Re: [Wikitech-l] gwtoolset : architecture design help

2013-09-03 Thread dan entous
1. has anyone been able to prototype brian’s concept? 2. if we get this concept to work, is it an acceptable manner in which to store XML data in the foundation cluster? a. if not, any other suggestions on what we can do instead? On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:01 PM, dan entous

[Wikitech-l] Use of http:// urls in wikimedia wiki emails

2013-09-03 Thread billinghurst
Now that we push/force/encourage https:// connections, are we going to do anything about the htpp:// addresses in the emails from the wikis that alert to changes? I know that there is a bugzilla for this, and thought that it would have been handled at the same time as the conversion of the login.

[Wikitech-l] PHP upgraded on Jenkins

2013-09-03 Thread Antoine Musso
Hello, The MediaWiki code coverage test were segfaulting since the start. Alexandros today provided us with new PHP packages that should fix the issue, I have deployed them on the continuous integration server. If you see any weird PHP test result / segfault, please please make noise so we can

[Wikitech-l] Mobile stats

2013-09-03 Thread Max Semenik
Hi, I have a few questions regarding mobile stats. I need to determine a real percentage of WAP browsers. At first glance, [1] looks interesting: ratio of text/html to text/vnd.wap.wml is 92M / 3987M = 2.3% on m.wikipedia.org. However, this contradicts the stats at [2] which have different

[Wikitech-l] Is there a way to let mediawiki support jquery mobile?

2013-09-03 Thread XIAO Qingjun
Hi, all I am trying to add some jquery mobile components to my wiki site, to give it a more beautiful look on Android app. The app is the official mediawiki mobile client, which can be downloaded from the following link. https://github.com/wikimedia/WikipediaMobile Now, there is no problem

[Wikitech-l] Welcoming Sucheta Ghoshal

2013-09-03 Thread Alolita Sharma
Hi everyone, Please join me in welcoming Sucheta Ghoshal as associate software engineer in the Language Engineering team. Sucheta will be working on internationalization and localization features for Wikimedia sites as well as maintaining other language engineering software using Javascript,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Sucheta Ghoshal

2013-09-03 Thread Harsh Kothari
Awesome :) Congratulation Sucheta. On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Alolita Sharma asha...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi everyone, Please join me in welcoming Sucheta Ghoshal as associate software engineer in the Language Engineering team. Sucheta will be working on internationalization and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Sucheta Ghoshal

2013-09-03 Thread Mark Holmquist
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 09:59:20AM -0700, Alolita Sharma wrote: Welcome Sucheta! I am excited to have you on the language engineering team! Congratulations, Sucheta! It's been a blast working with you in the past, and I'm ecstatic to have another brilliant person to help deal with the tangled

[Wikitech-l] Welcoming Kartik Mistry

2013-09-03 Thread Alolita Sharma
Hi everyone, Please join me in welcoming Kartik Mistry as Software Engineer on the Language Engineering team. Kartik started contributing part-time to the team earlier this May. He will now be focusing full-time on improving our internationalization libraries in jQuery specializing in input tools

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Kartik Mistry

2013-09-03 Thread Quim Gil
On 09/03/2013 09:52 AM, Alolita Sharma wrote: Kartik is well known in India’s open source community for his many contributions to Debian. He has been a Debian developer and package maintainer since August 2008 and has contributed deeply to internationalization and localization of various

[Wikitech-l] format of Recent Changes feed

2013-09-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Vinay from the Internet Archive asked me, with reference to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Recent_changes : Hi Sumana, Is there someone I can contact regarding parsing out the URLs from the stream of recent changes? The idea being to grab the text of the recent change and extract out

Re: [Wikitech-l] format of Recent Changes feed

2013-09-03 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Sumana Harihareswara wrote: Vinay from the Internet Archive asked me, with reference to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Recent_changes : Is there someone I can contact regarding parsing out the URLs from the stream of recent changes? The idea being to grab the text of the recent change

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Sucheta Ghoshal

2013-09-03 Thread Pratik Lahoti
Hearty Congratulations Sucheta! Wish you all the very best! :) On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Alolita Sharma asha...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi everyone, Please join me in welcoming Sucheta Ghoshal as associate software engineer in the Language Engineering team. Sucheta will be working on

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] Mobile stats

2013-09-03 Thread Erik Zachte
Sadly you need to take squid log based reports with a grain of salt. Several incomplete maintenance jobs have taken their toll. Each report starts with a long list of unsolved bugs. Among those https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46273 So yeah better trust your own data. Erik

Re: [Wikitech-l] format of Recent Changes feed

2013-09-03 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Vinay, could you tell us what you diff URLs and external links for? If it is for regular crawling of Wikimedia projects pages, you may be interested in our OAI feed for search engines: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_update_feed_service Nemo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Sucheta Ghoshal

2013-09-03 Thread Arthur Richards
Welcome, Sucheta :) On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklah...@gmail.comwrote: Hearty Congratulations Sucheta! Wish you all the very best! :) On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Alolita Sharma asha...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone, Please join me in welcoming

Re: [Wikitech-l] Use of http:// urls in wikimedia wiki emails

2013-09-03 Thread Ryan Lane
If we switch the URLs to HTTPS we'll have issues with users in China and Iran and we can't really use geoip targeting for this like we are for log-in. On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:40 AM, billinghurst billinghu...@gmail.com wrote: Now that we push/force/encourage https:// connections, are we going

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP upgraded on Jenkins

2013-09-03 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 03/09/13 16:50, Antoine Musso a écrit : Jenkins: MediaWiki unit tests segfault on gallium https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/43972 Coverage build: https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/job/mediawiki-core-code-coverage/189/console And it still segfault, albeit with a difference trace

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is there a way to let mediawiki support jquery mobile?

2013-09-03 Thread Arthur Richards
Shawn, to clarify - are you trying to create an Android app for your site or are you hoping to provide a more mobile-friendly experience for folks browsing your website on mobile devices? Folks from the mobile apps team (Yuvi?) can probably give you better insight if you're trying to create an

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Kartik Mistry

2013-09-03 Thread Arthur Richards
Welcome, Kartik :D On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 09/03/2013 09:52 AM, Alolita Sharma wrote: Kartik is well known in India’s open source community for his many contributions to Debian. He has been a Debian developer and package maintainer since August

[Wikitech-l] Help run an Open Source Day Oct. 5, in Minneapolis, USA?

2013-09-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
http://gracehopper.org/2013/conference/grace-hopper-open-source-day/ The purpose of Grace Hopper Open Source Day is to give attendees of the conference and some of our friends from local universities the opportunity to code, network and contribute to the greater social good. I was going to lead

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Kartik Mistry

2013-09-03 Thread Danese Cooper
Woot! Kartik is an amazing guy, and will be a great contributor to the language team I'm sure. Danese On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Alolita Sharma asha...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi everyone, Please join me in welcoming Kartik Mistry as Software Engineer on the Language Engineering team.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help run an Open Source Day Oct. 5, in Minneapolis, USA?

2013-09-03 Thread Valerie Juarez
Hey Sumana, I'm have a table in the Student Opportunities Lab where I'll be talking to students about contributing to open source. I would love to help, and if there are other people interested, we could pair up. I'm in Texas, so I'm not super close, but let me know if you'll need me. Also,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help run an Open Source Day Oct. 5, in Minneapolis, USA?

2013-09-03 Thread Leslie Carr
As someone who attended this last year, I think that having a specific small project/goal in mind would be very helpful -- many attendees seemed to enjoy the projects where they could show off what they did in the end. On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help run an Open Source Day Oct. 5, in Minneapolis, USA?

2013-09-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Very fair point! Last year, we had people with such varied skills that we offered three projects: - Easy: Editing Wikipedia and Wikiquote for the first time - Medium: Customizing your Wikipedia experience with JavaScript and CSS - Challenging: Creating your first patch learning to use Git

[Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki Security Release: 1.21.2, 1.20.7 and 1.19.8

2013-09-03 Thread Chris Steipp
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.21.2, 1.20.7 and 1.19.8. These releases fix 3 security related bugs that could affect users of MediaWiki. Download links are given at the end of this email. * Mozilla, and other developers, reported a full path disclosure in MediaWiki, when an

Re: [Wikitech-l] Use of http:// urls in wikimedia wiki emails

2013-09-03 Thread Gryllida
Given what Ryan Lane said, I think this could be user preference (possibly tied to whether the user checked the Always use a secure connection when logged in box in preferences). ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] BetaFeatures framework, and a minor call for technical input

2013-09-03 Thread Mark Holmquist
Timezone-appropriate greeting, wikitech! I've been working on a new extension, BetaFeatures[0]. A lot of you have heard about it through the grapevine, and for the rest of you, consider this an announcement for the developers. :) The basic idea of the extension is to enable features to be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Use of http:// urls in wikimedia wiki emails

2013-09-03 Thread Strainu
2013/9/4 Gryllida gryll...@fastmail.fm: Given what Ryan Lane said, I think this could be user preference (possibly tied to whether the user checked the Always use a secure connection when logged in box in preferences). That would be the ideal, but I vaguely remember a previous thread where

Re: [Wikitech-l] Use of http:// urls in wikimedia wiki emails

2013-09-03 Thread Chris Steipp
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/9/4 Gryllida gryll...@fastmail.fm: Given what Ryan Lane said, I think this could be user preference (possibly tied to whether the user checked the Always use a secure connection when logged in box in preferences).

Re: [Wikitech-l] Use of http:// urls in wikimedia wiki emails

2013-09-03 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote: and then specifically not enable this feature on zh/fa/etc where many users won't be able to follow the links. Would this even be necessary? I think we can safely assume that if the user is in China, etc. they will not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is there a way to let mediawiki support jquery mobile?

2013-09-03 Thread XIAO Qingjun
Hi, Aurther: Shawn, to clarify - are you trying to create an Android app for your site or are you hoping to provide a more mobile-friendly experience for folks browsing your website on mobile devices? Actually, I have already done the job you mentioned. I have created an android app for my

Re: [Wikitech-l] Use of http:// urls in wikimedia wiki emails

2013-09-03 Thread Chris Steipp
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote: and then specifically not enable this feature on zh/fa/etc where many users won't be able to follow the links. Would this even be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Use of http:// urls in wikimedia wiki emails

2013-09-03 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote: Problem is (I think) we defaulted it on, so most users in China have the preference turned on, it just doesn't effect the login process since it's overriden by the geoip lookup. Mhm makes sense. *-- * *Tyler Romeo*