Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki at Home Extension

2009-08-03 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com writes: I don't know how to figure out how much it would 'cost' to have human contributors spot embedded penises snuck into transcodes and then figure out which of several contributing transcoders are doing it and blocking them, only to have the bad user

Re: [Wikitech-l] GIF thumbnailing

2009-08-03 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Andrew Garrettagarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: I can possibly poke this tomorrow, must have slipped through my fingers on Bug Friday :) Well it was assigned to you and you unassigned it from yourself... -Robert Rohde

Re: [Wikitech-l] GIF thumbnailing

2009-08-03 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Ilmari Karonennos...@vyznev.net wrote: Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Gregory Maxwellgmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: In other cases the gif tends to be larger, loads slower, etc.  They can be converted to PNG losslessly, so you should probably do

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki at Home Extension

2009-08-03 Thread Tisza Gergő
Michael Dale mdale at wikimedia.org writes: * We are not Google. Google lost what like ~470 million~ last year on youtube ...(and that's with $240 million in advertising) so total cost of $711 million [1] How much of that is related to transcoding, and how much to delivery? You seem to be

[Wikitech-l] How to securely connect to Wikipedia in a public wifi ?

2009-08-03 Thread Plyd
Hello, I'm sure this question has already been asked, but I can't find the answer. I checked and my password is transmitted in clear text when I connect to my Wikipedia account. As an admin on a project, I feel very guilty to connect to my account on an unsecured public wifi : I'm afraid my

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to securely connect to Wikipedia in a public wifi ?

2009-08-03 Thread Victor Vasiliev
Plyd wrote: Hello, I'm sure this question has already been asked, but I can't find the answer. I checked and my password is transmitted in clear text when I connect to my Wikipedia account. As an admin on a project, I feel very guilty to connect to my account on an unsecured public wifi

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to securely connect to Wikipedia in a public wifi ?

2009-08-03 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Victor Vasilievvasi...@gmail.com wrote: Plyd wrote: Hello, I'm sure this question has already been asked, but I can't find the answer. I checked and my password is transmitted in clear text when I connect to my Wikipedia account. As an admin on a project, I

[Wikitech-l] GoogleWave extension

2009-08-03 Thread Micke Nordin
If somebody is interested, I wrote an extension for embedding (the upcoming) Google waves in MediaWiki as a tag extension: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoogleWave If someone has a wave developer sandbox account I'd be glad if that person would help me test the extension a bit more

Re: [Wikitech-l] GIF thumbnailing

2009-08-03 Thread George Chriss
On Sun, August 2, 2009 14:25, Ilmari Karonen wrote: Gregory Maxwell wrote: (2) you're using gif transparency and are obsessed with compatibility with old IE. Scaling doesn't tend to work really well with binary transparency. By the way, forgot to mention this earlier, but this is actually a

Re: [Wikitech-l] GIF thumbnailing

2009-08-03 Thread William Allen Simpson
Going back a bit in the thread history, Ilmari Karonen wrote: Also, Commons alone has almost a hundred thousand existing GIF files. Converting them all to PNG would be a significant job, especially since changing the format (and thus the suffix) means that they can't just be reuploaded

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to securely connect to Wikipedia in a public wifi ?

2009-08-03 Thread William Allen Simpson
K. Peachey wrote: Its https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/LANGUAGE CODE/wiki/Main_Page so for you wanting the french one it will be https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fr/wiki/Main_Page As it says on the insecure login:

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to securely connect to Wikipedia in a public wifi ?

2009-08-03 Thread Chad
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Neil Harrisuse...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote: William Allen Simpson wrote: K. Peachey wrote: Its https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/LANGUAGE CODE/wiki/Main_Page so for you wanting the french one it will be

[Wikitech-l] Is there any evidence that the tests in phase3/maintenance/Tests ever worked?

2009-08-03 Thread dan nessett
I am working on the tests in ../phase3/maintenance/tests. I have found 2 problems (one of which may be only locally relevant). When I follow the logic initiated in run-tests.php (which according to the target in the Makefile seems to be the initiator of the tests) there are a lot of includes,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is there any evidence that the tests in phase3/maintenance/Tests ever worked? (errata)

2009-08-03 Thread dan nessett
That is, the tests in ../phase3/tests. --- On Mon, 8/3/09, dan nessett dness...@yahoo.com wrote: From: dan nessett dness...@yahoo.com Subject: [Wikitech-l] Is there any evidence that the tests in phase3/maintenance/Tests ever worked? To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Monday, August

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki at Home Extension

2009-08-03 Thread Michael Dale
Google's cost is probably more on the distribution side of things ... but I only found a top level number not a break down of component costs. At any rate the point is to start exploring distributing costs associated with large scale video collaboration. In that way I target developing a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is there any evidence that the tests in phase3/maintenance/Tests ever worked?

2009-08-03 Thread Brion Vibber
On 8/3/09 11:02 AM, dan nessett wrote: I am working on the tests in ../phase3/maintenance/tests. I have found 2 problems (one of which may be only locally relevant). When I follow the logic initiated in run-tests.php (which according to the target in the Makefile seems to be the initiator of

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to securely connect to Wikipedia in a public wifi ?

2009-08-03 Thread Brion Vibber
On 8/3/09 10:56 AM, Neil Harris wrote: I've noticed that images such as the sitelogo in the login page linked above are still served via HTTP, even when going through the secure server. This causes Firefox to regard the whole page as potentially compromised by unencrypted content, and it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is there any evidence that the tests in phase3/maintenance/Tests ever worked? (errata)

2009-08-03 Thread Alexandre Emsenhuber
The code that starts the tests is in PHPUnit (which is required to run these tests) and is triggered by the line require( 'PHPUnit/TextUI/ Command.php' ); in run-tests.php. Cheers! Alexandre Emsenhuber Le 3 août 09 à 20:06, dan nessett a écrit : That is, the tests in ../phase3/tests. ---

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is there any evidence that the tests in phase3/maintenance/Tests ever worked?

2009-08-03 Thread dan nessett
make test just uses run-test.php as a command for the all target. However, I have them running (although some fail). --- On Mon, 8/3/09, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote: From: Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Is there any evidence that the tests in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is there any evidence that the tests in phase3/maintenance/Tests ever worked? (errata)

2009-08-03 Thread dan nessett
Thanks. It turns out (something I discovered through a series of odd coincidences) that TextUI/Command.php used to execute PHPUnit_TextUI_Command::main at the bottom. This was removed some time ago so the PHPUnit_TextUI_Command class could be extended (by including the file for that purpose).

Re: [Wikitech-l] GoogleWave extension

2009-08-03 Thread Magnus Manske
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Micke Nordinmickew...@gmail.com wrote: If somebody is interested, I wrote an extension for embedding (the upcoming) Google waves in MediaWiki as a tag extension: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoogleWave If someone has a wave developer sandbox account

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki at Home Extension

2009-08-03 Thread Ryan Lane
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Michael Dalemd...@wikimedia.org wrote: Look back 2 years and you can see the xiph communities blog posts and conversations with Mozilla. It was not a given that Firefox would ship with ogg theora baseline video support (they took some convening and had to do

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload fileserver upgrade

2009-08-03 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/17 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: The ZFS bug manifests when the file system is (a) very full (b) getting lots of writes. The block allocation algorithm uses up all the CPU trying for perfection rather than adequacy. So system CPU goes through the roof and the system turns to

Re: [Wikitech-l] GoogleWave extension

2009-08-03 Thread Aran
If the Google Wave Fedaration Protocol is really all its cracked up to be and becomes a properly open XMPP extension maintained by the IETF then it could be good to support it at the level of the back end along with the database classes... Magnus Manske wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:07 PM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki at Home Extension

2009-08-03 Thread Michael Dale
yea would have to be opt in. Would have to have controls over how-much bandwidth sent out... We could encourage people to enable it by sending out a the higher bit-rate / quality version ~by default~ for those that opt-in. --michael Ryan Lane wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Michael

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to securely connect to Wikipedia in a public wifi ?

2009-08-03 Thread Remember the dot
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote: Once we have a cleaner interface for hitting the general pages (without the 'secure.wikimedia.org' crappy single host) I'm curious...what will this cleaner interface look like? Will we be able to connect securely through

Re: [Wikitech-l] w...@home Extension

2009-08-03 Thread Michael Dale
perhaps if people create a lot of voice overs ~Kens burns~ effects on commons images with the occasional inter-spliced video clip with lots of back and forth editing... and we are constantly creating timely derivatives of these flattened sequences that ~may~ necessitate such a system..

Re: [Wikitech-l] w...@home Extension

2009-08-03 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Michael Dalemd...@wikimedia.org wrote: Also will hack in adding derivatives to the job queue where oggHandler is embed in a wiki-article at a substantial lower resolution than the source version. Will have it send the high res version until the derivative is