[Wikitech-l] Putting extension on SVN

2009-08-28 Thread Michael Daly
I've been supporting an extension I've written for some time now. It's on my own SVN server and I will be losing that server in a few days (don't ask). Could I put it on the Mediawiki SVN server? I don't know how many people use the extension, but it has had regular downloads over the years

Re: [Wikitech-l] Attempting to use ExtAuthDB with mysql encryptedpasswords

2009-08-26 Thread Michael Daly
Darren Kemp wrote: Unfortunately the original system was setup using mysql password encryption. (password=password('password')) Since there is no way (that i have found) to decrypt a mysql password in php or encrypt a password in php using mysql encryption I have been having some struggles

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposals for template language reform

2009-07-09 Thread Michael Daly
Chad wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:35 PM, William Allen Simpsonwilliam.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote: {{{...}}} works, is easily distinguished from normal text, and BBedit does a fine job keeping the braces balanced. I'm sure other editors, too. Anything else should wait for a general

Re: [Wikitech-l] On templates and programming languages

2009-07-02 Thread Michael Daly
Brion Vibber wrote: The ideal markup situation for the article namespace is that markup shouldn't even *be* exposed to most users. A long-term goal is migration to a more WYSIWIG-like editing experience -- to which one of the potential stumbling blocks has been but how will we do

Re: [Wikitech-l] On templates and programming languages

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Daly
Brion Vibber wrote: Any thoughts? Does anybody happen to have a PHP implementation of a Lua or JavaScript interpreter? Rather than reinventing the wheel, why not look at fixing the existing template syntax? The biggest problem that I see is the excessive dependence on the parentheses { and

[Wikitech-l] [SPAM] Re: Problems with the recent version of Cite Extension

2009-03-18 Thread Michael Daly
Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@home.nl wrote: What revision number does the working version for REL1_14_0 of Cite have ? How is he supposed to answer that? ExtensionDistributor doesn't give you a .svn folder. (Although that's a kind of cool

[Wikitech-l] [SPAM] Re: Bar charts

2009-02-28 Thread Michael Daly
Lars Aronsson wrote: Should I use divs instead of tables? You could and it would avoid the flak from one cranky bug submitter. I'm not so sure that tables that are *not* nested are significantly more efficient than equivalent divs. I can see that under certain circumstances, it would

[Wikitech-l] [SPAM] Re: Error After Upgrade on Ubuntu

2009-02-18 Thread Michael Daly
Jan Luca wrote: Have you run php /usr/share/mediawiki/maintenance/update.php Could I have an official response on the relative appropriateness of the above versus: cd /usr/share/mediawiki/maintenance php update.php At one time, following Jan's advice was not likely to work and running the

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikiEN-l] Suggestion on how referencing system could be improved

2008-12-04 Thread Michael Daly
Gregory Maxwell wrote: Instead I propose: Have javascript mediate the edit box so that inline references are converted to little red [R] text, moving your cursor into the [R] area by clicking or arrowkeying causes it to expand to display the full reference. How about making individual