Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-12-11 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On 12/11/2013 01:36 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Could you take a look at the attached PDF, generated from https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B3%E0%B4%82 with our not-yet-deployed new software? Any Malayam-specific feedback you could provide would be very

Re: [Wikitech-l] MacOS (OSX) developers / tech people with mac needed for huggle packaging

2013-12-11 Thread Petr Bena
I will ask other successful huggle 3 Mac users (these who actually wrote the guide on wiki) what else they do so that it works to them On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Huggle 3 is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Patrolling on english wikipedia

2013-12-11 Thread Petr Bena
The basic idea is to filter out * Suspicious edits (edits that looks like the vandalism but person who reviews them doesn't know for sure and needs more attention by others) * Good edits (edits that can be surely ignored by others so that people who deal with vandalism have less work and don't do

Re: [Wikitech-l] Patrolling on english wikipedia

2013-12-11 Thread Petr Bena
Can you even read them by api? I know these may be part of recent changes query, but huggle uses IRC feed for RC so the additional information about edits are retrieved using other api's. Is there any api that retrieve what tags are applied for an edit with certain RevID? On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at

Re: [Wikitech-l] API edit call in a maintenance script

2013-12-11 Thread Toni Hermoso Pulido
El 10/12/13 00:33, Liangent ha escrit: On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Toni Hermoso Pulido toni...@cau.cat mailto:toni...@cau.cat wrote: Hello, I'm trying to perform an API edit call in a maintenance script using this example in MW 1.19.9

Re: [Wikitech-l] MacOS (OSX) developers / tech people with mac needed for huggle packaging

2013-12-11 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 10/12/13 18:21, Ori Livneh a écrit : I hacked together a Homebrew formula: https://gist.github.com/atdt/7894375 The make phase works for me using qt4. The make install phase bails out though: == make install ./build/install FATAL: You need to build huggle first make: *** [install] Error 1

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-evaluating MediaWiki ResourceLoader's debug mode

2013-12-11 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 10/12/13 05:30, MZMcBride a écrit : I think adding an explicit HTML comment in the page source is a reasonable suggestion to consider. We already had an argument a few months ago regarding adding comments in the minified css/js and we said no. Who ever look at that source code will be able

Re: [Wikitech-l] MacOS (OSX) developers / tech people with mac needed for huggle packaging

2013-12-11 Thread Petr Bena
Aye, I suppose I should implement some more options to configure script first, which are now missing, so some parameters are not passed to make install it seems to expect to run from directory where huggle was built On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le

[Wikitech-l] [Reminder] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour today December 11, 2013 at 1700 UTC

2013-12-11 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
Hello, This is a reminder that the Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting an IRC office hour from 1700 to 1800UTC later today on #wikimedia-office (FreeNode). Please see below for the event details. Thanks Runa === Event Details === What: WMF Language Engineering Office hour When:

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth Devlopment Training

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
I'll probably try and attend, although it's during the day so there's no guarantee my boss won't randomly schedule a meeting or something. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Aaron Halfaker

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help needed with ParserCache::getKey() and ParserCache::getOptionsKey()

2013-12-11 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 10.12.2013 22:38, schrieb Brad Jorsch (Anomie): Looking at the code, ParserCache::getOptionsKey() is used to get the memc key which has a list of parser option names actually used when parsing the page. So for example, if a page uses only math and thumbsize while being parsed, the value

Re: [Wikitech-l] Patrolling on english wikipedia

2013-12-11 Thread Aaron Halfaker
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=queryprop=revisionsrevids=585593930rvprop=tagsformat=jsonfm Returns: { query: { pages: { 12461: { pageid: 12461, ns: 0, title: Gradient, revisions: [

Re: [Wikitech-l] Patrolling on english wikipedia

2013-12-11 Thread Petr Bena
Ok, that is good, though it is lacking several features, including ability to modify it (it's not possible to tag a page using these api's) so we can use this to improve the scoring, but can't use it to share some data with other users. On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Aaron Halfaker

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-evaluating MediaWiki ResourceLoader's debug mode

2013-12-11 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2013/12/10 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com * Minification reduces bandwidth usage. ** At the cost of making debugging more difficult. There is one thing that debug mode makes harder: Seeing how the page looks in an RTL language. That's because CSSJanus doesn't work in debug mode, and there were

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-evaluating MediaWiki ResourceLoader's debug mode

2013-12-11 Thread Brian Wolff
As everybody else already said, less bandwidth is a good thing for most people, obfuscation is OK when the source is available elsewhere, and debug=true is not hard for developers to find. I'd actually disagree with the assertion that debug=true is easy to find, particularly for people who

Re: [Wikitech-l] Draft for Bugzilla etiquette guidelines

2013-12-11 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi, On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 10:17 -0800, Jon Robson wrote: Would we be able to link to such a thing from within the Bugzilla interface to give it more visibility? Yes, in the footer, next to Privacy policy. I've filed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58332 so I don't forget. andre

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-evaluating MediaWiki ResourceLoader's debug mode

2013-12-11 Thread Max Semenik
On 11.12.2013, 19:36 Brian wrote: As everybody else already said, less bandwidth is a good thing for most people, obfuscation is OK when the source is available elsewhere, and debug=true is not hard for developers to find. I'd actually disagree with the assertion that debug=true is easy to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-evaluating MediaWiki ResourceLoader's debug mode

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: If they look at the URL it will be pretty obvious because all of them have debug=false as first parameter. As a proof of concept, this is how I found out about the debug parameter the first time I tried doing

[Wikitech-l] chrome new version alway tips event.returnValue

2013-12-11 Thread Sen
when i open the chrome console,i always can get: event.returnValue is deprecated. Please use the standard event.preventDefault() instead. is any plan to fix this? Regrades Sen From SLboat(http://see.sl088.com) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] chrome new version alway tips event.returnValue

2013-12-11 Thread Bryan Davis
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Sen kik...@gmail.com wrote: when i open the chrome console,i always can get: event.returnValue is deprecated. Please use the standard event.preventDefault() instead. is any plan to fix this? I don't know if there is currently a plan to fix it, but the

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Commons Video Uploads waiting (Bug #58155)

2013-12-11 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi, I have a bunch of videos from our last conference waiting for an upload to Commons. For this I have filed a bug several days ago: * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58155 Can someone please take care of this in a timely manner? The conference is now three weeks ago and soon

[Wikitech-l] Linking gerrit project pages to gitweb

2013-12-11 Thread Jon Robson
Could we make it so: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend has a link to https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FMobileFrontend.git (and all other projects do the same) I swear I just spent 10 minutes searching through emails and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-evaluating MediaWiki ResourceLoader's debug mode

2013-12-11 Thread Jon Robson
+1000 to what Max says. It really is kinda obvious to anyone who needs to know how to get into debug mode and if not there are wiki pages and if not it's easy enough to find out if you care enough. That said debug mode could definitely be improved and I'm glad you brought this topic up Max. A few

Re: [Wikitech-l] Linking gerrit project pages to gitweb

2013-12-11 Thread Chad
Every change has (gitblit) links. As does the project listing page. So does the branches page from an individual project. -Chad On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Could we make it so:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Linking gerrit project pages to gitweb

2013-12-11 Thread Brion Vibber
Perhaps I am a dumbass, but where is the gitblit link on: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend which the sort of link you get from the Projects list on gerrit? I cannot find it. -- brion On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Chad

Re: [Wikitech-l] Linking gerrit project pages to gitweb

2013-12-11 Thread Chad
There isn't, you're not. This page has links: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/ As does this: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend,branches And so would this, for example: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/100811/ -Chad On Wed,

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Jon Robson
I can see both sides of the argument here and just wanted to provide my thoughts on this matter. The short version is basically this: Keep gadgets for experiment, but ensure global gadgets are held to a higher standard of quality and made more visible to a wider audience. As a developer the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Linking gerrit project pages to gitweb

2013-12-11 Thread Brion Vibber
So the pages that get you *to* the project page have links to the actual source browser, but the project detail page doesn't. Brilliant. I'll go file a bug report against gerrit. -- brion On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: There isn't, you're not. This

Re: [Wikitech-l] Linking gerrit project pages to gitweb

2013-12-11 Thread Brion Vibber
Filed as http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=2335 -- brion On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.orgwrote: So the pages that get you *to* the project page have links to the actual source browser, but the project detail page doesn't. Brilliant. I'll

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Chad
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Many a time I've talked about this I've hit the argument that gerrit is confusing to some users and is a barrier for development, but this is a terrible unacceptable attitude to have in my opinion. Our end users deserve a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Linking gerrit project pages to gitweb

2013-12-11 Thread Matthew Walker
A related feature request I just submitted -- links to review dashboards from all project pages: https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=2336 ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.orgwrote:

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Many a time I've talked about this I've hit the argument that gerrit is confusing to some users and is a barrier for development, but this is a terrible unacceptable attitude to have in my opinion. Our end users deserve a

[Wikitech-l] Wiki - Gerrit was Re: FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Matthew Walker
I'm totally cool with the idea of code review for Gadgets so forth, just not using Gerrit. We considered it for Scribunto (and heck, I wrote half of a proof of concept) but shot it down because the idea totally sucked. Chad, can you expand on that statement. I've been toying for some time with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architecture Summit -- Gathering all relevant RfC's

2013-12-11 Thread Diederik van Liere
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: One that I would like to discuss but still need to write up is JavaScript template support in ResourceLoader. Mobile has been using Hogan.js for some time and we would like to upstream this as a standard. I'll try and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki - Gerrit was Re: FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm totally cool with the idea of code review for Gadgets so forth, just not using Gerrit. We considered it for Scribunto (and heck, I wrote half of a proof of concept) but shot it down because the idea totally

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki - Gerrit was Re: FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Chad
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm totally cool with the idea of code review for Gadgets so forth, just not using Gerrit. We considered it for Scribunto (and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki - Gerrit was Re: FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Matthew Walker
Ah; so it's actually slightly different use cases then. My thought is that it's on the developers to merge changes that come from the wiki. I've thought of two ways this could work: * For every new merge touching a documentation file; we reject changes via a jenkins job when there are still

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Isarra Yos
On 11/12/13 19:21, Chad wrote: Sending wiki edits to Gerrit for review? Absolutely not. I'm totally cool with the idea of code review for Gadgets so forth, just not using Gerrit. We considered it for Scribunto (and heck, I wrote half of a proof of concept) but shot it down because the idea

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Brian Wolff
On 12/11/13, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Many a time I've talked about this I've hit the argument that gerrit is confusing to some users and is a barrier for development, but this is a terrible unacceptable

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki - Gerrit was Re: FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, Has there been thought on how GitHub can potentially help here? I'm not sure it fits the workflow well, though can make the following observations: * People can click an edit button on GH to edit the code, much like on wiki. * If the GH web UI is used, people do not have to install git *

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Nathan Larson
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: I can definitely understand the reasoning behind this. Right now with both Gadgets and common.js we are allowing non-reviewed code to be injected directly into every page. While there is a bit of trust to be had

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: I would expect any sort of code review requirement for gadgets to meet strong resistance, especially on the smaller wikis. Unless it was the community doing code review on itself, maybe. To some extent this already happens on

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: One of the primary reasons gadgets/local-js exist is because local wiki-admins feel that the mediawiki code review process is unavailable to them. I would expect any sort of code review requirement for gadgets to meet

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Nathan Larson
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: In this case we should promptly work to fix this issue. To be honest, the only difficult part of our code review process is having to learn Git if you do not already know how to use it. If there were a way to submit

[Wikitech-l] RFC deadline approaching for Arch Summit: December 20

2013-12-11 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi everyone, We're just over a week away from the Friday, December 20 deadline for RFCs as items to consider at the Architecture Summit.[1] That's not a hard and fast rule (we've never done this before), but we should definitely have a reasonable amount of time between the point an RFC is

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Brian Wolff
On 12/11/13, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: One of the primary reasons gadgets/local-js exist is because local wiki-admins feel that the mediawiki code review process is unavailable to them. I would expect any sort

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architecture Summit -- Gathering all relevant RfC's

2013-12-11 Thread Bryan Davis
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I'll try and get this written in next 2 weeks but it would be good to capture this even in a stub like form (not sure if stubs are allowed on the RFC page) There are plenty of RFCs there at this point that are stubs so I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki - Gerrit was Re: FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Ryan Lane
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.comwrote: Hey, Has there been thought on how GitHub can potentially help here? I'm not sure it fits the workflow well, though can make the following observations: Unless you're implying that github writes some code for us,

[Wikitech-l] Mailing list etiquette and trolling

2013-12-11 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, In recent months I've come across a few mails on this list that only contained accusations of trolling. Those are very much not constructive and only serve to antagonize. I know some forums that have an explicit rule against this, which results in a ban on second violation. If there is a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mailing list etiquette and trolling

2013-12-11 Thread Ryan Lane
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.comwrote: In recent months I've come across a few mails on this list that only contained accusations of trolling. Those are very much not constructive and only serve to antagonize. I know some forums that have an explicit rule

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mailing list etiquette and trolling

2013-12-11 Thread Matthew Walker
I think I've seen a couple of the times this has happened. It appears to me that it might be in reaction to a perceived misunderstanding of the topic on either party. If we assume good faith on both sides; then I think it's reasonable for the perceived 'trolling' party to gently restate their

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Commons Video Uploads waiting (Bug #58155)

2013-12-11 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 11/12/13 19:15, Manuel Schneider a écrit : Hi, I have a bunch of videos from our last conference waiting for an upload to Commons. For this I have filed a bug several days ago: * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58155 Can someone please take care of this in a timely

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki - Gerrit was Re: FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Matthew Walker
It's not a bad thought; but I don't think it'll work for a couple of reasons: * It causes people to leave the site * GItHub for various reasons requires an account (which most likely they wont have and it doesn't seem correct to require one given our editing philosophy) * The editing interface is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki - Gerrit was Re: FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Jon Robson
I'm not Chad, but one of the big issues is this: Consider the trouble that some of us as developers have using Git and Gerrit. Now think about trying to get non-developer JS and CSS coders to be able to use Git and Gerrit, much less to *want* to use Git and Gerrit rather than torches and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Linking gerrit project pages to gitweb

2013-12-11 Thread Jon Robson
Thanks guys! On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.org wrote: A related feature request I just submitted -- links to review dashboards from all project pages: https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=2336 ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki - Gerrit was Re: FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Matthew Walker
Heh; wrong thread to discuss that in Jon -- this one is about non-developers helping out writing documentation for configuration variables and what not without having to modify the source file in gerrit. The OTHER thread, which I forked from, is the one about what we already allow (users to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Commons Video Uploads waiting (Bug #58155)

2013-12-11 Thread Brian Wolff
On 12/11/13, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 11/12/13 19:15, Manuel Schneider a écrit : Hi, I have a bunch of videos from our last conference waiting for an upload to Commons. For this I have filed a bug several days ago: * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58155

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mailing list etiquette and trolling

2013-12-11 Thread Isarra Yos
On 11/12/13 22:21, Ryan Lane wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.comwrote: In recent months I've come across a few mails on this list that only contained accusations of trolling. Those are very much not constructive and only serve to antagonize. I know

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mailing list etiquette and trolling

2013-12-11 Thread Petr Bena
Is this thread some trolling on its own? :P I think we need to use less rules and more common sense. All these etiquettes are just damaging your natural intelligence... On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, In recent months I've come across a few

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mailing list etiquette and trolling

2013-12-11 Thread Isarra Yos
On 11/12/13 23:28, Petr Bena wrote: I think we need to use less rules and more common sense. This. When you get right down to it, what even is trolling? And should it necessarily matter? Even if someone is trolling, that doesn't mean they may not have a real point to it, though perhaps they

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mailing list etiquette and trolling

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.comwrote: (I'm now half expecting someone to claim this mail is a troll. Perhaps we ought to make a contest out of making the accusation first, at least then it will have general amusement value :D) This contest idea sounds

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Commons Video Uploads waiting (Bug #58155)

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
:/ There are only ten videos. Is there some sort of special upload process that needs to be followed here? Because uploading ten things to Commons takes all of fifteen minutes. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mailing list etiquette and trolling

2013-12-11 Thread Chad
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Isarra Yos zhoris...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/12/13 23:28, Petr Bena wrote: I think we need to use less rules and more common sense. This. Rules are silly. Common sense for all :) -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: I guess I should have said without banning [[MediaWiki:Common.js]]. I was kind of assuming this proposal meant banning all site wide js (Since otherwise what's the point of banning default on gadgets? Default on gadgets is

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 21:30:15 +0100, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: In this case we should promptly work to fix this issue. To be honest, the only difficult part of our code review process is having to learn Git if you do not already know how to use it. If there were a way to submit

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Chad
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: I guess I should have said without banning [[MediaWiki:Common.js]]. I was kind of assuming this proposal meant banning all site wide js (Since

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to say this one final time, since I'm feeling like a broken record today... We are not going to use Gerrit for gadgets and so forth. It is the *wrong* tool for the job. Full stop. Gerrit is a code review tool.

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Chad
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to say this one final time, since I'm feeling like a broken record today... We are not going to use Gerrit for gadgets and so forth.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Commons Video Uploads waiting (Bug #58155)

2013-12-11 Thread Brian Wolff
The videos are (mostly) over 1 gb, which is our upload limit. Hence maintenance script needed. -bawolff On 2013-12-11 4:56 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: :/ There are only ten videos. Is there some sort of special upload process that needs to be followed here? Because uploading

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
As both an active gadget writer (on pl.wikipedia) and a core developer, let me say that while I would *love* to have a somewhat formalized code-review process for gadgets, it is pretty much not possible, and the reason is twofold. First, code-review is, apart from spotting bugs, about getting

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki - Gerrit was Re: FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 23:35:43 +0100, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I'm confused.. non-developers writing JS and CSS? This scares the bejesus outta me. There's so many movements urging people to learn to code right now, I don't see how this is surprising anymore. Yes, physicians and

[Wikitech-l] Andrew Russell Green joins Wikimedia as Features Engineering Contractor (and in SF this week)

2013-12-11 Thread Terry Chay
Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Andrew Green[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a contractor in Features Engineering working in the Education Project. Before joining us, Andy worked at the Instituto Mora[2] creating free software for social science

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki - Gerrit was Re: FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 2013-12-11 4:52 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 23:35:43 +0100, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: And it's not very easy to cause a major security bug when writing code that runs client-side and usually only in response to user action. Most gadgets don't, say, parse

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread MZMcBride
Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: I really liked what Jon said at the beginning, and what has apparently been lost in the discussions already – Keep gadgets for experiment, but ensure global gadgets are held to a higher standard of quality and made more visible to a wider audience.. Proper global gadgets

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mailing list etiquette and trolling

2013-12-11 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: In recent months I've come across a few mails on this list that only contained accusations of trolling. Those are very much not constructive and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mailing list etiquette and trolling

2013-12-11 Thread Nathan Larson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: Or perhaps he merely suggested something that you disagreed with (or didn't understand), without losing [his] mind or being a troll? I'm a little skeptical about Jeroen's GitHub suggestion, but it seems like something

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Chad
+1 to everything MZM said. Except the XSS in user/site/gadget JS vs core/extension XSS. Intuition tells me the former is much more common. We just think about core/extension XSS because it gets a security release and tons of attention. -Chad On Dec 11, 2013 8:01 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com