Re: [Wikitech-l] Discontinue internet explorer 6 and 7 support

On Jun 30, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Thomas Mulhall wrote: > Hi but the users can I also get google chrome or Firefox or any other > browsers. No, that’s not always true. Many websites in China work only with IE. (Not too long ago many government websites required IE6). ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Discontinue internet explorer 6 and 7 support

On Jun 29, 2014, at 6:49 PM, Trevor Parscal wrote: > 2. We have a policy in place that any browser with 0.1% market share or > more should be supported for reading and basic contribution It seems that wisdom would suggest flexibility on that policy if the < 0.1% includes a substantial portion

Re: [Wikitech-l] Discontinue internet explorer 6 and 7 support

On Jun 29, 2014, at 6:12 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > Reading between the lines: updates are complicated. …[M]any of the Windows operating systems are not direct purchases – these methods do not allow upgrade. i.e. virtually all copies o

Re: [Wikitech-l] Discontinue internet explorer 6 and 7 support

On Jun 29, 2014, at 12:33 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: > Wait, we support internet explorer 6? (Currently IE 6 is 1.17% and 7 > is 0.9%. On our scale, 1% is actually a very high number of people. > However some bots probably use IE6 as a user-agent, so unclear if > those numbers are inflated). There’s

Re: [Wikitech-l] Security precaution - Resetting all user sessions today

On Apr 8, 2014, at 7:34 PM, Chris Steipp wrote: > If you hit this issue, logging out and logging in again seems to fix the > problem. I'm still trying to track down why this is happening. Not a master/slave/LB sync thing? Here’s the main serverfault Q&A item about Heartbleed: http://serverfault

Re: [Wikitech-l] Shorter URLs

On Apr 6, 2014, at 2:42 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > The current /s/ behavior on wikis where ShortUrl is not installed > is just a byproduct of shared Apache configuration between the domains Oh, I see. Okay. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikim

Re: [Wikitech-l] Shorter URLs

On Apr 6, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Jeremy Baron wrote: > On Apr 6, 2014 1:53 PM, "Daniel Norton" wrote: >> sending a 301 redirect regardless of the remainder of the path. Is that > documented somewhere? (I would expect a 404.) > > The apache conf is in a public git repo.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Shorter URLs

On Apr 6, 2014, at 12:08 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > en.wikipedia.org/s/xr32 Hmm, I presume that you were just tossing out a random URL, but that “/s/” path seems to be configured with some special purpose, sending a 301 redirect regardless of the remainder of the path. Is that documented somewhere?

[Wikitech-l] Shorter URLs (Was: Top Level Design, LLC greedy registrar!)

On Apr 5, 2014, at 6:31 PM, Antoine Musso wrote: > What is the point of having shorter URLs anyway? Here are the related references: - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/URL_shortener - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38863 - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thre

Re: [Wikitech-l] URL shortener

On Apr 5, 2014, at 5:20 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > For Wikimedia, there's a lot of potential for use as a good URL shortener > (en.wiki/Dog in instead of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog BTW, I'm studying such a shortener, now, for use by Wikimedia. The domain name is among the simpler challenges. :-)