Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Recruiting for Wikimedia security newsletter

Hi Wil, Yes, this newsletter will be similar to those on the page you linked. The relevance of an article about check fraud is that Wikimedia thematic organizations should be aware of financial security issues that could impact them, and check fraud is one of those issues. Yes, a how-to article

[Wikitech-l] Not that this is reminiscent of anything anyone here works on

http://threepanelsoul.com/2014/06/02/code-maintenance/ - d. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

Has it already been asked anywhere *whether* to make these ratings available on mediawiki.org? How useful is it really to know that Extension:ConfirmEdit scored "3" on some external website, especially without knowing that that "3" comes from a grand total of 1 person?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

Is it really necessary for people to openly mock the work of a volunteer developer on the list? No wonder we have so few volunteer developers. On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Legoktm wrote: > On 8/18/14, 8:47 AM, Chad wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) < > bjor...

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

Hi Jon, I am grateful to the wikimedia community for providing their responses about this project so there is nothing to be sorry about. I understand they have a lot of concerns to maintain the quality of data on the site. The rating system has been built on top of semantic mediawiki so this can b

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

Hi Aditya I'm truly sorry you are getting this kind of response, the replies you've got here seem very mean spirited but please don't take them personally. I hope it doesn't put you off building stuff on top of MediaWiki. I just wanted to say thank you for building this, regardless of whether it g

[Wikitech-l] RFC for Structured Commons

Commons:Requests for comment/Structured Commons is waiting for you. ___ Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: mwui.wmflabs.org reactivated, showing upcoming MW UI styles ($wgUseMediaWikiUIEverywhere = true; )

I note it only has Vector, so people can't test it with any of the other skins that are deployed on WMF sites (Monobook, Modern, CologneBlue). On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > I've updated the MW UI demo site > (http://mwui.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page) and enabled > $w

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: mwui.wmflabs.org reactivated, showing upcoming MW UI styles ($wgUseMediaWikiUIEverywhere = true; )

Hello! For the buttons on Special:ChangeEmail, there is still a bug for it: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69723 First comes from MobileFrontend, because both are constructive. Jon pointed out, that the cancel button should be quite or better: just removed, it's pretty useless :

Re: [Wikitech-l] HHVM status update

On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: > * Tim is looking at modifying the profiling feature of LuaSandbox to work > with HHVM. We currently disable it, due to < > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68413>. (Feedback from > users > re: how important is this feature to you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

Il 10/08/2014 15:27, Erik Moeller ha scritto: In the long run, we will want to apply a code review process to these changes as with any other deployed code The latest version of the Pywikibot framework could be useful to you. We recently introduced custom protection levels, and I think you coul

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

Probably the original IRC discussions. On 19 August 2014 17:22, Merlijn van Deen wrote: > On 19 August 2014 07:36, K. Peachey wrote: > > > Personally I don't think in it's current state/design it is overly > suitable > > for deployment onto MediaWiki wiki as it will introduce a external factor

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: mwui.wmflabs.org reactivated, showing upcoming MW UI styles ($wgUseMediaWikiUIEverywhere = true; )

Le 19/08/2014 05:26, Matthew Flaschen a écrit : > In addition to what I said below (this was originally sent to design), > anonymous editing is now enabled. So feel free to test anonymously or > with as many accounts (throw-away accounts are fine on this test wiki) > as you'd like. > > Matt Flasc

Re: [Wikitech-l] Future platforms, devices, and consumers

Thanks Jeroen, you just reminded me I have a thread here to respond to. I agree with you points. I said revamp the mediawiki from ground up because I think the mediawiki was developed some years ago, and its obvious there are many changes that have taken effect that need adapting to. "Revamping"

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

On 19 August 2014 07:36, K. Peachey wrote: > Personally I don't think in it's current state/design it is overly suitable > for deployment onto MediaWiki wiki as it will introduce a external factor > on the page load for each visitor, although I haven't looked at the current > privacy policy but i

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

2014-08-18 19:35 GMT+03:00 Brad Jorsch (Anomie) : > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Mark A. Hershberger > wrote: >> >> Yes. This is a GSoC project that was accepted. Getting the ratings to >> mw.o is the final step of that. >> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Adi.iiita/Gsoc2014 >> > > I