Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for dealing with citations of withdrawn academic journal articles

2015-09-16 Thread Gergő Tisza
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Pine W wrote: > Is there any easy way to find all of citations of specified academic > articles on Wikipedias in all languages, and the text that is supported by > those references, so that the citations of questionable articles can be > removed and the article te

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Tools] Kubernetes picked to provide alternative to GridEngine

2015-09-16 Thread Yuvi Panda
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Yuvi Panda Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 6:25 PM Subject: [Tools] Kubernetes picked to provide alternative to GridEngine To: labs-annou...@lists.wikimedia.org We have picked kubernetes.io to provide an alternative to GridEngine on Tool Labs! See h

Re: [Wikitech-l] thumb generation

2015-09-16 Thread gnosygnu
As another suggestion, XOWA (http://gnosygnu.github.io/xowa/) can generate a list of thumbs. It takes about 60 hours to parse the English Wikipedia dump and generate a table of 4.78 million rows with the following columns: * file name * file extension * repo (commons or local) * file width * file

Re: [Wikitech-l] Link: useful article on in-person events

2015-09-16 Thread Pine W
That is a nice article. In the Wikiverse, conferences are good venues for Q&A, structured dialogue, building and maintenance personal connections, and brainstorming. Excluded from this picture is the ordination of community policy, but brainstorming, drafting, and creating policy proposals are all

Re: [Wikitech-l] Super-charging Mobile: An experiment with ServiceWorkers in MediaWiki

2015-09-16 Thread Jon Robson
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > Sam asked me to write up my recent adventures with ServiceWorkers and > making requests for MediaWiki content super super fast so all our > lovely users can access information quicker. Right now we're trying to > make the mobile site ridiculousl

Re: [Wikitech-l] Super-charging Mobile: An experiment with ServiceWorkers in MediaWiki

2015-09-16 Thread Brian Wolff
> > The biggest issue we have on the mobile site right now is we ship a > lot of content - HTML and images - since we ship those on desktop. On > desktop it's not really a problem from a performance perspective but > it may be an issue from a download perspective if you have some kind > of data lim

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video: updated support for VP9, Opus source media

2015-09-16 Thread Magnus Manske
Good to see video keeps getting some love in the WikiVerse! On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 6:13 PM Brion Vibber wrote: > Thanks to Giuseppe in ops & a bunch of other folks who have helped out, > we've got an updated server configuration for the 'video scalers' that > generate media transcodes, supporti

Re: [Wikitech-l] Link: useful article on in-person events

2015-09-16 Thread Brian Wolff
On 9/16/15, Frances Hocutt wrote: > An excellent article on best practices and pitfalls for in-person technical > events: https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/software-in-person > > This has some ideas and framings that can be useful for planning for the > upcoming developer summit. > > -Frances >

[Wikitech-l] Super-charging Mobile: An experiment with ServiceWorkers in MediaWiki

2015-09-16 Thread Jon Robson
Sam asked me to write up my recent adventures with ServiceWorkers and making requests for MediaWiki content super super fast so all our lovely users can access information quicker. Right now we're trying to make the mobile site ridiculously fast by using new shiny standard web technologies. The bi

[Wikitech-l] LDAP extension ownership

2015-09-16 Thread Ryan Lane
I haven't been actively maintaining the LDAP extension for MediaWiki for over two years. There's not really much that needs to change, but some basic love and care is likely a good idea. The LDAP extension is one of the most popular MediaWiki extensions, so it wouldn't be great if it was broken for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for dealing with citations of withdrawn academic journal articles

2015-09-16 Thread Pine W
Ryan, can we get an update about when https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team/Community_Wishlist_Survey will be launched? Thanks! Pine On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Pine W wrote: > >> 1. I was thinking of a tool that would l

[Wikitech-l] 2015-09-16 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

2015-09-16 Thread Grace Gellerman
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2015-09-16 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Link: useful article on in-person events

2015-09-16 Thread Frances Hocutt
An excellent article on best practices and pitfalls for in-person technical events: https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/software-in-person This has some ideas and framings that can be useful for planning for the upcoming developer summit. -Frances ___ W

[Wikitech-l] HTMLForm and default values

2015-09-16 Thread Ricordisamoa
For https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/233423 I need 'default' values of HTMLForm fields to overwrite values set via query parameters, when the latter are set to empty strings. Do you know a clean way to do it? Thanks in advance. ___ Wikitech-l mailing li

[Wikitech-l] Video: updated support for VP9, Opus source media

2015-09-16 Thread Brion Vibber
Thanks to Giuseppe in ops & a bunch of other folks who have helped out, we've got an updated server configuration for the 'video scalers' that generate media transcodes, supporting VP9 video and Opus audio. Initially we have one server updated and in production, and the rest should follow by tomor

Re: [Wikitech-l] mediawiki maintenance scripts have moved

2015-09-16 Thread MZMcBride
Florian Schmidt wrote: >thanks for this e-mail. Maybe I'm the only one, but the e-mail title is, >in my opinion, a bit misleading :P As I read the title first, I thought, >that the mediawiki/core maintenance scripts (which are in the >maintenance/ directory in MediaWiki) itself were moved, but afte

[Wikitech-l] Collapsible content

2015-09-16 Thread Legault, Phillip [ITSUS]
MediaWiki 1.23.8 I'm using collapsible content for a User Guide page, and there are a lot of sections. So I set each section with one heading and collapsed default. I added the following CSS simple works fine. :target { color: red; } I’m trying to do something with JQUERY with p

[Wikitech-l] [x-post] Reminder: Language Engineering Office Hour is on September 16, 2015 (today) at 1500 UTC

2015-09-16 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
Hello, A reminder that the online office hour hosted by the Wikimedia Language Engineering team is scheduled for later today at 1500 UTC. You can join the hangout or watch the session from: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c1c0msurhua7enopsu3q8l42j3s Please note, due to the limitation of Google

Re: [Wikitech-l] thumb generation

2015-09-16 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Have you looked into what mwoffliner does? https://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/other/ci/master/tree/mwoffliner/mwoffliner.js Maybe you can even just extract the images from the ZIM files. Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org htt

Re: [Wikitech-l] Understanding weird behaviour of diffto in API

2015-09-16 Thread Petr Bena
yay, that fixed the problem, thanks :o On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > >> Just to make clear what my problem is, here is example. There is a >> user 75.69.113.86 who made 3 consecutive edits to page "Battle >> Te