dan Garry
My subscription to this list last night was most fortuitous. Hi everyone! Happy to be here, and looking forward to working with you all. Dan On 24 September 2013 19:30, Howie Fung hf...@wikimedia.org wrote: Everyone, I have a few announcements (apologies for the delay as this was posted to

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE/Migration guide for gadgets developers

2013-09-24 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Eran Rosenthal eranro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, When the ResourceLoader was deployed (or even before it) to production, there were migration development guides for gadget/extension

Re: [Wikitech-l] Product Team Announcements: Oliver, Dan, and Nick

2013-09-24 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
Indeed, congratulations all, I think this will work out very well. On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: My subscription to this list last night was most fortuitous. Hi everyone! Happy to be here, and looking forward to working with you all. Dan On 24

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code reviewers registry

2013-09-24 Thread Brian Wolff
I'd point out that there is also an option in your gerrit prefs to get an email whenever someone touches a certain repo or a certain path in a certain repo. -bawolff On 2013-09-24 4:24 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Public service reminder: consider adding yourself to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code reviewers registry

2013-09-24 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Can we get the bot to pester people if patches sit too long unreviewed? That's the other thing that might be off-putting to a new contributor. --scott On Sep 24, 2013 3:24 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Public service reminder: consider adding yourself to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code reviewers registry

2013-09-24 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 24/09/13 22:18, C. Scott Ananian a écrit : Can we get the bot to pester people if patches sit too long unreviewed? That's the other thing that might be off-putting to a new contributor. --scott If those people are already ignoring the email asking for review, they will surely ignore the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code reviewers registry

2013-09-24 Thread Tyler Romeo
Well sometimes a bot bump is appropriate. Sometimes I do +1 on a change with the intention of doing a further review later, but then I forget. -- Tyler Romeo On Sep 24, 2013 4:57 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 24/09/13 22:18, C. Scott Ananian a écrit : Can we get the bot to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Product Team Announcements: Oliver, Dan, and Nick

2013-09-24 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 24/09/13 20:39, Dan Garry a écrit : My subscription to this list last night was most fortuitous. Hi everyone! Happy to be here, and looking forward to working with you all. Welcome in the most troll^Heffective tech list on the internet :-] Created for Jimmy 11 years ago [1] [1]

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia wikis use Ace

2013-09-24 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 23/09/13 10:43, Lennart Kats a écrit : Hi MZMcBride, Wow, that's really cool! We'll a reference to the Ace homepage using one of the logos at https://www.wikimedia.org/. Hello, The Wikimedia foundation logo is available as a svg file:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code reviewers registry

2013-09-24 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Our core developers get a lot of patches to review. Once something drops down past the first page in gerrit, it's lost forever. Backing up here, I'm assuming that our focus is on fostering new developers. Old hands know who to add as reviewers, and know to pester them if they don't get a review

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

2013-09-24 Thread Brion Vibber
Reminder to all: this is about to start. -- brion On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.orgwrote: 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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code reviewers registry

2013-09-24 Thread Chad
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:56 PM, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Our core developers get a lot of patches to review. Once something drops down past the first page in gerrit, it's lost forever. We should organize a sprint to give some old patches some love! -Chad

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

2013-09-24 Thread Tyler Romeo
:/ damn for some reason I thought this was on Thursday. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: Reminder to all: this is about to start. -- brion On Sun, Sep

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

2013-09-24 Thread Bryan Davis
How about we also schedule a meeting for 2 October, 06:00 UTC? So the first week will be US/Australia, and the second will be Europe/Australia. Timezone translation: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20131002T06 -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation

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

2013-09-24 Thread Steven Walling
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.orgwrote: 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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Product Team Announcements: Oliver, Dan, and Nick

2013-09-24 Thread a b
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Howie Fung hf...@wikimedia.org wrote: Everyone, I have a few announcements (apologies for the delay as this was posted to an internal WMF staff mailing list a few weeks ago). First, I'd like to announce Oliver's transition to Product Analyst (contractor,