I see words being used such as ‘September’ and
‘October’. I stress again that the task of getting these tools up and running is urgent
and that I do not believe that high school students and freshmen will be able to wrest
themselves from their school athletics and homework to devote sufficient time to these
pressing issues. We have a time frame of days at this stage - not weeks or months.If
X-Tools is a global project, I’ll just remind everyone:
'Wikimedia Labs was designed to give volunteer software developers a place to write
and test software for WMF operations with the goal being to increase the volunteers
helping maintain the WMF's infrastructure. It was opened for beta testing to a limited
number of users in October 2011. After several months of testing, the service was opened
to the general public in April 2012.’ (Source:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimedia_Labs>)
'Because of the importance of toolserver tools and the difficulty in maintaining the
toolserver infrastructure, it was decided that a move to a larger organization would be
good, decommissioning the current toolserver. WMDE has committed to funding and
maintaining the toolserver until all users have had a sufficient chance to move to the new
system. […] In February 2013, the Wikimedia Foundation contracted Marc-André Pelletier
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:MPelletier_%28WMF%29> to provide assistance to
tool/bot authors in migrating their tools and bots to the Wikimedia Labs' servers. A
help page for migrating has been setup at wikitech:User:Magnus Manske/Migrating from
toolserver
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Migrating_from_toolserver>
with helpful advice. General information may be found at mw:Wikimedia Labs/Migration of
Toolserver tools
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs/Migration_of_Toolserver_tools>. […]
the full-scale migration process began in June 2013 and expected to be complete by
December 2013 with everything completed by June 2014 when items on the toolserver will be
deleted. Final decommissioning of the toolserver was tentatively scheduled to be complete
by December 2014.
We are now in the middle of 2015.
Kudpung
On 5Jul, 2015, at 13:03, Ancheta Wis
<tekftu4q(a)gmail.com <mailto:tekftu4q@gmail.com>> wrote:
C678, Kudpung, L235, MusikAnimal, T13, Hedonil, TParis, X ...
I am trying to debug just how far the database connection, etc., is getting. In my
experience, once a database query is actually returning values, there is no reason the
whole-stitched-together app cannot work. It appears there is a missing resource needed to
make a connection.
I have to say that once something like
[
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.php
<http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.php> this mysql snippet] works for
xTools, I can fade out of this picture.
--[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ancheta_Wis
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ancheta_Wis> Ancheta]
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 7:48 PM, ShoeMaker Royality <legend.of.the.red.dragon(a)gmail.com
<mailto:legend.of.the.red.dragon@gmail.com>> wrote:
On which wiki? xTools is a global project. I honestly don't care much about how much
a specific community trusts a developer or not. As long as the other team members trust
the user, then that's not a concern of mine. T13
On Jul 4, 2015 10:20 PM, "L235 Wikipedia" <l235(a)l235.net
<mailto:l235@l235.net>> wrote:
Regarding TaqPol, my largest concern is the level of trust you currently have on-wiki.
Your fiftieth edit was a month and a half ago, and though becoming a maintainer on xtools
is certainly nothing like RfA, I'd like to think that some level of community trust
should be needed. (This isn't an oppose, and I'm not making this a formal opinion,
just something for the other maintainers to keep in mind.)
Thanks,
L235
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:L235 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:L235>
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Maximilian Doerr <maximilian.doerr(a)gmail.com
<mailto:maximilian.doerr@gmail.com>> wrote:
The idea of voice/video conferencing is appealing, but likely not feasible with everyone
having different schedules and timezones. So email and IRC will have to do.
Cyberpower678
English Wikipedia Account Creation Team
Mailing List Moderator
From: xtools-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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[mailto:xtools-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org
<mailto:xtools-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org>] On Behalf Of ShoeMaker Royality
Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2015 10:04 PM
To: Discussion list for xTools
Subject: Re: [xTools] Organisation
At this point, after the terrorization onwiki, video/voice doesn't work for me.
I've no interest in participating in that. I'm willing to listen and view, but
only share via text at this point. I hope everyone can understand and respect my position
on that. T13
On Jul 4, 2015 9:59 PM, "L235 Wikipedia" <l235(a)l235.net
<mailto:l235@l235.net>> wrote:
I support the video/voice conferencing, but I often work in an environment where it's
important to be quiet, so I hope it's fine if I provide my (limited, due to
limited/nonexistent PHP skills) input over text and mainly listen. My commitment of one
hour a week was a minimum; I plan/hope to spend more time on the project.
Thanks,
L235
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:L235 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:L235>
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 8:55 PM, ShoeMaker Royality <legend.of.the.red.dragon(a)gmail.com
<mailto:legend.of.the.red.dragon@gmail.com>> wrote:
I personally intend to dedicate 3 or 4 full days a week to development once I get back on
top of my classes next week. It'll likely take me a few hours to get accommodated
with our new environment, but I should be able to quick migrate tools in one at a time
once I am familiar. Getting the first tool set ul and the connection to the database will
be the hardest part, the rest will fall into place easily and be cake work. T13
On Jul 4, 2015 9:47 PM, "Chris" <cs(a)edubkk.org
<mailto:cs@edubkk.org>> wrote:
I think we need to admit that while the organisation and coordination of the work is in
every way as important as getting these essential tools back up and running, unlike
writing new articles for Wikipedia , time is not on our side. I’m therefore rater hesitant
with offers of help that due to school can only inject one or two hours a week into the
project. That’s partly what got us into this mess in the first place.
I realise that not everyone is like me: over 65 , retired, and has time on their hands,
but I think we should be looking at a dedication of two or three complete evenings a week
until the job is done. Public holidays should be providing more time rather than being a
reason to take leave from the urgency.
Also, addressing the advantages of video conferencing again, I am in exactly the opposite
time zone to the whole of the USA which means I often have to chat in what is the middle
of the night here in Thailand. I think that’s also the least anyone should be prepared to
do for multi-zone, multi-cultural Wikipedia.
Kudpung
On 4Jul, 2015, at 22:15, L235 Wikipedia
<l235(a)l235.net <mailto:l235@l235.net>> wrote:
No objections from me.
Thanks,
L235
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:L235 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:L235>
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 9:54 AM, TaqPol <taqpol.wiki(a)icloud.com
<mailto:taqpol.wiki@icloud.com>> wrote:
Hi,
I do understand and I would be okay with that as long as it is the consensus of the
group. I have created a new GitHub account @TaqPol-wiki as I’d prefer to separate this
account from the one I used for LxCenter and my personal projects.
I’m glad that my limited availability is okay with you. I usually can contribute more
than that but the amount of work I have for university is unpredictable so I don’t really
want to make commitments that I cannot meet.
Best wishes,
TaqPol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:TaqPol
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:TaqPol>
TaqPol.wiki(a)icloud.com <mailto:TaqPol.wiki@icloud.com>
> On 4 Jul, 2015, at 10:39 pm, MusikAnimal <musikanimal(a)gmail.com
<mailto:musikanimal@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Looks good, but note we may not necessarily be using a framework, it seems (getting
conflicting recommendations), but certainly a templating engine of sorts. We are open to
all ideas, but would you be okay working with something other than Laravel if it came down
to it? Also, do you have a GitHub account?
>
> Thank you for also being upfront about your availability. It's all volunteer work
and even small contributions here and there are helpful and appreciated.
>
> On Jul 4, 2015 08:41, "Maximilian Doerr" <maximilian.doerr(a)gmail.com
<mailto:maximilian.doerr@gmail.com>> wrote:
> He’s got my thumbs up. Any objections?
>
> Cyberpower678
> English Wikipedia Account Creation Team
> Mailing List Moderator
>
> From: xtools-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
<mailto:xtools-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org>
[mailto:xtools-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org
<mailto:xtools-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org>] On Behalf Of TaqPol
> Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2015 6:10 AM
> To: xtools(a)lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:xtools@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [xTools] TaqPol - PHP Developer & Sysadmin
>
> Hello,
>
> I am writing in response to the call of developers for xTools on Wikipedia.
>
> I have previously been a Core member in the LxCenter team, which released the open
source web hosting control panel Kloxo and the VPS control panel HyperVM. I work as both a
PHP developer and a sysadmin there, as I also find sponsorship on behalf of LxCenter and
manages the sponsored server although another developer manages the main web server etc.
>
> I currently develop with Laravel, although for simpler application I use packages
from Packgist (e.g. Plates) and I personally think Laravel would be the best way to go,
considering the a MVC implementation is desirable and it provides many useful functions
e.g. an excellent ORM, code injection interface and template engine.
>
> I am afraid I don’t have 10-15 years of experience and I self-learnt PHP. That being
said, I am very willing to learn new stuffs. I am willing to commit to the project. I
generally respond to messages in 24 hours and can commit for at least 2 hours per week
during term time.
>
> Best wishes,
> TaqPol
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:TaqPol
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:TaqPol>
> TaqPol.wiki(a)icloud.com <mailto:TaqPol.wiki@icloud.com>
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