On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Happy Melon happy.melon.w...@gmail.comwrote:
On 5 October 2011 22:30, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote:
This could still end up pulling from 600+ repos -- if there are actually
changes
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane g...@endpoint.com wrote:
I'm also of the opinion that we should just store things as CHAR(32),
unless someone thinks space is really at that much of a premium. The big
advantage of 32 chars (i.e. 0-9a-f aka hexadecimal ) is that it's a
Hi Sezgin,
Ariel recently responded to a similar question on xmldatadumps-l:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/xmldatadumps-l/2011-July/000288.html
Conrad
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Sezgin Sucu sucu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
The dump under Recombine articles, templates, image
project proposals for
the upcoming Hackathon in Berlin?
Ryan Kaldari
On 4/1/11 5:53 PM, Conrad Irwin wrote:
Ryan — what is your goal with the cleanup? Part of the reason I think
you're getting nowhere on Wiktionary is that as far as anyone there
can tell you're just changing stuff for the fun
Out of interest, do you know what percentage of emails in the database
don't validate under the new scheme?
Conrad
On 24 January 2011 13:55, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote:
Hi,
We got the email validation stuff sorted out properly tonight. We even
have javascript tests (thanks
The talk page's ID may change over time (as may the page ID causing
the talk page to change association) when pages are deleted and
undeleted or moved. You should use the (namespace, page title) pair as
persistent unique identifiers for associating talk pages and content
pages. It's pretty easy to
On 31 December 2010 00:08, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 December 2010 00:02, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
There's an extension to 'delete' pages by blanking. I find that approach
much more wiki.
Pure wiki deletion is a perennial proposal. One problem is that
there
There is no real massive load caused by https at runtime. There is however
a significant chink of developer and sysadmin time needed to implement this
and make it work.
For now, at least, the only optimisations that should be considered are
those that make it easier all round.
Conrad
On 26 Oct
I was under the impression that wfUrlencode left :s unescaped - except on
IIS - would that not work for the ResourceLoader?
Conrad
On 30 Sep 2010 23:12, Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 9/30/10 2:12 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
Does it also allow replacing the separators with
There's a long outstanding bug [1] to ensure that accurate attribution
is maintained when templates are substituted. I don't think this is
the same as maintaining attribution of external imports, but it may be
that whatever solution is implemented for one can be generalised to
allow the other.
Well, given we've recently switched all projects to Vector (are there
any we have yet to switch that I don't know of?) that's not really
possible anymore.
We could try asking someone from outside Wikimedia :p
Conrad
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On 3 September 2010 00:51, Danese Cooper dcoo...@wikimedia.org wrote:
1. Eliminate single points of failure / bottlenecks
2. Reconfigure into teams designed to encourage faster (shorter
duration) and more accurate projects / deployments
3. Develop programs to encourage / grow volunteers into
On 2 September 2010 17:40, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/9/3 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com:
* Shut down the secret staff IRC channel. Development discussion can
take place in #mediawiki, ops in #wikimedia-tech, other stuff in
#wikimedia or whatever. If users
On 26 August 2010 16:13, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.org wrote:
You can also use things like function_exists() to conditionally call
MediaWiki versions of things or native PHP stuff.
With respect, this is the wrong way to go about it. Unconditionally
remove all MediaWIki from within the
On 21 August 2010 13:46, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote:
Example:
You enter:
{{display_map:foobar}}
Then save the page, and when you edit, it shows:
{{display_map:93.42, 12.34}}
What hook would be suited for such a thing?
None of them. Either store it out-of-band, or
On 17 August 2010 13:06, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
Дана Tuesday 17 August 2010 20:37:44 Aryeh Gregor написа:
The code is currently enabled in trunk and is still awaiting review.
It's basically complete, but there are some issues left:
* What sortkey algorithm to use?
On 21 July 2010 14:49, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/7/21 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com:
Note that different languages will want different orders. For
instance, German generally sorts ä as ae, ö as oe and ü as ue, whereas
the Swedish sort å, ä and ö at the end
On 29 June 2010 19:58, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Ilmari Karonen nos...@vyznev.net wrote:
I'm not familiar enough with the texvc code to know what it would take
to add support for the algorithmic package (and I'm not sure if anyone
really
On 31 May 2010 23:37, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 May 2010 23:31, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
Wiki syntax is too complicated for this to be feasible. It also
doesn't have a one-to-one mapping to HTML. It's been tried before,
but what you end up with is
On 26 May 2010 21:21, Lane, Ryan ryan.l...@ocean.navo.navy.mil wrote:
This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some
people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing
it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x
releases (people seriously get confused
On 17 May 2010 20:05, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
Audio CAPTCHAs, like visual CAPTCHAs, are not accessible for all
people and do not conform to W3C accessibility guidelines. What's
more, they're easier to crack than visual CAPTCHAs due to their
one-dimensional
On 05/12/2010 01:11 PM, Svip wrote:
On 12 May 2010 13:57, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
You could use span style=font-weight: bold, but what's the point of
that?
Because it would be correct HTML.
It's foul HTML... The whole point is that you say what you mean, not
what it
On 05/02/2010 01:20 AM, Markus Glaser wrote:
Hi everybody,
at the Wkimedia Developers' Workshop, I introduced a Selenium testing
framework for MediaWiki. Since it has now been promoted to maintenance/tests,
I have provided some initial information it on
On 04/01/2010 07:33 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
Actually, I think the current system is pretty good, except that the
variants are confusing for historical reasons. I'd stick fairly close
to the general syntax of what we have now. Off the top of my head, I
would suggest syntax like the following
On 03/31/2010 12:31 PM, Victor wrote:
Hi, now I see...
I've posted a message to the fa.caml newsgroup:
http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/browse_frm/thread/1593e053759d7679
hopefully somebody will volunteer to fix the issues, thus
saving the human resources for better tasks.
On 03/31/2010 05:32 PM, Daniel Schwen wrote:
I could be worse, It could be Math in Javascript:
v = (011 + 1 + 0.1)/3;
303.36667
Somebody ought to slap you for mixing four different types in such a
horrendous manner to construct something that is supposed to make
people who do not
On 03/29/2010 10:36 AM, Niklas Laxström wrote:
On 28 March 2010 23:57, Conrad Irwin conrad.ir...@googlemail.com wrote:
The names of the methods are somewhat confusing and it'd be nice if they
were consistent.
(language/inContentLanguage), (parse/text/plain/escaped/parseAsBlock)
perhaps
On 03/28/2010 05:06 PM, Niklas Laxström wrote:
(2) The primary entry point is Message::key(). The syntax is little
more verbose than wfMsg*'s, but much more readable imho. Do we want to
use even short wrapper for the entry point? If yes, how should it be
called? For example _() (often used
On 03/26/2010 01:59 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 16:30, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote:
and the inserted strings?
2) How/where could a wiki customize the special character insert menu,
The entire toolbar can be customized using site JS. There are examples
On 03/24/2010 02:00 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Conrad Irwin
conrad.ir...@googlemail.com wrote:
Many LaTeX installations can be made read/write/execute anything by
default.
What does that mean? LaTeX can invoke external programs? Using what
commands
On 03/23/2010 08:06 AM, Damon Wang wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm interested in porting texvc to Python, and I was hoping this list
here might help me hash out the plan. Please let me know if I should
take my questions elsewhere.
Roughly, my plan of attack would be something like this:
1.
On 03/23/2010 05:00 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
I suggested a Python port because
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010#MediaWiki_core
lists it as a potential project idea. I was under the impression that
people around here did not want to leave texvc in OCaml. Is this wrong?
optimized
I don't think that'll be an issue.
This much I know, but is LaTeX actually a regular language?
It's not even context free, luckily the subset we are interested in is
(as clearly shown by the texvc parser :p).
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Conrad Irwin
conrad.ir...@googlemail.com
On 03/23/2010 10:44 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
Just because a language is context-sensitive doesn't mean it will be
hard to write a parser for it. That's just a myth propagated by
computer scientists who, strangely enough given their profession, have
a disdain for the algorithm as a descriptive
On 03/19/2010 11:02 AM, zh...@york.ac.uk wrote:
What I mean is that if the current dump show there are 30 edits under the
particular article name, and history dump show there are 100 edits under
the same article. what's different between these 30 and 100?
The current dump shows 1 edit for
On 03/17/2010 08:48 PM, Nimish Gautam wrote:
Hey all,
I wanted to change the cite extension to have some extra functionality.
As citations have gotten more common, I've noticed an emerging use case
where people will copy and paste text from wikipedia to HTML-enabled
tools such as email
On 03/12/2010 09:01 AM, K. Peachey wrote:
Perhaps a separate IRC channel for the GSOC students/mentors
(#wikimedia-gsoc?) (and who ever else wants to hangout in there) so
that it doesn't get flooded with random questions and such and
wouldn't be as hectic (or scary) for the newer irc users.
On 03/12/2010 06:33 PM, Ryan Lane wrote:
That said, this discussion isn't fruitful. Can we please move the
discussion back to planning how this is going to work?
Sure, the main problem I see with the proposed set up [1] is that you
have no way of ensuring the MediaWiki you are hitting is in a
On 03/12/2010 07:48 PM, Ryan Lane wrote:
Do the parser tests only test core parser functionality, or do they
also test extensions, like ParserFunctions, and SyntaxHighlight GeSHi?
It is likely we'll have tests that will need to dynamically include
extensions, and configure them dynamically as
On 03/11/2010 07:06 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
For the immediate future, I suggest lifting this restriction for wikis
between 1,000 and 50,000 articles in size (large enough to have a few
active users, small enough to not yet have lots of policy around these
issues). Ultimately we'll want to
On 03/10/2010 09:28 AM, K. Peachey wrote:
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Michael Dale md...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Should we define some sort of convention for extensions to develop
selenium tests? i.e perhaps some of the tests should live in a testing
folder of each extension or in
It would be good if all testing frameworks were fairly consistent. I believe
a project is going to be set up to coordinate this.
That's good, as the parser tests are the most widespread, copying that
configuration seems easiest. (Notwithstanding all the other advantages
mentioned previously).
On 02/18/2010 01:42 PM, Tei wrote:
I can imagine this url:
http://someserver.com/wiki/api.php?wikicode=code here
urlencodedformat=jsondevice=handheld
as a way to ask MediaWiki installed in someserver.com to render has
html inside json the wikicode provided.
Do mediawiki already
On 02/16/2010 06:57 PM, Steve Summit wrote:
Presumably some percentage of that 20-50% will come back as the
spammers realize they have to supply the string. Presumably we
then start playing whack-a-mole.
If you assume every problem is caused by actively malicious intelligent
agents, then
On 02/11/2010 02:31 PM, Jack Phoenix wrote:
Wow, this sparked quite a discussion -- I'm pleased to hear that so many
people are interested in reworking MW's skin system to make it better! :-)
As per Tim's request, I've created a branch for this in r62304 and applied
the initial patch in
On 02/11/2010 03:28 PM, Jack Phoenix wrote:
Skin system rewrite currently supports old, SkinTemplate/QuickTemplate-based
skins. For example, Vector uses SkinTemplate and QuickTemplate and it works
well -- but as noted earlier, it won't support some of the new features
(SkinAfterSidebar hook
On 02/10/2010 08:49 PM, Marco Schuster wrote:
Hi all,
I just got this email from bugzilla. Apparently Google Apps has screwed up
something again so the message itself doesnt annoy me, but why are the
users' passwords still sent in CLEARTEXT in these days??
Can someone (tm) of the mailman
On 02/10/2010 09:15 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 10 February 2010 21:00, Conrad Irwin conrad.ir...@googlemail.com wrote:
The point of the password is so you can prove to the web interface that
you own the email address; so the fact that it is in your email box
doesn't matter much. (If your
We have a reputation that we support open standards ... so how open is
Silverlight ?
It seems to be on a similar lines to Flash, Microsoft retains the
reference implementation, and there's an open-source wannabe
implementation struggling along behind. Both have a reputation for being
closed
On 02/04/2010 04:10 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
Yup. Any volunteers? My understanding is that right now, the backend
supports category searches as long as the categories are spelled out
literally in the wikitext (not via template).
Presumably it would not be too hard to append the full
On 01/20/2010 04:47 PM, Happy-melon wrote:
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On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Happy-melon happy-me...@live.com wrote:
I bet very few people would bother adding
* search queries are logged in a standardized fashion (for grouping),
e.g. lowercase, single spaces, no leading/trailing spaces, special
chars converted to spaces, etc.
Wiktionary is case-sensitive and so case-folding there may not be
appropriate; I personally would be interested in seeing
On 01/14/2010 05:51 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Conrad Irwin
conrad.ir...@googlemail.com wrote:
Wiktionary is case-sensitive and so case-folding there may not be
appropriate; I personally would be interested in seeing these logs
before even the NFC normalizers
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