Re: [Wikitech-l] I wish I would understand the mediawiki architecture and components

2020-01-29 Thread Marco A.
Good day, El mié., 29 ene. 2020 a las 19:13, Jefsey () escribió: > > Gentlemen, > I run around 290 small thematic citizen research wikis (nr being > developping) under an old mediawiki version (I fear an upgrading > hassle). In order to simplify their set-up I systemized them in using > a script t

Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

2015-07-07 Thread Marco F
user to go to Phabricator or post on this mailing list. If you are lucky, they complain on the respective talk pages like [1] or some other place. I think, there is be quite a substantial amount of programs around which still use the old interface and are broken now. Waiting for someone to

Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

2015-06-17 Thread Marco
ults from the API will just be somewhat different and not produce an error. So the software will not crash but may produce weird behavior instead. Is there any solution to this? Thanks, Marco ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] InstantClick

2014-02-09 Thread Marco Fleckinger
On 02/09/2014 04:03 AM, Brandon Harris wrote: Mobile users don’t have hover effects, and thus can only use this on click, which is how things get loaded anyway. Samsung's Note series since the Galaxy Note 2 have this. --Marco ___ Wikit

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of the new PDF Renderer

2014-01-28 Thread Marco Fleckinger
well. We were looking for such a solution for months now. This is the first one doing the job we need. Yesterday I showed the output to my employer. He was very delighted about the result. So, many commendations from our company. Cheers,

Re: [Wikitech-l] new PDF Renderer - mw-ocg-bundler issue

2014-01-27 Thread Marco Fleckinger
e hard parts are identifying all the font packages, >as package names for non-latin fonts seem to be wildly inconsistent >even between different Ubuntu releases. :( Hm interesting. Concerning Tex everything went quite for me on Debian, although Matthew shared Ubuntu's packet names. Is t

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of the new PDF Renderer

2014-01-19 Thread Marco Fleckinger
good result. Is it also possible to set this up behind a firewall? [1] http://ocg-collection-alpha.wmflabs.org/index.php/Test_German_Umlauts_%C3%A4%C3%B6%C3%BC%C3%84%C3%96%C3%9C%C3%9F%E2%86%92%E2%80%93%E2%80%9E%E2%80%9C Cheers, Marco On 01/18/2014 03:42 AM, Matthew Walker wrote: All, We&

Re: [Wikitech-l] Object.keys called on non-object

2013-05-11 Thread Marco De Nadai
Thank you very much. I have all the permissions, so I will contact you via IRC :( 2013/5/11 Mark Holmquist > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 04:46:37PM +0200, Marco De Nadai wrote: > > TypeError: Object.keys called on non-object > > at Function.keys (native) > > at Ob

[Wikitech-l] Object.keys called on non-object

2013-05-11 Thread Marco De Nadai
srv/ www.startupperday.com/Parsoid/js/lib/mediawiki.WikiConfig.js:41:20) at null. (/srv/ www.startupperday.com/Parsoid/js/lib/mediawiki.parser.environment.js:300:22) at processSome (/srv/ www.startupperday.com/Parsoid/js/lib/mediawiki.ApiRequest.js:98:17) at process._tickCallback (node.js:415:13) Can you hel

[Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2013] Proposal: ConceptualWiki

2013-04-22 Thread Marco Jacopo Ferrarotti
#x27;ve submitted a bug report here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47476 Hope you find it interesting, let me know if you have any question/suggestion for the project. Thank you, Marco ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikite

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] Fwd: Page view stats we can believe in

2013-02-14 Thread Marco Fleckinger
o use the API. Cheers Marco ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Re: How to speed up the review in gerrit?

2013-02-13 Thread Marco Fleckinger
On 02/14/2013 03:28 AM, Chad wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Marco Fleckinger wrote: Having a "can review all extensions" group is easy, but allowing for exemptions will be a pain to manage the ACLs for. For every extension that opts out of being reviewed by this group, we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Re: How to speed up the review in gerrit?

2013-02-13 Thread Marco Fleckinger
On 02/14/2013 02:12 AM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: On 02/13/2013 07:57 PM, Chad wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: Maybe our rule should be: if an extension is not deployed on Wikimedia sites, then we should basically allow anyone to merge new code in (disallow

Re: [Wikitech-l] deployment of the first phase of Wikidata on enwp

2013-02-13 Thread Marco Fleckinger
Congrats, also on this list :-) Cheers, Marco Lydia Pintscher schrieb: >Heya :) > >Third time's a charm, right? We're live on the English Wikipedia with >phase 1 now \o/ >Details are in this blog post: >http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/13/wikidata-live-on-the-

Re: [Wikitech-l] Font at dv.wikipedia and dv.wiktionary

2013-02-13 Thread Marco Fleckinger
Hi, On 02/12/2013 10:25 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: We don't have to limit ourselves to free license fonts for what we use on our own servers. We only have to limit ourselves to free license fonts for what we distribute with our software. Of course, we should always try to support free license fonts

Re: [Wikitech-l] Corporate needs are different (RE: How can we help Corporations use MW?)

2013-02-13 Thread Marco Fleckinger
consumers the choice if they wanted to use wikidata or not. Cheers Marco ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Integrating MediaWiki into MS SBS

2013-02-05 Thread Marco Fleckinger
es your company even want to use it? If you already have some wiki-stuff, you may need to convert this. People will need to be introduced into this. Just be some kind of creative! :-) Marco ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Integrating MediaWiki into MS SBS

2013-02-02 Thread Marco Fleckinger
with Linux, just as a test. Then nothing influences the original installation and you're independent. Marco On 02/02/2013 03:42 PM, Ryan Lane wrote: On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "Dan Andreescu" The following ma

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Runa Bhattacharjee

2013-01-28 Thread Marco Fleckinger
Welcome here! Languages are your topic? Really great playground! Marco Matthew Flaschen schrieb: >On 01/28/2013 04:10 PM, Alolita Sharma wrote: >> Runa believes newer platforms and devices used for content delivery >and >> adoption through local languages make it an exciti

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interactions between the visual editor and Wikidata

2013-01-11 Thread Marco Fleckinger
visual one will are just tracked as changes, but how do you decide weather to replace the information or add it? Marco On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Marco Fleckinger wrote: Hi, I would assume that there will be something like a shortcut or a button like "integrate Wikidata-property

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interactions between the visual editor and Wikidata

2013-01-11 Thread Marco Fleckinger
ernal list. Marco On 01/11/13 21:32, Strainu wrote: Hi, Starting from a very different problem, I found myself asking a very strange question: How will the Visual Editor interact with Wikidata? Namely, let's say that somebody is editing the article about Romania in the visual editor. The a

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Re: [Wikimedia-l] No access to the Uzbek Wikipedia in Uzbekistan

2012-12-27 Thread Marco Fleckinger
Do we have one extra machine left. Then we could set up this as NAT-Router. This will replace another machine if we do not have one extra IP left. The original ports need to be forwarded to that then. Cheers Marco Original-Nachricht Von: Leslie Carr Gesendet: Fri Dec

Re: [Wikitech-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

2012-12-14 Thread Marco Fleckinger
43 AM, Marco Fleckinger wrote: Implementing this is not very easy, but developers can may use some of the old ideas. Parsing the other way around has to be realized really from the scratch but is easier because everything is in a tree. not in a single text-string. Neither de- nor searalizing inc

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bikol Wikipedia logo issue

2012-12-13 Thread Marco Fleckinger
also use a reduced resolution like eg. de.wikipedia.org. There a version in resolution 135x155 is used. You use 1650x1751. Cheers Marco ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

2012-12-13 Thread Marco Fleckinger
x (aka. Iceweasel) on Debian Wheezy (not yet released), is not supported. This is okay for me. I also think that people using outdated browsers should not have the same great experience. Everything necessary should work, but is the VE really essential? Cheers Marco __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

2012-12-13 Thread Marco Fleckinger
client for http://wikidata.org repository concerning the interwiki-links. Cheers Marco ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sul on external Scripts

2012-12-07 Thread Marco Fleckinger
Auth2 provider infrastructure to ask the user's Wikimedia home project to do authentication and submit your tool the appropriated result. Please note somewhere your proposal, and if possible, what and who you need to make it real. On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Marco Fleckinger wrote: No

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sul on external Scripts

2012-12-07 Thread Marco Fleckinger
at 9:07 AM, Marco Fleckinger wrote: Hi, I know it is technically possible to use the SUL account outside of Wikimedia-Projects. We heard, that it is not very much liked to use this possibility. Maybe somebody of you could tell us if that is so and maybe why? Chee

[Wikitech-l] Sul on external Scripts

2012-12-07 Thread Marco Fleckinger
Hi, I know it is technically possible to use the SUL account outside of Wikimedia-Projects. We heard, that it is not very much liked to use this possibility. Maybe somebody of you could tell us if that is so and maybe why? Cheers, Marco

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla upgrade [was: bugzilla.wikimedia.org downtime: Now.]

2012-12-06 Thread Marco Fleckinger
this. I've already changed my preferences, so it's not a big deal. +1 Cheers Marco ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 proposal - Ajax functions for editing, blocking, deleting and checking recent changes

2012-04-03 Thread Marco
Looking over your application - I'd suggest flushing our more details on your proposed schedule and what exactly the advantages of your proposed project are. The mockup helps convey the what - but they how and why are a bit vague to me. I think connecting the functional benefits of Ajax co

[Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 proposal - Ajax functions for editing, blocking, deleting and checking recent changes

2012-04-03 Thread Marco
Following my proposal at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/marco_inacio/1 I created a test wiki http://wikitest.freehosting.com/ for you to take a look at the functionalities of the script I pretend t

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikipedia lacks a "share' button

2011-10-30 Thread Marco Schuster
running ready to catch passwords. Do you have any links with further info on this? Marco ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikipedia lacks a "share' button

2011-10-29 Thread Marco Schuster
n't click it (this is the part that > violates the privacy policy), and disallows self-hosting. German IT news site heise.de solved the privacy and load-time problem: http://www.heise.de/extras/socialshareprivacy/ Unfortunately it's in German, but the code is e

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed Authentication Schema for Wikimedia projects

2011-10-20 Thread Marco Schuster
). While these problems were mentioned on the design page, I have another scenario: colleague comes over to your desk, swaps your phone with his so you don't notice immediately, pranks you on Facebook or Wikipedia and then swaps the phone back. Marco On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:51 AM, wrote

Re: [Wikitech-l] testing mobile browsers?

2011-07-09 Thread Marco Schuster
raries exist which abstract the multi-touch -.- Marco ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special:Search goose chase

2011-06-19 Thread Marco Schuster
ge > table for page existence, but perhaps two messages would be better here. +1, this has confused me for ages (at least make the link some other color than blue!) Marco ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedi

Re: [Wikitech-l] wiki/ prefix in URL

2011-05-17 Thread Marco Schuster
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:00 AM, John Vandenberg wrote: > Is there something else on these virtual hosts other than a few > regexes which are extremely unlikely to be used as page names (i.e. > \/w\/.*\.php). Anything beginning with /w/ must be disallowed as a page title for this to wor

Re: [Wikitech-l] search=steven+tyler gets Steven_tyler

2011-05-15 Thread Marco Schuster
arate > case-folding algorithm for Turkish wikis, or make them use one that's > incorrect for their language. Actually non-Turkish/Azerbaijan wikis have this problem too, if the wiki has articles or redirects using these characters... Marco _

Re: [Wikitech-l] integration of MediaWiki and version control system as backend?

2011-05-10 Thread Marco Schuster
er to be able to edit. Files could also be stored in a LDAP daemon, though this DOES suck for anyone trying to edit the LDAP tree by hand. Marco ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki Inter-Searchability

2011-03-21 Thread Marco Schuster
ber of these individual wikis under one umbrella? I've never tried it personally, but I think SphinxSearch may be worth a check; it works directly against the database. Marco ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Highest Priority Bugs

2011-03-16 Thread Marco Schuster
Not even for creating new zones, as the supermaster makes all slaves automatically sync those zones where the invidual slaveserver is listed with a NS entry. Marco ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2011-01-10 Thread Marco Schuster
; primitive", "inflexible", "PHP is inferior language, use ASP.NET > instead" and so on. ASP.NET? Only if you want all your sourcecode exposed. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing Section Headings

2011-01-03 Thread Marco Schuster
ders isn't too friendly, so if there's an easy fix, I > would apply it. There is some CSS conditional stuff for IE5/Mac, didn't we have a CSS fix file especially for this browser? Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Mar

Re: [Wikitech-l] Commons ZIP file upload for admins

2010-11-30 Thread Marco Schuster
it. 7zip is, though open source, requiring third-party plugins, both for the OS and servers, and 7zip is not really widespread. RAR and ZIP are the dominant formats in cross-platform data exchange. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschä

Re: [Wikitech-l] Commons ZIP file upload for admins

2010-11-29 Thread Marco Schuster
histories, if not more. For OpenOffice clients, it's even worse, as some companies introduce their own private patch sets. Haven't seen this until now, but I've never been at really big companies where this actually is likely to happen. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 M

Re: [Wikitech-l] Invoking maintenance scripts return nothing at all

2010-11-16 Thread Marco Schuster
u're supposed to use the installer. The installer will set up the database and create a LocalSettings.php for you. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikit

Re: [Wikitech-l] Refresh of the Mediawiki logo

2010-11-11 Thread Marco Schuster
? > > > I think this not being a photo does not make it better than the photo > version. It's entirely unclear there's enough of a problem to be > solved here. I think it does look better than the older version, nice work. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 8173

Re: [Wikitech-l] Resource Loader problem

2010-11-10 Thread Marco Schuster
ave some kind of "reference" attribute which can be looked at to find the wikitext responsible for the creation of the node (and so, enable inline editing). Actually, this seems just perfect for a GSoC project for next year: Port the MW parser to JavaScript, and a followup project to make

Re: [Wikitech-l] Cross wiki script importing

2010-11-01 Thread Marco Schuster
I reduces security. Firefox and IE will whine that the site attempts to load unsecure resources. Also, it is indeed possible to transmit cookies; it's enough that the user has also logged in into the unsecure servers in the past and is e.g. at a public WiFi hotspot now and so uses the secure ga

Re: [Wikitech-l] Commons ZIP file upload for admins

2010-10-25 Thread Marco Schuster
), it should not be allowed to upload JARs (or things that look like something else, but infact can be loaded and executed by the JRT) to Wikipedia. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de

Re: [Wikitech-l] Firesheep

2010-10-25 Thread Marco Schuster
or user is being in the same network as him. The admin in question doesn't even have to visit Wikipedia directly, there are enough pages hotlinking to upload.wikimedia.org, which should cause the browser to transmit session data. If you're in need of using secure login, then you c

Re: [Wikitech-l] Convention for logged vs not-logged page requests

2010-10-19 Thread Marco Schuster
nge. I'm sure this is to prevent users from using Wikipedia as spy-javascript-hoster, but why does http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Krinkle/global.js&action=raw work then? Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Vo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Convention for logged vs not-logged page requests

2010-10-19 Thread Marco Schuster
avascript to the query string, > so it > a) Looks more like something that will give out javascript. > b) Forces it to use the long style. Nope, appending parameters works also in the short form: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BannerController?ctype=text/javascript Work

Re: [Wikitech-l] About wiki links: could they point to page id?

2010-10-04 Thread Marco Schuster
out "nice URLs" being a > MUST DO in SEO a while ago...but I'm not 100% sure on that. I > certainly hope this won't change anytime soon, on Wikipedia at least. It 'd be nice to have the page_id as optional parameter... but I think you can get the page's title v

[Wikitech-l] Static dump of German Wikipedia

2010-09-27 Thread Marco Schuster
ression to save lots of space though). For the redirects: how do I get the redirect target page (maybe even the #section)? Marco PS: Are there any *fundamental* differences between the Vector skin files of different languages except the localisation? Could this maybe be converted to Javascript, m

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] Static dump of German Wikipedia

2010-09-24 Thread Marco Schuster
ity list; I thought it >>>> would be the best if I just went ahead and built something that can be >>>> used (and, of course, improved). >>>> >>>> Marco >>> >>> That's what I just said. Work with them to fix it, IE: volunteer. IE

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] Static dump of German Wikipedia

2010-09-23 Thread Marco Schuster
- these might even depend on whatever version is currently running live. That's why static dumps (or ?action=render output) are the thing you need when you want to create offline versions or things like Mobipocket Wikipedia (which is my actual goal with the static dump). Marco -- VMSof

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is the $_SESSION secure?

2010-09-23 Thread Marco Schuster
license, although we > anticipate they will in a few minutes. If it's user-uploaded, take care of garbage collection; actually, how does PHP handle it if you upload a file and then don't touch it during the script's runtime? Will it automatically be deleted after the script is fini

[Wikitech-l] Static dump of German Wikipedia

2010-09-23 Thread Marco Schuster
ave no idea if I'll succeed, I plan on hacking a static Vector skin file which will load the articles using jQuery's excellent .load() feature, so that everyone with JS can enjoy a truly offline Wikipedia. Marco PS: When trying to invoke /w/index.php?action=render with an invalid oldid, t

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, now in trunk!

2010-09-07 Thread Marco Schuster
ewer than the browser) native support. Please, no. The various browsers all have their problems with standards even now, and I don't expect they'd get a jquery (or whatever JS framework) clientside implemented without having all sorts of problems. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 817

Re: [Wikitech-l] Debian packages (was MediaWiki version statistics)

2010-08-05 Thread Marco Schuster
> session_start produce that is not trapped? (I can only make an E_NOTICE > or E_WARNING...) It's enough to break later header(); with "Can't send header information - headers already sent by in foo". Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: M

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developing true WISIWYG editor for media wiki

2010-08-04 Thread Marco Schuster
C/C++ to Flash, not PHP to Flash. > Unless you use hip-hop to do PHP->C++, then alchemy for C++ -> Flash... Nope, Tei indeed proposes something nice here... compile the php interpreter itself in Flash. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Sch

Re: [Wikitech-l] Debian packages (was MediaWiki version statistics)

2010-08-04 Thread Marco Schuster
ow. Combine this with a WM-operated deb/rpm repo and make mediawiki-foobar packages for all the extensions. Using version requirements in the packages you can even ensure that only compatible stuff gets installed. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuste

Re: [Wikitech-l] Showing bytes added/removed in each edit in " View history" and " User contributions"

2010-08-04 Thread Marco Schuster
ounts while old revisions only have bytecount populated. Then, when you edit a page, MW checks: has the now-old revision the charcount field populated? If not, update the data, if yes, just save the new revision. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schust

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developing true WISIWYG editor for media wiki

2010-08-03 Thread Marco Schuster
plexity of wikitext, I fear rewriting the parser in Javascript is the only way to get a 100% compatible wikitext editor... Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitec

Re: [Wikitech-l] accessibility problems with vector

2010-06-20 Thread Marco Schuster
ikimedia sites? Any way to force IE8 to standard-"conforming" mode? Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] accessibility problems with vector

2010-06-20 Thread Marco Schuster
browsers (and what are they)? I'd prefer progress and nice, clean code over having to keep old cruft just because some people still use middle-age browsers. Marco ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/ma

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC] Extension management platform

2010-06-02 Thread Marco Schuster
e only one)... don't want to see this again in MediaWiki :( Marco On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: > Hey all, > > As a lot of you already know, I'm again doing a Google Summer of Code > project for the WMF this year. The goal of this *awesome* project is

Re: [Wikitech-l] a wysiwyg editor for wikipedia?

2010-06-01 Thread Marco Schuster
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:42 AM, K. Peachey wrote: > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Marco Schuster > wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Jacopo Corbetta >> wrote: >>> In our experience, the biggest obstacle is to get the different >>> browsers to re

Re: [Wikitech-l] a wysiwyg editor for wikipedia?

2010-06-01 Thread Marco Schuster
latforms can be achieved. And by doing it all in JS, the editor could also generate a wikitext-delta right away and doesn't need to transfer the whole page's wikitext. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion

2010-05-25 Thread Marco Schuster
ntlang to target wiki values. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2010-05-17 Thread Marco Schuster
ail.com 11 > > sam [AT] reedyboy.net 6 > > tparscal [AT] wikimedia.org 5 > > > That can't be right. > It can, because of the cleanup of Chad. Depending on how the reporter software calculates, direct DB changes might confuse the cou

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical means for tagging content (was: [Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content)

2010-05-09 Thread Marco Schuster
e to start getting people to tag things consistently. The > >> good thing is that you can start now without any additional software > >> support. > Also, Do we even have image dumps anymore? > AFAIR backups exist, but I don't know if there are any public dumps. I'

Re: [Wikitech-l] wiki(m|p)edia.org on IE8 compatibility blacklist

2010-04-13 Thread Marco Schuster
misfeatures for other reasons. > Might well be one of enWPs templates or infoboxes triggered it... but without a transparent documentation by Microsoft we will never know for sure. Marco PS: That wikipedia.de has invalid HTML in contrast to all wikis, which are all valid HTML (except the CSS),

Re: [Wikitech-l] Broken videos

2010-03-17 Thread Marco Schuster
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Trevor Parscal wrote: > On 3/17/10 1:02 PM, Marco Schuster wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Aryeh Gregor >>  wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Platonides  wrote: >>> >>>> Would it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Broken videos

2010-03-17 Thread Marco Schuster
. Imagine those people with cellphones and no data transfer flat (~70% of mobile internet users) - their bills will skyrocket when even a single video is set to auto-preload. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco

Re: [Wikitech-l] modernizing mediawiki

2010-03-03 Thread Marco Schuster
about Wordpress is designed to make it >> easy to set up a Wordpress site quickly and configure it easily. >> Wordpress does scale OK to fairly large blogs and high traffic if you >> SuperCache it. > > > Multi-user WordPress is a bit arsier. Comparable faff to Media

Re: [Wikitech-l] modernizing mediawiki

2010-03-02 Thread Marco Schuster
t's so easy to make a web-based settings editor. Mighta even be lots easier to just move all settings stuff except MySQL data into the DB. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de __

Re: [Wikitech-l] hiphop progress

2010-03-01 Thread Marco Schuster
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Marco Schuster schrieb: >> The point of $IP is that you can use multisite environments by just >> having index.php and Localsettings.php (and skin crap) in the >> per-vhost directory, and have extensions and other stuff

Re: [Wikitech-l] hiphop progress

2010-03-01 Thread Marco Schuster
Installer could be patched, to resolve $IP automatically if the user wishes to run a HipHop environment. Marco On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 13:35, Domas Mituzas wrote: >> Still, the decision to merge certain changes into MediaWiki code

Re: [Wikitech-l] User-Agent:

2010-02-16 Thread Marco Schuster
leaves only 4, which you do not want. Please write some doc that answers this once and for all. Marco PS: Oh, and please, please make the 403 msg something that people can figure out what's wrong, it takes AGES if you are a newbie to scripting. -- VMSoft GbR Nabburg

Re: [Wikitech-l] User-Agent:

2010-02-16 Thread Marco Schuster
step of banning everything without UA sucks totally. Sure, the API and other abuse-prone stuff can be blocked, but ordinary article watching should ALWAYS be possible, no matter what fucked-up UA you use. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer:

Re: [Wikitech-l] importing enwiki into local database

2010-02-14 Thread Marco Schuster
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Aryeh Gregor > wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Marco Schuster > wrote: > > What about turning wgUseTidy off for some time? Maybe some night hours... > so > > that our template magicians are forced to clean up the templates and

Re: [Wikitech-l] importing enwiki into local database

2010-02-14 Thread Marco Schuster
es and the other crap which resides deep buried into the wikitext. It is not a 3rd user's responsibility to install extra software just to be able to render our content... or at least, it shouldn't be. We should not artificially make it difficult to get our content forked or duplicat

Re: [Wikitech-l] confirm dfe03c58a0a....

2010-02-10 Thread Marco Schuster
Hi all, I just got this email from bugzilla. Apparently Google Apps has screwed up something again so the message itself doesnt annoy me, but why are the users' passwords still sent in CLEARTEXT in these days?? Can someone (tm) of the mailman admins or tech guys please fix this up? Thanks,

Re: [Wikitech-l] enwiki database dump schedule

2010-01-28 Thread Marco Schuster
oked like > it was going to actually complete for the first time in years, is now > broken. Thanks a lot. > How are the old revisions backed up, by the way? Just replication to a remote datacenter? Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco

Re: [Wikitech-l] (no subject)

2010-01-28 Thread Marco Schuster
- last time I've looked at it, it was at irc://irc.wikimedia.org/ and then each project had its own channel. 2) A PHP IRC bot framework - Net_SmartIRC is well-written and easy to get started with 3) the page source you can EASILY get either in rendered form http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?titl

Re: [Wikitech-l] Failed to Download any pages-articles.xml.bz2 file

2009-12-15 Thread Marco Schuster
This is likely your company proxy not supporting huge downloads. Might be its cache partition got filled up. Marco 2009/12/15 Rob Giberson > I failed several times and ended up downloading exactly the same number of > bytes: 1,465,454KB (1.46GB), even for different versions of tha

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikiEN-l] Extracting main titles from enwiki-latest-all-titles-in-ns0.gz

2009-12-12 Thread Marco Schuster
. The reverse exclamation mark is part of the Spanish language. > > Also why some titles are enclosed between two double quotes such > > as "400_Years_of_Telescope"? > Same case: The " are part of the topic's name (e.g. < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts looking for a developer

2009-12-04 Thread Marco Schuster
Didn't seanw write some system for exactly that, or is it broken for ages? Marco On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Rjd0060 wrote: > Hi all - > > The IRC Group Contacts are in search of a developer to create and > maintain a new cloak request system. Some basic details are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unicode equivalence

2009-12-01 Thread Marco Schuster
ing it, and older / crappy browsers / OSes can display still correctly. Sure, it adds a JS dependency, but I do think we can require JS for that. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de __

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki] Enhancement: LaTeX images quality (eliminate white background)

2009-11-29 Thread Marco Schuster
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Aryeh Gregor > wrote: > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Marco Schuster > wrote: > > Who cares about that browser?? > > ~15% of our users use it. If our goal is to make a broadly usable > website, we care about it. So what? They'

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki] Enhancement: LaTeX images quality (eliminate white background)

2009-11-29 Thread Marco Schuster
years! I really doubt that ANYONE still using that bitrotten thing of a browser cares about alpha-transparency or Wikipedia in general, and I don't think more time, money or energy should be wasted on making anything look ok on it - as long as a IE6 user is still able to read the text, it&

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki] Enhancement: LaTeX images quality (eliminate white background)

2009-11-17 Thread Marco Schuster
but I don't see how we could avoid aliasing effects on sane browsers > without making things look extremely ugly on IE6. > Aren't there various workarounds using JS and filters for IE6? Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volke

Re: [Wikitech-l] __TOC__ handling

2009-09-06 Thread Marco Schuster
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Aryeh Gregor > wrote: > This is correct. Although it's includes/parser/Parser.php (not all of > us use Windows or Mac! :P). AFAIR Mac OS X's Partition Manager allows you to set up a HFS partition as case sensitive :p Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabb

Re: [Wikitech-l] Version control systems (was: Wikipedia iPhone app official page?)

2009-09-04 Thread Marco Schuster
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 1:34 AM, David Gerard wrote: > [subject changed] > > 2009/9/5 Marco Schuster : > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Chad wrote: > > >> Wheee! TortoiseSVN indeed spoils us Windows users, as it's made > >> version control so ea

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia iPhone app official page?

2009-09-04 Thread Marco Schuster
SVN had far less downloads... it simply is the only way to make SVN usable on Windows. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiktionary API acceptable use policy

2009-09-03 Thread Marco Schuster
iceable load, but I don't know if there's an official statement > anywhere. I vaguely recall that some sites might pay Wikimedia a fee > to do commercial live mirroring, but I'm not sure on that. AFAIK one of these is spiegel.de which gets some kind of live feed, they arranged

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia iPhone app official page?

2009-08-29 Thread Marco Schuster
ripts and whatever is hidden in the deep world of svnroot. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wi

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