Wikitech-l June 2010

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Account creation only block
by George Herbert 14 Jun '10

14 Jun '10

Without having time to deep-dive the source code tonight - How difficult do developers feel that it would be to add the ability to block an account or IP range and only remove the ability to create accounts, not remove the ability to edit? We have the bit to block and block account creation (or not), and the AO vs hard block bits, but this would presumably be a bit for block but don't prevent edits... If the code already allows this, the UI currently doesn't, and that would be a plus. I don't recall what the code does, though. If we'd need to add support in the code to do this, I will look into that more. -- -george william herbert george.herbert(a)gmail.com

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Fixme, please fix me!
by Chad 14 Jun '10

14 Jun '10

Just a friendly reminder to everyone about their outstanding FIXMEs in Code Review. The following is a list of everyone who has a commit with a fixme on it: mah - 5 tparscal - 5 jeroendedauw - 4 reedy - 4 siebrand - 4 catrope - 3 werdna - 3 adam - 2 maxsem - 2 neilk - 2 philip - 2 aaron - 1 brion - 1 dale - 1 daniel - 1 demon - 1 devunt - 1 diana - 1 gurch - 1 hartman - 1 ishimatsu - 1 jojo - 1 mgrabovsky - 1 ning - 1 pdhanda - 1 purodha - 1 platonides - 1 shmichael - 1 simetrical - 1 svip - 1 than4213 - 1 thomasv - 1 tisane - 1 tomasz - 1 tstarling - 1 vyznev - 1 TOTAL: 63 Please be sure to ping anyone you know isn't on this mailing list (like some contractors, or people working on special projects maybe?) so we can get everyone informed. Thanks, -Chad

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New committers
by Tim Starling 14 Jun '10

14 Jun '10

Extension access only: * Wiktor Walc (wwalc): FCKeditor Access upgraded to core: * Ryan Kaldari -- Tim Starling

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter＠isidore.wikimedia.org 13 Jun '10

13 Jun '10

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for June 07, 2010 - June 14, 2010 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 150 Bugs ASSIGNED : 9 Bugs REOPENED : 23 Bugs RESOLVED : 111 Total bugs still open: 4533 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 67 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 11 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 20 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 11 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 5 Bugs marked LATER : 5 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component UsabilityInitiative 18 Site requests 6 Vector Skin 5 General/Unknown 5 General/Unknown 4 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 28 Wikimedia 14 MediaWiki extensions 34 Wikipedia Mobile 1 Top 5 Bug Resolvers roan.kattouw [AT] gmail.com 28 jeluf [AT] gmx.de 14 hcatlin [AT] wikimedia.org 6 yaron57 [AT] gmail.com 6 alex.emsenhuber [AT] bluewin.ch 6

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How to find the category information?
by 杨杰 13 Jun '10

13 Jun '10

Hi, everyone, I want to do some experiments on classification using web pages of wikipedia. Now that I have got the web page archive, the experiment needs the following category information: 1. what is the category (or categories) of a web page (an article)? eg. once I can get the two tips, the information is enough. a. Web page P1 belongs to category C1; b. Category C1 is under two parent categories CC1 and CC2, while the two categories own their parent category chains seperately. Then I can build a tree, which leaves are the web pages. 2. how do guys in wikipedia deal with the category work upon the huge amount of articles, for example, category method, level or inheritance between categories. Could you give me some adivces or URLs to find them ? Thanks & Best wishes, -- Yang Jie（杨杰） hi.baidu.com/thinkdifferent Group of CLOUD, Xi'an Jiaotong University Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University PHONE: 86 1346888 3723 TEL: 86 29 82665263 EXT. 608 MSN: xtyangjie2004(a)yahoo.com.cn once i didn't know software is not free, but found it days later; now i realize that it's indeed free.

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varchar(255) binary in tables.sql
by Ryan Chan 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '10

Hello all, I remember in old days, UTF-8 string are stored as varbinary, are there reason to change to varchar(255) binary? Also, what is the default server/connection/client character set settings now? Thanks.

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Bug at Planet Wikimedia
by Tim Landscheidt 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

Hi, at <URI:http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/> and the correspond- ing RSS feed there is the problem that some links get man- gled, i. e. the link to Ziko's article "Don’t give me a link. Give me an explanation!" is /empty/. The issue was raised at <URI:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia#Problems> and there seems to be a related bug at <URI:https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22937>. I installed Planet 2.0 on my local box and downloaded the configuration files from Subversion's trunk, and the links were properly processed. <URI:http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Planet.wikimedia.org> says that it sits on "singer currently, installed from a nightly snapshot of planet 2.0". To squash the bug could someone with sufficient karma please check which version of Planet is actually installed on singer and whether the checkout from Subversion is up-to-date? TIA, Tim

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Selenium testing framework - Fix available in Revision 67575?
by Michelle Knight 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hi, I am following up on a thread from May 27th where there is a bug in run Selenium Tests. I was wondering if the fix for Run Selenium Tests is available in Revision 67575 found at http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/PagedTiffHandle… <http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/PagedTiffHandle…>. In the meantime I will keep all the local configuration data in the RunSeleniumTests as instructed.* *I was about to copy and paste the php tests in Selenium IDE to see what would happen and if I could run from there. Michelle Knight ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 17:47:48 +0000 (UTC) From: Dan Nessett <dnessett(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Selenium testing framework- Firefox browsers compatible To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: <htmb83$run$1(a)dough.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Wed, 26 May 2010 17:11:33 -0700, Michelle Knight wrote: > Hi Dan, > > There is a list of browsers compatible with Selenium (See > http://seleniumhq.org/about/<http://seleniumhq.org/about/platforms.html#browsers> platforms.html#browsers<http://seleniumhq.org/about/platforms.html#browsers>). The page states > that Selenium works with Firefox 2+ when a Linux OS is used (I think > Ubuntu would fall under this category ). > > I am using Firefox 3.5.9 on Ubuntu 9.10 . I have been finishing another > project (my grandfather visited me in Oregon from Ohio) and have not > played with the at the Selenium Framework since May 14th. I will let you > know if I see the error messages. > > Michelle Knight > > > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 17:44:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Dan Nessett > <dnessett(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Selenium testing > framework To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: <hsujl3$v7k$2(a)dough.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=UTF-8 > > On Tue, 18 May 2010 19:27:38 +0200, Markus Glaser wrote: > >> Hi Dan, >> >> I had these error messages once when I used Firefox 3.6 for testing. >> Until recently, Selenium did not support this browser. Apparently now >> they do, but I did not have a chance to test this yet. So the solution >> for me was to point Selenium to a Firefox 3.5. >> >> Cheers, >> Markus > > My OS is Ubuntu 8.04. The version of Firefox is 3.0.19. Since Ubuntu > automatically updates versions of its software, I assume this is the > most up-to-date. > > Is there a list of browser versions compatible with selenium? *Thanks for the pointer to the list, Michelle. As it turned out there was bug in RunSeleniumTests that accessed global data before LocalSeleniumSettings was included. Markus has fixed this problem and is testing it before checking it in to the repository. Before this fix is available, you should put all your local configuration data in RunSeleniumTests. Regards, Dan* -- -- Dan Nessett Regards, Dan -- -- Dan Nessett

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Icon area for articles (Re: Anyone with CSS fu ...)
by Rob Lanphier 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hi everyone, In the "CSS fu" thread, we outlined a few problems with the positioning of the lock icon. This is particularly pronounced in Monobook, where the lock covers up the "[dismiss]" link on the notification for many of us (maybe everyone): http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Backmasking?useskin=monobook Aryeh chimed in: On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com<Simetrical%2Bwikilist(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > Try just putting [the pending changes lock icon] div right before the <h1 > id="firstHeading"> or > equivalent, and float: right it. You can put some margins or padding > on the top and/or right to adjust it a bit if you like. Something > like that should work. This will be much more reliable than trying to > absolutely position it, because different skins will use different > heights, and the heights won't be consistent at all in the face of > things like site notices. Everyone who has looked at it agrees we'd like to do it that way. The tricky part is that the other icons aren't being done that way, and the hooks aren't there (currently) to inject the HTML in the best spot. So, here's the plan we'd like to pursue: 1. Short term: Adam is working out a CSS hack that puts the icon somewhere marginally sensible. 2. Longer term: we'd like to have a standard area in the skin for things like this lock, the "featured article" star, and so on. This is more complicated than it would seem on the surface, because some of those icons get placed there via template while others are placed there by something in the PHP. We're heads down on the launch, but if there's any enterprising developers who would like to take on the challenge of solving this right, we'd love to help you do it. It may turn out that the CSS hack is more work than doing it right, so we're putting this out there in hopes that someone will be the hero and fix it right before we figure out how to do it the ugly way. I filed this in Bugzilla so that we have a place to keep track of the feature request: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23796 Rob

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Pending Changes deployment strategy (Re: Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection) launch on June 14 (PDT))
by Rob Lanphier 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Rob Lanphier wrote: > > A full test pass with all of the different configurations isn't going to > be > > possible, so some help with testing the different configurations would be > > wonderful. We'll have a fast fallback plan in place should we > accidentally > > break the other wikis, but obviously it'd be better to get it right the > > first time. > > A bit off topic but, what makes it impossible? It shouldn't be /that/ > hard. Fixing it may be useful for future deployments. Well, it's possible, but it would delay the deployment. One plan we discussed on #wikimedia-tech was to deploy the FlaggedRevs_alpha branch to en.wikipedia.org, rather than deploying the FlaggedRevs trunk. FlaggedRevs_alpha is what is currently running on flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia A couple of different ways of going about it: 1. Deploy FlaggedRevs, but then drop back to FlaggedRevs_alpha if there's obvious breakage on one of the other wikis we can't fix quickly 2. Deploy FlaggedRevs_alpha from the start Right now, we really don't want to delay deployment, since delays beget delays. Thoughts on a preferred strategy? Rob

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