[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki's manual of style for occasional patch contributors

2014-07-16 Thread Rainer Rillke
We have a number of contributors who do prefer contributing through web-interfaces or minimal installations to MediaWiki's code base. Often they run -1 with MediaWiki's coding conventions and do not have the time to set up commit hooks [1]. To save them some work re-indenting or adding a space

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployments of new, radically different default features

2014-05-18 Thread Rainer Rillke
Sun May 18 00:20:10 UTC 2014 Brian Wolff bawolff at gmail.com wrote: I do think there are probably better ways to handle notification of new features. Perhaps a pop up the first time new feature is activated explaining the feature and how to disable it. I'm not really sure. Yeah, that would

[Wikitech-l] Deployments of new, radically different default features

2014-05-17 Thread Rainer Rillke
Recently, Media Viewer[1] (MMV) has been switched at Wikimedia Commons to be default. As some people do not care a lot for beta features or new features, do not read the mailing lists and overlook main discussion forums or are just unable to understand English, they were surprised and confused

[Wikitech-l] [GSoC] Chemical Markup support for Wikimedia Commons

2014-03-28 Thread Rainer Rillke
simple projects grew into dimensions that were not expected resulting in software that is not ready to use till today. Curious about your opinion. Kind regards Rainer Rillke [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-June/010715.html [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail

[Wikitech-l] [GSoC] Chemical Markup support for Wikimedia Commons

2014-03-28 Thread Rainer Rillke
simple projects grew into dimensions that were not expected resulting in software that is not ready to use till today. Curious about your opinion. Kind regards Rainer Rillke [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-June/010715.html [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail

[Wikitech-l] Pronunciation Recording Gadget

2014-03-27 Thread Rainer Rillke
that is actually working, intuitive to use and easy to deploy for Wiktionary administrators. Please share your opinion on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Finish_Pronunciation_Recording#Discussion -- Rainer Rillke https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rillke [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org