Re: [Wikitech-l] Making language selection sticky

2012-06-26 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
26 Июнь 2012 г. 20:56:14 пользователь Denny Vrandečić (denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de) написал: Hi all, we are trying to let users switch their language - whether they are logged in or not - through a language selector. This can be either the ULS, which is progressing impressively, or just a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorry if inconvenient : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Achim Flammenkamp
> >Good idea. But this means you must explicitly state all 22 "Alkmar Allah" > >elements. This can't be the sense/usage of SVG-coding. :-( > >I want to have a logical strcutred SVG code reflecting the geometric > >constrcution, not a meaningless heap of coordinates of 3 pathes for 3 > >colors ! :

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorry if incovienent : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Achim Flammenkamp
Hi On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 03:18:14PM -0700, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > Anti-aliasing is a feature, not a bug. As long as your SVG is going to > be displayed on a monitor that uses pixels, you have to code it with > this in mind. There is no such thing as a "correct" thumbnail size. All Yes. Somehow

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorry if inconvenient : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Ilmari Karonen
On 06/27/2012 12:31 AM, Achim Flammenkamp wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:03:35AM +0300, Ilmari Karonen wrote: * The "Allahu Akbar" strips are each supposed to contain 11 copies of I 'm still waiting that somebody changes these correct words on the quickly added comments and png-sizes on URL

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorry if incovienent : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Anti-aliasing is a feature, not a bug. As long as your SVG is going to be displayed on a monitor that uses pixels, you have to code it with this in mind. There is no such thing as a "correct" thumbnail size. All thumbnails are going to have anti-aliasing unless they consist of nothing but flat

Re: [Wikitech-l] SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Achim Flammenkamp
> Tha shows a problem in the central image, I thought the Tekbir were the > white "letters" on the color stripes? Yes, the Tekbirs are the white "letters" on the green and red strip. > does show a 1px green/red border (not the full one, mixed with white) > between them and the white stripe. Exac

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorry if inconvenient : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Achim Flammenkamp
Technical: Please email ONLY to the mailing-list, not to me personally. Thanks. On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:03:35AM +0300, Ilmari Karonen wrote: > done to improve the rendering at arbitrary sizes: > > * The "Allahu Akbar" strips are each supposed to contain 11 copies of I 'm still waiting that s

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorry if inconvenient : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Achim Flammenkamp
Hi "Mark A. Hershberger" already discovered/guessed my still missing 2nd point: There seem to be an (unknown?) rendering bug. See URL http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Iran.svg and the flag's/file's version of20:14, 21. Jun. 2012 . The original sized image had no artifacts,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorry if incovienent : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Ilmari Karonen
On 06/26/2012 10:27 PM, Achim Flammenkamp wrote: 3) fiddle with the SVG until the renderer used correctly interprets what you want - maybe someone with a lot of SVG-fu can do that for you. > 3) I did four hours! :-( And tryed other SVG-coding but it did not work. > I had to mis design the T

Re: [Wikitech-l] SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Platonides
On 26/06/12 22:24, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > There are some *real* issues with the rendering on Commons -- especially > SVGs -- and it looks like the thumbnail on > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Iran.svg from "20:14, 21 > June 2012" (http://hexm.de/jg) shows the real issue here.

Re: [Wikitech-l] SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia]

2012-06-26 Thread Achim Flammenkamp
- Forwarded message from Achim Flammenkamp - Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:38:23 +0200 From: Achim Flammenkamp To: "Mark A. Hershberger" Subject: Re: SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia Message-ID: <20120626203823.ga2...@dozy2.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> References: <20120626153703.ga5...@dozy2.h

Re: [Wikitech-l] SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread OQ
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > On 06/26/2012 03:12 PM, Achim Flammenkamp wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:03:54PM +0200, Platonides wrote: >>> >>> So, the aspect ratio is right. Your problem is that you want it to be a >>> perfect multiple of 7:4. > > >> *LOL*

Re: [Wikitech-l] SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 06/26/2012 03:12 PM, Achim Flammenkamp wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:03:54PM +0200, Platonides wrote: So, the aspect ratio is right. Your problem is that you want it to be a perfect multiple of 7:4. *LOL* You are pulling my leg. :) Integers are perfect and 7.00567... or whatever is no

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorry if incovienent : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Achim Flammenkamp
> Guys, please don't forget to CC him in your messages, I don't think he > subscribes to the mailinglist. It would be a bit of a waste if you I did subscribe to this mailing list. > write your arguments not to be heard for the person intended. I got these (unitl now 3 messages from others to this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorry if incovienent : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Achim Flammenkamp
Hi > There are no politics involved, there is just misunderstanding of your > point, which is something completely different. Calling things > 'miss-design' will also not get you helped to get this solved - we are > not your enemy. The last I know! :-) But all looked like secret politics which def

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorry if incovienent : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Achim Flammenkamp
Hi Thanks for your very quick response and a "work-around" solution(?). It is the first time I see someone promptly spring into action for a quick help. I thought this was impossible here, too. I needed about 4 - 5 day only to get the pointer form wikimedia to ask here after public question. :-/

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorry if incovienent : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
Guys, please don't forget to CC him in your messages, I don't think he subscribes to the mailinglist. It would be a bit of a waste if you write your arguments not to be heard for the person intended. On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Merlijn van Deen wrote: > On 26 June 2012 20:12, Derric Atzrott

[Wikitech-l] Jenkins upgrade

2012-06-26 Thread Antoine Musso
Hello, We are going to upgrade our Jenkins installation [1] during European morning. The maintenance is expected to last 2 hours and should start around 10am (GMT+2), 1am in San Francisco. I will manually retrigger tests for any changes submitted to mediawiki/core during that maintenance. [1] ht

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorry if incovienent : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Merlijn van Deen
On 26 June 2012 20:12, Derric Atzrott wrote: >>[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8901 >>[1] > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=svg&list_id=125758 > > I think you may have missed link #3. Oops. [3] http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AFlag_

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making language selection sticky

2012-06-26 Thread Platonides
On 26/06/12 18:48, Denny Vrandečić wrote: > Hi all, > > we are trying to let users switch their language - whether they are > logged in or not - through a language selector. This can be either the > ULS, which is progressing impressively, or just a list of languages in > the sidebar, or anything e

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorry if incovienent : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Derric Atzrott
>[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8901 >[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=svg&list_id=125758 I think you may have missed link #3. Thank you, Derric Atzrott Computer Specialist Alizee Pathology ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorry if incovienent : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Merlijn van Deen
On 26 June 2012 19:16, Achim Flammenkamp wrote: > Thus I dig done the problem and it seems to be out of my reach to correct > this miss-design by wikimedia but identified it to got founded in some > wikimedia politics or history which now noone seems to be responsable. :-/ There are no politics

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorry if incovienent : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Platonides
So, the aspect ratio is right. Your problem is that you want it to be a perfect multiple of 7:4. (...) > Detailed explanation at example: > If there is a SVG-file on wikimedia, some fixed logic generates png-images for > the flag's description page generally. The first image, here 800 × 457, is >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorry if incovienent : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Denny Vrandečić
2012/6/26 Achim Flammenkamp : > This flag should have a ratio of 7:4 which has the SVG original, but NOT the > prominantly displayed first image (800 × 457 , 800 is not divisible by 7, nor > 457 by 4)! Even though neither 800 is not divisible by 7 nor 457 is divisible by 4, 800/457 is 1.75054...

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorry if incovienent : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Achim Flammenkamp
Hi > It is completely unclear to me what the problem is. There is a note on > the image page stating 'These above (displayed) rendered images are > forced (by wikimedia politics) to an improper (even false) flag-ratio. > The correct ratio is 7:4 and to avoid some small render-bugs, the > height of

[Wikitech-l] Making language selection sticky

2012-06-26 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hi all, we are trying to let users switch their language - whether they are logged in or not - through a language selector. This can be either the ULS, which is progressing impressively, or just a list of languages in the sidebar, or anything else. After selecting it, the page is rerendered using

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorry if incovienent : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Merlijn van Deen
On 26 June 2012 17:37, Achim Flammenkamp wrote: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Graphics_village_pump#default_rendering_from_SVG-to-png_looks_buggy_.28also_improper_default_flag-sizes.2C_IMHO.29 > > Is this the correct mailing list to get feed back and/or even contact the > right deve

[Wikitech-l] Sorry if incovienent : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

2012-06-26 Thread Achim Flammenkamp
Hello May I point you to the URL http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Graphics_village_pump#default_rendering_from_SVG-to-png_looks_buggy_.28also_improper_default_flag-sizes.2C_IMHO.29 coding the literal URL http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Graphics_village_pump#default rendering

Re: [Wikitech-l] Invitation for Localisation team development demonstration 2012-06-26 15:00 UTC

2012-06-26 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
Apparently it's hard for me to get both dates and times right in the same mail. Apologies for the incorrect date in the subject. This demo is in 15 minutes. Siebrand On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) < smazel...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > You are invited to the Localisation