Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-13 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On 13/03/13 02:01, Lars Aronsson wrote: Provide a tool on the toolserver, or any other server, having a simple link syntax that specifies the language code and the text, e.g. http://toolserver.org/mytool.php?lang=frtext=gouter I was thinking about this already and yes, this is a great idea! :)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-13 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On 13/03/13 02:29, Brian Wolff wrote: It was solvable with a java applet (or flash, but that's usually considered evil) back in 2003. However it still requires someone to actually do it. I believe Flash should be Ok if made to work on gnash but am not sure if gnash supports everything needed.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-13 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On 13/03/13 02:48, Matthew Flaschen wrote: The tool uses a cookie, that remembers that this user has agreed to submit contributions using cc0. At the first visit, this question is asked as a click-through license. Why CC0 (public domain)? Your example

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-13 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 03/13/2013 03:17 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: Why CC0 (public domain)? Your example (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr-go%C3%BBter.ogg) is CC-BY, which is not public domain and requires attribution (which I think all Wikimedia projects do for text). I'd say CC-BY-SA or CC-BY would

[Wikitech-l] WebRequest and PHP bug 31892 fixed 6 years ago

2013-03-13 Thread vitalif
Hello! WebRequest::getPathInfo() still depends on PHP bug 31892 fixed 6 years ago. I.e. WebRequest uses REQUEST_URI instead of mangled PATH_INFO which is not mangled since PHP 5.2.4. Yeah, Apache still replaces multiple /// with single /, but afaik it's done for REQUEST_URI as well as

Re: [Wikitech-l] WebRequest and PHP bug 31892 fixed 6 years ago

2013-03-13 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:22 PM, vita...@yourcmc.ru wrote: Also I don't understand the need for PathRouter - my IMHO is that it's just an unnecessary sophistication. As I understand EVERYTHING worked without it and there is no feature in MediaWiki which depends on a router. Am I correct? I

[Wikitech-l] [Reminder] Fwd: [Language Engineering] Office hour on 13th March 2013, 1700UTC

2013-03-13 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
Hello, This a reminder that the Language Engineering team will be having an office hour today i.e. 13th of March 2013, at 1700 UTC. The agenda can be found in the section below. Also, I'd like to apologize that the original mail was inadvertently not sent to the wikimedia-l list. Please do try

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-13 Thread Luke Welling WMF
It would be a good application for mobile too. In browser would be reasonably easy with Flash, and can be done with JavaScript in modern browsers but not yet in a consistent way. There is a W3 spec but using a library like https://github.com/jussi-kalliokoski/sink.js/ would be easier than

Re: [Wikitech-l] Nightly shallow clones of mediawiki/core

2013-03-13 Thread Željko Filipin
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Version numbers in Git don't reflect any sort of reality in terms of features or things to look forward Sometimes I mention Semantic Versioning[1] to people that write code for a living and get surprised that they did not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Replacement for tagging in Gerrit

2013-03-13 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 20:28 -0700, Rob Lanphier wrote: If the problem is with the rigidity of keywords, one thing I should note is that, in addition to tagging, there's also the whiteboard in Bugzilla, which I believe you can use for free form stuff to query. I believe Andre only enabled that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Virtual machines for testing IE

2013-03-13 Thread Željko Filipin
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Unlike before, they now even offer VirtualBox and VMWare images ievms[1] makes it even simpler to download all images. Željko -- [1] https://github.com/xdissent/ievms

Re: [Wikitech-l] Nightly shallow clones of mediawiki/core

2013-03-13 Thread Brad Jorsch
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Željko Filipin zfili...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Version numbers in Git don't reflect any sort of reality in terms of features or things to look forward Sometimes I mention Semantic

[Wikitech-l] Meetup: Lua meets Wikipedia

2013-03-13 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, there is a meetup tomorrow Thursday in San Francisco + video streaming: Lua meets Wikipedia http://www.meetup.com/Wikipedia-Engineering-Meetup/events/106078042/ The talks will start at about 6pm Pacific - 1:00 AM UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130315T0100

Re: [Wikitech-l] A new feedback extension - review urgently needed

2013-03-13 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:37:52 +0100, Lukas Benedix bene...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Do you have any advice what I can do? Publicize. I had no idea anybody was doing anything like that, and I follow all channels worth following. -- Matma Rex ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] WebRequest and PHP bug 31892 fixed 6 years ago

2013-03-13 Thread vitalif
I doubt Daniel would have introduced it if it was un-necessary or pointless, I believe from memory it was to improve the handling of paths over a wide range of set-ups and environments (where sometimes it would fail). You would need to git blame the file and find the revision where it was

Re: [Wikitech-l] Virtual machines for testing IE

2013-03-13 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 03/13/2013 11:06 AM, Željko Filipin wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Unlike before, they now even offer VirtualBox and VMWare images ievms[1] makes it even simpler to download all images. Cool, thank you. Matt

[Wikitech-l] New unified SSL certificate (round two) to be deployed this afternoon

2013-03-13 Thread Rob Halsell
We will be pushing the new unified certificate this afternoon @ 2PM PDT. This new certificate will include all our primary top level domains, as well as the mobile subdomains. Unfortunately, those projects that have a sub.subdomain (example: arbcom.de.wikimedia.org) will have to redo their

Re: [Wikitech-l] WebRequest and PHP bug 31892 fixed 6 years ago

2013-03-13 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:40:08 -0700, vita...@yourcmc.ru wrote: I doubt Daniel would have introduced it if it was un-necessary or pointless, I believe from memory it was to improve the handling of paths over a wide range of set-ups and environments (where sometimes it would fail). You would need

Re: [Wikitech-l] New unified SSL certificate (round two) to be deployed this afternoon

2013-03-13 Thread Ryan Lane
This is finished. On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Rob Halsell rhals...@wikimedia.orgwrote: We will be pushing the new unified certificate this afternoon @ 2PM PDT. This new certificate will include all our primary top level domains, as well as the mobile subdomains. Unfortunately, those

Re: [Wikitech-l] Replacement for tagging in Gerrit

2013-03-13 Thread Christian Aistleitner
Hi, On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 08:28:25PM -0700, Rob Lanphier wrote: The Bugzilla-based solution has some of the advantages of the MediaWiki-based solution. We may be able to implement it more quickly than something native to Gerrit because we're already working on Bugzilla integration, and we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Replacement for tagging in Gerrit

2013-03-13 Thread Krinkle
Can git notes be changed after merge? Do they show in Gerrit diffs, so we don't accidentally lose them if someone else pushed an amend without the tags? Can they be removed after merge? Can one query for commits having a certain tag within a repo/branch/author? (eg. fixme commits by me in mw

Re: [Wikitech-l] Replacement for tagging in Gerrit

2013-03-13 Thread rupert THURNER
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Christian Aistleitner christ...@quelltextlich.at wrote: Hi, On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 08:28:25PM -0700, Rob Lanphier wrote: The Bugzilla-based solution has some of the advantages of the MediaWiki-based solution. We may be able to implement it more quickly

Re: [Wikitech-l] A new feedback extension - review urgently needed

2013-03-13 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2013-03-12 8:38 PM, Lukas Benedix bene...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Do you have any advice what I can do? Don't take this the wrong way, but you should perhaps start considering a plan b. Community contributed extensions often take months before getting deployed. While that's not always

Re: [Wikitech-l] A new feedback extension - review urgently needed

2013-03-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/13/2013 08:00 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: On 2013-03-12 8:38 PM, Lukas Benedix bene...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Do you have any advice what I can do? Don't take this the wrong way, but you should perhaps start considering a plan b. Community contributed extensions often take months

Re: [Wikitech-l] New unified SSL certificate deployed

2013-03-13 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com We just finished deploying a new SSL certificate to the sites. Now all *.m and *. certificates are included in a single certificate, except mediawiki.org. Unfortunately we somehow forgot mediawiki.org when we ordered the updated

Re: [Wikitech-l] New unified SSL certificate deployed

2013-03-13 Thread Ryan Lane
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com We just finished deploying a new SSL certificate to the sites. Now all *.m and *. certificates are included in a single certificate, except mediawiki.org.

Re: [Wikitech-l] New unified SSL certificate deployed

2013-03-13 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Mar 13, 2013 11:13 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: Hey, Ryan; did you see, perhaps on outages-discussion, the after action report from Microsoft about how their Azure SSL cert expiration screwup happened? Can you just link to the discussion archive?

Re: [Wikitech-l] New unified SSL certificate deployed

2013-03-13 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com Hey, Ryan; did you see, perhaps on outages-discussion, the after action report from Microsoft about how their Azure SSL cert expiration screwup happened? What's the relevance here? Does ops have a procedure for avoiding

Re: [Wikitech-l] New unified SSL certificate deployed

2013-03-13 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com Can you just link to the discussion archive? Was a posting: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2013/03/01/details-of-the-february-22nd-2013-windows-azure-storage-disruption.aspx Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

Re: [Wikitech-l] Virtual machines for testing IE

2013-03-13 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
13 Март 2013 г. 22:42:57 пользователь Matthew Flaschen (mflasc...@wikimedia.org) написал: On 03/13/2013 11:06 AM, Željko Filipin wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Unlike before, they now even offer VirtualBox and VMWare images

Re: [Wikitech-l] Virtual machines for testing IE

2013-03-13 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 03/14/2013 01:11 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov wrote: Aren't these Windows systems bundled into VM images get expired every month or so so you have to re-download huge images again and again? I used to download and run IE tests for custom MW scripts / skins about 1.5 years ago, it was really tiresome

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: New unified SSL certificate deployed

2013-03-13 Thread Ryan Lane
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com Hey, Ryan; did you see, perhaps on outages-discussion, the after action report from Microsoft about how their Azure SSL cert expiration screwup