http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/245 <pre>Hello all, The MediaWiki release management Request for Proposals (RFP)[0] open submission period has now ended[1], now on to the fun part, feedback! = The Submissions = We have two great submissions: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_Management_RFP/NicheWork_and_Hallo_Welt! and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_Management_RFP/EIJL = Feedback / Review = Now begins the two weeks of community feedback. Please review and leave questions/comments on the submissions. Your feedback is what will make this RFP process successful. On each submission there is space at the bottom for you to ask questions/provide feedback publicly, or you can use the Talk: page. Addtionally: You can provide private feedback directly to either myself or Robla (robla&lt; at &gt;wikimedia.org) if desired. = Office Hours = Next week we will have a IRC "office hour" with myself and Rob Lanphier and the parties who submitted proposals. This is a time for anyone/everyone to ask questions in real time from both the RFP submitters and of</pre> Greg Grossmeier 2013-06-13T17:16:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/241 <pre>I thought readers of this list might be interested in the "Wiki spam. Stronger fightback." and "Case Study: Skinning Media Wiki" threads this month on the mediawiki-l list: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2013-May/thread.html </pre> Sumana Harihareswara 2013-05-30T18:30:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/240 <pre> 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.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.1.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.2</pre> Mark A. Hershberger 2013-05-29T17:13:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/239 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm happy to announce the availability of the first stable release of the new MediaWiki 1.21 release series. MediaWiki 1.21 is a large release that contains many new features and bug fixes. This is a summary of the major changes of interest to users. You can consult the RELEASE-NOTES-1.21 file for the full list of changes in this version. Our thanks go to everyone who helped to improve MediaWiki by testing the beta release and submitting bug reports. == What's new? == MediaWiki 1.21 includes all changes released in the smaller, bi-weekly "1.21wmfX" software deployments to Wikimedia sites. === Clearer email notifications === Bug 14901 ? Email notification mistakes log action for new page creation, the third most reported open MediaWiki bug, has been fixed. Consequently, notifications now state clearly what action was performed on the watched pages in case they are created, deleted, restored, moved or changed. There are still some known issues. If you custo</pre> Mark A. Hershberger 2013-05-25T15:20:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/236 <pre>Hello all, I'm excited to share that we just opened an RFP for the Release Management of MediaWiki! More information below. The announcement blog post: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/21/request-for-proposals-mediawiki-release-management/ The RFP (PDF): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/RFP-MediaWikiReleaseManagement.pdf The central MediaWiki.org wiki page where proposals will be submitted and reviewed: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_Management_RFP Let me and/or Rob Lanphier (robla&lt; at &gt;wikimedia.org) know if you have any questions. Best, Greg </pre> Greg Grossmeier 2013-05-21T17:54:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/235 <pre>I have to delay the release of MediaWiki 1.21 again because of a logistics problem. I am used to hearing logistics in the context of shipping physical objects -- in the American trucking industry, for example -- so I can't help but feel a little strange saying "logistics". I had to go look up the term and found this definition: The detailed coordination of a complex operation involving many people, facilities, or supplies. That is about right. I apologize for the confusion. </pre> Mark A. Hershberger 2013-05-18T15:24:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/232 <pre>The final release candidate for MediaWiki 1.21 (rc5) is available for download. See the end of this email for details. There are a number of bug fixes in this release that were not in rc4. Please test this version and report any problems. Barring any show-stoppers, the final release will be on May 15 will be the same as this with just a change to the version number and updated release notes. Changes since rc4: * Changes to JS/JSON value encoding were backed out. * API: Fix parameter validation in setnotificationtimestamp commit 18eb39ecb5b89518c3d4a6cc79834a2c121477ff Author: Brad Jorsch &lt;bjorsch&lt; at &gt;wikimedia.org&gt; Date: Fri Mar 15 14:03:19 2013 -0400 * (bug 47271) $wgContentHandlerUseDB should be set to false during the upgrade * (bug 47489) Installer now automatically selects the next-best database type if the PHP mysql extension is not loaded, preventing fatal errors in some cases. * (bug 47202) wikibits: FF2Fixes.css should not be loaded in Firefox 20. * (bug 46590) 'AbortChangePassword' hook added</pre> Mark A. Hershberger 2013-05-13T19:12:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/231 <pre>This is RC4 for 1.21.0 due to be released on May 15, 2013. The patches included since RC3 are after the download instructions. While testing this release candidate, I discovered a bug in the installer (Bug #47489) which I would like to get fixed before a final release. I've changed the list of bugs I would like to see fixed in the next couple of weeks before release to 3 installer-only bugs: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=47489%2C46802%2C43817 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/43817 Include short descriptions for extensions bundled in the release https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/46802 Enabling extensions during install process displays empty readonly textbox on status page https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/47489 white screen after no db selection I'll take a stab at these, but I appreciate any help you guys can give. Full release notes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21 ********************************************************************** Download: http:</pre> Mark A. Hershberger 2013-04-22T16:37:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/229 <pre>Hi! Have you seen wikiapiary project? [1] Personally I'm fascinated by the statistics of the extensions, and skins. For example here is the stats for Semantic MediaWiki: http://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Extension:Semantic%20MediaWiki You can see the website where the extension is installed and the version information. Wikiapiary is quite new and I think is open to ideas. For example I think it would be nice to allow people to judge the extensions by several criteria. Maybe also add some code statistics will also be useful. Please post your ideas here. [1] http://wikiapiary.com ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-enterprise mailing list Mediawiki-enterprise&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-enterprise </pre> Yury Katkov 2013-04-17T16:36:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/228 <pre>It is time again for a new MediaWiki release candidate. Download links at the end of this email. Note that I've include a "core-only" tarball this week as well. Since last week, the following fixes were included in the tarball: * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/58418/ backport changes in Collation from master * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/58462/ Cleared ResourceLoader blob store after update.php finishes. * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59102/ PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function isLocal() on non-object in Title.php * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59265/ Combine JavaScript and JSON encoding logic * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59328/ Fix pretty JSON when strings end with backslashes * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59329/ FormatJson: microoptimizations for UTF8_OK mode Fixes in queue: * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59369/ Disable $wgContentHandlerUseDB during upgrade where fields don't exist. * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59375/ Sanitiz</pre> Mark A. Hershberger 2013-04-16T16:32:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/227 <pre>Hi everyone! Is there a way to configure email notifications and emails so that the users of the wiki receive emails in html format? Or in text format without wiki-markup. I haven't found any extension that can do that. Cheers, ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-enterprise mailing list Mediawiki-enterprise&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-enterprise </pre> Yury Katkov 2013-04-14T18:04:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/226 <pre>Hi, There is a Request for proposals / Statement of work for vendors interested in being involved in the development of this project: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Wikitech_contributors We are still discussing the proposal in the community, but in any case we need a better idea of the resources and budget needed. If you have any questions please contact me. By the way, the proposal might be interesting for other wikis with a community of contributors. Your feedback in the wiki page e.g. based on your own projects or your needs is welcome as well. </pre> Quim Gil 2013-04-04T05:05:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/222 <pre>Hi guys! How do you deal with recent changes, notifications and history in MediaWiki? Maybe anyone knows or develops the extensions that make those things more flexible? For example we've tried to simplify the recent changes page leaving only the very nessesary things there and hiding the changes made by our moderators and admins: http://i.imgur.com/oN1QYCI.png We've also experimented with Semantic Watchlist extension: if you have Semantic MediaWiki installed it allows you to see what property values have been modified. The last feature is the visual diff tool: I can say that sometimes it's very helpful but when we're talking about formatting differences the traditional two-side diff in better. ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-enterprise mailing list Mediawiki-enterprise&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-enterprise </pre> Yury Katkov 2013-04-03T06:54:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/221 <pre>Hi, As I've googled around a bit on the subject of a Rich Editor for MediaWiki, I can see that there has been some discussion on this subject already. Just let me quickly fill you in on my approach: I work as a Linux sys admin and have been administrating a fairly large MediaWiki server on the company Intranet for a while now. Recently there has been *a lot* of internal discussion abut the availability of a Rich Editor as the WYSIWYG extension became incompatible after upgrading from MediaWiki 1.17.x to 1.19.x. Also, despite my adamant suggestions WikiEditor gets little or no internal approval. By the way; no need to dive into a discussion about why we upgraded despite knowing that the WYSIWYG extension would not work. I'm now trying to get internal support for putting up money to pay a skillful programmer to finish whatever needs to be done to get a Rich Editor out into a stable state for a given MediaWiki release. So here are my questions to you: * What is the state of Rich Editor extensions for MediaW</pre> Johan Ramm-Ericson 2013-04-02T20:31:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/218 <pre>I've just finished preparing the first release candidate for MediaWiki 1.21 and I'd like your help testing it before the final release. Please download the release candidate and test it. If you find any bugs please report them on Bugzilla[1] and make sure I am added as a CC so that we can fix any show-stoppers before the final release. Finally, if you could also look over https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21, I'll be using an edited version of that to make the final announcement. If you spot problems or areas that could use clarification, your help in improving it would be appreciated. [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki&amp;cc=mah&lt; at &gt;everybody.org&amp;version=1.21-git Full release notes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21 ********************************************************************** Download: http://mah.everybody.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc1.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.20.0), without interface text: http://mah.everybody.org/medi</pre> Mark A. Hershberger 2013-03-31T23:49:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/212 <pre>Dear all, this afternoon I was reading about the coming Flow extension. That's really great work. And I can't wait to work with it. And there are so many other interesting projects: Visual Editor, Parsoid, Athena skin, Echo, Lua, Wiki Data and so on. Despite of that MediaWiki you can see at Google Trends, that MediaWiki is still loosing attention. And in my opinion people just don't know, that MediaWiki is catching up. And they don't know, that it needs help. But this is important for all of us, that developers see, that MediaWiki is no longer a software of the "zero" years. So I suggest to publish more blog articles and social media posts about this new developments and if somebody has something nice to read, to discuss or to share gives a hint, so that the others can spread the news in their community. Best regards, Richard Dr. Richard Heigl Strategieberatung Hallo Welt! - Medienwerkstatt GmbH __________________________________ Residenzstraße 2 93047 Regensburg Tel. +49</pre> Richard Heigl 2013-03-29T16:54:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/211 <pre>I'm at SMWCon right now http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2013 and Mike Cariaso is right now presenting his work on "Automating SMW install and data loading." http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2013/Automating_SMW_install_and_data_loading I bet a lot of the administrators on mediawiki-l and mediawiki-enterprise would be interested in reusing his work to automate their MediaWiki installation work. I think you'll be interested in this and in some other SMWCon presentations today -- you can watch live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/13510010 and read Cariaso's slides at https://tinyurl.com/smw-nyc2013 (also https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1L-DC4VWtjokLvfip2oQ4k7u3lwdBbXI-1WBa85HCV6s/ ). </pre> Sumana Harihareswara 2013-03-22T15:19:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/209 <pre>Hi guys! We have about 30 extensions in our platform and we really try hard not to modify MediaWiki and the extensions that weren't made by us. Unfortunately sometimes we have to modify them and even more regretfully we don't send the patches to vendors immediately. The result is obvious and sad - the vendors continue to develop their extensions and at one inevitable moment we have to deal with upgrading and merging. :-( We're using git to store all the code and it doesn't allow the nested .git directories to be presented in the same project. How do you deal with that? Do you use git submodules, separate repositories for the patched extensions or some fancy policy and documentation? ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-enterprise mailing list Mediawiki-enterprise&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-enterprise </pre> Yury Katkov 2013-03-12T13:33:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/208 <pre>This year, consider speaking at Open Source Bridge &lt;http://opensourcebridge.org/&gt; in Portland, Oregon, USA, June 18-21. OSB is tech talks &amp; hack sessions with hands-on technologists we want, for Foundation staff recruiting and for volunteer recruiting and collaboration. Good talks, clueful people, great food. :-) If you submit a talk and it gets accepted, you can request subsidy from Wikimedia Foundation &lt;https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Support&gt; for your travel and hotel. Call for talks: &lt;http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2013/03/were-extending-our-call-for-proposals/&gt; They especially encourage inexperienced speakers. We already have proposals from or featuring Brandon Harris, Andre Klapper, Trevor &amp; Roan, me, Priyanka Nag, Quim Gil, Alolita Sharma, and Noopur Raval. Please forward. </pre> Sumana Harihareswara 2013-03-11T20:50:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/197 <pre>*Hi everybody, Richard Heigl and Markus Glaser from Hallo Welt! presented their MediaWiki-based enterprise distribution BlueSpice&lt;http://www.blue-spice.org/&gt;yesterday. Around 6-7 people attended the online meeting, but I believe some of those who were unable to will be interested in the cool features Richard and Markus showed us, so I am sharing a summary below. Please read on :) BlueSpice was developed over the last 6 years. It is installed on top of vanilla MediaWiki and offers a bundle of extensions, some MediaWiki-native and some proprietary to BlueSpice. Customers get assurance of the compatibility of the bundle with given MediaWiki versions as well as a roadmap of future releases. The basic BlueSpice distribution comes for free, while support, training, special packages, etc. are paid for. Hallo Welt! are planning to move to Git in the next few months and open up BlueSpice to the MediaWiki community. The code is currently available for anyone to look at and reuse. However, If you want to submit a p</pre> Maria Miteva 2013-02-27T13:00:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise/192 <pre>Support for DB2 is in MediaWiki, but it is pretty much unmaintained. Is there anyone on this mailing list who is using it for their MediaWiki installation? It seems like a good candidate to drop from support. </pre> Mark A. Hershberger 2013-02-25T15:50:24 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.enterprise