Re: [Wikitech-l] Come develop Video, *the* video embedding extension for MediaWiki!
oEmbed indeed looks interesting; this is the first time I heard about it. :) I'll note for the record that while not exactly an oEmbed implementation, the YouTube extension [1] has allowed the youtubesome YouTube URL goes here/youtube syntax for embedding YT videos since late 2013 [2]. This isn't exactly advertised on any of the related documentation pages, though (bug #1 and all that stuff). Likewise, this syntax isn't available for any of the smaller providers as someone who speaks regex natively has to write the regexes for those (patches welcome!). On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, the video namespace is an interesting approach. Has anyone considered trying instead of tagopaque string/tag, something like embed url here /embed, which than tries to use oEmbed to embed whatever is at the url? Most video sharing site support oEmbed. --bawolff [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:YouTube [2] https://git.wikimedia.org/commitdiff/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FYouTube/7acd1d53101a42d02237158a659e1054f7423188 Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Need Guidance
Hello My name is Alisha Jain. I am an engineering student from Punjab, India. I came to know that your organization is participating in FOSS Outreach Program for Women this year. I have gone through your projects and would like to have opportunity to work with you. I am quite interested in Extensive and robust localisation file format coverage project. I have worked upon parsers which is the main reason for my interest in this project. I have made a Two - way Converter using Flex and Bison and C++ and a simple converter which converts Text format to DXF format. [0] is the link to my github repository for Two - way Converter and [1] is for the DXF parser. I want to test my coding skills in your project. Please guide me how to proceed further and start with the patches. [0]https://github.com/alishajain/Converter [1]https://github.com/alishajain/dxfwentities -- Alisha Jain blog - jainalisha14.wordpress.com Your Failure does not define you, but your determination does. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: The Very Basics of Phabricator: September 24
Reminder: this tech talk will be starting in one hour! On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Rachel Farrand rfarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: Please join us for the following tech talk: Tech Talk: The Very Basics of Phabricator Date: September 24 Time: 1800 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Phab+Tech+Talkiso=20140924T18p1=1440ah=1 Link to live YouTube stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fpkHyCGX1Y IRC channel for questions: #wikimedia-office Google+ page https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/events/c8qe7l0vtf4v6u07k3o059du2lg, another place for questions Talk description: Phabricator' will soon replace the task/issue tracking tools 'Bugzilla' and 'RT' in Wikimedia. The planning tools 'Trello', 'Mingle' and the code review tool 'Gerrit' will follow. This session explains what's been going on lately and the plan for the next weeks, in which RT and Bugzilla will be deprecated. We will provide a short introduction to Phabricator's basic functionality, followed by answering your questions. Andre manages bug reports in Wikimedia's 'Bugzilla' and helps Chase and Mukunda with migrating everything to Phabricator. Thanks! Rachel ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] ***Security notice*** for IRC: vulnerability prior to September 15, change passwords
All, As you may have heard, Freenode found some compromised servers on their networks. Network traffic, including SSL traffic, may have been sniffed by a third party. This likely affects many Wikimedia IRC users, including users who do not speak English, so please forward this notice and translate as needed for the benefit of other Wikimedians. If you have not changed your nickserv password on September 15 or later, please do so now. From the Freenode blog: Before changing your password, please check your email address in /msg nickserv info and, if needed, update it – see /msg nickserv help set email (remember to check your new email for the verification key). This will ensure that we can send you a password reset email should, for whatever reason, your password change not work properly. If you have no email set on your account or an email set that you cannot access, we cannot send password resets to you, so do please keep this up-to-date. To change your password use /msg nickserv set password newpasshere Since traffic may have been sniffed, you may also wish to consider any channel keys or similar secret information exchanged over the network. Please direct questions to Freenode IRC ops. They are voiced in the #freenode channel. Pine ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: The Very Basics of Phabricator: September 24
Great tech talk today! If you would like to view the talk at a later time you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fpkHyCGX1Y Thanks! On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Rachel Farrand rfarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: Reminder: this tech talk will be starting in one hour! On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Rachel Farrand rfarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: Please join us for the following tech talk: Tech Talk: The Very Basics of Phabricator Date: September 24 Time: 1800 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Phab+Tech+Talkiso=20140924T18p1=1440ah=1 Link to live YouTube stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fpkHyCGX1Y IRC channel for questions: #wikimedia-office Google+ page https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/events/c8qe7l0vtf4v6u07k3o059du2lg, another place for questions Talk description: Phabricator' will soon replace the task/issue tracking tools 'Bugzilla' and 'RT' in Wikimedia. The planning tools 'Trello', 'Mingle' and the code review tool 'Gerrit' will follow. This session explains what's been going on lately and the plan for the next weeks, in which RT and Bugzilla will be deprecated. We will provide a short introduction to Phabricator's basic functionality, followed by answering your questions. Andre manages bug reports in Wikimedia's 'Bugzilla' and helps Chase and Mukunda with migrating everything to Phabricator. Thanks! Rachel ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator update
We are working on a page summarizing all what matters about the migration from Bugzilla to Phabricator: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/versus_Bugzilla Your feedback and edits today help us offering better information to our thousands of Bugzilla users tomorrow. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] the three phases of patch review
I just read http://sarah.thesharps.us/2014/09/01/the-gentle-art-of-patch-review/ and it made a lot of sense to me as a way to speed up the first response a new patch gets. Instead of putting off reviewing first-time contributions and thoroughly reviewing everything in the contribution at once, I propose a three-phase review process for maintainers: 1. Is the idea behind the contribution sound? 2. Is the contribution architected correctly? 3. Is the contribution polished? The post author, a Linux kernel developer, goes into more detail in the post; it's worth reading even if you decide this approach isn't your style. (Reminder: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Code_review/Getting_reviews and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Code_review are worth re-skimming.) Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.19.19, 1.22.11 and 1.23.4
Hello everyone, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.19.19, 1.22.11 and 1.23.4. This is a regular security and maintenance release. Download links are given at the end of this email. == Security == * (bug 69008) SECURITY: Enhance CSS filtering in SVG files. Filter style elements; normalize style elements and attributes before filtering; add checks for attributes that contain css; add unit tests for html5sec and reported bugs. == Bugfixes in 1.23.4 == * (bug 65998) Make MySQLi work with non-standard socket. * (bug 66986) GlobalVarConfig shouldn't throw exceptions for null-valued config settings. Full release notes for 1.23.4: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.23 Full release notes for 1.22.11: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.22 Full release notes for 1.19.19: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.19 Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html ** 1.23.4 ** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-1.23.4.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.23.3): https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-1.23.4.patch.gz GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-core-1.23.4.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-1.23.4.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-1.23.4.patch.gz.sig Note: There is no i18n patch as there are no changes in translation. ** 1.22.11 ** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-1.22.11.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.22.10): https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-1.22.11.patch.gz GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-core-1.22.11.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-1.22.11.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-1.22.11.patch.gz.sig Note: There is no i18n patch as there are no changes in translation. ** 1.19.19 ** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.19.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.19.18): https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.19.patch.gz GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-core-1.19.19.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.19.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.19.patch.gz.sig Note: There is no i18n patch as there are no changes in translation. Markus Glaser (Wiki Release Team) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] PHP Con Mexico: The parallel evolution of Mediawiki and PHP, and how you can contribute to the future of Mediawiki
Hello Spanish speakers of wikitech-l, In case you are interested, Andrew Russell Green from the growth team at the Wikimedia Foundation will be giving a talk at PHP Con Mexico 2014 http://www.phpcon.mx/. The conference will be in Spanish. *Date:* September 26, 2014 *Talk:* The parallel evolution of Mediawiki and PHP, and how you can contribute to the future of Mediawiki *Remote viewing:* It'll be transmitted live from http://www.phpcon.mx/ , and the recording will be available from https://www.youtube.com/user/ComunidadDePHP . If there is a lot of interest, maybe we can get him to do a tech talk with the english version. Any specific questions? Ask Andrew! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Howto get a patch merged?
Stephan, thank you for speaking up. It's incredibly frustrating and demoralizing when you work really hard on a gift (all volunteer contributions are gifts) and you just hear nothing back, or maybe just criticism with not even a thank-you. I'm sorry that this happened to you, that out of dozens of comments, nearly none even explicitly acknowledged and appreciated your effort, and that you had long stretches where you were waiting for a response. It is absolutely your right to take a break from the frustrations of this project and especially from the abrasions of our code review process. I hope you come back, though, and I hope the Wikimedia technical community makes it appealing for you to come back. Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Stephan Gambke s7ep...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, last attempt. This needs merge: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/151370/ Somebody shat on it (-2), so it looks ugly, sorry for that. Didn't come back to clean up their mess, either, instead told me to advertise it here. Sorry for putting it like this, in particular with the Sumana's thread right next to it, but really, I am fed up. The way this went lets all that clamoring for contributors sound rather hollow, to my ears at least - they are quite obviously not welcome. I mean being ignored because everybody is apparently super busy is one thing. But being made to jump through hoop after hoop for weeks and then being ignored does feel less like being ignored and more like being made fun of. It will be a long time until I waste my time again on trying to get some patch merged. Stephan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] the three phases of patch review
Great article. As further reading for anybody who is interested, there is a book called “Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review”. It addresses the various methods of code review and how to best tune it for your project. (It’s available online somewhere.) -- Tyler Romeo 0x405D34A7C86B42DF On September 24, 2014 at 18:03:03, Sumana Harihareswara (suma...@wikimedia.org) wrote: I just read http://sarah.thesharps.us/2014/09/01/the-gentle-art-of-patch-review/ and it made a lot of sense to me as a way to speed up the first response a new patch gets. Instead of putting off reviewing first-time contributions and thoroughly reviewing everything in the contribution at once, I propose a three-phase review process for maintainers: 1. Is the idea behind the contribution sound? 2. Is the contribution architected correctly? 3. Is the contribution polished? The post author, a Linux kernel developer, goes into more detail in the post; it's worth reading even if you decide this approach isn't your style. (Reminder: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Code_review/Getting_reviews and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Code_review are worth re-skimming.) Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation
Thank you for your contributions to Wikimedia movement and Foundation. You will be missed. Best wishes for the future. Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: I write this email with regret to let you know that I've decided to leave the Wikimedia Foundation after nearly four years working here, and that my last day will be 30 September. I go into my reasoning and plans in this personal blog post: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/09/12/0 I'm grateful for what I've learned here and will take these lessons wherever I go. And I've made many friends here; thank you. I'll remain [[User:Sumanah]] in any volunteer work I do onwiki. Quim Gil will be the person to contact for any loose threads I leave behind; still, if you have questions for me, the next two weeks would be a good time to ask them. best, Sumana Harihareswara was Volunteer Development Coordinator, then Engineering Community Manager, now Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
