Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Engineering Roadmap Update - 20130417

2013-04-18 Thread Mono
When will commons.wikimedia get Echo? On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: As always, a correction: quote name=Greg Grossmeier date=2013-04-17 time=11:06:15 -0700 * Echo will be rolling out on en, de, and fr wiki next week on Thursday (the 25th)

[Wikitech-l] Voting open for Round 2 of 2012 Picture of the Year

2013-02-06 Thread Mono
Dear Wikimedians, Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2012 Picture of the Year competition is now open. Click here To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2012 page on Wikimedia Commons at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2012/Introductionto vote

Re: [Wikitech-l] mwEmbed gadget

2013-01-01 Thread Mono
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Helder . helder.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: Lately, when I visit a Wikipedia page, it just doesn't stop loading. The indication in Firefox (on Linux) just continued to spin. But this stopped

[Wikitech-l] Adding support for Twitter Cards

2012-12-26 Thread Mono
Could we add support for Twitter cards in Wikimedia projects? It wouldn't be hard to do and would would be really nice for articles, images, videos - everything linked from Wikimedia on Twitter could have a nice little preview on Twitter. The documentation is at https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia URL shortener

2012-11-19 Thread Mono
I think the wmf.co and related URLs are our best bet. On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Luke Welling lwell...@wikimedia.orgwrote: There are some practical reasons for providing site specific domain shortening beyond owning a cool domain hack. Discouraging the use of third party shorteners

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia URL shortener

2012-11-17 Thread Mono
wi.ki is not available - it's been purchased by a company trying to sell gTLD domains. A couple months ago wi.ki was still available, but not anymore (http://www.wi.ki/) More than that, they are using Wikipedia's logo stolen from Wikimedia Commons without attribution and infringing on the WMF's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Skin pages on MW.org, and Skin repos in Gerrit

2012-09-26 Thread Mono
It would be nice if we could convert some additional themes... On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 September 2012 10:08, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: Another problem I found in the current setup is that its a bit counter-intuitive

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal to add an API/Developer/Developer Hublink to the footer of Wikimedia wikis

2012-09-19 Thread Mono
I'm afraid that my opposition is rather frivolous, but is the ratio of developers to laymen enough to justify adding the extra burden? It seems some others have noted that if we include a developer hub, we can't stop there. I could propose a research hub, a librarian hub, a photographer hub. A

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.20wmf1 deployed to test2 mediawiki.org

2012-04-10 Thread Mono
Love the diffs. You did a good job. On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone, Sam has created the wmf/1.20wmf1 branch and deployed it to test2.wikipedia.org and mediawiki.org. So, please, go for and test! Oh, btw, enjoy the pretty new diff

[Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads 3 is here!

2012-04-01 Thread Mono
I'm excited to announce that the beta version of Liquid Threads 3 is now available. We've come a long way from a once-dead project by developing the extension in secret. It's full of new features: including the incredibly simple Morse Code input system. LQT3 will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads 3 is here!

2012-04-01 Thread Mono
It's clearly written in invisible ink. Change the CSS color:clear; to display:lemon-juice; and you should be good. On Sunday, April 1, 2012, Wikipedysta Mikołka wrote: Hi Mono, On 01/04/2012 18:29, Mono wrote: Check it out at http://mediawiki.org/wiki/**LQTMChttp://mediawiki.org/wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads 3 is here!

2012-04-01 Thread Mono
Actually, Google AdSense will likely be deployed first. On Sunday, April 1, 2012, Yuvi Panda wrote: Does this come before or after the SMW deploy for enwiki? On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Mono monom...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: I'm excited to announce that the beta version

Re: [Wikitech-l] Email addresses for wikimedians

2012-03-29 Thread Mono
This is mostly a solution looking for a problem. On Thursday, March 29, 2012, Petr Bena wrote: I don't see a reason why it shouldn't look official We are open source project not a part of government or something. So usern...@wikipedia.org javascript:; should be perfectly ok for established

[Wikitech-l] Head's up: Fwd: WURFL licensing concerns and Git migration

2012-03-20 Thread Mono
Forwarded to legal. -- Forwarded message -- From: Kevin Israel Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 Subject: [Wikitech-l] WURFL licensing concerns and Git migration To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Our MobileFrontend extension, which is currently deployed on Wikimedia sites, uses

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Plugin for Extension:ConfirmEdit - RFC

2012-03-19 Thread Mono
What about the people that don't pray to God? On Monday, March 19, 2012, nischay nahata nischay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have made a Captcha plugin for ConfirmEdit called MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions) Below is the usage of it sample Captcha: Pick the correct Option Number We pray to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video codecs and mobile

2012-03-19 Thread Mono
Please. Although WebM is a promising format, it's not available yet. The Java fallback is a solution even worse than just using Fash, so if we want to get with this century, I believe we have to hold our noses and adopt a modern format. On Monday, March 19, 2012, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Plugin for Extension:ConfirmEdit - RFC

2012-03-19 Thread Mono
Typing an answer might work. On Monday, March 19, 2012, nischay nahata nischay...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replies, I realize this is a faulty plugin right now for following reasons * 25% probability * securing the questions and answers I will see if I can remove them, again this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video codecs and mobile

2012-03-19 Thread Mono
tags which include both a WebM and h264 source. -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:12:45 -0700, Mono monom...@gmail.com wrote: Please. Although WebM is a promising format, it's not available yet. The Java fallback is a solution

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fundraising2011-like banner

2012-03-09 Thread Mono
. You can take a look at the preferences for one fundraising banner at http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/viewtemplate=B12_0206_AfricaTest_Jimmy_control I hope this helps a bit. Mono On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Daniel Renfro dren...@vistaprint.com wrote: I'm

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing a new project of community devs

2012-03-07 Thread Mono
I'm interested - I'm not sure how much development I could do. On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I want to inform you that we started a new project called Huggle WA, it's a web interface based version of popular utility Huggle. It is being developed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Picture of the Year contest extension

2012-02-05 Thread Mono
) and Round 2 is smaller and more restricted (only one vote per user, most votes win). Wikimedia has used different types of voting in the past, so SecurePoll is definitely something I'd like to find out more about. Thanks, Mono On Sunday, February 5, 2012, Happy Melon happy.melon.w...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Wikitech-l] Picture of the Year contest extension

2012-02-05 Thread Mono
The user requirements last year were based on SUL and we used http://toolserver.org/~mono/account/ for verification. A hook into the SUL databases similar to that tool should work. Anyway, users had to have 200 edits at any Wikimedia project before January 1 and that account had to be linked

[Wikitech-l] Picture of the Year contest extension

2012-02-04 Thread Mono
Hi, It's likely many of you have heard of or even participated in the Picture of the Year contest. Every year, the Wikimedia community votes for a picture of the year from the pool of images promoted to featured picture status in the previous year on the Wikimedia Commons. This typically occurs

Re: [Wikitech-l] online labs conference on irc

2012-01-24 Thread Mono
For some reason, someone created a bunch of entries under my name. The first entry is me; the rest are not. On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: ok, so let's postpone it? since you are crucial for this. I will be available this saturday for all who already voted

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Fabrice Florin joins Wikimedia

2012-01-09 Thread Mono
Congratulations, Fabrice. On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello all, I’m really happy to announce that Fabrice Florin is joining the Wikimedia Foundation as Product Manager for New Editor Engagement. In this position, Fabrice will take the lead in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Based Open Source Project - Help On Licencing

2012-01-03 Thread Mono mium
They are using MediaWiki for their support site, which is perfectly OK. However, if they took the MediaWiki source code, closed it, and tried to sell it, that wouldn't. On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I know that the software we use for our website

Re: [Wikitech-l] grouping users - an idea for a new SUL improvement

2012-01-01 Thread Mono mium
I had a related question: Is there any way to actually verify the logins of Wikimedia users w/o username/password? On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Looks good. Although I'd rename the member of Group:Bob to belongs to User:Bob, so you would have: User:Bob

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed chat system

2011-09-04 Thread Mono mium
Hi there, I'm working on a live help system. I'll send more information as development progresses, but I simply wanted to let you know that this is in progress. Thanks. On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Harry Burt jarry1...@gmail.com wrote: Hey wikitech-l, I finally got around to reading the

Re: [Wikitech-l] ICANN expansion, relative URLs

2011-06-20 Thread Mono mium
Has anyone looked into introducing .wiki, initially for Wikimedia, but later for others (the fee could support the foundation)? On Saturday, June 18, 2011, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose in theory having apple available is no worse than apple.com (since you *could* have an

Re: [Wikitech-l] irc.wikimedia.org status

2011-06-08 Thread Mono mium
http://status.wikimedia.org/8777/156492/IRC-RecentChanges has some pretty graphs. On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:54 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: John wrote: irc.wikimedia.org has been down for six hours without any information can someone please take a look and give us some information?

Re: [Wikitech-l] IE6

2011-06-03 Thread Mono mium
We don't want to use Microsoft's, whatever we do, because it promotes their own borked browser IE9. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Mark Dilley markwdil...@gmail.com wrote: aside from main conversation Would it be a good community gesture to join Microsoft in trying to eradicate IE6?

Re: [Wikitech-l] IE6

2011-06-03 Thread Mono mium
Why not? On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote: Thats completly not the point. 2011/6/3, Mono mium monom...@gmail.com: We don't want to use Microsoft's, whatever we do, because it promotes their own borked browser IE9. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Mark

Re: [Wikitech-l] IE6

2011-06-03 Thread Mono mium
Anyone can upgrade, Chad. It's not hard and any sane IT department should have done it six years ago. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: We shouldn't throw annoying text/graphics at people who probably *cant* upgrade. -Chad On Jun 3, 2011 4:27 PM, Mono mium

Re: [Wikitech-l] IE6

2011-06-03 Thread Mono mium
I still support input type=crash. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson rnnel...@clarkson.edu wrote: Another possibility is for us to 1) announce that IE6 is no longer a supported browser, and 2) just stop worrying about IE6. Not take support out, but not worry about

Re: [Wikitech-l] On the IE6 query string security check breakage (bug 28235)

2011-06-02 Thread Mono mium
Look, we're moving into a new generation of web browsers. It's time to upgrade - it's easy and free. We shouldn't spend our time/resources trying to support ten-year-old technology. Even Microsoft is trying to get people to stop and it's the responsibility of any popular website to support modern