[Wikitech-l] Wikitext linting service

Hello, I would like to get your input for this potential Google-Code / Outreachy task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114631 Quick summary: Right now there is no simple way to detect syntax errors of a wikicode (text user input as a source code for wiki page). Its existence would make it simp

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch?

This strikes me as a rather good idea, but I don't really know that much about cirrussearch in the first place. Anyone know, or have any thoughts on this? Forwarded Message Subject:[MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch? Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 14:12

[Wikitech-l] #Beta-Cluster is now #Beta-Cluster-infrastructure and now there's #Beta-Cluster-reproducible

in Phabricator. See this task for more background: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114486 Summary of what the problem was: We routinely have tasks reported and included in the #Beta-Cluster project that are software defects found when testing on Beta Cluster. The fact that we found those i

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch?

I once tried doing something like that in js. But for the use case I was trying to do, it was very limited by a bug in Cirrus where you can't OR operators with incategory:. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?withJS=MediaWiki:Gadget-advanced-search.js See also https://phabricator.wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch?

Brian Wolff wrote: >See also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T23988 This is a rare case where I think we could potentially take a lesson from Gerrit's user interface: . It also seems worthwhile to note that "Special:Search" already has an advanced prof