[Wikitech-l] GSoC project: Extending UploadWizard to more easily upload books

2013-04-30 Thread Tianhao Wang
Hi, I'm Tianhao Wang, from China. I'll participate in GSoC this summer and help improve the UploadWizard to be more friendly to book uploaders. Here is my proposal: https:// www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Vvv214wth/UploadWizard. Any feedbacks or advices is welcomed!

Re: [Wikitech-l] project idea for wikimedia

2013-04-30 Thread anurag bhattacharjee
thanks a lot. it's a pleasure to talk to you . ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-04-30 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi, On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 15:41 +0200, Željko Filipin wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Do you know the correct number for FIXED, so I can fix both charts? 200 according to

[Wikitech-l] Next bugday: May 03rd, 15:00-16:30UTC on MediaWiki Installer issues

2013-04-30 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi everybody, Please join us on the next Wikimedia Bugday: Friday, May 03rd, 15:00-16:30 UTC [1] in #wikimedia-office on Freenode IRC [2] We are going to take a look at recent MediaWiki installer reports, trying to reproduce some plus provide feedback and prioritization. Everyone is

[Wikitech-l] OPW Browser Test Automation - Proposal Summary

2013-04-30 Thread Indrani Sen
Hello, I am summarizing here my proposal idea for OPW MediaWiki projects. Objective: To test MediaWiki/WikiPedia websites across different browsers. To make sure various website features are supported on different browser platforms. This is mainly functionality testing of website features.

[Wikitech-l] Project Idea Proposal

2013-04-30 Thread Dheeraj Joshi
Hello, I have submitted my project proposal for GSoc'13. Please have a look and review it. Link : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dheerajjoshi1991 -- Dheeraj ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC Proposal :Jquery.IME improvements

2013-04-30 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:33 AM, Nithin Saji nithin...@gmail.com wrote: After unsuccessfully editing the proposal template wiki I have finally made a very crude draft of my proposal. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Diadara536/GSoC Thank you Nitin. Comments are on the talk page. regards

[Wikitech-l] Feature proposal: backups while editing articles

2013-04-30 Thread Paul Selitskas
While editing Wikipedia articles, I often faced a situtation when I accidently pressed Back in browser, then spontaneously pressing random buttons, returning the edit form and... having a blank editor or the last submitted version of an article. I've been so much frustrated every time when I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feature proposal: backups while editing articles

2013-04-30 Thread Petr Kadlec
On 30 April 2013 15:46, Paul Selitskas p.selits...@gmail.com wrote: There is another approach: storing the backups at the server side. Some people ( :] ) suggest that it's quite cheap and may be reasonable. Anyhow, we cannow allow per-keypress backup update due to requests latency. And this

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC: Auto tagging using Semantic analysis Semi-Supervised Learning [was: Project Idea Proposal]

2013-04-30 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 18:18 +0530, Dheeraj Joshi wrote: I have submitted my project proposal for GSoc'13. Please have a look and review it. Link : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dheerajjoshi1991 Thanks for your proposal! For future reference, please use a more specific email subject. You

Re: [Wikitech-l] FlaggedRevs/PendingChanges in only specific pages (e.g. Biographies of living persons)

2013-04-30 Thread 青子守歌(aokomoriuta)
Thank you, all. I will tell your answer to Japanese Wikipedians. Thanks again Original Message Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] FlaggedRevs/PendingChanges in only specific pages (e.g. Biographies of living persons) From: Risker risker...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia developers

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feature proposal: backups while editing articles

2013-04-30 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
Somebody tried to implement that in MediaWiki core about a year ago: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/5130/ . It turned out to be harder than it looks and the patch is in a limbo now; maybe you could find someone to continue the work. -- Matma Rex

Re: [Wikitech-l] Glossary vs. Glossaries

2013-04-30 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote: * Google custom search: Waldir recently used Google Custom Search to created a search tool to find technical information across many pages and sites where information is currently fragmented:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feature proposal: backups while editing articles

2013-04-30 Thread Chad
What about the Drafts extension? -Chad On Apr 30, 2013 10:27 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com wrote: Somebody tried to implement that in MediaWiki core about a year ago: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/**r/#/c/5130/https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/5130/. It turned out to be harder

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feature proposal: backups while editing articles

2013-04-30 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:32:17 +0200, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: What about the Drafts extension? It seems to be slightly different, saving the drafts server-side instead of client-side, and apparently only on demand or every few minutes instead of basically continuously. -- Matma

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feature proposal: backups while editing articles

2013-04-30 Thread Paul Selitskas
Oh, thanks for pointing this out too. I should have prepare better. Unfortunately, this patch has some obvious flaws. But they can be fixed, I hope so. On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.comwrote: Somebody tried to implement that in MediaWiki core about a year

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feature proposal: backups while editing articles

2013-04-30 Thread Chad
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:32:17 +0200, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: What about the Drafts extension? It seems to be slightly different, saving the drafts server-side instead of client-side, and apparently

[Wikitech-l] OPW browser test automation for Visual Editor

2013-04-30 Thread Rachel Thomas
Apologies if this was sent to the list more than once Here is my proposal for OPW: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rachel99/OPW_proposal Pls. give me any feedback you have. Thanks, Rachel ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feature proposal: backups while editing articles

2013-04-30 Thread Paul Selitskas
We could mix these two approaches, but the working copy going behind the latest change is the main issue. We're not talking about git, and it is natural text to be merged, unlike the programming languages. That is why I'm certain that every draft stored at the server-side should be treated as

[Wikitech-l] Offline Wikipedia (was Re: GSoC Project)

2013-04-30 Thread Quim Gil
Thank you for this reply, Emmanuel. GSoC / OPW candidates learn a lot from emails like this! (and the rest of us too) On 04/29/2013 03:48 PM, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote: let me thank: * Quim for having renamed this thread... I wouldn't have got a chance to read it otherwise. Then please make

[Wikitech-l] OPW: deadline for submissions is May 1

2013-04-30 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, The deadline for submissions to the FOSS Outreach Program for Women is *** 19:00pm UTC on May 1, 2013 *** You must send your application to opw-list{}gnome.org before the deadline. No exceptions! https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen#Send_in_an_Application You can keep

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-30 Thread Petr Bena
SSL is requiring more CPU, both on server and client and disable all kinds of cache (such as squid or varnish), and some browsers may have problems with it OR in some countries encryption may be even illegal. Whatever you are going to do, you should let people turn it off. Wikimedia project

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-30 Thread Happy Melon
On 30 April 2013 18:27, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: SSL is requiring more CPU, both on server and client and disable all kinds of cache (such as squid or varnish), and some browsers may have problems with it OR in some countries encryption may be even illegal. Whatever you are going

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-30 Thread Luis Villa
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: SSL is requiring more CPU, Not really. In January this year (2010), Gmail switched to using HTTPS for everything by default. Previously it had been introduced as an option, but now all of our users use HTTPS to secure their

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-30 Thread Petr Bena
Ok, I agree with both of you that ssl is probably no deal for current machines and browsers. But anyway - I am afraid that /forcing/ people to use anything is a bad idea. It should be up to them to do what they like on their own risk. There are countries where encryption is illegal (not really

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-30 Thread Petr Bena
BTW there are not only common browsers like internet explorer which are getting content from wikipedia, but even less common browsers, such as bots, which are sometimes written in languages, where even if it's not impossible, it at least adds 1 more level of complexity for programmer to make them

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-30 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:27:21 -0700, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: SSL is requiring more CPU, both on server and client and disable all kinds of cache (such as squid or varnish), and some browsers may have problems with it OR in some countries encryption may be even illegal. SSL does not

Re: [Wikitech-l] OPW: deadline for submissions is May 1

2013-04-30 Thread Jiabao Wu
Hi Quim, Thank you for your reminder. Does this mean that the applicants have one more day, or half a hour? ... Sorry I always feel pretty confused about this... On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, The deadline for submissions to the FOSS Outreach Program

Re: [Wikitech-l] OPW: deadline for submissions is May 1

2013-04-30 Thread Petr Onderka
When I'm confused about timezones, I tend to use Wolfram Alpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=19%3A00pm+UTC+on+May+1%2C+2013 19:00pm UTC on May 1, 2013 1 day 33 minutes 44 seconds in the future Petr Onderka [[en:User:Svick]] On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Jiabao Wu

Re: [Wikitech-l] OPW Browser Test Automation - Proposal Summary

2013-04-30 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 04/30/2013 08:25 AM, Indrani Sen wrote: Hello, I am summarizing here my proposal idea for OPW MediaWiki projects. Objective: To test MediaWiki/WikiPedia websites across different browsers. To make sure various website features are supported on different browser platforms. This is

Re: [Wikitech-l] OPW: deadline for submissions is May 1

2013-04-30 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 04/30/2013 02:22 PM, Jiabao Wu wrote: Hi Quim, Thank you for your reminder. Does this mean that the applicants have one more day, or half a hour? ... Sorry I always feel pretty confused about this... The deadline in 1900 UTC May 1st. See

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC: Auto tagging using Semantic analysis Semi-Supervised Learning [was: Project Idea Proposal]

2013-04-30 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 04/30/2013 10:10 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 18:18 +0530, Dheeraj Joshi wrote: I have submitted my project proposal for GSoc'13. Please have a look and review it. Link : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dheerajjoshi1991 Thanks for your proposal! Thank you for

Re: [Wikitech-l] OPW Browser Test Automation - Proposal Summary

2013-04-30 Thread Chris McMahon
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 04/30/2013 08:25 AM, Indrani Sen wrote: Scope: To do functionality testing of selected features(i.e Print/Export PDF option etc. ) of the website on selected browser(i.e IE, FF, Chrome etc.) This is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-30 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:14:48AM -0700, Daniel Friesen wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:27:21 -0700, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: SSL is requiring more CPU, both on server and client and disable all kinds of cache (such as squid or varnish), and some browsers may have problems with it

[Wikitech-l] Submitted Proposal

2013-04-30 Thread Siddha Ganju
Hi! I am Siddha Ganju, a Computer Science and Engineering student from National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh,India. I have submitted a proposal[1] on jQuery.IME - the next big improvements. All suggestions are welcome! Thanks! [1]

Re: [Wikitech-l] OPW: deadline for submissions is May 1

2013-04-30 Thread Jiabao Wu
Thank you for telling me this. :D Jiabao On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 04/30/2013 02:22 PM, Jiabao Wu wrote: Hi Quim, Thank you for your reminder. Does this mean that the applicants have one more day, or half a hour? ... Sorry I

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2013.04 release

2013-04-30 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hallo, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki language extension bundle 2013.04 * https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.04.tar.bz2 * sha256sum: bd6aca60101308f429d90d421e35093328e7a05ea74d35c05a98474ab648dec4 Quick links: * Installation instructions

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-30 Thread Chris Steipp
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Faidon Liambotis fai...@wikimedia.org wrote: That being said, my gut tells me that making all the logins SSL-enabled is not going to make a significant difference compared to current usage, but I don't have any numbers to back this up right now. Maybe Ryan has

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias

2013-04-30 Thread Claudia Müller-Birn
Dear Roan, Thank you very much for your detailed explanations. I appreciate it very much. Even though, I do not fully agree with all your design decisions (regarding two different feedback mechanisms), they are understandable from your position (as far as I can anticipate it). Last comment

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-30 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: But anyway - I am afraid that /forcing/ people to use anything is a bad idea. ^this. Yes, using HTTPS everywhere is more secure and is probably what WMF will move toward. But no reason has yet to be provided why we should

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-30 Thread Matthew Walker
We enabled it for about an hour previously (before reverting due to the centralauth bug), and the change was barely noticeable in ganglia. Do we have numbers on what this did to the number of active editors during that time period? Esp. broken down on a per country basis? I think I want to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-30 Thread Brion Vibber
Ok, so we should allow non-SSL so that in totalitarian countries with internet snooping, people can contribute to a free encyclopedia that's generally censored by totalitarian countries anyway, in a way that their government can snoop on their connections and see exactly what they're doing and so

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-30 Thread Ryan Lane
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.orgwrote: We enabled it for about an hour previously (before reverting due to the centralauth bug), and the change was barely noticeable in ganglia. Do we have numbers on what this did to the number of active editors

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Security Release: 1.20.5 and 1.19.6

2013-04-30 Thread Chris Steipp
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.20.5 and 1.19.6. These releases fix 2 security related issues that could affect users of MediaWiki. Download links are given at the end of this email. * Jan Schejbal / Hatforce.com reported that SVG script filtering could be bypassed for Chrome

Re: [Wikitech-l] Countdown to SSL for all sessions?

2013-04-30 Thread Tilman Bayer
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.org wrote: We enabled it for about an hour previously (before reverting due to the centralauth bug), and the change was barely noticeable in ganglia. Do we have numbers on what this did to the number of active editors during

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Testing and monitoring deployed code

2013-04-30 Thread Greg Grossmeier
quote name=Ori Livneh date=2013-04-23 time=15:23:49 -0700 I'll add it to the post-deployment instructions if people find it useful. Just to be explicit: Please do! ;-) Greg -- | Greg GrossmeierGPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @gregA18D 1138 8E47 FAC8

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias

2013-04-30 Thread James Forrester
On 30 April 2013 12:30, Claudia Müller-Birn c...@inf.fu-berlin.de wrote: Dear Roan, Thank you very much for your detailed explanations. I appreciate it very much. Even though, I do not fully agree with all your design decisions (regarding two different feedback mechanisms), they are

[Wikitech-l] «Improvement of glossary tools» idea for GSoC 2013

2013-04-30 Thread Yevheniy Vlasenko
Greetings My name is Yevheniy Vlasenko and I am a student of Master’s Program at Chernihiv State Technological University(Ukraine), Department of Computer Science. I would like to present an idea «Improvement of glossary tools» (Semantic MediaWiki). Currently there are two ways for

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Testing and monitoring deployed code

2013-04-30 Thread S Page
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'll add [ganglia exception graphing] to the post-deployment instructions if people find it useful. Seasoned deployment professionals, please edit the updated

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC: Auto tagging using Semantic analysis Semi-Supervised Learning [was: Project Idea Proposal]

2013-04-30 Thread Dheeraj Joshi
I have changed my proposal for the title : Auto suggestion of categories using Semantic Analysis Semi-Supervised Learning On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 04/30/2013 10:10 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 18:18 +0530, Dheeraj

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC: Auto tagging using Semantic analysis Semi-Supervised Learning [was: Project Idea Proposal]

2013-04-30 Thread Dheeraj Joshi
Sorry for the previous unclear message : Here is the link to my proposal : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dheerajjoshi1991 Auto suggestion of categories using Semantic Analysis Semi-Supervised Learning The key idea is to implement a plugin that will recommend categories to the user based on