[Wikitech-l] Increasing default cookie expiry time

2010-08-22 Thread Max Semenik
t on casual visitors. "You told me to register and when I did, I had to relogin after a couple of visits!!1" Taking this all into account, I see no reason to keep the current default. -- Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Increasing default cookie expiry time

2010-08-23 Thread Max Semenik
nyway. > Personally, I don't find annoying having to log in once a month. It's > the CentralAuth third party cookies (+ firefox behavior) what makes them > expire. I don't use FF, can you elaborate? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Testing server update

2010-08-31 Thread Max Semenik
r are tests, the less desire people will have to run them, even if their systems can run Selenium. Therefore, I propose that Selenuim should be disabled by default, but be easily enableable per-user or per-run (with a command-line switch). -- Best regards, Max S

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-03 Thread Max Semenik
community for everyone to use, or just a software that runs Wikipedia and is sporadically released to public only for lulz and Wikia? If it's the latter, such "noise" is indeed unwanted. If the former, this chit-chat is vital to being a part of the community. -- Best r

Re: [Wikitech-l] fundraising earmarks for code review, image bundle dumps, search failover auction, Wikinews independence, bugzilla queue maintenance etc.

2010-09-03 Thread Max Semenik
kipedia". People don't care how things work, they simply want them to work. It's Wikimedia Foundation's responsibility to use these donations to make things just work for as many people as possible. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])

Re: [Wikitech-l] Database drivers

2010-09-03 Thread Max Semenik
ts grumble something about categories;) -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Database drivers

2010-09-03 Thread Max Semenik
gies when executing the same query. Of course, this means case-by-case analysis for every discrepancy. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Database drivers

2010-09-03 Thread Max Semenik
ple who never use SQLite to go out of their way > and take extra steps to keep it up-to-date. SQLite actually shares some patches with MySQL, and the whole approach is documented at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Database_access#SQLite_compatibility -- Best regards

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-12 Thread Max Semenik
but disagree > probably [...] This is unbearable. Jamie, could you post to this list with a mail client that does not break threads and reformat quoted text horribly? Thanks. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikite

Re: [Wikitech-l] Composer does not know mediawiki/mediawiki on dry-runs

2019-11-15 Thread Max Semenik
onality stay in MediaWiki at all? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Composer does not know mediawiki/mediawiki on dry-runs

2019-11-15 Thread Max Semenik
rammatically. As for removing the functionality: do you mean the functionality of the > Composer merge plugin? i.e. that we can load dependencies in the > MediaWiki root directory, rather than within each extension's directory? > I mean ComposerHookHandler and friends.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Composer does not know mediawiki/mediawiki on dry-runs

2019-11-17 Thread Max Semenik
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 4:16 PM Max Semenik wrote: > Which raises the question: should this functionality stay in MediaWiki at > all? > I've pushed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/551346 for review. Best regards, Max Semenik

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki has been upgraded to PHPUnit 8

2020-01-23 Thread Max Semenik
will be no deployments next week, we have some extra time to ensure everything works smoothly. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed breaking change to Command::restrict()

2020-07-08 Thread Max Semenik
q8MNY6U > qgx2lL8LEEaUik7MwhvxJ00A6p89HV9KTezTdwmlwWwmKA83ec0= > =HouQ > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Best regards, Max Semenik ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Allow HTML email

2020-09-23 Thread Max Semenik
On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 12:55 AM AntiCompositeNumber < anticompositenum...@gmail.com> wrote: > *HTML email is a scourge.* > Welcome to the future! Every new thing introduces new problems, but we kinda can't stop the progress. -- Best reg

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1st CfP: SEMANTiCS 2021 EU || Sep 6 - 9, 2021 || Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2020-12-25 Thread Max Semenik
t. MediaWiki is not Semantic MediaWiki, 99% of people here don't care about your stuff. Please stop. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Re: Phasing out old jQuery versions

2021-08-07 Thread Max Semenik
sorry for the inconvenience. > -- > Amir (he/him) > > ___ > 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/l

[Wikitech-l] Re: PHP RFC: Deprecate dynamic properties

2021-11-13 Thread Max Semenik
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Database dump of Bugzilla

2012-03-04 Thread Max Semenik
if we're going to go through a painful migration, > integration with our existing login system needs to be one of the > benefits. It might mean that this project come behind some form of > OpenID provider support on the Wikimedia clu

Re: [Wikitech-l] History entry without content change?

2012-03-12 Thread Max Semenik
history as a logfile for specific events related to the article that > don't actually modify the article. > Thanks, > Rob. See Revision::newNullRevision() -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing li

[Wikitech-l] Integrating code common to several extensions into core?

2012-03-14 Thread Max Semenik
=markup -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mark Hershberger departing Wikimedia Foundation in May

2012-03-16 Thread Max Semenik
On 16.03.2012, 21:31 Rob wrote: > Hi everyone, > I regret to inform you all that Mark Hershberger will be leaving the > Wikimedia Foundation at the end of May. Mark, thank you for everything - and may all your greener pastures be evergreen! -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[Us

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code freeze and temporary reverts for Gerrit migration

2012-03-22 Thread Max Semenik
e original revision number in SVN. Well done, Roan! Is there a way to join several related recommits in Gerrit for easier review? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] "Download from Git" in sidebar?

2012-03-22 Thread Max Semenik
't have replacements for them. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] English Wikipedia slow to load

2012-03-24 Thread Max Semenik
/3696>, would appreciate if someone deployed it. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] English Wikipedia slow to load

2012-03-24 Thread Max Semenik
On 24.03.2012, 23:51 Patrick wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Patrick Reilly > wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Max Semenik wrote: >>> On 24.03.2012, 20:16 Asher wrote: >>> >>>> There was also a the release of a majorly changed Mo

Re: [Wikitech-l] English Wikipedia slow to load

2012-03-24 Thread Max Semenik
On 25.03.2012, 2:28 Platonides wrote: > On 24/03/12 21:36, Max Semenik wrote: >> And these graphs don't make any sense: >> https://graphite.wikimedia.org/dashboard/MobileFrontend-DOMParse >> the whole function's execution time is much larger than sum of its >&

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit bots notification

2012-03-27 Thread Max Semenik
eneral, too. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Bits is slow

2012-03-29 Thread Max Semenik
Significantly slower today from Europe, graphs show a drastic drop at esams http://is.gd/fKnluM and a raise on pmtpa http://is.gd/sowDb4 Can this be fixed? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Email addresses for wikimedians

2012-03-29 Thread Max Semenik
ure that'll fly. It could be @users.wikipedia.org or @volunteers.wikipedia.org -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2012 proposal(Convention Extension)

2012-04-03 Thread Max Semenik
nt - for setting up polls across the conference There are existing solutions for polls. How are you going to write special pages and API modules before the database access layer? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC proposal: Native application uploader

2012-04-04 Thread Max Semenik
ider QT or wxWidgets to be tinier than JRE/Mono/.NET... -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC - Integrate Flickr and Picasa

2012-04-06 Thread Max Semenik
oject such as this? Hi, your project definitely makes sense and your proposal looks good, however I don't see it on google-melange.com which is required for acceptance. Please hurry - you have less than 10 hours. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])

Re: [Wikitech-l] Policy for one ore more new database tables for extensions

2012-04-17 Thread Max Semenik
more than one new table should be > avoided in extensions ? What for? > 2. Are two or more new tables tolerated? Much more, even in WMF-deployed extensions. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikite

Re: [Wikitech-l] [[How to deploy code]] updated

2012-04-18 Thread Max Semenik
; And because the documentation for "I just broke mediawiki.org, how do I fix > this" shouldn't be on mediawiki.org :-) What about "How not to break mediawiki.org"? :) -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikit

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

2012-05-11 Thread Max Semenik
name ;-8 However, there's a problem with this code[1] that prevents it from working in all situations. [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36742 -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reworking API help

2012-05-13 Thread Max Semenik
TML. The > combined output for all modules would be cached in memcached as in the > old ApiHelp class. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.w

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stance on PHP namespaces?

2012-05-16 Thread Max Semenik
gh, I think we should start slowly, maybe not including namespaces in 1.20 and then tread carefully - some extension devs might want to be compatible with older MW versions that support PHP 5.2. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _

Re: [Wikitech-l] critical security alerts for OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-05-21 Thread Max Semenik
rheitsluecke-in-OpenOffice-und-LibreOffice-1579949.html > (German) > ** Keine Antwort erforderlich ** no reply needed ** How is it related to this list? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@list

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

2012-06-08 Thread Max Semenik
op HTML that doesn't need to be shown to mobile users at all, we could tweak the parser to ouptut mobile-specific HTML, but this should be restricted to minimum. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2012-06-08 Thread Max Semenik
3 years have shown me that only works for > Android and iOS. Any older feature phones are, in terms of HTML > parsing capability, hardly better than the old WAP phones. HTML5 and > XHTML 1.0 don't mix very well in the real world. Well

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki patches in Debian.

2012-06-11 Thread Max Semenik
ollow this recommendation, unless MySQL is seriously broken on your distro. > Could you help me understand the changes the rational for increasing > maxPerPage and maxLineCount by two orders of magnitude? Is there any > benefit to showing 30,000 pages on an index sub-page? Because so

Re: [Wikitech-l] IE7 tax

2012-06-14 Thread Max Semenik
irected=true > [2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43 Furthermore, whatever Windows you have or whether you paid for it or not, there are lots of free browsers that are much better than even newest IE anyway. But in any case, we must not annoy any significant p

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical hurdles for enabling $wgHtml5 on Wikimedia sites?

2012-06-28 Thread Max Semenik
ts to upgrade. We recently added IPv6 support, yet Wikipedia didn't die in pain while some anti-vandalism tools were broken. Same thing here. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP namespacing and traits

2012-07-05 Thread Max Semenik
want to use them yet. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP namespacing and traits

2012-07-05 Thread Max Semenik
thread is so we give a GO/NOGO about using >> namespaces. >> > NOGO for core. My position hasn't changed in the past month and is > unlikely to change in the near future. +1. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Maintaining (and thus editing) SVGs' text like wiki-text pages

2012-07-16 Thread Max Semenik
n top of another, position: relative. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2012-07-27 Thread Max Semenik
, which is not true. > I think that the assumption that "everyone in the internet is able to print > English letters loking at their noised example" is not very bold assumption. Even funnier: imagine a Eeuropean trying to just read a Chinese captcha:) -- Be

Re: [Wikitech-l] wfMsg and associated functions

2012-08-06 Thread Max Semenik
used WIDELY across the core, so deprecation should be as soft as possible. I suggest to revert these commits (why merge them so hastily, anyway?!) and revisit this issue when MW core and popular extensions will be (mostly) clean. -- Best regards, Max Sem

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedians are rightfully wary

2012-08-21 Thread Max Semenik
nces and most registered users don't know what is an experimental feature and what is not - they can't make informed decisions here. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org http

Re: [Wikitech-l] [testing] TitleBlacklist now tested under Jenkins

2012-08-29 Thread Max Semenik
lude as many extension tests as possible to prevent core from silently breaking extensions. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal to add an API/Developer/Developer Hub link to the footer of Wikimedia wikis

2012-09-17 Thread Max Semenik
ikis?", etc. Does anyone know if such a page exists already? Project:Help is for end-users, none of them knows or should know what an API is. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.17 release target (Re: UsabilityInitiative extension...)

2010-09-21 Thread Max Semenik
full scaps at least once per month. Of course, everything said above is only my personal opinion and I'm not pretending to say The Absolute Truth(tm), but believe me, even I'm overpessimizing things, I'm not overpessimizing them too much. -- Best reg

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.17 release target (Re: UsabilityInitiative extension...)

2010-09-21 Thread Max Semenik
nt updates actually mean less bugs. > That said, I guess there are obvious drawbacks I'm not seeing. The problem here is that our stable code is way *too* stable. Implementation details may vary. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.17 release target (Re: UsabilityInitiative extension...)

2010-09-21 Thread Max Semenik
ead wikitech-l, some are weeks behind on reading their mails. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Acceptable use of API

2010-09-24 Thread Max Semenik
. What data do you need, exactly? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki.org's [[MediaWiki:Newarticletext]]

2010-10-10 Thread Max Semenik
default message is not very helpful, probably something that gives warnings in a less intrusive way would do, such as http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Newarticletext&oldid=25112 -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia, we have a Google refresh problem!

2010-10-17 Thread Max Semenik
problem into "who decides which version is flagged and which is not". This is the only sane way, in addition being the way we have all the technical means to use at any moment. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release process

2010-10-20 Thread Max Semenik
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > 1. Is the release cadence is more important (i.e. reverting features > if they pose a schedule risk) or is shipping a set of features is > important (i.e. slipping the date if one of the predetermined feature > isn't ready)? For example, as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Commons ZIP file upload for admins

2010-10-25 Thread Max Semenik
disallow certain types of files inside archives (such as .exe). Once we took all these precautions, I see no need to restrict ZIPs to any special group. Of course, this doesn't mean that we soul allow all the safe ZIPs, just several open ZIP-based file formats. --------- [1]

Re: [Wikitech-l] removing 1.5 upgrader

2010-10-31 Thread Max Semenik
ing conversion too, because people who don't upgrade from 1.3 or so are usually the same people who will have problems with manual conversion. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Refresh of the Mediawiki logo

2010-11-12 Thread Max Semenik
using a photo in a logo makes it an automatic show-stopper? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] CategoryFeed

2010-11-13 Thread Max Semenik
directory. Is someone interested in reviving it, or we can delete it right away? -- Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Call to arms - installer translations

2010-11-14 Thread Max Semenik
n't help myself :) -- Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] CategoryFeed

2010-11-23 Thread Max Semenik
> Is someone interested in reviving it, or we can delete it right away? Removed in r77149. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listi

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.17 branch

2010-12-31 Thread Max Semenik
must be much more cautious with other changes in core needed for proper DB2 support. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-22 Thread Max Semenik
uff to separate repos will result in up to 400 commits per day that will also need to be pushed and reintegrated - an epic waste of time and common sense. Or localisation will simply lie aside in forks and people will miss them when checking out from the "official" source.

Re: [Wikitech-l] On HTML5

2011-03-22 Thread Max Semenik
a couple of times and there's no guarantee that next time it will not stick :D -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] New gadget

2011-03-22 Thread Max Semenik
fun! [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:CodeTooltips.png -- Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2011 proposal

2011-04-01 Thread Max Semenik
On 01.04.2011, 2:00 Sumana wrote: > Since very few people can see the formal proposal, there is a copy to > view at: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Zhenya I'm not registered as a mentor or anything, but I can see his proposal nevertheless. -- Best regards, Max Semenik

Re: [Wikitech-l] Future: Love for the sister projects!

2011-04-03 Thread Max Semenik
ges will be pushed to wiki with a considerable delay (oh yes, and they may even not pass through code review XD ). Editing wiki pages is much easier. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] About to commit improved DB2 database support

2011-04-12 Thread Max Semenik
et backported into the 1.17 release branch, > making 1.18 the first to really support DB2. > -Chad It's DB2-only fixes, nothing scary about backporting it. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mai

Re: [Wikitech-l] About to commit improved DB2 database support

2011-04-13 Thread Max Semenik
On 13.04.2011, 8:03 Tim wrote: > On 13/04/11 02:41, Max Semenik wrote: >> It's DB2-only fixes, nothing scary about backporting it. > Historically, DBMS support patches have touched a lot of query > building code, and have caused bugs for MySQL. We should decide > whether

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change in Bugzilla's defaults

2011-04-13 Thread Max Semenik
ty as "This should be fixed by next release", IMHO. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2011-04-18 Thread Max Semenik
n it would violate the free content doctrine, unles you manage to convince FB to release their button images under a free license :P -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists

Re: [Wikitech-l] DOM, onload, and custom javascript

2011-04-25 Thread Max Semenik
od tutorial on including > AJAX calls w/o needing an extension anywhere? $( document ).ready( function() { $( '#p1' ).html( 'New text by jQuery!' ); }); -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release schedule for the rest of 2011 (was: Status of 1.17 & 1.18)

2011-04-29 Thread Max Semenik
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Chad wrote: > > As for 1.18, I say we branch it the same day we drop 1.17 final (making the > branch is easy). There's still quite a bit of code to review, but going > ahead > and giving ourselves a cutoff point will make catching up easier. Large > projects > sti

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release schedule for the rest of 2011 (was: Status of 1.17 & 1.18)

2011-05-02 Thread Max Semenik
y be used in the same places. I started that at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.17 some time ago, needs more collaboration. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimed

Re: [Wikitech-l] API Sandbox

2011-05-04 Thread Max Semenik
to do, it's already in extensions/ApiSandbox and awaits your comments, suggestions and bashing:) Description page is at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ApiSandbox -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] DOM, onload, and custom javascript

2011-05-05 Thread Max Semenik
se the snippet from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/JQuery#Before_ResourceLoader to do that. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] cruise control is back!

2011-05-21 Thread Max Semenik
rol/ > I think the IRC notifications are still broken. Whee! Can we establish a policy of reverting a build-breaking revision soonish rather than much latish as we did before? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l maili

Re: [Wikitech-l] update languages/messages once per week?

2011-05-29 Thread Max Semenik
ore flexible filtering, not development process be pushed 5 years back. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review process (was: Status of more regular code deployments)

2011-05-31 Thread Max Semenik
of rushing towards DVCS, the distributed heavily-branched model where mainline is supported only through merges from committed-then-reviewed branches looks far more superior to me. This way, we will also be able to push stuff to WMF more often as there will be no unreviwewed or unfi

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

2011-12-27 Thread Max Semenik
ld even disable the display of those annoying exclamation marks in RC by default. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Files with unknown copyright status on MediaWiki wiki

2012-01-04 Thread Max Semenik
h in my experience even promise of "do it and be desysopped" doesn't prevent crazy Commons admins from deleting stuff without discussion. - [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:MediaWiki_documentation_file/en&diff=64783933&oldid=6477

Re: [Wikitech-l] Files with unknown copyright status on MediaWiki wiki

2012-01-04 Thread Max Semenik
ve seen them delete on sight screenshots of FLOSS Windows software "because Windows UI is copyrighted". Even though Commons policies don't mandate anything like this, lots of their sysops have an urge "to protect copyright" without any actual knowledge in this area,

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.18 learnings from a wiki admin & extension writer

2012-01-12 Thread Max Semenik
to make life easier for extension developers. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] FeaturedFeeds deployed

2012-01-26 Thread Max Semenik
edia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=featured&feedformat=atom [3] https://it.wikiquote.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=qotd&feedformat=atom [4] http://mobile-feeds.wmflabs.org/w/index.php/Main_Page -- Best regards,

[Wikitech-l] Magic word for user language?

2012-01-26 Thread Max Semenik
users from PITA like this. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Magic word for user language?

2012-01-30 Thread Max Semenik
7;t asking for another way of cache fragmentation, I merely proposed that we make retrieval of current language code less hacky and slow. :) -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lis

[Wikitech-l] ArticleEmblems is back

2012-01-31 Thread Max Semenik
to participate. First of all, the way these templates are outputted is flaky - but I think it's not a problem to fix. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.w

[Wikitech-l] Proposed removal of some API output formats

2012-02-08 Thread Max Semenik
shouldn't do it or postpone it. Please have your say. -- [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34257 [2] Me and Roan Kattouw, one of API's primary developers [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Data_formats -- Be

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC Complete Rewrite of Mobile Frontend & Rename MobileFrontend2

2012-02-12 Thread Max Semenik
2' is problematic >> as users have already started to confuse it with the current extension. > Whom? It's not like it's really advertised anywhere apart from CR and > SVN so it shouldn't be causing that many issues at the current stage. I think Aaron&#x

[Wikitech-l] RFC: MobileFrontend API

2012-02-17 Thread Max Semenik
on:MobileFrontend#New_API -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Where to host wikimedia related software projects

2012-02-20 Thread Max Semenik
, etc. Imho, a separate namespace should be created on mw.org for such things, called Tool: or something. We already have a lot of absolutely unrelated stuff in mainspace, would be great to sort them out. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _

Re: [Wikitech-l] phpunit test failures in MobileFrontend extension

2012-02-23 Thread Max Semenik
ix the tests? Since the only person in both lists is me, I'm already on it:) -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC'12 Proposal : List of Ideas

2012-02-27 Thread Max Semenik
i.org -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] diff colors

2012-03-01 Thread Max Semenik
gt; dark background colours ==> bold white (text) colour Aieeeee! :( -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library

2011-08-20 Thread Max Semenik
uld suppport a system that downloads them on-demand, however shipping zillion templates out of the box is simply out of the question. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Asking for notes on a MediaWiki:Sidebar replacement

2011-08-23 Thread Max Semenik
ll use? AFAIK we have no maintenance script to do that currently php edit.php MediaWiki:Sidebar -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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