Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-16 Thread Moriel Schottlender
Hi everyone, Again, thank you to for all the comments, advice and criticism! I just wanted to send an update on the status of the extension -- I created a page for this extension on mw - http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php/Extension:ExtensionStatus where I also added a future/todo list, a

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-16 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Moriel Schottlender mor...@gmail.com wrote: You can see a screenshot of the current working version here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Extstatus_screenshot.png Please license your uploads to the wiki correctly (or more preferably update to commons!).

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-14 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 05/14/2013 01:59 AM, Tyler Romeo wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Moriel Schottlender mor...@gmail.comwrote: Are all (or most) extensions in Github under https://github.com/wikimedia/with a mediawiki-extensions- prefix? Can I use that as a general rule of thumb? Yes. They're

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-14 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Or set up some caching on Gitweb, so it's usable for this kind of thing. I believe Chad is planning on sending Gitweb to /dev/null/, in-turn for a better replacement (if it does caching better is another question).

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-14 Thread Thomas Gries
Am 14.05.2013 08:43, schrieb Matthew Flaschen: Or set up some caching ... +1 for _/*caching */_(like for RSS feeds) See Extension:RSS, for example. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-14 Thread Chad
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:59 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Or set up some caching on Gitweb, so it's usable for this kind of thing. I believe Chad is planning on sending Gitweb to /dev/null/, in-turn

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-13 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Sun, 12 May 2013 21:26:42 -0700, Moriel Schottlender mor...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I'd like to get your opinions and critique on my very first MediaWiki extension, which, I hope, will be helpful to other developers. ... The extension is available on GitHub:

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-13 Thread Moriel Schottlender
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:21 AM, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.comwrote: * Your RL module should have a remote path in addition to a local one, it's also proper to declare the media type for your css. You should also drop the `@CHARSET UTF-8`. * The wfMessage calls should probably

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-13 Thread Yury Katkov
I very much lie the idea of this extension: it's very useful to know what changes have been made in a software one is using. Does it only work with WMF's gerrit? Many extensions are not hosted there. I think that for them you can just compare the version number of the extension with its current

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-13 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Sun, 12 May 2013 23:35:12 -0700, Moriel Schottlender mor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:21 AM, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.comwrote: Thanks a lot Daniel! Much appreciated. I also noticed I should go through the styleguide to make sure I follow the proper

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-13 Thread Moriel Schottlender
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:44 AM, Yury Katkov katkov.ju...@gmail.com wrote: I very much lie the idea of this extension: it's very useful to know what changes have been made in a software one is using. Does it only work with WMF's gerrit? Many extensions are not hosted there. I think that for

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-13 Thread Markus Glaser
: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?) Hello everyone, I'd like to get your opinions and critique on my very first MediaWiki extension, which, I hope, will be helpful to other developers. I noticed that there's no easy way of seeing if extensions that we have installed

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-13 Thread Moriel Schottlender
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Markus Glaser gla...@hallowelt.biz wrote: I like that idea very much. In the use case I have in mind, though, I do have actual releases. Do you think it's possible for your extension to also consider tags? I am thinking of something like a tagging convention,

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-13 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2013-05-13 5:16 AM, Moriel Schottlender mor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Markus Glaser gla...@hallowelt.biz wrote: I like that idea very much. In the use case I have in mind, though, I do have actual releases. Do you think it's possible for your extension to also

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-13 Thread Aarti K. Dwivedi
Hi, The idea is obviously good and useful. In OPW round 5( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_5 ) there was a project for pulling files from a git repository. A part of the project dealt with updating the files. The approach( checking for last commit id or

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-13 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 05/13/2013 12:26 AM, Moriel Schottlender wrote: I'd like to get your opinions and critique on my very first MediaWiki extension, which, I hope, will be helpful to other developers. I like this idea. I wonder if you could work with the WikiApiary site (http://wikiapiary.com/) as you adapt

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-13 Thread Moriel Schottlender
Guys - thank you so much for the comments, I really appreciate it! The future goal for this could very well be something that helps people upgrade their extensions (as similar as possible to something like wordpress, which is very newbie-friendly) and download the files directly with or without

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-13 Thread Thomas Gries
Am 13.05.2013 21:12, schrieb Moriel Schottlender: Guys - thank you so much for the comments, I really appreciate it! Hi, I just wanted to _/mention/_: 1. This was merged into MediaWiki core on 16.04.2013: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/54986/ Add git HEAD date to Special:Version for core and

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-13 Thread Ryan Lane
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Moriel Schottlender mor...@gmail.comwrote: Hello everyone, I'd like to get your opinions and critique on my very first MediaWiki extension, which, I hope, will be helpful to other developers. I noticed that there's no easy way of seeing if extensions that

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-13 Thread Moriel Schottlender
I can change this to the github repos, yes, all I need to know is the schema of the url. Also, Reedy made the excellent suggestion of Caching results -- which I am working on -- that will also reduce both load time and heavy traffic time. But actually, working in front of github will be somewhat

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-13 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Moriel Schottlender mor...@gmail.comwrote: Are all (or most) extensions in Github under https://github.com/wikimedia/with a mediawiki-extensions- prefix? Can I use that as a general rule of thumb? Yes. They're mirrored automatically. Also, you're probably

[Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-12 Thread Moriel Schottlender
Hello everyone, I'd like to get your opinions and critique on my very first MediaWiki extension, which, I hope, will be helpful to other developers. I noticed that there's no easy way of seeing if extensions that we have installed on our MediaWiki require update, and there are even some