Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread Lee Worden
[weighing in on the nesting/quoting bikeshed: the structured quoting which Simple Machines Forum (SMF) provides is a nice compromise: it preserves the exact origin of the quoted material, for easy backreference, but it also allows flexible editing of the quoted content and for combining

Re: [Wikitech-l] [RFC] Extension registration

2014-06-04 Thread Lee Worden
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 02:12:30 -0700 From: Daniel Friesendan...@nadir-seen-fire.com On 2014-06-04, 1:29 AM, Legoktm wrote: == Extension locations == We agreed that we should require extensions to all be in the same directory, but that directory should be configurable. By default it will point

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pending changes to Extension:MultiUpload

2014-04-09 Thread Lee Worden
n 04/04/2014 06:33 PM, Lee Worden wrote: The MultiUpload extension has been unmaintained for a while. I believe its author has moved on to another job. I've written a completely independent piece of extension code (as a byproduct of work I did for the WorkingWiki extension) that provides

[Wikitech-l] Pending changes to Extension:MultiUpload

2014-04-04 Thread Lee Worden
. Here's a bare-bones demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d90Tt5EGAc And here's my extension, in a temporary location: https://github.com/worden-lee/MultiUpload Lee Worden ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-08 Thread Lee Worden
On 03/08/2014 02:10 PM, Isarra Yos zhoris...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/03/14 09:15, Niklas Laxström wrote: Please do not forget the contributors who want to improve MediaWiki for their own needs. We also have to balance how much we inconvenience them to meet the requirements of WMF. In my opinion,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Comet

2013-11-19 Thread Lee Worden
redirecting the output of unix commands. LW From: Aran a...@organicdesign.co.nz Wouldn't WebSocket be the better choice for a full duplex channel? On 14/11/13 21:12, Lee Worden wrote: In the MW extension development I'm doing, I'm thinking of writing some operations that use [[Comet_

[Wikitech-l] Comet

2013-11-14 Thread Lee Worden
In the MW extension development I'm doing, I'm thinking of writing some operations that use [[Comet_(programming)]] to deliver continuous updates to the client, rather than the Ajax pattern of one request, one response. Has anyone messed with this? Any code I should crib from, or advice or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Memento Extension for MediaWiki: Advice on Further Development

2013-11-04 Thread Lee Worden
From: Brian Wolffbawo...@gmail.com On 2013-11-04 11:04 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie)bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Brian Wolffbawo...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't looked at your code, so not sure about the context - but: In general a hook returns true to denote no

Re: [Wikitech-l] What are DeferredUpdates good for?

2013-09-17 Thread Lee Worden
From: Aaron Schulzaschulz4...@gmail.com Until what? A timestamp? That would be more complex and prone to over/under guessing the right delay (you don't know how long it will take to commit). I think deferred updates are much simpler as they will just happen when the request is nearly done,

[Wikitech-l] editsection styling

2013-09-01 Thread Lee Worden
... Lee Worden McMaster U., UCB, SF Art Institute WorkingWiki ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-08-13 Thread Lee Worden
Hi Micru! What use case do you have in mind? The main use of latex in WorkingWiki is simply authoring .tex files directly... Lee Worden p.s. I meant to post the What is WorkingWiki video here that I put on twitter during Wikimania: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8pwr-Uizf4 Date: Tue

Re: [Wikitech-l] Suggestion for solving the disambiguation problem

2013-07-16 Thread Lee Worden
Maybe it could be done with just the Referer field on the second request, without needing to log two different page requests and correlate them. Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:14:42 -0400 From: David Cuencadacu...@gmail.com Good idea, it could also help to know which are the links more used in a

[Wikitech-l] Special:Upload

2013-06-10 Thread Lee Worden
to do that, because it looks like Extension:MultiUpload hasn't been brought over from svn to gerrit. I'd either submit it as a commit that replaces most of the extension's code, or propose it as a separate extension. Please advise me... Thanks! Lee Worden

Re: [Wikitech-l] Corporate needs are different (RE: How can we help Corporations use MW?)

2013-02-09 Thread Lee Worden
On 02/09/2013 03:00 PM, Platonides wrote: On 08/02/13 21:51, Lee Worden wrote: As an aside, you could almost certainly do this cheaper with WorkingWiki. If you can write a make rule to retrieve the Excel file from the network drive and make it into html and image files (and maybe a little

Re: [Wikitech-l] Corporate needs are different (RE: How can we help Corporations use MW?)

2013-02-08 Thread Lee Worden
On 02/08/2013 10:23 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote: O_O $1 excel-to-html? O_OOO Why not just copy-paste into for example wikEd (google://wikEd)? :-))) Not that beautiful, but it works. Now, I will demonstrate what I mean by Corporate needs are different. :-) With our extension, the

Re: [Wikitech-l] An actual bikeshed

2013-01-23 Thread Lee Worden
On 01/23/2013 12:56 PM, Bawolff Bawolff wrote: On 2013-01-23 3:38 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Suggested solution: Maybe some kind of voting system might be of use to force some kind of consensus rather than leaving problems unsolved. I'm fed up of receiving emails about the same

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release Notes and ContentHandler

2013-01-14 Thread Lee Worden
; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 13.01.2013 02:02, Lee Worden wrote: Yes, I think ContentHandler does some of what WW does, and I'll be happy to integrate with it. I don't think we'll want to abandon the source-file tag, though, because on pages like http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/math/index.php/Nomogram

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release Notes and ContentHandler

2013-01-12 Thread Lee Worden
with special content types along with the other ways of storing source files that we already support. And yes, I'm sure I'll do it at some point. Lee Worden Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:19:57 -0500 From: Mark A. Hershbergerm...@everybody.org To: Wikimedia developerswikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release Notes and ContentHandler

2013-01-12 Thread Lee Worden
From: Mark A. Hershbergerm...@everybody.org To: Wikimedia developerswikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Release Notes and ContentHandler Message-ID:50f16dc2.70...@everybody.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 01/12/2013 08:00 AM, Lee Worden wrote: Do you

Re: [Wikitech-l] ContentHandler examples?

2013-01-12 Thread Lee Worden
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

2012-12-12 Thread Lee Worden
From: Roan Kattouwroan.katt...@gmail.com On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Lee Wordenworden@gmail.com wrote: Very exciting - congratulations! I know these are early days for the VisualEditor, but is there a plan for extension developers to be able to hook in to provide editing for the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

2012-12-11 Thread Lee Worden
Very exciting - congratulations! I know these are early days for the VisualEditor, but is there a plan for extension developers to be able to hook in to provide editing for the things their extensions support? Lee Worden http://leeworden.net On 12/11/2012 10:28 PM, wikitech-l-requ

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTMLPurifier

2012-04-24 Thread Lee Worden
I've been considering using it, so I'd be interested too. On 04/24/2012 11:52 AM, wikitech-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: From: Chris Steippcste...@wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikitech-l] HTMLPurifier Hello Everyone, Does anyone know if mediawiki has ever used HTMLPurifier (

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 103, Issue 78

2012-02-29 Thread Lee Worden
Thibault may not know that WorkingWiki [1] handles LaTeX documents in wiki pages. - LW [1] http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/projects/index.php/WorkingWiki From: Sumana Harihareswarasuma...@wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikitech-l] New committers schuellersa, netbrain, and thibaultmarin

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Should we drop the rendering preferences for math?

2011-11-28 Thread Lee Worden
On 11/28/2011 05:46 PM, wikitech-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:16:55 -0800 From: Brion Vibberbr...@pobox.com On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:05 PM, MZMcBridez...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Brion Vibber wrote: [snip my notes about removing the non-PNG non-source

[Wikitech-l] WorkingWiki extension

2011-05-03 Thread Lee Worden
, but may have diverse other uses as well. (I probably should have made it public long ago, but there was a big refactor and it took a long time to settle out...) Lee Worden McMaster University ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] WYSIWYG and parser plans (was What is wrong with Wikia's WYSIWYG?)

2011-05-02 Thread Lee Worden
On 05/02/11 15:30, wikitech-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 00:29:51 +0200 From: Platonidesplatoni...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] WYSIWYG and parser plans (was What is wrong withWikia's WYSIWYG?) To:wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] sessions in parallel

2009-12-07 Thread lee worden
is done. Is it supposed to do this? Does it depend on my configuration? Thanks - Lee Worden McMaster University If I remember correctly, the PHP files session handler has to acquire an exclusive lock on the session file in session_start(). Thus preventing your second request until

Re: [Wikitech-l] sessions in parallel

2009-12-06 Thread lee worden
-Original Message- From: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of lee worden Sent: 04 December 2009 19:14 To: Wikimedia developers Subject: [Wikitech-l] sessions in parallel Hi - I'm debugging my extension code against

[Wikitech-l] sessions in parallel

2009-12-04 Thread lee worden
is done. Is it supposed to do this? Does it depend on my configuration? Thanks - Lee Worden McMaster University ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] A potential land mine

2009-08-11 Thread lee worden
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, dan nessett wrote: --- On Tue, 8/11/09, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: Then you're doing almost exactly the same thing we're doing now, except with MWInit.php instead of LocalSettings.php.  $IP is normally set in LocalSettings.php for most page views. 

Re: [Wikitech-l] $300K grant for Wikimedia Commons

2009-07-03 Thread lee worden
to use subclasses to customize the upload process. Is anyone willing to risk a wild guess about when the new Special:Upload classes will replace the current version? Lee Worden McMaster University On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Chad wrote: This is excellent news. For those who haven't seen it in action

Re: [Wikitech-l] Downloadable client fonts to aid language script support?

2009-05-04 Thread lee worden
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Brion Vibber wrote: It might be helpful for some language wikis to link in a free font this way, when standard fonts supporting their script are often unavailable. Right now on such sites there tends to be a little English link at the top such as 'font help' leading to a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serving as xhtml+xml

2009-03-19 Thread lee worden
This has been done before, for instance in the ASCIIMath4Wiki extension [2].  I don't want to change the Content-type unconditionally, though, only some of the time, so that we can serve texvc-style images to browsers or users that don't like the modified content type. Note that this will

[Wikitech-l] Serving as xhtml+xml

2009-03-18 Thread lee worden
. There are other skins in my installation here, but they don't seem to work very well and I didn't see where to make the change. Is there a better way to make MathML work in MW? Might this option be included in a future MW release? Any feedback or alternative suggestions is welcome. Lee Worden McMaster