[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Codesniffer 0.3.0 released

2015-06-19 Thread Legoktm
Hello! MediaWiki-Codesniffer 0.3.0 is now available for use in your MediaWiki extensions and other projects. Here are the notable changes since the last release (0.2.0): * Don't require wf prefix on functions that are namespaced (Kunal Mehta) * Simplify PHPUnit boostrap, require usage of

Re: [Wikitech-l] global cleanup of nowiki

2015-06-19 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:38:01 +0200, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: * '''nowiki/''' - this doesn't do anything at all. I couldn't reproduce it in any way, so it's probably a bug that was fixed. This sounds very much like https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95730 which

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Labs (almost fully!) back up

2015-06-19 Thread Yuvi Panda
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:33 PM Subject: Labs (almost fully!) back up To: labs-annou...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello everyone! All projects (except maps and mwoffliner) are fully back up. Theyshould be up now

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] What is the wikipedia http API address now?

2015-06-19 Thread Hong, Yongmin
This list seems more appropriate for this type of discussion. -- Revi https://www.revi.pe.kr -- Sent from Android -- -- 전달된 메일 -- 보낸사람: Yuri y...@rawbw.com 날짜: 2015. 6. 20. 오후 2:52 제목: [Wikimedia-l] What is the wikipedia http API address now? 받는사람: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] interesting read: what makes great PMs

2015-06-19 Thread Brian Gerstle
Thought some people would find this stream of tweets from Charlie Kindel [0] http://ceklog.kindel.com/2015/06/18/what-it-means-to-be-great-product-manager/ interesting. I'd also recommend perusing his other posts about leadership engineering culture. Here's my take on a few snippets, curious to

[Wikitech-l] interesting read: testing@LinkedIn

2015-06-19 Thread Brian Gerstle
Short case study at LinkedIn [0] http://engineering.linkedin.com/developer-happiness/getting-code-production-less-friction-and-high-quality about how they cut release latencies by 80-90% by reversing the ice cream cone of death [1]

[Wikitech-l] global cleanup of nowiki

2015-06-19 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, In the last few days I've been looking for reasons for the appearance of unnecessary nowiki tags. This mostly happens because of various VisualEditor and Parsoid issues. The developers have been very good at fixing them, and now it happens very rarely, but there are still lots of these

Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

2015-06-19 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 5:42 AM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Why doesnt formatversion=2 assume continue= and utf8= ? It does assume utf8= (there's an ascii= to request the old mode in combination with formatversion=2). It doesn't assume continue= because that belongs to

[Wikitech-l] WebM/Ogg playback: testing energy usage on iOS

2015-06-19 Thread Brion Vibber
One of the reasons we've always worried about using the open Ogg and WebM formats on iPhones and iPads is that we don't get to make use of the hardware MP4/H.264 codec... using the main CPU cores is presumed to drain the battery faster. I've done a first-pass test measuring energy usage of

Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

2015-06-19 Thread Steinsplitter Wiki
Before playing around with api serious bugs should be fixed... I see xxXx unresolved bugs on pahricator. It is frustrating Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:56:25 -0700 From: sp...@wikimedia.org To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default

Re: [Wikitech-l] global cleanup of nowiki

2015-06-19 Thread Vi to
Starting by replacing \nowiki\\s\nowiki\ would be safe enough imho. Vito 2015-06-19 10:38 GMT+02:00 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il: Hi, In the last few days I've been looking for reasons for the appearance of unnecessary nowiki tags. This mostly happens because of various

Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

2015-06-19 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 7:56 AM, S Page sp...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Brian Gerstle bgers...@wikimedia.org wrote: I guess it comes down to is this: if we're going to continue supporting old behavior, they should be accessible via the same old requests. *This

Re: [Wikitech-l] interesting read: what makes great PMs

2015-06-19 Thread Adam Baso
On Friday, June 19, 2015, Brian Gerstle bgers...@wikimedia.org wrote: ...I think engineers who are sold on the teams' mission are capable of making good decisions about what to work on. Our current situation in the Readership vertical is a live experiment on this subject. Indeed. I'm

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] WebM/Ogg playback: testing energy usage on iOS

2015-06-19 Thread Brian Gerstle
Any idea if your work would also support dynamic bitrate switching? On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:57 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 19 June 2015 at 02:08, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: One of the reasons we've always worried about using the open Ogg and WebM

Re: [Wikitech-l] global cleanup of nowiki

2015-06-19 Thread Jackmcbarn
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 4:38 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: * '''nowiki/''' - this doesn't do anything at all. I couldn't reproduce it in any way, so it's probably a bug that was fixed. Beware that in some cases, nowiki/ is doing something important. For example,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] WebM/Ogg playback: testing energy usage on iOS

2015-06-19 Thread James Forrester
On 19 June 2015 at 02:08, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: One of the reasons we've always worried about using the open Ogg and WebM formats on iPhones and iPads is that we don't get to make use of the hardware MP4/H.264 codec... using the main CPU cores is presumed to drain the

Re: [Wikitech-l] interesting read: testing@LinkedIn

2015-06-19 Thread Arthur Richards
Thanks for sharing this, Brian! x-posting to teampractices On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Brian Gerstle bgers...@wikimedia.org wrote: Short case study at LinkedIn [0] http://engineering.linkedin.com/developer-happiness/getting-code-production-less-friction-and-high-quality about how

Re: [Wikitech-l] global cleanup of nowiki

2015-06-19 Thread Daniel Barrett
Here is another practical example where nowiki/ may be required: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Arrays#Using_arrayprint DanB ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] interesting read: what makes great PMs

2015-06-19 Thread Arthur Richards
Another good one Brian - x-posting to teampractices. On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Adam Baso ab...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Friday, June 19, 2015, Brian Gerstle bgers...@wikimedia.org wrote: ...I think engineers who are sold on the teams' mission are capable of making good decisions

[Wikitech-l] Save the Date: MediaWiki Developers Summit 2016

2015-06-19 Thread Rachel Farrand
Hello wikitech-l! This year we will be holding the MediaWiki Developers Summit 2016 between *Monday* *January 4th and Wednesday January 6th* in San Francisco. Due to popular demand the WMDS 2016 will be scheduled for three days instead of two. The third day being a more relaxed/informal hacking

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] WebM/Ogg playback: testing energy usage on iOS

2015-06-19 Thread Brion Vibber
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Brian Gerstle bgers...@wikimedia.org wrote: Any idea if your work would also support dynamic bitrate switching? It should be easy to track the download rate and *downgrade* to a lower-bitrate source if we have playback discontinuities -- we have a pause

Re: [Wikitech-l] interesting read: what makes great PMs

2015-06-19 Thread Pine W
Thanks for the read. Forwarding. Pine On Jun 19, 2015 7:07 AM, Brian Gerstle bgers...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thought some people would find this stream of tweets from Charlie Kindel [0] http://ceklog.kindel.com/2015/06/18/what-it-means-to-be-great-product-manager/ interesting. I'd also

[Wikitech-l] Modernizing our content platform: Kick-off meeting on Tuesday

2015-06-19 Thread Gabriel Wicke
Hi all, a few of us have recently collected and roughly prioritized some open architectural questions [1]. The area that stood out as needing most urgent attention is adapting our content platform to long-term changes in the way users interact with our site [2]. People are using a wider range of