Re: [Wikitech-l] Ideas for tech-related IdeaLab Campaigns?

2015-12-07 Thread Oliver Keyes
As a long-time phabricator user (and long-time community member) I really don't get the desire to push this to Phabricator. This is not to say it is bad: it is good at what it is designed to do (handling technical tasks in an all-encompassing sorta way). But lately it feels like every conversation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ideas for tech-related IdeaLab Campaigns?

2015-12-07 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi Chris, I wonder if we can use Phabricator as an incubator for IdeaLab proposals? We already have the #possible-tech-projects tag in Phabricator [1], which seems like a sensible place to discuss the ideas amongst the people who have ideas in this area. I know there is some cynicism about the up

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-07 Thread Kartik Mistry
On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Legoktm wrote: > It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very > busy year! :-) ie Appreciation thread of 2015! * Santhosh, Niklas and Amir: For all (hard) work on ContentTranslation! * Runa: For being awesome manager. * Pau: For amazing de

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-07 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
* JGirault, TheDJ, Milimetric, and Ferdbold for their hard work on graphs * MaxSem, Akosiaris, bblack and johannesk_wmde for the maps Everyone - for helping ) On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 2:38 AM, Isarra Yos wrote: > Perhaps a thanks to the people we don't think about, who we often never > even work

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-07 Thread Isarra Yos
Perhaps a thanks to the people we don't think about, who we often never even work with. Volunteers and third-party developers who contribute to and maintain repositories not part of the big tickets. People who take the time to file bugs, and triage them, and sort things out. The ops who keep th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ifexists across wikis

2015-12-07 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Italian projects would also like such a feature, especially for (semi)automatic creation of interproject links. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussioni_template:Interprogetto#Interprogetto_a_wikt:_quando_metterlo.3F (By the way, the lack of Wiktionary on Wikidata even for interwiki links is e

[Wikitech-l] Update from the Wikimedia Performance Team

2015-12-07 Thread Gilles Dubuc
Hello, This is the monthly report from the Wikimedia Performance team. ## Our progress ## * Availability. We've done a major overhaul of the ObjectCache interfaces. Many factory methods were deprecated or removed, reducing it to just four simple entry points. New docs at https://doc.wikimedia.or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ifexists across wikis

2015-12-07 Thread MZMcBride
Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: >It's also why #ifexist is expensive: it needs a separate database query >for each time it's used, to check for a single page, because it's >impossible to determine the list of pages to check in advance. I'm not sure I understand the impossibility here. When the expensiv

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ideas for tech-related IdeaLab Campaigns?

2015-12-07 Thread Brian Wolff
On 12/7/15, Chris Schilling wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I've recently initiated a consultation to help decide on topics for IdeaLab > campaigns for the future, and I'm very interested in your input on what > technical issues, gaps, or general features we could consider focusing our > attention upon

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ifexists across wikis

2015-12-07 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > I don't think there is a way to get a database name from an interwiki > prefix. Not a good/easy way, AFAIK. I've looked into it recently and the way current code does it is with a lot of ad-hoc stuff, external configs, hard-coded configs and special cases. I think this ticket: https://phabr

[Wikitech-l] Ideas for tech-related IdeaLab Campaigns?

2015-12-07 Thread Chris Schilling
Hey everyone, I've recently initiated a consultation to help decide on topics for IdeaLab campaigns for the future, and I'm very interested in your input on what technical issues, gaps, or general features we could consider focusing our attention upon. These campaigns can generate novel proposals

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-07 Thread James Forrester
On 5 December 2015 at 00:25, Legoktm wrote: > Hi, > > It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very > busy year! :-) > > I'll quote Sumana from last time: > > > How about a little email thread for us to say nice things about each > > other? Rules: be kind, thank someone,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-07 Thread Dan Garry
On 7 December 2015 at 11:17, Oliver Keyes wrote: > Thenk you to Dan and Wes and Tomasz for making the Discovery team a > good team to be in <333 Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikit

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-07 Thread Oliver Keyes
Thenk you to Dan and Wes and Tomasz for making the Discovery team a good team to be in, Mikhail Popov for being a better student than I am a teacher, and Erik Bernhardson for his constant, chill acceptance of seemingly-arbitrary implementation demands for testing :) On 7 December 2015 at 14:09, An

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-07 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 05/12/2015 09:25, Legoktm a écrit : > It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very > busy year! :-) > > I'll quote Sumana from last time: > >> > How about a little email thread for us to say nice things about each >> > other? Rules: be kind, thank someone, and say why

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-07 Thread Prateek Saxena
* Pau Giner, for helping me think better about design. * Mark Holmquist, for helping me think better about code. * Bartosz Dziewoński, for helping me think better. —prtksxna On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Legoktm wrote: > Hi, > > It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a

[Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2015 starts today! Contributors and questions, tasks and mentors.

2015-12-07 Thread Andre Klapper
Google Code-in 2015 will start today and run for seven weeks: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015 Many young students will make their first contributions to Wikimedia hence there will be lots of questions on IRC and mailing lists.  Your help (and patience) is welcome to answer them

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is there some non-ssl mirror of wikipedia?

2015-12-07 Thread Brian Wolff
On Sunday, December 6, 2015, Petr Bena wrote: > I noticed that since we enforce SSL on Wikipedia for everyone, > Wikipedia is much more restricted in some countries, such as China, > where it's entirely blocked (I think only SSL is blocked, but users > now have no option to fall back to non-ssl ve

[Wikitech-l] Page_counter patch

2015-12-07 Thread Bill Morrisson
Hello everyone Submitted my first patch for gerrit review. You can take a look at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/257311/1/maintenance/oracle/tables.sql ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/list