Wikitech-l October 2009

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Re: [Wikitech-l] FW: [FOSDEM] News : Call For Developer Rooms
by jeroen De Dauw 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Hey, I'll be present at FOSDEM 2010, and I'm willing to help out with MediaWiki related talks. I've also submitted a request for a lightning talk a while back. This one will be about (if it gets accepted) my Maps and Semantic Maps extensions. If a devroom is allocated for MW talks, it'd me nice to have an SMW presentation, which if no one else feels like giving it, I'm willing to do. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * Forum: code.bn2vs.com * Blog: blog.bn2vs.com * Skype: rts.bn.vs -- Don't panic. Don't be evil.70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65!

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FW: [FOSDEM] News : Call For Developer Rooms
by Siebrand Mazeland 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Forwarding a post with a call for developer rooms at FOSDEM 2010 (2010-02-06 to 2009-02-07). Last year we made a request for a dev room and it was denied. A question and a proposal, in case the question is to be answered with 'yes': Q: Would we like MediaWiki to be present at FOSDEM 2010? P: I would like to try and make a proposal with other CMS projects (like Joomla, Drupal, Typo3, Wordpress, etc.) for a dev room. Reason for not applying for a "MediaWiki dev room' is that I expect that this will not be honored because it has too tight a scope. I spoke to one of the people of the program committee last year, and I was advised to find a broader scope. Alternatively we could request a dev room with other wiki engines (tikiwiki, docuwiki, etc.). Personally I have no preference on which projects we would cooperate with, just as long as we will make a proposal that will get us the best chance to have a presence at FOSDEM 2010. Open to suggestions... Additionally, I would like a reply from people interested in coordination of the talks in this event. In case we would get a dev room together with the other CMS/wiki projects, I would expect that we would have slots for ~4 talks on MediaWiki, and possibly one or two talks in cooperation with the other projects on common problems/solutions/whatever. As stated below, if we want to have a chance at getting a dev room, we need to submit a proposal before 2009-11-22. IMO this means that we have to reach consensus on our course of action within a week, so we can get into contact with the other projects we would like to participate with for our request. Reply clearly, reply quickly. Cheers! Siebrand -----Original Message----- From: fosdem-bounces(a)lists.fosdem.org [mailto:fosdem-bounces@lists.fosdem.org] On Behalf Of info(a)fosdem.org Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 1:28 AM To: fosdem(a)lists.fosdem.org Subject: [FOSDEM] News : Call For Developer Rooms A *devroom* is a room in which projects can organize their own schedule made of presentations, brainstorming and hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer collaboration and cross-pollination between projects, and as such we strongly favor projects with similar goals and domains to host a devroom together. *Distribution projects:* As every year we only have a limited number of rooms, yet every year more and more individual distributions request a Developer Room at FOSDEM. We do not want to have to choose between them, but instead push our mission of a collaboration platform and cross-pollination even further. We will host mixed distribution rooms where talks and sessions will be organized *by topic*. Contributors from all distributions are welcome to join in order to participate, attend, propose topics and sessions. To do so, please subscribe to the distro mailinglist [1]. .... What we offer: * a room on Saturday and/or Sunday, * a video projector (with VGA cable) * power (C/E plugs) * wired (RJ-45) network with Internet access at the speaker's desk, * best-effort shared wireless Internet access (a and b), * publication of the schedule on the FOSDEM website, including speaker bios and talk abstracts. .... Conditions for requests: * preference for requests with a general topic, eg. from projects with similar goals/domains, * be involved in Free or Opensource Software (the projects produce and release software under an opensource license or otherwise contributes to opensource activities and communities), * send us a devroom request before 2009-11-22 as described below, Distribution talks are organized collectively on the distro mailinglist [2]. Others can request a devroom by submitting the form below. For further questions, contact devrooms(a)fosdem.org [3]. The number of available rooms is limited so the FOSDEM organization will select the proposals that can get a devroom. *Key Dates:* 2009-11-22: Deadline for devroom requests 2009-11-29: Acceptance notification of devrooms 2010-02-06 to 2009-02-07: FOSDEM 2010 -------- DEVROOM REQUEST FORM ------------------------------------------------ For more information, or to fill in the form check out: http://www.fosdem.org/2010/call-developer-rooms [1] http://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/dist2010 [2] http://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/dist2010 [3] mailto:devrooms@fosdem.org _______________________________________________ FOSDEM mailing list FOSDEM(a)lists.fosdem.org http://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/fosdem

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter＠isidore.wikimedia.org 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for October 19, 2009 - October 26, 2009 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 150 Bugs ASSIGNED : 12 Bugs REOPENED : 17 Bugs RESOLVED : 79 Total bugs still open: 4047 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 57 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 13 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 10 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 3 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 2 Bugs marked LATER : 2 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component UsabilityInitiative 15 Site requests 8 Revision deletion 5 LiquidThreads 5 General/Unknown 4 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 24 Wikimedia 15 MediaWiki extensions 34 Wiktionary tools 1 Wikipedia Mobile 1 Top 5 Bug Resolvers alex.emsenhuber [AT] bluewin.ch 15 innocentkiller [AT] gmail.com 12 agarrett [AT] wikimedia.org 12 roan.kattouw [AT] gmail.com 10 JSchulz_4587 [AT] msn.com 6

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New committers?
by Chad 25 Oct '09

25 Oct '09

I've seen a lot of new faces in the commit list, but I don't remember them getting announced here like we usually do :) Main concern is making sure they've all got USERINFOs and are signed up on mw.org (so they get followup e-mails). -Chad

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Problem with Upload API
by Jan Luca 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Hi, I want to use the new Upload-API. I have seen that I cannot upload per URL to Commons because I (my bot) haven't the upload_by_url right. So I change my tool to the file argument: $new_file = <Name of the target file>; $url = <URL of the source file>; $desc = <Description>; $filename = <Name of the source file>; $this->server = 'commons.wikimedia.org'; $connect = fsockopen ($this->server, 80, $err_num, $err_str, 10); $token = $this->get_token(); $file = file_get_contents( $url ); $query = "POST /w/api.php?format=php&action=upload&filename=".urlencode($new_file)."&token= ".urlencode($token)."&file=".urlencode($filename)."&comment=".urlencode($des c)." HTTP/1.1 Host: ".$this->server." Cookie: ".$cookies." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Content-Type: multipart/form-data Content-Length: ".strlen($file)." Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"".$filename."\"; filename=\"".$filename."\" ".$file." \r\n\r\n"; fputs ($connect,$query); But now I get this error: array(1) { ["error"]=> array(2) { ["code"]=> string(12) "missingparam" ["info"]=> string(69) "One of the parameters sessionkey, file, url, enablechunks is required" } } What is wrong? Viele Grüße Jan

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Viewing site configs
by William Pietri 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Hi! I'm working on the FlaggedRevs stuff, and would like to get the configs for every site using it. Right now I'm working with Howie -- a usability expert -- to make a list of all the use cases and affected interfaces. That's no problem for the English site, which we presume will be like the current labs site. But when we were in the offices last week, Brion showed me a substantial list of sites using the FlaggedRevs extension. I know the German configuration is importantly different, but have no idea about the rest. Does anybody know where that list of FlaggedRevs sites is? And what's the best way for me to get copies of the site configs so I can see how they're using FlaggedRevs? My shell-fu is good, so I'm glad to go digging; I just don't know where to start, or what access I might need. Thanks, William

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Advice needed
by Max Semenik 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

As you may or may not know, most queries involving LIKE clause are broken on SQLite backend.[1] As a measure to fix it, I'm planning to replace all LIKEs with a function call that will provide the needed abstraction. However, I would like it to be convenient to use and provide automatic protection against SQL injection, so instead of something like $sql = 'SELECT * FROM table WHERE field' . $db->like($db->escapeLike($text) . '%') I'd rather prefer Mr.Z-man's idea of $sql = 'SELECT * FROM table WHERE field' . $db->like($text, MATCH_STRING ) The example patch is at [2], but there is a problem: due to PHP's duck typing, you can have tough times in telling a string to be encoded from a constant that indicates '%' or '_' placeholders. There are a few possible solutions: * Even comparing with === can't provide enough guarantee for integer constants. * We could use tricky float constants such like 3253427569845.236156471, as suggested by Aryeh Gregor, but it looks rather hackish. * Alternatively, there could be something like Database::asterisk() that would return unique objects. Can there be a better way of doing that? And which variant of constant names would you prefer: Mr.Z-man's original LIKE_UNDERSCORE/LIKE_PERCENT, MATCH_CHAR/MATCH_STRING proposed by me, or something else? Please opine. -- [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20275 [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=6531&action=diff -- Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])

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Mediawiki and Zend Accelerator configuration
by Prince Gerald Albert 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Can somebody list the steps or provide reference to configure Zend Accelerator and/or any accelerator to increase the speed of my wiki installation Thanks Prince Gerald A DISCLAIMER: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. It shall not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of the author of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any mail and attachments please check them for viruses and defect. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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File Compare Tool
by Arjun Priyananth 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Hi, Can anyone tell me what is the tool which wikipedia uses for file compare. (in the wikipedia website it compares two history) what is that tool please -- - Arjun Priyananth

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter＠isidore.wikimedia.org 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for October 12, 2009 - October 19, 2009 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 94 Bugs ASSIGNED : 23 Bugs REOPENED : 24 Bugs RESOLVED : 61 Total bugs still open: 4014 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 48 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 9 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 11 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 9 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 1 Bugs marked LATER : 3 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component Site requests 11 User interface 4 General 3 UsabilityInitiative 2 Categories 2 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 16 Wikimedia 12 MediaWiki extensions 9 Wiktionary tools 3 Top 5 Bug Resolvers alex.emsenhuber [AT] bluewin.ch 11 JSchulz_4587 [AT] msn.com 8 roan.kattouw [AT] gmail.com 7 brion [AT] pobox.com 6 dale [AT] ucsc.edu 5

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