Re: [Wikitech-l] MathJax opt-in for all visitors

2013-05-03 Thread Niklas Laxström
On 3 May 2013 08:13, Peter Krautzberger peter.krautzber...@mathjax.org wrote: Hi, Here's an idea somebody suggested to me. I would like to propose a way for any visitor to opt-in to MathJax on the fly. (Oh, maybe I should add a disclaimer: I work for MathJax.) This would be simply a button

[Wikitech-l] Issue with: en.m.wikipedia.org

2013-05-03 Thread Martin Butler
Hi I'm not sure I'm posting this in the right place, but I (and I expect lots of others!) can't use en.m.wikipedia.org via Opera Mini. This is because the GO button next to the search box has disappeared. This email and any attachments to it may contain information which is confidential,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoc2013] Interested in developing Entity Suggester

2013-05-03 Thread aude
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 5:39 AM, Nilesh Chakraborty nil...@nileshc.comwrote: Hi Lydia, I am currently drafting my proposal, I shall submit within a few hours once the initial version is complete. I installed mediawiki-vagrant on my PC and it went quite smoothly. I could do all the usual

Re: [Wikitech-l] Issue with: en.m.wikipedia.org

2013-05-03 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi, On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 09:39 +, Martin Butler wrote: I'm not sure I'm posting this in the right place, but I (and I expect lots of others!) can't use en.m.wikipedia.org via Opera Mini. This is because the GO button next to the search box has disappeared. This is covered in

[Wikitech-l] GSoC Proposal - Incremental Data Dumps

2013-05-03 Thread Jeremy Coffman
Hello, My name is Jeremy Coffman. I am a second year student studying Computer Science at Brandeis University, with a possible focus on natural language processing. I have decided to apply to work on the Incremental Data Dumps project. My proposal can be found here:

Re: [Wikitech-l] MathJax opt-in for all visitors

2013-05-03 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
I think it's a nice idea if to trigger such a suggestion. I would add something to it though. I'd add a timer that checks how long it takes to markup the page, and that when it detects that pages take extremely long to finish rendering with MathJax, automatically proposes to the user to 'switch

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC Proposal - Incremental Data Dumps

2013-05-03 Thread Rahul Maliakkal
Hello I hope you have added the proposal of yours to http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc201http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 3 If you have done that then add yourself to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013. Thanks Rahul On Fri, May

Re: [Wikitech-l] Next bugday: May 03rd, 15:00-16:30UTC on MediaWiki Installer issues

2013-05-03 Thread Andre Klapper
Reminder: Bugday starts soon. andre On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 14:08 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: Friday, May 03rd, 15:00-16:30 UTC [1] in #wikimedia-office on Freenode IRC [2] We are going to take a look at recent MediaWiki installer reports, -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler

Re: [Wikitech-l] MathJax opt-in for all visitors

2013-05-03 Thread praveenp
I would like to see Server rendered png issues fixed before this. Simple images are better for various devices and browsers. But it will be better to allow users to force technology, if no other simple solutions possible. On Friday 03 May 2013 12:59 PM, Niklas Laxström wrote: What is the

[Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 Proposal for Entity Suggester

2013-05-03 Thread Nilesh Chakraborty
Hello, I have drafted my proposal under my user page here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Nilesh.c/Entity_Suggester Please have a look at it and let me know if I can make any changes to make it better in any way. :-) Cheers, Nilesh -- A quest eternal, a life so small! So don't just play

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 Proposal for Entity Suggester

2013-05-03 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Nilesh Chakraborty nil...@nileshc.com wrote: Hello, I have drafted my proposal under my user page here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Nilesh.c/Entity_Suggester Please have a look at it and let me know if I can make any changes to make it better in any

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 Proposal for Entity Suggester

2013-05-03 Thread Rahul Maliakkal
Hello 1-Upload your proposal on google-melange. 2-After uploading it, please add your name to the http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013#Students list. Thanks Rahul On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 5:43 PM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 Proposal for Entity Suggester

2013-05-03 Thread Nilesh Chakraborty
Hi Lydia, I've submitted the proposal via google-melange.com too. Thanks Rahul, I added my details on the http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013#Students list. Could you tell me whom I should list as my mentor? Cheers, Nilesh On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Rahul Maliakkal

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: New approach to release notes

2013-05-03 Thread Krinkle
On May 2, 2013, at 7:41 PM, Brad Jorsch bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: I like the idea of not having to mess with RELEASE-NOTES-#.## merge conflicts. But I'm not entirely sure about everything in the proposal. On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: For more

[Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2013] Mobilize Wikidata project proposal

2013-05-03 Thread Pragun Bhutani
Hello, I've completed my proposal for my project aimed at Mobilizing Wikidata. I'd really appreciate any and all feedback from the community. Nitpicking is welcome. :) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Pragunbhutani/GSoC_2013_Proposal Best regards, Pragun Bhutani

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC/OPW Proposal Updates: VisualEditor Mathematical Equation Plugin

2013-05-03 Thread praveenp
On Thursday 02 May 2013 11:26 PM, Jiabao Wu wrote: Hi praveenp, Is the language Malayalam...? It looks pretty cute, but I can't understand it (as google translate can't translate it) :P What non-Latin codes you would actually like the mathematical equation plugin to support? Yes it is

[Wikitech-l] Project proposal for GSOC

2013-05-03 Thread siddharth patel
Hi, I understand that it seems that i'm bit late to apply for a project, however i want to assure you that i'm very interested and motivated to build it. In my application i gave a brief report about building a knowledge/educational website. what do you think about it? is it a cool idea?

[Wikitech-l] Proposal for Inline commenting , summer of code project.

2013-05-03 Thread Sastry aditya
Name and contact information *Name: AV Aditya Sastry* *Email:ganeshadit...@gmail.com* *IRC or IM networks/handle(s): **ganeshadit...@gmail.com* *Location:Vishakhapatanam, Andhra Pradesh* *Typical working hours: 2:00 PM to 12:30AM* Synopsis Every MediaWiki article has a talk page. But the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project proposal for GSOC

2013-05-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 05/03/2013 01:53 PM, siddharth patel wrote: Hi, I understand that it seems that i'm bit late to apply for a project, however i want to assure you that i'm very interested and motivated to build it. In my application i gave a brief report about building a knowledge/educational website.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for Inline commenting , summer of code project.

2013-05-03 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Sastry aditya ganeshadit...@gmail.com wrote: *Typical working hours: 2:00 PM to 12:30AM* That's essentially useless data without a timezone... -Jeremy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 Proposal for Entity Suggester

2013-05-03 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Nilesh Chakraborty nil...@nileshc.com wrote: Hi Lydia, I've submitted the proposal via google-melange.com too. Thanks Rahul, I added my details on the http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013#Students list. Could you tell me whom I should list as my

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2013 applications are closed

2013-05-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
We are no longer accepting applications for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2013. We are always accepting new volunteer contributors: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: New approach to release notes

2013-05-03 Thread Brad Jorsch
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, I think a lot of our commit subjects are poorly written, even for a commit message. Having said that, a good commit subject is also a good release note (that is, if the change itself is notable for release

[Wikitech-l] Wikidata Features

2013-05-03 Thread Puneet Kaur
Hi all , I know its late but still. I wished to let you all know that I have applied for the Wikidata Features Project Idea in GSOC 2013. I have a bit of experience in website development and designing, but I am not sure whether all of my present knowledge would be sufficient for the project.

[Wikitech-l] Prototyping Wiki Inline Comments

2013-05-03 Thread Anthony
Dear all, I have applied for the Prototyping Inline Comments for the Google Summer of Code. Essentially, the project is an extension that allows any wiki user to select text and then make an inline comment or a reply to an existing inline comment. Imagine: a user lands in a Wikipedia article,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Prototyping Wiki Inline Comments

2013-05-03 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Hi Anthony, interesting feature. How would the system handle cases in which the content originally pointed at when making the initial inline comment has been changed? Daniel On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Anthony cs3245...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I have applied for the Prototyping

Re: [Wikitech-l] MathJax opt-in for all visitors

2013-05-03 Thread Peter Krautzberger
Thanks for all the feedback! Matthew -- yes, the CAPTCHA bug is what I had in mind. IIRC navigating to the MathJax option as a registered user was also complicated. Thanks for creating the bug to track this proposal. MZMcBride -- yes, I'm aware of it. This idea is specifically for unregistered

[Wikitech-l] Deployment Highlights - Week of May 6th

2013-05-03 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Hello and welcome to the latest installment of the Deployment Highlights email. The full calendar for next week lives at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_May_6th For the week of May 6th we have the following interesting deployments: == Monday == * MediaWiki 1.22wmf3 to

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Caching Problem with Mobile Main Page?

2013-05-03 Thread Arthur Richards
+wikitech-l I've confirmed the issue on my end; ?action=purge seems to have no effect and the 'last modified' notification on the mobile main page looks correct (though the content itself is out of date and not in sync with the 'last modified' notification). What's doubly weird to me is the 'Last

Re: [Wikitech-l] Issue with: en.m.wikipedia.org

2013-05-03 Thread Arthur Richards
The mobile web team is planning to deploy a fix for Opera Mini-related issues this coming Tuesday afternoon, which we expect will resolve this particular issue. On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi, On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 09:39 +, Martin Butler

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Caching Problem with Mobile Main Page?

2013-05-03 Thread Asher Feldman
The problem is due to recent changes that were made to how mobile caching works. I just flushed cache on all of the frontend varnish instances which indeed appears to have fixed the problem but it isn't actually fixed. Note, the frontend instances just have 1GB of cache, so only very popular

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC / OPW mentors README

2013-05-03 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 04/27/2013 07:58 PM, Quim Gil wrote: SELECTING CANDIDATES After the deadline we will meet to prioritize GSoC and OPW candidates. When is this meeting? Thanks, Matt Flaschen ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] GSoC: next steps

2013-05-03 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, The Google Summer of Code student application phase is closed. We have got a total of 69 applications from 60 students. The numbers so far are: * 52 valid applications from 51 students. We are still triaging some of the last submissions. This number might decrease over the weekend. *

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 118, Issue 13

2013-05-03 Thread KAUSHAL SINGH
Hello Sir, I've submitted the proposal via google-melange.com https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/kaushalsingh11/1 Also the project details are there on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Kaushalsingh11/Summer_of_Code_2013 -- With Kind Regards, Kaushal Kumar

Re: [Wikitech-l] I didn't withdraw. Dashboard says I have...

2013-05-03 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, On 05/03/2013 08:58 PM, hungers.to.nurt...@gmail.com wrote: I submitted my proposal to Wikimedia yesterday via GSoC. Now in my dashboard of GSoC it's showing that I have withdrawn my proposal. But,*I didn't *do that. So, please help me. Mentors and org admins can't withdraw proposals,