Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple overview image about how MW loads resources in clients

2017-11-08 Thread mathieu stumpf guntz
Le 08/11/2017 à 14:32, MZMcBride a écrit : Nick Wilson (Quiddity) wrote: We could switch to Module: or Module:. :-) lol, Unicode has definitely an insane number of WTF symbols included. Maybe I should try to re-implement libcaca in Lua within Module:. Now, for the case of Module:Bananas,

[Wikitech-l] TechCom discussion in 90 minutes: Tweaking the RFC process

2017-11-08 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hi all! As mentioned in the TechCom Radar mail earlier this week, today's TechCom IRC meeting will be about the RFC process itself. There is no concrete proposal to discuss (yet), this is intended to be a session for gathering questions, comments and suggestions. The meeting will start at 22:00

[Wikitech-l] Bugfix for diff engine & new Feature in testing

2017-11-08 Thread Michael Schönitzer
Hi there, The Technical Wishes Team of Wikimedia Germany is currently working on a soon-to-be deployed major improvement of the diff view engine. [1] It is now available on test wiki [2] and Mediawiki [3] and it would be great if you could test it and tell us if you encounter any bugs. [4] The

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple overview image about how MW loads resources in clients

2017-11-08 Thread MZMcBride
Nick Wilson (Quiddity) wrote: >If you mean https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Module:Bananas I would >guess "banana" was chosen as a >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placeholder_name because it's friendly >and innocuous, and is not ambiguous as "Example" might be. "Module:Bananas" on the English

Re: [Wikitech-l] Try out the commit message validator

2017-11-08 Thread Daniel Zahn
There is the file "typos" in the operations/puppet repo: https://github.com/wikimedia/puppet/blob/production/typos There is an existing CI check that checks against words in that fil. If you know common typos you can just add them to that file. This could probably be copied from ops/puppet to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple overview image about how MW loads resources in clients

2017-11-08 Thread Joaquin Oltra Hernandez
I personally use it as an example with other fruits like Apple, or some times with Phone or Bing because of the Raffi song *Bananaphone *which brings me good memories. It is also a very useful article name which has articles in many language wikis under

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple overview image about how MW loads resources in clients

2017-11-08 Thread mathieu stumpf guntz
Ok, thank you everybody for this cast of light. :) Maybe this kind of mnem should be documented in some central place, and maybe reference that in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker The fact that banana is friendly, yeah sure, I'm not aware of any banana who