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<title>Oren Bochman&amp;#039;s work on search, Lucene, and transducing</title>
<description>http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitext-l/2012-February/000580.html has more details. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator</description>
<pubDate>12 Feb  2012 16:44:57 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/271211</link>
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<title>Upcoming deployment of MediaWiki 1.19 to Wikimedia sites.</title>
<description>Greetings, The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki, the software powering Wikipedia and its sister sites, to its latest version. T</description>
<pubDate>12 Feb  2012 05:37:59 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/271127</link>
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<title>PHP 5.3 policies</title>
<description>Hey, I&amp;#039;m wondering about two things: * When will we finally drop 5.2.x support? * Can we have isolated components in core that require 5.3? It&amp;#039;s be</description>
<pubDate>12 Feb  2012 05:34:53 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/271126</link>
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<title>SVN slow ??? &amp;quot;Warning: post-commit hook failed (exit code 8) with no output.&amp;quot;</title>
<description>Committing takes very long then &amp;quot;Warning: post-commit hook failed (exit code 8) with no output.&amp;quot; Something changed today ?</description>
<pubDate>12 Feb  2012 01:15:32 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/271109</link>
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<title>RFC Complete Rewrite of Mobile Frontend &amp;amp; Rename MobileFrontend2</title>
<description>John DuHart has embarked on a complete rewrite of the current Mobile Frontend extension, and has decided to name it &amp;#039;MobileFrontend2&amp;#039;. While we would</description>
<pubDate>11 Feb  2012 23:58:16 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/271107</link>
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<title>new extension in SVN: EtherpadLite</title>
<description>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EtherpadLite</description>
<pubDate>11 Feb  2012 13:38:05 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/271081</link>
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<title>&amp;quot;backcompat&amp;quot; keyword</title>
<description>Hi everyone, After Niklas mentioned in another thread that the i18n team was effectively ignoring the code slush, I decided to do some spot checking</description>
<pubDate>11 Feb  2012 11:38:15 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/271071</link>
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<title>We&amp;#039;re still in a code slush (Re: How to avoid a post-branch code slush)</title>
<description>Hi everyone, I probably mistitled my last message in the &amp;quot;How to avoid a post-branch code slush&amp;quot; thread. There seems to be a misconception that the</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 23:05:36 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/271021</link>
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<title>Save the date: Wikimedia &amp;amp; MediaWiki hackathon in Berlin, 1-3 June 2012</title>
<description>I invite you to the yearly Berlin hackathon. This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical community. We&amp;#039;ll be hacking, design</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 10:30:32 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270965</link>
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<title>Common photo management plugins for MediaWiki</title>
<description>Hey Devs, I&amp;#039;m Lakmal ,a final year undergraduate in University of Moratuwa ,Sri Lanka who is interested about participating in GSoc 2012 summer progr</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 10:01:07 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270938</link>
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<title>Regarding GSoC 2012</title>
<description>Hello everyone, I am Aashish Mittal, a final year student from Mumbai University, India. I aim to take part in GSoC 2012 with Mediawiki and wish to g</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 09:54:43 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270937</link>
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<title>MobileFrontend &amp;amp; John Du Hart&amp;#039;s rewrite</title>
<description>John, Patrick, and anyone else who is interested in the MobileFrontend extension: John Du Hart is working on a rewrite, aiming to make it less Wikime</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 09:53:20 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270936</link>
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<title>Opening up an internal wiki - login maintenance without a mail server.</title>
<description>I have been working with internal wikis for a while. We have several wikis that we edit within our company then give the wiki to the client. The cli</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 09:00:52 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270933</link>
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<title>Logging &amp;amp; messages</title>
<description>I was trying to use this old extension: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserLoginLog to log login attempts. It used $wgMessageCache; therefor</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 07:32:39 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270916</link>
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<title>Phabricator</title>
<description>Unless you&amp;#039;ve been living under a rock (If you have, how&amp;#039;s the wifi under there?) we&amp;#039;re moving to git soon. Along with this will come a change in how</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 20:08:30 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270867</link>
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<title>DBDataObject class</title>
<description>Hey all, Over the last few extensions I&amp;#039;ve been creating I got annoyed at having to create certain database interaction code over and over again and</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 06:38:45 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270714</link>
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<title>How to avoid a post-branch code slush (Re: Branch 1.19 on Tuesday, February 6?)</title>
<description>On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Petr Bena &amp;lt;benapetr@gmail.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; Hi, is there any update on branching? Thank you Sam will be doing it soon. A</description>
<pubDate>08 Feb  2012 12:17:22 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270571</link>
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<title>Proposed removal of some API output formats</title>
<description>Hi, this idea had floated around for quite some time, but now that bug 34257[1] was added to the long list of problems, I would like to step up and st</description>
<pubDate>08 Feb  2012 11:31:37 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270569</link>
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<title>Toolserver quota</title>
<description>In December I wrote a cron job on the German toolserver, to collect statistics on external links. It works fine, but to be useful I must collect data</description>
<pubDate>08 Feb  2012 06:08:39 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270534</link>
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<title>Wikimedia engineering report for January 2012</title>
<description>Hi, The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in January 2012 is now available. Wiki version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_en</description>
<pubDate>08 Feb  2012 03:53:11 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270526</link>
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<title>New committer: Chris McMahon (cmcmahon)</title>
<description>Hi everyone, Chris McMahon (cmcmahon) is our latest addition to the committer list. Rob On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Rob Lanphier &amp;lt;robla@wikim</description>
<pubDate>07 Feb  2012 14:06:44 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270472</link>
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<title>1.19 Deployment blocker triage</title>
<description>What: 1.19 Deployment blocker triage   When: Wednesday, February 8, 13:00 UTC      Time zone conversion: http://hexm.de/ej   Where: #wik</description>
<pubDate>07 Feb  2012 11:38:34 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270452</link>
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<title>Language templates missing from Mediawiki dumps</title>
<description>Hi Mediawiki users, I have experienced a repeatable problem in which after importing a mediawiki database dump, I need to Export the language templat</description>
<pubDate>07 Feb  2012 08:51:01 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270439</link>
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<title>&amp;quot;Baglama&amp;quot; statistics/metrics/analytics now shinier</title>
<description>Magnus Manske just sent this message to another list and I thought you&amp;#039;d want to know. Baglama is a tool to &amp;quot;View counts for pages using Commons imag</description>
<pubDate>06 Feb  2012 16:57:24 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270369</link>
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<title>20 percent time standups prior to 1.19</title>
<description>Hi everyone, This mail is primarily directed toward Wikimedia Foundation employees, but isn&amp;#039;t private, so I&amp;#039;m directing it here. As many of you know</description>
<pubDate>06 Feb  2012 15:37:39 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270360</link>
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<title>Status of Instant Archive Project for Wikipedia</title>
<description>Hey, I know itâ€™s been a while since we last talked. Iâ€™m currently working on jump starting the ArchiveLinks project over on the Wikimedia Foundat</description>
<pubDate>06 Feb  2012 08:08:30 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270297</link>
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<title>Hook after article parsed to change page output?</title>
<description>Is there any hook for extensions that is called after the article is loaded and the parser functions in the article are run and with which I can mod</description>
<pubDate>05 Feb  2012 05:42:53 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270246</link>
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<title>Discussion: MW + Suhosin extension: run-time adaption of $wgResourceLoaderMaxQueryLength</title>
<description>Hi all, I discussed with Platonides and the Suhosin author an automatic MediaWiki run-time adaption of $wgResourceLoaderMaxQueryLength [1-3].  Curr</description>
<pubDate>05 Feb  2012 00:55:17 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270230</link>
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<title>Picture of the Year contest extension</title>
<description>Hi, It&amp;#039;s likely many of you have heard of or even participated in the Picture of the Year contest. Every year, the Wikimedia community votes for a pi</description>
<pubDate>04 Feb  2012 15:32:29 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270223</link>
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<title>Info only: MediaWiki, PHP and the Suhosin patch and extension (new manual page on MediaWiki)</title>
<description>I added a new page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Suhosin_%28Hardened-PHP_Project_patch_and_extension%29 and linked this on https://www.mediaw</description>
<pubDate>04 Feb  2012 11:24:27 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270202</link>
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<title>Branch 1.19 on Tuesday, February 6?</title>
<description>Hi everyone, We&amp;#039;re hitting the home stretch. Check this out: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19/Revision_report Summary: 27 unreviewed (&amp;quot;</description>
<pubDate>03 Feb  2012 16:07:11 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270166</link>
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<title>PHP security information: Critical PHP vulnerability being fixed. Upgrade certain versions !</title>
<description>The critical security update addresses the remote code execution vulnerability reported by Esser. The developers strongly advise all users to upgrade</description>
<pubDate>03 Feb  2012 12:03:41 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270147</link>
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<title>1.19 blocker bugs</title>
<description>Code Review for MediaWiki 1.19 is moving along quite well. We&amp;#039;re down to 26 NEW items and 14 FIXMEs according to &amp;lt;https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Medi</description>
<pubDate>03 Feb  2012 11:13:55 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270146</link>
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<title>San Francisco Hackathon: Tutorial/showcase videos</title>
<description>Thanks to Victor Grigas and Matthew Roth we&amp;#039;ve got excellent video and photo documentation of our San Francisco Hackathon. We felt it important to cap</description>
<pubDate>02 Feb  2012 14:44:19 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/270087</link>
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<title>Blocks by hidden admins</title>
<description>Hi folks, I am new to this list but I have spent more than 5 years on Hungarian Wikipedia. Please visit https://hu.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=qu</description>
<pubDate>02 Feb  2012 04:02:36 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269998</link>
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<title>Please look at 1.19 blocker bugs</title>
<description>Please take time to check out the bugs that we&amp;#039;ve tagged as blocking the 1.19 deployment and see if you can fix them: http://hexm.de/ee I&amp;#039;m especiall</description>
<pubDate>01 Feb  2012 19:35:03 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269978</link>
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<title>Git migration - updated schedule &amp;amp; workflow descriptions</title>
<description>I talked with Chad today and together we redid: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Conversion - the schedule f</description>
<pubDate>01 Feb  2012 14:30:01 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269950</link>
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<title>Production configs (to ops)</title>
<description>Hi folks, I requested a configuration file for squid weeks ago, but it seems to be a bit complicated to remove confidential data from it. I suppose w</description>
<pubDate>01 Feb  2012 06:59:17 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269835</link>
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<title>Recommended way to register resources for skins</title>
<description>Hi all, I&amp;#039;ve created a copy of the Vector skin. What is the recommended way to register resources (for the resource loader) for a custom skin? Vecto</description>
<pubDate>31 Jan  2012 20:51:29 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269777</link>
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<title>New committers</title>
<description>Two new committers to the Wikimedia Subversion repository: Christian Williams (christian, User:BladeBronson) now has extensions access. He is curren</description>
<pubDate>31 Jan  2012 17:16:45 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269758</link>
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<title>Deploying Swift for thumbnails next Mon-Thurs Feb 6-9</title>
<description>Hi Everyone, Next week we&amp;#039;re going to switch the back end system that hosts thumbnail[1] images. We have been using ms5&amp;lt;http://ganglia.wikimedia.org</description>
<pubDate>31 Jan  2012 11:43:49 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269709</link>
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<title>Welcome Chris McMahon, QA Lead at Wikimedia Foundation</title>
<description>Hi everyone, I&#039;d like to welcome Chris McMahon to the Platform Engineering team as our new QA Lead. Chris has a long history working in software tes</description>
<pubDate>31 Jan  2012 10:02:18 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269694</link>
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<title>ArticleEmblems is back</title>
<description>Hi, as some of you may already noticed, I&amp;#039;ve resurrected Trevor&amp;#039;s creation of old - ArticleEmblems that allows to add icons to the right of the area b</description>
<pubDate>31 Jan  2012 09:18:22 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269692</link>
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<title>Arbitrary data structures via API</title>
<description>Is it supposed to be possible to transmit arbitrary nested data structures in the API? Or do the format serializers make some assumptions that limit w</description>
<pubDate>31 Jan  2012 08:01:01 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269665</link>
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<title>JavaScript profiling</title>
<description>Hi all, I am trying to profile the JavaScript bit of an extension I maintain. Is there any recommended method similar to wfProfileIn/Out in MediaWiki</description>
<pubDate>31 Jan  2012 05:18:00 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269646</link>
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<title>User email addresses and caching?</title>
<description>I am seeing some strange behavior regarding a wiki user&amp;#039;s email address. When I set it to the empty string, either via PHP or MySQL, MediaWiki still s</description>
<pubDate>30 Jan  2012 12:36:43 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269581</link>
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<title>Announcing Howie Fung as Director of Product Development</title>
<description>Hello all, It&#039;s with great pleasure that I announce the promotion of Howie Fung to the position of Director of Product Development at the Wikimedia F</description>
<pubDate>30 Jan  2012 10:06:47 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269546</link>
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<title>Some questions about #switch</title>
<description>I&amp;#039;m using more and more #switch into templates, it&amp;#039;s surprising how many issues it can solve, and how much large arrays it can manage. My questions a</description>
<pubDate>30 Jan  2012 06:11:27 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269519</link>
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<title>Impediments to forking</title>
<description>Hi. Is there a list of (current) impediments to forking a Wikimedia wiki? Image access, available dumps, replicating parser, replicating user table,</description>
<pubDate>29 Jan  2012 13:48:58 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269482</link>
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<title>Hijacking a namespace</title>
<description>Hey, The Education Program extension I am writing has management interfaces for courses. These are implemented as special pages: * Special:Course/$n</description>
<pubDate>28 Jan  2012 23:56:33 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269439</link>
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<title>Reviewers: great work today!</title>
<description>Hi folks, With everything that&amp;#039;s been going on in WMF land (SOPA + SF Hackathon), our code review work has been falling behind. Thankfully, we&amp;#039;ve ha</description>
<pubDate>27 Jan  2012 17:28:25 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269393</link>
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<title>Getting the value of a variable defined in LocalSettings.php</title>
<description>Is there a way to look up the value of a variable defined in the &amp;#039;LocalSettings.php&amp;#039; file ? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l</description>
<pubDate>27 Jan  2012 12:22:08 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269355</link>
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<title>One-time run of maintenance scripts to fix years-old utter brokeness</title>
<description>There are several maintenance scripts waiting to be run on many wikis since years ago: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=2978</description>
<pubDate>27 Jan  2012 02:45:19 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269285</link>
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<title>Pushing code review to 1.19</title>
<description>I&amp;#039;ve been distracted with the set up of the 1.19 Beta project so I haven&amp;#039;t had a lot of attention to give to code review. And code review has stagnat</description>
<pubDate>26 Jan  2012 19:34:23 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269256</link>
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<title>Moving forward with Lua</title>
<description>Hi folks, As you may know, WMF&amp;#039;s Platform Engineering group plans to embark on a major performance initiative this year, and had chosen inline script</description>
<pubDate>26 Jan  2012 17:44:30 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269254</link>
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<title>Private methods in API module(s)</title>
<description>I am working on an extension and would like to add some functionality to the &amp;#039;usercontribs&amp;#039; api module (api/ApiQueryUserContributions.) I cannot subcl</description>
<pubDate>26 Jan  2012 14:00:08 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269238</link>
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<title>Magic word for user language?</title>
<description>Does anyone mind if I create a magic word for current user&amp;#039;s language? It will not fragment parser cache further than it is already because we already</description>
<pubDate>26 Jan  2012 13:29:04 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269234</link>
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<title>Please help test MediaWiki 1.19 now - deployments may start in February</title>
<description>The developers of MediaWiki, the software Wikimedia sites run on, are wrapping up work on a new version, with hundreds of improvements and bugfixes.</description>
<pubDate>26 Jan  2012 08:59:47 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269203</link>
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<title>FeaturedFeeds deployed</title>
<description>Yesterday we deployed FeaturedFeeds[1] to the cluster (thanks, Arthur!) Everything looks good so far, examples of feeds: [2], [3]. We haven&amp;#039;t enabled</description>
<pubDate>26 Jan  2012 05:06:16 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269193</link>
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<title>grouping users - an idea for a new SUL improvement</title>
<description>&amp;gt; Does anyone have any stats on how far short we are of that &amp;gt; goal? As in, what fraction of accounts on all wikis are still part &amp;gt; of the &amp;#039;messy&amp;#039;</description>
<pubDate>25 Jan  2012 01:11:41 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/269100</link>
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<title>Qunit tests for extensions</title>
<description>Hi, For javascript unit testing of Mediawiki extensions, qunit can be used and it is documented at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:JavaScript_</description>
<pubDate>24 Jan  2012 04:18:18 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268980</link>
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<title>online labs conference on irc</title>
<description>Hi, Since we have more and more users with access to wikimedia labs, I think it would be great to make online conference on irc to discuss, especiall</description>
<pubDate>24 Jan  2012 02:20:04 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268966</link>
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<title>Re: Decentralized data center (wican: to exclusive)</title>
<description>Hi, If you are interested in radical changes to delivering content, you might want to check out  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-centric_networ</description>
<pubDate>23 Jan  2012 20:50:36 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268954</link>
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<title>Decentralized data center</title>
<description>Hello, this topic is from foundation-l, I think it is more suited on wikitech-l. -------- Message original -------- What about sharing the whole dat</description>
<pubDate>23 Jan  2012 09:38:53 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268870</link>
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<title>Re: [Localisation-team] i18n triage report</title>
<description>Siebrand, Thanks for this very helpful bug triage report and conducting the session last week. Look forward to the next one (next month). Alolita</description>
<pubDate>23 Jan  2012 09:23:30 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268869</link>
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<title>1.19 Blocker Triage</title>
<description>What: 1.19 Deployment Blocker triage   When: 12:00 EST      Time zone conversion: http://hexm.de/ds   Where: #wikimedia-dev on freenode</description>
<pubDate>23 Jan  2012 09:22:16 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268868</link>
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<title>Bypassing the external image whitelist</title>
<description>I&amp;#039;ve found a bit of an issue with our external image embedding whitelisting functionality. This isn&amp;#039;t exactly a hole in the code itself, but in the fa</description>
<pubDate>23 Jan  2012 08:20:49 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268852</link>
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<title>Call for Participation - Wikimania 2012 - deadline March 18th</title>
<description>On 01/20/2012 06:35 PM, aude wrote: &amp;gt; FYI, the Wikimania 2012 call for participation is out! &amp;gt; &amp;gt; We encourage you to submit a talk, a workshop or pan</description>
<pubDate>23 Jan  2012 07:44:25 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268851</link>
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<title>Fwd: Call for Papers - Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge. (29.6.-1.7., Berlin)</title>
<description>Deadline: March 31st. Special shout-out to those of you doing data analytics or visualization -- please take a look and consider submitting a talk.</description>
<pubDate>23 Jan  2012 07:30:29 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268850</link>
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<title>i18n triage report</title>
<description>Please find the report on the latest[1] i18n triage below. The rough notes are on etherpad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-i18n-2012-01. Tha</description>
<pubDate>23 Jan  2012 05:33:06 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268835</link>
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<title>how did spammers spam only some pretty links?</title>
<description>How did the spammers manage to spam only the third file? 17097 http://mapki.com/wiki/Main_Page 17097 http://mapki.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_P</description>
<pubDate>23 Jan  2012 03:16:37 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268824</link>
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<title>3 talks at FOSDEM 2012 by Wikimedia developers</title>
<description>http://fosdem.org/2012/ FOSDEM is 4-5 February in Brussels. Talks include Ryan Lane&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Infrastructure as an open source project&amp;quot;, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjar</description>
<pubDate>22 Jan  2012 09:08:54 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268646</link>
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<title>New committer: abemusic</title>
<description>Abe is working on our nginx udp logging module. Today he fixed a pretty annoying log format issue for us at the hackathon. - Ryan __________________</description>
<pubDate>21 Jan  2012 21:14:51 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268611</link>
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<title>New committer: Thibaut Horel (zaran)</title>
<description>Hi everyone, Please welcome new committer Thibaut Horel (username: zaran), who plans to help maintain the Proofread Page extension. Thibaut is an ac</description>
<pubDate>21 Jan  2012 15:38:39 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268421</link>
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<title>E:OggHandler status info</title>
<description>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OggHandler Status is &amp;quot;beta&amp;quot;. Shouldn&amp;#039;t this be changed to &amp;quot;stable&amp;quot; ?</description>
<pubDate>21 Jan  2012 03:51:45 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268390</link>
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<title>Site Incident report - 1/20/12</title>
<description>All, Earlier today, while fixing some network congestion problem with the bits servers, the varnish servers for bits.wikimedia.org went into an overl</description>
<pubDate>20 Jan  2012 23:29:42 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268387</link>
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<title>MediaWiki 1.19, Resource Loader, Gadgets, and User Scripts</title>
<description>Earlier this week (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-January/057638.html), I wrote about the upcoming 1.19 release and the changes</description>
<pubDate>20 Jan  2012 19:25:26 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268383</link>
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<title>2012 Q1 Extension Page Review Drive</title>
<description>WikiProject Extensions is presenting our first ever &amp;quot;Extension Page Review Drive&amp;quot; - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:WikiProject_Extensions/Proje</description>
<pubDate>20 Jan  2012 19:21:28 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268382</link>
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<title>Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Call for Participation - Wikimania 2012</title>
<description>FYI, the Wikimania 2012 call for participation is out! We encourage you to submit a talk, a workshop or panel session for Wikimania 2012. We have a t</description>
<pubDate>20 Jan  2012 18:35:57 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268381</link>
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<title>What happened to MediaWiki-CVS</title>
<description>I haven&amp;#039;t received any new commit mails in the past 14 hours and the archives [1] are empty. [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-cvs/</description>
<pubDate>19 Jan  2012 23:09:59 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268340</link>
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<title>Wikimedia Trusted XFF List</title>
<description>Hi, shouldnâ€™t http://www.wikimedia.org/trusted-xff.html be kept in sync with http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/TrustedXFF/</description>
<pubDate>19 Jan  2012 14:49:07 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268334</link>
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<title>WikiEditor crashes due to bad preferences?</title>
<description>After enabling WikiEditor on our MediaWiki 1.17.1 system, a small number of users are experiencing browser crashes in IE. (The whole browser hangs as</description>
<pubDate>19 Jan  2012 13:48:28 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268331</link>
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<title>Help needed getting rid of the last bits of hook LanguageGetMagic</title>
<description>Dear all, Over the past days I&amp;#039;ve been trying to get rid of the deprecated hook LanguageGetMagic in the repo[1]. I&amp;#039;ve updated about 60 extensions, I</description>
<pubDate>19 Jan  2012 06:12:44 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268300</link>
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<title>asking for three CSS/JS fixes by Saturday</title>
<description>https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33801 -- UI cleanup for API Sandbox tool I&amp;#039;d very much like for these UI fixes to be made and deployed</description>
<pubDate>18 Jan  2012 21:51:02 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268263</link>
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<title>Re: What will Wikipedia do next time</title>
<description>&amp;gt; Ryan, when i criticized the javascript implementation, i did not intend to be rude. I see now there might be a lot more  considerations besides shoc</description>
<pubDate>18 Jan  2012 20:17:30 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268232</link>
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<title>Congratulations and thanks</title>
<description>I&amp;#039;d like to personally thank the technical community for coming through on this solution. The ISP community has not reported mass calls to help desks</description>
<pubDate>18 Jan  2012 19:46:43 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268231</link>
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<title>What will Wikipedia do next time</title>
<description>---- Referring to another thread http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-January/057720.html but i don&amp;#039;t want to even more hijack jidanni</description>
<pubDate>18 Jan  2012 19:08:28 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268234</link>
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<title>Re: [Wmfcc-l] Black out saying &amp;quot;Enter your Zip Code&amp;quot; but not saying &amp;quot;in the US&amp;quot;</title>
<description>On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Sue Gardner &amp;lt;sgardner@wikimedia.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; It looks like Delphine Menard is not getting the international &amp;gt; geoloc</description>
<pubDate>18 Jan  2012 09:04:03 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268121</link>
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<title>Wednesday wikipedia shut down does not get through</title>
<description>(I sent this already in reply to another thread but with too narrow topic, and i think it&amp;#039;s important enough to deserve its own. So pls excuse if you</description>
<pubDate>18 Jan  2012 08:18:15 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268083</link>
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<title>COMPLETED: Mailing lists server migration today</title>
<description>On &amp;lt;s&amp;gt;Jan 13&amp;lt;/s&amp;gt;Jan 18, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Mark Bergsma wrote: &amp;gt; Today I will be migrating the mailing lists from a very old server (lily) in Amsterda</description>
<pubDate>18 Jan  2012 07:44:50 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268080</link>
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<title>Change request please: Congress Lookup page text</title>
<description>Hey folks, I&amp;#039;m not sure where to send this, so I&amp;#039;ll send it here. Could someone please change the Congress Lookup page text, as per the note below? E</description>
<pubDate>18 Jan  2012 05:19:06 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268034</link>
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<title>Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] Black out saying &amp;quot;Enter your Zip Code&amp;quot; but not saying &amp;quot;in the US&amp;quot;</title>
<description>---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Delphine Ménard &amp;lt;notafishz@gmail.com&amp;gt; Date: 2012/1/18 Subject: [Wmfcc-l] Black out saying &amp;quot;Enter your Zi</description>
<pubDate>18 Jan  2012 04:45:08 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268032</link>
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<title>Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout notice errors (English Wikipedia)</title>
<description>On 18 January 2012 08:03, Peter Gervai &amp;lt;grinapo@gmail.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; Just a foreigner sidenote: we got the notice about SOPA and PIPA which &amp;gt; does not</description>
<pubDate>18 Jan  2012 00:45:46 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/268008</link>
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<title>Fwd: [Foundation-l] Discussion duration and the SOPA shutdown</title>
<description>The &amp;quot;Learn more&amp;quot; link works for me, but I&amp;#039;ve seen a couple of reports of problems (where it gets the blackout too).  ---------- Forwarded message ---</description>
<pubDate>17 Jan  2012 23:24:03 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/267966</link>
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<title>SOPA commercial social networks</title>
<description>Hi! Just visited http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Clicking on the Facebook button I get a page with the invitation to share a website containi</description>
<pubDate>17 Jan  2012 22:19:45 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/267964</link>
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<title>MediaWiki extension to black out your wiki in protest</title>
<description>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Blackout This is NOT the code that the Wikimedia Foundation is using for the SOPA/PIPA blackout. This is an</description>
<pubDate>17 Jan  2012 21:02:20 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/267935</link>
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<title>Black favicon for en:wp shutdown?</title>
<description>The black favicon on test.wikipedia is just perfect for this job. Is it possible to change the favicon to black just for en:wp? (Or is that a pain in</description>
<pubDate>17 Jan  2012 17:00:40 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/267896</link>
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<title>Kolkata Wikimedia event needs MediaWiki developer(s), 25 January</title>
<description>If you can get to Kolkata, India on January 25th, you can help out an event that&amp;#039;s hoping to learn about MediaWiki development. You can contact Suche</description>
<pubDate>17 Jan  2012 15:06:18 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/267864</link>
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<title>[TestSwarm] Mr. Epiphany (Ubuntu 11.04), please leave the swarm</title>
<description>Hey all, After two weeks of annoyance I&amp;#039;ll just dump this here. There have been many people who have donated their browser resources to our TestSwarm</description>
<pubDate>17 Jan  2012 09:54:15 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/267775</link>
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<title>i18n Triage</title>
<description>What: Localisation and internationalisation bug triage When: Wednesday, January 18, 13:00 UTC      Time zone conversion: http://hexm.de/cu Wher</description>
<pubDate>17 Jan  2012 09:28:02 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/267774</link>
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