Re: [Wikitech-l] One-time run of maintenance scripts to fix years-old utter brokeness

2012-01-27 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: execute it immediately... I don't really know why ops didn't do that, I was in though that it's cronned to run certain jobs It is cronned for only for the small wikis, I believe[Citation Needed].

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] COMPLETED: Mailing lists server migration today

2012-01-22 Thread K. Peachey
This really should be filed in bugzilla. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] What happened to MediaWiki-CVS

2012-01-19 Thread K. Peachey
Archives are disabled on -cvs, hence they are empty :p ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Text browser users won't see your important site notice

2012-01-18 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:00 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Making sure articles look good in w3m ensures they are machine processable -- as you never know what kind of machine might be processing your article. No, Machine accessible interfaces should be using the API to access it...

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 13937: Correcting edit summaries (if own, last, recent)

2012-01-16 Thread K. Peachey
I feel it should have it's own logging, Since this could be abused (eg: Harrsement other community members), We would probably want to delay email notifs as well if we had this feature so they got sent with correct edit summary. ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Want student help with your MediaWiki project?

2012-01-13 Thread K. Peachey
Perhaps we/the mentors could get them working on a easy bug or two at first, just to ease them into the MediaWiki world. Perhaps if there are any closely related to the projects they choose to work on. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] No autodetection in Mobile Frontend extension

2012-01-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: Quick questions: * Does anybody actually want to use MobileFrontend to implement a feature-phone gateway on other sites? That was one of the plans for it... ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Files with unknown copyright status on MediaWiki wiki

2012-01-04 Thread K. Peachey
Commons folk doesn't magically delete anything unless there is a reason, nor do they instantly delete in most cases. If peoples uploads are continently getting tagged for deletion, They should look at why they are getting tagged. ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Files with unknown copyright status on MediaWiki wiki

2012-01-03 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Just consider that those files have been created by their uploader and that they granted a license for use on mediawiki.org I'm pretty sure we can't assume anything with licensing, The uploader must state the license they

Re: [Wikitech-l] Better publicizing MediaWiki API and tool development with MediaWiki

2012-01-01 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:13 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: The question becomes what the target of such a link should be. I think there are a few possibilities of where it could go, on MediaWiki.org and Meta-Wiki. I'm not sure which site is most appropriate here and I'm not sure which

Re: [Wikitech-l] Email notification sender

2012-01-01 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 5:13 PM, M. Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote: Correction: Wikipedia is the largest part of the projects. Why do people always want to pretend otherwise, or lament that fact? Never said otherwise, Huib just said Wikipedia was one of many WikiMedia projects.

[Wikitech-l] Files with unknown copyright status on MediaWiki wiki

2011-12-31 Thread K. Peachey
We currently have a large number of file uploads with no licensing data on MW wiki! And we should really start doing something about it, As some people may have noticed last week(ish) I went though and tag most (if not all) of the uploads from this year that didn't have the licensing data. The

Re: [Wikitech-l] Files with unknown copyright status on MediaWiki wiki

2011-12-31 Thread K. Peachey
1. Category:Images with unknown copyright status https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Category:Images_with_unknown_copyright_status 2. Category:Files with unknown copyright status https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Category:Files_with_unknown_copyright_status

Re: [Wikitech-l] Files with unknown copyright status on MediaWiki wiki

2011-12-31 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl wrote: * Notify all uploaders with unknown copyright files * Sort out https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Files_with_unknown_copyright_status * Move all good files to Commons * Delete all bad files * Disable local uploads

Re: [Wikitech-l] Standards for communication between antivandalism tools

2011-12-26 Thread K. Peachey
If believe we have/had evil plans to move away from IRC for things like this to something like XMPP[Citation Needed]. Wouldn't a system like this slow down the vandal checking, because it would need to check the feed, do its business and then check again before attempting to save. Or would it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Donate page on wikimediafoundation.org broken

2011-12-19 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:43 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate is linked on the front page. It redirects to http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:LandingCheck ...

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki:Common.js is not loaded for Special:Preferences?

2011-12-17 Thread K. Peachey
No it's not, For security reasons. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] irc bot

2011-12-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mr. Nelson :P I don't know if you are making fun of my bad english (I am not a native english speaker, so that's why) or from the choice of programming language, however if it's the second I already explained why it's

Re: [Wikitech-l] irc bot

2011-12-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Russell Nelson russnel...@gmail.com wrote: On the other hand, if you DO program it in assembly language, I'd want to see a copy. Just to admire it. :-) Do I hear LOLCATS calling? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] irc bot

2011-12-15 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: - Old bot is written in java and nearly no one has access to source code, neither is managing it, the bot is still running without problems rather thanks to original creator who did a great work and made a very stable code,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2011-12-11 Thread K. Peachey
Custom, https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/tools/bugzilla/bugzilla-4.0/extensions/WeeklyReport/ ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Diff colors update

2011-12-06 Thread K. Peachey
As i've pointed out else where, especially to be considerate for our colour blind friends (depending on what group they are in), We should be consistent with out colour schemeing, Although this should be the only usage in core (as far as I know), We have seem to have started using blue for buttons

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki 2.0

2011-12-06 Thread K. Peachey
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:2.0 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] error lasted more than 10 minutes....

2011-11-28 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:50 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: I asked roughly the same thing yesterday (more along the lines of shouldn't it take someone ten minutes to add memcache support to the extension?).

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla vandalism

2011-11-25 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongm...@gmail.com wrote: There is also another, impersonating brion, which does not appear to have been cleaned up. Most of that has been (Its what Ariel was referring to just before), But it was done mostly with email off to prevent people

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla vandalism

2011-11-24 Thread K. Peachey
As I pointed out on IRC, but just repeating it in here in case someone else actually wants to attempt it (Regarding the create via admin panel). [00:22] p858snake|l mutante: don't use that function to create accounts [00:23] p858snake|l it doesn't send the emails to create it or lets you set the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please preload a space in the page for the banner

2011-11-21 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: Hell no! When I say I don't wanna see any fundraiser banners, it means i don't wanna see ANY banners related to the fundraiser, no mater how pretty they look. Otherwise they will just go on the AdBlockPlus list. You should

Re: [Wikitech-l] svn auto-props http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Subversion/auto-props#Setting_auto-props up to date ?

2011-11-06 Thread K. Peachey
Do you commit anything with file extensions apart from those or the ones on the default list? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting the first image of a page

2011-11-02 Thread K. Peachey
Have a look at how the popups gadget does it. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making developer access easier to get

2011-10-29 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: * However, I am now ensuring that we are more lenient with extensions developers than we are with people applying for core commit access.  We still, of course, watch out for security issues in submitted code

[Wikitech-l] r100000

2011-10-16 Thread K. Peachey
r10[1]. Congrats Ryan. [1]. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/10 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committers

2011-10-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: Pick one from here https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?component=LiquidThreadsresolution=---list_id=36047 Most of those look like they will be fixed by the rewrite, so there isn't much point sending time on it till the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Giving up on LiquidThreads

2011-10-11 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: The Swedish Wikisource community has decided not to file any bug report for the fact that LiquidThreads has again crashed after the upgrade to MediaWiki 1.18. So you aren't going to file a bug so everyone else has to suffer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration planning

2011-10-10 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote: Skimming over the plan on the wiki page, I don't see anything about a contingency or failsafe plan, which is something I'd really like to know! Just go back to using SVN :)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google's cached pages are much faster than wiki*edia's

2011-09-30 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 8:48 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: So if you can't beat 'em join 'em. Somehow use Google's caches instead of your own. Something, anything, for a little more speed. No we won't be doing that... Ever. It's because they are loading a pure HTML representation of the page,

Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-09-30 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 1:15 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Anyway, there is no way for a normal user to file a proper bug report about it, as it is all hidden in javascript that he does not see. All users are welcome to file bugs at bugzilla, and this method is frequently pushed/mentioned to

[Wikitech-l] 1.18 and Pre design

2011-09-24 Thread K. Peachey
I'm no SVN user so i'm emailing instead... As the 1.18 users may have noticed (eg: For example a common place would be CodeReview) the new designs for pre. In r87173[1] the layout was changed and based on consensus in review that was reverted and then 1.18 was rebranched at r92475 so I thought

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.18 and Pre design

2011-09-24 Thread K. Peachey
Bah, I'm sure I checked all the follow ups and their revision numbers. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] On developing extensions and namespace registering

2011-09-20 Thread K. Peachey
Since no one seems to have sent this to the ML and to draw wider attention: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Extension_namespace_registration#Social_tools.27_namespaces ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make the life of extension developers easier?

2011-09-02 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: We are relatively strict keeping our new core code backwards compatible (BC). That compatibility does not come free, but who is it for? Well it sort of does come free, just most people don't seem to use it. We

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please fix your FIXMEs

2011-08-31 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote: I asked Mark already, but he hasn't answered (or at least I haven't noticed his answer), so I guess it is appropriate to ask the questions here. How can I change the status of a revision from fixme to new? And how can

Re: [Wikitech-l] Asking for notes on a MediaWiki:Sidebar replacement

2011-08-22 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:49 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Well whatever you do, make sure I can still use something similar to some maintenance/*.php command to update something similar to MediaWiki:Sidebar to several machines. Can still use? AFAIK we have no maintenance script to do that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Cleaning up deprecated html in WikiText

2011-08-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: Note that that's the fault of using an old unmaintained browser: other text browsers like elinks understand at least some CSS (though none of lynx, elinks, nor w3m understood vertical-align: top on a table cell in a quick

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile bug Triage ‹ non-WMF devs wanted!

2011-08-15 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Patrick Reilly prei...@wikimedia.org wrote: Some revisions are also apparently being pushed live without any outside review. Yes, this is known. Every effort has been made to get eyes on every change, but some things have been pushed quickly for testing and

Re: [Wikitech-l] State of page view stats

2011-08-14 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Andrew G. West west...@cis.upenn.edu wrote: Note that to avoid too much traffic here, I've responded to MZMcBride privately with my code. I'd be happy to share my code with others, and include others in its discussion -- just contact me/us privately. Thanks,

Re: [Wikitech-l] File:* use cases?

2011-08-09 Thread K. Peachey
The only other thing although more of a MediaWiki side of things, is protecting files from being (re)uploaded or touched (eg: reverted). ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sep11 Wiki

2011-08-06 Thread K. Peachey
Filed in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30261 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] $wgExtensionAliasesFiles deprecated?

2011-08-01 Thread K. Peachey
Member $wgExtensionAliasesFiles since 1.16 Use $specialPageAliases in a file referred to by $wgExtensionMessagesFiles http://svn.wikimedia.org/doc/DefaultSettings_8php.html#aff2412416793a9bd3d88f881309b790f ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to handle a large change w/ no commit access

2011-07-31 Thread K. Peachey
1. Write up a proposal somewhere (Eg: in your userspace on wiki then share the link around or post it to the mailing list) 2. Apply for commit access (link to the proposal/patches you have done etc etc, we do have the ability to give access to certain sections of the SVN such as branches without

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please don't commit broken code

2011-07-28 Thread K. Peachey
What about for people that want to commit some broken code to get eyes onto or someone else might want it finish if, how about they commit it and clearly mark that its broken and its so that people can look/work at it then immediately revert it? (Which I have seen done a couple of times in the

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Modifying diff colors due to color blindness issues

2011-07-27 Thread K. Peachey
The proposed change is worse for me, they don't stand out in the diffs I suggest we stick to a Yellow and Blue combo, that colour combo has the least and is the most uncommon type of colour blindness compared to the other types which encompass most other colours, thus having the least

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MW tie user rights more closely to email?

2011-07-26 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Jelle Zijlstra jelle.zijls...@gmail.com wrote: That would not necessarily be a good idea. Enwiki has some adminbots that only perform deletions/protections/whatever and don't make any edits. They'd never get autoconfirmed, unless the bot owner would do some

Re: [Wikitech-l] improving bugzilla patch review: Splinter?

2011-07-12 Thread K. Peachey
I don't think installing a fancy tool is going to fix anything fast, you need people willing to look at the code first (which no one seems to be doing which is why there is a backlog)... (Also I get 520 bugs that are non resolved with both Need-Review and Patch:

Re: [Wikitech-l] improving bugzilla patch review: Splinter?

2011-07-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:58 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: (Also I get 520 bugs that are non resolved with both Need-Review and Patch: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=doremremaction=runnamedcmd=Patches%3A%20Open%20and%20Need%20Reviewingsharer_id=9593) Forget my

Re: [Wikitech-l] testing mobile browsers?

2011-07-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote: * Blackberry : emulator is Windows only :-/ Would be great to enhance our testswarm with more browsers. Maybe we could contact those mobiles developers to connect to our testswarm? :-) I'm grabbing the BB emulator

Re: [Wikitech-l] testing mobile browsers?

2011-07-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 7:50 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote: * Blackberry : emulator is Windows only :-/ Would be great to enhance our testswarm with more browsers. Maybe we could contact those mobiles

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Ian Baker

2011-07-07 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Alolita Sharma asha...@wikimedia.org wrote: ...snip engineer, welder, machinist, fire performer, drug educator, EMT, and photographer. And he also enjoys flower arrangement and aerial acrobatics. Wow - that’s a lot of cool interests :-) Hello and welcome

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader JavaScript validation on trunk (bug 28626)

2011-07-06 Thread K. Peachey
How is JSMin+ different to the plain JSMin that we had and was removed due to licensing conflicts? (See: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-January/051308.html https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26791) ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Server outage

2011-06-28 Thread K. Peachey
What this message is talking about: Issues with the S4 and S6 clusters. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug Triage and mini-sprint for the weekend

2011-06-20 Thread K. Peachey
Relevant bug in regards chucking it into a extension: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29472 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-18 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 2:35 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: These all sound like good ideas to investigate. Just make sure they're in Bugzilla at some point so they don't get lost in a mailman archive. :-)  I think there's a tracking bug for https or secure login somewhere. MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] Testing the new php mobile extension

2011-06-10 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 8:39 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: That's client-side resizing, which is painful enough on a full web browser, much less a mobile device.  The wikicode specifies |thumb|, which should resize the image server-side, surely. I'm not sure what's going on there.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extensions template (Extensions infobox); add shortcut markers (where applicable); MediaWiki Virtual Library : 3rd book Interwiki and Interlanguage Guide

2011-06-10 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: 2. Started to make extensive use of {{shortcut | shortcutname }} on Extension pages, and would like to encourage you to help adding such markers for important extensions or extensions you maintain, too. Will find a way to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension bundling for 1.18

2011-06-09 Thread K. Peachey
So this is the current list: * CategoryTree Is this really a feature that most people would use? * Cite Is this something that most people really use on external sites? how popular (i'm saying this because i'm probably one of the rarer people that don't run/need it on any of my installs) *

Re: [Wikitech-l] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks needs your help

2011-06-06 Thread K. Peachey
Or we could just get collection fixed... there is nothing complex in those tables that should be killing it. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Showing stub links by default - is it possible in a Wikimedia project?

2011-06-05 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote: On 06/06/11 00:09, Platonides wrote: snip No. Anything other than showing no stubs skips the cache. Since it skips cache, can not we disable that stub highlighter once for all? Logged in users don't get cached versions

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML5 on Wikimedia wikis

2011-06-05 Thread K. Peachey
I believe twinkle was one of the major issues which afaik the new version on en.wiki has fixed this. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review process (was: Status of more regular code deployments)

2011-06-01 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: That's because our phpunit setup is incredibly fragile. I'm trying to fix it. -Chad Instead of the auto tests like we have now, could we some how (might need another testing suite?) perhaps have some sort of commit hook that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review process

2011-06-01 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: Perhaps some of you (as the profs) could hold a kind of a (virtual) teaching class to teach newbies in improving their CR skills? Basically its: * Make sure the commit does what the deltin/delinscommit summary/ins says. * Doesn't

Re: [Wikitech-l] update languages/messages once per week?

2011-05-29 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote: I do not understand the purpose of this daily update, does it serves any specific purpose?  I do not feel like we require up-to-date translations in trunk. Trunk is designed to be up-to-date, if it wasn't done on TW and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Renaming projects

2011-05-22 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Last year there where a lot of discussions about projects inside wikimedia that needed to be renamed. The last thing I can remember is that it wasn't possible at that time. However I would like to know if

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committers!

2011-05-20 Thread K. Peachey
we don't even really need that page... we could point to one of the many automated ones -Peachey ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Shell requests backlog

2011-05-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Happy-melon happy-me...@live.com wrote: The default BZ configuration comes, AFAIK, with a REMIND resolution.  This was briefly reenabled during the BZ4 upgrade, but was subsequently disabled again and the bugs I had closed with it reclassed as LATER.  This

Re: [Wikitech-l] search=steven+tyler gets Steven_tyler

2011-05-14 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:33 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: OK, then why can't http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_tyler just do a browser redirect to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Tyler Because then we can't show the (Redirected from X) bar that accompanies the redirects

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tech poster ideas?

2011-05-11 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: 60cm wide). I've been thinking that the walls in Engineering could use some decoration, Do I hear Dogbert/Dilbert comics? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Supported Browser List

2011-05-07 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: What does this mean? i believe that might a comment regarding tables having a border defined in html or not. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2011-05-02 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Happy-melon happy-me...@live.com wrote: Wow, now here's a blast from the past... :-D  A lot of these stats are now in the BZ4 report page, but it's still very nice to have the weekly reminder.  Cookie for whoever dug it out and got it going again! --HM Ryan

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Supported Browser List

2011-04-28 Thread K. Peachey
Why create yet another list?, we already have http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Browser ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of SSL access to Wikipedia?

2011-04-25 Thread K. Peachey
Secure server tracking bug goodness: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27946 (Tree Goodness: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=27946) and all the open bugs in the SSL section:

Re: [Wikitech-l] API available for wikiversity project ?

2011-04-24 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Nicolas Vervelle nverve...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is the API available for the wikiversity projecthttp://en.wikiversity.org/? If so what is the API URL ? The API is available and accessible on all the public WMF projects and resides at url/w/api.php for all

Re: [Wikitech-l] New window for external link

2011-04-21 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Alex Brollo alex.bro...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/4/21 K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget can be done to effect all outbound links. Here on the outdated page about it, gives a little bit of information about

Re: [Wikitech-l] New window for external link

2011-04-20 Thread K. Peachey
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget can be done to effect all outbound links. Here on the outdated page about it, gives a little bit of information about why people really dislike it when you do that:

Re: [Wikitech-l] facebook like box in mediawiki

2011-04-19 Thread K. Peachey
I haven't quite looked back to the discussions, but couldn't you have the extension load a local icon/image for the button and then manually construct the url to be clicked in the same style that the wikinews does their template? ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] facebook like box in mediawiki

2011-04-19 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: Then it would violate the free content doctrine, unles you manage to convince FB to release their button images under a free license :P -- Best regards,  Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) Commons has

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gantt extension for MediaWiki

2011-04-14 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Maciej Jaros e...@wp.pl wrote: Hi. I'm getting close to releasing JSWikiGantt extension and I'm wondering if this should go to SVN or not? And in effect should I ask for commit access to SVN or not. I have my own server so I can put my code there, but I'm not

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC and networking

2011-04-04 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Michael Costello mc3...@columbia.edu wrote: Perhaps entirely outside of the scope of GSOC, I think it would be a fun project to make wikipedia.org and wikimedia.org accessible over IPv6. I noticed that my login was insecure, and that there was no SSL option.  

Re: [Wikitech-l] Future: Love for the sister projects!

2011-04-03 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: * Cross-wiki gadget sharing: if we can avoid fragmenting common scripts, they'll be easier to maintain. Not really, It's just up to the local sysops to decide if they want to do it that way or not. For example, HotCat is

Re: [Wikitech-l] On HTML5

2011-03-29 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:22 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: . I started a whole thread on it back in 2009 before I changed it: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-July/043865

Re: [Wikitech-l] New SVN committer

2011-03-29 Thread K. Peachey
Congrats! and also eol-style on the first commit, double congrats \o/ ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] On HTML5

2011-03-28 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: Well, it still seems to be in place on truck, which is why I'm getting CSS bug reports. Can someone revert it on trunk as well? The brief discussion of the CSS rendering-mode issue on Mediawiki.org seems to be nicely

Re: [Wikitech-l] On HTML5

2011-03-28 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: Well, it still seems to be in place on truck, which is why I'm getting CSS bug reports. Can someone revert it on trunk as well? Which bug reports? can you link to some in Bz or the like please?

Re: [Wikitech-l] FIXME: Wall of Shame

2011-03-26 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: Original Message - From: K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com Since we havn't done one of these in awhile, a wall of shame for fixmes, If it looks weird, copy it into a plain text editor. (I believe you've mispelt

Re: [Wikitech-l] code review criticism (Re: Converting to Git?)

2011-03-24 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Neilk is realist. Either we bring more developers in the system or we drop it and reuse another system already having some developers. It's sitting there in SVN, nothing is stopping people from working on it, In fact Sam

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deleting bad ideas off Google Summer of Code suggestion page

2011-03-24 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@panix.com wrote: There's no point in having our GSoC applicants wasting time working on proposals that we aren't really interested in Who is we the wikimedia foundation? the medawiki developers? someone else? If anyanything they

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-23 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org wrote: It happens to be our home grown tool, and it uses a framework that more of us are familiar with. But it's not such an overwhelming asset that we should consider staying on SVN because of it. In 2011 there are lots of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developing with no possiblilty of using SVN?

2011-03-22 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Joseph Roberts roberts.jos...@ntlworld.com wrote: Thanks all, I'm hoping I can offer many things to the projects. Another thing, is the latest version of XAMPP for Windows sufficient for developing on? TIA - Joseph Roberts Yes, they finally updated the php

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-22 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:00 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: I think you're missing the point that there's no reason why 400 commits should be harder than 1 in this case. Code review comes to mind there. -Peachey ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] On HTML5

2011-03-22 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: As the matter of fact, MediaWiki serves HTML5 by default. The only reason why it is still not enabled on Wikipedia is backward compatibility with numerous screen-scraping scripts/tools. However, they had their last

Re: [Wikitech-l] Weekend bugs (aka, highest priority bugs)

2011-03-21 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Victor Vasiliev vasi...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: I have been commenting about this with a steward. His position on this is that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Highest Priority Bugs

2011-03-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: It does?  I get a DNS error: http://phoonzang.wikipedia.org/ I think he means for ones that have the DNS zone but not the wiki created. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

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