[Wikitech-l] Search results on English Wikipedia not updating

2014-06-03 Thread ENWP Pine
Hi, It appears that suggested search results are not being updated on English Wikipedia. The article [[Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014]] doesn't appear in suggested search results when I type "Veterans Health Administration", and when I searched earlier today "VA scandal" in sug

[Wikitech-l] RFC: Composer managed libraries for use on WMF cluster

2014-06-03 Thread Bryan Davis
I have converted my email on using composer to manage a set of library dependencies for MediaWiki-Core [0] into an RFC [1]. Work is continuing on the implementation of this project, but there are still debatable implementation details and the RFC process is meant to not only validate ideas but leav

Re: [Wikitech-l] Search results on English Wikipedia not updating

2014-06-03 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 00:59 -0700, ENWP Pine wrote: > It appears that suggested search results are not being updated on > English Wikipedia. See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66011 andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

Re: [Wikitech-l] Accessing current template information on wiki commons description page

2014-06-03 Thread james harvey
Sorry for the email spam. Worked through it, I think. Not too familiar with wiki internals. :-) This particular page doesn't have the content I'm looking for in it. It references a template which is used by a few other versions of the same image, presumably so the data can be stored once and b

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unclear Meaning of $baseRevId in WikiPage::doEditContent

2014-06-03 Thread Adam Wight
It looks like we should leave the existing hook parameters values alone for the moment, but it would improve the situation if we renamed variables which seem to be overloaded or unclear, in MediaWiki core and in FlaggedRevs. What do you think of the following conventions, 'oldid' (index.php param

Re: [Wikitech-l] Accessing current template information on wiki commons description page

2014-06-03 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
Actually, what you really seem to want is to make use of iiprop=extmetadata, which is an API that makes use of https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Machine-readable_data included in the various templates. The MultimediaViewer project also uses this API. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.ph

[Wikitech-l] learning Ops infrastructure (was: Re: 404 errors)

2014-06-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Hi, Pine. I, too, am interested in building our understanding of our TechOps infrastructure. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Presentations has some explanations of some parts, as does http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/ . I welcome more links to guides/overviews. At the recent Zurich hackathon, other d

Re: [Wikitech-l] new auth/debug/Zero RfCs, + adding more office hours

2014-06-03 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > * I'm going to make more of an effort to invite specific people from > diverse disciplines to RfC discussions, e.g., [...] > design/product people for user-visible changes I suggest also inviting actual users for user-visible chang

Re: [Wikitech-l] [ImageMap] Looking for a reviewer: Link directly to media file when [[Media:...]] namespace is used within an imagemap.

2014-06-03 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 02/06/2014 17:00, Remco de Boer a écrit : > Hi, > > I'm looking for someone to review and (hopefully) accept a very small (3 > line) patch I wrote for the ImageMap extension. The patch improves the > behavior of image maps with links to [[Media:...]] files. Instead of > linking to the image pag

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using Composer to manage libraries for mediawiki/core on Jenkins and Foundation cluster

2014-06-03 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, As for the accusation that the current approach favors the WMF, it's almost > not worth responding to. > It seems like what James is getting at is the core community, not the WMF. The problem being that several people seem to thing that the concerns raised are "not relevant" and "not worth r

[Wikitech-l] Upcoming changes to GuidedTour extension

2014-06-03 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 06/02/2014 08:16 PM, Steven Walling wrote: GuidedTour's backend has also undergone a major refactor, which is close to being merged. This is described in full at the commit, which is just waiting on us to update logging: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/116228/ As Steven noted, you should

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives

2014-06-03 Thread Tilman Bayer
Minutes and slides from last week's quarterly review of the Foundation's Mobile Contributions team are now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Mobile_contributions/May_2014 . On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > Hi folks

[Wikitech-l] HTML templating decision soon?

2014-06-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Hi everyone, We've been talking about the HTML templating RFC since the Architecture Summit in January. And in the Mobile quarterly review the other day, they said - see https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AMobile_Web_%26_App_Quarterly_Review_05-2014.pdf&page=62 - that they would

Re: [Wikitech-l] Accessing current template information on wiki commons description page

2014-06-03 Thread Krinkle
The link Derk-Jan mentioned is a great resource indeed. However consumption of that data (mostly HTML structures) isn't very straight forward in most programming languages. A tool has been written to, until we have a better way in the MediaWIki software, expose this information: https://common

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Huggle] Huggle 3 released / Mac people needed

2014-06-03 Thread James Alexander
I'm going to be playing around over the next couple days trying to build a mac installer/dmg if anyone wants to help test it let me know (I'll post here when I have a beta too). James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Mon, Jun 2, 2014

[Wikitech-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] Upcoming jQuery upgrade: Removing jQuery Migrate

2014-06-03 Thread Krinkle
Hey all, TL;DR: * We did not make the breaking change last week for Wikimedia; it is postponed. * MediaWiki 1.24.0 will ship with jQuery Migrate switched off. * Wikimedia & non-Wikimedia wikis can enable jQuery Migrate if needed. * When MediaWiki 1.24 is released, we will switch off jQuery Migrate

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming jQuery upgrade (breaking change)

2014-06-03 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 05/14/2014 01:07 PM, Siebrand Mazeland wrote: Op 14 mei 2014 om 14:58 heeft Krinkle het volgende geschreven: I don't think it is possible or worth the effort to scan for these in an automated fashion within Jenkins. Static analysis is virtually impossible due to the method names being t

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming jQuery upgrade (breaking change)

2014-06-03 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 05/22/2014 09:25 PM, James Forrester wrote: Possibly, though I would suggest that it is not loaded by default. Frankly if an extension's authors have abandoned their extension to the extent that after several years' clear warning and a six month-long notice period they still didn't do a relati

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming jQuery upgrade (breaking change)

2014-06-03 Thread James Forrester
On 3 June 2014 17:01, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > On 05/22/2014 09:25 PM, James Forrester wrote: > >> Possibly, though I would suggest that it is not loaded by default. Frankly >> if an extension's authors have abandoned their extension to the extent >> that >> after several years' clear warning an

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML templating decision soon?

2014-06-03 Thread S Page
On Jun 3, 2014 2:56 PM, "Sumana Harihareswara" wrote: > Some folks were testing [Knockoff] > out and need to report back to the list with their verdicts. Who? Tell us more! > In the > meantime, some developers (such as the Mobile and Flow teams) have > short-term needs that can't wait up for Kno