[Wikitech-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] Plans to move Cite configuration from wikitext messages to CSS styles

2014-12-16 Thread Marc Ordinas i Llopis
All, TL;DR: * References made using Cite will be configurable with a different system * New approach being prototyped in Parsoid's native implementation of the Cite extension The Cite extension[0], which provides in-page footnotes is a crucial part of how many of us use wikis, especially for

Re: [Wikitech-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] Plans to move Cite configuration from wikitext messages to CSS styles

2014-12-16 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Marc Ordinas i Llopis marc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Due to how MediaWiki's messages system works, changes to the display styles need to be copied into each of the ~300 display languages for users, else those users with different languages will see different

Re: [Wikitech-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] Plans to move Cite configuration from wikitext messages to CSS styles

2014-12-16 Thread Kevin Israel
On 12/16/2014 07:45 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Marc Ordinas i Llopis marc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Due to how MediaWiki's messages system works, changes to the display styles need to be copied into each of the ~300 display languages for users, else

Re: [Wikitech-l] Live preview

2014-12-16 Thread Ricordisamoa
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/131346/ was finally merged. Kudos! Il 09/11/2014 22:02, Derk-Jan Hartman ha scritto: Hi all, I've had a significant update to Live Preview in the pipeline for a while now. It brings a few major improvements, the most important of it being able to load

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki flame graphs

2014-12-16 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 16/12/2014 00:42, Ori Livneh a écrit : I'm writing to draw your attention to a newly-available resource for performance analysis: flame graphs of MediaWiki code. http://performance.wikimedia.org/xenon/svgs/ Flame graphs are a visualization of application stack traces. Each

[Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: API Client Libraries: January 6th

2014-12-16 Thread Rachel Farrand
Please join us for the following tech talk: *Tech Talk**:* A developer's-eye view of API client libraries: how to choose them, how to make them, how to make them better *Presenter:* Frances Hocutt *Date:* January 6 *Time:* 1830 UTC

Re: [Wikitech-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] Plans to move Cite configuration from wikitext messages to CSS styles

2014-12-16 Thread James Forrester
On 16 December 2014 at 04:45, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Marc Ordinas i Llopis marc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Due to how MediaWiki's messages system works, changes to the display styles need to be copied into each of the ~300 display

Re: [Wikitech-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] Plans to move Cite configuration from wikitext messages to CSS styles

2014-12-16 Thread Arcane 21
At the risk of sounding stupid, does this mean other wikis will need a Parsoid instance to use this extension, or is this simply being tested in a Parsoid environment and it's just using CSS instead of wikitext for rendering? If the former, not a fan of the idea at all. If the latter, awesome,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] Plans to move Cite configuration from wikitext messages to CSS styles

2014-12-16 Thread James Forrester
On 16 December 2014 at 21:07, Arcane 21 arc...@live.com wrote: At the risk of sounding stupid, does this mean other wikis will need a Parsoid instance to use this extension, or is this simply being tested in a Parsoid environment and it's just using CSS instead of wikitext for rendering? If