[Wikitech-l] 2017-07-05 Scrum of Scrums notes

2017-07-05 Thread Grace Gellerman
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-07-05 *= **2017-07-05** =* contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering == Callouts == * codfw row B switch upgrade on July 12th https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169345 * Beta thumbnail issues persist (pinging people at random

Re: [Wikitech-l] What type of language is the wikitext ?

2017-07-05 Thread יגאל חיטרון
Sorry in the first line, of course, "Any computer language that has parentheses isn't regular". Igal (User:IKhitron) 2017-07-05 16:31 GMT+03:00 יגאל חיטרון : > Hi. Any computer language that has parentheses isn't context free. So if > you are not in Assembly, it's enough. > About context-free -

Re: [Wikitech-l] What type of language is the wikitext ?

2017-07-05 Thread Gabriel Wicke
Here is an older blog post describing some of the issues in parsing wikitext, including examples: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/04/parsoid-how-wikipedia-catches-up-with-the-web/ On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 6:31 AM, יגאל חיטרון wrote: > Hi. Any computer language that has parentheses isn't context

Re: [Wikitech-l] What type of language is the wikitext ?

2017-07-05 Thread יגאל חיטרון
Hi. Any computer language that has parentheses isn't context free. So if you are not in Assembly, it's enough. About context-free - it's tricky question. I wouldn't call it context free because of some macro expansions, for example, the pipe ([[abc (def)|]] -> [[abc (def)|abc]]). The problem I don'

[Wikitech-l] What type of language is the wikitext ?

2017-07-05 Thread Kaartic Sivaraam
Dear all, Quoting from my previous post, “Currently the syntax highlighter of the Wikipedia android app seems to be slow except on high-end devices. It has been proposed to change the implementation to provide users with a better (streamlined) experience while editing[1].” I recent