Re: [Wikitech-l] Redirect rules ShortURL deployment - need to make a decision

2012-04-20 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org writes: Please leave your comments at bug 1450 so we can decide how to write the rewrite rule. Since Gerrit makes review possible and the relevant Apache config (redirects.conf) is on noc and *should* be in git, I've gone ahead and (after discussing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inline styles trouble on the mobile site

2012-04-20 Thread Jon Robson
Brion thanks so much for the feedback A few comments below... Are more styles damaging or legit? How do we know? I'd encourage keeping all styles by default except for ones known to cause trouble... The problem is that styles can be extremely damaging render content unreadable. I'd rather have

Re: [Wikitech-l] Redirect rules ShortURL deployment - need to make a decision

2012-04-20 Thread Asher Feldman
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org writes: Please leave your comments at bug 1450 so we can decide how to write the rewrite rule. Since Gerrit makes review possible and the relevant Apache config

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inline styles trouble on the mobile site

2012-04-20 Thread Trevor Parscal
I think you could use a multi-step process to solve this problem with the help of the community. 1. Detect when inline styles are used on a page and add that page to a list of pages that might have problems being rendered on mobile. 1. Make a special page that displays this list and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inline styles trouble on the mobile site

2012-04-20 Thread Platonides
Yesterday, someone asked #wikipedia where was the separation between style and content done on wikipedia. Users don't suddenly start to write CSS rules in the pages themselves. Most inline styles come from templates. They don't write for a table: border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [Wikimedia r1651]: New comment added

2012-04-20 Thread MediaWiki Mail
Jpostlethwaite posted a comment on Wikimedia.r1651. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/Wikimedia/1651#c32711 Commit summary for Wikimedia.r1651: Added civicrm_api3_contribution_status to API. Jpostlethwaite's comment: I think it is necessary to add a new option_group for recurring

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114995]: Revision status changed

2012-04-20 Thread MediaWiki Mail
Catrope changed the status of MediaWiki.r114995 to ok URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114995 Old status: new New status: ok Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114995: Unbreak script args to mwscriptwikiset. ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abstract schema work

2012-04-20 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
Chad wrote: I think we should probably work on mediawiki.org (subpage of RfC?). This is something that needs to be thought out properly, and I think on-wiki would be more productive than on-list. Okay. I will create an RFC page. Keep in mind that my time is limited and I've only just started

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abstract schema work

2012-04-20 Thread Chad
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane g...@endpoint.com wrote: Krinkle wrote: I'd say put it in Gerrit from the start (in a branch) so that everyone can check it out and send suggestions (either as a commit or through the feedback channels on the mailing list, wiki or Gerrit

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abstract schema work

2012-04-20 Thread Platonides
On 20/04/12 23:27, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: Right. I've been thinking about this a lot, and the big picture plan is to remove all the tables.sql files and create a single text file, mediawiki.schema, which will have a generic schema, very similar to the existing main tables.sql, but with

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r100315]: New comment added

2012-04-20 Thread MediaWiki Mail
MZMcBride posted a comment on MediaWiki.r100315. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/100315#c32712 Commit summary for MediaWiki.r100315: * Made ?contribs=user actually show the results for the *user* if 'newbies' was given as the user. * Added a link batch query to newbie

[Wikitech-l] Git code review metrics

2012-04-20 Thread Erik Moeller
Following up on the earlier thread by Rob [1], Rob and I kicked around the question what metrics/targets for code review we want to surface on an ongoing basis. We're not going to invest in a huge dashboard project right now, but we'll try to get at least some of the key metrics generated and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git code review metrics

2012-04-20 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: Following up on the earlier thread by Rob [1], Rob and I kicked around the question what metrics/targets for code review we want to surface on an ongoing basis. We're not going to invest in a huge dashboard project right now, but we'll try to get at least some of the key

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki talk page posting

2012-04-20 Thread MZMcBride
Andrew Garrett wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: Solution 2: Use the api.php to post to the user talk page. * Has lots of failure cases: ** Connection error/Timeout Try again. ** May need to create user account separately