Wikitech-l June 2012

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So what's up with video ingestion?
by David Gerard 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

Just curious as to the state of video ingestion in MediaWiki - I know we were planning to do something such that video users could upload whatever comes out of their phone or camera, and of course WebM was released two years ago and support in MediaWiki has apparently been waiting just on this. So what's the state of play? - d.

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gerrit: allow people to CR -2 (do not submit)
by Antoine Musso 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

[Copy paste form bug 37712] I would like registered user to be able to CodeReview -2 (do not submit) changes submitted in Gerrit. That is a recurring complaint about people sending a patch only to get review on it. If people are able to mark they change as do not submit, that will save sometime to the reviewers that can just skip the red crossed changes. :-] Thoughts? https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37712 -- Antoine "hashar" Musso

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Merge of wikitech and labsconsole
by Petr Bena 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

Hi, I heard that there was a plan to merge these wikis to one central wiki for technical documentation for various projects on wikimedia, what is the current status of that? Are we going to merge it to labsconsole, or to wikitech? There are some services atm running on labs and documentation is all around, it would be really nice to have a one place for this all. Put all the documentations for software from meta, mediawiki, english wikipedia and labsconsole and wikitech to some central "tech" wiki.

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SQL error in unit tests getting ignored
by Jeroen De Dauw 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

Hey, I refactored some code and then ran tests to see if it all still worked. I forgot renaming a database field somewhere, so had a query that failed. Instead of throwing an exception with the information that would have made the nature of the issue obvious, DatabaseBase::select returned false causing a type error somewhere else. This method is only supposed to return false in case SQL errors are being ignored. So why are they getting ignored? I certainly did not specify this. And it certainly is not helpful :) Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. --

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HTTPS Wikipedia search for Firefox?
by Chris Peterson 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

hi, I'm a developer at Mozilla and I have a patch [1] that would switch Firefox's Wikipedia search box from HTTP to HTTPS. Who would be an appropriate technical contact at Wikimedia that I can coordinate with? Is this a change Wikimedia would welcome? Or would the increased SSL server load be an undue burden for Wikimedia? Just to be clear, this change would only affect Firefox users who search Wikipedia using Firefox's search box. A few months ago, Mozilla switched Firefox 14 (currently in Beta) to use Google's HTTPS search [2]. If I check in my Wikipedia patch soon, the change would ride Firefox's Nightly, Aurora, and Beta release channels [3] and be released to the general public in Firefox 16 (October 2012). [1] Wikipedia HTTPS bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758857 [2] Google HTTPS bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633773 [3] Firefox Release Calendar: https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar thanks, Chris

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maybe just visiting one will be enough to keep me notified about the rest?
by jidanni＠jidanni.org 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

I got four mails page Manual:RemoveUnusedAccounts.php has been changed by Sumanah page Manual:LocalSettings.php has been changed by KrenairBot page Manual:Edit.php has been changed by KrenairBot page Manual:GetText.php has been changed by KrenairBot each says There will be no other notifications in case of further changes unless you visit this page. You could also reset the notification flags for all your watched pages on your watchlist. maybe just visiting one will be enough to keep me notified about the rest?

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3 million null edits
by Maarten Dammers 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

Hi guys, There must be an alternative for https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bots/Work_requests#3_million_nul… right? But what is it? Maarten

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Wikimedia at Open Source Bridge conference, late June, Portland
by Sumana Harihareswara 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

June 26-29, a bunch of us will be in Portland, Oregon, USA for the Open Source Bridge conference. http://opensourcebridge.org/events/2012/schedule WMF is sponsoring the Friday unconference day, and will host a hacking table that day as well as (I hope) the Tuesday "Hacker Lounge Project/Community Night." Wikimedians are giving several talks during OSBridge: "Identity, Reputation and Gratitude: Designing for a community" by Brandon Harris: Tuesday, 1:30 "A snapshot of Open Source in West Africa" by Renaud Gaudin: Tuesday, 3:45 "Building A Visual Editor for Wikipedia" by Roan Kattouw and Trevor Parscal: Tuesday, 4:45 "Internationalization @Wikipedia: Helping add the next billion web users" by Alolita Sharma: Wednesday, 10am "Why you need to host 100 new wikis just for yourself." by Ward Cunningham: Wednesday, 2:30 "Outreach Events: My Triumphs, My Mistakes" by Asheesh Laroia and me: Thursday, 3:45 I give the opening keynote address on Tuesday morning. My tentative title: "Be Bold." If you're in or near Portland and want to come, let me know; I might be able to hook you up with a free conference pass. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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Giving people additional rights on gerrit
by Jeroen De Dauw 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

Hey, I just trying giving a frequent contributor to one of the extensions I maintain the right to create new branches on gerrit. Looks like I'm only able to add groups, while I cannot add or remove people from the extension owner group for this extension, nor do I appear to be able to create new groups. Is there are sane way to do this, or do I need to use the completely broken workflow of going to a wiki page and bugging other people about giving access to an extension they are not even familiar with? Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. --

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Gerrit CLI lib
by Ori Livneh 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

I started hacking together a node.js library for building command-line tools around Gerrit's JSON-RPC API. I put a demo up on GitHub: https://github.com/atdt/gerp. Looking for interested parties to fork / help out. Feedback welcome. Ori

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