Re: [Wikitech-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] Plans to move Cite configuration from wikitext messages to CSS styles

2014-12-17 Thread Arcane 21
Thanks for the clarification. I think the idea (as you explained it) sounds great, hope you guys can get it working. :) From: jforres...@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:06:11 -0800 To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] Plans to move Cite

Re: [Wikitech-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] Plans to move Cite configuration from wikitext messages to CSS styles

2014-12-17 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
Ehm, has accessibility been taken into account with this design ? Quoting WebAIM: Always use native HTML markup to provide the necessary semantic content and meaning, then use CSS to enhance and change the default styles. I can't fully tell from just looking that the patches. DJ On Wed, Dec 17,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] Plans to move Cite configuration from wikitext messages to CSS styles

2014-12-17 Thread Marc Ordinas i Llopis
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com wrote: Ehm, has accessibility been taken into account with this design ? Quoting WebAIM: Always use native HTML markup to provide the necessary semantic content and meaning, then use CSS to enhance and change the

Re: [Wikitech-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] Plans to move Cite configuration from wikitext messages to CSS styles

2014-12-17 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 9:10 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 16 December 2014 at 04:45, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Marc Ordinas i Llopis marc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Due to how MediaWiki's messages system

[Wikitech-l] new extension

2014-12-17 Thread Ricordisamoa
I've written a simple MediaWiki extension that uses an instance of the W3C Validator service (via the Services_W3C_HTMLValidator http://pear.php.net/package/Services_W3C_HTMLValidator PEAR package) to validate SVG images hosted on a wiki. It is meant to replace the current system on Commons,

[Wikitech-l] eliminate wgParser from WikitextContent

2014-12-17 Thread Keith Welter
Can anyone think of a reason *not* to eliminate wgParser usage from WikitextContent? I have a bug (T76651) that is resolved by making WikitextContent use its own parser instance rather than wgParser. I wrote an experimental fix of WikitextContent that clones the parser in the same way as

[Wikitech-l] Welcome, Marko Obrovac, to the Services team

2014-12-17 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi everyone I'm pleased to (belatedly) welcome another new member of the Services team: Marko Obrovac. Marko started working in the Services team with Gabriel Wicke and James Douglas on RESTbase. Marko comes to us from Reflected Networks, a Croatian web-hosting company specializing in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome, Marko Obrovac, to the Services team

2014-12-17 Thread James Forrester
On 17 December 2014 at 10:43, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone I'm pleased to (belatedly) welcome another new member of the Services team: Marko Obrovac. Marko started working in the Services team with Gabriel Wicke and James Douglas on RESTbase. ​Welcome! J. -- James

[Wikitech-l] Scrum of Scrums Notes for 2014-12-17

2014-12-17 Thread Dan Andreescu
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2014-12-17 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] RT is down now, Phabricator will be down at 00:00 UTC

2014-12-17 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, the RT migration to Phabricator is starting right now. All the RT queues have been frozen. Please don't send any emails to @ rt.wikimedia.org. This includes access-requests@ and procurement@, the two RT queues that will not be migrated at this point, which will be in read-only mode during the

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.24.1, 1.23.8, 1.22.15 and 1.19.23

2014-12-17 Thread Markus Glaser
Hello everyone, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.24.1, 1.23.8, 1.22.15 and 1.19.23. This is a regular security and maintenance release. Download links are given at the end of this email. Please note this release marks the end of lifetime for MediaWiki 1.22 branch. ==

[Wikitech-l] Autoloader/ResourceLoader to be tested on extensions

2014-12-17 Thread Antoine Musso
Hello, I found out we do not run on extensions the 'structure' testsuite of mediawiki/core. It is made of three tests in tests/phpunit/structure AutoLoaderTest.php verify classes are properly registered, and the autloader entries point to an actual file ResourcesTest.php ditto for the

Re: [Wikitech-l] eliminate wgParser from WikitextContent

2014-12-17 Thread Tim Starling
On 18/12/14 03:40, Keith Welter wrote: Can anyone think of a reason *not* to eliminate wgParser usage from WikitextContent? I have a bug (T76651) that is resolved by making WikitextContent use its own parser instance rather than wgParser. I wrote an experimental fix of WikitextContent that

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.24.1, 1.23.8, 1.22.15 and 1.19.23

2014-12-17 Thread Brian Wolff
== Security fixes in 1.24.1, 1.23.8, 1.22.15 and 1.19.23 == * (bug T76686) [SECURITY] thumb.php outputs wikitext message as raw HTML, which could lead to xss. Permission to edit MediaWiki namespace is required to exploit this. Really? That's stretching the definition of a security bug.

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.24.1, 1.23.8, 1.22.15 and 1.19.23

2014-12-17 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:44:59 +0100, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: == Security fixes in 1.24.1, 1.23.8, 1.22.15 and 1.19.23 == * (bug T76686) [SECURITY] thumb.php outputs wikitext message as raw HTML, which could lead to xss. Permission to edit MediaWiki namespace is required to