[Wikitech-l] Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—February 6th

The Search Platform Team usually holds office hours the first Wednesday of each month—that's tomorrow! Come ask us anything about Wikimedia search! We’re particularly interested in: * Opportunities for collaboration—internally or

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Commons-l] Sunsetting VP8 version of WebM for video playback

On Mon, Feb 4, 2019, 2:26 PM Gergo Tisza On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:22 PM Brion Vibber via Commons-l < > common...@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> IE 11 users will receive low-resolution, slow JavaScript-based video >> playback instead. If you find this is troublesome, the recommended solution

Re: [Wikitech-l] The mw.ext construct in lua modules

Those that break the naming scheme *somehow* is 7 extensions (ArticlePlaceholder (mixed case), DynamicPageListEngine (not extension name), JsonConfig (not extension name), LinkedWiki (not ext structure), SemanticScribunto (not extension name), Wikibase Client (not ext structure), ZeroPortal (not

Re: [Wikitech-l] What would you like to see in gerrit?

> filtering out CI messages from Gerrit comments. I use a hacky bookmarklet to hide jenkins-bot comments: javascript:Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('[class*=messageBox]')).filter(box => box.querySelector('[class*=name]').textContent === 'jenkins-bot').forEach(box => box.style.display =

Re: [Wikitech-l] The mw.ext construct in lua modules

On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 5:26 PM Eran Rosenthal wrote: > > What is the problem with the ".ext" part? > 1. It adds unnecessary complexity both in the extension (need to init > mw.ext if it doesn't exist) It's one line in the boilerplate. That's not much complexity. > and more important - in its

Re: [Wikitech-l] [discovery] Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2019-01-21

> > * Trey also reviewed, updated and manually re-built the Hebmorph plugin > for ElasticSearch 6 with help from the rest of the Search team [1] Not quite! We have to give *David* all the credit for updating and rebuilding the Hebmorph plugin. I just ran a regression test to make sure nothing