Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla-Phabricator migration: 21 Nov at 00:30 UTC

2014-11-20 Thread Quim Gil
Alea Jacta Est. We are ready to start the migration at 00:30 UTC, in less than one hour. If you have precious information in Phabricator that you need during the weekend, save copies now. We will keep Bugzilla in read-only mode as long as this doesn't disturb the perforance of the migration. Reme

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC meeting wikignoming (Re: RFC meeting this week)

2014-11-20 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 20/11/2014 19:57, Rob Lanphier a écrit : > ...you could be forgiven for thinking the RFC meetings are something > we do anymore. Basically, you have to be subscribed to this mailing > list, and then, if you miss the time, fish through the logs here: > https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC meeting wikignoming (Re: RFC meeting this week)

2014-11-20 Thread svetlana
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-November/079285.html > The meeting will be on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on > irc.freenode.org [...] On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, at 09:53, John wrote: > What channel are the meetings held in? > > On Thursday, November 20, 2014, MZMcBride wrot

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC meeting wikignoming (Re: RFC meeting this week)

2014-11-20 Thread John
What channel are the meetings held in? On Thursday, November 20, 2014, MZMcBride wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Rob Lanphier > wrote: > > We (collectively) need to get a lot better about not merely signaling > > what is coming up, but what the results of these decisions are. If > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC meeting wikignoming (Re: RFC meeting this week)

2014-11-20 Thread MZMcBride
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > We (collectively) need to get a lot better about not merely signaling > what is coming up, but what the results of these decisions are. If > you look here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings > > ...you could be forgiven f

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC meeting wikignoming (Re: RFC meeting this week)

2014-11-20 Thread Quim Gil
I have been creating tasks in Phabricator for the RfCs announced for a future meeting, and updating them posting the logs and any resolution. For instance, just updated: RfC: Text extraction https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1319 For the rest of open RfCs with Phabricator tasks, see https://pha

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC meeting wikignoming (Re: RFC meeting this week)

2014-11-20 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Tim Starling > wrote: > > In the next RFC meeting we would like to discuss the following RFC: > > > > * Text extraction > > > > > > The

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitext-l] Google Code-In 2014: Become a mentor and add tasks!

2014-11-20 Thread Marielle Volz
Just randomly going through the list of all the CS1 citation templates I found 2 with no template data out of the first 3 on the list i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_AV_media_notes I may make use of some of those at some point so I could probably mentor them. There are certainly

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feature request.

2014-11-20 Thread Justin Folvarcik
My wiki (zeldawiki.org) used to have such an extension to inform people when someone else was already editing the page. However, it was not compatible with newer versions of MediaWiki and was subsequently removed. I would like to voice my support for such features being integrated either into the M

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feature request.

2014-11-20 Thread James Forrester
On 20 November 2014 09:33, Gergo Tisza wrote: > Anyway, the proper solution for this problem is autosaving article drafts. > IIRC the Drafts extension > is > basically ready but needs usability improvements, and development has > stalled because w

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feature request.

2014-11-20 Thread James Forrester
On 20 November 2014 09:30, Gergo Tisza wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:03 AM, James Forrester < > jforres...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > ​​Moving to character-level rather than paragraph-level diffing might > help > > here, potentially. I vaguely​ remember that we attempted that and abandon

[Wikitech-l] RFC meeting wikignoming (Re: RFC meeting this week)

2014-11-20 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > In the next RFC meeting we would like to discuss the following RFC: > > * Text extraction > > > The meeting will be on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on > irc.freenode.o

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feature request.

2014-11-20 Thread Gergo Tisza
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > I've always thought that the reason for the current ordering is so that > people don't blindly press "Save" again and undo others' changes. Instead they blindly press "Save" again and lose their own changes. Arguably less bad but sti

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feature request.

2014-11-20 Thread Gergo Tisza
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:03 AM, James Forrester wrote: > ​​Moving to character-level rather than paragraph-level diffing might help here, potentially. I vaguely​ remember that we attempted that and abandoned > it because it caused more issues than it solved back in ?2004, though. > A paragrap

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: New in Platform Engineering: James Douglas and Stas Malyshev

2014-11-20 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, Welcome to James and Stas! Much of our infrastructure isn't that specific, so you'll hear us talking a > lot > over the next year about moving toward "Service Oriented > Architecture", which basically means taking our general purpose > software and breaking it up into more focused components

Re: [Wikitech-l] People with knowledge of English swear words needed :o

2014-11-20 Thread Helder .
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:19 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > Perhaps we could use some Math here? Can we grab a list of the last, say, > 100,000 edits reverted for vandalism, look at the diff, and compute a > frequency score based on that? > --scott I did something like that in JavaScript: https