[Wikitech-l] [Language Engineering] Reminder: Office hour on 10th April 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT

2013-04-10 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
* Hello, * * * * This is a reminder that the Language Engineering team will be hosting an IRC office hour today, i.e. 10th of April 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT on #wikimedia-office (Freenode). The agenda can be found in the section below. * * * * Thanks * * Runa * * * * Agenda: * * 1.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment highlights - week of April 8th

2013-04-10 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Thank you, also for the explanation. I am glad we could defuse this. On Apr 10, 2013 7:07 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 April 2013 12:15, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote: Risker, I find myself unconvinced by your argumentation as I perceive it as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ideating on GSoC project : Mobilize Wikidata

2013-04-10 Thread Pragun Bhutani
Based on a discussion I had with YuviPanda and MaxSem on #wikimedia-mobile, I've got a few things to add: - It might be a good idea to let Wikidata detect when it's being accessed through a mobile device and then have it adjust the widths and such of the box-structures accordingly and then pass

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment highlights - week of April 8th

2013-04-10 Thread Denny Vrandečić
2013/4/10 Risker risker...@gmail.com On 9 April 2013 12:15, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote: Risker, I find myself unconvinced by your argumentation as I perceive it as inconsistent. On the one hand, you suggest that before we enable the option to access data

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugs in 1.21rc2

2013-04-10 Thread Željko Filipin
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: Then, if those numbers change much, graphs from Zeljko ;) Give me numbers and there will be graphs. :) Željko ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] OpenID: Mozilla bridges their PERSONA with OpenID and OAuth

2013-04-10 Thread Thomas Gries
For those being interested: Mozilla Persona is an open authentication system that lets you implement sign-in on your site in an afternoon. Today, Persona Beta 2 was released, including a feature called Identity Bridging that lets hundreds of millions of users sign into sites supporting Persona

Re: [Wikitech-l] OpenID: Mozilla bridges their PERSONA with OpenID and OAuth

2013-04-10 Thread Tyler Romeo
You may have forgotten a link there ;) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Persona *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote:

[Wikitech-l] WMF Engineering Roadmap updates 4/10

2013-04-10 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Here are the highlights of the WMF Engineering roadmap updates for today focusing on major activities in April: Mobile * iOS upload app delayed due to appstore snafu * Community testing around Mobile this month Ops * build out for ULSFO datacenter, RFP for hardware in progress Platform * Redis

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Engineering Roadmap updates 4/10

2013-04-10 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Small correction: quote name=Greg Grossmeier date=2013-04-10 time=10:56:01 -0700 Language * IE fixes will be rolled out today (4/10) These actually are going out tomorrow (4/11) at 08:00 UTC, see the deployments calendar: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_April_8th Greg

Re: [Wikitech-l] A new project - Wikicards

2013-04-10 Thread Gaurav Chawla
Sorry, I was unable to repond for last two days, I had some academic work to be done. Thankyou for the discussion and the much needed feedback. As from the various discussions (bugzilla, my talk page and this thread), it turns out that this project is not as feasible or worthy enough to be

[Wikitech-l] JobQueue on Redis initial test deploy today

2013-04-10 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Sending this out because I know many of your are wondering about the status of the Redis JobQueue work. This happened today: 18:24 logmsgbot: aaron synchronized wmf-config/jobqueue-eqiad.php 'Enabled use of redis for null test jobs' What that means is that null test jobs will be sent to the

[Wikitech-l] Temporarily disabling l10n update

2013-04-10 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi folks, We've had at least a couple of site outages which we believe are due to l10nupdate. The root cause is identified in a fairly old ResourceLoader bug that seems to be biting us a little harder than it normally does: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27320 Disabling

Re: [Wikitech-l] A new project - Wikicards

2013-04-10 Thread Quim Gil
On 04/10/2013 12:33 PM, Gaurav Chawla wrote: (Can we apply for multiple projects?) Yes. http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page#6._Can_a_student_submit_more_than_one You can technically submit many projects to many organizations. In practice

Re: [Wikitech-l] Temporarily disabling l10n update

2013-04-10 Thread Max Semenik
Does that mean that scap is also prohibited? On 11.04.2013, 0:01 Rob wrote: Hi folks, We've had at least a couple of site outages which we believe are due to l10nupdate. The root cause is identified in a fairly old ResourceLoader bug that seems to be biting us a little harder than it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Temporarily disabling l10n update

2013-04-10 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: Does that mean that scap is also prohibited? Scap runs the same script to clear blobs. We can sabotage that script, but that will cause all i18n updates to JS to propagate more slowly, regardless of whether they came from

Re: [Wikitech-l] Temporarily disabling l10n update

2013-04-10 Thread Brad Jorsch
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: Does that mean that scap is also prohibited? Scap runs the same script to clear blobs. Actually, it doesn't look like it does. -- Brad Jorsch

[Wikitech-l] Proposing topics for Tech Talks and meetups

2013-04-10 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, We have sorted out the calendar of Tech Talks and Wikipedia Engineering meetups, dancing to the rhythm marked by the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting: 1st Thursday of the month: Metrics meeting. 2nd Thursday: Wikipedia Engineering meetup. 3rd Thursday: Tech Talk. This is now reflected

[Wikitech-l] Gerrit slow to the point of being unusable today

2013-04-10 Thread Jon Robson
Is anyone able to look into this? It's extremely slow and I can't find someone to fix it. It's making me a very sad and unproductive panda :( -- Jon Robson http://jonrobson.me.uk @rakugojon ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Commons App v1.0 beta6 released

2013-04-10 Thread Yuvi Panda
Spamming wikitech-l, which might possibly care more than mobile-l. -- Forwarded message -- From: Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:43 AM Subject: Commons App v1.0 beta6 released To: mobile-l mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello! New beta release of

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wiktionary-l] [Commons-l] Advice Needed

2013-04-10 Thread Rahul Maliakkal
The whole idea is project specific,we are not converting to wav, but since its the only format that browsers can easily upload in for the time being. Thanks On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Sebastian Hellmann hellm...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de wrote: You didn't include the list in your

Re: [Wikitech-l] Commons App v1.0 beta6 released

2013-04-10 Thread Yuvi Panda
Install link from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikimedia.commons -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] test gossip

2013-04-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
A few things I learned recently by gossiping with WMF quality assurance people: We're deploying fresh code to the beta cluster ~50 times a day, or maybe even more often! https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:merged+project:%255Emediawiki.*+-owner:l10n-bot,n,z shows merged code to MediaWiki

[Wikitech-l] wav support to Commons (was Re:Advice Needed)

2013-04-10 Thread Quim Gil
On 04/10/2013 03:16 PM, Rahul Maliakkal wrote: In my GSOC project , i plan on adding *.wav support* to commons As of today this falls in the category of NO to projects depending on unconvinced maintainers. In this case the Commons maintainers.

Re: [Wikitech-l] wav support to Commons (was Re:Advice Needed)

2013-04-10 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 04/10/2013 07:29 PM, Quim Gil wrote: If the Commons community is happy to take this format, fine. But we need to know before the deadline for accepting projects. Or you need to change your strategy. An alternative approach is server-side conversion to a Commons-approved format such as Ogg,

Re: [Wikitech-l] test gossip

2013-04-10 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
Very helpful, Sumana. I'd happily encourage more gossip of this type. On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: A few things I learned recently by gossiping with WMF quality assurance people: We're deploying fresh code to the beta cluster ~50 times

Re: [Wikitech-l] wav support to Commons (was Re:Advice Needed)

2013-04-10 Thread Ryan Kaldari
On 4/10/13 4:29 PM, Quim Gil wrote: On 04/10/2013 03:16 PM, Rahul Maliakkal wrote: In my GSOC project , i plan on adding *.wav support* to commons I don't see any email on this list that includes that quote, nor does Ruhul's GSoC proposal mention anything about WAV. Could you provide some

Re: [Wikitech-l] wav support to Commons (was Re:Advice Needed)

2013-04-10 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: I don't see any email on this list that includes that quote, nor does Ruhul's GSoC proposal mention anything about WAV. Could you provide some context by either quoting the entire message or pointing to where this

[Wikitech-l] Sort on category

2013-04-10 Thread Small M
Hello, Are there any plans to have a tool that would allow to dynamically sort content based on category? Single category views, especially for large categories, aren't particularly helpful. Something similar to what Microsoft's pivot demo had? An HTML5 example at:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sort on category

2013-04-10 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2013-04-10 10:25 PM, Small M smallma...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, Are there any plans to have a tool that would allow to dynamically sort content based on category? Single category views, especially for large categories, aren't particularly helpful. Something similar to what Microsoft's