[Wikitech-l] Arbitrary data structures via API

2012-01-31 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
on how I do it) I either get empty elements, or I get Sanitizer warnings. I was using the addPageSubItem() method, inherited from ApiQueryBase. Some more details are in this bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34058 -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ne...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Arbitrary data structures via API

2012-01-31 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
or WDDX or ... ?) Probably not. The other option is to stringify it, as the API sometimes does with returned XML. But then you have quoted JSON in JSON, and that seems stupid too. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Escaping messages

2012-01-24 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
will be executed if you .append() it to anything, even if it's not part of the document. Annoying. Anyway I'm not going to war on this, but some reasonable efforts can be made. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Escaping messages

2012-01-24 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Escaping messages

2012-01-23 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
a simple jQuery filter to the final result. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Plural, Gender parsing support for interface messages at client side

2012-01-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29542 -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Based Open Source Project - Help On Licencing

2011-12-29 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
, Regards, Sajith Vimukthi Weerakoon, T .P No : ++94-716102392 ++94-727102392 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ne

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review thoughts: module reviewers

2011-12-21 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Yuvaraj Pandian Max Semink

2011-12-19 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
Welcome to you both! On 12/19/11 12:28 AM, Tomasz Finc wrote: Greetings all, The Mobile and Special Projects department is pleased to announce the addition of two new contractors to the team: Yuvaraj Pandian and Max Seminik. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ne...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image uploading social workflow

2011-12-19 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image uploading social workflow

2011-12-19 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
, that would be sufficient. But by that time, you have already uploaded it to a particular wiki. We don't have any provision for moving the thing afterwards if the license is wrong for the wiki. Given the Swift backend, maybe that would be easier, but it still seems needlessly complex to me. -- Neil

Re: [Wikitech-l] Visual editor collaboration

2011-12-14 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
, so we'll be churning on that for a while. but we can probably deploy on formats like Markdown or plain old HTML much faster. Over the holidays I will be working a bit on round-tripping to different formats, and to MediaWiki itself of course, now that Gabriel has cleared the way there. -- Neil

[Wikitech-l] Help us test the VisualEditor prototype

2011-12-13 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
and Inez have *all* the fun? -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help us test the VisualEditor prototype

2011-12-13 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
unsolved problem. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Picture rotation: what on earth?

2011-12-10 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki 2.0

2011-12-06 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
it's a good idea. If we wanted to *really* get radical, then we'd think about changing the storage model too, but you might as well rename it by that point. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki 2.0

2011-12-06 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
that at least to some extensions. And if it also means that other wiki syntaxes become possible, then end users and bots will have to modify how they interact with wiki content. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla vandalism

2011-11-22 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
?). -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad(s)-lite on MediaWiki page(s) [ok]

2011-11-10 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ticket#2011091710005702] SVN Extension Access

2011-11-06 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
) MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ticket#2011091710005702] SVN Extension Access

2011-11-05 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
. Thrilled to have you, even. I'd strongly encourage finding one. :-) And why should he listen to you, when you are unwilling to follow your own advice? -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] etherpad-lite

2011-10-27 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
only a fraction of the resources of Etherpad. I believe Neil Kandalgaonkar was working with the Etherpad Lite devs at some point to... do some thing cool. I forget what. Roan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] not directly related to MediaWiki, but perhaps to our WYSIWYG editor activities: LibreOffice _Online_ Prototype announced (Libre Office in a web browser)

2011-10-17 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
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Re: [Wikitech-l] New committers

2011-10-12 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
* Sumana Harihareswara (sumanah) - community management Welcome! What stuff do you expect you'll be working on? (I could ask you in person, since we are having our everyone-in-the-office week, but other people are probably curious too.) -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ) ne...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Android app – Support Wikipedia version

2011-10-08 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
on this discussion. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thanks for supporting WLM 2011!

2011-10-01 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
made some. If you want to make pretty graphs here's some raw data. http://toolserver.org/~neilk/stats/ Note, some people added old images to WLM retroactively, so the data starts with stuff that was uploaded years ago. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ne...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration planning

2011-09-23 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Ryan Lanerlan...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Brion Vibberbr...@pobox.com wrote: Yay! I've volunteered to do a quick intro-to-our-scary-git-future session at the New Orleans hackathon; -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ne...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Final Google Summer of Code 2011 roundup

2011-09-22 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
community members who made this a pretty darn successful Summer of Code. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adding MD5 / SHA1 column to revision table (discussing r94289)

2011-09-16 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
In the time it took you to write this we probably had more than 33 files uploaded. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help us document MediaWiki's history

2011-09-13 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
As much as we all love to hate PHP, it was (and is) a good choice. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] New localization extension: jQueryMsg

2011-08-18 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
for perfection tomorrow. Which I very much appreciate. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] SVG image display bug (width-dependent)

2011-07-13 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
in the rendering: http://goo.gl/U6RPs (159px thumbnail) Can this be fixed? Thanks! Timwi ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne

Re: [Wikitech-l] A different API problem

2011-07-04 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
it with ajax prefilters in jQuery 1.5, and in 1.4 you must stringify the data attribute of the AJAX call and s/\./%2e/g; before sending it. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] A different API problem

2011-07-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] IE6

2011-06-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
to get hits from practically every browser ever made in the last 10 years. http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm Last month we had 3.5M hits from browsers claiming to be IE 5.5, released in mid-2000. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ne...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of more regular code deployments

2011-05-31 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
more frequently isn't a priority for these users (or they are unable to find the time to fix the current system) then I don't know what to do either. Are we all in deadlock or something? Are the users who can push waiting from some proposals/work from the rest of the community? -- Neil

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of more regular code deployments

2011-05-31 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
Followup -- I've conflated pushing and releasing in my post, but anyway I believe it's mostly the same circle of users who do both. On 5/31/11 10:35 AM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: On 5/31/11 10:03 AM, Trevor Parscal wrote: It's my expectation that this will always fluctuate, never reach

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of more regular code deployments

2011-05-31 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
wiki pages happen by someone cracking a whip either. That said, we would benefit from some urgency towards correcting the problem. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] is/resolve/split VirtualUrl trope

2011-05-13 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
; } Can we replace it by a resolveVirtualUrl which simply returns what it was given if there is no mwrepo:// at its beginning? How about an FSRepo::resolve() that does that? resolveVirtualUrl suggests that it can only deal with virtual urls. -- Neil

[Wikitech-l] Realtime collaborative editing of MediaWiki articles, with Hackpad

2011-05-10 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
an extension+gadget to make it easier to invoke a remote web-based editor with MediaWiki. The current WikiEditor sort of has an iframe-crossing API already built into it, so that might be a place to start. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ne...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] integration of MediaWiki and version control system as backend?

2011-05-06 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] WYSIWYG and parser plans (was What is wrong with Wikia's WYSIWYG?)

2011-05-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
who wrote it don't seem to be very strong advocates for it. But I don't want to put words in their mouth; maybe one of them can add more to this thread? -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Call for UI bugs

2011-04-13 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
-- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Registration open for the Hackathon in Berlin, May 13-15

2011-04-09 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC Proposal for Account Creation, Login Screens, and Ajax-ification of everything

2011-03-25 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
-- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC Proposal for Account Creation, Login Screens, and Ajax-ification of everything

2011-03-25 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
a solution that worked over plain HTTP. But Ryan is also worried about a MITM that corrupts the surrounding page, so that the HTTP-served software that tries to make this HTTPS connection is already compromised. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] code review criticism (Re: Converting to Git?)

2011-03-24 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
There are lot of good points though! -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-23 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
were very skeptical will usually say that it is has been a huge benefit. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-23 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
On 3/23/11 2:13 PM, Robert Leverington wrote: On 2011-03-23, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: On 3/22/11 6:05 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: Our code review tool is pretty nice, but we can't let it be the tail that wags the dog. At the risk of being impolite -- our code review tool is not that nice. (I

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committer: Russ Nelson

2011-03-22 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
. Still I feel bad that we didn't at least consider this earlier, unless Russell did at some point and rejected it early on. (?) -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-22 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
considered (I guess not), I volunteer myself. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] A good question

2011-03-16 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
. There are a lot of miscellaneous changes, but they were all important bugs for someone. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: MediaWiki Style Guide (Forms)

2011-03-10 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Easy code review

2011-02-28 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
move to git, maybe we should also think about pre-commit review. (In the git world, that would mean review before merging with the production repo, but basically the same idea). -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple Search Simplification

2011-02-16 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
as a control; this change blends it into the background too much. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2011-01-23 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
and what we will aim to keep stable. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing OpenStackManager extension

2011-01-21 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
/Extension:OpenStackManager Respectfully, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] JavaScript access to uploaded file contents: SVGEdit gadget needs ApiSVGProxy or CORS

2011-01-04 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
radical changes. That said, it's an interesting frontier and it would be awesome to have a tool which made it easier to create translated SVGs or indicate that translations were related to each other. One thing at a time though. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] JavaScript access to uploaded file contents: SVGEdit gadget needs ApiSVGProxy or CORS

2011-01-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
thoughts, Michael? -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-30 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
included social issues. Unfortunately the person in charge of that left the Foundation soon after and in the kerfuffle I'm not sure if we now have anybody whose primary job it is to think about the experience of the user in such broad terms. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ne...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-30 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
On 12/30/10 10:24 AM, Platonides wrote: Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: At some point, if we believe our community is our greatest asset, we have to think of Wikipedia as infrastructure not only for creating high quality articles, but also for generating and sustaining a high quality editing

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-30 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
was suggesting we collect rules of thumb for people who are making interfaces. Not policies to bash each other with. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-29 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
this? Brion already suggested something like this, where we would end up with a transition regime between old and new. P.S. All due respect to RobLa, but Microsoft tried this and failed doesn't exactly convince me it's impossible. ;) -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ne...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-29 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
to me like this problem shouldn't have to exist. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-29 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
projects, either. Respectfully, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ne...@wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-28 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
that was disruptive to Wikipedia, in fact something that made Wikipedia look like Friendster or Myspace compared to Facebook? And there's a followup question to this -- but you're all smart people and can guess what it is. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ne...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special:Upload tweaks: thumbnail boxes for your boxing day

2010-12-27 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
the cool features of modern ones. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] A tool or web form for creating new pages

2010-12-14 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
I could work on in my spare time. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Re: [Mediawiki-l] vector components many blank lines

2010-12-08 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
is a LOT. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Making usability part of the development process

2010-12-02 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
? And what should that look like? -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making usability part of the development process

2010-12-02 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
into the code, it becomes more about good documentation. At the outer layers things have to be more discoverable. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] Firesheep / HTTPS by default

2010-10-25 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
-- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release process

2010-10-21 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
-- it just takes a few extra development practices. BTW, I wanted to say this stuff earlier, but I found that I couldn't respond meaningfully to Rob's questions. They were big questions asking for a lot of context, and a relative newcomer like me is a bit intimidated by those. -- Neil

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release process

2010-10-21 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
and John Allspaw 10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev/Ops Cooperation at Flickr http://velocityconference.blip.tv/file/2284377/ Blog post about the Feature Flag system by Ross Harmes Flipping out http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/12/02/flipping-out/ -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ) ne...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release process

2010-10-21 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
to deploy the last few days' worth of trunk changes. Yes, definitely a problem. In the Flickr world, you're never more than a few hours off of trunk anyway; but we're not in that world, so we start to feel the need for a deploy branch. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ) ne...@wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] UploadWizard/SessionStash design

2010-10-19 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
/UploadWizard/ApiQueryStashImageInfo.php http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/uploadwizard/extensions/UploadWizard/SpecialUploadWizard.php -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Convention for logged vs not-logged page requests

2010-10-19 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25564 [2] http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Squid_logging#Inflated_Stats ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne

Re: [Wikitech-l] Convention for logged vs not-logged page requests

2010-10-19 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
. Isn't it fairly common to load data or other such page fragments in this way, though? Or does it only seem common to me because I commonly work with Commons? -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia, we have a Google refresh problem!

2010-10-17 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
, and opening a post with if you understand the issue is a little bit aggressive? -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugmeister opening at Wikimedia Foundation

2010-10-08 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
tech staffers) do read this list, but most of us think hiring someone local to SF is a good thing, so we're not the best people to be advocates for your point. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader timestamp format

2010-09-30 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
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Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader timestamp format

2010-09-30 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
On 9/30/10 2:12 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote: Does it also allow replacing the separators with whatever you want? If you use a separator for time, ISO 8601:2004 section 3.4.4 says it has to be hyphen for year, month, day, and colon for hour, minute, and second. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader Debug Mode ( the need for a platform)

2010-09-30 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
of their targeted use cases. Otherwise, they would have just used something off the shelf. There are a lot of good JS libraries out there, but none that quite fit the needs of our community. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Helping with code review

2010-09-27 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Is the $_SESSION secure?

2010-09-23 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
a temporary secret there. Is that a good assumption? -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is the $_SESSION secure?

2010-09-23 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
I'm just storing the path to a temporary file. The file isn't even sensitive data; it's just a user-uploaded media file for which the user has not yet selected a license, although we anticipate they will in a few minutes. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ) ne...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.17 release target (Re: UsabilityInitiative extension...)

2010-09-21 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
. It's not entirely appropriate for us because we do in a sense have a shrink-wrapped product -- MediaWiki -- and its releases ought to be stable. Also, Flickr relies on the entire team being experienced and careful; they can't afford even one bad or naive developer. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar

Re: [Wikitech-l] Keeping record of imported licensed text

2010-09-15 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
systems for wikis and this is an interesting idea. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Keeping record of imported licensed text

2010-09-15 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
clearly. (We host Wikimedia trademarked images, for instance.) PS: I apologize if the threading is screwed up here -- WMF mail was down for a few hours so I missed this message. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Keeping record of imported licensed text

2010-09-10 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
triggered when an article is edited. Since this post is already getting long, let me close by asking whether support for associating licensing information with articles might be useful to a large number of sites. If so, the perhaps it belongs in the core. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ne

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, now in trunk!

2010-09-09 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
this: javascript:alert(document.cookie=resource_loader_debug=1;%20path=/) -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-08 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
designs) are freely available. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-08 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
On 9/8/10 5:35 PM, Chad wrote: I think the point was not about hardware, but the OPs inability to include a single linebreak in the e-mail. I need an open source irony detector. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-07 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
are trying not to hire this sort of person. Off the top of my head I would guess at least 75% of the developers here had significant open source experience before being hired, many with Wikimedia projects. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
] [1] http://nat.org/blog/2010/04/everyone-dials-in/ -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [HTML5] Improving Commons upload interface

2010-09-02 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
you're offering to develop the feature yourself :) -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developing true WISIWYG editor for media wiki

2010-08-20 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
the software for advertising and commercial entities, and so on. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikisource books and web 1.0 pages

2010-08-13 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] ref tag and multiple transcluded pages

2010-08-11 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
, with no number and no link. does this make sense ? Thomas ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developing true WISIWYG editor for media wiki

2010-08-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
-different-about-new-google-docs.html -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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