Re: [Wikitech-l]  Wikimedia production errors help

Id be careful about using numbers in triage right now. The numbers are a little misleading as the error logging is only enabled on smaller wikis. Also if an error results in data loss but only impacts a small amount of people I would say that's worse than a benign error that occurs for lots. We

Re: [Wikitech-l] Allow HTML email

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 9:22 AM Faidon Liambotis wrote: > On behalf of the Mutt & other console email clients user club, we > approve of this change. We haven't formed consensus on it yet, but I > suspect we'd even be willing to go one step further and negotiate the > use of emojis as well

Re: [Wikitech-l] Allow HTML email

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 02:45:37PM +1000, Tim Starling wrote: > We still haven't heard from Faidon who, last I heard, still reads his > emails by piping telnet into less or something. But I think he can > make sense of multipart/alternative as long as it's not base-64 > encoded. You should send

Re: [Wikitech-l] Allow HTML email

As long as you guys keep the B-News bi-directional gateway functioning, I'm fine. And, please, make sure you strip any leading whitespace so as not to tickle the line-eater. > On Sep 23, 2020, at 9:21 AM, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020

[Wikitech-l] Require tag for API writes

Hi, is there an example that shows how to reject writeapi edits made using scripts unless the edit has a required tag? For example, changes made using Visual Editor are labeled with “(Tag: Visual edit)”. Thank you! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] Coolest Tool Award 2020: Call for nominations!

Dear all, We’re really happy to announce the second edition of the Coolest Tool Award ! Tools play an essential role at Wikimedia, and so do the many volunteer developers who experiment with new ideas, develop & maintain local & global

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #23: July & August 2020

 Read on Phabricator at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/204/ --- How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out! ##  *Incidents* 4 documented incidents in July, and 2 documented incidents in August. [1] Historically, that's on

[Wikitech-l] Spell4Wiki App - Audio Upload Tool for Wikimedia Commons

Hello all, Happy to invite you to contribute your voice for wiktionary words using Spell4Wiki android application. 'Spell4Wiki' a GPLv3 licensed app to record and upload audio for Wiktionary words to Wikimedia Commons. The app is also a multilingual dictionary based on Wiktionary. This app was

Re: [Wikitech-l] Allow HTML email

*HTML email is a scourge.* On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 9:35 AM Chris Danis wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 9:22 AM Faidon Liambotis > wrote: > > On behalf of the Mutt & other console email clients user club, we > > approve of this change. We haven't formed consensus on it yet, but I > > suspect

Re: [Wikitech-l] Allow HTML email

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 12:55 AM AntiCompositeNumber < anticompositenum...@gmail.com> wrote: > *HTML email is a scourge.* > Welcome to the future! Every new thing introduces new problems, but we kinda can't stop the progress. -- Best regards, Max Semenik

[Wikitech-l] Security pre-release announcement: 1.31.9 / 1.34.3 / 1.35.0

Hi all, Tomorrow we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all supported branches of MediaWiki. The new releases will be: - 1.34.3 - 1.31.9 This will resolve eight issues in MediaWiki core (two of which aren't applicable to MediaWiki 1.31), and also includes some fixes

Re: [Wikitech-l] Allow HTML email

Tim Starling wrote: > We still haven't heard from Faidon who, last I heard, still reads his > emails by piping telnet into less or something. But I think he can > make sense of multipart/alternative as long as it's not base-64 > encoded... I'm not Faidon, and I'm not even a regular contributor to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Allow HTML email

Thanks Tim. This prompted me to finally switch to composing mails in HTML per default, like it's the 21st century. Am 23.09.20 um 06:45 schrieb Tim Starling: > OK done, and it seems to be working. > -- Daniel Kinzler Principal Software Engineer, Core Platform Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] TechCom meeting 2020-09-23

Thanks Tim! And thanks to Timo for going through the old RFCs. We haven't done that in a while. Besides the RFCs, I'd like to talk about the GitLab consultation in our meting tomorrow: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation TechCom is listed under "consulted", so I suppose we should

Re: [Wikitech-l] Allow HTML email

It's fine to allow HTML email, but doing so shifts on the users the burden of fixing their clients so that they produce suitable multipart emails before sending them to the list. With some common email clients and providers (e.g. Gmail webmail) it's surprisingly easy to produce utterly unreadable