Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [wikimedia #5841] etherpad.wikimedia.org downtime due to upgrade

2013-09-30 Thread Alexandros Kosiaris
Hello Federico, Some (but not all) of the etherpad links you provided do not have any content. There are two ways to proceed. If they are new enough (after 2013-08-19) it might be a bug in etherpad-lite. In that case we should wait for the upgrade, try to reproduce and fill a bug report to the

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [wikimedia #5841] etherpad.wikimedia.org downtime due to upgrade

2013-09-30 Thread Alexandros Kosiaris
FYI, -- Forwarded message -- From: core-...@rt.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:12 PM Subject: Fwd: [wikimedia #5841] etherpad.wikimedia.org downtime due to upgrade etherpad-lite has been successfully update to version 1.2.11. The upgrade procedure server-wise was

[Wikitech-l] Inline bug report history in Bugzilla

2013-09-30 Thread Andre Klapper
Hola, if you have found yourself clicking the History link in Bugzilla tickets way too often (to check who has set the Priority, or who has changed the assignee and when), Bugzilla now has an opt-in to display such metadata changes inline, between the comments of the bug report. You can enable

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inline bug report history in Bugzilla

2013-09-30 Thread Petr Bena
wh nice feature On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hola, if you have found yourself clicking the History link in Bugzilla tickets way too often (to check who has set the Priority, or who has changed the assignee and when), Bugzilla now

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inline bug report history in Bugzilla

2013-09-30 Thread James Forrester
Andre, This is brilliant, and makes Bugzilla hugely more usable; could it be switched on for all users by default, or would that impair the server operation too much? J. On 30 September 2013 08:01, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hola, if you have found yourself clicking the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] webfonts in mobile frontend

2013-09-30 Thread Jon Robson
Thanks Amir for kicking this off! A general point I wanted to make off the back of this... when adding things to the mobile site, no matter how minimal a module is we should get in the discipline habit of thinking Does everyone need this module? We should be extremely careful what JavaScript and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improving anti-vandalism tools (twinkle, huggle etc) - suspicious edits queue

2013-09-30 Thread Jon Robson
I wonder if the refactor described in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Support_for_user-specific_page_lists_in_core could be adapted to help with this use case. I suspect it would be highly useful to be able to create publicly viewable watchlists of suspicious edits. With a

[Wikitech-l] IRC office hour for Extension:BetaFeatures

2013-09-30 Thread Mark Holmquist
Hi all, Due partly to the recent sparseness of traffic in #wikimedia-office, I've scheduled an office hour [0] for the new BetaFeatures extension, which the WMF is hoping to use for launching new features for beta testing. This will primarily be a technical discussion focused on people who may

Re: [Wikitech-l] Conditional resource loading

2013-09-30 Thread Amelia Ireland
Tyler Romeo tylerromeo at gmail.com writes: On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Amelia Ireland amelia.ireland at gmod.orgwrote: I want to rewrite a couple of extensions to prevent them from loading resources unless the extension is active on a page. Is there some documentation on this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Conditional resource loading

2013-09-30 Thread Mark Holmquist
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 09:27:29PM +, Amelia Ireland wrote: I've already used this method with one of the extensions. Is there anything on the backend / PHP side so that I can advantage of ResourceLoader script compression? It seems like it should be possible, but I don't have a

Re: [Wikitech-l] FOSDEM update

2013-09-30 Thread Emmanuel Engelhart
Le 25/09/2013 19:39, Quim Gil a écrit : Wikimedia wants to have a stand, and we have received an offer to help from the nascent Wikimedia Belgium chapter. Probably more help can be aggregated from CH, DE, FR, NL, UK + other tech contributors in the region? Let's do something really cool! To be