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

2015-01-22 Thread Brian Wolff
I would also suggest that an effort be made to find community members who are not WMF employees to participate in the ArchCom and then to have their voices heard during in quarterly planning. I dont know if this is practical. As Chad noted earlier, WMF hires the best and the brightest. Even

Re: [Wikitech-l] New feature in development: collections

2015-01-22 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
From https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-01-14-21.00.log.html : 21:15:49 Emufarmers Is this collections thing the same as https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_web_projects/Collections_Backend (just came up during the research showcase)? They look

Re: [Wikitech-l] wfRunHooks deprecation

2015-01-22 Thread Legoktm
On 01/21/2015 09:39 AM, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: Hey, Does the new syntax offer any advantage over the old one? It's a little bit faster by cutting down one function call which adds up when a lot of hooks are called. -- Legoktm ___ Wikitech-l

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

2015-01-22 Thread MZMcBride
Mark A. Hershberger wrote: I am not qualified for the ArchCom, but I am familiar with several engineers working in government or running private wiki farms or their own businesses who I think would be qualified. Another qualification I'd look for is substantial Wikimedia community involvement.

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

2015-01-22 Thread Brian Wolff
On Jan 22, 2015 6:43 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 22, 2015 2:08 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: I think that’s kind of insulting to those of us who don’t work at the WMF. Just because they hire the “best and the brightest” does not mean there are not people

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

2015-01-22 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Bawolff, I don't think the list of attendees of the current SF meeting is indicative of anything other than of the difficulty we have in talking with non-Wikimedia people; and even within Wikimedia, between WMF and non-WMF. Cf.

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

2015-01-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
Ah, I see. Yeah then it was just a misunderstanding. I completely agree with you on that point. I would be fine with an entirely-WMF ArchCom as long as being in the WMF was not one of the criteria they were selected because of. --  Tyler Romeo 0x405D34A7C86B42DF On January 22, 2015 at

[Wikitech-l] Wikidata search provider for GNOME Shell

2015-01-22 Thread Bahodir Mansurov
I’ve created a GNOME Shell extension that allows the user to search for Wikidata items directly from the shell. Currently you can search for simple things such as “Obama”, “Book”, etc. I plan on adding support for complex queries such as “the population of the earth” which would show the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata betalabs

2015-01-22 Thread Jon Robson
I managed to login after clearing some cookies and trying again. So I had a few issues (not sure if these are reported anywhere): * http://en.m.wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/ is showing the desktop site. * When I login via that url I somehow get stuck in https mode * When I login from

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata betalabs

2015-01-22 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I can log in as well. On Jan 22, 2015, at 9:38 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Are we using http://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/ ? I can't seem to login ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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

2015-01-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
I think that’s kind of insulting to those of us who don’t work at the WMF. Just because they hire the “best and the brightest” does not mean there are not people out there who are just as intelligent, if not more, but do not or cannot work for the WMF for whatever reason. Restricting Archcom to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata betalabs

2015-01-22 Thread Alex Monk
Looks like you can use http://m.wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page - but some things are broken (e.g. remove '/wiki/' and get a broken redirect back) Not sure why it accepts 'en.wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org' either On 22 January 2015 at 19:51, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I

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

2015-01-22 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com writes: Just because they hire the “best and the brightest” does not mean there are not people out there who are just as intelligent, if not more, but do not or cannot work for the WMF for whatever reason. Restricting Archcom to WMF employees is just about the

[Wikitech-l] Wikidata betalabs

2015-01-22 Thread Jon Robson
Are we using http://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/ ? I can't seem to login ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata betalabs

2015-01-22 Thread Jon Robson
oops pressed submit accidentally :-) So yeh.. I can't seem to login and I am keen to test some things on beta labs between this and the wikipedia beta labs instead http://en.m.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ Is this known to be broken? Are there any bugs open? Jon On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 9:38 AM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata betalabs

2015-01-22 Thread Alex Monk
I managed to log in successfully. On 22 January 2015 at 17:38, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Are we using http://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/ ? I can't seem to login ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] wfRunHooks deprecation

2015-01-22 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com writes: On 01/21/2015 09:39 AM, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: Hey, Does the new syntax offer any advantage over the old one? It's a little bit faster by cutting down one function call which adds up when a lot of hooks are called. adds up is a poor defense for

Re: [Wikitech-l] wfRunHooks deprecation

2015-01-22 Thread Bryan Davis
On Thursday, January 22, 2015, Mark A. Hershberger m...@nichework.com wrote: Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com javascript:; writes: On 01/21/2015 09:39 AM, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: Hey, Does the new syntax offer any advantage over the old one? It's a little bit faster by cutting down

Re: [Wikitech-l] wfRunHooks deprecation

2015-01-22 Thread Chad
On Thu Jan 22 2015 at 1:10:27 PM Bryan Davis bd...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thursday, January 22, 2015, Mark A. Hershberger m...@nichework.com wrote: Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com javascript:; writes: On 01/21/2015 09:39 AM, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: Hey, Does the new syntax

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing contentmodel of pages

2015-01-22 Thread Legoktm
Hi, On 01/09/2015 04:25 PM, Erik Bernhardson wrote: However, changing the content model of an existing page is a disruptive change. We added the right `editcontentmodel` without which attempts to change content model through the API or EditPage.php fail. Currently no group (user or bot) has