Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing the MediaWiki logo?

2012-06-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/6/13 Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com: What support would there be for changing the MediaWiki logo and being consistent with it? I like the general idea of moving to SVG, but the current SVG image is too blocky. Something like [1] with less blocky petals may change my mind. [1]

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing the MediaWiki logo?

2012-06-13 Thread Antoine Musso
Chad wrote: snip What support would there be for changing the MediaWiki logo and being consistent with it? That was asked back in Nov 2010: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/50637 I haven't change my mind: if we want to clone the existing one, make sure

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering May 2012 report

2012-06-13 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in May 2012 is now available. Wiki version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/May Blog version: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/06/13/engineering-may-2012-report/ -- Guillaume Paumier Technical

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing the MediaWiki logo?

2012-06-13 Thread Derric Atzrott
Agreed. If we want to do this, then it needs to be done right. I fully support the idea of switching to a fully SVG logo as well though. Vectors are almost always the proper choice for logos. Thank you, Derric Atzrott -Original Message- From: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Generalizing interwiki and interlanguage storage

2012-06-13 Thread Daniel Kinzler
On 08.06.2012 17:32, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: They are described here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jeroen_De_Dauw/Wikibase_sites_and_site_links I like your proposal in principle, but I'm a bit worried about just dropping a well established table on the production cluster. When migrating

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing the MediaWiki logo?

2012-06-13 Thread Chad
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Chad wrote: snip What support would there be for changing the MediaWiki logo and being consistent with it? That was asked back in Nov 2010: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/50637

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing the MediaWiki logo?

2012-06-13 Thread David Gerard
On 13 June 2012 21:29, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Organizing a logo context, just like we did for the Wikipedia logo, is probably the best idea. Thanks Trevor for remembering us about it. I think a contest may

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing the MediaWiki logo?

2012-06-13 Thread Brandon Harris
On Jun 13, 2012, at 1:29 PM, Chad wrote: I think a contest may indeed be in order then :) Clearly more unicorns are required. --- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing the MediaWiki logo?

2012-06-13 Thread Chad
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:31 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 June 2012 21:29, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Organizing a logo context, just like we did for the Wikipedia logo, is probably the best

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing the MediaWiki logo?

2012-06-13 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 13/06/12 22:33, Brandon Harris wrote: On Jun 13, 2012, at 1:29 PM, Chad wrote: I think a contest may indeed be in order then :) Clearly more unicorns are required. lets open a context on reddit :-] -- Antoine hashar Musso ___

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki security release 1.17.5

2012-06-13 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.17.5. One security issue was discovered. Both Chris Steipp and Formafix discovered that the uselang http parameter was vulnerable to XSS. For more details, see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36938 Chris Steipp also improved the

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki security release 1.18.4

2012-06-13 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.18.4. One security issue was discovered. Both Chris Steipp and Formafix discovered that the uselang http parameter was vulnerable to XSS. For more details, see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36938 Chris Steipp also improved the

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki security release 1.19.1

2012-06-13 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.19.1. One security issue was discovered. Both Chris Steipp and Formafix discovered that the uselang http parameter was vulnerable to XSS. For more details, see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36938 Chris Steipp also improved the

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to mount a local copy of the English Wikipedia for researchers?

2012-06-13 Thread Steve Bennett
Thanks, I'm trying this. It consumes phenomenal amounts of memory though - I keep getting a Killed message from Ubuntu, even with a 20Gb swap file. Will keep trying with an even bigger one. I'll also give mwdumper another go. Steve On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Adam Wight s...@ludd.net

Re: [Wikitech-l] Guidelines for db schema changes

2012-06-13 Thread Asher Feldman
Hi all, I'd like to remind everyone involved in development that requires db schema migrations - please keep in mind the three related guidelines in our official deployment policies - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development_policy#Database_patches - especially the third, which is to make schema

Re: [Wikitech-l] Update on IPv6

2012-06-13 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 05:14:07 -0700, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Marcin Cieslak sa...@saper.info wrote: You *DON'T* want to renumber your whole home network every time your ISP changes your IPv6 prefix. If only they had some service which converted easy