Re: [Wikitech-l] RfC update: LESS stylesheet support in core

2013-09-19 Thread Dan Andreescu
- Has http://learnboost.github.io/stylus/ been considered? I've heard that it's a good compromise between sass and less (but I haven't played with it myself to see if it really lets you do more compass-like things). I was just writing a message about Stylus [0] so I'm glad you brought it up.

Re: [Wikitech-l] RfC update: LESS stylesheet support in core

2013-09-20 Thread Dan Andreescu
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:53 PM, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: I personally think it'd be unfortunate for this current effort to collapse over such considerations, but I'm obviously biased. Oh, I

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 summary: Incremental dumps

2013-10-09 Thread Dan Andreescu
This seems like a great project Petr, congratulations and I look forward to seeing it deployed. On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Petr Onderka gsv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, during the summer I've worked on making dumps of page and revision information for Wikimedia wikis incremental [1]. This

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inspecting page performance with mw.loader.inspect()

2013-10-11 Thread Dan Andreescu
Sorry to pick on this example in particular but I was surprised to see so much code for the Universal Language selector (ULS) - especially as a single language speaker I don't ever use any of them - and I am thus being penalised. אנחנו במיעוט הקטן בקרב האנושות של דוברי שפות

Re: [Wikitech-l] mw.inspect: new CSS report

2013-10-24 Thread Dan Andreescu
That's really cool Ori. Have people looked into why jQuery UI gets loaded by default? It seems to not be used in any obvious way. On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: Running mw.loader.inspect('css') in a JavaScript console will now report CSS stats for each

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code Climate for Ruby and JavaScript

2013-10-28 Thread Dan Andreescu
Thanks Zeljko, I added our wikimetrics project and I like how simple it is to work with. On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:50 AM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 25 October 2013 04:38, Željko Filipin zfili...@wikimedia.org wrote: I have set up Code Climate[1] for a few WMF

Re: [Wikitech-l] $wgRedactedFunctionArguments

2013-10-29 Thread Dan Andreescu
I don't think the idea here was to ever make the stack traces *safe*, just to redact the most obvious things to reduce the risk if someone carelessly posts a stack trace publicly. Personally, I think the Java model as exemplified in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92334/ PS3 goes too far

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth Devlopment Training

2013-12-20 Thread Dan Andreescu
And if anyone's curious, the session helped me get identify implemented in Wikimetrics: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/102618/. I had to hack the unmaintained Flask-Oauth module quite a bit, so eventually I might move to rauth. But it seems to work and makes me feel fuzzier about using OAuth

[Wikitech-l] npm publish

2013-12-30 Thread Dan Andreescu
We needed to write an npm module for mediawiki oauth, and we're about to publish it to the npm registry. I just wanted to check whether we had a wikimedia account on https://npmjs.org/. If not, do we want one? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] npm publish

2014-01-10 Thread Dan Andreescu
I forgot to say thank you! Thanks :) It seems that the npmjs community leans towards individuals registering accounts. So I'll publish under my own username for now. Mostly because I've already registered and I wouldn't have a valid generic wikimedia email address to use besides my own anyway.

Re: [Wikitech-l] npm publish

2014-01-10 Thread Dan Andreescu
(parsoid should also be an npm module at some point. maybe VE should be as well, although 'bower' or another client-side packaging solution might me more appropriate.) I agree. Btw, the passport-mediawiki-oauth module is published and limn is using it. Feel free to report bugs to me but

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to collaborate when writing OAuth applications?

2014-01-20 Thread Dan Andreescu
Hi Cristian, We did basically the same thing with Wikimetrics. For development, we just registered a consumer that redirects to localhost:5000 and committed the consumer key and secret. Here's the relevant config file:

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to collaborate when writing OAuth applications?

2014-01-21 Thread Dan Andreescu
Another question is: i would like to drop my first test-app consumer. How can I do it? I'm not sure, but I would like to drop a consumer as well. Last time I asked it was not yet possible. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC cluster summary: HTML templating

2014-01-22 Thread Dan Andreescu
When writing very complex multi-function Special Pages (almost all of our internal tools are built as special pages) it gets kind of unwieldy with the special page class that just has a single execute() function and the redundant boilerplate to define ajax functions etc. Since most of our

Re: [Wikitech-l] Job queue and Redis?

2014-01-31 Thread Dan Andreescu
I'm pretty sure that WMF is using Redis for the MediaWiki job queue. I see some sparse documentation on setting it up. I already have redis on my machines and would like to move to this to make life easier on my database server, but I'm wondering if this is fully baked and ready for use. Are

Re: [Wikitech-l] InstantClick

2014-02-10 Thread Dan Andreescu
Hi, Today, I heard about a JavaScript library called InstantClick (http://instantclick.io/). Basically, it's based on the principle that latency is responsible for a lot of the Web's slowness. It also considers that there are about 250ms between hovering over and clicking on a link.

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

2014-02-11 Thread Dan Andreescu
A few of us have been discussing how awesome it would be to use MediaWiki-Vagrant[1] to create a portable production-like environment. This would give Mediawiki engineers a common ground from which to develop core code and/or extensions, and by coming close to mimicking Wikimedia's

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

2014-02-11 Thread Dan Andreescu
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.org wrote: One thing I'd be interested in is to hear how Linux folks are installing vagrant / virtualbox. I've not been able to vagrant

Re: [Wikitech-l] Action Script API client library?

2014-02-11 Thread Dan Andreescu
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Both ActionScript and JavaScript are ECMAScript languages and are thus pretty similar. I last did AS coding about 4 years ago but I don't think the language has changed significantly since then. I'd

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bingle/Bugello broken post-Bugzilla upgrade

2014-02-13 Thread Dan Andreescu
Bingle is actually a python tool: https://github.com/awjrichards/bingle Arthur, sorry I spend a couple minutes brainstorming and came up empty. Keep us updated and I'll take a more serious look if the problem persists. On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Daniel Zahn dz...@wikimedia.org wrote:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bingle/Bugello broken post-Bugzilla upgrade

2014-02-14 Thread Dan Andreescu
python-requests bundles it's own cacert list (although the ubuntu .deb version might use the central certificate store - not sure about that), which might be outdated. Some older cacert lists have issues with RapidSSL certificates (this is an issue with the list bundled with httplib2, for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-18 Thread Dan Andreescu
I assume your good faith, and I foresee its consequences. You couldn't employ your NVC skills because you were, quote, in a hurry, end quote. That means, NVC just doesn't work when it's needed. I don't think everyone here has a lot of spare time to mix original thoughts with a dump of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Minor Bingle improvements - users please update your code

2014-02-21 Thread Dan Andreescu
thanks Arthur! On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I had some free time today and made some minor improvements to Bingle to take care of two longstanding, really annoying issues: https://github.com/awjrichards/bingle/issues/10

Re: [Wikitech-l] Zurich Hackathon: Creating a map namespace

2014-03-05 Thread Dan Andreescu
This is awesome. I have a decent amount of experience with different technologies that we could use to build maps and present them both statically through our cache layers and dynamically for editors. Let's kick this project's butt in Zurich. On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Jon Robson

Re: [Wikitech-l] About the bug 46453 - Uzbek: Change date and decimal separators

2014-03-13 Thread Dan Andreescu
Hi, I'm having some trouble when trying to upload the fix to gerrit. I followed the instructions in [1]. But I get the bellow error when trying to run git review -s Error. Problems encountered installing commit-msg hook The following command failed with exit code 1 scp

Re: [Wikitech-l] IRC Office Hour on Project Management Tools Review: Friday 28th, 17:00UTC

2014-03-25 Thread Dan Andreescu
looking forward to attending this, thanks for organizing If you'd like to learn more about Phabricator's project management and roadmap functionality, I invite you to test it live on the test instance at http://fab.wmflabs.org/ . Alternatively, you can also peruse http://phabricator.org/ and

Re: [Wikitech-l] IRC Office Hour on Project Management Tools Review: Friday 28th, 17:00UTC

2014-03-26 Thread Dan Andreescu
://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/arcanist_diff/ On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.org wrote: looking forward to attending this, thanks for organizing If you'd like to learn more about Phabricator's project management and roadmap functionality, I

Re: [Wikitech-l] CentralAuth questions

2014-03-27 Thread Dan Andreescu
Any links to documentation on consuming data from the CentralAuth databases is welcome. We searched a bit and found mostly installation instructions. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Teresa Cho tcho...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to add a feature to Wikimetrics that will allow users

Re: [Wikitech-l] CentralAuth questions

2014-03-27 Thread Dan Andreescu
likely want to read through central-auth.sql in particular. Dan Andreescu wrote: Any links to documentation on consuming data from the CentralAuth databases is welcome. We searched a bit and found mostly installation instructions. Well, very generally you (or your program) probably

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

2014-04-07 Thread Dan Andreescu
I've done things like port mako templates to Google App Engine. As mentioned by Jeremy Baron, the common problem to porting anything of sufficient complexity is that you're not allowed to write files to the disk. To get mako to work, since it caches compiled templates to disk, I patched it to

Re: [Wikitech-l] RfC on Product Management Tools and Development Toolchain

2014-04-15 Thread Dan Andreescu
Andre, It's my understanding that the current Phabricator instance is temporary. Indeed, it includes mostly jokes and throw-away testing tasks, comments, boards, etc. Could we stand up an instance to which we would potentially migrate to? We would have to reserve task ids 1-10 to allow us

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Help! Phabricator and our code review process

2014-05-06 Thread Dan Andreescu
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 05/02/2014 03:56 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: [greg-g] cscott: James_F crazy idea here: can some teams use it for real (I think growth is, kinda?) and export/import to a future real instance? frontend...

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

2014-05-14 Thread Dan Andreescu
Can you outline how RL modules would be handled in the transclusion scenario? The current patch does not really address that problem, I'm afraid. I can think of two solutions: * Create an SyntheticHtmlContent class that would hold meta info about modules etc, just like ParserOutput -

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Maps-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-14 Thread Dan Andreescu
the inclusion of maps in wiki articles via a map template. Dan Andreescu also created a similar visualisation namespace which may want to be folded into this as a map could be seen as a visualisation. I invite Dan to comment on this with further details :-)! I'd be interested in people's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Dan Andreescu
2014-05-14 19:43 GMT+03:00 Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.org: For the short term, I think further exploration of the Map namespace is great, but I think generic visualization work could go into the Visualization namespace. My suggestion for a name for this namespace may seem a bit

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Dan Andreescu
in wiki articles via a map template. Dan Andreescu also created a similar visualisation namespace which may want to be folded into this as a map could be seen as a visualisation. I invite Dan to comment on this with further details :-)! I'd be interested in people's thoughts around

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Dan Andreescu
rights to it. On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I like Visual:, any +1s? +2s? The only downside might be a slight conflict with VisualEditor On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:20 AM, dan-nl dan.entous.wikime...@gmail.comwrote: PictureIt: Envision

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Maps-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-20 Thread Dan Andreescu
FYI, Limn is also sort of taken in the MediaWiki/WMF namespace: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Limn Yep, but that Limn is dying slowly. If we do this new extension properly, it will take its place. As Erik said, this is not staffed for success right now but it would address many

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-20 Thread Dan Andreescu
Overall this is very exciting work with lots of potential future applications. I don't think it's resourced for success yet, but let's figure out where it should sit in our roadmap since it would address many shared needs if done right. True! It would be nice to talk about it during

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-20 Thread Dan Andreescu
Sorry, but Limn sounds pretty pretentious, and it is hard to pronounce. no problem at all, you're not hurting my feelings :) Sounds like people don't like the name, so let's drop it. The top contender right now is Visual: and I'll ping the Visual Editor folks right now to see if they mind.

Re: [Wikitech-l] new terms of use/paid contributions - do they apply to mediawiki

2014-06-16 Thread Dan Andreescu
cc-ing Luis as I think this consequence, whether intended or not, would interest him On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, So from what I understand, there's now been an amendment to WMF's terms of use to require disclosure of paid contributions [1]. Its

Re: [Wikitech-l] new terms of use/paid contributions - do they apply to mediawiki

2014-06-16 Thread Dan Andreescu
The terms of use is basically a clickwrap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickwrap agreement, right? When you make a contribution, you see by clicking you accept blah blah blah somewhere, once you click knowing that, you made a sort of contract from a legal point of view. So the terms of use

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML templating progress; Knockout Components curly brace syntax

2014-07-08 Thread Dan Andreescu
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: I just want to be clear that any sort of template syntax that resembles or can be confused with wikitext is not something that we can or should

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Matthew Flaschen joins Wikimedia as Features Engineer

2012-12-07 Thread Dan Andreescu
Welcome Matt! Philadelphia \o/ On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:02 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 7 December 2012 13:06, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Please join me in a belated welcome of Matthew Flaschen to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-) Welcome aboard,

Re: [Wikitech-l] DevOps/Continuous Deployment discussion?

2012-12-26 Thread Dan Andreescu
Yes, I am seeking a Continuous Deployment solution for Limn. I would be glad to participate in a centralization effort. On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:38 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 December 2012 17:31, Chris McMahon cmcma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Is it time to start such a

Re: [Wikitech-l] The ultimate bikeshed: typos in commit messages

2013-01-19 Thread Dan Andreescu
Hey, Thanks to all for voicing your opinions. My observations: * The community is split on this topic * Both camps have people that strongly defend their respective views * The above two points are unlikely to change * People are getting upset due to -1 for things that are by some

Re: [Wikitech-l] Integrating MediaWiki into MS SBS

2013-02-01 Thread Dan Andreescu
Hi Bináris, The following manual seems to be the most actively maintained guide for getting MediaWiki installed on Windows: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows If you run into any problems, I'd suggest adding them to the manual along with any resolutions you or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Integrating MediaWiki into MS SBS

2013-02-05 Thread Dan Andreescu
Devils and Sausages aside, I think sysadmins have a hard job that probably shouldn't be made harder if possible: http://xkcd.com/705/ Binaris, if you have access to a machine, you can set up a Bitnami MediaWiki installation. It's as simple as downloading the executable and running it. Bitnami

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can we help Corporations use MW? (Was Re: Comparisons to Confluence)

2013-02-07 Thread Dan Andreescu
On 02/06/2013 10:00 PM, Tim Starling wrote: For corporate adoption, the main thing MediaWiki needs is not some particular feature. It needs to be supported. It needs an organisation with people who will care if corporate users are screwed over by a change. It needs community management,

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can we help Corporations use MW? (Was Re: Comparisons to Confluence)

2013-02-07 Thread Dan Andreescu
Sorry about that - Gmail reload glitch On 02/06/2013 10:00 PM, Tim Starling wrote: For corporate adoption, the main thing MediaWiki needs is not some particular feature. It needs to be supported. It needs an organisation with people who will care if corporate users are screwed over by a

Re: [Wikitech-l] QUnit testing in Jenkins

2013-03-05 Thread Dan Andreescu
From console[1]: 02:50:21 Testing http://localhost:9412/mediawiki-core-28a705a9f648da310ff2a4fca9d013bf147f3d1f/index.php?title=Special:JavaScriptTest/qunitExceptionthrown by

Re: [Wikitech-l] Github/Gerrit mirroring

2013-03-08 Thread Dan Andreescu
... Then, if a developer is not willing to learn Gerrit, its code is probably not worth the effort of us integrating github/gerrit. That will just add some more poor quality code to your review queues. That seems like a pretty big assumption, and likely to be wrong. The simpler the code

Re: [Wikitech-l] Github/Gerrit mirroring

2013-03-09 Thread Dan Andreescu
[...] The point I'm trying to make is that the problems with Gerrit are not problems with Gerrit, but actually problems with Git itself. If you can't handle the basics of Gerrit, it's because you don't know how to use Git. And at that point I don't see how GitHub is going to make things

Re: [Wikitech-l] Try out MediaWiki Vagrant

2013-03-28 Thread Dan Andreescu
This is awesome, I've used it as a total MediaWiki noob to poke around at the internals. One suggestion I'd have is to include a script that populates some sample data in the db (pages, users, edits, etc.). Does anyone have such a thing, should we dump a particularly active test setup from

Re: [Wikitech-l] Support for 3D content

2013-04-19 Thread Dan Andreescu
Sounds like NicoV started work again to try to address those issues. We should take a look at the Amsterdam Hackathon or Wikimania. On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Eugene Zelenko eugene.zele...@gmail.comwrote: Hi! Extension and viewer for Chemical Markup Language were created long time

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is there something like a gerrit/git download statistics overview page?

2013-05-07 Thread Dan Andreescu
I can't speak for gerrit but it seems to me github tried, failed, and abandoned capturing these statistics: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6198194/how-to-see-count-of-project-downloads-on-github On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 3:29 AM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: Hi, perhaps I am too naive

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome, Nik Everett

2013-05-31 Thread Dan Andreescu
Awesome, welcome Nik! And see you June 17th, a few more of us remoteys will be in the office :) Dan On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 05/31/2013 05:48 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: Hi everyone It is my pleasure to introduce Nik Everett as a

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Updates on VE data analysis

2013-07-26 Thread Dan Andreescu
Note that if you are interested in VE edits per user type instead, http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/graphs/enwiki_ve_hourly_perc_by_user_type already offers a smoothing option (click the spanner icon on the top left), which can be set to 24 hours or more. The 24 hour smoothing can also be set

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth

2013-08-20 Thread Dan Andreescu
This is highly anticipated on my part and awesome. I will integrate it into wikimetrics asap. Dan On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote: As mentioned earlier this week, we deployed an initial version of the OAuth extension to the test wikis yesterday. I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing initial version of gerrit-stats

2012-09-15 Thread Dan Andreescu
do anything and it cannot be undone. After deleting and adding one metric I had two metrics with same color. I tried to do this and wasn't successful, could you please provide the steps that you took when you found the issue? Thank you. Dan ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Initial stab at responsive images for high-density displays

2012-09-18 Thread Dan Andreescu
DPI started to go a little crazy when mobile devices were introduced. This is a good history: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/mobile/high-dpi/ And you can see that iDevices have screens with varied ppi: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1365112/what-dpi-resolution-is-used-for-an-iphone-app As

Re: [Wikitech-l] First open tech meeting with video broadcast - 10/18

2012-10-08 Thread Dan Andreescu
I'm using Google Hangouts on Ubuntu and I can help anyone that's having a problem. It works out of the box on Windows and OS X as far as I know. On Ubuntu, I found it easier to set up with Chrome than with Chromium but it's possible with both and other browsers. As far as the profile

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reminder: Tech chat tomorrow

2012-10-29 Thread Dan Andreescu
+1 JS libraries beyond jQuery On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Reminder that we'll have one of our weekly tech chats tomorrow, with video from the WMF office and other Hangout participants broadcast via YouTube:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaborative code-editing tools (long-distance pair programming)

2012-11-08 Thread Dan Andreescu
+1 on getting collide up and running. It's open source and looks like it already does project management and syntax highlighting On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Mark Holmquist mtrac...@member.fsf.orgwrote: FWIW there is a way to add in syntax highlighting, and I could probably create a new

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Announcement: Yuvi Panda joins Ops

2014-11-07 Thread Dan Andreescu
At the same time I find it sad that he moves to the USA because he was invaluable because he was available when the other Labs people were not around. As such he provided a much needed service exactly because he lives in India. Oh that's a common misunderstanding which arises from the

[Wikitech-l] Scrum of Scrums Notes for 2014-12-17

2014-12-17 Thread Dan Andreescu
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2014-12-17 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Scrum of Scrums notes for 2015-02-04

2015-02-04 Thread Dan Andreescu
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2015-02-04 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Scrum of Scrums notes

2015-01-14 Thread Dan Andreescu
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2015-01-14 note: no meeting next week as All Staff is happening. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Scrum of Scrums notes 2015-02-11

2015-02-11 Thread Dan Andreescu
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2015-02-11 If anyone with better wiki kung fu than me could take a look and figure out why the table of contents is not rendering on that page like it does on all the other [1] ones, I would appreciate it. [1]

[Wikitech-l] Scrum of Scrums notes, 2015-02-18

2015-02-18 Thread Dan Andreescu
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2015-02-18 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Scrum of Scrums notes since December 24th (2014-12-24, 2014-12-31, 2015-01-07)

2015-01-07 Thread Dan Andreescu
Here are notes from the last three scrum of scrums meetings: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2014-12-24 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2014-12-31 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2015-01-07 Special thanks! to the Wikidata team for putting up their

[Wikitech-l] Scrum of Scrums notes, 2015-04-15

2015-04-15 Thread Dan Andreescu
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2015-04-15 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Transitioning wikistats pageview reports to use new pageview definition

2015-11-11 Thread Dan Andreescu
The old definition was never put down clearly in words, but it can be understood easiest I think from this SQL query that generates pagecounts-all-sites (which was what wikistats used until this switch):

[Wikitech-l] Pageview API

2015-11-16 Thread Dan Andreescu
Dear Data Enthusiasts, In collaboration with the Services team, the analytics team wishes to announce a public Pageview API . For an example of what kind

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] [Analytics] Pageview API

2015-11-18 Thread Dan Andreescu
> > It does! The API framework as a whole is at > https://github.com/wikimedia/restbase and you want > > https://github.com/wikimedia/restbase/blob/master/specs/analytics/v1/pageviews.yaml > and https://github.com/wikimedia/restbase/blob/master/mods/pageviews.js > for the pageviews-specific

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pageview API

2015-11-18 Thread Dan Andreescu
Quick general reminder. Please tag tasks with "Analytics-Backlog" instead of "Analytics" for now. We need to clean that up, but we just haven't gotten around to it. On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Dan Andreescu <dandree...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Nice work on t

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pageview API

2015-11-18 Thread Dan Andreescu
> > Nice work on the API! > > I wrote a basic consumer of this API at > http://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wKOMMN#wikimdia-pageviews Cool! Check out dv.wikipedia.org though, some of the RTL is messing with your (N views) parens. The only hurdle I found is that the 'articles' property is itself >

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] Pageview API

2015-11-18 Thread Dan Andreescu
> > Finally! I waited so many years for a formal tool like that. Thank you! > Itzik, I remember your requests for this type of data from a long long time ago, when I was just starting at the foundation!! You and the many others with similar requests are the people we were thanking in the

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] [Data Release] [Data Deprecation] [Analytics Dumps]

2016-03-23 Thread Dan Andreescu
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dan Andreescu, 23/03/2016 15:58: > >> >> *Clean-up:* Analytics data on dumps was crammed into /other with >> unrelated datasets. We made a new page to receive current and fut

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Data Release] [Data Deprecation] [Analytics Dumps]

2016-03-23 Thread Dan Andreescu
cc-ing our friends in research and wikitech (sorry I forgot initially) We're happy to announce a few improvements to Analytics data releases on > dumps.wikimedia.org: > > * We are releasing a new dataset, an estimate of Unique Devices accessing > our projects [1] > * We are officially making

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dumps.wm.o access will be https only

2016-04-01 Thread Dan Andreescu
Cross-posting this announcement since people on Analytics-l tend to use dumps a lot basically http access is being redirected to https starting April 4th On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 7:03 AM, Ariel Glenn WMF wrote: > We plan to make this change on April 4 (this coming Monday),

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dumps.wm.o access will be https only

2016-04-01 Thread Dan Andreescu
:) I would like to think that April Fools would be a little more extreme than this Petr, the data people are downloading from dumps is not sensitive itself, but a user's private information (such as User Agent, IP, etc. is vulnerable over plain http). So the move to https protects that from

[Wikitech-l] Scrum of Scrums notes, 2016-04-13

2016-04-13 Thread Dan Andreescu
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-13 note: it looks like some of the wiki markup on etherpad wasn't proper, so weird things happened like Collaboration is nested under Discovery. It's not a sign of a re-org, just that people should go clean that up.

[Wikitech-l] Wikistats 2.0 Design Preview

2017-02-07 Thread Dan Andreescu
Hello, and apologies for cross-posting. We have designed a set of wireframes that reflects the Wikistats community's priorities [1]. We’re now looking for feedback on the design, and we’d love your input. We have key questions that touch on different sections, and links for feedback at

[Wikitech-l] Wikistats 2.0 Prototype

2017-04-21 Thread Dan Andreescu
Hello! We've built an interactive prototype of the next version of Wikistats [1] based on community priorities and feedback. We'd love your input on the visual design and look & feel. We have some follow-up questions but mostly an open discussion here

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we drop revision hashes (rev_sha1)?

2017-09-18 Thread Dan Andreescu
So, as things stand, rev_sha1 in the database is used for: 1. the XML dumps process and all the researchers depending on the XML dumps (probably just for revert detection) 2. revert detection for libraries like python-mwreverts [1] 3. revert detection in mediawiki history reconstruction processes

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit login oddities

2018-02-13 Thread Dan Andreescu
If you're like me, you go to clear your cookies and you have two called GerritAccount, that's probably what's causing the problem. I looked at the date, and deleted the earlier-dated one. That seems to work and show you as logged-in without having to log in again. On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 1:27

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikistats 2.0 - Now with Maps!

2018-02-15 Thread Dan Andreescu
יגאל חיטרון‎, the -- means "Unknown", perhaps we should name it that. That's a good idea, Yuri, we'll do that. On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 9:24 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > Nuria, well done, looks awesome! I think you want to set zoom limits - > right now you can zoom in

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimetrics] Sunsetting Wikimetrics

2019-02-25 Thread Dan Andreescu
Federico, we're talking about *Wikimetrics*, which is a very different project intended to run stats on groups of users (cohorts) for a specific set of standard metrics. This tool was mostly developed for and used by grantmaking and program teams at WMF and affiliates around the world, but its

[Wikitech-l] [Data Release] Active Editors by country

2019-11-07 Thread Dan Andreescu
Today we are releasing a new dataset meant to help us understand the impact of grants and programs on editing. This data was requested several years ago, and we took a long time to bring in the privacy and security experts whose help we needed to release it. With that work done, you can download

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki API pageview issue

2020-03-02 Thread Dan Andreescu
There are two hard problems here. One is historical page titles. You can get those from our new dataset (docs here: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/mediawiki_history/readme.html) by downloading the months you're interested in from

[Wikitech-l] TechCom meeting 2020-10-14

2020-10-14 Thread Dan Andreescu
This is the weekly TechCom board review, usually in preparation for our meeting, a few days late this week because I forgot. Apologies. Activity since Monday 2020-10-06 on the following boards: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom/ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom-rfc/

Re: [Wikitech-l] TechCom meeting 2020-10-14

2020-10-14 Thread Dan Andreescu
Forum and Timeboxing. The next steps are to establish a more concrete transition plan, from the current Tech Com process to the new process. And Kate will be reaching out to team managers to begin establishing the Forum. On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 9:58 PM Dan Andreescu wrote: > This is the weekl

Re: [Wikitech-l] Update on abstract schema and schema changes

2020-10-11 Thread Dan Andreescu
I hadn’t followed along with this work and this summary is amazing, thank you so much! On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 21:14 Amir Sarabadani wrote: > Hello, > It has been a while since I gave an update on the state of abstracting > schema and schema changes in mediawiki >

Re: [Wikitech-l] pageview dumps for 2020-09?

2020-10-06 Thread Dan Andreescu
Hi Gabriel, My team maintains this dataset. We have been working on a new version which will deprecate all other pagecount and pageview datasets. Release of this new dataset is imminent. When we saw the old job failed, we couldn't fix the problem quickly and have been thinking maybe it isn't

[Wikitech-l] Tech Com Board Grooming 2020-08-26

2020-08-26 Thread Dan Andreescu
Activity since Monday 2020-08-26. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom/ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom-rfc/ Committee inbox: none Committee board activity: - Timo updated T253461 Liberate the @ for AtEase New RFCs:

Re: [Wikitech-l]  Wikimedia production errors help

2020-09-16 Thread Dan Andreescu
> > For example, of the 30 odd backend errors reported in June, 14 were still > open a month later in July [1], and 12 were still open – three months later > – in September. The majority of these haven't even yet been triaged, > assigned assigned or otherwise acknowledged. And meanwhile we've got

Re: [Wikitech-l] TechCom meeting 2020-11-25

2020-11-25 Thread Dan Andreescu
Quick reminder that the IRC meeting is starting in 10 minutes. We will collaborate on: RFC: Provide mechanism for configuration sets for development and tests https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267928 On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 4:00 PM Krinkle wrote: > This is the weekly TechCom board review in

Re: [Wikitech-l] TechCom meeting 2020-12-02

2020-12-03 Thread Dan Andreescu
> > >- Create WikiTeq group on Gerrit > is now more clear (see note >from Daniel to >discuss, which we should do here) > > Committee board activity: > > The process for adding a "trusted

[Wikitech-l] TechCom meeting 2020-12-02

2020-11-30 Thread Dan Andreescu
This is the weekly TechCom board review. If there are additional topics for TechCom to review, please let us know by replying to this email. However, please keep discussion about individual RFCs to the Phabricator tickets. This week, the meeting is async, so we'll be replying to the email as well,

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