[Wikitech-l] Re: Why does the train start on Tuesday?

This makes me wonder if there could ever be a way to allow some requests to be on one group and other requests for the same wiki could be another group. e.g. users could opt-in to being a canary or some users could be randomly selected. When would this not work? If a newer version required

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Backport and Config changes window (name change)

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, 17:33 AntiCompositeNumber < anticompositenum...@gmail.com> wrote: > We could go the SuSa route and call it the BACON window, for BAckports > and CONfigs > or BCC or BACC window. > ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] catching errors in local JavaScript

On Jan 18, 2017 11:26, "Amir E. Aharoni" wrote: Remind me please, were there ever any efforts to get client-side JavaScript errors monitored centrally? I think you're looking for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/976/ aka

Re: [Wikitech-l] Kunal (User:Legoktm) moving to Parsing Team

On Apr 6, 2016 10:13, "Amgine" wrote: > No. Your citations are normal, and expected. The use of [0] is a dev > affectation to show you're 'in the club', that is, to discriminate, but > violates the principal of least surprise. I think you're reading too much into it. the

Re: [Wikitech-l] bluejeans

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Brion Vibber <bvib...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Jeremy Baron <jer...@tuxmachine.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Brion Vibber <bvib...@wikimedia.org> >> wrote: >> > Jeremy, unche

Re: [Wikitech-l] bluejeans

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > Jeremy, uncheck the microphone and camera buttons after selecting > 'computer' and before selecting 'join'. right, I saw those. the problem is that if you have Chrome set to disallow websites from using your Mic/Camera

Re: [Wikitech-l] bluejeans

Hi, On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Ryan Lane wrote: > The right question here is: is it more important for Wikimedia foundation > to use only open source than it is to focus on work that directly benefits > the movement? There's no reasonable open source to do this function.

[Wikitech-l] bluejeans

Hi, On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:36 PM, David Strine wrote: > We will be holding this brownbag in 25 minutes. The Bluejeans link has > changed: > > https://bluejeans.com/396234560 I'm not familiar with bluejeans and maybe have missed a transition because I wasn't paying

Re: [Wikitech-l] pt.wikimedia.org - database naming

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:09 AM, John wrote: > I dont want to come across as a dick, but renaming this wiki shouldn't be > overly difficult. Worst case you dump the database and re-import under a > new name. Since this is a non-active wiki all of the normal overhead

Re: [Wikitech-l] Testing pywikibot on beta wikis (Was: Simplifying the WMF deployment cadence)

On May 29, 2015 09:10, Alex Monk kren...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 May 2015 at 09:14, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: It's risky anyway, do you know who has access to the beta cluster? It's not considered secure and you do not need any NDA or anything to get access - if you are using

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug in the Wikipedia main web page

On May 12, 2015 8:05 AM, Sukyoung Ryu sukyoung@gmail.com wrote: Could you kindly let us know the reason? Please leave your comments and questions at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-wm-portal.js Thanks -Jeremy ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Maps

On Mar 19, 2015 2:03 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: What is meant by real hardware ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare_metal_%28computer%29 Can we have some at Labs please? Labs nodes provisioned for and by labs users are virtual machines. Labs has dedicated bare metal

Re: [Wikitech-l] Could not acquire (database)_message:en:status lock

Hi, On Mar 7, 2015 9:56 PM, Justin Folvarcik jfolvar...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone at least point me in the right direction of how to start debugging? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T46499 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T45516 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44127 Maybe your redis

Re: [Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback

On Feb 23, 2015 12:06 PM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: It would be possible to just say sorry, login by e-mail is not possible for you; please login by username. No, that isn't possible. We can't reveal existence or non-existence of an account with an address. If there's more than one

Re: [Wikitech-l] If you hear about 'hackathon buddies'...

On Feb 19, 2015 2:55 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. Forwarding to Ellie for her consideration. Ellie doesn't seem to be mentioned on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015 or in it's edit history. So probably the wrong person. Maybe try the talk page there. But

Re: [Wikitech-l] Continually degrading response

Hi Brian, On Jan 1, 2015 10:53 PM, Brian M xaosfluxw...@gmail.com wrote: Over the last few days access to multiple wiki's (very noticeable on enwiki) has been getting increasingly worse. Is there a back-end issue going on? Can you elaborate? My first response to a question like that is to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Attracting new talent to our projects

On Dec 31, 2014 7:22 PM, Gabriel Wicke gwi...@wikimedia.org wrote: Perhaps some fun HTTP headers http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/08/15/fun-and-unusual-http-response-headers/ See also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70982 -Jeremy ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Need assistance : Patches

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Alisha Jain jain.alish...@gmail.com wrote: I want to apply Foss OPW Round 9 for the Extensive and robust localisation file format coverage project. For that I have played with gerrit and installed mediawiki. I have also gone through th [0] link as suggested by

Re: [Wikitech-l] IRC bots for phab

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:13 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: I have no idea where that is coming from, specifically since there was no mention of creating accounts and the Login page clearly mentions using LDAP credentials to log in. Petan attended part of the phab meeting last

Re: [Wikitech-l] IRC bots for phab

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Is currently someone working on this thing? I might be able to help with this task at some point. So in case you are working on it or would like to get any help with this, let me know, either here or on irc (petan), thanks

Re: [Wikitech-l] IRC bots for phab

On Sep 28, 2014 3:56 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: This is all nice, but I can't login to phabricator (error 503 when I use my LDAP) so I can't really participate in any discussion there. Then try #wikimedia-devtools ? [[You spend way too much time (and other people's time too) on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator update

On Sep 18, 2014 10:19 PM, Daniel Zahn dz...@wikimedia.org wrote: puppet will make it exec {git_update... .. command = '/usr/bin/git remote update', from our gerrit repo. i'm not 100% sure about the sync between upstream and our gerrit repo, but Chase would know git remote update doesn't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering report, July 2014

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote: Not sure what the problem is but the report on mw.o is borked. See screenshot: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Aug2014-monthlyreport-busted.png Transient error on fetching CSS asset from bits? Works for me.

Re: [Wikitech-l] broken travis-ci builds of mediawiki

+ QA list -Jeremy On Aug 18, 2014 1:23 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: There are build errors in the mediawiki builds on travis-ci, which have been happening for four months. https://travis-ci.org/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/builds Is anyone using that to help with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

On Aug 11, 2014 12:51 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: More like the attendees were those who could afford to go and/or were given scholarship. Some people could afford to go if it were closer or can't take that much time off but if it happens to be nearby then they can come for a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feature request.

On Aug 5, 2014 11:25 PM, Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexf...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the update Quim. I hope it gets done as soon as possible, as it'll go a long way to help multiple concurrent edits. I think it's been lacking for a long time now, and can't wait to see it in action. I think

Re: [Wikitech-l] 34 TB Wikimedia Commons files on archive.org: you can help

On Aug 2, 2014 8:17 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: I think this would be doable if we can work out the legal issues and WMF approves a GAC request for some cheap storage. What legal issues do you envision? -Jeremy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] 34 TB Wikimedia Commons files on archive.org: you can help

On Aug 2, 2014 8:25 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: No offense, I would prefer that Cascadia discuss potential legal issues privately with WMF before we start speculating in public. There is probably a way to make this successful in the end. I find that rather confusing. As the legal

Re: [Wikitech-l] Naigos and Icinga

On Jul 17, 2014 11:55 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a plan to switch from Naigos to Icinga, or is that merely under discussion? Happened many moons ago. -Jeremy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Strange mailing list behavior

On Jul 16, 2014 1:42 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: When there are technical issues such as this email issue, Wikipedia pages not loading, and so on, is there a page or mailing list (ironic, I know) where alerts should be visible? I'm familiar with the IRC tech channel but I am hoping

Re: [Wikitech-l] User agent policy for bots

On Jul 11, 2014 9:45 AM, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: On 07/11/2014 09:34 AM, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: Could ops confirm they have the username of each logged in edit at their finger tips (i.e. roughly as easy to access as the user-agent)? Pywikibot doesnt permit logged out

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia email list settings

On Jul 5, 2014 3:27 PM, Bináris wikipo...@gmail.com wrote: Fix= don't use gmail. It decides for you. They are like Microsoft and know what you need better than yourself. :-) More details: https://productforums.google.com/d/topic/gmail/fkbKPajx1Dw/discussion

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Bug Bounty Program

On Jun 26, 2014 9:44 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Any process that involves volunteers signing non-public, indefinite vows of secrecy and silence are antithetical to Wikimedia's values and mission. This isn't a cult. Our bedrock principles are open access and transparency. To

Re: [Wikitech-l] Second round of the MediaWiki Release Management RFP

On Jun 14, 2014 3:48 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Out of curiosity, will the proposals be reviewed by GAC? I doubt it. There's no grant here. This is a contract initiated by WMF not a grant initiated by a potential grantee. cf.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improving event announcements (was Re: Tech Talk: How, What, Why of WikiFont)

On Jun 10, 2014 10:19 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: The video can be watched from the Google+ URL that we are advertising. Even if not logged in? Please double check with a clean cookie jar. (Seems to just give me a login prompt. No chance to play the video. I just trued with the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preventing MW from adding a page to watchlist

On Jun 10, 2014 9:18 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: And sysadmins of larger wiki installations probably want to re-visit whether the user preferences defaults are appropriate for their communities. They also may wan to consider reading the release announcement emails… (e.g.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Any reason for no enwiki dump this month?

On Jun 10, 2014 1:30 PM, Bryan White bgwh...@gmail.com wrote: Any reason for no enwiki dump this month? No reason yet. See http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/xmldatadumps-l/2014-June/001038.html (You may want to subscribe there) -Jeremy ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: How, What, Why of WikiFont

Hi, On Jun 9, 2014 8:55 PM, Rachel Farrand rfarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: If you want to watch live you can join the hangout here https://plus.google.com/events/chpgv8usjd6dn38on07njjk28hg and Please send the corresponding youtube links *early*. (Ideally, every time you mention the Google plus

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: How, What, Why of WikiFont

On Jun 10, 2014 12:14 AM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote: Are there any docs onwiki somewhere for how to run/announce a meeting? (so we can make sire those docs mention the requirement for youtube link) gah, Android keyboard… s/sire/sure/ -Jeremy

Re: [Wikitech-l] Page Language selector

On May 23, 2014 11:09 AM, Kunal Grover kunalgrove...@gmail.com wrote: I am working on developing the Page Content Language selector for core as a part of my GSoC project. Me and my mentors had some discussions and came up with these ideas.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk - Elasticsearch: May 15 @19:00 UTC

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Rachel Farrand rfarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: Join Nik Everett on May 15 at 19:00 UTC for his talk on Elasticsearch: What it is? Why we chose it? How does it work? What is left to do before we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Login to Wikimedia Phabricator with a GitHub/Google/etc account?

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: There are good reasons to plan for Wikimedia SUL only (consistency with the rest of Wikimedia projects), and there are good reasons to plan for other providers as well (the easiest path for most first-time contributors). If

Re: [Wikitech-l] En.wikipedia redirect loops on everything (??!!)

On May 13, 2014 11:00 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: I am getting redirect loops on every page I try right now on en.wikipedia More details? Tested logged in and out. (clean cookie jar) didn't notice anything weird. -Jeremy ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] recent changes stream

On May 4, 2014 10:24 PM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: an implementation for a recent changes stream broadcast via socket.io, an abstraction layer over WebSockets that also provides long polling as a fallback for older browsers. I see this is using redis. FWIW I was initially wondering

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-GH] Wiki Loves Earth Begins!

On May 1, 2014 6:22 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: is there a possibility to get a banner on enwp for ghana to wiki loves earth, as this is this years main contest there? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2014_in_Ghana That doesn't have anything to

Re: [Wikitech-l] SSL Cert Change?

On Apr 10, 2014 3:34 PM, Vito vituzzu.w...@gmail.com wrote: Yep, it would make a few sense to reset tokens and change passwords before certs are reissued. No it doesn't!!! Change keys/certs first. Then do tokens/passwords. -Jeremy ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] SSL Cert Change?

On Apr 10, 2014 3:27 PM, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.com wrote: I just had Certificate Patrol in Firefox let me know that the SSL cert for Wikimedia.org was changed? Does anyone know anything about that? Are multiple certificates in use? FYI, this has been widely covered in a lot

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

On Apr 7, 2014 10:36 AM, Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.org wrote: So you'd probably have to redirect mediawiki to write files somewhere else more permanent. Google Drive seems like a decent place but last time I tried, integrating Drive with App Engine was silly hard. This might have

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

On Apr 7, 2014 11:40 AM, Liangent liang...@gmail.com wrote: I remember I mentioned it once in IRC, and some people don't like it because GAE is proprietary... So is oracle. If someone wants to do the work… ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Top Level Design, LLC greedy registrar!

On Apr 6, 2014 12:47 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: Is ray king is working with wikimedia? Nope. He does not work for WMF. He doesn't work for WMF but the answer for is working with Wikimedia? is Yes, he is. -Jeremy ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Shorter URLs

On Apr 6, 2014 1:53 PM, Daniel Norton dan...@danielnorton.com 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. (not getting the URL for you atm because I'm writing from a phone.

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

On Apr 5, 2014 4:26 PM, Denny Vrandečić vrande...@gmail.com wrote: Did anyone manage to get MediaWiki running on Google App Engine? I am a bit dense, it seems, and would appreciate a few pointers. Yes, I think the biggest problem was that you can't do file uploads. IIRC I can write more when

Re: [Wikitech-l] .wiki gTLD

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:20 AM, Quinn wood.quin...@gmail.com wrote: Jeremy Baron wrote Could I register starwars.wiki in order to redirect it to starwars.wikia.com ? (or if wikia offered white labeling to host it in place?) Duplicate the zone and add additional resource requirements (a slew

Re: [Wikitech-l] Grrrit-wm down for a few hours

On Mar 17, 2014 1:37 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Yuvi Panda wrote: I was a terrible maintainer, and forgot to migrate grrrit-wm to eqiad tools before the cutoff date. As a result, it will be down for a few hours as Coren does a batch migrate of all the things. Apologies for the

Re: [Wikitech-l] About the bug 46453 - Uzbek: Change date and decimal separators

On Mar 13, 2014 2:37 PM, Maduranga Siriwardena maduranga.siriward...@gmail.com wrote: By mistake I uploaded a patch to a bug to Gerrit having some mistakes in the commit message. If I'm linking a bug to the patch I should add Bug: bugnumber But I added it as Bug:bugnumber (Having no space

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why is Cologne Blue still in core?

On Mar 11, 2014 3:36 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: differentiating which nearly-identical wikis one is working on, particularly if one or more of the wikis involved are non-public ones. Do you have specific requests for how to differentiate them? Either for a whole wiki (could be in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Two factor auth reset needed on wikitech

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.org wrote: I wasn't able to find any documentation on wikitech about how to reset it -- so I need your help to do that I think? I still know my password; so I'm not looking to reset that -- maybe just temporarily disable two

Re: [Wikitech-l] Two factor auth reset needed on wikitech

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.org wrote: Please reset my 2 factor auto preference in the wikitech database. My GPG key is available from the MIT keyserver [0]. Establishment of ownership of the Mwalker LDAP account by this email can occur via gerrit [1],

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to retrieve current wiki time

On Feb 26, 2014 9:14 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: How do you get current wiki time, so that you can either calculate the timezone or use the time? How about using basetimestamp instead? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php says: basetimestamp - Timestamp of the base revision

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to retrieve current wiki time

On Feb 26, 2014 10:09 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: Note the returned timestamp should always be in UTC, formatted in ISO 8601 format (e.g. 2014-02-26T15:01:37Z). Speaking of timestamp format, examples in api.php seem wrong for basetimestamp. The examples use entirely

Re: [Wikitech-l] Exit stats?

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: Does Wikipedia have any exit or click-through stats, like what links are the visitors following from an article? If yes, are those public? Forwarded to the (public) analytics list (analyt...@lists.wikimedia.org). Please

Re: [Wikitech-l] .wiki gTLD

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: If I own the trademark coca-cola I would assume the registrar would not be able use (ie: sell a domain) without a license from me. I don't know about that. Could I register starwars.wiki in order to redirect it to

Re: [Wikitech-l] .wiki gTLD

On Feb 20, 2014 1:57 PM, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.com wrote: ICANN just delegated the gTLD .WIKI yesterday. It's being managed by Top Level Design, LLC. I'm not entirely sure what that means for all of us exactly, but I suspect that the WMF is going to want to at least register

Re: [Wikitech-l] deploying the most recent MediaWiki code: which branch?

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Isarra Yos zhoris...@gmail.com wrote: It would require pretty consistent maintenance of their own, but it could be worth it. IOW, you need to hire a Greg Grossmeier :) -Jeremy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Toolserver Error 502

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.com wrote: Is there a bug in bugzilla that I might be able to watch? Or is this a new issue? The toolserver admins use JIRA not bugzilla so I don't expect you to find anything in bugzilla. I'd check first

Re: [Wikitech-l] Starting off with development on Wikimedia for GSOC

On Feb 9, 2014 11:34 AM, Akash Agarwal akash...@gmail.com wrote: especially *Tools for mass migration of legacy translated wiki content*. A good place to start would be asking for help in #mediawiki-i18n @ freenode -Jeremy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] English Wikipedia Issues

On Feb 6, 2014 11:48 AM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 11:41 -0500, Derric Atzrott wrote: Not sure if anyone else noticed or not yet, but at least the English Wikipedia appears to be having some intermittent issues. This is being worked on currently on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of the new PDF Renderer

On Jan 25, 2014 9:55 AM, Liangent liang...@gmail.com wrote: It's mentioned as a test case but where's the output (expected and actual) of that article? You may find some answers in the initial mail that started this thread. -Jeremy ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm back from Hacker School

Welcome back! I look forward to working (maybe even pairing) with you. (I also want to try the fun and profit friday's program too) On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: http://www.harihareswara.net/nb/nb.cgi/category/sumana/Hacker%20Schoolwhich

Re: [Wikitech-l] npm publish

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: Move to some host that will not die soon? fenari has been the canonical place for these docs for a while. (AIUI) IMHO, there should be a clearly defined home for them and not a situation where people have to guess/hunt

Re: [Wikitech-l] FW: Mass file undeletion tools?

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Nathan Larson nathanlarson3...@gmail.com wrote: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UndeleteBatch should work. no match for /batch/i @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Version -Jeremy ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR

On Dec 30, 2013 10:58 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: Implementing a system like this to work with donations would be extraordinarily difficult, if it's even possible. I don't think that's true. Given a reference implementation of a generic blinding service, I think it should be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Operations buy in on Architecture of mwlib Replacement

On Nov 17, 2013 9:17 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: The current PDF support is broken. It does not support all the languages we support. I do not see that this an explicit requirement. That may effect dependencies (fonts/libs/etc.) but otherwise I think is irrelevant to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Issue

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks! The Operations team is currently working on it and there likely will be an analysis available at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation afterwards. See also #wikimedia-tech,

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Bugzilla users have restricted accounts

On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Nathan Larson nathanlarson3...@gmail.com wrote: Why not make assigning bugs work sort of like FlaggedRevs -- as a new user, you can make changes, but the changes won't take effect until they're reviewed and approved? After a bureaucrat sees that you're behaving

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Bugzilla users have restricted accounts

On Nov 7, 2013 6:27 PM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: For the records: Currently 14744 Wikimedia Bugzilla users have editbugs permissions (so this is something to do via an SQL command instead of me clicking myself to death in Bugzilla's web interface). I also generally support

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: What's the prefered way to contribute patches to Pediapress' mwlib?

adding their list -- Forwarded message -- From: Strainu strain...@gmail.com Date: Oct 29, 2013 12:30 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] What's the prefered way to contribute patches to Pediapress' mwlib? To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Hi, I have some patches

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions

On Oct 21, 2013 8:32 AM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: I may just be spouting nonsense, but I've heard a few separate people mention to me that Iceland is an increasingly attractive place for hosting, as they're in the Schengen area (making it easy to get to) but *not* in the European

Re: [Wikitech-l] [IRC] wm-bot semi outage

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: I hope wmf will soon start selling I love gluster t-shirts :-) I would get one I don't know much about gluster or its terminology but maybe we can make something as good as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Method of Testing DB Queries

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Aaron Schulz aschulz4...@gmail.com wrote: A smallish wiki with 10ks of pages and the full history and the table data (not just revision/page/*links stuff from dumps) would probably be useful. I'm not sure where the threshold roughly starts though. We could get a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bulk download

On Sep 23, 2013 9:25 AM, Mihai Chintoanu mihai.chinto...@skobbler.com wrote: I have a list of about 1.8 million images which I have to download from commons.wikimedia.org. Is there any simple way to do this which doesn't involve an individual HTTP hit for each image? You mean full size

Re: [Wikitech-l] Access from China

On Sep 23, 2013 11:09 PM, Ryu Cheol rch...@gmail.com wrote: On iPad, I could not check it is http or https. You means that on mobile devices such as iPad, it does not redirect to https. I feel a bit, it is not consistent. If it's not consistent then that's a probably bug to be fixed. Can you

Re: [Wikitech-l] In case you missed this:

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: How many printers would it take to keep up with updates to Wikipedia? http://what-if.xkcd.com/59/ nope, we saw it :) -Jeremy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] [RFC]: Clean URLs- dropping /wiki/ and /w/index.php?title=..

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Gabriel Wicke gwi...@wikimedia.org wrote: So now only the conversion from /w/index.php?title=foo?action=history to /foo?action=history Do you mean: to /wiki/foo?action=history ? is under discussion. See also https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/51595 and RT#

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMFs stance on non-GPL code

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: I'm curious what the stance of WMF is on BSD, MIT and MPL licensed code. In particular, could such code be deployed on WMF servers? I'm sure it is already deployed on WMF servers. Can you elaborate? e.g. deployed is

[Wikitech-l] contribs/participation from the community; in code or other ways (was site hardening thread)

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 5:33 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: i'd really appreciate some love towards other projects here, and get things fixed at source as well, in mid term (i.e months, one or two years). Lots of people are working on lots of different projects. What's your

[Wikitech-l] rupert and gitblit (was site hardening thread)

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 5:33 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: moved up from below because I'm answering your points in the context of gitblit: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Faidon Liambotis fai...@wikimedia.org wrote: let me give you an example as well. git.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia's anti-surveillance plans: site hardening

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: On 17.08.2013, 22:19 Brian wrote: its more a config issue on our end than a problem with gitblit. Frankly, all web apps that allow anons do crazy shit with GET requests should at least mark critical links with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia's anti-surveillance plans: traffic analysis resistance

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Zack Weinberg za...@cmu.edu wrote: * State transitions between reading and editing. Reads on our projects (whether logged in or out) have very little data coming from the client and a lot being sent back to the client. When a page is saved or previewed (or even

Re: [Wikitech-l] git.wikimedia.org dead?

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 2:25 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Leslie Carr lc...@wikimedia.org wrote: looks like the robots.txt isn't being served - so googlebot is grabbing things from the zip files client denied by server configuration:

Re: [Wikitech-l] How's the SSL thing going?

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 01/08/13 06:52, Jeremy Baron a écrit : We (society, standards making bodies, etc.) need to do more to reform the current SSL mafia system. (i.e. it should be easier for a vendor to remove a CA from a root store and we

Re: [Wikitech-l] How's the SSL thing going?

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Paul Selitskas p.selits...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, that is exactly what I do. But Google, for instance, redirects me to HTTP, and if I've logged via HTTPS recently, I would have to log in once again via HTTP. It's very frustrating. I think you've misinterpreted.

Re: [Wikitech-l] How's the SSL thing going?

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:59 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.comwrote: The second is site key security (ensuring the NSA never gets your private keys). Who theoretically has access to the private keys (and/or the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Page view stats failure

On Jul 24, 2013 12:43 AM, Ikuya Yamada ik...@sfc.keio.ac.jp wrote: It seems that the page view statistics data does not contain the actual data for the last few hours. http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/2013/2013-07/ Are there any failures on the server-side? Just looking at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bot upload of files over 100MB

On Jun 25, 2013 5:44 PM, Daniel Mietchen daniel.mietc...@googlemail.com wrote: my bot[1] occasionally stumbles upon files that are above 100MB and thus does not upload them[2]. What do I have to do to get it set up for handling these files too? this looks like the relevant section:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for Inline commenting , summer of code project.

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Sastry aditya ganeshadit...@gmail.com wrote: *Typical working hours: 2:00 PM to 12:30AM* That's essentially useless data without a timezone... -Jeremy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Anyone using Apache 2.4 to run MediaWiki?

On Apr 27, 2013 12:30 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov ques...@rambler.ru wrote: Surely it was some not so long time ago, there even was old httpd patch. Maybe they consider new hardware powerful enough so the difference became negligible. parse error. what are you talking about? must be some missing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data-URI and WebP for thumbnails, a cute experiment

On Apr 22, 2013 9:18 AM, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote: But the pages get quite bigger, obviously. Also, it introduces a caching issue for images... That's why we have https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/32618 :-) Still, pretty cool. Yeah… makes me wonder what the status of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Erik Bernhardson joins Wikimedia as Features Engineer

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: His first official day is today (April 22). He is going to work with the Editor Engagement team on Messaging, and any other stuff we can throw at him until he feels sufficiently overwhelmed. I’m still trying to figure out

Re: [Wikitech-l] Survey: best times for volunteering

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:49 PM, DeltaQuad Wikipedia deltaquadw...@gmail.com wrote: Is this for these specific dates or in general? The doodle itself says: In an *average* week, when are you more available to volunteer a couple of hours? Multiple choices are good. Examples of activities:

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