Re: [Wikitech-l] A testing bug management wheel

2013-01-25 Thread Andre Klapper
On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 16:34 -0800, Quim Gil wrote: Some examples to illustrate. Week 2: fresh bugs (Andre) I don't think Andre will have problems finding tasks for this. But again, if the top priority, WMF lead projects are well covered then we can help and involve others e.g.

[Wikitech-l] Project calendar

2013-01-25 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote: More generally, and to follow up on our discussion yesterday about better coordination, I think I'd like to integrate that kind of announcements into a central page on mw.o that would also list Tech chats,

Re: [Wikitech-l] An actual bikeshed

2013-01-25 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 23/01/13 19:11, Chad a écrit : Hi, There's been a lot of bikeshedding topics recently. On things ranging from spaces, to typos, to naming things. I was kind of tired of these mundane threads, so I decided to start one on something productive. What color should the bikeshed be? I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla and Automated tests backlog [was: Re: A testing bug management wheel]

2013-01-25 Thread Željko Filipin
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.orgwrote: How do items currently end up on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Browser_testing/Test_backlog#Backlog ? Who thinks This is a candidate for an automated browser test, I should list it on the wikipage? QA reading the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project calendar

2013-01-25 Thread Guillaume Paumier
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote: So, I've done this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Guillom/sandbox On second thought, it's probably better to use permalinks for the list archives: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?oldid=634498 The

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reporting errors from the API

2013-01-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
* Should error messages returned by the API be translated? Or should the translation be left to JavaScript in the client? I think it should be left to JavaScript in the client. The API is not a UI, so it is not intended to function as an internationalized interface. However, a JavaScript

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reporting errors from the API

2013-01-25 Thread Brad Jorsch
I'm going to copy this to the mediawiki-api list, too. On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: Hi all! Wikidata (technically, Wikibase) uses a lot of JS/API based editing, and we have several times hit upon the question of how to best report errors from

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reporting errors from the API

2013-01-25 Thread Brad Jorsch
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: * Should error messages returned by the API be translated? Or should the translation be left to JavaScript in the client? I think it should be left to JavaScript in the client. The API is not a UI, so it is not intended

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reporting errors from the API

2013-01-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
Speaking of which, where is the (if there is any) roadmap document or something similar for the next version of the API? *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Brad

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-api] Reporting errors from the API

2013-01-25 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Localization in v2 - all errors AND warnings are localized in default language unless lang= is given, in which case you can get parameter array or a non-default language. All standard translation magic (plural/gender/etc) will be supported. Warnings will always include a warning code.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Portuguese Wikipedia village pump and crowdsourcing ideas

2013-01-25 Thread Petr Kadlec
Hi, On 24 January 2013 18:34, Everton Zanella Alvarenga ezalvare...@wikimedia.org wrote: 1) My first question is if someone could help me to create a RSS feed of threads of the Portuguese Wikipedia village pump (= /esplanada/). The feed would contain the title and link to the thread, the

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-api] Reporting errors from the API

2013-01-25 Thread Platonides
On 25/01/13 16:54, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: Localization in v2 - all errors AND warnings are localized in default language unless lang= is given, in which case you can get parameter array or a non-default language. All standard translation magic (plural/gender/etc) will be supported. Warnings

Re: [Wikitech-l] Marking all of SVN as read-only

2013-01-25 Thread Chad
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've been taking a look at the SVN history[0], and it doesn't look like anything is actively using SVN anymore. Looking at the logs, it doesn't look like much of anything has been committed in the last few months

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project calendar

2013-01-25 Thread Quim Gil
On 01/25/2013 06:00 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote: So, I've done this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Guillom/sandbox On second thought, it's probably better to use permalinks for the list archives:

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [MediaWiki-commits] SVN: [115794] GOODBYE

2013-01-25 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
The king is dead. Long live the king! Begin doorgestuurd bericht: Van: de...@svn.wikimedia.org Datum: 25 januari 2013 17:49:02 CET Aan: mediawiki-...@lists.wikimedia.org Onderwerp: [MediaWiki-commits] SVN: [115794] GOODBYE Antwoord aan: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project calendar

2013-01-25 Thread Quim Gil
On 01/25/2013 08:59 AM, Quim Gil wrote: On 01/25/2013 06:00 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote: So, I've done this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Guillom/sandbox On second thought, it's probably better to use

Re: [Wikitech-l] A testing bug management wheel

2013-01-25 Thread Quim Gil
On 01/25/2013 03:27 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 16:34 -0800, Quim Gil wrote: Some examples to illustrate. Week 2: fresh bugs (Andre) I don't think Andre will have problems finding tasks for this. But again, if the top priority, WMF lead projects are well covered then we

[Wikitech-l] RFC: Tab as field delimiter in logging format of cache servers

2013-01-25 Thread Diederik van Liere
Apologies for crossposting Heya, The Analytics Team is planning to deploy tab as field delimiter to replace the current space as fielddelimiter on the varnish/squid/nginx servers. We would like to do this on February 1st. The reason for this change is that we need to have a consistent number of

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Event in the Philippines

2013-01-25 Thread Quim Gil
Hello Butch! On 01/24/2013 01:07 PM, Butch Bustria wrote: Hello, Last January 12, some web technology enthusiasts attend the first MediaWiki meetup / orientation in Makati City, Philippines. Here is the photo from fb:

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Tab as field delimiter in logging format of cache servers

2013-01-25 Thread bawolff
Just to clarify, will this affect the stats at http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ ? Changing the format of that will probably break third party scripts. -- -bawolff On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Diederik van Liere dvanli...@wikimedia.org wrote: Apologies for crossposting

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Tab as field delimiter in logging format of cache servers

2013-01-25 Thread Diederik van Liere
No, the output format of http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ will stay the same. Best, Diederik On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:48 PM, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote: Just to clarify, will this affect the stats at http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ ? Changing the

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Event in the Philippines

2013-01-25 Thread Harsh Kothari
Hi Butch and Quim I think Hangout will be one option for doing such type of activity. any expert can address via Hangout. Thanks Harsh On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello Butch! On 01/24/2013 01:07 PM, Butch Bustria wrote: Hello, Last January 12,

[Wikitech-l] Running Selenium tests over the speed limit with PhantomJS

2013-01-25 Thread Željko Filipin
A few days ago I have noticed that Selenium[1] can now drive PhantomJS[2], a headless WebKit with JavaScript API. Intrigued by the buzzword to word ratio I have decided to take it for a test drive. # Test Drive If you are on a Mac (and use Homebrew), installation is as simple as possible: $

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reporting errors from the API

2013-01-25 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 01/25/2013 08:01 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: * When using system messages to translate the error codes from the API, these messages will often contain wikitext. How can we best avoid this? Wikitext is likely to be quite useless to the client - it would be better to return HTML; or pass all

[Wikitech-l] Tablepager

2013-01-25 Thread Lukas Benedix
Hi, i have several questions about the TablePager-Class: * is it possible to change the styling of the tables? * * The default-style is blue (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tablepager.PNG) * * all other Tables are grey (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Version.PNG) * is it