Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Marielle Volz joins Wikimedia as Software Developer

2014-10-29 Thread Petr Kadlec
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Roan Kattouw rkatt...@wikimedia.org wrote: To put that into perspective: she's working on a feature in VE that will let you paste in a URL to, say, a New York Times article, and will then automatically generate and insert a {{cite news}} template for you with

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Marielle Volz joins Wikimedia as Software Developer

2014-10-29 Thread Marielle Volz
So there's a user gadget which only works with en wiki because the template fields are hardcoded in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mvolz/veCiteFromURL I made this approximately midway through the internship this summer so use with caution :). Under development is work on the TemplateData

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Marielle Volz joins Wikimedia as Software Developer

2014-10-29 Thread Petr Kadlec
Hi, On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Marielle Volz marielle.v...@gmail.com wrote: […] So the answer is that this is being designed to work on any mediawiki installation in any language, by configuring it with a) a special Mediawiki namespace message, and b) a map in each template's

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Marielle Volz joins Wikimedia as Software Developer

2014-10-28 Thread Quim Gil
Great news! On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am pleased to announce Marielle Volz joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Software Engineer for the Editing team. (snip) she did the FOSS Outreach Program for Women program this Summer[4] Marielle's

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Marielle Volz joins Wikimedia as Software Developer

2014-10-28 Thread Derric Atzrott
and started developing a node.js service Citoid[5] to make it easy to insert citations using a URL/DOI/Title in VE/Wikitext. To put that into perspective: she's working on a feature in VE that will let you paste in a URL to, say, a New York Times article, and will then automatically generate

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Marielle Volz joins Wikimedia as Software Developer

2014-10-28 Thread Dan Garry
On 27 October 2014 11:48, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: During a brief period of insanity (i.e. all of her undergraduate and graduate education) she considered becoming a Scientist, before realizing it's actually more fun to sit inside on a computer all day editing Wikipedia articles

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Marielle Volz joins Wikimedia as Software Developer

2014-10-27 Thread Arthur Richards
Welcome Marielle :) On Oct 27, 2014 11:48 AM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am pleased to announce Marielle Volz joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Software Engineer for the Editing team. Marielle will be working remotely from London, UK. She made her first website[1] in 1997

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Marielle Volz joins Wikimedia as Software Developer

2014-10-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am pleased to announce Marielle Volz joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Software Engineer for the Editing team. Welcome Marielle! and started developing a node.js service Citoid[5] to make it easy to insert

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Marielle Volz joins Wikimedia as Software Developer

2014-10-27 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Welcome! Awesome introduction indeed. בתאריך 27 באוק 2014 20:49, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org כתב: I am pleased to announce Marielle Volz joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Software Engineer for the Editing team. Marielle will be working remotely from London, UK. She made her first