Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Translators-l] update: wikipedia.org portal

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 6:58 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Purodha Blissenbach, 21/05/2016 14:13: > >> On the long run, I think, these portals and their texts should >> be translatable. Browser settings determining the target language. >> Looking forward to have them on

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki handout material

Hi all, I am a member of Wikimedia Hungary, which will have a stand at the Hungarian Free Software Conference this weekend. I thought that would be a good oppurtinity to raise awareness for MediaWiki. Do you know of leaflets or other handout materials about SMW which I could translate to help

Re: [Wikitech-l] facebook like box in mediawiki

Max Semenik maxsem.wiki at gmail.com writes: On 19.04.2011, 10:24 K. wrote: I haven't quite looked back to the discussions, but couldn't you have the extension load a local icon/image for the button and then manually construct the url to be clicked in the same style that the wikinews

Re: [Wikitech-l] Cross wiki script importing

Raimond Spekking raimond.spekking at gmail.com writes: Try something like importScriptURI('http://ml.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mediawiki:rules.js‎action=rawctype=text/javascript'); That will break HTTPS security though. I use this script on my home wiki: function importScriptIw(page,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Firesheep

Conrad Irwin conrad.irwin at gmail.com writes: There is no real massive load caused by https at runtime. There is however a significant chink of developer and sysadmin time needed to implement this and make it work. Secure login in itself shouldn't require reconfiguration of the SSL

Re: [Wikitech-l] Parallel computing project

Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist at gmail.com writes: To clarify, the subject needs to 1) be reasonably doable in a short timeframe, 2) not build on top of something that's already too optimized. It should probably either be a new project; or an effort to parallelize something that already

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

Rob Lanphier robla at wikimedia.org writes: In diving into a problem with logging[1], we discovered that we were unintentionally treating several special page accesses (in this case, containing included Javascript) as normal pageviews, thus throwing our pageview statistics way off. The

Re: [Wikitech-l] processing irc://irc.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia

Ed Summers ehs at pobox.com writes: Thanks for the help folks. If anyone is curious, here's a little python script I wrote that prints out the (parsed) edit stream: http://gist.github.com/628199 A year ago or so, some of us at #wikipedia-hu wrote a bot script that can react to events on

[Wikitech-l] wiki(m|p)edia.org on IE8 compatibi lity blacklist

wikimedia.org, wikipedia.org, wikipedia.de and wiktionary.org are on the IE8 compatibility blacklist again (you can check by opening res://iecompat.dll/iecompatdata.xml in IE8 or at http://ie8blacklist.appspot.com/ ), which means that IE8 renders Wikipedia pages just as IE7 would. I see no obvious

Re: [Wikitech-l] wiki(m|p)edia.org on IE8 compatibi lity blacklist

Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist at gmail.com writes: W3C validation isn't relevant here. Sites get blacklisted by Microsoft if they don't work well in IE8, for any reason. Invalid markup isn't a major issue for us, but we might be triggering IE8 bugs or misfeatures for other reasons.

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

The soon-to-come third version of the usability extension, Citron, will be able to collapse templates in the edit window: http://usability.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Updated_Citron_templates.pdfpage=1 The problem with this approach is that sometimes collapsing is harmful to the

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

Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw at gmail.com writes: We've also been thinking about integrating these features with template metadata. We were mostly thinking about things like parameter types and descriptions, but collapsibility could be another attribute of a template. Ideally it should be a

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

Bence Damokos bdamokos at gmail.com writes: There is also a spreadsheet at https://spreadsheets.google.com /ccc?key=0Aikdcg5HdSKbdDVMM2l2SGM2dUtBU25MLUtTMFEwMFEhl=hu I wonder if the user comments and survey results for the Hungarian Wikipedia are available anywhere? Hungarian is not

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

Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw at gmail.com writes: That's deliberate, the TOC requires the iframe, which was disabled because of copy-paste issues. We're also not enabling NTOC as a default feature, so this is irrelevant. Does that mean the iframe-based editor will not be enabled? It sounds much

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

Q overlordq at gmail.com writes: If you're referring to what rights a group is assigned, then no, there isn't a historical record. The only way, afaik, is possibly digging through the wikitech admin log and bugzilla and trying to piece it together. The default user group rights are set in

[Wikitech-l] Commons new file feed

Hi, is there a MediaWiki feature or external tool to get a live feed of Commons file uploads? (By live I mean something that can be used to show a realtime slideshow of new images. I vaguely remember someone saying that the WMF office has a screen with such a slideshow.) If there is no such

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.16.0beta1 now available

Tim Starling tstarling at wikimedia.org writes: * Watchlists now have RSS/Atom feeds. RSS feeds generally are now hidden, since Atom is a better protocol and is supported by virtually all clients. Could this be switched on on WMF wikis? Currently if you click on the feed icon, you will see

Re: [Wikitech-l] modernizing mediawiki

Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist at gmail.com writes: 2) Some people really want to see the software succeed for non-financial reasons, so they're willing to put in extra effort to make it easier to use even if it doesn't directly benefit them. ... (2) hasn't happened because most of us care

Re: [Wikitech-l] modernizing mediawiki

Chad innocentkiller at gmail.com writes: I have no idea if there's a nice Windows package friendly enough for the low-to-medium-tier NT admins (those who watch progress bars for a living), but that would be nice. They're not going to get away from the command line and text configuration

Re: [Wikitech-l] modernizing mediawiki

Ryan Lane rlane32 at gmail.com writes: I'd like to mention that from a security perspective, I like the fact that by default MediaWiki does not allow Wordpress style upgrades and code modifications. MediaWiki exploits may lead to vandalism, but Wordpress exploits generally lead to shell or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Update on single-revision deletion

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 17:52 PM, Andrew Garrett agarrett at wikimedia.org wrote: Just a note to say that I didn't go ahead with my planned implementation of revision suppression for all administrators, because Aaron said that he would rather that I wait until bug 20928. Once that is fixed,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tracker and PM tool part2: Redmine

Priyanka Dhanda pdhanda at wikimedia.org writes: The Bugzilla users were migrated, but you will have to use the Lost Password link to reset your password: http://project2.wikimedia.org:3000/account/lost_password For me that results in a Lastname is invalid error message; apparently it can't

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

Nikola Smolenski smolensk at eunet.rs writes: What I am going to say is going to be the worst heresy, but could this problem be solved by gradually migrating to a new wiki markup, for example **bold** and //italic//? This markup is more logical and easier to remember, more used outside of

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

Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist at gmail.com writes: Wikitext is not easy to edit. It is easy enough to edit for power users, who make the large majority of edits; and way more comfortable than WYSIWYG. Wikis require a certain hacker mentality - not in the technical sense, but a desire to

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

Tim Starling tstarling at wikimedia.org writes: * Unnecessary use of the global namespace. The jQuery style is nice, with local functions inside an anonymous closure: function () { function setup() { ... } addOnloadHook( setup ); }(); This would make it impossible to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Speed of parsing messages (was: how to chang {{SITENAME}})

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com writes: The plural construct is used when it is not clear how many items will be available. Consequently there is not much to be done about it. Also the effect of plural is not the same for every languages. Welsh allows for six ways of indicating a

[Wikitech-l] LanguageSelector on strategy wiki

The LanguageSelector extension [1] can automatically set the interface language based on browser settings, which is nowadays the norm for every serious multilanguage web page. It is not used on WMF wikis, because it would interfere with caching. The strategic planning wiki [2] has, however,

[Wikitech-l] FlaggedRevs on Hungarian Wikipedia still not working

The autoreview feature for FlaggedRevs does not work in the Hungarian Wikipedia because of a configuration problem with a group name. This causes a lot of extra work for the patrollers, and a lot of extra waiting for everyone else for their edits to appear. It has been about forty days since I

Re: [Wikitech-l] site requests for Hungarian Wikipedia

Rob Halsell rhalsell at wikimedia.org writes: All outstanding requests in the original email for this thread have been addressed and processed to completion. The urgent one (autoreview not working, https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19885 ) is still unsolved, with no activity for

[Wikitech-l] site requests for Hungarian Wikipedia

Since I have run out of ideas of where to nag devs with shell access (bugzilla is completely ignored most of the time, and mail/irc didn't have much effect either), I'll try here. The following are all one-line configuration changes: Bug 14716 – Grant noratelimit right to the editor group in the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki at Home Extension

Michael Dale mdale at wikimedia.org writes: * We are not Google. Google lost what like ~470 million~ last year on youtube ...(and that's with $240 million in advertising) so total cost of $711 million [1] How much of that is related to transcoding, and how much to delivery? You seem to be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki at Home Extension

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com writes: Why are we suddenly concerned about someone sneaking obscenity onto a wiki? As if no one has ever snuck a rude picture onto a main page... There is a slight difference between vandalism that shows up in recent changes and one that leaves no trail at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Translate extension, jqery

Glanthor glanthor at gmail.com writes: the another big question is that why don't include JQuery to load automatically with _every_ pages? Now at least two wikis load JQuery v1.3.2 from common.js (see http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code updated

Brian Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu writes: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Tisza Gergő gtisza at gmail.com wrote: Brian Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu writes: And of course Special:Version code has changed since the last time I ran that code, meaning there is really no reliable way

[Wikitech-l] Live SVN branch

The latest stable MediaWiki branch is usually 3-6 months behind the one used on the Wikimedia sites, which can be a problem when one wants to import text from Wikipedia, use recent extensions, create a Wikipedia-related testwiki etc. The trunk, on the other hand, is unreliable; the best solution

Re: [Wikitech-l] More aggressive DEFAULTSORT

Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist at gmail.com writes: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Marcus Buck wiki at marcusbuck.org wrote: Take the pagename and make it uppercase (could be lowercase too, but uppercase seems better as the first letter will show up in the category). str_replace Ä

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [48735] trunk/phase3/includes/specials/SpecialRecentchanges.php

Revision: 48735 Author:   midom Date:     2009-03-24 10:44:24 + (Tue, 24 Mar 2009) Log Message: --- change limit to reflect one in interface. :) Modified Paths: --    trunk/phase3/includes/specials/SpecialRecentchanges.php Modified: