User talk:Reedy

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Extension:FCKeditor abandoned
Can you explain how you know for certain that Extension:FCKeditor has been abandoned? I think you should add your rationale to the discussion page for that extension's article. --Lance E Sloan 14:05, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Per the upstream bug tracker http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/5602 and http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/6273 "MediaWiki and FCKeditor are no longer supported. Closing the ticked."

16:07, 28 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I see. But the newer CKEditor is supported, right?  We should add a template that directs users to the extension for that editor instead.  I'll look for such a template.  --Lance E Sloan 17:06, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't know. Which is that extension/where does it live? :/ Reedy 18:11, 28 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I think I'm wrong about that. FCKeditor has been renamed CKEditor, but on this wiki, the page for CKEditor redirects to FCKeditor.  The article about WYSIWYG is no help, either.  So...  I guess there's nothing else that can be done for now.  Hopefully your marking the extension as abandoned will attract some attention from developers that have some time to work on an alternative.  --Lance E Sloan 18:22, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Friendly reminder: 1/13 @ 19:00 UTC - MediaWiki Workshop: Preparing extensions for MW 1.19 in #wikimedia-dev
Thank you for your interest in the MediaWiki Workshop, Preparing extensions for MediaWiki 1.19!

As a friendly reminder, the workshop is being held being held in about 12 hours - 13 January, 2012 at 19:00 UTC - in IRC (#wikimedia-dev).

This workshop will be an opportunity to share information about changes in MediaWiki 1.19 that may require revisions to extensions or skins. Also an opportunity for developers to ask questions regarding extension development.

Look forward to seeing you in IRC. :) --Varnent 06:20, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Username change request
I left a message at Project:Requests. Inquisitor Sasha Ehrenstein aus Sturmkrieg Sektor (Talk) (Contributions) 16:04, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Bugzilla Request
Hi Reedy. I wanted to ask you if you can glance at this request for bugzilla (since you work there as well, don't you?). I'm asking you it because the last request we made (for our project) has been fulfilled after months. So if you could do us a favour, we would be glad. Regards, -- Frigotoni ... i'm here ;  15:07, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you!-- Frigotoni ... i'm here ;  15:02, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Uh...
...there was no local community consensus for setting ShowUpdateMarker=true on enwiki, and some users are not pleased by it.--Jasper Deng (talk) 16:58, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes there was: 33123, w:en:Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 83. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 17:05, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, now the community is angry, with some former supporters now opposing. Notice that we asked for a preference option, and we weren't given one.--Jasper Deng (talk) 18:56, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
 * That was never voiced on 33123 Reedy (talk) 19:24, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
 * False. Only a few users mentioned opt-in/preference. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 19:31, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
 * A few out of a few... in short, we didn't have enough !votes. I'll admit that no-one actually opposed because of a lack of a preference but me, but it caused some issues on enwiki when it actually happened. In any case, though, I actually like the stars far better than boldening, though optimally there's a full opt-out. Thanks.--Jasper Deng (talk) 21:14, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I tinkered with Common.css to try and calm down the screaming about the change in the mean time, but my edits probably need to be reverted soon because it also hides the bolding of RecentChanges in addition to removing the bolding. Steven Walling (talk) 23:07, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Upload Request
Hi Reedy, hope you're well. When you have time, and if it's not too much trouble, do you think you could handle a few more upload requests for me? (36815, 36816, 36817, 36818, 36830) Thanks in advance,  F ASTILY  (TALK) 07:12, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Ugh, more Google Docs. Reedy (talk) 22:10, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that. I don't know of any other good, spacious, free alternatives that would make this easier.  Do you have any suggestions? - F ASTILY  (TALK) 22:53, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

RandomRootPage extension
According to the Review queue, the next step for the RandomRootPage extension is that you would move it to the Deployment queue. Tim Starling has approved the extension (see 16655) and the extension is on git at extensions/RandomRootPage.git.... And, apparently Tim Starling wants to deploy it.--Snaevar (talk) 11:00, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Yet another Upload Request
Hi Reedy, hope you're well. When you have a moment, do you think you could take care of 37037 for me? Thanks! - F ASTILY  (TALK) 11:01, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Common commit errors
It seems like the Common commit errors page you created could really be merged with Manual:Pre-commit checklist. A lot of things on that list could have automated checking. -- ☠ MarkAHershberger ☢ (talk) ☣ 20:49, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

New project on Labs
Hi Reedy, thanks for setting me up with developer access. I'm working on a new MediaWiki extension, and from reading over https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Getting_Started and the other help content I get the impression that I would need to have a new 'specific' project created. I didn't see any instructions on how to do that, so I figured I'd ask you how to get set up with a new project.

My basic goal is to get this new media handling extension working on a staging environment that's close to Wikimedia's. I'm not sure how relevant this is, but the extension involves file uploading, which includes some processing upon completing the upload to transform an effectively plain-text file into a static image. I've got the extension working on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric with MediaWiki 1.18 and (on another machine) 1.19. I've tentatively named the extension "PDBHandler". Thanks, Emw (talk) 03:48, 27 June 2012 (UTC)