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

Brion Vibber wrote: On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Alex alejrb at gmail.com wrote: Question: why does it have to normalise at all? I do think that the editing environment at Wikipedia means that consistent non-normalised editing by wikitext users and subsequent normalisation by

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: make Parser::getTargetLanguage aware of multilingual wikis

On 10.11.2015 22:00, Brian Wolff wrote: ... Most arguments against it are about parser cache splitting, which is silly, as people already split the parser cache on a massive level using {{int: hacks on commons, and the table of contents on pretty much every other wiki (As an aside, TOC really

[Wikitech-l] Concentrate content related error messages in one place

Discussions on "Figure out what to do with the table of contents" at . and the "balanced templates" RFC inspired me to suggest: Concentrate content related error messages in one place Looking forward to your

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git for idiots

Hi, git clone ssh://review.openstack.org:29418/openstack-infra/git-review.git fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. Greetings -- Purodha On 13.11.2015 11:48, Antoine Musso wrote: Le 12/11/2015 17:35,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git for idiots

On WikiMedia Tools Lab neither "git review -s" nor "git review -u" work in my tools. They run endlessly until you abort then with a keyboard interrupt. That is annoying. Purodha On 12.11.2015 17:35, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Hashar: I think your criticisms of git-review might be out of date.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: The making of a MediaWiki skin: November 3

Do we have a protocol, video, or the like of this talk? Purodha On 03.11.2015 18:31, Rachel Farrand wrote: Reminder: this talk starts in 30 min On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Rachel Farrand wrote: Please join for the following tech talk: *Tech Talk**:* The making

[Wikitech-l] (no subject)

In a simpe message text typo fix: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/243332/ in the job mwext-testextension-zend the test PHPUnit failed with these messages: + php phpunit.php --with-phpunitdir /srv/deployment/integration/phpunit/vendor/phpunit/phpunit --log-junit

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools repository

Here are two possible sarting points: https://tools.wmflabs.org/ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extensions Greetings - Purodha On 11.10.2015 20:45, Ilya Korniyko wrote: Is there a repository of tools, research projects etc related to wikimedia projects? I think it's a good idea to have

[Wikitech-l] Which hook to use and how for pre-save-modifications of wikitext?

Hi, I want to implement something similar to expansion or the pipe-trick in internal links in an extension. That is, I need to execute code - on save and preview only, - on wikitext ony, - on page content only, - before the pre-save-parser treats links in the wikitext, - altering the

[Wikitech-l] Idea: Cryptographically signed wiki pages.

In a discussion in the German Pirate Party the idea came up that we might want to have cryptographically signed wiki pages. I could not find that this has been implemented already anyhow. Thus, can we develop an extsion which provides cryptographically signed wiki pages? A brief and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Idea: Cryptographically signed wiki pages.

-- Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity. On Sep 13, 2015 6:45 AM, "John" <phoenixoverr...@gmail.com> wrote: why do they need signed in the first place? On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 5:39 AM, Purodha Blissenbach < puro...@blissenbach.org> wrote: > In a discussion i

Re: [Wikitech-l] Idea: Cryptographically signed wiki pages.

On 13.09.2015 23:50, Gergo Tisza wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Purodha Blissenbach wrote: Editing a signed page is possible without resigning it. That seems to defeat the whole point, although I might just not understand what the point is. Oh, yes. Rephrasing: Editing a signed

Re: [Wikitech-l] UploadWizard long term problems

Hi, jst a few minues ago, I tried to use the upload wizard of commons. It stalled in the midst of everything and it did not upload anything. Purodha On 15.09.2015 14:18, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: On 2015-09-14 13:44, Steinsplitter Wiki wrote: Hi, UploadWizard has a lot of bugs and is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Would anyone be interested in a tech talk about how to make a mw skin?

I would like to see a wiki page or to watch a video that I could use as a guide to make a new skin - a task that I am postponing since long as "too complex for now". Purodha On 28.09.2015 23:00, Isarra Yos wrote: Jack Phoenix and I were considering doing a tech talk about how to make a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project Idea " Extension: Offline MediaWiki "

Hi adisha porwal The German Chapter of the WMF has published an offline Version of Wikipedia on CD or DVD. Purodha On 22.09.2015 19:10, adisha porwal wrote: Greeting, I want to contribute to wikimedia and for that Outreachy intership program looks perfect

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project Idea " Extension: Offline MediaWiki "

There has been a project in the past that converted a MediaWiki code base from SQL to use svn or git as message store. I do not remember which. It worked afaicr but was discontinued as not being used irl, and pretty slow, too. Yet offine editing and then merging via an api that uses a similar

Re: [Wikitech-l] Peer-to-peer sharing of the content of Wikipedia through WebRTC

On 30.11.2015 20:47, Ryan Lane wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Yeongjin Jang wrote: I recall that I saw financial statement of WMF that states around $2.3M was spent for Internet Hosting. I am not sure whether it includes management cost for computing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ifexists across wikis

How about using the API on the targe side? Purodha On 06.12.2015 18:04, Alex Monk wrote: I don't think there is a way to get a database name from an interwiki prefix. Also, whether a page is known or not does not just depend on a simple database lookup. Extensions can add arbitrary rules about

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki message delivery problems

On 11.12.2015 10:40, Andre Klapper wrote: On Fri, 2015-12-11 at 09:02 +0100, Bináris wrote: Please, please, for anyobody working on Wikipedia, be basic to use ! This is the first lesson taught. Currently the actual creator is added as a (HTML source code) comment (your link to the diff

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki message delivery problems

Hi, the point is do the writers know that? Seems not all. Who tells them? Purodha On 11.12.2015 20:48, Legoktm wrote: Hi, On 12/11/2015 05:42 AM, Bináris wrote: 2015-12-11 11:52 GMT+01:00 Purodha Blissenbach <puro...@blissenbach.org>: Reported as https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should we switch the default category collation to uca-default?

Yes, that sounds reasonable :-) Purodha On 02.06.2016 19:24, Ryan Kaldari wrote: OK, so it sounds like the best way forward is: 1. For any wikis that have specific language versions of uca collation available (for example, uca-fr), but haven't yet switched to it, go ahead and switch them to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Authentication session unwanted across wikis (was Recent authentication session instability)

On 19.06.2016 16:10, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: On Jun 18, 2016 2:37 AM, "Purodha Blissenbach" <puro...@blissenbach.org> wrote: This sound complicated and error prone. Can we not simply have an off-switch in the user settings? Such a switch would not be impossible, but the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Authentication session unwanted across wikis (was Recent authentication session instability)

Hi, This sound complicated and error prone. Can we not simply have an off-switch in the user settings? Purodha On 17.06.2016 19:32, Sylvain Boissel wrote: Hi, You can use two browsers, or two browser sessions. Sylvain 2016-06-17 18:04 GMT+02:00 Purodha Blissenbach <puro...@blissenbach.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Authentication session unwanted across wikis (was Recent authentication session instability)

On 17.06.2016 12:30, Gergo Tisza wrote: The expectation for single sign-on is that you sign-on a single time and then you are signed on everywhere. If that's not what happens, [...] If this is what happens, and I not want it, what can I do? It is not rare that I need to be logged in with

Re: [Wikitech-l] New tutorial for interactive graphics on Wiki

Hi, in the 1st translation unit, there is a "klick here" type of link. There is a section explaining why that is a no-go: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation#Use_meaningful_link_anchors Purodha On 08.01.2016 18:49, Johan Jönsson wrote: On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Szymon

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mass migration to new syntax - PRO or CON?

CON, for all the reasons mentioned. Purodha ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] New [[Main Page]] for Wikitech

Well done! Purodha On 29.01.2016 07:25, MZMcBride wrote: Bryan Davis wrote: I've been working on a little redesign project for the Main Page on wikitech [0] and three key sub pages it points to since 2016-01-01 in my User space. Tonight I decided that although it is far from perfect it is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Report from the VMware GPL court hearing

On 29.02.2016 18:34, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: For those who care about our GPL license. :) http://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20160225-vmware-gpl/ Hi Nemo, dear Harald, Don't know, if you are the right persons to address, but anyways, please forward if you know to whom: ... in German

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mass migration to new syntax - PRO or CON?

A quick asking around among programmers here gives 7:1 pro array() and con [] syntax. The latter is seen as less readable. Is there a technical advantage of [] over array() that we should harvest? Purodha On 12.02.2016 21:06, Ricordisamoa wrote: Il 12/02/2016 20:26, Legoktm ha scritto: Hi,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia.org portal page update!

On 12.03.2016 01:09, Samuel Klein wrote: Lovely work. On Mar 11, 2016 5:32 PM, "Dan Garry" wrote: On 11 March 2016 at 10:52, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) wrote: > > Failed my dream :( > > Any string in any language in any wikipedia project. How far is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia in Pig Latin

Yes, plase! (I shall add the German semi-equivalent "Hühnersprache" [1] as soon as I am able) Purodha [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spielsprache#H.C3.BChnersprache On 05.04.2016 16:00, Daniel Kinzler wrote: Am 01.04.2016 um 19:08 schrieb C. Scott Ananian: On a somewhat serious note, I'm

Re: [Wikitech-l] Hackathon buddy familiar with page content type stuff needed

I tried in vain to get sufficient understanding of the content handler stuff. Having at least three projects that should make use of it, having it documented better would be appreciated. Purodha On 25.03.2016 17:03, Isarra Yos wrote: I'm sort of familiar with content handling in general, since

Re: [Wikitech-l] MOOC Extension

On 13.04.2016 14:55, René Pickhardt wrote: Dear Bahodir, dear everyone, I have just done what you suggested thanks. How long does it usually take to get a project on gerrit? Should we use some github repo until then? Not needed for a short time :) What about the vagrant role? I saw a list

Re: [Wikitech-l] update: wikipedia.org portal

On 21.05.2016 00:24, Neil P. Quinn wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 4:07 PM, MZMcBride wrote: * Meta-Wiki is "Our community site"? Huh? What does that suggest about the other projects? Are they not community sites? Coordination site. Coordination site between projects.

Re: [Wikitech-l] update: wikipedia.org portal

On the long run, I think, these portals and their texts should be translatable. Browser settings determining the target language. Looking forward to have them on translatewiki.net ! Purodha On 21.05.2016 13:52, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote: I like the addition of the descriptive subtitles. But I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ajaxify page requests extension

The downside is, page rendering must work when JavaScript is not available on the client. That makes things a bit complicated. You likely will have to overhaul some legacy stuff. Purodha On 07.05.2016 04:33, Cyken Zeraux wrote: I've been working on a little project that intercepts normal wiki

[Wikitech-l] How to find a repository?

Hi, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129442 says to belong to Tool-Labs-tools-Pageviews but how to find the repository for it, if I want to work on it? Gerrit does not find anything when I enter this sring in its repository search. Is there any tool or tutorial for this question? Purodha