I've published a new version of Fresh. Fresh is a simple way to create
light and fast isolated contexts in your Terminal. For example, when you
need to run 'npm' commands that install and run code needed for ESLint,
Grunt or Selenium tests.
Get started at https://github.com/wikimedia/fresh
See also:
*
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:JavaScript_unit_testing#Getting_start…
*
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Selenium/Node.js/Target_Local_MediaWiki_(Con…
Background:
Last month I wrote [1] about the risk and dangers involved with running
"npm install" and "npm test" commands as developers. In a nut shell: There
are no built-in protections. At risk are your personal data, web browser
session, and more. Interactions with 'git', 'sudo' or 'ssh' are also easy
to spy on or influence. This all in addition to the "normal" risk of
packages having undiscovered malicious (or non-malicious) security problems
in indirect dependencies that have never been audited for security by
anyone you'd know or trust. In particular, I think it is important to
understand that npm is different from Debian or PyPi in terms of social
etiquette and curation. More about that at [1].
-- Timo
[1]
https://medium.com/@timotijhof/how-to-protect-yourself-from-vulnerable-npm-…
The German Technical Wishes team is planning to implement a feature we're
calling "book referencing", which supports one level of nested references.
This makes it possible to reference the same book several times in an
article, pointing to various pages, without repeating the full citation.
A more complete description of the feature and a screenshot is available
below, please feel free to comment in Phabricator or on this thread.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234030
There has already been some community discussion, but since we're proposing
a small change to wikitext (the <ref> tag will accept a new attribute), I
thought it would be appropriate to wait for a round of technical feedback
before we begin coding.
Regards,
Adam
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Adam Wight - Developer - Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. - https://wikimedia.de
The Search Platform Team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds
office hours the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about
anything related to Wikimedia search!
Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
Details for our next meeting:
Date: Wednesday, Oct 2nd, 2019
Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-9:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CEST
Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vyc-jvgq-dww
Hope to talk to you in a week!
Trey Jones
Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
UTC-4 / EDT
Hello list,
I was sent here from the #mediawiki IRC channel, I hope this is indeed the correct list to write to and ask you to please forgive me if it is not.
First, a bit about myself: I'm no real developer, just a tech-savvy guy trying to build a wiki to document my employer's company inner workings. This last bit means documenting any piece of information we handle and our business processes in doing so.
After testing a few wiki engines, I came to the conclusion that mediawiki with the cargo extension was what I was looking for. I also built a small extension to allow inclusion and edition of BPMN diagrams with the https://bpmn.io library. All in all, this is pretty basic.
Then I came to the realization that if I wanted any lambda-user to be willing to contribute to the wiki content, I needed the Visual Editor. Deploying it was easy enough, and everything seems to be working fine at the moment.
I however feel I should make it possible to include a BPMN diagram from the VE toolbar. Ideally, this will take the form of a "popup" that will include the bpmn.io modeler to edit the diagram. However, in order to achieve this goal, I have a whole damn lot to learn and to experiment with about VE.
So I thought I should start with something a little humbler: a button that would just include some basic XML in the page (a special page already allows editing that part of the page, so this would already be convenient, though far from perfect). Using the gadgets example from the documentation on the mediawiki wiki, I'm able to insert content into the page. But that content is escaped if it includes XML and I have no idea from the API doc how to include something less basic than mere text (or than a given template, since the example actually shows how to do that).
What I'm actually getting at is this: would someone with good knowledge of the API and some good old patience be willing to "tutor" me by giving pointers where I need them ?
My first technical question would be this: I understand that my gadget can register a ve.ui.Command, that will in turn call a method on an ve.ui.Action object. I guess I should stick to the ContentAction one. But I'm not sure what the "content" parameter should contain if given an array. Is there, somewhere, some documentation I can read on this?
Thanks a bunch for any help.
Regards,
--
Alain Perry
Hi Community Metrics team,
This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail.
Accounts created in (2019-09): 307
Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2019-09): 1026
Task authors in (2019-09): 578
Users who have closed tasks in (2019-09): 304
Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on
their workboard in (2019-09): 315
Tasks created in (2019-09): 2543
Tasks closed in (2019-09): 2058
Open and stalled tasks in total: 42893
Median age in days of open tasks by priority:
Unbreak now: 13
Needs Triage: 522
High: 978
Normal: 1158
Low: 1581
Lowest: 1561
(How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority)
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TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as
described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 .
Yours sincerely,
Fab Rick Aytor
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