Re: [Wikitech-l] Building an extension management CLI tool (What language should I write it in?)

2015-02-14 Thread James HK
Hi, Extensions/plugins are not libraries. Frankly I want to give whoever built the addition to Composer that allows packages to install as WordPress plugins and MediaWiki extensions a good kick. Thanks for your elaborated inside but somehow this doesn't tell the whole story. Take for

[Wikitech-l] Thread subjects

2015-02-14 Thread Bináris
Hi folks, could we by any chance return to the conservative Netiquette way of creating subjets, or the New Era of inadequate subjects has just begun, and we trend to soil the list with these marketing-based whatnots? Shall I go to the details or are we all informatics-minded people here? --

[Wikitech-l] Modifications list and automated (cron?) task.

2015-02-14 Thread Georges DICK
Hello. I installed Mediawiki (and a couple of extensions) as an intranet website. Everyone in the company is entitled to publish, so my fear is people missing important information. My idea is to send a weekly e-mail to list every modified pages (link to page, author, last modification date). I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Modifications list and automated (cron?) task.

2015-02-14 Thread Emmanuel Engelhart
On 14.02.2015 14:39, Georges DICK wrote: I installed Mediawiki (and a couple of extensions) as an intranet website. Everyone in the company is entitled to publish, so my fear is people missing important information. My idea is to send a weekly e-mail to list every modified pages (link to page,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Modifications list and automated (cron?) task.

2015-02-14 Thread Georges DICK
Hi Emmanuel, Thank you for your answer. The recent change RSS/Atom feed will provide a list of modifications, not a list of created/updated pages. This makes a big difference if a page is updated many times during several days. My weekly email digest is intended for an internal Wiki, in a

Re: [Wikitech-l] New feature: tool edit

2015-02-14 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, S or T what language ?? What do you propose for Cyrillic ? Thanks, GerardM On 13 February 2015 at 18:22, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: I would go with S or T depending on what you choose to call these edits. I lean towards S. This can be changed later of there is an

[Wikitech-l] Using strpos mutiple times

2015-02-14 Thread Thomas Mulhall
Hi how can I use  strops multiple times I am trying to filter the skins api to only show skins and this wokrs but it only allows you to do one it currently looks like this if ( strpos( $ret['type'] = $type, 'parserhook' ) === 0 ) {  continue; } but I would like to get it to do

Re: [Wikitech-l] New feature: tool edit

2015-02-14 Thread Brian Wolff
-- Every registered user would be able to flag edit as tool edit (bot needs special user group) Vandals would have fun with that, but bot group could be set up like that (e.g. flood group) -- The flag wouldn't be intended for use by robots, but regular users who used some automated tool in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using strpos mutiple times

2015-02-14 Thread Thomas Mulhall
Nether mind by using if ( strpos( $ret['type'] = $type, 'skin' ) === false ) {  continue; } worked. On Saturday, 14 February 2015, 19:51, Thomas Mulhall thomasmulhall...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi how can I use  strops multiple times I am trying to filter the skins api to

Re: [Wikitech-l] New feature: tool edit

2015-02-14 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Whatever the translators to each language at translatewiki will do. These letters are translatable. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2015-02-14 20:33 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen

Re: [Wikitech-l] Building an extension management CLI tool (What language should I write it in?)

2015-02-14 Thread Gergo Tisza
​This seems to have significant overlap with https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Improving_extension_management . Personally I think we should standardize around one tool and Composer seems the best positioned for that. So instead of maintaining N competing solutions with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Building an extension management CLI tool (What language should I write it in?)

2015-02-14 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 2015-02-14 1:23 PM, Gergo Tisza wrote: ​This seems to have significant overlap with https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Improving_extension_management . As I mentioned this tool is a workaround to deal with current reality. Not the grand way forward. Whenever that happens,