Re: [Wikitech-l] New Extension:WidgetsFramework

2012-11-19 Thread Clément Dietschy
2012/11/16 Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com Hey, Suggestion: you could use the validator extension [0] instead of re-inventing the wheel in [1]. Yes, Extension:Validator [0] is exactly what we need. We did re-invent the wheel. We'll try to squeeze a migration to Validator in the next

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia URL shortener

2012-11-19 Thread Neil Harris
On 19/11/12 02:09, MZMcBride wrote: Tim Starling wrote: Providing a traditional URL shortener with traditional features would be useful, at least for some people, and would eliminate the need to use third-party URL shorteners internally, which have a commercial focus and unknown lifetime. If

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.20 backwards compatibility in extensions

2012-11-19 Thread Andre Klapper
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 17:54 -0500, Chad wrote: On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: All extension branches were removed during the migration to Git. Very few extensions have branches for MW core major version support. There's no longer a simple way to

[Wikitech-l] Wikidata interwiki

2012-11-19 Thread Bináris
What happened to d: interwiki of Wikidata? There are a lot of links using it and suddenly all became red. -- Bináris ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata interwiki

2012-11-19 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 16:01 +0100, Bináris wrote: What happened to d: interwiki of Wikidata? There are a lot of links using it and suddenly all became red. As per https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41980#c22 it's been reverted for the time being. andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata interwiki

2012-11-19 Thread Bináris
2012/11/19 Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 16:01 +0100, Bináris wrote: What happened to d: interwiki of Wikidata? There are a lot of links using it and suddenly all became red. As per https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41980#c22 it's been reverted

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.20 backwards compatibility in extensions

2012-11-19 Thread Krinkle
On Nov 8, 2012, at 11:08 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: All extension branches were removed during the migration to Git. Very few extensions have branches for MW core major version support. There's no longer a simple way to branch all extensions when a core release is

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.20 backwards compatibility in extensions

2012-11-19 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, Extension maintainers should be able to decide when and where to branch. So that they don't have to backport changes just because someone at the foundation decided to branch all extensions. +1. Having a script run that makes pretty arbitrary tags in between actual releases for extensions

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.20 backwards compatibility in extensions

2012-11-19 Thread Daniel Kinzler
On 19.11.2012 17:08, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: +1. Having a script run that makes pretty arbitrary tags in between actual releases for extensions that have real releases and associated tags/branches does not seem helpful at all to me. It is, however, extremely helpful for those extensions that

Re: [Wikitech-l] FOSDEM - talk proposal deadlines in a few weeks

2012-11-19 Thread Arthur Richards
Thanks for the reminder Sumana. I recall hearing that we were going to try to secure a devroom, but that fell through and were hoping to try to share a devroom with some other org(s). What is the current status of this? On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Sébastien Santoro dereck...@espace-win.org

[Wikitech-l] Please take this survey about new contributors

2012-11-19 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, if you joined the MediaWiki / Wikimedia tech community in 2010 or later please consider taking this survey: Newcomer experience and contributor behavior in FOSS communities https://limesurvey.sim.vuw.ac.nz/index.php?sid=65151lang=en The survey is open for sporadic contributors or full time

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia URL shortener

2012-11-19 Thread Luke Welling
There are some practical reasons for providing site specific domain shortening beyond owning a cool domain hack. Discouraging the use of third party shorteners has real value. The web getting littered with urls that camouflage their destination, are tied to loss making commercial entities of

[Wikitech-l] A Newbie!

2012-11-19 Thread Hasini Abeywickrama
Hi all! I am a new member to this mailing group I am interested in taking part in the Outreach Programme for Women! I would like to make my contribution to Wikimedia. I read through the webpage but I have no clear idea on where do download the code source files etc. Can someone out there

Re: [Wikitech-l] A Newbie!

2012-11-19 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/11/19 Hasini Abeywickrama hva...@gmail.com: Hi all! I am a new member to this mailing group I am interested in taking part in the Outreach Programme for Women! I would like to make my contribution to Wikimedia. I read through the webpage but I have no clear idea on where do download

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.20 backwards compatibility in extensions

2012-11-19 Thread Krinkle
On Nov 19, 2012, at 5:12 PM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: On 19.11.2012 17:08, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: +1. Having a script run that makes pretty arbitrary tags in between actual releases for extensions that have real releases and associated tags/branches does not seem helpful at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please take this survey about new contributors

2012-11-19 Thread bawolff
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, if you joined the MediaWiki / Wikimedia tech community in 2010 or later please consider taking this survey: Newcomer experience and contributor behavior in FOSS communities

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

2012-11-19 Thread Diederik van Liere
Hey Quim I also sent you this survey a week ago with the question whether we should participate :) D On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, sorry for cross-replying. On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: On

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please take this survey about new contributors

2012-11-19 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:52 PM, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, some of the questions were a little unclear - talking about the Wikimedia community, but Wikimedia (as a whole) is not a FOSS project. Well, yes. We could say that Wikimedia is _also_ a FOSS project, handling 5,4M

[Wikitech-l] Welcome Juliusz Gonera as Software Developer to the Mobile Team!

2012-11-19 Thread Tomasz Finc
I am pleased to announce that Juliusz Gonera joins WMF this week as a Software Developer (Mobile team) today. Juliusz has worked at the University of Virginia, developing software for a laboratory that studies the macromolecular structure of proteins. Before that he created a system for sending

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia URL shortener

2012-11-19 Thread Mono
I think the wmf.co and related URLs are our best bet. On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Luke Welling lwell...@wikimedia.orgwrote: There are some practical reasons for providing site specific domain shortening beyond owning a cool domain hack. Discouraging the use of third party shorteners

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Juliusz Gonera as Software Developer to the Mobile Team!

2012-11-19 Thread Maryana Pinchuk
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am pleased to announce that Juliusz Gonera joins WMF this week as a Software Developer (Mobile team) today. Juliusz has worked at the University of Virginia, developing software for a laboratory that studies the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki + Vagrant

2012-11-19 Thread Erik Moeller
The Wikidata folks have used Vagrant (forked from Ori's repo) to package a dev environment for the Wikidata-related extensions. I gave it a try yesterday and it seemed to work pretty nicely: https://github.com/SilkeMeyer/wikidata-vagrant Cheers, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Juliusz Gonera as Software Developer to the Mobile Team!

2012-11-19 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am pleased to announce that Juliusz Gonera joins WMF this week as a Software Developer (Mobile team) today. Welcome onboard Juliusz and good luck with your acclimation to SF. Look forward to your contributions to our

[Wikitech-l] Standardizing highest priority in Bugzilla

2012-11-19 Thread Andre Klapper
== Situation == In Wikimedia Bugzilla you can set a priority for a bug report. Some people and teams set highest priority often (meaning These issues should get fixed first in the next weeks). Some don't set it at all (and likely related: Some teams don't really use Bugzilla but other tools).

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 112, Issue 50

2012-11-19 Thread Hasini Abeywickrama
Thanks a lot for the support! I will go through the page suggested! :) On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:00 AM, wikitech-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.orgwrote: Send Wikitech-l mailing list submissions to wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit

Re: [Wikitech-l] Standardizing highest priority in Bugzilla

2012-11-19 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 11/19/2012 08:33 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: == Proposal == Proposing the following definitions for Priority: * highest: Needs to be fixed as soon as possible, a week at the most. A human assignee should be set in the Assigned to field. * high: Should be fixed within the next four weeks.

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

2012-11-19 Thread jidanni
You n*rds are 100 years behind Facebook, who already shows Yesterday via email About an hour ago via mobile 59 minutes ago near Tsoying, Kao-hsiung 24 minutes ago via POCO Beautycamera Throw in the towel. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Standardizing highest priority in Bugzilla

2012-11-19 Thread MZMcBride
Mark A. Hershberger wrote: On 11/19/2012 08:33 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: == Proposal == Proposing the following definitions for Priority: * highest: Needs to be fixed as soon as possible, a week at the most. A human assignee should be set in the Assigned to field. * high: Should be fixed

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

2012-11-19 Thread Erik Moeller
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote: While it makes total sense to organize Product Management, Design and Analytics under Product Development, it feels old school and odd to leave out the software engineers fully dedicated to product development. It enforces

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome Juliusz Gonera as Software Developer to the Mobile Team!

2012-11-19 Thread Jon Robson
Juliusz great to finally have you on the team! I've been waiting for this day since I joined! :) See you next week! On Nov 20, 2012 3:30 AM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am pleased to announce that Juliusz Gonera joins WMF this week as a Software Developer (Mobile team) today.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome Juliusz Gonera as Software Developer to the Mobile Team!

2012-11-19 Thread Alolita Sharma
Welcome Juliusz! Excited to have you onboard and hearing conversations in Polish on the 3rd floor soon :-) Best, Alolita On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Juliusz great to finally have you on the team! I've been waiting for this day since I joined! :)

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

2012-11-19 Thread John Du Hart
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:43 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: You n*rds are 100 years behind Facebook, who already shows Yesterday via email About an hour ago via mobile 59 minutes ago near Tsoying, Kao-hsiung 24 minutes ago via POCO Beautycamera Throw in the towel. Another excellent post

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Juliusz Gonera as Software Developer to the Mobile Team!

2012-11-19 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 11/19/2012 04:59 PM, Tomasz Finc wrote: I am pleased to announce that Juliusz Gonera joins WMF this week as a Software Developer (Mobile team) today. Juliusz has worked at the University of Virginia, developing software for a laboratory that studies the macromolecular structure of

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

2012-11-19 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:11:40 -0800, John Du Hart compwhi...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:43 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: You n*rds are 100 years behind Facebook, who already shows Yesterday via email About an hour ago via mobile 59 minutes ago near Tsoying, Kao-hsiung 24

[Wikitech-l] SSL clusters upgraded to precise and new version of nginx

2012-11-19 Thread Ryan Lane
A few weeks ago I upgraded a single SSL termination server to Ubuntu Precise. I let it run for a while to ensure we wouldn't see memory leaks and to give time for people to report errors. No issues were reported and resource consumption was good, so today I upgraded all other nodes. This upgrade

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

2012-11-19 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: Sooo... when do we set him as 'moderated'? I've already notified one of the list moderators, We don't need to discuss and bring any more attention to this. ___