Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC meeting this week

Summary and meeting logs of these RfC s discussed last week: RfC: Extension management with Composer https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T467#7 RfC: CentralNotice backend improvements https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T468#7 PS: Phabricator registration is still disabled, but if you want todiscus

[Wikitech-l] State of the DumpHTML extension

The DumpHTML extension looks like it's in a pretty bad state, it doesn't work at all in the current version of MediaWiki. This seems to be an unfortunate symptom of how it's used and how it's treated by core developers. DumpHTML is most useful when someone is shutting down and archiving their wi

Re: [Wikitech-l] IRC bots for phab

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:13 AM, K. Peachey wrote: > I have no idea where that is coming from, specifically since there was no > mention of creating accounts and the Login page clearly mentions using LDAP > credentials to log in. Petan attended part of the phab meeting last Wednesday and raised

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.19.19, 1.22.11 and 1.23.4

Adding the space to includes/XmlTypeCheck.php before applying the patch worked. Thank you! On 26 September 2014 19:23, Grunny wrote: > It's because there's a leading space before the tab in front of the comment > here: > https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fcore.git/REL1_19/includes%2FXmlTy

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2014.09 release

Hello all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2014.09. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.23.x and MediaWiki 1.22.x releases. * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.09.tar.bz2 * sha256sum: 9cfdc7d4fc87b4cd

[Wikitech-l] Damon Sicore joins WMF as Vice President of Engineering

Dear all, We are excited to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation now has a Vice President of Engineering. Damon Sicore will be filling this vital role. Please join us in welcoming him to the team. The VPE role will be crucial to further developing and maintaining the technology that supports th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Scribunto's "Allow saving code with errors" option

On 28 September 2014 20:17, Jackmcbarn wrote: > Scribunto has an option to allow code to be saved even if it contains > syntax errors that prevent it from ever working. The original reason for > this feature was to make it more convenient to save incomplete code. > However, in practice, this has

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Scribunto's "Allow saving code with errors" option

Just for info the gerrit change: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/160367/ Freundliche Grüße / Kind regards Florian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von James Forrester Gesendet: Montag, 29.

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Damon Sicore joins WMF as Vice President of Engineering

On 29 September 2014 13:38, Lila Tretikov wrote: > We are excited to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation now has a Vice > President of Engineering. Damon Sicore will be filling this vital role. > Please join us in welcoming him to the team. > ​Welcome, Damon. Looking forward to working with y

[Wikitech-l] Bug day: Book tool/Collection/PDF, 2014-10-08, 14–22 UTC

Hello, Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day: **2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia-tech on Freenode IRC.[2] We will be triaging bug reports for the Collection extension (Book tool) in general and PDF export in particular, which were just switched to a new backend (OCG).[3]

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Scribunto's "Allow saving code with errors" option

So how much broken Lua is out there in the wild on WMF wikis? On 29 September 2014 01:17, Jackmcbarn wrote: > Scribunto has an option to allow code to be saved even if it contains > syntax errors that prevent it from ever working. The original reason for > this feature was to make it more conveni

Re: [Wikitech-l] Individual Engagement Grant funding available

En español: A todos, Este es un recordatorio de que solicitudes serán aceptados hasta el 30 de septiembre. In English: All, This is a reminder that applications will be accepted until September 30. Other announcement translations may be found by clicking the links below: বাংলা

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Damon Sicore joins WMF as Vice President of Engineering

Good news! Damon, a warm welcome to Wikimedia and to these lists. Sam On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Lila Tretikov wrote: > Dear all, > > We are excited to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation now has a Vice > President of Engineering. Damon Sicore will be filling this vital role. > Please j

[Wikitech-l] Outreach Program for Women/Round 9

Hello, My name is Roxana and I am an engineering student at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania. I would like to be part of MediaWiki open-source community and participate in the Outreach Program for Women round 9. The project that interests me is Wikipedia article translation metrics

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Outreach Program for Women/Round 9

Hi Roxana, I am forwarding your email to Quim, who helps to organizw our OPW program. Pine -- Forwarded message -- From: Roxana Necula Date: Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 2:39 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Outreach Program for Women/Round 9 To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Hello, My name

Re: [Wikitech-l] Outreach Program for Women/Round 9

On 9/29/14, Roxana Necula wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Roxana and I am an engineering student at the Polytechnic > University of Bucharest, Romania. > I would like to be part of MediaWiki open-source community and participate > in the Outreach Program for Women round 9. > The project that intere

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Scribunto's "Allow saving code with errors" option

Very little. Currently, enwiki has one broken module [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Scribunto_modules_with_errors] and dewiki has none [ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Wikipedia:Modul_mit_Syntaxfehler]. On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 2:16 PM, David Gerard wrote: > So how much broken

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Scribunto's "Allow saving code with errors" option

Jackmcbarn wrote: >Scribunto has an option to allow code to be saved even if it contains >syntax errors that prevent it from ever working. The original reason for >this feature was to make it more convenient to save incomplete code. >However, in practice, this has never been used for its intended p

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Scribunto's "Allow saving code with errors" option

There are no false positives at all, since it tests it by actually loading it into Lua. I think a total disallow is warranted because letting the page be saved with such an error means that the entire module is 100% useless (and will break every page that uses it) until someone fixes it. Jackmcba

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Scribunto's "Allow saving code with errors" option

Jackmcbarn wrote: >There are no false positives at all, since it tests it by actually loading >it into Lua. Does the checkbox currently only allow overriding the type of error that would completely prevent execution of a module? I encounter a lot of code linters and syntax highlighters that mess u

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Scribunto's "Allow saving code with errors" option

+1 On Sep 29, 2014, at 19:38 , James Forrester wrote: > On 28 September 2014 20:17, Jackmcbarn wrote: > >> Scribunto has an option to allow code to be saved even if it contains >> syntax errors that prevent it from ever working. The original reason for >> this feature was to make it more conve

Re: [Wikitech-l] FOSDEM deadlines

Just a reminder: the deadline for FOSDEM main track proposals is tomorrow, October 1. On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Quim Gil wrote: > Hi, about FOSDEM -- Europe's biggest free software conference: > > 31 January & 1 February 2015 in Brussels > https://fosdem.org/2015/ > > The deadline to pr