Re: [Wikitech-l] Anonymous editors IP addresses

2014-07-15 Thread Nick White
(a little off topic diversion) On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 06:22:17PM +1000, Gryllida wrote: An IP, as a fundamental identifier, has as much to do with privacy as a car number you see on a street. (Anyone can look up a name by car number, in my area, which I expect to be common.) Actually

Re: [Wikitech-l] Background color

2014-06-27 Thread Nick White
Hi Jeff, On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 01:02:43PM -0600, Jeffrey Barish wrote: I am viewing Wikipedia pages using webkit in an application that I wrote. I attach my style sheet by specifying user_stylesheet_uri. I know that webkit is reading my css because I could set the background color until

Re: [Wikitech-l] Hardening WP/WM against traffic analysis (take two)

2014-06-05 Thread Nick White
Hi Zack, On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 12:45:11PM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: I'd like to restart the conversation about hardening Wikipedia (or possibly Wikimedia in general) against traffic analysis. I brought this up ... last November, I think, give or take a month? but it got lost in a larger

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

2014-05-28 Thread Nick White
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 02:00:36PM +0200, Stephan Gambke wrote: You are late. ;-) A type mediawiki-skin exists. Oh, fantastic :) Thanks for letting me know. It would probably be good to add this info to the Manual:Skinning/Tutorial page. I'll do that when I've made it work for Erudite, if

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

2014-05-27 Thread Nick White
One related thing that could be useful would be creating a mediawiki-skin type for composer, so skins could use composer and be assured of going into the skins/ directory. I haven't used composer yet, but presumably it's a reasonable thing for skins to support, once they can be automatically

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

2014-05-21 Thread Nick White
(Firstly, apologies for breaking threading, and not quoting things as fully as I normally would. I only just subscribed to this list, so don't have previous mails in my mail client.) I'm the main author of the Erudite skin[0], which Daniel Friesen helped a good deal with when shepherding it