[Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-07-21 Thread reporter
MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for July 15, 2013 - July 22, 2013 Status changes this week Reports changed/set to UNCONFIRMED: 3 Reports changed/set to NEW: 17 Reports changed/set to ASSIGNED : 69 Reports

Re: [Wikitech-l] Long term strategy for math on wikipedia

2013-07-21 Thread Peter Krautzberger
I'm wondering if the lack of reactions so far is positive or negative. So let me try to elicit more responses. Here are three problems I see down the road. 1) A switch to MathML output will come with a performance loss. Without a polyfill, rendering quality will be lost. With a polyfill, renderi

Re: [Wikitech-l] ContentHandler hook deprecations

2013-07-21 Thread Tim Starling
No, absolutely not. Do not remove something just because it has been deprecated for two major versions. -- Tim Starling On 22/07/13 09:35, K. Peachey wrote: > Didn't we just decide on a deprecation setup a few months ago? Marked for > two majors then removed iirc > > On Monday, July 22, 2013, Ma

Re: [Wikitech-l] ContentHandler hook deprecations

2013-07-21 Thread K. Peachey
Didn't we just decide on a deprecation setup a few months ago? Marked for two majors then removed iirc On Monday, July 22, 2013, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > I just noticed that ContentHandler has understandably deprecated several > hooks. > > However, not all the hooks have been updated as depre

Re: [Wikitech-l] Alternative editor?

2013-07-21 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Derric Atzrott wrote: > Are there any extensions that make use of this hook? Does > VisualEditor? No, VisualEditor doesn't use this hook. Instead, it uses JavaScript to insert edit links and/or modify existing ones. The editor itself is also entirely JavaScript-ba

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki extensions as core-like libraries: MediaWiki's fun new landmine for admins

2013-07-21 Thread Ryan Lane
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: > What started this thread was Ryan having problems with installing Wikibase. > And I can see why this would not be all that smooth. The components you > need is probably not the biggest hassle. After all, you just need to do 4 > git clones in

[Wikitech-l] ContentHandler hook deprecations

2013-07-21 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
I just noticed that ContentHandler has understandably deprecated several hooks. However, not all the hooks have been updated as deprecated on the mw.o. Some of their replacements aren't even documented on mw.o. Worse, there isn't any schedule for how long the legacy hooks are going to be support

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki extensions as core-like libraries: MediaWiki's fun new landmine for admins

2013-07-21 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, It's great that modules > like Diff have good beady eyes on code quality and portability, long may > that continue. That is *definitely* the exception, not the rule, with > extensions. > The point is that MediaWiki is *much* more likely to be able > to police and maintain that proper signat

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki extensions as core-like libraries: MediaWiki's fun new landmine for admins

2013-07-21 Thread Happy Melon
On 21 July 2013 11:30, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: > Hey, > > > > you're adding in a whole new set of incompatibilities. > > > > > > How so? > > > > > > > > Extensions that use any of these extension libaries now depend on the > > version of MediaWiki and the version of the extension. That's a new set

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git Proxy Error

2013-07-21 Thread K. Peachey
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[Wikitech-l] Git Proxy Error

2013-07-21 Thread planetenxin
Hi folks, I'm constantly getting the following error on https://git.wikimedia.org/: Proxy Error The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request GET /. Reason: Error reading from remote server /Alexander

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki extensions as core-like libraries: MediaWiki's fun new landmine for admins

2013-07-21 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, > > you're adding in a whole new set of incompatibilities. > > > > How so? > > > > > Extensions that use any of these extension libaries now depend on the > version of MediaWiki and the version of the extension. That's a new set of > dependencies that can be incompatible now. > It adds a com

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikidata-tech] Incorrect language code?

2013-07-21 Thread Paul Selitskas
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41723 On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Hazard-SJ wrote: > Just to add to this, this issue also exists for other pairs of codes > (als/gsw, bat-smg/sgs, and probably more). > > > > Hazard-SJ > > > > > From: Hazard-S

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikidata-tech] Incorrect language code?

2013-07-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, It is well known that Wikipedia uses incorrect codes as language codes. You ask about Norwegian, no and Bokmal nb. There are two language Wikipedias for Norwegian, one in Nynorsk the other Bokmal. Both nn nb and no are valid codes as to the ISO-639-2. These codes should NOT be used for anythi