Re: [Wikitech-l] Audit of inline styling in the main namespace of the English Wikipedia

2015-10-29 Thread Robert Rohde
Okay. Thanks for making the extra effort. -Robert On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 6:05 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > Robert Rohde wrote: > >Which, after substituting "display:none;" I think translates directly to > >the regex search: > > > >insource:/style[ ]*=[ ]*\&

Re: [Wikitech-l] Audit of inline styling in the main namespace of the English Wikipedia

2015-10-27 Thread Robert Rohde
I am happy to agree that searching the XML should be better than the local search tool, but I still find these numbers hard to reconcile. -Robert Rohde [1] https://github.com/mzmcbride/dump-reports/blob/a8dbbcb3/xmldumpreader.py [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Audit of inline styling in the main namespace of the English Wikipedia

2015-10-27 Thread Robert Rohde
mp;profile=advanced [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=insource%3A%22style%3D%5C%22display%3A%20none%3B%5C%22%22&fulltext=Search&profile=all On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 2:32 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Robert Rohde wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 26, 2015

Re: [Wikitech-l] Audit of inline styling in the main namespace of the English Wikipedia

2015-10-27 Thread Robert Rohde
I'm not sure what your bug is, but those counts are way too high to be accurate reflections of the wikitext in the main namespace on enwiki. -Robert Rohde On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:13 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > Hi. > > I was curious about the prevalence and types of inline st

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Replace Tidy with HTML 5 parse/reserialize

2015-08-12 Thread Robert Rohde
erent in execution, I would suggest that one needs a significant test suite of complex pages in order to judge how bad the collateral damage is likely to be, and ideally some set of tools to help editors fix it. -Robert Rohde On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Brian Wolff wrote: > On 8/12

Re: [Wikitech-l] Anonymous editing impact on mobile

2015-04-29 Thread Robert Rohde
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:31 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > Any community members interested in helping out here? I'm very sad the > increase in errors wasn't picked up sooner... :-/ > What does event_action = 'error' actually mean? If the action is stopped by the AbuseFilter is that counted as an

Re: [Wikitech-l] Anonymous editing impact on mobile

2015-04-28 Thread Robert Rohde
unt) Assuming the above numbers are the correct totals, then it would seem that: * All edits up 54% * Edits from logged in users down 20% * Errors up 510% * First edits by logged in users down 43% * New account creation up by 92% -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Our CAPTCHA is very unfriendly

2014-12-04 Thread Robert Rohde
ld be automatically detected and blocked. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Our CAPTCHA is very unfriendly

2014-12-04 Thread Robert Rohde
atterns that might capture most of the bots but affect far fewer legitimate editors. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Our CAPTCHA is very unfriendly

2014-12-03 Thread Robert Rohde
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Daniel Friesen wrote: > On 2014-12-03 8:35 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > > However, captchas might be useful if used in conjunction with simple > > behavioral analysis, such as rate limiters. For example, if an IP is > > creating a lot of acc

Re: [Wikitech-l] Our CAPTCHA is very unfriendly

2014-12-03 Thread Robert Rohde
, but that is already true. Though reducing the prevalence of the captcha may increase the volume of spam by some small measure, I think it is more important that we stop erecting so many hurdles to new editors. -Robert Rohde On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > The main re

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] All non-api traffic is now served by HHVM

2014-12-03 Thread Robert Rohde
improvement towards the usability of our largest pages. -Robert Rohde On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Tomasz Finc wrote: > This is fantastic. Great job team and do put up a blog post about this. > > --tomasz > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Giuseppe Lavagetto > wrote:

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE and

2013-07-23 Thread Robert Rohde
ide a pretty visual interface. One also has to find ways to make that interface efficient and useful across a wide spectrum of different user needs. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Robert Rohde
ly still causes higher levels of accidental harm when operated by unfamiliar users than I would personally be comfortable with. And of course, there is still a long ways to go in terms of feature completeness and usability before we can really discuss Erik's dream of having VE be perceived as better

Re: [Wikitech-l] Are revision tags in the dump files?

2013-07-09 Thread Robert Rohde
-07-2013, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 20:17 -0700, ο/η Robert Rohde > έγραψε: >> Various parts of Mediawiki will apply tags to specific edits in recent >> changes and histories. >> >> For example, the recently introduced Visual Editor is adding Tag: >> VisualEditor to all of i

[Wikitech-l] Are revision tags in the dump files?

2013-07-08 Thread Robert Rohde
any mention of Tags, and I don't recall noticing them during any of the times I've worked with dump files in the past. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help with Scribunto/Lua modules

2013-06-06 Thread Robert Rohde
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 8:22 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Is there a better way to write/debug Lua modules? Any help writing these > modules (or simply getting a working sort module on Meta-Wiki) would be > appreciated. I edited your code to make the Sort Module do what I think you intended it to do.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment highlights - week of April 8th

2013-04-06 Thread Robert Rohde
ts use. While obviously a bit late in the game to be starting now, I think many people would welcome a discussion on wiki of what best practices for the use of wikidata ought to look like, and I'm sure your input could be valuable to that discussion

[Wikitech-l] Lua Performance

2013-03-15 Thread Robert Rohde
e overhead associated with launching each #invoke instance. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Has someone just changed math rendering?

2013-03-10 Thread Robert Rohde
save / preview. This does not seem to be the case with old equations, where the caching continues to work, but only with the caching of recently added equations. Filed as bugzilla 45973. -Robert Rohde On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Steve Summit wrote: > David Gerard wrote: >> This pag

[Wikitech-l] Identifying pages that are slow to render

2013-03-06 Thread Robert Rohde
f others. And there is work underway on a number of the more complex overhauls (e.g. {{cite}}, {{convert}}). However, it would be nice to identify problematic templates that may be less obvious. -Robert Rohde aka Dragons_flight ___ Wikitech-l mai

Re: [Wikitech-l] scaled media (thumbs) as *temporary* files, not stored forever

2012-09-01 Thread Robert Rohde
the full-size resolution. That said, I agree that finding a way to expire old thumbs, or rarely accessed thumbs, is definitely a good idea. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Forbidden access

2011-11-26 Thread Robert Rohde
s, it is pretty easy to try to open more downloads at the same time than the limit will allow. I suspect that is what happened here. -Robert Rohde ___ 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)

2011-09-17 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: >> Is there a good reason to prefer SHA-1? >> >> Both have weaknesses allowing one to construct a collision (with >> considerable effort) > > Considerable effor

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

2011-09-17 Thread Robert Rohde
25% faster to compute. Personally I've tended to view MD5 as more than good enough in offline analyses. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing XML Wikipedia Schema to Enable Smaller Incremental Dumps that are Hadoop ready

2011-08-23 Thread Robert Rohde
though, the trade-off is that you have to look at many diffs to reconstruct the page's content. Given that hard disks are cheap, the biggest advantage is probably really for people who want to study diffs as their main object of study. -Robert Rohde ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Parallel computing project

2010-10-26 Thread Robert Rohde
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Ariel T. Glenn wrote: > Στις 26-10-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 16:25 +0200, ο/η Platonides έγραψε: >> Robert Rohde wrote: >> > Many of the things done for the statistical analysis of database dumps >> > should be suitable for parallelizatio

Re: [Wikitech-l] Parallel computing project

2010-10-25 Thread Robert Rohde
ssible and completable in a month. -Robert Rohde [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:CompressOld.php On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > This term I'm taking a course in high-performance computing > <http://cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall10/G22.2945-001/index.html>, and I

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

2010-10-20 Thread Robert Rohde
ecessary anyway if we plan to reprocess the existing logs that don't follow the suggested convention. (I'm assuming we don't want to simply throw out three weeks of logs.) -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2010-10-19 Thread Robert Rohde
gnore this special case. Or is there a reason that doing so is not possible? -Robert Rohde On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > Hi all, > > In diving into a problem with logging[1], we discovered that we were > unintentionally treating several special page

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

2010-09-11 Thread Robert Rohde
variety of ways that this information is used and managed. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] New password hashing proposal

2010-08-20 Thread Robert Rohde
ymmetric cipher is provably immune to all known quantum computing attacks: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25629/ -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] New password hashing proposal

2010-08-19 Thread Robert Rohde
z]. Even if password strength testing algorithms were disabled on Wikipedia sites, it would still be a nice addition to have in the Mediawiki codebase in general. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia logging infrastructure

2010-08-10 Thread Robert Rohde
h the traffic logs, then I apologize for my confusion. -Robert Rohde [1] http://stats.grok.se/ [2] http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We're in the process of figuring out how we fix some of the issues in > our

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Commons-l] InstantCommons serving up non-free files

2010-07-26 Thread Robert Rohde
I'd rather we did move the 5500 Wikimedia-only images to Meta. Making Commons 100% free content would be clearer to reusers and make more general sense than having a site that is 99.92% free content. Of course, such a move would take considerable effort for relatively small gain, and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Must 3rd party skins and extensions be distributed under GPL?

2010-07-26 Thread Robert Rohde
a in taking a hard line with third-party software contributors over the licensing of their extensions. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vector skin not working on BlackBerry?

2010-05-13 Thread Robert Rohde
g resource limits (e.g. memory or storage space). The newer models tend to avoid it by devoting more resources to browsing. I would guess that the Javascript associated with Vector is using more memory than the Monobook version did and this is causing an error for people that used to ha

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Xmldatadumps-l] [Xmldatadumps-admin-l] 2010-03-11 01:10:08: enwiki Checksumming pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 :D

2010-03-10 Thread Robert Rohde
etting the dump system fully working is a great milestone. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] User-Agent:

2010-02-16 Thread Robert Rohde
characteristic like UA strings to try and find problems. (Not that IP monitoring alone is sufficient either.) -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] User-Agent:

2010-02-16 Thread Robert Rohde
n this kind of response really starts to send the wrong message. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2010-01-13 Thread Robert Rohde
llow people to store "private" content on Wikipedia. Of course both issues could be dealt with if we just said unsaved drafts expired after a month or something. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2010-01-13 Thread Robert Rohde
d message boxes using CSS. I've played around with code for wiki sites I manage to add that sort of functionality (and other related options) as a toggle buttons on the sidebar. I don't know if putting it in the sidebar for everyone would be okay for enwiki, etc., but I&#x

Re: [Wikitech-l] downloading wikipedia database dumps

2010-01-09 Thread Robert Rohde
PI for grabbing files and that seems like a good idea. Ultimately the best answer may well be to take multiple approaches to accommodate both people like you who want everything as well as people that want only more modest collections. -Robert Rohde _

Re: [Wikitech-l] downloading wikipedia database dumps

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Rohde
rying to make is that if we think about what people really want, and how the files are likely to be used, then there may be better delivery approaches than trying to create huge image dumps. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Boing Boing applauds stats.grok.se!

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Rohde
t more languages > of Wikipedia have that gadget installed? Local admins control the installation of gadgets. On Enwiki the process is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gadget -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimed

Re: [Wikitech-l] downloading wikipedia database dumps

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Rohde
uld try to figure out what kinds of subsets and the best way to handle them. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] downloading wikipedia database dumps

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Rohde
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > s/terabyte/several terabytes/  My copy is not up to date, but it's not > smaller than 4. Top most versions of Commons files are about 4.9 TB, files on enwiki but not Commons add another 200 GB or so. -R

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

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Rohde
uments for why closed source would be necessary in this case. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2010-01-06 Thread Robert Rohde
rce. However, my recollection is based on discussions years ago. On searching, I couldn't find any policy forbidding closed source software (is there one?). So, it is possible that closed source might be looked on as a more acceptable possib

Re: [Wikitech-l] ParserAfterStrip: Bug, deliberate change or incorrect use?

2009-11-12 Thread Robert Rohde
low of the rest of the parser operations, there no longer is a point where the parser has done only strip tag removal, and hence there is no point for a ParserAfterStrip to attach itself to. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Questions about fields in wiki dumps

2009-11-10 Thread Robert Rohde
Include only the current revision" box at Special:Export if you want to get additional revisions from the online form. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Questions about fields in wiki dumps

2009-11-10 Thread Robert Rohde
what the criteria actually are, but I recall encountering a dump entry where the editor's name had been suppressed (missing in the revision) but where the revision text itself was present. (I had an analysis script choke on this, since up to that time I had assumed every revision would have valid

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interaction Testing Automation

2009-10-27 Thread Robert Rohde
ge to check for bugs and regressions, yes? Is that gist of how Selenium is designed to operate? -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Datamining infoboxes

2009-10-23 Thread Robert Rohde
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > 2009/10/23 Robert Rohde : >> Given the fairly obvious utility for data mining, it might make sense >> for someone to extend the Mediawiki API to generate a list of template >> calls and the parameters sent in eac

Re: [Wikitech-l] Datamining infoboxes

2009-10-23 Thread Robert Rohde
Given the fairly obvious utility for data mining, it might make sense for someone to extend the Mediawiki API to generate a list of template calls and the parameters sent in each case. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements for Commons; was FlaggedRevs en.wp deployment update

2009-10-16 Thread Robert Rohde
dvertised technical forum to be set up somewhere (mediawiki.org, meta) to discuss feature requests from the community and help communicate community desires and priorities to the developer community. Bugzilla sort of serves that purpose now, but I know that many people are intimidated by that forma

Re: [Wikitech-l] Commit access requests

2009-10-15 Thread Robert Rohde
to regard many existing extensions in SVN as contribs that have never been studied in detail. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Commit access requests

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Rohde
ces in rendered page appearance, could catch code with poor performance or unexpected behavior earlier and without requiring a manual review by the experts. Obviously expert review will always be part of the process, but a lot of things can be done to make their lives easier. And that in turn

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

2009-10-11 Thread Robert Rohde
#x27;s > a problem.)  Similarly, try something like this: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/&; > > I assume this kind of thing is what causes those responses. Actually wget isn't blocked for either pageviews or action=edit based on a test a minute ago. > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 a

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

2009-10-11 Thread Robert Rohde
ome clear quickly. > D (minor) > Are TCP/000 indeed (invalid) UDP messages ? No idea. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why does Parser.php pass a value to my extension instead of a reference?

2009-10-10 Thread Robert Rohde
s this happen? Is it something with the version > of PHP? PHP 4 and PHP 5 handle objects as function parameters differently. Mediawiki now considers PHP 5.0 or later as a prerequisite (5.1 or later recommended). The warning you quote is a plausible consequence of using PHP 4 under certain

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

2009-10-08 Thread Robert Rohde
browser session would sometimes become corrupted and show this behavior. In those cases it would be fixed by restarting the browser. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] ParserAfterStrip: Bug, deliberate change or incorrect use?

2009-10-06 Thread Robert Rohde
n This is called whenever an internal / interwiki link is generated and allows one modify the text / destination, apply CSS styles, and/or replace the link with something else entirely. If you are munging external links (rather than internal / int

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

2009-09-25 Thread Robert Rohde
es. Unless expressly forbidden by the software implementation, I would assume that "helpful" Wikipedians would very quickly write template description templates to replace the XML and give it a "nice" wiki interface. So, in practice, the question of whether XML is hard

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

2009-09-25 Thread Robert Rohde
Are the XML specifications intended as? A) A required addition to current and future templates OR B) An optional addition to aid / facilitate the functioning of some advanced tools The latter case seems far more achievable than the former case. -Robert Rohde On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:49 PM

Re: [Wikitech-l] Links to Wikipedia with .htm at the end

2009-09-25 Thread Robert Rohde
to www.wiki.wikipedia.org/wiki/urban_heat_island.htm - did > this www.wiki.wikipedia.org server really exist? Issues like this do suggest that it would be nice if the noarticletext message had a way of making "did you mean" style guesses for common problem like this. -Robert Rohde _

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

2009-09-24 Thread Robert Rohde
nswer Aryeh, yes, I paid attention to handling vandalism reversions, and yes anons were tracked as if they were users. I went into it expecting a result like that described in the blog post, and came out with the opposite conclusion. -Robert Rohde PS. A full write-up of this analysis has been on m

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

2009-09-23 Thread Robert Rohde
edited by hand, and rather opaque for people who have no experience with it. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Any accepted use cases that block bug 1310?

2009-09-20 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > Robert Rohde wrote: >> I am looking at bug 1310, which involves parser behavior such that >> when given nested tag extensions, i.e.: >> >> >> AAA >> BBB >> CCC >> >> >> The par

Re: [Wikitech-l] Any accepted use cases that block bug 1310?

2009-09-20 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:04 AM, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/9/20 Robert Rohde : > >> However, since this is parser behavior going back to the dawn of time >> (first reported in MW 1.4), I wanted to ask if there are known use >> cases where the current behavior is actual

[Wikitech-l] Any accepted use cases that block bug 1310?

2009-09-20 Thread Robert Rohde
good look. For the record, my particular interest is related to nested refs. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] Archive of visitor stats

2009-09-18 Thread Robert Rohde
te easy. For English this is obviously true, but Erik writes scripts intended to be language agnostic and work with all WMF projects. While certainly possible to teach it about namespaces in the general sense, it would take rather a bit of effort to ca

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] Archive of visitor stats

2009-09-17 Thread Robert Rohde
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Brian wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Steve Bennett >> wrote: >> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Robert Rohde >> wrote: >> >> That particular re

Re: [Wikitech-l] Article metadata separation from main wikitext

2009-09-17 Thread Robert Rohde
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: >> In practice it is very rare to have a ref be placed inside the content >> of another ref, so the problem of nested refs will almost never come >> up, but it is

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] Archive of visitor stats

2009-09-17 Thread Robert Rohde
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: >> That particular result is unpublished.  I could make you a list of >> infrequently viewed articles, but it would be quite long. > > Could you make a list of the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Article metadata separation from main wikitext

2009-09-17 Thread Robert Rohde
e right answer is probably to build in generic support for nested references but that would require significant changes to Cite's data stack and probably a couple modifications and / or new hooks in the parser itself. If I reach a point of having more free time, this is an issue I've been

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] Archive of visitor stats

2009-09-17 Thread Robert Rohde
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: > 2009/9/18 Robert Rohde : >> Careful, a recent analysis I did suggested that 15% of all page >> requests for articles on Wikipedia are for topics requested less than >> once per hour.  There are a very large number of

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] Archive of visitor stats

2009-09-17 Thread Robert Rohde
for articles on Wikipedia are for topics requested less than once per hour. There are a very large number of pages that rarely see hits, but collectively the traffic to such topics is important. You could end up biasing certain kinds of analysis if you always exclude the rar

Re: [Wikitech-l] Usability initiative

2009-09-15 Thread Robert Rohde
ever. > The Vector skin is in MW core, and will be part of the 1.16 release. Is there a road map somewhere for features you plan to include but haven't gotten to yet? -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2009-09-08 Thread Robert Rohde
is implemented using > PHP, but can easily ported to C using YACC. I hope it will be ready soon. An interpreter for what language? -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] 5 millions

2009-09-02 Thread Robert Rohde
the largest free content image repository, though that's not the only way Flickr is used). -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Any news to update static HTML Wikipedia?

2009-09-01 Thread Robert Rohde
(It will compress to 12 GB or so.) Keep in mind that these estimates don't include any images, which would eat up massive amounts of space if you include them. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] How we can speed up double brace substitution, Was: how to chang {{SITENAME}}

2009-09-01 Thread Robert Rohde
d. The magic word caching hints could also be used to help decide how long the post-transformed version is likely to be good for. More importantly, it avoids the pitfalls of trying to reintroduce parser logic in transformMsg or some other preliminary step. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org Status?

2009-09-01 Thread Robert Rohde
ted on [[Special:WantedTemplates]] [1] and > possibly the [[Mediawiki:Common.css]] and [[Mediawiki:Monobook]] from > the en.wikipedia[2][3]. Speaking of which, the export interface could really benefit from an option to include CSS and JS customizations during export. -Robert Rohde ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] how to chang {{SITENAME}}

2009-08-31 Thread Robert Rohde
and deliberately refresh the cache), but such changes are so rare that adding some lag on update might be acceptable. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] please make wikimedia.org mailing lists searchable

2009-08-24 Thread Robert Rohde
form of centralized search interface? If someone is feeling really ambitious, one might even look at replacing the pipermail archive with something more stable (links can break when the index gets rebuilt) and easier to manage with respect to things like removing private info. (There might even be worka

Re: [Wikitech-l] GIF thumbnailing

2009-08-03 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Andrew Garrett wrote: > > I can possibly poke this tomorrow, must have slipped through my > fingers on Bug Friday :) Well it was assigned to you and you unassigned it from yourself... -Robert Rohde ___ W

Re: [Wikitech-l] commons.wikimedia.org allowing directory indexesand web robots

2009-07-27 Thread Robert Rohde
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > On 7/27/09 10:03 AM, Robert Rohde wrote: >> Forgive me, but that seems like you'd be asking the community to do a >> huge amount of work (moving images and updating [[File:]] calls) in >> order to address a probl

Re: [Wikitech-l] commons.wikimedia.org allowing directory indexesand web robots

2009-07-27 Thread Robert Rohde
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: >> Forgive me, but that seems like you'd be asking the community to do a >> huge amount of work (moving images and updating [[File:]] calls) in >> order to addre

Re: [Wikitech-l] commons.wikimedia.org allowing directory indexesand web robots

2009-07-27 Thread Robert Rohde
ent nomenclature be preserved but some addition system of naming, minus the confusing extensions, be placed on top as the default. -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] commons.wikimedia.org allowing directory indexes and web robots

2009-07-22 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:55 AM, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/7/18 Robert Rohde : >> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:20 AM, David Gerard wrote: > >>> It'd actually be better if Google properly indexed text pages whose >>> name ends in .jpg or whatever ... but they'

Re: [Wikitech-l] commons.wikimedia.org allowing directory indexes and web robots

2009-07-20 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:55 AM, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/7/18 Robert Rohde : >> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:20 AM, David Gerard wrote: > >>> It'd actually be better if Google properly indexed text pages whose >>> name ends in .jpg or whatever ... but they'

Re: [Wikitech-l] commons.wikimedia.org allowing directory indexes and web robots

2009-07-18 Thread Robert Rohde
t actually forbidden by our robots.txt? > > It'd actually be better if Google properly indexed text pages whose > name ends in .jpg or whatever ... but they're aware we'd like that, so > it's up to them. Which is why my personal wiki is patched to translate the "

[Wikitech-l] CentralNotice

2009-07-17 Thread Robert Rohde
CentralNotice was disabled on all sites except Meta on the 11th as part of the fight with ms1. Is there a likely timeline for when that will be restored? -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Downloadable fonts

2009-07-16 Thread Robert Rohde
rm what the behavior is with Firefox 3.5, Safari 3.1/4.0, > and Opera 10 betas; unless they're very smart about only loading what > they need, we'll probably need to devise an extension to import > particular fonts for a given page. According to what I've read, Firefo

Re: [Wikitech-l] just a note...

2009-07-11 Thread Robert Rohde
emplate and why changing a single template should have that large an effect? -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2009-07-02 Thread Robert Rohde
ach > foreach/while/for loop. If it reaches 200 (or whatever), execution is > stopped. Really, the ideal solution is to say the user is allowed X number of basic operations, Y amount of memory, and Z amount of execution time, and write an interpreter that is agnostic about how those resources ar

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

2009-06-30 Thread Robert Rohde
> var1=foo; > var2=bar; > > > or: > > > > which is a tad more verbose but more explicit. Makes it awfully ugly to pass the result of one template to another template if your syntax is: " var2="bar"/> -Robert Rohde ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2009-06-30 Thread Robert Rohde
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Brian wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Robert Rohde wrote: >> >> However, >> given the nastiness of template syntax, I would expect no end of wiki >> authors willing to help convert the commonly used stuff. >> >> -

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

2009-06-30 Thread Robert Rohde
call other template pages. One of the few virtues of the current template code is that it is relatively modular, with more complex templates being built out of less complex ones. If this programming language is meant to replace that then it would also need to be able to reference the results of other templ

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