Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-23 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:52:55PM -0700, Ryan Lane wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Daniel Friesen wrote: The ops guys hate ruby. I am pretty sure they love it. Puppet itself is a DSL based on top of ruby. The ops argument is we don't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Article revision numbers

2012-07-23 Thread Derric Atzrott
This is all a fantastic idea. Distributing Wikipedia in a fashion similar to git will make it a lot easier to use in areas where Internet connections are not so common. It always surprises me when people express enthusiasm for this kind of idea, since my instinct assumption is the exact

Re: [Wikitech-l] Article revision numbers

2012-07-23 Thread Chad
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.com wrote: This is all a fantastic idea. Distributing Wikipedia in a fashion similar to git will make it a lot easier to use in areas where Internet connections are not so common. It always surprises me when people

Re: [Wikitech-l] Article revision numbers

2012-07-23 Thread Derric Atzrott
It's really not. Things that are (relatively) simple in the database tend to require walking the entire revision tree in Git in order to figure the same data out. Git is awesome for software development, but trying to use it as an article development tool is really a bad solution in search of a

[Wikitech-l] Creating a centralized access point for propriety databases/resources

2012-07-23 Thread Ocaasi Ocaasi
Hi Folks! The problem: Many proprietary research databases have donated free access to select Wikipedia editors (Credo Reference, HighBeam Research, JSTOR). Managing separate account distribution for each service doesn't scale well. The idea: Centralize access to these separate resources behind

Re: [Wikitech-l] Article revision numbers

2012-07-23 Thread Adam Wight
It's really not. Things that are (relatively) simple in the database tend to require walking the entire revision tree in Git in order to figure the same data out. Git is awesome for software development, but trying to use it as an article development tool is really a bad solution in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-23 Thread Ryan Lane
I think the we is a bit unwarranted. I don't hate Ruby and I certainly don't hate Ruby more than Java :-) I also don't feel the same about puppet; I do see some problems with it, but none of them have nothing to do with the fact that it's written in Ruby. Well, 90% of the ops team. I think

[Wikitech-l] Wikidata blockers

2012-07-23 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, After discussion with Robla and DanielK, we (the Wikidata team) decided to write mails to this list now and then complain about our blockers for which we need WMF (or other core dev) assistance :) Right now we have three patches to core awaiting review: *

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata blockers

2012-07-23 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, After discussion with Robla and DanielK, we (the Wikidata team) decided to write mails to this list now and then complain about our blockers for which we need WMF (or other core dev) assistance :) Right now

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata blockers

2012-07-23 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: I'd like to add one thing: It'd be awesome if Jens Ohlig could get enough gerrit karma to be able to push tags. This way he could create a tag whenever he updates the demo system and it'd be easy to see for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata blockers

2012-07-23 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi Jeroen, Thanks for this! Per our conversation, I'd love for this to be weekly, even if the status is no change. Even that is useful information, since it may uncover cases where we're waiting for each other thinking that the other party has the next step. More below: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic mobile redirection enabled for *.wikimedia.org sites hosted on the cluster (except for commons)

2012-07-23 Thread Arthur Richards
Diederik, Thanks - that was an oversight. Donate was left out of the exclusion list. I've just committed a change to prevent donate.wikimedia.org from automatically redirecting to the non-existent mobile domain: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/16449/ Arthur On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:51 PM,

[Wikitech-l] developing skin

2012-07-23 Thread Adm
Hello, I have allready programmed mediawiki extensions but no skins. I have 2 issues: 1) In the extension I can made a file ext.i18n.php and then use: $wgExtensionMessagesFiles['ext'] = dirname( __FILE__ ) . 'ext.i18n.php'; wfMsg('something'); With skins it doesn't work. Can you help me? 2)

Re: [Wikitech-l] wfMsg* [was: developing skin]

2012-07-23 Thread Mark Holmquist
1) In the extension I can made a file ext.i18n.php and then use: $wgExtensionMessagesFiles['ext'] = dirname( __FILE__ ) . 'ext.i18n.php'; wfMsg('something'); In the interest of keeping up with the times, I'll leave this here:

Re: [Wikitech-l] developing skin

2012-07-23 Thread linuxlover
Il giorno lun, 23/07/2012 alle 15.39 -0700, Daniel Friesen ha scritto: Read over the tutorials I have on skinning MediaWiki 1.18+ http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/08/mediawiki-skinning-tutorial/ http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/28/mediawiki-subskin-tutorial/ I have 2 issues: 1) In the

Re: [Wikitech-l] developing skin

2012-07-23 Thread linuxlover
Il giorno lun, 23/07/2012 alle 15.39 -0700, Daniel Friesen ha scritto: http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/08/mediawiki-skinning-tutorial/ http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/28/mediawiki-subskin-tutorial/ Following the first tutorial: PHP Fatal error: Class 'MySkin' not found in

Re: [Wikitech-l] developing skin

2012-07-23 Thread linuxlover
Il giorno lun, 23/07/2012 alle 15.39 -0700, Daniel Friesen ha scritto: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:02:16 -0700, Adm linuxloverst...@gmail.com wrote: http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/08/mediawiki-skinning-tutorial/ I think there is an error in the tutorial: class MySkinTemplate extends BaseTemplate

Re: [Wikitech-l] developing skin

2012-07-23 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:29:40 -0700, linuxlover linuxloverst...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno lun, 23/07/2012 alle 15.39 -0700, Daniel Friesen ha scritto: http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/08/mediawiki-skinning-tutorial/ http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/28/mediawiki-subskin-tutorial/ Following

Re: [Wikitech-l] developing skin

2012-07-23 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:43:07 -0700, linuxlover linuxloverst...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno lun, 23/07/2012 alle 15.39 -0700, Daniel Friesen ha scritto: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:02:16 -0700, Adm linuxloverst...@gmail.com wrote: http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/08/mediawiki-skinning-tutorial/

Re: [Wikitech-l] developing skin

2012-07-23 Thread linuxlover
Il giorno lun, 23/07/2012 alle 17.54 -0700, Daniel Friesen ha scritto: No, you should have two classes in your skin. The one inheriting from BaseTemplate is your skins template, that one should be {MySkin}Template, not {MySkin}. You need a different class called {MySkin} that inherits

Re: [Wikitech-l] developing skin

2012-07-23 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 12-07-23 6:17 PM, linuxlover wrote: Il giorno lun, 23/07/2012 alle 17.54 -0700, Daniel Friesen ha scritto: No, you should have two classes in your skin. The one inheriting from BaseTemplate is your skins template, that one should be {MySkin}Template, not {MySkin}. You need a different

[Wikitech-l] Could not connect to SOLR Server yet?

2012-07-23 Thread wangfeng wangfeng
Hi , I have build mediawiki with EnhancedRetrieval. When I search a existing item , it worked well. But when I search a non existing one , it reported this: ** *Could not connect to SOLR Server yet. Faceted Search will