Re: [Wikitech-l] ANN: Version 2.0.0 of the Memento MediaWiki Extension

2014-06-17 Thread Benjamin Lees
Congratulations on this milestone, Shawn, and thanks to you and your team for all your hard work. :) On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Shawn Jones sj...@cs.odu.edu wrote: All, Thanks to the feedback of developers from this list (wikitech-l), version 2.0.0 of the Memento time travel

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting phpunit working with Vagrant

2014-06-17 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 1:10 AM, Dan Duvall dduv...@wikimedia.org wrote: would also work, but on my system just `vagrant status` takes 1s which is not horrible, but is noticeable when run so often. For that reason i went for a check that could operate without booting ruby and loading

[Wikitech-l] Bugday on older MediaWiki bugs with high priority set on Tue, June 24 2014, 17:00UTC

2014-06-17 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi everybody, you are invited to join us on the next Bugday: Tuesday, June 24, 2014, 17:00 to 18:30UTC [1] in #wikimedia-office on Freenode IRC [2] We will be triaging open Bugzilla tickets under the product MediaWiki which have high priority set for more than one year. Everyone is

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-17 Thread S Page
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: I personally find the topic history page[4] to be horrendous, both ugly and nearly unusable. We're going to revise topic history. Yes, I'm probably atypical in that I like reading wikitext diffs for

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to Keep Track of Template Values Across a Wikipedia?

2014-06-17 Thread Maximilian Klein
Ricordisamoa, That's a clever idea. It's not exactly what the Abuse Filter is for, but I made a request for that tag anyway. Thanks for the idea. Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/ On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote: If the Abuse filter is

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to Keep Track of Template Values Across a Wikipedia?

2014-06-17 Thread Maximilian Klein
John, and John, Using the External URL search is a good idea. I think I'm going to do this on the database replicas too. Thanks for the tips. Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/ On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:25 PM, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, taking a closer look all you need to

[Wikitech-l] Separating Special:MyLanguage from Extension:Collection

2014-06-17 Thread Matthew Walker
Today, Kaldari wanted to have translate enabled on foundationwiki so that Special:MyLanguage was available, but that would fall afoul of bug:44871 [1]. This is not a unique request, fundraising also has some use for MyLanguage features on wikis that don't have (and wont have) translate. Are there

Re: [Wikitech-l] Separating Special:MyLanguage from Extension:Collection

2014-06-17 Thread Max Semenik
The page looks kinda small and useful, so why not just move it into core? On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.org wrote: Today, Kaldari wanted to have translate enabled on foundationwiki so that Special:MyLanguage was available, but that would fall afoul of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Separating Special:MyLanguage from Extension:Collection

2014-06-17 Thread Ryan Kaldari
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.org wrote: Today, Kaldari wanted to have translate enabled on foundationwiki so that Special:MyLanguage was available, but that would fall afoul of bug:44871 [1]. This is not a unique request, fundraising also has some use for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Separating Special:MyLanguage from Extension:Collection

2014-06-17 Thread MZMcBride
Matthew Walker wrote: Today, Kaldari wanted to have translate enabled on foundationwiki so that Special:MyLanguage was available, but that would fall afoul of bug:44871 [1]. This is not a unique request, fundraising also has some use for MyLanguage features on wikis that don't have (and wont have)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Separating Special:MyLanguage from Extension:Collection

2014-06-17 Thread Ryan Kaldari
The specific need is that I want to set the 'Mobile-frontend-terms-url' message to '//m.wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Terms_of_Use' via the WikimediaMessages extension, so that people clicking the 'Terms of Use' link at the bottom of the page will get sent to the Terms of Use in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Separating Special:MyLanguage from Extension:Collection

2014-06-17 Thread Matthew Walker
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:49 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Can someone explain why Special:MyLanguage is needed on wikimediafoundation.org? I don't know why Kaldari wants it. But Fundraising can use it for our thank you page. We would like to give a redirect like

[Wikitech-l] Finding images

2014-06-17 Thread Lars Aronsson
Why is it still, now in 2014, so hard to find images? We have categories and descriptions, but we also know they don't describe all that we want to find in an image. If I need an image with a bicycle and some red flowers, I can only go to the category:bicycles and hope that I'm lucky when

Re: [Wikitech-l] Separating Special:MyLanguage from Extension:Collection

2014-06-17 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 06/17/2014 08:57 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: The specific need is that I want to set the 'Mobile-frontend-terms-url' message to '//m.wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Terms_of_Use' via the WikimediaMessages extension, so that people clicking the 'Terms of Use' link at the bottom of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Finding images

2014-06-17 Thread Tim Starling
On 18/06/14 11:13, Lars Aronsson wrote: Why is it still, now in 2014, so hard to find images? We have categories and descriptions, but we also know they don't describe all that we want to find in an image. If I need an image with a bicycle and some red flowers, I can only go to the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Finding images

2014-06-17 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Now that ONLY indicates that stock agencies have a similar problem to Commons, it does not help finding images or indicates a path we could take to improve things. When images are gaining tags as part of the Wikidatification of multi mediafiles we at least have a way to add multi lingual

Re: [Wikitech-l] Finding images

2014-06-17 Thread Rayson Ho
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: Why is it still, now in 2014, so hard to find images? We have categories and descriptions, but we also know they don't describe all that we want to find in an image. If I need an image with a bicycle and some red flowers,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Finding images

2014-06-17 Thread MZMcBride
Lars Aronsson wrote: Why is it still, now in 2014, so hard to find images? We have categories and descriptions, but we also know they don't describe all that we want to find in an image. If I need an image with a bicycle and some red flowers, I can only go to the category:bicycles and hope that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Finding images

2014-06-17 Thread Lars Aronsson
On 06/18/2014 06:14 AM, MZMcBride wrote: If you search for 'incategory:Red flowers', you can find pictures in only that category. If you search for 'incategory:Red flowers incategory:Bicycles', you can see the intersection of these two categories. (No results currently, alas.) This requires

Re: [Wikitech-l] Finding images

2014-06-17 Thread MZMcBride
Lars Aronsson wrote: On 06/18/2014 06:14 AM, MZMcBride wrote: If you search for 'incategory:Red flowers', you can find pictures in only that category. If you search for 'incategory:Red flowers incategory:Bicycles', you can see the intersection of these two categories. (No results currently,