Re: [Wikitech-l] Git for idiots

gt;> Yes, that sounds like a good idea. I typically recommend > >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Wctaiwan/Gerrit_cheatsheet> to > >> people who are confused with git. > >> > > > > +1, as someone who uses it rarely enou

Re: [Wikitech-l] Skinning tutorial

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Isarra Yos <zhoris...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/11/15 02:06, S Page wrote: > >> I meant the on-wiki three-part skinning thing that's been >> around for a while and introduces in a nutshell as "This page is part 1 of >> a thre

Re: [Wikitech-l] Skinning tutorial

tter. > > -I > > ps - Yes, I may have read motherfuckingwebsite.com a few too many times > before writing that up. I, uh, sort of apologise. > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Skinning tutorial

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Isarra Yos <zhoris...@gmail.com> replied: > On 10/11/15 21:59, S Page wrote: > >> The tutorial is pretty good IMO, the problem is it forced repetition > > > This may just be because I did it at three in the morning; it probably > do

Re: [Wikitech-l] documentation files in git and .{media, }wiki extension (bikeshedding!)

Niedzielski mentioned. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual%3ACoding_conventions=revision=1931325=1931314 [2] https://help.github.com/articles/supported-mediawiki-formats/ [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91626 [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.25 new extension registration - PHP constants

On Oct 30, 2015 11:06, "Florian Schmidt" wrote: [Thanks for helping the developer community!] > I'm wondering, if dependencies like yours are widely used and if extending the requires section support to extensions would help to solve your problem (with that

Re: [Wikitech-l] DISPLAYTITLE

dding one class rises to the level of an architectural change that would prompt an RFC. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Process Cheers, -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https:

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP CodeSniffer is now voting on MediaWiki core patches

he hard work of a lot of different people, PHP CodeSniffer is > now voting on all MediaWiki core patchsets! It checks for basic code > style issues automatically -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.w

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch?

ax and escaping rules that the Cirrus back-end supports, but a helper that inserts the prefixes could work. -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Port mw-vagrant to Raspberry Pi ( arm )

Congratulations on the container, mention it on mw.org somewhere. It seems with that you've got half the battle won. MediaWiki-vagrant's roles let you easily add features to a development wiki, but maybe instead of trying to get all MediaWiki-vagrant's vagrant and puppet machinery running in your

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interested in working on a WikiWidget for algorithm visualization

wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Directory/Science,_technology,_and_engineering_WikiProjects [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/140_New_Montgomery -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question: Should wikimedia wikis such as wikipedia be updated with a user frendly desgn

when vector came out. We could create another skin > to > > replace vector as we did with monobook or update vector with a new look > > that has bold colours and goes along with mediawiki code and is also > mobile > > optimised even though we have the mobilefrontend extension so

Re: [Wikitech-l] Rotating pictures idea

t; Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

19 [1]; and it's more efficient for me. The recent DWIM ("Do what I mean") improvements while you're writing a post are a delight. Thanks Collaboration team <3 ! -- =S Page WMF Tech writer [1] > The main goals for the Flow project are: - to make the wiki discussion system **more ac

[Wikitech-l] Office Hour about mediawiki.org API pages Tuesday Sept 1

://devhub.wmflabs.org/wiki/API:Web_APIs_hub -- =S Page WMF Tech writer, and Quim Gil Engineering Community manager ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Issue with Gadget dependencies and ResourceLoader

were to rewrite morebits.js from scratch, wouldn't it be better to create mediaWiki.moreBits.{quickForm, simpleWindow, ...} rather than window.MoreBits ? Cheers, -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Geohack tools

with coordinates that are nearby. -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-api] Bikeshedding a good name for the api.php API

like there's a full replacement. All the code name suggestions would be making things less clear, not more. If it had started out with a code name there would be historical inertia, but using a code name now would just be silly. -- =S Page WMF Tech writer

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] [BREAKING CHANGE] Use of document.write no longer supported

/Manual:Coding_conventions/JavaScript [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Developing_with_ResourceLoader#Debugging -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] compressed old_text

:) -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Geolocation and WikiVoyage

There's an article about getting pages nearby with action=geosearch, http://devhub.wmflabs.org/wiki/API:Showing_nearby_wiki_information [1], I welcome feedback. On Jul 21, 2015 10:40, Sylvain Arnouts sylvain.arno...@wanadoo.fr wrote: I know it's possible with Wikidata API to enter a position

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data and Developer Hub protoype

of Use must be prominently featured in the Developer Hub'. I was thinking of mentioning it in the three adding it to the footer, but maybe that's not prominent enough. Great feedback, thanks. -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data and Developer Hub protoype

Thanks for the feedback (seriously). On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 5:53 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: More to the point: why not just make dev.wikimedia.org a round robin that points to either https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data or

[Wikitech-l] Data and Developer Hub protoype

://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/dev.wikimedia.org , or file Phabricator tickets in the project dev.wikimedia.org [1]. Since December 2013 Moiz Syed and others discussed creating a thing to expose our APIs and data to developers. When S Page moved to WMF tech writer, he wrote some articles

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Modernizing our content platform: Kick-off meeting on Tuesday

://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91683 -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] which title to use in skin data?

://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103454 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#How_do_I_hide_the_main_page_title.3F [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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

be reserved for experimental or even beta APIs. Continuing queries seems like a stable—and pervasive—part of the API. Cheers, -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Overriding Jenkins versus make-work patches

#1 sounds right, Jenkins serves us, not vice versa. The core change's commit message should reference the two required extension changes. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

not a full reference. -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Open Help Conference Sprints

? Cheers, -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] API returns empty strings for boolean fields?

#Using_the_new_JSON_results_format Cheers, -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Simplifying the WMF deployment cadence

Benito, Grossmeier! He made the trains run on time [1] Tuesday: New branch cut, deployed to test wikis and mediawiki.org as before, I assume. [1] Or not, http://www.transportmyths.co.uk/mussolini.htm -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] FYI: HTMLForm is now available in OOUI format

://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HTMLForm [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F169381 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100401 -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] First impression with Differential

and encourage a standard format? Independent of Differential and separately from whether we make it mandatory. It seems developers have to do git config --global commit.template ~/path/to/better/git_commit.message , but we could put the file in a MediaWiki project like core Regards, -- =S Page WMF

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

, -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Tracking Antifeature?

@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] API result formatting changes (being announced a little late), for developers

, code using ApiResult::getResultData() and not using ApiResult::transformForBC() may need updating. Brad, is it OK to use formatversion=2 in extensions running on 1.25? -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] API result formatting changes (being announced a little late), for developers

modules, please do reach out to me. Let me know off-list how I can help update the docs. To start, I think this change description should go on the wiki. [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150428-EventLogging [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/207297/ -- =S

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC and Outreachy results out!

, Daniel Let's all welcome them into the Wikimedia family! Thanks, Niharika. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- =S Page WMF Tech writer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Designing a MediaWiki Skin

(), 'mediawiki.ui.button' = array(), 'mediawiki.ui.input' = array(), 'mediawiki.ui.icon' = array(), 'mediawiki.ui.text' = array(), ); I added this to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgResourceModuleSkinStyles and mention this global in Manual:Skinning. -- =S Page WMF Tech

Re: [Wikitech-l] odd namespace number

/Architecture/API#Use_cases [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Flow/API -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

A reorg that makes sense without TLA buzzword decoding \o/ (Are you sure you didn't leave out the MediaWiki Platform Community API Core Features Development team :) ) Best wishes and high hopes for y'all. -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant now has support for install in Linux Containers (LXC)

as an LXC in a VM on a Mac can be faster than running Vagrant as its own VM. 8-) -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing service-runner, a startup module / supervisor for node services

] https://github.com/zapty/forever-service -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video Uploads to Commons

. I added a section Online conversion tools to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Converting_video -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video Uploads to Commons

or maybe join the existing videoconvert tool account). -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting debug logging to PSR-3

, or both? (And even for the legacy LTS releases 1.23.8 and 1.19.23.) [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Backward_compatibility#Trunk_extensions.27_compatibility_with_old_MediaWiki_versions [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_registration -- =S Page WMF Tech writer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Brion's role change within WMF

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: a open door to things that can freak us again. ^ world's greatest job title for Brion's business card Robla wrote Brion,let me know how I can help! Ditto. Great news indeed. -- =S Page WMF Tech writer

Re: [Wikitech-l] The future of shared hosting

://github.com/CannyComputing/*frontend-mediawiki https://github.com/CannyComputing/frontend-mediawiki* , or you'd have separate container for each service. I can't figure out the pricing. -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla-Phabricator migration (almost) completed

in Trello to Phabricator, using string and glue or whatever. I invite anyone else attempting project migration to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T36 and the team practices mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices -- =S Page Features engineer

Re: [Wikitech-l] [EE] Is simplicity is the key to success of Echo and Watchlist?

to the title bars of new posts. We could add a Highlight all posts newer than this to each post's action menu, but it feels a bit esoteric. User JS or a gadget could easily do it. Regards, -- =S Page Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Template RFC

appearance to replace homebrew and jQuery UI dialogs. As I understand it, besides VE of course Media Viewer has an OOUI dialog in its Use this file pop-up. -- =S Page Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bikeshedding a good name for the api.php API

signature below :) -- =S Page Core features team (not MediaWiki core or platform) engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of July 21st

tries to display whatever users gave as the topic title in the page heading, notifications, recent changes, watchlists, etc. rather than the page title. Thanks for helping to localize Flow! -- =S Page WMF Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML templating progress; Knockout Components curly brace syntax

Node.js programs. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Mantle#Developer_features -- =S Page Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Front-End Standardization Chat

share dialog uses it.) Regards, -- =S Page WMF Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

for discussion pages. You can view the diff between revisions of a post, but editing posts is somewhat rare. Generating a diff of an entire topic with new posts, updates, hide operations, etc. seems challenging. -- =S Page Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] How to create login / signup links cleanly?

in a [$1 link text] link. Thanks for any advice, -- =S Page Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Requests with data URIs appended to proper URLs

of JavaScript inserting the CSS? [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15481088/are-unquoted-data-uris-valid-in-css -- =S Page Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

to *want* it enabled on the talk pages they visit. -- =S Page Core Features (Flow) engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML templating decision soon?

code :) [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Mantle#Templates [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Architecture/Templating -- =S Page WikiMedia Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] VisualEditor template editing interface

a template in a new tab just to remind me of its parameters. -- =S Page Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abandoning -1 code reviews automatically?

be improved further, but the answer is to respond to their comment with I've filed bug N for that suggestion, and invite them to remove the -1. -- =S Page Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

and overt hostility towards the art of design here (its debatable whether this actually represents progress, it seems like things have shifted more to managers at WMF make the decisions, etc.). Regards, -- =S Page Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML templating systems MediaWiki - is this summary right?

#Existing_implementations_in_MediaWiki_extensions [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Epic_Front-End#Templating [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer -- =S Page Features engineer on the Flow team ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] MediaWiki-Vagrant can run MediaWiki under HHVM!

Special:Version says PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.9 (fpm-fcgi) :-( I've tried killing php5-fpm, restarting apache2, ` sudo /etc/init.d/hhvm start` etc. More details in https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60384 -- =S Page Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia mobile app rewrite early test builds available

, with some app manifest munging might the Firefox app work on them too? At what point does a Web app become a modern HTML5 web site, or is it vice versa? :) [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI#APIs -- =S Page Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Design] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

to extract one file is $ dpkg --fsys-tarfile /path/to/gsfonts_blahblah.deb | tar xOf - ./usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019003l.pfb /tmp/NimbusSansL.pfb and I sent the files to you on a 3 1/2 floppy ☺ Cheers, -- =S Page Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

of MediaWiki, so their font stack was removed. The VectorBeta feature applies better typography everywhere. It's really nice IMO. -- =S Page Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Which MariaDB engine does Wikimedia use?

/18f719ef3d297878e198a864f5bb31dd9cb047af/manifests%2Frole%2Fcoredb.pp -- =S Page WMF Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] ContentHandler hook deprecations

it in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:How_to_debug#PHP_errors :) -- =S Page software engineer on Editor Engagement Experiments ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: C. Scott Ananian joins Wikimedia as Senior Features Engineer

Nell + OLPC/Litl nth-gen + (Wikipedia + WikiBooks) + WP:Zero = the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer: a Propædeutic Enchiridion for us thetes! ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age ) Welcome C. Scott and thanks for all your past, present, and future contributions. -- =S Page software

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal regarding a distinct Extension infobox status color for status unmaintained

in Category:Not_LTS_ready . Cheers, -- =S Page software engineer on Editor Engagement Experiments ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Semantic MediaWiki at the Danish National Library

I like Josef Assad's explanation of SMW in place of the big load of do-not-care on its Wikipedia page : Semantic Mediawiki allows you to attach properties to wiki pages. And to query the pages based on these properties. It doesn't quite capture the elephant (e.g. you add these properties

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki errors on Wikimedia wikis

machine. For those that have access, https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_deploy_code#Test_and_monitor_your_live_code and https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logs have advice about monitoring logs and graphs. -- =S Page engineer on Editor Engagement Experiments

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki errors on Wikimedia wikis

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:06 PM, S Page sp...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: just the exception names w/o backtrace should be safe (?)) [20-Jun-2013 18:54:45] Fatal error: Call to a member function getCode() on a non-object

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing the Wikimedia technical search tool

/docs/structured_data talks about rich snippets available to custom search (I've never tried it). [1] like the essential jump to Wikipedia page 'w' bookmarklet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s . Why search when you can go direct. -- =S Page software engineer on E3

[Wikitech-l] Search documentation

don't know the details on the above. -- =S Page software engineer on Editor Engagement Experiments ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] migrating hooks doc to doxygen?

near the wfRunHooks call it's more likely people will update it when making changes. Now that we have mw.hook() in JavaScript we have a second universe of hooks to think about :) -- =S Page software engineer on Editor Engagement Experiments ___ Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Doxygen tags - a proposal

Perhaps Ori is pointing out that doxygen (and jsduck) require needless verbiage. The tools aren't smart enough to infer obvious information from source on their own (or maybe they are but you're not sure and you see other comments using these symbols so you copy and paste), so you wind up

Re: [Wikitech-l] New git-review lets you configure 'origin' as the gerrit remote

: MyProjRepo% git branch --set-upstream-to origin/master master MyProjRepo% git branch --set-upstream-to origin/master my_new_feature etc. -- =S Page ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Just noticed GitBlit

}}that template add a lot of verbiage to Extension pages, and should just output a link to a git.wikimedia.org/summary/ URL and a link to Help downloading an extension. But I'm not familiar with its history. -- =S Page software engineer on E3 ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Quo Vadis, Vagrant

|vb| vb.gui = true end end -- =S Page software engineer on E3 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git for idiots

). A big problem with the documents is inconsistent setup. They don't even agree whether the remote should be called origin, gerrit, or review, because the experts who add to them have different opinions. -- =S Page software engineer on E3 ___ Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Coding style: Language construct spacing

was different back then, or perhaps there was a different coding style. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- =S Page software engineer on E3

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who uses MobileFrontend?

]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- =S Page software engineer on E3 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Testing and monitoring deployed code

#Test_and_monitor_your_live_code I think we can express best practices better than stay on IRC in case people yell 'Fire!' (though that's a good start :) Cheers, -- =S Page software engineer on Editor Engagement Experiments ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clicktracking being phased out

the extension: http://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Extension:Click_Tracking Very useful, thanks. -- =S Page software engineer on Editor Engagement Experiments ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] New git-review version revives year-old bug

has an up-to-date view of the remote master. Roan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- =S Page software engineer on E3

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit actively discourages discussion

://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46792 -- =S Page software engineer on E3 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-api] Provisional API extension for CAPTCHA on action=createaccount

APICreateAccountBeforeCreate hook. It would be nice if captcha was always checked on its own hook instead of sharing a hook with other extensions. That would let a future validation API run the username past TitleBlacklist and AntiSpoof without getting shot down by the captcha. Cheers, -- =S Page

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment Highlights - 2013-03-15 (NOW WITH LIGTNING DEPLOYS!)

://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_deploy_code -- =S Page software engineer on E3 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] 40 million links to Wikipedia

://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q164757 ! I assume that other knowledge projects have noticed these entities, and that Q numbers are becoming a lingua franca. I'm reserving Q42666789 for my talented sure-to-be famous offspring. :-) Google clearly enjoys the fruits of Wikipedians' hard work. -- =S Page

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

community to start using it :-] Yes, so many facts! -- =S Page software engineer on E3 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

meeting buttonlabel=Create a new page for a Human Resources meeting default=Human Resources/Meetings/{{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY}} width=40 bgcolor=#f0f0ff /inputbox [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Search_box and similar. -- =S Page software engineer on Editor Engagement

[Wikitech-l] varying ResourceLoader module dependencies

. Thanks for any insight, I'll add it to mediawiki.org. -- =S Page software engineer on Editor Engagement Experiments ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] varying ResourceLoader module dependencies

what is loading your module. If you only want to load the module for certain configurations, that sounds like a job for $wgExtensionFunctions -bawolff On 2013-01-27 8:58 PM, S Page sp...@wikimedia.org wrote: How can an extension have a soft requirement on a module, so that it only adds

Re: [Wikitech-l] Advertising changes to MediaWiki messages in core

://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslationsmessage=Welcomecreationnamespace=8 [5] https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslationsmessage=Welcomecreation-msgnamespace=8 -- =S Page software engineer on E3 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Customization of welcomecreation on different wikis

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: 2012/12/4 S Page sp...@wikimedia.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:S_Page_%28WMF%29/welcomecreation_messages This made me feel very \o/. Research about current customizations of messages on projects

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jenkins now lints javascript!

my `git clone https://github.com/walm/jshint.vim.git` in ~/.vim/bundle is loaded. Timo, should we be using .jshintrc per directory or lines like /*jshint multistr:true */ at the top of files? Or both? grunt.js build, love it -- =S Page software engineer on E3

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