Re: [Wikitech-l] [RFC]: Clean URLs- dropping /wiki/ and /w/index.php?title=..

2013-09-19 Thread MZMcBride
://bugs.wikimedia.org/17316#c0). The redesigned page eventually got deployed, but the client-side refresh very sneakily moved from the HTML output to a Refresh header (cf. https://bugs.wikimedia.org/35052#c0). Neither bug is resolved, if anyone is interested in helping out. :-) MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: Deployment highlights for the week of Sept 23rd

2013-09-23 Thread MZMcBride
be able to search for your changes as soon as you make them. That's awesome! :-) I hope you all will write up a blog post after CirrusSearch has been deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. This is great news. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] IRC meeting for RFC review

2013-09-23 Thread MZMcBride
/Requests_for_comment, for anyone not in the know. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improving anti-vandalism tools (twinkle, huggle etc) - suspicious edits queue

2013-09-26 Thread MZMcBride
of providing a reference is often painful and unintuitive, particularly in established articles that employ complicated markup (infoboxes, citation templates, and ref tags). MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 35306: Global (to a wiki farm or family) message delivery (thoughts)

2013-10-03 Thread MZMcBride
Terry Chay wrote: [a very long e-mail about the MassMessage extension] Hi Terry. Have you ever used or tested the MassMessage MediaWiki extension? If so, when and where specifically? MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 35306: Global (to a wiki farm or family) message delivery (thoughts)

2013-10-04 Thread MZMcBride
and present) that appear to be undocumented, unsupported, and/or untrue, depending on the claim. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ori Livneh's new role on site performance

2013-10-08 Thread MZMcBride
new rôle!​ This. Congrats! MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 35306: Global (to a wiki farm or family) message delivery (thoughts)

2013-10-10 Thread MZMcBride
coincides with the date that the MassMessage MediaWiki extension is supposed to be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. I'm giving the Wikimedia Foundation a set of well-tested (though hackish) Python scripts (https://github.com/mzmcbride/delivery-bots) in addition to a stable, reviewed, implemented

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Patch Uploader beta

2013-10-13 Thread MZMcBride
editor. Thanks again for working on this! MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stop table headings scrolling off top. Needs experienced dev to finish.

2013-10-13 Thread MZMcBride
with a compatible library version and that you're following JavaScript coding conventions (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CC/JS). Lastly, be sure that any enhancement tool that you write can degrade gracefully if JavaScript is unavailable. Thanks again for working on this! MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Patch Uploader beta

2013-10-15 Thread MZMcBride
or in the commit message (such as a keyword) might have gotten my attention. This might just be me, though. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Optimizing the deployment train schedule

2013-10-18 Thread MZMcBride
the bugs that arise after (not directly, anyway). I'd be most interested to hear from Sam, Arthur, Max, Greg, et al. (the people on https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments) about how the deployments process(es) are working. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions

2013-10-19 Thread MZMcBride
proposed, it's already been approved. Is this RFP intended for an additional new datacenter somewhere in the U.S.? I looked at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers#Hosting to try to gain clarity. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions

2013-10-19 Thread MZMcBride
pmtpa? I'm just trying to wrap my head around this at a very high level. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Patch Uploader beta

2013-10-21 Thread MZMcBride
Merlijn van Deen wrote: On 16 October 2013 05:15, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: I looked at your original e-mail and gerrit-patch-uploader itself and couldn't find a link to the source code. Could one be added to the user interface? I think it would help sustain the project. As Matt

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions

2013-10-21 Thread MZMcBride
Leslie Carr wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 3:29 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Leslie Carr wrote: ulsfo is a caching center (varnish + LVS servers, but no backend infrastructure and very few machines) Thank you for clarifying a bit. That helps. Is this new datacenter intended

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth and Identities

2013-10-22 Thread MZMcBride
applications you're referring to. MZMcBride P.S. s/caviot/caveat/ :-) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Visualising CSS debt - cleaning up our messy codebase

2013-10-24 Thread MZMcBride
a white screen. :-( My browser error console reports the following: Uncaught InvalidCharacterError: The string contains invalid characters. Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'init' of undefined Uncaught ReferenceError: lsg is not defined MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-10-26 Thread MZMcBride
urge Bitergia to sanitize its inputs and outputs. Currently passing raw HTML into certain URL query parameters seems to echo the HTML directly back at the client. /browser/people.html has this behavior for sure; there may be others. MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

2013-10-26 Thread MZMcBride
, particularly given that U.S. courts seem to reject the idea that a font can be copyrighted. More info here: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

2013-10-27 Thread MZMcBride
about adhering to Wikimedia or MediaWiki design philosophies. Yes, you can find plenty of other examples of the mobile team doing things like this, but that hardly seems like a good reason to import those choices into desktop. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Secure and split

2013-10-31 Thread MZMcBride
Happy Tim Starling Day! :-) It seems this year is the tenth anniversary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tim_Starling_Day. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Secure and split

2013-10-31 Thread MZMcBride
the user experience for readers and editors daily. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] New Bugzilla users have restricted accounts

2013-11-06 Thread MZMcBride
to be assigned to bugs, as they cannot edit others' bugs by default. This is problematic and disruptive to development efforts. My suggestion is to re-add the editbugs user right to new users by default (revert the old settings adjustment). Otherwise, an acceptable workaround needs to be found. MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Bugzilla users have restricted accounts

2013-11-06 Thread MZMcBride
. Okay, I apologize for using that term. We can certainly do something different than what we're doing, though. It should be easy to get editbugs; just not so easy that a vandal can get it. Okay, let's. I proposed reverting the settings change. You don't like that idea. Your turn. :-) MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Bugzilla users have restricted accounts

2013-11-06 Thread MZMcBride
main inbox to the Bugzilla folder. I suppose it's a slight improvement, but it misses the point that the overall workflow is broken. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dashboard for code deployments; where, when, what? (was: Optimizing the deployment train schedule)

2013-11-07 Thread MZMcBride
no interest in directly working on a code deployment dashboard yourself. Perhaps a stupid question, but why is that? Sam seems to have the deployments to the wikis under control and the Marks seem to have the third-party releases under control. This seems like a good project for you. MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Bugzilla users have restricted accounts

2013-11-07 Thread MZMcBride
to only users that have done at least one or two actions in the last X months. Or exclude people that haven't logged in for a year. 14.7k sounds like a lot. Okay. As to your other questions, I'm confident we'll be able to figure out the logistical details, if needed. MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Bugzilla users have restricted accounts

2013-11-09 Thread MZMcBride
the control (it's kind of hiding in plain sight). MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in the ULS API and modules

2013-11-12 Thread MZMcBride
for this as well. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fate of hierarchical list on Special:Allpages

2013-11-12 Thread MZMcBride
://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:AllPages currently outputs one. Without objection, I'd go ahead and file a bug and mark it as easy. It should be fairly trivial to kill, I think. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Bugzilla users have restricted accounts

2013-11-13 Thread MZMcBride
to decrease interface noise. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Operations buy in on Architecture of mwlib Replacement

2013-11-13 Thread MZMcBride
guide architectural design decisions is, of course, a matter of debate. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architecture Summit -- Gathering all relevant RfC's

2013-11-26 Thread MZMcBride
get an RfC. We should encourage boldness. It's a wiki world: if you have an idea for an RFC, the correct answer is to start writing. :-) Anyone can participate. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making MediaWiki extensions installable via Composer

2013-12-07 Thread MZMcBride
to safely install new MediaWiki extensions. Presumably a graphical user interface installer would include the ability to do dependency checking, PHP version checking, etc. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please use sitenotice when a new version of software is deployed

2013-12-07 Thread MZMcBride
and the ambassadors mailing list and IRC and other communication avenues. Avoiding banner blindness is a real concern and the possible benefit seems small. My two cents. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

[Wikitech-l] Re-evaluating MediaWiki ResourceLoader's debug mode

2013-12-09 Thread MZMcBride
. * Minification is a form of obfuscation and it harms the open Web. I'm not sure what the right answer is here. The damage to reproducibility and the open Web hurts a lot. The performance hit may hurt more. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki RFC reporter bot

2013-12-09 Thread MZMcBride
participation in RFCs. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-evaluating MediaWiki ResourceLoader's debug mode

2013-12-09 Thread MZMcBride
Matthew Flaschen wrote: On 12/09/2013 09:29 PM, MZMcBride wrote: * You can specify debug=true. ** Specifying the URL parameter can damage reproducibility. ** URL parameter is non-obvious to just about everyone. I can't think of a more straight-forward name. It's also clearly documented

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki RFC reporter bot

2013-12-10 Thread MZMcBride
confusion. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread MZMcBride
JavaScript gadgets or CSS. In fact, in my experience certain actions (such as nominating a page for deletion) have become nearly impossible without the use of gadgets. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug Fixing: #21481

2013-12-12 Thread MZMcBride
and Bawolff have replied on the bug report. Please feel free to ask any questions there or here on this mailing list. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-13 Thread MZMcBride
summary has been updated accordingly. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Bug 57891] Review and deploy GlobalCssJs extension

2013-12-13 Thread MZMcBride
on a steward's kindness and willingness to run a bot), and inefficient (not utilizing ResourceLoader). I'm very excited about the work you're doing to implement a proper solution. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deploymight highlights - week of December 16th

2013-12-13 Thread MZMcBride
/, but still can't figure out what disabled wikis means. I'm familiar with closed, fishbowl, private, deleted, etc. Disabled is a new term to me. Can someone please clarify? MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

[Wikitech-l] Upcoming deployment of GWToolset MediaWiki extension to Wikimedia Commons

2013-12-13 Thread MZMcBride
to bolster the user documentation and prepare the Commoners for the change will be time very well spent. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR

2013-12-30 Thread MZMcBride
rate-limiting and other anti-abuse mechanisms. Bleh. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC process - open questions

2014-01-14 Thread MZMcBride
not sure this is the case. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Revamping interwiki prefixes

2014-01-19 Thread MZMcBride
., query paths containing _ v. + v. %20 v. c.). Regarding rel=nofollow and link trustworthiness: I'm not sure any sane search engine continues to trust user input these days. I thought lessons of the past taught developers that people are pretty unscrupulous. :-) MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] Monthly point releases

2014-02-03 Thread MZMcBride
would help everyone plan better, though it will presumably have to be updated after emergency (security) point releases? MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's improve our password policy

2014-02-04 Thread MZMcBride
the pros column seems a lot weaker than the cons column for implementing this change to $wgMinimalPasswordLength. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's improve our password policy

2014-02-05 Thread MZMcBride
Hi. Tyler Romeo wrote: On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:20 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Ultimately, account security is a user's prerogative. [...] Banks and even e-mail providers have reason to implement stricter authentication requirements. This is conflicting logic. If it is the user's

[Wikitech-l] [Bug 60940] Gerrit throwing internal server error with status:closed queries

2014-02-05 Thread MZMcBride
will likely be incomplete or inaccurate until this bug is fixed. If anyone would like to take over the maintenance of these Gerrit reports, they're yours for the taking. I'll even throw in a free bot account. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: FW: effects on caching

2014-02-06 Thread MZMcBride
Chad wrote: *From:* Schubotz, Moritz *Sent:* Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2014 14:33 *To:* wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Subject:* FW: effects on caching Looking at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-January/ I guess this message never made it through. MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's improve our password policy

2014-02-06 Thread MZMcBride
Wikimedia wikis, that's obviously (at least partially) your prerogative. But for MediaWiki core and for standard Wikimedia wikis, I'd like there to be a decent rationale before we consider inconveniencing users. MZMcBride P.S. I also casually wonder whether there's a reasonable argument to be made

Re: [Wikitech-l] Faidon Liambotis promoted to Principal Operations Engineer

2014-02-10 Thread MZMcBride
Ryan Lane wrote: Congrats Faidon, you do great work and you're an awesome person to work with. What he said. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's improve our password policy

2014-02-11 Thread MZMcBride
in substantial work on other wikis, but that's probably a nearly insignificant percentage. The convenience versus security trade-off is still a serious consideration, in my opinion. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thoughts on hiding text from the internal search

2014-02-18 Thread MZMcBride
ideas? It's difficult to offer advice without knowing why you're trying to do what it is you're trying to do. You've described a potential solution, but I'm not sure what problem you're trying to solve. Are there some example use-cases or perhaps there's a relevant bug in Bugzilla? MZMcBride

[Wikitech-l] Using Special page transclusion as a rudimentary API in Scribunto/Lua modules

2014-02-18 Thread MZMcBride
): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:MyUploads https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/110218872 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:Subpages https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/5416155 There are likely others. What can be done to address this issue? MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmap and Deployment highlight - week of March 3rd

2014-02-28 Thread MZMcBride
Greg Grossmeier wrote: We will be disabling ArticleFeedBack on all wikis. * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61163 ArticleFeedbackv5, rather. ArticleFeedback was already disabled on Wikimedia wikis (cf. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/43892). MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] Two factor auth reset needed on wikitech

2014-02-28 Thread MZMcBride
at wikitech.wikimedia.org has $wgDisableHardRedirects set to false. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDisableHardRedirects MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-06 Thread MZMcBride
., by implementing a user.user_display_name field or re-using user.user_real_name). But for now, I don't see any substantive issue with this change or with merging it in core. Silently changing a user's preferred username is a valid bug: Mzmcbride' plainly looks stupid and the silent and unexpected change

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-07 Thread MZMcBride
here. The feature in question seems sane and needs a few tweaks before being re-merged into core. No big deal. I don't think this is a war. The subject line chosen here was possibly a bit inflammatory. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-08 Thread MZMcBride
that. One day. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why is Cologne Blue still in core?

2014-03-10 Thread MZMcBride
every MediaWiki wiki looks the same. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki, Cookies and EU Privacy Policy 95/46/EG

2014-03-10 Thread MZMcBride
behavior until there is. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why is Cologne Blue still in core?

2014-03-11 Thread MZMcBride
engender more ill will and not provide that much of a savings. It's not as though anyone is currently prioritizing bug fixes and feature requests related to skins other than Vector and Monobook. In other words, the de facto support standard has long been only Monobook and Vector. Shrug. MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why is Cologne Blue still in core?

2014-03-11 Thread MZMcBride
by default with core. It'll be great. ;-) MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] WAP is finally deprecated

2014-03-11 Thread MZMcBride
-like service or something more interesting, it shouldn't be too difficult. More info: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API * https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php This somewhat softens the blow of the various WAP services going away. MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] Webfonts

2014-03-13 Thread MZMcBride
wikis get some substantial traffic. ;-) MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Maintaining or replacing Gerrit

2014-03-17 Thread MZMcBride
or contractors dedicated to maintaining human resources software and Bugzilla, but perhaps it could spare the additional resources for a person dedicated to Gerrit or another code review tool. Or this is possibly an area where a Wikimedia Chapter could provide support. MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] Maintaining or replacing Gerrit

2014-03-17 Thread MZMcBride
Mark Holmquist wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:52:52PM -0400, MZMcBride wrote: The Wikimedia Foundation currently has staff or contractors dedicated to maintaining human resources software ...which? (I ask because I suspect MZ is referring to the orgchart project I have maybe one day every

Re: [Wikitech-l] Grrrit-wm down for a few hours

2014-03-17 Thread MZMcBride
included). Diffusion of responsibility. :-) Thanks for sending this note. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Maintaining or replacing Gerrit

2014-03-17 Thread MZMcBride
the bare minimum of keeping the service online indefinitely; this would ideally include regularly implementing bug fixes and enhancement requests. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] CentralAuth questions

2014-03-27 Thread MZMcBride
. For general clarity, while I used www.mediawiki.org in the examples in this e-mail, because the Web API is retrieving global (wiki farm-wide) data, the equivalent URL paths should work on other Wikimedia wikis such as en.wikipedia.org or meta.wikimedia.org. MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reducing the number of GeoData coordinates stored

2014-04-02 Thread MZMcBride
the savings are, it's difficult for me to assess whether the proposed plan is worth reducing the potential utility of this data. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Shorter URLs

2014-04-06 Thread MZMcBride
Daniel Norton wrote: On Apr 6, 2014, at 12:08 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: en.wikipedia.org/s/xr32 Hmm, I presume that you were just tossing out a random URL, but that “/s/” path seems to be configured with some special purpose, sending a 301 redirect regardless of the remainder

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread MZMcBride
disruptive. Going back to the status quo... not so much. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread MZMcBride
Steven Walling wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:40 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: * Is there an issue with specifying font-family: sans-serif; in MediaWiki core? Do you mean just for body type as Odder proposed in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124475/, or for everything? That's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-10 Thread MZMcBride
would start. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Programmatically making an empty edit?

2014-04-18 Thread MZMcBride
links updates) should just work in MediaWiki. Individual users shouldn't feel compelled to manually null edit or aggressively purge pages. I'd personally rather see time and energy invested into making the need for null edits obsolete instead of making touch.py more robust. MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] Programmatically making an empty edit?

2014-04-18 Thread MZMcBride
the purge action in MediaWiki: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/54902. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Subscribe to Tech News via a web feed

2014-04-20 Thread MZMcBride
language feeds for the Tech News team, but the infrastructure necessary to do so seems to be mostly in place already, which is really nice. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.22.6 and 1.21.9

2014-04-24 Thread MZMcBride
Markus Glaser wrote: == Security == * (bug 63251) SECURITY: escape sortKey in pageInfo. :-( Can you unlock https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63251? MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] where is documentation for new wikibugs bot

2014-04-27 Thread MZMcBride
-April/076140.html. This isn't to say that wikibugs couldn't have better documentation, both on-wiki and built in. Code patches and wiki edits are welcome. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] En.wikipedia redirect loops on everything (??!!)

2014-05-13 Thread MZMcBride
== * 03:01 Tim: reverting apache change * 02:53 Tim: deploying apache configuration change https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/106109 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Server_admin_log can be a decent reference for issues such as this. Hope that helps. MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] Login to Wikimedia Phabricator with a GitHub/Google/etc account?

2014-05-16 Thread MZMcBride
on mediawiki.org or meta.wikimedia.org. Greg Grossmeier wrote: You can. You can claim other accounts in Phab. What's Phab? MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Status of fully unified login across Wikimedia wikis

2014-05-16 Thread MZMcBride
Chad wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 4:38 PM, MZMcBride wrote: I suppose you could rely only on global (in the CentralAuth extension sense) accounts, but it really would make sense for Wikimedia to get its own house in order first: we should finish fully unifying login across Wikimedia wikis

Re: [Wikitech-l] Performance guidelines - aim to make official 23 May

2014-05-17 Thread MZMcBride
or one of the other designers could take a look. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Hackathon in New York (with prizes!) on June 21

2014-05-21 Thread MZMcBride
. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] HtmlBuilder virus

2014-06-06 Thread MZMcBride
transclusions. This should provide a useful list of places for people to help out, at which point the magical wiki process can take over. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

[Wikitech-l] Authorship metadata displayed at the view action in MediaWiki

2014-06-09 Thread MZMcBride
to lots of editors every month and anecdotally many of them would prefer not to have their usernames plastered at the top of articles. I'm not sure this is unreasonable. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preventing MW from adding a page to watchlist

2014-06-10 Thread MZMcBride
wiki installations probably want to re-visit whether the user preferences defaults are appropriate for their communities. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upgrading to 1.23

2014-06-12 Thread MZMcBride
. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Separating Special:MyLanguage from Extension:Collection

2014-06-17 Thread MZMcBride
) Putting Special:MyLanguage-type functionality in MediaWiki core seems fine to me. It just maps a user's language preference to a language code subpage, right? So Special:MyLanguage/Foo for someone who's specified that she speaks Spanish would redirect to Foo/es. MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] Finding images

2014-06-17 Thread MZMcBride
currently, 'File:Cosmos atrosanguineus Choco Mocha.jpg'). Hope that helps. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Finding images

2014-06-17 Thread MZMcBride
Lars Aronsson wrote: On 06/18/2014 06:14 AM, MZMcBride wrote: If you search for 'incategory:Red flowers', you can find pictures in only that category. If you search for 'incategory:Red flowers incategory:Bicycles', you can see the intersection of these two categories. (No results currently

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ensure that user is logged in

2014-06-19 Thread MZMcBride
in a URL. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ensure that user is logged in

2014-06-19 Thread MZMcBride
is correct -- I suppose you'd need to make sure the md5 parameter made it to the Web server before the truncated text parameter... bah. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

[Wikitech-l] Including NS_MAIN in $wgNamespacesWithSubpages by default

2014-06-24 Thread MZMcBride
= true, NS_FILE_TALK = true, NS_MEDIAWIKI = true, NS_MEDIAWIKI_TALK = true, NS_TEMPLATE_TALK = true, NS_HELP = true, NS_HELP_TALK = true, NS_CATEGORY_TALK = true ); --- Proposed array addition: --- NS_MAIN = true, --- MZMcBride

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