Re: [Wikitech-l] Project ideas for GSOC'13

2013-03-17 Thread anubhav agarwal
Hey Quim, Can we chat on IRC ? On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Quim Gil wrote: > On 03/17/2013 11:25 PM, anubhav agarwal wrote: > >> Hey Quim >> >> Can we add the projects after Mediawiki gets selected as an GSoC mentoring >> organization? >> > > Yes, or you can start drafting now e.g. in a p

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project ideas for GSOC'13

2013-03-17 Thread Quim Gil
On 03/17/2013 11:25 PM, anubhav agarwal wrote: Hey Quim Can we add the projects after Mediawiki gets selected as an GSoC mentoring organization? Yes, or you can start drafting now e.g. in a page under your user page, linking it from your entry at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_

[Wikitech-l] Flagged revs and Lua modules

2013-03-17 Thread Bináris
Hi, I don't know if there is a bugreport on this, forgive me if I duplicate. Hungarian Wikipedia began to use Scribunto in the first batch, and we also use Flagged Revisions. This is a page: http://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abe_Sinz%C3%B3&action=history where the editors were all trusted

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project ideas for GSOC'13

2013-03-17 Thread anubhav agarwal
Hey Quim Can we add the projects after Mediawiki gets selected as an GSoC mentoring organization? On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Quim Gil wrote: > We need to work in our application for Google Summer of Code 2013. > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**Summer_of_Code_2013

[Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-03-17 Thread reporter
MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for March 11, 2013 - March 18, 2013 Status changes this week Reports changed/set to UNCONFIRMED: 56 Reports changed/set to NEW: 657 Reports changed/set to ASSIGNED : 131

Re: [Wikitech-l] MySimpleCertViewer, a simple certificate viewer written in PHP

2013-03-17 Thread Thomas Gries
> https://github.com/Wikinaut/MySimpleCertViewer > > With Tyler's help, thanks again, it + doesn't shell out any longer + uses PHP streams + becomes a function getCertificateInfo() which returns an array You'll like it |[x-server] => www.google.org [x-port] => 443 [x-retrieval-time]

Re: [Wikitech-l] Provisional API extension for CAPTCHA on action=createaccount

2013-03-17 Thread Yuvi Panda
On Mar 18, 2013 12:52 AM, "Tyler Romeo" wrote: > If we return just an HTML blob, then we are enforcing that the client > application show the user exactly that output. If we output > machine-readable information, then the client can render the CAPTCHA > however it wants. Which is fine, I guess? M

Re: [Wikitech-l] Provisional API extension for CAPTCHA on action=createaccount

2013-03-17 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Brad Jorsch wrote: > This is also a captcha we're talking about. Its primary purpose is to > prevent non-human interaction. > I know, but think about it this way: why would an API need to login using CAPTCHA? Because it's going to render that CAPTCHA to the user,

[Wikitech-l] The Google RSS "issue" and our MediaWiki alternatives: Extension:WikiArticleFeeds (authoring feeds) and E:RSS (rendering feeds)

2013-03-17 Thread Thomas Gries
Perhaps you've read that Google will drop their RSS services and also RSS chrome extension. I want to inform you about how MediaWiki can help. + https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS consume RSS feeds from elsewhere and render them one or more MW wiki pages + https://www.mediawiki.org/wik

[Wikitech-l] Asking For Introduction on Information Security

2013-03-17 Thread 徐中强
Hello, Thanks for your assistance. I'm checking out the pages you listed. If possible, I also would like to know something about your security regulations and rules applying to the internal, like what the staff is forbidden to do in order to ensure the security of information systems? What softwar

Re: [Wikitech-l] Asking For Introduction on Information Security

2013-03-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/16/2013 02:02 PM, 徐中强 wrote: > Hello, > > > I'm a undergraduate in China. I would like to learn about some detailed > information about your organization's information security methods and > regulations, because I want to use Wikimedia as an example and introduce > its security regulations

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/13/2013 12:15 AM, Antoine Musso wrote: > Le 13/03/13 04:07, K. Peachey wrote: >> That wouldn't be a bad project for GSoC as it isn't too large so it means >> we could actually see some results, And if it was too small, The student >> could probably do a couple of smaller projects (it being on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Identifying pages that are slow to render

2013-03-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/07/2013 03:02 PM, Antoine Musso wrote: > Le 06/03/13 22:05, Robert Rohde a écrit : >> On enwiki we've already made Lua conversions with most of the string >> templates, several formatting templates (e.g. {{rnd}}, {{precision}}), >> {{coord}}, and a number of others. And there is work underwa

Re: [Wikitech-l] serial programming using termios

2013-03-17 Thread Petr Onderka
This list is about "the technical organization of the Wikimedia projects." That includes MediaWiki programming and related things, but certainly not general Unix IO programming. And the fact that a page on a Wikimedia wiki talks about it doesn't change anything about that. So I'm afraid you will

[Wikitech-l] serial programming using termios

2013-03-17 Thread Ted Reynard
Hi guys Does anybody know about serial programming using termios? I found this link in wikibook : http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Serial_Programming/termios I have some questions. Please let me know if anybody has ever worked with termios. Thanks ___ Wiki