Re: [Wikitech-l] [RfC] Feature to watch categorylinks

2015-04-02 Thread Kai Nissen
I already noticed the extension, but decided not to enhance it. As you already said, it hasn't been touched in a long time. In fact, there are some minor issues in the code that would need to be fixed. Apart from that, it's using a different hook (OnArticleSave) and a diff mechanism to determine

Re: [Wikitech-l] BounceHandler deployed 'everywhere' succesfully

2015-04-02 Thread Antoine Musso
On 30/03/15 19:23, Tony Thomas wrote: Hello, Happy to inform that we could successfully complete the global deployment[1] of Extension:BounceHandler and the Wikipiedia's are handling bounce emails effectively. The current threshold for the number of allowed bounces is 5, and we could test the

[Wikitech-l] Moritz Muehlenhoff joins as Ops Security Engineer

2015-04-02 Thread Mark Bergsma
Hi all, I'm very pleased to announce that as of stoday/syesterday, Moritz Mühlenhoff will be joining the Ops team in the role of Operations Security Engineer. We're excited as for the first time we'll have an engineer on our team able to focus on enhancing the security of our infrastructure.

Re: [Wikitech-l] odd namespace number

2015-04-02 Thread S Page
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Flow has a new namespace: Topic. It has an even namespace number by default: 2600. Talk pages till now have had odd numbers, and some scripts relied on that. And that is still the case. For example,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-02 Thread James Pearson
Thanks, it looks like I have some reading to do. - P On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Hi James! Thanks for mailing out. On the subject of OG tags, we have a bunch of bugs around explicitly using og tags ([1] for example) This thread is very

[Wikitech-l] Lists as first class citizens

2015-04-02 Thread Jon Robson
I am writing to invite you to preview and hopefully contribute to Gather [1], a new MediaWiki extension that allows users to create, share, and discover lists of articles. Gather is currently available for all users of the mobile site who have opted in to beta. This launch was primarily for the

[Wikitech-l] client-side HTML templating now in core

2015-04-02 Thread Ryan Kaldari
MediaWiki core now has built-in support for using Mustache HTML templates from your client-side Javascript code. You can also use the same templates on the server-side with the TemplateParser class. Documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:HTML_templates#mw.template_.28client-side.29

Re: [Wikitech-l] odd namespace number

2015-04-02 Thread Helder .
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 4:24 PM, S Page sp...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Flow has a new namespace: Topic. It has an even namespace number by default: 2600. Talk pages till now have had odd numbers, and some

[Wikitech-l] Wikitext style norms for Parsoid serialization?

2015-04-02 Thread Subramanya Sastry
Greetings! Among other things, Parsoid converts HTML to wikitext. There are two requirements as far as this serialization / conversion goes: * Preserving HTML - HTML semantics (i.e. a list when serialized to wikitext and parsed back should render as an identical list) * Enforcing certain

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-02 Thread MZMcBride
Brian Wolff wrote: On Apr 2, 2015 2:58 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: On the subject of OG tags, we have a bunch of bugs around explicitly using og tags ([1] for example) This thread is very enlightening: [2] tldr: Essentially I think many of us, myself included, would like to add

Re: [Wikitech-l] client-side HTML templating now in core

2015-04-02 Thread Ori Livneh
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: MediaWiki core now has built-in support for using Mustache HTML templates from your client-side Javascript code. You can also use the same templates on the server-side with the TemplateParser class. Documentation:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-02 Thread Brian Wolff
On Apr 2, 2015 2:58 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Hi James! Thanks for mailing out. On the subject of OG tags, we have a bunch of bugs around explicitly using og tags ([1] for example) This thread is very enlightening: [2] tldr: Essentially I think many of us, myself included,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-02 Thread Brian Wolff
On Apr 2, 2015 11:02 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Brian Wolff wrote: On Apr 2, 2015 2:58 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: On the subject of OG tags, we have a bunch of bugs around explicitly using og tags ([1] for example) This thread is very enlightening: [2] tldr:

[Wikitech-l] odd namespace number

2015-04-02 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, Flow has a new namespace: Topic. It has an even namespace number by default: 2600. Talk pages till now have had odd numbers, and some scripts relied on that. For example, a project to analyze usage of Hebrew online used this, um, feature to identify whether the page being analyzed is in a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lua module for simple molar mass calculations

2015-04-02 Thread Brenton Horne
Oh hey one other thing, how do I get the module to round the result to 3 decimal places? On 2/04/2015 10:27 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: Any one know how to overcome this problem, or are yas all stumped? I've

Re: [Wikitech-l] odd namespace number

2015-04-02 Thread Brian Wolff
On Apr 2, 2015 7:01 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Hi, Flow has a new namespace: Topic. It has an even namespace number by default: 2600. Liquid threads did the same thing. Afaik nothing bad happened (although i think its important to have namespace 2601 defined,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [RfC] Feature to watch categorylinks

2015-04-02 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Would it be possible to trigger a function that might add statements to the items for the articles involved ? Thanks, GerardM On 2 April 2015 at 11:54, Kai Nissen kai.nis...@wikimedia.de wrote: I already noticed the extension, but decided not to enhance it. As you already said, it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator monthly statistics - 2015-03

2015-04-02 Thread Andre Klapper
On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 09:31 -0700, Pine W wrote: it seems to me that unbreak now bugs should be fixed in something like 10 days max. If something is seriously broken, 48 days is long time to wait for a fix. Note that the value does not express how long a task has had this priority, but how

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lua module for simple molar mass calculations

2015-04-02 Thread Brenton Horne
Oh hallelujah it is working! Thank you, not just you Brad but everyone else that helped me with this! On 2/04/2015 10:27 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: Any one know how to overcome this problem, or are yas all

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-02 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 2015-04-02 8:44 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: However there is clearly a desire to be able to identify a representitive image for an article. This need is exhibited across many websites including reddit, facebook, google plus, etc, but also our own site as noted by the page images extension for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-02 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! Would it be feasible to include an og:image tag on pages for which we have a reasonable guess as to the thumbnail? Open Graph[3] is supported by what seems anecdotally to me to be a wide range of services, so good hints there would improve thumbnails for links on not just reddit, but

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-02 Thread Jon Robson
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: On 2015-04-02 8:44 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: However there is clearly a desire to be able to identify a representitive image for an article. This need is exhibited across many websites including reddit, facebook,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-02 Thread Jon Robson
Hi James! Thanks for mailing out. On the subject of OG tags, we have a bunch of bugs around explicitly using og tags ([1] for example) This thread is very enlightening: [2] tldr: Essentially I think many of us, myself included, would like to add 'og:image' tags but the Wikipedia community as a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moritz Muehlenhoff joins as Ops Security Engineer

2015-04-02 Thread Gabriel Wicke
Welcome, Moritz! The German cabal is getting stronger again ;) Gabriel On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: Welcome Moritz, great to have you here On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Mark Bergsma m...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, I'm very pleased to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moritz Muehlenhoff joins as Ops Security Engineer

2015-04-02 Thread Ori Livneh
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Mark Bergsma m...@wikimedia.org wrote: He used to be a frequent visitor of film festivals such as the San Sebastian festival, but with the baby around home theatre has become more prevalent. :-) Prediction: you are about to become a very discerning critic of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lua module for simple molar mass calculations

2015-04-02 Thread Brenton Horne
Nvm, figured it out by myself, just added http://lua-users.org/wiki/SimpleRound to the function. I updated the https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Molar mass calculator page if you'd like to see my current code (which I have tested btw in my chembox and in my /Template:Molar mass

Re: [Wikitech-l] odd namespace number

2015-04-02 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Liquid threads did the same thing. Afaik nothing bad happened (although i think its important to have namespace 2601 defined, even if unused). My recollection is - and please correct me if I'm wrong!! - that there was some intention that LiquidThreads would become the default for all discussion

[Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-02 Thread James Pearson
Hello. I'm a developer at reddit, and this morning I was looking into how we generate thumbnail images from Wikipedia (and I suppose all Mediawiki) articles, due to a user report that they had an unexpected thumbnail on their submission[0]. You can read my post there for more details, but

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-02 Thread Max Semenik
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:35 AM, James Pearson ja...@reddit.com wrote: While writing this, I recalled that the Wikipedia Android app displays thumbnails in its search results. I think that's pulling from OpenSearch with the PageImages extension[2]? but I haven't really delved into that yet.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moritz Muehlenhoff joins as Ops Security Engineer

2015-04-02 Thread Tomasz Finc
Welcome Moritz, great to have you here On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Mark Bergsma m...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, I'm very pleased to announce that as of stoday/syesterday, Moritz Mühlenhoff will be joining the Ops team in the role of Operations Security Engineer. We're excited as for