Re: [Wikitech-l] [RFC]: Clean URLs- dropping /wiki/ and /w/index.php?title=..

2013-09-27 Thread Gryllida
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, at 7:51, Tyler Romeo wrote: On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Gabriel Wicke gwi...@wikimedia.org wrote: * use simple action urls https://en.wikipedia.org/Foo?action=history instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fooaction=history This already

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

2013-09-27 Thread Gryllida
On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, at 10:17, Arcane 21 wrote: I like this idea. Not every Tor user is vandal or troll, and assuming that all of them are by default is not assuming good faith. To avoid endless abuse some services ask people to register from a non-TOR IP, and allow them to connect from TOR

Re: [Wikitech-l] New project on labs for unit tests

2013-11-08 Thread Gryllida
+ other frequently used languages And Perl. Gryllida I think it would be useful for some (at least me) people :) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki RFC reporter bot

2013-12-10 Thread Gryllida
You have not provided enough detail. What wikis should such tool target, and what are relevant links to categories. On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, at 14:09, MZMcBride wrote: Hi. I filed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58250 if you or someone you know feels like writing a small script

Re: [Wikitech-l] what should i publish a gadget extension?

2013-12-16 Thread Gryllida
Wiked lives in [[extension:wiked]] on meta; hotcat lives in [[mediawiki:gadget-hotcat.js]] on commons. Ok. There is no standard place really; use github or your preferred host, and if mediawiku devs or wikimedia users are interested, they will use it and send patches or feedback. gry On Sun,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming David Chan to Wikimedia Language Engineering team

2014-01-07 Thread Gryllida
Добро пожаловать, Давид! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR

2014-01-12 Thread Gryllida
. :) The register at real IP, then only use TOR through an account flow implies trust in some entity (such as freenode irc network opers or Wikipedia CheckUsers). I currently believe that requiring such trust doesn't eliminate TOR's usefullness at protecting its users. Gryllida

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR

2014-01-13 Thread Gryllida
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, at 3:32, Zack Weinberg wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Gryllida gryll...@fastmail.fm wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, at 15:29, Gregory Maxwell wrote: What freenode does is not functionally useful for Tor users. In my first hand experience it manages to enable

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC process - open questions

2014-01-14 Thread Gryllida
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, at 4:52, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: On the RFC Process talk page, I'm presenting some questions about our RFC process and suggesting *my* answers: Where can I find previous RFCs? It's a thing I haven't heard of before. How are contributors expected to find it? Gryllida

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's improve our password policy

2014-01-26 Thread Gryllida
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, at 0:02, rupert THURNER wrote: for the password policy: display a strength indicator is great. anything more? i would say just leave it to the user. rupert. THANK YOU. My thoughts exactly. :-) Everyone who has a thought should write it on-wiki for these people to hear

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

2014-01-26 Thread Gryllida
http://migadv.com/ comes to mind (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/MediaWiki_data_browser) but sadly it's barely interactive... gry ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] RFC: UploadWizard — scale to sister projects

2014-02-10 Thread Gryllida
Hi all, Apologies for cross-posting; please read and share thoughts: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/UploadWizard:_scale_to_sister_projects Gryllida ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

[Wikitech-l] RFC: UploadWizard — scale to sister projects

2014-02-10 Thread Gryllida
Hi all, Apologies for cross-posting; please read and share thoughts: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/UploadWizard:_scale_to_sister_projects Gryllida ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's improve our password policy

2014-02-13 Thread Gryllida
I like how we got these things done early in the process: - termed the proposal as 'improve password policy', in the subject, implying that the solution is good - instead of asking how to do it - put a single proposal, raising the requirement, instead of putting a few proposed changes and asking

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to Contribute Page - More Specific and User Friendly

2014-02-18 Thread Gryllida
Good goals but I think you're doing several things wrong here. 1) Attempts to pose this as an external tool. Not many people who visit the wiki will ever learn about the external website. You're effectively opening a new contributors influx channel while not making the life of people who reached

Re: [Wikitech-l] Meetings vs mailing list (Re: Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?)

2014-02-19 Thread Gryllida
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Jon Robson wrote: Brad since you work for the for the foundation and seem to have a lot of expertise in this area and seem to have been one of the more vocal supporters of free fonts have you reached out to your work colleagues over video conferencing or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-19 Thread Gryllida
Derric Atzrott writes: Have any of you ever heard of Non-Violent Communication (NVC). NVC is amazing and I very much encourage anyone to take it up. It goes way beyond a method of thinking, it is a spiritual path. Like other spiritual paths that means it may work if you practise it yourself.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Meetings vs mailing list (Re: Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?)

2014-02-19 Thread Gryllida
From: Antoine Musso Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:28:33 +0100 Le 19/02/2014 09:34, Gryllida a écrit : For decision-making IRC is just more interactive and more ideas get conveyed and analyzed with less effort. [...] The meetings are nice when you want to start the process or to close

Re: [Wikitech-l] .wiki gTLD

2014-02-22 Thread Gryllida
That is a tough one, since most project names /start/ with wiki. pedia.wiki just sounds awkward, as do many others. On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, at 5:56, Derric Atzrott wrote: ICANN just delegated the gTLD .WIKI yesterday. It's being managed by Top Level Design, LLC. I'm not entirely sure what

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Multimedia] Poll - would you like to see more traffic related to the Multimedia team's day-to-day work on this list?

2014-02-24 Thread Gryllida
/Templates/Interactive [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/UploadWizard:_scale_to_sister_projects Gryllida. On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, at 20:25, Gergo Tisza wrote: Hi all, the Multimedia team had some discussions recently about how to make our work more transparent and more open

[Wikitech-l] one framework for *all* of that

2014-02-24 Thread Gryllida
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, at 5:29, Mark Holmquist wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 01:35:33AM +1100, Gryllida wrote: ... With this in mind I would personally encourage heavy collaboration of all teams to build a framework which lets people script the MediaWiki software including media viewer

Re: [Wikitech-l] one framework for *all* of that

2014-02-25 Thread Gryllida
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, at 17:52, Brian Wolff wrote: As it stands (i dont live in js land, correct me if I'm wrong), its widely agreed having hooks for user-scripts to hook into js-based extensions like upload wizard and other parts of mw is a good thing. Its not neccesarily agreed that having

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

2014-02-25 Thread Gryllida
Too many pictures. It does not fit my screen size anymore. I only see a part of the first image and have to scroll down for the rest; scrolling is poor design. Probably don't need to focus on Wikipedia in the as long as Wikipedia exists. It's all sister projects. Is it mobile-friendly? I made

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

2014-02-25 Thread Gryllida
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/Homepage_redesign/Preview/3 - no tables - usage of phrase wikimedia movement instead of wikipedia On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, at 7:54, Brena Monteiro wrote: Hello everyone, I would like to invite you to take a look the preview [1] of MediaWiki Homepage.

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

2014-02-25 Thread Gryllida
Thanks for taking down the thoughts, Daniel; the translation and mobile friendliness got me amused too. On Wed, 26 Feb 2014, at 9:18, Daniel Friesen wrote: I'm definitely going to have to agree. The Feature bits are practically bs: - Publish: Talks about VisualEditor, HTML, and embedded

Re: [Wikitech-l] The Whole Wikipedia in English with pictures in one 40GB big file

2014-03-02 Thread Gryllida
On Sun, 2 Mar 2014, at 4:01, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote: Hi For the first time, we have achieved to release a complete dump of all encyclopedic articles of the Wikipedia in English, *with thumbnails*. This ZIM file is 40 GB big and contains the current 4.5 million articles with their 3.5

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Bug 7148] Requesting watchlist for changes to category content.

2014-03-03 Thread Gryllida
It would seem to me that the Collection extension, which provides 'books' for various sister projects, could be adapted for favorites: 'Book:Username' where a user can stick favorite articles and group by sections. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection Thoughts? - Original

[Wikitech-l] Favorites for MW

2014-03-03 Thread Gryllida
OK, this was actually meant to have a more descriptive message subject. Ignore the previous message... - Original message - From: Gryllida To: wikitech-l Subject: Fwd: [Bug 7148] Requesting watchlist for changes to category content. Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 13:27:11 +1100 It would seem

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2014 project A system for reviewing funding requests.

2014-03-06 Thread Gryllida
(as I'm assuming that the development will happen out in the open). [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG Gryllida On Thu, 6 Mar 2014, at 5:19, Karan Dev wrote: hi, I am B.Tech. (CS) 3rd year student from India. I have 4 years of programming experience. I am comfortable with c/c

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC project: calculating the quality of editors and content (was Guidance for the Project Idea for GSOC 2014)

2014-03-07 Thread Gryllida
I oppose such idea or implementation, automating ranking of content sounds like a way to get people focus on the rank/score aggressively instead of human work on content. They already focus on 'number of GA reviews' and 'number of FAs I contributed to', relying on style and content guides for

Re: [Wikitech-l] A modern, scalable and attractive skin for MediaWiki (GSoC 2014 proposal)

2014-03-19 Thread Gryllida
Add mobile friendliness ('responsive CSS') to the list of requirements/goals? On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, at 14:46, Pavel Astakhov wrote: Hi, the link [4] was broken: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jack_Phoenix/A_modern,_scalable_and_attractive_skin_for_MediaWiki_(GSoC_2014_proposal)

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2014: Project Proposal for A system for reviewing funding request

2014-03-19 Thread Gryllida
The score really should be something different from a textbox imo. See more detail I could locate about this idea: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Application_scoring_system - roles and expectations @ IdeaLab (this is for any ideas, not just grants, ie GSoC things can also go

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2014 proposal for project A system for reviewing funding requests

2014-03-19 Thread Gryllida
Again the usual detail I share on this... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Application_scoring_system - a formal idea page for it to evolve (idealab is for all ideas, gsoc too, not just grants from wmf) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gryllida/sandbox - a spec (linked there)

Re: [Wikitech-l] A system for reviewing funding requests

2014-03-19 Thread Gryllida
Please see more detail I could locate about this idea: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Application_scoring_system - roles and expectations @ IdeaLab (this is for any ideas, not just grants, ie GSoC things can also go there) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gryllida/sandbox -

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2014: Project Proposal for A system for reviewing funding request

2014-03-19 Thread Gryllida
skills and add you in to the GSOC project. (I have found 3-4 students interested and forwarded them all so I hope you'll all make it to completion!) Gryllida. On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, at 22:35, Maduranga Siriwardena wrote: @Gryllida, Previously I checked the page [1]. But I couldn't find much

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSOC] A system for reviewing funding requests Details of project

2014-03-21 Thread Gryllida
It's not just IEG Grants -- PEG Grants also I think. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants Good luck with your application! On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, at 8:51, Kushal Khandelwal wrote: Hi Community I am Kushal Khandelwal from India. Currently pursuing my undergraduate degree from BITS Pilani KK

Re: [Wikitech-l] Separating skins from core MediaWiki (GSoC proposal)

2014-03-21 Thread Gryllida
Thought the deadline is March 21. I also hope you find a second student to help with this, looks like a lot of great work. On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, at 7:34, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: I realize this has been discussed on this list rather recently (starting with Jon's CologneBlue question), and I

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSOC] A system for reviewing funding requests Details of project

2014-03-22 Thread Gryllida
somewhere closer to the top. Again thanks, Gryllida. On Sat, 22 Mar 2014, at 14:21, Kushal Khandelwal wrote: Thank you Gryllida. If you can have a look at the application and give me some feedback and your inputs. Thank you for your help. On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Gryllida gryll

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC proposal for A system for reviewing funding requests

2014-03-25 Thread Gryllida
describe the time span over which you were helping that project. I gather there is some merit in conveying all of your relevant past experience in the application. Good luck! Gryllida. On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, at 11:17, Sastry aditya wrote: Hi all, My name is AV Aditya Sastry. I am a student at GITAM

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC Proposal System for reviewing funding requests

2014-03-25 Thread Gryllida
there)] You may want to be more detailed about your past experience. If you have none, you might want to try one of the https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs as an exercise, and include in your application. Gryllida. On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, at 5:16, Prashant G wrote: Hello Everyone

Re: [Wikitech-l] What are you looking for in CodeEditor ?

2014-03-25 Thread Gryllida
Ability to edit sections. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60438 On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, at 9:03, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote: I've been doing some work on the Lua/CSS/JS CodeEditor to make it and its toolbar a bit more usable, but I'm looking for some input on what YOU want. I've

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for GSoC 2014 - Implementing a To-do list

2014-03-25 Thread Gryllida
it. A setting could be an over-complication. Gryllida. On Sat, 22 Mar 2014, at 5:20, Hareesh wrote: Hi, I've submitted a proposal to implement a to-do list in the wiki projects. [1]. The project aims at: * Providing a To-do list to the users who opt in. * Facilitating the ease of maintaining

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2014: Project Proposal for A system for reviewing funding request

2014-03-25 Thread Gryllida
Great! On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, at 3:02, Maduranga Siriwardena wrote: @Gryllida Thank you for the reply. Sorry for misunderstanding. As it is mentioned that the Admin person who is creating the new grant campaign can create the review criteria, the area shown as a text box can be of different

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2014: project proposal for a system for reviewing funding request.

2014-03-25 Thread Gryllida
for implementing feedback from the Grant Committees on *each* *step* as it could improve your output. Your mentors would give such feedback to you. Regards Gryllida. On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, at 20:07, Rahul Mishra wrote: On 03/20/2014 01:36 PM, Rahul Mishra wrote: Hi, Please ignore my earlier mail

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2014: Project Proposal for A system for reviewing funding request

2014-03-29 Thread Gryllida
to take the feedback into account. It's a challenging task there. The mentors would also provide you with code-base from a previous project which did similar tasks. Gryllida. On Sun, 30 Mar 2014, at 4:35, Maduranga Siriwardena wrote: @Gryllida, Again thank you for the reply and sorry

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC proposal for A system for reviewing funding requests

2014-03-31 Thread Gryllida
Thanks! Gryllida. On Mon, 31 Mar 2014, at 8:12, Sastry aditya wrote: Hi Gryllida, I am extremely sorry I took so long to reply to your mail, I was down with typhoid and I am slowly recovering. I made corrections as you suggested. Thanks a lot for sparing your time. As instructed

[Wikitech-l] Affiliation in username

2014-04-19 Thread Gryllida
): | | ___| | | - I.e. - | | | [ Gryllida (FOO) in large green font

Re: [Wikitech-l] Subscribe to Tech News via a web feed

2014-04-20 Thread Gryllida
On Sat, 19 Apr 2014, at 0:17, Tomasz W. Kozłowski wrote: [...] At this point, the feed only provides the English version of the bulletin, so you'll need to click one of the links on top of the page to read a version in a different language — if you think that a per-language feed is a good

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome Dmitry Brant as Software Developer to the Mobile App Team

2014-04-22 Thread Gryllida
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, at 3:01, Tomasz Finc wrote: I am pleased to announce that Dmitry Brant joins WMF this week as a Software Engineer for the Mobile App Team! Добро пожаловать, Дмитрий! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Affiliation in username

2014-05-09 Thread Gryllida
On Thu, 8 May 2014, at 6:22, Jared Zimmerman wrote: Affiliations change, and user names are quite difficult to change, this sounds like something that would be good for a structured profile, not for a user name. One of the times I wish I could rename a thread. Someone with spare time may want

[Wikitech-l] Craziness in diff algorithm

2014-05-16 Thread Gryllida
Please participate by providing insight on potential fixes or workarounds (don't expect me to be able to read the backend codebase of this software). Thanks. Gryllida. References 1. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13462 2. https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff

Re: [Wikitech-l] Craziness in diff algorithm

2014-05-16 Thread Gryllida
Hi All, To clarify: This software silently converted the message to plain text, so what I meant is clarified below. On Fri, 16 May 2014, at 21:22, Gryllida wrote: Hi All, Please excuse me for sending an HTML attachment to this list. There is a need to display some part

Re: [Wikitech-l] Anonymous editors IP addresses

2014-07-15 Thread Gryllida
Gryllida. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering community team! (brainstorming)

2014-08-05 Thread Gryllida
Gryllida. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Use of http:// urls in wikimedia wiki emails

2013-09-03 Thread Gryllida
Given what Ryan Lane said, I think this could be user preference (possibly tied to whether the user checked the Always use a secure connection when logged in box in preferences). ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] question regarding crawling wikipedia for information

2013-09-11 Thread Gryllida
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, at 12:42, Wenqin Ye wrote: If we are creating an ai app that needs to get information , would we be allowed to crawl wikipedia for this information? The app would probably be a search query of some kind, that give information back to the user, one of the sites used is

Re: [Wikitech-l] FirefoxOS - free dev phones for porting HTML5 apps

2013-09-12 Thread Gryllida
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, at 11:13, Rodrigo Padula wrote: Hello Guys, and for Firefox users, you can try FirefoxOS through the simulator extension. https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-br/firefox/addon/firefox-os-simulator/ ;-) Remember that your app may need to be multilingual. The simulator