Re: [Wikitech-l] Doxygen Not Working?

2012-08-03 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 02/08/12 19:35, Tyler Romeo a écrit : I'm not sure whether anybody was aware of this, but the Doxygen documentation at http://svn.wikimedia.org/doc has suddenly broken down. It's still online, but all the actual class and function definitions have disappeared. Hello Tyler, Sorry about

Re: [Wikitech-l] Doxygen Not Working?

2012-08-03 Thread Tyler Romeo
Pretty nice. I think the improvement was well worth the temporary breakage if you ask me. :) *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr

Re: [Wikitech-l] About outreach and tech events (as suggested by Sumana!)

2012-08-03 Thread bawolff
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Julien Dorra juliendo...@juliendorra.com wrote: [snip] * Question for you all: do you have an example of this consumer mode behavior on the software part of Wikimedia? How have you dealt with it in the past? * Bawolff a question just for you, could you

Re: [Wikitech-l] About outreach and tech events (as suggested by Sumana!)

2012-08-03 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:43 PM, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote: Well it just seems that often outreach focuses on people outside the Wikimedia community, well ignoring people already in the Wikimedia community. In my opinions we're much more likely to get someone who truley cares about

Re: [Wikitech-l] Several Bug Triage Questions

2012-08-03 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 03/08/12 03:35, Al Snow a écrit : Also did some archaeology on Bugzilla and have some questions. Appears CLOSED status is not used much - do we stop at RESOLVED or VERIFIED status? With svn, we would mark the bug as resolved once it got sent in the repository. With git that is done when

Re: [Wikitech-l] Several Bug Triage Questions

2012-08-03 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 03/08/12 03:35, Al Snow a écrit : any help with bug triage dashboard/graphs/reports/wizards/extensions would be appreciated. I am only aware about the weekly bug summary at: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/weekly-bug-summary.cgi?tops=10days=7 Bugzilla as an XMLRpc interface which might be

[Wikitech-l] Are you doing something that slows Wikipedia down?

2012-08-03 Thread Steven Walling
A somewhat cheeky subject line, I know, but I wanted to get people's attention. Let me explain: My team's job is to run experiments that tell us why Wikipedia editors stay or leave.[1] One of the conclusions we've come to is that we have zero data on how site performance impacts editor retention

Re: [Wikitech-l] Are you doing something that slows Wikipedia down?

2012-08-03 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
I'm not sure if it's really needed to find out *if* site speed influences visits. They do, and they are very heavily influenced by site speed. Effects of Website Speed on Revenue Experience - Shopzilla increased page load time from 6 seconds to 1.2 seconds and increased revenue by 12%

Re: [Wikitech-l] Are you doing something that slows Wikipedia down?

2012-08-03 Thread Steven Walling
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) smazel...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm not sure if it's really needed to find out *if* site speed influences visits. They do, and they are very heavily influenced by site speed. Yeah, to be clear here: what I'm asking is not if. It's how

[Wikitech-l] Dropping Alias as a recommended way to setup Short URLs

2012-08-03 Thread Daniel Friesen
After some review I'm thinking of eliminating Alias as the recommended way of configuring short urls in MediaWiki and instead exclusively suggesting the use of RewriteRules. I reviewed how Alias seems to work and I can't see any real advantage at all to using it. Certainly not enough to