Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of the Purge extension

2014-12-28 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Dec 28, 2014 2:07 AM, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote: New users often need to purge the server cache, {{Citation needed}} on often. A simple link is way more helpful than visit the history page and replace 'history' with 'purge', etc. Also, a server-side extension has much

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of the Purge extension

2014-12-28 Thread Thomas Mulhall
We should ask the author if he/she would like it to be moved from svn to git. On Sunday, 28 December 2014, 15:21, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Dec 28, 2014 2:07 AM, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote: New users often need to purge the server

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-l] Google Code-in: First week achievements!

2014-12-28 Thread Emmanuel Engelhart
On 10.12.2014 15:30, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: Hey guys reading through some of these tasks, I am wondering has the wiki media foundation taken into account mobile devices and started taking media wiki down a mobile friendly path through using bootstrap etc? They are a dozen of tasks (mostly

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of the Purge extension

2014-12-28 Thread MZMcBride
Ricordisamoa wrote: It looks like the Purge extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Purge for MediaWiki could be very useful to replace many similar gadgets on Wikimedia sites. New users often need to purge the server cache, and don't know how to do it. A simple link is way more helpful

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of the Purge extension

2014-12-28 Thread Jon Robson
On 28 Dec 2014 08:16, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Ricordisamoa wrote: It looks like the Purge extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Purge for MediaWiki could be very useful to replace many similar gadgets on Wikimedia sites. New users often need to purge the server

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of the Purge extension

2014-12-28 Thread Arcane 21
I agree. Purging should either be integrated into the MW core or the extension needs to be made so anyone can use it whenever needed without needing JS. Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 09:38:26 -0800 From: jdlrob...@gmail.com To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Requests for comment indices automatization

2014-12-28 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: We have two requests for comment indices on mediawiki.org: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Archive The current system requires manually updating the various lists, which is kind of gross as the lists

Re: [Wikitech-l] Merge Extension:Update into core of mediawiki

2014-12-28 Thread Ricordisamoa
Hi! At a quick glance, the code looks rather hackish. Maybe it would take less to just write a similar functionality from scratch. Il 28/12/2014 18:25, Thomas Mulhall ha scritto: Hi what about merging Extension:Update in core of mediawiki the extension is at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Merge Extension:Update into core of mediawiki

2014-12-28 Thread MZMcBride
Thomas Mulhall wrote: Hi what about merging Extension:Update in core of mediawiki the extension is at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Update and tells the user when there is an update to mediawiki and extension it is useful. Hi.