Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I see traditional email and newsgroup clients missing a bit from Krinkle's list. Subthreading works perfectly fine in Thunderbird (but even in Outlook Express!). Indenting is the one characteristic found in all wiki conversations: subthreading can't be discarded based on gut feelings. In my

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread Pine W
Can I just chime in briefly and say I am glad this conversation is happening before Flow goes into production. This is the kind of conversation that leads to better software, especially when power users participate in the discussion and influence design decisions long before software is pushed out

Re: [Wikitech-l] Requests with data URIs appended to proper URLs

2014-06-09 Thread Christian Aistleitner
Hi, On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 02:41:07PM +0200, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: It's not specific to es and pt, it's easy to spot such URLs in any stats.grok.se top pages report: http://stats.grok.se/de/top That URL is (currently) for March data, and characteristics changed considerably since then.

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:22 AM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Sunday, June 8, 2014, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: Flow stores the comments as a

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread David Gerard
The key thing about Usenet and email is that the first-class entity was the individual message - on web forums, the first-class entity is the thread. On Usenet or email, a thread is something strung together on the fly from the surviving References: headers of whatever messages have made it as far

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread David Gerard
On 9 June 2014 10:30, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: [1] i.e. a tree structure is far less powerful than what we have now to approximate the domain, a dag with dividable nodes probably comes closer, and is already fiendishly complicated to pull off on a UI level. And then I

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread Thomas Gries
Am 09.06.2014 11:42, schrieb David Gerard: I wonder how much everyone would hate us if we just replaced talk pages with Apache Wave ... or Etherpad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: Am 09.06.2014 11:42, schrieb David Gerard: I wonder how much everyone would hate us if we just replaced talk pages with Apache Wave ... or Etherpad Why stop at talk pages?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Requests with data URIs appended to proper URLs

2014-06-09 Thread Christian Aistleitner
Hi, On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 11:39:28PM -0700, S Page wrote: [ Jigsaw CSS validator over-complaining ] Full ACK. Especially, the relevant data uris like

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Pkg-mediawiki-devel] [MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki 1.23.0 released

2014-06-09 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 7:49 AM, wp mirror wpmirror...@gmail.com wrote: However, I notice that, for most MediaWiki extensions, when I execute: (shell)$ git branch -r the git repo does not (yet) show an `origin/REL1_23' branch that I can checkout. While some extensions show a recent

Re: [Wikitech-l] Requests with data URIs appended to proper URLs

2014-06-09 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Christian Aistleitner christ...@quelltextlich.at wrote: 2. Client fetches resources for this page (like http://bits.wikimedia.org/pt.wikipedia.org/load.php?[...] with referer http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copa_do_Mundo_FIFA ). 3. Client fetches

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jettisoning our history?

2014-06-09 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 05/31/2014 12:38 PM, Chad wrote: On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 5:52 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com wrote: I don't like this idea, for the same reasons that other have already given. Grafting histories with git-replace might be viable, but it'd still be clunky and non-intuitive.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jettisoning our history?

2014-06-09 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:55:42 +0200, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: * A bigger repo is obviously slower to download in full; is it also slower to search or otherwise work with? How much slower? Most of our developers are probably not on SSDs yet. It is, but only when you're

[Wikitech-l] Tuesday 17th, 17:30UTC: IRC Office Hour on Phabricator

2014-06-09 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi, we are going to have another IRC office hour about the migration to Phabricator: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator in #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net on June 17, 2014 (Tuesday) at 17:30 UTC We will quickly present the status, progress, open issues. And we are happy

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jettisoning our history?

2014-06-09 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: * A bigger repo is obviously slower to download in full; is it also slower to search or otherwise work with? How much slower? Most of our developers are probably not on SSDs yet. git is largely insensitive to

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread C. Scott Ananian
[beating my own drum:] Indeed, I have a working (rough draft of) realtime collaborative editing at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TogetherJS. It is quite an interesting UX when you allow realtime writing at each other in this form. Old-timers will remember ytalk chats as a very

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread Nathan
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:30 AM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: That's precisely my point. Because current talk page discussions are - on the software level - unstructured, it allows social conventions to do everything you want it to do structure wise, and to invent new

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread Lee Worden
[weighing in on the nesting/quoting bikeshed: the structured quoting which Simple Machines Forum (SMF) provides is a nice compromise: it preserves the exact origin of the quoted material, for easy backreference, but it also allows flexible editing of the quoted content and for combining

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:30 AM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: That's precisely my point. Because current talk page discussions are - on the software level - unstructured, it allows social conventions

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread James Forrester
On 9 June 2014 02:30, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:22 AM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Sunday, June 8, 2014, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Martijn Hoekstra

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:05 AM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 9 June 2014 02:30, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:22 AM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Sunday, June 8, 2014, Martijn Hoekstra

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread James Forrester
On 9 June 2014 11:12, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:05 AM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 9 June 2014 02:30, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: That takes care of the issues of replying to one comment (a new

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 2:20 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: You think people want dual inheritance for comments? Seriously? That's… (to be polite) completely insane as a discussion system from a user perspective, and perhaps more importantly for your argument, completely

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:20 AM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 9 June 2014 11:12, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:05 AM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 9 June 2014 02:30, Martijn Hoekstra

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: So I want to know: * What are the blockers for doing this? * Are there any use cases / killer features in LiquidThreads that are not in

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread James Forrester
On 9 June 2014 11:28, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:20 AM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: You think people want dual inheritance for comments? Seriously? That's… (to be polite) completely insane as a discussion system from a user

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:33 AM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 9 June 2014 11:28, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:20 AM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: You think people want dual inheritance for comments?

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 20:52:44 +0200, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: In this case, which post are you replying to in flow when you reply to multiple people? In mediawiki you sort of work around the issue, and it sort of works because you try to create some ad-hoc solution.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming changes to GuidedTour extension

2014-06-09 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 06/03/2014 03:29 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: We are polishing the API and finishing final testing. The documentation for the upcoming API is available at http://growthdoc.wmflabs.org/NonLinearGuidedTourPreview/ (this URL is temporary), so if you think something could be clarified or tweaked,

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread Risker
On 9 June 2014 13:51, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:30 AM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: That's precisely my point. Because current talk page

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: (1) nothing lines up like it does on normal history pages, and (2) I can't see everything that changed since I last looked. Yes, I'm probably atypical in that I like reading wikitext diffs for discussion pages.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in API action=parsemobileformat=...

2014-06-09 Thread Max Semenik
This change is getting finalised with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/138029 - please fix your code if you haven't done so yet! On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, in response to bug 54607 [1], we've changed the semantics of the mobileformat parameter

Re: [Wikitech-l] Requests with data URIs appended to proper URLs

2014-06-09 Thread Christian Aistleitner
Hi, On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 11:33:12AM -0400, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Christian Aistleitner christ...@quelltextlich.at wrote: 2. Client fetches resources for this page (like http://bits.wikimedia.org/pt.wikipedia.org/load.php?[...] with referer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Requests with data URIs appended to proper URLs

2014-06-09 Thread Christian Aistleitner
Hi, On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 11:26:35PM +0200, Christian Aistleitner wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 11:33:12AM -0400, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Christian Aistleitner christ...@quelltextlich.at wrote: 2. Client fetches resources for this page (like

[Wikitech-l] Engineering Community Team - IRC Hour

2014-06-09 Thread Rachel Farrand
Hello, Please feel free to join the Engineering Community Team (ECT) tomorrow (June 10th) at 1700 UTC in #wikimedia-office on IRC. The ECT hosts office hours in #wikimedia-office the second Tuesday of every month. Check here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar for upcoming summer

[Wikitech-l] Authorship metadata displayed at the view action in MediaWiki

2014-06-09 Thread MZMcBride
C. Scott Ananian wrote: (As a brief plug: I would like to make WP feel more like an active community of *people* and less like a sterile collection of pages authored by some invisible cabal; from some previous threads about the last edit banner on mobile I'm sure there are some who prefer the

[Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: How, What, Why of WikiFont

2014-06-09 Thread Rachel Farrand
Please join us on google hangout June 11 @ 1900 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=WikiFontiso=20140611T12p1=224ah=1 for the following Tech Talk: *How, What, Why of WikiFont* *Presented by Core Features Engineer: Shahyar Ghobadpour, Visual Designer: May Galloway and

[Wikitech-l] First _draft_ goals for WMF engineering/product

2014-06-09 Thread Erik Moeller
Hi all, We've got the first DRAFT (sorry for shouting, but can't hurt to emphasize :)) of the annual goals for the engineering/product department up on mediawiki.org. We're now mid-point in the process, and will finalize through June.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Engineering Community Team - IRC Hour

2014-06-09 Thread Rachel Farrand
Correction to my last email: tomorrow's ECT IRC Hour begins at 1600 UCT http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=ETC+IRC+Houriso=20140610T16p1=1440 . Thanks! On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Rachel Farrand rfarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello, Please feel free to join the

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: This. Nobody, but nobody, asked the WMF to create this sort of system, and it is a rather quixotic goal given that each project has its own set of workflows. Hey Anne, We're of course pretty familiar with many of the highly

[Wikitech-l] Converting {{!}} to a magic word

2014-06-09 Thread Jackmcbarn
There is currently a proposal to make {{!}} a magic word that directly outputs |, the pipe character, rather than calling Template:!. If your wiki currently has Template:! set up to output a pipe, or if it doesn't have a template called Template:!, then this change doesn't affect you. All of the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: How, What, Why of WikiFont

2014-06-09 Thread Jeremy Baron
Hi, On Jun 9, 2014 8:55 PM, Rachel Farrand rfarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: If you want to watch live you can join the hangout here https://plus.google.com/events/chpgv8usjd6dn38on07njjk28hg and Please send the corresponding youtube links *early*. (Ideally, every time you mention the Google plus

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: How, What, Why of WikiFont

2014-06-09 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Jun 10, 2014 12:14 AM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote: Are there any docs onwiki somewhere for how to run/announce a meeting? (so we can make sire those docs mention the requirement for youtube link) gah, Android keyboard… s/sire/sure/ -Jeremy