Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki API at Codecademy?

2013-02-08 Thread Yury Katkov
Is it possible to run other MediaWiki courses on codeacademy? The Extension Development and the Core Development for example? - Yury Katkov, WikiVote On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:20 AM, Yuri Astrakhan yuriastrak...@gmail.com wrote: I will be happy to part-take in this, as I do have some

Re: [Wikitech-l] Corporate needs are different (RE: How can we help Corporations use MW?)

2013-02-08 Thread planetenxin
Hi Dan, thanks a lot for the insights to the vistaprint MediaWiki ecosystem. Did you give Semantic MediaWiki a try? /Alexander Am 07.02.2013 22:31, schrieb Daniel Barrett: Vistaprint (www.vistaprint.com) has a hugely successful MediaWiki system internally. 150,000+ topics, 1000+ active

[Wikitech-l] Resign

2013-02-08 Thread Huib Laurens
Dear List(s), Currently I'm inactive for Wikimedia after a lot of things changed. The latest change is that I'm now working for a big datacentre and I do not feel that I have enough time for other things. I already got a few mails that I was collecting hats, so hereby I stop as: LangCom member

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Langcom-l] Resign

2013-02-08 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Thank you very much for your work, Huib. I sincerely hope to work with you again! -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2013/2/8 Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com: Dear List(s),

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit 2.6 - coming to a server near you

2013-02-08 Thread Chad
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, After much delay, Gerrit 2.6 will be coming to our servers. This release brings a *lot* of really cool features and fixes, but I'd like to outline a couple of the major ones: I realized a little bit ago that I was a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Corporate needs are different (RE: How can we help Corporations use MW?)

2013-02-08 Thread vitalif
1. A desire for a department to have their own space on the wiki. In our organisation (CUSTIS, Russia) we easily solve it by creating one primary wiki + separate ones for different departments. It's just a normal wiki family with shared code. Very simple solution without any extensions. The

[Wikitech-l] URLs for autogenerated documentation

2013-02-08 Thread Antoine Musso
Hello, We have historically generated MediaWiki documentation on the Subversion server known as formey: https://svn.wikimedia.org/doc/ That the result of running doxygen once per day against the master branch of mediawiki/core.git. We would like to move the documentation to another host and I

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki API at Codecademy?

2013-02-08 Thread Quim Gil
On 02/08/2013 12:25 AM, Yury Katkov wrote: Is it possible to run other MediaWiki courses on codeacademy? The Extension Development and the Core Development for example? We can ask, but it is probably better do it after having started effectively with the API task. On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at

Re: [Wikitech-l] URLs for autogenerated documentation

2013-02-08 Thread bawolff
Whichever way we chose, could we have http redirects from the old svn.wikimedia.org? There's a lot of urls that link there. I prefer doc.mediawiki.org/project/version/master (aka doc.mediawiki.org/core/master/php ) as in my mind, the hierarchy makes more sense like that, as the type of code is

[Wikitech-l] Jenkins tests reporting more errors

2013-02-08 Thread Antoine Musso
Hello, Due to some mistake I made during the Jenkins job overhaul last year, the PHPUnit jobs were no more using $wgDevelopmentWarnings. That is now fixed. I have also enabled $wgShowExceptionDetails per bug 43059. If that cause any serious trouble, shell users could change the setting file on

Re: [Wikitech-l] NullLockManager and the math extension

2013-02-08 Thread Aaron Schulz
Yes a654a6e79adc8f4730bb69f79e0b6a960d7d3cbe should be fixed. It should add the nullLockManager back. -- View this message in context: http://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/NullLockManager-and-the-math-extension-tp4995536p4995767.html Sent from the Wikipedia Developers mailing list archive at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Corporate needs are different (RE: How can we help Corporations use MW?)

2013-02-08 Thread Daniel Barrett
vita...@yourcmc.ru writes: In our organisation (CUSTIS, Russia) we easily solve it by creating one primary wiki + separate ones for different departments. In practice, we have found this doesn't work well for us (with thousands of employees). Each department winds up writing its own wiki page

Re: [Wikitech-l] NullLockManager and the math extension

2013-02-08 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 02/08/2013 12:55 PM, Aaron Schulz wrote: Yes a654a6e79adc8f4730bb69f79e0b6a960d7d3cbe should be fixed. It should add the nullLockManager back. Done, please review. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/48144/ Thanks, Matt Flaschen ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Corporate needs are different (RE: How can we help Corporations use MW?)

2013-02-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 02/08/2013 01:23 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: also we have SemanticMediaWiki. We started looking into Semantic MediaWiki - it has impressive features. But we got scared off by stories that it slows down the wiki too much. Maybe we should give it another look. DanB A recent improvement in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Corporate needs are different (RE: How can we help Corporations use MW?)

2013-02-08 Thread bawolff
On 2013-02-08 2:28 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 02/08/2013 01:23 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: also we have SemanticMediaWiki. We started looking into Semantic MediaWiki - it has impressive features. But we got scared off by stories that it slows down the wiki

[Wikitech-l] Developer Hub update

2013-02-08 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, in the past we have been discussing the need to update http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub Here is a basic proposal to get started. If we agree on the main idea the implementation will be easier. Perhaps we can do it edit by edit during some weeks, instead of an ambitious full

Re: [Wikitech-l] Corporate needs are different (RE: How can we help Corporations use MW?)

2013-02-08 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, We started looking into Semantic MediaWiki - it has impressive features. But we got scared off by stories that it slows down the wiki too much. Maybe we should give it another look. You _can_ abuse SMW in a way that it will kill performance on your wiki. If you use it in a sane fashion,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Hub update

2013-02-08 Thread Petr Bena
Are you going to reference software that has nothing to do with mediawiki on mediawiki.org as well? if not, then keep the hub we have on meta... On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, in the past we have been discussing the need to update

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki API at Codecademy?

2013-02-08 Thread Luke Welling WMF
Do you want help? I don't know much about the API at the moment, but it is my Level-Up assignment this quarter. Documenting things is a good way to learn them. I have written a lot of courseware in the past. Luke Welling On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Yuri Astrakhan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Corporate needs are different (RE: How can we help Corporations use MW?)

2013-02-08 Thread Lee Worden
On 02/08/2013 10:23 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote: O_O $1 excel-to-html? O_OOO Why not just copy-paste into for example wikEd (google://wikEd)? :-))) Not that beautiful, but it works. Now, I will demonstrate what I mean by Corporate needs are different. :-) With our extension, the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Corporate needs are different (RE: How can we help Corporations use MW?)

2013-02-08 Thread vitalif
In practice, we have found this doesn't work well for us (with thousands of employees). Yeah, our company doesn't have thousands of employees :-) Each department winds up writing its own wiki page about the same topic (say, Topic X), and they're all different. So it means most of your

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki API at Codecademy?

2013-02-08 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Luke Welling WMF lwell...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Do you want help? I don't know much about the API at the moment, but it is my Level-Up assignment this quarter. Documenting things is a good way to learn them. I have written a lot of courseware in the past.

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki API at Codecademy?

2013-02-08 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Great! How do you feel about taking the lead? I can help making sure we are in sync with WMF in terms of authorization, trademarks, etc. Sure, although it seems everything legal takes forever with WMF... (its been over a week since I asked to get an NDA to see the api logs, no response :) )

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki API at Codecademy?

2013-02-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 02/08/2013 04:12 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Luke Welling WMF lwell...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Do you want help? I don't know much about the API at the moment, but it is my Level-Up assignment this quarter. Documenting things is a good way to learn them. I

[Wikitech-l] Bootstrap based theme for Mediawiki

2013-02-08 Thread Yuvi Panda
https://github.com/OSAS/strapping-mediawiki looks pretty awesome! (Example at http://www.ovirt.org/Home). This also makes bootstrap's classes / layouting helpers available to content inside the wiki itself, which is pretty cool. (thanks to Patrick Reilly on IRC) -- Yuvi Panda T

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bootstrap based theme for Mediawiki

2013-02-08 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 08/02/13 22:37, Yuvi Panda a écrit : https://github.com/OSAS/strapping-mediawiki looks pretty awesome! (Example at http://www.ovirt.org/Home). This also makes bootstrap's classes / layouting helpers available to content inside the wiki itself, which is pretty cool. (thanks to Patrick

[Wikitech-l] Documentation for Extensions

2013-02-08 Thread Matthew Walker
All, Do we have an existing method for extensions to autogenerate documentation (via a commit hook or something) and then to upload that to a documentation server? (Something akin to what we do with MediaWiki core.) We should have this for Doxygen, and make something similar for JSDuck -- the JS

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki API at Codecademy?

2013-02-08 Thread Quim Gil
On 02/08/2013 01:15 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: Great! How do you feel about taking the lead? I can help making sure we are in sync with WMF in terms of authorization, trademarks, etc. Sure, fyi I have put Yuri in touch with our Codecademy contact. Anybody willing to get involved: please

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki API at Codecademy?

2013-02-08 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Arent you contracting for the WMF? ... Nope, all my work so far has been volunteering. Sponsors are welcome :) On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: fyi I have put Yuri in touch with our

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki API at Codecademy?

2013-02-08 Thread Quim Gil
On 02/08/2013 04:32 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Arent you contracting for the WMF? ... Nope, all my work so far has been volunteering. Sponsors are welcome :) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG Give it a try?

[Wikitech-l] Technical design review of extension

2013-02-08 Thread Paul Selitskas
Hello. I wrote an extension[1] for Wikinews and Wiktionary to replace the JS-driven custom tabs (Opinions in Wikinews, Citations/Template documentation in Wiktionary). According to the manual, as there were no pros heard from Design-l, now the extension must undergo a technical design review,

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki API at Codecademy?

2013-02-08 Thread Teresa Cho
I would love to test the course once it comes out! I don't know how MediaWiki API works so I should be able to give feedback as a newbie. On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 02/08/2013 04:32 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Antoine

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical design review of extension

2013-02-08 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 02/08/2013 08:35 PM, Paul Selitskas wrote: According to the manual, as there were no pros heard from Design-l, now the extension must undergo a technical design review, before it is decided whether the extension is able to fly on production sites - deployment review. Out of curiosity,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical design review of extension

2013-02-08 Thread Paul Selitskas
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 4:56 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 02/08/2013 08:35 PM, Paul Selitskas wrote: According to the manual, as there were no pros heard from Design-l, now the extension must undergo a technical design review, before it is decided whether the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical design review of extension

2013-02-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
I suppose that means there should be a review to see if the extension design is OK to be deployed live. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Paul Selitskas

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical design review of extension

2013-02-08 Thread Paul Selitskas
Well, those tabs are already used in Wikinews and Wiktionary, so I personally find no reason for design review. On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose that means there should be a review to see if the extension design is OK to be deployed live.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical design review of extension

2013-02-08 Thread Brian Wolff
To be honest, I doubt that many extensions go through a ui review prior to their main review. Given that the ui components have already existed, I would reccomend you just skip to the next step of that guide If you can't find anyone. Trust me as a volunteer contributed extension it will probably

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical design review of extension

2013-02-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
I agree, I'm just saying I think the guide is implying that the extension should be reviewed for security and whatnot before being deployed. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Feb 8,

Re: [Wikitech-l] URLs for autogenerated documentation

2013-02-08 Thread Krinkle
On Feb 8, 2013, at 7:18 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: A) http://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/branch|tag/php Would bring: doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/js doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/1.20.2/php

Re: [Wikitech-l] URLs for autogenerated documentation

2013-02-08 Thread K. Peachey
Before we get too entrenched in the address layout, can we have a better url than doc, it doesn't really scream out what it does, Something along the lines documentation or development (probably not so much) suggest better about what the address will contain. On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 1:37 PM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki API at Codecademy?

2013-02-08 Thread Valerie Juarez
On Feb 8, 2013 7:42 PM, Teresa Cho tcho...@gmail.com wrote: I would love to test the course once it comes out! I don't know how MediaWiki API works so I should be able to give feedback as a newbie. +1 I would love to test it out as well. ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki API at Codecademy?

2013-02-08 Thread Harsh Kothari
Hi All I have worked lot on MediaWiki API. If someone needs help then I can definitely help. I have one suggestion that we have to improve some portion of documentation so that new bee can easily understand. Thanks Harsh --- Harsh Kothari Research Fellow, Physical Research Laboratory(PRL).

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical design review of extension

2013-02-08 Thread Brian Wolff
Yes, extensions need to be reviewed (esp. In terms of security and performance) before anyone will deploy them. -bawolff On 2013-02-08 10:35 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: I agree, I'm just saying I think the guide is implying that the extension should be reviewed for security and