Re: [Wikitech-l] For your enjoyment: Localisation team development showcase

2011-10-31 Thread Platonides
Brion Vibber wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Sam Reed re...@wikimedia.org wrote: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Localisation-team-showcase-20111031.ogv ** ** Needs a license, description etc ;) Awesome, thanks! I've redirected the original file link to the

Re: [Wikitech-l] #parser parser function - does this make any sense?

2011-10-30 Thread Platonides
On 30/10/11 16:47, Happy Melon wrote: I think that would make more sense as a tag extension (parse doesn't look like a good name, what about wikidemo?). @Happy Melon: I think he wants a funtion which shows both parsed wikitext and the original source. He intends to *build* such a

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki unit testing and non-MySQL databases

2011-10-26 Thread Platonides
selects you may enjoy http://toolserver.org/~platonides/mwtools/ExpandSelect.php /spam ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki unit testing and non-MySQL databases

2011-10-26 Thread Platonides
Platonides wrote: Jeremy Baron wrote: Seems pretty clearly broken; we should fix the way we quote. (and maybe not break anyone because anyone using the syntax that triggers this would already be broken because of this) Maybe we need backticks instead of quotes? I can test when I'm less sleepy

Re: [Wikitech-l] lost in sites for coding challenge mobile

2011-10-25 Thread Platonides
Simone Locci wrote: thank's for help, but here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:First_steps/Upload_form I read that to upload contents the users must be logged, so how can I manage the upload without a login? You can't. You need to create an account in Wikimedia Commons [1] in order

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Gabriel Wicke

2011-10-25 Thread Platonides
Roan Kattouw wrote: I wasn't around back then (I've been around for quite a while, but not for quite that long) I wasn't either, but his name rang a bellin my head He was an old old contributor. Is this the same one? Reading Alolita mail cleared it :) Welcome to the new, enterprisey Wikimedia,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Heads up: Online coding challenge

2011-10-25 Thread Platonides
Erik Moeller wrote: Quick update -- we now have more than 2,000 sign-ups. I figure that's a good base to work with (or if it isn't, there are bigger problems), so I've turned down the banner to about 20% and will disable it soon. Expect the frantic sign-up rate on MW.org to drop. You may

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki unit testing and non-MySQL databases

2011-10-25 Thread Platonides
Ryan Lane wrote: https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Just a suggestion ;) - Ryan 1) This is the first time it is mentioned in this mailing list. 1b) Not even mentioned in the Server Admin Log. 2) It has a funny concept of you have an account 3) Public IPs are private 4)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration planning

2011-10-25 Thread Platonides
The trick was using svn switch: svn checkout http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/phase3 cd phase3 svn switch http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions extensions/ --depth immediates cd extensions/ svn checkout

Re: [Wikitech-l] lost in sites for coding challenge mobile

2011-10-24 Thread Platonides
Simone wrote: i am lost in sites, when i upload a picture where it must go? in *.wikipedia.org or in commons.wikimedia.org? Images should go to Wikimedia Commons ( http://commons.wikimedia.org ) Remember to specify the license. i didn't understand... another thing is that to take the token

Re: [Wikitech-l] migration to git: available and suggested Web viewers ?

2011-10-24 Thread Platonides
On 23/10/11 12:45, Daniel Friesen wrote: The general standard is GitWeb, it's even bundled with Gerrit so it will be the default available when git is setup: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=operations%2Fpuppet.git A problem with that kind of interface (not restricted to git) is how

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki unit testing and non-MySQL databases

2011-10-24 Thread Platonides
Russell Nelson wrote: Is there a way to tell Sqlite to be pickier about what it will accept? If it bombs out on anything that falls outside the union of (all supported database SQL), then just passing our tests should be sufficient, right? No. And even if it didn't had its own laxitude (eg.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 189

2011-10-23 Thread Platonides
Using Virtual Machines is a too big overhead compared to just coding it right, and still it would not protect against eg. javascript injection. Looking into LilyPond exception, I don't see any big problem: - It relies in Math variables for storing the files in the same folder (it was made

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 189

2011-10-23 Thread Platonides
Neil Harris wrote: Linux provides the setrlimit() system call for this purpose -- you could either call it as a wrapper around lilypond, or hack it into a de-fanged version of Lilypond. If you're going to be running an auxiliary rendering process or special-use server anyway, a few moments

Re: [Wikitech-l] Coding challenge about to land. :)

2011-10-22 Thread Platonides
On 22/10/11 01:24, Tomasz Finc wrote: here is a snippet from an email that Erik send three days ago explaining Gregs role. subject: Heads up: Online coding challenge The overall project is being coordinated by Greg DeKoenigsberg, formerly Senior Community Architect at Red Hat. If you'd like

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome, Antoine Musso! (hashar)

2011-10-21 Thread Platonides
Rob Lanphier wrote: He has been working in our community for quite some time, going by the name Ashar Voultoiz on mailing lists, and by hashar on IRC.Now that he's working as a contractor for WMF, he's decided to let everyone know the Superman behind the Clark Kent alter ego :) That was

Re: [Wikitech-l] Coding challenge about to land. :)

2011-10-21 Thread Platonides
Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: No. You'd sound like an ideal tester hitting a use case we didn't even consider. Will look into it. --g I don't want to sound harsh, Greg but... who are you? It seems it's the first time you post here, yet your email is written as if you were in charge of this.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Maps extension image layer enhancements

2011-10-19 Thread Platonides
Daniel Werner wrote: 3. its difficult with units. Layers can have different units like degree, km, miles... I didn't look into how it works if markers with units are defined in display_marker if there are layers with different units. Perhaps we should allow coordinates with units like

Re: [Wikitech-l] File::getPath() refactoring

2011-10-19 Thread Platonides
Russell Nelson wrote: This is needed because some code asks for a path to the file without having a File. For example SpecialUndelete::showFile(). Basically encapsulation punch-through. This is a clean-up. If you disagree, of course feel free to propose something else. They should be changed

Re: [Wikitech-l] WikiEditor dialogs and caching? (fwd)

2011-10-18 Thread Platonides
Dmitriy Sintsov wrote: For Firefox there is WebDeveloper extension https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/web-developer/ which has menu to disable browser caching. In IE8 / IE9 there is menu to disable caching when you run debugger via F12. I don't seem to have that option? In which menu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Production CI box now in service

2011-10-17 Thread Platonides
How does it work? What is it good for? Can we eg. add a task to jenkins which runs php -l on all files? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader and IE's stylesheet limits

2011-10-13 Thread Platonides
Applies to: Windows Internet Explorer 9 Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 1 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1 Windows Internet Explorer 7 Windows Internet Explorer 8 How's that it isn't fixed in newer versions?

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Staff Announcement - Welcome Leslie Carr!

2011-10-11 Thread Platonides
Welcome Leslie! Hope you get comfortable here. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preliminary git module splitup notes (MediaWiki core extensions)

2011-10-09 Thread Platonides
Ashar Voultoiz wrote: That might be me, or at least I have the same concern about logs specially when bisecting changes. Much like we moved extension out of core, we might want to have translations moved out too. We do not really need 0day translations for day to day MW hacking. What about

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preliminary git module splitup notes (MediaWiki core extensions)

2011-10-05 Thread Platonides
Brion Vibber wrote: You can check out extensions as separate repositories directly into subfolders within core's 'extensions' dir for a ready-to-run system. But, you *do* need to do either manually or scripted iteration over them to pull updates or commit across repos. Git's submodules might

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preliminary git module splitup notes (MediaWiki core extensions)

2011-10-05 Thread Platonides
Brion Vibber wrote: On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Platonidesplatoni...@gmail.com wrote: There are 615 extensions in trunk/extensions With the new setup, would someone which has a checkout of everything need to open 616 connections (network latency, ssh authentication, etc.) whenever he

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preliminary git module splitup notes (MediaWiki core extensions)

2011-10-05 Thread Platonides
Daniel Friesen wrote: ;) And when all else fails, rsync a bunch of --bare repos and do your pull on the local hd. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] Sorry? Note that only a small subset of those with commit access do have full ssh to run commands. And a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Some post-1.18 issues found on Meta

2011-10-05 Thread Platonides
Arthur Richards wrote: 2) Another user was attempting to move a page on Meta when she saw this: PHP fatal error in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.18/includes/GlobalFunctions.php line 1197: Object of class AFPData could not be converted to string AFPData is a class used by the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making developer access easier to get

2011-10-03 Thread Platonides
Yaron Koren wrote: (...) Neither of those cases apply here - the Ad Manager code was well-written, and it works. If you're curious, you can see for yourself the kinds of fixes and changes that were made to the code after it was checked in - all minor stuff, the only major thing being that the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google's cached pages are much faster than wiki*edia's

2011-09-30 Thread Platonides
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Fellows, This is Google's cache of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 28 Sep 2011 09:22:50 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime. Learn more ... Like why is it so much faster than the real

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

2011-09-30 Thread Platonides
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: On some of the Wikipedia sites, there are some messages near the top of each page. These messages change every 10 or so seconds. The problem is the number of lines in each of the changing messages is not the same. This causes the entire page to jerk up and down the

Re: [Wikitech-l] serious interwiki.py issues on MW 1.18 wikis

2011-09-29 Thread Platonides
Merlijn van Deen wrote: Hello to both the wikitech and pywikipedia lists -- please keep both informed when replying. Thanks. A few days ago, we - the pywikipedia developers - received alarming reports of interwiki bots removing content from pages. This does not seem to happen often, and we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Counting revisions in 2011090

2011-09-26 Thread Platonides
Roan Kattouw wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Ariel T. Glennar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Στις 26-09-2011, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 08:47 +0200, ο/η melvin_mm έγραψε: mysqlselect max(rev_id) from revision; +-+ | max(rev_id) | +-+ | 452476647 |

Re: [Wikitech-l] Counting revisions in 2011090

2011-09-26 Thread Platonides
I thought InnoDB had a count, too. Don't worry, I'm happy with Wikipedia servers not crashing. :) Do doing things the slow way: mysql SELECT COUNT(*) FROM revision; +---+ | COUNT(*) | +---+ | 416988781 | +---+ 1 row in set (1 hour 36 min 52.58 sec) Result from about

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration planning

2011-09-24 Thread Platonides
Niklas Laxström wrote: On 24 September 2011 00:49, Platonides wrote: Daniel Friesen wrote: Does svn actually update disconnected svn directories that just happen to be in a subdirectory? If it does do that then I do admit we might want to provide a handy script to batch upgrade... well

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.18 and Pre design

2011-09-24 Thread Platonides
K. Peachey wrote: I'm no SVN user so i'm emailing instead... As the 1.18 users may have noticed (eg: For example a common place would be CodeReview) the new designs for pre. In r87173[1] the layout was changed and based on consensus in review that was reverted and then 1.18 was rebranched at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration planning

2011-09-23 Thread Platonides
Has the svn:externals problem been solved? What flow would need to follow people currently using sparse checkouts. There have been patches in git ml for sparse clones, but they hadn't been applied, last time I checked. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration planning

2011-09-23 Thread Platonides
Daniel Friesen wrote: Does svn actually update disconnected svn directories that just happen to be in a subdirectory? If it does do that then I do admit we might want to provide a handy script to batch upgrade... well, actually extension wise I've been thinking of that for extensions for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Conflict with extension developers in reservation of custom namespaces

2011-09-23 Thread Platonides
Daniel Friesen wrote: And I'd like to point out that every one of the extensions currently listed inside that area provides config to use different namespace numbers. So you should have no conflict worries. Maybe we should provide a way to generate namespaces for extensions. The simplest way,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adding MD5 / SHA1 column to revision table

2011-09-21 Thread Platonides
Brion Vibber wrote: 2) Checksums would be of fairly obvious benefit to verifying text storage integrity within MediaWiki's own databases (though perhaps best sitting on or keyed to the text table...?) Default installs tend to use simple plain-text or gzipped storage, but big installs like

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adding MD5 / SHA1 column to revision table

2011-09-20 Thread Platonides
Domas Mituzas wrote: * When reverting, do a select count(*) where md5=? and then do something more advanced when more than one match is found finally we don't need an index on it becomes we need an index on it, and storage efficiency becomes much more interesting (binary packing yay ;-)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Repository directory [mediawiki]/trunk clean up

2011-09-19 Thread Platonides
Just try to not produce conflicts for people when updating. And keep subversion history, obviously. I'm not sure if moving in two steps would be good (svn mv, but first commit the additions, then the deletes), as it would allow for an intermediate step, where you could move things in that

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

2011-09-18 Thread Platonides
Chad wrote: For those of us who do not know...what the heck is a Grawp attack? Does it involve generating hash collisions? -Chad It's the name of a wikipedia vandal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Grawp ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

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

2011-09-17 Thread Platonides
Roan Kattouw wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Thomas Griesm...@tgries.de wrote: Was there a certain reason to chose base 36 ? Why not recoding to base 62 and saving 3 bytes per checksum ? I don't know, this was way, way before my time. But then, why use base 62 if you can use base

Re: [Wikitech-l] Internationalisation bug triage notes

2011-09-16 Thread Platonides
Siebrand Mazeland wrote: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17865 -- Mismatched input syntax for Cite error messages * Some discussion. Cite is seen as scary! No one to take this yet. Please give this some TLC. Cite is not /that/ scary. What's TLC? I don't see the problem with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming MediaWiki 1.18 deployment

2011-09-16 Thread Platonides
bawolff wrote: btw, could refreshImageMetadata.php be run on wmf wikis some time after the deployment? 1.18 contains lots of new code related to Exif support (and related image metadata stuff). The maintenance script just regenerates img_metadata based on the source image. -bawolff Do they

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming MediaWiki 1.18 deployment

2011-09-16 Thread Platonides
bawolff wrote: That's concerning. They work for me perfectly fine and seem to work on cruise control. What's the error they're failing with? Thanks, Bawolff It may just be that I don't have something properly configured locally. This is a run of make databaseless on trunk. There were 5

Re: [Wikitech-l] sep11.wikipedia.org

2011-09-09 Thread Platonides
Thomas Morton wrote: Regression error? This was raised a little while ago and supposed to have been fixed :) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30261 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-August/054538.html Tom Looks fixed to me (redirects to archive.org)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed chat system

2011-09-04 Thread Platonides
Harry Burt wrote: Hey wikitech-l, I finally got around to reading the August engineering report, which, as ever, is a very useful read. However, one item did stick out to me: [Visual editor] Ian Baker http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Raindrift investigated and started to work on a chat

Re: [Wikitech-l] Aaron Schulz now full-time at Wikimedia Foundation

2011-08-31 Thread Platonides
Those are good news (tm) both for Aaron, WMF and MediaWiki. Congratulations, Aaron ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Spammers with Google OpenIDs?

2011-08-30 Thread Platonides
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: I think OpenID is a great way to consolidate identities across multiple wikis, and to identify contributors semi-formally, however, if OpenID providers are easy for spammers to infiltrate, I'll have to rethink the whole approach. (Spammers can easily be their own

Re: [Wikitech-l] svn tip: how to undo changes using svn merge -c -revisionnumber --dry-run .

2011-08-28 Thread Platonides
Great gem, Hashar! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.18 code review status

2011-08-28 Thread Platonides
On 28/08/11 17:49, Ashar Voultoiz wrote: On 28/08/11 03:20, Brion Vibber wrote: What that really needs is test cases! Not sure how easy to wrangle though... OCaml has an implementation for unit testing. I have spend a bit of time on it and eventually gave up since: - I lack Ocaml skill.

Re: [Wikitech-l] older revision view statistics

2011-08-27 Thread Platonides
Amir E. Aharoni wrote: I suppose that most readers read the current versions of pages and not the previous revisions. Are there precise statistics about it? What percentage of readers bother to look at the histories and the previous revisions? There was a graphic about parser cache hits on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Jeremy Postlethwaite

2011-08-27 Thread Platonides
Welcome Jeremy! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC SQL 'NOT IN' abstraction

2011-08-24 Thread Platonides
Ashar Voultoiz wrote: Hello, During the Berlin hack-a-ton (which was an awesome event), I have added a quick hack to MediaWiki which is correctly marked as fixme. The revision I am requesting comments for is r87992: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/87992 Interesting. I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Private Mode questions

2011-08-11 Thread Platonides
Do you already know Special:Allmessages? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Private Mode questions

2011-08-11 Thread Platonides
Jay Ashworth wrote: Do you already know Special:Allmessages? Does Special:Allmessages provide the search capability about which I asked, and I just don't realize it? Cause I didn't see any way to do it from there. Cheers, -- jr 'IE: yes :-)' a People usually set it to 5000 and use the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Controlling filename and content-type for action=raw

2011-08-10 Thread Platonides
Finn Årup Nielsen wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 17:39 +0200, Daniel Friesen wrote: MediaWiki does not permit this because allowing random people to create pages and have them returned to a user with a text/html or other mimetype creates XSS vectors and ways of distributing malware. Yes, I

Re: [Wikitech-l] W3C validation links, and extended edit links

2011-08-10 Thread Platonides
John Elliot wrote: That was a HTML4/XHTML1 rule that's been removed. An emptyul/ul is valid HTML5. I wasn't sure if the emptyul was valid HTML5, or if the validator wasn't strict enough about it yet. In any event, I'm happy to take your word for it. If XHTML support is being deprecated, I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image Licenses

2011-08-09 Thread Platonides
Maarten Dammers wrote: Hi Priyank, Op 5-8-2011 21:37, Platonides schreef: priyank bagrecha wrote: Is it possible to get a list of licenses for all the images on wikipedia programmatically? Just the licenses, and a count of how many images have which particular license. Well, more or less

Re: [Wikitech-l] W3C validation links, and extended edit links

2011-08-09 Thread Platonides
John Elliot wrote: Hi there. I've made some modifications to MediaWiki 1.17.0 that others might be interested in. I'd be flattered if some or all of them made it into the official MediaWiki release. Firstly, I've added links to the W3C HTML validation service hosted by MIT. These show up

Re: [Wikitech-l] W3C validation links, and extended edit links

2011-08-09 Thread Platonides
John Elliot wrote: On 10/08/2011 6:53 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote: Please don't edit DefaultSettings.php; Your $wgFooterIcons change could have been done in LocalSettings.php without causing trouble for yourself when you upgrade. Ah, didn't realise LocalSettings.php was the right place to do my

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pre-commit hooks are back!

2011-08-06 Thread Platonides
Ashar Voultoiz wrote: Are there any instructions somewhere to disable them easily? Just in case of trouble. The svn book explains it. I think it was just chmod -x hook_file ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sep11 Wiki

2011-08-06 Thread Platonides
Brion Vibber wrote: On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 12:42 PM, K. Peacheyp858sn...@gmail.com wrote: Filed in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30261 This is an unfortunate consequence of pushing this site out of Wikimedia's hosting in 2006; the offsite mirror apparently didn't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image Licenses

2011-08-05 Thread Platonides
priyank bagrecha wrote: Is it possible to get a list of licenses for all the images on wikipedia programmatically? Just the licenses, and a count of how many images have which particular license. Well, more or less. The licenses are noted with templates, and the templates also add categories,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Exemption from account creation throttle

2011-08-05 Thread Platonides
As I was the primary objector in that revision, I think the idea of doing the same within an extension is suitable as an immediate solution. Should be very trivial to implement/review/deploy and would keep core clean. -Chad Doing it in an extension seems appropiate. I would still create a

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to handle a large change w/ no commit access

2011-07-31 Thread Platonides
K. Peachey wrote: 1. Write up a proposal somewhere (Eg: in your userspace on wiki then share the link around or post it to the mailing list) 2. Apply for commit access (link to the proposal/patches you have done etc etc, we do have the ability to give access to certain sections of the SVN

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please don't commit broken code

2011-07-30 Thread Platonides
Ashar Voultoiz wrote: On 29/07/11 02:05, MZMcBride wrote: snip Sometimes the only way people can get their code reviewed is to commit it. In a BRANCH! :-) Although, you will have to find out someone to review your changes, but at least it saves you the hassle of being reverted on sight.

Re: [Wikitech-l] On refactorings and huge changes

2011-07-30 Thread Platonides
PS: sorry for TLDR-ness... :-( It was worth reading! You make very good points. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] mysql_* functions and MediaWiki

2011-07-30 Thread Platonides
John Du Hart wrote: Earlier this month, the PHP developer team moved to start soft deprecating the mysql.so extension via documentation, with a intent to fully E_DEPRECATED in a later release. [1] Therefore, I thought it would be appropriate to start a small discussion as to how this should be

Re: [Wikitech-l] https via GPU?

2011-07-29 Thread Platonides
Magnus Manske wrote: Just saw this: http://shader.kaist.edu/sslshader/ As we move to offer real https access, maybe this could help keeping the CPU cost down? Our servers don't have a GPU, so that would need a hardware upgrade. ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] page moved from one pageid to another

2011-07-29 Thread Platonides
A funky merge like this (or a general delete/undelete) can create a new page id; essentially the revisions from the old page ended up getting migrated from one page to another, and that other page now has the title of the old page. -- brion Another case is when the old page gets deleted and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Experimental Wikia RTE branch for MediaWiki trunk

2011-07-28 Thread Platonides
Dmitriy Sintsov wrote: Currently I use mw.loader.load(), which can be replaced with importScriptURI(). However I don't want to go step back then move again to 1.17/1.18. I've managed to postpone visual editor thing, now I'll try to adapt few another extensions. I wanted RTE because it handles

Re: [Wikitech-l] On refactorings and huge changes

2011-07-27 Thread Platonides
Chad wrote: I disagree here. Silence should not be taken for assent. Perhaps we should formalize the approval process for RfCs. I agree with the rest of your message in that we absolutely need to get more eyes on RfCs...and I'm open to suggestions on how to do so. -Chad They are core

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MW tie user rights more closely to email?

2011-07-27 Thread Platonides
Jelle Zijlstra wrote: 2011/7/26 Platonides The requester clarified the request today: So for example if the user removes the email address, or replaces it with another but doesn't verify it, the user rights associated with their user group are automatically suspended, until

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MW tie user rights more closely to email?

2011-07-26 Thread Platonides
The requester clarified the request today: So for example if the user removes the email address, or replaces it with another but doesn't verify it, the user rights associated with their user group are automatically suspended, until a verified email address is provided,

Re: [Wikitech-l] On refactorings and huge changes

2011-07-26 Thread Platonides
+1 I completely agree. Dantman is right in that such has to be accompanied by promptly reviews. First problem is, people has to read the RFC. Searching the archive for 'RFC' I don't find it announced to the mailing list. A RFC could be just text, have some sample code, or a full implementation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gregory Maxwell in the news

2011-07-24 Thread Platonides
Aaron Swartz is a wikipedian, too [1]. 1- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AaronSw ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please welcome Ben Hartshorne and Daniel Zahn

2011-07-24 Thread Platonides
Welcome both of you. Daniel, I think you are going to be assigned bug 14890 :) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-07-19 Thread Platonides
Congratulations! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Supporting Extension authors

2011-07-17 Thread Platonides
Brion Vibber wrote: On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: * How can they write parser tests and unit tests to try out their code? 'Look at what other extensions do' is the best answer until somebody writes up some details, which would be super nice. :D 'Cite' is

Re: [Wikitech-l] New SVN commiter

2011-07-16 Thread Platonides
Ashar Voultoiz wrote: On 15/07/11 21:06, Chad wrote: snip Got a bunch of new ones created this week: * Matthew April - Matthew.JA - UserMergeAndDelete extension * Jeremy - jlemley - New Favorites extension * Justin Ryan - justizin - Wikia developer * Owen Davis - owen - Wikia developer *

Re: [Wikitech-l] Api Calls

2011-07-01 Thread Platonides
Roan Kattouw wrote: On Wikimedia wikis, the rate limit for editing is 8 edits per minute for anonymous (logged-out) and new users. So waiting 3 seconds between edits will result in almost 20 edits per minute, that's way too much. If you're operating a bot, you should get an account for it and

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF XML dump title case problem

2011-06-27 Thread Platonides
Emmanuel Engelhart wrote: Hi Titles should be stored in the table page with a first letter uppercased. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28technical_restrictions%29#Lower_case_first_letter Unfortunately, it seems that we have XML dumps (and consequently mwdumper

Re: [Wikitech-l] should we join the Unicode Constortium?

2011-06-27 Thread Platonides
Ryan Kaldari wrote: I'm not sure who would be in charge of this, but I think it would be useful if the WMF was a liaison member of the Unicode Constortium: http://unicode.org/consortium/memblogo.html This body makes all sorts of important decisions about the Unicode standard—decisions that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reproducing localurl by python urllib.quote()

2011-06-27 Thread Platonides
Alex Brollo wrote: I found a number of troubles when trying to replicate localurl: parser function by python urllib.quote(), with a number of annoying bugs. Is this correct-complete? /wiki/+urllib.quote(name-of-page.replace( ,_),/!,;:.-_) where name-of-page is utf-8 encoded. Thanks! I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question regarding reverting a certain own version in SVN; and asking you to update two MW pages with such how-to information

2011-06-27 Thread Platonides
Ashar Voultoiz wrote: On 24/06/11 08:33, Thomas Gries wrote: When I think that a version committed by myself r90650 (marked as new) is fully obsolete and already replaced in my other commit r90684 (marked as fixed) I would say, if it is reverted, mark it reverted :) Or maybe resolved, if

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: WMF engineering promotions and role changes

2011-06-21 Thread Platonides
Congratulations, to all of you! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can I get data to map our linguistic interconnectedness?

2011-06-16 Thread Platonides
that pool. And then adding the constraint of a second project with a second language will narrow the pool even more. We're looking for the orphan community who have a lot of editors but little connection to English and Meta. I have added a small script at http://www.toolserver.org/~platonides

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can I get data to map our linguistic interconnectedness?

2011-06-16 Thread Platonides
I have added a small script at http://www.toolserver.org/~platonides/activeusers/activeusers.php to show active users per project and language. Requisites for appearing there are more than 500 edits (total) and at least one action (usually an edit) in the last month (since May 16, data

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can I get data to map our linguistic interconnectedness?

2011-06-16 Thread Platonides
Jelle Zijlstra wrote: You might also get better results when you don't limit yourself to recent contributions. For example, I contributed heavily to the Dutch Wikipedia a few years ago, and now contribute heavily to the English. I don't appear in Platonides's list, because I hardly edit nl: at

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can I get data to map our linguistic interconnectedness?

2011-06-16 Thread Platonides
Thomas Morton wrote: Or look for actives on one wiki.. and then cross check those names with all the other wikis for the same names with over, say, 300 edits (at any time). Tom The edit count is are already looking at the full count, in the last month only one is needed.

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can I get data to map our linguistic interconnectedness?

2011-06-15 Thread Platonides
Alec Conroy wrote: Is there an easy way to run this: For each of the 86,000 'active users': Store a list for their edit counts on each project they've edited That's actually a fairly small dataset, and it would get us all the data we want. I've been a developer before, but never

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm in ur trunk, reviewing pre-1.18 branch code

2011-06-15 Thread Platonides
Tomasz Finc wrote: I'm really eager to fix the latter. We currently have good documentation from Roan and others at http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/How_to_deploy_code and we'll have a much better eco system when het deploy is out. For those of you that actively deploy code .. do we have

[Wikitech-l] sync-file pitfalls

2011-06-15 Thread Platonides
http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/How_to_deploy_code mentions a couple of pitfalls. Given that it is not in svn, I'm providing here a couple of simpñle snippets to fix them. Can someone apply? PITFALL #1: The path argument has to be relative to the php-1.17 directory, not to the current

Re: [Wikitech-l] background shell process control and exit status

2011-06-14 Thread Platonides
Michael Dale wrote: For the TimedMediaHandler I was adding more fine grain control over background processes [1] and ran into a unix issue around getting both a pid and exit status for a given background shell command. Essentially with a background task I can get the pid or the exit status

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing Ubuntu Ensemble, mediawiki community feedback requested

2011-06-09 Thread Platonides
Ahmed Kamal wrote: Hi everyone, Thanks for contacting with us, Ahmed. This is Ahmed, I work for Ubuntu helping the cloud community. Ubuntu has been working on some hot technology, that aims to be apt-get for the cloud! Basically Install and manage large scale cloud deployments of web

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension bundling for 1.18

2011-06-09 Thread Platonides
We could provide a minified mediawiki version. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] DOMAS THE GIANT HAS A POSSE

2011-06-07 Thread Platonides
Brandon Harris wrote: You will obey: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Domas-the-Giant-has-a-Posse.png OMG that's cool. But that Wikipedia book should have been about MySQL :) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

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