Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Phabricator is now open for everyone

2014-10-07 Thread Quim Gil
Thank you for the interest! On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:52 AM, agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: This is exciting. Let us know when smaller, newer projects would be able to be set up as Phabricator guinea pigs. The reasons to hold the horses (or guinea pigs) for new projects until the official

[Wikitech-l] Announcement: Bartosz Dziewoński joins Wikimedia as a Features Contractor

2014-10-07 Thread James Forrester
Hello all, It is my great pleasure to announce that Bartosz Dziewoński[0] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a contractor in Features Engineering. Bartosz has worked as a volunteer developer for several years, specialising in front-end improvements to skins and core functionality, helping

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Bartosz Dziewoński joins Wikimedia as a Features Contractor

2014-10-07 Thread Brion Vibber
Welcome officially on board! :D -- brion On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:42 AM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello all, It is my great pleasure to announce that Bartosz Dziewoński[0] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a contractor in Features Engineering. Bartosz has

Re: [Wikitech-l] Branching extensions for 1.24

2014-10-07 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 18:11:15 +0200, Mark A. Hershberger m...@nichework.com wrote: Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr writes: Le 05/10/2014 21:06, Bartosz Dziewoński a écrit : I note that this is missing release branches for skins entirely, which we're also going to need. Can you bug fill

[Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Jon Robson
On mobile we continuously get bugs related to inline styles in templates. For example: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68001 When these happen we usually spend time investigating, discover it is because of a troublesome inline style in the template and then we communicate this on

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Jon Robson
(See also https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35704 for lots of examples of broken template/css combos) On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: On mobile we continuously get bugs related to inline styles in templates. For example:

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Ryan Kaldari
One thing that would help tremendously would be encouraging template standardization on the wikis. For example, on en.wiki, we currently have 60 different quotation templates![1] And all of them have completely different inline styling (most of which don't work well on mobile). If there were only

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Bináris
Is there a techguide anywhere on how to style templates to avoid mobile problems? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Brion Vibber
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: On mobile we continuously get bugs related to inline styles in templates. For example: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68001 When these happen we usually spend time investigating, discover it is because

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Isarra Yos
On 07/10/14 22:02, Jon Robson wrote: On mobile we continuously get bugs related to inline styles in templates. For example: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68001 When these happen we usually spend time investigating, discover it is because of a troublesome inline style in the

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Brion Vibber
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Bináris wikipo...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a techguide anywhere on how to style templates to avoid mobile problems? I'll write up some notes... The first thing is to *test your pages on mobile*. The least one can do is fire up a page in *.m.wikipedia.org in a

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Isarra Yos
On 07/10/14 22:17, Isarra Yos wrote: On 07/10/14 22:02, Jon Robson wrote: On mobile we continuously get bugs related to inline styles in templates. For example: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68001 When these happen we usually spend time investigating, discover it is because of

[Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Design Research in Product Development: Oct 22

2014-10-07 Thread Rachel Farrand
Please join us for the following tech talk: *Tech Talk**:* Design Research in Product Development *Presenter:* Abbey Ripstra, Design Usability Research Analyst on The UX team at the Wikimedia Foundation *Date:* October 22 *Time:* 1900 UTC

[Wikitech-l] Announcement: Moriel Schottlender converts to Wikimedia staff

2014-10-07 Thread James Forrester
[Second one today!] I am delighted to announce that Moriel Schottlender [0] has converted to full time staff member status as a Software Engineer in Features Engineering, as of 1 October. Moriel has been working with us, initially as a GSoC 2013 student [1] and then as a student contractor in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Moriel Schottlender converts to Wikimedia staff

2014-10-07 Thread Frances Hocutt
What wonderful news! Congratulations, Moriel. Frances On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:58 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: [Second one today!] I am delighted to announce that Moriel Schottlender [0] has converted to full time staff member status as a Software Engineer in Features

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC meeting this week

2014-10-07 Thread Tyler Romeo
If at all possible, if you could discuss Extension registration second, I would really appreciate it. I have something until 21:30 UTC so I will only be able to be online in the second half of the meeting. --  Tyler Romeo 0x405D34A7C86B42DF On October 6, 2014 at 22:08:47, Tim Starling

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Jon Robson
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Bináris wikipo...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a techguide anywhere on how to style templates to avoid mobile problems? There are a few notes here -

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Jon Robson
The wiki way is not to ask and wait for someone else to act, but to act directly in good faith and communicate what you did and why so that if there is disagreement it can be resolved afterwards. Sadly I only have template edit rights on my staff account and I really don't like using that

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread K. Peachey
Templates aren't protected by default =). If they are protected there is generally a good reason such as heavy usage, you can always put a comment on the talk page and tag it with {{EditProtected}} which will summon someone with sysop rights. You can also setup a /Sandbox page with the proposed

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Dan Garry
Jon, Regarding editing specific templates, I'll echo Brion here. If a template is causing difficulties for your work and you feel like you know enough to fix it, then fix it! That's the wiki way. If you don't have the rights to edit the template (e.g. because it's protected), then speak to Tomasz

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Jon Robson
On 7 Oct 2014 18:03, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: Jon, Regarding editing specific templates, I'll echo Brion here. If a template is causing difficulties for your work and you feel like you know enough to fix it, then fix it! That's the wiki way. If you don't have the rights to edit

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Jon Robson
On 7 Oct 2014 18:15, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 7 Oct 2014 18:03, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: Jon, Regarding editing specific templates, I'll echo Brion here. If a template is causing difficulties for your work and you feel like you know enough to fix it,

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Brian Wolff
On Oct 7, 2014 10:03 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: Jon, Regarding editing specific templates, I'll echo Brion here. If a template is causing difficulties for your work and you feel like you know enough to fix it, then fix it! That's the wiki way. If you don't have the rights to

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Brian Wolff
On Oct 7, 2014 10:03 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: Jon, Regarding editing specific templates, I'll echo Brion here. If a template is causing difficulties for your work and you feel like you know enough to fix it, then fix it! That's the wiki way. If you don't have the rights to

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Dan Garry
As members of the Mobile Team, it's our job to make the mobile platform the best it can be. If we have to edit templates to do that because they're causing significant display issues that are disrupting the platform, so be it. For example, let's say pie charts are completely broken on mobile and