Re: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8

2011-02-01 Thread Roan Kattouw
2011/2/1 Rob Lanphier ro...@robla.net: Can you explain why you're rolling out when it's the middle of the night where Wikimedia is headquartered? I have a few different theories (site traffic, time zones of the operations team, etc.), but a clarification here would be good. We lost the game

Re: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8

2011-02-01 Thread Krinkle
Rob Lanphier wrote: MZMcBride wrote: Rob Lanphier wrote: If all goes well, you should only notice the improvement. If it doesn¹t go well, that¹s because there¹s something we missed, and that¹s where we¹d love your help. Please help us test this release! We have a test instance of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8

2011-02-01 Thread Chad
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Rob Lanphier ro...@robla.net wrote: We lost the game of rock/paper/scissors.  :)  We decided to do this very late U.S. west coast time so that our European and Australian contingents would be well rested in case there are problems.  Given that we have key

[Wikitech-l] Accessing the toolserver from WP using Ajax

2011-02-01 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hi all! what's the best way to get around the same original policy to fetch data from the toolserver with a XMLHTTPRequest in a Wikipedia gadget? Is there a best practice, a nice and easy, generally usable method? what would it take to make one? I know that some gadgets have been doing this,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Accessing the toolserver from WP using Ajax

2011-02-01 Thread Brion Vibber
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.dewrote: Hi all! what's the best way to get around the same original policy to fetch data from the toolserver with a XMLHTTPRequest in a Wikipedia gadget? Is there a best practice, a nice and easy, generally usable method?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Farewell JSMin, Hello JavaScriptDistiller!

2011-02-01 Thread Ashar Voultoiz
On 31/01/11 13:51, Roan Kattouw wrote: I can work around it in the extension, but we should watch out and make sure we've got regression tests covering any cases we find. Yes, we need minifier tests. Isn't this an upstream issue? If so we could send them our patches. -- Ashar

Re: [Wikitech-l] Farewell JSMin, Hello JavaScriptDistiller!

2011-02-01 Thread Trevor Parscal
There are 2 components to the JavaScriptDistiller library. One of them (the ParseMaster class) is 100% in sync with the official distribution. The other (the JavaScriptDistiller class) was originally based on the JavaScriptPacker::_basicCompression function. That function had some issues that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Farewell JSMin, Hello JavaScriptDistiller!

2011-02-01 Thread Ashar Voultoiz
On 01/02/11 19:42, Trevor Parscal wrote: In the former case, any changes should be strictly passed upstream. In the latter case, I think we should offer them upstream but realize that we have deviated from the original author's structure and possibly intentions enough that they may or may not

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] Accessing the toolserver from WP using Ajax

2011-02-01 Thread Krinkle
Use jQuery.ajax (or it's wrapper functions such as jQuery.getJSON) to cover all cross-browser issues. And as indirectly suggested above. JSONP is the solution for cross- domain scripting. What it means is that that source (in this case toolserver) has a URL parameter (say callback=), the

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors} - repost

2011-02-01 Thread Fred Bauder
This idea arose in the context of a discussion which generally addressed civility. The warnings would be civility warnings. Fred To that end, a warnings tool would be helpful, supplementing or replacing the uw- templates with a MediaWiki extension that requires that warnings be acknowledged

Re: [Wikitech-l] Farewell JSMin, Hello JavaScriptDistiller!

2011-02-01 Thread Platonides
Trevor Parscal wrote: There are 2 components to the JavaScriptDistiller library. One of them (the ParseMaster class) is 100% in sync with the official distribution. The other (the JavaScriptDistiller class) was originally based on the JavaScriptPacker::_basicCompression function. That

Re: [Wikitech-l] Farewell JSMin, Hello JavaScriptDistiller!

2011-02-01 Thread Trevor Parscal
I was planning on emailing him a patch, probably after I wrote some tests to ensure I wasn't submitting him something with issues. - Trevor On Feb 1, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Platonides wrote: Trevor Parscal wrote: There are 2 components to the JavaScriptDistiller library. One of them (the

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki security release 1.16.2

2011-02-01 Thread Tim Starling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.16.2, which is a security release. Two security issues were discovered. An arbitrary script inclusion vulnerability was discovered. The vulnerability only allows execution of files with names

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors} - repost

2011-02-01 Thread MZMcBride
Fred Bauder wrote: This idea arose in the context of a discussion which generally addressed civility. The warnings would be civility warnings. To that end, a warnings tool would be helpful, supplementing or replacing the uw- templates with a MediaWiki extension that requires that warnings

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sentence-level editing / InlineEditorextensionupdate

2011-02-01 Thread Janesh Kodikara
- Original Message - From: Jan Paul Posma jp.po...@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical To: Janesh Kodikara jan...@calcey.com; Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 3:00 AM Subject: Re: Sentence-level editing /

Re: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8

2011-02-01 Thread Janesh Kodikara
- Original Message - From: Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org Newsgroups: gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 8:15 AM Subject: Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8 If all goes well, you