On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's sorta kinda happening as we speak while no one is looking ;)
>
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57891
>
> --
> Matma Rex
Looks like the cat got out of the bag.
The GlobalCssJs extension allows users to add custom JS or CSS for
themselves on all wikis where they have an account. It's basically the
equivalent of common.js, but on a global scale. It has been a
requested feature since 2008[1].
For those not familiar with the history of global js/css, there
currently is a bot run by a steward[2] which creates common.js pages
importing the user's global.js upon request. This is mainly used by
users in the SWMT[3] to do things like enable global Twinkle[4]. While
this method works, it doesn't take advantage of ResourceLoader.
The extension will load User:$username/global.js and
User:$username/global.css using ResourceLoader. It also includes
MediaWiki:Global.js/css as the global equivalents of
MediaWiki:Common.js/css.
The bulk of the code is still awaiting review in gerrit[5].
[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13953#c0
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Synchbot
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWMT
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Snowolf/How_to_globally_Twinkle
[5] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/94837
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From: <bugzilla-daemon <at> wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by
default for all users on Wikimedia
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Date: 2013-12-09 20:41:41 GMT (19 minutes ago)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58236
Web browser: ---
Bug ID: 58236
Summary: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for
all users on Wikimedia sites
Product: Wikimedia
Version: wmf-deployment
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Site requests
Assignee: wikibugs-l <at> lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: jared.zimmerman <at> wikimedia.org
CC: benapetr <at> gmail.com,
bugzilla+org.wikimedia <at> tuxmachine.com,
dereckson <at> espace-win.org, greg <at> wikimedia.org,
tomasz <at> twkozlowski.net, wikimedia.bugs <at> snowolf.eu
Classification: Unclassified
Mobile Platform: ---
Gadgets being turned on for all site users (including readers) can cause a
confusing users experience, especially when there is some disagreement and
defaults change without notice (readers are rarely if ever part of these
discussions)
Move to model where gadgets are per user rather than part of a default
experience for users
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Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Sherah Smith[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as Fundraising Engineer in Features.
Before joining us, Sherah was a full stack software engineer at Hackbright Academy[2] helping write a lot of their curriculum development and engineering fellowship software. She also did a brief stint as a front-end developer at yerdle.com on some of their campaigns. She was a referral through Ryan Kaldari, and managed some time during small amounts of her super busy schedule at Hackbright to talk to the FR-tech team and see how truly awesome they are. Long ago (2010), she received her B.S. in computer science at Evergreen State College.
Sherah will be working in Fundraising Tech as a front-end engineer. So expect some amazingly cool visualization stuff coming from the annual fundraiser, followed by super less annoying payment processing pages, and such. She also will bug you about opportunities to learn more stuff here.
When she isn’t making Fundraising awesome, she can be found writing and performing comedy in various forms, reading excruciatingly depressing novels, and hiking all around the Bay Area. She is also perpetually hacking on things, especially ridiculous apps and games in MeteorJS. Her spirit animal is the pizzacat.
Oh, by the way, don’t be an idiot like me and pronounce her name correctly—it’s not sher-a, but she-ra, “just like the princess of power.”[5]
As you have guessed from my usual tardiness, her first official day was Monday, December 9. I know you’re thinking, “Only a few days late? What is going on Terry?” Well there is a running pool that Erik has a little spreadsheet in his computer brain of his to pester us Directors to actually announce the staff we hire and I finally figured it’s useless to procrastinate in order to fight the Man.
Please join me in a belated welcome of Sherah Smith to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
Take care,
Terry
[1]: http://sherahsmith.com/
[2]: http://www.hackbrightacademy.com/
[3]: https://yerdle.com/
[4]: http://sherahsmith.tumblr.com/
[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She-Ra
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I have an extension using the ArticleFromTitle hook to generate pages
for components of a large system we operate. There are approximately
6000 components at the moment with static inventory and config data in
a database and live status data in a number of other systems. We are
using MediaWiki as a historical maintenance knowledge-base for the
staff. With this extension, we can integrate all the data for each
device in one place. We can hit MyNS:DeviceName and get a page that
describes a device and that page can link to other pages in the main
namespace that techs create with vendor details, model info, manuals,
etc. We can even keep a talk page for each device. Very handy.
Trouble now is I want to be able to find devices using the search
feature. SpecialSearchResults looked promising but that only gets
called when there is at least one match in "normal" pages. So, I
looked at SpecialSearchNoResults but that doesn't allow me to add to
the empty results. Doesn't anyone have a suggestion on how I could go
about this? I really want to avoid generating the text of pages
externally periodically and loading them into the wiki using the
importTextFile maintenance script.
The only other thought I had was to extend the SearchMySQL class and
change $wgSearchType but I'm hoping to avoid that.
Any ideas?
--Paul
Hi, I am new to wikimedia,
I want to start bug fixing for wikimedia so I have started from this
annoying little bug
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21481
Can somebody guide me from where to start and search for fixing this bug,
Dear all,
OAuth is currently broken on any wiki that has CirrusSearch deployed to it
in either primary or secondary mode.
We're working on getting this issue fixed as soon as possible. I'll post an
update here when we have a timescale for the fix.
Thanks,
Dan
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Dan Garry
Associate Product Manager for Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear list readers,
The Wikimedia Foundation teams for VisualEditor and Language Engineering
have put together a document that proposes a change in the MediaWiki
localisation format.
Please provide your input at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment/Localisation_format
We have also proposed to discuss this RfC in the upcoming RfC review
meeting of 2013-12-18[1]. As far as we know, no time has been set for this
meeting, yet.
Thank you for your insights.
Cheers!
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Product Manager Language Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi,
I have a bunch of videos from our last conference waiting for an upload
to Commons. For this I have filed a bug several days ago:
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58155
Can someone please take care of this in a timely manner? The conference
is now three weeks ago and soon nobody will be interested in the videos
anymore if we don't provide them near enough to the event.
Thank you,
Manuel
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Manuel Schneider - Chief Information Officer
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Lausanne, +41 (21) 340 66 22 - www.wikimedia.ch
Hello, I am new to mediawiki and want to contribute, I have been lurking
around the developer docs and articles for about 3 days.
I have skills in php, javascript.
At the same time I searching for the bugs that I can fix, but I really
don't find one, I don't get to think of a starting point to fix the bug.
Can somebody provide right direction to fix some bugs or the whole manual
of mediawiki (i mean each and everything) should be read carefully before
starting.
Thanks