Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours: Shared hosting

2015-12-20 Thread Brian Wolff
On 12/20/15, James Salsman wrote: > Were there any objections to my request below? > Yes. As MaxSem said earlier[1], its basically being ignored as being totally irrelevant to the topic at hand. (To be clear: Third-party does not mean people who are doing work on Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Beta Feature: completion suggester

2015-12-20 Thread John Erling Blad
I tried this on a search for "Sør-Aurdal" (a municipality in Norway), dropped the dash and wrote "sørau" and got a hit on "Søraust-Svalbard naturreservat" among other things. The topmost hit was "søraurdøl", which is a denomyn for someone from Sør-Aurdal. It seems to me that a spelling error is

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours: Shared hosting

2015-12-20 Thread James Salsman
Were there any objections to my request below? Can we also please hire additional database, system, and if necessary network administration support to make sure that the third party spam prevention bot infrastructure is supported more robustly in the future? On Monday, December 14, 2015, James

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sharing JS code between NodeJS and browser

2015-12-20 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 2015-12-18 9:31 AM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > Trevor and Daniel, thanks for your reply. > > How would you structure the code that is to be shared? Should it be a > separate NPM package, referenced from the extension package.json via git > url, and have a small file in the extension's lib/ dir

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sharing JS code between NodeJS and browser

2015-12-20 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
I had used returnExports pattern defined in https://github.com/umdjs/umd to get a module that works in Node, AMD and browser globals. That repo has several patterns and tools for this and you may find useful to solve your usecase. Thanks Santhosh ___

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: OCR4wikisource

2015-12-20 Thread Shrinivasan T
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shrinivasan T Date: 2015-12-19 4:45 GMT+05:30 Subject: OCR4wikisource To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." < wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, Released a program to link google OCR and

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Beta Feature: completion suggester

2015-12-20 Thread Sage Ross
If I'm, say, building a web app that could benefit from that kind of search suggestion tool, is there an API I can use? -Sage On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Dan Garry wrote: > Hey all, > > In the continued quest to make the search bar a better tool, the Wikimedia >