[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for July-September 2015

2015-10-16 Thread Tilman Bayer
Greetings everyone, the Wikimedia Foundation's quarterly reviews of teams' work in the past quarter (July-September, Q1 of the 2015-16 fiscal year) took place last week. Minutes and slides for those meetings are now available: Community Engagement: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inhibitors for Mobile Content Service to use Parsoid output

2015-10-16 Thread Gabriel Wicke
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Brian Gerstle wrote: > I've mentioned this idea before, but having a service which allowed you to > reliably get image thumbs for a given file at a specified width/height > would obviate the srcset. Our thumbs are already created on demand, based on the image w

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inhibitors for Mobile Content Service to use Parsoid output

2015-10-16 Thread Brian Gerstle
I've mentioned this idea before, but having a service which allowed you to reliably get image thumbs for a given file at a specified width/height would obviate the srcset. And prevent cache fragmentation on img resolutions. On Friday, October 16, 2015, Dmitry Brant wrote: > We can indeed fall ba

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inhibitors for Mobile Content Service to use Parsoid output

2015-10-16 Thread Dmitry Brant
We can indeed fall back to TTS if the spoken article is not available, or offer a choice between TTS and the spoken version. The intention was for this to be a quick win of surfacing a useful, if lesser-known, facet of Wikipedia content. That being said, this doesn't necessarily need to be a block

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth issue -- adding new consumer

2015-10-16 Thread Chris Steipp
Ivo, Can you maybe describe what issues you're having? There are several people who can help with OAuth, but finding the right person based on, what language your Consumer is written, what framework you're using, or the exact issue you're having, will be easier with more details. On Fri, Oct 16,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator monthly statistics - 2015-09

2015-10-16 Thread Claudia Müller-Birn
Thank you for your message. I am currently out of the office, with no email access. I will be returning on October 12, 2015. Vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht. Ich bin derzeit nicht im Büro und lese auch keine E-Mails. Ich bin ab dem 12.Oktober 2015 zurück und werde dann mei

[Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-announce] Security Release: 1.25.3, 1.24.4 and 1.23.11

2015-10-16 Thread Chad
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.25.3, 1.24.4, and 1.23.11. These releases fix five security issues in core, in addition to other bug fixes. Download links are given at the end of this email == Security fixes == * Wikipedia user RobinHood70 reported two issues in the chunked up

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inhibitors for Mobile Content Service to use Parsoid output

2015-10-16 Thread Luis Villa
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Bernd Sitzmann wrote: > It looks like Mobile Apps and Mobile Web have different priority > > requirements from Parsoid here. Looking at > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Spoken_articles, I also see that > > there are only 1243 spoken wikipedia articles

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth issue -- adding new consumer

2015-10-16 Thread Jon Katz
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Jon Katz wrote: > haha, awesome. I'll actually take a look :) Scratch that last comment. My wires got crossed. I am not the person to talk to about OAuth. I am, however, a product manager on the reading team interested in exploring similar issues: ways for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inhibitors for Mobile Content Service to use Parsoid output

2015-10-16 Thread Bernd Sitzmann
Hi Subbu, Parsoid is a wt <-> html conversion service and the output for a page (even > those with redirects) should reflect what is on that page. This is > important, for example, if you want to edit the page with the redirect and > change it to something else. However, there could be a version w

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: October Lightning Talks

2015-10-16 Thread Kevin Leduc
-- Forwarded message -- From: Kevin Leduc Date: Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 6:47 PM Subject: October Lightning Talks To: "Staff (All)" , Engineering list < engineer...@lists.wikimedia.org> Hello! October's Lightning Talks are in less than 2 weeks and we are looking for more volunteers

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inhibitors for Mobile Content Service to use Parsoid output

2015-10-16 Thread Subramanya Sastry
On 10/15/2015 08:52 PM, Bernd Sitzmann wrote: As part of moving the Mobile Content Service to use Parsoid instead of action=mobileview[1] I've ran into several missing features which make it significantly harder for the Mobile Content Service to use Parsoid, while providing the same functionality