Hi,
Since there appears to have been a little bit of trivia around fixing
these phpcs warnings, I'll open a thread instead.
Both in javascript and PHP there are various keywords that can be used
as if they are functions. In my opinion this is a misuse of the
language and only causes confusion.
I'm referring to code like this (both javascript and php):
delete( mw.legacy );
new( mw.Title );
typeof( mw );
echo( $foo . $bar );
print( $foo . $bar );
return( $foo . $bar );
… and, wait for it..
require_once( $foo . $bar );
I think most experienced javascript developers know by now that using
"delete" or "new" like it is a function is just silly and looks like
you don't know what you're doing.
To give a bit of background, here's why these work at all (they aren't
implemented both keywords and functions, just keywords). Though I'm
sure the implementation details differ between PHP and javascript, the
end result is the same: Keywords are given expressions which are then
evaluated and the result is used as value. Since expressions can be
wrapped in parenthesis for readability (or logic grouping), and since
whitespace is insignificant to the interpreter, it is possible to do
`return("test")`, which really is just `return ("test")` and
eventually `return "test"`.
I'm obviously biased, but I think the same goes for "require_once"
(and "include", "require" etc.). Right now this is causing quite a few
warnings in our php-checkstyle report.
I didn't disable that rule because it appears (using our code base as
status quo) that we do want this. There's 0 warnings I could find in
our code base that violate this, except for when the keyword is
include|require(_once)?
The check style sniffer does not (and imho should not) have a separate
rule per keyword. Either you use constructs like this, or you don't.
But let's not have some weird exception just because someone didn't
understand it[1] and we all copied it and want to keep it for no
rational reason.
Because that would mean we have to either hack the sniffer to exclude
this somehow, or we need to disable the rule, thus not catching the
ones we do use.
See pending change in gerrit that does a quick pass of (most of) these
in mediawiki/core:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/62753
-- Krinkle
[1] Or whatever the reason is the author originally wrote it like
this. Perhaps PHP was different back then, or perhaps there was a
different coding style.
for the Score extension it would be nice to output SVG images, the SVG
images produced by lilypond have lots of white space (it outputs paper
sheets), covert can give the outer bound and offset of the area we want to
display:
I.e. for http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/test2/d/d5/ScoreSVGTest.svg
$ convert ScoreSVGTest.svg -trim info:-
ScoreSVGTest.svg SVG 434x267 744x1052+27+23 16-bit DirectClass 0.010u
0:00.009
If SVG is scaled to 744x1052, we want to crop it to 434x267 starting at
(27, 23)
Does anyone know how to translate this into the width/height/viewBox
properties in SVG?
Andre reminded me that there is a problem with upgrading the job queues
that have any items in them In https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/46934.
I would like to include a warning in the installation documentation to
clear your job queue before the upgrade, but I don't know that much
about the job queue in MW or even if this is possible.
Are there any recommendations for what to tell users?
--
http://hexmode.com/
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity
is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do.
-- G.K. Chesterson
Hi,
Long time ago when I started learning with git I decided to create a
simple guide (basically I was just taking some notes of what is
needed). I never thought that it could be useful to anyone so I never
announced it anywhere. However I got some feedback to it, so I decided
to inform you too.
The basic idea is to create a TOTALLY SIMPLE guide that git
illiterates like me can understand and thanks to which they would find
out how to do stuff in wikimedia git / gerrit.
Link is here: www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Petrb/Git_for_idiots
It doesn't contain so much and there are some mistakes / feel free to fix them.
Since wikimedia switched to gerrit from svn I have yet met a tons of
people who had problems adapting to it, so this could eventually help
some.
Recently a lot of people have been talking about what's possible and
what's necessary regarding MediaWiki, CatScan-like tools, and real
category intersection; this mail has some pointers.
The long-term solution is a sparkly query for, e.g., people with aspects
novelist + Singaporean, and it would be great if Wikidata could be the
data-source. Generally people don't really want to search using
hierarchical categories; they want tags and they want AND. But
MediaWiki's current power users do use hierarchical labels, so any
change would have to deal with current users' expectations. Also my
head hurts just thinking of the "but my intuitively obvious ontology is
better than yours" arguments.
Conversations have been a bit scattered:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Beyond_categorieshttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-May/thread.html#2202 ("Question
about wikipedia categories.")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Category_intersection#A_workin…
CatScan, which can find articles in category intersections:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CatScanhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2013-April/003552.htmlhttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5244 "Allow searching in
intersections, etc. of categories"
I think the best place to pursue this topic is probably in
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Beyond_categories . It's unlikely
Wikimedia Foundation will be able to make engineers available to work on
this anytime soon, but I would not be surprised if the Wikidata
developer community or volunteers found this interesting enough to work on.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
hi-
i'm hopeful this is the appropriate venue for this topic - i recently
had occasion to visit #mediawiki on freenode, looking for help. i found
myself a bit frustrated by the amount of bot activity there and wondered
if there might be value in some consideration for this. it seems to
frequently drown out/dilute those asking for help, which can be a bit
discouraging/frustrating. additionally, from the perspective of those
who might help [based on my experience in this role in other channels],
constant activity can sometimes engender disinterest [e.g. the irc
client shows activity in the channel, but i'm less inclined to look as
it's probably just a bot].
to offer one possibility - i know there are a number of mediawiki and/or
wikimedia related channels - might there be one in which bot activity
might be better suited, in the context of less contention between the
two audiences [those seeking help vs. those interested in development,
etc]? one nomenclature convention that seems to be at least somewhat of
a defacto standard is #project for general help, and #project-dev[el]
for development topics. a few examples of this i've seen are android,
libreoffice, python, and asterisk. adding yet another channel to this
list might not be terribly welcome, but maybe the distinction would be
worth the addition?
as i'm writing this, i see another thread has begun wrt freenode, and i
also see a bug filed that relates at least to some degree
[https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35427], so i may just be
repeating an existing sentiment, but i wanted to at least offer a brief
perspective.
regards
-ben
All,
We are excited to announce Alexandros Kosiaris will join us this Monday
(2013-05-17) as a full-time member of the Technical Operations staff. He
will be based in Athens, Greece.
Alex (short for Alexandros) has a 10-year experience in the System
Engineering, having worked as a senior systems Engineer in GRNET NOC, the
Network Operations Center of the Greek Research and Education Network and
National Technical University of Athens' Network Operations Center.
An avid user of open-source software for more than 13 years he also tries
to contribute whenever he can. He maintains a number of FreeBSD ports plus
a couple of small open-source projects.
He lives in Athens, Greece. Aside from all things technical, he also enjoys
wind-surfing, skiing and basketball.
Alex will be in San Francisco office this coming Monday and please drop by
to welcome him!
Thanks,
CT Woo
Hi, I got 2 news, one good and one bad
Good one is that since today anybody can freely call me idiot as long you want.
The bad one is that I /accidentally/ rm -r'ed system folder of wm-bot.
That doesn't mean logs are gone, they were in data folder which is
unaffected (and backed up every day). System folder contains mostly
only configuration and stuff that I would never expect to get
accidentally rm'ed, and last external backup I have is 3 months old.
So... wm-bot will be down for some time (hopefully max several hours
until I manually rewrite all missing configuration files (200+ files)
I apologize for all issues caused by this, I will also try to start up
some minimal version asap that will only perform the logging of
channels.
Hi all,
I don't know whether this is the correct mailing list to ask such question but it is the one I am reading regularly…
Does anyone know about the adequate procedure to get permission to request deleted revision information from the MediaWiki API?
I just stumbled over this problem...
{
"servedby": "mw1140",
"error": {
"code": "drpermissiondenied",
"info": "You don't have permission to view deleted revision information"
}
}
Many thanks.
Best, Claudia
