[Wikitech-l] huggle 3 C++ / python developers wanted!

2014-02-21 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, Do you have an understanding of python or C++? WE NEED YOU! Huggle 3 is an antivandalism tool used on wikipedia and some other wikimedia projects. It's written in C++ with use of Qt framework and it also contains embedded python interpreter so that it can be extended with python extensions

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lower-resolution .ogv video transcodes coming

2014-02-21 Thread bawolff
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: [..] Files should gradually populate at the smaller sizes as they get referenced and the new sizes are automatically added to the transcoding queue. Please give a shout if there's any problems. -- brion Looks like

[Wikitech-l] Proposal To featured project

2014-02-21 Thread Aalekh Nigam
Hello,I would like give a proposal for inclusion ofnbsp;Allow smoother and easier Wikimedia Commons pictures discovery of Bug:57805nbsp; in thenbsp;Featurednbsp;Project ideas Section ofnbsp;https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2014nbsp;Page. Thank YouAalekh NigamaalekhN

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal To featured project

2014-02-21 Thread Brian Wolff
On Feb 21, 2014 11:08 AM, Aalekh Nigam aalekh1...@rediffmail.com wrote: Hello,I would like give a proposal for inclusion ofnbsp;Allow smoother and easier Wikimedia Commons pictures discovery of Bug:57805nbsp; in thenbsp;Featurednbsp;Project ideas Section ofnbsp;

Re: [Wikitech-l] Minor Bingle improvements - users please update your code

2014-02-21 Thread Dan Andreescu
thanks Arthur! On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.orgwrote: 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

[Wikitech-l] Requesting a query

2014-02-21 Thread sb_na...@yahoo.in
Hello all, Is there a query to generate a report that list all templates without doc pages for urdu wikipedia?? Shuaib ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal To featured project

2014-02-21 Thread Quim Gil
Aalekh, thank you for taking the initiative of pushing a bug report as a potential GSoC project. On 02/21/2014 07:34 AM, Brian Wolff wrote: You dont need it to be featured for it to be your project. Featured means that various people think its a good project and there are two people willing to

[Wikitech-l] Need help from Wikimedia github admins to transfer bingle repo

2014-02-21 Thread Arthur Richards
I'd like to transfer the github repo for Bingle to the organization (currently it's associated with my personal github account). According to https://help.github.com/articles/how-to-transfer-a-repository that means I'll need administrative rights in order to do so. Can someone help me out with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Need help from Wikimedia github admins to transfer bingle repo

2014-02-21 Thread Andrew Otto
Hm, someone correct me if I’m wrong, but if you want to have Bingle hosted on the wikimedia Github, you should create a repository for it in Gerrit, and then add a special replication rule in puppet in role/gerrit.pp to get the repository in the Github URL that you want. On Feb 21, 2014, at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Decisions on HTML templating + Service Oriented Architecture (was Re: RFC review this Friday: HTML templating + Service Oriented Architecture)

2014-02-21 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Reminder that this is happening now. Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks Matt! I've been looking forward to more public communication on this work! (Per

Re: [Wikitech-l] Need help from Wikimedia github admins to transfer bingle repo

2014-02-21 Thread Arthur Richards
Brion added me as an admin and I just transferred the bingle repository from awjrichards/bingle to wikimedia/bingle. I added Dan Andreescu and S Page as admins in addition to myself. Theoretically, remotes should automatically redirect to the new repo but folks may want to update their remotes to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-21 Thread AlisonW
and on my one webserver which *doesn't* run the LTS (for advance testing purposes, mostly) I just got caught by an increase from Apache2.2 to 2.4 which breaks all the things*. AlisonW * well, quite a lot, anyway. Much editing of configuration files and temporarily making some facilities

[Wikitech-l] FOSSASIA - 2014 Conference

2014-02-21 Thread Harsh Kothari
Hi All FOSSASIA is an exciting free Open Technology event for students, developers and start ups. It is a unique opportunity to share knowledge and experience about open source technologies and meet interesting contributors. This year FOSSASIA 2014 will be held at Norton University in Phnom

Re: [Wikitech-l] Syrian authorities censored Wikipedia access

2014-02-21 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
a similar research has been done about Iran by university of Pennsylvania http://www.global.asc.upenn.edu/fileLibrary/PDFs/CItation_Filtered_Wikipedia_Report_11_5_2013-2.pdf it's really interesting :) On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/19/14, Sumana

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Commons-l] Lower-resolution .ogv video transcodes coming

2014-02-21 Thread Brion Vibber
In addition to the sudden burst of transcodes, we found that the player widget is sometimes aggressively selecting the small size when it should be defaulting to a larger size. So we're temporarily disabling the small sizes again; https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/61760 covers checking/tweaking the

Re: [Wikitech-l] .wiki gTLD

2014-02-21 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: If I own the trademark coca-cola I would assume the registrar would not be able use (ie: sell a domain) without a license from me. I don't know about that. Could I register starwars.wiki in order to redirect it to

Re: [Wikitech-l] .wiki gTLD

2014-02-21 Thread Paul Dugas
I believe there is a period of time before these TLDs go live when trademark holders are supposed to register and that they want to acquire. Wonder if that means they loose the rights when that period ends. Suspect not. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote:

Re: [Wikitech-l] .wiki gTLD

2014-02-21 Thread Chad
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Paul Dugas p...@dugasenterprises.comwrote: I believe there is a period of time before these TLDs go live when trademark holders are supposed to register and that they want to acquire. Wonder if that means they loose the rights when that period ends. Suspect

Re: [Wikitech-l] .wiki gTLD

2014-02-21 Thread Peter Kaminski
Without getting into the value discussion, I wanted to note there's an official meta-registry called the Trademark Clearinghouse, in which owners of registered trademarks can block/reserve (as opposed to register) their marks in all the new gTLDs, so they don't get squatted. The protection

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Language Engineering team changes

2014-02-21 Thread Erik Moeller
FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org Date: Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:35 PM Subject: Language Engineering team changes To: All Wikimedia Foundation Staff Hi folks. After some internal conversations, we've implemented the following changes on the

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Update on WMF Director of TechOps

2014-02-21 Thread Erik Moeller
FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org Date: Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:40 PM Subject: Update on WMF Director of TechOps To: All Wikimedia Foundation Staff Hi folks, in consultation with Faidon and Mark, we've decided not to immediately post the

[Wikitech-l] New Bingle feature - resolved bug reconciliation!

2014-02-21 Thread Arthur Richards
I refactored a standalone script in bingle I wrote a while back called bingleResolved and integrated it with bingle proper. bingleResolved will attempt to reconcile bugs marked as 'resolved' (or some configurable status) with Mingle. That is, if you have bug cards floating around in some backlog

[Wikitech-l] Deployment and Roadmap highlights - week of February 24th

2014-02-21 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Hello and welcome to your weekly deployments and roadmap update email. The full schedule for next week is at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_February_24th Highlights: == Week of == We will be upgrading Varnish (caching servers) instances to a newer version (previously

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-21 Thread Trevor Parscal
So, it sounds like we will either maybe drop 5.3 after April, or my newborn son will be riding a bicycle before we can use Traits in PHP. Hoping for the former, willing to accept the latter. - Trevor On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:19 AM, AlisonW t...@alisonwheeler.com wrote: and on my one

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-21 Thread Chad
I'd say we could have a serious discussion about it come April or May; maybe with some new numbers if Jamie would be so kind :) -Chad On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.orgwrote: So, it sounds like we will either maybe drop 5.3 after April, or my newborn son

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-21 Thread Jamie Thingelstad
The data on that page is dynamic and is never more than 24 hours old. (WikiApiary collects general data like that every 24 hours from all wikis it monitors.) -- Jamie Thingelstad ja...@thingelstad.com On Fri, Feb 21, 2014, at 06:21 PM, Chad wrote: I'd say we could have a serious

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-21 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Feb 18, 2014 8:11 AM, Faidon Liambotis fai...@wikimedia.org wrote: 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. Is this still the case? If so, it seems the first step would be for WMF to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-21 Thread Arcane 21
I support this. Adequate testing of 5.4 before abandonment of 5.3 would be a sensible prelude to any major decision concerning this matter. Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:37:24 -1000 From: canan...@wikimedia.org To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-21 Thread Chad
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:37 PM, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On Feb 18, 2014 8:11 AM, Faidon Liambotis fai...@wikimedia.org wrote: 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