Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth

2012-03-13 Thread Jeff Ferland
In. -Jeff On Mar 13, 2012, at 8:50 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > Hi, it's been almost 4 years since we came with the idea of > implementing an OAuth to mediawiki. I think it's time to start. > Question now is if it should be a part of core or extension for > mediawiki. I myself would rather make it as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Counting revisions in 20110901

2011-09-25 Thread Jeff Ferland
Nevermind my last. Didn't get the whole gist of it by phone. Sent from my phone, -Jeff On Sep 25, 2011, at 15:09, melvin_mm wrote: > Hi there, > > I counted the " pages-meta-history (bzip2) and got the result 412,482,641. Using > http://www.wikistatistics.net/wiki/en/edits/90 for verification

Re: [Wikitech-l] Counting revisions in 20110901

2011-09-25 Thread Jeff Ferland
Are you looking for the content of those, or just statistical data? If it's just stats, I can provide you numbers from live data. Sent from my phone, -Jeff On Sep 25, 2011, at 15:09, melvin_mm wrote: > Hi there, > > I counted the " pages-meta-history (bzip2) and got the result 412,482,641. Us

Re: [Wikitech-l] mediawiki.org tgz upload

2009-05-05 Thread Jeff Ferland
On May 5, 2009, at 1:51 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov wrote: > Hi! > I've developed my extension and I am not yet sure it's stable enough > to > be uploaded to MediaWiki SVN. Also, I don't have SVN commit access, > and I am not sure that I will be able to continuousely support my > extension > in the futur

Re: [Wikitech-l] Commit access

2009-04-08 Thread Jeff Ferland
The usual method of gaining commit access in public repositories is to make your own pull, do your own disconnected work, and submit a patch file when you feel it's at a milestone. Done with appropriate quality and frequency, access is given. Most large projects give by warrant of their own

Re: [Wikitech-l] hosting wikipedia

2009-01-27 Thread Jeff Ferland
I'll try to weigh in with a bit of useful information, but it probably won't help that much. You'll need a quite impressive machine to host even just the current revisions of the wiki. Expect to expend 10s to even hundreds of gigabytes on the database alone for Wikipedia using only the curre