Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

haven't had much time recently to actually do any of that. (I mean from a social/community perspective only, purely as a "volunteer" developer. From a WMF planning perspective, that's somebody else's problem ;) and I have no opinion on what the WMF should be doing) -- -bawolff On Tue, Feb 2,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2015 is over. Congratulations everybody!

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: > Google Code-in 2015 has come to an end. > > Thanks to our students for resolving 461 Wikimedia tasks. Thanks to our > 35 mentors for being available, also on weekends & holidays. Thanks to > everybody on IRC for your

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Pine W wrote: > >> Is there, or will there be, a page somewhere that describes the outcomes of >> the Developer Summit? >> > > I would love for the working group

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

lthough that might just be coincidental. I doubt that has anything with what the team wants to do so much as there is overlap between what they want to do and other people's messes). -- -Bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.w

Re: [Wikitech-l] LDAP extension ownership

necessarily think they have a responsibility to (beyond critical issues, security, etc), but if the teams in question aren't too busy, it is always nice to give back to projects that we use. -- -bawolff On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 5:25 AM, Yongmin Hong <li...@revi.pe.kr> wrote: > Deployed on wmf clu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Min php version

--bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Min php version

://wikiapiary.com/w/index.php?title=Special:SearchByPropertylimit=500offset=0property=Has+PHP+Versionvalue=5.3.3 is also something to keep in mind --bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

[Wikitech-l] Min php version

::getType() (previously declared abstract in DatabaseBase) in git/includes/db/Database.php on line 32). Is it time we up'd our version requirements (And does anyone know if that would affect lots of third parties?) Or should that change be reverted? --bawolff

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki user survey and un-reachable users

Can we add a link to the survey to the top of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download until the end of July? Sounds reasonable. I added a link to the top of that page. -- bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] [ Writing a MediaWiki extension for deployment ]

it out of beta would basically mean making a (rather meaningless) edit to the extension description page. --bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [ Writing a MediaWiki extension for deployment ]

Yes, you can add things to the Special:Preferences page. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/GetPreferences -- bawolff On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Paula paula...@gmail.com wrote: I'm talking about an extension for MediaWiki not WikiMedia :) My question is if I can add an input

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] The end of the Roadmap Phabricator project

From what I read here, the current roadmap software is difficult to use and is not being used consistently; In fact, until this thread, I didn't even know that people were making a roadmap in phab... -- bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why doesn't en.m.wikipedia.org allow framing?

___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l I don't know about normal mobile page views, but edit views are not allowed to be framed to prevent click-jacking attacks [1] --bawolff [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.19.24, 1.23.9, and 1.24.2

://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85850 * MediaWiki user Bawolff pointed out that the SVG filter to prevent injecting JavaScript using animate elements was incorrect. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86711 * MediaWiki user Bawolff reported a stored XSS vulnerability due to the way attributes were expanded

Re: [Wikitech-l] What does it take to have a project hosted on the Wikimedia git server?

. Or you can do the code review thing, but then decide that everyone is allowed to review their own patch and essentially ignore that aspect. Gerrit may be a usability trainwreck, but its not that bad once you get used to it. --bawolff ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tor proxy with blinded tokens

fears. --bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] New tabs for images

to me that we would benefit from something similar for adding translations to file descriptions. --bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Multimedia] ogv.js media player update: Flash and GPU acceleration

that it doesnt need extra privs. That attribute isnt set on the theora.ogg version. Even then it still needs a click through prompt. Anyways, great work on all this. --bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Design] Going full-screen on image click

majority of whom are not working on multimedia viewer. /obnoxious pendantic rant Cheers, Bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Design] Preview of the proposal for MediaWiki Homepage

problems. Bugzilla is not visibly featured there, and it probably should be. Getting support is different from filing bugs. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lower-resolution .ogv video transcodes coming

that in a single day there's already been almost 20,000 new transcodes, it looks like it won't take that long to be done with all of them. I'm really quite surprised how fast the transcoding is proceeding. --bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Template transclusion on Wikimedia Commons

the error happened? --bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Review Milestone reached

Aaron Schulz has become the first person to have approved (+2'ed) = 1000 patchsets to mediawiki core [1]. I thought this nice round number deserved a note, and a good job. Thank you Aaron for all your hard work reviewing things. --bawolff [1] https://toolserver.org/~nemobis/crstats/core.txt

Re: [Wikitech-l] trace gitblit, was: Re: Wikimedia's anti-surveillance plans: site hardening

, if we didn't need the info in the trace. --bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

? --bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2013

, don't be discouraged, but seeing how much of it you can make sense of, can be quite beneficial. Last of all, don't be afraid to ask questions. There's lots of people on irc who can probably answer any questions you may have. -- -Bawolff (Brian Wolff

Re: [Wikitech-l] OPW intern looking for feedback!

directory is web accessible (and many people don't even turn off php_engine in that directory [speaking of which, why don't we add that to the default .htaccess for that directory]), having arbitrary git checkouts in such a directory seems kind of scary too. --bawolff

Re: [Wikitech-l] job queue

. At the very least jobs are not run from webrequests). I doubt cron is used, I imagine there are enough jobs that there is a web server (probably more than one) dedicated solely to dealing with the job queue at all times. --bawolff p.s. As an aside, looking for this source code I noticed its

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikiversity: Request for MediaWiki extension

, the process of reviewing it would probably take a long time (So probably out of your time frame). Thus I don't think its likely to be installed :( --bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] Indexing structures for Wikidata

or something). --bawolff p.s. Have not tested this, and talking a bit outside my knowledge area, so ymmv ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Identifying pages that are slow to render

points on mediawiki, theres a lot worse things just floating around the internet than a slow to parse page list. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] linking to wikidata pages

can make both commons: and wikidata: link to the proper url, why does d: have a lang subdomain? *Why do edits not work on the non-canonical url (is it because the api requests go to a fully qualified url based on $wgServer instead of of a relative url? Is there a reason for doing this?) -- - bawolff

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

* Work to get bugfixes backported to 1.19. I don't have Gerrit rights to commit to the REL1_19 branch, but that will keep me from fixing bugs by fiat. I think we should give you such rights. --bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Corrupt pages on English Wikipedia

more information (Wikipedia is a big place). The situation here is somewhat similar. We're grateful for the report, but would need more information before we can do anything about it. --bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki's access points and mw-config

it in /mw-config also provides a nice separation from mediawiki proper imo. --bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Maria DB

Umm there was a thread several months ago about how it is used on several of the slave dbs, if I recall. -bawolff On 2013-02-13 8:28 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have installed Maria DB to all my servers, including production servers few weeks ago, and I found it quite

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: Ed Sanders joins Wikimedia as Visual Editor Software Engineer

s/11/9/ *Sumana slinks off quietly* -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation 9 is still an extremely impressive number. When did sysops get introduced? I have a feeling that 11 years ago there was no such thing. Welcome Ed! --bawolff

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stable PHP API for MediaWiki ?

me if im wrong) -bawolff On 2013-02-11 9:14 AM, Yuri Astrakhan yuriastrak...@gmail.com wrote: Mariya, Could you be more specific? What types of changes caused extensions to break? I might be mistaken but the vast majority of the API framework classes have been established over 5 years ago

Re: [Wikitech-l] URLs for autogenerated documentation

on doc.wikimedia.org, but if you had doc.mediawiki.org in the url, things auto redirected (and vice veras: if you went to doc.wikimedia.org/core/master/php things redirected to doc.mediawiki.org/core/master/php ) Cheers, Bawolff On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Hello, We

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

://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l I know nothing of smw, but surely using an rdf store backend ( which from what i understand has been supported for quite some time) would be more efficient than a relational db backend, no matter how optimized that backend might be. -bawolff

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1-29 Bug Day Results

participation? Thank you for your participation and support! We hope the coming Bug Days will get better and better. Thank you for hosting this. While I couldn't make this one, I hope to help out in a future bug day! Cheers, Bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1-29 Bug Day Results

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:37 PM, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Valerie Juarez valerie.m.jua...@gmail.com wrote: Last week we had our first Bug Day of the year. *---How it Went*--- We looked at bugs (excluding enhancements) that had not seen any changes

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Tab as field delimiter in logging format of cache servers

Just to clarify, will this affect the stats at http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ ? Changing the format of that will probably break third party scripts. -- -bawolff On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Diederik van Liere dvanli...@wikimedia.org wrote: Apologies for crossposting Heya

Re: [Wikitech-l] An actual bikeshed

we discuss the front runners and other possible solutions). What colour should the polling booth be? I don't think the answer is voting. Perhaps there are some sheds that don't need to be painted. -bawolff P.s. if someone built a bikeshed in the wmf office they would be my hero

Re: [Wikitech-l] Naming our developer events

discussion. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Coding conventions

efFuncName that I see in the current coding convention doc reverted out a while back for not being a real (recommended) convention? -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why are we still using captchas on WMF sites?

of captcha versus other spam filtering techniques. Cheers, Katie Someone should write a browser addon to automatically decode and fill in captchas for blind users. (Only half joking) -bawolff __**_ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Coding conventions

On 2013-01-22 6:05 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I hereby admit defeat. My thread was clearly not the ultimate bikeshed. Cheers -- On this bikeshed, allowing both styles sounds perfectly acceptable to me. -bawolff

Re: [Wikitech-l] Html comments into raw wiki code: can they be wrapped into parsed html?

? There may still be issues with quotes. Im not sure. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Completed ! Re: More Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target date is week of 1/22/13

Good work to everyone involved! -bawolff On 2013-01-22 6:53 PM, Ct Woo ct...@wikimedia.org wrote: All, The switchover work is done. The site was was available to readers throughout the migration work though it was in read-only mode for about 32 minutes, when Asher and Mark had to migrate

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why are we still using captchas on WMF sites?

-captcha-strengths-and-weaknessescount as evidence? (Copied and pasted from the mailing list archives) Sure captchas do prevent some limitted attacks - it makes it more effort then a 5 minute perl script. Most spammers are more sophisticated than that. -bawolff

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why are we still using captchas on WMF sites?

to break. (Obviously that's a rather large guess). As a compromise maybe we should have straight text in image captchas. -bawolff On 2013-01-21 7:40 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:00 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: I mean, you could redefine something

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why are we still using captchas on WMF sites?

on enwiki is enough to tell us the human impact. That would be interesting. Remember that captchas arent just on the user reg page though. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

[Wikitech-l] Caching of images in varnish

if that needs to be done again? Imho this type of issue is a rather serious one which causes lots of frustration and confusion. [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41130 -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Huggle is now in git

English is a useless language anyhow. There's not even a compilier for it! -bawolff On 2013-01-18 11:49 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: * in case anyone is interested in * common mistake done by me. One day I will hopefully master english :) On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Petr

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2013

: good in depth feedback early and often is critical for success. If we make people merge their projects in small steps as they complete independant features (like once every 2 weeks) gsocers get better feedback and no giant painful merge at the end. -bawolff On 2013-01-17 3:47 PM, Petr Bena benap

Re: [Wikitech-l] A testing bug management wheel

hanger-ons who just happen to be idling in #mediawiki at the time. This brings more people into doing more mediawiki things, which is a good thing. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing the Individual Engagement Grants program

the summer? -bawolff On 2013-01-16 1:48 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, next week I will have a casual chat with Siko about the new Wikimedia Individual Engagement Grants and how MediaWiki contributors could theoretically benefit from them. If you have specific questions or feedback

Re: [Wikitech-l] The ultimate bikeshed: typos in commit messages

to the working bee to help with the painting. Luke Welling Well put. That sounds entirely fair to me. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Generating documentation from JavaScript doc comments

like /* ==header == */ That would be picked up by mw and formatted as headers. But automatic and more complete. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] The ultimate bikeshed: typos in commit messages

considers spelling issues to be a minor nitpick varries quite a lot between people. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] The ultimate bikeshed: typos in commit messages

to be no big deal). -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem to get an article's content in MW 1.20.2

While it may be true that there are better methods to call for this purpose, an article's id should be 0 if and only if it does not exist (or perhaps if its in a fake namespace like special). -bawolff On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: I think the best

Re: [Wikitech-l] Somebody Explain File Repositories

to get info about a specific file, and often those methods call more general methods in the filerepo class to get the needed information out of the repository. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Extension Bundles and Template Bundles

Wikipedia. Another area that could benefit most non-WMF wikis is a way to import some documentation for how to *use* a wiki. Both of those two things would probably be solved if we had good interwiki transclusion support. --bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we help Tor users make legitimate edits?

in the first place (if everyone can get a blinded token), or hand out the overrides via IP block exempt group (If we limit who can get such tokens). -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Re: [Wikimedia-l] No access to the Uzbek Wikipedia in Uzbekistan

like the issue is unintentional. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Html comments into raw wiki code: can they be wrapped into parsed html?

in wikitext or not) --bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Distinguishing disambiguation pages

the category pages to give helpful information and even change the category name to localize it. Otoh I suppose such a special page could would also have a system message to provide useful introduction to what the property in question means. -bawolff

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we help Tor users make legitimate edits?

to be in the same group on Wikimedia. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTTPS Wikipedia search for Firefox - update?

with having users log in to secure by default. I suppose we might not want people to loose their login if they're logged into insecure and search via firefox with secure login - is that what you're concerned about, or is it something else? -bawolff ___ Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unit tests scream for attention

it yourself now that jenkins does it for you). When I used to run unit tests, there were quite regularly issues where the unit tests assumed you had the default configuration, where they really should not assume such a thing. (That was of course a while ago, so things may have changed). --bawolff

Re: [Wikitech-l] question about UNIQ-QINU exception and parser

, but they are few and far between). It's hard to say more without being familar with what exactly you are coding. --bawolff On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: By the way, Yury I just wanted to ask you to list any UNIQ issues you run into here: https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Distinguishing disambiguation pages

You could always have a magic word that disables the features, and let the users put it in the relevant templates. Then the users could disable it on all the pages they feel it would be inappropriate for. --bawolff On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Bináris wikipo...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps

Re: [Wikitech-l] jenkins: unit test whitelist

unit tests for code from experienced people. While everyone benefits from the unit tests, I imagine inexperienced new developers would benefit the most (One assumes people with @wikimedia.org emails ought to be experienced ;) -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Anonymous user id on wikipedia?

out users cookies to ensure that some local caching is invalidated. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bikol Wikipedia logo issue

fails $wgLogo could be changed to a different url to get around the caching issue. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla: Waiting for merge status when patch is in Gerrit?

- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Talk:Git/Workflow/Bugzilla -- -Bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome our six OPW interns!

and congrats to everyone accepted. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Groups are official: start your own!

together that wouldn't by themselves. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Groups are official: start your own!

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 12/11/2012 03:44 PM, bawolff wrote: [..] One starting point in your city / region would be to check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup , attend the next meetup and start infiltrating the MediaWiki / tech agenda

Re: [Wikitech-l] Nobody Wikidata bugs: notify when you start working on a bug

about it. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] the skin change in 1.21wmf5, display breakage, fix retrospective

. Changing the HTML didn't really matter. but having an easy way to say start purging all pages on $theseWikis from Squid/Varnish would also be nice. That sounds like something that could hurt the server kitties unless done rather slowly [at least for enwiki]... -bawolff

Re: [Wikitech-l] Priorities in Bugzilla

, is instead of how long it should take to fix - look instead at how long it should take before somebody starts to look into/begin fixing the issue. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed new WMF browser support framework for MediaWiki

looking at the user-agent statistics. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] A Newbie!

get dev access). One can make anonymous checkouts to start exploring immediately without having to wait. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] LevelUp (sequel to What do you want to learn? 20% time)

descriptions are just funny: *API: RESTful Web-based API that lets people interact with MediaWiki programmatically *Job queue (available since 1.21) (They're funny because the API isn't RESTful and the Job Queue isn't new in 1.21). -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please take this survey about new contributors

participant count as being paid to work on MediaWiki - after all gsoc students do get money for doing MediaWiki things, etc. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] editing channels - How was this edit made?

are mobile (or whatever else) but they may not want each one to be shown in RC as mobile edit (since it adds clutter). Perhaps using the currently unused ct_params to be able to make certain tags hidden (be able to filter by them, but not show up in the line in RC) would be a solution. -bawolff

Re: [Wikitech-l] editing channels - How was this edit made?

blob? Why would you look at ts_tags? change_tag table is much easier to pull out as it uses a more normalized layout. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enable Page View Statistic

/ which one can filter/visualize/etc in whatever form is convenient (If you're into statistical stuff - requires some effort to get usable information). Hope that helps, -Bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Work flow for bugfixing

Maybe we need a Waiting_merge status in bugzilla. I would like that. I find the patch-in-gerrit keyword very easy to miss, and really patch in gerrit and open are two very different stages of a bugs lifestyle. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

where general core mediawiki work work would fall under, etc. -bawolff On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, am I the only one having difficulties understanding the proposal and what it implies? On 11/05/2012 07:03 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: we need to split

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unit-testing a tag extension (parser blows up)?

that helps, -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please fix the PHP unit tests

It would be nice if jenkins also did a run with some non-default options. Obviously we have a lot of options, but doing at least 1 run with some of the common variations (say $wgCapitalLinks) would help quite a bit I imagine. -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] my $wgHooks['SkinTemplateNavigation'] broke again

hashar Musso ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l In which case the links wouldn't be red in the first place :P -bawolff

Re: [Wikitech-l] request: average code review wait time dashboard

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:14 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I would love for someone to integrate that kind of wait-time indicator into https://toolserver.org/~bawolff/gerrit-stats.htm or http://gerrit-stats.wmflabs.org/ . My suggested stats: the min

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review statistics and trends

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com wrote: 2012/9/1 bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com: Slightly hijacking this thread but is related. I tried my hand at creating some gerrit related statistics: https://toolserver.org/~bawolff/gerrit-stats.htm The Wall of Shame

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should we make parser test executions via phpunit.php behave like running them with parserTests.php ?

/wikitech-l I don't know why it is like it is, but I have noticed that the parser tests I wrote for DynamicPageList (Wikimedia) only work when run from parserTests.php and not when run from phpunit. It would be awesome if they behaved the same. --bawolff

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review statistics and trends

Slightly hijacking this thread but is related. I tried my hand at creating some gerrit related statistics: https://toolserver.org/~bawolff/gerrit-stats.htm Statistics might be the wrong word, its more the first 25 results of a saved search in reverse order - but also includes the total number

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