User talk:😂/LiquidThreads archive

Signing up as a GSoC mentor

Hi there! I see your name on the list of possible mentors on Summer of Code 2010. Thanks! If you're still interested, be sure to also sign up at http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/mentor/request/google/gsoc2010/wikimedia . Official deadline for doing so is April 21 but we'll need you on the roster there beforehand in order for you to be part of the evaluation process. Thanks! RobLa 18:24, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Whoops, could've sworn I had done this already. Will take care of it now. ^demon 18:24, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Commit Access

Hello,I requested for commit access one week ago at commit-access-requests@wikimedia.org but not answered me yet.Is it natural?I'm worry,Thank you Ladsgroup 08:45, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

In general, there's no set timeframe it gets checked...just when the right people have time to look over it. It never takes more than a few weeks though.

I have access to view the requests, but I don't have the right access to act on them. I will poke the right people though. ^demon 08:45, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you so much! Ladsgroup 08:45, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Admin tip template in PD pages

Hi ^demon, could you look at Consistency regarding use of the Admin tip template? If what you're doing stands, then let's state clearly in the Project_talk:PD_help page that the use is not allowed. We'll then need to remove it from all translations and so forth. Hamilton Abreu 18:44, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Summary of Admin-Tip-Template-Removing

Salve, ^demon!

Your summary "More of the same" is a little bit confusing. It only makes sense in the context of your contribution list. But normally one sees it only in the history of the page you edited. It might be helpful to add a link to some more information. Vale, Oculus Spectatoris ^disputio_e-mail 15:38, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Username

To me the ^ in front of a username looks a bit confusing to me, I don't know whether others would feel the same. If you like you can change it at here.

22:56, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

And to me your desire to rename a long-time contributor for no good reason looks a bit confusing, too. By the way, he can rename himself if he desires so. Max Semenik 05:30, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

I should change it to d^e^m^o^n ;-) ^demon 22:56, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

how about ^d^e^m^o^n^ tbh.... Peachey88 22:56, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Developing and testing extensions

Hi. Could you give me a pointer as to the best environment to develop and test MediaWiki extensions written in PHP. Should I install MediaWiki locally and work with that, or is there another way round? Cheers, 206.225.134.57 04:31, 3 April 2011 (UTC) 206.225.134.57 04:55, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Yes, you should definitely install MediaWiki so you can test out your extension and make sure it works how you want it to!

See Manual:Installation to get you started. ^demon 04:55, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

About MediaWiki r87537

Hello ^demon, you commented my revision r87537 and wrote "You should not be using $wgAjaxExportList anymore, that interface is deprecated and likely to disappear in the not-so-distant future. The appropriate way nowadays is to expose an API module to do the work you want. "

Could you give me some help about it : have you got some example of code doing AJAX with MediaWiki API, I never used API... Thanks a lot for your help, I'll try to fix the code following your advices, but it wasn't mine originally..

Thanks ! Faure.thomas 10:02, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Hello ^demon, could you please validate my fix on r87537 ?

Thanks. Faure.thomas 10:02, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Blue Like Jazz

Hi Chad,

I noticed that you deleted File:Bluelikejazz.jpg from Wikipedia a few years ago. Would you object if I restored the file and added the appropriate use rationale?

Neelix 18:57, 9 June 2011 (UTC) Neelix 20:02, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Feel free. I don't even remember the image in question to be honest and my activity at enwiki is between practically none and nonexistent this days. ^demon 20:02, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

This will make you happy

Seriously :p Jeroen De Dauw 21:41, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

cvs-svn-git

Hello,

Would you like to have our cvs to svn to git conversion script? Drop me an email. j dot baten at antoniusziekenhuis dot nl

bye,

Jeroen 194.13.118.5 14:16, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear ^demon,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar Chlopeck 23:45, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Extension:RemoveRedLinks

Hi Chad, I saw you deleted Extension:RemoveRedLinks with the summary "Junk I wrote". As a user of the extension (for a not-public-editable wiki), I'd like to know, is there a specific reason for the removal?

TIA! FreedomFighterSparrow (talk) 18:12, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

I deleted the manual page because I deleted the extension in r111167. I think it's a piece of junk and I have no intentions of ever touching it again. ^demon (talk) 18:12, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

I was just wondering if there was a good reason for me to stop using it... Thanks anyway! FreedomFighterSparrow (talk) 18:12, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

If you like it, you're fine still using it. It's an ugly hack, but hey, I guess it works :) ^demon (talk) 18:12, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the answer! Indeed it works very well for our purpose. Thanks for writing it, even if you think it's a piece of junk ;-) FreedomFighterSparrow (talk) 18:12, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Git repository for new extension

Is of the requirement to create a new repository over a page Git/New_repositories/Requests correctly for new git extension repository? I watched that last requirement was checked on 27 February. Want (talk) 12:49, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

As I said on IRC, please read my post to wikitech-l about this. ^demon (talk) 12:49, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply and link. I do not use IRC. I hope that everything will be fine and soon. Want (talk) 13:41, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi,

Could you please take a look at the new entries on Git/New repositories/Requests? Thank you very much. Khaled El Mansoury (talk) 15:50, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

It is over month, and git repository for AccessControl extension is not created. Why? On page Git/New_repositories/Requests is question about history, but I don't understand it. I want do push existing git repository for AccessControl from my server into MediaWiki official git. It is all. Want (talk) 12:49, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

I've created the repository now. I hadn't created it because I didn't know if there was existing history you wanted to push (it matters when I'm creating the repository). You should be ready to go now. ^demon (talk) 12:49, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you of your quick reaction! Want (talk) 12:49, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Latest SVN->Git extension batch

Hi Chad,

Sorry to bother you but I notice that the newly-moved extensions aren't showing up in Gitweb. (In other words, the list of extensions under git control is out of date)

I'm also asked for a username and password to access the new repositories. That may be intentional, but thusfar I've avoided using a username and password on my internal machines simply because I do utterly stupid things from time to time and shouldn't be trusted with anything more than read-only access :D

Thanks for your time! 76.107.76.96 16:08, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

This should be fixed now. ^demon (talk) 16:08, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Something is missing or I'm missing something in a last migrated extension

Hi, it might be related to previous question. I've seen UserFunctions has been migrated https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/UserFunctions.git;a=tree but I'm not able to push any change despite being in the owner group https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/groups/127,members

[17:09:37][toniher@fartet | ~/remote-work/mediawiki/git/extensions/UserFunctions]$ git push
Username: 
Password: 
error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/UserFunctions.git/info/refs

fatal: HTTP request failed

alternately

[17:10:43][toniher@fartet | ~/remote-work/mediawiki/git/extensions/UserFunctions]$ git review -s
Problem running 'git remote update gerrit'
Fetching gerrit
fatal: '/mediawiki/Extensions/UserFunctions.git': not a Gerrit project
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
error: Could not fetch gerrit

Maybe because there is no .gitreview. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance! Toniher (talk) 16:16, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

You need to push to the SSH URL

ssh://<USERNAME>@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/core.git Johnduhart (talk) 16:16, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi, thanks, after having cloned that way git clone ssh://toniher@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/extensions/UserFunctions.git, I get the following problem:

[18:03:01][toniher@fartet | ~/remote-work/mediawiki/git/extensions/UserFunctions]$ git push
Counting objects: 7, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 838 bytes, done.
Total 4 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (3/3)
To ssh://toniher@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/extensions/UserFunctions.git
! [remote rejected] master -> master (can not update the reference as a fast forward)
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://toniher@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/extensions/UserFunctions.git'

Toniher (talk) 16:16, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

You can't do a direct push, you should push for review. ^demon (talk) 16:16, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Solved, thanks to comment below and this: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Git/Workflow/archive#The_.gitreview_file

I managed to do this! I guess would be nice if this can be compiled somewhere in the documentation.

Thanks! Toniher (talk) 16:16, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Your old custom csd script has found a new use

Hi! I figured I'd let you know that I've recycled your old enwiki script for custom csd reasons for use crosswiki by Stewards and Global sysops :) It is really, reaaaally nice, been looking for something like this for a while :) It's now over at m:User:Snowolf/GS delete and working quite nicely :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 17:54, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Oh wow....that's old school :) ^demon (talk) 17:54, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Wikivote yandex

Hello Chad!

A guy from our team tried to request a repository for our project WikiVoteYandex here. Could you please explain what's wrong with our extension? We can provide the source code now - the extension is almost done by now. Katkov Yury (talk) 11:00, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Nothing is wrong, I just hadn't gotten to yours yet because I had 2 outstanding questions:

1. Was this indeed a new extension and not extra features for the existing Maps extension? This isn't a problem, just need to know for sure!
2. Is there existing source code (sounds like there is)?

Since the answers seem to be "yes" and "yes," could you provide a link to the existing code so I can import it into gerrit for you and get you started?

Thanks! ^demon (talk) 11:00, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

1. Yes, it's currently a separate extension that is dependent on Maps and Semantic Maps but in the future in may be merged with Maps/Semantic Maps. The main reason of separation is that we don't yest fully support all Maps features in our extension and also don't know if many people need Yandex Maps support.

2. Sure it is! Here is the link: https://github.com/vedmaka/WikivoteMapsYandex Katkov Yury (talk) 11:00, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Alright, the repo's been created and you should be able to clone it from Gerrit now. ^demon (talk) 11:00, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Thank you so much! And the new extension is now here - share and enjoy! Extension:WikivoteMapsYandex Katkov Yury (talk) 11:00, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Git-Repository for "CommonsHelper2"

Hi ^demon,

is there any problem with creating a repository for "CommonsHelper2" because you didn't create "mediawiki/tools/commonshelper2" in the last round? Jan Luca (talk) 17:48, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

No, I just didn't quite finish the list on Friday, I got sidetracked by some other things. I will be finishing them tomorrow. ^demon (talk) 09:26, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Ok. Thank you. Jan Luca (talk) 11:56, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Actually, I see that you're asking to have this moved from the Toolserver SVN. I don't have access to that to dump the full history properly. ^demon (talk) 12:21, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

I created a JIRA-request on the Toolserver: https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1458 Jan Luca (talk) 08:14, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

DaB has created a dump of the SVN-repo and attached it to the JIRA-request: https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1458 Jan Luca (talk) 12:25, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Oh awesome. Thanks for getting me that. I'll let you know when I'm done converting for you :) ^demon (talk) 12:25, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Jan Luca (talk) 15:48, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi, are there problems with the conversion? I don't see the repo in Gerrit yet. Jan Luca (talk) 12:25, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I tried to convert it yesterday--but it doesn't seem to actually be a svndump (svnadmin load refuses to load it). What sort of dump was this that was created? ^demon (talk) 12:25, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

I have no problem to load the dump with svnadmin. Have you run "gzip -d p_commonshelper2.dump.gz" and use the ungziped file? Jan Luca (talk) 12:25, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Oh whooooops, I assumed `svnadmin load` would create the repo if it didn't already exist ;-) Fixed, and importing now. Should have it resolved today :) ^demon (talk) 12:25, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

(Unindenting for legibility) I spoke too soon it seems. After starting, it didn't seem to be doing anything, so when I aborted I ended up getting svnadmin: Malformed dumpfile header. Thoughts? ^demon (talk) 17:48, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

We worked it out using a labs instance (yay labs!). Repo's now up on Gerrit: gitweb link. Please let me know if you see any problems :) ^demon (talk) 17:48, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

No problems. Thank you very much!!! Jan Luca (talk) 17:48, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

extension:Linkedwiki

Hi, I asked a repository for the extension Linkedwiki (yet validate for svn, 6 month ago but I have not the time to deploy). My holidays are almost over (one week...) else it will deploy in october. You are very busy. You think it's possible to create it this week ? else I can wait ;) Karima Rafes (talk) 17:40, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Yes, like I said in the LinkedWiki discussion on this page, I just quite didn't get them all finished on Friday. Will be finishing them up today :) ^demon (talk) 17:40, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

OK thanks ;) Karima 17:40, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

SVN-to-Git extension migrations

Hello! Are you still handling migration of extensions to Git? It looks like you were doing this about once a week for a while, but now there haven't been any migrations in a month. Since I put in a request for one of those extensions myself, I was concerned. :-) LarryGilbert (talk) 10:26, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Since I am just checking myself: a whole batch has been migrated a few days days ago again.

QUESTION to chad: I am just testing migration of our biowikifarm. One odd thing I noticed is that Extension:Lucene-search is not listed neither migrated. May be on purpose, but should perhaps be documented? G.Hagedorn (talk) 10:26, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Extension:Lucene-search was migrated some time ago. The repository name is "operations/debs/lucene-search-2" ^demon (talk) 10:26, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Mail from Travis CI

Sorry for the mail from Travis CI you (and gerrit@wikimedia.org) received. That shouldn't happen again. Tim Landscheidt 10:52, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I was wondering what that was about :) ^demon (talk) 10:52, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

SacredText

Hi ^demon, over at Extension:SacredText#Get_the_Scripture_data it says, "Due to the size of the SQL scripts that add the scriptures to the database, they are kept on a different SVN repository." Given that WMF has no problem devoting resources to hosting the Holy Bible over at Wikisource (in many different languages, no less!), would it be possible to put that extension in the git repository along with its 5.1 MB bible_kjv_entire.sql? If we wanted to give other Scriptures equal treatment, that probably wouldn't take up too much additional space, because there are not a whole lot of religious texts whose copyrights have expired (the Satanic Bible, for instance, is still under copyright) and most (e.g. the Qu'ran and Book of Mormon) are significantly shorter than the Bible. There doesn't seem to have been much demand for including other Scriptures besides the KJV Bible anyway, although the extension was designed to allow for such expansions.

Probably the only books people would be wanting to use this extension for would be those that have been organized into chapters and verses. The most obvious example would be be sacred texts, although legal statutes could be another possibility, if it weren't for the fact that they change; this is more suited for texts that never need to be updated. That's what leads me to believe that even if it were desired to have an all-inclusive set of those static texts in the public domain that have been organized by chapter and verse, it would not take up much space.

Hmm, maybe the long term solution is to eventually have this populate its table by polling Wikidata. Leucosticte (talk) 01:54, 20 October 2012 (UTC) Leucosticte (talk) 22:06, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

It has little to do with the size of the data, and more the version control system's ability to handle it. The file itself probably isn't a problem in Git, but I'm wondering how well it would behave in Gerrit. At the very least, I know diffs will have problems with such a large amount of text all at once. ^demon (talk) 22:06, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

So, what would be the maximum size? Perhaps it could be split into multiple files. Leucosticte (talk) 22:06, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Skins

Heiya ^demon,

you may be the right person to address in this matter.

Recently I ran intro problems while testing skins. There are a couple them available in this spot. I think they should be separated and moved to that spot. Besides, splitting them into separate entities would provide the advantage of being able to author, fix and document them separately. However, this is not the main reason why I am writing:

Even though these skins are authored like extensions, it do not think that it is wise to install them in /extensions/skins/ instead of /skins/. Here their status of being a skin should imho have precedence before their status of being an extension providing a skin. I believe we will run into heaps of confusion if it stays like this because they are in very different places of a single MW installation which is not very intuitive, too.

However, this is just a suggestion to consider. Cheers [[kgh]] (talk) 19:05, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

The skins repo in mediawiki/extensions is a holdover from SVN days. The new skins are going under mediawiki/skins/*. Really though, it doesn't matter much. Skins can work out of the extensions directory. If you want someone to talk to about this more, I'd suggest Daniel Friesen. He does a lot more skins work than I. ^demon (talk) 19:05, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Re: new repositories

Hi Mr Demon,

You posted on my talk page about why I want to create new repos. The FileBackendStore class was changed in MediaWiki 1.20 (and then changed again in 1.21). This broke the WindowsAzureStorage extension that I am trying to replace. I could've patched it to work (which I might do later) but, given my penchant for the latest and greatest, I wanted to make a new one that used Microsoft's Azure SDK rather than the one by REALDOMEN (which was used by WindowsAzureStorage and is deprecated). Thai (talk) 04:16, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Do you have any objections? Thai (talk) 04:16, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

I guess I don't understand why there's new repositories for this. It's still Azure, and it's still FileBackend, so it made more sense to keep the same extension (but just rewrite it, since the existing one is now deprecated). ^demon (talk) 04:16, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm planning on adding my FileBackend extension to mediawiki/core (I have the blessing of Aaron Schulz) so there's no need for me to edit mediawiki/extensions/WindowsAzureStorage. As such it's probably better to keep mediawiki/extensions/WindowsAzureSDK the way it is so people with the older extension can still have access to it.

Furthermore, the project owner for mediawiki/extensions/WindowsAzureStorage also hasn't been active for months so I don't know how long I'll have to wait for my change to come through.

So yeah, I only need a repository for the new Azure SDK.

P.S. I also need one for the AWS SDK. Thai (talk) 04:16, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Ok, I'll get these created. ^demon (talk) 04:16, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! Thai (talk) 04:16, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

openZIM code history

Hi, Do you have seen my answer User_talk:Kelson there? Kelson (talk) 16:43, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm so sorry I missed your reply! I've replied there now. ^demon (talk) 16:43, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Re: Moved extensions from SVN -> Git

Hi, thanks for moving the extensions. My developer username is "kipcool". Please add me to the "WikiLexicalData" group.

Regarding the other extensions you mentioned: "Polyglot", I'm just using it, but not contributing to it. "RDFIO" I don't know what it is, the request was not from me. Kip (talk) 12:26, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Ahh, turns out you have an old LDAP account (for SVN) that was never updated for Labs/Gerrit. I can do this for you: what e-mail address do you want to use, and what do you want your labs username to be (this is the username for the labsconsole wiki, as well as logging in to gerrit. Your shell username will remain unchanged) ^demon (talk) 12:26, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi, (if I got that right) it seems that the "WikiLexicalData" extension is using the "push-for-review" model (since I was not able to do a direct push). Being the only active developer, it means I have to review my own commits, which is not really useful.

Can I change it to a "direct push" model? Kip (talk) 12:26, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

We do not allow direct pushing to the master branch for mediawiki extensions. In the very near future, we will be having things like linting of changes for all extensions, which won't be possible if you skip review with a direct push. ^demon (talk) 12:26, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

In that case, the page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Workflow#Other_MediaWiki_extensions should be changed because it says Every extension author can choose between two choices here: the gated-trunk/push-for-review model, and a straight push model. For any given extension, we will honor the wishes of the person/s listed as the main author on the extension's mediawiki.org page. Kip (talk) 12:26, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Instructions to install/update extensions

Hello Chad, after [1] and [2] I've a bit lost track: what's the current status of branch support/install/upgrade for extensions? See also Version_lifecycle#Extension lifecycle management; Manual:Upgrading#Upgrade extensions should also probably answer such a common question, and Download from Git is not very clear either. Nemo 09:17, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Any extension in Git now has a REL1_19 and REL1_20 branch, like they did in SVN (with REL1_18 and below). Extensions in SVN are no longer supported by ExtensionDistributor, nor are REL1_18 and below (since they are unsupported versions of MediaWiki). We will create REL1_21 branches when 1.21 is released. ^demon (talk) 09:17, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

So what should one do to update extensions on a wiki? Is the current best practice to download them one by one via ExtensionDistributor? It's not written anywhere. Nemo 09:17, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Extension Distributor works well for most people who want a snapshot of extensions that will work with their supported versions of MediaWiki.

If you want a *lot* of extensions, or to do other developer-esque tasks (switching versions easily, etc), then using Git is probably best. ^demon (talk) 09:17, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I've copied your answer to the upgrading manual. The complaint we hear most often is that MediaWiki requires a lot of extensions, which are painful to upgrade: it would be very useful if Download from Git contained some information on this.

Thanks, Nemo 09:17, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Git new repository queue

Hi, could you process the requests on Git/New_repositories/Requests? Looks like it's been about 2 weeks since the previous updates. Thanks! Fo0bar (talk) 18:14, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

I was going to go through that this afternoon! Thanks :) ^demon (talk) 18:14, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Gerrit crawling

Why all disallowed? It's not like we are so rich as regards search as to ignore the search engines... I suppose it's because gerrit/gitweb is so slow and crawling would kill it? Isn't throttling possible? Thank you very much, Nemo 06:57, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Gitweb was not made to be indexed--it's an atrocious piece of software that caches nothing. Crawlers were causing the gerrit servers to cry, so we disabled crawling. I don't see us turning it back on for the foreseeable future. ^demon (talk) 11:10, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

I see. Too bad crawlers are not able to behave. Nemo 11:10, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

If it's any consolation, I believe the search will be much nicer with Gitblit than Gitweb. ^demon (talk) 11:10, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Yes, it is: I loved your wikitech-l message and I'm eagerly waiting for Gitblit. Maybe it will also be fast enough to bear crawlers, who knows. ;-) Nemo 11:10, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

(Much later, but hey it's an update). After ditching gitweb for gitblit, blocking some badly behaving spiders, and generally improving this architecture, bots should be able to crawl gerrit.wm.o and git.wm.o now. Only exception is tars/zips of extensions, which make the gitblit server cry when you crawl them ;-) ^demon^{[omg plz]} 06:57, 30 July 2013 (UTC) 11:10, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Indeed, it has been a great addition for Wikimedia technical search! Nemo 11:10, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Deleting a repository

Hey again,

I had a discussion with Aaron Schulz a while ago and he decided that adding the Azure file backend stuff to core wasn't a good idea after all. Could you go ahead and delete the AzureSDK extension that I had previously requested? It's no longer necessary.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards,

-- Thai Phan Thai (talk) 13:27, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Done. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 13:27, 29 March 2013 (UTC) 13:27, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Rename repo and help!

Hi Chad, I wanted to ask you two favors, if you have the time. You recently created a repository for an extension I developed, called HoverGallery, and named the repository mediawiki/extensions/Hovergallery. Would it be too much trouble to rename it mediawiki/extensions/HoverGallery, just to keep consistency with the rest of the extension? The other favor is that I'm quite new to Git and Gerrit, and I can't seem to find the way to submit my code to the new repo. I can clone the (empty) repo, create a local branch, add and commit the changes, but when I send them for review to Gerrit, they show up in the mediawiki/core project! How can I submit them to the mediawiki/extensions/Hovergallery project? I've been looking and trying for hours, but can't seem to get it right. I'd appreciate your help a lot, really. Thanks for reading! LFS (talk) 11:04, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi again! I already understood how to push code to extension repos. :D LFS (talk) 11:04, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Gerrit project owner requests

Hi ^demon,

it would be nice if you could check the Gerrit project owner requests.

Thank you, Jan Luca (talk) 17:18, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

User Council proposal

Just in reply to your comment: no, definitely not self-appointed (IMO) and only EN-wiki. If that wasn't clear in the proposal, I apologise. --Rannpháirtí anaithnid (talk) 21:16, 2 July 2013 (UTC) Rannpháirtí anaithnid (talk) 13:08, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Point taken. I'll continue to respond on enwiki. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 21:31, 2 July 2013 (UTC) 13:08, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Demon,

Thanks for your very lucid comments on the User Council thread on EN. They were very helpful and I think they'd be very helpful to others.

I'm in the motion of creating a base for a Wikipedia:User Advocacy page. Could I ask you a favour?

Would you add a page at Wikipedia:User Advocacy/Developers? The purpose of the page would to be clearly explain to users who are developers, what developers do, what's the release cycle and process, how users can help, etc. The focus should be on the EN wiki since the project page is just indented for EN wiki users.

Could you do this?

Thanks,

--Rannpháirtí anaithnid (talk) 13:08, 7 July 2013 (UTC) Rannpháirtí anaithnid (talk) 13:08, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

I replied to you, FYI

I replied to you over at en:WP:VPPR with this, FYI. I figured I'd give this communication system over here a try again, especially since you have the soft redirects up over at the English Wikipedia, and you mentioned people posting here was needed more. Thanks for posting over there. Best regards. Biosthmors (talk) 09:16, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Also, I'm not sure why, but it said I had one new message in Special:NewMessages. When I clicked it took me to, well, it took me to the September 17, 2013 diff of Special:Contributions/213.44.50.129. Except it's not a diff, it's a new page, I see: Thread:Extension_talk:ArchiveLinks/wikiwix/reply_(2). I assume, somehow, the 17 Sep edit triggered my new messages. Why is that? Biosthmors (talk) 09:16, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Ah. Now I see. There's a little thing on the left that says Extension talk:ArchiveLinks. (The big text at the top just says New Messages when I'm at Special:NewMessages.) Extension talk:ArchiveLinks is on my watchlist. I think I was trying to watch a page that might have relevance to the EducationProgram extension. Is there a specific one for that? Biosthmors (talk) 09:16, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Ah. No. It was because I care about the linkrot issue. That's why I watched it. Biosthmors (talk) 09:16, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice, I've replied to you on w:WP:VPR. Also, we use Extension:LiquidThreads here for talkpages, Flow's still in development as far as I know. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 17:28, 25 September 2013 (UTC) 09:16, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the help and engagement! I notice there's some brainstorming and movement over at bugzilla:54606. Exciting! Thanks for collaborating. =) Biosthmors (talk) 09:16, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Edit to RFC

Hi ^demon. Can you please explain this edit at Talk:RFC? I'm having difficulty understanding it. MZMcBride (talk) 17:49, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

I just noticed this edit. Thank you! :-) MZMcBride (talk) 17:49, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Requests for comment/Configuration database

Hi, Requests for comment/Configuration database is being considered as one of the RFCs to be discussed at the RFC review on 2013-11-06 via IRC. We hope you can make it. Otherwise please propose an alternative at the RFC talk page or discuss with the architects. Thank you! Qgil (talk) 00:35, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

An error has occurred while searching

I infer from your recent comment at en:WP:VPT that you are working on search. I just encountered an issue you might want to investigate.

Entering the following at en:Special:Search

half prefix:Wikipedia:Manual of Style

displays the error (just one line):

An error has occurred while searching: The search backend returned an error: Johnuniq (talk) 17:54, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

So there's a number of things that can cause errors like this to occur :\ However, I've basically end-of-life'd the existing search engine and we're working full steam ahead on the new one. Many Wikimedia wikis already have it, and it'll be coming to the remaining ones in the first part of the new year. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 17:54, 9 December 2013 (UTC) 17:54, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Adding users to extensions-MediaWikiChat

Hi Chad!

I'm UltrasonicNXT, the maintainer for the new MediaWikiChat repo.

I'd like to add Jack Pheonix to the group extension-MediaWikiChat, but when I navigate here, all the options to add users are greyed out, I cannot do anything.

Jack suggested you would be the person to talk to!

Cheers! UltrasonicNXT (talk) 18:57, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

 Done ^demon^{[omg plz]} 17:52, 13 December 2013 (UTC) 18:57, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks :) UltrasonicNXT (talk) 18:57, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

your problems on dewiki

Hi, first, I posted your notice on the admins notice board, see de:Wikipedia:Administratoren/Notizen#Message regarding search after you have been stopped by our filter#70; we shall try to fix the filter more properly. Regards -jkb- 15:17, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

I dont like this system at all; pls can you change the ip for my user name?

done -jkb- (talk) 10:09, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for posting, I think HaeB already did as well :)

And what system? What do you mean by changing the IP for your user name? ^demon^{[omg plz]} 15:17, 10 January 2014 (UTC) 15:17, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Setting up CirrusSearch

Hi Chad, Can you help me with setting up CirrusSearch? Omidh (talk) 15:48, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Cite4Wiki

I'd forgotten about that project for months. I've figured out where to add other people as owners of the Cite4Wiki listing at addons.mozilla.org, and it has to be done by e-mail address. If you want to be one of them, I'll need an address to add you at. I have e-mail turned on here, so you should be able to reach me directly that way. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ɖ^⊝כ^⊙þ Contrib. 07:20, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Slow down your bot

Hi, Subsequent to Nik's message, the bot rate was cut in half (a 2 seconds delay was introduced). Would a 5 second delay be sufficient? Dcirovic (talk) 19:50, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

5 seconds sounds much better. Let's give that a try. Thanks for your prompt attention! ^demon^{[omg plz]} 19:50, 28 March 2014 (UTC) 19:50, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Errors on Wikipedia (en, pt and prob. others)

Hi

Sorry to bother you, but was this the right way to go about things, or should we have raised bugzilla reports?

It seems that pt.wiki did,here, but only for gadgets and not skins. Are skins considered gadgets, or is the issue something bigger? (My concern being that it is beginning to be relegated to just gadgets and may yet turn out to be more widespread)

Thanks

Chaosdruid Chaosdruid (talk) 14:44, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

Bugzilla or IRC is generally fastest. A lot of people do keep an eye on VPT (myself among them) but I don't think it's the quickest way to get a response.

Skins and gadgets and all sorts of CSS and JS and skin-related images are served via a dedicated domain called "bits.wikimedia.org" so they can be very related especially when things aren't showing up.

This really isn't my area of expertise though, I'm not a CSS/JS guy. I'd ask someone like User:Krinkle or User:Catrope. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 01:04, 17 May 2014 (UTC) 14:44, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

Sheesh! forgot about IRC lol!

Thanks for the advice :)

Turns out it seems to have been a dodgy server. Chaosdruid (talk) 14:44, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

User group changed

Why did you change my user group? Originally granted here: User_talk:Badon#Editor_rights. Badon (talk) 15:02, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Please see wikitech-l. FlaggedRevs has been removed from the wiki making the groups redundant. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 23:41, 22 May 2014 (UTC) 15:02, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

OK, thanks for the clarification. Badon (talk) 15:02, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

I found the discussion here:

http://wikimedia.7.x6.nabble.com/FlaggedRevs-gone-from-mediawiki-org-td5028271.html

That might be useful for whoever else finds their way to your talk page. Badon (talk) 15:02, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

OMG. What is current patrolling system in here? Base (talk) 15:02, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

about user right for me

I noticed my right changed and read [3], so I understand it now. I am requesting translation administrator, but I don't know how long it would takes. Can you help me? Thank you. --Rhong Fu ^Talk 02:18, 23 May 2014 (UTC)