Re: [Wikitech-l] The future of shared hosting

2015-01-18 Thread Tim Starling
On 16/01/15 17:38, Bryan Davis wrote: The solution to these issues proposed in the RFC is to create independent services (eg Parsoid, RESTBase) to implement features that were previously handled by the core MediaWiki application. Thus far Parsoid is only required if a wiki wants to use

Re: [Wikitech-l] I haven't looked lately...

2015-01-18 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com On 2015-01-18 5:29 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org ​Three quick examples of things on the horizon (I'm not particularly saying we'd actually

Re: [Wikitech-l] I haven't looked lately...

2015-01-18 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 2015-01-18 5:29 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org ​Three quick examples of things on the horizon (I'm not particularly saying we'd actually do these for Wikimedia's use, but if you're going to ask for straw man arguments…

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: No more Architecture Committee?

2015-01-18 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com I've been saying for over a year now we should just drop the 1. from the 1.x.y release versions. So the next release would be 25.0, 26.0, etc etc. Oh dear ghod, no. I already want to massacre the entire release management

[Wikitech-l] I haven't looked lately...

2015-01-18 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org ​Three quick examples of things on the horizon (I'm not particularly saying we'd actually do these for Wikimedia's use, but if you're going to ask for straw man arguments… :-)): - ​Get rid of wikitext on the

Re: [Wikitech-l] The future of shared hosting

2015-01-18 Thread Florian Schmidt
I don't think adding a couple more services is going to drastically alter the current situation. MediaWik core and most of the extensions actually only depend on php and mysql, both are de facto standard included most in webhosting packages, which makes MediaWiki to run (in theory) on a wide

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Congratulations to MediaWiki Farmers User Group for being approved as a Wikimedia User Group

2015-01-18 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
*sigh* I was hoping the farmers had united but good luck to the virtual farmers of ~85% men On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, Please join the Affiliations Committee in congratulating the MediaWiki Farmers User Group on their

Re: [Wikitech-l] new extension

2015-01-18 Thread Ricordisamoa
Anybody interested? Il 30/12/2014 10:11, Ricordisamoa ha scritto: Il 17/12/2014 17:57, Ricordisamoa ha scritto: I've written a simple MediaWiki extension that uses an instance of the W3C Validator service (via the Services_W3C_HTMLValidator