Re: [Wikitech-l] one framework for *all* of that

2014-02-24 Thread Gabriel Wicke
On 02/24/2014 10:52 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: > Its not neccesarily > agreed that having support for magic wiki-text altering templates on the > mediawiki level is a good thing. As far as i am aware, nobody is currently > trying to make a framework for that use case on the mediawiki level (beyond > ge

Re: [Wikitech-l] one framework for *all* of that

2014-02-24 Thread Brian Wolff
On Feb 25, 2014 12:55 AM, "Gryllida" wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, at 5:29, Mark Holmquist wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 01:35:33AM +1100, Gryllida wrote: > > > ... With this in mind I would personally encourage heavy collaboration of all teams to build a framework which lets people script

[Wikitech-l] Feedback for mediawiki api development course on codecademy.

2014-02-24 Thread Diwanshi Pandey
Hello everyone, I am Diwanshi Pandey, an OPW intern. I'd like to have your feedback on the course I have created on codecademy for mediawiki api with help of my mentor Yuri Astrakhan. A little insight: The course is about parsing and querying mediawiki api. Initially we created one course which i

Re: [Wikitech-l] We're in: GSoC 2014 and FOSS OPW round 8

2014-02-24 Thread Rahul Maliakkal
Great work Quim again!!! Regards, Rahul On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:59 AM, Harsh Kothari wrote: > Hi Quim > > Wow its awesome news. > > Kudos to you Quim :) > > Cheers > Harsh > > > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Quim Gil wrote: > > > Google has just announced the organizations accepted

[Wikitech-l] one framework for *all* of that

2014-02-24 Thread Gryllida
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, at 5:29, Mark Holmquist wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 01:35:33AM +1100, Gryllida wrote: > > ... With this in mind I would personally encourage heavy collaboration of > > all teams to build a framework which lets people script the MediaWiki > > software including media view

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Design] Preview of the proposal for MediaWiki Homepage

2014-02-24 Thread bawolff
> - > > > > > > What's the Publish/Discuss/Translate/etc blocks for? They look like > > > navigation but don't seem to go anywhere or correspond to anything. > > > > They attempt to summarize the best features that MediaWiki can offer. > > Indeed, there are no detailed product descriptions to link

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preview of the proposal for MediaWiki Homepage

2014-02-24 Thread Arcane 21
The picture at the top and most of the other icons need shrunk a little, and the page needs to fit more items together (it looks rather spaced out), but I do like the icon choices. It would also benefit from some more frames to separate the page sections IMO. Otherwise, looks great. :) > From:

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader timing

2014-02-24 Thread Steffen Beyer
Thanks for your comprehensive answer! On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:45:58 -0800, Trevor Parscal wrote: > Looking at the timeline when loading the page, it appears that it is > initially drawn incorrectly, and then there is something that causes a > reflow about a second later which corrects it. Sure, wh

[Wikitech-l] Preview of the proposal for MediaWiki Homepage

2014-02-24 Thread Brena Monteiro
Hello everyone, I would like to invite you to take a look the preview [1] of MediaWiki Homepage. Your opinion, contribution and help are very welcome. Thank you. Best regards, [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/Homepage_redesign/Preview Brena Monteiro +55 27 98109 0123 @monteirobrena

Re: [Wikitech-l] We're in: GSoC 2014 and FOSS OPW round 8

2014-02-24 Thread Harsh Kothari
Hi Quim Wow its awesome news. Kudos to you Quim :) Cheers Harsh On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Quim Gil wrote: > Google has just announced the organizations accepted in Google Summer of > Code 2014. Wikimedia is one of them. Please fasten your belts. > > http://www.google-melange.com/gs

[Wikitech-l] We're in: GSoC 2014 and FOSS OPW round 8

2014-02-24 Thread Quim Gil
Google has just announced the organizations accepted in Google Summer of Code 2014. Wikimedia is one of them. Please fasten your belts. http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/list/public/google/gsoc2014 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014 We will organize in parallel our pa

[Wikitech-l] [IRC issues] Servers one can use to get rid of flaky Freenode

2014-02-24 Thread Pratik Lahoti
Hi all, Freenode IRC is experiencing some issues again, as it was a day ago. I came to know about some servers on #freenode and they seem to be working fine. I could remain connected while everyone else got disconnected. You can add the following servers for Freenode to the list: 1. kornbluth.fr

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-24 Thread Chris Steipp
I know a few people who will be happy if they can keep running on stock rhel6 (5.3). That would also mean epel can package 1.23. After 1.19 is when we went to 5.3, so I think following president is good too. On Feb 23, 2014 6:04 PM, "Chad" wrote: > +1 here as well. Let's look at this for 1.24 :)

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Multimedia] Poll - would you like to see more traffic related to the Multimedia team's day-to-day work on this list?

2014-02-24 Thread Gryllida
Dear all, -- Like with all other development, I find a need in more documentation of the plans and of the currently active things. For example, VisualEditor has nothing to help me comprehend its code-base than the source code itself; it had only been a jamesf's line

[Wikitech-l] Scheduled MediaWiki release and known issues

2014-02-24 Thread Markus Glaser
Hello list, there is a scheduled maintenance release of MediaWiki on Thursday, 27th of February. I would like to take the opportunity to point you to the list of known issues [1]. Maybe we can get a few of those fixed until mid of the week? Best, Markus [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reporting a bug with the creation of pdf Files with equations

2014-02-24 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 13/02/2014 01:59, Daniel a écrit : > Sadly, upon trying to create a pdf (using the otherwise genius > Print/export feature) of a page that involves lines above letters > (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mesons) the lines above > letters (here essential to indicate the difference betwee

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lower-resolution .ogv video transcodes coming

2014-02-24 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 21/02/2014 15:07, bawolff a écrit : > Looks like this actually adds them to the queue all at once - 23,386 > 160p videos queued, 11,745 160p transcodes already done (!), which > means about 85% of all videos are either already transcoded to 160p, > or in the queue. Hello, I am wondering whethe

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unlicking the cookie: "ExtensionStatus" extension

2014-02-24 Thread Brian Wolff
On Feb 24, 2014 3:13 AM, "Thomas Gries" wrote: > > Am 23.02.2014 02:22, schrieb Moriel: >> >> https://github.com/mooeypoo/MediaWiki-ExtensionStatus >> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ExtensionStatus >> ... >> >> So, does anyone want to join in and help revisit the code? >> > It appears