Re: [Wikitech-l] [RFC] performance standards for new mediawiki features

2013-03-21 Thread Peter Gehres
From where would you propose measuring these data points? Obviously network latency will have a great impact on some of the metrics and a consistent location would help to define the pass/fail of each test. I do think another benchmark Ops features would be a set of latency-to-datacenter values,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abuse of +2 Powers in Core and Extensions

2013-02-27 Thread Peter Gehres
This only applies to DonationInterface and fundraising code, but self-review also put us in PCI non-compliance [1]. We currently operate at the self-assessed and certified PCI level A, but we have not precluded formal certification at a higher level. [1] - PCI-DSS v2 - 6.3.2

Re: [Wikitech-l] suggestion: replace CAPTCHA with better approaches

2012-07-24 Thread Peter Gehres
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Leslie Carr lc...@wikimedia.org wrote: I agree that better tools and non captcha based tech are the way to go. At a previously very-spammed company, we learned how no matter how

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please preload a space in the page for the banner

2011-11-21 Thread Peter Gehres
FWIW, we have pretty much standardized on a banner height of 172px and, to my knowledge, have no plans to modify that. If we did, it would get smaller and not larger. On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.orgwrote: This has already been hashed out technically, and is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please preload a space in the page for the banner

2011-11-21 Thread Peter Gehres
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 4:18 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 November 2011 00:14, Peter Gehres li...@pgehres.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: This has already been hashed out technically, and is doable. The only issue