[Wikitech-l] IRC office hour for Extension:BetaFeatures

2013-09-30 Thread Mark Holmquist
I've done with the extension thus far, drop on by and have a chat. I'll be in #wikimedia-office on Thursday at 21:00 UTC (14:00 PDT). [0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours Happy hacking, -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Conditional resource loading

2013-09-30 Thread Mark Holmquist
) and wrap it in an appropriate if statement/block. I don't think ResourceLoader itself has any nice methods to do this for you, but I also don't think it's a particularly useful feature, given the ease with which developers can do it themselves... -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] IRC office hour for Extension:BetaFeatures

2013-10-03 Thread Mark Holmquist
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:29:15PM -0700, Mark Holmquist wrote: Due partly to the recent sparseness of traffic in #wikimedia-office, I've scheduled an office hour [0] for the new BetaFeatures extension, which the WMF is hoping to use for launching new features for beta testing. [0] https

[Wikitech-l] Gerrit custom dashboards

2013-10-12 Thread Mark Holmquist
://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Module:Gerrit_dashboard/Multimedia -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code-in: Lua templates

2013-10-20 Thread Mark Holmquist
Lua! :) [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Module:UrlEncoding -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook Open Academy

2013-11-14 Thread Mark Holmquist
/OpenAcademyProgram Where is this being actually organized? The only thing I see is a page and a half at that URL, a blog post from Facebook engineering, and one email address. The lack of buzz around other official fora makes me worry that the organizing software will be Facebook itself. -- Mark Holmquist

Re: [Wikitech-l] Estensione per l'embedding di video

2013-12-09 Thread Mark Holmquist
of my message into Italian shortly after sending) -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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

2014-01-31 Thread Mark Holmquist
. :) -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] February '14 appreciation thread

2014-02-12 Thread Mark Holmquist
was/is working with us on the Multimedia team (and across other engineering projects) and has been a tremendous help on a lot of bugs. Rock on, Theo, rock on. -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adventures in creating new repos / jenkins jobs

2014-02-27 Thread Mark Holmquist
be too-wishful thinking. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/116008 -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adventures in creating new repos / jenkins jobs

2014-02-28 Thread Mark Holmquist
should have: [jenkins] url=https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/ user=... password=... # actually an user API token I have had this the entire time we were trying to create the jobs - it did not help, I still saw the issue. -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adventures in creating new repos / jenkins jobs

2014-02-28 Thread Mark Holmquist
marktraceur@midvalley-the-hornfreak:~/projects/wikimedia/integration/jenkins-job-builder$ I just made a dummy job - commit here: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/116123 Obviously nothing special, but the issue is in the HTTP request code anyway. Cheers, -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Maintaining or replacing Gerrit

2014-03-17 Thread Mark Holmquist
, and nobody else has touched, so I'm curious) -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abandoning -1 code reviews automatically?

2014-04-09 Thread Mark Holmquist
during which I often got a few days or weeks to hack on a project and then couldn't come back to it for a while. I really like sleep, guys. Let's leave things as they are. -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployments of new, radically different default features

2014-05-19 Thread Mark Holmquist
way. Cheers, -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Process change: New contributors getting editbugs on Bugzilla

2014-05-29 Thread Mark Holmquist
://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla#Why_can.27t_I_claim_a_bug_or_mark_it_resolved.3F Thanks to Chad for the quick resolution on this, hopefully this will be a positive change overall. -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https

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

2014-08-15 Thread Mark Holmquist
On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 11:23:26AM +0100, Brion Vibber wrote: Well if we kill off XML and other funky formats we can call it the JSON API :) Actually, we should call it the YAML API, to be more complete. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=yamlfm -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer

Re: [Wikitech-l] build.wikimedia.org

2014-08-26 Thread Mark Holmquist
they've allowed. This is pretty well illustrated by the list of external examples. Is there any discussion of the name of the portal? -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist signature.asc

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deploying to test2 before other wikis

2012-12-18 Thread Mark Holmquist
] http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Test.wikipedia.org [1] http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Test2.wikipedia.org -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info * Sent from Ubuntu GNU/Linux

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki BoF at the Southern California Linux Expo this weekend

2013-02-19 Thread Mark Holmquist
. (and if you're interested, I'm also hosting an Etherpad Lite BoF at 21:00 in the Los Angeles B room) [0] https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x [1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AkLumNSkddf_dHRMVnhjZmxJTWdFT0NPckl4RzRjNlE -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation mtrac

[Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs server going down today at 22:00 UTC (14:00 Pacific) for upgrade

2013-02-28 Thread Mark Holmquist
especially given the amount of use this instance has been getting. Thanks, -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs server going down today at 22:00 UTC (14:00 Pacific) for upgrade

2013-02-28 Thread Mark Holmquist
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:53:45AM -0800, Mark Holmquist wrote: The Etherpad Lite server at http://etherpad.wmflabs.org/pad has been surprisingly popular of late, which has revealed an issue in our version. I think the issue has been fixed in the latest version of Etherpad Lite, so I'm

Re: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs server going down today at 22:00 UTC (14:00 Pacific) for upgrade

2013-02-28 Thread Mark Holmquist
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:53:29PM -0800, Mark Holmquist wrote: All right, the server is going down now and should be back up within the hour. Stay tuned for more. Thanks all for your patience. The server is back up, and appears to be working well now. If you see the server down (usually

Re: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs server going down today at 22:00 UTC (14:00 Pacific) for upgrade

2013-02-28 Thread Mark Holmquist
the possibility of production deployment in the near future, whenever there's a sufficient contingent of Ops engineers available to assist. Thanks, Faidon! -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist

Re: [Wikitech-l] Seemingly proprietary Javascript

2013-03-05 Thread Mark Holmquist
, and that the bug discussion is a little more kind than wikitech has seemed :) -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2013-04-04 Thread Mark Holmquist
inbox quota and attachments are the first thing to go, B) Attachments of images (even small ones) on a mailing list have always seemed like a bad plan to me, C) It would be more permanent, indexable, and searchable. Thanks! -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation mtrac

Re: [Wikitech-l] Object.keys called on non-object

2013-05-11 Thread Mark Holmquist
more easily on IRC at #mediawiki-parsoid on Freenode, because of the relative speed of the communication with IRC. Thanks for trying out the system! Hopefully we can help you get it working on your wiki. Ta, -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Not much usage of the Visual Editor?

2013-05-11 Thread Mark Holmquist
says hey, you're using VisualEditor, which is probably not the most helpful text for a totally-brand-new user. -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Wikitech-l] gwtoolset : architecture design help

2013-07-24 Thread Mark Holmquist
needs. 1. is there a way to programatically discover the available parameters for a mediawiki template? TemplateData is, in fact, exactly what you need for that. -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki

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

2013-07-28 Thread Mark Holmquist
it. That being said, maybe the VE team already has different plans, e.g. to use something like ShareJS, which is a little lighter-weight and would give them the ability to customize the interface a lot more. Hope that helps :) -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtrac

Re: [Wikitech-l] gwtoolset : architecture design help

2013-08-02 Thread Mark Holmquist
be a good idea to do now-or-soon. Interface with Nazmul, who is Rasel160, who's been working on auto-generating forms for Commons templates in UploadWizard, and see if you can't work together on this :) Ta, -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org

[Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs instance going down in two weeks - backup time

2013-08-23 Thread Mark Holmquist
reliability. Thanks so much for your help and understanding in the course of this migration. tl;dr: http://etherpad.wmflabs.org is going down in 2 weeks, get yer stuff off it. -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Javascript to find other articles having the same external link

2013-08-26 Thread Mark Holmquist
... -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Sucheta Ghoshal

2013-09-03 Thread Mark Holmquist
mess that is writing international software :) Plus, having more Free Software advocates around is never a bad thing! -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist

[Wikitech-l] BetaFeatures framework, and a minor call for technical input

2013-09-03 Thread Mark Holmquist
] as we speak. Exciting times for the Multimedia team! [3] https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/multimedia/cards/8 [4] https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/multimedia/cards/12 -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] BetaFeatures framework, and a minor call for technical input

2013-09-04 Thread Mark Holmquist
-alpha.wmflabs.org - go ahead and experiment! -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Etherpad Lite labs instance going down in two weeks - backup time

2013-09-06 Thread Mark Holmquist
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 01:02:13PM -0700, Mark Holmquist wrote: The day we have all equally hoped for and dreaded is come to pass: Etherpad Lite has now replaced Etherpad Classic in production, and the labs instance is on its way out. This is my as-wide-as-possible email warning to say

Re: [Wikitech-l] etherpad.wmflabs.org is now DOWN. (was: Etherpad Lite labs instance going down in two weeks - backup time)

2013-09-06 Thread Mark Holmquist
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 09:02:42AM -0700, Mark Holmquist wrote: Good California morning, everyone! I will be taking down this instance at 18:00 UTC, or 11:00 PST, today. That's in TWO HOURS! If you have any remaining etherpad documents on the labs instance, now is most definitely the time

Re: [Wikitech-l] EtherEditor extension testing

2012-06-20 Thread Mark Holmquist
, yes, the three buttons at the bottom of the page currently all submit the form with the same action, so there's no preview or show changes yet. I'll work on that later today as well. Thanks again for all the help, and keep it coming! :) -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension Skeleton Program

2012-06-25 Thread Mark Holmquist
quickly. This also sounds a lot like what Mozilla has done: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/tools/builder Specifically, I think jetpack is the part that generates stub files, but it's been a while since I experimented. Anyway, thanks for the email! -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia

[Wikitech-l] EtherEditor extension testing, round two!

2012-07-02 Thread Mark Holmquist
%20extensionscomponent=EtherEditor [3] Etherpad Lite instance - http://etherpad.wmflabs.org/pad/ -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] request for Git statistics (or, don't stand back, I don't know regular expressions)

2012-07-04 Thread Mark Holmquist
to the SSH command, which is then read as multiple arguments on the remote server. This works for me, adding double quotes around the remote command: ssh -p 29418 gerrit.wikimedia.org gerrit query 'age:4d -age:34d status:merged project:^mediawiki.* -owner:L10n-bot' -- Mark Holmquist Contractor

Re: [Wikitech-l] getting Jenkins to run basic automated tests on commits to extensions

2012-07-05 Thread Mark Holmquist
that *can* be run automatically, would be extremely helpful. -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] request for Git statistics (or, don't stand back, I don't know regular expressions)

2012-07-05 Thread Mark Holmquist
notifications, though they're largely for debugging. The first option can be described as how you would ssh into gerrit if you had to, and it's provided for the convenience of those people (like me) whose local username doesn't match their remote username. Cheers, -- Mark Holmquist Contractor

Re: [Wikitech-l] request for Git statistics (or, don't stand back, I don't know regular expressions)

2012-07-05 Thread Mark Holmquist
try to parse github's API requests with bash, it's just not worth it. P.P.S., for those who like unified counts, adding this python script to the end of the previous bash script should be easy enough, so you could get all of the contributors (95!) in one command if you wanted. -- Mark

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-19 Thread Mark Holmquist
to me right now. Just a couple of pennies, -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] wfMsg* [was: developing skin]

2012-07-23 Thread Mark Holmquist
a good example of how to update your extensions): https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38501 Cheers, -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is the current system too difficult for volunteer developers?

2012-07-29 Thread Mark Holmquist
still growing :) Cheers, -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Doxygen Not Working?

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Holmquist
next time the doc is regenerated So it's known, and apparently fixed. -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] wfMsg and associated functions

2012-08-06 Thread Mark Holmquist
] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/16043/ (oh, Krenair beat me to the 0th link, sending message anyway) -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] gerrit tab width

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Holmquist
people assume a width of 4. I've definitely seen funky tab-plus-space indentations that support that theory. -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator trial

2012-08-10 Thread Mark Holmquist
say something about setting objects to be publicly accessible, but there are no extra configuration settings in the policy group, and no mention of public in either the docs or the default.conf example. Can anyone help me figure this one out? -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator trial

2012-08-10 Thread Mark Holmquist
. policy.allow-public affects future settings which will be available in the UIs built by T603. Could you perhaps summarize what that means, time-wise? Is there anything we (I) can do to push things forward? -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http

Re: [Wikitech-l] Design comments

2012-08-14 Thread Mark Holmquist
-August/81.html For my part, I did like the design, but I can see that there were a bunch of places where the designer didn't consider some pretty huge parts of the Wiki ecosystem. L10n, for instance, was tossed away pretty casually at the start. -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Design comments (and note about no-www)

2012-08-14 Thread Mark Holmquist
/ -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] EtherEditor testing, round 3: Minor stress test

2012-08-15 Thread Mark Holmquist
/Main_Page [4] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensionscomponent=EtherEditor Thanks, everyone! -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] EtherEditor testing, round 3: Minor stress test

2012-08-15 Thread Mark Holmquist
fixing it up and using it again. I want the switch behavior to be part of the testing, though, so I'll keep it as-is for now. Thanks for the feedback! Oh, and bonus: If you go to http://etherpad.wmflabs.org/pad/ you can play with the Etherpad Lite interface without integration into MW. -- Mark

Re: [Wikitech-l] EtherEditor testing, round 3: Minor stress test

2012-08-15 Thread Mark Holmquist
of my servers. I have seen your patches, yes :) It was more for the benefit of the others on the list who might be tired or frustrated with the old etherpad.wikimedia.org interface. -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info

[Wikitech-l] EtherEditor stress test about to start

2012-08-16 Thread Mark Holmquist
to help out with the project, feel free to email me (either on-list or off) or just check out the mediawiki.org page about the extension [0]. [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EtherEditor Thanks! -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http

Re: [Wikitech-l] EtherEditor testing, round 3: Minor stress test

2012-08-16 Thread Mark Holmquist
:) -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2012-08-17 Thread Mark Holmquist
. That said, I'm not overly irritated. There are a few links I need to update, but that's doable. Thanks for handling this issue, and for being responsive to the concerns raised. -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info

Re: [Wikitech-l] Meta: Inproper Line Breaks

2012-08-17 Thread Mark Holmquist
Maybe you have HTML emails turned on by default, and mailman is trashing your line breaks because they're HTML br tags or something crazy like that. Try turning off HTML composition, and see if that's helpful. Cheers, -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mailman archives broken?

2012-08-17 Thread Mark Holmquist
to these events? It appears to be only text files, with no indices, and improper sortingwhat's going on!? Maybe someone is rebuilding the archives? Could we have gotten notice about that? -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info

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

2012-08-20 Thread Mark Holmquist
question, is there any chance of holding this (and/or future) meetings without relying on non-free software? Especially 'round these parts, there are bound to be people who prefer not to use Flash/Quicktime/WMP/WebEx. bias disclosure: I am one of them. -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC wrapup report: TranslateSvg

2012-08-21 Thread Mark Holmquist
project, and I really hope we can get it out there very soon. -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lua deployed to www.mediawiki.org

2012-08-22 Thread Mark Holmquist
to a more computer-literate user base. Then maybe we can have this chat again in a different context :) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_pin -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread

2012-08-22 Thread Mark Holmquist
:) -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread

2012-08-25 Thread Mark Holmquist
I'd like to amend my thanks to include Derk-Jan Hartman (thedj), who has done some awesome work today helping with bug triage, code review, and patches for UploadWizard. Great stuff! It should make our review/bug-closing sprint a lot quicker. -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC Project Update (ConventionExtension)

2012-08-27 Thread Mark Holmquist
would also love to hear more about why you decided this, if you have a minute to answer! Thanks all, -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] $( 'div' ) vs. $( 'div /') in coding conventions (and methods for building DOMs with jQuery)

2012-08-27 Thread Mark Holmquist
be interested to hear other thoughts. -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] $( 'div' ) vs. $( 'div /') in coding conventions (and methods for building DOMs with jQuery)

2012-08-28 Thread Mark Holmquist
). -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [testing] TitleBlacklist now tested under Jenkins

2012-08-29 Thread Mark Holmquist
Ultimately, all extensions hosted on WMF git server will be integrated in Jenkins. If you get PHPUnit test, I will add a job for it as soon as the current jobs are stable enough. At the risk of sounding unoriginal, _zomg this is amazing_. Thanks a bunch, Antoine! -- Mark Holmquist Contractor

Re: [Wikitech-l] AJAX sharing of Commons data/metadata

2012-08-29 Thread Mark Holmquist
://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20814 -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread

2012-08-29 Thread Mark Holmquist
Even further thanks to Siebrand and Niklas for their stellar help in fixing a huge l10n regression today. The l10n folks do so much work to support so many people, and they're amazing at it. Bravo. -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http

Re: [Wikitech-l] Work offer inside

2012-08-31 Thread Mark Holmquist
. Better to handle blacklisting, and let people use their own mail servers or whatever else they'd like. -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Work offer inside

2012-09-01 Thread Mark Holmquist
As true as all this is, some of us would prefer to keep an advertising giant like Google out of our business as much as possible. Or alternatively, a non-free software giant like Google. But it comes to roughly the same conclusion. -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac

Re: [Wikitech-l] Work offer inside

2012-09-01 Thread Mark Holmquist
a relevant thing, perhaps there are archived discussions that I could read?) -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal to add an API/Developer/Developer Hublink to the footer of Wikimedia wikis

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Holmquist
Just wanted people to know so they don't reinvent the wheel. :) Along that vein, there are the ever popular skin manual [0] and extension manual [1]. [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skins [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extensions -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review meeting notes

2012-09-20 Thread Mark Holmquist
list, thought I should mention it) And if you can, try to use the rebase button as much as possible! -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review meeting notes

2012-09-20 Thread Mark Holmquist
for conflict-induced manual ones, which wouldn't be nearly as useful. -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal to add an API/Developer/Developer Hub link to the footer of Wikimedia wikis

2012-09-25 Thread Mark Holmquist
/Talk:Requests_for_comment/MediaWiki.org_Main_Page_tweaks#Lessons_from_Manual:Skins -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Mark Holmquist joins Wikimedia as Features Engineer

2012-09-26 Thread Mark Holmquist
On 12-09-26 10:23 AM, Akshay Agarwal wrote: Welcome Mark! Thanks, Akshay! And thanks to Terry for the intro (I thanked him on the staff list, not here yet), and to wikitech-l for endlessly entertaining conversations :) -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal Extension:Browserid (Mozilla Persona) - open source

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Holmquist
Is this the begin of a clash of civilisations between WMF and MediaWiki ? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/MediaWiki_Foundation is the proper place to discuss that more, if you'd like to. -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal Extension:Browserid (Mozilla Persona) - open source

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Holmquist
%28web_browser%29 [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector [3] http://www.openbadges.org/ -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal Extension:Browserid (Mozilla Persona) - open source

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Holmquist
, we'll put in noscript tags that explain what you're missing. Sound OK? Admittedly this is all hypothetical, but in case the Foundation wants to pursue this, I don't want there to be huge misunderstandings :) -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome Željko Filipin, QA Engineer

2012-10-02 Thread Mark Holmquist
I am pleased to announce that Željko Filipin joins WMF this week as QA Engineer. All right! Welcome, Željko! It will be great to have some more power behind our QA. I look forward to seeing you around the mailing list and IRC! -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac

Re: [Wikitech-l] Github replication

2012-10-03 Thread Mark Holmquist
? I'm sure there are docs for this decision, but I haven't seen them--do you have them handy? Thanks, -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome Michelle Grover as QA to the Mobile Team!

2012-10-09 Thread Mark Holmquist
I am pleased to announce that Michelle Grover joins WMF this week as a Mobile QA contractor. Cool! It's always great to have more QA people around! Welcome, and we hope to see you around the list and IRC! :) -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: Luke Welling joins Wikimedia as Senior Features Engineer

2012-10-24 Thread Mark Holmquist
Please join me in a very belated welcome of Luke Welling to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-) Always awesome to have another strong ally in fighting the good fight :) Luke, a hearty welcome to you! -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http

Re: [Wikitech-l] whether to do Google Code-In

2012-10-25 Thread Mark Holmquist
to help a lot, but I can't do it all! Thanks, -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Contributing as Wikimedia employees

2012-11-03 Thread Mark Holmquist
community insight, here, maybe?) -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2012-11-08 Thread Mark Holmquist
instance for that. There was also chatter on the Etherpad channel yesterday about writing plugins for compiling and running programs on the backend of the server. Let me know if there's interest. -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http

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

2012-11-08 Thread Mark Holmquist
. But again, there may be a solution in the plugin API. (backend of the server - sorry, I just woke up) -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

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

2012-11-08 Thread Mark Holmquist
, if we can do it with Chromium and OpenJDK. -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Work flow for bugfixing

2012-11-08 Thread Mark Holmquist
. -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info * Sent from Ubuntu GNU/Linux * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Work flow for bugfixing

2012-11-08 Thread Mark Holmquist
. -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info * Sent from Ubuntu GNU/Linux * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2012-11-08 Thread Mark Holmquist
said there's no bin/deploy directory and the README stood silent. I have an email out to the list, but I'm not sure they'll be super-responsive. Cloud 9 may be a better option... :) -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info

Re: [Wikitech-l] Looking for Bugs In All the RIGHT Places

2012-11-14 Thread Mark Holmquist
I thought that this tool might be useful in mediawiki development. She was amenable to helping get it working if there was interest. Where, pray tell, is the software? :) -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info * Sent from

Re: [Wikitech-l] What other FLOSS projects does the WMF contribute to/collaborate with?

2012-11-20 Thread Mark Holmquist
about on-the-clock contributions, or are we looking for volunteer stuff, too? -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info * Sent from Ubuntu GNU/Linux * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] UploadWizard long term problems

2015-09-15 Thread Mark Holmquist
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 04:49:49PM +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 08:10 -0500, Mark Holmquist wrote: > Are these questions listed on some UploadWizard wikipage/section? > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload_Wizard_feedback says > "To resolve is

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