[Wikitech-l] CR+2 on MediaWiki for Siddharth (SD0001)

I would like to nominate Siddharth for CR+2 (the right to approve and merge changes in MediaWiki core and extensions). He has done excellent work in core and various extensions, most notably Gadgets and the related core infrastructure. Please voice support or concerns on

[Wikitech-l] Re: Comments like Google Docs

If you just want to annotate a web page without assistance from that page, and let you share then annotations, that's not a Wikimedia-specific problem and there are generic tools for it. The popular one is Hypothesis , I think. There even was an attempt to build

[Wikitech-l] Re: Maps as article image?

Phabricator is a better place for discussing feature requests. That said, I imagine the complicated part would be how the extension determines when to pick the map over other images in the article. Adding some hook to PageImage by which other extensions can add page images candidates seems

[Wikitech-l] Change to default value of install.php --scriptpath

Hi! The default value of the installer's script path parameter was changed in gerrit 133222 to make the installation process more intuitive. If you use the installer in your scripts, you might want to make sure that script path is set

[Wikitech-l] Re: Use case for sha1 in revisions

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 11:06 PM Brian Wolff wrote: > This kind of sounds like a non-answer, but its mostly useful if you want a > hash of the revision. I dont think mw core really uses it, but it can be > useful for quickly detecting duplicate revisions. I think primarily it is > for external

[Wikitech-l] Re: Reducing size of pageviews dump (shared link on the article)

I'd imagine the current format is optimized for being able to output hourly dumps (and thus reducing data latency and data processing costs), not so much for storage space ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send

[Wikitech-l] Re: Usecases for Low-Code Platforms within the Wikimedia Projects

Two use cases I'd love to see are AbuseFilter filters (very simple language, and most people who have access to AbuseFilter have no programming experience whatsoever) and WDQS (mostly used by non-programmers, and SPARQL lends itself reasonably well to visual representation - see also T210810

[Wikitech-l] Re: Minerva Neue skin will be bundled with MediaWiki 1.38

On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 12:09 PM Jon Robson wrote: > The implication of this is that extension developers should be making sure > their code compatible with MinervaNeue. > Is there a tutorial on what should be done to ensure compatibility? (One thing that comes to mind is supporting the

[Wikitech-l] Re: ILocalizedException refactor

Are the larger plans around refactoring the message system written down somewhere? On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 11:51 AM Thomas Chin wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We are planning to rework ILocalizedException, which will break anything > implementing the interface. Ticket: T287405 >

[Wikitech-l] Code style poll: return typehint spacing

There's an ongoing discussion about how PHP return typehints should be formatted in MediaWiki code: function foo(): int { or function foo() : int { If you are interested, please vote here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220719 (The permission system for votes is somewhat

Re: [Wikitech-l] Allow HTML email

Yes please. A mere fifty years after the invention of hyperlinks, it would be great to adopt them here. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ethical question regarding some code

FWIW, the movement strategy included a recommendation* for having a technology ethics review process [1]; maybe this is a good opportunity to experiment with creating a precursory, unofficial version of that - make a wiki page for the sock puppet detection tool, and a proposal process for such

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ethical question regarding some code

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 6:39 PM Ryan Kaldari wrote: > Whatever danger is embodied in Amir's code, it's only a matter of time > before this danger is ubiquitous. And for the worst-case > scenario—governments using the technology to hunt down dissidents—I imagine > this is already happening. So

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ethical question regarding some code

On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 7:43 PM Amir Sarabadani wrote: > * By closed source, I don't mean it will be only accessible to me, It's > already accessible by another CU and one WMF staff, and I would gladly > share the code with anyone who has signed NDA and they are of course more > than welcome to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ethical question regarding some code

Technically, you can make the tool open-source and keep the source code secret. That solves the maintenance problem (others who get access can legally modify). Of course, you'd have to trust everyone with access to the files to not publish them which they would be technically entitled to (unless

[Wikitech-l] Feedback requested: dropping PHP 7.2 support for MediaWiki 1.35

Hi all, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257879 recommends dropping support for PHP 7.2 in the upcoming MediaWiki 1.35 release. (It would still be supported in master as it will probably take months for Wikimedia production to switch.) Tl;dr: 1.35 is an LTS release which we'll support for 3

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reason for actionthrottledtext API blocking?

On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 6:57 AM Baskauf, Steven James < steve.bask...@vanderbilt.edu> wrote: > The other thing that is different about what I'm doing and what is being > done by the other user who is not encountering this problem is that I'm > authenticating directly by establishing a session

Re: [Wikitech-l] Documentation/Examples on enabling localization in Gadgets

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 2:39 PM Egbe Eugene wrote: > Is there any documentation or Gadget I can have a quick look at yo be able > to learn how to enable translation in gadgets? > The common but not too great approach is to have separate per-language JS or JSON pages which put the messages into

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help on creating a new extension

Hi Sohom! On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 10:25 AM Sohom Datta wrote: > I'd like some guidance on how to implement the unfinished parts of the > extension especially the integration with FlaggedRevs I presume that means displaying stableness settings in a similar way to page protection?

Re: [Wikitech-l] 503 Backend fetch failed

503 Backend fetch failed is a generic error message you get when the application server breaks so badly that it fails to even return an error message (e.g. PHP fatal errors can do this), so Varnish has to make up its own error message. ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 3:01 PM Derk-Jan Hartman < d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Last year has seen a lot of focus on Technical Debt. WMF also has a core > platform team now, which finally allows a more sustainable chipping away at > some of the technical debt. Yeah. Having tech debt

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 5:37 PM Thomas Eugene Bishop < thomasbis...@wenlin.com> wrote: > A bug fix was provided years ago but never accepted or rejected. It’s the > first and last MediaWiki bug ever assigned to me. I’ve just unassigned > myself. > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 3:02 PM Strainu wrote: > The main problem I see with the community wishlist is that it's a > process beside the normal process, not part of it. The dedicated team > takes 10 bugs and other developers another ~10. I think we would be > much better off if each team at the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 4:36 AM John Erling Blad wrote: > Google had a problem with unfixed bugs, and they started identifying > the involved developers each time the build was broken. That is pretty > harsh, but what if devs somehow was named when their bugs were > mentioned? What if there were

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2019-01-09 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 11:29 AM Pine W wrote: > [...] Are there any upcoming plans for systematic > study or development of WMF-to-public communications processes from > Audiences and Technology? > Not quite the same thing, but touches on communication:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please comment on the draft consultation for splitting the admin role

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 8:56 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Personally I'd like us to explore agnostic and non-invasive solutions. > Mandatory code review (especially with a required waiting time) and mandatory reauthentication are far more invasive than removing JS editing permissions from

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please comment on the draft consultation for splitting the admin role

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 3:26 AM Nathan wrote: > Is the risk of an attacker taking over an account with CSS/JS edit > permissions any more or less because that person knows how to use CSS/JS? > I tried to address this in the FAQ: > * The number of accounts which can be used to compromise the

[Wikitech-l] Please comment on the draft consultation for splitting the admin role

Hi all, per the discussion on Phabricator, I'd like to split the administrator ("sysop") user group into two parts - one which can edit sitewide CSS/JS, and one which can not. You can find the details and detailed rationale in the task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190015 To inform the

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.28 is now LTS?

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Robert Vogel wrote: > according to [1] the MediaWiki 1.28.2 was a LTS release. On [2] I can not > find a hint about this. Is that maybe a mistake? > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Download=2478392 > [2]

[Wikitech-l] Discussion on adding a CODE_OF_CONDUCT file to all Wikimedia repos

Hi all, the Wikimedia technical community has recently adopted a Code of Conduct. You have probably heard more about it than you wanted to, but if you have missed it somehow, you can read the related blog post [1]. We started adding a CODE_OF_CONDUCT file with a link to all repos (this is a new

Re: [Wikitech-l] Historical use of latin1 fields in MySQL

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Mark Clements (HappyDog) < gm...@kennel17.co.uk> wrote: > I seem to recall that a long, long time ago MediaWiki was using UTF-8 > internally but storing the data in 'latin1' fields in MySQL. > Indeed. See $wgLegacyEncoding

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sitelink removal in Wikidata

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > The tool excludes edits that are marked as patrolled but you need to > rollback (instead of undo/restore). Most flagrev wikis do not use patrolling. ___ Wikitech-l mailing

[Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-announce] OAuth security update

Hi all, a minor security bug [1] has been fixed in the OAuth extension: * a connected application could use the /identify endpoint to learn the username of a user even if the application has been disabled. * a connected application could use the /identify endpoint to learn the username of a user

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for dealing with citations of withdrawn academic journal articles

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Pine W wrote: > Is there any easy way to find all of citations of specified academic > articles on Wikipedias in all languages, and the text that is supported by > those references, so that the citations of questionable articles can be >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Yandex?

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: I am also interested in the answer to Nemo's question about whether this is the first piece of proprietary software ever entering use in the Wikimedia projects land? Translatewiki has been using Yandex for a while

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using , as decimal separator in #expr

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using the #expr parser function provided by the Parser Functions extension. I'd like it to use , as decimal separator, and it currently uses .. Is there a way to change this nicer than installing String

Re: [Wikitech-l] selenium browser testing proposal and prototype

Chris McMahon cmcmahon at wikimedia.org writes: As QA Lead for WMF, one of the things I want to do is to create an institutional suite of automated cross-browser regression tests using Selenium. I have two goals for this suite: first, to make it attractive and convenient for the greater