Re: [Wikitech-l] new PDF Renderer - mw-ocg-bundler issue

2014-01-28 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2014-01-28 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com Hoi, Just a question, the WMF has invested a lot of effort in producing fonts for many of the languages it supports. These fonts are better than the fonts used in packages like Ubuntu. Not exactly. WMF didn't really produce fonts. WMF

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of the new PDF Renderer

2014-01-28 Thread Marco Fleckinger
Hi, On 2014-01-23 19:38, Matthew Walker wrote: If you want to set this up locally; I can help with that if you jump on IRC #mediawiki-pdfhack on freenode. I'm mwalker. Thank you a lot for helping me installing the stack. Although it is an early stage of the project, it is working quite well.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Notes from Architecture Summit (and call for wiki gnome help)

2014-01-28 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Can/should notes about specific RfC be copied into the respective talk pages? Some of them include DocumentMode bits that can be part of the RfC text itself, but not many. In particular I'd like to see updates to

[Wikitech-l] wmf getting ready for puppet3, advice please

2014-01-28 Thread Ariel T. Glenn
Hi puppet wranglers, We're trying to refactor the WMF puppet manifests to get rid of reliance on dynamic scope, since puppet 3 doesn't permit it. Until now we've done what is surely pretty standard pupet 2.x practice: assign values to a variable in the node definition and pick it up in the class

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit upgrade Tuesday

2014-01-28 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 28/01/14 03:07, Chad a écrit : Pushing this back to start at 01:30 to 03:30 instead in case any lightening deploys run a few minutes late. Otherwise everything's as before. -Chad This is now down. Please let me know if you have any problems. Hi, So you eventually did it on a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Notes from Architecture Summit (and call for wiki gnome help)

2014-01-28 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: Can/should notes about specific RfC be copied into the respective talk pages? Some of them include DocumentMode bits that can be part of the RfC text itself, but not many. In particular I'd like to see updates to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Template transclusion on Wikimedia Commons

2014-01-28 Thread Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W.
So I guess everything works as expected, it just takes a long time. I guess I do not understand the logic of what triggers the update of the links tables (e.g. Categories, whatlinkshere, Special:LinkSearch, etc) of pages: purge does not, null edit does, but how about edits to transcluded

Re: [Wikitech-l] new PDF Renderer - mw-ocg-bundler issue

2014-01-28 Thread C. Scott Ananian
I did ask the language group for a list of WMF fonts at the outset. I am still very open to any guidance. That said, web fonts have very different requirements than high quality typographic fonts. As one example, web fonts need to have small file sizes. File size doesn't matter for typographic

Re: [Wikitech-l] new PDF Renderer - mw-ocg-bundler issue

2014-01-28 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Answering my own questions, partially: The canonical list of fonts available through ULS is: https://git.wikimedia.org/tree/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FUniversalLanguageSelector/master/data%2Ffontrepo%2Ffonts Each directory has a font.ini file which specifies the canonical source of the font, as

Re: [Wikitech-l] wmf getting ready for puppet3, advice please

2014-01-28 Thread Ryan Lane
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Ariel T. Glenn ar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi puppet wranglers, We're trying to refactor the WMF puppet manifests to get rid of reliance on dynamic scope, since puppet 3 doesn't permit it. Until now we've done what is surely pretty standard pupet 2.x

Re: [Wikitech-l] wmf getting ready for puppet3, advice please

2014-01-28 Thread Ariel T. Glenn
Στις 28-01-2014, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 10:21 -0800, ο/η Ryan Lane έγραψε: In puppet3 variables assigned in the node are still global. It's the only place other than facts (or hiera) that you can assign them and have their scope propagate. So, this'll continue working. I think the future path is

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Security Releases: 1.22.2, 1.21.5 and 1.19.11

2014-01-28 Thread Chris Steipp
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.22.2, 1.21.5 and 1.19.11. Your MediaWiki installation is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability if you have enabled file upload support for DjVu (natively supported by MediaWiki) or PDF files (in combination with the PdfHandler

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome to Ken Snider, Wikimedia Operations

2014-01-28 Thread Erik Moeller
Hi all, I'm sorry to update you that Ken will be leaving WMF. He's agreed to provide transitional support through February and March, and Mark Bergsma will be Acting Director of TechOps starting today, sharing some of the work with Faidon. Thanks to both of them for stepping up. We'll be

[Wikitech-l] Bug in the Wikipedia main web page

2014-01-28 Thread Sukyoung Ryu
Dear all, We are researchers at KAIST in Korea working on finding JavaScript bugs in web pages. While analyzing top websites from Alexa.com, we found an issue, which seems to be a bug, on the Wikipedia main web page (wikipedia.org). We would be grateful if you can either confirm that it is a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug in the Wikipedia main web page

2014-01-28 Thread Yair Rand
Thank you for pointing out this bug. Your suggested change to MediaWiki:Gadget-wm-portal.js has been implemented by Meta-Wiki administrator User:PiRSquared17. On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Sukyoung Ryu sukyoung@gmail.comwrote: Dear all, We are researchers at KAIST in Korea working on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug in the Wikipedia main web page

2014-01-28 Thread Sukyoung Ryu
Thank you for the quick fix! Best, -- Sukyoung On Jan 29, 2014, at 9:55 AM, Nathan wrote: FYI in case you aren't subscribed to the list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Yair Rand yyairr...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:25 PM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug in the