Wikitech-l March 2015

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-l] Autopromote problems
by Alex Monk 01 Mar '15

01 Mar '15

You're welcome. I wonder how APCOND_ISIP and APCOND_IPINRANGE were expected to work, and if we should deprecate/remove them. On 28 February 2015 at 23:17, John Horne <john.horne(a)plymouth.ac.uk> wrote: > On Sat, 2015-02-28 at 03:27 +0000, Alex Monk wrote: > > (CCing wikitech-l) > > On 28 February 2015 at 01:04, John Horne <john.horne(a)plymouth.ac.uk> > wrote: > > > > > > $wgAutopromote['sysop'] = array(APCOND_ISIP, '141.163.4.11'); > > > > > Wait, what? MediaWiki supports that?! You should not do that. > > > Yes, MW allowed me to do this, but reading your reply I can see why it > is not something we want to do. It also explains why the 'user list' > page seemed to allocate everyone to the administrators group. > > We have now changed things a bit in that the 'editor' permissions have > been pushed into the 'user' group (most were there anyway). > > We also removed any other 'autopromote' settings. By logging in using > the default login mechanism, and with the initially created account, I > could then set my own account to be administrator and bureaucrat. After > that everything looked fine. > > However, we are intending to use the Shibboleth extension (as forked on > github) as the main login mechanism. When we reapplied this, my groups > were gone again! It seems the extension has a bug in that it removes a > users groups, but never adds them back again. I have corrected this, and > submitted a patch upstream. > > So now we are happy. We have Shibboleth login working fine, and the > users groups are as they should be and remain so upon login/logout. We > are now not using autopromote at all. > > > > Many thanks for your reply, > > John. > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------- > John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 > Plymouth University, UK > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >

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Line break in php
by Thomas Mulhall 01 Mar '15

01 Mar '15

Hi how can I do line breaks in php because I am trying to do line breaks for global in github.com/paladox/Metrolook/blob/test/MetrolookTemplate.php

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Tech Talk: What's New with MediaWiki-Vagrant?: Simple Use Cases and Beyond: November 25
by Rachel Farrand 01 Mar '15

01 Mar '15

Please join us for the following tech talk: *Tech Talk**:* What's New with MediaWiki-Vagrant?: Simple Use Cases and Beyond *Presenter:* Bryan Davis & Dan Duvall *Date:* November 25th *Time:* 1830 UTC <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=What%27s+New+with+…> Link to live YouTube stream <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I66xR-fq2O8> *IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office Google+ page <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I66xR-fq2O8>, another place for questions *Talk description:*We'll start off by giving a brief refresher on how MW-Vagrant works and how it differs from stock Vagrant. Next, we'll showcase some of the newest and most useful features of MWV such as multi-wiki support, SSH/HTTP sharing, Labs integration, advanced customization using Hiera and local roles. Finally, we'd like to show how MWV can be useful in test-driven development by demonstrating how to run unit and browser tests. The last 15 minutes will be reserved for Q/A. == Outline (WIP) == * (10 minutes) What is Vagrant, MediaWiki-Vagrant, Puppet (dan + bryan) * (15 minutes) Local customizations (bryan) * (15 minutes) Running unit tests and browser tests under MW-V (dan) * (5 minutes) Vagrant sharing (it's awesomesauce!!!) (bryan) * (15 minutes) Q & A

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Phabricator monthly statistics - 2015-02
by communitymetrics＠wikimedia.org 01 Mar '15

01 Mar '15

Hi Community Metrics team, this is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail. Number of accounts created in (2015-02): 317 Number of active users (any activity) in (2015-02): 733 Number of task authors in (2015-02): 422 Number of users who have closed tasks in (2015-02): 216 Number of tasks created in (2015-02): 2952 Number of tasks closed in (2015-02): 2092 Number of tasks in the shell project closed as resolved,fixed in (2015-02): 10 Number of open and stalled tasks in total: 19967 Median age in days of open tasks by priority: Unbreak now: 17 Needs Triage: 122 High: 104 Normal: 394 Low: 675 Needs Volunteer: 522 TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as described in T1003. Yours sincerely, Fab Rick Aytor (via community_metrics.sh on iridium at Sun Mar 1 00:00:04 UTC 2015)

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