Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP 5.4 (we wish)

2013-06-24 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 22/06/13 00:58, Platonides a écrit : Le 21/06/13 21:03, Antoine Musso a écrit: If you want a playground, we could get both backported packages on the beta cluster (labs project: deployment-prep). That might help catch some potential issues. I have no idea how we could get different

[Wikitech-l] Semantic MediaWiki at the Danish National Library

2013-06-24 Thread Ori Livneh
A nice post about using Semantic MediaWiki as an Enterprise Architecture Repository (or EAR) at the Danish National Library: http://www.josefassad.com/enterprise_architecture_repository_with_semantic_mediawiki The author is currently on #mediawiki (as Josef-ddb). He seems to think that EAR is a

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP 5.4 (we wish)

2013-06-24 Thread Merlijn van Deen
On 22 June 2013 00:58, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Just the same way you could be using debian stable plus a few packets from debian testing. It's dpkg Another option is to have multiple repositories (say: stable and testing) in your sources.list, and using pinning:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Semantic MediaWiki at the Danish National Library

2013-06-24 Thread Yury Katkov
Great use case! I've already invited the author to SMWCon conference, hopefully he'll be able to attend and we'll have a video with further explanation. Honestly, it's the first time I hear about EAR and Zachman Framework. Isn't that just an enterprise documenting system or does it have any

Re: [Wikitech-l] Semantic MediaWiki at the Danish National Library

2013-06-24 Thread Josef Assad
Ori Livneh ori at wikimedia.org writes: A nice post about using Semantic MediaWiki as an Enterprise Architecture Repository (or EAR) at the Danish National Library: http://www.josefassad.com/enterprise_architecture_repository_with_semantic_mediawiki Danes Digital Libraries (Danskernes

Re: [Wikitech-l] Semantic MediaWiki at the Danish National Library

2013-06-24 Thread Yury Katkov
Nice to see you here, Josef! Do you have any plans to provide your EAR to the companies as business solution or part of the consulting service? If so, there is now a list of companies that create their software packages based on MW here, don't hesitate to add yourself here:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Semantic MediaWiki at the Danish National Library

2013-06-24 Thread Josef Assad
We're a public sector organisation, so no we don't have plans along those lines. As the linked blog post suggests, we're happy being as open as possible concerning how we're EAR-ifying SMW. So having a public instance illustrating the SMW structuring and use patterns should help other

Re: [Wikitech-l] Semantic MediaWiki at the Danish National Library

2013-06-24 Thread Yury Katkov
That's even more awesome! Have you modified\extended SMW or other Semantic extensions during your system building? Is there any new code to share? - Yury Katkov, WikiVote On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Josef Assad j...@kulturstyrelsen.dk wrote: We're a public sector organisation, so no

Re: [Wikitech-l] Semantic MediaWiki at the Danish National Library

2013-06-24 Thread Josef Assad
Right now, absolutely nothing hand-made beyond having the right properties/categories/templates/forms in SMW. We're actively trying to avoid deep changes. Part of the reason is to improve system sustainability. Another part is, we're not php programmers. :) The enterprise architecture we're

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Bugzilla admins

2013-06-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I've linked the new policy from [[mw:Bugzilla]]. (In general, some sort of announcement when policies are enacted would be nice.) I didn't remember hearing of any such new policy coming and the only mention of rights removal was James_F on IRC saying he no longer was admin but was still able to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-06-24 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
I like the new report, but could we put the summary on the next line and shorten the assignee to only the bit before [AT]? The current line length is 125 characters. It would be nice to keep it to 75 at the most. On 06/23/2013 11:00 PM, reporter wrote: Product | Component | BugID |

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Bugzilla admins

2013-06-24 Thread Andre Klapper
Trying to reply to this thread in one message: On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 22:33 +0100, Alex Monk wrote: I've just found out that WMF's Bugmeister Andre Klapper removed nearly everyone's Bugzilla adminship Thanks for everybody's comments, and especially Sumana for quickly summarizing the situation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-06-24 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 03:00 +, reporter wrote: MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for June 17, 2013 - June 24, 2013 FYI, two small improvements here, compared to last week: Created reports per component VisualEditor Editing Tools 42

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Bugzilla admins

2013-06-24 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: [...] Version 4.2 of Bugzilla that we run now finally creates a log of taxonomy changes. It is planned to set up a cronjob to regularly inform me (and other admins interested) of changes that took place [6], as another backup source of information

[Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Sean Pringle, our latest TechOps member

2013-06-24 Thread Ct Woo
Hi All, The Technical Operations team is pleased to announce Sean Pringle joined us today ( 24th June, 2013). Among his duties, Sean will be attending to all aspects of the database layer including management, monitoring, design, capacity, performance, and troubleshooting. Sean comes with vast

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Sean Pringle, our latest TechOps member

2013-06-24 Thread Asher Feldman
Welcome, Sean! It's great to have you on board. On Monday, June 24, 2013, Ct Woo wrote: Hi All, The Technical Operations team is pleased to announce Sean Pringle joined us today ( 24th June, 2013). Among his duties, Sean will be attending to all aspects of the database layer including

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Sean Pringle, our latest TechOps member

2013-06-24 Thread Ken Snider
Welcome to the team, Sean! :) --Ken. On 2013-06-24, at 11:17 AM, Ct Woo ct...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi All, The Technical Operations team is pleased to announce Sean Pringle joined us today ( 24th June, 2013). Among his duties, Sean will be attending to all aspects of the database layer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Sean Pringle, our latest TechOps member

2013-06-24 Thread Tyler Romeo
Welcome! *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Ken Snider ksni...@wikimedia.org wrote: Welcome to the team, Sean! :) --Ken. On 2013-06-24, at 11:17 AM, Ct

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Sean Pringle, our latest TechOps member

2013-06-24 Thread Ryan Lane
Welcome Sean! On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Ct Woo ct...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi All, The Technical Operations team is pleased to announce Sean Pringle joined us today ( 24th June, 2013). Among his duties, Sean will be attending to all aspects of the database layer including management,

[Wikitech-l] Volunteer access to security bugs

2013-06-24 Thread Chris Steipp
I'm supposed to help write a blog post on this at some point, but I wanted to follow Tyler's comment and say that from my perspective, and a few other people in the WMF, I'd like to see several more volunteers in the security process. We need more people doing design reviews, secure code reviews,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Sean Pringle, our latest TechOps member

2013-06-24 Thread Peter Youngmeister
welcome, sean! very very glad you're joining us! :) --peter On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: Welcome Sean! On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Ct Woo ct...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi All, The Technical Operations team is pleased to announce Sean Pringle

[Wikitech-l] Release Management RFP Update - Official Announcement Delay

2013-06-24 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Hello all, Due to the US holiday next week (Independence Day, July 4th) on Thursday, we have decided to delay the RFP selection announcement by one week. You can now expect to hear something the week of July 8th. The end of the community feedback period is still the same (this Wednesday, June

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Fwd: Number crunching: Upload errors on mobile

2013-06-24 Thread Arthur Richards
Nice work! Resolving the bad filename issue should get us down to a much more acceptable error rate. On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Update on error numbers: 111 errors since we pushed the fix on Tuesday 2pm to avoid anonymous token problems. Things

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Videos on mobile

2013-06-24 Thread Arthur Richards
+wikitech-l This sounds like something that might be good for the newly forming multimedia team to work on. As Yuvi pointed out (off the wikitech-l list): There are also unresolved codec issues with playing videos (no H264 support), so even if we do enable video playback it'll not be available

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Fwd: Number crunching: Upload errors on mobile

2013-06-24 Thread Jon Robson
Update: I did some more exploring and discovered that very long filenames can cause the bad filename issue. I've added a margin of error to our file length chooser algorithm: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/70223/ Whilst there I also added protection against uploading of bad file types,

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Deployment Highlights - Week of June 17th

2013-06-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/49604 was fixed, so those who newbies to be helped can do so from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=500tagfilter=visualeditortitle=Special%3AContributionscontribs=newbietarget=namespace=8nsInvert=1tagfilter=visualeditoryear=2013month=-1 Nemo

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Videos on mobile

2013-06-24 Thread Arthur Richards
+wikitech-l On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, when mobile WP was in its childhood, it was decided that we're not ready to display videos on our pages, so they were stripped.

[Wikitech-l] Request for comment on the book management extension (GSoC)

2013-06-24 Thread Gorilla Warfare
Hello! I'm working on the Improve support for book structures Google Summer of Code project (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Book_management) and have just created a request for comment on the extension and its design (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Book_management). I would

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Videos on mobile

2013-06-24 Thread Brian Wolff
In regards to unresolved codec issues, that is more a political/legal than a technical issues. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OggHandler We haven't been using OggHandler for quite some time now (Since November 2012). We now use TimedMediaHandler extension. -bawolff On 6/24/13,

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Deployment Highlights - Week of June 17th

2013-06-24 Thread Steven Walling
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Nicolas Vervelle nverve...@gmail.comwrote: I tried VE a few times, and clearly think it's not yet in a situation where it could be rolled out to unexperienced users : * VE is still very limited in what you can do with it (no templates, no references, ...).

[Wikitech-l] Call for Comments: Wikipedia Zero Architecture Enhancements

2013-06-24 Thread Adam Baso
I posted a message on 10-June-2013 and Yuri followed up with one last week. But in case anyone missed it, a Wikipedia Zero RFC for use of Edge Side Includes (ESI) and, where appropriate, JavaScript is posted at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Sean Pringle, our latest TechOps member

2013-06-24 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 06/24/2013 08:17 AM, Ct Woo wrote: Hi All, The Technical Operations team is pleased to announce Sean Pringle joined us today ( 24th June, 2013). Among his duties, Sean will be attending to all aspects of the database layer including management, monitoring, design, capacity, performance,

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Deployment Highlights - Week of June 17th

2013-06-24 Thread Nicolas Vervelle
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Nicolas Vervelle nverve...@gmail.com wrote: I tried VE a few times, and clearly think it's not yet in a situation where it could be rolled out to unexperienced users : * VE

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Bugzilla admins

2013-06-24 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi Tim, On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 15:14 +, Tim Landscheidt wrote: Perhaps we could dump the taxonomy regularly to a wiki? Then non-admins could watch that page and keep themselves informed as well. Could you file an enhancement request in bugzilla.wikimedia.org under Wikimedia Bugzilla so we

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Videos on mobile

2013-06-24 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote: This sounds like something that might be good for the newly forming multimedia team to work on This is in the purview new multimedia team that Fabrice will be PM'ing (CC'ing him). I spoke with him today and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-06-24 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi Mark, On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 09:58 -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: I like the new report, but could we put the summary on the next line and shorten the assignee to only the bit before [AT]? The current line length is 125 characters. It would be nice to keep it to 75 at the most.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Semantic MediaWiki at the Danish National Library

2013-06-24 Thread S Page
I like Josef Assad's explanation of SMW in place of the big load of do-not-care on its Wikipedia page : Semantic Mediawiki allows you to attach properties to wiki pages. And to query the pages based on these properties. It doesn't quite capture the elephant (e.g. you add these properties