Wikitech-l May 2012

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ResourceManager and Javascript in Mediawiki
by Derric Atzrott 29 May '12

29 May '12

I've been doing some reading recently on the MediaWiki wiki about ResourceManager and how to use it to use JavaScript in MediaWiki extensions. Perhaps because it is new the documentation is not complete, or perhaps I just didn't quite understand the examples, but either way, I've been left quite confused. Would anyone mind giving me a easier to follow example of how to properly make use of ResourceManager to use JavaScript in MediaWiki extensions? I'm currently building a MediaWiki extension for the company I work for. This will make my third MediaWiki extension for them and my fourth or fifth overall. Thank you, Derric Atzrott Computer Specialist Alizee Pathology

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Desktop upload tool
by Platonides 28 May '12

28 May '12

As some of you are already aware, I'm doing for this GSoC a Desktop tool for conveniently uploading images to commons. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.wikilovesmonuments/2641 How can you help with this? a) Propose a cool name for this tool b) Suggest new functionalities/requisites Either on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Platonides/GSOC_proposal or in this thread. c) Volunteer for testing the program and giving early feedback (please reply directly to avoid spamming the mailing list with "I can test it, too")

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter 27 May '12

27 May '12

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for May 21, 2012 - May 28, 2012 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 303 Bugs ASSIGNED : 19 Bugs REOPENED : 39 Bugs RESOLVED : 209 Total bugs still open: 7854 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 141 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 18 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 25 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 15 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 14 Bugs marked LATER : 4 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component deployment-prep (beta) 15 UploadWizard 11 PageTriage 9 ArticleFeedbackv5 8 Translate 6 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 15 Wikimedia 16 MediaWiki extensions 58 Wikimedia Mobile 1 Security 1 Top 5 Bug Resolvers hashar [AT] free.fr 16 erik [AT] wikimedia.org 11 s.mazeland [AT] xs4all.nl 9 brion [AT] wikimedia.org 7 krinklemail [AT] gmail.com 7

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UploadWizard changes live on Commons
by Brion Vibber 27 May '12

27 May '12

We've pushed some updates to UploadWizard, most notably: * disabled multiple-file selection in browsers where it didn't work * files now start uploading immediately when selected (this can be disabled server-side if there are problems with it) * improved category input fields * 'skip tutorial' step is now saved as a pref instead of a cookie -- so the tutorial won't come back every time you switch computers anymore! * fixes for when pre-upload thumbnails do and don't get drawn * initial API for fetching upload campaign metadata ('action=uploadcampaign'), to be used by Wiki Loves Monuments mobile app Don't be shy about giving feedback! -- brion

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Bugzilla downtime
by Rob Lanphier 26 May '12

26 May '12

Hi folks, As any of you who might have been trying to access Bugzilla, it has been giving us a lot of problems over the past couple of days. Our Ops team is aware of the problem, but is a bit baffled at this point. Since many of them are traveling or getting ready to do so, expect that it'll probably be limping along (at best) over the weekend until they get settled in and can devote some time to fixing this problem correctly. Please join in on #wikimedia-operations if you want updates or if you have ideas about what might be going on (e.g. if you happen to be running something that might be bogging down the server). Rob

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Bugzilla down
by Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) 26 May '12

26 May '12

Hi everyone, It looks like bugzilla.wikimedia.org is unreachable at the moment. I'm assuming the right people are already aware of it, but as I cannot create a bug for this, I thought I'd let you know :). On IRC the last change reported in bugzilla is of about 07:30 UTC, about 2.5 hours ago. Cheers! -- Siebrand Mazeland Product Manager Localisation Wikimedia Foundation M: +31 6 50 69 1239 Skype: siebrand Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Adding a table in a test class
by Jeroen De Dauw 25 May '12

25 May '12

Hey, I have some test class in which I need to (temporary) add a table. I did some stuff that works locally for my (just constructing some SQL and passing it to wfGetDb()->safeQuery) but it fails on Jenkins, presumably because it's using SQLLite or whatever there. Is there a better way to add such tables? Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. --

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Notes from the Gerrit Hackathon
by Rob Lanphier 25 May '12

25 May '12

Hi folks, Chad alerted me to the notes of the Gerrit Hackathon, which happened May 7-11: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/repo-discuss/kEL3FPT2rLo/w39qjsmnrwwJ No one from WMF was there, but I thought you all might find this interesting. Bits I found interesting: * The Gerrit devs are working on a plugin/extension system, which should make it much easier to extend Gerrit. They're planning both a simple but stable API ("extensions"), and a more powerful but less stable API ("plugins"). *, They plan to integrate Lucene, which in addition making search generally work better, will also mean that they can then start moving stuff out of the database and into git itself (in git notes[1] if necessary for after-the-fact editing). It took me a while to understand why this is useful, but now I get it. If they really go all the way with this, it could mean cloning a repo will give you all of the data in Gerrit, which means that Git guis could be made to support Gerrit metadata, and that one might never have to interact directly with the web interface. * Tagging ("change labels") is on their roadmap (which the notetaker acknowledges are "highly coveted"). However, they want to integrate Lucene into Gerrit first, since they tags just being search metadata that can be indexed/refreshed in Lucene rather than having to ever live in the db. Rob [1] Git notes: http://schacon.github.com/git/git-notes.html

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Re: [Wikitech-l] The bugtracker problem, again
by Mark A. Hershberger 24 May '12

24 May '12

Andre Klapper <andre_klapper(a)gmx.net> writes: > Can I (average user) add myself to that default CC list for a component > (I am not aware of any way), or do I need to first need to find out that > "default CC" exists, somehow find out who and how to contact for getting > added to it (and then somebody has to add me and respond to my request) > without losing motivation on my way to achieve all this? :-/ I just discovered the Component Watching extension for Bugzilla that allows anyone to watch any component via their Bugzilla preferences. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634531 Since I think this would be very useful for Wikimedia users, I've created a request for it: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37105 -- http://hexmode.com/ Find peace within yourself and there will be peace on heaven and earth. -- Abba Isaac

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UploadWizard campaign info API format
by Brion Vibber 24 May '12

24 May '12

I'm adding an API module to retrieve UploadWizard upload campaign information, which we need for the upcoming mobile application for Wiki Loves Monuments. Essentially the app will include a very limited implementation of a couple steps of UploadWizard for things like license selection and filling the ID field and description, so we have one consistent set of configuration for both web upload (using UploadWizard) and mobile uploads (using the app). The change waiting review in gerrit: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/7832/ If anybody's got a prime usage in mind for reading UploadWizard campaign data from the API and has recommendations for adjusting the output format (maybe for making the editing view more AJAX-y) please give a shout -- this is not final and we can adjust it. Currently it'll return XML like this: <?xml version="1.0"?><api> <uploadcampaign> <campaigns> <campaign name="wlm-es" id="2" isenabled="0" autoCategories="" autoWikiText="" defaultAlt="" defaultCategories="" defaultDescription="" defaultLat="" defaultLon="" defaultOwnWorkLicence="cc-by-sa-3.0" headerLabelPage="sdfsdf" idField="sdfafsdfd" idFieldInitialValue="" idFieldLabel="" idFieldLabelPage="" idFieldMaxLength="25" licensesOwnWork="cc-by-sa-3.0|cc-by-3.0|cc-zero" ownWorkOption="choice" skipTutorial="" thanksLabelPage="" tutorialHelpdeskCoords="27, 1319, 691, 1384" tutorialTemplate="Licensing_tutorial_$1.svg" tutorialWidth="720" /> </campaigns> </uploadcampaign></api> or JSON like this: { "uploadcampaign": { "campaigns": [ { "name": "wlm-es", "id": 2, "isenabled": 0, "autoCategories": "", "autoWikiText": "", "defaultAlt": "", "defaultCategories": "", "defaultDescription": "", "defaultLat": "", "defaultLon": "", "defaultOwnWorkLicence": "cc-by-sa-3.0", "headerLabelPage": "sdfsdf", "idField": "sdfafsdfd", "idFieldInitialValue": "", "idFieldLabel": "", "idFieldLabelPage": "", "idFieldMaxLength": "25", "licensesOwnWork": "cc-by-sa-3.0|cc-by-3.0|cc-zero", "ownWorkOption": "choice", "skipTutorial": "", "thanksLabelPage": "", "tutorialHelpdeskCoords": "27, 1319, 691, 1384", "tutorialTemplate": "Licensing_tutorial_$1.svg", "tutorialWidth": "720" } ] } } -- brion

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