[Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Integrating user behavior to design better products: May 31

Please join for the following tech talk: *Tech Talk**:* Integrating user behavior to design better products *Presenter:* Pau Giner *Date:* May 31, 2016 *Time: *19:00 UTC

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP namespaces

Le 28/05/2016 à 16:15, Ricordisamoa a écrit : > With https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/288633 some new classes in the Babel > extension were put into a new namespace "MediaWiki\Babel\BabelBox". > Legoktm approved but Thiemo Mättig (WMDE) disagrees. PHPUnit tests are > already in namespace

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Update from the Perf Team

Pages with large number of thumbnails tends to be a slow path in the parser. This is even more true for people using instant commons. I dont know for sure, but I imagine it could be improved by batching the checks for finding image width/height (that might be a difficult change to make though).

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP namespaces

Is the reason for the new namespaces for testing, or because the classes are more suitable to a namespace? On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Ricordisamoa wrote: > With https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/288633 some new classes in the Babel > extension were put into a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Update from the Perf Team

Thank you for the update. FWIW, a page that I load frequently that takes a long time is Commons' featured picture candidates. My guess is that starting with the implementation of HHVM and with smaller improvements thereafter, the page load time had been reduced by more than 50%, which is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should we switch the default category collation to uca-default?

On Friday, May 27, 2016, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: > Yes, of course, & a meta discussion will likely unearth many reasons to > opt-out ;) > > Does uca (or extension) do the right thing for West Frisian (fy) wrt y & i ? > > Or, ... it would be helpful to put the list of 94 wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should we switch the default category collation to uca-default?

On Friday, May 27, 2016, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > There are currently 94 WMF wikis using UCA category collation rather than > the default "uppercase" collation. The Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA) is > the official standard for how to sort Unicode characters, and generally

[Wikitech-l] PHP namespaces

With https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/288633 some new classes in the Babel extension were put into a new namespace "MediaWiki\Babel\BabelBox". Legoktm approved but Thiemo Mättig (WMDE) disagrees. PHPUnit tests are already in namespace "Babel\Tests".

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should we switch the default category collation to uca-default?

John Mark Vandenberg wrote: >Yes, of course, & a meta discussion will likely unearth many reasons to >opt-out ;) > >Does uca (or extension) do the right thing for West Frisian (fy) wrt y & >i ? > >Or, ... it would be helpful to put the list of 94 wiki somewhere easy to >consume. My count of wikis

Re: [Wikitech-l] Which Phabricator project for site issues?

Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: >You can also always file a bug without associating any project tags. >Someone will usually quickly categorize your report :) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law :-) I have a tendency to forget to fill out the projects/tags field when filing new Maniphest