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

(Cross-posting this to fundraising mailing list, as I suspect not many Fundraisers read Wikitech-l) Summary: WMF is going to release an Android Wikipedia app shortly (other mobile OS will get an app, too) On 10/07/2011 03:25 AM, Tomasz Finc wrote: One good question that Brion just asked me was

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

On 10/07/2011 11:07 PM, Steven Walling wrote: I think rather than have two identical versions in the Market, which would no doubt confuse a great many people, I would strongly suggest that we implement a pay what you want sliding scale for our apps on both iPhone and Android. If X app store

[Wikitech-l] Community Broadcast Tool

Hi, in a recent discussion[0] on foundation-l about the increasing use of CentralNotice as a way of informing users, Erik proposed to have a Community Broadcast Tool (CBT), which would allow users to better control which information they receive.[1] Basically, the idea is to use

[Wikitech-l] Status of mobile site (again)

Hi, since it has been two months since the topic has been brought up on this list... what's the current status of the mobile site? There has been a job opening[1], which closed a few days ago, are there any news on that yet? One example, to show how broken the mobile page really is: On many

Re: [Wikitech-l] facebookyzation

On 04/18/2011 08:15 PM, Stefan Werthmann wrote: facebookyzation the whole net could be a very bad idea ;-). While I certainly agree with that statement, politics should go on foundation-l, not this list. --Tobias signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Wikitech-l] Future: Love for the sister projects!

On 04/03/2011 07:56 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: In particular, I think there's some low-hanging fruit in the Gadgets system. Right now it's honestly pretty awkward to create a Gadget in the first place, and sharing code modules between wikis requires a lot of cut-and-pasting (which leads to

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki.org's [[MediaWiki:Newarticletext]]

On 10/10/2010 10:02 AM, Max Semenik wrote: On 10.10.2010, 11:34 MZMcBride wrote: I reset it to the default. The default message is not very helpful, probably something that gives warnings in a less intrusive way would do, such as

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

On 09/04/2010 05:59 AM, Trevor Parscal wrote: Over the past couple of months, Roan Kattouw and I (Trevor Parscal) have been working on a JavaScript and CSS delivery system called ResourceLoader. We're really excited about this technology, and hope others will be too. Cool! There have been

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

Thanks you Aryeh for your excellent comment (Score: 5, Insightful). I fully agree that excluding volunteer coders from decision making processes is a dangerous path, which in the long run could cost WMF more than the time spent on including the community in a collaborative and open way. As an

Re: [Wikitech-l] Self-determination of language versions in questions of skin?

You've written to the MediaWiki technical list, which probably is not the right place for this discussion. Sure it is. It is a question to the System administrators by the community (or parts of it). Discussing it in the community itself won't help answering the question. foundation-l might be

Re: [Wikitech-l] [gsoc] splitting the img_metadata field into a new table

Hi bawolff, thanks for your work. I'm not very happy about the name metadata for the table. As far as I understand it, this is about file metadata. metadata suggests it contains information on pages (e.g. statistics). Please consider using a name that contains 'file', e.g. file_metadata. Thanks,

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x releases (people seriously get confused that 1.10 comes after 1.6). Hi Chad, thanks for that initiative. I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion

Hi, On 05/24/2010 04:44 PM, Peter17 wrote: It is now open for comments, so, could you please read it and let me know about your remarks and suggestions, on this list and/or on the talk page? first of all, I let me tell you that I'm really excited about this project. It may very well

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deletion schema

Hi, There's another discussion happening at enwiki at the moment about the stalled rollout of RevisionDelete for admins; which is backed up in the chain of bugs which boils down to our deletion mechanism is borked. Indeed. Basically, we have two deletion schemas in parallel at the moment,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deletion schema

OQ wrote: Or we could just ignore[1] them. 1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29diff=101684983oldid=101671249 I strongly disagree with brion and I hope that everyone realizes just deleting the archive table is not an option. While the archive

Re: [Wikitech-l] View deleted edit

Hi, When I was try to view deleted 21,764 edit of sandbox, connection timeout. I can't check deleted edit. (Need not to restore sandbox.) http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E8%B2%9D%E5%A1%9A/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%9C%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9 If I want to see them, what

Re: [Wikitech-l] SVN Locks

We don't really use them (often) and there's no active locks, so I'm inclined to want to do the latter. Killing locks entirely sounds reasonable if we don't use them and don't plan to use them anytime soon[1]. Regards, CoE [1] i.e. before we move to git :P signature.asc Description:

Re: [Wikitech-l] [review] New extension CollabWatchlist

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Including tables in templates

Hi Mak, Mediawiki-l is the correct list to discuss this, Wikitech-l is for developers. About your question: You have to use tricks: Create the following templates Template:! with the content | Template:!- with the content |- Template:(! with the content {| Template:!) with the content |} Now

Re: [Wikitech-l] Including tables in templates

Platonides wrote: Just write the table in the template. It's the same syntax. AFAIK that doesn't work in all cases. It fails if you mix template syntax and table syntax. E.g.: {{{1||foo}}} (for: if {{{1}}} is set then {{{1}}} else |foo) More realistic cases where this happens is with #if and

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Announcement] Extension of user experience work

Hi Erik, our very positive revenue perspective (we have already exceeded our fundraising targets for the fiscal year, and received the additional $2M from Google) allows us to do something we've hoped to be able to do: make our investment in user experience work permanent, as opposed to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Vs other trackers.

Hi, this is slightly off-topic, but I'll go ahead anyway: Please don't make bugzilla (or any future bug tracker) look like MediaWiki (Monobook skin). What looks like a Wiki (but aren't) often gets confused with a Wiki. Buzgilla is not a Wiki. It's a bug tracker. I know it's nice to have a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Diff needs improvement

Lars Aronsson wrote: When a new paragraph was inserted, diff doesn't discover that the previous first paragraph is now the second. The diff reports much larger changes than actually happened. Why is that? How can it be fixed? This is one of those ancient bugs: