Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #43 (2020)

2020-10-16 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 2:45 PM Nick Wilson (Quiddity) < nwil...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/43 > > Direct translation link: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php

[Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #43 (2020)

2020-10-15 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/43 Direct translation link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=page-Tech%2FNews%2F2020%2F43=page We plan to send the newsletter on Monday afternoon (UTC), i.e.

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki of functions naming contest

2020-10-13 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hello all, Please help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki where the community can work together on a library of functions.[1] The community can create new functions, read about them, discuss them, and share them. Some of these functions will be used to

[African Wikimedians] Wiki of functions naming contest

2020-09-29 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hello all, Please help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki where the community can work together on a library of functions.[1] The community can create new functions, read about them, discuss them, and share them. Some of these functions will be used to

[Wikimedia-l] Wiki of functions naming contest

2020-09-29 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hello all, Please help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki where the community can work together on a library of functions.[1] The community can create new functions, read about them, discuss them, and share them. Some of these functions will be used to

Re: [Translators-l] Naming proposals for the wiki of functions - translation and reviewers

2020-09-24 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hallo. I'd like to send a short massmessage about this next week, and would love your help with translations: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Wiki_of_functions_naming_contest/outreach For the main proposal page, it would be great to have the Headings, Intro, and sections #1 and

[Translators-l] Naming proposals for the wiki of functions - translation and reviewers

2020-09-15 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi all. We're preparing to start the process to choose the official name for the new Wikimedia wiki for functions, currently codenamed Wikilambda. 2 requests: 1. Page-translation request: Your expertise here would be appreciated. Getting even just the first few sections in as many languages as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question related to status of one extension

2020-08-31 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
+Notes: From a few brief searches for just "SignWriting": according to this Phab comment the extension was converted into a gadget on Incubator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T24216#254974 here's an example of it in action on Incubator: https://w.wiki/av$ and here's the old documentation page:

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #33 (2020)

2020-08-07 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 9:10 AM Benoît Evellin (Trizek) < bevel...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/33 > > Direct translation link: > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing a new Wikimedia project: Abstract Wikipedia

2020-08-06 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 2:01 PM Samuel Klein wrote: > We used to have a roughly weighted list of major world languages by > (spoken, written; primary, secondary) and how well covered they were by wp > (articles, contributors). Is there something like that still? > I think you might be referring

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #32 (2020)

2020-07-31 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 5:01 PM Nick Wilson (Quiddity) < nwil...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/32 > > Direct translation link: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php

[Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #32 (2020)

2020-07-30 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/32 Direct translation link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=page-Tech%2FNews%2F2020%2F32=page Benoît plans to send the newsletter on Monday afternoon (UTC),

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 30)

2020-07-20 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/30>. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #26 (2020)

2020-06-19 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 7:31 AM Johan Jönsson wrote: > The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/26 > > Direct translation link: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=page-Tech%2FNews%2F2020%2F26=page

Re: [Wikimedia-l] June 4 1800 Maggie Dennis office hour (with a twist)

2020-06-04 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi Ad, We've sent you the zoom link offlist (per Maggie's note in the email below). Also, the link for the stream is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGRXVx5EeCk Thanks. On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 10:55 AM Ad Huikeshoven wrote: > Where can I find the Zoom link? > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 11:24

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Annoying ads

2020-05-07 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
This has been on our departments' minds for the past few months. Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have been changing our campaign schedules (including shortening the Italian campaign) and steadily revising our messaging. We are closely monitoring reader and donor feedback, responding to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Annoying ads

2020-05-07 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
My apologies John for my overly basic initial response. I wanted to note that regarding the banner design [1] we’ve definitely heard and taken the feedback on board as a team. Our design team discussed it on Monday and are exploring ways in which we might iterate on this in future tests. We are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Annoying ads

2020-05-04 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi John, thank you for the feedback. The banners you see are continually changing, as we refine our designs based on feedback and efficacy. Donation banners are inherently disruptive, on any site. We try to minimize the annoyance whilst also maximizing the effectiveness in order to show as few

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #19 (2020)

2020-05-01 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 8:17 AM Johan Jönsson wrote: > The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/19 > > Direct translation link: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=page-Tech%2FNews%2F2020%2F19=page

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Multi-page advertising on Wikipedia

2020-04-15 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi MZMcBride, You are right that it's unusual for us to display any banners on English Wiki in the USA at this time of year. We wanted to do a thorough evaluation of our backend systems and receive some live data on our banners, which we have been adjusting to be sensitive during the ongoing

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Asperges, ADHD and editors

2020-04-02 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes/Health/Mental and semi-related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes/Personality plus the essays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_disorder_editors

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Helping readers find relevant articles about COVID-19 - share and ask

2020-03-17 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi all. A number of Wikipedias have either already created, or are discussing, a more visible section on their Main Page to their local information about COVID-19. Some have chosen to highlight a section in their existing "In The News" equivalent or related ideas, some have chosen a sitenotice

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 12)

2020-03-16 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi. The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/12>. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #12 (2020)

2020-03-16 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Thank you all for your help! It is deeply appreciated. The newsletter has now been delivered (in 19 languages) across wikis. ___ Translators-l mailing list Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l

Re: [Cloud] PSA about secrets

2020-01-29 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Roy, I will quote from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reporting_security_bugs "We support responsible disclosure and we hope that anyone who finds a potential security issue in our ecosystem acts with discretion and forbearance" Thank you.

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #5 (2020)

2020-01-24 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 11:42 AM Johan Jönsson wrote: > The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/05 > > Direct translation link: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=page-Tech%2FNews%2F2020%2F05=page

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020

2020-01-21 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Gerard, you can read about the previous events (which include answers about scope), at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 10:43 AM Gerard Meijssen wrote: > I am not interested when I do no have a clue about the scope > > > Op ma 20 jan. 2020

Re: [Wikitech-l] Guide with testing VE Gadget on Test Wikipedia

2020-01-21 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi Eugene, I believe the links you are looking for are: To find someone to work with: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers=interface-admin or, To request: https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests/Permissions Cheers, On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 6:30 AM Egbe Eugene

[Translators-l] Translations requested for Readers QuickSurvey in Spanish, Basque, Persian, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Vietnamese

2020-01-20 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hallo, We'd like your expertise to assist with translating these six short questions and their answers, for a Quicksurvey that we plan to run in 2 weeks. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Quicksurvey-20-01 For now we are starting with just these languages: Spanish,

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 02)

2020-01-06 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/02>. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #02 (2020)

2020-01-06 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Thank you all for your help! It is deeply appreciated. The newsletter has now been delivered (in 18 languages) across wikis. ___ Translators-l mailing list Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 52)

2019-12-23 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/52>. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more

Re: [Translators-l] Tech News #52 (2019)

2019-12-23 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 12:05 PM Nick Wilson (Quiddity) < nwil...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:47 AM Johan Jönsson > wrote: > >> It's the last issue Tech News for the (Gregorian calendar) year. Thank >> you, everyone, for you translation

Re: [Translators-l] Tech News #52 (2019)

2019-12-20 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:47 AM Johan Jönsson wrote: > It's the last issue Tech News for the (Gregorian calendar) year. Thank > you, everyone, for you translations, corrections, suggestions and > requests for clarifications in 2019. This wouldn't be much of a > newsletter without you. > > The

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The wikisites looks like 1996

2019-12-12 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Multiple responses: On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 10:07 AM Juergen Fenn wrote: > Am 12.12.19 um 02:25 Uhr schrieb Strainu: > > There is also a > > question of opportunity: with less and less desktop users, it just > > makes more sense to invest in the mobile experience > > Most authors still use

[Translators-l] Request to translate message and banner for new Desktop Improvements prototype (Basque, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Persian, Spanish, Vietnamese)

2019-11-14 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hallo, We have an initial prototype of the first stage of the Desktop Improvements project, that is almost ready for editor feedback from the wikis that expressed interest in trying it early. We'd like to get their feedback in their language. Please could you help translate this page and banner

Re: [Translators-l] Translations needed for Community Wishlist Survey

2019-10-30 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hey MusikAnimal The aggregated group can be updated at this (massive) page (which IIRC reloads after every edit) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AggregateGroups New aggregate groups can be created with the link at the bottom of that page. (I can never remember the name of that page. But I

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Desktop Improvements - Wanted: information on existing related gadgets/tweaks/etc, and general feedback

2019-10-30 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi Wikitech Ambassadors, For the Desktop Improvements project,[1] we're especially looking for information about any existing gadgets / userscripts / local-tweaks / etc that *you* might know of, if they are aimed at making the overall site experience better for (potentially) all users (i.e. both

[Translators-l] Translations needed for Desktop Improvements project

2019-10-07 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi all, We're planning wider announcements and requests for feedback about the new Desktop Improvements project, and it would be greatly appreciated if you could help out by translating these 2 pages, which are the massmessage and the main docs:

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 37)

2019-09-09 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
There have been software errors in the delivery of this week's Tech News. MassMessage delivered 3 separate copies to some destinations, and 0 copies to other destinations. I've filed a task for the devs to investigate, at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232379 There's not anything I can

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 37)

2019-09-09 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/37>. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #37 (2019)

2019-09-09 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
The latest issue of Tech News has been sent to 839 pages, in 14 languages. Thank you for your help! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/37 ___ Translators-l mailing list Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #37 (2019)

2019-09-06 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 2:18 PM Nick Wilson (Quiddity) wrote: > The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/37 > > Direct translation link: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=page-

[Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #37 (2019)

2019-09-05 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/37 Direct translation link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=page-Tech%2FNews%2F2019%2F37=page Note: The Translation-memory system seems to be having problems

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #36 (2019)

2019-08-30 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 12:47 PM Nick Wilson (Quiddity) < nwil...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/36 > > Direct translation link: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php

[Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #36 (2019)

2019-08-29 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/36 Direct translation link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=page-Tech%2FNews%2F2019%2F36=page I plan to send the newsletter on Monday afternoon (UTC), i.e.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] sockpuppets and how to find them sooner

2019-08-24 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 5:23 PM Kerry Raymond wrote: > That's why I think we need "signatures" which is my shorthand for things > like a hash function or a bounding box, a means by which many non-matching > accounts can be eliminated at low cost, reserving the high cost comparisons > (machine or

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #33 (2019)

2019-08-09 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 1:02 PM Nick Wilson (Quiddity) wrote: > The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/33 > > Direct translation link: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=page-

[Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #33 (2019)

2019-08-08 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/33 Direct translation link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=page-Tech%2FNews%2F2019%2F33=page We plan to send the newsletter on Monday afternoon (UTC), i.e.

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 31)

2019-07-29 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/31>. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #31 (2019)

2019-07-29 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
The newsletter has been delivered to 834 pages, in 15 languages. Thank you again and always for your help! On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 10:21 AM Nick Wilson (Quiddity) wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 2:01 PM Nick Wilson (Quiddity) > wrote: >> >> The latest tech newslett

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #31 (2019)

2019-07-26 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 2:01 PM Nick Wilson (Quiddity) < nwil...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/31 > > Direct translation link: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #31 (2019)

2019-07-26 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 9:35 PM Sylvain Chiron wrote: > I’ve got a question concerning that message in the Problems category: > ‘Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC > because of a server switch.’ [...] > First, I wanted to reuse a previous translation of >

[Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #31 (2019)

2019-07-25 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/31 Direct translation link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=page-Tech%2FNews%2F2019%2F31=page I plan to send the newsletter on Monday afternoon (UTC), i.e.

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 28)

2019-07-08 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/28>. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #28 (2019)

2019-07-05 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 12:47 PM Nick Wilson (Quiddity) < nwil...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/28 > > Direct translation link: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php

[Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #28 (2019)

2019-07-04 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/28 Direct translation link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=page-Tech%2FNews%2F2019%2F28=page Johan plans to send the newsletter on Monday afternoon (UTC),

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 27)

2019-07-01 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/27>. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #26 (2019)

2019-07-01 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Thank you all for your help! It is deeply appreciated. The newsletter has now been delivered (in 18 languages) to 837 pages across wikis. ___ Translators-l mailing list Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #26 (2019)

2019-06-21 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 1:56 PM Johan Jönsson wrote: > The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/26 > > Direct translation link: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=page-Tech%2FNews%2F2019%2F26=page

Re: [Translators-l] Two short research pages to Arabic, French, Japanese, Russian and Spanish

2019-06-17 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 2:51 PM Sylvain Chiron wrote: > And I’ve got another remark by the way. It’s that I prefer page links to > direct translation links :/ for the following reasons: > Those are good points! I think the Tech/News standard email setup works best, by providing both the page

Re: [Translators-l] Two short research pages to Arabic, French, Japanese, Russian and Spanish

2019-06-17 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 11:43 AM Sylvain Chiron wrote: > > When translating messages 22, 23 and 24 on the main feedback page, I get > the following mesage: > “ > Error saving translation: This namespace is reserved for content page > translations. The page you are trying to edit does not seem to

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #24 (2019)

2019-06-07 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 3:50 PM Nick Wilson (Quiddity) wrote: > The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/24 > > Direct translation link: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=page-

[Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #24 (2019)

2019-06-06 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/24 Direct translation link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=page-Tech%2FNews%2F2019%2F24=page Johan plans to send the newsletter on Monday afternoon (UTC),

[Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #23 (2019)

2019-05-30 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/23 Direct translation link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=page-Tech%2FNews%2F2019%2F23=page Johan plans to send the newsletter on Monday afternoon (UTC),

[Wikitech-l] Etherpad conversion tools (was Re: Scrum of scrums/2019-05-29)

2019-05-29 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 11:49 AM Željko Filipin wrote: > To make meeting notes even easier to read, is there a tool that would > convert links to wikitext? > * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221177 to [[phab:T221177]] > * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/506043/ to >

[Translators-l] Help request for translation tool announcement (Italian) and documentation (all)

2019-05-18 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi all, Italian translators: We'd appreciate your help with this announcement, which we would like to send to the Itwiki Bar late next week. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Quiddity_(WMF)/CX_outreach All translators: One of the more important pages of details about the content translation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Be the change you want to see (was: WMF commitment for a Wikimedia projects archive)

2019-05-16 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 3:06 PM Joseph Seddon wrote: > The Wikimedia Resource Center (which > currently is broken it seems) had the goal of trying to aid a community > member in getting the right information, the right person or the right > process to fulfill their needs. It's focus was on

Re: [Design] feedback on deck/futures

2019-05-06 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
It's a known error, and a mistake (misaddressed emails) we all make from time to time! On Mon., May 6, 2019, 6:23 p.m. Steven Walling, wrote: > Toby did you mean to email the public design list? Just checking since > this reads like an internal email directed at the WMF design team. > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia & Education Greenhouse - applications still open until May 12!

2019-05-02 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
(Reposting with fixed links) On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 6:56 PM Melissa Guadalupe Huertas < mguadal...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hola everyone! > > Sorry in advance for cross-posting. As many of you are aware, last April > 5th the Education team at the Wikimedia Foundation announced the launch of >

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #17 (2019)

2019-04-23 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
bug: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221570 > > It will be delivered as soon as possible. > > //Johan Jönsson > -- > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 7:48 PM Nick Wilson (Quiddity) > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 8:43 AM Johan Jönsson > wrote: > >&

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 17)

2019-04-23 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi, Sorry for the delay, there was a MassMessage bug (now fixed ) preventing delivery of all newsletters. The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/17>. Below is the English

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #17 (2019)

2019-04-19 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 8:43 AM Johan Jönsson wrote: > The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/17 > > Direct translation link: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=page-Tech%2FNews%2F2019%2F17=page

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Searching deleted page content

2019-04-18 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi Deryck, It might help if you provide us with any of the other known aspects, e.g. topic-area, last known time of existence, etc. If I was looking, my first step with just the current info, would probably be to open the Special:Log/delete at the relevant wiki, expand it to 500 entries, and try

Re: [Wikitech-l] Easy list whitelist

2019-04-04 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Wikitech due to Account Creation block. > > Thanks, > RhinosF1 > > On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 19:02, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) > wrote: > >> Easy List seems to be one of the component in various adblocker tools >> (possibly enabled by default in some or all of them?). >&g

Re: [Wikitech-l] Easy list whitelist

2019-04-04 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Easy List seems to be one of the component in various adblocker tools (possibly enabled by default in some or all of them?). https://easylist.to/ E.g. the "uBlock Origin" extension's settings panel which lists it, apparently enabled by default: https://i.postimg.cc/yN217Tg5/Selection-001.jpg I've

Re: [Translators-l] [Translation request] New frontpage on mediawiki.org

2019-04-01 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
> Le 29/03/2019 à 19:10, Andre Klapper a écrit : > > Hi everyone! > > > > Over the last months we've worked on a new frontpage for mediawiki.org > > which will replace the current https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki > > soon (probably next week). > > > > You can find the new version at > >

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Query user history edits

2019-03-28 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi Haifeng, Regarding the Toolforge account, I'm sorry to say that account creation is currently disabled. This is a temporary measure that we hope to be able to undo soon, but for now there is no exact timeline or public phabricator tasks I can point you to to follow. However, I've added you to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

2019-03-20 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Pine, please see the exact (quite precise) definition of https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/technical_debt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html I.e. Technical debt is Not at all equivalent to "bugs". The topic is a tangential one. Software can

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] New PDF Render decommissioned on 1st January 2020?

2019-03-15 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi Dirk, I suggest asking this question on the specific talkpage there, instead. (Where I see you're already actively engaged.) This mailing list is for disseminating /known/ information across the Wikimedia languages/projects, and is not for asking technical questions - I.e. the people who know

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia has been accepted as a mentor organization in GSoC 2019!

2019-02-27 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi James, I'd like to emphasize the point (so that non-devs are aware) that outreach programs are generally more work for a mentor than "just implement the feature yourself" would be. I.e. The mentors generally have to help onboard the newcomer and get their tools setup properly, and then

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia has been accepted as a mentor organization in GSoC 2019!

2019-02-27 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi James, I'd like to emphasize the point (so that non-devs are aware) that outreach programs are generally more work for a mentor than "just implement the feature yourself" would be. I.e. The mentors generally have to help onboard the newcomer and get their tools setup properly, and then

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Security Reviews Process

2019-02-19 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:03 PM Alaa Sarhan wrote: > > The linked SOP page is empty The link in the original message was broken due to line-wrap. Try: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Security_Team/Standard_Operating_Procedure/Security_Readiness_Reviews

Re: [Wikitech-l] What would you like to see in gerrit?

2019-02-08 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
> Am 08.02.19 um 14:42 schrieb James Forrester: > > I gave up on gerrit's personal dashboard years ago, and instead have pinned > > browser tabs with specific gerrit searches, which are very powerful. > > > >

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for translation: Tech News #02 (2019)

2019-01-04 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 1:05 PM Eduardo Loeffel Noce Gobi wrote: > “MediaWiki logstash logging moving to new logging infrastructure” looks > really confusing to translate. Can it be simplified? I've tweaked the sentence to: "MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure" and not

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Hackathon 2019: Registration Open!

2018-12-19 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Please tell your local technical communities about this, so that interested people can register. Thanks. :-) -- Forwarded message - From: Rachel Farrand Date: Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 1:32 PM On behalf of Wikimedia Czech Republic and the Wikimedia Foundation Community Relations team

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Code Health Newsletter - Issue 2 Volume 1

2018-12-17 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
s/Maintainers) >> [3a][Code Health Group/projects/Code Health Metrics - >> MediaWiki]( >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_Health_Group/projects/Code_Health_Metrics >> ) >> [3b][Test coverage - Documentation](https://doc.wikimedia.org/cover/) >> [3c]https://tools.wmflabs.org/coverme/ >> [3d][Index of /coverage/charts/]( >> https://tools.wmflabs.org/coverage/charts/) >> [4][Code Health Group/Learning Circles - >> MediaWiki]( >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_Health_Group/Learning_Circles) >> [5]https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212135 >> [6a][SonarCloud](https://sonarcloud.io/organizations/wmftest/projects) >> [6b][PhpMetrics >> report]( >> https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/phpmetrics/index.html) >> [6c][Code-Review-Workgroup]( >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3766/) >> [6d][⚓ T211710 Expose code coverage stats for >> Services](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211710) >> >> ___ >> Engineering mailing list >> engineer...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering >> > ___ > Engineering mailing list > engineer...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering > -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2018, week 51)

2018-12-17 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/51> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.* -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for early translation: Tech News #51 (2018)

2018-12-17 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
endar. > > //Johan Jönsson > Thank you all for your help! It is deeply appreciated. The newsletter has now been delivered (in 18 languages) to 805 pages across wikis. -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Wikimedia Foundation ___ Translators-l mail

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for early translation: Tech News #42 (2018)

2018-10-12 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 11:29 AM Johan Jönsson wrote: > > The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/42 > > Direct translation link: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=page-Tech%2FNews%2F2018%2F42=page

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Map overlay on wmflabs

2018-10-02 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
__ >> Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list >> Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >> >> _______ >> Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list >> Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimed

Re: [Cloud] [Cloud-announce] 57 VPS projects are candidates for deletion

2018-09-17 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 8:08 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Andrew Bogott, 17/09/2018 16:52: > > If you see anything in this list that you care about, please indicate > > that the project is in use on the Wikitech page. Here are the 57 > > projects that are currently unmarked: > > > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making two factor auth less annoying

2018-08-13 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 5:13 AM Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > Most of the time my session doesn't work across projects. If I log in to > the English Wikipedia, I have to log in again to mediawiki.org, Hebrew > Wikisource, and Wikidata [...] This (old, erratic, hard to reproduce) bug can usually be

Re: [Cloud] pip

2018-08-12 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
>>> Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! >>>> http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ >>>> >>>> Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. >>>> Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-C

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for early translation: Tech News #29 (2018)

2018-07-17 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
>> ___ >>>>>> Translators-l mailing list >>>>>> Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l >>>>>> >>>>> >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cheat sheets visual editing on Wikipedia

2018-07-11 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
C636668902476722853sdata=I6wKDH82aToeHyLV%2Be7b0%2B8DOd3uV5I%2BrbcKAUJJB6Q%3Dreserved=0 > > > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg > > unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikivoyage page for Wikimania 2018

2018-06-29 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > ___ > Wikimania-l mailing list > Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liai

Re: [Translators-l] Ready for early translation: Tech News #26 (2018)

2018-06-22 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
inal. One new item has been added and one item has been changed since yesterday. There won't be any more changes; you can translate safely. Thanks, and I hope you have a good weekend. :-) -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Hello. New user - which mailing list should i use ?

2018-06-07 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 4:12 PM wrote: > On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 3:23 AM James Hare wrote: > > > > It sounds like you would like the MediaWiki-l mailing list. MediaWiki is > > the software that runs Wikipedia and many similar projects. > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Queries regarding Wikimedia's Data Dumps.

2018-06-07 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Computing" but it does not have > complete article's information in it? > > Hoping to get a quick reply. > > Thanks. > Nikhil > > > ___ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.

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