Re: [Wikitech-l] No cascade protection on Mediawiki namespace

2013-04-20 Thread Petr Kadlec
On 20 April 2013 07:08, Techman224 techman...@techman224.ca wrote: Right now the MediaWiki namespace is protected from editing. However, if you add a template to a Mediawiki message and the template is unprotected, any user could edit the message by editing the template, creating a backdoor.

Re: [Wikitech-l] browser tests now targeting beta cluster

2013-04-20 Thread Željko Filipin
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Chris McMahon cmcma...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Over the last week Željko and I changed the QA automated browser tests to target test environments on the beta cluster as well as on test2wiki, where they had been running for some time. We also run a carefully

[Wikitech-l] Last day to register request scholarship for Amsterdam hackathon

2013-04-20 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013 Today is the last day to register for the Amsterdam hackathon (May 24-26) and request a scholarship. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Last day to register request scholarship for Amsterdam hackathon

2013-04-20 Thread Pragun Bhutani
Hello Sumana! Thanks for the reminder. I'm plan to fill in an application by the end of the day. Does it help my case to mention contributions made to other FOSS organizations? On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Last day to register request scholarship for Amsterdam hackathon

2013-04-20 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Doing so will not hurt your case so go ahead. :) -Sumana On 04/20/2013 08:41 AM, Pragun Bhutani wrote: Hello Sumana! Thanks for the reminder. I'm plan to fill in an application by the end of the day. Does it help my case to mention contributions made to other FOSS organizations? On Sat,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit slow to the point of being unusable today

2013-04-20 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 11/04/13 00:12, Jon Robson a écrit : Is anyone able to look into this? It's extremely slow and I can't find someone to fix it. It's making me a very sad and unproductive panda :( Hello, I think most of the issues we encountered two weeks ago are now solved. I still have to upgrade

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit slow to the point of being unusable today

2013-04-20 Thread MZMcBride
Antoine Musso wrote: Le 11/04/13 00:12, Jon Robson a écrit : Is anyone able to look into this? It's extremely slow and I can't find someone to fix it. It's making me a very sad and unproductive panda :( I think most of the issues we encountered two weeks ago are now solved. I still have

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit slow to the point of being unusable today

2013-04-20 Thread Chad
We've also made a few improvements to Gerrit over the past week that should help with stability and performance. -Chad On Apr 20, 2013 10:26 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Antoine Musso wrote: Le 11/04/13 00:12, Jon Robson a écrit : Is anyone able to look into this? It's

Re: [Wikitech-l] No cascade protection on Mediawiki namespace

2013-04-20 Thread Techman224
Some people are not aware of this, and they use templates to style Mediawiki messages. If the administrator forgets to protect the template, it opens up a backdoor for other users to edit the message. Techman224 On 2013-04-20, at 4:25 AM, Petr Kadlec petr.kad...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 April

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit slow to the point of being unusable today

2013-04-20 Thread Jon Robson
Thanks Antoine great to hear! Luckily it has been behaving itself recently :) On 20 Apr 2013 07:54, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: We've also made a few improvements to Gerrit over the past week that should help with stability and performance. -Chad On Apr 20, 2013 10:26 AM, MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] No cascade protection on Mediawiki namespace

2013-04-20 Thread James Forrester
On 20 April 2013 10:07, Techman224 techman...@techman224.ca wrote: Some people are not aware of this, and they use templates to style Mediawiki messages. If the administrator forgets to protect the template, it opens up a backdoor for other users to edit the message. Incompetent sysops are a

Re: [Wikitech-l] No cascade protection on Mediawiki namespace

2013-04-20 Thread Brian Wolff
Mw namespace pages that expand templates generally arent the scary ones from an anon editing prespective. I don't think this is really neccesary, and can mostly be dealt with socially when needed. -bawolff P.s. $5 says someone will probably come up with an exception with in 10 seconds of me

[Wikitech-l] Special:ActiveUsers, where did it go?

2013-04-20 Thread David Cuenca
Hi there, I'm trying to find the Special:ActiveUsers page that used to show activity statistics. Where did it go? Has it been replaced by something better? Thanks, Micru ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special:ActiveUsers, where did it go?

2013-04-20 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:46:53 +0200, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: Where did it go? Has it been replaced by something better? It has been killed off, but it likely to come back; see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41078 . I think there's been a wikitech-l or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tutorial on Semantic MediaWiki in Russian

2013-04-20 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le samedi 20 avril 2013 à 05:36 +0400, Yury Katkov a écrit : Any ideas where to publish the English version? I was quite surprised when I found out that there is no collective blog in english internet as our Habrahabr. I was thinking about IBM Developerworks but maybe they need something

Re: [Wikitech-l] No cascade protection on Mediawiki namespace

2013-04-20 Thread Tyler Romeo
Even ignoring the original problem, we have wgNamespaceProtection, wouldn't it make sense to have wgNamespaceCascadingProtection? *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 3:42

Re: [Wikitech-l] No cascade protection on Mediawiki namespace

2013-04-20 Thread Techman224
It would have to be dependant on wgNamespaceProtection being set, else anyone could protect any page using transclusion. Techman224 On 2013-04-20, at 6:17 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: Even ignoring the original problem, we have wgNamespaceProtection, wouldn't it make sense to

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] UniversalSubtitles support

2013-04-20 Thread David Gerard
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jean-Frédéric jeanfrederic.w...@gmail.com Date: 21 April 2013 00:23 Subject: [Commons-l] UniversalSubtitles support To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List common...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi list, We used to have UniversalSubtitles [1] support on