[Wikitech-ambassadors] [Language Engineering] Reminder: Bug triage for RTL bugs today August 28, 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT

2013-08-28 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
Hello, This is a reminder that the Language Engineering team will be hosting an hour long bug triage for R-T-L bugs later today, i.e. August 28, 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT on the IRC channel #mediawiki-i18n (Freenode). etherpad link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/BugTriage-i18n-2013-08 Thanks

[Wikitech-ambassadors] HTTPS enabled for all logged-in users

2013-08-28 Thread Greg Grossmeier
== HTTPS enabled by default for logged-in users on Wikimedia sites == Today, August 28, the Wikimedia Foundation is making a change to the software that powers the Wikimedia projects: By default, all logged-in users will now be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. What this does is encrypt the

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] New search backend live on mediawiki.org

2013-08-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 08/28/2013 02:21 PM, Nikolas Everett wrote: 3. A few funky things around intitle and incategory: 3a. You can combine them with a regular query (incategory:kings peaceful) 3b. You can use prefix searches with them (incategory:norma*) 3c. You can use them everywhere in the query (roger

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Wikitech-l] HTTPS enabled for all logged-in users

2013-08-28 Thread Seb35
Thanks a lot to everybody who make it possible! I find the GeoIP solution quite elegant. I wrote a script this morning to let anonymous users opt-in for being redirected to HTTPS with the same forceHTTPS cookie [1]; such a script could be used to increase the proportion of HTTPS visitors

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Wikitech-l] HTTPS enabled for all logged-in users

2013-08-28 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Great! thank you everyone! I want to ask do you want to make a site notice everywhere? If you don't want to do that I'll make a local version of it in fa.wp because It's very important there Best On 8/29/13, Seb35 seb35wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks a lot to everybody who make it possible!

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] New search backend live on mediawiki.org

2013-08-28 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 08/28/2013 07:24 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I especially want to point out here that, with the new search, we can do category intersection searches, which people have wanted FOR YEARS. Just as an example picked at random, you could search for incategory:women and incategory:novelists and