Re: [Wikitech-l] Killing 1.XXwmfYY branches -- another idea?

2013-09-25 Thread Max Semenik
branches now...that's 172 if you've got two remotes. It's only going to get worse and it'll be progressively harder to spot what's important. I always look it up at http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=wikiversions.dat -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

Re: [Wikitech-l] File cache + HTTPS question

2013-10-01 Thread Max Semenik
at this point? I think the policy has been we make basic stuff work on shared installations, but if you want performance, VPS/dedicated is a must for a few years now, and this deprecation aligns nicely with it. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

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

2013-10-07 Thread Max Semenik
the vague claim that exceptions are confusing for years, but for the life of me I've never seen exception-handling code that looked more complex or confusing than code riddled with checks for magic return values. +1 -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

[Wikitech-l] Tidy - help needed

2013-10-07 Thread Max Semenik
stuff like trying different types of marker, but Tidy is stubborn. Does anyone know a way to work around this? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tidy - help needed

2013-10-09 Thread Max Semenik
of the converter. I had failing unit tests in my changes till I found a way to deal with this. I need no parameters, so no danger here. The patchset that passes all tests is at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80578/ , can someone take a look at it, please? -- Best regards, Max Semenik

Re: [Wikitech-l] CouchDB support?

2013-10-09 Thread Max Semenik
NoSQL support would equate to a rewrite almost from grounds up. Of course, we either use or can use NoSQL in some places like object cache or external storage, which still doesn't allow us to claim NoSQL support in general. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

Re: [Wikitech-l] CouchDB support?

2013-10-10 Thread Max Semenik
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[Wikitech-l] Changes in API action=parsemobileformat=...

2013-10-23 Thread Max Semenik
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Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Refactoring the Title object

2013-10-24 Thread Max Semenik
( MWException ) { return null; } Which of them is more clear? Writing which of them you're less likely to introduce errors? Also, http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

Re: [Wikitech-l] Module storage is coming

2013-11-04 Thread Max Semenik
. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] New RFC: future of prop=extracts

2013-11-10 Thread Max Semenik
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Module storage is coming

2013-12-03 Thread Max Semenik
On 03.12.2013, 12:30 Ori wrote: The size of the effect is substantially smaller on mobile, for some reason, which is surprising. Mobile simply has fewer modules;) -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-evaluating MediaWiki ResourceLoader's debug mode

2013-12-11 Thread Max Semenik
as first parameter. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] npm publish

2013-12-31 Thread Max Semenik
On 31.12.2013, 15:54 Antoine wrote: I have put the credentials on fenari in /home/wikipedia/doc. You might to do something alike. Move to some host that will not die soon? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing

[Wikitech-l] Presenting inline diffs

2014-02-12 Thread Max Semenik
Hi, I'd like to present you another RFC: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Inline_diffs It proposes to integrate into MediaWiki inline diffs from MobileFrontend. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Latest Snowden docs MediaWiki

2014-02-18 Thread Max Semenik
the articles are just speculation? Because he wasn't a sysadmin of that wiki? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] WAP is finally deprecated

2014-03-11 Thread Max Semenik
functional. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki, Cookies and EU Privacy Policy 95/46/EG

2014-03-14 Thread Max Semenik
On 14.03.2014, 17:59 Remco wrote: What's the fallback for users without JavaScript enabled in this scenario? Nothing. You can't login without cookies. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] New RFC: better JS minification

2014-03-19 Thread Max Semenik
Hi, I'd like to present a new RFC for your consideration: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Minifier It is about how we can shave 10-15% off the size if JavaScript delivered to users. Your comments are highly welcome!:) -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

Re: [Wikitech-l] SpecialPage::getTitle deprecated?!

2014-04-05 Thread Max Semenik
version to 1.23. That saves both the extension devs a lot of hassle, and does not throw the users of those extensions under the bus either. Sounds reasonable to me -- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/124130 -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

[Wikitech-l] GeoData now uses Elasticsearch

2014-04-09 Thread Max Semenik
. And finally, appreciation: this was made possible only thanks to awesome help from our search team, Nik Everett and Chad Horohoe. You kick ass guys! -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] New wikibugs bot

2014-04-22 Thread Max Semenik
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Image scaling proposal: server-side mip-mapping

2014-05-01 Thread Max Semenik
list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change the installer to make Project: the default option for meta namespace name

2014-05-03 Thread Max Semenik
an exception for the meta namespace? -- Nathan Larson https://mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Leucosticte ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Best regards, Max Semenik

[Wikitech-l] Security announcement: XSS in MobileFrontend

2014-05-14 Thread Max Semenik
REL1_23, still in release candidate phase) and 1.24 (master). If you are running a 1.24 WMF branch earlier than wmf/1.24wmf3, please update to a later branch. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Security announcement: XSS in MobileFrontend

2014-05-14 Thread Max Semenik
Almost forgot: this is https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65042 On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: During internal review, an XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerability was discovered in MobileFrontend extension. Due to an unneeded unescaping

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

2014-05-17 Thread Max Semenik
/20MostImportantRuleOfUIDesign.html ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

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

2014-05-17 Thread Max Semenik
watchlist and central notices this should keep the fallout to minimum. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

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

2014-06-06 Thread Max Semenik
, Jürgen. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in API action=parsemobileformat=...

2014-06-09 Thread Max Semenik
This change is getting finalised with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/138029 - please fix your code if you haven't done so yet! On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, in response to bug 54607 [1], we've changed the semantics of the mobileformat parameter

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

2014-06-11 Thread Max Semenik
out in a sensible location, available for editing. -- Tim Starling ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

Re: [Wikitech-l] Separating Special:MyLanguage from Extension:Collection

2014-06-17 Thread Max Semenik
/wikitech-l -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Separating Special:MyLanguage from Extension:Collection

2014-06-19 Thread Max Semenik
Aaaand this is implemented and is up for review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/140765/ -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech

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

2014-07-08 Thread Max Semenik
-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removing support for register_globals

2014-07-08 Thread Max Semenik
://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removing support for register_globals

2014-07-08 Thread Max Semenik
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: Can we use this as an opportunity to officially become 5.4 only? 5.5 would be even cooler, but OMGTHINKOFTHECHILDREN!!!1ONEONEONE As a clarification: when we have it on our cluster, but that's actually surprisingly close

Re: [Wikitech-l] Best practices for loading large, pre-minified JavaScript modules?

2014-07-13 Thread Max Semenik
://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Best practices for loading large, pre-minified JavaScript modules?

2014-07-13 Thread Max Semenik
– whichever is specified in the only= parameter – without a mw.loader.implement or mw.loader.state call. Blargh, I'm quite good at forgetting stuff I myself have written :P -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Anyone going to WikiMania?

2014-07-19 Thread Max Semenik
-l -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Linux distros or Solaris for MediaWiki

2014-07-20 Thread Max Semenik
://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

Re: [Wikitech-l] Linux distros or Solaris for MediaWiki

2014-07-21 Thread Max Semenik
mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Best regards, Max

Re: [Wikitech-l] jQuery UI 1.10.4 and IE6 support

2014-07-25 Thread Max Semenik
/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Thoughts about roles

2014-08-09 Thread Max Semenik
part of WMF infrastructure? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thoughts about roles

2014-08-22 Thread Max Semenik
Done in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/155861 - your critique would be appreciated:) On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: Currently a lot of our extension Vagrant roles are working like Swiss knives: they do everything possible to imagine. For example

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fixing PollNY -- ResourceLoader woes

2014-09-16 Thread Max Semenik
___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] the skin change in 1.21wmf5, display breakage, fix retrospective, again

2012-12-04 Thread Max Semenik
(and preferrably not causing a meltdown)? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest

2012-12-10 Thread Max Semenik
On 11.12.2012, 2:41 Patrick wrote: Well it exists now; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Pizzigati Boo! http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antonio_Pizzigatidiff=527429869oldid=527429244 :P -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

[Wikitech-l] Captchas switched back to NFS storage

2012-12-25 Thread Max Semenik
://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/40351 [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/40352 -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013-01-17 10:00 UTC: Knowledge transfer Solr in Translate by Niklas Laxstrom

2013-01-11 Thread Max Semenik
it anyway, we thought we might as well invite more people that have and interest in the technology. Cheers! Book me a sit, plz:) -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

[Wikitech-l] Populating PageImages data

2013-01-31 Thread Max Semenik
;hb=HEAD -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Populating PageImages data

2013-02-01 Thread Max Semenik
On 01.02.2013, 9:21 MZMcBride wrote: Max Semenik wrote: A month ago, PageImages extension was black-deployed, intended to automatically associate images with articles. I looked at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageImages and I'm still having difficulty understanding

Re: [Wikitech-l] Populating PageImages data

2013-02-01 Thread Max Semenik
. PageImages returns just 1, most appropriate, thumb. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Populating PageImages data

2013-02-01 Thread Max Semenik
On 01.02.2013, 19:40 Brad wrote: On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: On 01.02.2013, 18:14 John wrote: I think there are still some serious issues with this extension, I have checked several pages, and used the max limit parameter and all it returns

Re: [Wikitech-l] Audio derivatives, turning on MP3/AAC mobile app feature request.

2013-02-03 Thread Max Semenik
tells me that won't be feasible for video. :) We've no idea if your system supports OGG videos, so here's an .iso with a video DVD inside. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] RFC: Introducing two new HTTP headers to track mobile pageviews

2013-02-11 Thread Max Semenik
usage is great, not asking to dissuade its use but because its better to capacity plan than to react. action=mobileview caches pages only in full and serves only sections requested, so no changes in request patterns will result in increased memcached usage. -- Best regards, Max Semenik

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lua rollout to en.wikipedia.org and a few others

2013-02-18 Thread Max Semenik
local test wiki.[1] No HTTP access is needed, however, this changes nothing: allowing API calls from Lua opens such a nice can of worms that we don't want to do it at the same time as Lua rollout, too much fun. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

[Wikitech-l] RFC: image information API

2013-02-25 Thread Max Semenik
/Requests_for_comment/Image_information On that page, I'm trying to collect the requirements for extension that would address these problems, as well as the ways of implementation. If all goes well, I'd like to start coding in 1-2 weeks. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

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

2013-02-28 Thread Max Semenik
knew the answer. I would be OK with deleting everything. Thanks Done, I've nuked all pages in File, Category and Creator namespaces from your watchlist, along with their associated talk namespaces. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pictures from a developer's life

2013-03-04 Thread Max Semenik
On 04.03.2013, 15:17 K. wrote: The original tumblr blog where they appear to be from (with more) http://devopsreactions.tumblr.com/ Another must read: https://twitter.com/DEVOPS_BORAT -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Seemingly proprietary Javascript

2013-03-05 Thread Max Semenik
, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Seemingly proprietary Javascript

2013-03-05 Thread Max Semenik
-SA_compatibility My extensions are WTFPL;) -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikiversity: Request for MediaWiki extension

2013-03-15 Thread Max Semenik
present form, needs a MAJOR rewrite, not only to address the glaring security problems, but also to improve overall code quality and scalability. We already have Extension:Collection for exporting to PDF, it can be used for text processing for now. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

[Wikitech-l] Mobile caching improvements are coming

2013-03-29 Thread Max Semenik
://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/55446/ - ResourceLoader change, just a sketch of a real solution as of the moment I'm writing this Your comments are highly appreciated! :) -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile caching improvements are coming

2013-03-29 Thread Max Semenik
the incompatible devices in the startup module to prevent them from choking on the loads of JS they can't handle (and even if they degrade gracefully, still no need to force them to download tens of kilobytes needlessly)[3] -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile caching improvements are coming

2013-03-31 Thread Max Semenik
://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/56774 ? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile caching improvements are coming

2013-04-02 Thread Max Semenik
://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/56774/ Anything else needed? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removing the Hooks class

2013-04-04 Thread Max Semenik
is: a namespace with global variables and functions. It entirely defeats the purpose of object oriented programming. There's a difference: static classes can have private variables, allowing to hide implementation. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removing the Hooks class

2013-04-04 Thread Max Semenik
On 04.04.2013, 19:17 Chad wrote: On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: On 04.04.2013, 16:04 Tyler wrote: I still fully maintain that entirely static classes is the most useless thing and is just an extremely crude method of hiding global context. We're

Re: [Wikitech-l] A new project - Wikicards

2013-04-07 Thread Max Semenik
this thread, then we could decide if it has enough potential. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] A new project - Wikicards

2013-04-07 Thread Max Semenik
will have a problem of having to update the extract to reflect the latest state of the article, it it really worth it? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Temporarily disabling l10n update

2013-04-10 Thread Max Semenik
to take a closer look at this issue today/tomorrow, and hopefully identify the root cause. If he's able to find the cause quickly, we may not need to disrupt the service, but we're going to plan for the worst here. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

Re: [Wikitech-l] New labs project request -- Wikivoyage

2013-04-17 Thread Max Semenik
On 17.04.2013, 23:55 Roger wrote: Hi, Could someone with approval authority please process this new labs project request: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Project_Request/Wikivoyage How is it different from deployment-prep? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

Re: [Wikitech-l] Anyone using Apache 2.4 to run MediaWiki?

2013-04-26 Thread Max Semenik
On 26.04.2013, 19:15 Dmitriy wrote: However, I remember wikimedia was running something old like htpd 1.3 maxsem@mw1020:~$ dpkg -l apache* [snip] ii apache2.2-common 2.2.22-1ubuntu1.3 Apache HTTP Server common files -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

[Wikitech-l] Who uses MobileFrontend?

2013-05-01 Thread Max Semenik
://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Connor Schlesiger GSoC Proposal

2013-05-02 Thread Max Semenik
to write your own wiki using Node.js, fine, but that's not something we're interested in mentoring. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] HipHop VM support: ArrayObject and filter_var()

2013-05-10 Thread Max Semenik
due to lack of support in HipHop: What about namespaces? Last time I heard HH didn't support them - is it safe to assume that support for them is coming? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Code style: overuse of Html::element()

2013-05-13 Thread Max Semenik
), $somePotentiallyUnsafeText ) ) . '/p/div'; What's your opinion, guys and gals? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] migrating hooks doc to doxygen?

2013-06-05 Thread Max Semenik
have large pages with a lot of documentation, examples and _links_ - not something you can do in a comment. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Number crunching: Upload errors on mobile

2013-06-08 Thread Max Semenik
'MISS' upload-blacklist.log $ -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] mod_pagespeed and MediaWiki

2013-07-11 Thread Max Semenik
JS/CSS/HTML/image minimization and domain sharding. FYI, Google already sent us a sample config for this module optimized for our mobile site, I'm going to try it tomorrow. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project idea

2013-07-12 Thread Max Semenik
on the current port-of-a-PhoneGap-app Firefox OS app, which isn't getting maintained. +1, PhoneGap sucks. Also I think we have an app on the Blackberry store too, which too should be replaced / killed. And a DelphinBrowser app, apparently already bitrotten to death. -- Best regards, Max Semenik

Re: [Wikitech-l] mod_pagespeed and MediaWiki

2013-07-12 Thread Max Semenik
, but not usable on WMF, or on any other large MW installations either. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] mod_pagespeed and MediaWiki

2013-07-15 Thread Max Semenik
working on something I noticed in mod_pagespeed - a much better JS minification, expect updates soon:) -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki extensions as core-like libraries: MediaWiki's fun new landmine for admins

2013-07-22 Thread Max Semenik
in the composer.json file, so people would not actually need to run this command. So it's a Composer's limitation. It woud've been awesome if it was possible to do something like if exists optional.json: install optional.json :) -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

Re: [Wikitech-l] Long term strategy for math on wikipedia

2013-07-23 Thread Max Semenik
be an option.) MathJax - the one we're using:) -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Is assert() allowed?

2013-07-30 Thread Max Semenik
291 Thoughts? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Key community metrics to influence our plans

2013-08-12 Thread Max Semenik
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: 你好, 近排點呀? [0] [0] http://wikitravel.org/en/Cantonese_phrasebook#Phrase_list ;) *glares at OP* https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Cantonese_phrasebook#Phrase_list -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia's anti-surveillance plans: site hardening

2013-08-17 Thread Max Semenik
, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] We need to talk about AbuseFilter on mobile

2013-08-19 Thread Max Semenik
mistakes. Or our editing inteface from screwing up users... Most of the popular decline errors seem to be related to removal of large chunks of text, this sounds suspicious... -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] Mobile stats

2013-09-03 Thread Max Semenik
^W definitely kill WAP support on our mobile site as it's virtually unmaintained. - [1] http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportRequests.htm [2] http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is there a way to let mediawiki support jquery mobile?

2013-09-04 Thread Max Semenik
the main contents (div#content) from mediawiki. How about using our special mobile API[1]? :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=mobileview -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] [WikimediaMobile] Mobile stats

2013-09-05 Thread Max Semenik
countries. * Wiki to determine if some wikis are more dependant on WAP than other ones. Anything else? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

[Wikitech-l] RFC: DataStore

2013-09-09 Thread Max Semenik
, not where it's trendy). -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: DataStore

2013-09-09 Thread Max Semenik
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongm...@gmail.comwrote: Essentially a permanent bag-of-stuff? Yes, with a few new features like range operations. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] [Analytics] Mobile stats

2013-09-17 Thread Max Semenik
that is currently being beamed at udp2log is here: http://git.wikimedia.org/blob/operations%2Fpuppet.git/37ffb0ccc1cd7d3f5612df8779e9a3bdb69066b2/modules%2Fvarnish%2Ffiles%2Fvarnishncsa.default -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data Processing

2009-09-28 Thread Max Semenik
On 28.09.2009, 16:54 ?? wrote: Why one page_title can have different page_id? For example, the page_title 'USA' has two page_id '98937','112696'. Because they have different page_namespace ;) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] New SVN user

2009-10-17 Thread Max Semenik
On 10/15/09 7:52 AM, Tim Starling wrote: Max Semenik (maxsem) to work on SQLite support. -- Tim Starling Thanks for getting the updates going Tim! Sorry for appearing so late in this discussion, I unsubscribed myself from this list after withdrawing my request and noticed Tim's email only

[Wikitech-l] Advice needed

2009-10-19 Thread Max Semenik
: Mr.Z-man's original LIKE_UNDERSCORE/LIKE_PERCENT, MATCH_CHAR/MATCH_STRING proposed by me, or something else? Please opine. -- [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20275 [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=6531action=diff -- Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

Re: [Wikitech-l] Webzzle

2009-11-02 Thread Max Semenik
at it, happened before they got the banstick[4] for violating existing policy. And as I mentioned on VPP, it just seems like a solution in search of a problem. I'd say, BBI (Blacklist, Block, Ignore) them. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki] Enhancement: LaTeX images quality (eliminate white background)

2009-11-19 Thread Max Semenik
for the guy who wrote it):D -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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