Re: [Wikitech-l] question about standardized thumbnail sizes

I would be in favor of waiting to see if the ongoing work described by Gergo is sufficient to address Ops' issues before doing something with the thumbnail size standardization RfC. It came to be due to operational costs, but if thumbnail rendering becomes a lot faster (thanks to bucketing, for exa

Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of July 7th

> > == Monday == > > * The mobile team will be submitting iOS app to AppStore > ** There's an unknown review timeline from Apple This was pushed back to July 14th, per: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2014-June/007485.html Told you there'd be more churn than normal :) Greg --

[Wikitech-l] Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of July 7th

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap and Deployment update. This a special "early in the week" edition, so there might be more changes to the below plan than normal. The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at:

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

Ryan Kaldari recently wrote and said it was OK for me to forward: "The Mobile web team finally dedicated some time to investigating Gabriel's Knockoff-Tassembly templating system. Specifically, I was tasked with answering the questions at https://trello.com/c/lYfyzs8A/6-spike-explore-knockoff-temp

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special:Search returning errors on English Wikipedia

I started IE and Special:Search worked there but was still failing for me in Firefox. After restarting Firefox search worked normally. I hope the search gnomes have found something else to do. Pine On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Nikolas Everett wrote: > Hmmm - its working for me. The first c

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special:Search returning errors on English Wikipedia

Hmmm - its working for me. The first couple of times I tried it was slow but it worked. I tried both search engine options (BetaFeature and default) and a bunch of different search options. We don't have good logs for the default search and that error message looks like it came from there. If i

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special:Search returning errors on English Wikipedia

I'll have a look at it. On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Florian Schmidt < florian.schmidt.wel...@t-online.de> wrote: > Hello! > > Is working for me. I have only opened your link in Google chrome and > searched for "Android" (search suggestions working, too) and click ok. > After this I see the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special:Search returning errors on English Wikipedia

Hello! Is working for me. I have only opened your link in Google chrome and searched for "Android" (search suggestions working, too) and click ok. After this I see the result page. Can you try to delete cache and cookies? What browser you use? Kind regards Florian Freundliche Grüße Florian -

[Wikitech-l] Special:Search returning errors on English Wikipedia

I am unable to search using any of the options on https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search This came to my attention when a user reported that they were unable to search English Wikipedia's help files. It turns out that none of the "advanced", "everything", "multimedia", or "conte

Re: [Wikitech-l] Discontinue internet explorer 6 and 7 support

Oh ok but all china needs is basic functions like editing and reading the page. and it would speed up the website because it would take less time to load the page on newer browsers then older ones. On Tuesday, 1 July 2014, 4:01, Daniel Norton wrote: On Jun 30, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Thomas M