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Mar 27 2016

Billghost added a comment to T128827: Extension for page creation/editing notifications.

@Niharika Thanks for the help and it worked finally without any issues. I will like to ask how it was possible for you to "rebase" a submitted patch (like how you rebased patch set 2 in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/277179/).

Mar 27 2016, 8:22 PM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016), Possible-Tech-Projects

Mar 26 2016

Billghost added a comment to T128827: Extension for page creation/editing notifications.

I'm sorry @01tonythomas. I corrected that mistake a while ago but it seems like when I upload a new patchset the commit message falls back to the first commit message for this patch. This is why the mistake keeps repeating.

Mar 26 2016, 3:51 PM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016), Possible-Tech-Projects

Mar 25 2016

Billghost added a comment to T130456: Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki(GSoC 2016 Proposal).

Ok @Niharika thanks for the suggestion I will be mostly focusing on this proposal: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130455

Mar 25 2016, 11:32 PM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016), MediaWiki-Codesniffer

Mar 24 2016

Billghost updated the task description for T130455: Extension for page creation/editing notifications(GSoC 2016 Proposal).
Mar 24 2016, 8:11 AM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016)
Billghost added a comment to T130455: Extension for page creation/editing notifications(GSoC 2016 Proposal).

Thanks @01tonythomas . @Niharika: I'm on it!

Mar 24 2016, 8:08 AM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016)
Billghost added a comment to T130455: Extension for page creation/editing notifications(GSoC 2016 Proposal).

Do you mean the link to the actual phabricator project task or the proposal phabricator task??

Mar 24 2016, 7:30 AM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016)
Billghost updated the task description for T130455: Extension for page creation/editing notifications(GSoC 2016 Proposal).
Mar 24 2016, 7:15 AM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016)

Mar 22 2016

Billghost updated subscribers of T130455: Extension for page creation/editing notifications(GSoC 2016 Proposal).
Mar 22 2016, 11:08 AM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016)
Billghost claimed T130456: Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki(GSoC 2016 Proposal).
Mar 22 2016, 11:04 AM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016), MediaWiki-Codesniffer
Billghost added a comment to T130455: Extension for page creation/editing notifications(GSoC 2016 Proposal).

Thanks @01tonythomas for your corrections

Mar 22 2016, 7:59 AM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016)
Billghost added a comment to T130456: Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki(GSoC 2016 Proposal).

Thanks for reviewing and also for your comments on my proposal

Mar 22 2016, 7:58 AM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016), MediaWiki-Codesniffer
Billghost claimed T46105: SF info page name parameter truncates values with apostrophes.
Mar 22 2016, 7:56 AM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-extensions-Page_Forms
Billghost updated the task description for T130456: Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki(GSoC 2016 Proposal).
Mar 22 2016, 7:48 AM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016), MediaWiki-Codesniffer
Billghost updated the task description for T130455: Extension for page creation/editing notifications(GSoC 2016 Proposal).
Mar 22 2016, 7:47 AM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016)

Mar 21 2016

Billghost updated the task description for T130456: Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki(GSoC 2016 Proposal).
Mar 21 2016, 10:52 PM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016), MediaWiki-Codesniffer
Billghost updated the task description for T130455: Extension for page creation/editing notifications(GSoC 2016 Proposal).
Mar 21 2016, 10:51 PM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016)
Billghost added a comment to T130455: Extension for page creation/editing notifications(GSoC 2016 Proposal).

Please dont link microtasks, which are not specific to your parent project this task in your proposal. In this case, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/277179, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/277557 are microtasks for T89682.

You might add it in your past experience though.

Mar 21 2016, 10:49 PM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016)
Billghost updated the task description for T130455: Extension for page creation/editing notifications(GSoC 2016 Proposal).
Mar 21 2016, 10:39 PM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016)
Billghost updated the task description for T130456: Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki(GSoC 2016 Proposal).
Mar 21 2016, 10:37 PM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016), MediaWiki-Codesniffer
Billghost updated the task description for T130456: Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki(GSoC 2016 Proposal).
Mar 21 2016, 10:31 PM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016), MediaWiki-Codesniffer
Billghost updated the task description for T130455: Extension for page creation/editing notifications(GSoC 2016 Proposal).
Mar 21 2016, 10:25 PM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016)

Mar 19 2016

Billghost renamed T130456: Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki(GSoC 2016 Proposal) from Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki(GSo) to Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki(GSoC 2016 Proposal).
Mar 19 2016, 2:53 PM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016), MediaWiki-Codesniffer
Billghost triaged T130455: Extension for page creation/editing notifications(GSoC 2016 Proposal) as Medium priority.
Mar 19 2016, 2:52 PM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016)
Billghost created T130456: Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki(GSoC 2016 Proposal).
Mar 19 2016, 2:27 PM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016), MediaWiki-Codesniffer
Billghost updated the task description for T130455: Extension for page creation/editing notifications(GSoC 2016 Proposal).
Mar 19 2016, 2:08 PM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016)
Billghost added a comment to T89682: Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki.

Ok @01tonythomas, sorry for the confusion

Mar 19 2016, 2:04 PM · MediaWiki-Codesniffer (MediaWiki-Codesniffer-GSoC-2016), Outreachy-Round-12, Google-Summer-of-Code (2016)
Billghost created T130455: Extension for page creation/editing notifications(GSoC 2016 Proposal).
Mar 19 2016, 11:49 AM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016)

Mar 18 2016

Billghost added a comment to T128827: Extension for page creation/editing notifications.

@Yaron_Koren - Is there already a portal for users to sign up so that they can be notified of "events" or it has to be done during the GSoC period?

Mar 18 2016, 11:38 AM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016), Possible-Tech-Projects

Mar 16 2016

Billghost added a comment to T89682: Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki.

I am interested in working on this project for this upcoming GSoC and I want to know which other MediaWiki-specific sniffs are to be worked on this project.

Mar 16 2016, 12:12 PM · MediaWiki-Codesniffer (MediaWiki-Codesniffer-GSoC-2016), Outreachy-Round-12, Google-Summer-of-Code (2016)
Billghost added a comment to T128827: Extension for page creation/editing notifications.

Please I wish to know can I write a proposal for this project even though it has only one mentor listed??

Mar 16 2016, 11:23 AM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016), Possible-Tech-Projects
Billghost added a comment to T128827: Extension for page creation/editing notifications.

I wish to know if by the meaning of providing at least a *framework* as said in the description of the project, it means providing deliverables that will at least provide the following functionalities:

Mar 16 2016, 7:06 AM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016), Possible-Tech-Projects

Mar 13 2016

Billghost added a comment to T46105: SF info page name parameter truncates values with apostrophes.

@Yaron_Koren : No I wasn't able to reproduce it because I didn't know which page to create under the semantic forms namespace(tried create category page and create a form but couldn't reproduce it) in special pages on my localhost.

Mar 13 2016, 4:21 PM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-extensions-Page_Forms

Mar 12 2016

Billghost added a comment to T46105: SF info page name parameter truncates values with apostrophes.

Hello
I've set up the SMW and SF on my local machine. When looking through I'm a bit overwhelmed with which file deals with the creation of pages so that I can spot that particular bug.

Mar 12 2016, 12:31 PM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-extensions-Page_Forms

Mar 9 2016

Billghost added a comment to T128827: Extension for page creation/editing notifications.

Hello
I have gone through the description and especially the talk presentation at https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/w/images/9/95/Page_ownership_in_MediaWiki.pdf looking at the solutions outlined earlier in the description and document, I feel skilled enough to work on this project for GSoC'16. Also I'm working on T46105 as my microtask for this project.

Mar 9 2016, 6:30 PM · Google-Summer-of-Code (2016), Possible-Tech-Projects

Mar 8 2016

Billghost claimed T46105: SF info page name parameter truncates values with apostrophes.
Mar 8 2016, 2:07 PM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-extensions-Page_Forms

Mar 7 2016

Billghost added a comment to T109561: Add non-exact title search to Special:Undelete and corresponding API.

I've not been seeing anyway to implement full text search directly in SpecialUndelete.php by looking at this document https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Database_access. But I decided to write it using a query directly and I just wanted anyone to look at it through pastebin because I don't seem it correct to submit it as a patch. This is the code: http://pastebin.com/7UU5qySN

Mar 7 2016, 4:45 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.29-release-notes, Discovery-Search (Current work), Wikimania-Hackathon-2016, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2016, Patch-For-Review, Discovery-ARCHIVED, CirrusSearch, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015, MediaWiki-Special-pages

Mar 6 2016

Billghost added a comment to T120462: Reduce edit conflicts by treating different parts of the page as separate.

In case no one turns up, you can even look for one among https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs/Possible_mentors -- who might be interested in mentoring. Thank you!

Mar 6 2016, 8:25 AM · MW-1.27-release (WMF-deploy-2016-02-02_(1.27.0-wmf.12)), MW-1.27-release-notes, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015
Billghost added a comment to T120462: Reduce edit conflicts by treating different parts of the page as separate.

Ok thank you @01tonythomas

Mar 6 2016, 8:15 AM · MW-1.27-release (WMF-deploy-2016-02-02_(1.27.0-wmf.12)), MW-1.27-release-notes, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015

Mar 5 2016

Billghost raised the priority of T109561: Add non-exact title search to Special:Undelete and corresponding API from Medium to Needs Triage.
Mar 5 2016, 9:56 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.29-release-notes, Discovery-Search (Current work), Wikimania-Hackathon-2016, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2016, Patch-For-Review, Discovery-ARCHIVED, CirrusSearch, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015, MediaWiki-Special-pages
Billghost raised the priority of T109561: Add non-exact title search to Special:Undelete and corresponding API from Low to Medium.
Mar 5 2016, 9:55 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.29-release-notes, Discovery-Search (Current work), Wikimania-Hackathon-2016, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2016, Patch-For-Review, Discovery-ARCHIVED, CirrusSearch, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015, MediaWiki-Special-pages
Billghost added a comment to T120462: Reduce edit conflicts by treating different parts of the page as separate.

Hello is anyone willing to mentor this project for GSoc-2016?

Mar 5 2016, 9:42 PM · MW-1.27-release (WMF-deploy-2016-02-02_(1.27.0-wmf.12)), MW-1.27-release-notes, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015
Billghost added a comment to T109561: Add non-exact title search to Special:Undelete and corresponding API.

Hello! I would like to work on this project for this upcoming round of GSoC 2016. Is anyone willing to mentor?

Mar 5 2016, 9:23 AM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.29-release-notes, Discovery-Search (Current work), Wikimania-Hackathon-2016, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2016, Patch-For-Review, Discovery-ARCHIVED, CirrusSearch, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015, MediaWiki-Special-pages
Billghost added a comment to T109561: Add non-exact title search to Special:Undelete and corresponding API.

Hello I am working on implementing the fallback case mentioned in (T109561#1940512). I've gone through https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Database_access and don't see any related documentation on writing full text queries with the databae abstraction layer. Any pointers will be welcome.

Mar 5 2016, 2:31 AM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.29-release-notes, Discovery-Search (Current work), Wikimania-Hackathon-2016, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2016, Patch-For-Review, Discovery-ARCHIVED, CirrusSearch, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015, MediaWiki-Special-pages

Mar 4 2016

Billghost updated the task description for T109561: Add non-exact title search to Special:Undelete and corresponding API.
Mar 4 2016, 9:10 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.29-release-notes, Discovery-Search (Current work), Wikimania-Hackathon-2016, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2016, Patch-For-Review, Discovery-ARCHIVED, CirrusSearch, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015, MediaWiki-Special-pages
Billghost updated the task description for T109561: Add non-exact title search to Special:Undelete and corresponding API.
Mar 4 2016, 9:07 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.29-release-notes, Discovery-Search (Current work), Wikimania-Hackathon-2016, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2016, Patch-For-Review, Discovery-ARCHIVED, CirrusSearch, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015, MediaWiki-Special-pages
Billghost updated the task description for T109561: Add non-exact title search to Special:Undelete and corresponding API.
Mar 4 2016, 9:06 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.29-release-notes, Discovery-Search (Current work), Wikimania-Hackathon-2016, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2016, Patch-For-Review, Discovery-ARCHIVED, CirrusSearch, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015, MediaWiki-Special-pages
Billghost added a comment to T109561: Add non-exact title search to Special:Undelete and corresponding API.

Ok thanks @MER-C.

Mar 4 2016, 1:48 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.29-release-notes, Discovery-Search (Current work), Wikimania-Hackathon-2016, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2016, Patch-For-Review, Discovery-ARCHIVED, CirrusSearch, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015, MediaWiki-Special-pages
Billghost added a comment to T109561: Add non-exact title search to Special:Undelete and corresponding API.

@Sumit : I will be interested in participating on this project as an intern for the GSoC '16. How can I ping potential mentors on this task?

Mar 4 2016, 1:26 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.29-release-notes, Discovery-Search (Current work), Wikimania-Hackathon-2016, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2016, Patch-For-Review, Discovery-ARCHIVED, CirrusSearch, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015, MediaWiki-Special-pages
Billghost added a comment to T109561: Add non-exact title search to Special:Undelete and corresponding API.

@MER-C: Thanks for the initial pointers on this project. When trying to run the query for full text searches in the mysql console, I get an error message saying that "the used table type doesn't support FULLTEXT indexes" and when I try to create a full text index for the ar_title column and run the query for full text searches, it stills gives me the same error message.

Mar 4 2016, 9:48 AM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.29-release-notes, Discovery-Search (Current work), Wikimania-Hackathon-2016, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2016, Patch-For-Review, Discovery-ARCHIVED, CirrusSearch, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015, MediaWiki-Special-pages

Feb 22 2016

Billghost added a comment to T109561: Add non-exact title search to Special:Undelete and corresponding API.

@MER-C : Working on implementing the fallback case (T109561#1940512) but will deliver it a little late than the normal timeline expected for such a task because i'm on a tight schedule with exams that are finishing on March 2nd.

Feb 22 2016, 6:14 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.29-release-notes, Discovery-Search (Current work), Wikimania-Hackathon-2016, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2016, Patch-For-Review, Discovery-ARCHIVED, CirrusSearch, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015, MediaWiki-Special-pages
Billghost added a comment to T109561: Add non-exact title search to Special:Undelete and corresponding API.

As a reminder I am looking forward to contribute on this project for this season's GSoC '16 round and as @Sumit asked: "Does it look like something which should take about 2 weeks for a senior developer to complete? If yes, and if anyone is willing to support it with mentorship."

Feb 22 2016, 6:04 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.29-release-notes, Discovery-Search (Current work), Wikimania-Hackathon-2016, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2016, Patch-For-Review, Discovery-ARCHIVED, CirrusSearch, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015, MediaWiki-Special-pages

Feb 20 2016

Billghost added a comment to T109561: Add non-exact title search to Special:Undelete and corresponding API.

This project seems interesting. I am proficient in Php and MySQL and have little experience with mediawiki's code base. I took a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/1174/ but in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/1174/ I didn't really know what to look for there as I was seeing a lot of material that didn't really link to this specific project. I must be wrong. Can I have some guidelines please?

Feb 20 2016, 12:37 AM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.29-release-notes, Discovery-Search (Current work), Wikimania-Hackathon-2016, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2016, Patch-For-Review, Discovery-ARCHIVED, CirrusSearch, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015, MediaWiki-Special-pages

Feb 17 2016

Billghost placed T120439: Create a tool to auto-populate categories through Wikidata/other wiki comparison up for grabs.
Feb 17 2016, 1:54 PM · Wikimedia-Hackathon-2016, Wikidata, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015

Feb 16 2016

Billghost placed T8948: Natural number sorting in category listings up for grabs.
Feb 16 2016, 3:53 PM · User-notice-archive, Community-Tech, MW-1.28-release-notes, MW-1.28-release (WMF-deploy-2016-08-02_(1.28.0-wmf.13)), Patch-For-Review, Phlogiston-Category, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015, MediaWiki-Categories

Feb 13 2016

Billghost claimed T120439: Create a tool to auto-populate categories through Wikidata/other wiki comparison.
Feb 13 2016, 10:01 PM · Wikimedia-Hackathon-2016, Wikidata, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015

Feb 10 2016

Billghost claimed T8948: Natural number sorting in category listings.
Feb 10 2016, 1:45 PM · User-notice-archive, Community-Tech, MW-1.28-release-notes, MW-1.28-release (WMF-deploy-2016-08-02_(1.28.0-wmf.13)), Patch-For-Review, Phlogiston-Category, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015, MediaWiki-Categories

Feb 7 2016

Billghost added a comment to T8948: Natural number sorting in category listings.

Please where is the icu conversion script located (directory path) in mediawiki.

Feb 7 2016, 11:23 AM · User-notice-archive, Community-Tech, MW-1.28-release-notes, MW-1.28-release (WMF-deploy-2016-08-02_(1.28.0-wmf.13)), Patch-For-Review, Phlogiston-Category, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015, MediaWiki-Categories

Feb 5 2016

Billghost added a member for Google-Summer-of-Code (2016): Billghost.
Feb 5 2016, 11:38 PM

Feb 3 2016

Billghost added a comment to T8948: Natural number sorting in category listings.

@Bawolff : Thanks for the enlightenment, working on it to see how this can be fixed as soon as possible

Feb 3 2016, 8:27 AM · User-notice-archive, Community-Tech, MW-1.28-release-notes, MW-1.28-release (WMF-deploy-2016-08-02_(1.28.0-wmf.13)), Patch-For-Review, Phlogiston-Category, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015, MediaWiki-Categories

Jan 28 2016

Billghost added a comment to T8948: Natural number sorting in category listings.

For reference

diff --git a/includes/Collation.php b/includes/Collation.php
index 7fa5c6e..04fc682 100644
--- a/includes/Collation.php
+++ b/includes/Collation.php
@@ -308,12 +308,14 @@ class IcuCollation extends Collation {
                $this->digitTransformLanguage = Language::factory( $locale === 'root' ? 'en' : $
 
                $this->mainCollator = Collator::create( $locale );
+               $this->mainCollator->setAttribute( Collator::NUMERIC_COLLATION, Collator::ON );
                if ( !$this->mainCollator ) {
                        throw new MWException( "Invalid ICU locale specified for collation: $loc
                }
 
                $this->primaryCollator = Collator::create( $locale );
                $this->primaryCollator->setStrength( Collator::PRIMARY );
+               $this->primaryCollator->setAttribute( Collator::NUMERIC_COLLATION, Collator::ON 
        }
 
        function getSortKey( $string ) {

(obviously, a real implementation needs to put it behind a config, and fix the first letter header for things that start with 0-9.)

Jan 28 2016, 1:24 PM · User-notice-archive, Community-Tech, MW-1.28-release-notes, MW-1.28-release (WMF-deploy-2016-08-02_(1.28.0-wmf.13)), Patch-For-Review, Phlogiston-Category, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015, MediaWiki-Categories

Dec 17 2015

Billghost closed T48995: Username validation message does not describe failure reason, only "You have not specified a valid username" as Resolved.
Dec 17 2015, 1:17 AM · Voice & Tone, I18n, good first task, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
Billghost closed T48995: Username validation message does not describe failure reason, only "You have not specified a valid username", a subtask of T40638: [DO NOT USE] Interface messages needing rewording or documentation and other issues with existing messages [superseded by #Voice_&_Tone], as Resolved.
Dec 17 2015, 1:17 AM · MediaWiki-Internationalization, Tracking-Neverending, I18n, MediaWiki-User-Interface

Dec 7 2015

Billghost added a comment to T116759: page_counter not removed from dummy page insert in tables.sql.

@jcrespo ok now you message is understood and thanks for your +1. Looking forward to contribute more than this.

Dec 7 2015, 2:36 PM · Oracle Database, good first task, MediaWiki-libs-Rdbms
Billghost claimed T116759: page_counter not removed from dummy page insert in tables.sql.
Dec 7 2015, 2:23 PM · Oracle Database, good first task, MediaWiki-libs-Rdbms
Billghost added a comment to T116759: page_counter not removed from dummy page insert in tables.sql.

@jcrespo i don't know what you are meaning by "owning" but i'm the one who submitted the patch for this task

Dec 7 2015, 2:17 PM · Oracle Database, good first task, MediaWiki-libs-Rdbms

Nov 28 2015

Billghost added a comment to T116759: page_counter not removed from dummy page insert in tables.sql.

Ok don't worry fellows i'm working on it.

Nov 28 2015, 1:04 PM · Oracle Database, good first task, MediaWiki-libs-Rdbms