Re: [Wikitech-l] Improving CAPTCHA friendliness for humans, and increasing CAPTCHA difficulty for bots

2015-08-20 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 08/19/2015 10:17 PM, Jamison Lofthouse wrote: The subject sounds exactly like the reCAPTCHA https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html tagline. Not sure how beneficial the project would be but I have seen it used. Maybe worth looking into. Unfortunately, we can not use reCAPTCHA

[Wikitech-l] Code of conduct committee

2015-08-20 Thread Matthew Flaschen
There is some discussion now about how the Code of Conduct Committee should be formed. See: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Draft#Membership_of_the_committee_and_ECT.27s_role and *

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improving CAPTCHA friendliness for humans, and increasing CAPTCHA difficulty for bots

2015-08-20 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 08/19/2015 10:17 PM, Jamison Lofthouse wrote: The subject sounds exactly like the reCAPTCHA https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html tagline. Not sure how beneficial the project would be but I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Issue with Gadget dependencies and ResourceLoader

2015-08-20 Thread Huji Lee
Excellent answers. Thank you! Here is a final question: how long does it generally take for a change made in a script to be reflected in the output of RL? Is it in the order of minutes or hours? On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2015

Re: [Wikitech-l] oldimage naming convention

2015-08-20 Thread Krinkle
Yeah, it's a bug. However it's also a natural side-effect of these tables still being a reflection of how the page and revision tables used to be. Namely curr and old. We moved away from this for several reasons. Among them, that having to move rows once they are no longer the latest version is

[Wikitech-l] ANN: Version 2.1.2 of the Memento MediaWiki Extension

2015-08-20 Thread Shawn Jones
All, Incorporating bugfixes, version 2.1.2 of the Memento time travel Extension for MediaWiki has been released and has been tested with MediaWiki 1.25.2. The extension can be downloaded via [1]. Information on the extension is available at [2]. A demonstration wiki equipped with the extension

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools for dealing with citations of withdrawn academic journal articles

2015-08-20 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 08/18/2015 05:42 AM, Pine W wrote: Is there any easy way to find all of citations of specified academic articles on Wikipedias in all languages, and the text that is supported by those references, so that the citations of questionable articles can be removed and the article texts can be

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Replace Tidy with HTML 5 parse/reserialize

2015-08-20 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 02:32:12 +0200, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 20/08/15 01:21, Erwin Dokter wrote: I mentioned this once before: http://www.htacg.org/tidy-html5/ While Tidy died in 2008, this fork lives on and is HTML5 aware. That will at least solve a lot of problems

Re: [Wikitech-l] Issue with Gadget dependencies and ResourceLoader

2015-08-20 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 04:07:57 +0200, Huji Lee huji.h...@gmail.com wrote: However, if you don't bypass ResourceLoader, the + links won't work and an error is thrown reading SimpleWindow is not defined (try on my talk page without bypassing RL https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Huji). Note

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Evaluation of opt-in alternatives to Grid Engine on Tool Labs ('clustering solution')

2015-08-20 Thread Yuvi Panda
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 4:45 PM Subject: Evaluation of opt-in alternatives to Grid Engine on Tool Labs ('clustering solution') To: Wikimedia Labs lab...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello! One of the experimental goals

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: ELK: Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana at Wikimedia

2015-08-20 Thread Bryan Davis
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Rachel Farrand rfarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: Please join for the following tech talk: *Tech Talk**:* ELK: Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana at Wikimedia *Presenter:* Bryan Davis *Date:* August 20, 2015 *Time: *17:30 UTC Slides:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: ELK: Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana at Wikimedia

2015-08-20 Thread Rachel Farrand
Reminder: This tech talk starts in 1 hour! On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Rachel Farrand rfarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: Please join for the following tech talk: *Tech Talk**:* ELK: Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana at Wikimedia *Presenter:* Bryan Davis *Date:* August 20, 2015 *Time: