interrupted almost everyone. See wikisource-l for details.
I think there are times when a community would like a mass notice of some
sort, and it will differ based on the project and community size and the
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It would be nice if wikidata could store the appropriate pagename for
articles that dont exist yet.
Not very important, as a suitable pagename can be guessed in most cases
using occupation.
On Dec 4, 2013 11:55 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 2 December 2013 17:49, Gerard
On Oct 27, 2013 4:19 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote:
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:52 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
There's an open question in my mind as to what constitutes a non-free
font,
In this context, I mean non-free in the context of
On Oct 3, 2013 10:05 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote:
On 10/03/2013 09:18 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote:
Wikidata + JS to the rescue!??
Thanks for the reply.
I am very new to the wikidata.
Me too.
Unfortunately I don't see a way to get this information any API query.
use of the abuse filter tags?
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On Sep 27, 2013 8:18 PM, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.com
wrote:
Is it possible to
enable them in reverse-mode so that all edits are flagged as good, but
editors can flag them as bad? If not, I can't see how it could be
useful for this purpose...
flagging as bad? Do you
as
patrolled so it no longer appears in the queue.
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On Aug 4, 2013 1:31 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
I think we can agree that VE has some performance considerations, but if
you take a look at the bug report, it's explained why it would be so
incredibly difficult to implement section editing.
Not really. Some sections on some
On Aug 4, 2013 6:14 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 August 2013 21:06, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
p.s. Try VE on 26kbps - that is all my mother can obtain currently,
unless
she gets satellite, which is too expensive for her - she lives ~10 kms
from
I would
interface was relabelled and better
documented. i.e.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34490
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probably dont receive many edits)
John Vandenberg.
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On Jul 27, 2013 6:15 AM, Juergen Fenn schneeschme...@googlemail.com
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2013/7/26 Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org:
== Monday ==
* VisualEditor will be enabled for non-logged in (anonymous) users on
the following
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sure we dont make false claims about
VE/Parsoid's usability. Thanks for taking the time for digging them up.
My answers below are made with an intention of figuring out what the issues
are so they can be fixed where they need to be.
On 07/23/2013 02:50 AM, John Vandenberg wrote:
On Tue
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Subramanya Sastry
ssas...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 07/23/2013 05:28 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Subramanya Sastry
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Hi John and Risker,
First off, I do want to once again clarify that my intention
there are higher percentages..?
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On Jan 23, 2013 8:09 AM, Thehelpfulone thehelpfulonew...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 22 January 2013 19:44, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch
wrote:
Am 22.01.2013 20:42, schrieb Leslie Carr:
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Manuel Schneider
manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote:
There is a Firefox extension to get past the captchas...
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Subject: Re: Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Why are we still using captchas on WMF sites?
To: John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com
Yes, I have
on their main account when a sock is blocked.
Tor exemption should be separate from IP block exemption.
John Vandenberg.
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On Dec 28, 2012 12:13 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
I rather think that devs' time would be best spent ensuring that our tools
against Tor
On Dec 28, 2012 12:47 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
Add to that list the underlying XFF blocking bug.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23343
Back on topic, is it necessary for good users seeking IP block exemption
to be checkusered? I doubt it.
IP block
Small (native) apps can do Wikimedia work quite effectively using the api
Upload image
File categorisation
New page patrol
Flagged revs/Pending changes
OTRS
John Vandenberg.
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On Dec 12, 2012 7:04 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Over
positives on their website?
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the linksearch
tool to check whether a link is good or not.
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be awesome.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9838
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or two, it wont be more effective than the current system,
and the current system of steward re-elections isnt replaceable with
your design (or any other software solution).
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On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:15 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
What happens if the ex-sysop has lost access to their original email
address .. ?
If the sysop lost their email, they are in same troubles as if any
to at least be able to follow their own rules.
Rules? which rules. There are seven projects which have multiple
languages, and over 282 languages. Good luck updating all their
policies, and talking to all the sysops who arnt complying with the
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security aspect is only a small part of it.
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and the lack of auto-redirection is becoming a larger and larger
usability problem for me. (I don't use HTTPS-Everywhere on my personal
computer.)
Why isnt HTTPS Everywhere a good solution for you?
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Hi Mark,
There are a lot of http links to mail.wiki[pm]edia.org, where mailman
and pipermail used to work. They are in email footers headers and in
Wikipedia.
https://google.com/search?q=%22mail.wikipedia.org%22+-site:lists.wikimedia.org
Thanks,
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On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:40 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote:
This really should be filed in bugzilla.
aye.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33897
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Also related:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33898
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Is that clause in a publicly accessible document?
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of
this did you mean automatic redirection.
e.g.
http://enws.org/Special:Search/Mark_Twain
could take the browser directly to
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Samuel_Langhorne_Clemens
This would remove the need to have a author=yes parameter on enwp
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but in a new plataform. It would be an interesting experiment.
Something like this.. ?
http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:PersonalWikiTool
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MZ, if you're aware of *any* specific bugs where this is an issue, please
let me or Mark know and we'll take a look at them.
http://wikisource.org/wiki/WS:BUGS
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to be used as page names (i.e.
\/w\/.*\.php).
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ArbCom members are expected to be responsive to discussions about
English Wikipedia occurring on internal-l?
Could you please clarify who are you're obliquely attacking here?
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On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Nicolas Vervelle nverve...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I am interested in developing an extension for handling molecular files
(files containing informations about chemical molecules : atoms, bonds,
...).
If I understand
is done for 'secure' interwikis.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5440
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may not have much value on WMF projects ('at worst they
access admin functions'), but it could be used to access their gmail
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, and not on $wgFileExtensions + $wgZipFileExtensions.
$wgZipFileExtensions would consist of array('xml')
Then check the mimetypes of the files in the zip, against
$wgMimeTypeBlacklist (with 'application/zip' removed), again allowing
desired XML mimetypes through.
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the 'Misc' section of the prefs to be 'Performance')
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On 9/24/10, Marcin Cieslak sa...@saper.info wrote:
There are static dumps available here:
http://download.wikimedia.org/dewiki/
Is there any problem with using them?
I think they are from June 2008.
A fresh static dump would be good.
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at least some impact.
There is one very, very simple solution.
All changes should either be:
a) a patch on bugzilla, reviewed by anyone, and approved _on_bugzilla_
by a tech lead
b) the landing of a branch, approved by a tech lead in some public forum.
From that, all else flows.
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projects have
different layouts, esp. templates such as the header on each page.
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will die: it'll be possible, and encouraged, to obtain
multiple resources in one request.
Does that approach gain much over HTTP pipelining?
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translations for them (and the talk namespaces) are necessary.
http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslatetask=viewgroup=ext-proofreadpagelanguage=frlimit=100
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be enabled by
default. Was there any discussion about the default setting for this
pref?
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For example, on mw:Tracker/PM_tool, one dot point is the separation of
tasks, features, etc. This is bug 9412.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9412
I'd be happy to work on a few of these in a few weeks time.
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provided in this thread clearly show that the solution had
a positive desired effect.
A few negative side-effects have been put forward, such as preventing
browsing without a UA, but Domas has also indicated that other tech
team members can overturn the change if they don't like it.
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-agent for the unidentified traffic.
I am even less in favour of Domas retiring to an armchair, and think
that anyone suggesting that is deluding themselves about Wikimedia's
need of Domas, and Domas' reason for volunteering.
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like Adblock and IETab.
fwiw, Mozilla-in-IE was at a similar stage three years ago.
http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2006/12/xule-what-if/
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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 January 2010 05:07, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
An important distinction is that IE for Mac users on Mac OS (classic)
don't have the copious upgrade options available to IE 5.5 users on
Windows.
I
what browser people on Mac Classic should migrate to for
viewing Wikipedia. I'm reasonably confident that Wikipedia would
render fine in IE 5 for Mac (or iCab, or Classilla).
In this thread, Chad suggested that the IE for Mac stylesheet could be
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include?
http://stopdesign.com/examples/ie5mac-bpf/
Alternatively, we could load the stylesheet at runtime with
JavaScript. That approach is already being used for IE specific
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On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
John Vandenberg wrote:
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Platonides wrote:
What were the reasons for replacing lighttpd with Sun Java System Web
Server ?
Probably the same
points to the MediaWiki wiki.
https://confluence.toolserver.org/pages/listpages-dirview.action?key=main
Are there plans to make greater use of the Confluence wiki?
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Domains#confluence.toolserver.org
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will at least publicly disclose the problem.
If you do neither, you're well on your way to being a bottom-feeder.
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On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Andrew Garrett and...@werdn.us wrote:
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:36 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
Has the dumper been tweaked to remove all hidden revisions, including
hidden usernames recently fixed in bug 17792?
That was a bug in contributions
this week with some more concrete details.
Has the dumper been tweaked to remove all hidden revisions, including
hidden usernames recently fixed in bug 17792?
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software [Abbyy FineReader, I believe]).
I have found the djvu files from IA to be of an appropriate quality,
especially for transcription purposes. The PDFs are usually much
larger, and not much better quality.
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