Wikitech-l July 2012

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How to tell MW that I want to use the HTTPS version?
by Strainu 20 Jul '12

20 Jul '12

Hi, For about as long as they've been around, I've been using the HTTPS urls for Wikipedia and sister projects. Right now, there is basically no way I'm leaving the secure site, with one exception: the email messages I receive when I have a new message or when a watched page changes. This is annoying, because I'm not signed in on HTTP and I cannot track those visits. Is there any way I can "tell" MW I want to receive emails with the https urls? If not, is there at least a bug for that? Thanks, Strainu

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Permitting transclusion?
by Daniel Barrett 20 Jul '12

20 Jul '12

Can an extension detect that a given article has been transcluded from a given namespace? Here's why I ask. On our wiki, we have an extension with a special restriction: it can be used only in a specific namespace, N. So it contains logic like this: if ($title->getNamespace() == NS_N) { // render } else { // display an error message } This works fine, but I would also like to permit articles in namespace N to be transcluded into other namespaces: {{N:My article}} This fails the extension's "Namespace = N" test and displays the error message. So I really want the logic to be: if ($title->getNamespace() == NS_N || $title was transcluded from namespace N) { // render } else { // display an error message } Is this doable? Thanks, DanB

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Gerrit downtime this Friday
by Asher Feldman 20 Jul '12

20 Jul '12

Hi All, Ryan Lane and I are migrating gerrit's db to a server in eqiad (where the gerrit app server is located) on Friday, and have a downtime window of 18:00-19:00 UTC (11am-12pm PDT). Actual downtime should be shorter. Gerrit makes many mysql queries for some page requests; this will improve the latency of such pages. Additionally, the new db will have both slow and sample based query profiling in ishmael which should assist with further optimizations. -A

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(sin asunto)
by Darling 20 Jul '12

20 Jul '12

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Documentation NS @ labsconsole wiki
by Petr Bena 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

Hi, Given that we are going to use labsconsole wiki (which is later going to be renamed to wikitech) as a documentation base for various software and server documentation, we should propose a way how this new documentation base is going to be organized. I would prefer to create new namespace Documentation (Help is already used as a help for labsconsole interface) or Docs (shorter), with following layout where all items are prefixed with category name: Documentation:Contents - the index page which contains links to subpages Documentation:Server/<cluster>/<host> for various documentation related to each server which needs some, either virtual instances on labs (cluster would be labs in this case) or real servers as we have now on wikitech Documentation:Bots/<botname> for documentation of each bot we run on wikimedia project Documentation:Software/<name> for documentation of various software / libraries such as pywikipediabot etc In addition we could put each page to a category. I know that we could put all pages in root (Documentation:<name>) and use only categories but using category in URL has two advantages: If we prefix each page with category name we avoid conflicts of names as well as it's clear which category item belongs to just from URL. For example Documentation:Bots/Cluebot would clearly be a documentation page for cluebot we use on english wiki, while Documentation:Server/labs/cluebot could be a server on labs where cluebot would be hosted If you agreed with this idea, I would open a ticket to create this namespace on labsconsole and started to move some documentation there, especially for bots project which is lacking docs a lot

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Removing permissions for the History page
by Meghan Mahar 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

I currently have a set of internal users for our wiki that have Administrator access. I also have a set of external users (our customers) that can only read pages and create discussion pages. I would like to remove the permission from our customers that allows them to access the History tab. I looked into the Extension:GroupPermissionsManager, but we use PHP 5.3.1 and we plan on upgrading to Mediawiki 1.19 soon, so that doesn't work. Is there an alternative you recommend? I have removed the history tab from our CSS, but users could still access the direct url of the history page if they wanted. I would like a resolution that denies them access, but still allows myself and other admins to access it. Thank you, -- ** *Meghan Mahar* Technical Writer Appian Corporation <http://www.appian.com/> | 1875 Explorer Street, 4th Floor | Reston, VA 20190 T: 703.442.8844 | C: 703.609.0306 | *meghan.mahar(a)appian.com*

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Wanted: technical advisor for Fanlore wiki
by Sumana Harihareswara 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

I'm forwarding this (below) on behalf of the Fanlore community, which is seeking some volunteer help. Fanlore is an important archive for the speculative fiction community. I'd appreciate it if someone could take a few hours to help them with their current needs, and I'd be delighted if you could mentor some of their volunteers so they could fix their own long-term needs. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation Fanlore (fanlore.org) is a wiki about fan culture and history that can be edited by anyone who registers. The wiki is a volunteer project of the Organization for Transformative Works (transformativeworks.org). It's a few years old now, and in need of advice on the technical front. We're looking for someone who, basically, knows enough about MediaWiki and wiki spam protection to know what Fanlore needs. We need a technical liaison whose role would be to advise us (the OTW's wiki committee) on what improvements are needed, and which software/extensions we need to make those improvements. Someone with knowledge about MediaWiki skins would be ideal. Our current default skin, WordPress, has an unfortunate bug that prevents image centering, and the skin is deprecated or soon-to-be deprecated in the most recent versions of MediaWiki. We'll need to switch skins eventually, but before we can do that, we need to redesign the infobox templates because those were originally designed mainly to work with the default skin. We already have people with knowledge of CSS and HTML, but no one with advanced knowledge of wiki templates. In addition to our current needs, long-term maintenance of the wiki also involves investigating (rare) bug reports from users. The technical liaison would investigate the bugs and determine whether they can be fixed, how to fix them, and who can fix them. We're currently in the testing phase for a MediaWiki upgrade, but it's been plagued with various technical and personnel availability issues and isn't going very quickly. The MediaWiki upgrade will theoretically help our spam problem because better tools are compatible only with the more recent versions. In the meantime, we're also testing recaptcha and will use that to prevent spambots from signing up. However, recaptcha isn't our favorite, and we're hoping we can revisit our spam solutions once we upgrade MediaWiki. Anyone who's interested in advising us on how to whip Fanlore's MediaWiki installation into shape, please mail wiki(a)transformativeworks.org with any questions and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. Looking forward to hearing from you, The OTW wiki committee

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Welcoming S Page
by Alolita Sharma 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Hi All, Please join me in welcoming S Page as Software Engineer in WMF’s Editor Engagement Experiments (E3) engineering team. Some interesting facts about S - yes his name really is 'S', cf. Ford designer "J Mays". S has been a ski instructor at Squaw Valley and a road sweeper for the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. At Sun Microsystems, S wrote technical documentation for James Gosling and Bill Joy, programmers so l33t they wrote their own text editors. S has many enthusiasms but the most relevant ones are SFMOMA 250m West, pinball at Metreon 500m West, and the snow 300 km East. S is also a Wikipedian, editor on en.wp since November 2005 and Semantic Mediawiki contributor. Ping S online or stop by WMF's 3rd floor to say hello in person. He’s available as @spage on our irc channels including #mediawiki, #wikimedia-dev and #wikimedia-e3. Welcome S! Happy to have you onboard the E3 team. -Alolita -- Alolita Sharma Director of Engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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overprinting wikipedia table
by jidanni＠jidanni.org 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

The table on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family#See_also overprints itself even with CTRL+0 zoom, not to mention what happens when one hits CTRL+++++.

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Announcement: Peter Youngmeister joins Wikimedia as Technical Operations Engineer
by Ct Woo 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

Hello Everyone, Please welcome Peter Youngmeister who joins us today (7/9/12) as a full-time member of the Technical Operations staff. He has been working as a contractor with the Foundation since last March 2011. Prior to that, he was with another great non-profit, kiva.org. Peter lives in Ann Arbor, MI, but is a Bay Area native and is around the office fairly often. You may have also run into him on IRC as notpeter. He is excited to be finding a more permanent home in the Wikimedia Ops team, so that he can continue protecting the data and fighting for the user. His interests include, metal working, fire sculpture and fire performance art, fine tea and fine liquors, and vegan cooking. Thanks, CT

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