TL;DR:
* MediaWiki jobs now run on the same Debian OS version as wmf-production,
which makes make the wmf-quibble PHPUnit tests even more useful.
* The QUnit tests for MediaWiki repos now use Headless Chrome. (For other
repos, this was done last year.)
## Quibble HHVM now on Debian Stretch
OK. Yesterday I was looking with a few other ENWP people at what I think
was a series of edits by either a vandal bot or an inadequately designed
and unapproved good faith bot. I read that it made approximately 500 edits
before someone who knew enough about ENWP saw what was happening and did
Hi team,
This is Kaushik Reddy.
After a long work, I would like to introduce you to my idea proposal for
the (Wikimedia) GSoC '19.
Here is it:
1) Building an animation to dynamically create popups overlapped on a
geographical map using a real-time API from Wikimedia.
I had found the root of this
On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 6:20 PM Pine W wrote:
> I don't know how practical it would be to implement an approach like this
> in the Wikiverse, and whether licensing proprietary technology would be
> required.
>
They are talking about Polyform [1], a reverse proxy that filters traffic
with a
Hi!
> I was saying, you can find several examples of wrong and correct code at
> [1].
> Thiemo pointed out that this patch could encourage to write shorter and
> less readable code (you can find his rationale in Gerrit comments), and I
> partly agree with him. My proposal is to only trigger the
To clarify the types of unwelcome bots that we have, here are the ones that
I think are most common:
1) Spambots
2) Vandalbots
3) Unauthorized bots which may be intended to act in good faith but which
may cause problems that could probably have been identified during standard
testing in
Currently, there's a patch under review [0] to enable a PHP sniff which
would detect so called "Pointless conditionals". These are conditionals
(if...else or ternary) where both branches only assign or return a boolean
value, and which could potentially one-lined using the if condition. T
(Pardon, I hit "send" while typing :/)
I was saying, you can find several examples of wrong and correct code at
[1].
Thiemo pointed out that this patch could encourage to write shorter and
less readable code (you can find his rationale in Gerrit comments), and I
partly agree with him. My proposal
