[Wikitech-l] GSoC '14 Query

Hi all, This is a query regarding GSoC '14. I'm proficient in Hindi and English. I also am a hobbyist web developer and am quite familiar with HTML/CSS/JavaScript. I wanted to know about the projects I can do as a part of translation for GSoC 2014. Where do I start? Thanks in advance. Regards,

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC '14 Query

Hi, On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 18:41 +0530, Narendra Nath Joshi wrote: Hi all, This is a query regarding GSoC '14. I'm proficient in Hindi and English. I also am a hobbyist web developer and am quite familiar with HTML/CSS/JavaScript. I wanted to know about the projects I can do as a part of

[Wikitech-l] How to retrieve current wiki time

There is StartTimestamp property used in edit api, which should contain the time, when you started editing the page. This timestamp needs to be in same timezone as wiki is. How do you get current wiki time, so that you can either calculate the timezone or use the time? For example: 1) Get

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to retrieve current wiki time

On Feb 26, 2014 9:14 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: How do you get current wiki time, so that you can either calculate the timezone or use the time? How about using basetimestamp instead? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php says: basetimestamp - Timestamp of the base revision

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to retrieve current wiki time

I am already doing that but I need to resolve conflict in new page. There is no talk page for a user. I am sending a warning to this user. If some other user with faster internet write that talk page faster than me, I will overwrite it effectively deleting his message (because there is no base

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to retrieve current wiki time

There is also param 'createonly' - Don't edit the page if it exists already -Niklas ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to retrieve current wiki time

The starttimestamp is returned when you query prop=infointoken=edit. Note the returned timestamp should always be in UTC, formatted in ISO 8601 format (e.g. 2014-02-26T15:01:37Z). On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: I am already doing that but I need to

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to retrieve current wiki time

On Feb 26, 2014 10:09 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: Note the returned timestamp should always be in UTC, formatted in ISO 8601 format (e.g. 2014-02-26T15:01:37Z). Speaking of timestamp format, examples in api.php seem wrong for basetimestamp. The examples use entirely

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to retrieve current wiki time

HA That is very useful and it kind of makes the start useless. Combination of base and createonly seems to fit all scenarios to me On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: There is also param 'createonly' - Don't edit the page if it exists already

[Wikitech-l] TitleValue reloaded

I have just pushed a new version of the TitleValue patch to Gerrit: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/106517. I have also updated the RDF to reflect the latest changes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/TitleValue. Please have a look. I have tried to address several issues with

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to retrieve current wiki time

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.comwrote: Speaking of timestamp format, examples in api.php seem wrong for basetimestamp. The examples use entirely numeric timestamp like you get when paging through [[special:log]] (in browser not API) The format returned by

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to retrieve current wiki time

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: HA That [createonly param] is very useful and it kind of makes the start useless. Combination of base and createonly seems to fit all scenarios to me starttimestamp should also handle the case where the page was created

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

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: span class=text-decoration:overline;q/span I guess the PDF generator does not support that CSS :-/ Is it possible to rewrite the templates to use the proper unicode characters instead? That would make a bunch of things

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

Three technical questions about https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/Homepage_redesign/Preview Are there ways to show the banner and features to new visitors while hiding them to regular visitors?

Re: [Wikitech-l] WikiConference USA May 30-June 1, scholarships available

Reminder: the deadline to ask for funding help to get to Wiki Conference USA is in 2 days (Feb 28). -Sumana Harihareswara On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: You can now submit tutorial or talk proposals for WikiConference USA, and you can

Re: [Wikitech-l] Password Hash

Hey, I just stumbled across this wrapper [0] for the password functions introduced in PHP 5.5. Figured this stuff is also relevant in the discussion. [0] https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat [1] http://de1.php.net/password Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic.

[Wikitech-l] Primerpedia updated

Hi all! Some of you might remember my previous anouncementhttp://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/321799of the Primerpedia proof of concept for the Concise Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Concise_Wikipedia proposal on meta. After a long while, I finally implemented a basic

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

On 2/26/14, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Are there ways to show the banner and features to new visitors while hiding them to regular visitors? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MediaWiki/Homepage_redesign/Preview#What_can_you_see_without_scrolling You would have to go a bit into the