Re: [Wikitech-l] CSS Regressions

2014-03-14 Thread Krinkle
See also: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62633 -- Krinkle On 10 Mar 2014, at 22:04, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I just wondered if anyone doing MediaWiki development had any experience in catching CSS regressions? We have had a few issues recently in mobile land

[Wikitech-l] OPW applicant introduction

2014-03-14 Thread Frances Hocutt
Hello! My name is Frances Hocutt, and I'm applying for the OPW internship program. Specifically, I'm interested in improving the documentation around the available Mediawiki API libraries, writing specifications for what makes a good one, and generally making API:Client Code a more useful page.

Re: [Wikitech-l] About the bug 46453 - Uzbek: Change date and decimal separators

2014-03-14 Thread Maduranga Siriwardena
Thank you. I edited it from gerrit web interface. On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.comwrote: On Mar 13, 2014 2:37 PM, Maduranga Siriwardena maduranga.siriward...@gmail.com wrote: By mistake I uploaded a patch to a bug to Gerrit having some mistakes in the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Webfonts

2014-03-14 Thread praveenp
On Thursday 13 March 2014 08:38 PM, Niklas Laxström wrote: There have recently been questions whether WMF is able to serve webfonts. Some people think that because of the issues that led to disabling webfonts by default in Universal Language Selector (ULS), WMF is not ready to consider webfonts

[Wikitech-l] Interested in UniversalLanguageSelector fonts for Chinese wikis projects

2014-03-14 Thread xiangquan xiao
Hi all, I'm Aaron Xiao from Peking University, Beijing, China. I'm interested in the i18n projects for GSoC 2014, especially the UniversalLanguageSelector fonts for Chinese wikis. I'm writing proposal for it currently. It will be finished in 2 or 3 days. I have contacted DChan and Liangent a week

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki, Cookies and EU Privacy Policy 95/46/EG

2014-03-14 Thread Remco de Boer
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:33 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.comwrote: Am 10.03.2014 17:01 schrieb Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch: Am 10.03.2014 16:54, schrieb Chris Steipp: 1) catch the click on the Login link to show a banner first to ask for the users

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interested in UniversalLanguageSelector fonts for Chinese wikis projects

2014-03-14 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Xiaoxiangquan/GoogleSummerOfCode/2011/Internationalization/developing_reports said: Final Report(2011-08-22) To be continued Was it? I don't understand what that project was about in the end, a summary would be nice. Nemo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Webfonts

2014-03-14 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, You do not understand what the existing implementation of Webfonts is about. It is about not serving tofu. You know, those pesky boxes that represent a character. When tofu is served, no characters can be seen and consequently no information can be read. Please ask any community if this is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interested in UniversalLanguageSelector fonts for Chinese wikis projects

2014-03-14 Thread xiangquan xiao
I think it's a kind of Loading Font on Demand. There are thousands of Chinese characters, but we use only 3000 of them in daily life. To a specific wiki page, maybe only 200 are used. So cutting the font file will save a lot of time. Another feature is about glyph-connection. Some rarely-used

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interested in UniversalLanguageSelector fonts for Chinese wikis projects

2014-03-14 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I was talking of your 2011 GSoC project, it sounds potentially interesting but your link doesn't bring to any final report so I don't understand what was done. Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Webfonts

2014-03-14 Thread Kartik Mistry
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 7:06 PM, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: .. And requirement of webfonts is also getting smaller and smaller with modern OSs. Even today's mobile OSs have better language support than that of old desktop OSs. For example: My Nexus 5 with modern OS, Android Kitkat

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interested in UniversalLanguageSelector fonts for Chinese wikis projects

2014-03-14 Thread xiangquan xiao
ahh, sorry I missed the quoted part... Actually Blender wanted final report in a video format, so I didn't copy it to the dev-report there. You can see How to change between different languages at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3nGUba27y0 The finished features are: - Font loading...done - Handle

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interested in UniversalLanguageSelector fonts for Chinese wikis projects

2014-03-14 Thread xiangquan xiao
And after the final term, I continued working with the community. Finally the i18n system released along with Blender 2.60 in Oct of that year. 2014-03-14 23:15 GMT+08:00 xiangquan xiao xiaoxiangq...@gmail.com: ahh, sorry I missed the quoted part... Actually Blender wanted final report in a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Webfonts

2014-03-14 Thread Denny Vrandečić
It's really in the tradeoffs, as others have mentioned. It is obvious that we would love to get rid of tofu at all time. But what is the effect on readership? As far as I know, a higher delivery speed of a Website increases readership and the other way around. So if there was any way to estimate

Re: [Wikitech-l] CSS Regressions

2014-03-14 Thread Jon Robson
Guys thanks so much for all these pointers and ideas. Lots of food for thought here. I find for the MobileFrontend perspective, in a perfect world, all our existing browser tests would visual diff a screenshot at each individual step of our tests against the previously known screenshot and report

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: REMINDER: Project management tools review: Help shorten the list of candidates

2014-03-14 Thread Andre Klapper
Heja, forwarding another reminder from the teampractices@ list about the Project management tools review. If you're interested in this topic, we welcome your help and are happy answer your questions! Thanks! Forwarded Message From: Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org To: A

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project Proposal for FOSS OPW Round 8

2014-03-14 Thread Quim Gil
Hi Jaime, On Thursday, March 13, 2014, Jaime Schatz jaimelynsch...@gmail.com wrote: Here are all three proposals to the OPW application: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Historical_OpenStreetMap#Historical_OpenStreetMap https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hacker%27s_map

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki, Cookies and EU Privacy Policy 95/46/EG

2014-03-14 Thread Max Semenik
On 14.03.2014, 17:59 Remco wrote: What's the fallback for users without JavaScript enabled in this scenario? Nothing. You can't login without cookies. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Webfonts

2014-03-14 Thread praveenp
On Friday 14 March 2014 07:54 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, You do not understand what the existing implementation of Webfonts is about. It is about not serving tofu. You know, those pesky boxes that represent a character. When tofu is served, no characters can be seen and consequently no

Re: [Wikitech-l] Webfonts

2014-03-14 Thread Niklas Laxström
I just want to clarify that I was highlighting the possibility of considering webfonts for *typography*. I expect everyone to know by now that tofu issue is not yet solved and people are working on it. -Niklas ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] GSoC'14 Proposal

2014-03-14 Thread Sahil Dua
HighNote - Highlight Making Notes. Yes, as a regular wikipedian, I have been facing a problem. I used to read some article on a topic XYZ. I liked a few keywords or sentences in the article that I wuld like to keep easily accessible. Here is the solution - With HighNote feature activated

Re: [Wikitech-l] Travel sponsorship requests for the Zürich Hackathon

2014-03-14 Thread Quim Gil
Just a reminder: On Tuesday, March 4, 2014, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: From the 101 people that has registered to the Wikimedia Hackathon in Zürich, 24 are requesting travel and/or accommodation sponsorship (a few of them apparently by mistake)

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC'14 Proposal

2014-03-14 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
There are countless such services already. What you propose is similar to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Annotation_tool_that_extracts_statements_from_books_and_feed_them_on_Wikidata. Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing

[Wikitech-l] Structured logging RFC discussion on 2014-03-19

2014-03-14 Thread Bryan Davis
The structured logging RFC [0] will be up for discussion again next Wednesday [1]. There is a strawman implementation in gerrit [2] that is likely to be the focus of discussion unless there are other issues that the reviewers find more pressing. At this point the most controversial aspect of my

[Wikitech-l] Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of March 17th

2014-03-14 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Welcome to the latest edition of the Roadmap and deployments update! Full schedule for next week at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_March_17th == Week long things == The end of 'soft-migration' of WMF Labs to the new datacenteron March 21st. After this date, projects

Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of March 17th

2014-03-14 Thread Greg Grossmeier
quote name=Greg Grossmeier date=2014-03-14 time=15:35:18 -0700 == Week long things == The end of 'soft-migration' of WMF Labs to the new datacenteron March 21st. After this date, projects will be shutdown and moved by the WMF Labs team. If you haven't yet migrated your WMF Labs tool/bot,

[Wikitech-l] Vagrant Cloud

2014-03-14 Thread Ori Livneh
Vagrant Cloud is a new service from Hashicorp that strives to make it easy to share Vagrant boxes and to collaborate on provisioned instances together. It's in very early beta, but I have started poking around a little, and it looks interesting. I don't quite know yet how it will work with our

Re: [Wikitech-l] Webfonts

2014-03-14 Thread Ori Livneh
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.comwrote: There have recently been questions whether WMF is able to serve webfonts. Some people think that because of the issues that led to disabling webfonts by default in Universal Language Selector (ULS), WMF is not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vagrant Cloud

2014-03-14 Thread Greg Grossmeier
quote name=Ori Livneh date=2014-03-14 time=18:22:26 -0700 Vagrant Cloud is a new service from Hashicorp that strives to make it easy to share Vagrant boxes and to collaborate on provisioned instances together. It's in very early beta, but I have started poking around a little, and it looks

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vagrant Cloud

2014-03-14 Thread Greg Grossmeier
But, obviously not as well integrated. -- Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity. On Mar 14, 2014 7:38 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: quote name=Ori Livneh date=2014-03-14 time=18:22:26 -0700 Vagrant Cloud is a new service from Hashicorp that strives to make it easy to

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC'14 Proposal

2014-03-14 Thread Sahil Dua
Nemo, Thanks for bringing this to my notice. But still I think my proposal different than that one in many aspects. 1) I want to help people in making online wikipedia notes., not just one time sharing. 2) My idea is about helping people remember what did they read a few months ago and help them