Wikitech-l July 2011

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Do we need Selenium for anything anymore? (was: [Selenium] IDE test for regressing bug)
by Chad 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Thanks for the test & test suite! Just wanted to update you that it seems > like fewer and fewer MediaWiki developers are interested in Selenium tests, > and many are moving to other tools for automatic testing: > That being said: is there any reason to leave the Selenium support in core anymore? -Chad

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [WMF Staff] Welcoming Ian Baker
by Erik Moeller 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Alolita Sharma <asharma(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Ian's been a software developer for about 15 years. He's worked on > projects like the first open-source web framework, a billing system > for a regional ISP, a custom video transcoding system, and a > sensor-based flamethrower controller. This reflects a change in our requirements for new hires, in response to the Board resolution on openness, which requires us to "work with colleagues to develop practices to discourage disruptive and hostile behavior, and repel trolls and stalkers." If you don't know how to operate a flamethrower ... j/k -- welcome, Ian! Great to have you on-board :-) -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Apache configuration in mw1.17
by Johannes Weberhofer 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

Hi, in release notes of mw 1.16.4 the following was suggested: It is necessary to upgrade MediaWiki to avoid an XSS vulnerability for Internet Explorer clients, version 6 and earlier. Also, if you used the Apache configuration I suggested in the previous release announcement, you should update it to: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \.[a-z0-9]{1,4}(#|\?|$) [nocase] RewriteRule . - [forbidden] Is this still suggested in the latest version? I have several problems with file upload, when the option is enabled... Best regards, Johannes Weberhofer -- Johannes Weberhofer Weberhofer GmbH, Austria, Vienna

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Re: [Wikitech-l] IRC Triage of “easy” bugs
by bawolff 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

>I've been waiting for this but unfortunately I can't be at that time. Would >there be a log about the result? #wikimedia-dev is always logged at http://prototype.wikimedia.org/logs/%23wikimedia-dev/ -bawolff

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New committers
by Chad 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

Added a few new committers in the last week(ish): Holger Motzkau - prolineserver - CiviCRM work Benedikt Kämpgen - bkaempgen - Semantic MediaWiki, Selenium, Maps James Alexander - jamesur - Fundraising Ian Baker - raindrift - WMF employee Welcome to everyone :) -Chad

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Printing
by Thomas Morton 06 Jul '11

06 Jul '11

Quick one for the tech folks: is there a known issue with printing at the moment? OTRS keeps getting comments that printing gets cut off after one page... I searched bugzilla to no avail and am 99% certain this is a local computer issue each time, but I wanted to check no one was aware of an issue ;) Tom

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Api Calls
by Dirt Diver 06 Jul '11

06 Jul '11

Hello, I'm currently in the last stages of finishing a bot that will make templates, userpages, talkpages on all Wikimedia wikis, this is done by the Wikimedia API but I have a problem now and kind of need advice. The bot will do the following: bs.wiktionary.org User:GlobalEditBot --> check if the page exist creating (+244). --> creating the page Watchlist added --> Adding it to my watchlist Retrieving watchlist for wiktionary:bs --> confirming its on it. And it trows back this error: Creating page [[wiktionary:bs:Korisnik:GlobalEditBot]] via API Unknown Error. API Error code:ratelimited Information:You've exceeded your rate limit. Please wait some time and try again What is the policy by Wikimedia for the API use, how much delay should I use between the wiki's? Currently its 3 sec between every wiki's but that makes me hit the limit. What is the adviced time? Best, Dirt Diver

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IRC Triage of “easy” bugs
by mhershberger＠wikimedia.org 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

Tomorrow (July 6th, Wednesday) at 2100UTC, I will hold a triage on IRC of “easy” bugs. The purpose of this Triage will be to go through all the bugs with this tag and make sure they're actually something that a new MW developer could do. We would like people who what to become involved with MediaWiki on the development side to be able to use this keyword as a starting point, but sometimes relatively intractable problem reports have been given this tag. There are currently about 25 of these bugs so we'll only have about 2 minutes per bug. If you are going to be involved in this triage, please take a look at http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-2011-07 before hand so we can keep up a good momentum. Feel free to update the EtherPad before hand, but please don't remove items. WHAT: IRC Triage of “easy” bugs WHERE: #wikimedia-dev on freenode WHEN: 2011 July 6, 2100UTC, conversion to local time at http://hexm.de/4a URL: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-2011-07 I hope to see you there! Mark.

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Unit testing: request for comments & commitments
by Sumana Harihareswara 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Unit_testing This document explains: * why MediaWiki needs even better unit testing, * what we're doing now * and what we need to do next. This is also a request for comments & commitments to make our testing environment better. Suggestions: * try to write more testable code, and start considering writing tests alongside it * comment on Chad's RFC to help us get out of global hell: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Configuration_database * work on better code coverage and code change statistics Please read and comment. I wrote it with material and help from RobLa, Chad, Krinkle, and Hashar -- thanks. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Weird CodeReview notifs
by Leo Koppelkamm 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

Just got this and 3 similar mails. The thread and the revision number don't match. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/90678 Forwarded message: > From: MediaWiki Mail <wiki(a)wikimedia.org> > To: DieBuche <diebuche(a)gmail.com> > Date: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 1:36:58 AM > Subject: [MediaWiki r90678]: Revision status changed > > Στις 15-12-2010, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 15:57 -0500, ο/η Anthony έγραψε: > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Ariel T. Glenn <ariel(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > We are interested in other mirrors of the dumps; see > > > > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps > > > > On the talk page, it says "torrents are useful to save bandwidth, > > which is not our problem". If bandwidth is not the problem, then what > > *is* the problem? > > > > If the problem is just to get someone to store the data on hard > > drives, then it's a much easier problem than actually *hosting* that > > data. > > We certainly want people to host it as well. It's not a matter of > bandwidth but of protection: if someone can't get to our copy for > whatever reason, another copy is accessible. > > Ariel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >

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