Re: [Wikitech-l] How to contribute to sysadmin / devops

2013-01-07 Thread Petr Bena
>From my point of view, this is something what will be possible in future. I thought that once we finish working on beta cluster, all deployment will be done there, and then once it is found working, it's merged with production. Now it works the other way - changes are done in production, and then

[Wikitech-l] How to contribute to sysadmin / devops

2013-01-07 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, Even before joining the WMF I have heard about the "opportunities for sysadmins to contribute", the possibility to get involved in Wikipedia that way, how great https://labs.wikimedia.org/ is for this purpose and the inevitable mention to Puppet at some point. While improving http://www.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Rewriting ExtensionDistributor

2013-01-07 Thread Krinkle
On Jan 7, 2013, at 8:03 PM, Chad wrote: > I'm thinking we configure $wgExtDistBranches as follows: > > $wgExtDistBranches = array( > 'master', > 'SNAPSHOT-for-1.21', > 'SHAPSHOT-for-1.20', > ... > ); > > We can go ahead and create tags for the existing released versions > to approximate sna

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problems uploading word 2007 .doc files

2013-01-07 Thread Aran Dunkley
The file was a .doc, but I've tried changing it to docx and get the same result. Some other .doc and .docx files that are word 2007 upload no problem. But I don't see how it can complain when I have the MimeType verification disabled - completely disabling the verification would be no problem since

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problems uploading word 2007 .doc files

2013-01-07 Thread Matma Rex
On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:47:58 +0100, Aran Dunkley wrote: Hello, can someone please help me with this .doc upload problem? I've tried everything and even setting $wgVerifyMimeType to false fails to solve it. No matter what I do I keep getting the following error when I upload *some* word 2007 .

[Wikitech-l] Community Metrics - December report

2013-01-07 Thread Quim Gil
Third issue of the MediaWiki community metrics monthly report! http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics/December_2012 We have added a section with social media stats. Hopefully next month we will show mediawiki.org data to reflect the documentation work. There is a big increase in the

[Wikitech-l] Problems uploading word 2007 .doc files

2013-01-07 Thread Aran Dunkley
Hello, can someone please help me with this .doc upload problem? I've tried everything and even setting $wgVerifyMimeType to false fails to solve it. No matter what I do I keep getting the following error when I upload *some* word 2007 .doc files: The file is a corrupt or otherwise unreadable ZIP

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-01-07 Thread Quim Gil
On 01/07/2013 03:47 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: Does this report contain any data that can actually be trusted? Is anyone getting anything useful out of this report? I don't get something useful. Me neither. It's good to have community and activity statistics http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Co

[Wikitech-l] Echo IRC meeting reminder

2013-01-07 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Hey everybody, just a reminder that we're going to have an IRC meeting tomorrow for developers regarding Echo. This will be for answering all your burning questions about what Echo is and how it will work, as well as how you can make use of it in your own extensions for providing notifications

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?

2013-01-07 Thread aude
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Cristian Consonni wrote: > Hi aude, > > 2013/1/7 aude : > > Anyone know if this is happening or not? Sometime around the chapters > > meeting seems as good a time as any. Or maybe attached as a few days > > before/after the Amsterdam hackathon. > > > > (/me not or

[Wikitech-l] Rewriting ExtensionDistributor

2013-01-07 Thread Chad
Hello extension developers, extension users, and people who hate NFS: I'm finishing up rewriting ExtensionDistributor[0] so it'll be more reliable and not rely on NFS. In the process of doing this, I've changed how it fetches the archives. Instead of cloning all of the repositories and generating

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?

2013-01-07 Thread Cristian Consonni
Hi aude, 2013/1/7 aude : > Anyone know if this is happening or not? Sometime around the chapters > meeting seems as good a time as any. Or maybe attached as a few days > before/after the Amsterdam hackathon. > > (/me not organizing anything, though) > I think there will be little overlap between

[Wikitech-l] DataValues now a dependency for Maps, SMW, Validator

2013-01-07 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, I just merged in changes into master of several extensions, most notably Maps, Semantic MediaWiki and Validator, that make them dependent on DataValues [0]. They will thus no longer work without DataValues. Please let me know if you run into any issues :) [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/E

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?

2013-01-07 Thread aude
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Cristian Consonni wrote: > 2012/11/28 Erik Moeller : > > WMF is not going to organize this, but we can help sponsor travel and > > bring the key developers from our side who will work on this. Are > > there any takers for supporting a 20-30 people development eve

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-01-07 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 09:25 +0100, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:00 AM, reporter wrote: > > > MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for December 31, 2012 - January 07, 2013 > > > > Status changes this week > > > > Bugs NEW : 520 > > Bugs ASSIGNED : 58 > > B

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-01-07 Thread Sébastien Santoro
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:00 AM, reporter wrote: >> Top 5 Bug Resolvers >> >> aklapper [AT] wikimedia.org 23 >> jrobson [AT] wikimedia.org 13 >> krenair [AT] gmail.com 8 >> s.mazeland [AT] xs4all.nl

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-01-07 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 07/01/13 09:25, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) a écrit : > Does this report contain any data that can actually be trusted? Is anyone > getting anything useful out of this report? We should just drop that weekly bug reporter. -- Antoine "hashar" Musso __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-01-07 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:00 AM, reporter wrote: > MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for December 31, 2012 - January 07, 2013 > > Status changes this week > > Bugs NEW : 520 > Bugs ASSIGNED : 58 > Bugs REOPENED : 39 > Bugs RESOLVED : 177 > > Total bugs still ope