Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Kunal Mehta joins Wikimedia as Features Contractor

2013-12-13 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Dec 13, 2013 2:09 AM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Kunal Mehta[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as contractor in Features Engineering. Before joining us (and currently), Kunal is a student in college,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Kunal Mehta joins Wikimedia as Features Contractor

2013-12-13 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Happy to see Kunal is joining WMF. Congrats :) Best On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 13, 2013 2:09 AM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Kunal Mehta[1] has

Re: [Wikitech-l] Hook for Adding to Empty Search Results

2013-12-13 Thread Nikolas Everett
SpecialSearchResultsPrepend lets you add html directly to the search page but doesn't let you add your own results. The html actually gets injected above the search for so it'd take some css trickery to move it. Example: This wiki is using a new search engine. (Learn

Re: [Wikitech-l] Hook for Adding to Empty Search Results

2013-12-13 Thread Paul Dugas
Thanks Nikolas. I found SpecialSearchResultsPrepend and SpecialSearchResultsAppend looking through the code though I didn't see them in the documentation. I implemented the later to add a section below the standard search results that lists results from my system. Seems to be working for now

Re: [Wikitech-l] Hook for Adding to Empty Search Results

2013-12-13 Thread Nikolas Everett
Glad to hear it! I hadn't seen SpecialSearchResultsAppend before. Unesful. On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Paul Dugas p...@dugasenterprises.comwrote: Thanks Nikolas. I found SpecialSearchResultsPrepend and SpecialSearchResultsAppend looking through the code though I didn't see them in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Hook for Adding to Empty Search Results

2013-12-13 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Paul Dugas p...@dugasenterprises.comwrote: So, I looked at SpecialSearchNoResults but that doesn't allow me to add to the empty results. Maybe it should. I added SpecialSearchResultsAppend and SpecialSearchResultsPrepend to Manual:Hooks. Feel free to add

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Kunal Mehta joins Wikimedia as Features Contractor

2013-12-13 Thread Steven Walling
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Kunal Mehta[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as contractor in Features Engineering. Before joining us (and currently), Kunal is a student in

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: Kunal Mehta joins Wikimedia as Features Contractor

2013-12-13 Thread Andrew Green
Welcome, Kunal! Way to go, really great to meet you in person yesterday...! On 12/12/13 17:08, Terry Chay wrote: Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Kunal Mehta[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as contractor in Features Engineering. Before joining us (and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sherah Smith joins Wikimedia as Fundraising Engineer in Features

2013-12-13 Thread Andrew Green
Welcome, Sherah! When she isn’t making Fundraising awesome, she can be found writing and performing comedy in various forms, reading excruciatingly depressing novels, and hiking all around the Bay Area. She is also perpetually hacking on things, especially ridiculous apps and games in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sherah Smith joins Wikimedia as Fundraising Engineer in Features

2013-12-13 Thread Andrew Green
Welcome, Sherah! When she isn’t making Fundraising awesome, she can be found writing and performing comedy in various forms, reading excruciatingly depressing novels, and hiking all around the Bay Area. She is also perpetually hacking on things, especially ridiculous apps and games in

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-13 Thread Jon Robson
I raised a new bug which is hopefully more focused about the issues here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58462 On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: 2013/12/12 Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org On 12/11/2013 11:21 AM, Chad wrote:

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-13 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I raised a new bug which is hopefully more focused about the issues here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58462 That strikes me as a RESOLVED INVALID bug, considering global gadgets don't actually exist yet.

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-13 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 21:40:35 +0100, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I raised a new bug which is hopefully more focused about the issues here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58462 That

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-13 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 21:40:35 +0100, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I raised a new bug which is hopefully more focused about

[Wikitech-l] [Bug 57891] Review and deploy GlobalCssJs extension

2013-12-13 Thread legoktm
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com wrote: It's sorta kinda happening as we speak while no one is looking ;) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57891 -- Matma Rex Looks like the cat got out of the bag. The GlobalCssJs extension allows users

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-13 Thread MZMcBride
Jon Robson wrote: I raised a new bug which is hopefully more focused about the issues here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58462 Thank you for filing this bug. Improving gadget code may be outside the scope of Bugzilla as it's more of a policy/social question rather than a

[Wikitech-l] Deploymight highlights - week of December 16th

2013-12-13 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the deployment highlights email. You can always check the Deployment calendar [0] for the canonical reference of deployments planned during a given week. For next week: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_December_16 !!!Special

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Bug 57891] Review and deploy GlobalCssJs extension

2013-12-13 Thread MZMcBride
legoktm wrote: For those not familiar with the history of global js/css, there currently is a bot run by a steward[2] which creates common.js pages importing the user's global.js upon request. This is mainly used by users in the SWMT[3] to do things like enable global Twinkle[4]. While this method

[Wikitech-l] Deployment. Deployment. Deployment. Re: Deploymight highlights - week of December 16th

2013-12-13 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Contrary to the subject, these deploy*ments* are indeed planned to happen, not just in a maybe or might status. Happy Friday, Greg quote name=Greg Grossmeier date=2013-12-13 time=16:50:15 -0800 Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the deployment highlights email. You can always check

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deploymight highlights - week of December 16th

2013-12-13 Thread MZMcBride
Greg Grossmeier wrote: * There will be a new version of PHP deployed to the Wikimedia servers on Monday as well. This should not change any user-facing actions (this update will help deal with a server problem where temporary files are not deleted when appropriate). Is there more specific

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please use sitenotice when a new version of software is deployed

2013-12-13 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 12/06/2013 08:51 PM, Daniel Friesen wrote: And the MediaWiki development community is separate from Wikimedia and consists of more than just people developing features intended for the Wiki[pm]edia community. I do not believe it should be the responsibility of volunteer MediaWiki community

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deploymight highlights - week of December 16th

2013-12-13 Thread Brian Wolff
On 12/13/13, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Greg Grossmeier wrote: * There will be a new version of PHP deployed to the Wikimedia servers on Monday as well. This should not change any user-facing actions (this update will help deal with a server problem where temporary files are not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deploymight highlights - week of December 16th

2013-12-13 Thread Bryan Davis
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 6:13 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Greg Grossmeier wrote: * The GLAM Wiki Toolset[3] will be enabled on Commons, allowing for GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to more easily upload bulk collections of images with associated

[Wikitech-l] Upcoming deployment of GWToolset MediaWiki extension to Wikimedia Commons

2013-12-13 Thread MZMcBride
Splitting this out to a separate thread. Description page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GWToolset Bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56181 Gerrit change set: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/101061 Bryan Davis wrote: GWToolset will only be usable by users in the new

[Wikitech-l] Spamming in mailing lists

2013-12-13 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Hello, public mailing lists (even sometimes private ones) are target of non-stop spamming. Some mailing lists decided to discard any mails from non-members (that is not good, LGBT mailing has recently decided this but admins were have to do it because of spams and they don't want this) but some

Re: [Wikitech-l] Spamming in mailing lists

2013-12-13 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Recent discussion of this is at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/56525 TL;DR: we have spamassassin but configuration is tricky; if you're a tech-inclined list admin, play with your list's X-Spam-Score config and let others know on bugzilla what worked. Nemo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Spamming in mailing lists

2013-12-13 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
We can run an analyze on known spams (that we are receiving) and ordinary mails and see what's the best score. Don't need an admin access and wait and see which score is better. i.e. I've admin access in several mailing lists but I don't like to test on them like lab rat Best On 12/14/13,