[Wikitech-l] Re: On wiki language detection

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you Santhosh! Strainu Pe joi, 26 septembrie 2024, Santhosh Thottingal < santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com> a scris: > Hi, > Please see if this helps: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/10/24/open-language-identification-api-for-200-langu

[Wikitech-l] On wiki language detection

Hi folks, Is there a way to detect LA language the user inserts in the visual editor? The only thing that I could find is TextCat, but that doesn't seem to have any kind of API. Thanks, Strainu [1] https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/TextCat ___ Wik

[Wikitech-l] Re: Coming soon: A new sub-referencing feature

mplate, but not substitute it. If I understand your use case correctly, you won't have this problem. When this feature becomes available, you could simply adapt the template to generate the tag. Hth, Strainu Pe miercuri, 21 august 2024, Adam Wight a scris: > Hi, I'm one of the develo

[Wikitech-l] Re: Article source code style guide

Pe joi, 27 iunie 2024, Bináris a scris: > Hi, > is there anywhere a $subject? Even if it exists, it is moot. For instance, for templates you can specify the layout from the docs, but it is not enforced in the wikitext editors. One can always edit through an external editor and put the elements ho

[Wikitech-l] Templatestyles in refs

ata generated by the module. Thanks, Strainu [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Cite#Substitution_and_embedded_parser_functions [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#frame:extensionTag ___ W

[Wikitech-l] "Known languages" or similar?

it still exist and is it available somehow from outside CX? Are there any other data sources I can use (and which don't ruin caching, either)? Thanks, Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To un

[Wikitech-l] Re: ORES To Lift Wing Migration

ting should not be the guiding force in any team's roadmap, but the needs of its users. Have a good weekend, Strainu Pe sâmbătă, 23 septembrie 2023, Luca Toscano a scris: > > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 11:34 PM Aaron Halfaker wrote: >> >> All fine points. As you

[Wikitech-l] Re: ORES To Lift Wing Migration

nd new models? 2. I could not find any reference regarding the ores scores exposed through other APIs (specifically the RC API [3]). Will those be available going forward? Under which names? 3. Will it still be possible to (re-)train existing and new model for a specific wiki? How and when? Thanks,

[Wikitech-l] Maps as article image?

f the idea. Thanks, Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/

[Wikitech-l] Re: VisualEditor inserting ``

newline(s) (\n) inserted in wikitext.In this case, the parser probably tries to simplify the wikitext unless a hooman decided otherwise (this seems in line with the "alienInline" you see). Regards, Strainu În lun., 13 mar. 2023 la 09:37, Robert Vogel via Wikitech-l < wikitech-l@lists

[Wikitech-l] Re: Filtered lists with checkboxes

Pe marți, 25 octombrie 2022, Bináris a scris: > > > Strainu ezt írta (időpont: 2022. okt. 25., K, 19:20): >> >> If you're ok with editing a list of titles, petscan [1] is all you need. > > Thank you! > Unfortunately, this does not run in native home wiki, so i

[Wikitech-l] Re: Filtered lists with checkboxes

/?menu=filter to combine them. Now, pywikibot does have some support for petscan, but I believe it does not include psid. However, it's trivial to scrape the output of the text output. Good luck! Strainu [1] https://petscan.wmflabs.org/ > > Strainu ezt írta (időpont: 2022. okt. 2

[Wikitech-l] Re: Filtered lists with checkboxes

t seem to be what you want. HTH, Strainu > > -- > Bináris ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/

[Wikitech-l] Re: TDF is looking for community representatives

e is not the same as a general Wikimedia audience. My 2c, Strainu Pe luni, 10 octombrie 2022, Erica Litrenta a scris: > (Sorry to "hijack" the thread, I am not personally involved in TDF but since I was the original "messenger", I'm interested in learning mor

[Wikitech-l] A random thank you to the Wikimedia tech community

p the good work! Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/

[Wikitech-l] Re: 3D models in Commons

/query/ZgJlL4Jm.OCj/#R Strainu > > On 3 Jul 2022, at 11:49, Strainu wrote: > Hey folks, > > I know it's a bit early in the fiscal year and that's probably why I can't find anything on wiki, but I understood that the new yearly plan puts a lot of emphasis on the multimedi

[Wikitech-l] 3D models in Commons

rojects related to that in this fiscal year, would it be possible to get a link to the project page? I'm asking because there are a lot of cool, freely licensed models out there just waiting to be imported... Thank you, Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mailin

[Wikitech-l] Re: namespace names vs interlanguage links

Amir, In Romanian, this kind of possible, but highly unlikely problem is called "drob de sare" (salt stone). I'll let you use your language skills to find out why :) Let the community be and find their own ways to deal with the problem, if it ever becomes a real one. If one really wants to link t

[Wikitech-l] Re: Different cache invalidation rules for similar users?

În mie., 6 apr. 2022 la 22:55, Krinkle a scris: > > On Mon, 4 Apr 2022, at 10:12, Strainu wrote: > > Thank you for your responses folks. The script is a gaget [1], loaded > and unloaded through the preferences. > > Regards, >Strainu > > [1] https://ro.wikip

[Wikitech-l] Re: Different cache invalidation rules for similar users?

Thank you for your responses folks. The script is a gaget [1], loaded and unloaded through the preferences. Regards, Strainu [1] https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-wikidata-description.js În lun., 4 apr. 2022 la 04:20, Krinkle a scris: > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2022, at 17:57, S

[Wikitech-l] Different cache invalidation rules for similar users?

validation rules for different countries? If not, what else could cause this behavior? Thanks, Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wik

[Wikitech-l] Re: Is there still a maximum page size in effect?

În sâm., 5 feb. 2022 la 19:53, Andre Klapper a scris: > > On Sat, 2022-02-05 at 18:43 +0200, Strainu wrote: > > I am aware of the various limits in the NewPP report. I'm trying to > > determine if we currently we have some max page size (before or after > > processin

[Wikitech-l] Is there still a maximum page size in effect?

llows be to go past the 2MiB page size. If we don't have such a limit, I'm not exactly sure why do we need the Post‐expand include size limit? Why is output generated by transclusion harder on the parser than output directly in the page? T

[Wikitech-l] Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

ng to even do reviews). Maybe it's just the multimedia part that it's in this desperate situation, but I can totally see volunteer developers getting discouraged quickly if their patches are outright ignored. Strainu ___ Wikite

[Wikitech-l] Re: [Wikimedia-l] Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

s to the Upload Wizard. There are quite a few open items in Phab on this. I really hope you will have better luck than others with bringing this issue up in the priority list for next year - multimedia support is growing more outdated by the minute. Strainu Pe joi, 30 decembrie 2021, Samuel Klei

[Wikitech-l] Limit to the number of images in a page?

there is a way to work around it (except for splitting the pages). Thanks, Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius

[Wikitech-l] Re: How do I make VE *not* save/recover my changes?

Thanks David. I just tried this and it only seems to work if I go back to the article via the tabs. Any other tab or link doesn't work. I've logged https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T294463 so the team can check if this is intended or not. Have a good day, Strainu Pe miercuri, 27 octo

[Wikitech-l] How do I make VE *not* save/recover my changes?

Hi, I've been searching quite a bit on MediaWiki.org but I can't find how to tell the VisualEditor to stop saving and (especially) recovering changes that I haven't explicitly saved. Is there a method? Thanks, Strainu ___ Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Maps Modernization plan - FYI

Hi Erica, Thanks for the announcement, I'm glad to see some love given to Maps. Could you explain how this initiative interacts with the planned improvements from WMDE [3]? Thank you, Strainu [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation În lun., 22 mar. 20

Re: [Wikitech-l] The future of UploadWizard

onfiguration sets, together > with the templates necessary to make it work. That would really simplify the > process of bringing UW to a wiki. Just a quick note to say that out of the 11 items you list above, 8 would also improve the Wikimedia experience :) Strainu > > ...a

Re: [Wikitech-l] The future of UploadWizard

În joi, 4 feb. 2021 la 16:54, Bartosz Dziewoński a scris: > > On 2021-02-03 23:33, Strainu wrote: > > One thing that puzzles me in that ticket is this phrase from Mark > > Traceur: "It might be better to look at something (slightly) more > > modern, like the upload

Re: [Wikitech-l] The future of UploadWizard

As the deafening silence of this thread probably shows, a discussion is not really possible. The WMF has had 0 interest in making uploads easier in the last few years. To be fair, faced with furios opposition from the Commons community for even basic improvements such as allowing imports from othe

Re: [Wikitech-l] The watchlist queue does not work recently

ikis, or contact the OTRS mail queues. > > > Regarding [part of] my work, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugwrangler > tries to outline some duties. (As I was explicitly mentioned.) > > Hope that helps a bit. :) Same here :) Strainu > > Cheers, > andre > > -- > A

Re: [Wikitech-l] The watchlist queue does not work recently

to obtain it."? An example of what "minimized steps" means might also be a good idea. Strainu > andre > -- > Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate > https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ > > > ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] What is JSON (in JavaScript code)?

Thanks Dan and Roy, apparently our TW was overriding JSON for some reason. Fixed it. Strainu În vin., 30 oct. 2020 la 17:20, Roy Smith a scris: > > JSON is Java Script Object Notation. It's a way of encoding structured data > as text strings which originated (as in name implies)

[Wikitech-l] What is JSON (in JavaScript code)?

nywhere else in the code loading on a normal Romanian Wikipedia page. Alas, the generic name of that object makes searching on mw.org or Google rather useless. I can see some similar changes in Phabricator, but they seem to work. So, what is JSON and how can I use it in my code? Thanks, Strai

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Chat

form might be different for different projects. What that means is that Wikimedia Chat will be just another name in that long list of apps that people choose to use or not. It's fine if you want to maintain it, it's great if it will gain traction, but don't be too upset if it will have

[Wikitech-l] Change of translation for "attribution" in CC licenses

plates. What would be the easiest way to solve the problem without affecting other languages? Thanks, Strainu [1] (in Romanian) https://www.cyberculture.ro/2020/07/20/licente-creative-commons-versiunea-4-romana/ ___ Wikitech-l mailing l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video on Wikipedia

Pe sâmbătă, 23 mai 2020, Andre Klapper a scris: > On Sat, 2020-05-23 at 22:29 +0300, Strainu wrote: > > Is there a page where I can find a matrix or some other executive > > summary of what players we're using on what browsers? > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/E

[Wikitech-l] Video on Wikipedia

of why that is a terrible idea [1]. Now, I strongly suspect that the issue is the Infobox code rather than the player, but I'm not sure how to debug it, since I see the videojs on all my browsers. Strainu [1] https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:IMG

[Wikitech-l] Maps on wikidata

Hi, Thanks for the responses. Pe sâmbătă, 9 mai 2020, Marius Hoch a scris: > Hi Strainu, > > as Michael already pointed out, the (currently hard-coded) zoom value can > be found in CachingKartographerEmbeddingHandler::getWikiText. > > I guess we could try to derive the zoom

[Wikitech-l] Maps on wikidata

Hey folks, Can someone point me to the code that decides which zoom to use for the maps that are displayed in the items with coordinates? Thanks, Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] SQL for reverted and changes

ieve) I need. Strainu > > If you only care about identity reverts, working with rev_sha1 might be > enough for you. > > Federico > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists

[Wikitech-l] SQL for reverted and changes

Hi, Can someone help me with an SQL snippet for reverted changes? I know some tools have this metric but I am not able to isolate the relevant query in their code. Thanks, Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Introducing WikiContrib 1.0!

me, especially since I don't use my full name anywhere in the wikiverse. The tool now works and I concur it is pretty cool, on par with what other platforms offer. GG! Strainu > > > בתאריך יום ו׳, 6 בספט׳ 2019, 23:31, מאת Andre Klapper ‏< > aklap...@wikimedia.org>: &g

Re: [Wikitech-l] Introducing WikiContrib 1.0!

Hey Rammanoj, Not sure if it isn't just my internet connection, but I can't seem to make the service work on my phone (Android 9 with Opera). It always seems to get stuck after I hit search. Is it supposed to work on mobile? Thanks, Strainu Pe joi, 5 septembrie 2019, Rammanoj Potl

Re: [Wikitech-l] extension1 (x1) db primary master failover (read-only required) 3rd July 06:00 AM UTC

Manuel, Thank you for the notifications. May I suggest that in the future you also include a list of services/wikis affected? I personally have no idea what "extension1" means. Thank you, Strainu În mie., 3 iul. 2019 la 09:10, Manuel Arostegui a scris: > > This was done. &

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

În dum., 17 mar. 2019 la 23:22, Gergo Tisza a scris: > On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 8:23 AM Strainu wrote: > > > A large backlog by itself is not alarming. A growing one for > > components deployed to WMF sites is. It indicates insufficient > > attention is given to ongoing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

is what's an acceptable backlog growing rate (key secondary question: for who?) and if it is different between projects. I don't know how to respond to that. > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 12:25 PM Strainu wrote: > > > În joi, 14 mar. 2019 la 22:23, Gergő Tisza a scris: > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

gt; the same ballpark That's an overstatement: 18% (not counting bugs closed as declined) is almost double to 11%. If you're going this route, we're doing much worse than Chromium. > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 3:02 PM Strainu wrote: > > > The main problem I see with t

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

În joi, 14 mar. 2019 la 01:02, Amir Sarabadani a scris: > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 11:02 PM Strainu wrote: > > > - ContentTranslation v1 (obsolete now, has been unmaintained for 2 > > years while in production) > > - UploadWizard (2 with high priority, 40 with n

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

ears while in production) - UploadWizard (2 with high priority, 40 with normal, a few dozens low, hundreds more untriaged): this is the project that got us out of the "overloading the lang parameter for customizing the uploader" era, the project that is used by millions of people every year, including during every photo contest I encourage you all to add more examples. Thanks to all who chimed in on the subject. Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

, Dan Garry (Deskana) a scris: > On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 at 11:26, Strainu wrote: > > > How many successful commercial projects leave customer issues unresolved > > for years because they're working on something else now? > > > > Almost all of them, they just k

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

image of the status of the bugs. Have any of them been tried by at least one of the teams at wmf? If so, is there a way to share the results with other teams? If not, how can we convince the wmf to give them a chance? Strainu > I really think its no different from Wikipedia. > https:/

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

ears old. There are some reasons why one would want to keep a review opened, but very few IMHO. You also need to consider the fact that open reviews might discourage people from proposing new fixes. And again, 99% of MW users are non-technical. All the best, Strainu > > Best > > On Fr

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help with mw.org content!

În sâm., 29 dec. 2018 la 23:33, Amir Sarabadani a scris: > > I blocked the user for 31 hours, tell me if the user continued. Is it okay > if I nuke all of the translations? Thanks! Yes, It's OK to nuke. > > Best > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 10:31 PM Strainu wrote: &

[Wikitech-l] Help with mw.org content!

wiki, since the support desk [2] seems dedicated to mediawiki questions. To be precise, I need a revert to version [3]. Thanks, Strainu [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/BAICAN_XXX [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/w/

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web

Chris, what does a few weeks mean exactly? We will need some time to fix the templates and having a precise timeline helps. Also, please make sure the change announcement makes it in the tech news newsletter. Thank you, Strainu Pe marți, 13 noiembrie 2018, Chris Koerner a scris: > He

Re: [Wikitech-l] Article geotags missing in geo_tags table for some WP languages?

Pe joi, 8 noiembrie 2018, Martin Dittus a scris: > Thank you Strainu and Bartosz, this was very useful. > > As far as I can tell, idwiki editors simply don't use the GeoData > geotagging conventions. Instead, people specify article location as > infobox latd/longd propert

Re: [Wikitech-l] Article geotags missing in geo_tags table for some WP languages?

utely nothing). I would check if the template or module call the parser function first. You can also check if this is a dump problem by asking for the data through the api. HTH Strainu Pe miercuri, 7 noiembrie 2018, Martin Dittus a scris: > (I sent this to xmldatadumps-l yesterday but just

Re: [Wikitech-l] problematic use of "Declined" in Phabricator

t nothing to do with it. Using Phabricator to track bugs and features in a certain way (or at all) doesn't seem to have a lot to do with this (unless there is some proof to the contrary that I'm not aware of). The problem Amir brought up

Re: [Wikitech-l] problematic use of "Declined" in Phabricator

a Lowest priority, maybe in something like a "Freezer" or "Long term" > or "Volunteer needed" column on a project workboard, but nevertheless Open? Yes, please! I usually reopen such tasks, but it is a little weird. Strainu > > -- > Amir

Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmap for CX?

k you, Strainu 2017-05-02 11:42 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni : > 2017-04-27 8:55 GMT+03:00 Strainu : > >> Following the recent outage, we've had a new series of complaints >> about the lack of improvements in CX, especially related to >> server-side activities like saving/publi

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] C-team Statement on the Code of Conduct

ively, your mail sounds very much like a tactic to discourage open discussion about the shortcomings of the Code. Strainu Pe marți, 14 august 2018, Victoria Coleman a scris: > Hello everyone, > > The executive leadership team, on behalf of the Foundation, would like to > issue a stateme

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

offending diff, is bad and should not be followed. Is the CoC committee really the venue where such a decision should be made? Shouldn't the wiki way be the default *unless* the community decided otherwise? Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mail

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

y, they would be bound by the CoC, but the organizers would have no way to determine if a user should be banned or not. Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

e contribution to the discussion? Thanks, Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

eating the same mistakes in the future. Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Old categorization data

Hi, What I would do is is use the categorylinks table [1] to extract a timestamp that can then be used to search for a particular revision. Filtering by user ID is then trivial. Strainu [1] https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:categorylinks_table Pe vineri, 13 iulie 2018

Re: [Wikitech-l] An update on map internationalization

llback language; will the labels be displayed in English before, say, Chinese? Thanks, Strainu 2018-04-21 2:00 GMT+03:00 Joe Matazzoni : > This is to let you know that Collaboration Team is planning to release map > internationalization next week for testing on testwiki [1]. When it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile MonoBook

2018-04-04 23:41 GMT+03:00 Brad Jorsch (Anomie) : > On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 3:18 PM, Strainu wrote: > >> Skipping navboxes is a decision that was taken by the WMF team >> responsible for the mobile site (whatever it was called at the time) >> and can be solved cleanly only

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile MonoBook

2018-04-04 18:40 GMT+03:00 Brad Jorsch (Anomie) : > On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 6:52 PM, Strainu wrote: > >> but what I would particularly like to see is how it >> handles navboxes. Traditionally, they have been hidden on the >> Wikipedia mobile site, prompting people

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile MonoBook

f sick workarounds that kind of work, but not really. If anyone can come up with a decent solution to that it's probably you :) Strainu > > There is also a rather more immediate problem at present. As you can see on > the patch, jenkins has -1ed it for style problems. Unfortunately I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Any way to find the used template from the template itself?

Thanks Gergo 2018-03-09 9:51 GMT+02:00 Gergo Tisza : > On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Strainu wrote: > >> Say we have an article which includes {{Infobox A}}, which redirects >> to {{Infobox B}}, which in turn transcludes {{Infobox}}, which is >> implemented using [[Modu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Any way to find the used template from the template itself?

2018-03-02 0:52 GMT+02:00 Strainu : > Say we have an article which includes {{Infobox A}}, which redirects > to {{Infobox B}}, which in turn transcludes {{Infobox}}, which is > implemented using [[Module:Infobox]]. Is there a way to know from the > module (or the {{Infobox}} tem

[Wikitech-l] Any way to find the used template from the template itself?

, Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbor @ Wikimedia

thumbnail that worked stops working, automatically notify the maintainers to look into the regression. Strainu 2017-12-12 12:10 GMT+02:00 Gilles Dubuc : > I wrote a blog series that just got picked up on the main Wikimedia blog > about my work migrating Wikimedia wikis to Thumbor for

[Wikitech-l] Start from random image in slideshow gallery

Hi there, Is there a way to start displaying a slideshow gallery from a random image without editing the site JavaScript, except for building a template that randomizes the content of the tag? If not, is there a phab item for this feature? Thanks, Strainu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal regarding the handling of imported usernames

46 > [3]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/386625/ > [4]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111605 > [5]: ">" was chosen rather than the more typical ":" because the former is > already invalid in all usernames (and page titles). While a colon is *now* > d

Re: [Wikitech-l] Last Call: PostgreSQL schema change for consistency with MySQL

ing else than a definite yes (and I can imagine at least a scenario where MW is upgraded without Postgre), then yes, it makes sense to try and reduce the surprise effect. Even if they don't have an opinion about it, knowing of the change will help th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikiscan statistics tool for Wikimedia projects

ve on average, in a day of that year. - user edits/day: how many edits were made by authenticated users in a day, on average ... and so on. HTH, Strainu 2017-08-14 14:15 GMT+03:00 Vira Motorko : > Hi, > > I have a question here. Looking at Stegosaurus-looking graphs on > http://uk.wi

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML5 sections update

Thanks for letting us know Max! Just a couple of questions from me at this point: 1. Will this be included in the tech news? 2. How will the behavior of anchorencode change? Should it be removed from templates after the new IDs become default? Strainu 2017-08-03 3:46 GMT+03:00 Max Semenik

Re: [Wikitech-l] New scoring models deployed

2017-07-19 3:56 GMT+03:00 Adam Wight : >- Romanian Wikipedia: new models for damaging and goodfaith. According to https://ores.wikimedia.org/v3/scores/ , ro.wiki also has a model for reverted. Could you confirm that? Thanks, Stra

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop in mainpage pageviews?

2017-07-15 14:34 GMT+03:00 יגאל חיטרון : > Hello, Strainu. > 1. Try in place of "all-access" use different platforms. You'll see, as I > expected reading your letter, that the effect you recognized appears in > "mobile-web" mostly. > 2. I do not remember th

[Wikitech-l] Drop in mainpage pageviews?

//tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=uk.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2016-01&end=2017-06&pages=%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0 Thanks, Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmap for CX?

2017-05-02 11:42 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni : > 2017-04-27 8:55 GMT+03:00 Strainu : > >> Following the recent outage, we've had a new series of complaints >> about the lack of improvements in CX, especially related to >> server-side activities like saving/publishing

[Wikitech-l] Roadmap for CX?

sight for that effort? Can I tell people who ask "look, 6 more months then we'll have a much better translation tool"? Is there a publicly available roadmap for this project and more generally, for CX? Thanks, Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mai

Re: [Wikitech-l] A few Reading Web announcements: new header, page previews rollout update, lead section restricted PageImages

les from the bug I agree that many of them where not really relevant. What are the next steps to further improve PageImages? Any plans to implement T95026 and/or T91683 in the near future? Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.

Re: [Wikitech-l] SHA-1 hash officially broken

2017-02-24 21:29 GMT+02:00 Florian Schmidt : > About the git part: There's an interesting statement from Linus [1] with > which I can totally agree (and additionally this one[2]). So probably even > this is not a "high priority, do nothing else" task :P Just FYI, this was confirmed in [3] > > [

Re: [Wikitech-l] Multilingual maps: how to pick each feature language?

mons, the local Wiki? If in OSM, you should always have a fallback showing key:name, whatever it is, instead of name:fr. Strainu > > I have been hacking to add unlimited multilingual support to Wikipedia > maps, and have language fallback question: given a list of arbitrary > languages

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

nges affecting large number of pages [2]. Hopefully we can find a middle ground on at least some of the subjects. Strainu [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Th1vs3h97d96ajaf [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Th1wc4pu1qplo4k8 ___ Wikitec

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

2016-12-11 12:13 GMT+02:00 Amir Ladsgroup : > On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 3:19 PM Strainu wrote: > > For 3 reasons: > 1. While MW is open source, what gets deployed on the WMF servers is > the legal and moral responsability of the Foundation. > > They have responsibility but it&

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

2016-12-10 12:48 GMT+02:00 Amir Ladsgroup : > I just want you to stop there > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 2:07 PM Strainu wrote: > >> That's one way to put it. I would rather say that we reacted to yet >> another slip-up in communication from the Foundation. Why is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

ages in your Mediawiki:Common.css (for example for infoboxes)." That's because not all TechNews readers can deduce action items by themselves. HTH, Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

ntend to be announce changes well ahead of time and as widely as possible. Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2016 just started and we need your help!

her do tell us (admins could also add more co-mentors to a task if you have somebody in mind), or when creating tasks simply put some "[DONT PUBLISH BEFORE 20161231]" prefix or such into the task summary." Strainu ___ Wikitech-l m

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic gerrit authentication and retrieval of reviews

Hi, After extensive discussions with my fellow organizers, we decided to go with an oauth consumer on wikitech, and I submitted a new consumer. It would be great if Bryan or another Oauth admin could take a look at it (we're waaay overdue with that already). Thank you, Strainu 2016-10-

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic gerrit authentication and retrieval of reviews

Thank you all for your suggestions. I'll discuss with the people who implemented the original application and decide on the best approach given the limited resources and time. Strainu 2016-10-22 3:23 GMT+03:00 Gergo Tisza : > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Strainu wrote: > &g

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic gerrit authentication and retrieval of reviews

2016-10-22 1:16 GMT+03:00 Gergo Tisza : > Are you worried that the users > are going to give positive reviews to themselves to bias the scores? Authentication is used only to ensure they don't claim somebody else's submissions (say, Gerrit Patch Uploader's :) ). Yes, this could probably be detecte

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic gerrit authentication and retrieval of reviews

2016-10-21 19:03 GMT+03:00 Alex Monk : > On 21 October 2016 at 10:13, Strainu wrote: > >> 1. Gerrit does not seem to support oauth authentication. I vaguely >> remember that the gerrit account used to be linked to the mw.org >> account. Is there any way I could use the mw.

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