Re: [Wikitech-l] global cleanup of

2015-06-22 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Kevin Wayne Williams < kwwilli...@kwwilliams.com> wrote: > Subramanya Sastry schreef op 2015/06/20 om 10:49: > > On 06/20/2015 11:45 AM, Arlo Breault wrote: >> >>> On Friday, June 19, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: >>> There may be more - I'm still

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes

2015-06-22 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Ori Livneh wrote: > Hello, > > Over the course of the next two days, a major update to the > SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension will be rolled out to Wikimedia wikis. The > change swaps geshi, the unmaintained PHP library which performs the lexical > analysis and out

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes

2015-06-22 Thread Ori Livneh
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 6:37 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > I use the SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi MediaWiki extension on a few non-Wikimedia > wikis. If I just run "git pull" in the extension's directory in a few > days, is that sufficient? Almost. There are updated instructions in https://github.com/wikimed

Re: [Wikitech-l] wfSuppressWarnings deprecation

2015-06-22 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, Thanks for expalining. I did notice the code now resides in a seperate library. Congratulations on that work. I can see how this provides benefit. It is also clear that naming it wfSuppressWarnings there does not make a lot of sense. What is not clear to me is why existing MediaWiki extensi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes

2015-06-22 Thread MZMcBride
Ori Livneh wrote: >Over the course of the next two days, a major update to the >SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension will be rolled out to Wikimedia wikis. The >change swaps geshi, the unmaintained PHP library which performs the >lexical analysis and output formatting of code, for another library, >call

Re: [Wikitech-l] wfSuppressWarnings deprecation

2015-06-22 Thread jayvdb
On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 at 09:00 Legoktm wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/21/2015 01:52 PM, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > This thread is much in line with the "wfRunHooks deprecation" one from > > January. Rather than turning global functions into static functions, this > > time it's about namespa

[Wikitech-l] Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes

2015-06-22 Thread Ori Livneh
Hello, Over the course of the next two days, a major update to the SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension will be rolled out to Wikimedia wikis. The change swaps geshi, the unmaintained PHP library which performs the lexical analysis and output formatting of code, for another library, called Pygments. T

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Timo Tijhof joining the performance team

2015-06-22 Thread James Forrester
On 22 June 2015 at 15:28, Ori Livneh wrote: > Hi all, > > I am delighted to announce that Timo Tijhof (Krinkle) is joining the > Wikimedia Foundation's performance team. > ​Excellent news. We'll miss Timo in Editing, but ​are looking forward to working with him on performance issues, and seeing

[Wikitech-l] Timo Tijhof joining the performance team

2015-06-22 Thread Ori Livneh
Hi all, I am delighted to announce that Timo Tijhof (Krinkle) is joining the Wikimedia Foundation's performance team. Over the past several years, Timo has made many important contributions to MediaWiki performance. Though he has been highly active across the stack, his impact on front-end perfor

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lightning Talks June 23

2015-06-22 Thread Rachel Farrand
Reminder! These lightning talks are tomorrow. We have 5 talks lined up: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks Remote viewing details will be sent out in advance of the talks. ** We will best testing out using #wikimedia-tech as the IRC channel for questions/discussion during the talks, i

Re: [Wikitech-l] global cleanup of

2015-06-22 Thread Nicolas Vervelle
That would be nice to have a global cleanup at some point, but it won't be able to handle every situation. I don't think relying on VE to clean up is good: - First, it will take a long time before all articles are edited with VE (maybe never) - Second, I'm not a big fan of VE changing wik