Re: [Wikitech-l] Idea for new desktop / mobile kiwix like application

2015-01-24 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com writes: web-app for offline use? :o Maybe they have a small webserver set up in a remote place with only sporadic Internet access? Maybe they're running a Mozilla's Firefox OS on a phone and calling apps for that OS web apps? -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC

Re: [Wikitech-l] Working around composer? (Fatal error: Class 'Cdb\Reader' not found)

2015-01-24 Thread Legoktm
On 01/16/2015 05:52 PM, Legoktm wrote: I tried getting update.php to run checkComposerLockUpToDate.php but it was messy and didn't really work well, so I uploaded a patch[1] that adjusts the intro text to recommend that you run checkComposerLockUpToDate.php before running update.php. [1]

Re: [Wikitech-l] Idea for new desktop / mobile kiwix like application

2015-01-24 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
There's also XOWA, and the dev answered my question about the pros and cons of XOWA vs Kiwix, at https://www.reddit.com/r/ https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/2f7lzi/your_own_wikipedia/ck6oa07 wikipedia https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/2f7lzi/your_own_wikipedia/ck6oa07

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing contentmodel of pages

2015-01-24 Thread Jackmcbarn
I agree with pretty much all of this. In my mind, editcontentmodel is a temporary hack that should go away completely once the bugs that led to its creation are fixed. Jackmcbarn On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:00 AM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On 01/09/2015 04:25 PM, Erik

Re: [Wikitech-l] Idea for new desktop / mobile kiwix like application

2015-01-24 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Yes, this. There is nothing contradictory with web app and offline. It works fine in chrome and other mobile browsers, although we deployed it with mobile Firefox for Android. --scott On Jan 24, 2015 3:00 PM, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: On 2015-01-24 2:38 PM, Mark A.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Idea for new desktop / mobile kiwix like application

2015-01-24 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 2015-01-24 2:38 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com writes: web-app for offline use? :o Maybe they have a small webserver set up in a remote place with only sporadic Internet access? Maybe they're running a Mozilla's Firefox OS on a phone and calling apps for that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing contentmodel of pages

2015-01-24 Thread Chris Steipp
On Jan 23, 2015 8:43 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 01/22/2015 10:00 PM, Legoktm wrote: I disagree that we need a editcontentmodel user right. I think all users should be allowed to change the content model of a page (provided they have the right to edit it, etc.).

Re: [Wikitech-l] Idea for new desktop / mobile kiwix like application

2015-01-24 Thread Petr Bena
web-app for offline use? :o On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:54 PM, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.org wrote: FWIW I also wrote a web app called Nell's Wikipedia which behaves as you propose: https://github.com/cscott/nell-wikipedia If you wanted to hack on it, it could use a bit of love.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing contentmodel of pages

2015-01-24 Thread Legoktm
On 01/24/2015 07:52 AM, Chris Steipp wrote: From a security perspective, I like limiting the content models per namespace to a relatively small whitelist. I think it will give more flexibility to anyone coming up with new content type definitions if we don't have to worry about what happen if