Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-18 Thread Alex Brollo
While browsing the web for new trends of human-horse communication horse management, I found the website of Marjorie Smith, and I've been deeply influenced by her; her thoughts about links between man-to-man and man-to-horse communication - really an example of advantages of NVC - were extremely

Re: [Wikitech-l] Latest Snowden docs MediaWiki

2014-02-18 Thread Peter Coombe
On 18 February 2014 07:45, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: ... The coverage I've read so far seems to suggest that he had legitimate access to the data and didn't exploit implementation details of the security system (Well the technical implementation. Arguably he exploited

Re: [Wikitech-l] Latest Snowden docs MediaWiki

2014-02-18 Thread Antoine Musso
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] Latest Snowden docs MediaWiki

2014-02-18 Thread K. Peachey
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] Latest Snowden docs MediaWiki

2014-02-18 Thread Max Semenik
On 18.02.2014, 14:51 K. wrote: On 18 February 2014 20:41, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: From a usability point of view, I am wondering why he had to rely on a web crawler to export the whole Wiki as HTML. For those wondering, you could use:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-18 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Derric Atzrott writes: Hi Derric, Have any of you ever heard of Non-Violent Communication (NVC). NVC is amazing and I very much encourage anyone to take it up. It goes way beyond a method of thinking, it is a spiritual path. Like other spiritual paths that means it may work if you practise

Re: [Wikitech-l] Latest Snowden docs MediaWiki

2014-02-18 Thread Ori Livneh
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Philip Neustrom phi...@localwiki.orgwrote: The latest Snowden docs have some great screenshots of the NSA-internal MediaWiki installation Snowden is alleged to have obtained a lot of his material from:

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC on PHP profiling

2014-02-18 Thread Ori Livneh
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: I'm starting a new RFC to discuss ways we can improve our PHP profiling. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Better_PHP_profiling Please feel free to help expand and/or comment on the talk page if you've

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC on PHP profiling

2014-02-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: A tracing infrastructure that relies on active collaboration from application-level developers in order to function becomes extremely fragile, and is often broken due to instrumentation bugs or omissions, therefore

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-18 Thread pi zero
I find it fascinating what a successful meme AGF is. I was so successfully indoctrinated by it during my first three years or so on en.wp that when I first encountered en.wn, where they explicitly reject AGF as intrinsically incompatible with news production, I wondered how they could possibly

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-18 Thread Derric Atzrott
Question for Derric: why didn't you formulate your suggestion using NVC? I was excited and in a hurry. In retrospect I really think that I should have. After reading some of the replies I felt rather disappointed and frustrated, and even a little sad as I didn't feel my need for understanding

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-18 Thread Paul Selitskas
Thanks for a nice tasty bikeshed on a technical mailing list. I assume your good faith, and I foresee its consequences. You couldn't employ your NVC skills because you were, quote, in a hurry, end quote. That means, NVC just doesn't work when it's needed. I don't think everyone here has a lot of

[Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2014-02-18 Thread reporter
MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for February 11, 2014 - February 18, 2014 Status changes this week Reports changed/set to UNCONFIRMED: 6 Reports changed/set to NEW: 34 Reports changed/set to ASSIGNED : 14

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2014-02-18 Thread Daniel Zahn
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Alex Monk kren...@gmail.com wrote: Filed as https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61453 On 17 February 2014 03:00, reporter repor...@kaulen.wikimedia.org wrote: MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for February 10, 2014 - February 17, 2014 Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-18 Thread Dan Andreescu
I assume your good faith, and I foresee its consequences. You couldn't employ your NVC skills because you were, quote, in a hurry, end quote. That means, NVC just doesn't work when it's needed. I don't think everyone here has a lot of spare time to mix original thoughts with a dump of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-18 Thread Isarra Yos
That's interesting - my take on AGF always was that it was a way to avoid assumptions - another way of saying to give people the benefit of the doubt without being such a cliché (even though it's probably even more of one now). But yeah, good points. On 18/02/14 13:43, pi zero wrote: I find

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-18 Thread David Gerard
On 18 February 2014 16:34, Isarra Yos zhoris...@gmail.com wrote: That's interesting - my take on AGF always was that it was a way to avoid assumptions - another way of saying to give people the benefit of the doubt without being such a cliché (even though it's probably even more of one now).

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-18 Thread Chad
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 8:48 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 February 2014 16:34, Isarra Yos zhoris...@gmail.com wrote: That's interesting - my take on AGF always was that it was a way to avoid assumptions - another way of saying to give people the benefit of the doubt

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-18 Thread Daniel Zahn
summary: don't reply in a hurry or when you're pissed. Try not to piss off others and don't assume they just mean bad. Don't waste time. Stay on topic. Humans are still humans. Be nice. Try to do better tomorrow. Kthx. News? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-18 Thread Trevor Parscal
PHP 5.4 added a few important features[1], namely traits, shorthand array syntax, and function array dereferencing. I've heard that 5.3 is nearing end of life. I propose we drop support for PHP 5.3 soon, if possible. - Trevor [1] http://php.net/manual/en/migration54.new-features.php

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-18 Thread Chad
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.orgwrote: PHP 5.4 added a few important features[1], namely traits, shorthand array syntax, and function array dereferencing. I've heard that 5.3 is nearing end of life. I propose we drop support for PHP 5.3 soon, if

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I propose we drop support for PHP 5.3 soon, if possible. Agreed, but right now both Debian oldstable and Ubuntu LTS are running on PHP 5.3. I'm pretty sure (last time I checked) that both reach their EOL sometime

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-18 Thread Daniel Zahn
and yes I see the paradox that I also just wrote that in a hurry and was a little frustrated because it honestly seemed to me like those things weren't new. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't be discussed. I'm just personally like: 'would rather do technical stuff.. too busy..'.. finding a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-18 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:51:25AM -0800, Chad wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.orgwrote: PHP 5.4 added a few important features[1], namely traits, shorthand array syntax, and function array dereferencing. I've heard that 5.3 is nearing end of life.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-18 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 02/18/2014 01:10 PM, Faidon Liambotis wrote: However, last I heard, platform engineering is focusing on HHVM now instead, so I'm not sure if it actually makes sense to spend resources to move to PHP 5.4 right now. My understanding is that those are two orthogonal questions. I don't think

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-18 Thread Bryan Davis
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I propose we drop support for PHP 5.3 soon, if possible. Agreed, but right now both Debian oldstable and Ubuntu LTS are running on PHP

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-18 Thread Monte Hurd
+1 Balance is always the trick. On Feb 18, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Daniel Zahn dz...@wikimedia.org wrote: and yes I see the paradox that I also just wrote that in a hurry and was a little frustrated because it honestly seemed to me like those things weren't new. But that doesn't mean they

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-18 Thread Manuel Schneider
I'd even condense it further: If you are really pissed off by a mail, sleep over it before you reply. The more you are pissed off, the more let it settle for a while. This is even law in many places like in german, austrian or british armies: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milit%C3%A4rische_Nacht

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-18 Thread C. Scott Ananian
There are multiple readings of Assume Good Faith. I think pi zero was pointing out that it can be used to justify 'violent' communications. Oh, sure, it might seem like I just punched you in the nose, but you must AGF and respond as I were just trying to kill a mosquito that happened to have

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-18 Thread Vito
Il 18/02/2014 21:12, C. Scott Ananian ha scritto: There are multiple readings of Assume Good Faith. I think pi zero was pointing out that it can be used to justify 'violent' communications. Oh, sure, it might seem like I just punched you in the nose, but you must AGF and respond as I were just

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-18 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Vito vituzzu.w...@gmail.com wrote: In my experience 50% of people asking to AGF'em are actually in bad faith :D And I guess what I'm saying is that perhaps we should be focusing our attention on WP:CIVIL and other rules which are supposed to protect against

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-18 Thread Vito
Il 18/02/2014 21:26, C. Scott Ananian ha scritto: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Vito vituzzu.w...@gmail.com wrote: In my experience 50% of people asking to AGF'em are actually in bad faith :D And I guess what I'm saying is that perhaps we should be focusing our attention on WP:CIVIL and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-18 Thread Brian Wolff
On Feb 18, 2014 4:12 PM, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.org wrote: There are multiple readings of Assume Good Faith. I think pi zero was pointing out that it can be used to justify 'violent' communications. Oh, sure, it might seem like I just punched you in the nose, but you must AGF

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

2014-02-18 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote: Even an *exceptionally* plain product like Gmail has a more specific font family setting than Vector does at the moment. And in Gmail, I and l look identical in the font that they chose. Often that doesn't matter,

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

2014-02-18 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote: and we got very specific negative feedback about [placing free fonts first] on the Talk page. You also got very specific positive feedback about placing free fonts first, and very specific negative feedback about

Re: [Wikitech-l] Meetings vs mailing list (Re: Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?)

2014-02-18 Thread Tim Landscheidt
David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: I made the offer for an in-person conversation because I think I can provide our office conversations with a healthy dose of Helvetica Neueh skepticism, and I suspect Brad will be relieved that it won't be all on him to defend his viewpoint. I also

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

2014-02-18 Thread billinghurst
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote: Even an *exceptionally* plain product like Gmail has a more specific font family setting than Vector does at the moment. And in Gmail, I and l look identical in the font that they chose. Often that doesn't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-18 Thread David Gerard
On 18 February 2014 20:26, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Vito vituzzu.w...@gmail.com wrote: In my experience 50% of people asking to AGF'em are actually in bad faith :D And I guess what I'm saying is that perhaps we should be focusing our

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to Contribute Page - More Specific and User Friendly

2014-02-18 Thread Quim Gil
Hi Harsh, On 02/17/2014 08:46 AM, Harsh Kothari wrote: Hi Understanding how to contribute in MediaWiki is essential to new bees. Here is the MediaWiki page : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute I found very interesting thing for Mozilla :

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2014 Project

2014-02-18 Thread Quim Gil
Hi Shubham, On 02/16/2014 10:50 AM, shubham singhal wrote: I have ideas to improve and excel interest in lay people in Gene wiki* by including the short interesting video based learning which takes the data from Wikimedia and create a short video which helps the people to understand easily.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Bryan Davis bd...@wikimedia.org wrote: Ubuntu Server LTS versions have 5 years of support, so 12.04 will not be EOL until April of 2017. PHP 5.3 will be EOL in July of 2014. I'm sure that 3 year difference will be a major pain point for the Ubuntu security

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-18 Thread Bryan Davis
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Bryan Davis bd...@wikimedia.org wrote: Ubuntu Server LTS versions have 5 years of support, so 12.04 will not be EOL until April of 2017. PHP 5.3 will be EOL in July of 2014. I'm sure that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-18 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 2014-02-18 4:41 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote: I strongly recommend we do so. A list of nice things about 5.4 that we'd definitely use: - Array literals - $this support in closures - Class member access based on expression - Class member access after instantiation - Function

[Wikitech-l] Thoughts on hiding text from the internal search

2014-02-18 Thread Chad
Hi, I'm curious how people would go about hiding text from the internal MediaWiki search engine (not external robots). Right now I'm thinking of doing a rather naïve .nosearch class that would be stripped before indexing. I can see potentials for abuse though. Does anyone have any bright ideas?

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to Contribute Page - More Specific and User Friendly

2014-02-18 Thread Gryllida
Good goals but I think you're doing several things wrong here. 1) Attempts to pose this as an external tool. Not many people who visit the wiki will ever learn about the external website. You're effectively opening a new contributors influx channel while not making the life of people who reached

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thoughts on hiding text from the internal search

2014-02-18 Thread MZMcBride
Chad wrote: I'm curious how people would go about hiding text from the internal MediaWiki search engine (not external robots). Right now I'm thinking of doing a rather naïve .nosearch class that would be stripped before indexing. I can see potentials for abuse though. Does anyone have any bright

[Wikitech-l] Using Special page transclusion as a rudimentary API in Scribunto/Lua modules

2014-02-18 Thread MZMcBride
Hi. While I certainly appreciate the creativity, the developing trend of using Special page transclusion as a rudimentary API in Scribunto/Lua modules is worrying and, in my opinion, should be addressed soon. Examples (using {{Special:ListFiles/}} and {{Special:PrefixIndex/}}, respectively):

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thoughts on hiding text from the internal search

2014-02-18 Thread Chad
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:50 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Chad wrote: I'm curious how people would go about hiding text from the internal MediaWiki search engine (not external robots). Right now I'm thinking of doing a rather naïve .nosearch class that would be stripped before

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using Special page transclusion as a rudimentary API in Scribunto/Lua modules

2014-02-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:26 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: There are likely others. What can be done to address this issue? Only way I can think of is to improve the Lua - PHP API so that users can make the queries directly. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class

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

2014-02-18 Thread C. Scott Ananian
An apropos link from daringfireball today: http://www.jordanm.co.uk/tinytype lists the available 'system fonts' on iOS/Android/Windows Phone/Blackberry. For communication purposes, it would be great to fork it ( https://github.com/jordanmoore/tinytype) and add the available default system fonts