Re: [Wikitech-l] old-bugzilla.wikimedia.org to be switched off in favor of static-bugzilla

2015-06-08 Thread Steinsplitter Wiki
I'd like to thank John Daniel for all their work creating static-bz! +1 From: aklap...@wikimedia.org To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 17:13:08 +0200 Subject: [Wikitech-l] old-bugzilla.wikimedia.org to be switched off in favor of static-bugzilla Hi everybody!

Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

2015-06-08 Thread Ilya Korniyko
It would be nice if MediaWiki API _AND_ pywikipedia bot do not deprecate at once. Now it looks as API: we are deprecating what we promised to deprecated long ago - ok pywikipedia compat: did not handle the deprecation of API before, and are not going to fix copy-pasted in tens of places (not

Re: [Wikitech-l] old-bugzilla.wikimedia.org to be switched off in favor of static-bugzilla

2015-06-08 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 09:48 -0700, Legoktm wrote: Do we have usage statistics on how many people are still using old-bugzilla? I still use it frequently for searching for example. Only data that I am aware of is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86859#1182758 (And yes, Phabricator's Search

Re: [Wikitech-l] old-bugzilla.wikimedia.org to be switched off in favor of static-bugzilla

2015-06-08 Thread Krinkle
On 8 Jun 2015, at 16:13, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks to John and Daniel, a static HTML version of old-bugzilla exists at https://static-bugzilla.wikimedia.org [4]. It allows to still access those historical Bugzilla reports and the related history/activity. I

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-i18n] [Wikimedia-l] ContentTranslation gets to 2000

2015-06-08 Thread Jon Robson
On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Again, the same problem with the infobox and lead image, but there was a gallery that popped over and I was quite pleased with that. I'm glad to hear, thank you :) I published the article with no

[Wikitech-l] possible wikitech breakages tomorrow, 20:00 UTC

2015-06-08 Thread Andrew Bogott
Tomorrow I'm going to make another attempt at switching us over to a new labs controller host. That won't break anything for running labs instances, but it will probably have some or all of the following effects on wikitech users: 1) Wikitech will go into maintenance mode 2) Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] [editing-department] Read the VisualEditor process review

2015-06-08 Thread Joel Aufrecht
Hi Greg, The process improvement effort is not explicitly tied in with quarterly goals. If we come up with specific recommendations that require enough effort to register on a quarterly scale, or that influence the output of the team that much, they could be inputs to goal-setting. Team

[Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

2015-06-08 Thread Dan Garry
Do you use our search API? If so, I'd like to hear from you! The Discovery Department https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors#Discovery at the Wikimedia Foundation is tasked with building a path of discovery to relevant and trusted knowledge. In line with that, one of our

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please help a patch not to become two years old

2015-06-08 Thread Brian Wolff
On 6/8/15, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Sat, 2015-06-06 at 21:40 +0200, Ricordisamoa wrote: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/67588 needs love. Less than 2 days left! Thanks in advance. For future reference, adding basic context (e.g.: Scribunto here) is very welcome if you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please help a patch not to become two years old

2015-06-08 Thread Vi to
There's a weird loophole in devs' brain which will make any dev want to merge your patches NOW! Vito 2015-06-08 23:44 GMT+02:00 Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com: On 6/8/15, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Sat, 2015-06-06 at 21:40 +0200, Ricordisamoa wrote:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please help a patch not to become two years old

2015-06-08 Thread Ricordisamoa
Discover why you should never merge this 10 patches... Il 09/06/2015 00:18, Stephen Niedzielski ha scritto: Devs hate him! and Congratulations! You have been selected to win a free iPatch. On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Vi to vituzzu.w...@gmail.com wrote: There's a weird loophole in devs'

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please help a patch not to become two years old

2015-06-08 Thread Stephen Niedzielski
Devs hate him! and Congratulations! You have been selected to win a free iPatch. On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Vi to vituzzu.w...@gmail.com wrote: There's a weird loophole in devs' brain which will make any dev want to merge your patches NOW! Vito 2015-06-08 23:44 GMT+02:00 Brian Wolff

Re: [Wikitech-l] old-bugzilla.wikimedia.org to be switched off in favor of static-bugzilla

2015-06-08 Thread Legoktm
Hi, On 06/08/2015 08:13 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: Now after everybody had more than six months to switch to Phabricator, old-bugzilla.wikimedia.org is planned to get switched off on June 22nd [3] (as keeping Bugzilla running requires maintenance like applying security updates). Do we have

Re: [Wikitech-l] Read the VisualEditor process review

2015-06-08 Thread Arthur Richards
x-posting to teampractices list On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Neil P. Quinn nqu...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everybody! For the past couple months, Joel Aufrecht and I have been working on a project to document and improve the VisualEditor team's processes; we just published a draft of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

2015-06-08 Thread S Page
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: The search api (by which I mean query=search in api.php) is somewhat poorly documented. You have to dig to find https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch . I recently added

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

2015-06-08 Thread Brian Wolff
On 6/8/15, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: Do you use our search API? If so, I'd like to hear from you! The Discovery Department https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors#Discovery at the Wikimedia Foundation is tasked with building a path of discovery to relevant and

Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

2015-06-08 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 6:04 AM, Ilya Korniyko intra...@gmail.com wrote: It would be nice if MediaWiki API _AND_ pywikipedia bot do not deprecate at once. Now it looks as API: we are deprecating what we promised to deprecated long ago - ok pywikipedia compat: did not handle the deprecation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

2015-06-08 Thread Brian Wolff
On 6/8/15, S Page sp...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: The search api (by which I mean query=search in api.php) is somewhat poorly documented. You have to dig to find https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch . I recently

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please help a patch not to become two years old

2015-06-08 Thread Andre Klapper
On Sat, 2015-06-06 at 21:40 +0200, Ricordisamoa wrote: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/67588 needs love. Less than 2 days left! Thanks in advance. For future reference, adding basic context (e.g.: Scribunto here) is very welcome if you would also like to reach people who normally do not click

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please help a patch not to become two years old

2015-06-08 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
Just for kicks, I revived an almost 2,5 year old patch to add WebP upload support :D https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/95872/ Anyone interested ? DJ On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote: Il 08/06/2015 12:56, Andre Klapper ha scritto: On Sat,

[Wikitech-l] Stalled task: page status indicator sorting

2015-06-08 Thread Erwin Dokter
I would like some more eyes on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94307. Since its inception, page status indicators have one major drawback; automatic sorting cannot be disabled. It purports to give placements control as it sorts by indicator name, but this proves difficult, as none of the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please help a patch not to become two years old

2015-06-08 Thread Ricordisamoa
Il 08/06/2015 12:56, Andre Klapper ha scritto: On Sat, 2015-06-06 at 21:40 +0200, Ricordisamoa wrote: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/67588 needs love. Less than 2 days left! Thanks in advance. For future reference, adding basic context (e.g.: Scribunto here) is very welcome if you would also

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stalled task: page status indicator sorting

2015-06-08 Thread Ricordisamoa
Il 08/06/2015 14:08, Erwin Dokter ha scritto: I would like some more eyes on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94307. Since its inception, page status indicators have one major drawback; automatic sorting cannot be disabled. It purports to give placements control as it sorts by indicator

[Wikitech-l] old-bugzilla.wikimedia.org to be switched off in favor of static-bugzilla

2015-06-08 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi everybody! More than six months ago, Wikimedia migrated its bug report management from Bugzilla to Phabricator. At the same time, Bugzilla was turned read-only (but still allowed users to log in to access and manually migrate votes or saved searches) and moved to the address

Re: [Wikitech-l] [editing-department] Read the VisualEditor process review

2015-06-08 Thread Dan Garry
And, as a person that is not involved in the development of VisualEditor in any way but knows many of the VisualEditor Team quite well, I also found this very interesting. Thanks for putting it together! Dan On 6 June 2015 at 21:18, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: As a non-technical

Re: [Wikitech-l] old-bugzilla.wikimedia.org to be switched off in favor of static-bugzilla

2015-06-08 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks to John and Daniel, a static HTML version of old-bugzilla exists at https://static-bugzilla.wikimedia.org [4]. It allows to still access those historical Bugzilla reports and the related history/activity.