Re: [Wikitech-l] Going to FOSDEM

2013-02-02 Thread Finne Boonen
from the FOSDEM ML: Should we grab one of these slots? Dear All, FOSDEM is nearing and it is promising to become awesome again. Like last year, we will provide two 'community meeting rooms' (formerly called BoF rooms). The concept is simple: any project/community can reserve a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Integrating MediaWiki into MS SBS

2013-02-02 Thread Ryan Lane
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.org The following manual seems to be the most actively maintained guide for getting MediaWiki installed on Windows:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Audio derivatives, turning on MP3/AAC mobile app feature request.

2013-02-02 Thread Michael Dale
+correct content-type this time ;) Note this has already been merged, but still worth mention for visibility. On 2/1/13 12:10 PM, Michael Dale wrote: We are about to merge in support for audio derivatives to Timed Media Handler (TMH). The big value here, I think is encoding to AAC or MP3 and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Going to FOSDEM

2013-02-02 Thread Finne Boonen
I grabbed community/BOF room 1 (h3227) tomorrow @ 12h for a meetup Sent from my iPhone On 2-feb.-2013, at 13:12, Finne Boonen hen...@gmail.com wrote: from the FOSDEM ML: Should we grab one of these slots? Dear All, FOSDEM is nearing and it is promising to become awesome again.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Integrating MediaWiki into MS SBS

2013-02-02 Thread Marco Fleckinger
Hi, We're using this at another organization. But the servers are Debian-based. But is cool to have the same password on nearly everything. If you need it, I maybe could extract you the relevant information from this config. Try to get your sysadmin to let you operate on a VM possibly with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Going to FOSDEM

2013-02-02 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
Thanks for making that happen, Finne! I'll be there if my health plays nice. Directions: walk into the hallway at H2214, towards the restrooms, then go up the stairs. Cheers! -- Siebrand On 2-feb.-2013, at 13:12, Finne Boonen hen...@gmail.com wrote: from the FOSDEM ML: Should we

[Wikitech-l] API data push/pull guidelines

2013-02-02 Thread Small M
Hello, There is a lack of guidelines regarding the rate at the mediawiki API may be used. Specifically for the enwiki and commons api (if it doesn't matter, please say so): For bots: Are simultaneous uploads permitted? E.g. uploading 3 20MB files simultaneously to the commons on a 1Gbit/s

Re: [Wikitech-l] API data push/pull guidelines

2013-02-02 Thread Petr Onderka
There is a page about the etiquette of using the API. [1] In short, your bot should ideally make requests in a series (not multiple requests in parallel) and use maxlag=5. But the bug you referred to already includes this link, and I don't think there are better guidelines. [1]:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Going to FOSDEM

2013-02-02 Thread Željko Filipin
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Finne Boonen hen...@gmail.com wrote: I grabbed community/BOF room 1 (h3227) tomorrow @ 12h for a meetup See you there. Željko ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: RFC: Introducing two new HTTP headers to track mobile pageviews

2013-02-02 Thread Platonides
I don't like it's cryptic nature. Someone looking at the headers sent to his browser would be very confused about what's the point of «X-MF-Mode: b». Instead something like this would be much more descriptive: X-Mobile-Mode: stable X-Mobile-Request: secondary But that also means sending more

Re: [Wikitech-l] Audio derivatives, turning on MP3/AAC mobile app feature request.

2013-02-02 Thread Platonides
Your system does not seem to support OGG audio format. Downloading this file without ogg support may need a significant amount of space and bandwith. Downloading article.wav ... 20% ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: RFC: Introducing two new HTTP headers to track mobile pageviews

2013-02-02 Thread Ori Livneh
On Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Platonides wrote: I don't like it's cryptic nature. Someone looking at the headers sent to his browser would be very confused about what's the point of «X-MF-Mode: b». Instead something like this would be much more descriptive: X-Mobile-Mode:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Going to FOSDEM

2013-02-02 Thread Julien Dorra
What about staying around on Saturday at 18h, after the sessions? I'm at Fosdem and would love to meet you all in person. Would it makes sense to meet outside the community dev room at 18:00 today Saturday? Julien ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Audio derivatives, turning on MP3/AAC mobile app feature request.

2013-02-02 Thread Brion Vibber
On Feb 2, 2013 1:45 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Your system does not seem to support OGG audio format. Downloading this file without ogg support may need a significant amount of space and bandwith. Downloading article.wav ... 20% Something tells me that won't be feasible for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: RFC: Introducing two new HTTP headers to track mobile pageviews

2013-02-02 Thread Diederik van Liere
Thanks Ori, I was not aware of this D Sent from my iPhone On 2013-02-02, at 16:55, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Platonides wrote: I don't like it's cryptic nature. Someone looking at the headers sent to his browser would be very

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikivideo-l] Audio derivatives, turning on MP3/AAC mobile app feature request.

2013-02-02 Thread Jeremy Baron
On 2/1/13 12:10 PM, Michael Dale wrote: The software patent situation for mp3 is sad, considering how long the mp3 format has been around: http://www.tunequest.org/a-big-list-of-mp3-patents/20070226/ [...] But fundamentally Wikimedia is not distributing these encoders and there are no

Re: [Wikitech-l] Going to FOSDEM

2013-02-02 Thread Željko Filipin
18:00 Saturday is past tense, right? Željko On Saturday, February 2, 2013, Julien Dorra wrote: What about staying around on Saturday at 18h, after the sessions? I'm at Fosdem and would love to meet you all in person. Would it makes sense to meet outside the community dev room at 18:00

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: RFC: Introducing two new HTTP headers to track mobile pageviews

2013-02-02 Thread David Schoonover
Huh! News to me as well. I definitely agree with that decision. Thanks, Ori! I've already written the Varnish code for setting X-MF-Mode so it can be captured by varnishncsa. Is there agreement to switch to Mobile-Mode, or at least, MF-Mode? Looking especially to hear from Arthur and Matt. --

Re: [Wikitech-l] Audio derivatives, turning on MP3/AAC mobile app feature request.

2013-02-02 Thread Yuvi Panda
Just to be sure that I'm reading this right - nothing actually changed yet. We still are a free-formats-only shop for A/V. Right? -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org