Re: [Wikitech-l] We're in: GSoC 2014 and FOSS OPW round 8

2014-02-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
Well I finally got around to actually listing my new possible mentor project: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Removing_inline_CSS.2FJS_from_MediaWiki Quim, if you could maybe give it a look and see if it is doable for students, then we can list it for GSoC.

Re: [Wikitech-l] one framework for *all* of that

2014-02-25 Thread Gryllida
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, at 17:52, Brian Wolff wrote: As it stands (i dont live in js land, correct me if I'm wrong), its widely agreed having hooks for user-scripts to hook into js-based extensions like upload wizard and other parts of mw is a good thing. Its not neccesarily agreed that having

Re: [Wikitech-l] We're in: GSoC 2014 and FOSS OPW round 8

2014-02-25 Thread Nitin Agarwal
Hi, I'm glad to hear that Wikimedia has been selected as one of the Mentoring Organisation for Google Summer of Code 2014. Best Wishes *Nitin Agarwal* On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: Well I finally got around to actually listing my new possible

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preview of the proposal for MediaWiki Homepage

2014-02-25 Thread Gryllida
Too many pictures. It does not fit my screen size anymore. I only see a part of the first image and have to scroll down for the rest; scrolling is poor design. Probably don't need to focus on Wikipedia in the as long as Wikipedia exists. It's all sister projects. Is it mobile-friendly? I made

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preview of the proposal for MediaWiki Homepage

2014-02-25 Thread Gryllida
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/Homepage_redesign/Preview/3 - no tables - usage of phrase wikimedia movement instead of wikipedia On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, at 7:54, Brena Monteiro wrote: Hello everyone, I would like to invite you to take a look the preview [1] of MediaWiki Homepage.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2014-02-25 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 24/02/2014 04:00, reporter a écrit : MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for February 17, 2014 - February 24, 2014 Wikimedia Bugzilla report (FAILED), DB connection failure FAILED DB connection failure The old Bugzilla server (kaulen) has been shutdown yesterday. So this message is no more going

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook Open Academy coordination

2014-02-25 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, we still need to get common standards in our ongoing Facebook Open Academy projects. On 01/14/2014 03:35 PM, Quim Gil wrote: In order to be on the same page, mentors of the different projects please get your basic project information ready at the table in the Facebook_Open_Academy page.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preview of the proposal for MediaWiki Homepage

2014-02-25 Thread Daniel Barrett
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/Homepage_redesign/Preview What requirements is this page supposed to meet? It's hard to say if it's good without knowing what it's supposed to do. Apologies if I missed a memo. DanB ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preview of the proposal for MediaWiki Homepage

2014-02-25 Thread Brena Monteiro
You could following all requirements and discussion here [1]. Thank you. Best regards, [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/Homepage_redesign Brena Monteiro +55 27 98109 0123 @monteirobrena http://twitter.com/monteirobrena Reflexões Brenianas http://monteirobrena.wordpress.com On Tue,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preview of the proposal for MediaWiki Homepage

2014-02-25 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
The huge image at the top, pushing all the real content below the fold, seems pretty awful to me. I also don't much care for the weird, vague feature bits at the bottom that don't even link to anything useful and distract from the links to actual useful content just below them, or the fact that in

Re: [Wikitech-l] We're in: GSoC 2014 and FOSS OPW round 8

2014-02-25 Thread Quim Gil
On 02/25/2014 12:41 AM, Tyler Romeo wrote: Well I finally got around to actually listing my new possible mentor project: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Removing_inline_CSS.2FJS_from_MediaWiki Quim, if you could maybe give it a look and see if it is

[Wikitech-l] GSoC 2014: Annotation tool for feeding wikidata

2014-02-25 Thread Amanpreet Singh
Hi! I am glad to know that mediawiki is selected as one of the mentoring organization for GSoC 2014, Cheers to Quim and all. I have selected a mentorship project from Project listhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects named Annotation Tool that extracts information

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback for mediawiki api development course on codecademy.

2014-02-25 Thread Alex Monk
Hi Diwanshi, I noticed an issue with http://www.codecademy.com/courses/web-beginner-en-vj9nh/0/2 - it seems that after changing the text parameter to [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] it still says Oops, try again. Please set text parameter to [ http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] when I try

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback for mediawiki api development course on codecademy.

2014-02-25 Thread Diwanshi Pandey
Hi Alex, Thanks for the feedback. I just checked the code of the exercise you have mentioned. The code is all fine. Codecademy has some buggy exercises too may be its the one and for that I'll report the bug in codecademy. Review the other aspects too. Thanks, On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:40 PM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-25 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 02/19/2014 05:49 AM, Antoine Musso wrote: A requirement Wikimedia has nowadays is that the code MUST be supported with HipHop Virtual Machine. As an example, I do not think it implements the SPL classes. So that needs to be carefully checked. A good number of them are available now

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preview of the proposal for MediaWiki Homepage

2014-02-25 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 24/02/2014 21:54, Brena Monteiro a écrit : Hello everyone, I would like to invite you to take a look the preview [1] of MediaWiki Homepage. Your opinion, contribution and help are very welcome. snip [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/Homepage_redesign/Preview Hello Brena, Your

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preview of the proposal for MediaWiki Homepage

2014-02-25 Thread Daniel Friesen
I'm definitely going to have to agree. The Feature bits are practically bs: - Publish: Talks about VisualEditor, HTML, and embedded media. A non-default editor practically only available on Wikipedia at the moment, completely ignores WikiText, and embedded media doesn't really even fit a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preview of the proposal for MediaWiki Homepage

2014-02-25 Thread Gryllida
Thanks for taking down the thoughts, Daniel; the translation and mobile friendliness got me amused too. On Wed, 26 Feb 2014, at 9:18, Daniel Friesen wrote: I'm definitely going to have to agree. The Feature bits are practically bs: - Publish: Talks about VisualEditor, HTML, and embedded

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preview of the proposal for MediaWiki Homepage

2014-02-25 Thread Quim Gil
On 02/24/2014 12:54 PM, Brena Monteiro wrote: Hello everyone, I would like to invite you to take a look the preview [1] of MediaWiki Homepage. Your opinion, contribution and help are very welcome. Thank you. Thank you Brena for your work, and thank you to the rest of people that have

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-25 Thread Tim Starling
On 20/02/14 01:46, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: * short ternary operator '?:' : haven't seen it It's being used in a few places; probably a variation that was equivalent to isset( $foo ) ? $foo : $bar would see more

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-25 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 02/19/2014 05:49 AM, Antoine Musso wrote: * namespaces : we did not see a good use case for them It's useful for extensions. That way, an extension doesn't have to worry about the names of core classes, or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-25 Thread Tim Starling
On 19/02/14 04:48, Trevor Parscal wrote: PHP 5.4 added a few important features[1], namely traits, shorthand array syntax, and function array dereferencing. For the record, I am fine with those three features being used in MediaWiki code, once we drop support for 5.3. I've heard that 5.3 is

[Wikitech-l] RFC review Thursday afternoon/Friday morning on UI styling

2014-02-25 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Brion and Tim hope to chat with Jon Robson, Pau Giner, Juliusz Gonera, and other interested folks about the current UI styling RFCs. More information: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-02-27 These meetings move around so we can sometimes accommodate Europe,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Decisions on HTML templating + Service Oriented Architecture (was Re: RFC review this Friday: HTML templating + Service Oriented Architecture)

2014-02-25 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
For https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library/KnockoutProposal, Matt Walker is going to port the JavaScript intermediate representation compiler/runtime to PHP, and answer Niklas's questions about ResourceLoader integration. As for packaging in