[Wikitech-l] Per-language URLs for multilingual wikis (RFC T114662)

Hi all! During next Wednesday's RFC meeting on IRC, we are planning to discuss introducing "Per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis". This is an exploratory discussion, with no expectation of a final decision. We are looking for concerns and suggestions. If you care about improved

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help test SessionManager on WMF beta cluster

Hello Pywikibot devs and users, The Wikimedia reading infrastructure team has been working hard on overhauling the way MediaWiki handles sessions. It had a few issues and we had to roll it back. Bryan Davis announced on wikitech-l the feature has been merged again in master and it is now

[Wikitech-l] Reading Q4 planning call for participation and updates

Dear all, Q4 planning is coming soon. Staff and community are invited to add their ideas and suggestions that align with the roadmap to the planning page here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Quarterly_planning/Q4 A brief summary for Reading team updates for the last quarter is also

[Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

Developer Relations focus this week: * Review Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 travel sponsorship requests and prepare the call for proposals for 2017. * Developer Relations strategy and annual plan. Get the full summary with developer related news at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data visualization for wiki

Thank you for that input! I'll send an e-mail to him and check that. I'm lot more familiar with Commons and the community there, than with software developing part. I've been leading projects Minority Translate and WikiComment , but I'm

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data visualization for wiki

There is some work towards in browser image editing (see https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2015-December/001219.html) but im not sure what the status of that is. In the past there was also some work around Extension:SVGEdit, but that seems to have died Gamification at commons may

[Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: A Hands-on Estimation Exercise, With Discussion: Feb 8th

Please join for the following tech talk: *Tech Talk**:* A Hands-on Estimation Exercise, With Discussion *Presenter:* Joel Aufrecht *Date:* February 8th, 2016 *Time: *18:30 UTC

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: A Hands-on Estimation Exercise, With Discussion: Feb 8th

On 02/05/2016 10:59 PM, Rachel Farrand wrote: *Summary: *Estimation is an unnatural activity for human brains, which tend to hide our own ignorance from us. This brown-bag begins with an exercise, adapted from Steve McConnell's software estimation training, in balancing accuracy with