Re: [Wikitech-l] RTL problems with Vector skin on Commons

2010-04-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
that these hacks are less complete for Vector, and also more difficult because of certain layout differences between Monobook and Vector. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] Template collapsing in Citron - default text?

2010-04-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
of a template. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] serious questions about UsabilityInitiative going live

2010-04-01 Thread Roan Kattouw
of the scope of this project: creating redirects is not one of the main things we expect new editors to do, I think. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for comments: New Message class

2010-03-30 Thread Roan Kattouw
renaming thousands of messages; this is not necessarily bad software-wise, but it's annoying and a lot of work. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Floating gadget box

2010-03-29 Thread Roan Kattouw
a few buttons. The floating thingy you describe is probably possible, yes, but requires more coding. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Floating gadget box

2010-03-29 Thread Roan Kattouw
doesn't break the edit page any more. These changes are currently in SVN and will hopefully go live soon. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for comments: New Message class

2010-03-28 Thread Roan Kattouw
? Brace-transformation? It's really just preprocessing, i.e. the expansion of magic words and other stuff in {{braces}}. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] serious questions about UsabilityInitiative going live

2010-03-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
support. We're working out the IE bugs and will deploy the fixes as soon as we can. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] serious questions about UsabilityInitiative going live

2010-03-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
URLs for every other day since Feb 1, 2010. The script generating this data broke recently, so the data for the second half of March is probably wrong. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] serious questions about UsabilityInitiative going live

2010-03-26 Thread Roan Kattouw
be adding a Take me back link, similar to the Try Beta link, which changes the user's preferences to disable all usability features and change their skin back to Monobook. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] serious questions about UsabilityInitiative going live

2010-03-26 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/3/26 Tisza Gergő gti...@gmail.com: Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw at gmail.com writes: That's deliberate, the TOC requires the iframe, which was disabled because of copy-paste issues. We're also not enabling NTOC as a default feature, so this is irrelevant. Does that mean the iframe-based

Re: [Wikitech-l] serious questions about UsabilityInitiative going live

2010-03-26 Thread Roan Kattouw
? Also, software bugs can and should be reported at bugzilla.wikimedia.org . Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] serious questions about UsabilityInitiative going live

2010-03-26 Thread Roan Kattouw
that, hopefully it worked. Also, there seems to be a rogue sever not getting updates, if it's still in the server pool there's like a 1 in 200 chance you're getting your (outdated) JS from that box. Shift+Refresh should fix either issue. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki links beginning with slash character

2010-03-26 Thread Roan Kattouw
namespace by default). Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] ? earlier versions of user access levels + permissions

2010-03-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
=siteinfosiprop=usergroups, but a version of this list at a selected time, e.g., 2007-03-25T08:30:00Z ? No. You can probably reconstruct this list yourself using the current list and the user rights log, but MediaWiki itself doesn't have this functionality. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Common.css not working

2010-03-24 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/3/25 Makelesi Kora-Gonelevu makele...@gmail.com:        #ca-viewsource { display: none !important; } You should only add this line and remove all the others. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC project advice: port texvc to Python?

2010-03-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
with unbounded time/CPU/memory usage. I'm not familiar with any of the other programs mentioined, so I can't comment on those. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC project advice: port texvc to Python?

2010-03-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
not happening, so yeah, we definitely want it rewritten in PHP. If the PHP implementation turns out to be too slow to run on WMF, for instance, we could do a C++ port à la wikidiff2 (a C++ port of our ludicrously slow PHP diff implementation). Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC project advice: port texvc to Python?

2010-03-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/3/23 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com: This much I know, but is LaTeX actually a regular language? I don't know; I was just making the point that writing a DFA parser in PHP is probably not very useful. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sajax and Jquery documentation in MediaWiki

2010-03-16 Thread Roan Kattouw
this shouldn't be a problem at all. Like I said, sajax will be kept around for some time to come, and if your extension uses jQuery it shouldn't be claiming compatibility with 1.15 and below. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Broken videos

2010-03-16 Thread Roan Kattouw
? There's a difference between an OGG not playing on your browser and an OpenOffice file really being a .jar with malicious Java code. It's not so much about stuff exploding in the user's face as it is about stuff compromising the user's security. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sajax and Jquery documentation in MediaWiki

2010-03-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
and try to copy the style from existing extensions using jQuery, like UsabilityInitiative and LiquidThreads. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Uploads on small wikis

2010-03-12 Thread Roan Kattouw
severely break the Squid cache. In non-technical terms: if we enable this and people actually use it, the site goes down. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Uploads on small wikis

2010-03-12 Thread Roan Kattouw
an argument why it's fundamentally hard to respect Accept-Language for anonymous users. For the same reason, making uselang persist in $_SESSION also doesn't work for anonymous users. For logged-in users, though, both should be fine. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Uploads on small wikis

2010-03-12 Thread Roan Kattouw
that Squid currently doesn't even support this kind of fragmentation, but I may be wrong. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation

2010-03-12 Thread Roan Kattouw
last year [1], an annoucement of the selected projects will be made on wikitech-l. Also, we should list students, projects, mentors and contact details on [[mw:Summer of Code 2010]]. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Uploads on small wikis

2010-03-12 Thread Roan Kattouw
a limiting factor for anonymous users: we can still honor Accept-Language for logged-in users without affecting anything on the Squid side. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Selenium tests

2010-03-12 Thread Roan Kattouw
conversations and meetings happen; these are not necessarily internal or secret or whatever, just a natural consequence of being in the same room. Again, as Ryan pointed out, we started out exploring Selenium for internal usage only; he described that pretty well, so I won't elaborate on that. Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Selenium tests (was: New committers)

2010-03-11 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/3/10 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: On the other hand, we intend on setting up a server that runs these tests automatically. Instead of having to pull these tests from a million different places, it'd

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committers

2010-03-10 Thread Roan Kattouw
easily be renamed to /trunk/testing/extensions/UsabilityInitiative of course. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Selenium tests (was: New committers)

2010-03-10 Thread Roan Kattouw
important and more frequently used than providing easy access to tests to those .3% of downloaders that are actually gonna run them. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committer

2010-03-10 Thread Roan Kattouw
an account with e-mail linked in CR is especially important. I forwarded this e-mail to Bhagya and Janesh; I don't have ishimatsu's contact details. Andrew, do you? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Selenium tests

2010-03-10 Thread Roan Kattouw
a virtual machine testing against a number other VMs, each running a different OS/browser. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committer

2010-03-10 Thread Roan Kattouw
in their request. You're right that we should explicitly bring this page under new committers' attention. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Selenium tests

2010-03-10 Thread Roan Kattouw
the status was Ryan's patiently waiting for the Selenium servers to arrive and get set up. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] New committers

2010-03-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
bhagya - QA engineer for Calcey Technologies, will be committing Selenium tests to /trunk/testing/selenium janesh - same Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] External editor with merge capability?

2010-03-05 Thread Roan Kattouw
started editing. Should be the time at which you clicked the edit button basetimestamp: Used to detect edit conflicts. Should be *exactly equal* to the timestamp of the most recent revision of the page at the time you started editing Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] modernizing mediawiki

2010-03-05 Thread Roan Kattouw
developers' time to something and no one in the volunteer community cares, it doesn't happen. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] External editor with merge capability?

2010-03-04 Thread Roan Kattouw
the old content (containing your work in progress) in the edit box. MediaWiki doesn't know about this, so it records the so-called starttimestamp wrongly. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] hiphop! :)

2010-02-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
-blown parse involving enwiki's crazy templates. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] is there some extension for user do a checklist feedback function?

2010-02-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/2/25 Evel liu evel.e...@gmail.com: but I dont know how to use in my wiki, could you give me a link or usage instruction? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Quiz#Installation_Instructions Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Newbie questions

2010-02-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
-l Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] is there some extension for user do a checklist feedback function?

2010-02-24 Thread Roan Kattouw
MediaWiki install. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extensions in SVN looking for a maintainer

2010-02-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
Domas was complaining about {{cite}} *templates* and their complexity. Their inefficiency was unrelated to the Cite extension AFAIK. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] Skin system rewrite

2010-02-10 Thread Roan Kattouw
. EditWarning only working in Vector is a weird quirk that is indeed unnecessary. The other Vector-only modules, however, do stuff that's rather Vector-specific and need skin support (like collapsing tabs, enhancing Vector's search box, etc.). Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Skin system rewrite

2010-02-08 Thread Roan Kattouw
itself has been stable for months. All the usability work is currently done in the UsabilityInitiative extension. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Flattening a wikimedia category

2010-02-07 Thread Roan Kattouw
intersections. Only when that implementation is complete (or at least close) will it be possible to provide the definitive, specific and unambiguous list of requirements you asked for. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Flattening a wikimedia category

2010-02-07 Thread Roan Kattouw
saying my message was rejected because I'm not subscribed to commons-l. I'm not going to subscribe to that list, so I left the Cc: commons-l out this time. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Meet-Up in Berlin, April 14-16

2010-02-06 Thread Roan Kattouw
be done again this year, so I guess folks can always go that route. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] help about the extension about the URL's argument's value transfer to content's area.

2010-02-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
project template's area (your project name)  .so how should I do and and which extension I should use? You can use a hook for that: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/EditFormPreloadText Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] help about the extension about the URL's argument's value transfer to content's area.

2010-02-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
about what's in these CSV files or what you want the import to do with them. Writing a shell script that converts them to pages and adds them to the wiki shouldn't be hard though. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] checking understanding of file uploading

2010-01-29 Thread Roan Kattouw
maintenance script? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] enwiki database dump schedule

2010-01-29 Thread Roan Kattouw
sarcastic comments such as the above. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback for Bugzilla3.4.4

2010-01-19 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/1/19 Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com: This means you're still looking at the old Bugzilla. DNS entries are propagating around the world. Works fine once it's switched. Yeah it's switched around for me in San Francisco, might take a while to propagate all the way down to New Zealand. Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Upgrade tomorrow (01-19-2010)! -Service will be unavailable-

2010-01-18 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/1/18 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: Hoi, I had my evening meal ... Lunch is in how much time (approximately) ? I'm assuming this is lunchtime in San Francisco, which is between 9 and 10 PM CET. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Upgrade tomorrow (01-19-2010)! -Service will be unavailable

2010-01-18 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/1/18 Sam Reed s...@reedyboy.net: Awesome, thanks! Are we going to 3.4.4 then? I think so, yes, with a new skin. And whose dinner time? ;) Lunch time in the office I assume, so that'd be around 20:00-21:00 UTC. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Some suggestions about the edit page.

2010-01-13 Thread Roan Kattouw
viewing articles, or editing them?  Cutting out cruft when editing is something the usability project is looking into, AFAIK. We're working on that now, yes. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] svn switch for wmf-deployment

2010-01-12 Thread Roan Kattouw
, there are currently 11 locally modified files in wmf-deployment, so that'd need to be cleaned up first. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] svn switch for wmf-deployment

2010-01-12 Thread Roan Kattouw
removing the modified flag on the file). Committing stuff to wmf-deployment-something and merging it back is a lot trickier and should ideally be avoided. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] The future of action=ajax

2010-01-11 Thread Roan Kattouw
anything but log in will be denied to users without read rights. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] search updates

2010-01-11 Thread Roan Kattouw
for a while, but now it's on all wikis. Did you do this by changing the backend API action=opensearch uses, i.e. without (significant) changes to the actual AJAX code? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2010-01-11 Thread Roan Kattouw
EasyTimeline was written by Erik Zachte but is hardly maintained any more. More generally, bugs can be ignored and left to rot, that happens. You may need to poke developers or whoever maintains EasyTimeline these days to get them to do something about it. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] The future of action=ajax

2010-01-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Vs other trackers.

2010-01-07 Thread Roan Kattouw
to people that are used to wikis. Besides, we would be styling it with Vector not Monobook. Monobook is so last decade! I do agree that if we restyle anything, we should at least improve its looks :) Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Production machine config

2009-12-10 Thread Roan Kattouw
2009/12/9 Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com: 2009/12/9 William Pietri will...@scissor.com: Somone recently suggested this to me: In terms of configuration this lists most of whats public: http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/ I just went back to look at these again, and I see that link is now

Re: [Wikitech-l] Production machine config

2009-12-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
anybody know the best place to get that now? Right now, noc is broken and the config files are nowhere. I've been prodding sysadmins to fix this, will continue doing this more aggressively. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of global file usage?

2009-12-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
/GlobalUsage/GlobalUsage.sql?view=markup Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unicode equivalence

2009-12-01 Thread Roan Kattouw
-to-serve is of course faster and easier than juggling between 5.0 and 5.1 all the time. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] JS2

2009-11-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
and can be designed to avoid the possibility of duplicate script tags. I still think that this is a good idea. I agree; I must've missed this the first time you suggested it. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] SQL

2009-11-26 Thread Roan Kattouw
, and that the whole thing could be rewritten to SELECT * FROM recentchanges WHERE rc_namespace=0 AND rc_title='Wiki' ORDER BY rc_id DESC LIMIT 1; Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] skins

2009-11-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
#The_Setup_File and put require_once($IP/extensions/MyExtension/MyExtension.php); in your LocalSettings.php , your special page should show up in Special:Specialpages. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia database

2009-11-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
2009/11/23 zh...@york.ac.uk: Thanks. but is that page_latest is unique in page table? Yes. Every revision belongs to one page only (rev_page). Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia database

2009-11-19 Thread Roan Kattouw
? If they belong to the same wiki, they're very likely to be the same edit. Of course such duplicates should theoretically not occur. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{Encyclopédie recherche}}

2009-11-17 Thread Roan Kattouw
2009/11/18 Bilal Abdul Kader bila...@gmail.com: Greetings, This template is not being parsed on my french local wiki. Any hints on that. I did several search on google but I could not find the problem. Exactly what does happen? Do you see raw template code? Red links? Nothing at all? Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-api] API (query action) ( mediawiki - 1.12 )

2009-11-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
exist in that case. Later versions of MW give a clearer error message. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] strategy discussion

2009-11-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
times are correct. 21:00 UTC is indeed 10pm CET and 1pm PST, but it's 4pm EST (note that EDT is Eastern Daylight Time). Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Add record to database

2009-10-26 Thread Roan Kattouw
('wpTextbox1'); I'm not sure you want to be messing with EditPage's internals, though, because even most MediaWiki developers think EditPage is scary. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Datamining infoboxes

2009-10-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
it (tl_namespace=10 for the template namespace). Note that the former index can be used as an index on (tl_from) as well. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Datamining infoboxes

2009-10-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
it any time soon. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with Upload API

2009-10-21 Thread Roan Kattouw
specifies the name of the file ON THE WIKI, like the second textbox in Special:Upload does. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Add record to database

2009-10-20 Thread Roan Kattouw
/importTextFile.php Please use other variable names than $wgTitle and $wgArticle to reduce confusion with the global variables by the same name. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] File Compare Tool

2009-10-19 Thread Roan Kattouw
2009/10/19 Arjun Priyananth priyana...@gmail.com: Hi, Can anyone tell me what is the tool which wikipedia uses for file compare. (in the wikipedia website it compares two history) what is that tool please It's the standard GNU diff utility, which is available on most Linux/UNIX systems. Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Squid status codes, please advice

2009-10-12 Thread Roan Kattouw
to guess where it would come up have failed. If you can grab some examples of URLs generating the 302 response it might become clear quickly. URLs with redlink=1 redirect to the page view with a 302. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data Processing

2009-10-12 Thread Roan Kattouw
directions about when ES makes sense and when it doesn't are probably better given by people more familiar with databases than me. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] C++ implementation of the MediaWiki API

2009-10-11 Thread Roan Kattouw
Qt. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image view statistics?

2009-10-11 Thread Roan Kattouw
number. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data Processing

2009-10-11 Thread Roan Kattouw
by comparing two texts using an external program like diff; it's not stored anywhere (other than possibly in the objectcache table, for caching purposes). Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Has anyone heard of a file download issue with Mediawiki / Wikipedia?

2009-10-08 Thread Roan Kattouw
not the problem, then I'm not sure what the problem is. Alternatively, it could be that a blank page somehow got stuck in Squid. If that's the problem, it should go away when the page is edited or purged. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
easier to install and use. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Template editing

2009-09-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
. They probably won't be called anything at all: we don't really need a name for them. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] JS2 design (was Re: Working towards branching MediaWiki 1.16)

2009-09-26 Thread Roan Kattouw
;) This mailing list scrubs attachments. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for editing template calls within pages

2009-09-26 Thread Roan Kattouw
a link dialog with title suggestions for internal links. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for editing template calls within pages

2009-09-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
in the latter category). I agree that this probably causes the weird quirks that make wikitext such a horribly complex language to define and parse, so I think a good way to continue this discussion would be to talk about how invalid, ambiguous and otherwise unexpected input should be handled. Roan Kattouw

Re: [Wikitech-l] Template editing

2009-09-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
words * Profit! We (the usability team) do intend to get 'content folding' (folding template calls and tables into stubs that can be expanded at will) done in the Citron (third) release. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for editing template calls within pages

2009-09-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
there; don't go around blasting us because we failed to read your mind. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for editing template calls within pages

2009-09-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
*wouldn't* *matter*, because the template call editor could easily be ported to the 'new language' or whatever we end up with. It wouldn't put us any further away from fixing wikitext; the trade-off you mentioned does not exist IMO. Roan Kattouw (Catrope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for editing template calls within pages

2009-09-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
any changes to the XML format. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for editing template calls within pages

2009-09-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
to that template to create the new interface. Is this correct? Wait, what? Can you explain this better or provide an example? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for editing template calls within pages

2009-09-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
about newbies not editing templates). Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for editing template calls within pages

2009-09-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
the soup. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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