[Wikitech-l] forking media files

2011-08-15 Thread Peter Gervai
Let me retitle one of the topics nobody seems to touch. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 13:44, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: * media files -- these are freely copiable but I'm not sure the state of easily obtaing them in bulk. As the data set moved into TB it became impractical to just build

Re: [Wikitech-l] forking media files

2011-08-15 Thread Peter Gervai
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 18:40, Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson rnnel...@clarkson.edu wrote: The problem is that 1) the files are bulky, That's expected. :-) 2) there are many of them, 3) they are in constant flux, That is not really a problem: since there are many of them statistically they are

Re: [Wikitech-l] XKCD: Extended Mind

2011-05-26 Thread Peter Gervai
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 17:38, Leo Koppelkamm diebu...@gmail.com wrote: http://ryanelmquist.com/cgi-bin/xkcdwiki Nice way to see that first sentences eventually lead to a general quantity or property which links to [[property (phylosophy)]] which links to Philosophy itself. So far I didn't see a

Re: [Wikitech-l] XKCD: Extended Mind

2011-05-25 Thread Peter Gervai
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 09:24, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 25/05/11 17:05, Domas Mituzas wrote: On May 25, 2011, at 9:35 AM, K. Peachey wrote: http://xkcd.org/903/ -Peachey that error is fake! 10.0.0.242 is internal services DNS server and is not used to serve

Re: [Wikitech-l] XKCD: Extended Mind

2011-05-25 Thread Peter Gervai
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 17:16, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com Thanks for clearing that up. Nice work. g ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] What is wrong with Wikia's WYSIWYG?

2011-05-02 Thread Peter Gervai
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:02, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: don't think using wikitext is the best way to make things easier for new users. It's always been a dilemma for me to see how much amount of computer illiterate users should be wished for (or actually possible to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Version control

2010-02-07 Thread Peter Gervai
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 00:38, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: It's interesting that the #1 con against Git in that document is Lots of annoying Git/Linux fanboys. No, it's the screaming 'hell yeah!' but have no idea what they're talking about part. :-) g

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google phases out support for IE6

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Gervai
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 00:44, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: People are really bad at complaining, especially web users.  We've had prolonged obvious glitches which must have effected hundreds of thousands of people and maybe we get a couple of reports. For Average Joe and Jane it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google phases out support for IE6

2010-01-31 Thread Peter Gervai
What about creating an monobo'oldies theme for them? I mean, move current stuff to oldies, and drop elders support from monobook. -- byte-byte, grin ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikitext vs. WYSIWYG (was: Proposal for editing template calls within pages)

2009-09-24 Thread Peter Gervai
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 14:36, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: However, impenetrable wikitext is one of *the* greatest barriers to new users on Wikimedia projects. And this impenetrability is not, in any way whatsoever or by any twists of logic, a feature. Adding a gui layer to wikitext

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikiEN-l] MediaWiki is getting a new programming language

2009-07-17 Thread Peter Gervai
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:06, Gerard Meijssengerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Well this strength is not that great when people like myself who has commit right on SVN does not want to touch templates with a barge pole if I can help it. Wikipedia is supposed to be this thing everybody can

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikiEN-l] MediaWiki is getting a new programming language

2009-07-08 Thread Peter Gervai
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:16, Gerard Meijssengerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: The argument that a language should be readable and easy to learn is REALLY relevant and powerful. A language that is only good for geeks is detrimental to the use of MediaWiki. Our current templates and template

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikimedia, wikipedia and ipv6

2009-06-12 Thread Peter Gervai
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 13:55, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: This might be useful, although most of the info is probably outdated: http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Special:Search?search=ipv6go=Go Yep, including the dead labs link. But it mentioned LVS [ipvs], dunno whether

[Wikitech-l] Unbreaking statistics

2009-06-05 Thread Peter Gervai
Hello, I see I've created quite a stir around, but so far nothing really useful popped up. :-( But I see that one from Neil: Yes, modifying the http://stats.grok.se/ systems looks like the way to go. For me it doesn't really seem to be, since it seems to be using an extremely dumbed down