Re: [Wikitech-l] The watchlist queue does not work recently

2020-12-29 Thread Strainu
În mar., 29 dec. 2020 la 23:46, Andre Klapper a scris: > > On Tue, 2020-12-29 at 18:37 +, Tom Doles via Wikitech-l wrote: > Yeah, I also had to deal with such unhelpful responses before. > > I'm sorry to hear that. The process of gathering sufficient info in > tickets can unfortunately

Re: [Wikitech-l] The watchlist queue does not work recently

2020-12-29 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2020-12-29 at 18:37 +, Tom Doles via Wikitech-l wrote: Yeah, I also had to deal with such unhelpful responses before. I'm sorry to hear that. The process of gathering sufficient info in tickets can unfortunately sometimes be confusing, surprising, or frustrating, given the many

Re: [Wikitech-l] The watchlist queue does not work recently

2020-12-29 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2020-12-29 at 21:24 +0200, Strainu wrote: > > Pe marți, 29 decembrie 2020, Andre Klapper a scris: > > > > No. It says "Full details of the issue, giving as much detail as > > possible." > > > > That's just... Confusing. I can totally understand why someone would > feel discouraged from

Re: [Wikitech-l] The watchlist queue does not work recently

2020-12-29 Thread Strainu
Pe marți, 29 decembrie 2020, Andre Klapper a scris: > On Tue, 2020-12-29 at 20:14 +0200, יגאל חיטרון wrote: > > Sure. As you said, this very link requires full reproduction steps. > > No. It says "Full details of the issue, giving as much detail as possible." That's just... Confusing. I can

Re: [Wikitech-l] The watchlist queue does not work recently

2020-12-29 Thread Tom Doles via Wikitech-l
This discussion does not concern the list, please continue it in private if you need to. On Tue, 2020-12-29 at 13:53 +0200, יגאל חיטרון wrote: > I already tryed this approach a couple of times, and every time you > said not to report if I have no full reproducing algorithm. Yeah, I also had

Re: [Wikitech-l] The watchlist queue does not work recently

2020-12-29 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2020-12-29 at 20:14 +0200, יגאל חיטרון wrote: > Sure. As you said, this very link requires full reproduction steps. No. It says "Full details of the issue, giving as much detail as possible." andre -- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate

Re: [Wikitech-l] The watchlist queue does not work recently

2020-12-29 Thread יגאל חיטרון
Sure. As you said, this very link requires full reproduction steps. Igal בתאריך יום ג׳, 29 בדצמ׳ 2020, 17:19, מאת Andre Klapper ‏< aklap...@wikimedia.org>: > On Tue, 2020-12-29 at 13:53 +0200, יגאל חיטרון wrote: > > I already tryed this approach a couple of times, and every time you > > said

Re: [Wikitech-l] The watchlist queue does not work recently

2020-12-29 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2020-12-29 at 13:53 +0200, יגאל חיטרון wrote: > I already tryed this approach a couple of times, and every time you > said not to report if I have no full reproducing algorithm. I don't think so. I can rather imagine that I asked to always follow

Re: [Wikitech-l] The watchlist queue does not work recently

2020-12-29 Thread יגאל חיטרון
I already tryed this approach a couple of times, and every time you said not to report if I have no full reproducing algorithm. Igal בתאריך יום ג׳, 29 בדצמ׳ 2020, 11:40, מאת Andre Klapper ‏< aklap...@wikimedia.org>: > On Mon, 2020-12-28 at 22:44 +0200, יגאל חיטרון wrote: > > I know this. I've

[Wikitech-l] Fatal exception when calling replaceVariables() from parser hook, after upgrade to MW 1.34

2020-12-29 Thread Mark Clements (HappyDog)
Hi there, I am investigating a breakage in my extension that has occurred in MW 1.34 but which didn't seem to be a problem on MW 1.29. (I have not tested interim versions to see where the issue first arises.) One of the parser hooks in the extension needs to perform variable expansion. What

Re: [Wikitech-l] "Fixing redirects" to "improve performance"

2020-12-29 Thread Amir Sarabadani
Hey, In general, the performance implications of an edit for fixing redirects heavily outweighs the small improvement of removing a redirect. The biggest exception to that is main pages of wikis (which redirecting en.wikipedia.org to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_page actually wastes 27 years of

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikisource-l] Systems for proofreading scanned books

2020-12-29 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thanks Lars for launching this very important conversation! I think it makes us think of an important topic, that is: what is Wikisource (and its software) actually for? See also some old iterations: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Role_of_Wikisource I think that some limitations of Wikisource

Re: [Wikitech-l] The watchlist queue does not work recently

2020-12-29 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2020-12-28 at 22:44 +0200, יגאל חיטרון wrote: > I know this. I've explained exactly why I can't file a ticket. > Igal I read that. I explained which link to follow to report this in the correct place: in the issue tracker. Sometimes exact steps to reproduce are not known [yet] and that