Re: [Wikitech-l] A Multimedia Vision for 2016

2014-01-10 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Fabrice, I very much love the two stories described in the vision. It describes not only a functionality that is technical, it also describes how our community may interact. That is great. What I missed are the consequences of the planned integration of Commons with Wikidata. I blogged about

Re: [Wikitech-l] Watchlist and RC refactor, and why you will like it

2014-01-10 Thread Robert Vogel
Hi, Jeroen's suggestions are very interesting to me. There is one thing I don't understand: Why is it a bad idea to provide a hook handler with as much context information as possible? Isn't is better to have context injected to the hook handler than to have the hook handler look for the

Re: [Wikitech-l] 3d Online Geometry Viewer

2014-01-10 Thread David Cuenca
Hi Inderpreet, Welcome and thanks for reaching out, there is definitely the need of a 3d viewer for mediawiki and brl-cad could add some of the needed features. Probably you could contact Bryan Davis, since he offered himself as GsoC mentor for such a project:

Re: [Wikitech-l] npm publish

2014-01-10 Thread Dan Andreescu
I forgot to say thank you! Thanks :) It seems that the npmjs community leans towards individuals registering accounts. So I'll publish under my own username for now. Mostly because I've already registered and I wouldn't have a valid generic wikimedia email address to use besides my own anyway.

Re: [Wikitech-l] npm publish

2014-01-10 Thread C. Scott Ananian
fwiw, i've published mw-ocg-bundler, mw-ocg-latexer, mw-ocg-texter (from the upcoming PDF backend rewrite) under my own credentials as well. npm allows multiple owners of a module, so if WMF ever does decide to establish a generic WMF account for this, we can easily add it. --scott (parsoid

Re: [Wikitech-l] Watchlist and RC refactor, and why you will like it

2014-01-10 Thread Chad
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.comwrote: Hey, Some suggestions regarding code quality and design: * The MediaWiki SpecialPage system has serious design issues and is best treated as legacy API. I recommend not binding domain or application logic to it

Re: [Wikitech-l] npm publish

2014-01-10 Thread Dan Andreescu
(parsoid should also be an npm module at some point. maybe VE should be as well, although 'bower' or another client-side packaging solution might me more appropriate.) I agree. Btw, the passport-mediawiki-oauth module is published and limn is using it. Feel free to report bugs to me but

Re: [Wikitech-l] 3d Online Geometry Viewer

2014-01-10 Thread Quim Gil
On 01/10/2014 04:43 AM, David Cuenca wrote: Hi Inderpreet, Hello Inderpreet, Welcome and thanks for reaching out, there is definitely the need of a 3d viewer for mediawiki and brl-cad could add some of the needed features. Probably you could contact Bryan Davis, since he offered himself as

[Wikitech-l] Deployment and Roadmap highlights - week of January 13th

2014-01-10 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the deployment and roadmap highlights. Full up-to-date schedule, as always, can be found online at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments == Monday January 13th == Search - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search * enwiki will have the new

Re: [Wikitech-l] 3d Online Geometry Viewer

2014-01-10 Thread Brian Wolff
On Jan 9, 2014 5:50 AM, Inderpreet Singh indrp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am Inderpreet Singh, this is my first mail and I hope I am on correct mailing list. I am currently working on an online geometry viewer that was developed under BRL-CAD (brlcad.org) as one of it's GSOC projects last

[Wikitech-l] Pre-Release Announcement for MediaWiki 1.19.10, 1.21.4, and 1.22.1

2014-01-10 Thread Chris Steipp
This is a notice that on Tuesday, January 14th between 00:00-01:00 UTC (*Monday* January 13th, 4-5pm PST) Wikimedia Foundation will release security updates for current and supported branches of the MediaWiki software, as well as several extensions. Downloads and patches will be available at that