Wikitech-l April 2014

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Missing Section Headings
by Marc Riddell 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

Hello, I have been a WP editor since 2006. I hope you can help me. For some reason I no longer have Section Heading titles showing in the Articles. This is true of all Headings including the one that carries the Article subject's name. When there is a Table of Contents, it appears fine and, when I click on a particular Section, it goes to that Section, but all that is there is a straight line separating the Sections. There is also no button to edit a Section. If I edit the page and remove the "== ==" markers from the Section Titles, the Title then shows up, but not as a Section Heading. Also, I don't have any Date separators on my Want List. This started 2 days ago. Any thoughts? Thanks, Marc Riddell [[User:Michael David]]

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How to make commits from mirrored Wikimedia repos show up on your GitHub profile
by Bartosz Dziewoński 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

I know it has been annoying a couple of people other than me, so now that I've learned how to make it work I'll share the knowledge here. tl;dr: Star the repositories. No, seriously. (And yes, you need to star each extension repo separately.) (Is there a place on mw.org to put this tidbit on?) ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Brian Levine" <support(a)github.com> (GitHub Staff) To: matma.rex(a)gmail.com Cc: Subject: Re: Commits in mirrored repositories not showing up on my profile Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:47:19 +0200 Hi Bartosz In order to link your commits to your GitHub account, you need to have some association with the repository other than authoring the commit. Usually, having push access gives you that connection. In this case, you don't have push permission, so we don't link you to the commit. The easy solution here is for you to star the repository. If you star it - along with the other repositories that are giving you this problem - we'll see that you're connected to the repository and you'll get contribution credit for those commits. Cheers Brian -- Matma Rex

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New RFC: better JS minification
by Max Semenik 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

Hi, I'd like to present a new RFC for your consideration: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Minifier It is about how we can shave 10-15% off the size if JavaScript delivered to users. Your comments are highly welcome!:) -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug in the Wikipedia main web page
by Sukyoung Ryu 25 May '15

25 May '15

Thank you for the quick fix! Best, -- Sukyoung On Jan 29, 2014, at 9:55 AM, Nathan wrote: > FYI in case you aren't subscribed to the list. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Yair Rand <yyairrand(a)gmail.com> > Date: Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:25 PM > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug in the Wikipedia main web page > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > > Thank you for pointing out this bug. Your suggested change to > MediaWiki:Gadget-wm-portal.js has been implemented by Meta-Wiki > administrator User:PiRSquared17. > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Sukyoung Ryu <sukyoung.ryu(a)gmail.com>wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > We are researchers at KAIST in Korea working on finding JavaScript bugs in > > web pages. While analyzing top websites from Alexa.com, we found an issue, > > which seems to be a bug, on the Wikipedia main web page (wikipedia.org). > > We would be grateful if you can either confirm that it is a bug and even > > better fix it or let us know what we're missing. > > > > Here's the issue. When a user selects a language in which search results > > are displayed via the language selection button from the Wikipedia main web > > page, the following JavaScript function is executed: > > > > 1 function setLang(lang) { > > 2 var uiLang = navigator.language || navigator.userLanguage, date > > = new Date(); > > 3 > > 4 if (uiLang.match(/^\w+/) === lang) { > > 5 date.setTime(date.getTime() - 1); > > 6 } else { > > 7 date.setFullYear(date.getFullYear() + 1); > > 8 } > > 9 > > 10 document.cookie = "searchLang=" + lang + ";expires=" + > > date.toUTCString() + ";domain=" + location.host + ";"; > > 11 } > > > > Depending on the evaluation result of the conditional expression on line > > 4, "uiLang.match(/^\w+/) === lang", the function leaves or dose not leave > > the selected language information on the user's computer through a cookie. > > But we found that the expression, "uiLang.match(/^\w+/) === lang", always > > evaluates to false, which results in that the function always leaves > > cookies on users' computers. We think that changing the contidional > > expression, "uiLang.match(/^\w+/) === lang", to the expression, > > "uiLang.match(/^\w+/) == lang", will solve the problem. > > > > This problem may occur in the main web pages of all the Wikimedia sites. > > Could you kindly let us know what you think? Thank you in advance. > > > > Best, > > Changhee Park and Sukyoung Ryu > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >

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People with knowledge of English swear words needed :o
by Petr Bena 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Are you good in swearing? WE NEED YOU Huggle 3 comes with vandalism-prediction as it is precaching the diffs even before they are enqueued including their contents. Each edit has so called "score" which is a numerical value that if higher, the edit is more likely a vandalism. If you want to help us improve this feature, it is necessary to define a "score words" list for every wiki where huggle is about to be used, for example on English wiki. Each list has following syntax: (see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Huggle/Config&diff=573…) score-words(score): list of words separated by comma, can contain newlines but comma must be present example score-words(200): these, are, some, words, which, presence, of, increases, the, score, each, word, by, 200, So, if you know english better than me, which you likely do, go ahead and improve the configuration file there, no worries, huggle's config parser is very syntax-error proof. If you have any other suggestion how to improve huggle's prediction, go ahead and tell us!

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Feedback for mediawiki api development course on codecademy.
by Diwanshi Pandey 26 Jul '14

26 Jul '14

Hello everyone, I am Diwanshi Pandey, an OPW intern. I'd like to have your feedback on the course I have created on codecademy for mediawiki api with help of my mentor Yuri Astrakhan. A little insight: The course is about parsing and querying mediawiki api. Initially we created one course which included 44 exercises but according to codecademy's guidelines their course are for beginners and should have maximum 30 exercises in one course. So we did a split up into two courses: One is Introduction to Wikipedia API<http://www.codecademy.com/courses/web-beginner-en-vj9nh/0/1>and other is Wikipedia:Query API <http://www.codecademy.com/courses/web-beginner-en-yd3lp/0/1>. Also due to api security and restrictions we couldn't implement tutorial on "editing wiki pages through api call" from a non wiki site yet. We are waiting till we find a good and easy way to demo that. Feedback may include: * Are the exercises easy to understand for novice users/developers? * Are changes needed in the look of exercises? * Are there any exercises which need not to be implemented or in too depth? * Any other thing? Thanks, -- *Regards,* *Diwanshi Pandey*

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Notes from Architecture Summit (and call for wiki gnome help)
by Rob Lanphier 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

Hi everyone, A big thank you to everyone who participated in the Architecture Summit this year! We covered a lot of ground this year, and collectively learned a lot about how to put these things together. A lot of our work from this summit on this is only just beginning. Speaking of that, just the act of processing the notes is going to be the first step. MatmaRex and Legoktm pulled together a concise list of the etherpads here, which I've annotated with the corresponding agenda pages: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Summit_2014/Retrospective#Notes… Our next course of action is to get all of these copied to mediawiki.org to the agenda pages, so that we have a record of each session that will outlive Etherpad's temporary storage. I've done a little bit (the Architecture value, process, and guidelines discussion), but I'd love help from others on both getting it all copied in place, and wikifying it. Any takers? Those of you that couldn't make it, I'd encourage you to read through the notes We'll be discussing a lot of this over the coming days, so it'll be useful context to bring you up to speed on these things. Rob

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Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
by Fred Bauder 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

I have a log of what happens on when the commands: sudo apt-get install mediawiki2latex mediawiki2latex -u https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Ries -o AdamRies.pdf are entered on the command line of ubuntu (13.10) Better than TV... Happy to send it to anyone. Fred

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Minding pull-requests on GitHub
by Ori Livneh 11 Jul '14

11 Jul '14

I just stumbled across <https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/pull/19>, a small but useful contribution to core from an HHVM developer. It has gone unnoticed for two months, which is a bit sad. Is there a way to accept pull-requests from GitHub? According to < https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/settings/hooks> (may not be visible to non-Wikimedians, sorry), the WebHook receiver < http://tools.wmflabs.org/suchaserver/cgi-bin/receiver.py> is defunct. Anyone know the story there? It'd be good if some additional people were watching (that is, receiving notifications for) <https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/>. I haven't responded yet, by the way, so feel free to if you know the answers to these questions. I don't know what effect accepting the pull-request will have on the code in master, and telling someone who has already submitted a patch to go sign up for Gerrit seems impolite. Ori

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RfC review this week: Associated namespaces
by Sumana Harihareswara 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

Micru's Associated namespaces RfC is up for discussion this week. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-04-23 (We also have room for 1 more RfC to discuss.) Micru said about https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Associated_namespaces : > The intended outcome would be: > 1) find out if there is any objection against the "Namespace registry and > association handlers" that Mark proposed > 2) discuss possible problems with this approach > 3) see if there would be any hands available to work on it; it is a > delicate topic that might need someone with a deep understanding of MediaWiki Micru also noted that we've had a previous suggestion for a namespace manager https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Namespace_manager . > AFIK, it never materialized because back then there was not such a great > need as there is now - or at least the current use cases didn't exist back > then. > I hope this RFC moves forward because it affects important upcoming and > already deployed projects (Commons migration, templates, Visual editor, WD, > etc). Come to #wikimedia-office at 2100 UTC this Wednesday http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=2950159,2147714,5391959,100&h=29501… or reply/comment with your comments/suggestions. 2300 Berlin 5pm New York 2pm California 7am Sydney -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation

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