[Wikitech-l] Changes in the ULS API and modules

2013-11-12 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hallo, Several updates were made recently in the UniversalLanguageSelector extension to improve its performance. This means that if you use any of the ULS facilities in your extensions or gadgets, such as web fonts, IMEs, language data functions like getDir and getAutonym, etc., you need to

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-11-12 Thread Fred Bauder
I have a log of what happens on when the commands: sudo apt-get install mediawiki2latex mediawiki2latex -u https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Ries -o AdamRies.pdf are entered on the command line of ubuntu (13.10) Better than TV... Happy to send it to anyone. Fred

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in the ULS API and modules

2013-11-12 Thread MZMcBride
Amir E. Aharoni wrote: Several updates were made recently in the UniversalLanguageSelector extension to improve its performance. Fantastic! :-) Thank you for all of the work you and others have done to address this. As the MediaWiki platform continues to grow in complexity, it'll be useful to

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering report, October 2013

2013-11-12 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in October 2013 is now available. Wiki version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/October Blog version: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/12/engineering-report-october-2013/ We're also proposing a shorter,

Re: [Wikitech-l] FOSS OPW, 13 candidates (was 11)

2013-11-12 Thread Quim Gil
Two candidates that have notified their intentions to apply before the deadline did suubmit their applications with a little delay, and we have accepted them as well. This means that we have currently 13 candidates. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_7#Candidates

Re: [Wikitech-l] Engineering Community team updates

2013-11-12 Thread Quim Gil
On 11/11/2013 05:07 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 16:01 -0800, Quim Gil wrote: On 11/05/2013 01:52 PM, Quim Gil wrote: Next week we will have our monthly IRC meeting, just like every second Tuesday of the month. You can propose topics to be discussed at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in the ULS API and modules

2013-11-12 Thread Ori Livneh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 5:47 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Amir E. Aharoni wrote: Several updates were made recently in the UniversalLanguageSelector extension to improve its performance. Fantastic! :-) Thank you for all of the work you and others have done to address this.

[Wikitech-l] Fate of hierarchical list on Special:Allpages

2013-11-12 Thread Ori Livneh
Following change I189ba71de[0], the hierarchical list in Special:Allpages becomes a simple alphabetic pager if the total number of pages exceeds a safety threshold. The threshold is designed to protect wikis on which the load generated by the process of generating the hierarchical list would be

[Wikitech-l] OPW proposal

2013-11-12 Thread Shikha Shree
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OPW_2013_Flow_Edit_Filter_Integration This is the proposal I submitted for this year's OPW. Please see and suggest changes. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fate of hierarchical list on Special:Allpages

2013-11-12 Thread MZMcBride
Ori Livneh wrote: From my perspective, the ideal outcome of this discussion would be that we agree that the hierarchical list is a poor fit for the MediaWiki of today, and we resolve to remove it from core. Sounds good to me. For anyone who doesn't know what a(n) hierarchical list is:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architectural leadership in Wikimedia's technical community

2013-11-12 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 11/06/2013 05:50 AM, Ori Livneh wrote: What you are proposing is that we determine who is infallible and benevolent, so we can style them dictators for life. This kind of wide-eyed earnestness about the term architecture is very dangerous. It misses the essential irony, and in so doing it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architectural leadership in Wikimedia's technical community

2013-11-12 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 11/06/2013 06:35 AM, Antoine Musso wrote: I would have a look at the way IETF is handling its RFC process. I wrote about it back in July in the thread proposed RFC process: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-July/070241.html The IETF does have a long, successful track

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architectural leadership in Wikimedia's technical community

2013-11-12 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 11/08/2013 12:00 PM, Bryan Davis wrote: I think the second is more consistent with the tenor of the discussion here so far, because in the first case, the coupling between job titles and responsibilities in our community might be too tight to maintain flexibility and openness. It would also

Re: [Wikitech-l] $wgRedactedFunctionArguments

2013-11-12 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 10/29/2013 11:48 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote: Theoretically speaking, the right way to do this would be to identify the (small, one hopes) number of *sources* of sensitive data and change them to return objects of a special class, which would then automatically print out as [REDACTED] (if so

[Wikitech-l] Re-implementing PDF support

2013-11-12 Thread Erik Moeller
Hi folks, for a long time we've relied on the mwlib libraries by PediaPress to generate PDFs on Wikimedia sites. These have served us well (we generate 200K PDFs/day), but they architecturally pre-date a lot of important developments in MediaWiki, and actually re-implement the MediaWiki parser

Re: [Wikitech-l] migrating hooks doc to doxygen?

2013-11-12 Thread legoktm
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Brad Jorsch bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: Both Manual:Hooks/foo and all the $wgFoo pages can definitely benefit from some automation. I know the reason I usually don't update the Manual pages