On 9 February 2015 at 08:28, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote:
OpenOffice's woes are unrelated to its license, it was already dead by
forking when Oracle transferred it to Apache, facilitating a change from
GPL+proprietary CLA to the Apache license.
Indeed, but they touted the
Few more updates:
Un-subscribe feature just got enabled[1] in group0 and we could
successfully test the same, thanks to our TestVerp account in mediawiki.org.
The current failure threshold is kept to 5 bounces in 7 days, to match
mailman configs[2].
[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/189316/
This appears to be tracked at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3433
It was reverted in 2009 for (alleged) l10n issues, which should be
solvable. FWIW we just saved 4 KB per page with
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/177501/
Nemo
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On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Brion Vibber wrote:
Special page inclusions shouldn't be able to do anything privileged;
they're meant for public data. If that's not being enforced right now I'd
recommend reworking or killing the special page inclusion system...
Ok, although Brion's
This entire conversation is a bit disappointing, mainly because I am a
supporter of the free software movement, and like to believe that users should
have a right to see the source code of software they use. Obviously not
everybody feels this way and not everybody is going to support the free
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
This entire conversation is a bit disappointing, mainly because I am a
supporter of the free software movement, and like to believe that users
should have a right to see the source code of software they use. Obviously
Hi could I have some help to fix a problem that a user reported on the
extension talk page. The talk page is at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:CollapsibleVector and the title is
flickering. I am not sure how to fix the problem I was wandering if someone on
here knew how to fix
On 9 February 2015 at 04:51, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Also, one cost of copyleft licenses is that they are much, much more
complicated than permissive licenses. Even though many people feel
comfortable with the compliance requirements of most OSI-approved
licenses, the
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 12:01 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 9 February 2015 at 04:51, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Also, one cost of copyleft licenses is that they are much, much more
complicated than permissive licenses. Even though many people feel
comfortable
The MediaWiki Developer Summit had three main themes that helped
structuring the schedule. These themes were useful, and they can be more
useful for the hackathons in Lyon and Mexico City this year, since defining
them indvance will help everybody organizing their travel.
Anybody can propose a
Hello,
We are migrating Jenkins jobs to simply invokes [test entry points] (ex:
composer test, npm test).
Some repositories have documentation generated by Jenkins and pushed
under https://doc.wikimedia.org/ . I would like to make it as trivial
as possible for developers to configure Jenkins,
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote:
Hello,
We are migrating Jenkins jobs to simply invokes [test entry points] (ex:
composer test, npm test).
Some repositories have documentation generated by Jenkins and pushed
under https://doc.wikimedia.org/ . I would
Thanks everybody for the warm welcome!
After a whirlwind first day, it's time to retreat to Chipotle and Seinfield
re-runs to help digest this massive information intake.
Thanks again!
Tyler
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This move is now complete. Things are working fine as best I can tell,
but please file a bug or contact me if you see bad behavior. (But FIRST
log out and back in, because that bug I already know about. *sigh* )
Many thanks to Sean Pringle for support with this move, and the other
folks
On February 9, 2015 at 15:17:22, Ryan Lane (rlan...@gmail.com) wrote:
You're implying that Apache2 licensed software is somehow not part of the
free software movement and that's absurd. Apache2 is technically a freer
license than GPLv(anything). Like GPL3, it also provides patent protection.
In
Le 09/02/2015 21:10, Thomas Mulhall a écrit :
Should we create a page on mediawiki and allow people to vote for it or
against. And advertise it on Wikimedia wiki so that users know there is a
vote going on for GPL3. and we should hold the vote for 2 to 3 months giving
time for users to vote
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
On February 9, 2015 at 15:17:22, Ryan Lane (rlan...@gmail.com) wrote:
You're implying that Apache2 licensed software is somehow not part of the
free software movement and that's absurd. Apache2 is technically a freer
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
I hope you don’t seriously think GPL software is not “truly free”.
Well, it all depends on point of view on what is free. The FSF
interpretation is you can do it your own way if it's done just how I say.
Not everyone
Hello all,
I’m delighted to announce that Tyler Cipriani[0] is joining the
foundation as a Release Engineer (obviously joining the Release
Engineering team).
Tyler lives (and will continue to work remotely from) where you can see
the Flatirons[1] in Colorado and comes to us from SparkFun[2]
Hi folks,
MediaWiki emits the hreflang attribute on language links, but only as part
of the links in the body, and not in the head as recommended by Google
[1]. The result of this is that Google (and possibly other search engines)
doesn't interpret the hreflang attribute for purposes of
On 2015-02-09 2:16 AM, Erik Moeller wrote:
This of course would add some additional payload to pages with lots of
language links, but could help avoid results like [2] where the English
language version of an article is #1 and the Indonesian one makes no
appearance at all. Results vary greatly
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 2:11 AM, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org
wrote:
https://git.wikimedia.org/commit/apps%2Fios%2Fwikipedia/
6532021b4f4b1f09390b1ffc3f09d149b2a8d9d1
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rAPIW08f0d835ba4441eab28ce6914
24088e2b4743270
It works, but unlike
Il 09/02/2015 15:14, Quim Gil ha scritto:
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 2:11 AM, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org
wrote:
https://git.wikimedia.org/commit/apps%2Fios%2Fwikipedia/
6532021b4f4b1f09390b1ffc3f09d149b2a8d9d1
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rAPIW08f0d835ba4441eab28ce6914
Le 07/02/2015 01:56, Thomas Mulhall a écrit :
Hi how do I get my skins and extensions to be merged automatically by
jenkings like it does on centralauth projects are at
https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/mediawiki%2Fskins%2FMetrolook and
Welcome Tyler. Great to have you join. Best of luck.
--tomasz
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello all,
I’m delighted to announce that Tyler Cipriani[0] is joining the
foundation as a Release Engineer (obviously joining the Release
Engineering
Welcome, Tyler! I'm looking forward to working together.
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello all,
I’m delighted to announce that Tyler Cipriani[0] is joining the
foundation as a Release Engineer (obviously joining the Release
Engineering team).
On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 20:10 +, Thomas Mulhall wrote:
Should we create a page on mediawiki and allow people to vote for it
or against.
Nope, as software development is not a popularity contest.
andre
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http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
Hi!
This entire conversation is a bit disappointing, mainly because I am
a supporter of the free software movement, and like to believe that
users should have a right to see the source code of software they
use. Obviously not everybody feels this way and not everybody is
going to support the
On 09/02/15 20:37, Tyler Romeo wrote:
This entire conversation is a bit disappointing, mainly because I am a
supporter of the free software movement, and like to believe that users
should have a right to see the source code of software they use.
Obviously
not everybody feels this way and not
Look at the instructions at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Continuous_integration/Tutorials/Adding_a_MediaWiki_extension
The final patch might look something like
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/174797/
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Thomas Mulhall thomasmulhall...@yahoo.com
wrote:
Hi how
Should we create a page on mediawiki and allow people to vote for it or
against. And advertise it on Wikimedia wiki so that users know there is a vote
going on for GPL3. and we should hold the vote for 2 to 3 months giving time
for users to vote and since this would probably be a big update to
On Feb 9, 2015 7:07 AM, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote:
On 2015-02-09 2:16 AM, Erik Moeller wrote:
This of course would add some additional payload to pages with lots of
language links, but could help avoid results like [2] where the English
language version of an article
Welcome Tyler! Great to have you on board.
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Emily Blanchard eblanch...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Welcome Tyler!
Emily Blanchard
Talent Acquisition Team
Wikimedia Foundation
eblanchard@wikimedia. eblanch...@gmail.comorg
Follow us on Twitter @wikimediaatwork
Today Google Summer of Code 2015 and Outreachy (was FOSS Outreach Program
for Women, now open to other groups) have announced their call for
organizations. Wikimedia will apply to both programs. The deadlines are
February 20 and 17, respectively. THIS IS 7-10 DAYS FROM NOW!
We need to update the
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote:
he is also “thrilled to be working at an
organization whose values seemingly so closely align with [his] own.”
... and looking at his personal website he seems to enjoy writing prose!
Tyler, welcome, and don't forget
Welcome Tyler, great to have you aboard and I'm always happy to welcome
folks in the Mountain Timezone :)
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Kristen Lans kl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Welcome Tyler! Great to have you on board.
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Emily Blanchard
Bump
On Monday, 9 February 2015, 19:34, Thomas Mulhall
thomasmulhall...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi could I have some help to fix a problem that a user reported on the
extension talk page. The talk page is at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:CollapsibleVector and the title is
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