[Wikitech-l] [IRC] BotBot logs

2015-06-13 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, Krinkle wanted to use BotBot.me log viewer as a frontend for wm-bot's logs. It unfortunatelly uses slightly different database schemas, but I managed to create some views in wm-bot's db that actually produces similar columns and behold! It works: http://botbot.wmflabs.org/freenode/15/ Well, t

Re: [Wikitech-l] [IRC] BotBot logs

2015-06-13 Thread Petr Bena
I fixed slugs now, so every channel has perma links in format of http://botbot.wmflabs.org/freenode/CHANNEL for example http://botbot.wmflabs.org/freenode/wikimedia-labs/ On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > Hi, > > Krinkle wanted to use BotBot.me log viewer as a fronte

Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

2015-06-18 Thread Petr Bena
There is no such a thing like "properly break". That's like if someone was happily sad. Come on On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Yuri Astrakhan > wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 7:44 PM, John Mark Vandenberg >> wrote: >> >> > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] [IRC] BotBot logs

2015-06-26 Thread Petr Bena
Yes it was, labs still didn't recover from the outage: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103696?workflow=103265 On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:19 AM, Stephen Niedzielski wrote: > This seems to have stopped working a few days ago. I get a 502 Bad > Gateway. I was thinking it was probably related to

[Wikitech-l] Phabricator filter by language

2015-07-17 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, What if we added extra projects to phabricator for programming languages (such as language-php, language-c) which could be optionally added to some tickets if help of people who know these languages would be needed. So that it would be possible for example to c++ experts to filter out open tas

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator filter by language

2015-07-17 Thread Petr Bena
can already infer some languages from the project: Pywikibot → Python, > Hierator → Java etc. > And nearly any other one will have language-php then. But for C++ it might > still make sense. > > > Il 17/07/2015 10:04, Petr Bena ha scritto: >> >> Hi, >> >&g

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator filter by language

2015-07-18 Thread Petr Bena
Asking of stackoverflow to resolve a phabricator task is same as asking there to do your homework. How is CSS not common amongst MediaWiki, did something change recently? :P On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 3:39 AM, Gergo Tisza wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 3:04 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > >>

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia iOS app moving to GH

2015-07-22 Thread Petr Bena
Good job, you aren't the only one. Huggle team is using it for quite some time. To be honest I still feel that github is far superior to our gerrit installation and don't really understand why we don't use it for other projects too. The GitHub's pull requests are more compliant with original git p

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia iOS app moving to GH

2015-07-23 Thread Petr Bena
Force pushes can be disabled if you contact github support On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:14 PM, Gergo Tisza wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:39 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > >> Good job, you aren't the only one. Huggle team is using it for quite >> some time. To be honest I st

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator filter by language

2015-07-29 Thread Petr Bena
although it might be a little redundant. > On a related note, we've been trying to add the "Easy" tag where > appropriate. > > > --stephen > > [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104086 > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Quim Gil wrote: > >> On F

Re: [Wikitech-l] The "other" developers at the Wikimedia Developer Summit

2015-09-15 Thread Petr Bena
Is there going to be a hangout stream for the presentations so that people who can't attend (trip is just too expensive) can see or participate at them? On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Quim Gil wrote: > You have probably read the announcement of the Wikimedia Developer Summit > 2016 registration

[Wikitech-l] Understanding weird behaviour of diffto in API

2015-09-15 Thread Petr Bena
I am trying to understand how this works: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Revisions There is a parameter DiffTo which says: Revision ID to diff each revision to. Use "prev", "next" and "cur" for the previous, next and current revision respectively. I suppose that I can give it revision ID inst

Re: [Wikitech-l] Understanding weird behaviour of diffto in API

2015-09-15 Thread Petr Bena
That "compare" feature look promising. Thanks On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > >> I suppose in that case I would set RevID to 520 and DiffTo to 20. That >> however doesn't see

Re: [Wikitech-l] Understanding weird behaviour of diffto in API

2015-09-15 Thread Petr Bena
y&rawcontinue=1&format=xml but as you can see, it's not actually containing all these changes. Why is that? I would like to see a diff of these 3 edits from 681167574 which is oldest to 681167909 which in time of me writing this was last revision. On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Pet

Re: [Wikitech-l] Understanding weird behaviour of diffto in API

2015-09-16 Thread Petr Bena
yay, that fixed the problem, thanks :o On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > >> Just to make clear what my problem is, here is example. There is a >> user 75.69.113.86 who made 3 consecutive edi

[Wikitech-l] Wikitext linting service

2015-10-05 Thread Petr Bena
Hello, I would like to get your input for this potential Google-Code / Outreachy task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114631 Quick summary: Right now there is no simple way to detect syntax errors of a wikicode (text user input as a source code for wiki page). Its existence would make it simp

Re: [Wikitech-l] AWS usage

2015-10-07 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, Why do you even care? Is this question directed to foundation only or community developers as well? "Used by wikimedia" is very broad term. On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > >> Is AWS (Amazon Web Services) being used by Wikimedia directly; US >> Foundation, or by ot

Re: [Wikitech-l] AWS usage

2015-10-07 Thread Petr Bena
Sorry, I mentioned the question for OP of this thread. On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > >> Why do you even care? Is this question directed to foundation only or >> community developers as well? "Used by wikimedia" is very broad term. > > I interpreted "Wikimedia" as WMF,

Re: [Wikitech-l] AWS usage

2015-10-08 Thread Petr Bena
only ubuntu or debian, no proprietary software, hard-to-get public IP, long waiting time for stuff that you can't do yourself (request new project), no IPv6 and many others) On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 6:08 AM, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 1:54 AM, Petr Bena wrote: >&

Re: [Wikitech-l] Parsoid still doesn't love me

2015-11-09 Thread Petr Bena
Do you really want to say that reading from disk is faster than processing the text using CPU? I don't know how complex syntax of mw actually is, but C++ compilers are probably much faster than parsoid, if that's true. And these are very slow. What takes so much CPU time in turning wikitext into h

[Wikitech-l] Git for idiots

2015-11-10 Thread Petr Bena
Hello, I would like to remind that I made this guide some time ago: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Petrb/Git_for_idiots It always quite sucked and still does, but I tried to slightly rewrite it now, so it should contain more accurate information. I would like to keep it as a super simple m

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git for idiots

2015-11-10 Thread Petr Bena
Now I also found this awesome guide: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Aude/Git Perhaps it would worth merging and putting to some central location? On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to remind that I made this guide some time ago:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git for idiots

2015-11-11 Thread Petr Bena
Ok, I will try to merge all useful stuff in here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git_for_dummies On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Legoktm wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On 11/10/2015 09:06 AM, Petr Bena wrote:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Compression with API

2015-11-30 Thread Petr Bena
Also, mobile phones would probably benefit from this most, if there is some wiki-reader app that uses API for it to work. On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > Hi, > > I created this ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119878 > > The basic idea is that it sho

[Wikitech-l] Compression with API

2015-11-30 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, I created this ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119878 The basic idea is that it shouldn't be a big problem to compress output of api.php script using some widely available library, like gzip. That way the size of communication between client and server would be much smaller and us

Re: [Wikitech-l] Compression with API

2015-11-30 Thread Petr Bena
Interesting. I was googling for something like that, but for whatever reasons it just wasn't anywhere in the results... On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > >> Is there any reason not to do that? >

[Wikitech-l] Is there some non-ssl mirror of wikipedia?

2015-12-06 Thread Petr Bena
I noticed that since we enforce SSL on Wikipedia for everyone, Wikipedia is much more restricted in some countries, such as China, where it's entirely blocked (I think only SSL is blocked, but users now have no option to fall back to non-ssl version). Is there some non-ssl mirror for people in the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dumps.wm.o access will be https only

2016-04-01 Thread Petr Bena
Can you give us some justification for this change? It's not like when downloading dumps you would actually leak some sensitive data... On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF wrote: > We plan to make this change on April 4 (this coming Monday), redirecting > plain http access to https. >

Re: [Wikitech-l] irc.wikimedia.org (kraz) reboot

2016-10-20 Thread Petr Bena
Or you can fix them by using alternative RC providers: http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCFeed On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Daniel Zahn wrote: > Hi, > > this is to let you know that kraz, the server that runs irc.wikimedia.org > had to be rebooted for a kernel upgrade. > > If you have IRC c

Re: [Wikitech-l] irc.wikimedia.org (kraz) reboot

2016-10-21 Thread Petr Bena
Yep a rewrite that consists of tossing 2000+ lines of code and replacing them with, eh, 3 lines? https://github.com/huggle/XMLRCS/tree/master/clients/c%23/XmlRcs :p On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Danny B. wrote: > > > -- Původní zpráva -- > Od: Petr Bena >

Re: [Wikitech-l] What happened to RobLa?

2016-11-03 Thread Petr Bena
Hello, I don't like to sound like a bad guy, but I really find it quite inappropriate to discuss this sort of stuff on a public mailing list. This really is a personal matter. If he didn't post any dramatical announcement perhaps he wanted to "leave quietly"? You know, people sometimes do this so

[Wikitech-l] where is documentation for new wikibugs bot

2014-04-27 Thread Petr Bena
There is a new bot for wikibugs but it doesn't seem to reply very well to basic CTCP messages and provides no link to its documentation. Where can it be found? How is the bot controlled? How do I make it join some channel and subscribe to a feed? ___ Wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] where is documentation for new wikibugs bot

2014-04-27 Thread Petr Bena
it would be also cool if source code was somewhere readable by public On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > There is a new bot for wikibugs but it doesn't seem to reply very well > to basic CTCP messages and provides no link to its documentation. > Where can it be

Re: [Wikitech-l] where is documentation for new wikibugs bot

2014-04-27 Thread Petr Bena
ork, given that making reliable bot that is able to autorejoin / reconnect on netsplits that happen often, isn't that easy. On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > it would be also cool if source code was somewhere readable by public > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 10:57 AM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] where is documentation for new wikibugs bot

2014-04-27 Thread Petr Bena
On 27 April 2014 10:00, Petr Bena wrote: > >> it would be also cool if source code was somewhere readable by public >> >> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Petr Bena wrote: >> > There is a new bot for wikibugs but it doesn't seem to reply very well >>

Re: [Wikitech-l] where is documentation for new wikibugs bot

2014-04-27 Thread Petr Bena
han asking where the code is, I said it would be nice to have it somewhere. Regarding documentation: even the e-mail you linked here doesn't provide any, so, yes I admit I didn't search for it, but if I did, I would still had the same question :P On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 5:11 PM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] recent changes stream

2014-05-05 Thread Petr Bena
Given the current specifications I can only support this change as long as current IRC feed is preserved as IRC is IMHO, as much as evil it looks, more suitable for this than WebSockets. I am not saying that IRC is suitable for this and I know that people really wanted to get rid of it or replace

Re: [Wikitech-l] recent changes stream

2014-05-05 Thread Petr Bena
ell. > > Erik B. > > > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:29 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > >> Given the current specifications I can only support this change as >> long as current IRC feed is preserved as IRC is IMHO, as much as evil >> it looks, more suitable for this than WebSock

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Travelling Labs!

2014-05-06 Thread Petr Bena
Looking forward to drinking beer with you guys :3 On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: > Hey all, > > Me and Andrew Bogott will be travelling to Zürich for the Hackaton[1] in > the coming days; this means limited online availability during actual > travel time, but vastly incr

[Wikitech-l] Huggle3 @ Zurich hackaton

2014-05-07 Thread Petr Bena
Hi all, Some of you might heard of it, some of you probably know it or even regularly use it - huggle is a super fast diff browser for MediaWiki intended for dealing with vandalism on Wikimedia projects (but it can be used for any installation), written in C++. It is being used on a number of wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] Login to Wikimedia Phabricator with a GitHub/Google/etc account?

2014-05-16 Thread Petr Bena
Yes. Support as many providers as possible, google at least, I basically don't even want to use any more web services with own login unless I have to. single login FTW On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Chris Steipp wrote: > On May 15, 2014 3:56 PM, "hoo" wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 14:20 -

[Wikitech-l] Do we have any data in wikidata / wiktionary that could be used for mechanic translations?

2014-05-22 Thread Petr Bena
I was looking for a free (possibly open source) provider of automatic translations for my open source application I am working on and quite had troubles finding some. Then I realized we have a project called "wiktionary" which could possibly (I was assuming it's open dictionary) help me here, but I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Do we have any data in wikidata / wiktionary that could be used for mechanic translations?

2014-05-22 Thread Petr Bena
and queries to accomplish that, but IMHO it should be easier. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Petr Bena wrote: >> I was looking for a free (possibly open source) provider of automatic >> translations for my open source appl

Re: [Wikitech-l] Do we have any data in wikidata / wiktionary that could be used for mechanic translations?

2014-05-22 Thread Petr Bena
, but that, no matter how nice it is, isn't free for developers (api's are paid) and isn't very open (source code is closed and user ability to edit database is nowhere near to what people can do on real wikis, like wikipedia) On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Petr Bena wrote: >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Do we have any data in wikidata / wiktionary that could be used for mechanic translations?

2014-05-22 Thread Petr Bena
this isn't about translation of content of current wikimedia projects, but more about creating a generic tool that anyone could use to translate anything, so not really what [[Content translation]] describes On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Gabriel Wicke wrote: > This is currently being developed

[Wikitech-l] Huggle 3 released / Mac people needed

2014-06-01 Thread Petr Bena
Good news Everyone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2BNmn8TYdE We just released a stable version of huggle 3 which is likely full of some "unstable features" (some call these bugs). DWRTLD (don't want to read too long documents): Huggle is a fast-diff browser for mediawiki that allows you to reve

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Huggle] Huggle 3 released / Mac people needed

2014-06-01 Thread Petr Bena
d it (the latest version) please provide details. Thanks On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Petr Bena wrote: >> >> >> We didn't release any mac bundle, because we have nobody with a mac in >> our team, so

[Wikitech-l] Preventing MW from adding a page to watchlist

2014-06-10 Thread Petr Bena
There is no mention of this feature in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Rollback but according to Helder in this bug report https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66273 mediawiki insert every page to which a rollback api was used on to a users watchlist. Is there a way to disable it? __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preventing MW from adding a page to watchlist

2014-06-10 Thread Petr Bena
That's what I needed - I prefer using documentation rather than random options :) Thanks On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:57 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > >> There is no mention of this feature in >> https://www.mediawik

[Wikitech-l] Ensure that user is logged in

2014-06-19 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, Is there some effective way to do this? We are using only mw api's in latest huggle, and somehow it happens that when users are logged out of mediawiki, it still works (edits are done using IP instead). How can I ensure that api query will fail unless user is not logged in, is there some vari

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ensure that user is logged in

2014-06-19 Thread Petr Bena
Nice. Can this parameter be anywhere in the url? for example api.php?action=query&assert=user&prop=blabla or does it need to be on a specific position, like token? On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:54 PM, John wrote: > Look up the assert parameter in the API > On Jun 19, 2014 6:52

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ensure that user is logged in

2014-06-19 Thread Petr Bena
php?title=API:Edit&diff=410992&oldid=404971 > > > On 19 June 2014 14:27, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > >> On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:16:22 +0200, MZMcBride wrote: >> >> Petr Bena wrote: >>> >>>> Can this parameter be anywhere in the url? for example

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ensure that user is logged in

2014-06-19 Thread Petr Bena
In general I would extend this: "you should never rely on other programmers assuming they did things correctly because we are lazy morons" On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > At some point it makes sense. You shouldn't rely on servers :P I am > placing t

[Wikitech-l] Save sorting order in bugzilla

2014-06-22 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, I like to sort items by priority but always I change this, when I reopen the page it's lost and I have to change it again. Is there a way to save this in bugzilla so that I always have bugs by priority instead of component? I have cookies enabled but it doesn't help _

[Wikitech-l] bugzilla: keyword for every language

2014-06-25 Thread Petr Bena
Can we have that? so that people can filter out bugs that are require skills for certain languages only? For example if I needed to fix something that is C++ I would just tag it so, same for PHP, JS, etc... So that C++ devs could filter out only all bugs that require C++ knowledge and see all bugs

Re: [Wikitech-l] bugzilla: keyword for every language

2014-06-25 Thread Petr Bena
t 12:52 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 10:44 +0200, Petr Bena wrote: >> Can we have that? so that people can filter out bugs that are require >> skills for certain languages only? >> For example if I needed to fix something that is C++ I would just tag >&

Re: [Wikitech-l] bugzilla: keyword for every language

2014-06-25 Thread Petr Bena
think wikimedia could get inspired a bit (this idea is actually not from my head) :P On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > No, they wouldn't need to do this, it would more like optional feature > for new bugs and only for these which are created by person who need > a

Re: [Wikitech-l] bugzilla: keyword for every language

2014-06-25 Thread Petr Bena
ok that seems to be good enough for me. What is actually difference between these keywords and white-board if it can serve the same purpose? On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 13:51 +0200, Petr Bena wrote: >> it maybe works for large ones

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mentors participating in GSoC Reunion (was Re: IMPORTANT: GSoC & OPW mid-term evaluations)

2014-07-09 Thread Petr Bena
I totaly agree with this, I didn't even notice original mail. Give us moar mails pls next time :) On Jul 9, 2014 5:42 PM, "Isarra Yos" wrote: > On 09/07/14 10:38, Quim Gil wrote: > >> Siebrand and Kartik have been selected to participate in the GSoC Reunion >> o >> behalf of Wikimedia. >> >> http

Re: [Wikitech-l] recent changes stream

2014-07-11 Thread Petr Bena
ce', u'patrolled': True, u'bot': False, > u'id': 9, u'minor': True, u'revision': {u'new': 9, u'old': 8}} > > It's so much nicer. Sorry Petr, I think this is much more suitable than the > mess that is connect

Re: [Wikitech-l] recent changes stream

2014-07-11 Thread Petr Bena
nt in replacing one technology with worse one and forcing everyone to use it? On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Antoine Musso wrote: > Le 05/05/2014 11:29, Petr Bena a écrit : >> Given the current specifications I can only support this change as >> long as current IRC feed is preserve

Re: [Wikitech-l] recent changes stream

2014-07-11 Thread Petr Bena
you shut it off On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > right now it seems to me worse in many points: > > * it requires more traffic (slower and ineffective) > * it requires some extra libraries that enlarge dependency tree > * protocol itself is extra complicated

Re: [Wikitech-l] recent changes stream

2014-07-11 Thread Petr Bena
Also https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67888 needs to be fixed so that people have some chance to test if their tools works with websocket at least few months before switch to it On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > BTW do you have any use data or feedback f

Re: [Wikitech-l] Naigos and Icinga

2014-07-18 Thread Petr Bena
Even these multi-use machines we have infront of us are still called computers although they are rarely used for computing :P On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Brian Wolff wrote: > I imagine old names die hard. People still say mysql instead of mariadb. > Most of the varnish related code in mediaw

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator migration update

2014-07-23 Thread Petr Bena
when do you plan to launch fabricator on production? I would like to be a guinea pig with a number of small projects (wm-bot and huggle for beginning) On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Florian Schmidt wrote: > Hello Andre! > > >> teams are definitely welcome to try >> out the Labs instance > > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Brief Labs outage

2014-07-31 Thread Petr Bena
No such a dashboard, we have(d) icinga and ganglia, IDK if it's operational though... problem of these 2 is that they are maintained primarily by puppet, which for good reasons is loathed by many and disabled or killed on many instances, which result in these monitoring tools being defunct there. B

Re: [Wikitech-l] Snuggle, Huggle, and VandalSniper

2014-08-04 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, If you found anything that VandalSniper can do and huggle can't, you can request it as a new feature and it will likely be there in next version, quick overview - this is what it has on its page * Unlimited browser tabs. - we don't have tabs in huggle now because I lack any use for them * Unc

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

2014-08-06 Thread Petr Bena
The Chosen One's API. In short: Tchopi :P Do we really need to call it somehow? When you will say "api" 99% of people who know mediawiki a bit will go for api.php. Special naming should be used just for the other weird api's that nobody is ever going to use anyway. Btw, why do we need to have the

Re: [Wikitech-l] News about stolen Internet credentials; reducing Wikimedia reliance on usernames and passwords

2014-08-07 Thread Petr Bena
Hm... and I am a lazy hacker, so now when you told us your password, could you please give me your username as well so that I don't have to search it? Thanks! :P On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Chad wrote: > I'm lazy and wouldn't want the burden of remembering more > than "password123" as my pas

Re: [Wikitech-l] News about stolen Internet credentials; reducing Wikimedia reliance on usernames and passwords

2014-08-07 Thread Petr Bena
rs at all, but they weren't supported much with reason that sounded to me like "nobody cares about security on projects like wikipedia" On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > Hm... and I am a lazy hacker, so now when you told us your password, > could you pleas

[Wikitech-l] Make port 22 on gerrit.wikimedia.org default for git (same as what 29418 is now)

2014-08-26 Thread Petr Bena
gerrit.wikimedia.org is a default git gateway for all of wikimedia projects, but it still has a number of issues compared to other (IMHO better) providers, like GitHub. One of major issues I am now having is, that git needs to be accessed using non-standard port because regular ssh access is still

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gertty a console interface to Gerrit

2014-09-25 Thread Petr Bena
That is cool but isn't gerrit going to be shutdown soonish? On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Antoine Musso wrote: > Hello, > > James E. Blair, from the Openstack project, wrote an async console > interface to Gerrit. > > The reasoning is that when you write all your code in a terminal, it > make

[Wikitech-l] IRC bots for phab

2014-09-27 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, Is currently someone working on this thing? I might be able to help with this task at some point. So in case you are working on it or would like to get any help with this, let me know, either here or on irc (petan), thanks ___ Wikitech-l mailing lis

Re: [Wikitech-l] IRC bots for phab

2014-09-28 Thread Petr Bena
This is all nice, but I can't login to phabricator (error 503 when I use my LDAP) so I can't really participate in any discussion there. On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Jeremy Baron wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Petr Bena wrote: >> Is currently someone worki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Do you know PERL? Bugzilla-Migration needs your help

2014-10-24 Thread Petr Bena
Isn't Marc expert? :P I will have a look as well... On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Quim Gil wrote: > The Wikimedia Phabricator team needs help from someone familiar with PERL. > > The Bugzilla API has a bug, which we tried to fix with a patch, but now > that patch creates another problem. Now

Re: [Wikitech-l] Do you know PERL? Bugzilla-Migration needs your help

2014-10-24 Thread Petr Bena
port them? Because XML is not a good format for exports of binary files as it doesn't allow some characters. What about getting the out using some SQL query? Why do we even need to use XML? Is it only way to import to phab? On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > Isn't Mar

Re: [Wikitech-l] BREAKING CHANGE: API help and pretty-printed output formatting changes

2014-10-26 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, at some point I miss that 1 huge page where I could find everything in 3 seconds just by using ctrl+f, there should be a way to display it, or there should be at least some api for it :P 1 page documentations are sometimes better than docs split into zillions of html documents On Sun, Oct 26,

Re: [Wikitech-l] BREAKING CHANGE: API help and pretty-printed output formatting changes

2014-10-29 Thread Petr Bena
Aha, in that case I like it :)) On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:44:53 +0100, Petr Bena wrote: > >> at some point I miss that 1 huge page where I could find everything in >> 3 seconds just by using ctrl+f, there should be a

[Wikitech-l] rvtoken deprecated

2014-10-30 Thread Petr Bena
Hello, I am receiving lot of these warnings: WARNING: API query (revisions): The rvtoken parameter has been deprecated. According to current documentation for mediawiki at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Rollback which I follow, in order to get a rvtoken I should use this query: https://en.w

Re: [Wikitech-l] rvtoken deprecated

2014-10-30 Thread Petr Bena
Before someone come with something like: if documentation is wrong, fix it I don't know what the correct way is, because I am following the documentation which is wrong, so until someone who knows how to do this right fix it, I won't know that either. On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:11 AM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] rvtoken deprecated

2014-10-30 Thread Petr Bena
More ranting: proper deprecated-message should look like this: "foo is deprecated. Please use bar instead (see http://awesomedocs.net/how-to-use-bar.htm)" It would be cool if mw devs who keep deprecating things would consider this. Thanks On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Petr B

Re: [Wikitech-l] rvtoken deprecated

2014-10-30 Thread Petr Bena
e API documentation, so, if you know, how to > do a rollback, you can fix the doc on mw.org (don't forget to update the MW > version the doc page refers to). > > Freundliche Grüße / Kind regards, > Florian Schmidt > > -Original-Nachricht- > Betreff: [Wikitech-l] r

Re: [Wikitech-l] rvtoken deprecated

2014-10-30 Thread Petr Bena
any more parameters for this to work. Is that a bug? On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > Hi, > > I said that I don't know how to do this correctly, so I can't fix the > documentation. So no, I will not fix it, because I can't. > > Regarding your sugges

Re: [Wikitech-l] rvtoken deprecated

2014-10-30 Thread Petr Bena
Indeed, that was it, thanks On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Grunny wrote: > On 30 October 2014 21:42, Petr Bena wrote: >> Btw, I don't know if it's a bug or not, but >> http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=tokens&rawcontinue=1&type=watch|pat

Re: [Wikitech-l] rvtoken deprecated

2014-10-31 Thread Petr Bena
mportant things from mediawiki user point of view are ignored. That seems quite weird to me. On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Legoktm wrote: > On 10/30/14 2:11 AM, Petr Bena wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am receiving lot of these warnings: >> >> WARNING: API query (

[Wikitech-l] How does new revert token system works?

2014-11-06 Thread Petr Bena
Hey, I've seen a lot of changes in token system, however how it works is a mystery to me. So far I understood it as: You no longer get revert token per each edit using intoken but get some kind of global rollback token using action=query&meta=tokens Is this how it should work? If yes, there is a

Re: [Wikitech-l] How does new revert token system works?

2014-11-06 Thread Petr Bena
a.org/w/api.php for API usage Thu Nov 6 14:03:18 2014 DEBUG[1]: Rolling back Flag of the United States On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > Hey, > > I've seen a lot of changes in token system, however how it works is a > mystery to me. So far I understood it as:

Re: [Wikitech-l] How does new revert token system works?

2014-11-06 Thread Petr Bena
ginal-Nachricht- > Betreff: [Wikitech-l] How does new revert token system works? > Datum: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 14:00:26 +0100 > Von: Petr Bena > An: Wikimedia developers > > Hey, > > I've seen a lot of changes in token system, however how it works is a > mystery to

[Wikitech-l] Phab: [[Arcanist]]

2014-11-07 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, I found that someone created https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Arcanist but it contains obsolete information. If you have access to phabricator and knowledge, please update this page. Most needed are now working examples of how arcanist can be used on wikimedia installation, especially review (ar

Re: [Wikitech-l] changing edit summaries

2014-11-13 Thread Petr Bena
It's not possible because nobody implemented it :) From technical point of view I see no reason for it not to be possible, but on other hand, I believe that revisions, once you save them were designed to be "untouchable" including all of their parts. There is suppress feature that allows edit sum

Re: [Wikitech-l] changing edit summaries

2014-11-13 Thread Petr Bena
I disagree. There is no "chain" made of summaries. They are just a text in a table that can be altered. It's just that there is no feature which would allow that. On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:27 PM, John wrote: > Its the same reason you cannot go back and modify changes to a revision. > Subsequent c

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia tool framework (php)

2014-12-08 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, It's been some time since we launched tool labs and there is incredible number of tools now. They all however have 2 major problems. Every tool has own, different layout / css style (which may be confusing the users of these tools) and every developer of these tools probably have to reinvent a

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Wikimedia tool framework (php)

2014-12-08 Thread Petr Bena
Yes please provide some links to all these solutions if you can I will try to reuse as much as possible On Dec 8, 2014 5:51 PM, "Platonides" wrote: > I coded such frameworks some years ago. It was based on MediaWiki code, > so it (a) looked similar to MW code, (b) would be easier to port if it wa

[Wikitech-l] More release managers of huggle needed

2015-01-07 Thread Petr Bena
Hello, Huggle is an open source anti-vandalism tool for MediaWiki based sites. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Huggle for more. We are in desperate need for more release managers - eg. people who manage releases of huggle for following platforms: * MS Windows (currently getting all s

[Wikitech-l] New provider of RC changes - XmlRcs

2015-01-15 Thread Petr Bena
Hi folks, Most of you probably heard about new stream of RC changes as alternative to IRC: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCStream I simply found it complex beyond the edge of usability for most of solutions that use low level languages or frameworks that don't support modern technologies li

Re: [Wikitech-l] New provider of RC changes - XmlRcs

2015-01-15 Thread Petr Bena
And if you don't like XML either and can think of a different format, let me know, I would like to add support for multiple formats, so that programs that would need to access RC feed would need minimum of extra dependencies. On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > Hi folks,

[Wikitech-l] Idea for new desktop / mobile kiwix like application

2015-01-23 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, I know most of you hate reinventing a wheel so I first send it here, before I launch that project :) Some of you probably know kiwix - kiwix.org which is offline wikipedia reader. I think the idea of this reader is cool, most of you probably sometimes wanted to access wikipedia while being of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Idea for new desktop / mobile kiwix like application

2015-01-23 Thread Petr Bena
Ok, see my responses bellow. I am interested if there are some users who actually do use offline wikipedia and how would they like this new approach. On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > You don't need a new application for this, you just need some upgrades to > the ZIM

Re: [Wikitech-l] Idea for new desktop / mobile kiwix like application

2015-01-24 Thread Petr Bena
web-app for offline use? :o On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:54 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > FWIW I also wrote a web app called "Nell's Wikipedia" which behaves as you > propose: > https://github.com/cscott/nell-wikipedia > > If you wanted to hack on it, it could use a bit of love. > --scott > On Jan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Idea for new desktop / mobile kiwix like application

2015-01-25 Thread Petr Bena
to use git version control as a > storage format instead of openzim? Which would facilitate edit and merge > back changes? > > Rupert > On Jan 23, 2015 11:59 AM, "Petr Bena" wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I know most of you hate reinventing a wheel so I first

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