[Wikitech-l] updated book (article) collections in our MediaWiki Virtual Library (MVL)

2013-01-02 Thread Thomas Gries
RE: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MVL I updated the book collections in the MVL: - replaced obsolete SVN articles with their git/gerrit counterparts - modified the saved_book template: in addition to PDF downloads, e-book epub download link is available These books are presently in the MVL

Re: [Wikitech-l] monitoring / control system for bots

2013-01-02 Thread BinĂ¡ris
2013/1/2 Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org He may have misspoke on the we part. However, for wikis with bot approval processes (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_Approvals_Group ), there is tracking on what bots work on (due to the potentially disruptive nature of an

Re: [Wikitech-l] Updated schedule for ResourceLoader, Lua, etc.

2013-01-02 Thread John Erling Blad
What I would like is really something simple that says when something is to be made available, and what would be the visible feature. At least what is to be expected for the next 2-3 months, preferable with something about which roll-out cycle and a last date to give a go (or stop) on the planned

Re: [Wikitech-l] Updated schedule for ResourceLoader, Lua, etc.

2013-01-02 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:16 AM, John Erling Blad jeb...@gmail.com wrote: What I would like is really something simple that says when something is to be made available, and what would be the visible feature. At least what is to be expected for the next 2-3 months, preferable with something

Re: [Wikitech-l] mwEmbed gadget

2013-01-02 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2013-01-01 at 22:36 -0700, Mono wrote: The video player still looks ugly (by the way) compared to a YouTube/Vimeo or even a standard Kaltura player... Assuming you refer to the new player [1]: If you have specific improvements in mind, please feel free to file enhancement requests in

Re: [Wikitech-l] monitoring / control system for bots

2013-01-02 Thread Lars Aronsson
On 01/02/2013 03:29 AM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: He may have misspoke on the we part. However, for wikis with bot approval processes (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_Approvals_Group ), there is tracking on what bots work on (due to the potentially disruptive nature of an active

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wiki-research-l] Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices)

2013-01-02 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Dear Pine, thank you for sharing these links. I cannot read everything now, but one of these warticles was also recommended by a friend, Sure, Big Data Is Great. But So Is Intuition.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/technology/big-data-is-great-but-dont-forget-intuition.html?_r=1;, by Steve

Re: [Wikitech-l] monitoring / control system for bots

2013-01-02 Thread Petr Bena
This is not about bot status (+bot) but about its system status (UP / DOWN etc) On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: On 01/02/2013 03:29 AM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: He may have misspoke on the we part. However, for wikis with bot approval processes (e.g.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unit tests scream for attention

2013-01-02 Thread Chris McMahon
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongm...@gmail.comwrote: This is an annoyance to me as well. So, I went triaging, and finally found the issues that failed the unit tests for me. I have committed fixes for them to gerrit: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/41362/

Re: [Wikitech-l] updated book (article) collections in our MediaWiki Virtual Library (MVL)

2013-01-02 Thread Chad
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:02 AM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: mwbook #06 MediaWiki Git Guide (MGG) Please do not add more pages to the Git documentation. It's confusing enough for people as it is. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] monitoring / control system for bots

2013-01-02 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 01/02/2013 03:03 AM, BinĂ¡ris wrote: Before generalizing it will be very useful to overview various wikis. According to the interwikis, very few wikis have an explicit bot policy like enwiki and even less have BAG. Definition of a bot may vary, too: in the bot policy of enwiki only

Re: [Wikitech-l] monitoring / control system for bots

2013-01-02 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 01/02/2013 08:25 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote: On 01/02/2013 03:29 AM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: He may have misspoke on the we part. However, for wikis with bot approval processes (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_Approvals_Group ), there is tracking on what bots work on (due to

Re: [Wikitech-l] monitoring / control system for bots

2013-01-02 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Matt, let's be clearer then: what you describe is ok ONLY for en.wiki. ALL the other wikis have a different system. Thanks, Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] monitoring / control system for bots

2013-01-02 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 01/02/2013 01:24 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Matt, let's be clearer then: what you describe is ok ONLY for en.wiki. ALL the other wikis have a different system. I was replying to Lars, who made the across-the-board statement once the status is granted, that idea can change without having

[Wikitech-l] Echo IRC office hours for developers

2013-01-02 Thread Ryan Kaldari
The Editor Engagement team will be holding a special Echo IRC office hours specifically for developers next Tuesday. We would like to let the other developers know what we're up to and allow them to ask any questions they may have about the Echo Notifications system. Since Echo is designed to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit reviewer-bot

2013-01-02 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 12/28/2012 07:08 PM, Merlijn van Deen wrote: (responding to Siebrand, although others have made the same p I hope that you're excluding adding people as reviewer to all patch sets by user L10n-bot, by the way... Initially not, but I just added an exception for L10n-bot - all it's changes

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit reviewer-bot

2013-01-02 Thread Merlijn van Deen
On 2 January 2013 21:34, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thank you Could you please also exclude the owner? In other words, don't add the owner as a reviewer to their own change. Fixed! Merlijn ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit reviewer-bot

2013-01-02 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 01/02/2013 05:38 PM, Merlijn van Deen wrote: On 2 January 2013 21:34, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thank you Could you please also exclude the owner? In other words, don't add the owner as a reviewer to their own change. Great, thank you. Matt Flaschen