Re: [Wikitech-l] Community Suggestions Regarding the Project

2014-12-02 Thread Brian Wolff
On 12/2/14, Ankita Shukla ankitashukla...@gmail.com wrote: 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 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ankitashukla/Proposal. Also, we'd be using this

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

2014-12-02 Thread Bryan Davis
When I first started doing this for beta I did use a local tracking branch. After about a week I switched to the cherry-pick and rebase model. Keeping the changes as cherry-picks with the cron'd rebase script has a few advantages in my opinion: * It's easy to see what the delta from upstream is

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering report, September 2014

2014-12-02 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in September 2014 is now available: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Report/2014/September Below is the HTML text of the report. -- Major news in

[Wikitech-l] search engine integration of wikimedia projects

2014-12-02 Thread svetlana
I'm calling for developers for this idea: https://duck.co/ideas/idea/4655/wikimedia-projects-integration Polyglots- Please vote for this idea and spread it at your local wiki, and also call for developers. -- svetlana ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

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

2014-12-02 Thread James Forrester
On 2 December 2014 at 13:51, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: So I'm thinking people are liking where we've ended up on callsigns...at least I haven't seen any major objections in the last day or so. Do we have a rough consensus? If so, could we move Merlijn's table over the messy

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

2014-12-02 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 02/12/2014 22:51, Chad a écrit : Do we have a rough consensus? If so, could we move Merlijn's table over the messy original one and update the guidelines to match the new plan? Once that's done I'd be glad to close out T1314 and we can start importing repositories. I have a last minute

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

2014-12-02 Thread Chad
On Tue Dec 02 2014 at 2:25:20 PM Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 02/12/2014 22:51, Chad a écrit : Do we have a rough consensus? If so, could we move Merlijn's table over the messy original one and update the guidelines to match the new plan? Once that's done I'd be glad to close

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering report, October 2014

2014-12-02 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in October 2014 is now available: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Report/2014/October -- Guillaume Paumier ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Phabricator for Wikimedia Projects: Dec 11

2014-12-02 Thread Rachel Farrand
Please join us for the following tech talk: *Tech Talk**:* Phabricator for Wikimedia projects *Presenter:* Quim Gil Andre Klapper *Date:* Dec 11 *Time:* 1800 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Phab+Tech+Talkiso=20141211T00p1=1440ah=1 Link to live YouTube stream

[Wikitech-l] RFC meeting this week

2014-12-02 Thread Tim Starling
In the next RFC meeting we would like to discuss the following RFCs: * Global scripts https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Global_scripts * Opt-in site registration during installation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Opt-in_site_registration_during_installation

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

2014-12-02 Thread MZMcBride
Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: I can't find documentation anywhere for what's valid in callsigns besides uppercase, but seeing feature requests for stuff like Allow digits in callsigns and allow hyphens in callsigns I'm suspecting the character set is literally [A-Z]. Which means a lot of the

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC meeting this week

2014-12-02 Thread MZMcBride
Tim Starling wrote: The meeting will be on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.org at the following time: [...] Huh, I didn't know irc.freenode.org worked. Neat! irc.freenode.net is canonical, of course. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] search engine integration of wikimedia projects

2014-12-02 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Actually we already have cross Wikimedia projects search. We already serve this to many Wikipedias I know off. I blogged about it several times and it does allow you to find people who have an article in another project. ... it does help us provide access to the other parts of the sum of all