Re: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8

2011-02-01 Thread Janesh Kodikara
- Original Message - From: "Rob Lanphier" Newsgroups: gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical To: "Wikimedia developers" Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 8:15 AM Subject: Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8 If all goes well, you should only notice the improvement. If it doesn

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sentence-level editing / InlineEditorextensionupdate

2011-02-01 Thread Janesh Kodikara
- Original Message - From: "Jan Paul Posma" Newsgroups: gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical To: "Janesh Kodikara" ; "Wikimedia developers" Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 3:00 AM Subject: Re: Sentence-level editing / InlineEditorextensionupdate > >> Few bugs and a enchantemen

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors} - repost

2011-02-01 Thread MZMcBride
Fred Bauder wrote: > This idea arose in the context of a discussion which generally addressed > civility. The warnings would be civility warnings. > >> To that end, a warnings tool would be helpful, >> supplementing or replacing the uw- templates with a MediaWiki >> extension that requires that wa

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki security release 1.16.2

2011-02-01 Thread Tim Starling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.16.2, which is a security release. Two security issues were discovered. An arbitrary script inclusion vulnerability was discovered. The vulnerability only allows execution of files with names ending

Re: [Wikitech-l] Farewell JSMin, Hello JavaScriptDistiller!

2011-02-01 Thread Trevor Parscal
I was planning on emailing him a patch, probably after I wrote some tests to ensure I wasn't submitting him something with issues. - Trevor On Feb 1, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Platonides wrote: > Trevor Parscal wrote: >> There are 2 components to the JavaScriptDistiller library. One of them (the >> Pa

Re: [Wikitech-l] Farewell JSMin, Hello JavaScriptDistiller!

2011-02-01 Thread Platonides
Trevor Parscal wrote: > There are 2 components to the JavaScriptDistiller library. One of them (the > ParseMaster class) is 100% in sync with the official distribution. The other > (the JavaScriptDistiller class) was originally based on the > JavaScriptPacker::_basicCompression function. That fu

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors} - repost

2011-02-01 Thread Fred Bauder
This idea arose in the context of a discussion which generally addressed civility. The warnings would be civility warnings. Fred > To that end, a warnings tool would be helpful, > supplementing or replacing the uw- templates with a MediaWiki > extension that requires that warnings be acknowledged

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] Accessing the toolserver from WP using Ajax

2011-02-01 Thread Krinkle
Use jQuery.ajax (or it's wrapper functions such as jQuery.getJSON) to cover all cross-browser issues. And as indirectly suggested above. JSONP is the solution for cross- domain scripting. What it means is that that source (in this case toolserver) has a URL parameter (say &callback=), the scr

Re: [Wikitech-l] Farewell JSMin, Hello JavaScriptDistiller!

2011-02-01 Thread Ashar Voultoiz
On 01/02/11 19:42, Trevor Parscal wrote: > In the former case, any changes should be strictly passed upstream. > In the latter case, I think we should offer them upstream but realize > that we have deviated from the original author's structure and > possibly intentions enough that they may or may n

Re: [Wikitech-l] Farewell JSMin, Hello JavaScriptDistiller!

2011-02-01 Thread Trevor Parscal
There are 2 components to the JavaScriptDistiller library. One of them (the ParseMaster class) is 100% in sync with the official distribution. The other (the JavaScriptDistiller class) was originally based on the JavaScriptPacker::_basicCompression function. That function had some issues that w

Re: [Wikitech-l] Farewell JSMin, Hello JavaScriptDistiller!

2011-02-01 Thread Ashar Voultoiz
On 31/01/11 13:51, Roan Kattouw wrote: >> > I can work around it in the extension, but we should watch out and make >> > sure >> > we've got regression tests covering any cases we find. >> > > Yes, we need minifier tests. Isn't this an upstream issue? If so we could send them our patches. --

Re: [Wikitech-l] Accessing the toolserver from WP using Ajax

2011-02-01 Thread Brion Vibber
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Hi all! > > what's the best way to get around the same original policy to fetch data > from > the toolserver with a XMLHTTPRequest in a Wikipedia gadget? Is there a best > practice, a nice and easy, generally usable method? what would it tak

[Wikitech-l] Accessing the toolserver from WP using Ajax

2011-02-01 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hi all! what's the best way to get around the same original policy to fetch data from the toolserver with a XMLHTTPRequest in a Wikipedia gadget? Is there a best practice, a nice and easy, generally usable method? what would it take to make one? I know that some gadgets have been doing this, but

Re: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8

2011-02-01 Thread Chad
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > We lost the game of rock/paper/scissors.  :)  We decided to do this very > late U.S. west coast time so that our European and Australian contingents > would be well rested in case there are problems.  Given that we have key > personnel pretty m

Re: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8

2011-02-01 Thread Krinkle
Rob Lanphier wrote: > MZMcBride wrote: > >> Rob Lanphier wrote: >>> If all goes well, you should only notice the improvement. If it >>> doesn¹t go >>> well, that¹s because there¹s something we missed, and that¹s where >>> we¹d love >>> your help. Please help us test this release! We have a te

Re: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8

2011-02-01 Thread Roan Kattouw
2011/2/1 Rob Lanphier : >> Can you explain why you're rolling out when it's the middle of the night >> where Wikimedia is headquartered? I have a few different theories (site >> traffic, time zones of the operations team, etc.), but a clarification here >> would be good. > > > We lost the game of r