Hi all,
wm-bot, our fellow irc bot [0] has became more popular than I expected
[1] and currently is being used in more than 90 channels.
Unfortunately, freenode has a limit for maximum channels per user
which is AFAIK little over 100 per user
Because I don't want to restrict users from being able to use bot
because of this limitation (and freenode isn't willing to lift this
limit to anyone) I am today releasing new "multi-instance" version of
bot, which may be a bit buggy (report to
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Tools&component=WM-Bot
in case you find any)
Basically the primary change is that bot spawn multiple instances of
its own on freenode (which in fact are still 1 program just using
multiple connections to freenode) and these instances will randomly
assign themselves to some of the channels currently wm-bot is in.
The functionality will be unchanged and basically only difference what
regular IRC users will see is that in random channels wm-bot will be
replaced with wm-bot2, however this change will bring a lot of
troubles and complications to wm-bot operation (thus current bot
operators will have far harder work), because in case of freenode
outage (which happens quite often these days) when bot, or one of its
instances disconnect, it will far harder to bring it back. Basically
every instance is using own IRC bouncer, so it necessary to restart
this bouncer and force bot to reconnect (I will post detailed
instructions on wikitech so that people from ops or volunteer
operators on labs can restart / fix the bot anytime)
Thank you for your patience and I apologize for all inconveniences
connected to this maintenance :-) expect a little bot outage in
upcoming minutes...
[0] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WM-Bot
[1] http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/db/systemdata.htm
A new version of the Flow Prototype has been released. This version has ''many'' changes, not the least of which is that it approaches full functionality.
You may play with it here:
http://unicorn.wmflabs.org/flow/
Release notes are here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow_Portal/Interactive_Prototype
This is a pretty heavy change. Here are the tl;dr release notes:
* Many elements removed (author metadata, post counts, "collapse all" button)
* New topic dialog is single element
* Fixed header on scroll
* Many visual changes to conform to new version of Agora styling
* Posted replies should now go to correct position (with animation)
* All dates now have hover change instead of tipsy; clicking produces permanent link dialog
* Removed "chaos" modes
* Added "admin" toggle (turns user into admin)
* Added many moderation functions: edit/delete/restore post, delete/restore/close/supress topic, edit topic title
* Added "history" functionality for topics and posts
* Read posts are now open by default (experimental)
* Killed several features not in the minimum viable product.
* Fake-up a VisualEditor toolbar in textareas (non-functional)
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Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi,
I know this is probably the wrong list to ask, but I don't know a
better one and I know we have a very good i18n team so I'm hoping
someone here can help me.
I'm trying to parse the following xml (abbriged for brevity):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<județ>
<siruta>47</siruta>
<nume>Județul Bacău</nume>
</județ>
Every validator I've tried marks an error on the ț in the tag named
județ. However, the xml specs [1] says this is actually correct:
document ::= prolog element Misc*
element ::= EmptyElemTag | STag content ETag
STag ::= '<' Name (S Attribute)* S? '>'
Name ::= NameStartChar (NameChar)*
NameStartChar ::= ":" | [A-Z] | "_" | [a-z] | [#xC0-#xD6] |
[#xD8-#xF6] | [#xF8-#x2FF] | [#x370-#x37D] | [#x37F-#x1FFF] |
[#x200C-#x200D] | [#x2070-#x218F] | [#x2C00-#x2FEF] | [#x3001-#xD7FF]
| [#xF900-#xFDCF] | [#xFDF0-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#xEFFFF]
NameChar ::= NameStartChar | "-" | "." | [0-9] | #xB7 |
[#x0300-#x036F] | [#x203F-#x2040]
ț is #x163 [2], thus should be in the interval [#xF8-#x2FF].
I have reached page 10 on google searching for "can the xml tags
contain utf8 letters" and "xml tags utf-8", but I found nothing
relevant. Am I missing something here? Is there any way around this?
Thanks,
Strainu
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/
[2] http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Diacritice#Date_tehnice
Sorry for the late notice. Right now, an English tutor is at
http://notes.wikimediadc.org/p/english-lessons helping people improve
their English writing skills. If you have written an email to wikitech-l
or a blog post or something, and you would like an English tutor to
check that it's in correct English and give you tips to improve your
writing for next time, you can put it on
http://notes.wikimediadc.org/p/english-lessons and volunteer Erika
Hanson will help you.
My internet connection is terrible right now so I can't help out, but if
you're having trouble connecting, you can contact Erika
<writeresh(a)gmail.com> personally. She's also interested in continuing
this practice again in the next few months.
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Found this article today on Google's mod_pagespeed:
http://techportal.inviqa.com/2013/07/11/speedy-sites-with-apache-and-mod_pa…
Have we ever tried testing MediaWiki against mod_pagespeed? It might be
pretty useful considering it automatically handles JS/CSS/HTML/image
minimization and domain sharding.
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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo(a)gmail.com
Hello and welcome to this week's deployment highlights email for the
week of July 15th.
For the full list of deployments that are currently scheduled, see:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_July_15th
== Monday ==
* Following the normal cycle, all non-Wikipedia sites (wiktionary,
wikinews, etc) are upgrading to MediaWiki 1.22wmf10
* Pending the go/no-go decision later this afternoon (Pacific time),
VisualEditor will be enabled for all English Wikipedia users (both
logged in and not).
== Tuesday ==
* UniversalLanguageSelector will be rolling out more bugfixes and
performance improvements.
== Thursday ==
* test.wikipedia.org, test2., test.wikidata.org, login.wikimedia.org,
and mediawiki.org will be upgraded to MediaWiki 1.22wmf11
* The rest will be on 1.22wmf10
As always, please reply if you have any questions!
Greg
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