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

2013-12-12 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
Reading this thread and thinking about the proposed changes, im getting stuck, and there may be some inconsistencies. The problems identified seem to be 1. Core development is made much harder because of an abundance in local differences in wikis caused by local js and css. 2. Local wikis

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

2013-12-12 Thread Ariel T. Glenn
Στις 11-12-2013, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 23:01 -0500, ο/η MZMcBride έγραψε: ... The idea being proposed in bug 58236, as it was framed, was a non-starter. It simply riled people up and caused them to become defensive. (Its sibling bugs didn't help.) However, if we re-frame the issue, I think many

[Wikitech-l] Hi!

2013-12-12 Thread Amanpreet Singh
Hello, I am new to mediawiki and want to contribute, I have been lurking around the developer docs and articles for about 3 days. I have skills in php, javascript. At the same time I searching for the bugs that I can fix, but I really don't find one, I don't get to think of a starting point to fix

Re: [Wikitech-l] Hi!

2013-12-12 Thread Petr Onderka
You might want to have a look at the Annoying little bugs page [1], I think it's meant exactly for people like you. [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs Petr Onderka [[en:User:Svick]] On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Amanpreet Singh amanpreet.iitr2...@gmail.com wrote:

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

2013-12-12 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: The videos are (mostly) over 1 gb, which is our upload limit. Hence maintenance script needed. Ah. Thanks for the clarification. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

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

2013-12-12 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 11/12/13 23:29, Antoine Musso a écrit : 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

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

2013-12-12 Thread Manuel Schneider
Great, thanks a lot! Please ignore the subfolder. /Manuel Am 12.12.2013 10:43, schrieb Antoine Musso: I have started a process to download the files from http://lan.80686.net/ It is running on tin.eqiad.wmnet in a screen. Files being written to /home/hashar/bug58155 Whenever that is

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

2013-12-12 Thread Strainu
I totally agree with Liangent. Having gadgets disabled by default will move a larger number of scripts to Common.js, leading to a whole new class of problems. Strainu 2013/12/9 Liangent liang...@gmail.com: MediaWiki:Common.js can also create disagreement and defaults change without notice.

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

2013-12-12 Thread Brian Wolff
On 12/12/13, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: Reading this thread and thinking about the proposed changes, im getting stuck, and there may be some inconsistencies. The problems identified seem to be 1. Core development is made much harder because of an abundance in local

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

2013-12-12 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Nathan Larson nathanlarson3...@gmail.com wrote: From my experience on the Internet, I suspect that most of the times when people are accused of trolling, they are actually serious; and most of the times when people are trolling, they're taken seriously and no

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

2013-12-12 Thread Eran Rosenthal
Another point to look into if someones wants to refactor the RL debug=true: When loading VE with debug=true hundreds of modules are loaded (with different requests) and it takes long to load it. It would be nice to have an option of debug=0.5 :) in which all the resources (or at least the ve

[Wikitech-l] OAuth currently broken on wikis with CirrusSearch

2013-12-12 Thread Dan Garry
Dear all, OAuth is currently broken on any wiki that has CirrusSearch deployed to it in either primary or secondary mode. We're working on getting this issue fixed as soon as possible. I'll post an update here when we have a timescale for the fix. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth currently broken on wikis with CirrusSearch

2013-12-12 Thread Dan Garry
For reference, the list of wikis which Cirrus is deployed, and therefore where OAuth is broken, is available here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search#Wikis Dan On 12 December 2013 16:46, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear all, OAuth is currently broken on any wiki that has

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth currently broken on wikis with CirrusSearch

2013-12-12 Thread Nikolas Everett
Note that the wikis that say they were deployed on December 11th but do not have a strike through them have Cirrus running, but their indexes are still being built. I believe OAuth will be broken on those wikis as well. This requires two fixes to actually fix, both of which are in review state

[Wikitech-l] Request for comments: Localisation format changes

2013-12-12 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
Dear list readers, The Wikimedia Foundation teams for VisualEditor and Language Engineering have put together a document that proposes a change in the MediaWiki localisation format. Please provide your input at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment/Localisation_format We have

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

2013-12-12 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 12/12/13 10:43, Antoine Musso a écrit : I have no idea which script should be used to upload those files. If anyone has a link to the step-by-step guide to achieve it, I will be more than happy to execute the commands and proceed with the uploads. I have started a process to download the

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

2013-12-12 Thread Chris Steipp
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: I actually feel the opposite. Point #1 does not make core development much harder. There's the occasional issue with local customization, but in my experience these types of issues are few and far between. Point #2 does

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

2013-12-12 Thread Manuel Schneider
Thanks a lot to Hashar and those who helped! I am very happy, I just added the videos to the program page of the conference and will send a mail to our community in a minute. They will be very happy as well! https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCon_2013/Programm Regards, /Manuel Am

Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for comments: Localisation format changes

2013-12-12 Thread Arthur Richards
Cool! On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) smazel...@wikimedia.org wrote: We have also proposed to discuss this RfC in the upcoming RfC review meeting of 2013-12-18[1]. As far as we know, no time has been set for this meeting, yet. The WMF Engineering calendar shows

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

2013-12-12 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2013/12/12 Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org On 12/11/2013 11:21 AM, 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

[Wikitech-l] Bug Fixing: #21481

2013-12-12 Thread Amanpreet Singh
Hi, I am new to wikimedia, I want to start bug fixing for wikimedia so I have started from this annoying little bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21481 Can somebody guide me from where to start and search for fixing this bug, ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Homepage Redesign

2013-12-12 Thread Quim Gil
Hi Brena! We have already discussed in person (remotely) but here goes a public reply as well. On 12/02/2013 11:47 AM, Brena Monteiro wrote: Hello everyone, I'm selected to participate of OPW and I will work at MediaWiki Homepage Redesign project in which Quim and Heather are my mentors.

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth currently broken on wikis with CirrusSearch

2013-12-12 Thread Nikolas Everett
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Nikolas Everett never...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Note that the wikis that say they were deployed on December 11th but do not have a strike through them have Cirrus running, but their indexes are still being built. I believe OAuth will be broken on those wikis as

[Wikitech-l] Announcement: Kunal Mehta joins Wikimedia as Features Contractor

2013-12-12 Thread Terry Chay
Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Kunal Mehta[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as contractor in Features Engineering. Before joining us (and currently), Kunal is a student in college, switching from computer science to business administration for reasons

[Wikitech-l] Sherah Smith joins Wikimedia as Fundraising Engineer in Features

2013-12-12 Thread Terry Chay
Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Sherah Smith[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as Fundraising Engineer in Features. Before joining us, Sherah was a full stack software engineer at Hackbright Academy[2] helping write a lot of their curriculum development

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfsf] Announcement: Kunal Mehta joins Wikimedia as Features Contractor

2013-12-12 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Kunal Mehta[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as contractor in Features Engineering. Sweet! Welcome, Kunal! Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Kunal Mehta joins Wikimedia as Features Contractor

2013-12-12 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2013-12-12 6:08 PM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Kunal Mehta[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as contractor in Features Engineering. Before joining us (and currently), Kunal is a student in college, switching

[Wikitech-l] Hook for Adding to Empty Search Results

2013-12-12 Thread Paul Dugas
I have an extension using the ArticleFromTitle hook to generate pages for components of a large system we operate. There are approximately 6000 components at the moment with static inventory and config data in a database and live status data in a number of other systems. We are using MediaWiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug Fixing: #21481

2013-12-12 Thread MZMcBride
Amanpreet Singh wrote: Hi, I am new to wikimedia, Hello and welcome! :-) I want to start bug fixing for wikimedia so I have started from this annoying little bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21481 Can somebody guide me from where to start and search for fixing this bug, Nemo