Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Frances Hocutt

2015-05-26 Thread Peter Coombe
or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Wmfall mailing list wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall -- Peter Coombe Fundraising Production Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Disabling JS support in additional browsers

2014-08-26 Thread Peter Coombe
One thing that comes to mind is that CentralNotice is dependent on JS. Blacklisting browsers means they won't see CentralNotice banners at all. This isn't really a big concern for Fundraising: it's a small percentage of views, and not having to support these browsers in our increasingly

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] 2300 UTC Monday: grid system discussion

2014-06-02 Thread Peter Coombe
IANA grid expert, but I think it would be a huge missed opportunity not to let this be used for content. It could be a great help with pages like Portals, which are currently reliant on loads of inline styles for layout, or worse, tables. Peter On 2 June 2014 15:39, C. Scott Ananian

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed body font stack for Latin

2014-04-11 Thread Peter Coombe
On 11 April 2014 20:30, Erwin Dokter er...@darcoury.nl wrote: ... Thank you for your work on this! Next up I may think about the headers font stack; While Georgia is a good serif; I detest its use of text figures. I previously suggested a solution to this that should work for most users

Re: [Wikitech-l] Latest Snowden docs MediaWiki

2014-02-18 Thread Peter Coombe
On 18 February 2014 07:45, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: ... The coverage I've read so far seems to suggest that he had legitimate access to the data and didn't exploit implementation details of the security system (Well the technical implementation. Arguably he exploited

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm back from Hacker School

2014-01-04 Thread Peter Coombe
Hi Sumana, nice to have you back! Hope the sabbatical was a great experience for you. Peter On 4 January 2014 03:48, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi! As of yesterday, I'm back after my three-month sabbatical at Hacker School. I'm in catchup mode so I haven't yet

Re: [Wikitech-l] Search documentation

2013-06-18 Thread Peter Coombe
There were over 300,000 views of [[en:Help:Searching]] in June. [1] It definitely needs some improvement, but having some accurate documentation of MediaWiki search features to work from would really help. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_Project/page_statistics Peter On 18

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] [X-POST] Universal Language Selector(ULS) Deployment - Phase 1

2013-06-05 Thread Peter Coombe
What is the rationale for moving ULS from the personal toolbar to the interlanguage links on some sites? I find this change odd: * makes location and appearance of ULS inconsistent between sites * personal toolbar seems the conventional place for per-account settings and tools * features it is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Responsive web design

2012-07-27 Thread Peter Coombe
This is one of the aims of the planned 'Athena' skin: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Athena Pete / the wub On 27 July 2012 11:01, John Elliot j...@jj5.net wrote: Are there any initiatives in the MediaWiki community for a MediaWiki theme that supports 'responsive design' [1] -- where content

Re: [Wikitech-l] StripState and ampersands?

2012-07-02 Thread Peter Coombe
On 2 July 2012 16:02, Daniel Barrett d...@vistaprint.com wrote: On 29/06/12 21:42, Daniel Barrett wrote: How can I prevent this conversion so ampersands (and presumably other special characters) are preserved? Followup up my own question: StripState is not relevant here. It's the fact that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inline styles trouble on the mobile site

2012-07-02 Thread Peter Coombe
On 28 June 2012 04:21, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Jon Robson wrote: More concretely can anyone give me a specific example of an inline style that is essential on mobile that we simply cannot scrub? We've been over this repeatedly, haven't we? Sometimes there is _data_ in the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Update on IPv6

2012-06-08 Thread Peter Coombe
On 8 June 2012 16:18, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 June 2012 10:12, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: The problem was never IPv6. The problem was always about the unspoken expectation that everyone else would just drop everything else they have going on to patch up all the stuff

Re: [Wikitech-l] Watchlist improvements are on the way

2012-05-16 Thread Peter Coombe
Hi Aaron, it's great that someone's working on this - it's a much needed improvement. I was messing around with watchlist header ideas recently, and found it looked quite good to have notices in a floating box off to the right, so they're separated from the actual options. Never did try actually