Re: [Wikitech-l] Lua API specification

2012-06-04 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
* Victor Vasiliev vasi...@gmail.com [Sat, 2 Jun 2012 22:43:56 +0200]: Currently there is no proper way in Lua to get such basic things about the current page name. To fix this, I propose to provide a MediaWiki API accessible from the Lua scripts:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lua API specification

2012-06-04 Thread Ori Livneh
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Victor Vasiliev vasi...@gmail.com wrote: Any feedback appreciated. (Caveat: I'm new to Mediawiki development and have only a shallow understanding of its internals.) I find getSomething syntax to be cluttered and verbose. The get, the mixed case, the function

[Wikitech-l] Merge of wikitech and labsconsole

2012-06-04 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, I heard that there was a plan to merge these wikis to one central wiki for technical documentation for various projects on wikimedia, what is the current status of that? Are we going to merge it to labsconsole, or to wikitech? There are some services atm running on labs and documentation is

[Wikitech-l] feedback from a gerrit newbie: gerrit questions; improvement of the Git/Tutorial;

2012-06-04 Thread Thomas Gries
1. Side-by-side diffs How can I see side-by-side diffs between _arbitrary_ patchsets of a changeset, for example difference between patchset #1 and #3 ? 2. On https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Tutorial we have full screenshots, I suggest to prune them so the the page can be read easier. Any

[Wikitech-l] Extension:RSS in gerrit waiting for code reviewers

2012-06-04 Thread Thomas Gries
Hello dear developers, if you can and have time, please would kindly invite you to code-review a pending cumulative patch for Extension:RSS https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/3925/ Up-to-date documentation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS incl. bugtracker links. This

Re: [Wikitech-l] feedback from a gerrit newbie: gerrit questions; improvement of the Git/Tutorial;

2012-06-04 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/6/4 Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de: 1. Side-by-side diffs How can I see side-by-side diffs between _arbitrary_ patchsets of a changeset, for example difference between patchset #1 and #3 ? I added a way to do it here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Tutorial#Comparing_patch_sets Notice

Re: [Wikitech-l] Merge of wikitech and labsconsole

2012-06-04 Thread Ryan Lane
I heard that there was a plan to merge these wikis to one central wiki for technical documentation for various projects on wikimedia, what is the current status of that? Are we going to merge it to labsconsole, or to wikitech? There are some services atm running on labs and documentation is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Merge of wikitech and labsconsole

2012-06-04 Thread Chad
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: I heard that there was a plan to merge these wikis to one central wiki for technical documentation for various projects on wikimedia, what is the current status of that? Are we going to merge it to labsconsole, or to wikitech?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Merge of wikitech and labsconsole

2012-06-04 Thread Petr Bena
I'd be happy to help, however wikitech is restricted wiki, so I guess I can't really help there, anyway I think it would be best if current wikitech was kept for historical purposes, and in case we forgot to move something you could find it in, wikitech-historical.wikimedia.org or similar url On

Re: [Wikitech-l] Merge of wikitech and labsconsole

2012-06-04 Thread Ryan Lane
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: I'd be happy to help, however wikitech is restricted wiki, so I guess I can't really help there, anyway I think it would be best if current wikitech was kept for historical purposes, and in case we forgot to move something you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Merge of wikitech and labsconsole

2012-06-04 Thread Petr Bena
Ok, if there is any stuff that can be done on wikitech like categorization of pages etc I could help with that, but otherwise I have no idea how I could be useful on that wiki, I have barely any knowledge of production. What exactly did you mean by community support On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:11

Re: [Wikitech-l] Merge of wikitech and labsconsole

2012-06-04 Thread Ryan Lane
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, if there is any stuff that can be done on wikitech like categorization of pages etc I could help with that, but otherwise I have no idea how I could be useful on that wiki, I have barely any knowledge of production. What

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit has a commandline

2012-06-04 Thread Arthur Richards
Yep and I put together a tool that takes advantage of this for taking actions based on arbitrary gerrit query results - it's particularly useful for making bulk actions (eg approving dozens of change sets): http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/tools/gerrit-dippybird/ A next step for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making MW aware of 'view types'

2012-06-04 Thread Arthur Richards
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: This sort of thing can be accomplished by pure CSS -- having standard classes that hide things on mobile or on print -- or slightly more complicatedly with more parser fun having output format knowledge or replacement

Re: [Wikitech-l] Update on IPv6

2012-06-04 Thread Erik Moeller
Hi folks, Mark Bergsma just shared the following recap with me, for those who are interested in the details of what happened at the hackathon and next steps. tl;dr: If all goes well we'll be ready to launch full production deployment on Wednesday, starting around 10AM UTC (MediaWiki engineers

[Wikitech-l] Welcoming Munaf Assaf, UX Designer

2012-06-04 Thread Howie Fung
Everyone, I’m pleased to welcome Munaf Assaf, a new member of the Product Group. Munaf is starting today as UX Designer and will work mainly on the Editor Engagement Experiments projects. Almost all of these projects have a user-facing component, and Munaf will help us design interfaces to

[Wikitech-l] Facebook grabs the Mediawiki logo instead of the site logo

2012-06-04 Thread jidanni
Here Facebook grabs the Mediawiki logo instead of the site logo. http://www.facebook.com/groups/tg.taiwan/permalink/374509135949001/?comment_id=374537129279535offset=0total_comments=1 Doing the same experiment with e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_clan_chief , a page also without any user

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook grabs the Mediawiki logo instead of the site logo

2012-06-04 Thread Chad
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 7:35 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Here Facebook grabs the Mediawiki logo instead of the site logo. http://www.facebook.com/groups/tg.taiwan/permalink/374509135949001/?comment_id=374537129279535offset=0total_comments=1 Doing the same experiment with e.g.,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Munaf Assaf, UX Designer

2012-06-04 Thread Steven Walling
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Howie Fung hf...@wikimedia.org wrote: Everyone, I’m pleased to welcome Munaf Assaf, a new member of the Product Group. Munaf is starting today as UX Designer and will work mainly on the Editor Engagement Experiments projects. Almost all of these projects

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook grabs the Mediawiki logo instead of the site logo

2012-06-04 Thread John Du Hart
Yeah I remember that. On Jun 4, 2012 7:45 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 7:35 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Here Facebook grabs the Mediawiki logo instead of the site logo.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Munaf Assaf, UX Designer

2012-06-04 Thread Nasir Khan
Congrats :) On Jun 5, 2012 5:44 AM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Howie Fung hf...@wikimedia.org wrote: Everyone, I’m pleased to welcome Munaf Assaf, a new member of the Product Group. Munaf is starting today as UX Designer and will work

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Munaf Assaf, UX Designer

2012-06-04 Thread Ori Livneh
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Howie Fung hf...@wikimedia.org wrote: Please join me in welcoming Munaf! Hi Munaf! Glad you're here. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Give create gerrit repo right to all WMF engineers

2012-06-04 Thread Ori Livneh
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: So yeah, its not as easy as it sounds on the tin, so I don't want to hand this out en masse. In an ideal world, I want us to have a special page where people can request repos and we can automate the icky backend stuff. If