[Wikitech-l] The new Community Wishlist is accepting submissions

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[Wikitech-l] Community Wishlist is re-opening July 15. Here's what to expect, and how to prepare.

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[Wikitech-l] Renaming the Wishlist Survey: Please vote for your preferred name

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[Wikitech-l] Renaming the Community Wishlist Survey

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[Wikitech-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Upcoming Changes

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[Wikitech-l] Redesigning the Community Wishlist Survey

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[Wikitech-l] Noteworthy update on IP masking project

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Historical use of latin1 fields in MySQL

On 2 May 2017 at 19:10, Mark Clements (HappyDog) wrote: > Hi all, > > I seem to recall that a long, long time ago MediaWiki was using UTF-8 > internally but storing the data in 'latin1' fields in MySQL. > I remember a old thread in 2009. https://lists.gt.net/wiki/wikitech/160875 -- -- ℱin

Re: [Wikitech-l] Brion's role change within WMF

Haha.. great. Wellcome back Brion. I am just a lurker on this mail list, but your post are always so full of energy. I love if that energy is the energy of mediawiki. I hope that energy inspire others to not just the day to day process but the crazy things you mention. I remember when the ide

Re: [Wikitech-l] Long term strategy for math on wikipedia

y, of course, > building the equation bottom up. But you should talk to our devs if you > need more information on MathJax internals. > > Peter. > > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:40 AM, <<"tei''>>> wrote: > >> On 24 July 20

Re: [Wikitech-l] Long term strategy for math on wikipedia

On 24 July 2013 21:12, Peter Krautzberger wrote: .. > @Oscar that's the idea of bug > 48036 To > test the user experience try this > bookmarklet > :-O This is pretty. And if it still affect the browser (

Re: [Wikitech-l] Long term strategy for math on wikipedia

On 23 July 2013 11:20, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote: >> I'm wondering if the lack of reactions so far is positive or negative. > > It's negative, it shows that few people have the confidence to think they > have something worthwhile to contribute on this niche area. :( > I read this as a invitation for

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

On 31 August 2012 19:45, Isarra Yos wrote: > On 31/08/2012 08:57, Brion Vibber wrote: >> >> Heck yes. Generate some standard sizes at upload time and let the browser >> scale if a funny size is demanded. Modern browsers scale photos nicely, not >> like the nearest-neighbor ugliness from 2002. > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] $( '' ) vs. $( '') in coding conventions (and methods for building DOMs with jQuery)

I will rescue two facts listed in this thread, about using jquery and creating tags [quote][1] >Basically $( '' ) will break completely in IE7/IE8. [quote][2] >It's important to note however that IE required that input and button >tags >are created with a type (if they are going to have a specifi

Re: [Wikitech-l] $( '' ) vs. $( '') in coding conventions

On 28 August 2012 09:57, Tim Starling wrote: > On 28/08/12 13:04, Daniel Friesen wrote: >> I still can't believe the high-level jQuery answer after all these >> years to "Select a div with an id provided by the user" is "Use `$( >> "div#" + userInput )` and hope there are no special characters. Or

Re: [Wikitech-l] best way to clean up the wiki from 3Gb of spam

On 24 August 2012 09:27, Yury Katkov wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I have found myself in the following situation several times: I > created a wiki for some event or small project, everything works fine > and after the event or project was done - nobody have seen this wiki > for several months and doe

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedians are rightfully wary

Well. duh. A community will always give incremental features. This is the bazaar thing, where you can find everything, and is not a bad thing if the architecture support a bazaar (like a command line). When you are actually building a cathedral, you need a central entity that take all the input, a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lua deployed to www.mediawiki.org

On 23 August 2012 08:18, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Tim Starling wrote: >> But Lua is so fast compared to >> wikitext that our Lua developers will have to exercise a lot of >> creativity to find applications that will exceed the performance limits. > > Famou

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha for non-English speakers II

Sounds like captchas is something you want to make plug and play, and use some external project that is evolving quickly to stay in the winning side of a arms race. Also sounds like captchas is something you want to be handled by locals, to avoid the situation a chinese wiki with a english captcha.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Responsive web design

On 27 July 2012 12:53, Peter Coombe wrote: > This is one of the aims of the planned 'Athena' skin: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Athena > > Pete / the wub Very interesting. Looks very good already. On 27 July 2012 12:01, John Elliot wrote: > Are there any initiatives in the MediaWiki commun

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inline styles trouble on the mobile site

On 28 June 2012 16:37, Martijn Hoekstra wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Tei wrote: >> You can always have a line on the bottom of a mobile page, with  "Do >> the page render correctly?". And somehow use it to "flag" pages that >> render incor

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inline styles trouble on the mobile site

You can always have a line on the bottom of a mobile page, with "Do the page render correctly?". And somehow use it to "flag" pages that render incorrectly. Wooot, perhaps this flagging may even save the user agent of the visitor using the link. -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorry if inconvenient : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

On 27 June 2012 14:38, Petr Kadlec wrote: > On 27 June 2012 13:33, Achim Flammenkamp wrote: >> 2) I wonder why the SVG-graphic devolpers use such an "improper"(?) >> rendering- >> philosophy. All these articfacts on the Iran-flag would have been avoided, if >> the rendering is divided up logical

Re: [Wikitech-l] So what's up with video ingestion?

semi-offtopic comment: ffmpeg is awesome, somebody should send a cake to these people, or something. *sends love his way* -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inline styles trouble on the mobile site

http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/images/specificitywars-05v2.jpg I think theres a limitation to that, ".nomobile .darthvader .darthvader" will not work as expected (I think) On 11 May 2012 10:24, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > What about this idea: We could introduce a new CSS class calle

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's the best place to do post-upload processing on a file? Etc.

I am just a random user lurking on the mail-list, nor a mw dev, but I wonder why you don't look on the SVG handling already on mediawiki. What you are doing is rendering, with one added dimension :D http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings#SVG This stuff has to do things in a sta

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lua: return versus print

On 13 April 2012 13:45, Tim Starling wrote: > At the moment, in the Lua support extension we have been developing, > wikitext is output to the wiki via the return value of a function. For > example in wikitext you would have: > > {{#invoke:MyModule|myFunction}} > > Then in [[Module:MyModule]]: >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki talk page posting

On 12 April 2012 00:00, Platonides wrote: > On 10/04/12 23:52, MZMcBride wrote: >> Now, whether for your purposes using the API is the best option, I don't >> know. But for my purposes, the API has been wonderful. The only major hiccup >> I hit was a few weeks ago when database lag spiked to a cra

Re: [Wikitech-l] Save to userspace

On 10 April 2012 10:57, Petr Bena wrote: > Hi, this is a proposal for a new feature to mediawiki core or a new > extension (I would myself prefer an extension, but given that the > development process seems to be broken, per my previous email, it's > likely not possible for a non-wmf dev to have i

Re: [Wikitech-l] Time to redirect to https by default?

Perhaps have a black list of countries that are know to break the privacy of communications, then make https default for logued users in these countries. This may help because: - It only affect a subgroup of users (the ones from these countries) - It only affect a subgroup of that subgroup, th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Url Shortner Service

On 26 March 2012 08:38, Ariel T. Glenn wrote: .. > As one of those non latin script users, it irks me no end when I see a > url that is opaque to me soley because it's been url-encoded.  I would > love a "smarter" url shortener; there's no reason projects with a latin1 > script should produce huma

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video codecs and mobile

On 20 March 2012 15:03, Lars Aronsson wrote: .. > Now, if we were to take this path, how do we flood Wikipedia with > videos? Live interviews in all biographies of living people? > If this turns out to be completely unrealistic, because we can't > produce videos in sufficient quantity, then maybe

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video codecs and mobile

On 20 March 2012 16:26, Stephen Bain wrote: ... > It would seem possible to bake Theora or WebM support into the iOS app > and direct users there if browsing from mobile Safari. Performance > would not be so great given it would only be software decoding (this > is why I was asking if anyone is aw

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video codecs and mobile

On 20 March 2012 02:24, Brion Vibber wrote: .. > In theory we can produce a configuration with TimedMediaHandler to produce > both H.264 and Theora/WebM transcodes, bringing Commons media to life for > mobile users and Apple and Microsoft browser users. > > What do we think about this? What are th

Re: [Wikitech-l] JS Iteration (was: Using prototypical inheritance in dynamically loaded ResourceLoader modules)

On 19 March 2012 16:29, Krinkle wrote: > .. > > If you need non-linear keys, don't create an array! > > > var myObj = {}; // not [] > myObj.property = value; > > var customProp = getPropName(); > myObj[customProp] = value; > > for ( var key in myObj ) { >  // myObj[key] > } > > > -- Krinkle Su

Re: [Wikitech-l] PDF Download

For everyone working on this type of things: Thanks!, you guys and gale are my personal hero :D Countless PHP apps need to create PDF files one way or another. Is a serius pain in the ... Or usually is. I never tried TCPDF. Will these PDF files in UTF-8 urdu/other be readable?, It will be funny i

Re: [Wikitech-l] Opengrok for Mediawiki code

Heres a tool to explore a code base, desktop only (no nice server here). http://sourcenav.berlios.de/ Its based on the old red-hat "navigator", ...so is very old, and look like something from 1985, but It works (I just tested: download, unzip, configure & make & make install ). -- -- ℱin del

Re: [Wikitech-l] Language templates missing from Mediawiki dumps

I can see that you made the same question 2 years ago and nobody helped you :( on that point. If I remember correctly, recreating the database is "uncharted waters" just now, and theres a call for anyone tryiing to do it, to document the problems and solutions. To help people tryiing it on the f

Re: [Wikitech-l] JavaScript profiling

On 31 January 2012 18:09, Daniel Friesen wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:36:02 -0800, Tei wrote: > >> *Cough* some random article about making js that is not abusing the >> slower parts of the language >> http://www.bcherry.net/talks/js-better-faster  *Cough* >

Re: [Wikitech-l] JavaScript profiling

*Cough* some random article about making js that is not abusing the slower parts of the language http://www.bcherry.net/talks/js-better-faster *Cough* -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Decentralized data center

If I remember correctly, a backup of database is in a public folder, so anyone can download it. Some people do it, to run analysis and do some interesting science/tech projects. If the FBI and the Interpol put the wikimedia people in jail (thats not going to happend), anybody in a country without

Re: [Wikitech-l] Escaping messages

On 24 January 2012 15:57, Daniel Friesen wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:16:48 -0800, Tei wrote: > >> On 24 January 2012 06:59, Daniel Friesen >> wrote: >> .. >>> >>> Don't delude yourself into thinking that you can easily blacklist the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Escaping messages

On 24 January 2012 06:59, Daniel Friesen wrote: .. > Don't delude yourself into thinking that you can easily blacklist the > elements that would run a script. > http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html > What about using textNodes? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/476821/is-a-dom-text-node-guaranteed-to-no

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: wikicaptcha on GitHub

On 19 January 2012 11:19, Cristian Consonni wrote: > 2012/1/15 Nikola Smolenski : >> Дана Wednesday 11 January 2012 18:19:14 Cristian Consonni написа: >> However, to my knowledge there is not a single OCR that exports this data, >> nor >> is there a standard format for it. If an open source OCR c

Re: [Wikitech-l] SOPA banner implementation

On 16 January 2012 02:31, Erik Moeller wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:33 AM, MZMcBride wrote: >> The question becomes: how will this be implemented? I assume some kind of >> CentralNotice banner with some CSS absolute positioning or something? Is >> that right? Or will it be part of a separa

Re: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

On 12 January 2012 17:09, Chad wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:04 AM, David Gerard wrote: >> On 12 January 2012 16:00, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: >> >>> The Wikimedia Foundation is dedicated to a harassment-free conference >>> experience for everyone.  I'm proposing a fairly short and stand

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki 2.0

On 7 December 2011 10:33, Dmitriy Sintsov wrote: ... > Is Javascript really that good? Some people dislike prototypical > inheritance, it seems that jQuery prefers to use wrappers instead > (that's a kind of suboptimal architecture). Also, Google had some > complains about Javascript flaws (for ex

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Based Open Source Project - Help On Licencing

If you take a open source proyect, and develop another open source proyect based on it, you are forking. You must continue with the same license the original authors used. This is a must, if you can't convince all the original authors to allow you to use a different license (hard if theres a lot o

Re: [Wikitech-l] Standards for communication between antivandalism tools

complete off-topic I has ben following this interesting thread, and some links connected here. Doing that I have found this: http://code.google.com/p/php-console/ Is a chrome extension + a php class that created a "out of band" communication from the php error generation to the desktop, opening

Re: [Wikitech-l] IE6

"This site is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 2.0 or higher. Download Netscape Now!" http://web.archive.org/web/19961226001115/www.cae.wisc.edu/~agnew/sp/luna.html It seems that these messages don't get the point of the web. That is to let everyone browse the web with whatever is available to

Re: [Wikitech-l] are you sure you want everything via HTTPS?

On 15 February 2011 22:09, wrote: > Is that how Facebook™ or Google™ operate, sending every single component > via HTTPS? I can't really understand your email. As for having the ability to read Wikipedia trough a HTTPS conexion. I suppose is useful, wen you don't want to use cleartext to broad

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ratio of interwiki bots' edits

On 13 January 2011 13:23, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: ... > This is a major reason to have the Interlanguage extension finally > enabled. Besides a MAJOR cleaning-up in Recent Changes in all > Wikipedias, it will give a somewhat clearer picture of the activity in > the ones. The easier way to make a l

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

On 4 January 2011 16:00, Alex Brollo wrote: > 2011/1/4 Roan Kattouw ... > > What a "creative" use of #lst allows, if it is really an efficient, light > routine, is to build named variables and arrays of named variables into one > page; I can't imagine what a good programmer could do with such a p

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

On 1 January 2011 03:03, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > On this note, MTV Networks (my previous job) switched from using > Mediawiki to Confluence a couple years ago. They mainly cited ease of > use and Microsoft Office integration as the reasons. Personally I hated > it, except for the dashboard interface

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

>With open source software, there are people who think “that’s dumb,” there are >people who think “I want to see it >fixed” and there are people who think “I >can do something about it.” The people at the intersection of all three >>power open source. A lot of people in the open source projec

[Wikitech-l] Considering mirroring mediawiki-1.16.0.tar.gz

Hi, Just a sugestion. Downloading the last version of MediaWiki seems to take ages ATM. Maybe servers are overloaded. And not mirror is offered. $ wget http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.0.tar.gz this takes ages I have managed to download with this: $ svn checkout htt

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaboration between staff and volunteers: a two-way street

What is this? I have never read something like this before ...(since 28-2-2002) Maybe some people need to take a phone and talk with other people. There are some things that can't be conducted by emails. -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. ___ Wikitech-l mailin

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sentence-level editing

On 10 August 2010 00:55, Jan Paul Posma wrote: ... > The last few weeks I've worked on some prototypes to illustrate this idea. > You can find the most advanced prototype here: > http://janpaulposma.nl/sle/prototype/prototype3.html > The full project proposal and prototypes can be found here: >

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikipedia is one of the slower sites on the web

On 12 August 2010 00:01, Domas Mituzas wrote: ... > > I'm sorry to disappoint you but none of the issues you wrote down here are > any new. > If after reading any books or posts you think we have deficiencies, mostly it > is because of one of two reasons, either because we're lazy and didn't >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikisource books and web 1.0 pages (was: pas de sujet)

On 13 August 2010 12:23, Tei wrote: > On 13 August 2010 10:27, Lars Aronsson wrote: > ... >> If we applied this web 2.0 principle to Wikibooks and Wikisource, >> we wouldn't need to have pages with previous/next links. We could >> just have smooth, continuous s

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikisource books and web 1.0 pages (was: pas de sujet)

On 13 August 2010 10:27, Lars Aronsson wrote: ... > If we applied this web 2.0 principle to Wikibooks and Wikisource, > we wouldn't need to have pages with previous/next links. We could > just have smooth, continuous scrolling in one long sequence. Readers > could still arrive at a given coordinat

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikipedia is one of the slower sites on the web

On 2 August 2010 15:24, Roan Kattouw wrote: > 2010/8/2 Tei : >> Maybe a theme can get the individual icons that the theme use, and >> combine it all in a single png file. >> > This technique is called spriting, and the single combined image file > is called a sprite. We

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developing true WISIWYG editor for media wiki

On 3 August 2010 11:18, Marco Schuster wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Jacopo Corbetta > wrote: >> However, the "editing mode" provided by browsers is a nightmare of >> incompatibilities. Basically, each browser produces a different output >> given identical commands, so currently MeanE

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikipedia is one of the slower sites on the web

On 2 August 2010 15:24, Roan Kattouw wrote: ... >> Maybe the idea than resource=file must die in 2011 internet :-/ >> > The resourceloader branch contains work in progress on aggressively > combining and minifying JavaScript and CSS. The mapping of one > resource = one file will be preserved, but

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikipedia is one of the slower sites on the web

On 2 August 2010 13:25, Domas Mituzas wrote: >> The first load of the homepage can be slow: >> http://zerror.com/unorganized/wika/lader1.png >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page >> (I need a bigger monitor, the escalator don't fit on my screen) > > well, no wonder that first page load is slug

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikipedia is one of the slower sites on the web

On 28 July 2010 21:13, wrote: > Seems to me playing the role of the average dumb user, that > en.wikipedia.org is one of the rather slow websites of the many websites > I browse. > > No matter what browser, it takes more seconds from the time I click on a > link to the time when the first bytes o

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architectural revisions to improve category sorting

This looks like a very important feature, and a hard one to get right. You guys are real world heros :-) -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] developer

On 15 July 2010 18:35, Domas Mituzas wrote: > Hi! > >> It's for Wikimedia operations as well as MediaWiki development.  The >> latter tends to take up much more of the list traffic in practice, >> though. > > Indeed, staff-ization of WMF made more and more of communications internal, > for better

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Full-disclosure] Someone using Wikipedia to infect others

On 2 July 2010 11:13, Q wrote: > On 7/2/2010 3:46 AM, Tei wrote: >> On 1 July 2010 21:58, OQ wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Christopher Grant >>> wrote: >>>> -- Forwarded message -- >>>> From: Henri Salo >>&g

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Full-disclosure] Someone using Wikipedia to infect others

On 1 July 2010 21:58, OQ wrote: > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Christopher Grant > wrote: >> -- Forwarded message -- >> From: Henri Salo >> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:36:40 +0300 >> Subject: [Full-disclosure] Someone using Wikipedia to infect others >> To: full-disclos...@lists.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Self-determination of language versions inquestions of skin?

On 29 June 2010 00:36, Mark Clements (HappyDog) wrote: > "Gerard Meijssen" wrote in message > news:aanlktimbfwbz3nlb-aaqcywbsmg3igxmv2zuq3roe...@mail.gmail.com... >> Hoi, >> Wikimedias development is centred on one skin. This used to be monobook >> and >> it is now vector. The question if a commu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fixme, please fix me!

Some searchs: http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=package%3Amediawiki+FIXME+lang%3Aphp&sbtn=Search http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=package%3Amediawiki+TODO+lang%3Aphp&sbtn=Search http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=package%3Amediawiki+UGLY+HACK+lang%3Aphp&sbtn=Search

Re: [Wikitech-l] a wysiwyg editor for wikipedia?

On 31 May 2010 23:53, William Le Ferrand wrote: > Dear all, > > I've started to develop a simple wysiwyg editor that could be useful to > wikipedia. Basically the editor gets the wiki code from wikipedai and builds > the html on client side. Then you can edit the html code as you can imagine > and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion

On 25 May 2010 15:30, Platonides wrote: > church.of.emacs.ml wrote: >> However, you'd have to worry that each distant wiki uses only a fair >> amount of the home wiki server's resources. E.g. set a limit of >> inclusions (that limit would have to be on the home-wiki-server-side) >> and disallow in

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

On 24 May 2010 17:25, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Tei wrote: >> Maybe could be usefull to have a special url that automatically >> disable vector, and make this setting continue with the session (is >> that even possible?). > > http://en.

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

Maybe could be usefull to have a special url that automatically disable vector, and make this setting continue with the session (is that even possible?). Like http://en.wikipedia.com/classicview So people designing smartphones, that want his smartphone to use the old interface, can make the link

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

On 14 May 2010 16:34, Platonides wrote: > vyznev wrote: >> I'd suspect some script is trying to do an API query using a very long URL, >> and the fact that this only happens when JS is enabled lends support to >> this. > > I don't see any long url requested on enwiki. > > >> I would guess that the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic links to man pages

On 19 April 2010 12:13, masti wrote: > On 04/19/2010 11:52 AM, Strainu wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:46 PM, masti  wrote: >>> why not use http://linuxmanpages.com/ as external link? >> >> The site is unimportant, what is important is to have the link >> automatically created, hence shorteni

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki extensions and Windows 2003 server

On 6 April 2010 13:52, Chad wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Makelesi Kora-Gonelevu > wrote: > > The wiki wont come on it says server cannot be found. > > > > To confirm: the wiki works normally, but when you add the require() lines > to LocalSettings, the server starts returning that i

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

On 30 March 2010 16:34, Victor wrote: >> >> Getting it off Ocaml is an excellent first step. I have tried and >> failed to get texvc working properly in MediaWiki myself more than a >> few times, because of Ocaml not wanting to play nice ... > > > Actually I completely disagree. Since I've go

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

The day this turn live, the Internet will become a bit crazy. Wikipedia is a important part of 2010 internet. I am sure lots of people will want to put this skin on his suddenly old-looking wikipedias in internet and lans. You guys are doing a nice work. note: I must report that the window "Add

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

Is my impression that this is a problem where a PHP implementation could be better. Who cares if is slow? the result can be cache forever?, is something you will run only once, and the heavyweight work (draw) will be made by C compiled code like the GD library?. you need speed in stuff that run in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Broken videos

On 16 March 2010 15:04, Gregory Maxwell wrote: .. > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Tei wrote: >> Uh..  buffer overflow errors, complex file format loaders  in >> programming languages like C Or false assumptions about memory >> management with poor detection error a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Broken videos

On 16 March 2010 10:29, Lars Aronsson wrote: > This past weekend, at the SXSW conference, a new initiative > was launched to "get video on Wikipedia", > http://videoonwikipedia.org/ > > That sounds like a great idea. > Uh.. binary content in a wiki. Well.. the other option are Youtube, that can

Re: [Wikitech-l] modernizing mediawiki

On 3 March 2010 11:05, Domas Mituzas wrote: ... >> , why can't the money be put into making a modern product instead of in >> pockets of the people who run it? I know Wordpress and Mediawiki serve two >> different purposes, but that's not the point. The point is, one is modern >> and user frien

Re: [Wikitech-l] hiphop progress

Looks like a loot of fun :-) On 1 March 2010 11:10, Domas Mituzas wrote: ... >> Even if it wasn't hotspots like the parser could still be compiled >> with hiphop and turned into a PECL extension. > > hiphop provides major boost for actual mediawiki initialization too - while > Zend has to reinit

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikigalore

On 27 February 2010 00:48, Peter Kaminski wrote: > Gerard Meijssen writes, > >> As far as leeches go, this takes the price as far as I am concerned. It >> sells scripts to leech any Wikimedia project and all this to have the rating >> of a website go up. >> > > The best long-term solution would be

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

On 20 February 2010 23:00, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 14:37, Aryeh Gregor > wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Trevor Parscal >> wrote: >>> Are the stats setup to differentiate between real ie6 users and bing >>> autosurfing? >> >> I'd be pretty surprised if

Re: [Wikitech-l] enwiki dump problems

On 19 February 2010 14:54, Jamie Morken wrote: > I hope you guys are planning on adding some way to download the wikimedia > commons images too at some point something that could be fun is git. plus something like a "ticket system", where you ask for permissions to download a tree inside git, a

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Idea] Using MediaWiki has a engine.

On 18 February 2010 15:06, Conrad Irwin wrote: > > On 02/18/2010 01:42 PM, Tei wrote: >> I can imagine this url: >> >> http://someserver.com/wiki/api.php?wikicode=code here >> urlencoded&format=json&device=handheld >> >> as a way to ask MediaWiki

[Wikitech-l] [Idea] Using MediaWiki has a engine.

I can imagine this url: http://someserver.com/wiki/api.php?wikicode=code here urlencoded&format=json&device=handheld as a way to ask MediaWiki installed in someserver.com to render has html inside json the wikicode provided. Do mediawiki already support something like this? Is somewhat interes

Re: [Wikitech-l] User-Agent:

On 16 February 2010 02:54, Domas Mituzas wrote: > Hi! > > from now on specific per-bot/per-software/per-client User-Agent header is > mandatory for contacting Wikimedia sites. > > Domas Looks OK to me. But this is the type of decission that often break existing stuff somewhere on the internet.

Re: [Wikitech-l] New phpunit tests eat ~1GB of memory

off-topic-ish theres also a function to explicit call the collector (sorry, I forgot the name) it seems php only flag things for collecting (wen you unset($stuff) ), but never really collect then. The documentation says that the collector will run wen theres not work to do, but this seems a very

Re: [Wikitech-l] Flattening a wikimedia category

On 5 February 2010 20:17, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: >> Or, >> to put it differently: let people use "flat tagging", but let's keep the >> notion >> of one tag implying another, i.e. math implying science and texas implying >> america. > > And as

Re: [Wikitech-l] remove me from your mailing list

Quick! Send a email here wikitech-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org use subject "unsubscribe" (withouth quotes) Our majordomo will take care of it ;-) -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikime

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook introducing PHP compiler?

On 2 February 2010 18:53, Domas Mituzas wrote: >> However, that article is just rumour. I think it's more likely they made >> some apc-like cache/optimizer than a compiler. > > http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=280583813919&id=9445547199&ref=nf > He say is a rewriter,read PHP, outputs

Re: [Wikitech-l] (no subject)

On 28 January 2010 15:06, 李琴 wrote: > Hi all, >  I have  built a LocalWiki.   Now I want the data of it to keep consistent > with the > Wikipedia and one work I should do is to get the data of update from > Wikipedia. > I get the URLs through analyzing the RSS > (http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.ph

Re: [Wikitech-l] Log of failed searches

2010/1/14 Gregory Maxwell : > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> Here is what I would suggest disclosing: >> #start_datetime end_datetime hits search_string >> 2010-01-01-0:0:4 2010-01-13-23-59-50 39284 naked people >> 2010-01-01-0:0:4 2010-01-13-23-59-50 23950 hot grits >

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

2010/1/13 Robert Leverington : > On 2010-01-13, Tei wrote: >> %% The Death of Wiki %% ... >> you can't stop that, you can code something so the resulting dead body >> of wiki is not pure shit.   A possible idea could be to "auto-protect" >> pages with

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

%% Not multiple edits on same template %% I think the edit page sould be more smart. If a user open the same page two times, the second time sould be warned that the page is already opened. This may need some trans-window comunication, that is not something browser love to do, but I guest is p

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