[Wikitech-l] Don't forgot, only 4 more days to become eligible to vote in Board elections

Hi all, Just a small reminder for any developers that they only have 4 more days to become eligible to vote in the 2022 WMF Board of Trustees election. Developers can confirm their eligibility by reviewing the below list: * are Wikimedia server administrators with shell access * or have made at

[Wikitech-l] Re: Best practices for extensions

On Tue, 1 Feb 2022, 3:00 am Thiemo Kreuz, wrote: > … snip … > * What about CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md? Isn't this required by now? Historically (aka when the file first got mass added) there were arguments that ensured about that, From memory the outcome was that the file is not required but none the

[Wikitech-l] Re: Upstream shutdowns

There is also one of the search systems migrating to non O/S from memory... elastic? On Wed, 2 Jun 2021, 11:11 am Brian Wolff, wrote: > Also HHVM and Blazegraph. > > -- > Brian > > On Tuesday, June 1, 2021, Kunal Mehta wrote: > >> On 5/29/21 5:59 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: >> >>> It sounds like

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical Decision Making Process Update and Change

Are the Gerrit permission requests that techcom used to handle going to the new forum or another team? On Tue, 26 Jan 2021, 12:20 pm Kate Chapman, wrote: > Hello all, > > I’m pleased to announce that the Technical Decision Making Process[0] > proposed as an evolution of the Wikimedia Technical

Re: [Wikitech-l] The future of UploadWizard

That comment may be referring to improving the core uploader so the extension can be depreciated. Has UW gone under a code stewardship request? On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, 8:33 am Strainu, wrote: > As the deafening silence of this thread probably shows, a discussion is > not really possible. The WMF

Re: [Wikitech-l] List related to repositories which haven't mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer

Perhaps it would be best to create a task for this request. On Fri, 6 Mar 2020, 4:46 pm Zoran Dori, wrote: > Hello, > can someone to update list https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P10500 which > contains repositories which haven't mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer. > > I found in list that much

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator Login Error

It's been used on and off as required for the past few years. On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 18:55, RhinosF1 Wikipedia wrote: > > Do we know when it was implemented and why? Is it part of the response to > earlier security issues? > > On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 09:51, K. Peachey wrote: &g

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator Login Error

It's a anti-spam measure, One of the Phab administrators will approve when available. On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 18:28, RhinosF1 Wikipedia wrote: > > Hi all, > Is there any reason Phabricator accounts would be marked not approved? > I've not noticed this happening before but there's been a report on

Re: [Wikitech-l] wgEmergencyContact - n...@wikipedia.org

Its not long used, see the documentation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEmergencyContact On 30 May 2018 at 06:41, Martin Urbanec wrote: > Hello, > > is it intended to have *n...@wikipedia.org * in > wgEmergencyContact in CommonSettings.php? > > Martin >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Refactoring MonoBook

On 18 March 2018 at 10:56, Isarra Yos wrote: > > There are also some problems that need addressing down the road: that I'm > not sure how safe it is for caching and the like to just go moving > images/css files around willy-nilly, that there are no 'standard' skin > practices

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Stakeholders' meta-repository of extensions not in gerrit

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions_in_GitHub_version_control https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions_in_Google_Code_version_control https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions_in_SourceForge_version_control On 24 December 2017 at 09:05, Mark A. Hershberger

Re: [Wikitech-l] Discussion on adding a CODE_OF_CONDUCT file to all Wikimedia repos

On 10 June 2017 at 08:52, Gergő Tisza wrote: > > … snip … > > We started adding a CODE_OF_CONDUCT file with a link to all repos (this is > a new convention for declaring what a project's code of conduct is, > promoted by Github) No, CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md was added, which is a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Open source JPG algorithm that reduces file size by 35%

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160834 On 19 March 2017 at 05:30, Pine W wrote: > Perhaps of interest to Mobile and Performance folks: > > https://research.googleblog.com/2017/03/announcing-guetzli-new-open-source-jpeg.html > > Pine >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

Hi Pine, Any chance to provide information or examples of these documents that would need to be replaced if/when colours are changed? To my knowledge, There is no where in MediaWiki core that relies on colour only to convey information to the clients/end users. The colour is used to enhance

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

On 10 December 2016 at 19:07, Gergo Tisza wrote: > For reference, these are the changes being discussed: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F5022813 Is there any reason this is being discussed on a File compared to a task? Is there any reason security has been changed on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Recently proposed patchsets by new contributors awaiting code review

On 12 October 2016 at 23:21, Andre Klapper wrote: > == pywikibot/core: == > > since 2016-09-25 (2nd time listed here): > Checks the type of isbn and modifies accordingly > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/312726/ Might be better to send that one to the pywiki mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Small old unreviewed MediaWiki Core patches waiting in Gerrit

On 12 October 2016 at 23:29, Andre Klapper wrote: > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/211034/ > Move up devunt's name to Developers > /CREDITS I think we have combined both those lists into one and just have CREDITs now sorted alphabetically.

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to find a repository?

"nasty bug" abd "useful" are very subject views. Perhaps be more considerate to everyone views on this mailing list nemo? On 26 July 2016 at 16:52, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > To make the links to projects useful, one needs to visit every single > project's "manage >

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki pingback

On 22 July 2016 at 10:29, Ori Livneh wrote: > Starting with version 1.28, MediaWiki will provide operators with the > option of sharing anonymous data about the local MediaWiki instance and its > environment with MediaWiki's developer community via a pingback to a URL >

Re: [Wikitech-l] git.wikimedia.org (Gitblit) going away on June 29th, redirected to Phabricator

On 22 June 2016 at 07:16, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > One known issue to call out: Diffusion does not list commits by person. > However Differential (the code-review tool) does this (not just for new > commits). There is no easy/maintainable way to redirect those, >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Which Phabricator project for site issues?

What type of site issue is it? You can always file in Wikimedia-General-or-Unknown and other users will help with the correct tagging. On 27 May 2016 at 18:57, Strainu wrote: > Hi, > > Is Wikimedia-Site-requests the correct project to log issues with a > specific Wiki? If

Re: [Wikitech-l] FW: File with an unknown copyright status on MediaWiki.org

I've created a redirect to our template for that On 26 May 2016 at 19:21, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez wrote: > I'm trying to fix the ones I've uploaded, but the {{Mediawiki screenshot}} > template is not in mediawiki.org. > > Is just adding a license like {{cc-by-sa-4.0}}

Re: [Wikitech-l] FW: File with an unknown copyright status on MediaWiki.org

On 25 May 2016 at 20:40, Ricordisamoa wrote: > , while on mediawiki.org no one cares. That's not true, It's a project I plan to work on shortly (just need to finish a few other things first). And it's not a simple case of just hitting delete on everything.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Hey guys how ı can leave this e-mail list?

On 25 April 2016 at 22:01, Muhammed Tatlısu wrote: > Muhammed Tatlısu > 34080/İstanbul-Türkiye > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l#manage and follow the form details. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] My username

On 24 April 2016 at 15:37, Muhammed Tatlısu wrote: > Hı, I requested to change the user name (Kingbjelica to Müdür) > Now I want to cancel it. > > Where? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Deploy freeze(s) in effect for the next 7 weeks (ish, read for more details)

On Thursday, November 26, 2015, Brian Wolff wrote: > >> FTR: "High Priority" means security and data loss, really. There may be > >> other exceptions but they need pre-approval from at least myself and > >> sometimes Katie. > > Thanks for keeping us informed. I'm excited to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Audit of inline styling in the main namespace of the English Wikipedia

Is this direct usage of the styling, or does it include styling introduced by templates as well? On Monday, October 26, 2015, MZMcBride wrote: > Hi. > > I was curious about the prevalence and types of inline styling (or more > specifically, inline CSS) in articles on the

Re: [Wikitech-l] New feature: tool edit

What if it a bot builder builds one? On 22 February 2015 at 10:35, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote: What if a techie vandal builds a one-click disruption framework? Il 15/02/2015 10:54, Petr Bena ha scritto: I think it's pretty clear what I am proposing here :P there is a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extensions licensing

On 8 February 2015 at 19:32, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks! This is a nice cleanup. https://www.mediawiki.org/ wiki/Category:Extensions_with_unknown_license has 1379 pages now, is your bot going to continue working there? That category is a bit dodgy, It's based on a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stance on Social Media

Assuming that we even use icons! I think a text drop down box which lists the various networks that one could share onto would work just as well. On 12 January 2015 at 15:35, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Tim Starling wrote: Yes, there's a risk we could end up with an alphabetical list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator outage due to network issues, 11/29

ASAP? when it's already hitting approx. five hours of down time? On 30 November 2014 at 18:14, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: As noted in the server admin log [1], Phabricator is currently down due to a network outage impacting one of our racks in the Ashburn data-center. We're

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

Perhaps someone could trail making a gadget that will display the template loaded into the m.* mobile experience so its's easier for users to have a look as a starting point? On 9 October 2014 14:09, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Helder wrote: This is why we have proposals like

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC meeting this week

Tim was probably thinking of AEDT On 9 October 2014 06:14, Roan Kattouw rkatt...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: * Australia AEST: Thursday 07:00 Ironically, Tim miscalculated the time in his own timezone :D it's 08:00

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

Templates aren't protected by default =). If they are protected there is generally a good reason such as heavy usage, you can always put a comment on the talk page and tag it with {{EditProtected}} which will summon someone with sysop rights. You can also setup a /Sandbox page with the proposed

Re: [Wikitech-l] IRC bots for phab

On 29 September 2014 02:08, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote: [[You spend way too much time (and other people's time too) on exaggerating or rehashing issues beyond their true proportions. You already knew that new user registration at that instance was disabled before the start of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

Probably the original IRC discussions. On 19 August 2014 17:22, Merlijn van Deen valhall...@arctus.nl wrote: On 19 August 2014 07:36, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: Personally I don't think in it's current state/design it is overly suitable for deployment onto MediaWiki wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

I was meaning to comment on the overall GSoC proposal before the acceptance stage and didn't get a chance. Personally I don't think in it's current state/design it is overly suitable for deployment onto MediaWiki wiki as it will introduce a external factor on the page load for each visitor,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dropping unused repos (was: Extension unit tests!)

What issues are they causing by being there? On Tuesday, August 12, 2014, addshorew...@gmail.com wrote: That is one thing we should take into account when clearing them out. We should look at the date of last commit or the date of creation and if they were in the last 6 months of so possibly

[Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

Lets all welcome the new overlord Erik. Add a new protection level called superprotect Assigned to nobody by default. Requested by Erik Möller for the purposes of protecting pages such that sysop permissions are not sufficient to edit them. Change-Id: Idfa211257dbacc7623d42393257de1525ff01e9e

Re: [Wikitech-l] Spam filter rules on the Wiki Loves Monuments Mailing list not working

Can you please file the bug in our bugzilla installation? bugzilla.wikimedia.org under Wikimedia - Mailing Lists. On 1 August 2014 08:39, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, (not really sure this is the right place, please redirect me if needed) Togheter with

Re: [Wikitech-l] User agent policy for bots

It's designed so if there if there is a issue with the bot (eg: it's malfunctioning etc) and causes issues the person whom is in control can easily be identified. As such, The user-agent you chose should reflect that. On 11 July 2014 09:09, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, As

Re: [Wikitech-l] New tabs for images

It is still accessible, It's just a utter pain to get to. On 4 June 2014 20:35, Petr Kadlec petr.kad...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 1:17 PM, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 1, 2014 5:12 AM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: So here I am working late night

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bot flags and human-made edits

Because humans use it these days, not boys generally in the web interface and it would just make stuff harder for people that use it… On Tuesday, May 20, 2014, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On May 20, 2014 8:39 AM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org javascript:; wrote: On 19 May

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reducing botspam on #wikimedia-dev

tbh -dev (or somewhere else) should be the master channel for bz output. On 19 May 2014 00:36, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone! I just merged a change into the new wikibugs that will help reduce botspam on #wikimedia-dev. wikibugs will no longer report bugs on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change the installer to make Project: the default option for meta namespace name

On 4 May 2014 05:38, Nathan Larson nathanlarson3...@gmail.com wrote: 4) We don't have any other namespace names (User, Template, etc.) that are, by default, different from one wiki to the next; what is the logic for making an exception for the meta namespace? Because the Template/User

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed body font stack for Latin

On 12 April 2014 05:49, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to test this locally on the English Wikipedia, and I am quit confident this makes everyone happy because 1) every OS should end up using a native font, and 2) it promotes a free font at the beginning of the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile Operator IP Drift

On 11 April 2014 05:53, Adam Baso ab...@wikimedia.org wrote: Your feedback is welcome here on wikitech-l. Next week we'd like to move the discussion to the wikimediaannounce-l mailing list, but we wanted to first cover it on this main developer list. Announce-l isn't a discussion list, it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Query

Could you please provide the patch in git diff format, or alternatively straight into our git environment for even easier reviewing? (See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit for more info) On 16 March 2014 00:21, Rahul Mishra mishra_2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, My name is Rahul Mishra, I am

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to ask for a python package into Labs

bugzilla. On 23 February 2014 16:51, Alex Brollo alex.bro...@gmail.com wrote: I'd need internetarchive python package into Labs: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/internetarchive , a python bot for Internet Archive. I cant't find how to ask for installing it into Labs. Can you help me? It's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Latest Snowden docs MediaWiki

On 18 February 2014 20:41, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 18/02/2014 08:18, Philip Neustrom a écrit : The last details on their technical infrastructure indicated that Snowden used web crawler (love the quotes) software to obtain information from their internal wiki:

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Design] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

On 16 February 2014 18:54, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: ULS is a huge success in doing what it was intended to do. I am afraid that we have lost sight of what our primary objective is about. Thanks, GerardM TBH we probably lost most of that when everything was

Re: [Wikitech-l] Request Queue for Gerrit/Git

On 24 January 2014 04:18, Ty Atkinson tya.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am User:TyA. I noticed on the [[Annoying large bugs]] page there was a request for a Request Queue and I'm interested in working on that. I have some basic ideas of how to lay it out, however I'd like to hear other's

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP new version(s) 5.5.7 and other versions. (upgrade, if you can)

Who? What? When? Where? Why? On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: PHP users are strongly advised to upgrade their PHP versions: PHP 4.0.6 - PHP 4.4.9 PHP 5.0.x PHP 5.1.x PHP 5.2.x PHP 5.3.0 - PHP 5.3.27 PHP 5.4.0 - PHP 5.4.22 PHP 5.5.0 - PHP 5.5.6 Vendor

[Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

For wider discussion --- From: bugzilla-daemon at wikimedia.org Subject: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia siteshttp://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3cbug%2d58236%2d3%40https.bugzilla.wikimedia.org%2f%3e Newsgroups:

[Wikitech-l] FWD [Bug 58235] New: Remove skin selection from Wikipedia and Wikimedia site Special:Preferences for new user accounts

For wider discussion From: bugzilla-daemon at wikimedia.org Subject: [Bug 58235] New: Remove skin selection from Wikipedia and Wikimedia site Special:Preferences for new user accountshttp://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3cbug%2d58235%2d3%40https.bugzilla.wikimedia.org%2f%3e

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.22.0 released

I only corrected the stable version number templates, Someone else will have to do the others (As well as the [[MW 1.22]] and the release notes page, if they havn't been done) On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 23:02 +, Markus

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please use sitenotice when a new version of software is deployed

People that are interested in the version will more than likely already know about [[Special:Version]], if they want the added onscreen [clutter] presence they could whip up a gadget or something to pull it from the API. On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Bináris wikipo...@gmail.com wrote: There

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please use sitenotice when a new version of software is deployed

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Alex Brollo alex.bro...@gmail.com wrote: Users are very confused and worried any time a new version of wiki software is launched and tested, and some major or minor bug comes invariably out. A clear message using central sitenotice, with links to doc pages

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.22.0rc3 ready for download

Bad idea [to package/install],… Is what I believe beta was saying Tyler. On Friday, December 6, 2013, Tyler Romeo wrote: On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:39 PM, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.comjavascript:; wrote: VE is a BAD idea, its full of holes and bugs Those are two separate concepts. Just

[Wikitech-l] Tracking Extensions by License type / was WMFs stance on non-GPL code

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Just for fun, I added some license-parsing logic to Template:Extension on mediawiki.org. I think the job queue is still updating the categories, but so far we have: Extensions with no license specified: 596 Extensions

Re: [Wikitech-l] Local Wikipedia mirror system messages

wm-license-information-description will probably be comming from E:WikimediaMessages, You will also want a dump containing the locally one done on the wiki's MediaWiki: namespace. On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Timothy Pearson kb9...@pearsoncomputing.net wrote: Hi all, I have successfully

Re: [Wikitech-l] Secure and split

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Danese Cooper dan...@gmail.com wrote: Except it was yesterday in Oz, right? Yes Happy Tim Day, Mr. Starling...and belated congrats on that second daughter too! 3 D ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fix the Wikimedia Email Templates

Hi, Can you please file this in our bug tracking system at https://www.bugzilla.wikimedia.org/. On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Nasir Khan nasir8...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am Nasir, an active contributor of Bengali WIkipedia. I use the email notifications for the change on my watch list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inline bug report history in Bugzilla

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:14 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Željko Filipin zfili...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:05 AM, Isarra Yos zhoris...@gmail.com wrote: So yeah, helpful for the majority, I'd say. +1 I guess

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bulk download

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Mihai Chintoanu mihai.chinto...@skobbler.com wrote: Hi everyone, I have a list of about 1.8 million images which I have to download from commons.wikimedia.org. Why? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] [RFC]: Clean URLs- dropping /wiki/ and /w/index.php?title=..

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Gabriel Wicke gwi...@wikimedia.org wrote: There *might* be, in theory. In practice I doubt that there are any articles starting with 'w/'. To avoid future conflicts, we should probably prefix private paths with an underscore as titles cannot start with it (and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help users with screen readers on Wiktionary?

Speak to hoo on IRC, he is been contracted by WMDE to work on a11y issues and has been some wonderful work already from what I hear. On Monday, September 16, 2013, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: A user who depends on a screen reader has recently found Wiktionary to be less useful than it was in

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMFs stance on non-GPL code

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote: Just out of curiosity, what code are you using to do license parsing? If you want seriously robust parsing, you might take a peek at https://github.com/dmgerman/ninka Luis standard parser functions via the template

Re: [Wikitech-l] git.wikimedia.org dead?

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Leslie Carr lc...@wikimedia.org wrote: looks like the robots.txt isn't being served - so googlebot is grabbing things from the zip files client denied by server configuration: /var/www/robots.txt sadly too jetlagged to keep looking at this :( make sure you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gitblit down?

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Things should be much better since this afternoon. You gave into the server kittehs demands for fresher tuna? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

On Tuesday, July 23, 2013, Subramanya Sastry wrote: 500+ edits are being done per hour using Visual Editor 500+ people are making edits with the default editor, I'm pretty sure (without doing stats on it) that a lot of them wouldn't be experienced enough to kill it off -- -- Sent from

Re: [Wikitech-l] ContentHandler hook deprecations

Didn't we just decide on a deprecation setup a few months ago? Marked for two majors then removed iirc On Monday, July 22, 2013, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: I just noticed that ContentHandler has understandably deprecated several hooks. However, not all the hooks have been updated as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Disambiguator extension deployed to all WMF wikis (action required)

I bet the JobQueue would be loving that. On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: As all templates requiring it are listed in [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]], why not run a global bot? It's surely easier than trying to find 800 editors.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Sean Pringle, our latest TechOps member

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Ct Woo ct...@wikimedia.org wrote: Sean hails from Queensland, Australia and while he travels around frequently, he inevitably always flee back to his down under home. He confessed being forever distracted by all things geek and technology related though he

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla: Separate bug report status when patch is in Gerrit?

How does a Status change work better than a Keyword change in this case? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] ZERO architecture

On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Adam Baso ab...@wikimedia.org wrote: Sorry to reply on a thread that will probably not sort nicely on the mailman web interface or threading mail clients. Anybody know of an easy way to reply to digest email in Gmail such that mailman will retain threading?

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.21.0 released

Yes, but that is a mistake in the file. That got fixed in Git today. On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Jamie Thingelstad ja...@thingelstad.com wrote: I just installed this tar ball and Special:Version is reporting 1.21.0rc5. update also reports 'MediaWiki 1.21.0rc5 Updater'. Did the right files

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC Virtual Keyboard

GSoC projects have been accepted yet? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] State of MediaWiki's render action (parameter to index.php)

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: We should give people a heads up, unless/until it's reconsidered and we decide to undeprecate it (maintain support indefinitely). Matt Flaschen Um, how it be discussed and considered to deprecate it in the first

Re: [Wikitech-l] don't show certain links with the help of Special:AllMessages

Try setting the message to - On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Yury Katkov katkov.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone! I think that Special:AllMessages and the idea that every message in the wiki has its own wikipage is just _awesome_. So, I can Replace the disclaimer label to smth different

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Moriel Schottlender mor...@gmail.com wrote: You can see a screenshot of the current working version here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Extstatus_screenshot.png Please license your uploads to the wiki correctly (or more preferably update to commons!).

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Or set up some caching on Gitweb, so it's usable for this kind of thing. I believe Chad is planning on sending Gitweb to /dev/null/, in-turn for a better replacement (if it does caching better is another question).

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla for Extensions

File a bug under Wikimedia/Bugzilla for it. Only pre-req is that you are heavily involved in the dev of it (eg: maintainer) and you want it. On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I was wondering what the qualifications are for getting a Bugzilla section

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Lukas Benedix bene...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: ... You can share your feedback on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:VisualEditor/Feedback but 'visual editor' - 'review and save' - 'something is wrong' - 'report problem' is not working for me. You can

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Erik Bernhardson joins Wikimedia as Features Engineer

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: ... His first official day is today (April 22). He is going to work with the Editor Engagement team on Messaging, and any other stuff we can throw at him until he feels sufficiently overwhelmed. I’m still trying to figure

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Google Summer of Code '13] Project Idea - Inspire Me Button

I believe E:Getting_Started is already working on something like this. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] No cascade protection on Mediawiki namespace

Why not just protect the template when you add it? I think you may be over thinking this just a tad. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Engineering Roadmap Update - 20130417

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote: Wow, thank you for pointing to Framasoft. Looks like they've got some really useful stuff going on there. Could be done very easily and neatly in a MediaWiki page... ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Engineering Roadmap Update - 20130417

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: We used to do that: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Roadmap ... How about just something simple like * https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Peachey88/Sandbox/table2 or *

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problems with file deletion on Commons

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Eugene Zelenko eugene.zele...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I'd like to bring to attention of developers and system administrators problems with file deletion on Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Daily_DR_issue Sorry,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clicktracking being phased out

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 5:46 AM, FastLizard4 fastliza...@gmail.com wrote: I thought we weren't supposed to use blink tags because they attracted Weeping Angels. :P That which holds the image of a angel... ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Željko Filipin zfili...@wikimedia.org wrote: Done: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla_Weekly_Report Željko I hope you are going to go edit the descriptions for those files and add the appropriate license tags?

Re: [Wikitech-l] whatcanidoforwikipedia.org

Why not just point it to a page onwiki somewhere? that way everyone can contribute! (we could even semi-protect it I guess...) On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 8:17 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Thanks for working on this.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: Wikitech contributors

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: So yeah; perhaps SMW has issues that makes deployment to the bigger content wikis problematic, but rejecting it for the smaller data-based ones on a kneejerk is, at best, misguided. It wasn't knee jerk the time it was

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Alternative domains for Commons

How is that meant to pervent confusion? you are just sticking a extra .api in the address. On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: What about inserting another domain just to prevent confusion and to keep current redirects, which would ONLY allow api, such as

Re: [Wikitech-l] JobQueue

AFAIK we already do that for some entries, Reedy will know more, I will let you investigate his mind for more knowledge on that. On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.org wrote: Don't forget about the potentials of a priority based queue! (That being said I actually

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: I suggest renaming of pages Cross-site scripting = Cross-site scripting (XSS, XSSI) and Cross-site request forgery = Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)

What actual benefit with having their abbreviation in the title archive? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Željko Filipin zfili...@wikimedia.org wrote: Most of these projects seem to be extension (and PHP?) centric. Can we have more diversity? Browser test automation? Not an extension, not in PHP, but in Ruby[2]. OPs don't want [any more] ruby on the clusters, So

Re: [Wikitech-l] FlaggedRevs at www.mediawiki.org

What is your Username?, My crystal ball is still getting repaired. On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: If possible, could I get the flag as well. I've run into the same problem before. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Github/Gerrit mirroring

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: Can we please be real here? The reason more contributors come in through GitHub than through Gerrit is because they *already have a GitHub account*. My browser is always logged into GitHub, ?!? Unless you magically had a

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