Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] DEADLINE EXTENDED: Wikimania 2017 call for submissions

2017-04-09 Thread phoebe ayers
tted, there > is now a field in the registration form for "completed" or "in-progress" > submission. When you are ready to have your submission reviewed, please > note that it is "completed". Thank you! > > Please contact us with any questions: wikimania-

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: DEADLINE EXTENDED: Wikimania 2017 call for submissions

2017-03-26 Thread phoebe ayers
FYI all: deadline for presentations has been extended to April 10. -- Forwarded message -- From: phoebe ayers <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 9:53 PM Subject: DEADLINE EXTENDED: Wikimania 2017 call for submissions To: Wikimedia Mailing List <

Re: [Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback

2015-02-22 Thread phoebe ayers
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 20/02/15 00:58, phoebe ayers wrote: Hi all, I'm the one who started that bug-now-task a while back, and for context, it was based directly on user feedback. What MzM says above is right. I was working with a casual

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-20 Thread phoebe ayers
Hooray! This is so cool. /goes to edit her meta userpage... -- phoebe p.s. re: babel, my absolute favorite use is on Wikidata, where you can add babel templates to your userpage and then get the appropriate fields to add stuff in that language :) I love showing that to people who are getting

Re: [Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback

2015-02-19 Thread phoebe ayers
Hi all, I'm the one who started that bug-now-task a while back, and for context, it was based directly on user feedback. What MzM says above is right. I was working with a casual (but quite good) editor who said to me well, I'd edit that Wikipedia page, but I don't edit very often and I can never

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Deprecating print-on-demand functionality

2014-07-14 Thread phoebe ayers
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Luca Martinelli martinellil...@gmail.com wrote: so the Book Creator will still be active, maybe under another name, maybe with another engine, but still active? Same name and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Top Level Design, LLC greedy registrar!

2014-04-04 Thread phoebe ayers
On 4 April 2014 09:37, VP Singh vpsing...@gmail.com wrote: I want to ask wikimedia , about the .wiki tld. I am AN IT expert and I was going to register science.wiiki (example) in epa ( early phase access) which will be in may for my firm. I was surprised to find that it was already

Re: [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki hosting service?

2013-10-02 Thread phoebe ayers
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: Question for the group: Would an officially supported general-purpose MediaWiki hosting service be useful to people who would like to run wikis, but don't have the time, expertise, or resources to maintain their own

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: C. Scott Ananian joins Wikimedia as Senior Features Engineer

2013-07-11 Thread phoebe ayers
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Scott lives and works in Cambridge, MA[5]. He is a square dancer[6] and theatrical lighting designer. I have it on good word that he’s a demon on MIT Mystery Hunt [7]—not sure if he’s on the same team as our Board Members

Re: [Wikitech-l] Not much usage of the Visual Editor?

2013-05-11 Thread phoebe ayers
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:29 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Well, that's disconcerting - is this actually all the edits with the Visual Editor?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment highlights - week of April 8th

2013-04-08 Thread phoebe ayers
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 April 2013 12:51, Brad Jorsch bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: I do not think it is particularly obvious outside of our project the way that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment highlights - week of April 8th

2013-04-08 Thread phoebe ayers
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:03 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 April 2013 12:51, Brad Jorsch bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: I do

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment highlights - week of April 8th

2013-04-05 Thread phoebe ayers
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 April 2013 19:07, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 1:00 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Sorry, I don't know what this means. I thought Wikidata was already deployed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC

2013-03-22 Thread phoebe ayers
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Many of the ideas listed there are too generic (Write an extension), improvements of existing features (Improve Extension:CSS) This may

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Adam Wight joins Wikimedia as Fundraising Engineer

2012-06-08 Thread phoebe ayers
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone,        It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Adam Wight has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Fundraising Engineer.        Before joining us, Adam was customizing open-source web services

Re: [Wikitech-l] The bugtracker problem, again

2012-05-13 Thread phoebe ayers
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/05/12 18:17, David Gerard wrote: Discussion on Oliver Keyes' blog:     http://quominus.org/archives/714 He's coming from the perspective of liaison with newbies. Read the comments. I have to say it's the first

Re: [Wikitech-l] Patch submitted: authentication on Wikipedia via user_name OR user_email

2012-02-22 Thread phoebe ayers
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:24 AM, Nicolas Brouard brou...@ined.fr wrote: Thank you for your support. I just submitted a complete patch entitled Can't authenticate using my mother language username (UNICODE) when I only have (a public) access to Wikipedia with an ASCII (english) keyboard in

[Wikitech-l] book about wikitude

2011-09-21 Thread phoebe ayers
Incidental: a book about developing for Wikitude was recently published: Professional Augmented Reality Browsers for Smartphones: Programming for junaio, Layar and Wikitude http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1119992818/ I know nothing about it other than the title :) phoebe -- * I use this

Re: [Wikitech-l] sep11.wikipedia.org

2011-09-11 Thread phoebe ayers
2011/9/11 Kirill Krasnov krasnovfo...@gmail.com: Hi, John. You wrote Sunday, September 11, 2011, 8:38:07 PM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks 2011/9/11 Краснов Кирилл krasnovfo...@gmail.com Sorry, what is sep11.wikipedia.org? Is it project Wikipedia Org? Why not domain

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] Tragedy: videos and slides from presentations Wikimanias (lately 2011 in Haifa)

2011-09-03 Thread phoebe ayers
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it seems that every year we choose locations that for one reason or the other are likely not to be accessible to some groups or nationality (I hear complaints every year about these issues)(no judgements, just a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia projects + Open Library books?

2011-06-05 Thread phoebe ayers
Funny you should ask :) I follow a list called CODE4LIB (library hackers, includes many open library people) and this very subject just came up: (see adding VIAF links to Wikipedia): https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind1106L=CODE4LIB https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind1105L=CODE4LIB

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering May 2011 report

2011-06-03 Thread phoebe ayers
I'm always impressed by this report, and by the volume of activity going on -- nice work, all. You're setting a really nice standard with the engineering reports for readable, detailed-but-layperson-accessible, interesting monthly documentation :) cheers, phoebe On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:48 AM,

[Wikitech-l] supporting small languages (was WMF 2015 strategic plan and multilingualism)

2011-03-08 Thread phoebe ayers
(changing the thread title) On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: I have proposed to spend 100,000,- Euro and this will make major improvements for the scripts, the fonts and the standards for the languages we have a Wikipedia for. This is given the

Re: [Wikitech-l] How users without programming skills can help

2011-02-14 Thread phoebe ayers
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:28 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Mark A. Hershberger wrote: Perhaps we could recruit some people from the he.wikipedia.org community to take problems reported (via the localized interface?) and reproduce them or act as a translator between developers and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmaps and getting and keeping devs

2011-02-12 Thread phoebe ayers
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: Have a bugathon where we label a lot of bugs as appropriate bugathon bugs that need either: a) test patch / update patch to recent svn version a) confirmation / replication of new / unconfirmed bugs We can provide a simple

[Wikitech-l] IRC general meetings

2011-02-02 Thread phoebe ayers
help moderate. Looking forward to it, Phoebe On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:54 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Back in September we had an open community IRC meeting, where we introduced the new Trustees and talked about various issues. It was pretty successful and we

Re: [Wikitech-l] OT: Sunday in San Francisco

2011-01-27 Thread phoebe ayers
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: Have you seen http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Visiting_San_Francisco ? I think that might have been copied from elsewhere for a specific

Re: [Wikitech-l] MATH markup question

2011-01-25 Thread phoebe ayers
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Aryeh Gregor wrote: When I load their homepage, the formulas don't appear for about two seconds of 100% CPU usage, on Firefox 4b9.  And that's for two small formulas.  I'm not impressed.  IMO, the correct way forward is to

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] Geonotice improvements that could make Wikinews great (among other benefits)

2009-07-31 Thread phoebe ayers
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Sage Rossragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: One of the great frustrations of Wikinews for me is that it doesn't have a system for identifying and pointing users toward opportunities to get out into the offline world and do original reporting.  A fine-grained

Re: [Wikitech-l] research-oriented toolserver?

2009-03-10 Thread phoebe ayers
Thanks for the responses, all. Daniel and Bilal: the notes about the possible servers at Syracuse and Concordia are very interesting; it sounds like the researchers interested in such things should team up. Daniel: I am not sure what type of data is needed -- this is not my project (I'm only the

[Wikitech-l] research-oriented toolserver?

2009-03-09 Thread phoebe ayers
Hi all, I'm not sure exactly where to raise this, so am asking here. A researcher I have been in touch with has proposed starting a 2nd, research-oriented Wikimedia toolserver. He thinks his lab can pay for the hardware and would be willing to maintain it, if they could get help setting it up. He

[Wikitech-l] WikiSym 2009 in Orlando: Call for Papers - deadline March 27

2009-03-08 Thread phoebe ayers
://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=SERIES11299coll=ACMdl=ACMtype=seriesidx=SERIES11299part=seriesWantType=Proceedingstitle=ISW The conference is colocated with OOPSLA 2009. For more, see: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/ -- Phoebe Ayers (2009 Wikimedia Liason) ___ Wikitech