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

2013-02-09 Thread Tyler Romeo
One weird thing I've noticed is that for some reason the extension seems to be unsetting variables when it's done using them. I can understand not wanting to pollute the local variable scope, but it's really unnecessary and probably has some sort of performance impact when you're setting and

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

2013-02-09 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 09/02/13 02:35, Paul Selitskas a écrit : 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

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

2013-02-09 Thread Željko Filipin
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 2:41 AM, 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. Željko ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

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

2013-02-09 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 08/02/13 21:51, Lee Worden a écrit : As an aside, you could almost certainly do this cheaper with WorkingWiki. If you can write a make rule to retrieve the Excel file from the network drive and make it into html and image files (and maybe a little wikitext to format the page), you're

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] RFC: Introducing two new HTTP headers to track mobile pageviews

2013-02-09 Thread Asher Feldman
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Mark Bergsma m...@wikimedia.org wrote: - Since we're repurposing X-CS, should we perhaps rename it to something more apt to address concerns about cryptic non-standard headers flying about? I'd like to propose to define *one* request header to be used for

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

2013-02-09 Thread Platonides
On 08/02/13 21:51, Lee Worden wrote: As an aside, you could almost certainly do this cheaper with WorkingWiki. If you can write a make rule to retrieve the Excel file from the network drive and make it into html and image files (and maybe a little wikitext to format the page), you're done.

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

2013-02-09 Thread Ryan Lane
Patrick had also shown this to me a while back and I've made a demo for a replacement skin on labsconsole using a modified version of it: https://labsconsole-test.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page The strapping skin itself has a few bugs that need to be fixed. I've fixed them and will be working on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering January 2013 report

2013-02-09 Thread Platonides
On 07/02/13 21:54, Chad wrote: On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Platonides wrote: Also worth mentioning, our SVN is now read-only. This actually happened on Feb 1st :) -Chad I did check before sending. «Marking all of SVN as read-only» sent Jan 24th. Follow-up the next day saying: «This

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Hub update

2013-02-09 Thread Ryan Lane
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: 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... I thought it was decided quite a long time ago that meta was for discussing the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering January 2013 report

2013-02-09 Thread Chad
Hmm, you're right. Guess I forgot to mention it in the project status. Oh well, it's just SVN ;-) -Chad On Feb 9, 2013 6:09 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/02/13 21:54, Chad wrote: On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Platonides wrote: Also worth mentioning, our SVN is now

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

2013-02-09 Thread David Gerard
On 9 February 2013 23:00, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: You could do it with openoffice.org/libreoffice, although I agree that getting all the dependencies right for running in the server is a bit tedious. You can also use Excel itself for that (eg. COM automation), as suggested by

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

2013-02-09 Thread Lee Worden
On 02/09/2013 03:00 PM, Platonides wrote: On 08/02/13 21:51, Lee Worden wrote: As an aside, you could almost certainly do this cheaper with WorkingWiki. If you can write a make rule to retrieve the Excel file from the network drive and make it into html and image files (and maybe a little

[Wikitech-l] NEW version 2.01 of Extension:OpenID

2013-02-09 Thread Thomas Gries
tl;dr NEW version 2.01 of Extension:OpenID published RE: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID (new light manual) RE: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/OpenID.git;a=commit;h=86e339bc695c72796014607da0223fd9d3341af9 RE: