Re: [Wikitech-l] Please help a patch not to become two years old

2015-06-10 Thread Quim Gil
Sorry for breaking the thread with a serious post. ;) While Andre or me possible cannot help reviewing the code of a 2 year old patch, we are trying to help avoiding to run into such situations in the first place. Check our plan to organize a Gerrit Cleanup Day [1] as a possible beginning of a d

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2015-06-10 Scrum of Scrums notes

2015-06-10 Thread Adam Baso
Thanks! On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Grace Gellerman wrote: > Don't recall any concerns re: Reading from today. > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Adam Baso wrote: > > > Grace, do you recall if any concerns were raised for Reading? My bad, we > > had a department wide meeting, and I shoul

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2015-06-10 Scrum of Scrums notes

2015-06-10 Thread Grace Gellerman
Don't recall any concerns re: Reading from today. On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Adam Baso wrote: > Grace, do you recall if any concerns were raised for Reading? My bad, we > had a department wide meeting, and I should have notified people. > > -Adam > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Grace

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2015-06-10 Scrum of Scrums notes

2015-06-10 Thread Adam Baso
Grace, do you recall if any concerns were raised for Reading? My bad, we had a department wide meeting, and I should have notified people. -Adam On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Grace Gellerman wrote: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2015-06-10 >

[Wikitech-l] 2015-06-10 Scrum of Scrums notes

2015-06-10 Thread Grace Gellerman
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2015-06-10 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

2015-06-10 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 7:29 AM, John Mark Vandenberg > wrote: > >> If possible, could you compile a list of bots affected at a lower >> threshold - maybe 1,000. That will give us a better idea of the scale >> of bots operators that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

2015-06-10 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: >> To really make this awesome we need structured data support for >> Commons with Wikidata. We'll be making more progress on it in the >> second half of this year but there is a lot to do. > > Sure, to really make that awsome, yeah you need wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

2015-06-10 Thread Brian Wolff
> > To really make this awesome we need structured data support for > Commons with Wikidata. We'll be making more progress on it in the > second half of this year but there is a lot to do. > Sure, to really make that awsome, yeah you need wikidata. But we are far away from hitting the point where

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

2015-06-10 Thread Nikolas Everett
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 2:19 AM, Gergo Tisza wrote: > On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: > > > Additionally, from the help page, its not entirely clear about some of > > the limitations. e.g. You can't do incategory:Foo OR intitle:bar. > > regexes on intitle don't seem to work ove

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

2015-06-10 Thread Nikolas Everett
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: > You can't do incategory:Foo OR intitle:bar. > regexes on intitle don't seem to work over the whole title, only word > level tokens (I think, maybe? I'm a bit unclear on how the regex > operator works). > > intitle is word level though you can d

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

2015-06-10 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 8:01 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > I have two recurring thoughts about search lately, since you asked. > > First, multimedia search is absolutely horrible, basically non-existent. > If you go to Wikimedia Commons and try its search functionality and then > compare to any other med

[Wikitech-l] RFC meeting this week

2015-06-10 Thread Tim Starling
In the next RFC meeting, we will discuss the following RFC: * Create a proper command-line runner for MediaWiki maintenance tasks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99268 The meeting will be on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on chat.freenode.net at the following time: * UTC: Wednesday 21:00 *

[Wikitech-l] [x-post] Reminder: Language Engineering Office Hour is on June 10, 2015 (today) at 1430 UTC

2015-06-10 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
[x-posted announcement] Hello, A reminder that the online office hour hosted by the Wikimedia Language Engineering team is happening later today at 14:30 UTC. You can join the hangout or watch the session from: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cuunke6rbmqpetvslv6jlakbhnc Please note, due to th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

2015-06-10 Thread Andre Klapper
On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 02:01 -0400, MZMcBride wrote: > a list of a dozen features that are missing (search by file size, > by color, by image file format, etc.). Also see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101089 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101087 -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrang