Wikitech-l May 2013

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GSoC / OPW community bonding period
by Quim Gil 30 May '13

30 May '13

Hi, Here's a first official task for mentors: please make sure your students don't miss this email. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013 and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_6#Round_6 reflect now the official list of students and mentors (primary and co-mentor). Please check that the data is correct and all linked to the appropriate user profiles. Anybody interested in any of these projects is encouraged to get CCed in the corresponding bug reports. There is where you won't miss any update and also where you can join the effort providing feedback and help. By default, wikitech-l will be used only for general announcements and big project milestones. Following the GSoC calendar, until June 17 we are in the community bonding period. See the details at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013#Community_bonding_period If this sounds to you as "not really starting yet" then you are reading it wrong! There is a checklist for all participants. Some tasks have a tight deadline (June 1st) and the rest must be completed before June 17. This is also like a barometer: missing these first deadlines might be a symptom of other events to come. The gates are open. Let's go! -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Speed v. Size
by Tyler Romeo 30 May '13

30 May '13

So I ran a brief benchmark on my vagrant instance recently (nothing fancy, just 50,000 iterations of a single line of code), and I found that htmlspecialchars() performs *significantly* faster than strtr() (a difference of like 37%). Html::element (and other places in the Html class) prefer using strtr() with a manual list of some elements rather than htmlspecialchars(). The reasoning behind this (I think) is do make the output document slightly smaller by a few bytes by not escaping unnecessary items. So my question is if the byte reduction is really worth it, or if we would rather have a 37% reduction in escaping speed? *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo(a)gmail.com

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 118, Issue 100
by anton.bolfing＠access-for-all.ch 30 May '13

30 May '13

Besten Dank für Ihre Nachricht. Ich bin bis am Montag, dem 24. Juni 2013 abwesend und kann Ihre Nachricht erst ab dann wieder bearbeiten. Ihre Email wird nicht weitergeleitet. Beste Grüsse Anton Bolfing ************************************************************************************************************ Thank you for your message. I'm out of office until Monday, June 26. I will not respond to your email until then. Best regards Anton Bolfing

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Re: [Wikitech-l] showing videos and images in modal viewers within articles
by billinghurst 30 May '13

30 May '13

> (On a side note, the TMH behavior should be improved to actually play the video > immediately, not require a second click to play in modal view.) Please NO, if there has to be anything please make it an preference that users can toggle, but have the default as OFF. There is more than Wikipedia here; there are some of us who don't want to be playing videos that others have selected for us. Regards, Billinghurst

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Loading MediaWiki from some script
by Jeroen De Dauw 30 May '13

30 May '13

Hey, I'd like to load MediaWiki from some PHP script and have not been able to find a way to do this so far. After someone suggested trying to do this as a maintenance script, I tried http://pastebin.com/scKFxF2J That however does not work as there is a check in doMaintenance.php (shouldExecute) that makes sure initialization is only done when no function calls are present in the call stack. My script is getting called by some other library and thus there will clearly be function calls in the call stack when doMaintenance.php is included. Is it even possible to load MediaWiki in such a case? And what is this restriction in shouldExecute good for? Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. --

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Possible projects for Individual Engagement Grants
by Quim Gil 29 May '13

29 May '13

Hi, our list of Possible Projects has been updated reflecting the situation after the GSoC / OPW announcements: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Triagin… Although not directly related, this list might be a good source of inspiration for developers considering applying to Wikimedia Individual Engagement Grants: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG At least for the featured projects you know that there is community interest and maintainers buy-in. The second IEG round will start officially on August 1. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter 29 May '13

29 May '13

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MediaWiki 1.21.1 released
by Mark A. Hershberger 29 May '13

29 May '13

I'm happy to announce the availability of MediaWiki 1.21.1 -- a maintenance release in the 1.21 series. == What's new? == * An incorrect version number was used for 1.21.0. 1.21.1 has the correct number. * A problem with the Oracle SQL table creation was fixed. * (PdfHandler extension) Fix warning if pdfinfo fails but pdftext succeeds. Full release notes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21 ********************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.1.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.20.0), without interface text: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.1.patch.gz Interface text changes: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.1.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-core-1.21.1.tar.gz.s… http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.1.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.1.patch.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.1.patch.gz… Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html -- http://hexmode.com/ Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. -- G.K. Chesterson

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2013.05 release‏
by Amir E. Aharoni 29 May '13

29 May '13

Hallo, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki language extension bundle 2013.05 * https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.05.tar… * sha256sum: 9aea5b1dac2b38e44284373c849241fc694c78caff1d3ca3b4e6e72d66f2ab12 Quick links: * Installation instructions are at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB * Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n * Report bugs to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org * Talk with us at #mediawiki-i18n @ freenode Release notes for each extension are below. Amir E. Aharoni == Babel == Only localization updates. == cldr == CLDR was updated to version 23.1. == CleanChanges == Only localization updates. == LocalisationUpdate == No changes. == Translate == The new translation editor in Translate is now considered stable. The last month saw mostly polishing and bug fixes, changes in internals of the extension and terminology was made more consistent. Other notable bug fixes: * Warnings are loaded for outdated messages before user starts typing, because being outdated is an issue in itself. * Statsbar at the bottom floating bar of Special:Translate is updated when changing group. * Links of tabs at the top of Special:Translate are now kept in sync when changing message group or language * Custom icon (x) for clearing the searchboxsearch box clear icon was removed. Some browsers add this icon automatically, while others do not. * The tooltips for message groups in the group selector were removed. They contained unparsed wiki markup, which could be confusing. * Message documentation can be added even if the translations are restricted to only certain languages. * Icons for status markers and review actions for right-to-left languages were added. * In some rare cases the language name could be incorrectly displayed when selected from the language selector at Special:Translate, because the text direction attribute was not updated properly. == UniversalLanguageSelector == The last month saw significant changes in the Universal Language Selector extension: many bugs were fixed and some design changes were introduced. The default location of the language selectors is in the personal toolbar. For projects like Wikipedia, with interlanguage links, separating interwiki links from user interface language could cause confusion for users. It is now also possible to use a cog icon in the area for interlanguage links using $wgULSPosition = 'interlanguage' in LocalSettings.php, though this feature is still experimental. Notable bug fixes: * Major bugs in the input methods functionality for Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 were fixed. * IME selector positioning is now more consistent: always under the input box, and matching the direction. * Anonymous users cannot change the user interface language if $wgULSAnonCanChangeLanguage is set to false. This may help avoid cache pollution in certain MediaWiki setups, while input methods and web fonts still remain available. * A link to open the ULS was added near the language selector on Special:Preferences. * The positioning of the ULS windows was cleaned up so that the appear in more predictable places on the screen. * ULS triggers are not displayed to users who disabled JavaScript or if the site has fatal JavaScript errors. * The checkbox that enables and disables webfonts was removed. The feature is now always on. * Any untranslatable elements have been made translatable. Please contribute to translations at https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/ext-jquery-uls and https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/ext-universallanguageselec…. * Fonts for the Syriac alphabet and support for the 'syc' language code were added. * Completely disabling input method tools and reenabling immediately was made easier. * The bubble for restoring the previous language is not displayed to anonymous users if they can't change the language. * jquery.i18n files can be loaded from the same domain to fix an issue with old Microsoft Internet Explorer versions. This is only relevant if resources are served from a different domain. A known issue is bug 48898 - the "Apply settings" button doesn't close the Input settings panel after enabling or disabling the settings. The settings are saved, but the button doesn't work correctly. Bugzilla link: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48898 Thank you, -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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WikiApiary reporting MediaWiki Git releases in use
by Jamie Thingelstad 29 May '13

29 May '13

I've started grabbing a bunch of additional site info in WikiApiary and recently put this query together that I thought people on this list might find interesting. It specifically looks at MediaWiki sites that are reporting a git-hash in site info and then shows what is being used most: http://wikiapiary.com/wiki/MediaWiki_Git_versions Jamie Thingelstad jamie(a)thingelstad.com mobile: 612-810-3699 find me on AIM Twitter Facebook LinkedIn

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