Wikitech-l August 2014

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Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of Sept 1st
by Greg Grossmeier 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap and Deployment update. The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_September_1st> A quick list of notable items... == Monday == US Holiday (Labor Day), thus no deploys == Tuesday == * Commons to will get the new CirrusSearch as the primary search engine ** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search> * MediaWiki deploy ** group1 to 1.24wmf19: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites) ** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf19> == Wednesday == * Weekly fundraising banner test == Thursday == * MediaWiki deploy ** group2 to 1.24wmf19 (all Wikipedias) ** group0 to 1.24wmf20 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki) Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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Static functions usable in LocalSettings.php
by Seb35 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

Hello, Sometimes in LocalSettings.php or in extensions settings one want to do simple computations on the namespaces or related to the Git branch in a development environment. Unfortunately this is not (resp. no more) really possible, because LocalSettings.php is loaded before GlobalFunctions.php and Setup.php. Is it a good practice to do that? If yes, is it possible to either: * "tag" some static functions in some classes to avoid these to include hooks and other global functions and variables (loaded later), and/or * move before (in loading order) some global functions and variables to make them usable (e.g. wfDebugLog, wfRunHooks, $wgCanonicalNamespaceNames) ? Details for namespaces: $wgCanonicalNamespaceNames is defined in Setup.php, making MWNamespace::getCanonicalNamespaces() and MWNamespace::getValidNamespaces() unusable in LocalSettings.php to e.g. compute namespaces where an extension could be enabled <https://github.com/mementoweb/mediawiki/pull/2>. Details for Git version: until two months it worked, but some wfDebugLog was introduced (defined in GlobalFunctions.php), making it unusable in LocalSettings.php. ~ Seb35 [^_^]

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Upgrading jQuery UI to 1.11.1
by Thomas Mulhall 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

Hi should we upgrade jQuery UI to 1.11.1 since mediawiki droped support for javascript for internet explorer 6 and might drop javascript for internet explorer 7.

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extra docs in beta & gadgets tab (was: superprotect; was: 'everyone who tries to speak for 'community' is <censored> and trying to blame it for own lack of interest')
by svetlana 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

in light of the recent conversation about superprotect and about what community could or should do to get things done specifically i'd like to see links to documentation on gadget & extension writing right inside of 'gadgets' and 'beta' tabs somewhere in big fat banner at the bottom of each of these tabs 'want to add your gadget/beta feature? _learn more_ & _get involved_, or _request an idea_' please give that a kick -- where? how? ... file a bug with betafeatures extension to modify its text, or can it be modified on-wiki ? ... edit relevant mediawiki:* page for gadgets for each project manually so that it includes a link to [[:mw:Gadget kitchen]] ?? ... structurise the gadgets place for it to become more useable as a directory ?? -- svetlana

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Parsoid
by Aran 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

Hello, I'm trying to install parsoid on Ubuntu 12. I installed nodejs from source, but when I try and install parsoid via apt-get it fails saying that it depends on nodejs (>= 0.8.0) even though node --version returns v0.10.31! Anyone have any ideas what could be wrong? Cheers, Aran

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MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.22.10 and 1.23.3
by Markus Glaser 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

Hello everyone, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.22.10 and 1.23.3. This is a regular maintenance release. Download links are given at the end of this email. == Bugfixes in 1.23.3 == * (bug 68501) Correctly handle incorrect namespace in cleanupTitles.php. * (bug 64970) Fix support for blobs on DatabaseOracle::update. * (bug 66574) Display MediaWiki:Loginprompt on the login page. * (bug 67870) wfShellExec() cuts off stdout at multiples of 8192 bytes. * (bug 60629) Handle invalid language code gracefully in Language::fetchLanguageNames. * (bug 62017) Restore the number of rows shown on Special:Watchlist. * Check for boolean false result from database query in SqlBagOStuff. == Bugfixes in 1.22.10 == * (bug 64970) Fix support for blobs on DatabaseOracle::update Full release notes for 1.23.3: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.23> Full release notes for 1.22.10: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.22> Public keys: <https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html> ********************************************************************** 1.23.3 ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-1.23.3.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.23.2): https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-1.23.3.patch.gz GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-core-1.23.3.tar.gz.… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-1.23.3.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-1.23.3.patch.gz.sig Note: There is no i18n patch as there are no changes in translation. ********************************************************************** 1.22.10 ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-1.22.10.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.22.9): https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-1.22.10.patch.gz GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-core-1.22.10.tar.gz… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-1.22.10.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-1.22.10.patch.gz.sig Note: There is no i18n patch as there are no changes in translation. Markus Glaser (Wiki Release Team)

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Design] Standardising icons across projects
by James Forrester 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

On 28 August 2014 11:22, Max <max(a)koehler-kn.de> wrote: > You're welcome. Do you guys have a grunt workflow set up? I'd love to help > out. > Yes, here for OOjs UI <http://git.wikimedia.org/blob/oojs%2Fui.git/HEAD/Gruntfile.js> – we'd definitely welcome suggestions and patches. :-) J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester

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Template RFC
by Jon Robson 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

Kaldari, RobLa, Trevor and I met yesterday to discuss the template RFC [1]. Sadly Gabriel was not present. Kaldari and I are very concerned that we are blocking standardisation of a generic template library on the completion of Knockoff. Trevor, Kaldari and I identified that two things need to happen for the templating solution that currently lives in Mantle [2] to core: 1) We need some JavaScript API for using templates (in current form all we have is a standard way to ship templates from the server to the frontend). Trevor is working on a template widget for oojs which will make this possible 2) We need a standard template language 3) Better namespacing for templates - we identified that we will need to find better ways of uniquely identifying templates [3]. We questioned whether point 2 should be blocking, as we recognised that even if we decide to standardise on Knockoff in future, it should be trivial to write a script that converts Hogan/Handlebars template language to Knockoff. The Mantle ResourceLoader module in current form is template agnostic and currently works with both Hogan and Handlebars, so in theory should make it easy to transition from one template language to another. On this basis, I think the next step would be for the oojs development team to get a template widget up that can be used by Mantle. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Mantle [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69916

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Design] Standardising icons across projects
by James Forrester 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

On 27 August 2014 12:14, Max <max(a)koehler-kn.de> wrote: > There's a grunt task called grunticon that does #2. > https://github.com/filamentgroup/grunticon Max, That's a pretty awesome find; thank you! J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2014.08 release
by Kartik Mistry 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

Hello all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2014.08. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.23.x and MediaWiki 1.22.x releases. * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.08.tar… * sha256sum: f4663910facd2b34d4afb1af930f66adad22b2746f9395f7706f07751e633857 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. -- Kartik Mistry == Babel, CLDR, CleanChanges and LocalisationUpdate == * Only localisation updates. == Translate == === Noteworthy changes === * Breaking change: Dropped support for MediaWiki 1.21 (2014.05 is the latest version of MLEB as a whole which supports 1.21) * Avoid losing translators' edits: improved handling of expired sessions ({{bug|69314}}). ** Status has yellow background if the translation has not been saved. ** Show an alert to the user if session has expired. ** Prevent saving translations as an anonymous user accidentally. * Restore progress icon for the current translation page (regression from MLEB 2014.07). * Update associated translation pages when moving translation units. * Show definition diff for all messages if available, not just for outdated messages. * Special:AggregateGroups: Group selector is now input field with autocompletion instead of combobox. * Special:PageMigration: Don't add the created pages to watchlist. * Special:PagePreparation: This is a new special page to assist in preparing pages for translation == UniversalLanguageSelector == * Change the autonym for Algerian Arabic. * Localisation updates. ==== Input Methods ==== * Tibetian-ewts: Use of unicode NFC instead of NFD. * Fixed description in Bengali Probhat layout. ==== Fonts ==== * Added Comic Neue font. It is available for English and other languages using the latin alphabet. * Updated UnifrakturMaguntia font to the latest version. -- Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_ {kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com

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