Re: [Wikitech-l] Stable PHP API for MediaWiki ?

2013-02-12 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 11/02/13 19:58, vita...@yourcmc.ru a écrit : 1) removal of global $action 2) removal of Xml::hidden() 3) broken Output::add() (had to migrate to resource loader) 4) various parser tag bugs 5) removal of MessageCache::addMessage() 6) removal of ts_makeSortable() (javascript) 7) brokage of

[Wikitech-l] Font at dv.wikipedia and dv.wiktionary

2013-02-12 Thread oәuɐႡɔsʇnәp nɐႡsn
Hello. The fonts at Dhivehi Wikipedia and Wiktionary are not webfonts. If possible could the fonts be changed to Faruma which can be downloaded from here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mvishah/ttf-dhivehi-fonts/trunk/view/head:/ttf-thaana-fonts/faruma.ttf . Originally this issue was raised at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Ed Sanders joins Wikimedia as Visual Editor Software Engineer

2013-02-12 Thread Platonides
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Corporate needs are different (RE: How can we help Corporations use MW?)

2013-02-12 Thread Platonides
On 12/02/13 06:26, Brian Wolff wrote: For subpages to really fill this use case I think the page title would have to show only (or primarily emphasize) the subpage name instead of the full page name. I think it has been brought up in the past, there may be an extension doing that. Also it

Re: [Wikitech-l] deployment of the first phase of Wikidata on enwp

2013-02-12 Thread Lydia Pintscher
2013/2/11 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de: Heya :) We tried to deploy phase 1 on enwp today but ran into issues. We'll have to reschedule. Currently it looks like we'll do this on Wednesday. Sorry folks. We'll do another attempt later today (probably around 17:00 UTC). Cheers

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Gerrit] API PageSet allows generator for non-query modules - change (mediawiki/core[master])

2013-02-12 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 06/02/13 23:48, Tyler Romeo wrote: snip The only mistake it can lead to is if there's a typo in a variable name, but in cases like this: There are a few more possible such as 0 or 0 being considered empty. And as you said, that hide the fact a variable is not defined, that is sometime

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stable PHP API for MediaWiki ?

2013-02-12 Thread Maria Miteva
Hi everyone, I guess it is a little difficult for me to describe what I mean since I am just rephrasing what I've heard from others. I am still waiting for some more specific examples. However, I think most people are facing the kind of problems which Daniel has so well described in his post to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stable PHP API for MediaWiki ?

2013-02-12 Thread Mariya Nedelcheva Miteva
By the way, Daniel, have you had similar problems with your next upgrades? Maybe things have indeed improved since your post about 1.18 Mariya On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Maria Miteva mariya.mit...@gmail.comwrote: Hi everyone, I guess it is a little difficult for me to describe what I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stable PHP API for MediaWiki ?

2013-02-12 Thread vitalif
I understand from your comments that keeping things stable and preserving compatibiliy HAS been a priority for core developers at least since Daniel's email. Is this really the case? If this is the case, it makes me wonder why I hear some complaints about it. Mariya, but did you hear that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stable PHP API for MediaWiki ?

2013-02-12 Thread Daniel Barrett
We had quite a bit of difficulty moving from 1.18 to 1.20 because of mysterious JavaScript timing issues in WikiEditor. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MediaWiki_vendors#WikiEditor_toolbars.2C_JavaScript_dependencies.2C_and_asynchronous_behavior_22765 On the PHP side, some protected variables

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

2013-02-12 Thread Daniel Barrett
I wished for: 1. A desire for a department to have their own space on the wiki. S Page asked: I assume you looked at enabling subpages in the main namespace?[1] That way Human Resources/Payroll/Show_me_the_money gets a nice breadcrumb up to Payroll and Human Resources landing pages.

[Wikitech-l] Bugzilla use by development teams

2013-02-12 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi, recently I've collected info on the usage of Bugzilla by Wikimedia's development teams, listing each team's * Bugzilla components (projects), * bug tracking and development planning tools, * criticism and wishes about Bugzilla specifically, * use of Bugzilla's Priority field. There are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Font at dv.wikipedia and dv.wiktionary

2013-02-12 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I have been looking at the font.. The one thing that is important and I cannot find is an indication of the license. When the font is available under a free license, it will be relatively easy to get it and possibly other fonts as well included as a web font in MediaWiki. Thanks, GerardM

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

2013-02-12 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 02/11/2013 11:25 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote: Imagine if Wikipedia had a separate wiki for every city in the world. The same problem would result. I find it is easier to imagine what would happen if each language had a separate Wikipedia. We would end up with slightly different facts

Re: [Wikitech-l] Font at dv.wikipedia and dv.wiktionary

2013-02-12 Thread Paul Selitskas
These fonts seem to be packaged in a .deb-pack. http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mvishah/ttf-dhivehi-fonts/trunk/view/head:/debian/copyright On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, I have been looking at the font.. The one thing that is important and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Font at dv.wikipedia and dv.wiktionary

2013-02-12 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 02/12/2013 03:56 AM, oәuɐႡɔsʇnәp nɐႡsn wrote: Hello. The fonts at Dhivehi Wikipedia and Wiktionary are not webfonts. If possible could the fonts be changed to Faruma which can be downloaded from here:

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

2013-02-12 Thread Diederik van Liere
It does still seem to me that the data to determine secondary api requests should already be present in the existing log line. If the value of the page param in an action=mobileview api request matches the page in the referrer (perhaps with normalization), it's a secondary request as per case

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: Ed Sanders joins Wikimedia as Visual Editor Software Engineer

2013-02-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 02/11/2013 08:58 PM, Terry Chay wrote: Everyone, I'm delighted to announce that Ed Sanders has joined the VisualEditor[0] team as a software engineer from today. He will be focussed on the data structures and APIs inside the VisualEditor, and in particular its data model component. Ed

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: Ed Sanders joins Wikimedia as Visual Editor Software Engineer

2013-02-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 02/12/2013 12:23 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: On 02/11/2013 08:58 PM, Terry Chay wrote: Everyone, I'm delighted to announce that Ed Sanders has joined the VisualEditor[0] team as a software engineer from today. He will be focussed on the data structures and APIs inside the

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

2013-02-12 Thread Asher Feldman
On Tuesday, February 12, 2013, Diederik van Liere wrote: It does still seem to me that the data to determine secondary api requests should already be present in the existing log line. If the value of the page param in an action=mobileview api request matches the page in the referrer

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: Ed Sanders joins Wikimedia as Visual Editor Software Engineer

2013-02-12 Thread bawolff
s/11/9/ *Sumana slinks off quietly* -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation 9 is still an extremely impressive number. When did sysops get introduced? I have a feeling that 11 years ago there was no such thing. Welcome Ed! --bawolff

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: Ed Sanders joins Wikimedia as Visual Editor Software Engineer

2013-02-12 Thread James Forrester
On 12 February 2013 09:59, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote: 9 is still an extremely impressive number. When did sysops get introduced? I have a feeling that 11 years ago there was no such thing. I believe that our first sysops (i.e. accounts with some special status) were in 2002; before

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

2013-02-12 Thread Matthew Walker
I am liking the new UI features. However -- I notice that I seem to have lost +2 rights to mediawiki/core. Are we rolling back the policy that all foundation developers have +2? ~Matt Walker On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:49 PM,

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

2013-02-12 Thread Chad
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am liking the new UI features. However -- I notice that I seem to have lost +2 rights to mediawiki/core. Are we rolling back the policy that all foundation developers have +2? No, this should not have changed...

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

2013-02-12 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
Are you logged in? Everyone got logged out apparently, and this bit me at first, too. -- Matma Rex ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2013-02-12 Thread Matthew Walker
Yep. Logged in as mwal...@wikimedia.org. It's odd because I still have +2 on the fundraising repos. Maybe the ACL computation changed and I'm not in some group that I should have been in? ~Matt Walker On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.comwrote: Are you

Re: [Wikitech-l] deployment of the first phase of Wikidata on enwp

2013-02-12 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Hey, There were unfortunately too many other issues unrelated to Wikidata so we also had to call off this one. Sorry. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin

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

2013-02-12 Thread Merlijn van Deen
Hi Chad, On 12 February 2013 03:33, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Took a few minutes longer than expected, but we're back up and everything's live. We had to deploy a newer version to grab one last fix we spotted during the upgrade. Our deployed version is now 2.5.1-1266-gcc231e1.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Font at dv.wikipedia and dv.wiktionary

2013-02-12 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Nevermind, I didn't read the initial post of this thread (which had been cut out). It sounds like you're looking for a font that can be distributed with Mediawiki as a webfont, in which case it does need to be free license. Ryan Kaldari On 2/12/13 8:49 AM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: On

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

2013-02-12 Thread Chad
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Merlijn van Deen valhall...@arctus.nl wrote: Hi Chad, On 12 February 2013 03:33, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Took a few minutes longer than expected, but we're back up and everything's live. We had to deploy a newer version to grab one last fix we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Font at dv.wikipedia and dv.wiktionary

2013-02-12 Thread Ryan Kaldari
We don't have to limit ourselves to free license fonts for what we use on our own servers. We only have to limit ourselves to free license fonts for what we distribute with our software. Of course, we should always try to support free license fonts when they are available, but there is no

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

2013-02-12 Thread Tyler Romeo
Some other new features I've noticed that haven't been listed: * Showing who has the ability to vote in each category (easily identify project owners). * Switch patchsets while in diff view. * Changes show if they need to be rebased. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of

[Wikitech-l] Belated welcome to Christian Aistleitner

2013-02-12 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi everyone, I'd like to give an extremely belated welcome to Christian Aistleitner. Christian is working as a contractor for Wikimedia Foundation specializing in Gerrit work, who started working with us in mid-January. Christian was very helpful in getting the Gerrit 2.6pre upgrade to happen,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Belated welcome to Christian Aistleitner

2013-02-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 02/12/2013 05:38 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: Hi everyone, I'd like to give an extremely belated welcome to Christian Aistleitner. Christian is working as a contractor for Wikimedia Foundation specializing in Gerrit work, who started working with us in mid-January. Christian was very helpful

[Wikitech-l] Extensions and LTS

2013-02-12 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 02/12/2013 08:14 AM, Maria Miteva wrote: On a brighter note, I heard that the LTS version 1.19 was the best thing that happened since sliced bread :) This makes me very happy. I'm going to start paying close attention to people who have problems upgrading from 1.19 over the next couple of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extensions and LTS

2013-02-12 Thread David Gerard
On 12 February 2013 23:48, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote: I'm going to start paying close attention to people who have problems upgrading from 1.19 over the next couple of years so that when we hit the next LTS (1.25) in 2015, we'll have fewer issues for the people moving from

Re: [Wikitech-l] Font at dv.wikipedia and dv.wiktionary

2013-02-12 Thread M. Williamson
Doesn't MOSS stand for Maldives Open Source Society? I can't find a lot of info on them as they don't seem to be active online at the moment, but I did find this: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-core-marketing/2009-June/00.html Maybe someone could e-mail the author of that message

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extensions and LTS

2013-02-12 Thread Niklas Laxström
On 13 February 2013 01:48, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote: I'm going to start paying close attention to people who have problems upgrading from 1.19 over the next couple of years so that when we hit the next LTS (1.25) in 2015, we'll have fewer issues for the people moving from