Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch?

With my Search team hat on, I really love this idea. It'd be great to pair it with a simplification of the 'usual' search interface - I share Isarra's feelings on namespace search being pretty ham-fisted, and as time gets on find the many-element tickboxes that control it a painful UI element. On

Re: [Wikitech-l] One Month Anniversary (Alangi Derick)

Thanks so much Erica Litrenta. Don't worry, you will see more updates monthly. I really enjoy contributing the Movement and i wish to see you someday in any of Wiki's conference. Thanks again for your inspiration. Regards Alangi Derick Ndimnain On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Erica Litrenta

Re: [Wikitech-l] One Month Anniversary (Alangi Derick)

Congrats for your "monthiversary", d3r1ck, and thanks for your thorough report. Sounds like you're enjoying the experience of contributing to the Movement, so I certainly hope to read other enthusiastic updates from you in the future. Best, Elitre (WMF) >

Re: [Wikitech-l] [discovery] WikiConference USA

Yes, Andrew's talk was quite good. He and I recorded video at some of the other sessions, including a SWOT analysis and visioning exercise regarding Wikipedia culture, and a session about video on Wikipedia. Some of the videos (Andrew's) came out better than others (mine) due to hardware issues

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools repository

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Ricordisamoa wrote: > Il 12/10/2015 18:56, Quim Gil ha scritto: > >> >> Interesting. Has there been any discussion about having an authoritative >> and well promoted catalog of Wikimedia tools? >> > > Yes. >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deprecate $wgEnableAPI?

+1 On Oct 14, 2015 02:49, "Erik Bernhardson" wrote: > +∞. This switch can only make things more complicated, and i highly doubt > developers are taking this into consideration when writing new features. It > seems like a 'please break everything' switch. > > On Tue,

[Wikitech-l] Deprecate $wgEnableAPI?

Hey, I've created https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115414 to remove $wgEnableAPI. Quoting the bug: By now, MediaWiki is severely crippled without the API, with most of interesting extensions relying on the API, it becomes more and more problematic to disable it. Now it's probably fair to say

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools repository

I like the idea of a tools index. Bob Cummings was looking for some GLAM tools that IIRC sounded perfectly reasonable but no one seems to know if we have them. Pine On Oct 13, 2015 6:52 PM, "Quim Gil" wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Ricordisamoa < >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deprecate $wgEnableAPI?

+∞. This switch can only make things more complicated, and i highly doubt developers are taking this into consideration when writing new features. It seems like a 'please break everything' switch. On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Max Semenik wrote: > Hey, I've created

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch?

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Erik Bernhardson < ebernhard...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > We added a help link to Special:Search > > Cool! It's blank on mediawiki.org , it seems just an admin decision to add MediaWiki:search-summary on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch?

I've thought several times before that CirrusSearch has plenty of advanced syntax, and almost no-one knows about they exist. We added a help link to Special:Search but this help link is per wiki, and I don't think any of the wikis Help:Searching pages even includes the cirrus syntax. On enwiki at