Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org is no more

2012-11-17 Thread Tyler Romeo
wgSecureLogin works. I patched the broken version of it not too long ago. Now I'm just waiting on my patch in Gerrit to turn on wgSecureLogin on WMF wikis. On Nov 17, 2012 1:03 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 16/11/12 22:04, Brion Vibber a écrit : snip Do we have a timetable

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org is no more

2012-11-17 Thread Tyler Romeo
Which bug is that? If there's not a patch I'll work on it ASAP. ;) *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote: There is one

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enable Page View Statistic

2012-11-13 Thread Tyler Romeo
I'm working on this. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Harsh Kothari harshkothari...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Chad Thanks for sharing this info. Harsh

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fuck OAuth

2012-11-05 Thread Tyler Romeo
Is this video about OAuth 2.0 only, or the original 1.0 as well? --Tyler Romeo *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.comwrote

Re: [Wikitech-l] SPDY?

2012-10-28 Thread Tyler Romeo
a socket, or maybe having an improved edit form that tells your browser when another user edits the page. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 2:03 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov ques

Re: [Wikitech-l] SPDY?

2012-10-28 Thread Tyler Romeo
Of course this is pretty much impossible with PHP. Of course this is pretty much impossible with PHP. No it's not. You use PHP's sockets functions, albeit PHP is probably not the most optimal language for setting up a websocket server. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class

Re: [Wikitech-l] SPDY?

2012-10-27 Thread Tyler Romeo
Since Apache tends to be the main web server people use, in order to make MediaWiki use SPDY, we'd have to work with mod_spdy. Does anybody know how stable this is? *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pretty Timestamps

2012-10-26 Thread Tyler Romeo
process the timestamp and then pass the data onto Language to do the formatting. That way it happens transparently. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Terry Chay tc

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pretty Timestamps

2012-10-26 Thread Tyler Romeo
call in order to get the proper timestamps. I can work on a patch for this now. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pretty Timestamps

2012-10-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
is used to generate it properly. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Siebrand Mazeland s.mazel...@xs4all.nlwrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Antoine Musso

Re: [Wikitech-l] Composer use in MediaWiki

2012-10-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
Well I think we agreed before somewhere that we should not use Composer for installation of MW extensions, and that MW is in dire need of its own extension management code. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro

Re: [Wikitech-l] Composer use in MediaWiki

2012-10-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
others agreed with him. Here's the original thread: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-September/063503.html *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:58 AM

[Wikitech-l] SSL Validation in Http

2012-10-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Pretty Timestamps

2012-10-24 Thread Tyler Romeo
So recently https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/15746 was merged. It implements a pretty timestamp function. Yet it was somehow completely ignored that we actually have an MWTimestamp class made specifically for timestamp objects in MediaWiki. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class

Re: [Wikitech-l] Expanding +2 access

2012-10-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
Agreed on what Daniel said. I'd much prefer to keep my extensions on Gerrit, but it becomes slightly frustrating when you have to wait two weeks for the repository to be created. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] Expanding +2 access

2012-10-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
;) ). *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Monday, October 22, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: On Monday, October 22

Re: [Wikitech-l] whether to do Google Code-In

2012-10-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
I think it's a cool idea, especially considering I'm still kicking myself for not getting involved in open-source earlier. The real problem is deciding what to have them work on. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] Commit summaries

2012-10-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
Keep in mind this is not a problem with git, but a problem with gerrit. Git will work perfectly fine with summary lines over 62 characters (try git shortlog). *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should JS/CSS pages be parsed?

2012-10-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
It seems like people have some pretty good reasons for parsing JS/CSS pages (categorization, backlinks, speedy deletion templates, etc.), so unless there is some significant disadvantage to MW for enabling parsing, I'm going to have to agree with the bug filer. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tentative specs for MW releases

2012-10-16 Thread Tyler Romeo
I am aware of the RELEASE-NOTES file. However, it is only updated once a feature has been merged into the codebase, There should be some general idea of at least what is planned for a release before the code is actually written. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tentative specs for MW releases

2012-10-16 Thread Tyler Romeo
. or something along those lines. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.orgwrote: On 10/16/2012 11:45 AM, Tyler Romeo wrote

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tentative specs for MW releases

2012-10-14 Thread Tyler Romeo
made. Maybe this already happens and I just don't know where this resource is. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.orgwrote: I

Re: [Wikitech-l] ExternalAuth and AuthPlugin relationships

2012-10-12 Thread Tyler Romeo
is raw data captured from the authentication point. This is one advantage over AuthPlugin, which requires a username/password scheme. And I believe, if we were to do this, we could have an AuthPluginProvider, which would wrap around $wgAuth for backwards compatibility. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens

Re: [Wikitech-l] ExternalAuth and AuthPlugin relationships

2012-10-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
The problem is that both AuthPlugin and ExternalAuth are pretty hacked together authentication system and both should be tossed in the garbage and replaced with a legitimately designed authnz system. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] ExternalAuth and AuthPlugin relationships

2012-10-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
is that they are both too separate from the local authentication process, not to mention both require users have passwords, which is something that is not necessarily true for certain external authentication methods. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] ExternalAuth and AuthPlugin relationships

2012-10-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
I'll work on that over the next week and see if I can come up with a good design to work off of. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] Capabilities class (was Re: Make Extensions Aware of the ContentHandler)

2012-10-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
I do not think, design-wise, this is a good idea. In addition to what Tim said, extensions would become needlessly complex if we started accounting for every possible MediaWiki feature that's added in a given release. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major

Re: [Wikitech-l] ExternalAuth and AuthPlugin relationships

2012-10-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
-based Special:Userlogin and Special:ChangePassword that are currently in Gerrit to allow more comprehensive authnz frameworks. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:48 PM

Re: [Wikitech-l] Make Extensions Aware of the ContentHandler

2012-10-10 Thread Tyler Romeo
This is not a good idea. We should wait until the ContentHandler branch is fully QAd and we are sure it will not be reverted before converting extensions over to using it. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro

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

2012-10-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
Indeed. The script eliminated some tens of thousands of spam pages among only ~400 actual content pages. It was not perfect (there were still a few pages that had spam on them), but it definitely worked amazingly and did not have any false positives that I am aware of. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extending the ORMTable functionality (was: Wikidatareview status)

2012-10-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
For some cases I find ORMTable and our framework pretty useful, but on the other hand our current database solution (with DatabaseBase::select and the like) is perfectly fine and works efficiently and securely for most purposes. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015

Re: [Wikitech-l] Content handler feature merge (Wikidata branch) scheduled early next week

2012-10-02 Thread Tyler Romeo
That moment of suspense before a big branch merge... *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone, We now at around

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using mediawiki from within the Social networks?

2012-10-01 Thread Tyler Romeo
Theoretically I guess it's capable with the API and whatnot, but I don't think it's been attempted (or at least not to the extent you're implying). It'd be interesting. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal Extension:Browserid (Mozilla Persona) - open source

2012-09-29 Thread Tyler Romeo
The login form should be properly implemented as a FormSpecialPage. I have some initial code drafted for that if you want. The only big problem is supporting the various hooks in the current form. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] Content handler feature merge (Wikidata branch) scheduled early next week

2012-09-29 Thread Tyler Romeo
Thanks Denny. This is pretty helpful for looking at the exact changes being made. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dependency management, MediaWiki and modularity (was Re: New extension: Diff)

2012-09-28 Thread Tyler Romeo
Well in that case maybe we can get some sort of official design document going so that we're planning rather than plinning. :P *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:40

Re: [Wikitech-l] SPF (email spoof prevention feature) test-rollout Weds 10/5

2012-09-28 Thread Tyler Romeo
You should also add an SPF record in addition to a TXT record, as recommended by RFC 4408. The format is the same. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Daniel

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dependency management, MediaWiki and modularity (was Re: New extension: Diff)

2012-09-27 Thread Tyler Romeo
Sounds somewhat viable. I know a number of other projects who use composer. It would be interesting to try it out. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Mark

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dependency management, MediaWiki and modularity (was Re: New extension: Diff)

2012-09-27 Thread Tyler Romeo
going truly modular some will argue otherwise. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:47

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Diff

2012-09-26 Thread Tyler Romeo
So unless other existing core functionality would need it, it doesn't make sense to include it. This makes sense. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:54 PM

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Diff

2012-09-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
This looks pretty interesting. Is there a reason we don't just put this in the core? *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended

Re: [Wikitech-l] Indexing sha1 hashes in mysql

2012-09-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
I see no problem with this. SHA-1 has such a strong avalanche effect that even the chance of having two similar hashes is pretty low. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Tue, Sep 25, 2012

Re: [Wikitech-l] Indexing sha1 hashes in mysql

2012-09-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
It would be better, but I believe MediaWiki already uses this type of storage. Changing to binary would require a schema change. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:20

Re: [Wikitech-l] Content handler feature merge (Wikidata branch) scheduled early next week

2012-09-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
I think it would be nice to have a changeset in Gerrit showing the actual merge. I'm not sure how this would be possible with Gerrit, but it would definitely be useful as a final review (and for QA purposes). *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer

[Wikitech-l] Question About wfUrlEncode

2012-09-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
it's failing, because the actual code hasn't really changed at all (in fact some of wfUrlencode is even copied/pasted). Maybe somebody can offer some insight? *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with unit tests and dataProviders

2012-09-24 Thread Tyler Romeo
This is a functionality of PHPUnit, not of MediaWiki. The idea is that each test case (or function) is considered the most basic unit of testing. So setUp() and tearDown() have to be called before and after each function to ensure the testing environment is clean for the test. *--* *Tyler Romeo

Re: [Wikitech-l] A few questions about adding user preferences via the API

2012-09-10 Thread Tyler Romeo
It should be noted, though, that only the new API for user options allows this. The GUI user preferences form will ignore any user option that is not added using the GetPreferences hook. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] A few questions about adding user preferences via the API

2012-09-09 Thread Tyler Romeo
). *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:37 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Forwarding from https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40124#c0: --- A lot more

[Wikitech-l] Scribunto - Passing All Arguments?

2012-09-02 Thread Tyler Romeo
a lot easier for the Lua version of ArticleHistory I'm working on. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status on MediaWiki 1.20 release?

2012-08-31 Thread Tyler Romeo
Honestly, I'd love to see Daniel's password hashing system merged before the next release, if that's at all possible. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Mark

Re: [Wikitech-l] [testing] TitleBlacklist now tested under Jenkins

2012-08-29 Thread Tyler Romeo
Are there any plans to move more extensions (or at least those with unit tests) under Jenkins? Because I know one of my extension (TwoFactorAuthentication) has unit tests. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro

Re: [Wikitech-l] [testing] TitleBlacklist now tested under Jenkins

2012-08-29 Thread Tyler Romeo
Ultimately, all extensions hosted on WMF git server will be integrated in Jenkins. If you get PHPUnit test, I will add a job for it as soon as the current jobs are stable enough. Awesome! *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed new core feature: page with limited or no history

2012-08-28 Thread Tyler Romeo
itself, which is to keep revisions of pages. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, There is a number of services running

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code ideas thread

2012-08-27 Thread Tyler Romeo
for a number of reasons I will not elaborate on here. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, I have re-read

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code ideas thread

2012-08-27 Thread Tyler Romeo
). OAuth could change this by allowing bots to operate directly under the user's account. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code ideas thread

2012-08-27 Thread Tyler Romeo
I agree that bot accounts should still be separate, I just wanted to make the point that, theoretically, since the permissions are separated, you could do it that way if so desired. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using ORM patterns in core

2012-08-27 Thread Tyler Romeo
this would be to change loadFields() so that rather than use the ID, just use any indexed fields in the object to load the fields. That way you can use newRow() to load defaults and then call loadFields() in an attempt to get from the database. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code ideas thread

2012-08-26 Thread Tyler Romeo
protocol, feel free to do so, but I still believe OAuth support should be our ultimate goal in terms of third-party application security. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Sun, Aug 26, 2012

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-l] CentralAuth API access

2012-08-26 Thread Tyler Romeo
I would take it on, but unfortunately I'm trying to work on three different things (and classes are starting for me). But if my time frees up as winter draws closer I might consider doing it. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science

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

2012-08-24 Thread Tyler Romeo
to make a Lua module for something that basic. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Helder . helder.w...@gmail.com wrote: I think that is https

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

2012-08-24 Thread Tyler Romeo
Technically speaking, pages and accounts can be permanently deleted. (There is an extension for it I believe.) However, since MediaWiki does not use foreign keys, you have to be careful not to break things in the process. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major

Re: [Wikitech-l] Nested database transactions

2012-08-24 Thread Tyler Romeo
detail? *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.dewrote: On 24.08.2012 03:14, Aaron Schulz wrote: SAVEPOINTs are useful if we

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

2012-08-24 Thread Tyler Romeo
I do! http://wiki.sittv.com has been building up spam for a number of months (or longer). *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:52 PM, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code ideas thread

2012-08-24 Thread Tyler Romeo
. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.comwrote: Meta discussions over community, Appreciation threads, GSoC wrapups, Deployment

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code ideas thread

2012-08-24 Thread Tyler Romeo
Wait a second. Concerning the password reset, currently it uses the user_newpassword field, which means the user is required to reset their password upon login. How is this any different than using a reset token, where the user supplies the reset token and changes their password? *--* *Tyler

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code ideas thread

2012-08-24 Thread Tyler Romeo
Yes, but that's only increased convenience. I'm wondering exactly what security implications there are to our current system v. a token reset system. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code ideas thread

2012-08-24 Thread Tyler Romeo
, and then shift the Special:ResetPassword and User::mailPasswordInternal logic to use URLs instead of entering the password manually. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1

Re: [Wikitech-l] Nested database transactions

2012-08-23 Thread Tyler Romeo
Also, as a matter of record, I just checked and the SAVEPOINT command (or an equivalent) is supported on SQLite, Postgresql, and mssql. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Thu, Aug 23, 2012

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

2012-08-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
should have looked into this more earlier, but it's been a busy week for me and I haven't had much time. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Tobias church.of.emacs

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

2012-08-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
with that, but with the op-ed on the Signpost, we should seriously question whether the community wants this feature before randomly forcing it on them. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:17

Re: [Wikitech-l] ContentHandler review?

2012-08-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
1300 lines. D: Somebody should really split that. Maybe put the interface into one file, the abstract class into another, etc. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:32 PM

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

2012-08-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
to consult every language wiki, but on the other hand we cannot completely ignore the community and suddenly launch this new extension on them as if they'd known about it for years. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com

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

2012-08-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
As long as people in the templating community were at least consulted with, then that's fine. I'm just saying we cannot randomly throw features onto users without discussing it with them. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] organize a bug triage

2012-08-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
This tool is currently a colossal hack. XD *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 08/22/2012 03:42 AM

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

2012-08-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
Speaking of complex templates, has there been any work to move existing templates to Lua? Because I'd love to start on the ArticleHistory template if nobody else is doing it. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedians are rightfully wary

2012-08-21 Thread Tyler Romeo
Hey, Not sure if anybody has seen this article yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-08-20/Op-ed Thought it was interesting and possibly worth discussion. --Tyler Romeo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lua deployed to test2wiki

2012-08-20 Thread Tyler Romeo
I know if I happen to have time to learn Lua, I'd definitely tackle the ArticleHistory template. One of the more complex ones out there. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Mon, Aug 20, 2012

Re: [Wikitech-l] [RFC] Abstract table definitions

2012-08-20 Thread Tyler Romeo
Makes sense. IMHO most of the stuff I mentioned is just minor qualms. The overall syntax is pretty nice, and I think it'd be a great idea to have something like this. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro

Re: [Wikitech-l] Add an article to a category

2012-08-19 Thread Tyler Romeo
Well, FWIW, you can use $namespaces = $wgContLang-getNamespaces(); $categ = $namespaces[NS_CATEGORY]; to get the local name for the category namespace. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] [RFC] Abstract table definitions

2012-08-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
.) - The Alter Table syntax looks really weird (with tildas and whatnot). *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.comwrote: I see

Re: [Wikitech-l] organize a bug triage

2012-08-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
is marked as verified if either a) somebody makes and commits a test case for it or b) it is determined that a test case is not applicable. That way we'll have automated tests ensuring every bug we fix doesn't come back again. Any thoughts? *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to create account by API?

2012-08-17 Thread Tyler Romeo
to install it. I'm welcome to a rewrite and refactoring of the LoginForm, if that's a goal we want to aim towards. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Akshay Agarwal

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to create account by API?

2012-08-17 Thread Tyler Romeo
Agreed. However, it should be noted that an account creation API has already been created (and approved), and is currently waiting on dependencies to be merged. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/18127 *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to create account by API?

2012-08-17 Thread Tyler Romeo
are implemented. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Akshay Agarwal akshay.leadin...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure how stuff works now but at the time I was working

Re: [Wikitech-l] Add an article to a category

2012-08-17 Thread Tyler Romeo
What exactly is the difference between Article and WikiPage? It seems like one is just an encapsulation of the other. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Daniel

Re: [Wikitech-l] Add an article to a category

2012-08-17 Thread Tyler Romeo
Lol, good to know. I've wondered for the longest time what the difference. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.comwrote

[Wikitech-l] OAuth Implementation

2012-08-16 Thread Tyler Romeo
Is anybody working on OAuth for MediaWiki? Because if not I might put something together (i.e., start putting together design documents based on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OAuth). *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth Implementation

2012-08-16 Thread Tyler Romeo
and other stuff. Then I'll draft some stuff and put it out here for discussion. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.comwrote

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth Implementation

2012-08-16 Thread Tyler Romeo
Mhm, sounds good. *sigh* Going to be a long journey. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.comwrote: Read both OAuth 2

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth Implementation

2012-08-16 Thread Tyler Romeo
I indeed meant the OAuth extension for PHP (the PECL one). *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.com wrote: Read both

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-16 Thread Tyler Romeo
person on the spot. As far as an acceptable policy, how about just don't be a dickhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_a_dick ? *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10

[Wikitech-l] Status::getXML usage?

2012-08-15 Thread Tyler Romeo
formats such as XML shouldn't be handled (and apparently aren't handled) by the Status object itself. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status::getXML usage?

2012-08-15 Thread Tyler Romeo
Thank you. This will make some of my gerrit changes a lot easier. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Aug 15

[Wikitech-l] jQuery 1.8

2012-08-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
Hey, Not sure whether this has been discussed previously, but are there any plans on when MediaWiki is going to upgrade to jQuery 1.8? *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to create account by API?

2012-08-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
Platonides is right about that. Regardless it'd still be useful to have an account creation API. So here's a draft: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/18127 *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com

[Wikitech-l] Oversight extension

2012-08-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
Hey, Maybe I'm missing something here, but why does Wikipedia still use the Oversight extension if it has since be superseded by core functionality. I'm sure there's a simple explanation, I just can't find it. :) *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Oversight extension

2012-08-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
Thanks! *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deprecation levels

2012-08-07 Thread Tyler Romeo
of deprecation. A feature should just be deprecated or not. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:26

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to create account by API?

2012-08-07 Thread Tyler Romeo
Hmm, if there is actually any interest, I might try and work on the account registration API. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:29 AM, wangfeng wangfeng wangfeng.v1.1

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deprecation levels

2012-08-07 Thread Tyler Romeo
when testing without extensions. If we can somehow denote functions that are *planned to be deprecated*, that would be a better solution, and then deprecation would actually occur when all instances of the feature are removed from the core. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class

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