Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical Writer - Contract - 3 Months (+)

2013-11-14 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 11/13/2013 01:22 PM, Quim Gil wrote: Wikimedia's Engineering Community team is responsible for developing clear documentation for MediaWiki. All of our documentation is written collaboratively in wiki pages, involving all kinds of profiles, from WMF professional developers to anonymous users.

Re: [Wikitech-l] jQuery UI may not be loaded by default on your wiki

2013-11-14 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 10/31/2013 01:14 AM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: // Load jquery.ui.button so button styles work in wikitext mw.loader.using( 'jquery.ui.button' ); Commons is now doing this conditionally, only if the CSS class is present on the page (or specifically the HTML from wikipage.content). See

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-implementing PDF support

2013-11-14 Thread Strainu
Thanks Brad, I'm wondering if it wouldn't make sense to have a dedicated bugday at the end of the sprint? Strainu 2013/11/13 Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org: Note these are my own thoughts and not anything representative of the team. On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Strainu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-implementing PDF support

2013-11-14 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Let's see what sorts of bugs crop up? In my (limited) experience, the most common issues are probably article content which renders poorly as a PDF for some reason. Those bugs aren't easy to fix in a bug day sprint, since they tend to crop up slowly over time as people use the service and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architectural leadership in Wikimedia's technical community

2013-11-14 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 08/11/13 03:40, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Basically, every major piece of WP should have a module owner. [...] Certain people 'own' larger collections of modules -- like there are subsystem owners in the linux

Re: [Wikitech-l] Operations buy in on Architecture of mwlib Replacement

2013-11-14 Thread C. Scott Ananian
And I'll add that there's another axis: gwicke (and others?) have been arguing for a broader collection of services architecture for mw. This would decouple some of the installability issues. Even if PDF rendering (say) was a huge monster, Jimmy MediaWiki might still be able to simply install

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architectural leadership in Wikimedia's technical community

2013-11-14 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.orgwrote: My concern with this kind of maintainer model is that RFC review would tend to be narrower -- a consensus of members of a single WMF team rather than a consensus of all relevant experts. I'd also like to point out

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-11-14 Thread Quim Gil
On 11/13/2013 08:27 AM, Željko Filipin wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: See Top closers and Top openers of all-time, last year and last month at http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/top.html PS: yes, this information should appear at

Re: [Wikitech-l] The interwiki table as a whitelist of non-spammy sites

2013-11-14 Thread Quim Gil
On 11/13/2013 08:49 AM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: On 11/13/2013 05:44 AM, Nathan Larson wrote: TL;DR: How can we collaboratively put together a list of non-spammy sites that wikis may want to add to their interwiki tables for whitelisting purposes; and how can we arrange for the list to be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook Open Academy

2013-11-14 Thread Quim Gil
On 11/13/2013 04:21 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote: MediaWiki participates in a number of student competitions and programs as an open source mentor (such as GSoC, Code-In, etc.). Today I ran into another one: Facebook's Open Academy Program. https://www.facebook.com/OpenAcademyProgram I'm not

Re: [Wikitech-l] The interwiki table as a whitelist of non-spammy sites

2013-11-14 Thread Nathan Larson
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: With my hat of third party wiki admin I personally agree with all this. Another possibility further down in the roadmap: Imagine a World in which you could transclude in your wiki content from a subset of this interwiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook Open Academy

2013-11-14 Thread Mark Holmquist
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 07:21:01PM -0500, Tyler Romeo wrote: MediaWiki participates in a number of student competitions and programs as an open source mentor (such as GSoC, Code-In, etc.). Today I ran into another one: Facebook's Open Academy Program.

Re: [Wikitech-l] The interwiki table as a whitelist of non-spammy sites

2013-11-14 Thread Quim Gil
On 11/14/2013 09:53 AM, Nathan Larson wrote: Is there reason to think that a decentralized system would be likely to evolve, or that it would be optimal? It seems to me that most stuff in the wikisphere is centered around WMF; e.g. people usually borrow templates, the spam blacklist, MediaWiki

[Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Issue

2013-11-14 Thread Derric Atzrott
Just got this when trying to read an article. Not sure if anyone is doing anything, but if you are, you might have broken something. If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request: GET

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Issue

2013-11-14 Thread Derric Atzrott
Just got this when trying to read an article. Not sure if anyone is doing anything, but if you are, you might have broken something. If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request: GET

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Issue

2013-11-14 Thread Nathan Larson
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.com wrote: The issue seems to be confined to Wikipedia. I am not seeing it affect Mediawiki.org Additionally the issue seems to be affecting more than just the English language Wikipedia. The lojban language

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Issue

2013-11-14 Thread Nathan
I get an error, and beneath it there is a message that says Your cache administrator is: nobody Looks like there is a bug on it that's 4 or 5 years old ;) On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Nathan Larson nathanlarson3...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Derric Atzrott

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Issue

2013-11-14 Thread Andre Klapper
On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 13:50 -0500, Derric Atzrott wrote: If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request: GET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_the_Homicidal_Maniac, from 10.64.32.106 via cp1067 cp1067 ([10.64.0.104]:3128),

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Issue

2013-11-14 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks! The Operations team is currently working on it and there likely will be an analysis available at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation afterwards. See also #wikimedia-tech,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Operations buy in on Architecture of mwlib Replacement

2013-11-14 Thread Ryan Lane
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:13 AM, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.orgwrote: And I'll add that there's another axis: gwicke (and others?) have been arguing for a broader collection of services architecture for mw. This would decouple some of the installability issues. Even if PDF rendering

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Issue

2013-11-14 Thread Erik Moeller
We were dealing with cascading site issues due to excessive database queries, and are still investigating the root cause, but site should be recovered by now. -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation ___

[Wikitech-l] Architecture RFC review meetings

2013-11-14 Thread Quim Gil
On 11/06/2013 03:18 PM, Quim Gil wrote: The next RFC review meeting is planned for November 20. Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 10:00 PM UTC at #wikimedia-meetbot https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2013-11-20 There are no RFCs scheduled yet. Seeing how the previous

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Security Release: 1.21.3, 1.20.8 and 1.19.9

2013-11-14 Thread Chris Steipp
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.21.3, 1.20.8 and 1.19.9. These releases fix 2 security related bugs that could affect users of MediaWiki. Download links are given at the end of this email. * Kevin Israel (Wikipedia user PleaseStand) identified and reported two vectors for

[Wikitech-l] Comet

2013-11-14 Thread Lee Worden
In the MW extension development I'm doing, I'm thinking of writing some operations that use [[Comet_(programming)]] to deliver continuous updates to the client, rather than the Ajax pattern of one request, one response. Has anyone messed with this? Any code I should crib from, or advice or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Comet

2013-11-14 Thread Aran
Wouldn't WebSocket be the better choice for a full duplex channel? On 14/11/13 21:12, Lee Worden wrote: In the MW extension development I'm doing, I'm thinking of writing some operations that use [[Comet_(programming)]] to deliver continuous updates to the client, rather than the Ajax pattern

Re: [Wikitech-l] Comet

2013-11-14 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Lee Worden worden@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone messed with this? Any code I should crib from, or advice or cautionary tales? Also, if it develops into something useful, I could split it out for others to use. I have not messed with it personally, but I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Comet

2013-11-14 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 2013-11-14 5:22 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Lee Worden worden@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone messed with this? Any code I should crib from, or advice or cautionary tales? Also, if it develops into something useful, I could split it out for others to use. I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Comet

2013-11-14 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: Basically in the end your best bet is probably to just use something other than PHP for this. The native implementations for both Socket.IO's and SockJS' servers are in Node.JS. So that's probably the best

[Wikitech-l] FOSS OPW Round 7 Featured Project synopsis:Complete the MediaWiki development course at Codeacademy

2013-11-14 Thread Diwanshi Pandey
Hi Everyone, As an applicant of FOSS-OPW Round 7, I took a deep and profound interest in one of the featured projects Complete the MediaWiki development course at Codeacademy. I chosen I am planning to focus and contribute to this project. ***Project Synopsis*** The project is about