[Wikitech-l] Mailing list for the huggle

2012-02-13 Thread Petr Bena
Hi folks, I would like to notify you that based on discussion between huggle developers, we created a new mailing list hug...@lists.wikimedia.org. It's for people who seek help or support for huggle, tool which is being used on a number of wikimedia projects and for developer talk, important chan

Re: [Wikitech-l] online labs conference on irc

2012-02-15 Thread Petr Bena
the session and publish > somewhere? > > It would be much appreciated because I would not be able to be there, > while I am interested in it very much. > > Best, > Yusuke > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > It

Re: [Wikitech-l] online labs conference on irc

2012-02-15 Thread Petr Bena
That is actually me, thank you On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Bergi wrote: > Yusuke Matsubara schrieb: > >> [IRC] >>> >> >> Could anyone prepare a summary and/or log of the session and publish >> somewhere? >> > > Logs are usually available at http://bots.wmflabs.org/~** > petrb/logs/%23wikime

[Wikitech-l] Where to host wikimedia related software projects

2012-02-20 Thread Petr Bena
Hi folks, we have had some discussion with other devs of huggle and I have a question, what is the best location to host wikimedia related projects? Documentation / web pages (preferably a wiki), I guess most suitable is mww but that one should be for mediawiki only or not? I am talking about proj

Re: [Wikitech-l] Where to host wikimedia related software projects

2012-02-20 Thread Petr Bena
ta de 20 februarie 2012, 12:55, Petr Bena a > scris: > > Hi folks, > > > > we have had some discussion with other devs of huggle and I have a > > question, what is the best location to host wikimedia related projects? > > Documentation / web pages (preferably a wiki), I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problematic automated tweets

2012-02-20 Thread Petr Bena
I think that it would only make logbot more complicated, it's being used for a long time, since there were almost no troubles with trolls and it's being logged to wiki, where it can be easily removed, I don't think it's worth of that work, also keep in mind we use same bot in labs, and we would nee

Re: [Wikitech-l] Where to host wikimedia related software projects

2012-02-21 Thread Petr Bena
In this case I am talking about sw related to wmf projects, so it needs hack in order to make it work on other wikis, however I support one wiki, so doesn't matter where it should be, but we should have all tools on one place, splitting wmf to meta and general to other wikis would not help much. O

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to get a uploaded files path

2012-02-24 Thread Petr Bena
hello I have made an utility which give you all absolute URL's for a give list / category of files on commons, in case you were interested in that, I could send you a source code, however it just download a wiki page for each file and parse the url from the source On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:09 PM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to get a uploaded files path

2012-02-24 Thread Petr Bena
he image folder is > outside the servers doc-root for example? > > Johannes > > Am 24.02.12 15:13, schrieb Petr Bena: > >> hello I have made an utility which give you all absolute URL's for a give >> list / category of files on commons, in case you were interested

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

2012-02-29 Thread Petr Bena
This page seems to be absolutely pointless and also incorrect, since the production is managed by operation team which contains a lot of people who aren't on this list. Actually I don't even know why do we need to have such a list somewhere on meta, they should be located on same page together with

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

2012-02-29 Thread Petr Bena
Right, but the page says: don't contact people on this page, go to irc. So question is if having such a list really help the users who seek help. On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Chad wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > > This page seems to be absolutely

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

2012-02-29 Thread Petr Bena
Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > > Right, but the page says: don't contact people on this page, go to irc. > So > > question is if having such a list really help the users who seek help. > > > > Yes, but at least you have an idea of who to look for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting the first image of a page

2011-11-02 Thread Petr Bena
This depends on what you consider a first picture of a page, wheter it's a picture not transluded from a template and also if it's a picture on top of the page (layout) or first picture in wikipage source, in the case that it's first picture in wikisource, what you need to call api.php?action=query

[Wikitech-l] New permission for moodbar

2011-11-02 Thread Petr Bena
Hey, I spoke with some folks from enwp and they said that it would be cool if moodbar extension had one more permission allowing people to do hide / unhide, so that they could eventually let more people than sysops check the responses and eventually hide them. It's simple tweak, but what do you thi

Re: [Wikitech-l] New permission for moodbar

2011-11-02 Thread Petr Bena
Right, I checked only its mediawiki extension wikipage it doesn't tell about this permission, I will inform them about it, cool On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Chad wrote: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > > Hey, I spoke with some folks from enwp and they said

Re: [Wikitech-l] dump titles form other namespaces than 0?

2011-11-02 Thread Petr Bena
Probably files could be useful, but most of them are now at commons, so not sure about it On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Ariel T. Glenn wrote: > A while back (over 2 years ago, urk!) we had a request for dumps of > titles of things other than articles [1]. I haven't seen that request > repeate

Re: [Wikitech-l] New permission for moodbar

2011-11-02 Thread Petr Bena
pageviews? Pageviews by those who are not > logged in at the time of viewing? > > Risker/Anne > > On 2 November 2011 12:43, Petr Bena wrote: > > > Right, I checked only its mediawiki extension wikipage it doesn't tell > > about this permission, I will inform them about i

Re: [Wikitech-l] New permission for moodbar

2011-11-03 Thread Petr Bena
he number of times [[Special:FeedbackDashboard]] is viewed; > thanks for asking me to clarify. > > Risker/Anne > > On 2 November 2011 18:05, Petr Bena wrote: > > > That's something what I'd like to improve too there should be an option > to > > fill in th

Re: [Wikitech-l] New permission for moodbar

2011-11-03 Thread Petr Bena
w this). And if it's only informational for all users, it would probably needed to be implemented to the extension. On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > I don't see it in current trunk, althought it's possible that some > internal mediawiki page views tra

[Wikitech-l] GIT irc feed of changes to repo

2011-11-07 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, I have noticed that on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git_conversion is that *Not done* Commits via IRC I don't know if you want to use bots like CIA, but if you would like to use more customized output of bot feed, I could volunteer here, I have some years of experience with irc bots, even a p

Re: [Wikitech-l] GIT irc feed of changes to repo

2011-11-07 Thread Petr Bena
M, Roan Kattouw wrote: > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > > Hi, I have noticed that on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git_conversionis > > that > > *Not done* Commits via IRC > > > > I don't know if you want to use bots like CIA, but if you

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.18 PHP version requirement

2011-11-10 Thread Petr Bena
I am little bit new to this but when you do that would it mean that mw wouldn't run on that or it would only show a warning to user that their php is older than required, which user could skip? if there was that possiblity, I see no problem with that. php is freeware so upgrade shouldn't be problem

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.18 PHP version requirement

2011-11-10 Thread Petr Bena
right, if I understand this, the problem is only with installer, so wouldn't it be better just to make some workaround for older versions of php for installer rather than forcing user to upgrade, while it actually doesn't have effect on mediawiki which is already installed and working? On Thu, No

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.18 PHP version requirement

2011-11-10 Thread Petr Bena
since it affects only installation process). At least some light weight installer which would only update db schema and generated config file. On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:18 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > Petr Bena wrote: > > php is freeware so upgrade shouldn't be problem for anyone > &g

[Wikitech-l] Architecture and features of wikimedia labs (application hosting part)

2011-11-24 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, We discussed a bit yesterday in #mediawiki some features of toolserver and their availability on labs in the future, I know that wikimedia labs are still not being used for application hosting (wikipedia bots etc.) so I think that it would be cool to expand this discussion also to this mailing

[Wikitech-l] Java script devs needed :)

2011-11-26 Thread Petr Bena
Hi folks, I got some quick review from Bawolff for the extension OnlineStatusBar I've been working on past weeks, the extension is allowing users to display their online status on user pages and have some support on english wikipedia for its deployment there, since it wasn't reviewed for deploymen

Re: [Wikitech-l] Java script devs needed :)

2011-11-26 Thread Petr Bena
Yes it already works automatically that's what the extension is about, just the menu for switching of status (busy / away) is missing. Now it automatically flag you offline after 60 minutes (it's configurable in LS), and as away after 20 minutes of inactivity. Thanks for reply! On Sat, Nov 26, 201

Re: [Wikitech-l] Java script devs needed :)

2011-11-26 Thread Petr Bena
Implemented, thanks :) now it's a user option so that everyone can define time when they are away, however offline is only configurable by system admin, so that users can't misuse it to fake online status On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: > Hey, > > > Now it automatically fla

[Wikitech-l] Developer hub on meta

2011-12-03 Thread Petr Bena
Hey! I have started Developer hub on meta [1] - it's page for developers (not only php) who are looking for some project they can participate on, I am myself a developer of huggle (utility used on wikipedia for reverting vandalism, written in c#) and it's really hard to look for more devs who coul

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer hub on meta

2011-12-03 Thread Petr Bena
That is great! I was thinking of something like "tool requests" page where people could discuss and request tools and other software, which is actually something similar to this. I agree we should connect it somehow. On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 3:45 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Petr Bena wro

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer hub on meta

2011-12-03 Thread Petr Bena
I guess there is not, but you are welcome to improve mentioned pages! On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Yuvi Panda wrote: > Should there be a place for 'Extensions Wanted' as well? Does one already > exist? > > -- > Yuvi Panda T > http://yuvi.in/blog > > ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer hub on meta

2011-12-04 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, The difference is that current hub was only for developers of mediawiki, this one is for everything including tools, bots and various tech stuff related to wikimedia projects On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Gregory Varnum wrote: > I'm curious about what the difference between this new hub

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer hub on meta

2011-12-04 Thread Petr Bena
Right if you got no problem moving all c#, python and such stuff to mediawiki site, no problem :) I created in on meta to avoid people telling me: don't add stuff which got nothing to do with mediawiki development here! On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Platonides wrote: > On 04/12/11 11:

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to become a Mediawiki Hacker

2011-12-05 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, maybe it would be cool if you inserted some informations about possibility to participate on development of other wikimedia projects too, as we already mentioned on meta hub thread or at least in form of see also. Thanks On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Yuvi Panda wrote: > The current page[1]

[Wikitech-l] ajax help needed

2011-12-05 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, I have already noted that I work on extension which allows displaying of user online status, see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32128, Krinkle come with idea that it could use ajax on user pages for status bar in order to avoid cache issues while keep performance of interface (

Re: [Wikitech-l] ajax help needed

2011-12-05 Thread Petr Bena
operly on page. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have already noted that I work on extension which allows displaying >> of user online status, see >> https://bugzilla.wikime

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reason for having php5-common pinned?

2011-12-08 Thread Petr Bena
Hi Leslie, I don't think it's necessary there, even if it was required by php5 package it would be installed anyway, question is if it would help your issue, because aptitude would probably resolve this by downloading ubuntu version so it would break again, php5 packages would probably needed to b

[Wikitech-l] irc bot

2011-12-15 Thread Petr Bena
Hi all, I would like to notice that I am now working on rewrite of mw-bot, called wm-bot (wikimedia bot - it's supposed to serve in various wikimedia chans), the bot now is supporting exactly same functions as mw bot + some more, and I think it would be good if we replaced current mw-bot in future

Re: [Wikitech-l] irc bot

2011-12-15 Thread Petr Bena
in repository, anyway I don't think there would be many people interested in keeping this version alive). On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:24 PM, John Du Hart wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I would like to notice that I am now wo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment process clarification?

2011-12-15 Thread Petr Bena
Hi Tim and Ian, thank you for mail, I would like to note that for both extensions I am working on I already received a support from community, both were announced and one was even mentioned in Sign Post, the discussion on Proposals board was closed for both of them in favor of installation to engl

Re: [Wikitech-l] irc bot

2011-12-15 Thread Petr Bena
fit from the new one. Especially thanks to that it's located on labs and it's easier to operate it. Sorry for misunderstandment :) On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:12 PM, OQ wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Petr Bena wrote: >> I don't know java, and no one else is actually ma

Re: [Wikitech-l] irc bot

2011-12-15 Thread Petr Bena
cated in svn (so all devs can improve it) and binaries on labs (so all devs can operate it). That's my point. Also from what I heard from Roan I wasn't really sure there is someone who is handling the current bot code. On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:44 PM, OQ wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 20

Re: [Wikitech-l] irc bot

2011-12-15 Thread Petr Bena
ly nice would be to see the code that runs mw-bot > committed and running on labs. > > -- > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] > On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:37:09 -0800, Petr Bena wrote: > >> I don't know java, and no one else is actuall

Re: [Wikitech-l] irc bot

2011-12-16 Thread Petr Bena
Thank you for reply, the current logs are stored at http://bots.wmflabs.org/~petrb/logs/ for instance the dev channel is logged (some of the channels are not being logged althought the folder exist), you can just jump for instance to #mediawiki-move and type anything there (it's empty channel), yo

Re: [Wikitech-l] irc bot

2011-12-16 Thread Petr Bena
Right so just to close this discussion somehow, The bot I mentioned is now in some kind of working state and running in several channels, I understood that you definitely don't want to switch from current bot and I am happy with that, but since this one is programmed in a different manner as rathe

Re: [Wikitech-l] irc bot

2011-12-17 Thread Petr Bena
Hi Mr. Nelson :P I don't know if you are making fun of my bad english (I am not a native english speaker, so that's why) or from the choice of programming language, however if it's the second I already explained why it's written in c# few hours ago. I hope it's clear enough and actually I can't tu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git meeting(s) today!

2011-12-19 Thread Petr Bena
Just noting that a channel is logged so those who won't be able to attend can read the logs of channel at: http://prototype.wikimedia.org/logs/%23wikimedia-dev/ or http://bots.wmflabs.org/~petrb/logs/%23wikimedia-dev/ Since I am in work where it's not so easy to connect there, I will read the lo

[Wikitech-l] Nagios parser

2011-12-21 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, I wrote a nagios parser for wmflabs, it downloads instance list from labsconsole and using simple application it parses it and generate nagios configs, it's currently running periodicaly on nagios.wmflabs.org and thanks to that nagios is updated when you create a new instance, it parses the ge

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