Cheers wikitech-l,
Whilst upgrading to 1.22.5 from 1.21.8 I came across $wgUseVFormUserLogin [1]. Form what I can tell this global directive is completely missing from core. The docs on mw.org say it's in 1.22+, but I can't find any record of this setting. I also searched the mailing list archives (both mediawiki-l and wikitech-l) and found nothing.
I would like to disable the new login form (for legacy reasons, not because I don't think it's sexy.) Is there some other way?
--Daniel <User:DanielRenfro>
[1.] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgUseVFormUserLogin
I am pleased to announce that Dmitry Brant joins WMF this week as a
Software Engineer for the Mobile App Team!
Dmitry will be working remotely from Cleveland, OH, where he has lived
ever since immigrating from Moscow, Russia many years ago. He joins
the Wikimedia Foundation coming from a previous life in speech
recognition software for use in military robots, UGVs, and medical
devices, and an even earlier life in software for controlling welding
equipment and industrial robotic cells.
Dmitry believes passionately in WMF's mission, and is excited to help
enhance the Wikipedia user experience on mobile platforms.
In his spare time he creates software for digital forensics and data
recovery [1]. In his other spare time, he's an avid guitar player,
blogger, and mushroom forager.
Dmitry will work closely with Yuvi to further enhance the user
experience for the upcoming native Wikipedia app.
Please welcome Dmitry!
[1] - http://diskdigger.org
I've recently updated the GerritCommandLine tool [1] so that you can
use it to manage incoming reviews.
gerrit.py --reviewee jdlrobson --gtscore -1
Will show all patches across all projects that have you down as a
reviewee and are currently not negatively reviewed.
There are various other helpful filters. e.g. only show patches that
have been open over X days, run it on a given repository via project.
If you are having trouble not knowing what to review or what needs
review give it a go!
Thoughts and patches welcomed!
Usage screenshot: http://imgur.com/Hc5zmw9
[1] https://github.com/jdlrobson/GerritCommandLine
Using api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=rights|hasmsg I get
information about new message.
Now I can read it using api, but that doesn't flag the talk page as
read. What do I need to do in order to flag it as read other than
running external browser instead of api?
A friend of mine, noting that Wikipedia uses SVG images
for diagrams, asked if it also had some written guidelines
for how to write the SVG source code, in particular to
express measurement values in the original units rather
than on a pixel scale. He had found some SVG diagram that
made a curve from 140 pixels to 190 pixels, rather than
from 7 million to 9.5 million inhabitants, which was the
unit that the y axis displayed. (Or something like that.)
I said "probably not, your thinking is likely 5 years
ahead of the Wikipedia community".
As this all happened in April 2009, he came back yesterday
to ask where we are now.
Do we have any guidelines for how to hand-write the
source code of SVG diagrams? Should we?
Maybe this is related to Wikidata?
--
Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
I have a special page on which I am using HTMLForm. Previously in developing
Mediawiki extensions I had just outputted raw HTML and done everything myself,
trying to move away from that I've started using HTMLForm.
I'm running into a problem with how to handle multiple HTMLForm forms on a
single page. I have a separate callback set for each of them, but anytime one
form is submitted, the callbacks for all of the forms are executed. Am I doing
something wrong with my usage of this class? Is there a way to only have the
callback for the submitted form be called? Or will I have to come up with a way
to determine which form on the page was filled out?
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott
Computer Specialist
Alizee Pathology
Hi!
Just dropping a short note that it is now finally possible to
subscribe to the weekly Tech News bulletin[1] via a web feed to ensure
a smooth, hassle-free delivery of every issue to a news aggregator of
your choice.
You can subscribe to an Atom[2] or RSS[3] feed, which should deliver a
new issue at 00:00 UTC every Monday.
At this point, the feed only provides the English version of the
bulletin, so you'll need to click one of the links on top of the page
to read a version in a different language — if you think that a
per-language feed is a good idea, please let us know!
The feed is now also subscribed to the English Planet Wikimedia[4], so
if you get your Wikimedia news that way, you'll also see a new issue
of Tech News on the Planet every Monday.
Feedback and questions are welcome :-)
== References ==
* [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News
* [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=technews&feed…
* [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=technews&feed…
* [4] https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/
Tomasz
For a current project, I have found that Auth_remoteuser can take care
of a lot of the grunt work, but I felt the need to update it a little.
I have the feeling (wrong?) that this extension is one that is used in a
lot of places but it hasn't been touched for a couple of years.
Could I get people to test out the modifications I want to contribute back?
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/127405 -- mostly just formatting
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/127406 -- refactoring
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/127407 -- changing invocation
I've made some effort to keep this compatible with the previous version.
If you want to try this out as a drop-in replacement for your current
Auth_remoteuser, you can use
http://mah.everybody.org/Auth_remoteuser.php.txt -- but please report
back any problems you have.
Thanks,
Mark.
--
Mark A. Hershberger
NicheWork LLC
717-271-1084