[Wikitech-l] Community Suggestions Regarding the Project

Hello! I am an OPW Intern for round#09 and will be working on a spelling dictionary project, the proposal of which is available here . Also, we'd be using this github repo for versi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator migration part II: Replacing gitblit with Diffusion

On Mon Dec 01 2014 at 8:28:50 PM Krinkle wrote: > On 27 Nov 2014, at 20:02, Merlijn van Deen wrote: > > > On 26 November 2014 at 23:29, MZMcBride wrote: > >> If we're stuck with using callsigns, the idea of using the shortest > >> possible strings (a four-character hash?) appeals to me. > >> If

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator migration part II: Replacing gitblit with Diffusion

On 27 Nov 2014, at 20:02, Merlijn van Deen wrote: > On 26 November 2014 at 23:29, MZMcBride wrote: >> If we're stuck with using callsigns, the idea of using the shortest >> possible strings (a four-character hash?) appeals to me. >> If >> particular repos want specific available hashes (, FF

Re: [Wikitech-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] Upcoming jQuery upgrade: Removing jQuery Migrate

Hey all, On 3 Jun 2014, Krinkle wrote: > TL;DR: > * We did not make the breaking change last week for Wikimedia; it is > postponed. > * MediaWiki 1.24.0 will ship with jQuery Migrate switched off. > * Wikimedia & non-Wikimedia wikis can enable jQuery Migrate if needed. > * When MediaWiki 1.24 is

[Wikitech-l] Visibility of "action" in API for deleted log entries

Hi list, I wanted to get some feedback about https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74222. In the last security release, I changed the return of the api to remove the "action" for log entries that had been revdeleted with "Hide action and target". However, ever since 2009 / r46917, we've assumed that

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Local cherry-picks missing on deployment-salt

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > Adding wikitech-l > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Greg Grossmeier wrote: >> tl;dr: Testing on deployment-salt (or other Beta >> Cluster/deployment-prep vms?): please watch out for "[LOCAL HACK]" >> commits and don't lose them. >> >> >>

Re: [Wikitech-l] Local cherry-picks missing on deployment-salt

Adding wikitech-l On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > tl;dr: Testing on deployment-salt (or other Beta > Cluster/deployment-prep vms?): please watch out for "[LOCAL HACK]" > commits and don't lose them. > > > See: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T75947 > > Basically: Some

Re: [Wikitech-l] Final RC for 1.24

On 11/26/2014 08:57 AM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: Matthew Flaschen writes: This brings up a question. Where is the code that builds the tarball? The script is make-release/make-release.py in the mediawiki/tools/release[1] repository. Thanks for the info. Matt Flaschen

[Wikitech-l] Scribunto will no longer reveal the HTML behind strip markers in 1.25wmf11

The original request behind Scribunto's mw.text.unstrip method was to undo tags, as a mechanism for quoting arguments being passed into a module. But the implementation was more broad, allowing access to the HTML generated by the and tags, by special page transclusion, and so on. This caused pro

[Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2014 has begun! We want your tasks!

Google Code-in 2014 has started a few hours ago and the first Wikimedia tasks got claimed and being worked on by students (one task already has a patch in Gerrit)! GCI will run until January 19. Students are eager and tasks get claimed quickly. If you have not become a mentor yet: WE WANT YOU TO

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator outage due to network issues, 11/29

Hi, let me recycle this reply posted initially at "Determine phabricator.wikimedia.org service level" - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76381 Currently Phabricator is getting the same service level that Bugzilla had. Looking at the whole Wikimedia picture, I think this is the most sensible opti

[Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2014 has begun! We want your tasks!

Google Code-in 2014 has started a few hours ago and the first Wikimedia tasks got claimed and being worked on by students! GCI will run until January 19. Students are eager and tasks get claimed quickly. If you have not become a mentor yet: WE WANT YOU TO BECOME A MENTOR AND ADD MORE TASKS!

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator migration part II: Replacing gitblit with Diffusion

On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Merlijn van Deen wrote: > - The G-prefix has on major advantage: it keeps the 'root namespace' > (i.e. the first letter) clean: at the moment only A C E G L M O P S W > are in use, so adding another prefix 'B' is easy. If we already have > repositories that start

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator migration part II: Replacing gitblit with Diffusion

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Merlijn van Deen wrote: > I've fiddled a bit with this in the style of tail numbers / actual > radio call signa: first letter is a category (country in a call sign), > the rest is assigned as a number, unless someone wants a specific one. > The other day some of

[Wikitech-l] Let's recruit tech volunteers in your country via GSoC / OPW

Wikimedia is planning to participate in Google Summer of Code 2015 and the simultaneous FOSS Outreach Program for Women round 10. We want to increase geographical diversity among candidates by involving local Wikimedia groups in the promotion of these programs. This, in turn, could help increasing

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2014.11 release

2014-12-01 8:41 GMT+02:00 David Chamberlain : > I run 5 wikis for a total of 6,000 pages and still use solr in 6 languages. Thanks for the information, David. We will keep the code for Solr backend. -Niklas ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists