[Wikitech-l] Selecting a preview slide for a PDF

2015-06-12 Thread Pine W
When creating thumbnails I've been successful at selecting the particular frame of a video to be shown as the thumbnail. Is there a way to do something similar, to show a particular page of a PDF as the thumbnail in an article? Thanks, Pine ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Selecting a preview slide for a PDF

2015-06-12 Thread Ricordisamoa
Just add a page parameter to the file syntax: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PdfHandler#Usage This feature is actually quite old: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/25575 Il 12/06/2015 08:56, Pine W ha scritto: When creating thumbnails I've been successful at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Selecting a preview slide for a PDF

2015-06-12 Thread Pine W
Aha, I found that using | instead of does the trick. Sorry for the interruption. Pine On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: When creating thumbnails I've been successful at selecting the particular frame of a video to be shown as the thumbnail. Is there a way

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook's HHVM performance sprint retrospective highlights MediaWiki gains

2015-06-12 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, And good news it is :) Thanks Ori :) were people of the WMF involved in this ? Thanks, GerardM On 12 June 2015 at 06:08, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: a parse of the Barack Obama article. A parse of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook's HHVM performance sprint retrospective highlights MediaWiki gains

2015-06-12 Thread Alex Monk
I found https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217157/ and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/97110/1 On 12 June 2015 at 13:01, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: At the very least, someone from WMF suggested the page: MediaWiki was benchmarked using the Barack Obama page from Wikipedia, as was

[Wikitech-l] etherpad.wikimedia.org upgrade on Monday 2015-06-15

2015-06-12 Thread Alexandros Kosiaris
Hello everyone, On Monday UTC morning, the software powering etherpad.wikimedia.org, etherpad-lite, will be upgraded to version 1.5.6-2 from 1.4.1-3. This upgrade sets us back on track with etherpad-lite releases. Changelogs for the interested are here:

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Labs bastions ssh key changes (affects all non-toollabs users)

2015-06-12 Thread Yuvi Panda
Fyi -- Forwarded message -- From: Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com Date: Jun 12, 2015 6:05 PM Subject: Labs bastions ssh key changes (affects all non-toollabs users) To: labs-annou...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Hello! In the ongoing effort to make labs more reliable, we're upgrading

[Wikitech-l] Is non-SSL request still allowed?

2015-06-12 Thread Max Vlasov
Hi, I have a software using mediawiki api with Wikipedia. It uses general http requests. Suddenly it stopped working several days ago (maybe a week, I can't recall exactly). When I query a test query in a browsers, it redirects to https, I see also that at the side sites that there's also 301

[Wikitech-l] Search and accents

2015-06-12 Thread Lars Aronsson
This is a suggestion to change search, so it ignores postfix accents. Russian dictionaries (including Wiktionary) use accents to indicate stress on syllables, but these accents are never seen in plain text. In Russian Wiktionary, the verb бороться has the inflected form боритесь (imperative,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Search and accents

2015-06-12 Thread Nikolas Everett
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: This is a suggestion to change search, so it ignores postfix accents. Russian dictionaries (including Wiktionary) use accents to indicate stress on syllables, but these accents are never seen in plain text. In Russian

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is non-SSL request still allowed?

2015-06-12 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/12/securing-wikimedia-sites-with-https/ On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 12:27 AM, Max Vlasov max.vla...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a software using mediawiki api with Wikipedia. It uses general http requests. Suddenly it stopped working several days ago (maybe a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook's HHVM performance sprint retrospective highlights MediaWiki gains

2015-06-12 Thread Strainu
At the very least, someone from WMF suggested the page: MediaWiki was benchmarked using the Barack Obama page from Wikipedia, as was recommended by an engineer from Wikimedia foundation as representative of their load. A better question IMO is: have the FB engineers contributed any patches to MW?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook's HHVM performance sprint retrospective highlights MediaWiki gains

2015-06-12 Thread Quim Gil
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, And good news it is :) Thanks Ori :) were people of the WMF involved in this ? It's not that Ori learned about these news by reading Twitter. ;) Tim Starling got dozens of patches merged in HHVM as