Re: [Wikitech-l] Arbitrary data structures via API

2012-01-31 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
really want to support WikiDOM being formatted > as XML or WDDX or ... ?) Probably not. The other option is to stringify it, as the API sometimes does with returned XML. But then you have quoted JSON in JSON, and that seems stupid too. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ___

[Wikitech-l] Arbitrary data structures via API

2012-01-31 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
how I do it) I either get empty elements, or I get Sanitizer warnings. I was using the addPageSubItem() method, inherited from ApiQueryBase. Some more details are in this bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34058 -- Neil Kandalgaonkar

Re: [Wikitech-l] Escaping messages

2012-01-24 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
here. On 1/24/12 3:57 PM, bawolff wrote: Message: 10 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:43:14 -0800 From: Neil Kandalgaonkar To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Escaping messages Message-ID:<4f1f4212.9050...@wikimedia.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On

Re: [Wikitech-l] Escaping messages

2012-01-24 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
re other dangers too. Yesterday I discovered that in Chrome, a script will be executed if you .append() it to anything, even if it's not part of the document. Annoying. Anyway I'm not going to war on this, but some reasonable efforts can be made. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Escaping messages

2012-01-23 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
, you'd have to declare your intention that it should be HTML by passing a real jQuery object. This may break old code in a few places, but not many. 2 - We could ensure that the message library never emits scripts, by applying a simple jQuery filter to the final result. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Plural, Gender parsing support for interface messages at client side

2012-01-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
some design thoughts into the related bug. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29542 -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2011-12-29 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
opensource project? > > Thanks, > Regards, > Sajith Vimukthi Weerakoon, > T .P No : ++94-716102392 >++94-727102392 > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mai

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review thoughts: module reviewers

2011-12-21 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
e do today, especially if we're trying to keep from having > an ever-growing review backlog. > > Thoughts? Volunteers? > > -- brion > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mai

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image uploading social workflow

2011-12-19 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
r, but it still seems needlessly complex to me. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image uploading social workflow

2011-12-19 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33234 > > Gregor > > _______ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Yuvaraj Pandian & Max Semink

2011-12-19 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
Welcome to you both! On 12/19/11 12:28 AM, Tomasz Finc wrote: > Greetings all, > > The Mobile and Special Projects department is pleased to announce the > addition of two new contractors to the team: Yuvaraj Pandian and Max > Seminik. -- Nei

Re: [Wikitech-l] Visual editor collaboration

2011-12-14 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
is a superset of pretty much every wiki syntax you would want, so we'll be churning on that for a while. but we can probably deploy on formats like Markdown or plain old HTML much faster. Over the holidays I will be working a bit on round-tripping to different formats, and to MediaWiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help us test the VisualEditor prototype

2011-12-13 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
e security of that session is another unsolved problem. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Help us test the VisualEditor prototype

2011-12-13 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
s, surely you're not going to let Trevor and Inez have *all* the fun? -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Picture rotation: what on earth?

2011-12-10 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
t > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki 2.0

2011-12-06 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
do that at least to some extensions. And if it also means that other wiki syntaxes become possible, then end users and bots will have to modify how they interact with wiki content. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki 2.0

2011-12-06 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
n to a different wiki syntax if we think it's a good idea. If we wanted to *really* get radical, then we'd think about changing the storage model too, but you might as well rename it by that point. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for new table image_metadata

2011-12-01 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
; ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla vandalism

2011-11-22 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
g for linting errors?). -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Medium-sized gadget project: Consolidated diffs

2011-11-10 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
things load). > > This shouldn't cause extra load versus loading the same diffs > manually, but will be a lot nicer for the person reviewing it. > > Any takers? This could make a big difference for getting hundreds more > students to work on educational content --

Re: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad(s)-lite on MediaWiki page(s) [ok]

2011-11-10 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
as an MediaWiki:Extension soon. > > Tom > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ticket#2011091710005702] SVN Extension Access

2011-11-06 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
tarling | 39 | + | > | vasilievvv | 3 | | > | vitalif|6 | | > | vyznev |1 | | > | werdna | 38 | + | > | wikinaut | 26 | | > | yaron | 123 | | > | yonishostak|1 | | > ++--+---+ > 101 rows in set (27.56 sec) > > MZMcBride > > > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ticket#2011091710005702] SVN Extension Access

2011-11-05 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
pt your contributions, there are a lot of other FOSS > projects that would be happy to have you. Thrilled to have you, even. I'd > strongly encourage finding one. :-) And why should he listen to you, when you are unwilling to follow your own advice? -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) _

Re: [Wikitech-l] etherpad-lite

2011-10-27 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
i > > > > It needs only a fraction of the resources of Etherpad. > > > I believe Neil Kandalgaonkar was working with the Etherpad Lite devs > at some point to... do some thing cool. I forget what. > > Roan > > ___ > Wikite

Re: [Wikitech-l] not directly related to MediaWiki, but perhaps to our WYSIWYG editor activities: LibreOffice _Online_ Prototype announced (Libre Office in a web browser)

2011-10-17 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
; http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/10/14/libreoffice-conference-announcements/ > > Tom > > > > > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Ka

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committers

2011-10-12 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
ternograph extension > * Sumana Harihareswara (sumanah) - community management Welcome! What stuff do you expect you'll be working on? (I could ask you in person, since we are having our everyone-in-the-office week, but other people are probably curious t

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Android app – "Support Wikipedia" version

2011-10-08 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
sion, so it can be hard to get answers if you want them to make an exception for you. By the way, Aaron Muszalski, one of the new Community Department hires, was strongly pushing for in-app purchases in a mobile app as a possible way to get donations. Maybe he's already made some progress there -- I cc'ed him on this discussion. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thanks for supporting WLM 2011!

2011-10-01 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
ategory, so I made some. If you want to make pretty graphs here's some raw data. http://toolserver.org/~neilk/stats/ Note, some people added old images to WLM retroactively, so the data starts with stuff that was uploaded years ago. -- Ne

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration planning

2011-09-22 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
gt; > Alolita > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Ryan Lane wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: >>> Yay! >>> >>> I've volunteered to do a quick intro-to-our-scary-git-futur

Re: [Wikitech-l] Final Google Summer of Code 2011 roundup

2011-09-22 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
d a lot. Thanks to all > the students, mentors, and other community members who made this a > pretty darn successful Summer of Code. > -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adding MD5 / SHA1 column to revision table (discussing r94289)

2011-09-16 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
ile on average = a savings equivalent to 33 more files in Commons In the time it took you to write this we probably had more than 33 files uploaded. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help us document MediaWiki's history

2011-09-13 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
to have his own explanation :b As much as we all love to hate PHP, it was (and is) a good choice. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] New localization extension: jQueryMsg

2011-08-18 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
than waiting for perfection tomorrow. Which I very much appreciate. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] SVG image display bug (width-dependent)

2011-07-13 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
g) > > However, for sizes below 160px, most of the picture is missing in the > rendering: > > http://goo.gl/U6RPs (159px thumbnail) > > Can this be fixed? > > Thanks! > Timwi > > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing li

Re: [Wikitech-l] A different API problem

2011-07-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
can fix it with ajax prefilters in jQuery >1.5, and in 1.4 you must stringify the data attribute of the AJAX call and s/\./%2e/g; before sending it. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists

Re: [Wikitech-l] A different API problem

2011-07-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
ion code just looks for "MSIE" in the User-Agent >> header :D >> >> This'll all be fixed when I deploy the new code for dealing with the >> IE6 issue. I will probably do this on Thursday. >> >> Roan Kattouw (Catrope) >> >> ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] IE6

2011-06-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
We still seem to get hits from practically every browser ever made in the last 10 years. http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm Last month we had 3.5M hits from browsers claiming to be IE 5.5, released in mid-2000. -- Neil Kand

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of more regular code deployments

2011-05-31 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
n law. Well, it's not like wiki pages happen by someone cracking a whip either. That said, we would benefit from some urgency towards correcting the problem. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of more regular code deployments

2011-05-31 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
Followup -- I've conflated "pushing" and "releasing" in my post, but anyway I believe it's mostly the same circle of users who do both. On 5/31/11 10:35 AM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: > On 5/31/11 10:03 AM, Trevor Parscal wrote: > >> It's my exp

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of more regular code deployments

2011-05-31 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
equate sacrifices are made in other areas to adjust to a new system. If pushing more frequently isn't a priority for these users (or they are unable to find the time to fix the current system) then I don't know what to do either. Are we all in deadlock or something? Are the users who ca

Re: [Wikitech-l] is/resolve/split VirtualUrl trope

2011-05-13 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
;resolveVirtualUrl" suggests that it can only deal with virtual urls. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Realtime collaborative editing of MediaWiki articles, with Hackpad

2011-05-10 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
talking with Trevor & Brion about doing an extension+gadget to make it easier to invoke a "remote" web-based editor with MediaWiki. The current WikiEditor sort of has an iframe-crossing API already built into it, so that might be a place to start. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar )

Re: [Wikitech-l] integration of MediaWiki and version control system as backend?

2011-05-06 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
> > Thanks in advance! > > Heiko Nardmann > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@list

Re: [Wikitech-l] WYSIWYG and parser plans (was What is wrong with Wikia's WYSIWYG?)

2011-05-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
nd the WMF can do to make their RTE hacks obsolete. That doesn't mean that their RTE isn't the right way forward, but the people who wrote it don't seem to be very strong advocates for it. But I don't want to put words in their mouth; maybe one of them can add more to this thr

Re: [Wikitech-l] Call for UI bugs

2011-04-13 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
the triage and open a new call > for bugs. > > Mark. > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Registration open for the Hackathon in Berlin, May 13-15

2011-04-09 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
If you have any doubts or questions, contact us at. >> >> We’re excited to see you in Berlin, your Hackathon Team >> >> Daniel Kinzler (Program Coordinator) >> Nicole Ebber (Logistics) >> Cornelius Kibelka (Assistant) > > This is a reminder. Just one

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC Proposal for Account Creation, Login Screens, and Ajax-ification of everything

2011-03-25 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
On 3/25/11 3:20 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar > wrote: >> Long story short, we had this discussion in IRC... some people find the >> concept of AJAX login really alarming from a security perspective, but I >> think there co

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC Proposal for Account Creation, Login Screens, and Ajax-ification of everything

2011-03-25 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2011-03-24 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
I still have not figured out how to filter by author AND path > - comment system should be liquid thread based > - the diff is useless (I use a local tool) > - still have to rely on local tools for merging, reverting, blaming > - not integrated with bugzilla > > There are lot of good points though! > -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-23 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
On 3/23/11 2:13 PM, Robert Leverington wrote: > On 2011-03-23, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: >> On 3/22/11 6:05 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: >> >>> Our code review tool is pretty nice, but we can't let it >>> be the tail that wags the dog. >> >> At the ris

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-23 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
work for (or who have worked for) Google. Even people who were very skeptical will usually say that it is has been a huge benefit. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-22 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
edicated to this is why a migration isn't being > considered (I guess not), I volunteer myself. > > -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committer: Russ Nelson

2011-03-22 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
Artur's idea was doubly doomed from our perspective. Still I feel bad that we didn't at least consider this earlier, unless Russell did at some point and rejected it early on. (?) -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] A good question

2011-03-16 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
said, "significant" is relative. There are a lot of miscellaneous changes, but they were all important bugs for someone. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: MediaWiki Style Guide (Forms)

2011-03-10 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/StyleGuide/Forms > > I'm going to expand this further (with things like "tables" and such) > but for now this is a start. > > You can comment here or on the talk page. > > > ___ > Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Easy code review

2011-02-28 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
rent toolchain. However, if we ever move to git, maybe we should also think about pre-commit review. (In the git world, that would mean review before merging with the production repo, but basically the same idea). -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ___ Wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple Search Simplification

2011-02-16 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
h box needs to be distinct and obvious >> as a control; this change blends it into the background too much. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Farewell JSMin, Hello JavaScriptDistiller!

2011-01-23 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
ment what's likely to change and what we will aim to keep stable. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing OpenStackManager extension

2011-01-21 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
ve > a test/dev environment for this project configured on tesla, if you'd > like to work in a pre-configured environment. > > The extension page is here: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenStackManager > > Respectfully, > > Ryan Lane > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] JavaScript access to uploaded file contents: SVGEdit gadget needs ApiSVGProxy or CORS

2011-01-04 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
ion. > (NB sysops should be able to remove goatses from forum avatars...) Yeah. Avatars can be tricky. Also to be pedantically correct you want to have some guard against impersonation (using same icon, and maybe adding unicode space characters or other trivial chang

Re: [Wikitech-l] JavaScript access to uploaded file contents: SVGEdit gadget needs ApiSVGProxy or CORS

2011-01-04 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
e layout adjustment, and for RTL languages it needs pretty radical changes. That said, it's an interesting frontier and it would be awesome to have a tool which made it easier to create translated SVGs or indicate that translations were related to each oth

Re: [Wikitech-l] JavaScript access to uploaded file contents: SVGEdit gadget needs ApiSVGProxy or CORS

2011-01-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
for simpler uploads and searching. Any thoughts, Michael? -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-30 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
d by very subtle cues. Understanding how they work is a very rare ability. So I was suggesting we collect rules of thumb for people who are making interfaces. Not policies to bash each other with. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ___ Wikitech-l mailing list W

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-30 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
On 12/30/10 10:24 AM, Platonides wrote: > Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: >> At some point, if we believe our community is our greatest asset, we >> have to think of Wikipedia as infrastructure not only for creating high >> quality articles, but also for generating and sust

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-30 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
e were going to address UX issues in a very broad way, which included social issues. Unfortunately the person in charge of that left the Foundation soon after and in the kerfuffle I'm not sure if we now have anybody whose primary job it is to think about the experien

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-29 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
> non-WMF specific extensions and features. > > It doesn't take that much effort to keep core small, and maintain > extensions for WMF use. I honestly don't think this is a limiting > factor to the usability of WMF projects, either. > > Respectf

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-29 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
capsulate data and even other templates to an infinite degree. A few months ago somebody asked how they could implement a third layer of "quoting" in the geocoding template syntax and it just seemed to me like this problem shouldn't have to exist. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-29 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
And the followup question was "if a competitor can do this, why don't WE do this?" Brion already suggested something like this, where we would end up with a transition regime between old and new. P.S. All due respect to RobLa, but "Microsoft tr

[Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-28 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
vation that was disruptive to Wikipedia, in fact something that made Wikipedia look like Friendster or Myspace compared to Facebook? And there's a followup question to this -- but you're all smart people and can guess what it is. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special:Upload tweaks: thumbnail boxes for your boxing day

2010-12-27 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
work with ancient browsers and relatively obscure browsers (and without using crutches like Flash) over using the cool features of modern ones. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] A tool or web form for creating new pages

2010-12-14 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
talent) in ASL since I have a deaf friend, so this might be something I could work on in my spare time. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Re: [Mediawiki-l] vector components many blank lines

2010-12-08 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
s we just did. ;) [1] Of course, Javascript loading trails initial page load, but the point still stands -- 2KB is a LOT. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making usability part of the development process

2010-12-02 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
ry tracks. Portal spends a lot of time training users in a radically new gameplay concept. It's fascinating to hear all the tricks they used to get the player to learn things, as they played the game, almost without effort. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1kvad

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making usability part of the development process

2010-12-02 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
er of the system but not others. That said, I think the deeper we go into the code, it becomes more about good documentation. At the outer layers things have to be more discoverable. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikit

[Wikitech-l] Making usability part of the development process

2010-12-02 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
our process as a developer, would you be interested? And what should that look like? -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] tests broken (?)

2010-11-02 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
's a little better. http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/maintenance/tests/phpunit/includes/api/ApiUploadTest.php -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Firesheep / HTTPS by default

2010-10-25 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
r to transmit session data. > > If you're in need of using secure login, then you can use the secure > webserver, but in the past it had some load issues. > > Marco -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release process

2010-10-21 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
n* trunk. That means that when you want to slap in a one-line tweak to fix > or debug something, you *also* have to deploy the last few days' worth of > trunk changes. Yes, definitely a problem. In the Flickr world, you're never more than a few hours off of trunk

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release process

2010-10-21 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
On 10/21/10 4:04 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar > wrote: >> For what it's worth, I'm influenced by my former job at Flickr, where >> the practice was to deploy several times *per day*, directly from trunk. >> Tha

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release process

2010-10-21 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
e aware there are people who are doing it successfully -- it just takes a few extra development practices. BTW, I wanted to say this stuff earlier, but I found that I couldn't respond meaningfully to Rob's questions. They were "big questions" asking for a lot of context, and a relat

Re: [Wikitech-l] Convention for logged vs not-logged page requests

2010-10-19 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
ime anomaly, so no need for any convention. Isn't it fairly common to load data or other such page fragments in this way, though? Or does it only seem common to me because I commonly work with Commons? -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ___ Wikit

Re: [Wikitech-l] Convention for logged vs not-logged page requests

2010-10-19 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
_____ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] UploadWizard/SessionStash design

2010-10-19 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/uploadwizard/extensions/UploadWizard/ApiQueryStashImageInfo.php http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/uploadwizard/extensions/UploadWizard/SpecialUploadWizard.php -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia, we have a Google refresh problem!

2010-10-17 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
lism is" is generally a settled question at Wikipedia, and opening a post with "if you understand the issue" is a little bit aggressive? -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia, we have a Google refresh problem!

2010-10-16 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
on't know if I'm committing any resources to this (I'm still busy with other stuff for the next two months at least) but I happen to know a lot about this from an aborted project at another employer, so I have always wanted to actual

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugmeister opening at Wikimedia Foundation

2010-10-08 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
nese (and the rest of the WMF tech staffers) do read this list, but most of us think hiring someone local to SF is a good thing, so we're not the best people to be advocates for your point. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ___ Wikitech-l mailing li

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader Debug Mode (& the need for a platform)

2010-09-30 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
f what the Resource Loader people are trying to achieve here. Efficiency *and* community. Minification *and* openness. Gadget-writers are a big part of their targeted use cases. Otherwise, they would have just used something off the shelf. There are a lot of good JS libraries out there, but no

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader timestamp format

2010-09-30 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
On 9/30/10 2:12 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > Does it also allow replacing the separators with whatever you want? If you use a separator for time, ISO 8601:2004 section 3.4.4 says it has to be hyphen for year, month, day, and colon for hour, minute, and second. -- Neil Kandalgaon

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader timestamp format

2010-09-30 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Helping with code review

2010-09-27 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
rning time > which may be more accessible for some folks! > > -- brion > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is the $_SESSION secure?

2010-09-23 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
but in this case I'm just storing the path to a temporary file. The file isn't even sensitive data; it's just a user-uploaded media file for which the user has not yet selected a license, although we anticipate they will in a few minut

[Wikitech-l] Is the $_SESSION secure?

2010-09-23 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
ide a temporary secret there. Is that a good assumption? -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.17 release target (Re: UsabilityInitiative extension...)

2010-09-21 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
/2284377/ There are pros and cons to this approach. It's not entirely appropriate for us because we do in a sense have a shrink-wrapped product -- MediaWiki -- and its releases ought to be stable. Also, Flickr relies on the entire team being experienced and careful; they can't afford even

Re: [Wikitech-l] Keeping record of imported licensed text

2010-09-15 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
dable license properties will help. Even for images which don't allow re-use at all, it should say so quite clearly. (We host Wikimedia trademarked images, for instance.) PS: I apologize if the threading is screwed up here -- WMF mail was down for a few hours so I missed this messa

Re: [Wikitech-l] Keeping record of imported licensed text

2010-09-15 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
ints. That said, I've been thinking about metadata systems for wikis and this is an interesting idea. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Keeping record of imported licensed text

2010-09-10 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
information with articles might be > useful to a large number of sites. If so, the perhaps it belongs in the > core. > -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, now in trunk!

2010-09-09 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
developers add debugging bookmark like this: >> javascript:alert(document.cookie="resource_loader_debug=1;%20path=/") -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-08 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
On 9/8/10 5:35 PM, Chad wrote: > I think the point was not about hardware, but the OPs > inability to include a single linebreak in the e-mail. I need an open source irony detector. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-08 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
(such as code that can generate circuit designs) are freely available. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-07 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
one else. This is true, but we are trying not to hire this sort of person. Off the top of my head I would guess at least 75% of the developers here had significant open source experience before being hired, many with Wikimedia projects. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ___

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