Re: [Wikitech-l] "Unloading"/reloading ResourceLoader modules the proper way?

2017-06-19 Thread Jack Phoenix
ome, although the most acute problem (with the JS) is now fixed and legoktm gave me a few good pointers on how to make the PHP part saner. :-) [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/359643/6..7/ext.theme.livepreview.js [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/359643 Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix Me

[Wikitech-l] "Unloading"/reloading ResourceLoader modules the proper way?

2017-06-18 Thread Jack Phoenix
Hi all, I've been working on enhancing the Theme extension [1] to add a preference option so that registered users can set their preferred theme [2], just like how they can set a skin and other such options. The theme selector is shown on Special:Preferences, below the list of available skins,

Re: [Wikitech-l] jQuery UI, opensearch API, categories and autocompletion -- oh my!

2015-05-06 Thread Jack Phoenix
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Jack Phoenix j...@countervandalism.net wrote: I'm trying to build an autocompletion thingy that suggests categories based on user input using the opensearch API [1]. Sounds

[Wikitech-l] jQuery UI, opensearch API, categories and autocompletion -- oh my!

2015-05-06 Thread Jack Phoenix
://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Opensearch [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jack_Phoenix/AutocompleteTest Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Designing a MediaWiki Skin

2015-04-23 Thread Jack Phoenix
/Skin:Truglass [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Separating_skins_from_core_MediaWiki [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:All_skins Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Obsolete MediaWiki extensions

2014-10-30 Thread Jack Phoenix
/index.php?title=Blog [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Project_ownership Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Come develop Video, *the* video embedding extension for MediaWiki!

2014-09-24 Thread Jack Phoenix
. --bawolff [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:YouTube [2] https://git.wikimedia.org/commitdiff/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FYouTube/7acd1d53101a42d02237158a659e1054f7423188 Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Come develop Video, *the* video embedding extension for MediaWiki!

2014-09-23 Thread Jack Phoenix
/673dadc4a2d47698589ac3294893f9163e6e5d4b/includes/parser/Parser.php Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fixing PollNY -- ResourceLoader woes

2014-09-20 Thread Jack Phoenix
, it still magically works with debug=true in the URL. Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fixing PollNY -- ResourceLoader woes

2014-09-17 Thread Jack Phoenix
appear to be working either. :-( Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] What namespaces should we use when we use them

2014-06-24 Thread Jack Phoenix
per file at most, and any reasonable editor can be configured to have tab completion and/or macro expansion for commonly typed strings. Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V have been a thing for quite a while, no? Regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] What should be the recommended / supported way to do skins? (A proposal.)

2014-05-20 Thread Jack Phoenix
with two different things that have...the exact same name -- this is true for Nimbus; there is an extension and a skin with that name; the skin likely predates the extension, but unlike the extension, the skin wasn't always FOSS. Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer

[Wikitech-l] A modern, scalable and attractive skin for MediaWiki (GSoC 2014 proposal)

2014-03-17 Thread Jack Phoenix
Hi all, I'm Jack Phoenix [1], a MediaWiki developer whose primary interests are social tools [2] and skinning [3]. Skinning, especially when related to core MediaWiki, is a rather esoteric area where we don't have much developer capacity, the skinning system is obscure and not well-documented

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preferences not being saved on MW 1.22 when using shared databaes

2013-12-08 Thread Jack Phoenix
direction, which effectively made it possible to fix this issue. Of course, I'm sure that our hardcore gadget users would very much want their gadgets back and preferrably right away, so that'll be the next step... Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer

[Wikitech-l] Preferences not being saved on MW 1.22 when using shared databaes

2013-12-07 Thread Jack Phoenix
via [[Special:Preferences]], the special page claims that the changes were saved correctly, but this is not the case. It seems that the only entries saved to user_properties are 'variant' and 'watchlisttoken'. Setting a preference via eval.php seems to work: $u = User::newFromName( 'Jack Phoenix

Re: [Wikitech-l] Seemingly proprietary Javascript

2013-03-06 Thread Jack Phoenix
../resources.txt $ git log --format=format:%an --no-merges skins/ | sort -u ../skins.txt $ comm -23 ../skins.txt ../resources.txt [...] Jack Phoenix [...] Let me just state this for the record: I find copyright paranoia and associated acts, such as this very thread with 59 (and counting

Re: [Wikitech-l] Disabling direct pushing to master for extensions

2012-08-29 Thread Jack Phoenix
motivation for committing code to core MW and for that, the setup is to be thanked.) Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread

2012-08-27 Thread Jack Phoenix
. So, thanks to everyone who ever has worked with MediaWiki in some way (not necessarily in software development) -- you folks make the Internet not suck. Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] You are invited to join the wikiHow source code cleanup project

2012-04-06 Thread Jack Phoenix
Extensions, would be splendid -- as people are likelier to read such more official (so to say) pages than my user subpages. ;-) Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

[Wikitech-l] You are invited to join the wikiHow source code cleanup project

2012-04-04 Thread Jack Phoenix
To those who don't know me yet, hi! I'm Jack Phoenix, and I've been a MediaWiki developer since May 2008. One of the major third-party users of the MediaWiki software is wikiHow ( http://www.wikihow.com/), a free how-to manual. In my opinion, wikiHow rocks! (No, I don't work for wikiHow and I

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

2012-03-02 Thread Jack Phoenix
this into a separate thread instead of hijacking this... Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Home stretch of 1.19 code review

2012-01-05 Thread Jack Phoenix
(see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jack_Phoenix for my contact details). Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Request for developers: the Video extension

2011-10-07 Thread Jack Phoenix
/wiki/Commit_access (if you don't yet have SVN write access). Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making developer access easier to get

2011-10-03 Thread Jack Phoenix
transparent way to manage commit access requests than an OTRS queue or whatever is used nowadays; then again, I'm just giving suggestions here, I'm not here to make any decisions as I'm not employed by the Foundation. Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer

Re: [Wikitech-l] SQL errors

2011-09-03 Thread Jack Phoenix
, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] On third-party users of MediaWiki and collaboration with upstream

2011-08-29 Thread Jack Phoenix
. This would check for version inconsistencies especially for JS fws and make sure that the same fw is not stored inside multiple extensions which does not work for different JS fw versions anyway. All the best, Achim Sent from my iPhone Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improving code review: Mentors/maintainers?

2011-03-24 Thread Jack Phoenix
. //Marcin I'd actually like to eliminate legacy skins altogether. They show up and throw a thorn into skin improvements repeatedly. +1 Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] Deferred, but still in need of review

2010-11-14 Thread Jack Phoenix
are reviewing code for Wikimedia deployment are having a hard time catching up; I don't want to make their work any more difficult than it already is, I just want to have my extensions reviewed to make sure that no glaring errors or security vulnerabilities slip in. Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki.org's [[MediaWiki:Newarticletext]]

2010-10-10 Thread Jack Phoenix
/corporate wiki nor Wikipedia. If the big warning text is a problem for you, I'd suggest hiding it with CSS as I have done: .mw-newarticletext-visitors { display: none; } Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Skin system rewrite

2010-02-11 Thread Jack Phoenix
it's rewritten. So no worries, you should have plenty of time to rewrite your skins. :-) Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

[Wikitech-l] Skin system rewrite

2010-02-08 Thread Jack Phoenix
://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jack_Phoenix/SkinSystemRewrite/Documentation [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jack_Phoenix/SkinSystemRewrite/Notes_and_to-do Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Upgrade tomorrow (01-19-2010)! -Service will be unavailable-

2010-01-18 Thread Jack Phoenix
Awesome! Does this mean that bug #9025 will be fixed now? ;-) Regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l