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

2011-06-06 Thread Platonides
Ashar Voultoiz wrote: On 06/06/11 00:56, K. Peachey wrote: snip Since it skips cache, can not we disable that stub highlighter once for all? Logged in users don't get cached versions of the page... I am well aware of that. The root cause being the various options available to users, my

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

2011-06-05 Thread Platonides
Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Platonides writes: No. Currently it would mean not caching any page view. The feature would need to be adapted to allow efficient stub linking (I have some ideas about it, and the new linker makes things easier). Still, we might not allow stub links for anons

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

2011-06-05 Thread Platonides
Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Platonidesplatoni...@gmail.com wrote: No. Currently it would mean not caching any page view. The feature would need to be adapted to allow efficient stub linking (I have some ideas about it, and the new linker makes things easier). What

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

2011-06-04 Thread Platonides
Tisza Gergö wrote: Hi all, MediaWiki has a user setting to add a CSS class to article links whose length is below a certain threshold (preferences/appearance/advanced options/threshold for stub link formatting). Is it possible to enable this by default on a Wikimedia wiki? No. Currently

Re: [Wikitech-l] FW: [Wikimedia Announcements] CTO Leaving Wikimedia Foundation end of July

2011-06-02 Thread Platonides
Chad wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Siebrand Mazelands.mazel...@xs4all.nl wrote: Looks like this may be something many on this list would like to know asap. I think the mail is in the moderation queue because Danese may not be subscribed. Nothing's in the queue, it must not've

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review process (was: Status of more regular code deployments)

2011-06-02 Thread Platonides
Chad wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson rnnel...@clarkson.edu wrote: I've done release engineering before. It is my considered opinion that one person needs to be on point for each release. It's possible that that person could rotate in and out, but one

Re: [Wikitech-l] The average size of a wikipedia article in Spanish

2011-06-02 Thread Platonides
Wilfredor wrote: Hi, I have a simple question What is the average size of a wikipedia article in Spanish? I need this to calculate the amount of articles that can be included on a CD. Subsequently, this size will be compressed by LZMA2 (OpenZIM format)

Re: [Wikitech-l] On the IE6 query string security check breakage (bug 28235)

2011-06-02 Thread Platonides
Brion Vibber wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Roan Kattouwroan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Brion Vibberbr...@pobox.com wrote: Is there a way we can narrow down this security check so it doesn't keep breaking API requests, action=raw requests, and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review process (was: Status of more regular code deployments)

2011-06-01 Thread Platonides
Max Semenik wrote: I would wholeheartedly supoport the idea of making tests a mandatory accompaniment to code. One latest example: we made latest security releases without tests. Actually, we have made security releases that *broke* tests. (ie. tests got outdated) This is bad not only

Re: [Wikitech-l] Archival for Web Citations (GSoC project)

2011-06-01 Thread Platonides
Welcome Kevin, I tried to contact you a few days ago, but was unable to. Please create a wiki account (with email notifications enabled) and commit your USERINFO. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Nuking deleted pages and their revisions

2011-05-30 Thread Platonides
Aran Dunkley wrote: Hello, I have a lot of deleted pages in my wiki and was wondering how to free up the database by getting rid of them completely. I don't want to loose the history of the pages that aren't deleted though, is there an extension for this? Thanks, Aran There's a script

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tag extension problem

2011-05-29 Thread Platonides
Jeroen De Dauw wrote: Hey, I have some tag extension in which one of the parameters is a SPARQL query. My code is constructing this query correctly (confirmed by var_dump'ing the relevant vars), but when I put the tag in a wiki page, several spaces are getting replaced by #160; which breaks

Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for comment: New hooks: DeleteAccount and MergeAccountFromTo

2011-05-29 Thread Platonides
Chad wrote: On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure we have standards on hook names (someone please correct me, if this isn't the case). In core, there certainly is no naming convention for hooks. Some are verb phrases, some are noun phrases. I

Re: [Wikitech-l] RELEASE-NOTES renaming vs. svn diff

2011-05-23 Thread Platonides
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: My script to show me the diffs, svn diff -r BASE:HEAD RELEASE-NOTES|wdiff -d -3 I suppose will now have to be for i in $(ls -r RELEASE-NOTES-*|sed 2q) do echo $i diff: svn diff -r BASE:HEAD $i|wdiff -d -3 done

Re: [Wikitech-l] Renaming projects

2011-05-22 Thread Platonides
K. Peachey wrote: Easily, no. There was some discussion recently for the ones that needed it was to create the new one, import the old one into it and then setup pointers so the old ones were redirected. I find that harder than a rename... ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getlets: Transcluding a file (for example, a README file on SVN) on a page (for example: MediaWiki:Extension) page

2011-05-21 Thread Platonides
Thomas Gries wrote: Hello, is there way similar to my Wikimania 2005 proposal of Getlets [1][2] - to transclude text content of a file denoted by a (if possible to limit: trusted) URL - if possible, after sanitizing the content of the file on MediaWiki pages ? Purpose: To avoid

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback on online communications around the Berlin hackathon (including remote participants)

2011-05-20 Thread Platonides
Not that you are biased... :) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwikis

2011-05-18 Thread Platonides
I think you want to attach an ACL to a namespace, not to an interwiki, which is just a pointer to a page living in some different place. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Shell requests backlog

2011-05-18 Thread Platonides
MZMcBride: As long as people stop resolving old bugs as wontfix simply because they're old. I went through and re-opened quite a few bugs that were improperly marked as resolved over the weekend. There were *many* bugs closed that weekend. Which included duplicating to similar bugs and also

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2011-05-16 Thread Platonides
Indeed! Until bug 28984 is resolved we will have to need to continue meeting every year to repeat this ;) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile site rewrite implementation

2011-05-13 Thread Platonides
(I apologise for breaking the thread) The reason that I went the route of creating an extension vs a skin was that I wanted the most flexibility in adapting the content for mobile device rendering. There are a number of sections that need to be removed from the final output in order to render the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile site rewrite implementation

2011-05-13 Thread Platonides
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Patrick Reilly prei...@wikimedia.orgwrote: The reason that I went the route of creating an extension vs a skin was that I wanted the most flexibility in adapting the content for mobile device

Re: [Wikitech-l] integration of MediaWiki and version control system as backend?

2011-05-07 Thread Platonides
The problem is that we want a CVS-like interface, with per-article versioning. Only a few operations would be cross-article (renaming, moving sections to a different article...) and we don't have a way to express transactions anyway. There's no global status of the code to keep. The articles

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Change of RELEASE-NOTES location for trunk

2011-05-07 Thread Platonides
I have gone ahead and renamed them in r87633 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Licensing (Was: WYSIWYG and parser plans)

2011-05-06 Thread Platonides
Anthony wrote: Granted, that's only half the problem. The other (and much more difficult) problem is how to convert a *set* of pages (templates and whatnot) into a single chunk of wikitext, which can then be fed into the wikitext to HTML parser. But even without that part it would still be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2011-05-04 Thread Platonides
Ryan Lane wrote: I'd also love to know how it keeps getting unsubscribed. This is the third time... You subscribe it. The mailing list send emails to repor...@kaulen.wikimedia.org Result of doing that? Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed: repor...@kaulen.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release schedule for the rest of 2011 (was: Status of 1.17 1.18)

2011-05-03 Thread Platonides
I find fine planning to have a normal, small release. But if the code development lead to eg. a parser rewrite, that's fine too. It can get in, or reverted for the branch if too close to the brach point. As far as it gets reviewed in time, it shouldn't be a problem. (We are going to get everything

Re: [Wikitech-l] auditcode.py - discern class structure

2011-05-03 Thread Platonides
Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson wrote: Maybe there's a better tool to tell you what function is defined in what class in PHP, but I couldn't find one in the time it would take me to write it, so I wrote it. It's not even a screenful. Give it the class definitions, in class hierarchy order, on the

Re: [Wikitech-l] auditcode.py - discern class structure

2011-05-03 Thread Platonides
Paul Houle wrote: Note that there is a PHP tokenizer built into PHP which makes it straightforward to develop tools like this in PHP: http://php.net/manual/en/book.tokenizer.php A practical example can be found here http://gen5.info/q/2009/01/09/an-awesome-autoloader-for-php

Re: [Wikitech-l] WYSIWYG and parser plans (was What is wrong with Wikia's WYSIWYG?)

2011-05-02 Thread Platonides
Magnus Manske wrote: So, why not use my WYSIFTW approach? It will only parse the parts of the wikitext that it can turn back, edited or unedited, into wikitext, unaltered (including whitespace) if not manually changed. Some parts may therefore stay as wikitext, but it's very rare (except

Re: [Wikitech-l] What is wrong with Wikia's WYSIWYG?

2011-05-02 Thread Platonides
Brion Vibber wrote: A bigger deal will probably be actually changing structures that don't render consistently, and that'll depend on how brave we are changing nested template table structures to fit a hierarchical document model. We've basically got two levels of stuff: * parsing wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Empty files in distribution

2011-05-02 Thread Platonides
Brion Vibber wrote: Looks like just bad patch reverts that removed the file contents but didn't actually delete. -- brion Gone in r87306. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] What is wrong with Wikia's WYSIWYG?

2011-05-02 Thread Platonides
Brion Vibber wrote: {{Open template}} text {{Close template}} structures are IMHO a big problem for any WYSIWYG editor. But there's no way they are going away. If we determine they have to go, then we can devise ways to find and migrate them -- it'll be a process that takes time and a lot

Re: [Wikitech-l] Empty files in distribution

2011-04-30 Thread Platonides
Johannes Weberhofer wrote: Dear all, there are two empty files in the distribution. Are they of any usage? /maintenance/archives/patch-page_no_title_convert.sql /maintenance/archives/patch-image_reditects.sql They aren't pointed by the files, so seem safe to delete. Brion, any reason to

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

2011-04-29 Thread Platonides
Johannes Weberhofer wrote: Dear all! I'm currently packaging mediawiki (for opensuse), and have a question related to includes/zhtable. I think, this part can be stored in a seperate package, as many systems do not require chinese translations. Making the ZhConversion.php works nicely,

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Supported Browser List

2011-04-29 Thread Platonides
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#CSS MediaWiki is compatible with user agents which do not process CSS3 markup. Some additional features are available to browsers which can process these styles. I.e., tough luck for browsers who can't.

Re: [Wikitech-l] 11.11.11

2011-04-28 Thread Platonides
Happy-melon wrote: http://www.wefearchange.org/2011/04/release-that-rewrite-on-11.html MediaWiki 1.18 (or even 1.19) on 11th November? If mailman can manage it; why can't we...? --HM Seems a good date for 1.18 ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of SSL access to Wikipedia?

2011-04-25 Thread Platonides
Some bugzilla entries with relevant issues: You missed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20852 Setup internal wikis as https only, spawned from a previous thread of this list. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads labs wiki

2011-04-24 Thread Platonides
MZMcBride wrote: Hi. At some point the LiquidThreads labs wiki disappeared. It used to be located at http://liquidthreads.labs.wikimedia.org/. Was it replaced by a prototype wiki or something? It had a lot of discussion on it about issues with LiquidThreads. It's also linked from bug

Re: [Wikitech-l] facebook like box in mediawiki

2011-04-18 Thread Platonides
Svip wrote: On 18 April 2011 20:27, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Raul Kern wrote: how to add facebook like box to chapters mediawiki homepage: http://et.wikimedia.org The like button is usually added with an iframe HTML element. I suppose it would be simple enough to create this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of 1.17 1.18

2011-04-16 Thread Platonides
Assuming that there are no destructive bugs in the reviewed code, we could have en.alpha.wikipedia.org urls. Our tests also need to be improved, so that we don't keep hitting the same boulders. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] RFC: Change of RELEASE-NOTES location for trunk

2011-04-14 Thread Platonides
MediaWiki is currently developed in two branches, with everything going to trunk, and a slower number of revisions getting also copied to the stable branch. That's also the way we want to continue working, having a trunk and a stable branch. Currently we store the release notes in a file called

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

2011-04-14 Thread Platonides
Dmitriy Sintsov wrote: If you are still monitoring the list, I probably would try to merge xml dumps (only --current should be enough for search), then I'd import merged dump into common wiki. Should not be too hard, if not performance issues for very large wikis. If your wikis aren't very

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Change of RELEASE-NOTES location for trunk

2011-04-14 Thread Platonides
Roan Kattouw wrote: 2011/4/14 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com: Thus, I propose that, from the point we branch 1.18, we keep the stable branch release notes in trunk, and add trunk release notes in a different file. trunk and branch RELEASE-NOTES would effectively be the same file (a revision

Re: [Wikitech-l] Centralize PHP (and other) minimum requirements / MoveDefines.php up the call stack

2011-04-13 Thread Platonides
Happy-melon wrote: What I have done is to move the PHP version check from WebStart.php (which was unparseable since Tim added a try/catch block in r85327) to the entry points index.php, api.php, load.php. That way, only those files have to be PHP 4 compatible. Don't forget about

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug priorities (Re: Change in Bugzilla's defaults)

2011-04-13 Thread Platonides
From a practical perspective, many more bugs than are being marked as normal are actually normal by this standard. Most of the bugs in our database are probably low priority in the sense that we just can't get around to fixing all of them. I can see the argument for making the most common

Re: [Wikitech-l] ShortURL for Non Latin Mediawiki sites

2011-04-12 Thread Platonides
This is just another instance of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21572 Note that there's javascript there for creating curid links, too. Note those urls may have caching problems. -1 to the base36 thing. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Aquestion about templates parsing and caching

2011-04-10 Thread Platonides
Roan Kattouw wrote: 2011/4/9 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com: Yes. Calling a template twice will only fetch the text once, won't increase the 'used templates' counter... Preprocessing of wikitext over a threshold is cached serialized (it's easier to reprocess if it's too small). To clarify

Re: [Wikitech-l] Aquestion about templates parsing and caching

2011-04-08 Thread Platonides
Daniel Friesen wrote: I believe we do locally (in-process) cache the preprocessor structure for pages and templates, so multiple use of the same template won't incur as much preprocessor work. But, the preprocessor parsing is usually one of the fastest parts of the whole parse. I could swear

Re: [Wikitech-l] Actions and Special Pages

2011-04-08 Thread Platonides
I also think it's cleaner to make move an action than edit a Special page. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Open call for Parser bugs

2011-04-07 Thread Platonides
Rob Lanphier wrote: This is an area where the community can help. Of that query, only about half of them have seen any activity at all this calendar year. We spend *some* time in the triage meeting with old bugs that are still a problem, but bugs where no one is even commenting generally are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Static HTML Dumps

2011-04-05 Thread Platonides
Paul Houle wrote: I did a substantial project that worked from the XML dumps. I designed a recursive descent parser in C# that, with a few tricks, almost decodes wikipedia markup correctly. Getting it right is tricky, for a number of reasons, however, my approach preserved some

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC and networking

2011-04-05 Thread Platonides
Interesting. That would be an -ops project, not a software development one. It seems a riskier deliverable, although certainly interesting for WMF. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Need some help with a problem with the Cite extension

2011-04-05 Thread Platonides
Strainu wrote: Hi, Today, some users on ro.wp reported that the citations used more than once in the text had changed appeareance. Instead of ^a,b, we now have something like ↑ 34,0 34,1. This was considered disturbing by some users. Furthermore, the backlinks from the notes section to the

Re: [Wikitech-l] writing phpunit tests for extensions

2011-04-04 Thread Platonides
Michael Dale wrote: Eventually it would be ideal to be able to 'just test your extension' from the core bootstraper (ie dynamically generate our suite.xml and namespace the registration of extension tests) ... but for now at least not having to wait for all the core tests as you write you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Future: Love for the sister projects!

2011-04-04 Thread Platonides
I think the source of the problems is the decentralizated process that wikimedia javascript have followed. Medium-size wikis will have 2-3 tech people. Small wikis will be lucky to have 1 js-savy sysop. Even wikis with no local expert may have just forked the Monobook.js from its mother project

Re: [Wikitech-l] On HTML5

2011-03-31 Thread Platonides
Ryan Kaldari wrote: Yeah, the local CSS/JS cruft is definitely a problem. I've tried doing clean-up on a few wikis, but I usually just get chewed out by the local admins for not discussing every change in detail (which obviously doesn't scale for fixing 200+ wikis). I would love to hear

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Xmldatadumps-l] March 17 en wikipedia history bz2 files ready

2011-03-30 Thread Platonides
Jamie Morken wrote: Hi, Thanks for the info, while I was at it I did some more checking of the history dump file sizes and compression ratios (as reported by 7-Zip 9.20): enwiki-20110115-pages-meta-history1.xml.7z 434.99x compression enwiki-20110115-pages-meta-history2.xml.7z 289.46x

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code Review tools

2011-03-29 Thread Platonides
Tim Starling wrote: In the last week, I've been reviewing extensions that were written years ago, and were never properly looked at. I don't think it's appropriate to measure success in code review solely by the number of new revisions after the last branch point. Code review of

Re: [Wikitech-l] New SVN committer

2011-03-29 Thread Platonides
Ryan Lane wrote: I've given extensions, core, and deployment access to a new member of our ops team: Peter Youngmeister. He should be adding his userinfo as we speak. - Ryan Lane Welcome, Peter! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vector external link icons on Commons

2011-03-29 Thread Platonides
Roan Kattouw wrote: 011/3/28 Douglas Gardner douglas.gard...@wikinewsie.org: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not sure this is the right place, but: Are the Vector skin versions of the external link icons [1] on Commons anywhere? I couldn't find them when I looked, and I'm not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enable WikiTrust spanish support

2011-03-29 Thread Platonides
Wilfredor wrote: Dear Platonides, I'm not sure if that is a good practice. How would identifying the version (id) revised? The categories map to page titles, which are equivalents to pageids (actually, the category table maps to pageids). You would then pass them to wikitrust in order to get

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enable WikiTrust spanish support

2011-03-28 Thread Platonides
Wilfredo Rodriguez wrote: Good morning. If many people work in the process of verification and selection of items, what is the proper way to record the list csv without the following problems occur: 1) Repeat entries (Someone reviewed the same article because he did not know that was

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

2011-03-28 Thread Platonides
Tod wrote: I'm working with a group that has customized their mediawiki installation so that they can create multiple wiki instances, each with their own database, that have no knowledge of each others existence. This was done for security and privacy reasons. The dumpBackup.php utility

Re: [Wikitech-l] HipHop

2011-03-28 Thread Platonides
Tim Starling wrote: I think we should migrate MediaWiki to target HipHop [1] as its primary high-performance platform. I think we should continue to support Zend, for the benefit of small installations. But we should additionally support HipHop, use it on Wikimedia, and optimise our

Re: [Wikitech-l] The priority of code review (Re: Code Review tools)

2011-03-28 Thread Platonides
Trevor Parscal wrote: On Mar 28, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: You say that as though this were obvious and uncontroversial. The reason why we've been dancing around this issue is because it is not. Right now, we have a system whereby junior developers get to commit whatever they

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code Review tools

2011-03-27 Thread Platonides
Bryan Tong Minh wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 3:33 AM, Platonides wrote: Come on. It is easy enough to check if your revision is the culprit. svn up -r r80247 cd tests/phpunit/ make noparser Which takes approximately one hour to run. We should fix this, because otherwise nobody is going

Re: [Wikitech-l] Meaning of fixme (Re: code review criticism (Re: Converting to Git?))

2011-03-27 Thread Platonides
Happy-melon wrote: Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote in message news:imm5c2$rib$1...@dough.gmane.org... Ilmari Karonen wrote: I think it might be a good idea to split these two cases into separate states. My suggestion, off the top of my head, would be to leave fixme for the latter

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code Review tools

2011-03-26 Thread Platonides
Daniel Friesen wrote: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/80248 Comment gives a Tesla link saying something broke. However the Tesla link does not identify that commit as the guaranteed commit that actually broke code. The commit was followed up with several fixmes already

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code Review tools

2011-03-26 Thread Platonides
Roan Kattouw wrote: 2011/3/26 Mark A. Hershberger mhershber...@wikimedia.org: If code is to survive past a week in the repository, it has to be reviewed. This is basically what I suggested in the other thread, except I added a few other conditions that have to be satisfied before we can

Re: [Wikitech-l] FIXME: Wall of Shame

2011-03-26 Thread Platonides
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Meaning of fixme (Re: code review criticism (Re: Converting to Git?))

2011-03-26 Thread Platonides
Ilmari Karonen wrote: This made me realize something that's only tangentially related to the existing thread, namely that we're currently using the fixme status in Code Review for two different kinds of commits: 1. commits that are broken and need to be fixed or reverted ASAP, and 2.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving the Dump Process to another language

2011-03-25 Thread Platonides
Andrew Dunbar wrote: Just a thought, wouldn't it be easier to generate dumps in parallel if we did away with the assumption that the dump would be in database order. The metadata in the dump provides the ordering info for the people that require it. Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail) I don't see

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC Proposal for Account Creation, Login Screens, and Ajax-ification of everything

2011-03-25 Thread Platonides
Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: I added a comment to the talk page. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:Akshay.agarwal Long story short, we had this discussion in IRC... some people find the concept of AJAX login really alarming from a security perspective, but I think there could (COULD)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enable WikiTrust spanish support

2011-03-25 Thread Platonides
Wilfredor wrote: If we could support this on our existing server, it should not be too much work for us to set it up. I would like to know the exact format of the ids you need (The order and the necessary parameters for each line of the csv) and if there is a system to add What is the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-25 Thread Platonides
Aryeh Gregor wrote: My experience with Mercurial is that if you type the wrong commands, it likes to destroy data. For instance, when doing an hg up with conflicts once, it opened up some kind of three-way diff in vim that I had no idea how to use, and so I exited. This resulted in my

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving the Dump Process to another language

2011-03-25 Thread Platonides
Ariel T. Glenn wrote: Amusingly, splitting based on some number of articles doesn't really balance out the pieces, at least for history dumps, after the project has been around long enough with enough activity. Splitting by number of revisions is what we really want, and the older pages have

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC Proposal for Account Creation, Login Screens, and Ajax-ification of everything

2011-03-25 Thread Platonides
Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: What are the security problems with a simple AJAX login implementation that just POSTs, compared to digest authentication? With digest authentication you can transmit credentials over unencrypted HTTP without worrying that someone is capturing your plaintext

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving the Dump Process to another language

2011-03-24 Thread Platonides
Yuvi Panda wrote: Hi, I'm Yuvi, a student looking forward to working with MediaWiki via this year's GSoC. I want to work on something dump related, and have been bugging apergos (Ariel) for a while now. One of the things that popped up into my head is moving the dump process to another

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-23 Thread Platonides
Daniel Friesen wrote: - Brion mentioned there is prior art in hosting large numbers of git repos. Gitorious' codebase is open-source and can be re-used. Wikimedia could potentially host it's own gitorious for MediaWiki git repos. I realised today that we are trying to adapt our layout to the

Re: [Wikitech-l] parse vs. recursiveTagParse

2011-03-23 Thread Platonides
Stephan Gambke wrote: I work on an extension that used to call parse() directly. Then after some advice from mw developers this was changed to a call to recursiveTagParse because parse should not be called directly. Only problem is, the method that used to call parse() is used to populate a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-23 Thread Platonides
Daniel Friesen wrote: ((And before anyone says anything, there's no way I'm putting private keys on servers operated by a 3rd party, or doing development of things on my local machine -- reconfiguring apache and trying to get packaged apache and mysql to NOT start up on my laptop except

[Wikitech-l] Code Review tools (was: Converting to Git?)

2011-03-23 Thread Platonides
I'd prefer if those superb review tools were named instead of vague references about greener pastures and how wonderful it will be reviewing code with git. And no, nobody wants our review paradigm to be let's spend several months on the backlog every time we want to release. It was just the best

Re: [Wikitech-l] On HTML5

2011-03-22 Thread Platonides
Joseph Roberts wrote: Hello! What is the current concensus on HTML5? Are we going to fully support it and use as many features as we can or are we going to keep just using javascript alterntives? I would assume that we would continue to use javascript in the case that the client does not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-22 Thread Platonides
Roan Kattouw wrote: The only thing that may be different, depending on what our workflow ends up being, is that messages that have been added in some branch that hasn't been merged to trunk yet will not automatically be picked up by TWN for translation. This is technically already the case,

Re: [Wikitech-l] testing of localization

2011-03-22 Thread Platonides
Marcin Cieslak wrote: So having a possibility to have a pre-flight test of the translation (or even watch the demo of the original in action) is something Selenium could deinitely help. In many cases, translators do not have permission to experience some interface in the live environment

Re: [Wikitech-l] Toolserver source control (was Re: Converting to Git?)

2011-03-22 Thread Platonides
Mark Wonsil wrote: I haven't used git yet but after reading the excellent article that Rob Lanphier posted (http://hginit.com/00.html), I think I will. That article also explains why there wouldn't have to be as many updates to SVN as is done today. I don't see that conclusion. A DCVS allows

Re: [Wikitech-l] Weekend bugs (aka, highest priority bugs)

2011-03-21 Thread Platonides
Platonides wrote: Mark A. Hershberger wrote: 23126 Locked and hidden accounts can unify new local accounts https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/23126 Tim says this is apparently a deliberate chage, and later comments leave me confused: should this be closed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Weekend bugs (aka, highest priority bugs)

2011-03-19 Thread Platonides
Mark A. Hershberger wrote: 23126 Locked and hidden accounts can unify new local accounts https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/23126 Tim says this is apparently a deliberate chage, and later comments leave me confused: should this be closed or the fix

Re: [Wikitech-l] Highest Priority Bugs

2011-03-17 Thread Platonides
Roan Kattouw wrote: 2011/3/16 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com: I don't remember off-hand if creating a wiki is something that a normal shell user can do, so those might be an option for root bugs as well. Just a thought. Normal shell users can execute all but one of the steps required for wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Update collapsed!

2011-03-17 Thread Platonides
Uwe Baumbach wrote: Hello, Urgent helpis needed! We carry our genealogical wiki GenWiki http://genwiki.genealogy.net in version 1.14.1. We planned to update soon to 1.17.1. So we checked out to http://wiki-test.genealogy.net

Re: [Wikitech-l] Highest Priority Bugs

2011-03-17 Thread Platonides
Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: Normal shell users can execute all but one of the steps required for wiki creation: root access is needed to create the DNS entry for the new subdomain. Why doesn't Wikimedia just set up a

Re: [Wikitech-l] New plans for the skin system

2011-03-15 Thread Platonides
Marcin Cieslak wrote: This new layout and system will likely be done using a planned xml/html based template syntax. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dantman/Skinning_system/Monobook_template http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dantman/Skinning_system#xml.2Fhtml_template_syntax Did you

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure/singer proxy errors

2011-03-15 Thread Platonides
William Allen Simpson wrote: Whatever happened to Domas' idea that, for things already in the cache and about to be invalidated, a newly parsed instance be stored in memcache before invalidating other caches, so that the article is only parsed once? The mentioned Pool Counter is a daemon which

Re: [Wikitech-l] universal login via secure works inconsistently

2011-03-12 Thread Platonides
William Allen Simpson wrote: While I'm thinking about it: why doesn't universal login work from secure? After all, the centralauth credentials seem to exist, so the various *wiki sites should be able to find them automatically? (...) But the link from

Re: [Wikitech-l] universal login not always working

2011-03-12 Thread Platonides
data sharing issue. Later information from Platonides leads me to think this is a software issue, that leads to an inconsistent database. How did transwikified edits not point back to the original site and user? Because the author field is not prepared for doing so. Thus the transwiking just

Re: [Wikitech-l] universal login not always working

2011-03-11 Thread Platonides
William Allen Simpson wrote: On 3/10/11 10:34 PM, William Allen Simpson wrote: To give a little more detail, logged http (not https) into en: on one page, and am showing the Login successful page. Then, bring up a de: page in a second window -- the de: page has Anmelden / Benutzerkonto

Re: [Wikitech-l] universal login not always working

2011-03-11 Thread Platonides
William Allen Simpson wrote: And just as an aside, I did find out why fr: stopped working for awhile. The message I left on a Talk was about Fuck You! (the song), and a censorship bot suspended my login there Somebody kindly fixed it. So far, fr: has worked fine since then. It's funny

Re: [Wikitech-l] openZim export now part of collections extension

2011-03-09 Thread Platonides
Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, Would the export to ODF work for languages that are not in the Latin script?? Thanks, GerardM Why wouldn't it? ODF uses UTF-8 internally... ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Reg. Research using Wikipedia

2011-03-09 Thread Platonides
Dear Members, I am Ramesh, pursuing my PhD in Monash University, Malaysia. My Research is on blog classification using Wikipedia Categories. As for my experiment, I use 12 main categories of Wikipedia. I want to identify which particular article belongs to which main 12 categories?. So I

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