Re: [Wikitech-l] RecentChanges types (RC_* constants)

2013-09-23 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
to provide something of the sort so non-WMF wikis don't wind up with broken recentchanges tables for a month when they upgrade to MediaWiki 1.22 when that is officially released. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki hosting service?

2013-10-02 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
the other files included in the binary tar.gz. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Escaping for field and index names

2013-10-07 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
::addIdentifierQuotes, on the other hand, doesn't escape correctly; it uses the same function for quoting strings and identifiers, despite the different quote marks. So it will change 'foo bar' into '`foo \ bar`', but 'foo ` bar' comes out wrong as '`foo ` bar`'. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software

Re: [Wikitech-l] Exceptions, return false/null, and other error handling possibilities.

2013-10-07 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
to the problem we have three different ways to handle error reporting is probably not let's add another way to handle error reporting! What are the actual issues with Status, and how is this proposal different? -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] New API options problem

2013-10-10 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] New API options problem

2013-10-10 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Aran a...@organicdesign.co.nz wrote: I see, so is there any way to update user preferences such as real name and password via the API or has that not yet been implemented? There is no way to do it at this time. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki core code coverage report

2013-10-18 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
feature which force us to mention which MediaWiki function is covered by a test method [FORCE COVER]. Why is this desirable? -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki core code coverage report

2013-10-18 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Erik Bernhardson ebernhard...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: In June I enforced a PHPUnit feature which force

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Refactoring the Title object

2013-10-24 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: I've personally not been convinced of this Value/Parser/Formatter

[Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

2013-10-26 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
I came across Gerrit change 79948[1] today, which makes VectorBeta use a pile of non-free fonts (with one free font thrown in at the end as a sop). Is this really the direction we want to go, considering that in many other areas we prefer to use free software whenever we can? Looking around a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

2013-10-26 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:52 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: While this is a technical mailing list, this is a topic dealing with legal issues. This doesn't have any legal issues as far as I know, since we're not distributing any fonts in this context. It's just a matter of whether we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

2013-10-26 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Erwin Dokter er...@darcoury.nl wrote: This is completly a non-issue. CSS Font stacks merely *refer* to a font already installed (and paid for) on a reader's computer. There are no legal issues arising form this whatsoever. You missed the point. The issue is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

2013-10-28 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 4:23 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Steven Walling wrote: You're leaving out two key facts here: 1. The 'VectorBeta' change is to create an _opt-in_ beta for typography

Re: [Wikitech-l] $wgRedactedFunctionArguments

2013-10-29 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
. In this case, an option to log unredacted traces that I could enable on my local test wiki would be useful. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] H.264

2013-10-31 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
allowed, and of course you have to use some binary library, so presumably Firefox would ask to download the H.264 codec much like it does if you're missing the Flash plugin and go to a page that uses Flash. All in all, ugh. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] [WikimediaMobile] Fwd: Deployment postmortem

2013-10-31 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
is going to be possible. For myself, for example, even if we move the LD an hour earlier I'll still normally have been home for an hour before LD starts. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Memento Extension for MediaWiki: Advice on Further Development

2013-11-04 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
*false* to indicate no further processing, and true means to *continue* processing. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Module storage is coming

2013-11-04 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
with extremely strict limits. Or, for that matter, if it will fill up the allowed storage so user scripts and gadgets can't make effective use of it. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-implementing PDF support

2013-11-13 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
also the situation where A makes an edit that is partially useful and partially bad, B reverts, then C comes along and incorporates parts of C's edit. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-implementing PDF support

2013-11-13 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adding a html builder to Lua

2013-12-02 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
/Lua_reference_manual#bit32 -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help needed with ParserCache::getKey() and ParserCache::getOptionsKey()

2013-12-10 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
on user language or other stuff like that. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki - Gerrit was Re: FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
and Gerrit rather than torches and pitchforks. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
on enwiki. I also think it would be unenforcable unless one plans to ban personal js in all forms. Not necessarily. Individual user JS applies only to the one user, while gadgets apply to potentially many and [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] to everyone. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mailing list etiquette and trolling

2013-12-12 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Nathan Larson nathanlarson3...@gmail.com wrote: From my experience on the Internet, I suspect that most of the times when people are accused of trolling, they are actually serious; and most of the times when people are trolling, they're taken seriously and no

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-13 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
. Or did Gadgets 2.0 get put in Gerrit and merged while I wasn't looking? -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-13 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 21:40:35 +0100, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I raised a new bug which is hopefully more focused about

Re: [Wikitech-l] File sources and spam blacklist

2014-01-02 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
to find what might be causing this. [2]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Masopust_dr%C5%BE%C3%ADme_14.jpgdiff=113090503oldid=102671151 -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] PHPUnit versioning

2014-01-14 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
://packages.ubuntu.com/phpunit [5]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=697343 -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHPUnit versioning

2014-01-14 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
...@gmail.com wrote: Also don't forget composer as well. On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.comwrote: Sebastian recommends that you use the phar All the more reason to use none of the above. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to retrieve the page, execute some time expensive operation and edit the page ONLY if it wasn't changed meanwhile

2014-01-22 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
and then partially restored. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dynamic search results as category pages

2014-01-24 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
override ApiQueryCategoryMembers to check cmtitle and either use parent::run() or a custom implementation. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Nik Everett never...@wikimedia.org wrote: Sent from my iPhone On Jan 24, 2014, at 7:55 AM

Re: [Wikitech-l] TitleValue

2014-01-24 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
with single methods that need to be created or passed around. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for Zürich Hackathon - getting close to a production-like Vagrant instance

2014-02-11 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
install virtualbox-dkms and vagrant. Versions here are 4.3.2-dfsg-1 for virtualbox, 1.4.3-1 for vagrant, and 3.12.9-1 for the kernel. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

2014-02-15 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
=Deploymentsdiff=prevoldid=99414 -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

2014-02-16 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.orgwrote: That's not quite accurate. The new font stack is based on feedback from Linux users who preferred that we take advantage of the font-mapping built into Linux rather than trying to guess arbitrary fonts that may or may

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Design] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

2014-02-18 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
doesn't sound like a very compelling argument to me. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Design] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

2014-02-18 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
specifying anything other than sans-serif. But you seem to have ignored that feedback. I think the problem is that you've defined Helvetica Neue as what you want, so nothing else is good enough. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using Special page transclusion as a rudimentary API in Scribunto/Lua modules

2014-02-19 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
include: * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48175 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48174 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47137 -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-19 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: * short ternary operator '?:' : haven't seen it It's being used in a few places; probably a variation that was equivalent to isset( $foo ) ? $foo : $bar would see more use though. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preview of the proposal for MediaWiki Homepage

2014-02-25 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
://monteirobrena.wordpress.com ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-25 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
;) -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to retrieve current wiki time

2014-02-26 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
/wikitech-l -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to retrieve current wiki time

2014-02-26 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
/8c9c245f2ff506de275a5cabdcfdd5977a12963e/includes%2FMWTimestamp.php#L76 -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to retrieve current wiki time

2014-02-26 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
and deleted in between when you originally checked and when you actually submit the edit. Best would be to correctly use all three. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] captcha idea: proposal for gnome outreach for women 14

2014-02-28 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
simple for a computer to solve. Just find the option with minimal difference along the join edges, which is probably easier than what they already do for OCRing text captchas. As far as captchas, I still think https://xkcd.com/810/ is the way to go. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer

Re: [Wikitech-l] captcha idea: proposal for gnome outreach for women 14

2014-02-28 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: A traditional captcha using only A-Z is 1/308915776. That should be a traditional *6 letter* captcha using only A-Z. Sorry for the noise. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha Idea Proposal for GSOC 2014

2014-02-28 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
, and probably faster than humans can. For example, http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-05/new-software-assembles-jigsaw-puzzle-record-speed -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] captcha idea: proposal for gnome outreach for women 14

2014-03-03 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
naturally I thought that the real captchas would have a subtler level of intended oddness, so that the possibility for unintended oddness to confuse people would be greater. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

2014-03-03 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
laid out as a table). Were the technical results consistent across backends? -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

2014-03-03 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
can make screenshots for all the fonts on your list except Helvetica and Helvetica Neue with Debian's font renderer, in Firefox (really Iceweasel) and Chromium. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-07 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
that was deployed to them on Tuesday, in which case keeping those from making it into the new cut on Thursday (and so requiring more backports or waiting an extra week for fixes) might not be so great. [1]: And yes, 'master@{24 hours ago}' is valid git syntax. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-07 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
VE and UploadWizard do this, for example. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 62233 - PHP Warnings [localhost] after updating to HEAD version: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent in /includes/WebResponse.php on line 38

2014-03-12 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth upload

2014-03-19 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
/x-www-form-urlencoded. Uploads require multipart/form-data, so you don't include any of the posted fields when calculating the signature (i.e. pretend it's an empty POST when signing). -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth upload

2014-03-20 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
converting it to a string with http_build_query(). This is what makes curl (or PHP's implementation of it) use multipart/form-data rather than application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Besides some config and doc changes, everything else remains the same. I hope this helps. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software

Re: [Wikitech-l] Square Bounding Boxes

2014-03-27 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
support seems like it might be a bad idea. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Square Bounding Boxes

2014-03-27 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
if any revisions were vandalized (and still missing the ones where the current version no longer transcludes the template, even though it did earlier) and manually suppress them? Option (a) would be workable, although bitrot might be a concern. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Implementation JSON based localisation format for MediaWiki nearly completed

2014-04-02 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
patches to en.json and qqq.json using tabs and then l10n-bot will change them to spaces. Also, I see we've lost the helpful comments that used to be in some of these files to visually divide things into sections. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data to improve our code review queue

2014-04-04 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: The queue of open chagesets keeps growing. Does open include changesets that were submitted, got feedback, and then the submitter never bothered to follow up? -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data to improve our code review queue

2014-04-04 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Friday, April 4, 2014, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org javascript:; wrote: The queue of open chagesets keeps growing. Does open

Re: [Wikitech-l] Top Level Design, LLC greedy registrar!

2014-04-07 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: Some of the responses are from people who work for the Wikimedia Foundation (not the same thing as being a Wikimedian), however i am almost certain they are responding in a personal capacity not an official one. If you are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Larger thumbnails for MediaWiki / Wikimedia wikis?

2014-04-10 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:45:05 +0200, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: Proposal: - Make the default a nice proper size for the modern Web; I suggest 360px but could be argued up. - Remove

Re: [Wikitech-l] A fresh look at vintage RfCs this Wednesday

2014-04-10 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
than later. As for bug 57176, I'm willing to look at writing the code for it if Sean thinks the design in comment 7 looks good from a database perspective. [1]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57176 -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] REST and SOA within MediaWiki - is my understanding right?

2014-04-11 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
resource to act on, how to specify the actions, and so on. And so every client doesn't have to implement code to connect to the server over the network, send the action and resource-identifier and such, wait for a response, and so on. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] API attribute ID for querying wikipedia pages

2014-04-23 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
sound much better. Say a vandal blanks a page then someone reverts, and probably all your unique ID numbers will have changed. Or someone renames a section or edits a paragraph, or combines two sections, or splits a section into two, etc. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback on 1.23 RC 0

2014-04-29 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
that are no longer valid. Chances are that whatever they're trying to do they'll need to do in a different way. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Transcluding non-text content as HTML on wikitext pages

2014-05-13 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
of expandtemplates will mostly work when passed back to the parser. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bot flags and human-made edits

2014-05-20 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
a human editing with a bot-flagged account is explicitly doing so to have those edits hidden from RecentChanges and is supposed to use a regular account for their normal editing. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unclear Meaning of $baseRevId in WikiPage::doEditContent

2014-05-28 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
for FlaggedRevs and auto-reviewing. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unclear Meaning of $baseRevId in WikiPage::doEditContent

2014-05-30 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
extensions, but seeing how this argument is essentially unused, I can't imagine how this change could break anything for extensions. Except FlaggedRevs. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] new auth/debug/Zero RfCs, + adding more office hours

2014-06-03 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
for user-visible changes. Not to disrespect Design or Product, but some things are easy to overlook if you're not involved in the day-to-day usage of things. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-06 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: So I want to know: * What are the blockers for doing this? * Are there any use cases / killer features in LiquidThreads that are not in Flow that need to be ported over? Flow doesn't support actual threaded discussions

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Pkg-mediawiki-devel] [MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki 1.23.0 released

2014-06-09 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/ApiSandbox.git or https://git.wikimedia.org/git/mediawiki/extensions/ApiSandbox.git, I tested both. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Requests with data URIs appended to proper URLs

2014-06-09 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
2, and if so do they also lack referer when fetched in their equivalent to step 3? -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: So I want to know: * What are the blockers for doing this? * Are there any use cases / killer features in LiquidThreads

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preventing MW from adding a page to watchlist

2014-06-10 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
suggested in comment 8 on that bug. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preventing MW from adding a page to watchlist

2014-06-10 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
for a preference should be what newbies will find most useful. Experienced users should already know about preferences and how to change them. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-10 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: * User talk pages. Do we need multithread tree discussions in our user talk pages? No, we don't. {{citation needed}} I suspect this is just like the point below. * Regular talk pages. In most cases a section gets 2-5

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making a plain MW core git clone not be installable

2014-06-11 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
MediaWiki installation off of a single host. - might not be used as-is on Wikimedia cluster -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making a plain MW core git clone not be installable

2014-06-11 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php ... That's just awful. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improving event announcements (was Re: Tech Talk: How, What, Why of WikiFont)

2014-06-12 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
not logged in to Google stuff. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Nesting of mediawiki/core/vendor inside mediawiki/core

2014-06-12 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
throughout? There are some who want to go further and have core just call various myriad services running as separate processes to do all the work. Like a Parsoid for every piece. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Bug Bounty Program

2014-06-26 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
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Re: [Wikitech-l] User agent policy for bots

2014-07-14 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Scribunto, Lua 5.2, and forward compatibility for Module code

2014-07-14 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
and function getNotNilValue(...) Note the 'arg' parameter is already deprecated in 5.1, so people should already be avoiding it. See http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#7.1 -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Bikeshedding a good name for the api.php API

2014-08-06 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
short name for it that isn't something awful like the api.php API. I'm horrible at naming. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bikeshedding a good name for the api.php API

2014-08-07 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:58 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: but if you are a mobile developer using the REST API every day, you need some other term to specify api.php. Is api.php unsuitable for some reason? That itself is awkward to say, and to disambiguate between the actual

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

2014-08-11 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
isn't a break in the protection feature itself, for example. Nor is hacking people's accounts. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP 5.3 EOL and MediaWiki 1.24

2014-08-14 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
. This. At the least, any change to the supported version of PHP isn't going to happen until the WMF cluster gets updated, and the decision must be informed by what version the WMF cluster gets updated to (which may be HHVM rather than Zend). -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bikeshedding a good name for the api.php API

2014-08-14 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Summing up, it seems like action API and api.php are the two contenders. api.php is least likely to be confused with anything (only its own entry point file). But as a name it's somewhat awkward. action API might be confused with the Action class and its subclasses, although that doesn't seem

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

2014-08-18 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Aditya Chaturvedi aditya.iiita...@gmail.com wrote: However, to run the system in production first, we need assistance on how to make these ratings visible on the pages of extension. Has it already been asked anywhere *whether* to make these ratings available

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

2014-08-18 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@nichework.com wrote: Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com writes: On 8/18/14, 8:47 AM, Chad wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org Has it already been asked anywhere *whether* to make

Re: [Wikitech-l] HHVM status update

2014-08-19 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
is this feature to you would be useful). It's essential when dealing with a page that is hitting the Lua time limit to identify the critical areas of the code. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: mwui.wmflabs.org reactivated, showing upcoming MW UI styles ($wgUseMediaWikiUIEverywhere = true; )

2014-08-19 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
://mwui.wmflabs.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum, among many other possibilities). -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Parsoid

2014-08-28 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
to just download the source package and rebuild it for precise. Or you could try using the equivs package to fake out the package manager. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Parsoid

2014-08-28 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
12). -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sudden growth of unreviewed changesets in Gerrit

2014-09-12 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Maintainers to see if anyone is listed for relevant components. It's also usually helpful to look through the git log for the code you're changing, pick out some similar changesets, and see who authored and reviewed them. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Double session this Thursday: Security and Automated QA

2013-06-25 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Wikimedia Tech Talk Attack vectors MediaWiki /// OWASP ZAP Special guest: Mike Gagnon is an independent security researcher and a software engineer at Twitter. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2013-06-27-midday The

Re: [Wikitech-l] The image URL vs. AdBlockPlus

2013-07-03 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: Has someone else notice such a problem on WMF wikis? Every once in a while it comes up on enwiki. In one of the odder cases I've seen, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#AD breaks for some people. Do you think it

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