[Wikitech-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Upcoming Changes

edia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey/Future_Of_The_Wishlist/Preview_of_the_New_Wishlist> . Best regards, Sandister Tei <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:STei_(WMF)> (she/her) Movement Communications Specialist (Community Tech & Trust and Sa

[Wikitech-l] Redesigning the Community Wishlist Survey

ons>, where you can find a link to proceed to book time to talk to him, or share your ideas directly on the talkpage with him. Best regards, Sandister Tei <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:STei_(WMF)> (she/her) Community Relations Specialist (Community Tech

[Wikitech-l] Noteworthy update on IP masking project

ation> . –– Sandister Tei (she/her) Community Relations Specialist (Anti-Harassment & Trust and Safety) meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:STei_(WMF) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Historical use of latin1 fields in MySQL

On 2 May 2017 at 19:10, Mark Clements (HappyDog) wrote: > Hi all, > > I seem to recall that a long, long time ago MediaWiki was using UTF-8 > internally but storing the data in 'latin1' fields in MySQL. > I remember a old thread in 2009.

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

Haha.. great. Wellcome back Brion. I am just a lurker on this mail list, but your post are always so full of energy. I love if that energy is the energy of mediawiki. I hope that energy inspire others to not just the day to day process but the crazy things you mention. I remember when the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Long term strategy for math on wikipedia

-- recursively, of course, building the equation bottom up. But you should talk to our devs if you need more information on MathJax internals. Peter. On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:40 AM, tei'' oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 July 2013 21:12, Peter Krautzberger peter.krautzber

Re: [Wikitech-l] Long term strategy for math on wikipedia

On 24 July 2013 21:12, Peter Krautzberger peter.krautzber...@mathjax.org wrote: .. @Oscar that's the idea of bug 48036https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48036 To test the user experience try this bookmarklethttps://gist.github.com/pkra/5500316 :-O This is pretty. And if it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Long term strategy for math on wikipedia

On 23 July 2013 11:20, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com wrote: I'm wondering if the lack of reactions so far is positive or negative. It's negative, it shows that few people have the confidence to think they have something worthwhile to contribute on this niche area. :( I read

Re: [Wikitech-l] scaled media (thumbs) as *temporary* files, not stored forever

On 31 August 2012 19:45, Isarra Yos zhoris...@gmail.com wrote: On 31/08/2012 08:57, Brion Vibber wrote: Heck yes. Generate some standard sizes at upload time and let the browser scale if a funny size is demanded. Modern browsers scale photos nicely, not like the nearest-neighbor ugliness from

Re: [Wikitech-l] $( 'div' ) vs. $( 'div /') in coding conventions (and methods for building DOMs with jQuery)

I will rescue two facts listed in this thread, about using jquery and creating tags [quote][1] Basically $( 'span class=foo' ) will break completely in IE7/IE8. [quote][2] It's important to note however that IE required that input and button tags are created with a type (if they are going to

Re: [Wikitech-l] $( 'div' ) vs. $( 'div /') in coding conventions

On 28 August 2012 09:57, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 28/08/12 13:04, Daniel Friesen wrote: I still can't believe the high-level jQuery answer after all these years to Select a div with an id provided by the user is Use `$( div# + userInput )` and hope there are no special

Re: [Wikitech-l] best way to clean up the wiki from 3Gb of spam

On 24 August 2012 09:27, Yury Katkov katkov.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone! I have found myself in the following situation several times: I created a wiki for some event or small project, everything works fine and after the event or project was done - nobody have seen this wiki for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lua deployed to www.mediawiki.org

On 23 August 2012 08:18, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) smazel...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: But Lua is so fast compared to wikitext that our Lua developers will have to exercise a lot of creativity to find applications that will

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedians are rightfully wary

Well. duh. A community will always give incremental features. This is the bazaar thing, where you can find everything, and is not a bad thing if the architecture support a bazaar (like a command line). When you are actually building a cathedral, you need a central entity that take all the input,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha for non-English speakers II

Sounds like captchas is something you want to make plug and play, and use some external project that is evolving quickly to stay in the winning side of a arms race. Also sounds like captchas is something you want to be handled by locals, to avoid the situation a chinese wiki with a english

Re: [Wikitech-l] Responsive web design

On 27 July 2012 12:53, Peter Coombe thewub.w...@googlemail.com wrote: This is one of the aims of the planned 'Athena' skin: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Athena Pete / the wub Very interesting. Looks very good already. On 27 July 2012 12:01, John Elliot j...@jj5.net wrote: Are there any

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sorry if inconvenient : SVG-to-png rendering on Wikimedia

On 27 June 2012 14:38, Petr Kadlec petr.kad...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 June 2012 13:33, Achim Flammenkamp ac...@uni-bielefeld.de wrote: 2) I wonder why the SVG-graphic devolpers use such an improper(?) rendering- philosophy. All these articfacts on the Iran-flag would have been avoided, if

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

You can always have a line on the bottom of a mobile page, with Do the page render correctly?. And somehow use it to flag pages that render incorrectly. Wooot, perhaps this flagging may even save the user agent of the visitor using the link. -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje.

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

On 28 June 2012 16:37, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: You can always have a line on the bottom of a mobile page, with  Do the page render correctly?. And somehow use it to flag pages that render incorrectly

Re: [Wikitech-l] So what's up with video ingestion?

semi-offtopic comment: ffmpeg is awesome, somebody should send a cake to these people, or something. *sends love his way* -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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

http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/images/specificitywars-05v2.jpg I think theres a limitation to that, .nomobile .darthvader .darthvader will not work as expected (I think) On 11 May 2012 10:24, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: What about this idea: We could introduce a

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's the best place to do post-upload processing on a file? Etc.

I am just a random user lurking on the mail-list, nor a mw dev, but I wonder why you don't look on the SVG handling already on mediawiki. What you are doing is rendering, with one added dimension :D http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings#SVG This stuff has to do things in a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lua: return versus print

On 13 April 2012 13:45, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: At the moment, in the Lua support extension we have been developing, wikitext is output to the wiki via the return value of a function. For example in wikitext you would have: {{#invoke:MyModule|myFunction}} Then in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki talk page posting

On 12 April 2012 00:00, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/04/12 23:52, MZMcBride wrote: Now, whether for your purposes using the API is the best option, I don't know. But for my purposes, the API has been wonderful. The only major hiccup I hit was a few weeks ago when database lag

Re: [Wikitech-l] Save to userspace

On 10 April 2012 10:57, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, this is a proposal for a new feature to mediawiki core or a new extension (I would myself prefer an extension, but given that the development process seems to be broken, per my previous email, it's likely not possible for a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Time to redirect to https by default?

Perhaps have a black list of countries that are know to break the privacy of communications, then make https default for logued users in these countries. This may help because: - It only affect a subgroup of users (the ones from these countries) - It only affect a subgroup of that subgroup,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Url Shortner Service

On 26 March 2012 08:38, Ariel T. Glenn ar...@wikimedia.org wrote: .. As one of those non latin script users, it irks me no end when I see a url that is opaque to me soley because it's been url-encoded.  I would love a smarter url shortener; there's no reason projects with a latin1 script

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video codecs and mobile

On 20 March 2012 02:24, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: .. In theory we can produce a configuration with TimedMediaHandler to produce both H.264 and Theora/WebM transcodes, bringing Commons media to life for mobile users and Apple and Microsoft browser users. What do we think about this?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video codecs and mobile

On 20 March 2012 16:26, Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com wrote: ... It would seem possible to bake Theora or WebM support into the iOS app and direct users there if browsing from mobile Safari. Performance would not be so great given it would only be software decoding (this is why I was

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video codecs and mobile

On 20 March 2012 15:03, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: .. Now, if we were to take this path, how do we flood Wikipedia with videos? Live interviews in all biographies of living people? If this turns out to be completely unrealistic, because we can't produce videos in sufficient

Re: [Wikitech-l] JS Iteration (was: Using prototypical inheritance in dynamically loaded ResourceLoader modules)

On 19 March 2012 16:29, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: ontopic :) .. If you need non-linear keys, don't create an array! code var myObj = {}; // not [] myObj.property = value; var customProp = getPropName(); myObj[customProp] = value; for ( var key in myObj ) {  // myObj[key]

Re: [Wikitech-l] PDF Download

For everyone working on this type of things: Thanks!, you guys and gale are my personal hero :D Countless PHP apps need to create PDF files one way or another. Is a serius pain in the ... Or usually is. I never tried TCPDF. Will these PDF files in UTF-8 urdu/other be readable?, It will be funny

Re: [Wikitech-l] Opengrok for Mediawiki code

Heres a tool to explore a code base, desktop only (no nice server here). http://sourcenav.berlios.de/ Its based on the old red-hat navigator, ...so is very old, and look like something from 1985, but It works (I just tested: download, unzip, configure make make install ). -- -- ℱin del

Re: [Wikitech-l] Language templates missing from Mediawiki dumps

I can see that you made the same question 2 years ago and nobody helped you :( on that point. If I remember correctly, recreating the database is uncharted waters just now, and theres a call for anyone tryiing to do it, to document the problems and solutions. To help people tryiing it on the

Re: [Wikitech-l] JavaScript profiling

On 31 January 2012 18:09, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:36:02 -0800, Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: *Cough* some random article about making js that is not abusing the slower parts of the language http://www.bcherry.net/talks/js-better-faster  *Cough

Re: [Wikitech-l] JavaScript profiling

*Cough* some random article about making js that is not abusing the slower parts of the language http://www.bcherry.net/talks/js-better-faster *Cough* -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Escaping messages

On 24 January 2012 15:57, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:16:48 -0800, Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 January 2012 06:59, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: .. Don't delude yourself into thinking that you can easily blacklist

Re: [Wikitech-l] Decentralized data center

If I remember correctly, a backup of database is in a public folder, so anyone can download it. Some people do it, to run analysis and do some interesting science/tech projects. If the FBI and the Interpol put the wikimedia people in jail (thats not going to happend), anybody in a country

Re: [Wikitech-l] Escaping messages

On 24 January 2012 06:59, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: .. Don't delude yourself into thinking that you can easily blacklist the elements that would run a script. http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html What about using textNodes?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: wikicaptcha on GitHub

On 19 January 2012 11:19, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/1/15 Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs: Дана Wednesday 11 January 2012 18:19:14 Cristian Consonni написа: However, to my knowledge there is not a single OCR that exports this data, nor is there a standard format

Re: [Wikitech-l] SOPA banner implementation

On 16 January 2012 02:31, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:33 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: The question becomes: how will this be implemented? I assume some kind of CentralNotice banner with some CSS absolute positioning or something? Is that right?

Re: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

On 12 January 2012 17:09, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:04 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 January 2012 16:00, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: The Wikimedia Foundation is dedicated to a harassment-free conference experience

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki 2.0

On 7 December 2011 10:33, Dmitriy Sintsov ques...@rambler.ru wrote: ... Is Javascript really that good? Some people dislike prototypical inheritance, it seems that jQuery prefers to use wrappers instead (that's a kind of suboptimal architecture). Also, Google had some complains about

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Based Open Source Project - Help On Licencing

If you take a open source proyect, and develop another open source proyect based on it, you are forking. You must continue with the same license the original authors used. This is a must, if you can't convince all the original authors to allow you to use a different license (hard if theres a lot

Re: [Wikitech-l] Standards for communication between antivandalism tools

complete off-topic I has ben following this interesting thread, and some links connected here. Doing that I have found this: http://code.google.com/p/php-console/ Is a chrome extension + a php class that created a out of band communication from the php error generation to the desktop, opening

Re: [Wikitech-l] IE6

This site is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 2.0 or higher. Download Netscape Now! http://web.archive.org/web/19961226001115/www.cae.wisc.edu/~agnew/sp/luna.html It seems that these messages don't get the point of the web. That is to let everyone browse the web with whatever is available to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ratio of interwiki bots' edits

On 13 January 2011 13:23, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: ... This is a major reason to have the Interlanguage extension finally enabled. Besides a MAJOR cleaning-up in Recent Changes in all Wikipedias, it will give a somewhat clearer picture of the activity in the ones.

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

On 4 January 2011 16:00, Alex Brollo alex.bro...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/1/4 Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com ... What a creative use of #lst allows, if it is really an efficient, light routine, is to build named variables and arrays of named variables into one page; I can't imagine what a

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

On 1 January 2011 03:03, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: On this note, MTV Networks (my previous job) switched from using Mediawiki to Confluence a couple years ago. They mainly cited ease of use and Microsoft Office integration as the reasons. Personally I hated it, except for the

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

With open source software, there are people who think “that’s dumb,” there are people who think “I want to see it fixed” and there are people who think “I can do something about it.” The people at the intersection of all three power open source. A lot of people in the open source project Y

[Wikitech-l] Considering mirroring mediawiki-1.16.0.tar.gz

Hi, Just a sugestion. Downloading the last version of MediaWiki seems to take ages ATM. Maybe servers are overloaded. And not mirror is offered. $ wget http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.0.tar.gz this takes ages I have managed to download with this: $ svn checkout

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaboration between staff and volunteers: a two-way street

What is this? I have never read something like this before ...(since 28-2-2002) Maybe some people need to take a phone and talk with other people. There are some things that can't be conducted by emails. -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikisource books and web 1.0 pages (was: pas de sujet)

On 13 August 2010 10:27, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: ... If we applied this web 2.0 principle to Wikibooks and Wikisource, we wouldn't need to have pages with previous/next links. We could just have smooth, continuous scrolling in one long sequence. Readers could still arrive at a

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikipedia is one of the slower sites on the web

On 12 August 2010 00:01, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: ... I'm sorry to disappoint you but none of the issues you wrote down here are any new. If after reading any books or posts you think we have deficiencies, mostly it is because of one of two reasons, either because we're

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sentence-level editing

On 10 August 2010 00:55, Jan Paul Posma jp.po...@gmail.com wrote: ... The last few weeks I've worked on some prototypes to illustrate this idea. You can find the most advanced prototype here: http://janpaulposma.nl/sle/prototype/prototype3.html The full project proposal and prototypes can be

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikipedia is one of the slower sites on the web

On 2 August 2010 15:24, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/8/2 Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com: Maybe a theme can get the individual icons that the theme use, and combine it all in a single png file. This technique is called spriting, and the single combined image file is called

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikipedia is one of the slower sites on the web

On 28 July 2010 21:13, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Seems to me playing the role of the average dumb user, that en.wikipedia.org is one of the rather slow websites of the many websites I browse. No matter what browser, it takes more seconds from the time I click on a link to the time when the

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikipedia is one of the slower sites on the web

On 2 August 2010 15:24, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: ... Maybe the idea than resource=file must die in 2011 internet :-/ The resourceloader branch contains work in progress on aggressively combining and minifying JavaScript and CSS. The mapping of one resource = one file will be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architectural revisions to improve category sorting

This looks like a very important feature, and a hard one to get right. You guys are real world heros :-) -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] developer

On 15 July 2010 18:35, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! It's for Wikimedia operations as well as MediaWiki development.  The latter tends to take up much more of the list traffic in practice, though. Indeed, staff-ization of WMF made more and more of communications internal,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Full-disclosure] Someone using Wikipedia to infect others

On 1 July 2010 21:58, OQ overlo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Christopher Grant chrisgrantm...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Henri Salo he...@nerv.fi Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:36:40 +0300 Subject: [Full-disclosure] Someone using Wikipedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Full-disclosure] Someone using Wikipedia to infect others

On 2 July 2010 11:13, Q overlo...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/2/2010 3:46 AM, Tei wrote: On 1 July 2010 21:58, OQ overlo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Christopher Grant chrisgrantm...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Henri Salo he...@nerv.fi

Re: [Wikitech-l] a wysiwyg editor for wikipedia?

On 31 May 2010 23:53, William Le Ferrand will...@corefarm.com wrote: Dear all, I've started to develop a simple wysiwyg editor that could be useful to wikipedia. Basically the editor gets the wiki code from wikipedai and builds the html on client side. Then you can edit the html code as you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion

On 25 May 2010 15:30, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: church.of.emacs.ml wrote: However, you'd have to worry that each distant wiki uses only a fair amount of the home wiki server's resources. E.g. set a limit of inclusions (that limit would have to be on the home-wiki-server-side) and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vector skin not working on BlackBerry?

Maybe could be usefull to have a special url that automatically disable vector, and make this setting continue with the session (is that even possible?). Like http://en.wikipedia.com/classicview So people designing smartphones, that want his smartphone to use the old interface, can make the link

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vector skin not working on BlackBerry?

On 24 May 2010 17:25, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe could be usefull to have a special url that automatically disable vector, and make this setting continue with the session (is that even possible

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vector skin not working on BlackBerry?

On 14 May 2010 16:34, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: vyznev wrote: I'd suspect some script is trying to do an API query using a very long URL, and the fact that this only happens when JS is enabled lends support to this. I don't see any long url requested on enwiki. I would guess

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic links to man pages

On 19 April 2010 12:13, masti mast...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/19/2010 11:52 AM, Strainu wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:46 PM, mastimast...@gmail.com  wrote: why not use http://linuxmanpages.com/ as external link? The site is unimportant, what is important is to have the link automatically

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki extensions and Windows 2003 server

On 6 April 2010 13:52, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Makelesi Kora-Gonelevu makele...@gmail.com wrote: The wiki wont come on it says server cannot be found. To confirm: the wiki works normally, but when you add the require() lines to LocalSettings,

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC project advice: port texvc to Python?

On 30 March 2010 16:34, Victor bob...@ua.fm wrote: Getting it off Ocaml is an excellent first step. I have tried and failed to get texvc working properly in MediaWiki myself more than a few times, because of Ocaml not wanting to play nice ... Actually I completely disagree. Since I've

Re: [Wikitech-l] serious questions about UsabilityInitiative going live

The day this turn live, the Internet will become a bit crazy. Wikipedia is a important part of 2010 internet. I am sure lots of people will want to put this skin on his suddenly old-looking wikipedias in internet and lans. You guys are doing a nice work. note: I must report that the window Add

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC project advice: port texvc to Python?

Is my impression that this is a problem where a PHP implementation could be better. Who cares if is slow? the result can be cache forever?, is something you will run only once, and the heavyweight work (draw) will be made by C compiled code like the GD library?. you need speed in stuff that run

Re: [Wikitech-l] Broken videos

On 16 March 2010 10:29, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: This past weekend, at the SXSW conference, a new initiative was launched to get video on Wikipedia, http://videoonwikipedia.org/ That sounds like a great idea. Uh.. binary content in a wiki. Well.. the other option are Youtube,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Broken videos

On 16 March 2010 15:04, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: .. On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: Uh..  buffer overflow errors, complex file format loaders  in programming languages like C Or false assumptions about memory management with poor detection

Re: [Wikitech-l] modernizing mediawiki

On 3 March 2010 11:05, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: ... , why can't the money be put into making a modern product instead of in pockets of the people who run it? I know Wordpress and Mediawiki serve two different purposes, but that's not the point. The point is, one is modern

Re: [Wikitech-l] hiphop progress

Looks like a loot of fun :-) On 1 March 2010 11:10, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: ... Even if it wasn't hotspots like the parser could still be compiled with hiphop and turned into a PECL extension. hiphop provides major boost for actual mediawiki initialization too - while

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikigalore

On 27 February 2010 00:48, Peter Kaminski kamin...@istori.com wrote: Gerard Meijssen writes, As far as leeches go, this takes the price as far as I am concerned. It sells scripts to leech any Wikimedia project and all this to have the rating of a website go up. The best long-term solution

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google phases out support for IE6

On 20 February 2010 23:00, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 14:37, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.org wrote: Are the stats setup to differentiate between real ie6 users

Re: [Wikitech-l] enwiki dump problems

On 19 February 2010 14:54, Jamie Morken jmor...@shaw.ca wrote: I hope you guys are planning on adding some way to download the wikimedia commons images too at some point something that could be fun is git. plus something like a ticket system, where you ask for permissions to download a tree

[Wikitech-l] [Idea] Using MediaWiki has a engine.

I can imagine this url: http://someserver.com/wiki/api.php?wikicode=code here urlencodedformat=jsondevice=handheld as a way to ask MediaWiki installed in someserver.com to render has html inside json the wikicode provided. Do mediawiki already support something like this? Is somewhat

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Idea] Using MediaWiki has a engine.

On 18 February 2010 15:06, Conrad Irwin conrad.ir...@googlemail.com wrote: On 02/18/2010 01:42 PM, Tei wrote: I can imagine this url: http://someserver.com/wiki/api.php?wikicode=code here urlencodedformat=jsondevice=handheld as a way to ask MediaWiki installed in someserver.com  to render

Re: [Wikitech-l] User-Agent:

On 16 February 2010 02:54, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! from now on specific per-bot/per-software/per-client User-Agent header is mandatory for contacting Wikimedia sites. Domas Looks OK to me. But this is the type of decission that often break existing stuff somewhere

Re: [Wikitech-l] New phpunit tests eat ~1GB of memory

off-topic-ish theres also a function to explicit call the collector (sorry, I forgot the name) it seems php only flag things for collecting (wen you unset($stuff) ), but never really collect then. The documentation says that the collector will run wen theres not work to do, but this seems a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Flattening a wikimedia category

On 5 February 2010 20:17, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: Or, to put it differently: let people use flat tagging, but let's keep the notion of one tag implying another, i.e. math implying science and

Re: [Wikitech-l] remove me from your mailing list

Quick! Send a email here wikitech-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org use subject unsubscribe (withouth quotes) Our majordomo will take care of it ;-) -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook introducing PHP compiler?

On 2 February 2010 18:53, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: However, that article is just rumour. I think it's more likely they made some apc-like cache/optimizer than a compiler. http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=280583813919id=9445547199ref=nf He say is a rewriter,read

Re: [Wikitech-l] (no subject)

On 28 January 2010 15:06, 李琴 q...@ica.stc.sh.cn wrote: Hi all,  I have  built a LocalWiki.   Now I want the data of it to keep consistent with the Wikipedia and one work I should do is to get the data of update from Wikipedia. I get the URLs through analyzing the RSS

Re: [Wikitech-l] Log of failed searches

2010/1/14 Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: Here is what I would suggest disclosing: #start_datetime end_datetime hits search_string 2010-01-01-0:0:4 2010-01-13-23-59-50 39284 naked people 2010-01-01-0:0:4

Re: [Wikitech-l] Some suggestions about the edit page.

2010/1/13 Robert Leverington rob...@rhl.me.uk: On 2010-01-13, Tei wrote: %% The Death of Wiki %% ... you can't stop that, you can code something so the resulting dead body of wiki is not pure shit.   A possible idea could be to auto-protect pages without edit in N years (4 years

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Vs other trackers.

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com wrote: .. Wouldn't be nice. First, it's an attitude thing: we want (and have to) promote open stuff. Second, it isn't nice to show something to the users they cannot use themselves. It's kind of against or basic principle of you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Webzzle

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 08/10/2009, at 5:17 PM, Florence Devouard wrote: There is a presentation of the concept here: http://www.webzzle.com/intl/en/help.html I don't know why they bothered using a demo to explain their technology,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: ... I'm not sure if Wikimedia has anything to do with it, but I think I have a better chance of getting an answer here than by asking Google (the company) directly. Google (the search engine) was not really helpful on the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/2 Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com: On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: ... I'm not sure if Wikimedia has anything to do with it, but I think I have a better chance of getting an answer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Disambiguation while editing

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: In the edit box, when I type [[John Doe]], I want some chance to verify that I'm linking to the right article, Humm? I don't know the wikipedia, but on other wikis is like that: Fire and forget. You link [[Mr John Doe]].

Re: [Wikitech-l] js2 coding style for html output

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Michael Dale md...@wikimedia.org wrote: .. I think both are useful and I like jquery style building of html since it gives you direct syntax errors rather than html parse errors which are not as predictable across browsers. But sometimes performance wise or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for editing template calls within pages

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov ques...@rambler.ru wrote: * Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com [Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:40:06 +0200]: Hello. Heres a screenshot of me editing the wikipedia: http://zerror.com/unorganized/crap/nogoodenough.png All the webmasters on this mail list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for editing template calls within pages

Hello. Heres a screenshot of me editing the wikipedia: http://zerror.com/unorganized/crap/nogoodenough.png All the webmasters on this mail list will spot the problem with this text in 1 second: is unreadable. The space betwen lines, the lines length, the complexity of the text... Is really

Re: [Wikitech-l] JS2 design (was Re: Working towards branching MediaWiki 1.16)

Possibly-OFF-TOPIC-here I see that ImageMagick can combine images in a single one. A single image mean a single hit to a Apache, so it only have to spawn once. On the clientside, a single image can draw multiple elements with some ninja CSS stuff. ( background-position?). For such thing to be

Re: [Wikitech-l] GoogleWave extension

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Micke Nordinmickew...@gmail.com wrote: If somebody is interested, I wrote an extension for embedding (the upcoming) Google waves in MediaWiki as a tag extension: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoogleWave If someone has a wave developer sandbox account

Re: [Wikitech-l] URLs that aren't cool...

The related wikipedia article write that it was a urband leyend: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acentuaci%C3%B3n_de_las_may%C3%BAsculas So is wrong to drop these accents. On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Mark Williamsonnode...@gmail.com wrote: Since when does Spanish drop accent markers in

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