Re: [Wikitech-l] Lists as first class citizens

Hi Jon, You might want to discuss this project here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Council You could also discuss this with the WikiProject X team: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_X Pine *This is an Encyclopedia*

[Wikitech-l] Welcome Chromium to our QUnit testing

TL;DR: * Our QUnit jobs now uses latest Chromium instead of PhantomJS. * You can run the test suite from the command line locally now. Thanks to Tim Starling, Antoine "hashar" Musso, Kunal (legoktm), Bryan Davis, S Page, and James Forrester; for their help in different areas. https://www.mediawik

[Wikitech-l] Roadmap and deployment update - week of April 6th

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap and Deployment update. The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at: For a longer term view, see the new Roadmap project in Phabricator:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

> On 3 apr. 2015, at 06:27, Stas Malyshev wrote: > > Hi! > >>> Would it be feasible to include an og:image tag on pages for which we have >>> a reasonable guess as to the thumbnail? Open Graph[3] is supported by what >>> seems anecdotally to me to be a wide range of services, so good hints the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikitext style norms for Parsoid serialization?

On 04/02/2015 06:17 PM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: Greetings! Among other things, Parsoid converts HTML to wikitext. There are two requirements as far as this serialization / conversion goes: * Preserving HTML -> HTML semantics (i.e. a list when serialized to wikitext and parsed back should r

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

On Apr 2, 2015 10:05 PM, "Daniel Friesen" wrote: > Twitter exclusively uses their proprietary Twitter cards markup ( name="twitter:card" content="summary" /> ...) and requires you to > validate and submit your site for approval before they'll display cards. This isn't quite correct. They have th

Re: [Wikitech-l] odd namespace number

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Bináris wrote: > > Ahhrgh, I have just looked at this page for the first time, and I am > terribíl disappointed from this new-style date fashion "2 months" ago. I > know this is not the right thread for this, I am just not familiar with the > Flow production system.

Re: [Wikitech-l] odd namespace number

2015-04-02 21:24 GMT+02:00 S Page : > > > And that is still the case. For example, > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Search is a Flow-enabled talk page, > and > its wgNamespaceNumber is 1. > Ahhrgh, I have just looked at this page for the first time, and I am terribíl disappointed from this n