[Wikitech-l] Re: [Commons-l] Re: Commons app - v5.0 release

Hi Gnangarra, On 13/05/24 10:45, Gnangarra wrote: From some who uses the app regularly, has big thumbs, and needs reading glasses I'll appreciate the voice input feature, now it just has to recognise my Australian accent 🤣  this should be interesting, and I'll apologize early on for any slips

[Wikitech-l] Commons app - v5.0 release

Hi all, Hope you have been well! We have just released v5.0.1 of the Commons Android app to production. The update is now available on Play store [1] and F-droid [2]. You could also build the app directly from our GitHub repository [3]. If you've faced issues with your profile not working / contr

[Wikitech-l] Commons app - v4.2 release

Hi all, Hope you have been well! We have just released v4.2 of the Commons Android app to production. The update is now available on Play store [1] and F-droid [2]. You could also build the app directly from our GitHub repository [3]. An important thing we wanted to communicate. We've change

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Call for Election Volunteers - WMF Board of Trustees

Forwarding to wikitech-ambassadors as this seems to be related to community outreach. -- Forwarded message - From: Krishna Chaitanya Velaga Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 at 13:00 Subject: [Wikitech-l] Call for Election Volunteers - WMF Board of Trustees To: Hi all, Would you like to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Where are all the skins? (a call to action)

Hi Jon, On 22 டிசம்பர், 2020 5:06:44 AM IST, Jon Robson wrote: >tldr: If you have built skins or use skins that are not listed on >MediaWiki.org, please list them [4] and check that they work with >current >MediaWiki.org. If you have always wanted to build a skin try the new >tool >and give me f

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help with Mailman spam filter

On 27-08-2020 13:58, Léa Lacroix wrote: > Hello all, > > I hope that this is the right list to ask about Mailman's admin options, if > not, let me know where I should ask :) > > I'm looking for someone to help me with the config of a mailing-list, to > reactivate the semi-automated spam filter. >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upgrading mailman (the software behind mailing lists)

Hi, On 9 ஆகஸ்ட், 2020 2:25:30 AM IST, Amir Sarabadani wrote: >Hey, >Mailman, the software that powers our mailing lists, is extremely old, >by >looking at https://lists.wikimedia.org/ you can guess how old it is. > >I would really like to upgrade it to mailman 3 which has these >benefits: >* Muc

Re: [Wikitech-l] CI and Code Review

Hi Gregg, Thanks for the details. > >PS: Please let me know where else this announcement should be sent. > I think it would be a good idea to send this to the Wikitech Ambassadors list. If not already done, mentioning in Tech News [https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News] would be a goo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tool to "convert" timezones for international online events

Hi, On 10 June 2020 20:43:10 GMT+05:30, "Michael Schönitzer" wrote: >Hi, > >due to the global health crisis we nowadays have more online events. >This >allows for people around the globe to participate but also means easier >handling different timezones is more important. >Since Wikimedians lo

Re: [Wikitech-l] [discovery] Case-insensitive category title search not possible?

Hi, On 14 April 2020 00:54:13 GMT+05:30, Erik Bernhardson wrote: >On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 11:41 AM Guillaume Lederrey > >wrote: > >> Routing to discovery@ where all the search people are. >> >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 2:43 PM Kaartic Sivaraam < >>

[Wikitech-l] Case-insensitive category title search not possible?

Hi, Is there any MediaWiki API that could be used for a proper case-insensitive category title search? Or is this still something that doesn't exist yet? For some context, I'm asking this for a feature request[1] in the Commons Android app that asks for a case insensitive category title sea

Re: [Wikitech-l] Patents on MediaWiki search and WMF v. WordLogic

Hi Federico, On 18 March 2020 17:47:23 GMT+05:30, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" wrote: > >The case is doing the rounds and I've not seen it on CourtListener >(don't all WMF lawyers use RECAP? :-) ), so I've uploaded the WMF >complaint to >

Re: [Wikitech-l] "Chain verification error" when trying to log-in to Beta cluster

Hi Brian, On Fri, 31 Jan 2020 at 12:10, Brian Wolff wrote: > > The ssl tester site is reporting that ocsp stapling is misconfigured on > that domain, maybe that's causing the issue(?) > Thanks a lot for the useful tip! It does seem to be a plausible cause. I searched Phabricator with the OCSP hi

[Wikitech-l] "Chain verification error" when trying to log-in to Beta cluster

Hi all, I'm writing this email about an issue we recently faced in the Wikimedia Commons Android app. The beta flavour[1] of the Commons app connects to the Wikimedia Commons beta cluster[2]. When trying to log-in to the beta cluster using valid credentials we get the following error[3]: javax.ne

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Tech Talk - Special Edition] Camille Fournier: The Manager's Path | 5, December 2019, 8 PM UTC

Hi Sarah, Did this happen? I get a "Video unavailable: This video is private" error when trying to access the youtube link. Is the recorded available somewhere? -- Sivaraam ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikime

Re: [Wikitech-l] Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2018-11-12

Hi Chris, On 20 November 2018 03:39:02 GMT+05:30, Chris Koerner wrote: > >== Did you know? == Thanks for the informative did you know section. It was an interesting read. :-) >* Letters are encoded internally by computers as numbers—for example, >“A” is 65 and “a” is 97.[3] Years ago, program

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki and OpenID Connect

On Tuesday 08 May 2018 07:57 PM, Adam Sobieski wrote: > In response to some discussion, I now consider there to be two distinct > topics: (1) MediaWiki software should provide configurable OpenID Connect > features for account verification and account linking, (2) Wikipedia should > utilize and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Apa yang membuat anda gembira minggu ini? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 6 May 2018)

On Sunday 06 May 2018 11:27 PM, Pine W wrote: > I was happy to read about the new features in the latest release of the > Wikimedia Commons app for Android. My understanding is the app is developed > and maintained by community members with funding from WMF and GSoC in > addition to volunteer ti

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting a local dump of Wikipedia in HTML

On Tuesday 08 May 2018 05:53 PM, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote: > On Friday 04 May 2018 03:49 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: >> On 2018-05-03 20:54, Aidan Hogan wrote: >>> I am wondering what is the fastest/best way to get a local dump of >>> English Wikipedia in HTML? We are l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting a local dump of Wikipedia in HTML

On Friday 04 May 2018 03:49 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > On 2018-05-03 20:54, Aidan Hogan wrote: >> I am wondering what is the fastest/best way to get a local dump of >> English Wikipedia in HTML? We are looking just for the current >> versions (no edit history) of articles for the purposes of a

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Readers Monthly update for December 2017

On Monday 08 January 2018 08:50 PM, Chris Koerner wrote: > * Initial bugs with download to PDF button on mobile now resolved > Just to be sure, I hope you are not referring to T182059 which has not been resolved yet. [not referencing the related tasks/pages seems to have it's own issues ;-)] --

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to add custom styles to a page?

On Monday 18 September 2017 08:54 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Gergo Tisza wrote: You could also just put it into User:Kaartic/common.css and wrap it in a .page-User_Kaartic selector, that is less restrictive. Although that will only apply the CSS for you

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to add custom styles to a page?

On Sat, 2017-09-16 at 10:46 -0400, Brian Wolff wrote: > Im assuming here that you cannot just edit mediawiki:common.css > > That's right. > What you are looking for is TemplateStyles. This is not enabled on english > wikipedia yet, but should be coming there soon (I think). It would allow >

[Wikitech-l] How to add custom styles to a page?

I thought of using the 'layout-grid' Material design component on my user page to make the userboxes respond to different screen sizes. It requires custom CSS styles that have to be loaded when my user page is loaded. Where should I place the CSS styles so that they get loaded each time my

Re: [Wikitech-l] Recommending Firefox to users using legacy browsers?

On Sat, 02 Sep 2017 02:06:09 +, Chad wrote, (3) I would*really* like to have 2--maybe 3--browsers to list. There's zero reason to make users think there's only one option when there's a couple of valid ones. I would love that too. Imagine that we do take the step and start promoting Fire

Re: [Wikitech-l] What type of language is the wikitext ?

On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 17:30 +0300, יגאל חיטרון wrote: > Yes, but again, it's my opinion only. > Igal > I get that :) It seems your opinion is not wrong from seeing the current syntax highlighter implementation[1]. It does seems to imitate a PDA when details are ignored. [1]: https://github.com/w

Re: [Wikitech-l] What type of language is the wikitext ?

On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 16:31:44 +0300, יגאל חיטרון wrote, > Hi. Any computer language that has parentheses isn't context free. So > if > you are not in Assembly, it's enough. > About context-free - it's tricky question. I wouldn't call it context > free > because of some macro expansions, for example,

Re: [Wikitech-l] What type of language is the wikitext ?

On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 07:48:18 -0700, Gabriel Wicke wrote, > Here is an older blog post describing some of the issues in parsing > wikitext, including examples: > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/04/parsoid-how-wikipedia-catches-up-with-the-web/ > Thanks! Will look into it. -- Kaartic _

[Wikitech-l] What type of language is the wikitext ?

Dear all, Quoting from my previous post, “Currently the syntax highlighter of the Wikipedia android app seems to be slow except on high-end devices. It has been proposed to change the implementation to provide users with a better (streamlined) experience while editing[1].” I recent

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 167, Issue 15

ng up some > wordlists for the tawiki ORES system (see T166052). If you have any > knowledge of the Tamil lang, please come join us at > chat.freenode.net, > channel #wikimedia-ai (webchat.freenode.net). Feel free to cross post > this > or ask users on-wiki. > I am native Tamil spe