Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM app: create account?

2013-08-28 Thread rupert THURNER
hi, yuvi said he is not able to add account creation to the wlm mobile app because the mw api is not usable. there is a bug filed in march, now approaching 6 months age: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46072 with priority high, which means according to andre klapper:

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMFs stance on non-GPL code

2013-08-28 Thread Tim Starling
On 27/08/13 03:12, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Stated more precisely: a non-GPL-compatible license for an extension means that the extension can never be distributed with core. That is incorrect, the GPL does not say that. The GPL allows verbatim copies of source code, with no restrictions on the

[Wikitech-l] [Language Engineering] Reminder: Bug triage for RTL bugs today August 28, 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT

2013-08-28 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
Hello, This is a reminder that the Language Engineering team will be hosting an hour long bug triage for R-T-L bugs later today, i.e. August 28, 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT on the IRC channel #mediawiki-i18n (Freenode). etherpad link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/BugTriage-i18n-2013-08 Thanks

Re: [Wikitech-l] CodeEditor deployment (was [Wikitech-ambassadors] Deployment highlights for the week of August 26th)

2013-08-28 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:01 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Helder . wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: == Thursday == * CodeEditor support will be enabled for all JS and CSS on all wikis Without fixing the bug which makes it use

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMFs stance on non-GPL code

2013-08-28 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Tim, thanks, I found this a very interesting aspect that I have not considered before. 2013/8/28 Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org On 27/08/13 03:12, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Stated more precisely: a non-GPL-compatible license for an extension means that the extension can never be

[Wikitech-l] Advance notice: I'm taking a sabbatical October-December

2013-08-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I've been accepted to Hacker School https://www.hackerschool.com, a writers' retreat for programmers in New York City. I will therefore be taking an unpaid personal leave of absence from the Wikimedia Foundation via our sabbatical program. My last workday before my leave will be Friday, September

Re: [Wikitech-l] Advance notice: I'm taking a sabbatical October-December

2013-08-28 Thread Quim Gil
Hi! On 08/28/2013 07:24 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I've been accepted to Hacker School https://www.hackerschool.com Congratulations! You have worked a lot to achieve this (and it is only the beginning). During my absence, Quim Gil will be the temporary head of the Engineering

Re: [Wikitech-l] CodeEditor deployment (was [Wikitech-ambassadors] Deployment highlights for the week of August 26th)

2013-08-28 Thread Brion Vibber
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: That reminds me. The patch adds a JS hook so individual users can select spaces vs tabs for their newly-added lines. Is this going to cause complaints that pages wind up with a mixture of lines indented with

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM app: create account?

2013-08-28 Thread Brion Vibber
Basically, nobody seemed to like my approach of adapting the existing hacky captcha interface for action=edit to action=createaccount. I would recommend totally rewriting the captcha plugin system in ConfirmEdit to not be awful, and devise a more sustainable and extensible API for creating

Re: [Wikitech-l] Advance notice: I'm taking a sabbatical October-December

2013-08-28 Thread Rachel Thomas
Sumana Harihareswara sumanah at wikimedia.org writes: I've been accepted to Hacker School https://www.hackerschool.com, a writers' retreat for programmers in New York City. I will therefore be taking an unpaid personal leave of absence from the Wikimedia Foundation via our sabbatical

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMFs stance on non-GPL code

2013-08-28 Thread Luis Villa
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 27/08/13 03:12, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Stated more precisely: a non-GPL-compatible license for an extension means that the extension can never be distributed with core. That is incorrect, the GPL does not say

[Wikitech-l] New search backend live on mediawiki.org

2013-08-28 Thread Nikolas Everett
Today we threw the big lever and turned on our new search backend at mediawiki.org. It isn't the default yet but it is just about ready for you to try. Here is what is we think we've improved: 1. Templates are now expanded during search so: 1a. You can search for text included in templates 1b.

[Wikitech-l] GitHub replication: tags not getting pushed?

2013-08-28 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, Two days ago I created a tag for Diff [0]. While I'm writing this mail, the tag has yet to appear on the GitHub mirror [1]. I made a commit after I first noticed the tag did not appear to see if replicating that would also sync the tags, which turned out not to be the case, as the commit

Re: [Wikitech-l] GitHub replication: tags not getting pushed?

2013-08-28 Thread Chad
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.comwrote: Hey, Two days ago I created a tag for Diff [0]. While I'm writing this mail, the tag has yet to appear on the GitHub mirror [1]. I made a commit after I first noticed the tag did not appear to see if replicating

Re: [Wikitech-l] New search backend live on mediawiki.org

2013-08-28 Thread Paul Selitskas
Will it be set as the search backend further on Wikimedia projects? Is there source code available for Elasticsearch on Gerrit? I couldn't find it. Stemming doesn't work for some languages at all, thus searching exact matches only. On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Nikolas Everett

Re: [Wikitech-l] New search backend live on mediawiki.org

2013-08-28 Thread Nikolas Everett
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Paul Selitskas p.selits...@gmail.comwrote: Will it be set as the search backend further on Wikimedia projects? Yes. I'm not sure when though. Is there source code available for Elasticsearch on Gerrit? Our plugin that interacts with Elasticsearch is

Re: [Wikitech-l] New search backend live on mediawiki.org

2013-08-28 Thread Chad
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Paul Selitskas p.selits...@gmail.comwrote: Will it be set as the search backend further on Wikimedia projects? That's the plan eventually :) Is there source code available for Elasticsearch on Gerrit? I couldn't find it. Stemming doesn't work for some

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMFs stance on non-GPL code

2013-08-28 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Just for fun, I added some license-parsing logic to Template:Extension on mediawiki.org. I think the job queue is still updating the categories, but so far we have: Extensions with no license specified: 596 Extensions with an unknown license: 779 GPL licensed extensions: 667 MIT licensed

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMFs stance on non-GPL code

2013-08-28 Thread Luis Villa
Just out of curiosity, what code are you using to do license parsing? If you want seriously robust parsing, you might take a peek at https://github.com/dmgerman/ninka Luis On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Just for fun, I added some license-parsing

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMFs stance on non-GPL code

2013-08-28 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote: Just out of curiosity, what code are you using to do license parsing? If you want seriously robust parsing, you might take a peek at https://github.com/dmgerman/ninka Luis standard parser functions via the template

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMFs stance on non-GPL code

2013-08-28 Thread Luis Villa
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:40 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote: Just out of curiosity, what code are you using to do license parsing? If you want seriously robust parsing, you might take a peek at

[Wikitech-l] HTTPS enabled for all logged-in users

2013-08-28 Thread Greg Grossmeier
== HTTPS enabled by default for logged-in users on Wikimedia sites == Today, August 28, the Wikimedia Foundation is making a change to the software that powers the Wikimedia projects: By default, all logged-in users will now be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. What this does is encrypt the

[Wikitech-l] Extension OpenID: new version 3.40 published

2013-08-28 Thread Thomas Gries
Today, I published a new version of the extension OpenID. - adds the long-wanted option for Admins to pin logins to a single (fixed, or forced) OpenID Provider. - defines parameters of OpenID provider/s in an array. Parameters are no longer hard-coded on several places like in the CSS. - fixes

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTTPS enabled for all logged-in users

2013-08-28 Thread Tyler Romeo
After many months of struggle, WMF takes one big step towards a more secure Wikipedia. Good job everybody! *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Greg Grossmeier

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMFs stance on non-GPL code

2013-08-28 Thread Ryan Lane
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.comwrote: Hey, I'm curious what the stance of WMF is on BSD, MIT and MPL licensed code. In particular, could such code be deployed on WMF servers? Was this just grenade lobbing? You still haven't clarified your question,

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTTPS enabled for all logged-in users

2013-08-28 Thread Erik Moeller
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: After many months of struggle, WMF takes one big step towards a more secure Wikipedia. Good job everybody! Agreed - fantastic to see this out the door :-). Thanks to everyone who made it happen. Erik -- Erik Möller VP

Re: [Wikitech-l] New search backend live on mediawiki.org

2013-08-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 08/28/2013 02:20 PM, Nikolas Everett wrote: Today we threw the big lever and turned on our new search backend at mediawiki.org. It isn't the default yet but it is just about ready for you to try. Here is what is we think we've improved: 1. Templates are now expanded during search so:

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTTPS enabled for all logged-in users

2013-08-28 Thread Seb35
Thanks a lot to everybody who make it possible! I find the GeoIP solution quite elegant. I wrote a script this morning to let anonymous users opt-in for being redirected to HTTPS with the same forceHTTPS cookie [1]; such a script could be used to increase the proportion of HTTPS visitors

Re: [Wikitech-l] New search backend live on mediawiki.org

2013-08-28 Thread MZMcBride
Chad wrote: No, ES is not in Gerrit. It's an upstream project, their website is elasticsearch.org The CirrusSearch extension (our part of the project) is in Gerrit though. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Elasticsearch https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch I'm not sure what should be

Re: [Wikitech-l] New search backend live on mediawiki.org

2013-08-28 Thread Chad
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:08 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Chad wrote: No, ES is not in Gerrit. It's an upstream project, their website is elasticsearch.org The CirrusSearch extension (our part of the project) is in Gerrit though. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Elasticsearch