Re: [Wikitech-l] Limiting storage/generation of thumbnails without loss of functionality

2013-01-24 Thread Georgiy Tugai
On 24/01/13 13:54, Matthew Flaschen wrote: On 01/23/2013 10:07 PM, Georgiy Tugai wrote: As the linked thread mentioned, MediaWiki is used on many deployments outside of Wikimedia. For example, I'm running three instances on a server with 10 GB of disk space. Therefore, this should be an

Re: [Wikitech-l] A testing bug management wheel

2013-01-24 Thread Željko Filipin
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/QA/Weekly_goalshttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Weekly_goals The first two events have the same date, Jan 28. Is that on purpose? Željko ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why are we still using captchas on WMF sites?

2013-01-24 Thread Helder .
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Luke Welling WMF lwell...@wikimedia.org wrote: That was not the end of the problem I was referring to. We know our specific captcha is broken at turning away machines. As far as I am aware we do not know how many humans are being turned away by the difficulty of

Re: [Wikitech-l] An actual bikeshed

2013-01-24 Thread Tyler Romeo
Excuse me, but your proposed solution is wholly inadequate. For example, a few people might prefer a green bikeshed, more people might prefer blue, yet a small majority might prefer awful grey. The greens would of course prefer blue to grey, yet this would not be reflected in the voting

Re: [Wikitech-l] An actual bikeshed

2013-01-24 Thread Brad Jorsch
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: Excuse me, but your proposed solution is wholly inadequate. For example, a few people might prefer a green bikeshed, more people might prefer blue, yet a small majority might prefer awful grey. The greens would of course

Re: [Wikitech-l] An actual bikeshed

2013-01-24 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Jan 24, 2013 11:06 AM, Brad Jorsch bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: But we should use the Schulze method, not IRV. In either case we should use selectricity. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] An actual bikeshed

2013-01-24 Thread .
On 23 January 2013 19:11, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, There's been a lot of bikeshedding topics recently. On things ranging from spaces, to typos, to naming things. I was kind of tired of these mundane threads, so I decided to start one on something productive. What color

Re: [Wikitech-l] A testing bug management wheel

2013-01-24 Thread Quim Gil
On 01/24/2013 02:10 AM, Željko Filipin wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/QA/Weekly_goalshttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Weekly_goals The first two events have the same date, Jan 28. Is that on purpose? No, but

[Wikitech-l] Bugzilla and Automated tests backlog [was: Re: A testing bug management wheel]

2013-01-24 Thread Andre Klapper
On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 10:54 -0700, Chris McMahon wrote: I'm glad you mentioned this, it's something I'd like to bring up with Andre and Valerie. Note that much of the backlog for automated tests is the result of fixed BZ tickets http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Qa/test_backlog. Fixed bugs are

Re: [Wikitech-l] A testing bug management wheel

2013-01-24 Thread Chris McMahon
We in QA discussed some possibilities for the browser test automation community activities, and we suggest that the first couple of community events be educational. In particular, we think it would be beneficial to start with some introductory topics to be presented as a hangout+IRC

[Wikitech-l] Portuguese Wikipedia village pump and crowdsourcing ideas

2013-01-24 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Hi all, I would like to ask some help to do one thing and brainstorm a little about some tools for crowdsourcing wikimedians ideas. 1) My first question is if someone could help me to create a RSS feed of threads of the Portuguese Wikipedia village pump (= /esplanada/). The feed would contain

[Wikitech-l] Marking all of SVN as read-only

2013-01-24 Thread Chad
Hi all, I've been taking a look at the SVN history[0], and it doesn't look like anything is actively using SVN anymore. Looking at the logs, it doesn't look like much of anything has been committed in the last few months that hasn't since been moved to Git (in Gerrit or elsewhere). This being

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Hackathon 2013 brainstorming

2013-01-24 Thread Quim Gil
On 01/23/2013 10:46 PM, Gregory Varnum wrote: Greetings, Wikimania is six months away - and in terms of planning - that means it is right around the corner. As such, folks involved with programme and Hackathon organizing are very interested in any ideas that WM developers may have for this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla and Automated tests backlog [was: Re: A testing bug management wheel]

2013-01-24 Thread Andre Klapper
[CC'ing wikitech-l@ again] On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 10:50 -0700, Chris McMahon wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: 1) Bugzilla already has a number of keywords such as * need-integration-test (Selenium test should be written for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Caching of images in varnish

2013-01-24 Thread Andre Klapper
On Sat, 2013-01-19 at 11:18 -0400, Bawolff Bawolff wrote: There are reports everywhere of uploading new versions of images failing (upload works but new version does not show up). Last time this happened all that needed to be done was fot varnishhtcpd to be restarted on the image cache

Re: [Wikitech-l] A testing bug management wheel

2013-01-24 Thread Quim Gil
Thanks Chris Zeljko. We have two more weeks booked now: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Weekly_goals On 01/24/2013 09:30 AM, Chris McMahon wrote: We in QA discussed some possibilities for the browser test automation community activities, and we suggest that the first couple of community

Re: [Wikitech-l] A testing bug management wheel

2013-01-24 Thread Chris McMahon
* how to read, understand and analyze results in the Jenkins system we have for browser automation A good proposal, booked for the week starting on Mar 11. Please help defining what could be the practice, the actual contribution made by participants at the end of the week. It's right

Re: [Wikitech-l] A testing bug management wheel

2013-01-24 Thread Quim Gil
On 01/24/2013 10:52 AM, Chris McMahon wrote: * how to read, understand and analyze results in the Jenkins system we have for browser automation A good proposal, booked for the week starting on Mar 11. Please help defining what could be the practice, the actual contribution made by

Re: [Wikitech-l] Naming our developer events

2013-01-24 Thread Gregory Varnum
I may be in the minority - but I like the idea of adding some structure to the naming and logos. It may not matter to those of us already involved, but in trying to engage new people - having three events with very similar purpose but three different names is confusing and sometimes makes us

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Hackathon 2013 brainstorming

2013-01-24 Thread Gregory Varnum
I'm actually at another conference right now - so I am limited in how much I can answer right now. :) I do not think there are answers to who is coordinating it - beyond that the programme committee has been tasked with making sure it happens. As far as how it fits into the larger scheme of

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Event in the Philippines

2013-01-24 Thread Butch Bustria
Hello, Last January 12, some web technology enthusiasts attend the first MediaWiki meetup / orientation in Makati City, Philippines. Here is the photo from fb: https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/71495_10151206726144397_1656935086_n.jpg Part of the things discussed is having

[Wikitech-l] WikiVoyage image scaling (was Re: Limiting storage/generation of thumbnails without loss of functionality)

2013-01-24 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 01/23/2013 12:45 PM, Jon Robson wrote: It would be great if someone in the analytics team could give an idea of the most commonly requested thumbnails and we could use this as the basis for a new conversation. Serendipitously, about the same time you mentioned most commonly requested

Re: [Wikitech-l] Limiting storage/generation of thumbnails without loss of functionality

2013-01-24 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 01/24/2013 04:28 AM, Georgiy Tugai wrote: Also, a lightbox feature may help - expand the image to the full size (as sent by the server) on click, then link to the file page upon a second click (hide the lightbox upon a click outside of the image borders). I am unsure how difficult this

[Wikitech-l] switched planet to new software (finally)

2013-01-24 Thread Daniel Zahn
Hi, last night i finally made the switch to the new planet software. http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Planet.wikimedia.org == What is planet? == An RSS feed aggregator. See [[meta:Planet_Wikimedia]] for details. == How do i access it? == http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/ and several