Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] First _draft_ goals for WMF engineering/product

2014-06-23 Thread Nathan
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, We've got the first DRAFT (sorry for shouting, but can't hurt to emphasize :)) of the annual goals for the engineering/product department up on mediawiki.org. We're now mid-point in the process, and will finalize

[Wikitech-l] dumps.wikimedia.org, downloads.wikimedia.org downtime Thursday June 26 13.30 UTC

2014-06-23 Thread Ariel T. Glenn
dumps.wikimedia.org, downloads.wikimedia.org will be down on Thursday June 26 from 13.30 UTC until 14.30 UTC. While we expect the actual downtime to be much less, we're blocking one hour just in case. We will be moving it to a new rack in preparation for improved bandwidth, and yes this mean

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] First _draft_ goals for WMF engineering/product

2014-06-23 Thread Brian Wolff
If part of the plan for the growth team is to invite anonymous editors to sign up, why not tailor some of those invitations specifically to female anonymous editors? Then you could add a measure, retention of female editors, to that particular growth project. The results should be

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] First _draft_ goals for WMF engineering/product

2014-06-23 Thread Nathan
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: If part of the plan for the growth team is to invite anonymous editors to sign up, why not tailor some of those invitations specifically to female anonymous editors? Then you could add a measure, retention of female

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ensure that user is logged in

2014-06-23 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 06/19/2014 11:09 PM, Daniel Friesen wrote: B) If we even have anything similar to Content-MD5 (I don't remember seeing anything) it's optional and the clients most likely to have a buffer bugs like that are going to be the ones that don't use it. There is an optional md5 parameter in the

[Wikitech-l] iPad bugs we need to fix in VE

2014-06-23 Thread Juliusz Gonera
There are three important bugs that need to be fixed in VE before we can move it to stable for tablets (specifically iPads). The first two were added by me just today. The third was reported in May by Rummana and for some odd reason had Jon assigned to it, although he has never worked on it (I

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] First _draft_ goals for WMF engineering/product

2014-06-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
(I'm not on wikimedia-l so this won't make it to that list unless someone forwards it; please feel free.) wikitech-l and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals seem like good places to talk about whether we should have gendergap-related goals for Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unclear Meaning of $baseRevId in WikiPage::doEditContent

2014-06-23 Thread Adam Wight
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Aaron Schulz aschulz4...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose that naming scheme is reasonable. $contentsRevId sounds awkward, maybe $sourceRevId or $originRevId is better. What about rollbackRevId? I want the variable name to make its purpose very clear. -Adam

[Wikitech-l] question about standardized thumbnail sizes

2014-06-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I asked some folks about ​ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Standardized_thumbnails_sizes ​.​ ​Antoine​, the original author, said on the talk page: We had several mailing list discussion in 2012 / beginning of 2013 regarding optimizing the thumbnails rendering. That RFC is

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Front-End Standardization Chat

2014-06-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Added to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours . :) Sumana On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi folks, We're hosting a conversation about standardization and continued