[Wikitech-l] Code review meeting notes

can't be used on WMF * Refactor code as changes are made (but use separate commits if the refactoring is large). Don't let the code keep getting worse with each change. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

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

issue known? -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] DatabseBase::select behaving broken

in unexpected places, see for example https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/39287 -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki security release: 1.19.2 and 1.18.5

REL1_19 branch nor does tag 1.19.2 exist. Same probably applies to 1.18. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

/Open_requests [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/38638 [3] https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Support [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation -- Niklas Laxström Siebrand Mazeland Raimond Spekking Federico Leva Amir E. Aharoni ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] $( 'div' ) vs. $( 'div /') in coding conventions

for creating a div element. Unless the issue is clarified, I think that recommending to always use valid html like div/div seems a much better option than either of div or div/. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review statistics and trends

it rewarding. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread

. -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

abbreviation for Git, Gerrit and Gated trunk [2] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/Add_MediaWiki_Extensions_from_github_to_translation -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

to use our GiGeGat effectively - if they don't give up [2] Some people have waited for commit access and creation of new repositories for multiple days -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth musings

-- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upstream keyword in bugzilla

the reporters perspective the issue is not fixed when it is reported upstream. For example if our Gerrit is broken, the issue not resolved until a fix is applied in our installation. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Upstream keyword in bugzilla

I think the upstream keyword in bugzilla is useless. Can we replace it with a field which takes an url to the upstream bug report? -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upstream keyword in bugzilla

On 2 July 2012 17:55, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: I think the upstream keyword in bugzilla is useless. Can we replace it with a field which takes an url to the upstream bug report? When I've filed

[Wikitech-l] How to write a parser

] http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/diff/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Database replication

slave to catch up with the state after last write? -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Database replication

On 16 June 2012 15:26, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Niklas Laxström wrote: I have now had multiple issues in Translate extension that are related to database replication. After doing write to the master, some maintenance tasks kick in and use slave to read the (now stale) data

[Wikitech-l] Cry for help from translatewiki.net

[1]. These and other issues are bugging me every day (some of you already know this very well) and I desperately want to get them out of my mind and in to the past. -Niklas [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/36927 -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stance on PHP namespaces?

/1234504 Seems to be somewhat relevant to this discussion, although pretty much incompatible with what we do in MediaWiki currently. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] @param documentation

On 27 April 2012 02:16, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: We definitely shouldn't migrate to @param type $var: description because that's not valid doxygen syntax. The correct syntax is without a colon. This is why your 2nd example ends up with mangled output. If we follow the correct

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

concerned everything is fine and ready for deployment -Niklas [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/107309 [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/3318 [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/4390 [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/4648 -- Niklas Laxström

[Wikitech-l] Interwiki talk page posting

://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/TranslationNotifications.git -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Using GitHub and others

people the benefits of using WMF repositories * Remove any barriers of using WMF repositories * Think of ways to how we can stay up to date with all the interesting development that is happening and communicate back to them how awesome they are -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström

Re: [Wikitech-l] Localisation commits status update

On 26 March 2012 12:25, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: Good $localtime from translatewiki.net. I have been working with Chad and Antoine to resume the daily translation updates from translatewiki.net after the partial git migration of MediaWiki. My original aim was to get

Re: [Wikitech-l] Advanced options

be the number of users, not difficulty of understanding the preference. *5 Have sane defaults, obviously. Re 5: For example I hate that I must everywhere change enhanced recent changes to be the default. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC -- TranslateSvg: Bringing the translation revolution to Wikimedia Commons

make sure MessageGroups::clearCache is called or correct dependencies for the cache are added with the above hook. * Probably also need to call statistic purging hooks at places. Talk to me if you want to have more details how to do the above. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström

Re: [Wikitech-l] Open git issues

you are currently looking at. Gerrit will reduce the amount of follow-ups, but they will still exist. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Open git issues

bugzilla, but it's a bit tedious to use and doesn't as-is have the high visibility like FIXMES used to have. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Localisation commits status update

help to make the maintenance/language/rebuildLanguage.php script to support arbitrary location instead of just the current wiki installation. If it is not an issue, the first diffs will be big because of the change, but remaining ones will be small as usual. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström

Re: [Wikitech-l] migrating a non-WMF extension to Git

and others for being so helpful finding solutions to my numerous problems. I believe we can sort out all the remaining issues in due time. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration: documentation and short-term considerations

with mixed git/svn extensions and how to keep them updated with single command that is as easy as svn up. -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git, Gerrit and the coming migration

requirement. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who can make Gerrit/Labsconsole accounts?

access knows how to do that or want to do that. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please test Javascript on meta.wikimedia.org

/show_bug.cgi?id=33903 -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] State of the 1.19 deployment; one (known) blocking bug

Thanks Rob Thanks for the update - I was mostly unaware what has been happening. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration - updated schedule workflow descriptions

500M to support the i18n of three branches of mediawiki and all extensions. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Logging messages

that wgmessageCache is no longer available.  Is there a document on how to use the logging feature in the wiki? Maybe your i18n file is not properly formatted, or it is cached. Try running 'php maintenance/rebuildLocalisationCache.php' fom the command line. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2012 Q1 Extension Page Review Drive

used by the extension in the extension page is useful. It's bound to be always outdated and seems a lot of work for little benefit. Apart from that I updated one of my extensions and will probably do few others :) -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström

[Wikitech-l] What happened to MediaWiki-CVS

I haven't received any new commit mails in the past 14 hours and the archives [1] are empty. [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-cvs/ -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Escaping messages

ones. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Documentation on logging code

On 15 December 2011 00:46, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 December 2011 19:08, Daniel Barrett d...@vistaprint.com wrote: I also noticed the lack of documentation on LogPage so I just wrote this on mediawiki.org: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Logging_to_Special:Log

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committer

! There is so much to do in search. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Documentation on logging code

way of doing logging. I'll try to find some time to document the new way too. -Niklas Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Coding Convention: Method chaining

, and if there are trade offs I'm not aware of. I believe I introduced it into the core first time with the Message class. There were some resistance and concerns, but it looks like there hasn't been any problems using it. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström

Re: [Wikitech-l] en-CA in MediaWiki? Rethinking our method of handling translation bugs?

written documentation to the extend that if it is not there they don't even bother to ask? I refuse to believe we are too scary to be asked (see image on [1] :). [1] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:Nike -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Core devs: What changes do extension devs needs to make from 1.17 to 1.18?

methods (through the use of method_exists and the like). Code samples are more frequent here, but again please link to actual documentation for individual objects, methods, etc. One issue I just encountered is that Title::getCanonicalUrl and escapeCanonicalUrl are new in 1.18. -Niklas -- Niklas

Re: [Wikitech-l] Core devs: What changes do extension devs needs to make from 1.17 to 1.18?

On 6 November 2011 14:17, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: One issue I just encountered is that Title::getCanonicalUrl and escapeCanonicalUrl are new in 1.18. Nor $wgCanonicalServer nor mw.util.wikiScript in JS! -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia CAPTCHA repair

at the code and some sample output? Is the code not public yet? I've also made my own version with UTF-8 support, relaxed word length and proper hyphenation. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 31469

for parsing. I think it currently sometimes takes title from appropriate context, sometimes it just fallbacks to wgTitle or even dummy title. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] History of mergehistory

Why is mergehistory right not enabled by default? I only found thiscommit http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/27823which says disabled by default for now. -Niklas-- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committers

working on SMW is also nice. Welcome! -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] etherpad-lite

Does etherpad-lite also fix the annoying problems with current etherpad: last chat line half visible, scrolling jumps directly to very top or very bottom, cannot resize chat pane? -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Giving up on LiquidThreads

don't get any attention. We have been waiting for the rewrite to finish for so long I can't remember anymore, at least six months. We somehow manage to live with the issues, but it is not fun by any means. I'm not surprised that someone else gave up. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström

[Wikitech-l] Status of PediaPress and mwlib.rl

or fixed, it probably doesn't make any sense to translate it either. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preliminary git module splitup notes (MediaWiki core extensions)

serious effort to code and to make stable and secure content distribution channel. Any volunteers? :) [1] This would also satisfy those who think that including all l10n makes the tarball too big -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration planning

. extensions svn status should now show S extensions and you have all extensions. If you don't want them all, use --depth empty and svn up them individually. -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] On developing extensions and namespace registering

extensions I have checked out. I don't however have all extensions checked out. A little task for someone would be to go through all extensions in svn and add missing items to the list to get an overview of the current state. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re quests about log system

not be best here, but could be an option if the interface is less broken than the JSON one. :) It's awful. Needs external libraries/code which all are broken in way or another. Besides, JSON is a subset of YAML. Also, by this definition YAML cannot be easier to parse than JSON. -Niklas -- Niklas

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re quests about log system

noticed JSON is used extensively in resource loader. Roan: did you consider this point when choosing JSON format for storing message resources? -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re quests about log system

this new system, so I'd rather be sure we are comfortable with what we have chosen, to avoid unnecessary mix of different formats in the database. -Niklas On 8 September 2011 20:00, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 September 2011 17:57, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re quests about log system

/MediaWiki/author/nikerabbit -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re quests about log system

guaranteed to be stable across PHP versions? -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re quests about log system

On 8 September 2011 17:57, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: On 11-09-08 04:25 AM, Niklas Laxström wrote: On 8 September 2011 13:36, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Aaron Schulz aschulz4...@gmail.com wrote: Yay for log_params. I

[Wikitech-l] Requests about log system

entries assume sentence starts with username -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Can we make the life of extension developers easier?

including the interfaces) -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] all those zeros in tables in text brosers

that doesn't involve CSS hacks.) It exists and it's called data-sort-value attribute. And it's already live on Wikipedia as far as I can see. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] IRC Bug Triage

the date too. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can I get data to map our linguistic interconnectedness?

, so we can make them less disconnected. Can we make them less disconnected? How? -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Showing stub links by default - is it possible in a Wikimedia project?

JavaScript make sense out of them? -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] search=steven+tyler gets Steven_tyler

to think about these beforehand. But we already do enough mindless killing of diacritics. It doesn't work across all languages. In Finnish saa and sää are different words and ä is not a letter a with something added to it. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström

Re: [Wikitech-l] Spay or neuter your jQuery libraries before they multiply!

to clarify the policy for Translate extension too, which is latest stable release and trunk. For good and bad fulfilling even these requirements feels like a lot of work (to me) at times. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Packaging mediawiki : includes/zhtable

translations. Making the ZhConversion.php works nicely, but I do not know how to package all the stuff: It's not translations, it's conversion stuff, but I don't understand why you want to split them. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Supported Browser List

been studying Lucene and the Lucene-search extension because of my thesis. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of 1.17 1.18

to maintain them, not even speaking about supporting them. But all of this is moot, since you're proposing 3 releases per year and I'm complaining about having only one or two releases per year. Three releases would be enough for me. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström

Re: [Wikitech-l] Narayam User Interface Improvements

and web fonts are quite related. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Narayam User Interface Improvements

- are you a good person to contact about it? - Trevor -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Rules for text in languages/messages/Messages***.php

is markup which Mediawiki automatically converts, like . This is disabled on translatewiki.net but not when editing messages in local wiki. Also the message names must be valid Mediawiki titles and unique case insensitively (restriction placed by twn). -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström

Re: [Wikitech-l] Some changes to $wgOut, $wgUser, Skin, and SpecialPage code patterns

the rewriting of $wgTitle and $wgOut inside of SpecialPage::capturePath around MediaWiki 1.20. That's too fast. Needs at least few releases without and with wfDeprecated(); -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Merging content from multiple wikis

system for Mediawiki called lucene-search [1]. It is somewhat Wikimedia specific but general use does not seem impossible. [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-search -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

hosted on some WM server. avar So all the ssh keys etc. would already be set up, and getting a list of repos would be no harder than getting a list of extension dirs today. What other unspoken assumptions are there? -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström

Re: [Wikitech-l] supporting small languages (was WMF 2015 strategic plan and multilingualism)

this for a long time. But I'm curious what the current state of affairs is, and if issues for small languages are collected together in one place). There are also issues that affect big languages. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removing test suites from trunk

maintenance/tests and you should be set. svn up --set-depth exclude maintenance/tests svn: 'exclude' is not a valid depth; try 'empty', 'files', 'immediates', or 'infinity' There is no mention of 'exclude' even in the docs of development version of svn. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removing test suites from trunk

? Besides, it feels silly to talk about this, while we simultaneously talk about including some of the most common extensions in the name of providing feature complete MediaWiki straight from the box--which is a goal I agree with. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removing test suites from trunk

will not have the effect of discarding everything but the topmost directory—it will simply error out. Second, there is no depth value to indicate that you wish an item to be explicitly excluded. You have to do implicit exclusion of an item by including everything else. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removing test suites from trunk

On 6 December 2010 17:02, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Niklas Laxström wrote: A few days ago the issue came up where I was talking with an end user who was complaining about MediaWiki being too large (in the server, not in the tarball) compared to other apps like wordpress. I think

[Wikitech-l] Donation Interface translation questions

There seems to be some unanswered questions regarding translatable messages of donation interface at code review [1]. Could someone look and answer those soon? [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/75835 Thanks, -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström

Re: [Wikitech-l] Call to arms - installer translations

execution paths as you can - there will be things to fix. And everybody else, you can help both the translators and the end users by improving the message documentation and the English strings, by making them as consistent, unambiguous and easy to understand as possible. -Niklas -- Niklas

[Wikitech-l] Are deps files still needed?

. // see http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-January/021311.html The referenced bug http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=6503 is marked as fixed in PHP 5.1.x. Can we remove those file or is there something else going on with this problem that we should be aware of? -Niklas -- Niklas

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] about requiring PHP 5.2

On 19 October 2010 09:49, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Nobody seems to care about it :p Yikes, top-posting! Having a 5.2.x as requirement for 1.17 could be a good incentive for the rest to upgrade PHP to get goodies like resource loader. But on the other hand I think we should first

Re: [Wikitech-l] processing irc://irc.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia

artifact of the IRC protocol that I need to handle? Those are color codes. See for example http://www.mirc.com/help/colors.html -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vector extension naming

but are not so confused. It takes more time to figure out what is what and why something is not working than do the actual changes. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sites using InstantCommons (was: wikimedia commons slow lately?)

configuration variables and installed extensions), but nothing more thus far. [1] http://s23.org/wikistats/mediawiki_extensions.php -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Balancing MediaWiki Core/Extensions

code in the trunk seems to be the only sure way to get your code reviewed even a little and deployed into WMF (it may still take a year). In short: I agree keeping the core slick and clean, but I think the case is clear for (at least part of) the usability enhancements. -Niklas -- Niklas

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, now in trunk!

direction depends on the content language? It should depend on the user language instead, and it should be possible to have content in different direction. Or is this just automation of the work which was previously done by hand or not done at all? -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström

[Wikitech-l] How to use @since annotations

://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/User:Jeroen_De_Dauw/Code_style Thanks, -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to use @since annotations

no other acceptable solution is proposed, I disagree. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Debian packages (was MediaWiki version statistics)

and communication, not trying to do their job. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Request for comments: New Message class (2nd round)

the codebase as essentially a way to bundle up a message key, some parameters, and a success flag without converting to String too soon. I don't think it replaces Status class, but just makes it a lot cleaner with regards to message handling. -- Niklas Laxström

Re: [Wikitech-l] [gsoc] splitting the img_metadata field into a new table

it happily deletes all values stored in page_props it doesn't know about. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla bugged

in the new versions. This is of course very annoying to users who might not even know what is going on. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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