Re: [Wikitech-l] +2 in mediawiki/* for Liangent

2015-07-11 Thread Liangent
Thanks everyone! -Liangent On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: About time! Congratulations! בתאריך 12 ביולי 2015 03:43,‏ Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com כתב: Hi, Per [1], I gave Liangent +2 powers in mediawiki/* repos. Congratulations

Re: [Wikitech-l] (off) Baidu Baike current dump

2015-06-17 Thread Liangent
I don't think there is and will be one, besides crawling web pages, considering Baidu's past activities. Note that contents on Baidu Baike are usually not free and in an unknown / messy copyright status. -Liangent On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Farkas, Illes f...@elte.hu wrote: Hello, Does

Re: [Wikitech-l] Too many connections...

2015-04-08 Thread Liangent
I haven't seen this myself, but there're some reports about the same problem in the village pump of zhwiki. -Liangent On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:00 PM, florian.schmidt.wel...@t-online.de florian.schmidt.wel...@t-online.de wrote: Nope, it's working for me. Maybe a temp problem, have you asked

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.19.0beta2

2014-05-09 Thread Liangent
On Mar 23, 2012 3:38 AM, Sam Reed re...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm happy to announce the availability of the second beta release of the new MediaWiki 1.19 release series. Please try it out and let us know what you think. Don't run it on any wikis that you really care about, unless you are both

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

2014-04-23 Thread Liangent
refreshLinks.php[1] can fix that. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RefreshLinks.php On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Daniel Barrett d...@vistaprint.comwrote: I'm the original poster -- here is my real-world use case where a null edit is required. My wiki has a custom parser tag,

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

2014-04-18 Thread Liangent
should be updated to make use of forcelinkupdate, forcerecursivelinkupdate and generator parameters of api.php?action=purge, to reduce traffic. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Purge -Liangent Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

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

2014-04-18 Thread Liangent
There're still cases / some bugs where *links tables can't be updated automatically. touch.py and similar techniques work as a workaround. On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 9:12 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Liangent wrote: It seems touch.py should be updated to make use of forcelinkupdate

Re: [Wikitech-l] English Wikipedia Homepage Framework

2014-04-17 Thread Liangent
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:34 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: PLEASSE! :D This would help the mobile version a lot. For mobile version: I created [[zh:User:Liangent/首页]] with wikitext {{ :{{MediaWiki:MainPage}} }} (comparison: [[en:User:Liangent/Main Page]]) and found

Re: [Wikitech-l] English Wikipedia Homepage Framework

2014-04-15 Thread Liangent
zhwiki main page is already div-based :) On Apr 16, 2014 4:34 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: PLEASSE! :D This would help the mobile version a lot. On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.com wrote: Hello, I just wanted to make

Re: [Wikitech-l] mGerrit - Gerrit for Android

2014-04-15 Thread Liangent
I'm more eager to find a good bugzilla app :) I can find a few on Google Play, but is there a best one to recommend? On Apr 14, 2014 6:58 PM, Sam Reed re...@wikimedia.org wrote: As we all know, Gerrit doesn't have the best interface, but even more so, it's not very mobile friendly. There is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abandoning -1 code reviews automatically?

2014-04-09 Thread Liangent
I have some changesets where I uploaded a reworked patchset several weeks or even months after an original -1 was given... Anyway a changeset can be easily renewed by rebasing it, but the side effect is that all existing -1's get flushed. If people start to use this method to extend the period,

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

2014-04-07 Thread Liangent
I remember I mentioned it once in IRC, and some people don't like it because GAE is proprietary... -Liangent On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2014 10:36 AM, Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.org wrote: So you'd probably have to redirect

Re: [Wikitech-l] Caching with Varnish

2014-03-28 Thread Liangent
No they were deliberately made not cached because otherwise in the event that some sensitive data got oversighted, they may still keep accessible from cached data, and there are even no way to have them go away. On Mar 29, 2014 11:40 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/28/14, Shawn

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to retrieve the page, execute some time expensive operation and edit the page ONLY if it wasn't changed meanwhile

2014-01-25 Thread Liangent
to detect any mid-air edits and abort actions in this case, instead of trying to have my edit merged to any mid-air revisions. -Liangent Matthew Flaschen ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of the new PDF Renderer

2014-01-25 Thread Liangent
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi Liangent, Does [1] this answer your question ? It is a page they use for testing. Thanks, Gerard http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/納粹德國海軍 It's mentioned as a test case but where's the output (expected

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of the new PDF Renderer

2014-01-24 Thread Liangent
/show_bug.cgi?id=34919 . -Liangent On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:38 AM, Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Marco, Is it also possible to set this up behind a firewall? Yes; with the caveat that your wiki must be running Parsoid. It is also theoretically possible to still use Print

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to identify the MW version from the git tree?

2014-01-06 Thread Liangent
And to check a specific commit easier, expand the Included in section on its Gerrit page. -Liangent On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: There's branches for the current versions and tags for the older ones. Clone mediawiki/core and git tag and git branch -r

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

2013-12-09 Thread Liangent
, this makes maintenance easier for developers, because gadgets can be made modularized, instead of using a big JavaScript and CSS file (Common.js/css). -Liangent On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 5:02 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: For wider discussion --- From: bugzilla-daemon

Re: [Wikitech-l] API edit call in a maintenance script

2013-12-09 Thread Liangent
-getContext()-setUser( $user ); before $api-execute();. -Liangent P.D.: I already use WikiPage::doEdit() successfully. -- Toni Hermoso Pulido http://www.cau.cat ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

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

2013-10-28 Thread Liangent
://imagebin.org/275031 [2] http://imagebin.org/275032 -Liangent On Mon, Oct 28, 2013, S Page sp...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Faidon Liambotis fai...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 01:32:30PM +1100, Tim Starling wrote: Yes, we should prefer to use

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in: are you in?

2013-10-15 Thread Liangent
/wiki/Google_Code-In Is Lua / ParserFunctions templating or Lua conversion, either generic (meta-templates / -modules) or for a specific purpose (requested by local community etc.), eligible as a task, in Code or User Interface category? -Liangent -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator

Re: [Wikitech-l] unexpected error info in HTML

2013-08-22 Thread Liangent
that those URLs got cached in Squid when the bug was live... In this case purging those pages[1] should be able to fix the issue. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Purge -Liangent ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] unexpected error info in HTML

2013-08-22 Thread Liangent
submitted a patch[1] directly to fix the bug once it was spotted. [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76060/ -Liangent Thanks On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Liangent liang...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote

Re: [Wikitech-l] unexpected error info in HTML

2013-08-22 Thread Liangent
with variants, right?) -Liangent We actually observed stale cache in a wider range, see the bug entry: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46014 On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Liangent liang...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Jiang BIAN bianji...@google.com wrote

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP question re. isset( $array['key'][0] ) versus array_key_exists( 0, $array['key'] )

2013-07-02 Thread Liangent
] ) accidentially... -Liangent -- brion ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC proposals: Wikidata language fallback and conversion ( + one backup: category redirects )

2013-04-28 Thread Liangent
. Wikidata should be able to do something similar trivially. I don't understand how uselang=qqx would work for this. Any explanation? -Liangent ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC proposals: Wikidata language fallback and conversion ( + one backup: category redirects )

2013-04-28 Thread Liangent
not true when conversion/transliteration comes, as conversion must take place server-side. -Liangent Lukas Am So 28.04.2013 18:11, schrieb Matthew Flaschen: On 04/28/2013 11:15 AM, Lukas Benedix wrote: What exactly is uselang=qqx doing? http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q567?uselang=qqx

[Wikitech-l] GSoC proposals: Wikidata language fallback and conversion ( + one backup: category redirects )

2013-04-27 Thread Liangent
it implemented too, either by me or someone else. Some of its contents may be also useful for other participants willing to do this project. Comments are welcome and appreciated. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Liangent/wb-lang [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Liangent/cat-redir -Liangent

Re: [Wikitech-l] Live recent changes feed

2013-03-09 Thread Liangent
output much info. -Liangent and for developers who had to fit that thing into IRC line length limit. Time passed, and many ways were suggested to fix this (including https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Recentchanges_via_XMPP and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment

Re: [Wikitech-l] Nagios is dead, long live icinga!

2013-02-26 Thread Liangent
or is inconsistent. So now there's no public view of server monitoring info? http://status.wikimedia.org/ always shows nagios as disrupted now. -Liangent Thanks Leslie -- Leslie Carr Wikimedia Foundation AS 14907, 43821 http://as14907.peeringdb.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] Distinguishing disambiguation pages

2012-12-27 Thread Liangent
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Brad Jorsch bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Liangent liang...@gmail.com wrote: Is this enough? api.php?action=queryprop=pagepropsppprop=disambiguationtitles= One thing that would be nice would be the ability to go the other way

Re: [Wikitech-l] Distinguishing disambiguation pages

2012-12-25 Thread Liangent
. Is this enough? api.php?action=queryprop=pagepropsppprop=disambiguationtitles= Ryan Kaldari -Liangent ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Small tweak to Gerrit Verified category - tomorrow

2012-12-17 Thread Liangent
/listinfo/wikitech-l -Liangent ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free software license for (global) gadgets

2012-08-07 Thread Liangent
) * Adapt other external scripts for use on Wikimedia Wikis. See also[3]. Also Lua modules? -Liangent What do you think? Best regards, Helder [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Version_2_Design_Specification#Shared_gadgets [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Take a lesson from dreamhoststatus.com

2012-07-05 Thread Liangent
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote: Like... This: http://status.wikimedia.org/? And Jidanni doesn't like it because it requires JavaScript. :) Tom -Liangent ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Update on IPv6

2012-06-08 Thread Liangent
, at 8.18% IPv6 adoption). And it can be seen on [1] btw. [1] http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/ipv6/statistics/data/worldmap.js -Liangent ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia MediaWiki configuration files are now in a public version control system

2012-05-09 Thread Liangent
that, But yes, If you do a request and then close it, Please link to the apprioate change set, And mention that its ready for merging (and not pushed to the cluster) Will there by an easy way to track them? eg. a keyword in Bugzilla. -Liangent ___ Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Time to redirect to https by default?

2012-04-05 Thread Liangent
. Are they *sure* it's being blocked by the government? - Ryan The original reporter says things are back to normal now (no block on bits anymore). However there're other people saying they see intermittent issues when connecting to upload, bits and commons. -Liangent

Re: [Wikitech-l] Time to redirect to https by default?

2012-04-04 Thread Liangent
that http://bits.wikimedia.org/ is blocked in China Mainland. Users visiting http://zh.wikipedia.org/ see unstyled pages without scripts while https://zh.wikipedia.org/ works fine. -Liangent ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Multiple collation support (was: New project request)

2012-03-21 Thread Liangent
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Bawolff Bawolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: Message: 1 Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:02:53 +0800 From: Liangent liang...@gmail.com To: A list for announcements and discussion related to the Wikimedia       Labs    project. lab...@lists.wikimedia.org,         Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Multiple collation support (was: New project request)

2012-03-21 Thread Liangent
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Liangent liang...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Bawolff Bawolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: Message: 1 Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:02:53 +0800 From: Liangent liang...@gmail.com To: A list for announcements and discussion related to the Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Plugin for Extension:ConfirmEdit - RFC

2012-03-19 Thread Liangent
- nischayn22 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -Liangent ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] New project request

2012-03-17 Thread Liangent
(cross posting to wikitech-l) On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: I've created a project called category-sorting for you. On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Liangent liang...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The zhwiki community started a discussion about category sorting

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-introducing UNCONFIRMED state to bugzilla

2012-03-13 Thread Liangent
. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -Liangent ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stuck category (broken file links)

2012-03-05 Thread Liangent
/wikitech-l -Liangent ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] kkwiki needs help with JS and CSS

2012-03-03 Thread Liangent
Bugmeister Wikimedia Foundation m...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -Liangent ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing wiki redirect script

2011-12-21 Thread Liangent
looks good to me. Your change seems to have broken it again, though, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/106857#c28196 . What about paths in /variant/pagename style? -Liangent ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla vandalism

2011-11-25 Thread Liangent
and look forward to the batch change right on them. -Liangent ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can not create subpage with [[/${pagename}/]].

2011-11-24 Thread Liangent
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Zhang, Yi Y yi.y.zh...@intel.com wrote: Hi guys,  I encountered an issue with my newly installed mediawiki 1.17.0. I firstly create a page called Hello in Main page. Then entered Hello page and tried to create a subpage of Hello by using [[/Test/]] in Hello.

Re: [Wikitech-l] summary of a wikipedia article

2011-11-08 Thread Liangent
://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=queryprop=revisionstitles=A|B|C|Drvprop=contentrvparservsection=0 -Liangent ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikipedia lacks a share' button

2011-10-24 Thread Liangent
There's already a gadget on zhwiki which adds a bunch of 'share' links if you want that. On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:54 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Gentlemen, where is the Share button? All other sites have them by now, but on Wikipedia one cannot even find its definition in

Re: [Wikitech-l] r100000

2011-10-16 Thread Liangent
. And after Git migration there won't be such thing to celebrate. -Liangent ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] zh-tw still gives simplified Chinese in link titles on Facebook and Google

2011-10-15 Thread Liangent
article), where zh is used as the interface language. However zh falls back to zh-hans, so all interface messages are in zh-hans. -Liangent On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:49 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Gentlemen, no matter if in Google search results, or Facebook link previews, links

Re: [Wikitech-l] zh-tw still gives simplified Chinese in link titles on Facebook and Google

2011-10-15 Thread Liangent
You can ask Facebook to make a change: load the page specified by you and display it to you, and load another canonical version to store (so they can do proper link count etc.)... -Liangent On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Liangent liang...@gmail.com wrote: I guess it's because we have link

Re: [Wikitech-l] Native HTTPS support live on all projects

2011-10-03 Thread Liangent
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote:  http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/03/native-https-support-enabled-for-all-wikimedia-foundation-wikis/ We're announcing HTTPS support but why isn't this link pointing to https://blog.wikimedia.org/ ? -Liangent

Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-10-01 Thread Liangent
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 2:35 AM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: I have not seen this happening every 10 seconds, but it's bad enough that the banner or site notice arrives 10 seconds after the first load, and jerks the page around. It should be possible to allow a fixed size space for

Re: [Wikitech-l] A good question

2011-03-16 Thread Liangent
Faster page loading speed because of the Resource Loader? On 3/16/11, Victor Vasiliev vasi...@gmail.com wrote: Imagine a user approaches you and asks What are significant changes between 1.16 and 1.17? What would you answer? --vvv ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captchas and non-English speakers

2011-02-04 Thread Liangent
I hate the case that I'm asked with a Chinese captcha when I'm surfing some Chinese websites without IME available. Besides I don't prefer Chinese captchas personally because Chinese characters usually require more key hits. On 2/5/11, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote: I've just opened a

Re: [Wikitech-l] New CodeReview changes live!

2010-10-11 Thread Liangent
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: * Statistics on code review, specifically the wall of shame for fixmes[0] Can Number of revisions rows be linked to a list of the author's fixme revisions? ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] New password hashing proposal

2010-08-21 Thread Liangent
On 8/20/10, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: They can do things like intercept any connections to the site, providing a forged certificate for HTTPS via a CA they control, and steal passwords or cookies. See this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542689

Re: [Wikitech-l] A Shorturl Service for Wikipedia Projects by Node.js

2010-08-05 Thread Liangent
On 8/5/10, Mingli Yuan mingli.y...@gmail.com wrote: Now a test server was setup and 5 languages are supported Special characters are not escaped. Try in the box. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] vector search problem

2010-08-04 Thread Liangent
On 8/5/10, Marcus Buck w...@marcusbuck.org wrote: The search field for Vector is prefilled with the word search. This word is automatically removed when the search field gets the focus. This is problematic when you dragdrop words into the search field cause the dropped word will be removed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Showing bytes added/removed in each edit in View history and User contributions

2010-08-03 Thread Liangent
On 8/3/10, ChrisiPK chris...@gmail.com wrote: This is a policy requirement, not a technical requirement, and can surely be adjusted. It seems 1 zh char = 3 bytes gives a kind of proper weight among characters. Obviously, zh chars look more important (when counting the amount of content) than en

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikipedia is one of the slower sites on the web

2010-08-03 Thread Liangent
On 8/3/10, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: Couldn't you just tag every internal link with a separate class for the length of the target article, and then use different personal CSS to set the threshold? The generated page would be the same for all users: So if a page is changed, all

Re: [Wikitech-l] Showing bytes added/removed in each edit in View history and User contributions

2010-08-02 Thread Liangent
On 8/3/10, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: No, we'd just have to repurpose rev_len to mean characters instead of bytes, and update all the old rows. We don't actually need the byte count for anything, do we? Byte count is used. For example in Chinese Wikipedia, one of the

[Wikitech-l] New extension: CategoryMultisort

2010-05-12 Thread Liangent
/wiki/Extension:CategoryMultisort --Liangent ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki GitHub mirror now running

2010-05-09 Thread Liangent
Is it possible to mirror branches in SVN there as well? I personally prefer to put different extensions in different repos since I cannot clone a subdirectory in a repo only. On 5/9/10, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 14:22, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

[Wikitech-l] Site/Language-specific extension on Wikimedia

2010-05-04 Thread Liangent
Hi, is it acceptable to develop extensions specialized for a project/language and request it to be installed on Wikimedia? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Transclude contemporary template states to page hisories?

2010-03-21 Thread Liangent
Besides template histories, can we add a parameter 'index.php?action=viewtime=xxx' to allow users to read as if they read an article at that time, and append this parameter with the same value to all (internal) links in the article? In this way, we can have nostalgia wikis (like

Re: [Wikitech-l] ? user status history

2010-03-09 Thread Liangent
If you want a history, maybe you can try: http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20100116/enwiki-20100116-pages-logging.xml.gz and http://download.wikimedia.org/metawiki/20100306/metawiki-20100306-pages-logging.xml.gz On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Liangent liang...@gmail.com wrote: http

Re: [Wikitech-l] ? user status history

2010-03-08 Thread Liangent
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20100116/enwiki-20100116-user_groups.sql.gz But the latest dump seems broken and I don't know why. On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Farkas, Illes f...@elte.hu wrote: Dear All, Many thanks for all your work with Wikipedia, we use it daily for various tasks

Re: [Wikitech-l] Only 132 / 252 SVN users have valid USERINFO data

2010-02-19 Thread Liangent
Will MediaWiki repository be moved to Git? On 2/20/10, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: If you're one of the guilty or know the contact info for them please add it to USERINFO/ If you're not sure the

[Wikitech-l] Release the content on Wikimedia Technical Blog under a free content license

2010-02-09 Thread Liangent
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/ : Is it ok to do it just like our main wikis and WMF official blog? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Theora video in IE? Use Silverlight!

2010-02-06 Thread Liangent
On 2/6/10, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: The thirty-second startup time of Java for Cortado makes it unusable, in my experience. Here's to Firefox 3.5. Firefox supports video since 3.5, so there's no need to use Cortado. ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Revise Permissions of Local wiki problem

2010-01-30 Thread Liangent
What are the conditions in if()? When LocalSettings.php is executed, a lot of things are not ready. On 1/30/10, 李琴 q...@ica.stc.sh.cn wrote: Hi, I want to revise permissions of Local wiki. But this problem bothers me. For example, in DefaultSetting.php, there is

Re: [Wikitech-l] uploading with the API

2010-01-28 Thread Liangent
My bot lib is using this new feature now. But it has never been released yet. It for my own use currently. On 1/29/10, Ryan Kaldari kald...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of file uploading, what's the status of uploading through the API? Are all the features at

Re: [Wikitech-l] The future of action=ajax

2010-01-10 Thread Liangent
It seems to be fixed. I got the following message when I tried to get data from a private wiki via API. error code=readapidenied info=You need read permission to use this module xml:space=preserve On 1/10/10, Angela bees...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Aryeh Gregor

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads almost ready for deployment

2009-12-17 Thread Liangent
Will it be enabled by default on all wikis, or only on wikis which made individual requests? On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi all, With the Foundation's support, I've spent the last few months churning away at LiquidThreads [1], a new discussion

Re: [Wikitech-l] Handling of system messages got strange

2009-11-22 Thread Liangent
I found nothing special on http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/ , and I have seen such behavior on Wikipedia for few times -- maybe it's just a temporary software error? On 11/22/09, Uwe Baumbach u.baumb...@web.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, we are using MW

Re: [Wikitech-l] Add record to database

2009-10-21 Thread Liangent
what's the format of article data, xml dump or just plain text? On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:01 PM, 李琴 q...@ica.stc.sh.cn wrote: Hi, I have already got the article data from the wikipedia and I stored it on my computer .Now I want to add the article to the local wiki. I have done a lot