Re: [Wikitech-l] Stance on Social Media

2015-01-12 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The great thing of personal opinion is that they make great arguments, they have their point When they are presented well they are compelling.. HOWEVER, we are in the habit of testing many of these arguments. This is a test that is bound to be interesting to many of us. Thanks, GerardM

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stance on Social Media

2015-01-12 Thread K. Peachey
Assuming that we even use icons! I think a text drop down box which lists the various networks that one could share onto would work just as well. On 12 January 2015 at 15:35, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Tim Starling wrote: Yes, there's a risk we could end up with an alphabetical list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stance on Social Media

2015-01-12 Thread Tim Starling
On 12/01/15 16:35, MZMcBride wrote: What problem are we trying to solve here? The idea is to increase the number of shares, thus increasing the number of people who read our content, thus educating more people, thus better meeting our mission. If the answer is that we want to make it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stance on Social Media

2015-01-12 Thread Quim Gil
Your help pushing these tasks to some direction is welcome: Share button (tools) in Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29027 enhancement - add social sharing feature after upload https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T42456 On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Gerard Meijssen

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stance on Social Media

2015-01-12 Thread MZMcBride
Tim Starling wrote: On 12/01/15 16:35, MZMcBride wrote: What problem are we trying to solve here? The idea is to increase the number of shares, thus increasing the number of people who read our content, thus educating more people, thus better meeting our mission. You seem to be drawing a very

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing contentmodel of pages

2015-01-12 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Erik Bernhardson ebernhard...@wikimedia.org wrote: The Co-op team will ask the Bot Approval Group on enwiki to grant their bot this right. *enwiki BAG hat on* FYI, they'll be asked to advertise the request on enwiki [[WP:VPR]], and probably [[WP:AN]] wouldn't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stance on Social Media

2015-01-12 Thread Ricordisamoa
Tim, I have to disagree on that. Imagine a world in which every single human being /can/ freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Most social media users can already read Wikipedia (and, I suppose, many Wikipedia readers cannot use social media because of censorship). And they almost

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stance on Social Media

2015-01-12 Thread Tim Starling
On 12/01/15 17:11, Jay Ashworth wrote: I personally attribute that to we're so small, we have to cave on this point or no one will know we're here, a problem a small journal might have, but which Wikipedia certainly does not. Do you suppose Physical Review (the lumbering giant of physics

Re: [Wikitech-l] extensions tested along core

2015-01-12 Thread Jon Robson
Win. PS. Mantle is in the process of being deprecated (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85890) so you will be able to remove that soon. On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Chris McMahon cmcma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Best for strategy for filtering and rebroadcasting RCstream?

2015-01-12 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 15-01-12 08:47 PM, Maximilian Klein wrote: So how can I have submit the rebroadcast job to the grid and have the rebroadcasted websocket be accessed by a static address, so that external people can read it? What is the best strategy? I can think of several strategies; part of the difficulty

[Wikitech-l] Best for strategy for filtering and rebroadcasting RCstream?

2015-01-12 Thread Maximilian Klein
Hello Wikiwizards, I have developed an application that reads the RCstream, performs a filter/augmentation operation[1] and then rebroadcasts the filtered RCstream. The problem I am running into on Tools-Labs is that when I submit to the grid, the rebroadcasting of the filtered websocket stream

[Wikitech-l] RFC meeting this week

2015-01-12 Thread Tim Starling
In the next RFC meeting we would like to discuss the following RFCs: * Support for user-specific page lists in core https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Support_for_user-specific_page_lists_in_core * Guidelines for extracting, publishing and managing libraries

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stance on Social Media

2015-01-12 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Here's perhaps a new way to think about social media. Let's focus on one particular aspect of not noise: news. Twitter is a powerful tool for collecting/spreading real time news. It also has many disadvantages, as we all know. We have wikinews and other real-time information sources in our

Re: [Wikitech-l] OCG-PDF-renderer: Support for div / css

2015-01-12 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
If the SMW output you're using is emitted within table, it will be stripped entirely for sure. div has mixed luck, see e.g. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askeptosauroidea Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] Welcome Corey Floyd as Software Developer to the Apps Team

2015-01-12 Thread Tomasz Finc
I am pleased to announce that Corey Floyd joins WMF this week as a Software Engineer for the Mobile App Team. Corey is based in Philadelphia where he will be working remotely. He previously worked as a mobile consultant, during which he developed iOS apps for organizations like the Human Rights

[Wikitech-l] Welcome Brian Gerstle as Software Developer to the Apps Team

2015-01-12 Thread Tomasz Finc
I am pleased to announce that Brian Gerstle joins WMF this week as a Software Engineer for the Mobile App Team. Brian comes to us from Spotify, where he worked as an iOS developer—with a brief stint as a Quality Engineer. He's really excited to join the team and contribute to the WMF mission by

[Wikitech-l] extensions tested along core

2015-01-12 Thread Antoine Musso
Hello, I have crafted and enabled two new jobs: * mediawiki-phpunit-hhvm * mediawiki-phpunit-zend Which are triggered whenever a patch is proposed to the repos: mediawiki/core mediawiki/vendor Or the mobile related extensions: Echo JsonConfig Mantle

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stance on Social Media

2015-01-12 Thread Quim Gil
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:45 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: The question was what problem are we trying to solve. An appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation vision statement is clever, particularly as it uses the word share, but Wikipedia currently has more visitors than nearly every

Re: [Wikitech-l] extensions tested along core

2015-01-12 Thread Chris McMahon
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Hello, I have crafted and enabled two new jobs: * mediawiki-phpunit-hhvm * mediawiki-phpunit-zend ... Side effect: if one deprecates a function/method in mediawiki/core and it is used by one of the extensions

Re: [Wikitech-l] extensions tested along core

2015-01-12 Thread James Forrester
On 12 January 2015 at 08:31, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: I have crafted and enabled two new jobs: * mediawiki-phpunit-hhvm * mediawiki-phpunit-zend Which are triggered whenever a patch is proposed to the repos: mediawiki/core mediawiki/vendor Or the mobile related

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Corey Floyd as Software Developer to the Apps Team

2015-01-12 Thread Dan Garry
Welcome to the team! Dan On 12 January 2015 at 10:25, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am pleased to announce that Corey Floyd joins WMF this week as a Software Engineer for the Mobile App Team. Corey is based in Philadelphia where he will be working remotely. He previously worked

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Brian Gerstle as Software Developer to the Apps Team

2015-01-12 Thread Dan Garry
Welcome to the team! Dan On 12 January 2015 at 10:25, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am pleased to announce that Brian Gerstle joins WMF this week as a Software Engineer for the Mobile App Team. Brian comes to us from Spotify, where he worked as an iOS developer—with a brief