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

2012-06-06 Thread jidanni
But both my page and the Wikipedia page both have only the site logo, and 'powered by' footer icons. How does Facebook know not to mistakenly show a 'powered by' icon for Wikipedia but not my site? Unfair! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Xmldatadumps-l] XML dumps/Media mirrors update

2012-06-06 Thread Oren Bochman
Dear Ariel, Consider that people who would need to use Torrent most of all cannot host a mirrors - this is a situation of the little guy being asked to do the heavy lifting. It would be saving WMF significant resources, - it would be more efficient than Rsync. Doing this outside the the WMF

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

2012-06-06 Thread Ryan Lane
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: On 2012-06-06 00:19, Diederik van Liere wrote: A workflow where engineers have to bug a Gerrit admin to do something is a broken workflow: As something of an outsider/newcomer, I hear two very different stories. The

[Wikitech-l] Order of execution JavaScript extensions

2012-06-06 Thread Andrew Dunbar
I'm having trouble getting a simple one-line User JS working on Wiktionary. $('#p-navigation').removeClass('first persistent').addClass('collapsed'); It works fine from Google Chrome's dev console. It makes the navigation portal collapsible like the other portals in the sidebar. But when I

[Wikitech-l] question about purpose of usernames with @ characters

2012-06-06 Thread Thomas Gries
A recent question on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:User_Merge_and_Delete#Usernames_with_.22.40.22_character_cannot_be_deleted_or_merged pointed me to that Usernames with @ characters issue. The following pages are known to me (Tim-SVG, thanks for answering on the extension's page)

Re: [Wikitech-l] question about purpose of usernames with @ characters

2012-06-06 Thread K. Peachey
CentralAuth uses it so you can refer to a user on another wiki when you need to do global stuff. EG: TStarling@dewiki or TStarling@enwiki ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] question about purpose of usernames with @ characters

2012-06-06 Thread Thomas Gries
Am 06.06.2012 11:29, schrieb K. Peachey: CentralAuth uses it so you can refer to a user on another wiki when you need to do global stuff. EG: TStarling@dewiki or TStarling@enwiki This makes sense, but I didn't know. I suggest, you please add an explanation as reference on the pages +

Re: [Wikitech-l] Order of execution JavaScript extensions

2012-06-06 Thread Bergi
Andrew Dunbar schrieb: I'm having trouble getting a simple one-line User JS working on Wiktionary. Apologies if this is not the right mailing list. None of the lists seemed fit according to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mailing_lists I think the

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Xmldatadumps-l] XML dumps/Media mirrors update

2012-06-06 Thread Strainu
2012/6/6 Oren Bochman orenboch...@gmail.com: Dear Ariel, Consider that people who would need to use Torrent most of all cannot host a mirrors - this is a situation of the little guy being asked to do the heavy lifting. It would be saving WMF significant resources, - it would be more

Re: [Wikitech-l] Order of execution JavaScript extensions

2012-06-06 Thread Andrew Dunbar
On 6 June 2012 13:57, Bergi a.d.be...@web.de wrote: Andrew Dunbar schrieb: I'm having trouble getting a simple one-line User JS working on Wiktionary. Apologies if this is not the right mailing list. None of the lists seemed fit according to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mailing_lists I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming cultural heritage hackathon, autumn 2012 in Denmark

2012-06-06 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 04/13/2012 04:07 PM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 04/13/2012 12:47 AM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen wrote: Answers to both further down. On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Update on IPv6

2012-06-06 Thread Freek Dijkstra
Erik Moeller wrote: If all goes well we'll be ready to launch full production deployment on Wednesday, starting around 10AM UTC (MediaWiki engineers will be working closely with the ops team Wednesday to monitor bugs/issues). All, It seem that IPv6 got enabled just yet. At least, this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Update on IPv6

2012-06-06 Thread Maarten Dammers
Yes, good job guys! Now someone just needs to get Wikipedia.org (etc) added to http://www.worldipv6launch.org/participants/?q=1 :-) On the English Wikipedia someone from Indiana University was the first to do a logged out edit. The first edit (and only) anonymous edit on Commons was by Team

Re: [Wikitech-l] Update on IPv6

2012-06-06 Thread Petr Bena
I am in central europe and there is almost no ipv6 connectivity, more far on east it's ever worse, so I doubt On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl wrote: Yes, good job guys! Now someone just needs to get Wikipedia.org (etc) added to

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-06 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
In the past couple of weeks I've been talking with Sam Reed (WMF's current MediaWiki release manager) and Rob Laphiner (WMF's Platform Engineering Director) about the future of MediaWiki tarballs. I began this discussion after Rob expressed regret about the WMF's ability to give tarball

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-06 Thread David Gerard
On 6 June 2012 18:36, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote: I've been discussing this with some MediaWiki sites as well as setting up a separate mailing list for packagers (such as Debian and RedHat distributors) and discussing it there.  So far the response has been positive.

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-06 Thread Markus Glaser
Definitely interested! I have just finished some packaging for the Web App Gallery and would like to see (and add) some more flexibility to the installer. Also, at SF Hackathon, we had some discussion about the use of MediaWiki by outside parties, their issues and how to make their lives easier

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-06 Thread Derric Atzrott
Definitely interested! I have just finished some packaging for the Web App Gallery and would like to see (and add) some more flexibility to the installer. Also, at SF Hackathon, we had some discussion about the use of MediaWiki by outside parties, their issues and how to make their lives easier ;)

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-06 Thread Krenair
Just to clarify, as it's not particularly clear to me - you're looking for people willing to test, package and release MediaWiki? If so, I'd be happy to learn how. On 06/06/12 18:36, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: In the past couple of weeks I've been talking with Sam Reed (WMF's current

Re: [Wikitech-l] Update on IPv6

2012-06-06 Thread Strainu
I also join the ranks of people who are happy with IPv6 and thank the WMF staff and the volunteers who made this possible. 2012/6/6 Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com: I am in central europe and there is almost no ipv6 connectivity, more far on east it's ever worse, so I doubt Wrong. :) Come to

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-06 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 06/06/2012 01:48 PM, David Gerard wrote: is there any reason this list should be separate from mediawiki-l? At least it should be announced there. Done. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-06 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 06/06/2012 02:00 PM, Krenair wrote: Just to clarify, as it's not particularly clear to me - you're looking for people willing to test, package and release MediaWiki? If so, I'd be happy to learn how. Yes. I am willing to take on the tarball maintenance if needed, but if you are willing and

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-06 Thread David Gerard
On 6 June 2012 19:20, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote: Speaking of testing, if anyone wants to help make sure the 1.19 release of MediaWiki included in the next Debian package (and probably the next Ubuntu package) is working, now is the time to test.  Debian will soon freeze

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-06 Thread Chad
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:25 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 June 2012 19:20, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote: Speaking of testing, if anyone wants to help make sure the 1.19 release of MediaWiki included in the next Debian package (and probably the next Ubuntu

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-06 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 06/06/2012 02:25 PM, David Gerard wrote: Last I recalled, the Debian MediaWiki was regarded as a pit of gratuitous weirdness of sufficient extent that it was all but deprecated, and any sane admin installs from the tarball. Is this still the state of play, and if not then what improved?

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-06 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 06/06/2012 02:29 PM, Chad wrote: Well since we introduced a CLI installer ... Side note: we re-introduced the CLI installer. I discovered this while tracking down ancient MediaWikis last week, an ancient version of MW (1.2?) used a command line install method. I'm sure the current one is

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-06 Thread David Gerard
On 6 June 2012 19:31, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote: On 06/06/2012 02:25 PM, David Gerard wrote: Last I recalled, the Debian MediaWiki was regarded as a pit of gratuitous weirdness of sufficient extent that it was all but deprecated, and any sane admin installs from the

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-06 Thread Chad
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote: On 06/06/2012 02:29 PM, Chad wrote: Well since we introduced a CLI installer ... Side note: we re-introduced the CLI installer.  I discovered this while tracking down ancient MediaWikis last week, an ancient version

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-06 Thread Platonides
On 06/06/12 20:29, Chad wrote: Well since we introduced a CLI installer, it should make the process much cleaner for people packaging the wiki. I don't know what work has been done (if any), but the groundwork's been laid on our end. The other big complaint we've had over time is moving

Re: [Wikitech-l] Update on IPv6

2012-06-06 Thread Erik Moeller
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Freek Dijkstra softw...@macfreek.nl wrote: I want to express my gratitude for all engineers who made this happen. Kudos and compliments to all of you. Credit goes to Mark Bergsma, Faidon Liambotis, Ryan Lane, Asher Feldman, Aaron Schulz, Chris Steipp, and many

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-06 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 06/06/2012 04:55 PM, Platonides wrote: The problem in the past was primarily lack of cooperation from the packagers. I remember years ago that Aryeh offered help in some bug trackers (with little/no response). To encourage cooperation, I started the low-traffic mediawiki-distributors last

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-06 Thread Markus Glaser
Also, at SF Hackathon, we had some discussion about the use of MediaWiki by outside parties, their issues and how to make their lives easier ;) What did your discussions conclude? Actually, it was even earlier...;) Discussion notes can be found at

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-06 Thread David Gerard
On 6 June 2012 23:53, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote: To encourage cooperation, I started the low-traffic mediawiki-distributors last week.  I also asked Debian to work on packaging 1.19 instead of 1.18 for their impending freeze and have been working with them on their

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

2012-06-06 Thread Krinkle
There's been some conversation about this in the past (not sure which mailing list). Yes, we should definitly centralize documentation about these into one wiki: * Documentation of production cluster (e.g. 'fenari', 'srv###', 'db###', upload/scalers, squids etc. ) * Wikimedia engineering projects

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-06 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:08 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 June 2012 23:53, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote: Absolutely.  This is one of the main reasons that I want to tag 1.19 as a LTS version -- so we can continue to do our work in Gerrit without a problem.

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

2012-06-06 Thread Thehelpfulone
On 7 June 2012 00:08, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: Also, a general note: Beware that you doesn't confuse beta with Wikimedia Labs. beta is one of many projects hosted inside the Labs environment. The beta project is a virtual clone of the production cluster. Any documentation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming cultural heritage hackathon, autumn 2012 in Denmark

2012-06-06 Thread Andrew Garrett
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Andrew, http://hack4dk.tumblr.com/about and its links indicate that they don't yet have someone volunteering to present about MediaWiki. Add yourself? :-) Date announcement in a week. I'll wait for a date