Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia in Pig Latin

2016-04-07 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > We just had April fools. Please don't. A single test variant is fine, but > we don't need more. I think it would be nice to have a variant such as Pig Latin. Right now most variants that we have are in languages most people don't understand, so it's kind of hard to test some stuff. Pig Lati

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia in Pig Latin

2016-04-07 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 05.04.2016 um 17:55 schrieb Bartosz Dziewoński: > On 2016-04-05 17:37, Jon Robson wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: >>> Yes, please! I have been using a patch that Liangent wrote a few years ago, >>> but >>> which never got merged, for exactly this purpose. Piglat

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feelings

2016-04-07 Thread Jonathan Morgan
I would start the conversation here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Teahouse/Host_lounge Cullen328 and DESiegel are probably the most experienced/involved hosts right now. Their voices are respected. But of course there's no leader :) Jonathan On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 12:08 PM, C. Sc

Re: [Wikitech-l] productivity of mediawiki developers

2016-04-07 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > I personally reserve -2 for "this is a fundamentally bad idea" or "this > requires > community consensus before being implemented". Anything that is fixable in the > code should get a -1 or 0. > > Btw, I personally prefer to get -1 reviews over 0 reviews, simply because it's > easier to sp

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feelings

2016-04-07 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Keeping the teahouse thread alive... ...for some time I've wanted to prototype some real-time chat and editing features with the Teahouse folks (eg, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TogetherJS) to make the "conversations" Risker mentions easier/more natural. If anyone has suggestions abou

Re: [Wikitech-l] MathML is dead, long live MathML

2016-04-07 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 07.04.2016 um 20:00 schrieb Moritz Schubotz: > Hi Daniel, > > Ok. Let's discuss! Great! But let's keep the discussion in one place. I made a mess by cross-posting this to two lists, now it's three, it seems. Can we agree on as the venue of discussion? At least for the discussion of MathML in

[Wikitech-l] MathML is dead, long live MathML

2016-04-07 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Peter Krautzberger, maintainer of MathJax, apparently thinks that MathML has failed as a web standard (even though it succeeded as an XML standard), and should be removed from HTML5. Here's the link: https://www.peterkrautzberger.org/0186/ It's quite a rant. Here's a quick TL;DR: > It doesn’t ma

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feelings

2016-04-07 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Ori said: > I would like us to consider the contribution that modifications to the user > experience make to the > interpersonal climate on the wikis. > > I think that this is important. Our social experience in computer mediated spaces is intertwined with the technologies that manage our intera

Re: [Wikitech-l] Updates to ORES service & BREAKING CHANGE on April 7th

2016-04-07 Thread Aaron Halfaker
FYI, the new models (BREAKING CHANGE) are now deployed. On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Aaron Halfaker wrote: > Hey folks, we have a couple of announcements for you today. First is that > ORES has a large set of new functionality that you might like to take > advantage of. We'll also want to tal