Re: [Wikitech-l] testing of localization

2011-03-22 Thread Soxred93
On Mar 22, 2011, at 1:32 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: 1. Are there currently any tests in the MediaWiki test suite that focus on localization? The MediaWiki PHPUnit test suites are still very much incomplete, and have yet to test a fraction of the MediaWiki code. That said, there are tests

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Gender preference

2011-02-10 Thread Soxred93
prefstats maybe? On Feb 10, 2011, at 8:17 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote: 2011/2/10 Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org: That's not accurate. Aggregate preference data is available to toolserver users — the view omits the user ID field. The view of which table? Running SHOW TABLES; on enwiki_p,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Minimum PHP now 5.2 in trunk (was: [Mediawiki-l] about requiring PHP 5.2)

2011-01-18 Thread Soxred93
On Jan 18, 2011, at 2:00 PM, Chad wrote: +1 here. a::b syntax is less keystrokes having to use an array. Also lets us remove the stupid hack from r68760[0] (probably similar things elsewhere in the code) Can't forget the hack that is MWFunction::callArray, which is also a hack that is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Need some input

2011-01-05 Thread Soxred93
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Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-29 Thread Soxred93
Of course, you have to remember that Wikipedia is a top 10 website. Wikia is a top 200 website. hot articles just don't scale that well to a wiki like Wikipedia. It's fundamentally flawed. On the flip side, an Etherpad-like feature would be nice. -X! On Dec 29, 2010, at 6:41 PM, Ryan Kaldari

Re: [Wikitech-l] Alternative to opendir() functions?

2010-12-24 Thread Soxred93
In the HISTORY file: * glob() is horribly unreliable and doesn't work on some systems, including free.fr shared hosting. No longer using it in Language::getLanguageNames() -X! On Dec 24, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: Glob works too I think. -- brion On Dec 23, 2010 12:06 PM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Alternative to opendir() functions?

2010-12-21 Thread Soxred93
all have our own styles. I would like to see this included, even if everyone doesn't use it. The current usage in MW isn't even RDI, it's just opendir(), readdir(), etc. -X! On Dec 21, 2010, at 7:22 AM, Tim Starling wrote: On 21/12/10 15:21, Soxred93 wrote: The usage is simple: sfFinder

Re: [Wikitech-l] Alternative to opendir() functions?

2010-12-21 Thread Soxred93
. -Chad On Dec 20, 2010 11:22 PM, Soxred93 soxre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Recently, I've been working with the Symfony web framework [1]. One of the classes they include is called the sfFinder class [2], which is a fluid, easy-to-use file finder class. It searches for files

Re: [Wikitech-l] Alternative to opendir() functions?

2010-12-21 Thread Soxred93
Before going into too much detail on the thread, consider what you actually need out of a fancy directory iterator. Offhand, I really can't think of many places where that even *happens* in MediaWiki... maybe when purging thumbnails? I count 10 instances of opendir() exactly in trunk.

[Wikitech-l] Alternative to opendir() functions?

2010-12-20 Thread Soxred93
Hi all, Recently, I've been working with the Symfony web framework [1]. One of the classes they include is called the sfFinder class [2], which is a fluid, easy-to-use file finder class. It searches for files or directories in the filesystem, using a fluid PHP 5 interface. It has no

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removing test suites from trunk

2010-12-07 Thread Soxred93
I think the idea that only people intending to do development work on MediaWiki download from SVN is a bit insane. And as you note, these tests are only going to grow in size over time. This whole discussion is bringing an analogy to a PHP framework that I'm using a lot now, symfony [1].

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removing test suites from trunk

2010-12-06 Thread Soxred93
On Dec 6, 2010, at 5:12 AM, Niklas Laxström wrote: On 6 December 2010 08:11, Q overlo...@gmail.com wrote: I think better time would be spent decoupling all the languages. Out the 57 megs for an svn export, 41 is the languages directory. Distribute the Big $foo, where $foo is some reasonable

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removing test suites from trunk

2010-12-06 Thread Soxred93
It probably would not be too hard to make an extension to do just that. Just modify ExtensionDistributor. -X! On Dec 6, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Niklas Laxström wrote: This suggestion seems to come up from time to time. I feel it is unrealistic. First of

Re: [Wikitech-l] No more syntax errors!

2010-11-30 Thread Soxred93
With my limited svn knowledge I'd say no. Postcommit hooks are a part of svn itself, IIRC I could also be wrong. -X! On Nov 30, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:04

Re: [Wikitech-l] Balancing MediaWiki Core/Extensions

2010-09-28 Thread Soxred93
That seems like a good idea. I would love to see this in action. -X! Sent from my iPod On Sep 28, 2010, at 8:11 PM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps the new installer could contain that as an option during the inital setup. Like a two or three-column thing with a bunch of

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committers

2010-08-25 Thread soxred93
As did I. I expect to see some good work now, Jan Paul! But really, welcome! -X! On Aug 25, 2010, at 1:28 AM, MZMcBride wrote: Tim Starling wrote: Extension access: * Jan Paul Posma (janpaul123): Sentence-level editing This is awesome. I really enjoyed the proof-of-concept. :-)

Re: [Wikitech-l] New password hashing proposal

2010-08-19 Thread soxred93
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: We could do a less secure, but more-secure-than-passwords alternative, which is to use email or SMS as a one time password device. SMS is obviously more secure than email, but would require us to ask people for their

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gartering extension-meta data

2010-08-09 Thread soxred93
Or is wanted to get really hacky, preg_replace everything that is not part of the $wgExtensionCredits tag out and just send the tag to eval (). :) -X! On Aug 9, 2010, at 7:02 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote: 2010/8/9 Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com: Hey, I'm looking for a way to collect

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sentence-level editing

2010-08-09 Thread soxred93
I'm with Chad. That is simply AWESOME. It addresses yet another issue with usability, and it a well-done solution to it. -X! On Aug 9, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Chad wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Jan Paul Posma jp.po...@gmail.com wrote: The last few weeks I've worked on some prototypes

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] JetBrains PHPStorm License for MediaWiki Developers

2010-06-22 Thread soxred93
Please, license? :) -Soxred93 On Jun 22, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Chad wrote: For anyone who's not on the other list :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Sam Reed tehre...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:47 AM Subject: [Mediawiki-l] JetBrains PHPStorm License for MediaWiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] AUTO: Naresh Kumar Nayyar is out of the office

2009-12-27 Thread Soxred93
*facepalm* On Dec 27, 2009, at 10:08 PM, naresh.kumar.nay...@us.elster.com wrote: I am out of the office until 12/29/2009. Hi, I am on vacation till 12/29/09. For any queries please contact Vinod Gundelli / Sean M Scoggins. Thanks Naresh Nayyar Note: This is an automated

Re: [Wikitech-l] Webzzle

2009-11-02 Thread Soxred93
Wanna know the best part about Webzzle? It's blocked at my school. :) That'll surely help them... -X! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Log

2009-05-16 Thread Soxred93
I use this to make a log: Initialize log page: $wgLogTypes[] = 'newlog'; $wgLogNames['newlog'] = 'newloglogpage'; $wgLogHeaders['newlog']= 'newloglogpagetext'; $wgLogActions['newlog/newlog'] = 'newloglogentry'; Add new log entry: //Log it $log

Re: [Wikitech-l] New preferences system

2009-04-24 Thread Soxred93
Keep in mind that when MediaWiki is developed, the best interests of Wikimedia are in mind. Wikimedia takes priority on MW development. X! On Apr 24, 2009, at 4:02 PM [Apr 24, 2009 ], Jacopo Corbetta wrote: Many wikis use MediaWiki beside Wikipedia. PGP.sig Description: This is a

Re: [Wikitech-l] tran-subst-antiation

2009-04-19 Thread Soxred93
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maybe something like {{Special:ExpandTemplates}}. X! On Apr 19, 2009, at 2:29 PM [Apr 19, 2009 ], Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:16 PM, William Allen Simpson william.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote: It's hard to document (subst

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2009-04-05 Thread Soxred93
People are so cruel... why can't they thank Werdna for his fine work on AF? X! On Apr 5, 2009, at 11:00 PM [Apr 5, 2009 ], repor...@isidore.wikimedia.org wrote: AbuseFilter 9 PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload-by-URL for test.wikipedia.org

2009-03-21 Thread Soxred93
Brion Vibber wrote: I've enabled a test configuration of MediaWiki's upload-by-URL ability on http://test.wikipedia.org/ The default configuration limits URL uploads to sysops, so for now you’ll need to be a sysop on Test Wikipedia to try it out. If everything seems fairly problem-free

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abuse Filter extension activated on English Wikipedia

2009-03-19 Thread Soxred93
Cobi (owner of ClueBot) and his roomate Crispy have already been working hard to make this specific dataset, but they've been hurt by not enough contributors. The page is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/User:Crispy1989#New_Dataset_Contribution_Interface X! On Mar 19, 2009, at 8:15 AM

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abuse Filter extension activated on English Wikipedia

2009-03-18 Thread Soxred93
However, that simply disallows them all. On enwiki, the blanking filter warns the user, and lets them go through with it after confirmation. X! On Mar 18, 2009, at 4:51 PM [Mar 18, 2009 ], jida...@jidanni.org wrote: AG frown on page-blanking For now I just stop them on my wikis with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Article blaming

2009-01-26 Thread Soxred93
It's more of a starting point, to flag editors who may have made the edits. All that would remain is looking over if that user did in fact make that edit (and if they didn't, it's back to square 1) On Jan 26, 2009, at 3:38 PM [Jan 26, 2009 ], Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at

Re: [Wikitech-l] api file uploading

2009-01-07 Thread Soxred93
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15227 On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:27 PM [Jan 7, 2009 ], Daniel Friesen wrote: Second that. Being able to create extensions which handle uploading in widely different ways would be very useful. I'd love something that combines the Upload form with

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikiEN-l] Suggestion on how referencing system could be improved

2008-12-04 Thread Soxred93
I'm also forwarding this to the wikitech-l list. On Dec 3, 2008, at 8:46 PM [Dec 3, 2008 ], Thomas Larsen wrote: Hi all, The current ref.../ref...references/ system produces nice references, but it is flawed--all the text contained in a given reference appears in the text that the reference