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

2012-11-14 Thread Toni Hermoso Pulido
Nice seeing you here! Welcome and happy birthday! 2012/11/13 Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org: 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

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

2012-11-14 Thread Derric Atzrott
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 /

[Wikitech-l] Triaging Bugzilla reports: Greasemonkey scripts

2012-11-14 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi, in case that you are a heavy user of bugzilla.wikimedia.org and triage / comment on many reports: I've shared my hackish Greasemonkey scripts (that's clientside Javascript that runs in Firefox and some other browsers). These scripts include stuff like * provide one-click stock comments, *

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

2012-11-14 Thread jidanni
Another problem is we people doing oh, say monthly updates from git, and hoping to get a summary of what to be aware of. The best I can do currently is git fetch origin git diff master..origin/master \ RELEASE-NOTES-*| tee /tmp/gitdiff$$|wdiff -d -3

[Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org is no more

2012-11-14 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Hi, Following last year's Native HTTPS efforts¹, I've pushed a change² today that redirects all the old secure.wikimedia.org URLs to the respective native HTTPS ones, e.g. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page gets redirected to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page The

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enable Page View Statistic

2012-11-14 Thread Harsh Kothari
Hi Bawolff Thanks a lot. That is very useful stuff. That is awesome links :) Regards and Thanks again Harsh --- Harsh Kothari Research Fellow, Physical Research Laboratory(PRL). Ahmedabad. On 14-Nov-2012, at 5:06 AM, bawolff wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Harsh Kothari

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org is no more

2012-11-14 Thread Derric Atzrott
Following last year's Native HTTPS efforts¹, I've pushed a change² today that redirects all the old secure.wikimedia.org URLs to the respective native HTTPS ones, e.g. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page gets redirected to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Does

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org is no more

2012-11-14 Thread Chad
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.com wrote: Following last year's Native HTTPS efforts¹, I've pushed a change² today that redirects all the old secure.wikimedia.org URLs to the respective native HTTPS ones, e.g.

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org is no more

2012-11-14 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 01:48:27PM -0500, Derric Atzrott wrote: Following last year's Native HTTPS efforts¹, I've pushed a change² today that redirects all the old secure.wikimedia.org URLs to the respective native HTTPS ones, e.g. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page gets

[Wikitech-l] Research on newcomer experience - do we want to take part?

2012-11-14 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Hello, Kevin Carillo[1] from University of Wellington is going to research Newcomer experience and contributor behavior in FOSS communities[2] So far Debian, GNOME, Gentoo, KDE, Mozilla, Ubuntu, NetBSD, OpenSUSE will be taken into account, and FreeBSD recently joined[3] and there is still some

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org is no more

2012-11-14 Thread MZMcBride
Faidon Liambotis wrote: Following last year's Native HTTPS efforts¹, I've pushed a change² today that redirects all the old secure.wikimedia.org URLs to the respective native HTTPS ones, e.g. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page gets redirected to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Research on newcomer experience - do we want to take part?

2012-11-14 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Marcin Cieslak sa...@saper.info wrote: Hello, Kevin Carillo[1] from University of Wellington is going to research Newcomer experience and contributor behavior in FOSS communities[2] So far Debian, GNOME, Gentoo, KDE, Mozilla, Ubuntu, NetBSD, OpenSUSE will be

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

2012-11-14 Thread Platonides
On 13/11/12 23:42, MZMcBride wrote: Please stop top-posting. If you don't understand what that means, please read https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette. As I posted at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Revtagging, it's not clear to me why the built-in revision tagging

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

2012-11-14 Thread Diederik van Liere
On 2012-11-14, at 18:33, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/11/12 23:42, MZMcBride wrote: Please stop top-posting. If you don't understand what that means, please read https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette. As I posted at

[Wikitech-l] Looking for Bugs In All the RIGHT Places

2012-11-14 Thread Jim Laurino
Hello, I attended a talk [1] by Elaine Weyuker [2] on Wed, 7 Nov 2012. The talk, “Looking for Bugs In All the RIGHT Places”, discussed her work on predicting where bugs would be found in the next release of a program product. She and her collaborators have created a well validated tool that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Looking for Bugs In All the RIGHT Places

2012-11-14 Thread Mark Holmquist
I thought that this tool might be useful in mediawiki development. She was amenable to helping get it working if there was interest. Where, pray tell, is the software? :) -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info * Sent from