Wikitech-l October 2010

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Checkuser mailing list
by Huji Lee 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Hello, I'm asking this here per advice from Cary Bass. I would like to request an enhancement in the checkuser-l mailing list, which would allow searching the topics and/or contents of archived mails for specific terms. This is particularly useful on this mailing list, because CUs frequently need to check the archives to review previous information about IPs and socks. I'm aware that our mailing lists are running on Mailman 2.1.9 (which is NOT the latest version [1]). Having checked their website I'm sure such search functionality IS NOT available in mailman, nor through a plug-in. They advise using third-party search engines (like Google), but since checkuser-l is not a public list, Google is not an option. They also suggest using some patches [2] which are compatible with Pipermail, but whether they are suitable in our case is beyond my understanding. I'm sure I'm not the only one asking for this feature. I'd be grateful if the request was taken into consideration. Regards, [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html [2] http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/How+do+I+make+the+archives+searchable

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UploadWizard/SessionStash design
by Neil Kandalgaonkar 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

As some of you know I'm working on a new uploader for MediaWiki, called UploadWizard. I wrote some preliminary docs about the PHP side of the design here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard/docs (more docs, especially about the frontend, will be forthcoming as I write them). In particular I'd like to draw people's attention to how it adds new ways of accessing files in the temporary "stash". Previously we've used the stash only as a holding area for files that need some sort of last-minute touch-up, like a new name. This design makes the "stash" an important part of the entire upload process. There are security implications to some of these new features. Roan Kattouw has been reviewing this already, but I wanted it to have a wider distribution as well. 1) The uploading user can view thumbnails of their own "stashed" files via a new Special: page. It should not be possible for any other users to ever obtain anyone else's temporary files, or for them to subvert this system to do other mischief. However, it does rely on reading the file out to the user using PHP, thus *potentially* opening the door to reading other files. I think I've been thorough in eliminating this possibility, but I'd like extra eyes. 2) In a similar manner, the uploading user can request metadata about uploaded files before they are published. The code is in a branch over here: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/uploadwizard You particularly want to check out: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/uploadwizard/includes/u… http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/uploadwizard/includes/s… http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/uploadwizard/extensions… http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/uploadwizard/extensions… -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) <neilk(a)wikimedia.org>

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New committers
by Tim Starling 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Core access: * Krinkle: Core JavaScript Extension access: * Hans-Joerg Happel (hhappel): SMW and related extensions -- Tim Starling

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Wikipedia, we have a Google refresh problem!
by Fred Bauder 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2010/10/16/wikipedia-we-have-a-google-refr… Fred

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Deployment of volunteer code (Re: Collaboration between staff and volunteers: a two-way street)
by Rob Lanphier 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi all, Pulling out a subconversation from the collaboration thread.... On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The number one thing that > volunteers are unhappy about is non-deployment of volunteer code. > Why? Because the only reason for their participation is so that their > code should be deployed. When their code is neglected while other > people's code is deployed immediately, solely because those other > people happen to work for Wikimedia, that will result in a great deal > of frustration no matter what attitude anyone approaches it with. One thing that would be extremely helpful in getting WMF focus would be to get things organized on mediawiki.org to help us gain a clear view of what is the queue. There are three lists on mediawiki.org right now: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Review_queue http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_review http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment Additionally, there's an list of items in Bugzilla (in no particular order): https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-review&query_forma… It would be wonderful to have a shared view of not just the long list of things pending, but some shared way of seeing an ordering. Even if there's disagreement about the "right" order of the list, just having an order to argue about would be huge step forward. Is mediawiki.org the right place to keep track of the queue? If so, is anyone here willing to do some wiki gardening and merge those three pages above? Rob

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Wikipedia unreachable for some french people
by Christophe Henner 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi, First of all, sorry if this is the wrong list, I can't remember if sysadmin stuff should go here or not. Anyway, all the customers of the french ISP SFR can't access Wikimedia websites. It seems to be a DNS issue, when I switched to Google's it worked well. Has anything been done on this level on our side that could have generate this issue ? I doubt it comes from us but one never knows. Thanks a lot for your help. All the best, -- Christophe

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Invitation: WikiFest BLN, in Berlin, Germany :: 12-13-14 November 2010
by Marc Laporte 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi! You are hereby all officially invited! http://wikifestbln.org/WikiFest+BLN+2010 So far are confirmed participants from the following wiki engines: MediaWiki, Semantic MediaWiki, DokuWiki, Foswiki, Tiki Wiki I hope we can have as many wiki projects (wiki engines and wiki sites) present as possible. We have an awesome venue, so please do come! Best regards, -- Marc Laporte http://MarcLaporte.com http://TikiWiki.org/MarcLaporte

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New extension: Validator
by Jeroen De Dauw 17 Oct '10

17 Oct '10

Hey, I'd like to introduce everyone to an extension called Validator [0] that I wrote over the past few months and aims to facilitate parameter handling for other extensions. I developed it for usage in the Maps and Semantic Maps extensions, as I thought it would be nice to have a less messy way of creating parser hooks. It's now at a point where it can be used by other extensions, without having to worry about compatibility to much. For a more detailed explanation of what Validator does, check out the "functionality overview" section [1] on the extension page. I encourage all extension authors to have a look at it, especially if you are considering creating a new extension where you have to deal with user-provided parameters, to see if this can help you. Feedback is welcome :) [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Validator [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Validator#Functionality_overview Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * http://blog.bn2vs.com * http://wiki.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. 50 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! --

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Re: [Wikitech-l] (Offlist) Re: Collaboration between staff and volunteers: a two-way street
by David Gerard 15 Oct '10

15 Oct '10

So that Aryeh doesn't feel like a lone voice, as he did last time. Are you really saying here that agreement constitutes an operational problem? Roan has posited that volunteers complaining constitutes a problem. I suggest that *why* they're complaining constitutes the problem. - d. On 15 October 2010 20:58, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > I fail to see how your repeated emphasis of escalatory comments helps > to return us to a constructive and healthy discussion tone on the tech > list. As far as I can tell, you're contributing to making the tone > more negative and less healthy. Can you explain what you're hoping to > accomplish? > > Erik > -- > Erik Möller > Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate >

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Can someone take care of branch iwtransclusion?
by Peter17 15 Oct '10

15 Oct '10

Hello everybody! I have worked all the summer on interwiki transclusion in branch iwtransclusion. It is nearly finished now: only small improvements have to be made before this is merged to trunk. However, my university work makes me very busy at this time and I think I will have no time to finish the project in the next months. I'm wondering if someone could take care of this, why not during the upcoming hack-a-ton? All my work is described here: [1] The last improvements needed are: * finishing to build-in the GlobalUsage extension * create and use 2 tables globalnamespaces and globalinterwiki (documented in the given link) Of course, if someone is volunteer, I can give them a hand sometimes. Thanks in advance [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Peter17/Reasonably_efficient_interwiki_t… -- Peter Potrowl http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Peter17

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