[Wikitech-l] New experimental feature on IRC

2012-09-11 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, I just wanted to announce that based on request from one community member I created a new feature in wm-bot, which may appear to be unneeded on first sight, but when I was thinking of that, it's not really so stupid. It collects various informations about user activity in channel (in xml) and

Re: [Wikitech-l] New experimental feature on IRC

2012-09-11 Thread K. Peachey
You might want to remove the Active since section, MWBot was set to not record channel joins and quiets in the logs for a user privacy point of view (from what I could find and read), this seems to be hitting on that area. (And yes, I know a user could run a anaylais of their own on the log lines

Re: [Wikitech-l] New experimental feature on IRC

2012-09-11 Thread Petr Bena
I don't really see how that breaks any privacy, in fact it just tell you since when you are using the channel. I don't think it breaks the privacy more than similar date on wikipedia (when you create account there is a log for that) If someone explain to me what is wrong on that, I will remove

[Wikitech-l] Some Gareth updates

2012-09-11 Thread Daniel Friesen
If anyone is interested I've done some tweaks to Gareth recently (though it still hasn't got the review functionality). Firstly, I updated the README, requirements, settings setup, etc... so that it's relatively easier for someone to jump in and try out. (Well, long as you don't run into

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Foundation (was Re: CentralAuth API access)

2012-09-11 Thread Brion Vibber
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: Done in true developer style [RFC] MediaWiki Foundation: https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/Requests_for_comment/** MediaWiki_Foundationhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/MediaWiki_Foundation