[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 ___

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

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 underway on a

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 one)

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 on my

[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

[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 +

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 bjor...@wikimedia.org 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

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 tylerro...@gmail.com 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

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] =

[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