Re: [Wikitech-l] En.wikipedia redirect loops on everything (??!!)

2014-05-13 Thread Tim Starling
On 14/05/14 13:00, George Herbert wrote: > I am getting redirect loops on every page I try right now on en.wikipedia A change to the Apache configuration accidentally overwrote the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO server environment variable and caused MediaWiki to think that all requests were plain HTTP ra

Re: [Wikitech-l] En.wikipedia redirect loops on everything (??!!)

2014-05-13 Thread MZMcBride
George Herbert wrote: >Seems to have stopped now. 2-3 min worth? > >When it was happening it was affecting https traffic on chrome / windows / >landline (SF Bay Area), chrome / iphone / AT&T (SF Bay Area). Was trying >to test more combos but it started working again before I got data. Hi. == Ma

Re: [Wikitech-l] En.wikipedia redirect loops on everything (??!!)

2014-05-13 Thread George Herbert
I only got about nine page checks in before it started working again, eight on PC and one on mobile, all on chrome. It started perhaps a minute or two before 8:00, ended almost immediately after. Can't rule out some local effect, but it did affect both iphone and desktop... On Tue, May 13, 201

Re: [Wikitech-l] En.wikipedia redirect loops on everything (??!!)

2014-05-13 Thread George Herbert
Seems to have stopped now. 2-3 min worth? When it was happening it was affecting https traffic on chrome / windows / landline (SF Bay Area), chrome / iphone / AT&T (SF Bay Area). Was trying to test more combos but it started working again before I got data. On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Geo

Re: [Wikitech-l] En.wikipedia redirect loops on everything (??!!)

2014-05-13 Thread Jeremy Baron
On May 13, 2014 11:00 PM, "George Herbert" wrote: > I am getting redirect loops on every page I try right now on en.wikipedia More details? Tested logged in and out. (clean cookie jar) didn't notice anything weird. -Jeremy ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] En.wikipedia redirect loops on everything (??!!)

2014-05-13 Thread George Herbert
I am getting redirect loops on every page I try right now on en.wikipedia -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] workflow to add multiple patches to gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/operations/puppet.git

2014-05-13 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 11/20/2013 08:55 AM, Petr Bena wrote: aha I see now, I should have branch before patch1. I didn't. What am I supposed to do now? I think: git checkout production git checkout -b patch1 (that was just to "back up" patch1, in case you didn't have it anywhere else) git checkout production

Re: [Wikitech-l] is this how our thumbnail caching works?

2014-05-13 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 05/13/2014 06:13 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I am trying to figure out how thumbnail retrieval & caching works right now - with Swift, and the frontline & secondary ("frontend" and "backend") Varnishes. (I am working on the caching-related bit of the performance guidelines, and want to und

Re: [Wikitech-l] is this how our thumbnail caching works?

2014-05-13 Thread Brian Wolff
On May 13, 2014 7:13 PM, "Sumana Harihareswara" wrote: > > I am trying to figure out how thumbnail retrieval & caching works right > now - with Swift, and the frontline & secondary ("frontend" and > "backend") Varnishes. (I am working on the caching-related bit of the > performance guidelines, and

[Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-13 Thread Jon Robson
During the Zurich hackathon, DJ Hartman, Aude and I knocked up a generic maps prototype extension [1]. We have noticed that many maps like extensions keep popping up and believed it was time we standardised on one that all these extensions could use so we share data better. We took a look at all t

[Wikitech-l] is this how our thumbnail caching works?

2014-05-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I am trying to figure out how thumbnail retrieval & caching works right now - with Swift, and the frontline & secondary ("frontend" and "backend") Varnishes. (I am working on the caching-related bit of the performance guidelines, and want to understand and help push forward on https://www.mediawiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Transcluding non-text content as HTML on wikitext pages

2014-05-13 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 05/13/2014 11:37 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: Hi all! During the hackathon, I worked on a patch that would make it possible for non-textual content to be included on wikitext pages using the template syntax. The idea is that if we have a content handler that e.g. generates awesome diagrams from

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML templating systems & MediaWiki - is this summary right?

2014-05-13 Thread Ryan Kaldari
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > And Ryan Kaldari wrote on April 1: > > > The mobile web team will be evaluating Gabriel's KnockoutJS template > > implementation sometime between April 14 and April 28. The things we will > > be looking at include: how well it will wo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change the installer to make Project: the default option for meta namespace name

2014-05-13 Thread Krinkle
Note that "Project" and "Project talk" already work on any wiki. They are the canonical names for the namespace in question. Namespaces have: * a localised/standard name for the local wiki (based on configuration like Wikipedia and/or localisation like Usario). * a canonical name (that is langua

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML templating systems & MediaWiki - is this summary right?

2014-05-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 04/02/2014 10:19 PM, S Page wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Sumana Harihareswara > wrote: > >> TL;DR: who's testing out the non-Knockout approaches? >> > > Besides those listed at [1] > The Flow discussion system needs to render templates on both the client and > server[2]. The Flow

Re: [Wikitech-l] Transcluding non-text content as HTML on wikitext pages

2014-05-13 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > As Brion pointed out in a comment to my original, there is another caveat: > what > should the expandtemplates module do when expanding non-wikitext > templates? I > decided to just wrap the HTML in ... tags instead of using a > strip > mar

Re: [Wikitech-l] Advice needed for MediaWiki-Vagrant problem

2014-05-13 Thread Ori Livneh
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Ori Livneh wrote: > Vagrant 1.6 changed the order of steps Vagrant performs on initialization: > it now evaluates the project's Vagrantfile after loading plugins and > parsing command-line arguments. This means that the various subcommands > provide for role mana

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Bernd Sitzmann as Software Developer to the Mobile App Team

2014-05-13 Thread Arthur Richards
Welcome - looking forward to working with you :) On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Monte Hurd wrote: > Awesome! Welcome! :) > > > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > >> Hertzlich willkommen Bernd! >> >> -- brion >> On May 12, 2014 10:09 AM, "Tomasz Finc" wrote: >> >>> Bernd w

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Bernd Sitzmann as Software Developer to the Mobile App Team

2014-05-13 Thread Monte Hurd
Awesome! Welcome! :) On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > Hertzlich willkommen Bernd! > > -- brion > On May 12, 2014 10:09 AM, "Tomasz Finc" wrote: > >> Bernd will be working remotely from Fort Collins, CO, where he has >> lived ever since emigrating from Germany many years a

[Wikitech-l] Transcluding non-text content as HTML on wikitext pages

2014-05-13 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hi all! During the hackathon, I worked on a patch that would make it possible for non-textual content to be included on wikitext pages using the template syntax. The idea is that if we have a content handler that e.g. generates awesome diagrams from JSON data, like the extension Dan Andreescu wrot

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image scaling proposal: server-side mip-mapping

2014-05-13 Thread Gilles Dubuc
In a surprising turn of events, the latest survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/F6CGPDJ shows that people consistently prefer the chained thumbnails (each thumbnail generated based on the next bigger thumbnail) to the ones we currently generate from the original and to thumbnails generated all bas