Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia sites and limited bandwidth connections

2013-08-10 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
You should test with tc. :) http://lartc.org/manpages/tc.html We definitely need more info on these scenarios, we don't know anything on the effects of our software development on people without broadband. Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Single User Login finalisation: some accounts will be renamed

2013-08-03 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
James Forrester, 12/05/2013 19:56: On 12 May 2013 10:40, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: James Forrester, 12/05/2013 19:20: Sorry for the disruption to everyone's plans. If you have any questions, please do ask. Will you still make the lists and send out the notifications so that people can

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Engineering Roadmap update - 2013-07-26

2013-08-02 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thanks Chris, I've added a link. However, the new page only links some technical design documents from which I don't get simple answers to questions such as will it be read-only? ([[OAuth]] proposed it to be so). Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Voting disabled in bugzilla for some products

2013-07-29 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
David, for a previous discussion on renames see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34490 John, for Visualeditor https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49728 Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Engineering Roadmap update - 2013-07-26

2013-07-29 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thanks, is there any information on this OAuth deployment planned for August? The last substantial update about WMF plans to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OAuth was about 14 months ago. Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Flow with a Tow Truck

2013-07-28 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Dumb question: so, would this be an alternative to Etherpad lite integration with MediaWiki via the EtherEditor extension? Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Navigation pattern data (was: Suggestion for solving the disambiguation problem)

2013-07-17 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
AFAIK the first experiment was ClickTracking for the usability initiative in 2009-10: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ClickTracking https://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/ClickTracking We've waited for its data for years, I suppose we can assume it will never be shared; it had some

Re: [Wikitech-l] Disambiguator extension deployed to all WMF wikis (action required)

2013-07-10 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
As all templates requiring it are listed in [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]], why not run a global bot? It's surely easier than trying to find 800 editors. Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bot upload of files over 100MB

2013-06-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
We have several tools and bots using chunked upload via the API for files over 100 MB. Daniel, please report back if you encounter https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36587 ; it seemed fixed at some point but Fastily (developer of one of those tools) reopened it. Nemo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Bugzilla admins

2013-06-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I've linked the new policy from [[mw:Bugzilla]]. (In general, some sort of announcement when policies are enacted would be nice.) I didn't remember hearing of any such new policy coming and the only mention of rights removal was James_F on IRC saying he no longer was admin but was still able to

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Deployment Highlights - Week of June 17th

2013-06-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/49604 was fixed, so those who newbies to be helped can do so from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=500tagfilter=visualeditortitle=Special%3AContributionscontribs=newbietarget=namespace=8nsInvert=1tagfilter=visualeditoryear=2013month=-1 Nemo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Search documentation

2013-06-18 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
The true (old) MediaWiki documentation on search is still on Meta, it needs to be rewritten on mediawiki.org (PD and up to date): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching Nobody reads the help pages, sure. That's why they should be linked from the special pages etc. as some extensions

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing the Wikimedia technical search tool

2013-06-17 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
No, DXR doesn't help the CSE. I also doubt it will help restoring full text search on our end, but we'll see. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49674 On the contrary, gitblit is more robust and faster than gitweb, so it allows crawling by search engines. It was crawled very

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Deployment Highlights - Week of June 17th

2013-06-17 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I disagree with the last three messages: the visual editor is bound to be painful when enabled; if the team has established that they're in a stage where they are done with the knowns in some areas but need more testing on the field (and feedback) to discover more, they must be allowed to,

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Deployment Highlights - Week of June 17th

2013-06-17 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
The fact that there are known issues doesn't mean that finding new, unknown issues will slow down the work on the known; it's up to the team to decide what sort and what amount of feedback they'll be able/need to process (and to adjust if they were wrong). Gradually enabling a feature is not

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Single User Login finalisation: some accounts will be renamed

2013-06-16 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
James Forrester, 12/05/2013 19:56: James Forrester, 12/05/2013 19:20: Sorry for the disruption to everyone's plans. If you have any questions, please do ask. Will you still make the lists and send out the notifications so that people can start planning? Yes. Any news on the

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] [X-POST] Universal Language Selector(ULS) Deployment - Phase 1

2013-06-05 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
shi zhao, 05/06/2013 22:07: Why ULS deployment all wikis? Does https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Design#Rationale answer your question? Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] pt.wp Mentorship Program

2013-05-25 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I don't know what you mean by similar program, but of course the Germans have all their local groups, courses, workshops co. to train the workforce. For instance https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCon Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Single User Login finalisation: some accounts will be renamed

2013-05-12 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
James Forrester, 12/05/2013 19:20: Sorry for the disruption to everyone's plans. If you have any questions, please do ask. Will you still make the lists and send out the notifications so that people can start planning? Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Single User Login finalisation: some accounts will be renamed

2013-05-12 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
James Forrester, 12/05/2013 19:56: On 12 May 2013 10:40, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: James Forrester, 12/05/2013 19:20: Sorry for the disruption to everyone's plans. If you have any questions, please do ask. Will you still make the lists and send out the notifications

Re: [Wikitech-l] retired services / Tampa cleanup

2013-04-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Some weeks ago I wget-warc'ed wikitech-old so that stuff like the logs (and other stuff permanently lost) could be still visible in Wayback machine some day. I uploaded it to https://archive.org/details/wikitech.wikimedia.org-2013-03-26 I don't actually remember if I had completed the mirror

Re: [Wikitech-l] retired services / Tampa cleanup

2013-04-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
As I said, the logs are lost. Also users and their groups, of course, like everything that is not in XML dumps – except the uploads, which were recovered. There are also some bugs in the import that sometime make the history hard to read, so having a fallback is nice. Nemo

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Design] Making inter-language links shorter

2013-04-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I think this is one of the most amazing achievements the ULS will allow us, thanks Pau. Pau Giner, 18/04/2013 18:50: As part of the future plans for the Universal Language Selector, we were considering to: * Show only a short list of the relevant languages for the user based on geo-IP,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pre-Release Announcement for MediaWiki 1.19.5 and 1.20.4

2013-04-13 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Help is needed to submit (or reject) backports to 1.19 and 1.20 of patches where requested: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=doremremaction=runnamedcmd=Backport_Stable%3Fsharer_id=15390list_id=193887 37209 Highest blo LinkCache doesn't currently know about this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Socializing changes

2013-04-08 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Sumana Harihareswara, 08/04/2013 14:36: Nemo, I have sympathy for you here -- it took a while for me to get used to the use of socialize in the way the Wikimedia communities use it. Not communities, the WMF. I think socializing is more than just communication implies, though;

Re: [Wikitech-l] Socializing changes

2013-04-06 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
By the way, it would be lovely not to call communication like nationalization... sometimes I see people coming to communities saying they're socializing something and it feels weird. ;-) (Especially as it's false good news.) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/socialize (transitive) To

Re: [Wikitech-l] Observations from putting together the RC

2013-03-31 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Are we going to do something about the ~200 (?) estimated bug fixes without a release note, and other missing release notes? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Manual_talk:Coding_conventions/Release_notes_and_bug_fixes Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for communicating changes in MediaWiki to WMF sites?

2013-03-25 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Greg, «Can we actually start thinking about #5?» Fine with me. As step #5 was about what you have to do as in communicate (from what I understand) and you ask us not to start with the other steps, can I summarise that the answer to the question Who is responsible for communicating changes in

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Glossary vs. Glossaries

2013-03-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Seb35, 24/03/2013 21:19: I created some time ago a template on meta for a glossary and applied it to very basic terms [1], mainly with translation in mind. Another idea is to use the translate extension on [[meta:Glossary]] to uniformize the presentation accross languages and to use the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for communicating changes in MediaWiki to WMF sites?

2013-03-23 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thanks Greg for the overview. 0–4 is fine, but there a couple premises I question, which trigger a couple considerations/conjectures which may be of use. First, let's not call the wmfXX subpages release notes. They just are lists of commits. As you noted, they are also created – by design –

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Glossary vs. Glossaries

2013-03-22 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Guillaume Paumier, 22/03/2013 14:27: * Status quo: We keep the current glossaries as they are, even if they overlap and duplicate work. We'll manage. Ugly. * Wikidata: If Wikidata could be used to host terms and definitions (in various languages), and wikis could pull this data using

Re: [Wikitech-l] CAPTCHA

2013-03-21 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Restrictive wikis for captchas are only a handful (plus pt.wiki which is in permanent emergency mode). https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Newly_registered_user For them you could request confirmed flag at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SRP Personally I found it easier to do the required 10, 50 or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for communicating changes in MediaWiki to WMF sites?

2013-03-21 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Quim, you seem to be answering the question how does one communicate changes, but the question of this thread is who is responsible for doing so. It's quite a difference. Usually volunteers know the communities better and have less problems with the how than others, but that's not the point.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Some Sort of Notice for Breaking Changes

2013-03-08 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Partly related: to be fair, Aaron asked comments about release notes and announcements some months ago (although in that case for schema changes) but there was none. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064630.html Nemo ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Identifying pages that are slow to render

2013-03-06 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
There's slow-parse.log, but it's private unless a solution is found for https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/49678/ https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logs Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] What can be done with a watchlist too big to edit?

2013-02-28 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
IIRC EditWatchlist used to be more robust before the recent restructuring: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39510 Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Merging wikitech and labsconsole on Thursday at 1 PM PDT

2013-02-27 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Does all of the content include archive (deleted pages)? Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] LQT and MediaWiki

2013-02-23 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Mark, your assumptions about LQT are blatantly wrong or in other words it's just wishful thinking. Tests are done as usual by translatewiki.net on the last code, then some volunteers take care of the worst problems: usually it's TWN staff, but few days ago Krenair has submitted fixes for a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-22 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Wonderful! So, now that we have a release manager for MediaWiki, is the release manager the person who writes/approves the policy for what sort of things are worth a 1.x.y release and how they're tracked on bugzilla, and will Chris be able to make and push tarballs for those even if they're

Re: [Wikitech-l] WikiEditor caching (??)

2013-02-18 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
It's also annoying that while the toolbar (normal or advanced) loads I can't type in the header (for section=new) or the edit area, at least on Firefox:* is this the same problem? Nemo (*) Might also be a recent regression: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795232

Re: [Wikitech-l] WikiEditor caching (??)

2013-02-15 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thank god when it even loads completely. :) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44188 Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] Fwd: Page view stats we can believe in

2013-02-14 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Lars Aronsson, 14/02/2013 04:02: On 02/14/2013 02:56 AM, Erik Zachte wrote: Lars, I think you are overdoing it. The reports are not nonsense, but have over time become more inaccurate than some other stats we present. Actually if the reports would have mentioned 'pages served' rather than

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikiscan / similar for english wikipedia

2013-01-31 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Since ages, there's http://vs.aka-online.de/cgi-bin/wppagehiststat.pl I've never understood why en.wiki links from [[MediaWiki:histlegend]] an obscure tool rather than this, maybe it's to avoid DoS'ing it for the benefit of non-en.wiki projects. Nemo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Measuring the load-impact of query pages/maintenance reports

2013-01-30 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
We now have some real-life data: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15434#c59 Bug 15434 is the most reported bug in Wikimedia product (16 duplicates), but ops should now be able to go ahead and fix it, it seems. Nemo ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why are we still using captchas on WMF sites?

2013-01-23 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Luke, we do not know how many humans are being turned away by the difficulty: actually we sort of do, that paper tells this as well. It's where their study came from, and gives recommendations on what captcha techniques are best for balancing efficacy with difficulty for humans. We don't seem

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why are we still using captchas on WMF sites?

2013-01-22 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Luke, sorry for reiterating, but «brainstorm solutions to a problem before we measure the extent of the problem» is wrong: it's already been measured by others, see the other posts... Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why are we still using captchas on WMF sites?

2013-01-21 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
And to be more explicit, quoting the paper in case someone really has doubts: «we deem a captcha scheme broken when the attacker is able to reach a precision of at least 1%». With our FancyCaptcha we are/were at 25 % precision for attackers, so yes, it's officially broken, and it's been so

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Announcing Patrick Reilly as Site Performance Engineer and Senior Technical Advisor

2013-01-10 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Congratulations Patrick! Are you now the right person one should ask decisions/updates to for stale performance/platformeng bugs? https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=performance%2C%20platformengkeywords_type=anywordsresolution=---query_format=advancedlist_id=172284 Or questions

Re: [Wikitech-l] monitoring / control system for bots

2013-01-02 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Matt, let's be clearer then: what you describe is ok ONLY for en.wiki. ALL the other wikis have a different system. Thanks, Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we help Tor users make legitimate edits?

2012-12-27 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I rather think that devs' time would be best spent ensuring that our tools against Tor users and open proxies are effective and reliable. Huge amounts of volunteers' time are spent combating abuse of them, with inadequate tools. See for instance:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please help MediaWiki I18n/L10n improve

2012-12-08 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Just FYI, TWN staff has seen no help at all in the last few months, so everything in http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-August/062960.html is still valid and https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/38638 dependencies are longer than ever. The small good news is that now good devs

Re: [Wikitech-l] Advertising changes to MediaWiki messages in core

2012-12-04 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Writing to village pumps is sometimes useless, not everybody looks at them so you still rely on someone to forward the message to its actual consumers. If there's a specific affected page, as in this case, you're lucky because you can write on its talk. On big wikis people necessarily use

Re: [Wikitech-l] Advertising changes to MediaWiki messages in core

2012-12-04 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Yes, the as already suggested referred to the translatable message points, not the the part before it. Matt, there's no such a thing as the appropriate village pump for everything everywhere. You used as an example [[w:en:Wikipedia:MediaWiki messages]], too bad that only nl.wiki has something

Re: [Wikitech-l] Complete (basic) analysis of MediaWiki

2012-12-03 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
That data is hardly useful, it doesn't explain what it refers to and, even when it does, seems wrong. Compare e.g. https://www.ohloh.net/p/mediawiki/contributors?query=sort=commits Also, https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/weekly-bug-summary.cgi?tops=10days=10 proves they're not talking of the

[Wikitech-l] Measuring the load-impact of query pages/maintenance reports

2012-11-29 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Since a few years ago, we have several query [special] pages, also called maintenance reports in the list of special pages, which are never updated for performance reasons: 6 on all wikis and 6 more only on en.wiki. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39667#c6 A proposal is to run

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikivoyage.com

2012-11-27 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
In the meanwhile, in such cases, it's useful to add the domain to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Live_mirrors and also to the Internal wiki relevant page https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=747627oldid=441648 (or whatever page replaced it). Nemo

[Wikitech-l] Extensions to include in the 1.21 tarball/installer

2012-11-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
TL;DR: Please add feedback to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Suggestions_for_extensions_to_be_integrated Since MediaWiki 1.20 has been released, a discussion (opened by hexmode) is ongoing on how to make our release notes better so that users understand what improvements there are and why

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preparing concise, readable release notes for 1.21

2012-11-13 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Robla wrote: I'm sure all of those hooks have a corresponding extension that needs the new hook. Right! (Kudos to iAlex for creating all those pages.) However, most extension pages don't have updated lists of used hooks, so WhatLinksHere doesn't help. I suspect it might be easier (!) to check

Re: [Wikitech-l] Level to which Wikimedia wikis care about data integrity

2012-11-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Andre, the answer is in this one-line comment by Brion: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16614#c3 None of this bugs should be closed unless both the reported occurrence and the underlying problem are fixed. The alternative is that it's proved to be an occasional problem which

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preparing concise, readable release notes for 1.21

2012-11-10 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thanks Mark for opening this discussion, it's very useful. Indeed, by reading https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.20 one would think that nobody has been done in 1.20, except perhaps some localisation work. :p I also agree that https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.18 is a good

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

2012-11-08 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Sue Gardner, 08/11/2012 07:03: I kind of have the sense that people are considering this a done deal. [...] So to be super-clear: None of this is a done deal at this moment. Lots of conversations are happening in various places, and it's all good. That's why Erik made the pre-announcement

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

2012-11-07 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thank you, Erik. Before (or rather than) commenting, I have a single question below; the rest of the email is just a premise+addendum to it. ;-) Terry Chay, 07/11/2012 21:04: You aren't the only one. It turns out we use a lot of industry terminology, without realizing that we are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clean up prototype.wikimedia.org

2012-10-30 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
See previous discussion at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Test wikis It would be nicer to have answers to the general problem rather than constantly ad-hoc solutions which create confusion. Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Seeking feedback on new Organizations feature on Ohloh

2012-10-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thanks for working on this. I would have thought it obvious that ohloh should point to gerrit by default rather than GitHub which is (or when it is) only a mirror, why are you even considering the contrary? 333 extensions are still on SVN, those need to be added to a project as well.[1]

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Seeking feedback on new Organizations feature on Ohloh

2012-10-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thanks for your reply. Mmm are they planning to be moved to gerrit? Adding (hundreds of) repos is just as tedious as updating them again whenever they move. They're still being sorted out, but most of them are quite dead and won't be moved I guess. A better thread to ask might be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Seeking feedback on new Organizations feature on Ohloh

2012-10-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thank you, looks like I've just been unlucky and several was a severe overestimation. :) I'll report other duplicates on your community metrics wiki subpage as soon as I can, but I still don't know what to do with duplicate/unclaimed commit IDs. Can you also create the -extensions-svn project

Re: [Wikitech-l] October 25 open tech chat

2012-10-22 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Can this be brought back/centralised on the appropriate existing channel (#wikimedia-dev or #wikimedia-office), as it was decided for the metrics meeting? Thanks, Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Throttling (was: Re: Please can someone put 50p in the meter)

2012-10-15 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
WereSpielChequers, 15/10/2012 09:56: 60 edits a minute sounds high, and probably faster than most of these sessions run at, but not if it is as I suspect, calculated every few seconds. It's not, as far as I can see. This is how it works: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRateLimits

Re: [Wikitech-l] Import rights for non-admins

2012-10-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Importer has more info. Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improving Documentation on Bug Report Management

2012-10-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Hello Andre, I think you should move the inventory you posted on en.wiki to a subpage of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla so that it can be edited and discussed on talk. Current situation seems almost complete; on the contrary, the Proposed pages section is completely unclear to me, you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Media Author/License information in the database

2012-10-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I think this is supposed to be the page summarizing the issue and path to go: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Files_and_licenses_concept Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Prefs removal

2012-10-09 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Just reiterating that discussing individual preferences (not to mention touching them) is a very bad idea before we have good criteria of some sort to evaluate them. Usage stats are a requirement but such criteria are not only about them because some preferences may be of small harm for many

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-l] translatewiki.net ending localisation support for svn.wikimedia.org MediaWiki extensions

2012-10-03 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Just quick note that, as announced in August http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2012-August/039678.html, translatewiki.net yesterday dropped support for about 260 extensions/message groups. People still using code from SVN will no longer have the localisation updates they might

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] SPF (email spoof prevention feature) test-rollout Weds 10/5

2012-09-28 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Eventually we'll probably bump ?all to a stricter ~all aka SoftFail, which tells the receiving side that only mail coming from the listed subnets is valid. Most ISPs will route 'other' mail to a spam folder based on SoftFail. I guess this means that people will no longer be able to successfully

Re: [Wikitech-l] a slightly weird search result in the Italian Wikipedia

2012-09-16 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Autopratica is actually not a valid word: or rather, it's a neologism from a new/fringe theory, possibly grammatical thanks to the productivity of auto- but slightly confusing due to the jargon-meaning of pratica here. That said, the reason is surely in that link label, which is the only use

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

2012-09-14 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Diederik van Liere, 14/09/2012 19:18: The Analytics Team is happy to announce the first version of gerrit-stats. Gerrit-stats keeps track of the backlog of codereview for Git individual repositories. \o/ 4) Will you add metrics for individual committers? Right now, the unit of analysis is a

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Xmldatadumps-l] HTML wikipedia dumps: Could you please provide them, or make public the code for interpreting templates?

2012-09-09 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Shouldn't you be using ZIM, and aren't dumpHTML and siblings The Right Way to do it? See also http://openzim.org/Build_your_ZIM_file Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimania-l] Looking for Wikimania Materials on Wikipedia Infrastructure

2012-08-27 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Tomasz Ganicz, 27/08/2012 13:27: Detailed information regarding Wikimedia Foundation's server's and network can be found here: http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/ Which is completely useless for any kind of high-level information, in particular [[Server roles]] which is dead and has no

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedians are rightfully wary

2012-08-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Daniel, interesting experience. The case of requested configuration changes is rather simple though: they require consensus, so the place you were looking for is linked in comment 0. For the same reason, there's usually no need to tell the community, the reporter will take care of that.

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-i18n] Invitation for Localisation team development demonstration 2012-08-21 15:00 UTC

2012-08-22 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Siebrand Mazeland (WMF), 20/08/2012 19:17: You are invited to the Localisation team development demo on Tuesday 21 August 2012 at 15:00 UTC (other time zones: 08:00 PDT, 17:00 CEST, 20:30 IST). This meeting will take 40 minutes at most. In this meeting the Localisation team will present its

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedians are rightfully wary

2012-08-22 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
About colleagues vs. customers: I don't think it can be considered a misunderstanding by the community, it's largely due to what the WMF really wants. The WMF, as the article puts it, doesn't [necessarily] want to work better with the existing community (- colleagues) by providing what's felt

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mailman archives broken?

2012-08-17 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I doubt fixing this requires rewriting mailman. It only requires dummy messages to be reinserted where they've been deleted and the archives to be rebuilt after this, just as if the correct procedure had been followed from the start. This, by the way, is by some orders of magnitude easier and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Tyler is right. So let's be positive and read that what's your plan as a generic you, a question to the audience/community, and get the issue fixed all together. I made my proposal/question/suggestion, it's the best I can. Alternatively, of course we could as well spend our energies in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
«This is like the 27637862487 time that links have been broken due to the exact same action.» I can bear hyperboles but this is a bit excessive, and looks like just another attempt to make this flame bigger: I hope the reality is closer to two or three times in the past couple of years, and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mailman archives broken?

2012-08-16 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thanks Daniel. I don't understand, how can a message need to be removed completely? I can't imagine anything which couldn't just be redacted by leaving at least the message's skeleton as demanded by https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Remove_a_message_from_mailing_list_archive Nemo

Re: [Wikitech-l] auto-converting all existing single-wiki accounts to SUL

2012-07-29 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I suppose the change is ok, but some old users with shared usernames which are not unified will be forced to use a second username when they currently are not and they're not disturbing each other, because each of them is active only in a single language. Old users are mostly inactive nowadays

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with saving edits

2012-07-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Let's guess, you're using Chrome/Chromium over HTTPS? Not much to do besides changing browser. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=109555 Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
«Our most prolific reviewers seem to prefer Gerrit»{{citation needed}} Do you mean the reviewers who are most prolific right now, those who were most prolific before the Git conversion or a mix of the two? And where are the stats? I know the analytics team is working on gerrit-stats but not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha for non-English speakers II

2012-07-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Ehm, I know that I'll sound like a broken record, but look at the WikiCAPTCHA proposal: it's just a proposal, but it could address the problem just by fetching books from the relevant Wikisource. Links in: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CAPTCHA Nemo

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wiki-research-l] request for Git statistics (or, don't stand back, I don't know regular expressions) (Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 83, Issue 13)

2012-07-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Sumana Harihareswara, 24/07/2012 22:47: Ohloh would sure be a nice resource - I'm not sure how to get it fixed exactly, but please feel free to poke around, tell Ohloh where our new repository is, and try to get it fixed. Sorry, it's a low priority for me right now, but you have my

Re: [Wikitech-l] New, lower traffic, announcements only email list for Wikimedia developers

2012-06-30 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Practically, though, the difference is minimal. The ambassadors are just the tech-savvy non-English-only interested users who spread the word in the non-English Wikimedia world, which is exactly what happens with any announcement English-only list. The two differences I see are that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Too many random test wikis

2012-04-15 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Just in case someone thinks otherwise, none of my doubts has been addressed. The point is what Helder stressed, and a lot of work is needed to reduce confusion. Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Namespace translations in 1.20wmf1 all kosher?

2012-04-14 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Strainu: Actually, you shouldn't AGF. Why not. http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/AssumeStupidityNotMalice If I am to be the bad guy for something to change, so be it. I will live with that. Thank you for proving you're only playing the martyr. Nemo

[Wikitech-l] Too many random test wikis

2012-04-07 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Now that 1.19 deploy has been completed, it seems a good idea to discuss about our test wikis. I see the following problems: * No inventory of test wikis exist. There are many and they don't follow any pattern or rule of sort (see appendix). * It's unclear what purpose those wikis have, in

Re: [Wikitech-l] One-time run of maintenance scripts to fix years-old utter brokeness

2012-01-28 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I don't think it's ever executed on small wikis either. We have 5 years old ghost entries in Wanted* special pages on it.quote. They're like family friends now, but still ghosts. Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] One-time run of maintenance scripts to fix years-old utter brokeness

2012-01-27 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
There are several maintenance scripts waiting to be run on many wikis since years ago: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=29782hide_resolved=1 The biggest offenders are: * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16112 which breaks tons of special pages; *

Re: [Wikitech-l] FeaturedFeeds deployed

2012-01-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thanks again! Opt-in for sidebar seems better to me. The best would be to make it very easy to add, as with the * SEARCH which allows to customise the position of search bar in monobook. Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] grouping users - an idea for a new SUL improvement

2012-01-25 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Does anyone have any stats on how far short we are of that goal? As in, what fraction of accounts on all wikis are still part of the 'messy' part of SUL rather than the 'clean' part? --HM What's messy and what's not? Real usernames conflicts seem pretty rare nowadays and it's not really a

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: wikicaptcha on GitHub

2012-01-25 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
We sort of use IA's data already, because many Wikisource texts are OCR'ed on IA. If we manage to use OCR improvements within DjVu, it shouldn't be too difficult to reupload such DjVu in their items and then they could do what they want with them. OCRs generally work by finding lines of text

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] AbuseFilter to be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis by default today

2011-08-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Guillaume Paumier, 24/08/2011 16:36: The AbuseFilter extension for MediaWiki, which helps prevent vandalism on wikis, will be globally enabled on all Wikimedia projects later today. More information is available at

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