[Wikitech-l] Re: Proposal: namespace Archived for mediawiki.org

I like the idea of using https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Cirrussearch-boost-templates more extensively, for both positive and negative boosts. E.g. compare that to Wikitech's more extensive usage: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Cirrussearch-boost-templates (Docs:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question related to status of one extension

+Notes: From a few brief searches for just "SignWriting": according to this Phab comment the extension was converted into a gadget on Incubator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T24216#254974 here's an example of it in action on Incubator: https://w.wiki/av$ and here's the old documentation page:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Guide with testing VE Gadget on Test Wikipedia

Hi Eugene, I believe the links you are looking for are: To find someone to work with: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers=interface-admin or, To request: https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests/Permissions Cheers, On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 6:30 AM Egbe Eugene

[Wikitech-l] Etherpad conversion tools (was Re: Scrum of scrums/2019-05-29)

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 11:49 AM Željko Filipin wrote: > To make meeting notes even easier to read, is there a tool that would > convert links to wikitext? > * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221177 to [[phab:T221177]] > * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/506043/ to >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Easy list whitelist

Wikitech due to Account Creation block. > > Thanks, > RhinosF1 > > On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 19:02, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) > wrote: > >> Easy List seems to be one of the component in various adblocker tools >> (possibly enabled by default in some or all of them?). >&g

Re: [Wikitech-l] Easy list whitelist

Easy List seems to be one of the component in various adblocker tools (possibly enabled by default in some or all of them?). https://easylist.to/ E.g. the "uBlock Origin" extension's settings panel which lists it, apparently enabled by default: https://i.postimg.cc/yN217Tg5/Selection-001.jpg I've

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

Pine, please see the exact (quite precise) definition of https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/technical_debt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html I.e. Technical debt is Not at all equivalent to "bugs". The topic is a tangential one. Software can

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia has been accepted as a mentor organization in GSoC 2019!

Hi James, I'd like to emphasize the point (so that non-devs are aware) that outreach programs are generally more work for a mentor than "just implement the feature yourself" would be. I.e. The mentors generally have to help onboard the newcomer and get their tools setup properly, and then

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Security Reviews Process

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:03 PM Alaa Sarhan wrote: > > The linked SOP page is empty The link in the original message was broken due to line-wrap. Try: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Security_Team/Standard_Operating_Procedure/Security_Readiness_Reviews

Re: [Wikitech-l] What would you like to see in gerrit?

> Am 08.02.19 um 14:42 schrieb James Forrester: > > I gave up on gerrit's personal dashboard years ago, and instead have pinned > > browser tabs with specific gerrit searches, which are very powerful. > > > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Code Health Newsletter - Issue 2 Volume 1

s/Maintainers) >> [3a][Code Health Group/projects/Code Health Metrics - >> MediaWiki]( >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_Health_Group/projects/Code_Health_Metrics >> ) >> [3b][Test coverage - Documentation](https://doc.wikimedia.org/cover/) >> [3c]https://tools.wmflabs.org/coverme/ >> [3d][Index of /coverage/charts/]( >> https://tools.wmflabs.org/coverage/charts/) >> [4][Code Health Group/Learning Circles - >> MediaWiki]( >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_Health_Group/Learning_Circles) >> [5]https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212135 >> [6a][SonarCloud](https://sonarcloud.io/organizations/wmftest/projects) >> [6b][PhpMetrics >> report]( >> https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/phpmetrics/index.html) >> [6c][Code-Review-Workgroup]( >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3766/) >> [6d][⚓ T211710 Expose code coverage stats for >> Services](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211710) >> >> ___ >> Engineering mailing list >> engineer...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering >> > ___ > Engineering mailing list > engineer...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering > -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making two factor auth less annoying

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 5:13 AM Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > Most of the time my session doesn't work across projects. If I log in to > the English Wikipedia, I have to log in again to mediawiki.org, Hebrew > Wikisource, and Wikidata [...] This (old, erratic, hard to reproduce) bug can usually be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deactivating hyperlink by CSS

___ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/m

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Hackathon 2019: Looking for Proposals

(Reposting without HTML formatting. :-) Hello! Is your organization interested in hosting and co-organizing the 2019 Wikimedia Hackathon? We are looking for proposals! Details about the decision process can be found here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/2019_Decision_Process

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing MediaWiki code search

https://codesearch.wmflabs.org/ is back up now.​ ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Some images are not visible in the preview when you hover over a link to another wikipedia webpage

On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 10:35 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > The first of these pages has a "thumbnail" defined, the second doesn't. > Unfortunately I don't know what generates this data, but perhaps someone > else can help. > In that instance, I believe it's not using the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple overview image about how MW loads resources in clients

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 10:34 PM, mathieu stumpf guntz wrote: > > Seriously, what is the fantasy with banana? Where does it come from? > If you mean the "?modules=banana|phone" in the image, that is (I assume) a reference to a long-lasting meme based on kids using

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2017 Community Wishlist Survey starts today!

Completely fixed link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey :-) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Special Interest Group (SIG) guidance, and the Wiki Replicas SIG

://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164551 -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Web application to upload csv file to wiktionary

Ebooks.com >> >> ___ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tidy will be replaced by RemexHTML on Wikimedia wikis latest by June 2018

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 8:05 AM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: > On 07/11/2017 05:13 AM, Nicolas Vervelle wrote: >> - Where is it possible to change the description displayed in each >> page >> dedicated to a category ? For example, the page for self-closed-ags >> [2] is

Re: [Wikitech-l] ☯I like it!

DO NOT click the link. Generic spam/phishing attempt. (In case it wasn't obvious to everyone :) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wiki-research-l] Video demos of upcoming changes to edit review / RC patrol

___ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liaison, WMF ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2017-03-22 Scrum of Scrums notes

Onwiki at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-03-22 :-) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Monthly page view stats that can now be queried via Pageview API.

link is also really interesting! ( https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc ). Thanks, Analytics. > > Thanks, > > Nuria > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Need example code in Javascript to login API

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:24 PM, Sam Wilson wrote: > > [...] For example, the PGDP WordCheck > system presents the user with a syntax-highlighted view of each page prior > to saving, highlighting *all* punctuation and spaces and newlines, and > making each miss-spelled word

Re: [Wikitech-l] 25 VectorBeta and CPBbeta open tasks need cleanup, please

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Chad wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 3:25 AM Danny B. wrote: > > > -- Původní zpráva -- > > > > Od: Chad > > Komu: Wikimedia developers

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to find a repository?

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 3:48 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/tool-labs-tools-pageviews/ gives me > a 404 for some unknown reason, even though there are Maniphest tasks > associated with this tag. That was just a Capitalization error. Fixed:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's make parsoid i18n great again

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 2:02 AM, Eran Rosenthal wrote: > I rebased https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/247914/ and added some > documentation. > It seems that jenkins got drunk :) > > I made an image macro/command for this, a while ago... say /jenkins

Re: [Wikitech-l] Brownbag: Exiting New Improvements to Phabricator

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman < d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com> wrote: > was this recorded ? > > Yes. They are currently in the process of converting and uploading the recording to Commons. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] Revising Sorting of Notifications on the Fly-Out Menu

rmation on the goals and background of this task, is included in both the phabricator and mediawiki.org links. Much thanks, Quiddity / Nick [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Notifications#Future_plans_and_requests_for_feedback -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liaison

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Gergo Tisza wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > > > That way people can get the information from the nicely-formatted > > source without simultaneously being lured by a not-as-nicely

Re: [Wikitech-l] Because visualizations are cool

> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > -- > > > > Love and waffles, > > PJosepherum > > ___ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikit

[Wikitech-l] Update about on-going work on Notifications, especially cross-wiki notifications

at comments, what design ideas, and what technical concerns do you have? Please tell us on the linked tasks if you can. I'll send further updates, when the planned Beta Feature is about to be ready. On behalf of the Collaboration team, thank you to everyone who has given your h

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git for idiots

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Legoktm wrote: > > Hi, > > On 11/10/2015 09:06 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > > Perhaps it would worth merging and putting to some central location? > > Yes, that sounds like a good idea. I typically recommend >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools repository

On Oct 11, 2015 2:46 PM, "Ilya Korniyko" wrote: > > Is there a repository of tools, research projects etc related to wikimedia > projects? > I think it's a good idea to have one. > I even dream about https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team > taking lead and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Research articles on MediaWiki spam/artificial intelligence

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 3:50 PM, wrote: > > Hi guys, > > As part of my Computer Science degree I have to do a project, which I’ve > decided to do related to MediaWiki spam. > > I’m looking for any articles/papers/research about spam on MediaWiki. > Likewise, anything

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architecture Committee expansion

Quick link for reference/newcomers: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee Congrats Timo :) ​ ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] global cleanup of nowiki

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Kevin Wayne Williams kwwilli...@kwwilliams.com wrote: Subramanya Sastry schreef op 2015/06/20 om 10:49: On 06/20/2015 11:45 AM, Arlo Breault wrote: On Friday, June 19, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: There may be more - I'm still looking for

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-i18n] [Wikimedia-l] ContentTranslation gets to 2000

On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 9:57 AM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: It worries me that downstream we reap the benefits without considering that the upstream projects might need support too. I wish that the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Office hours for Flow - 23 March 2015 19:30 UTC / 12:30 PDT

Hi, A quick reminder, this is starting in 1 hour. Please see below, for the original announcement and links. Thanks, Quiddity On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) nwil...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, (my apologies for cross-posting) We'll be holding an Office hour

[Wikitech-l] Office hours for Flow - 23 March 2015 19:30 UTC / 12:30 PDT

/wiki/Topic:Sdoatsbslsafx6lw and at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/82069 [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Starting conversion of LiquidThreads to Flow at mediawiki.org

message - Von: Nick Wilson (Quiddity) nwil...@wikimedia.org An: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Betreff: [Wikitech-l] Starting conversion of LiquidThreads to Flow at mediawiki.org Datum: Di., März 17, 2015 01:51 LiquidThreads (LQT) has not been well-supported in a long time

Re: [Wikitech-l] Starting conversion of LiquidThreads to Flow at mediawiki.org

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: How about just converting those threads back to Wikitext, instead? That script already exists, I've seen it used on Mediawiki. Will it mess up the pages that have already been converted using that script? Bottom line, it

[Wikitech-l] Starting conversion of LiquidThreads to Flow at mediawiki.org

://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Sandbox -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vendro api in MediaWiki

site and they are asking for the api. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Reference Tooltips beta feature

See also https https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67114:// https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67114phabricator.wikimedia.org https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67114/T67114 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67114 ( Hovercards: Show cards for references ) CCing Prateek. On Feb 2, 2015 5:10 PM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Phabricator monthly statistics - 2015-01

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Quim, Thanks. Just wondering, do we have a graph somewhere that shows trends? There is quite a gap between tasks created and tasks closed, and if that's normal each month then there needs to be some thought about how to fix

Re: [Wikitech-l] Idea for new desktop / mobile kiwix like application

There's also XOWA, and the dev answered my question about the pros and cons of XOWA vs Kiwix, at https://www.reddit.com/r/ https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/2f7lzi/your_own_wikipedia/ck6oa07 wikipedia https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/2f7lzi/your_own_wikipedia/ck6oa07

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC meeting wikignoming (Re: RFC meeting this week)

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: In the next RFC meeting we would like to discuss the following RFC: * Text extraction

Re: [Wikitech-l] Future platforms, devices, and consumers

On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: You know what would be great while I'm offline? Offline access to Wikipedia, via a mobile app! http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Software has an Android app. :) ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Do we have a universal font in production?

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Yuri Astrakhan yastrak...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks Federico, I used /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf but didn't see FreeSerif. DejaVuSans doesn't seem to render Hindi. Is there a font for that? On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Federico

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Juergen Fenn schneeschme...@googlemail.com wrote: 2014-06-06 0:16 GMT+02:00 Danny Horn dh...@wikimedia.org: The Flow team is going to work in a few weeks on automatically archiving talk pages, so that we can enable Flow on pages where there are already

[Wikitech-l] Hovercards - Request for feedback and volunteer-wikis

The Hovercards Beta Feature [1] is inspired by the Navigation Popups gadget. The goal of Hovercards is to make the reading experience better for our readers. When readers hover over links to other articles, they are provided a short summary and image. They can decide whether they need to visit

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikibugs IRC down

to the IRC bot. Havent seen a bug report in several hours ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reducing botspam on #wikimedia-dev

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone! I just merged a change into the new wikibugs that will help reduce botspam on #wikimedia-dev. wikibugs will no longer report bugs on #wikimedia-dev that have been reported in other channels, thus reducing

[Wikitech-l] IRC office hour for Flow

You are invited to an IRC office hour, 18:00-19:00 UTC on 24 October to discuss Flow. A lot of the documentation is in the process of being overhauled, but these 2 pages are a good primer for our short-term plans, and what we're experimenting with, if you haven't seen them already.