Re: [Wikitech-l] Text-to-speech extension?

2014-04-29 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Ilias Koumoundouros ilias.k...@freemail.gr wrote: So I was wondering whether there is a text-to-speech extension for Mediawiki What advantages would this offer over a screen reader? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Text-to-speech extension?

2014-04-29 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Are screen readers supported ? But do they understand what is the cruft that is on a page, the kind of cruft that you do not want to get read out to you? Thanks, GerardM On 29 April 2014 08:03, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Ilias

Re: [Wikitech-l] Text-to-speech extension?

2014-04-29 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 08:17 +0200, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, Are screen readers supported ? But do they understand what is the cruft that is on a page, the kind of cruft that you do not want to get read out to you? Depends on how you define supported. :) For things that don't work, there is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugday on General MediaWiki bugs on Tue, April 29 2014, 14:30UTC

2014-04-29 Thread Andre Klapper
here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/20140429 For more information on triaging in general, check out https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage See you there! andre [1] Timezone converter: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html [2] See

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Unit testing for MediaWiki projects

2014-04-29 Thread Chris McMahon
Very timely, the good people at Atomic Object have posted two articles about what makes code untestable, I think they're good: This Code Is Untestable! (Part 1, for Managers) http://spin.atomicobject.com/2014/04/28/untestable-code-unit-tests/ This Code Is Untestable! (Part 2, for Developers)

[Wikitech-l] Feedback on 1.23 RC 0

2014-04-29 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
We've gotten some feedback already -- https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/issues/212 -- about the RC for MediaWiki 1.23 that Markus made last week. Hopefully we can get this issue addressed in time for SMW users. Are there any other issues that people have run into that we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback on 1.23 RC 0

2014-04-29 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@nichework.comwrote: We've gotten some feedback already -- https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/issues/212 -- about the RC for MediaWiki 1.23 that Markus made last week. Hopefully we can get this issue addressed in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback on 1.23 RC 0

2014-04-29 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 10:50 -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: Are there any other issues that people have run into that we should know about before we do attempt to make a final release of 1.23? There are 13 tickets with a 1.23 target milestone in Bugzilla, and some have patches (are in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Shifting from PHP mailer to Swift Mailer

2014-04-29 Thread Tony Thomas
Hi, Looks like there isn't any more reply about this proposal on shifting from UserMailer to Swift-Mailer. Since, we have already started with implementing VERP, it's high time this enhancement needs to be applied, if it needs to be. If Swift-Mailer is to be done, VERP needs to be

Re: [Wikitech-l] jquery.accessKeyLabel broke mobile

2014-04-29 Thread Jon Robson
Krinkle fixed the immediate problem I opened https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64564 to further optimise the mediawiki.util library On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: The module was split out of mediawiki.util, nothing new, no need for any

[Wikitech-l] Skipping IRC RfC session for May 7th

2014-04-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I think it would be fine to skip the IRC discussion (for Requests for Comment review) that would happen on Wednesday, May 7th, because so many potential participants will be in transit to Zurich. You are, of course, free to schedule your own meetings to discuss things, if you disagree. :-) So,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Unit testing for MediaWiki projects

2014-04-29 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 29/04/2014 06:47, Erik Moeller a écrit : As a reminder, this is happening tomorrow at 12 PM PDT / 19:00 UTC tomorrow (Tuesday): https://plus.google.com/events/cae6ng1m9o4mhdbpo10u5v05bvg I have uploaded the slides as PDF on commons:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback on 1.23 RC 0

2014-04-29 Thread Daniel Friesen
I discovered this regression yesterday: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64595 ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] On 2014-04-29, 7:50 AM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: We've gotten some feedback already --

Re: [Wikitech-l] Config class and 1.23

2014-04-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 04/18/2014 05:35 PM, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: Hey, Is there some kind of description of the responsibility of the context source stuff anywhere? And the design vision behind it? I find the whole thing extremely dubious, as it appears to try make you bind to a whole group of rather scary

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tuesday Apr 29 - MediaWiki libraries components

2014-04-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
This is in about 10 minutes. -Sumana On 04/25/2014 01:27 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: This is on a Tuesday at 2200 UTC - note the change! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-04-29 We'll discuss Ryan Lane's proposal (better handling and versioning

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tuesday Apr 29 - MediaWiki libraries components

2014-04-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Cross-posting to mediawiki-l and mediawiki-enterprise, as I should have done initially. On 04/25/2014 01:36 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: On 04/25/2014 01:27 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: We'll discuss Ryan Lane's proposal (better handling and versioning libraries that are MW extensions)

[Wikitech-l] dnschain

2014-04-29 Thread James Salsman
Would someone please review this DNS proposal for secure HTTPS? https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain http://okturtles.com/other/dnschain_okturtles_overview.pdf http://okturtles.com/ It is new but it appears to be the most correct secure DNS solution for HTTPS security at present. Thank you.