Wikitech-l March 2008

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SUL pilot
by Tim Starling 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

Brion and I are planning a pilot of the CentralAuth (account merging and unification) extension on Wikimedia wikis. The general idea is to enable it for admins only for the duration of this pilot. Admins make good beta testers for this extension because: * They're responsible enough to report bugs instead of ignoring them * They're more likely to use their first hand experience to write documentation or otherwise pass on their knowledge to others * Allowing admins first choice of username reduces the potential for name-squatting by trolls Access to global usernames is generally on a first-come, first-served basis. We can deal with imposters when we have to, but it's going to be a pain so it's best if we can keep the number of incidents a minimum. Also, we hope that limiting it to admins will make the volume of support requests more manageable. I don't think we'll need to schedule an exact time, or set a site notice or anything like that. When we accidentally enabled it for a brief period last week, hundreds of people knew about it within half an hour. It appears on the first page of your preferences when it's enabled, and word spreads fast. For general information about CentralAuth, please read the documentation at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login -- Tim Starling

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Re: [Wikitech-l] How to globally set global variable via specialpage
by 65s.mg＠atlas.cz 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

Hello. I tried many hooks, but I cannot find any, with which I can use for overwriting variale, that is defined in the LocalSettings.php. Any suggestions? Thanks. -MGrabovsky

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Re: [Wikitech-l] How to globally set global variable via specialpage
by 65s.mg＠atlas.cz 16 Mar '08

16 Mar '08

Hello. What did you exactly mean with 'conditionally'? Thanks. -MGrabovsky

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Spam via Wikimedia lists (Fwd: is it you? cortney here)
by Bryan Tong Minh 16 Mar '08

16 Mar '08

I just received the email below as spam via wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org. However the email is clearly not sent via the mailing list as it is lacking the footer and subject and also am I not subscribed to that lists. It does however appear to be sent via the Wikimedia mail servers: Delivered-To: bryan.tongminh(a)gmail.com Received: by 10.86.50.6 with SMTP id x6cs272598fgx; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:16:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.179.12 with SMTP id b12mr38227454huf.61.1205680613232; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:16:53 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <mailman-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Received: from lists.wikimedia.org (lists.wikimedia.org [91.198.174.5]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id z40si14358886ikz.4.2008.03.16.08.16.52; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:16:53 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of mailman-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org designates 91.198.174.5 as permitted sender) client-ip=91.198.174.5; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of mailman-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org designates 91.198.174.5 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=mailman-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60535 helo=lily.knams.wikimedia.org) by lily.knams.wikimedia.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from <mailman-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org>) id 1JaubS-00049V-RN; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:16:52 +0000 Received: from [88.228.143.104] (port=1611 helo=localhost) by lily.knams.wikimedia.org with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from <kvbzdlz(a)rentalsite.net>) id 1JaubB-0003xM-JV; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:16:47 +0000 Message-Id: <3199094_@TLZ8679880_@TLZ> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:15:53 -0800 X-Mailer: Talisma Mail Version 5.0 X-Mobile: Nokia 3D Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org From: "cortney" <kvbzdlz(a)rentalsite.net> Original-recipient: rfc822;wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: is it you? cortney here X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080313-0, 13.03.2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Sender: mailman-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org Errors-To: mailman-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org X-Spam-Score: 9.0 (+++++++++) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "lily.knams.wikimedia.org", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content analysis details: (9.0 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 2.9 FROM_LOCAL_NOVOWEL From: localpart has series of non-vowel letters 1.9 MSGID_MULTIPLE_AT Message-ID contains multiple '@' characters -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO matches SPF record -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record 3.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100% [score: 1.0000] 1.4 DNS_FROM_RFC_WHOIS RBL: Envelope sender in whois.rfc-ignorant.org -0.7 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list Are the Wikimedia mail servers being used as open relay, or am I missing something in the headers? Bryan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: cortney <kvbzdlz(a)rentalsite.net> Date: Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 5:15 PM Subject: is it you? cortney here To: wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi My name is cortney. I found your email on that dating site. I also love sex on the side. I have a loving partner but he is working 16 hours a day and we have sex only once a week :( If you are interested and wanna see my pictures just email me at ccortney268(a)golovable.com Don`t reply, use the email above (my boyfriend doesn`t know about that email!)

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [31993] trunk/phase3
by Bryan Tong Minh 16 Mar '08

16 Mar '08

> > Revision: 31993 > Author: brion > Date: 2008-03-14 20:24:36 +0000 (Fri, 14 Mar 2008) > > Log Message: > ----------- > Revert r31989 -- bizarre 'searchtext' message consisting of '$1' makes no sense > Well, it was intended to be similar to 'powersearchtext', where one could change the text around the the search box to add fancy images and text around it. Bryan

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How to globally set global variable via special page
by 65s.mg＠atlas.cz 16 Mar '08

16 Mar '08

Hello all. I'd like to ask how can I globally set global variable via a special page. When I use $wgGlobalVar=$this->mRequest->getVal('name_of_field'); it's set only for current session. How can I set it globally? Thanks for any suggestions. -MG

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Internet Explorer 8 beta issues
by Brion Vibber 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 As you may or may not be aware, Microsoft released a developer beta of Internet Explorer 8 a few days ago. I figured I'd go ahead and take a poke at it... I've set up a tracking bug for IE 8 issues in our Bugzilla, and threw in a few problems I noticed immediately: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=13361&hide_resolve… 13362: Misaligned form fields 13363: Overprinting of checkbox text 13364: Fieldset legend is placed incorrectly 13365: Some check box labels are missing first character 13366: Cologne Blue styles fail 13367: Standard, Nostalgia skins show border on the site logo 13368: Monobook bullets are black instead of cyan 13369: Monobook user links icon broken Some of these are probably going to be things we can correct in our styles or code, but some look like basic problems in the renderer, which will need to be reported to Microsoft for them to fix. If I'm reading the runes correctly, we currently don't load any special workaround CSS or JS code for IE 8, at least under the Monobook skin. Hopefully we can keep it that way. :) - -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkfazngACgkQwRnhpk1wk45DZgCgjxjnLztSXQtgMusLXWbXT+or nwwAn25qcwTnTopRPfVqKIc+us9fc4F2 =VHkf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Search plugins & thumbnails
by Brion Vibber 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

I finally got sick of bug 2815 (search results should show thumbnails), and added thumbnail display for image results in MediaWiki's core search results display. Rather than try to port it to the LuceneSearch plugin, I've started rolling out the MWSearch plugin on http://test.wikipedia.org and http://commons.wikimedia.org -- this uses MediaWiki's core search front-end together with our custom Lucene back-end. This is definitely an improvement for Commons, where search results are now beginning to be actually useful. ;) But there are definitely some UI elements we should improve on the core interface before rolling it out on other sites -- pretty it up a bit, include the search relevance results from Lucene, etc. Possibly additional thumbnails for pages that _contain_ images but are not themselves image pages. Some of this will need to be changed in Special:Search; some may need some tweaks to the SearchEngine base class and the MWSearch extension. -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)

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History weirdness (again?)
by Magnus Manske 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

User:AntHolnes told me about a curious thing. If you lot out of wikipedia, clear all of your browser cache, and go to the history of [[Sarah Lacy]], and diff the earliest two versions, the diff will claim that the version on the right is the current one, even though it isn't. AntHolnes even made a cool screen recording of it: http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg92/ahwpsl/wpsl.gif I have confirmed the effect in a "clean" Opera as well. I know we have some weirdness with revision numbers, but these seem to be all ascending. Also, the URL of the diff clearly states the old revision number, not the current one. Or maybe it's an old squid cache? Magnus

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [31844] trunk/phase3/languages/messages/MessagesEn.php
by Simetrical 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:30 AM, <werdna(a)svn.wikimedia.org> wrote: > (bug 11986) Revert special-page capitalisation to CamelCase (but the names are case-insensitive anyway), and add a few common-sense aliases (i.e. ResetPassword for Special:ResetPass) Why don't we finally get around to making canonical English localizations for special pages that aren't AllSmashedTogether in any way? This has been possible for what, a year? More?

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