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

2014-06-24 Thread Tilman Bayer
Minutes and slides from last Thursday's quarterly review of the Foundation's Editing (formerly VisualEditor) team are now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Editing/June_2014 . (A separate but related quarterly review meeting of the

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

2014-06-24 Thread Andre Klapper
/Bug_management/Triage/20140624 For more information on triaging in general and what that means, check out https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage See you there? andre [1] Timezone converter: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html [2] See http

[Wikitech-l] What namespaces should we use when we use them

2014-06-24 Thread Bryan Davis
Chris Steipp submitted a patch add namespaces to the OAuth extension [0] in order to fix a compatibility issue with HHVM [1]. This change led to a bit of bikeshedding on the proper namespace to use for the extension. Chris initially chose `MWOAuth` but later amended to use

Re: [Wikitech-l] What namespaces should we use when we use them

2014-06-24 Thread Jack Phoenix
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Bryan Davis bd...@wikimedia.org wrote: Chris initially chose `MWOAuth` but later amended to use `MediaWiki\Extensions\OAuth` at my suggestion. [...] I suggested MediaWiki\Extensions\OAuth because it seems like the most natural naming to me. +2.

[Wikitech-l] Browser tests for core

2014-06-24 Thread Chris Steipp
I just +2'ed a change to add a few basic selenium tests to core [1]. I think it will benefit us all to have a set of automated tests to quickly make sure mediawiki is working correctly. From a security perspective, this also takes a step towards more efficient security testing, which I'm also a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Browser tests for core

2014-06-24 Thread James Forrester
On 24 June 2014 15:46, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote: I just +2'ed a change to add a few basic selenium tests to core [1]. I think it will benefit us all to have a set of automated tests to quickly make sure mediawiki is working correctly. ​Great news; thank you all! J. -- James

Re: [Wikitech-l] Browser tests for core

2014-06-24 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Nice work guys! One slight issue though. The user Selenium_user (as set in environment_variables) was just indefinitely blocked on en.wiki :( Ryan Kaldari On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote: I just +2'ed a change to add a few basic selenium tests to core

Re: [Wikitech-l] Browser tests for core

2014-06-24 Thread Greg Grossmeier
quote name=Ryan Kaldari date=2014-06-24 time=15:56:31 -0700 Nice work guys! One slight issue though. The user Selenium_user (as set in environment_variables) was just indefinitely blocked on en.wiki :( That shouldn't affect these tests. These run on your local box/vagrant. -- | Greg

Re: [Wikitech-l] Browser tests for core

2014-06-24 Thread Chris McMahon
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: Nice work guys! One slight issue though. The user Selenium_user (as set in environment_variables) was just indefinitely blocked on en.wiki :( Yes, and I think we should keep it that way. See my msg. to the mobile-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Browser tests for core

2014-06-24 Thread Dan Duvall
Thanks for reviewing that, Chris! Chris McMahon did most of the hard work there, porting everything from qa/browsertests into core. I was glad to help on the Vagrant side of things, though: I have a mediawiki-vagrant commit standing by that will do all the heavy heavy installation lifting that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Browser tests for core

2014-06-24 Thread Risker
On 24 June 2014 18:56, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: Nice work guys! One slight issue though. The user Selenium_user (as set in environment_variables) was just indefinitely blocked on en.wiki :( Sorry to be a bit OT, but if you guys are going to test, please don't do it in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Browser tests for core

2014-06-24 Thread Brian Wolff
On Jun 24, 2014 9:05 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 June 2014 18:56, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: Nice work guys! One slight issue though. The user Selenium_user (as set in environment_variables) was just indefinitely blocked on en.wiki :( Sorry to be a bit

Re: [Wikitech-l] Browser tests for core

2014-06-24 Thread Dan Garry
On 24 June 2014 17:05, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry to be a bit OT, but if you guys are going to test, please don't do it in article space on enwiki, or this is what is going to happen to the accounts. We've had to almost kick WMF staff off enwiki before because they kept testing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Browser tests for core

2014-06-24 Thread Chris Steipp
On Jun 24, 2014 6:13 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 24 June 2014 17:05, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry to be a bit OT, but if you guys are going to test, please don't do it in article space on enwiki, or this is what is going to happen to the accounts. We've had

Re: [Wikitech-l] What namespaces should we use when we use them

2014-06-24 Thread Tim Starling
On 25/06/14 07:30, Bryan Davis wrote: I suggested MediaWiki\Extensions\OAuth because it seems like the most natural naming to me. PSR-4 [2] is very opinionated about namespaces. It requires a top-level (or vendor) namespace. I chose MediaWiki because ... MediaWiki. Beyond that sub-namespaces

[Wikitech-l] Including NS_MAIN in $wgNamespacesWithSubpages by default

2014-06-24 Thread MZMcBride
Hi. Re: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgNamespacesWithSubpages Is there a reason NS_MAIN is not included in $wgNamespacesWithSubpages by default? My understanding is that historically NS_MAIN wasn't included in this array because the English Wikipedia and others don't use subpages in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Including NS_MAIN in $wgNamespacesWithSubpages by default

2014-06-24 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: Current default: --- $wgNamespacesWithSubpages = array( NS_TALK = true, NS_USER = true, NS_USER_TALK = true, NS_PROJECT = true, NS_PROJECT_TALK = true, NS_FILE_TALK = true, NS_MEDIAWIKI = true, NS_MEDIAWIKI_TALK = true, NS_TEMPLATE_TALK = true,

[Wikitech-l] Summer contractors for Multimedia

2014-06-24 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi folks, I just wanted to provide a brief (and belated) announcement regarding some added help we've enlisted over the summer on the Multimedia team. Brian Wolff has been doing little bits of contracting work over the course of his school year (as well as a lot of volunteer development), and