On 20/02/14 05:17, Jamie Thingelstad wrote:
Regarding PHP 5.3 support, I put together a quick report in WikiApiary
showing the versions of PHP in use across wikis.
https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/PHP_Versions
In short, 5.3 is the most common PHP version used by a large, large
majority.
Three
ICANN just delegated the gTLD .WIKI yesterday. It's being managed by Top Level
Design, LLC. I'm not entirely sure what that means for all of us exactly, but I
suspect that the WMF is going to want to at least register Wikipedia.wiki and
Wikimedia.wiki once the gTLD is open for registration.
http://honeycoding.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/mediawiki-vagrant-is-tough-to-be-tamed-in-your-local-machine/
Charul is an OPW intern with Fedora working on infrastructure visualization
(the Datagrepper/Dataviewer project). Charul: thanks for the post! If you
have any improvements for
On Feb 20, 2014 1:57 PM, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.com
wrote:
ICANN just delegated the gTLD .WIKI yesterday. It's being managed by Top
Level
Design, LLC. I'm not entirely sure what that means for all of us
exactly, but I
suspect that the WMF is going to want to at least register
On 02/20/2014 10:56 AM, Derric Atzrott wrote:
I'm not entirely sure what that means for all of us exactly, but I
suspect that the WMF is going to want to at least register Wikipedia.wiki and
Wikimedia.wiki once the gTLD is open for registration.
I'm not even sure media.wiki is a good idea, but
We've been in discussions with Top Level Design, both to look into
potentially appropriate uses (e.g. URL shorteners) and to prevent
squatting of WMF trademarks.
James points out that now there's .foundation there's some additional
potential for mischief :P. Damn TLDs sprouting like mushrooms ..
I got permission from Reuben Smith of wikihow and WMF release manager Greg
Grossmeier to re-post this exchange.
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Reuben Smith of wikiHow asked:
We're having a hard time figuring out whether we should be basing our
wikiHow
It's worth noting that WMF branches also include temporary hacks to keep
current JS/CSS and cached HTML output compatible (for at least 30 days), while
release branches never contain them (and thus require HTML caches to be purged
during the upgrade process).
This usually only affects changes
TLD proliferation is a scam by money-hungry registrars who want people to
register (and thus pay) in multiple TLDs to protect their brands.
I recommend we boycott/ignore these various things and just avoid them, but
I know we're going to end up registering a bunch for the brand protection
On 20/02/14 21:32, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote:
It's worth noting that WMF branches also include temporary hacks to
keep current JS/CSS and cached HTML output compatible (for at least 30
days), while release branches never contain them (and thus require
HTML caches to be purged during the upgrade
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
This week, we're mostly discussing the HTML templating and SOA RFCs -
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Summit_2014/HTML_templatingand
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Isarra Yos zhoris...@gmail.com wrote:
It would require pretty consistent maintenance of their own, but it could be
worth it.
IOW, you need to hire a Greg Grossmeier :)
-Jeremy
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On 02/20/2014 04:51 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
TLD proliferation is a scam by money-hungry registrars who want people to
register (and thus pay) in multiple TLDs to protect their brands.
Well, the ostensible pretext is that .com. is now ridiculously
overloaded with myovercomplicateddomain.com
On 02/20/2014 01:55 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote:
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Sumana Harihareswara
suma...@wikimedia.org mailto:suma...@wikimedia.org wrote:
This week, we're mostly discussing the HTML templating and SOA RFCs -
quote name=Bartosz Dz. date=2014-02-20 time=22:32:42 +0100
It's worth noting that WMF branches also include temporary hacks to
keep current JS/CSS and cached HTML output compatible (for at least 30
days), while release branches never contain them (and thus require
HTML caches to be purged
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Reuben Smith of wikiHow asked:
We're having a hard time figuring out whether we should be basing our
wikiHow code off Mediawiki's external releases (such as the latest 1.22.2),
or off the branches that WMF
On 02/15/2014 09:07 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
Frankly, I think there has been a large degree of intransigence on both
sides. The free font advocates have refused to identify the fonts that
I still miss an answer to
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2013-December/001285.html
I don't
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:21:37 +0100, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote:
quote name=Bartosz Dz. date=2014-02-20 time=22:32:42 +0100
It's worth noting that WMF branches also include temporary hacks to
keep current JS/CSS and cached HTML output compatible (for at least 30
days), while
quote name=Ryan Lane date=2014-02-20 time=14:37:01 -0800
Note that unless you're willing to keep up to date with WMF's relatively
fast pace of branching, you're going to miss security updates. No matter
what, if you use git you're going to get security updates slower, since
they are released
I've taken the liberty of enabling[1] lower-resolution .ogv video
transcodes, at 360p and 160p in addition to the 480p we already generated.
[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61690
These will be useful for older or slower or mobile machines which need to
use non-native software
On 2014-02-20 2:50 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote:
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:21:37 +0100, Greg Grossmeier
g...@wikimedia.org wrote:
quote name=Bartosz Dz. date=2014-02-20 time=22:32:42 +0100
It's worth noting that WMF branches also include temporary hacks to
keep current JS/CSS and cached HTML
Is that the rule then, we have to make MediaWiki work on anything Ubuntu
still supports?
Is there a rule?
- Trevor
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Markus Krötzsch
mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote:
On 20/02/14 05:17, Jamie Thingelstad wrote:
Regarding PHP 5.3 support, I put together a
Maybe not a firm rule, but something worth being aware of. Lots
of people use LTSes, so it'd be nice to not break them without
some upgrade path :)
-Chad
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Is that the rule then, we have to make MediaWiki work on
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Is that the rule then, we have to make MediaWiki work on anything Ubuntu
still supports?
Is there a rule?
We should strongly consider ensuring that the latest stable releases of
Ubuntu and probably RHEL (or maybe
One asks whether the Foundation would've asked for a .wikimedia tld when
ICANN had that application period open (provided we actually could've
afforded funds to pay the huge fees required).
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote:
On 02/20/2014 04:51 PM, Brion
On 20 February 2014 15:34, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Is that the rule then, we have to make MediaWiki work on anything Ubuntu
still supports?
Is there a rule?
We should strongly consider ensuring
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:58 PM, James Forrester
jforres...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On 20 February 2014 15:34, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Is that the rule then, we have to make MediaWiki work on anything
Le 20/02/2014 22:51, Brion Vibber a écrit :
TLD proliferation is a scam by money-hungry registrars who want people to
register (and thus pay) in multiple TLDs to protect their brands.
I recommend we boycott/ignore these various things and just avoid them, but
I know we're going to end up
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote:
Le 20/02/2014 22:51, Brion Vibber a écrit :
TLD proliferation is a scam by money-hungry registrars who want people to
register (and thus pay) in multiple TLDs to protect their brands.
I recommend we boycott/ignore
Let me put this out there so there isn’t confusion. The regular 6 month
releases of Ubuntu are the stable releases. A LTS release is released every two
years on the same cycle as regular Ubuntu releases. A LTS release is certainly
more stable than regular releases, but not calling regular
On 21 February 2014 01:00, Techman224 techman...@techman224.ca wrote:
Let me put this out there so there isn’t confusion. The regular 6 month
releases of Ubuntu are the stable releases. A LTS release is released every
two years on the same cycle as regular Ubuntu releases. A LTS release is
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote:
Note that unless you're willing to keep up to date with WMF's relatively
fast pace of branching, you're going to miss security updates. No matter
what, if you use git you're going to get security updates slower, since
they
I had some free time today and made some minor improvements to Bingle to
take care of two longstanding, really annoying issues:
https://github.com/awjrichards/bingle/issues/10
https://github.com/awjrichards/bingle/issues/11
(Same issues also reported via BZ:
Hey,
I would like to present Jamie with the official barn-kitten of useful data
brought to a wikitech thread.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bg9lHl8CMAAhXz-.jpg
Congratulations Jamie!
I'd also like to take this opportunity to start an RFC on redesigning all
of MediaWiki's UI, with me doing the
Being a firm believer in the LTS model, I support David's take on this issue.
Besides, they tend to be tested and reliable and have a longer support window
by default, so it makes sense to support them in turn.
From: dger...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 01:04:39 +
To:
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote:
Le 20/02/2014 22:51, Brion Vibber a écrit :
TLD proliferation is a scam by money-hungry registrars who want people
to
register (and thus pay)
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Faidon Liambotis fai...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Last time we were discussing PHP 5.4 it was quite a while ago but I
remember hearing that we'd need to do some porting work for our
extensions. Plus, we we re having a debate we were having about Suhosin
that I
Gabriel and I have posted about the current work, prototype
implementations, and proposed solution in a new wiki page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library/KnockoutProposal
We hope everyone has a chance to read it and bring their comments /
questions /
Thanks Matt! I've been looking forward to more public communication on this
work!
(Per
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-02-21the
meeting is in #wikimedia-office and not #wikimedia-meetbot .)
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia
Le 21/02/2014 01:25, Luis Villa a écrit :
Can a trademark owner sue the registrar directly? After all it sold a
product (the domain) using your trademark.
Remember that wiki is not a WMF trademark :) But presumably if someone
registered something like pedia.wiki we'd have a variety of tools
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski
tom...@twkozlowski.net wrote:
Hi!
In a shameless copy of Sumana's August 2012 idea, I'd like to send public
thanks to some people who have helped me get some things done in the past
few weeks/days:
I am new here, and I am already in love
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