Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment highlights - week of April 8th

2013-04-06 Thread legoktm
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 April 2013 22:24, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 April 2013 19:07, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: On

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment highlights - week of April 8th

2013-04-06 Thread Robert Rohde
Risker, You are right that it will undoubtedly get used as soon as it is available, and it is unfortunate that it will presumably get deployed without any agreement having been reached on wiki about how it should be used. However, when it comes to an area like infoboxes, I think a lot of

[Wikitech-l] Socializing changes

2013-04-06 Thread MZMcBride
Risker wrote: Lydia, could you please point me to the discussion on *English Wikipedia* where the community indicated an interest in deploying this software? Infoboxes and sourcing to another website completely outside the control of English Wikipedia is a rather big issue, and I would expect to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Socializing changes

2013-04-06 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 5:28 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Risker wrote: Lydia, could you please point me to the discussion on *English Wikipedia* where the community indicated an interest in deploying this software? Infoboxes and sourcing to another website completely outside the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Socializing changes

2013-04-06 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: I think the issue we're seeing here is that changes, particularly large changes, often aren't socialized well. I mention socialization of features as I'm not sure all of the context is apparent here. There are brooding factions on the English Wikipedia over infoboxes, apparently.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Socializing changes

2013-04-06 Thread legoktm
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 10:28 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Risker wrote: Lydia, could you please point me to the discussion on *English Wikipedia* where the community indicated an interest in deploying this software? Infoboxes and sourcing to another website completely outside the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: Wikitech contributors

2013-04-06 Thread Lars Aronsson
On 04/03/2013 04:19 PM, Quim Gil wrote: Sure, but following this argument we could just have dev.wikipedia.org, right? All of the wikitech, wikimediafoundation, outrech and other wikis together have fewer articles than the English Wikipedia. All could fit on meta.wikimedia.org. Unfortunately

Re: [Wikitech-l] Socializing changes

2013-04-06 Thread Eran Rosenthal
In hewiki we had a discussion in village pump before phase II deployment and there is a simple bureaucratic policy for converting templates to use the new {{#property}} feature: a discussion in Wikipedia:Village pump/templates for each template conversion before actually adding {{#property}} for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Socializing changes

2013-04-06 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Eran Rosenthal eranro...@gmail.com wrote: In hewiki we had a discussion in village pump before phase II deployment and there is a simple bureaucratic policy for converting templates to use the new {{#property}} feature: a discussion in Wikipedia:Village

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Iconathon Remote Participation

2013-04-06 Thread Munaf Assaf
Hello all, You can watch the iconathon here: http://youtu.be/sei9SeoObJA If you would like to participate in the hangout, please email me, Pau Giner (pgi...@wikimedia.org) or Vibha Bamba (vba...@wikimedia.org). Thanks! Munaf ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Saturday: Weekend Testing Americas focusing on the new Account creation UX

2013-04-06 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
Is anybody watching the bugs filed via this? I've already wontfixed four myself... -- Matma Rex ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removing the Hooks class

2013-04-06 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 04/04/13 17:28, Max Semenik a écrit : Yeah, but what if you need more than one global function? ;) I would write a small class having static functions. -- Antoine hashar Musso ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removing the Hooks class

2013-04-06 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 06:45:52 -0700, vita...@yourcmc.ru wrote: You can't cache program state and loaded code like that in PHP. We explicitly have to abuse the autoloader and develop other patterns to avoid loading unused portions of code because if we don't our initialization is unreasonably

Re: [Wikitech-l] Saturday: Weekend Testing Americas focusing on the new Account creation UX

2013-04-06 Thread Quim Gil
On 04/06/2013 11:58 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: Is anybody watching the bugs filed via this? I've already wontfixed four myself... Yes, we are. Don't worry, let the testing activity finish and the team, QA and bugmeister will look at them. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.21.0rc1 -- Help test 1.21 and update the announcement

2013-04-06 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 04/05/2013 03:01 PM, Isabel Gancedo wrote: Everything seems to be working fine; jobs run a maximum warp and the queue is becoming tiny. Excellent. I see this line in the New features list from the Release notes: The Job system was refactored to allow for different backing stores for

[Wikitech-l] Mentor Wanted For GSOC Project wanted

2013-04-06 Thread Rahul Maliakkal
*I got the idea of this extension via the mailing list itself *I plan on implementing a *pronunciation recording extension* ***More Details can be found out on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rahul21/Gsoc *You Could Contact me on the IRC(Rahul_21) or email me back. Thank You Rahul Maliakkal

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment highlights - week of April 8th

2013-04-06 Thread Denny Vrandečić
I fully agree with Robert and Phoebe in this matter. Wikidata is an option. Requiring first to come up with rules on how to use Wikidata before it is switched on simply won't work, because there is not sufficient interest and experience for this discussion. Or, put differently, the Wikidata

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] French homeland intelligence threatens a volunteer sysop to delete a Wikipedia Article

2013-04-06 Thread Jay Ashworth
In case y'all missed this: - Forwarded Message - From: PRIVACY Forum mailing list priv...@vortex.com To: privacy-l...@vortex.com Sent: Saturday, April 6, 2013 3:10:01 PM Subject: [ PRIVACY Forum ] French homeland intelligence threatens a volunteer sysop to delete a Wikipedia Article

Re: [Wikitech-l] Socializing changes

2013-04-06 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
By the way, it would be lovely not to call communication like nationalization... sometimes I see people coming to communities saying they're socializing something and it feels weird. ;-) (Especially as it's false good news.) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/socialize (transitive) To

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] French homeland intelligence threatens a volunteer sysop to delete a Wikipedia Article

2013-04-06 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Apr 6, 2013 9:05 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: In case y'all missed this: Subject: [ PRIVACY Forum ] French homeland intelligence threatens a volunteer sysop to delete a Wikipedia Article French homeland intelligence threatens a volunteer sysop to delete a Wikipedia Article