Re: [Wikitech-l] Preparing concise, readable release notes for 1.21

2012-11-13 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Robla wrote: I'm sure all of those hooks have a corresponding extension that needs the new hook. Right! (Kudos to iAlex for creating all those pages.) However, most extension pages don't have updated lists of used hooks, so WhatLinksHere doesn't help. I suspect it might be easier (!) to check

[Wikitech-l] Creating custom skin based on Vector in MediaWiki 1.20

2012-11-13 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
Hi! Some year ago, I used to create Vector-based skin with redesigned layout (very different positions of sidebar and action links) in MW 1.17 from scratch, via copying all of Vector subtree and modifying it, then adding my skin resources into Resources.php. It worked, but was a lot of work,

[Wikitech-l] editing channels - How was this edit made?

2012-11-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, In the Bangalore DevCamp I spoke a bit with Brion about a way to measure various ways of editing MediaWiki pages. The original idea was to measure how much the mobile editing, when it becomes widely available, is actually used. A simplistic solution would be add a boolean rev_mobile field to

[Wikitech-l] Release notes updating

2012-11-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, At https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/33163/ TheDJ commented that I should have updated the release notes. At another commit I made once (forgot which one) somebody commented that I shouldn't have updated the release notes and that this should only be done by the release manager, because

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-13 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 14:25 -0800, Quim Gil wrote: What about removing the LATER resolution from our Bugzilla? Picking this up again. Reading the postings again I mostly see support for dropping RESOLVED LATER. Daniel uses this for tickets whose solution is out of our control. As mentioned

[Wikitech-l] Enable Page View Statistic

2012-11-13 Thread Harsh Kothari
Hi All I found that on Gujarati Wikipedia there is no page view statistic. So please enable that features and also give us data of How many hits per day or per month on Gujarati Wikipedia. Thanks in advance Harsh --- Harsh Kothari Research Fellow, Physical Research Laboratory(PRL). Ahmedabad.

[Wikitech-l] a source repo for Extension:MathJax

2012-11-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, In the Bangalore DevCamp I worked with Aditya Ravi Shankar on resolving Bug 35038 - Make MathJax menus translatable. It was mostly a success, but where should we commit the changes? Somewhat surprisingly, most of the changes will be needed in the MediaWiki extension code and not in the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release notes updating

2012-11-13 Thread Chad
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: At another commit I made once (forgot which one) somebody commented that I shouldn't have updated the release notes and that this should only be done by the release manager, because this helps avoid merge

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enable Page View Statistic

2012-11-13 Thread Chad
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Harsh Kothari harshkothari...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All I found that on Gujarati Wikipedia there is no page view statistic. So please enable that features and also give us data of How many hits per day or per month on Gujarati Wikipedia. We do not use the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enable Page View Statistic

2012-11-13 Thread Harsh Kothari
Hi Chad Thanks for sharing this info. Harsh --- Harsh Kothari Research Fellow, Physical Research Laboratory(PRL). Ahmedabad. On 13-Nov-2012, at 7:43 PM, Chad wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Harsh Kothari harshkothari...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All I found that on Gujarati Wikipedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] a source repo for Extension:MathJax

2012-11-13 Thread Chad
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Somewhat surprisingly, most of the changes will be needed in the MediaWiki extension code and not in the upstream library's repo. But apparently, the MathJax extension is not in Gerrit - its files must be

Re: [Wikitech-l] a source repo for Extension:MathJax

2012-11-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/11/13 Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Somewhat surprisingly, most of the changes will be needed in the MediaWiki extension code and not in the upstream library's repo. But apparently, the MathJax

Re: [Wikitech-l] editing channels - How was this edit made?

2012-11-13 Thread Diederik van Liere
Dario has been proposing RevTagging to exactly address this need, see: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Revtagging I really think we should put this on the roadmap for 2013 for Mediawiki, we definitely need this more granular level of instrumentation for determining the source of an edit. Best

Re: [Wikitech-l] a source repo for Extension:MathJax

2012-11-13 Thread Petr Kadlec
On 13 November 2012 15:47, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not entirely sure I understand. If it's customization for the extension, shouldn't it go in the Math[0] extension? Note that the Math extension and the MathJax extension are two completely (?) unrelated MediaWiki extensions.

Re: [Wikitech-l] a source repo for Extension:MathJax

2012-11-13 Thread Chad
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Petr Kadlec petr.kad...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 November 2012 15:47, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not entirely sure I understand. If it's customization for the extension, shouldn't it go in the Math[0] extension? Note that the Math extension and

Re: [Wikitech-l] a source repo for Extension:MathJax

2012-11-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/11/13 Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Petr Kadlec petr.kad...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 November 2012 15:47, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not entirely sure I understand. If it's customization for the extension, shouldn't it go in the Math[0]

Re: [Wikitech-l] a source repo for Extension:MathJax

2012-11-13 Thread Chad
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: That's the weird part - they are related, even though they are not related. The rendering engines are completely unrelated - E:Math has its own and E:MathJax loads the MathJax JS library from a CDN. The MW

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release notes updating

2012-11-13 Thread Brad Jorsch
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: At another commit I made once (forgot which one) somebody commented that I shouldn't have updated the release notes and that this should

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release notes updating

2012-11-13 Thread Chad
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Brad Jorsch bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: At another commit I made once (forgot which one) somebody

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-13 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Nov 13, 2012 1:05 PM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 14:25 -0800, Quim Gil wrote: What about removing the LATER resolution from our Bugzilla? Picking this up again. Reading the postings again I mostly see support for dropping RESOLVED LATER. Daniel

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-13 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, trying to find the simplest path: On 11/13/2012 04:04 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: Assuming agreement that RESOLVED LATER is deprecated and lowest priority is used, * some community members need to adjust their Bugzilla queries to exclude such tickets. They will find out those

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-13 Thread Bartosz DziewoƄski
2012/11/13 Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com: * we need to go through all RESOLVED LATER tickets, reopen them by setting appropriate values (lowest priority, upstream), and explain why (pointing to this thread). Help welcome. Since free time is a luxury, what about simply a

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-13 Thread Derric Atzrott
* we need to go through all RESOLVED LATER tickets, reopen them by setting appropriate values (lowest priority, upstream), and explain why (pointing to this thread). Help welcome. Since free time is a luxury, what about simply a bulk change TO NEW / LOWEST. I know

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-13 Thread Nabil Maynard
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/13/2012 04:04 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: Assuming agreement that RESOLVED LATER is deprecated and lowest priority is used, * some community members need to adjust their Bugzilla queries to exclude such

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-13 Thread Quim Gil
On 11/13/2012 10:05 AM, Nabil Maynard wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/13/2012 04:04 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: Assuming agreement that RESOLVED LATER is deprecated and lowest priority is used, * some community members need to adjust

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-13 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 11/13/2012 11:54 AM, Martijn Hoekstra wrote: Once no RESOLVED LATER tickets remain, I can remove the resolution. Silence means approval. No it doesn't. The above exchange really confuses me. I'm not sure what else silence could mean when someone explicitly tells you (as Andre has) If

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-13 Thread Nathan Larson
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.orgwrote: On 11/13/2012 11:54 AM, Martijn Hoekstra wrote: Once no RESOLVED LATER tickets remain, I can remove the resolution. Silence means approval. No it doesn't. The above exchange really confuses me. I'm not

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-13 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 11/13/2012 02:07 PM, Nathan Larson wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.orgwrote: On 11/13/2012 11:54 AM, Martijn Hoekstra wrote: Silence means approval. No it doesn't. The above exchange really confuses me. Perhaps it should've been silence

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enable Page View Statistic

2012-11-13 Thread Tyler Romeo
I'm working on this. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Harsh Kothari harshkothari...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Chad Thanks for sharing this info. Harsh ---

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-13 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 14:16 -0500, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: Good point. It still has some negative connotations, though. Stick to single syllable words: If no one says anything, this is what I will do. That's definitely a better wording of what I wanted to express, thanks. andre -- Andre

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-13 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 14:16 -0500, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: Good point. It still has some negative connotations, though. Stick to single syllable words: If no one says anything, this is what I will do. That's definitely a better wording for what I wanted to express. Thanks. andre -- Andre

[Wikitech-l] Welcome Quim Gil to Engineering Community Team!

2012-11-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I am very happy to announce that tomorrow is Quim Gil's first day in the Engineering Community Team of the Wikimedia Foundation. His title is Technical Contributor Coordinator (IT Communications Manager) which means that he'll be reaching out to and nurturing our testers, coders, documenters,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release notes updating

2012-11-13 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Brad Jorsch bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: You *should* update release notes. This statement about having the release manager do all release notes is incorrect. I've never heard that release

Re: [Wikitech-l] editing channels - How was this edit made?

2012-11-13 Thread MZMcBride
Diederik van Liere wrote: Dario has been proposing RevTagging to exactly address this need, see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Revtagging I really think we should put this on the roadmap for 2013 for Mediawiki, we definitely need this more granular level of instrumentation for determining

[Wikitech-l] Run a local tech training event - I can help you start

2012-11-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
TL;DR: I'm encouraging volunteers and chapters to run local tech events -- I can help you get started. On 11/11/2012 12:42 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: Hi all, a reminder to chapters and volunteers around the world -- if you're planning a hackathon, please let us know beforehand by adding it to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enable Page View Statistic

2012-11-13 Thread bawolff
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Harsh Kothari harshkothari...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All I found that on Gujarati Wikipedia there is no page view statistic. So please enable that features and also give us data of How many hits per day or per month on Gujarati Wikipedia. Also you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome Quim Gil to Engineering Community Team!

2012-11-13 Thread Platonides
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[Wikitech-l] Open Tech Chat for Thursday, November 15

2012-11-13 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi everyone, Time once again for our weekly tech chat. Rather, Thursday is the time, because this week, I'm giving you *two whole days*[1] instead of the whopping hour notice that I gave you all last week. Full details here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2012-11-15 For those too lazy

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Welcome Quim Gil to Engineering Community Team!

2012-11-13 Thread Gabriel Wicke
Quim Gil's first day in the Engineering Community Team of the Wikimedia Foundation. Welcome and happy birthday, Quim! -- Gabriel Wicke Senior Software Developer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] On GitHub, rename wikimedia/mediawiki-core - wikimedia/mediawiki

2012-11-13 Thread Ori Livneh
The fact that mediawiki's repository is named mediawiki-core doesn't make sense to me. The chief benefit provided by GitHub is its popularity and visibility. We don't manage our code review or release process in GitHub anyway, so I see no reason not to give the most weight to aesthetic /

Re: [Wikitech-l] On GitHub, rename wikimedia/mediawiki-core - wikimedia/mediawiki

2012-11-13 Thread Chad
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: The fact that mediawiki's repository is named mediawiki-core doesn't make sense to me. The chief benefit provided by GitHub is its popularity and visibility. We don't manage our code review or release process in GitHub