Re: [Wikitech-l] Author of wikipedia images

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:40 PM, Trung Dinh wrote: > Hi everyone, > > How can we programmatically (or from the data dump) get the author of the > main image shown in a Wikipedia article. For example, the image for Barrack > Obama page is >

[Wikitech-l] Author of wikipedia images

Hi everyone, How can we programmatically (or from the data dump) get the author of the main image shown in a Wikipedia article. For example, the image for Barrack Obama page is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama#/media/File:President_Barack_Obama.jpg and the author of the image is

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Change to version number incrementing for weekly Wikimedia MediaWiki deploys

I think a branch that's never deployed is likely to confuse people more, SWAT immediately comes to mind (which branches do I port to?) And while it's fixable, it would mean a non-checked-out branch wouldn't get automatically cleaned up during our weekly pruning. All in all: I like this move. It

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Change to version number incrementing for weekly Wikimedia MediaWiki deploys

Maybe we could prevent breaking things by always creating a branch for every wmf.XX number. That is, always create a new branch, even on weeks with no official branch cut. So in the case of wmf.8, we would simply branch off from wmf.7, thus extending wmf.7 for another week but under a new name,

[Wikitech-l] Change to version number incrementing for weekly Wikimedia MediaWiki deploys

Hello all, I failed to send this notice out before when the change was made; mea culpa. Background: * We start a new 1.XX-wmf.XX series after each MW 'tarball' release. For example right now we're in the 1.30-wmf.XX series now that 1.29 is nearing release. The change: * Instead of only

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tidy will be replaced by RemexHTML on Wikimedia wikis latest by June 2018

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 8:05 AM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: > On 07/11/2017 05:13 AM, Nicolas Vervelle wrote: >> - Where is it possible to change the description displayed in each >> page >> dedicated to a category ? For example, the page for self-closed-ags >> [2] is

[Wikitech-l] ArchCom Radar, 2017-07-05

Hi all! Here are the minutes from the last ArchCom meeting. You can also find the minutes at . See also the ArchCom status page at and the RFC board

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tidy will be replaced by RemexHTML on Wikimedia wikis latest by June 2018

On 07/11/2017 05:13 AM, Nicolas Vervelle wrote: But I have a few questions / suggestions regarding Linter for the moment: - Is is possible to retrieve also the localized names of the Linter categories and priorities: for example, on frwiki, you can see on the Linter page [1] that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tidy will be replaced by RemexHTML on Wikimedia wikis latest by June 2018

> On Jul 11, 2017, at 6:13 AM, Nicolas Vervelle wrote: > > - Where is it possible to change the description displayed in each page > dedicated to a category ?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tidy will be replaced by RemexHTML on Wikimedia wikis latest by June 2018

Hi Subbu ! I have barely started using WPCleaner to fix some errors reported by Linter, and I know I still have work to do on WPCleaner to make it easier for users. But I have a few questions / suggestions regarding Linter for the moment: - Is is possible to retrieve also the localized names