[WikimediaMobile] Reading goals for the quarter.

[Toby Negrin]

Hi Everyone --

Our goals for Fiscal Year Q2 (Oct - Dec) are up on the wiki. Apologies for
this taking so long.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals#Reading

Please let us know if you have any questions.

-Toby
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Re: [WikimediaMobile] Reading goals for the quarter.

[Gergo Tisza]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Toby Negrin  wrote:

> Hi Everyone --
>
> Our goals for Fiscal Year Q2 (Oct - Dec) are up on the wiki. Apologies for
> this taking so long.
>
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals#Reading
>
> Please let us know if you have any questions.
>

Well, my question about the "migrating traffic to OAuth" thing still stands
:) I believe that was on a closed list, so let me rephrase.

OAuth is pretty much login for applications. There are basically three
classes of applications wrt OAuth:
- those that use the write API (edit, upload etc) and can secure the OAuth
"password" (the consumer secret), because they have some kind of
server-side component. These should use OAuth (and, I would imagine,
overwhelmingly do - these are going to be Labs tools mostly) so that our
users don't need to give out their passwords.
- those that use the write API but cannot secure the "password" (mobile
apps, desktop clients, bots). There is a security problem with these using
OAuth.
- those that don't use the write API at all, just display pages / collect
information. Using OAuth for these would essentially mean that we require
users to log in just to read Wikipedia (through these applications).

Which of these classes are we looking at? For the first, I don't think any
intervention is needed (are we even aware of any editing tool that does not
use OAuth?), although more resources for making OAuth easier to use would
be nevertheless a great thing :) For the second, there is the security
issue (I recall you wrote about that
,
although that was again on a closed list). For the third... I really hope
we are not even considering that.
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[WikimediaMobile] Get those small bugs fixed by new contributors: It's Google Code-In time!

[Andre Klapper]

* Do you have small, self-contained, "easy" bugs you'd love to get fixed?
  (Also see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs )
* Does your documentation need improvements?
* Do your old bugs welcome some testing?
* Does your user interface have some small design issues?
* Does the Outreachy/GSoC project you finished welcome small tweaks?
* Would you enjoy helping someone port your template to Lua?
* Does your gadget use some deprecated API calls?
* Do you have some tasks that welcome some research?

Google Code-In (GCI) will take place again in Dec+Jan: a contest for
13-17 year old students to provide small contributions to free software
projects. 
Wikimedia will apply again to take part in GCI. The more tasks we can
offer the likelier the changes Wikimedia will get accepted.

Unsure about quality of contributions and effort?
Read about tgr's post about Multimedia achievements in GCI 2014:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2015-January/001009.html

In short:
* Add the project "GCI2015" + a comment to Phabricator tasks you'd mentor.
* Tasks are welcome in five areas: Code; Outreach/Research; 
  Documentation/Training; Quality Assurance; User Interface.
* Make sure the task description provides pointers to help the student.
* Add yourself to the table of mentors on the wikipage.
* "Beginner tasks" (<30 min for an experienced contributor) also welcome.
* "Generic" tasks also welcome (e.g. "Fix two user interface messages from
  the "Blocked By" list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40638 ").
For all information, check 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015#Mentors.27_corner

15 Mobile Apps "easy" tasks (are they still valid? are there more?):
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/3P9zM7vzlXCS/#R

Can you imagine providing a helping hand to someone fixing tasks?

Please ask if you have questions!

Thank you!
andre
-- 
Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/



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