Re: [Wikitech-l] New feature: tool edit

2015-02-12 Thread Pine W
I think bot edits are most closely aligned with fully automated editing. Perhaps semi-automated edit would work. Pine On Feb 12, 2015 10:34 AM, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: On 15-02-12 01:13 AM, Pine W wrote: What would it take to implement a new tool edit flag userright In

[Wikitech-l] Vendro api in MediaWiki

2015-02-12 Thread Thomas Mulhall
Hi does vendor have an api like the extension api which tells you name of the extension and version. Because I have ask for WikiApriary to support vendor in there tracking wiki site and they are asking for the api. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Investigating building an apps content service using RESTBase and Node.js

2015-02-12 Thread Nuria Ruiz
In general I'm in favor of more ad-hoc project-specific teams rather than completely siloing every service to the Services group, or every mobile UI to the Mobile group.= Agreed, as long as everyone deploying services communicates through services team so there is no duplication of solutions. We

Re: [Wikitech-l] New feature: tool edit

2015-02-12 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 15-02-12 01:13 AM, Pine W wrote: What would it take to implement a new tool edit flag userright In the time-honored spirit of bikeshedding, I'd suggest that the right name for this is automated edit rather than tool edit. -- Marc ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fix problem with CollapsibleVector

2015-02-12 Thread Thomas Mulhall
Bump. On Monday, 9 February 2015, 19:34, Thomas Mulhall thomasmulhall...@yahoo.com wrote: Bump On Monday, 9 February 2015, 19:34, Thomas Mulhall thomasmulhall...@yahoo.com wrote:   Hi could I have some help to fix a problem that a user reported on the extension talk

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vendro api in MediaWiki

2015-02-12 Thread Thomas Mulhall
Bump. On Thursday, 12 February 2015, 19:50, Thomas Mulhall thomasmulhall...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi does vendor have an api like the extension api which tells you name of the extension and version. Because I have ask for WikiApriary to support vendor in there tracking wiki site and

Re: [Wikitech-l] .js errors in Metrolook skins

2015-02-12 Thread Thomas Mulhall
Bump. On Tuesday, 10 February 2015, 14:02, Thomas Mulhall thomasmulhall...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi I am getting js script errors in Metrolook skin. The error is in $(document).click(function(e) {  if (!$(e.target).closest('#'+openDiv).length) {   toggleDiv(openDiv);  } }); and error

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vendro api in MediaWiki

2015-02-12 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Thomas, just FYI, it is not good etiquette to Bump a thread, especially on the same day, and especially doing multiple threads at once. (Some might even consider it to be very annoying, and/or spam-ish). Instead, it is better to wait for at least a week for a reply (because many devs only read

[Wikitech-l] Building an extension management CLI tool (What language should I write it in?)

2015-02-12 Thread Daniel Friesen
((Jump to the -- TL;DR -- if you just want to answer my question)) Hey guys, right now managing extensions is a complete mess for those of us with a wiki running a dozens of extensions on a VPC. Even if you use git to make things easier. You still need to batch fetch/pull multiple git repos. And

[Wikitech-l] need review and co-mentor volunteers for GSoC Accuracy review proposal

2015-02-12 Thread James Salsman
I invite review of this preliminary proposal for a Google Summer of Code project: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review If you would like to co-mentor this project, please sign up. I've been a GSoC mentor every year since 2010, and successfully mentored two students in 2012 resulting in

Re: [Wikitech-l] New feature: tool edit

2015-02-12 Thread Petr Bena
In my opinion this is pretty easy to implement so to answer what would it take: few hours of coding. @Gerard: I would like to make this change to mediawiki core, so it would work everywhere. Question now is: * Do we want to implement tool edit? * Do we want to use thing made by This that and

Re: [Wikitech-l] need review and co-mentor volunteers for GSoC Accuracy review proposal

2015-02-12 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2/12/15, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: I invite review of this preliminary proposal for a Google Summer of Code project: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review If you would like to co-mentor this project, please sign up. I've been a GSoC mentor every year since 2010, and

Re: [Wikitech-l] .js errors in Metrolook skins

2015-02-12 Thread florian.schmidt.wel...@t-online.de
Hi Thomas, i haven't installed your skin to see the error, because i think it's a relatively easy thing you can track down by yourself. You give us 5 lines of code where you think the error comes from (how have you tracked it down to these 5 lines?). What, if you click on the error message in

Re: [Wikitech-l] GPL upgrading to version 3

2015-02-12 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:22 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 February 2015 at 23:19, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongm...@gmail.com wrote: In fact I would prefer to go to a less restrictive license, but that is probably not worth the fight. And is also infeasible. For a web

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who moved my cheese?

2015-02-12 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I do have a lot of respect towards the people who work on modularization and librarizatin and vagrant and all that, but yes - I generally agree. There's the API mailing list, and many emails on it are about breaking changes, but it has relatively low traffic in general, so it's OK to mix it.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Cross-wiki template

2015-02-12 Thread Petr Bena
Could you please tell me just if it's possible on wikimedia sites now? (Yes/No) If yes, please tell me how. On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote: The mechanism you described is controlled by $wgEnableScaryTranscluding

[Wikitech-l] Who moved my cheese?

2015-02-12 Thread Andrew Garrett
Hey folks, I'd to modestly propose that we talk about managing/announcing breaking changes to core MediaWiki architecture. I want to have this chat because I spent an hour or two yesterday trying to figure out why changing default configuration options for an extension in MyExtension.php wasn't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Cross-wiki template

2015-02-12 Thread Petr Bena
OK Thanks On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to use template from english wikipedia on a different wiki (meta in this case)? Something like {{w:Template}}. Not possible in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Cross-wiki template

2015-02-12 Thread Quim Gil
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to use template from english wikipedia on a different wiki (meta in this case)? Something like {{w:Template}}. Not possible in Wikimedia today. See also We need a common repository for Scribunto modules and

[Wikitech-l] Cross-wiki template

2015-02-12 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, Is it possible to use template from english wikipedia on a different wiki (meta in this case)? Something like {{w:Template}}. I couldn't find this anywhere. I don't want to export it, I want to be able to change it on 1 wiki so that change gets everywhere else as well.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Cross-wiki template

2015-02-12 Thread Ricordisamoa
The mechanism you described is controlled by $wgEnableScaryTranscluding https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEnableScaryTranscluding. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52329 for a Wikimedia implementation instead. Il 12/02/2015 13:32, Petr Bena ha scritto: Hi, Is it possible to use

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who moved my cheese?

2015-02-12 Thread C. Scott Ananian
In addition to (even better than?) a breaking-changes list would be for every piece of software we distribute to have a very prominent ChangeLog (or RELEASE-NOTES) file, which is kept up to date. When you git pull and see a change to ChangeLog, that should be a clue to check out whether you need

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who moved my cheese?

2015-02-12 Thread Pine W
There is the https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce email list which perhaps could be used for emailing the weekly tech newsletters and major changes. Pine On Feb 12, 2015 7:25 AM, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.org wrote: In addition to (even better than?) a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who moved my cheese?

2015-02-12 Thread Petr Bena
Regarding everyone loves JSON these days: I truly, deeply, hate it. On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey folks, I'd to modestly propose that we talk about managing/announcing breaking changes to core MediaWiki architecture. I want to have this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who moved my cheese?

2015-02-12 Thread Chris Steipp
I don't think we need to announce every change that requires running update.php-- that's pretty common, and (most importantly, imho) the error messages you get when that happens make it pretty obvious what you need to do. But +1 for standardizing where breaking changes are announced. I hit the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who moved my cheese?

2015-02-12 Thread Andrew Garrett
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote: * please fail in a way that tells the user what went wrong This is my most important point. I don't mind changing the code I write to conform to new (improved!) ways of doing things. I think those who are writing

[Wikitech-l] Abandoned Labs tools

2015-02-12 Thread Mr. Donald J. Fortier II
Please comment on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Abandoned_Labs_tools that I created per https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87730 to create a process for usurping or otherwise being added as a maintainer to existing tools which appear to be abandoned.  As Coren points