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

[Quim Gil]

Great news!

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Tomasz Finc  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 hiring makes this post obsolete:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/18/new-foss-outreach-internships-female-technical-contributors/

What is more, she is also helping new FOSS OPW candidates:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T564

Thank you Marielle and thank you Editing team!

[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mvolz/OPW_proposal_round_8

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: slight change to the XML dump format

[Daniel Kinzler]

Am 27.10.2014 22:08, schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
> Hoi,
> You may want to wait until the dumps are fixed. Magnus fixed the one but
> last dump by hand. The following dump is still broken. Wait until we KNOW
> the dumps are ok.

Gerard, what exactly do you mean? The only problem I know of is the fact that we
are still outputting content using the old serialization format for some
revisions. Changing the tag order is, strange as it may sound, needed to fix
that problem. Bugs:

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72348
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72361
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72417


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Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: slight change to the XML dump format

[Daniel Kinzler]

Am 27.10.2014 21:58, schrieb Ariel T. Glenn:
> Thank you Google for hiding the start of this thread in my spam folder
>> _<
> 
> I'm going to have to change my import tools for the new format, but
> that's the way it goes; it's a reasonable change.  Have you checked with
> folks on the xml data dumps list to see who might be affected?

Not yet, shall do that now.

Thanks!
-- daniel


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[Wikitech-l] RFC meeting this week

[Tim Starling]

In the next RFC meeting we would like to discuss the following RFCs:

* Core user preferences


* Redesign user preferences


* Isolate custom jQuery libraries


The meeting will be on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on
irc.freenode.org at the following time:

* UTC: Wednesday 21:00
* US PDT: Wednesday 14:00
* Europe CET: Wednesday 22:00
* Australia AEDT: Thursday 08:00

-- Tim Starling


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

[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 and insert a {{cite news}} template
> for you with all the right information (title of the article, author,
> date, etc.). Some of you may have seen the demo that she and Erik did
> at a metrics meeting earlier this year. This is really exciting,
> because it's a big step forward towards the goal of making even
> relatively complex tasks like inserting citations more convenient in
> VE than in wikitext.

Not going to lie, that sounds really cool.  Can't wait to see that
finished.

Welcome Marielle.  I wish you the best of times in everything you do
here.

Thank you,
Derric Atzrott


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[Wikitech-l] Major achievements during previous Mediawiki Hackathons

[Sylvain Boissel]

Hello,

I am currently drafting a short document about what is a Mediawiki
Hackathon. Could you please help me by pinpointing to me some of the
greatest / coolest tools or achievements that were made during previous
Wikimedia Hackathon?

Best regards,
Sylvain.

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ADMINISTRATEUR SYSTÈME ET RÉSEAUX
*WIKIMÉDIA FRANCE*

*Tél +33 9 80 93 07 54*
*www.wikimedia.fr *
*40 rue de clery, **75002 Paris*


*Imaginez un monde où chaque personne sur la planète aurait librement accès
à la totalité du savoir humain. C'est notre engagement. Aidez Wikimedia
France à en faire une réalité .*
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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Marielle Volz joins Wikimedia as Software Developer

[Dan Garry]

On 27 October 2014 11:48, Tomasz Finc  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 about Science rather than Doing Science and
> actually going outside, which, with the advent of vitamin D
> supplementation, is wholly unnecessary, and perhaps one could even
> say, *inadvisable*.
>

No kidding. I've had the same revelation myself. ;-)

Welcome Marielle.

Dan

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Wikimedia Foundation
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Major achievements during previous Mediawiki Hackathons

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

For the last one there is 
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=65005&hide_resolved=0 
; I don't remember how many had an "achievements" session with 
associated notes archived on the wiki, but you can check. ;-)


Nemo

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[Wikitech-l] Introduction for OPW (Collaborative spelling dictionary building tool)

[Ankita Shukla]

Hello!

I am Ankita Shukla, a Computer Science and Engineering student pursuing
the junior year of Bachelor of Technology at the Indian Institute of
Technology Roorkee, India. I had posted my announcement for the
project 'collaborative
spelling dictionary building tool' here
.

I have also set up the proposal page
 for the project
with help and guidance from my mentors. Since the project itself is quite
dependent on the community support and crowd-sourcing, therefore it would
be great to get started with considering the views of the community about
the same.

I'd be happy to have reviews and feedback from the community regarding the
proposal and the (feasibility of the) timeline in particular. I welcome any
suggestion towards the betterment of the project and am also ready to
discuss about any point which might not be very clear in the proposal. :)

Kindest regards

Thanks,
Ankita Shukla
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Obsolete MediaWiki extensions

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Adding to what Skizzerz and Siebrand said: there are "only" 306 
extensions in SVN of which we didn't know the status (including 
usefulness) and back then I contacted all their authors:


	If you see so many cases of extensions which should be migrated because 
people want to use them but are having problems, you could make a new 
list. http://wikiapiary.com can also help you select further SVN 
extensions of relevance. It's also useful if you tell users to file bugs 
for each extension they really need to get migrated.
	When we have more information on the problem, we can see if a change in 
process is needed (e.g. a proactive search for maintainers for some 
extensions).


Nemo

P.s./premise 1: unlike Siebrand, I think most users will *not* get 
themselves heard. That's why with WikiTeam I've been spidering the web 
for years, to acquire all the information possible. It only took me 300 
$ to get the last list of wikis: 
. Now go use the data!
P.s./premise 2: it's a bit disturbing to hear "volunteers X _should_  be 
interested in Y". The MediaWiki Cooperation is open for new members and 
none of the above requires superpowers nor a bolla papale; if you think 
an activity should be done under that group, join the group and to the 
activity.


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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives

[Tilman Bayer]

Minutes and slides from Thursday's quarterly review meeting of the
Foundation's Multimedia team are now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Multimedia/October_2014
.

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller  wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> to increase accountability and create more opportunities for course
> corrections and resourcing adjustments as necessary, Sue's asked me
> and Howie Fung to set up a quarterly project evaluation process,
> starting with our highest priority initiatives. These are, according
> to Sue's narrowing focus recommendations which were approved by the
> Board [1]:
>
> - Visual Editor
> - Mobile (mobile contributions + Wikipedia Zero)
> - Editor Engagement (also known as the E2 and E3 teams)
> - Funds Dissemination Committe and expanded grant-making capacity
>
> I'm proposing the following initial schedule:
>
> January:
> - Editor Engagement Experiments
>
> February:
> - Visual Editor
> - Mobile (Contribs + Zero)
>
> March:
> - Editor Engagement Features (Echo, Flow projects)
> - Funds Dissemination Committee
>
> We’ll try doing this on the same day or adjacent to the monthly
> metrics meetings [2], since the team(s) will give a presentation on
> their recent progress, which will help set some context that would
> otherwise need to be covered in the quarterly review itself. This will
> also create open opportunities for feedback and questions.
>
> My goal is to do this in a manner where even though the quarterly
> review meetings themselves are internal, the outcomes are captured as
> meeting minutes and shared publicly, which is why I'm starting this
> discussion on a public list as well. I've created a wiki page here
> which we can use to discuss the concept further:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews
>
> The internal review will, at minimum, include:
>
> Sue Gardner
> myself
> Howie Fung
> Team members and relevant director(s)
> Designated minute-taker
>
> So for example, for Visual Editor, the review team would be the Visual
> Editor / Parsoid teams, Sue, me, Howie, Terry, and a minute-taker.
>
> I imagine the structure of the review roughly as follows, with a
> duration of about 2 1/2 hours divided into 25-30 minute blocks:
>
> - Brief team intro and recap of team's activities through the quarter,
> compared with goals
> - Drill into goals and targets: Did we achieve what we said we would?
> - Review of challenges, blockers and successes
> - Discussion of proposed changes (e.g. resourcing, targets) and other
> action items
> - Buffer time, debriefing
>
> Once again, the primary purpose of these reviews is to create improved
> structures for internal accountability, escalation points in cases
> where serious changes are necessary, and transparency to the world.
>
> In addition to these priority initiatives, my recommendation would be
> to conduct quarterly reviews for any activity that requires more than
> a set amount of resources (people/dollars). These additional reviews
> may however be conducted in a more lightweight manner and internally
> to the departments. We’re slowly getting into that habit in
> engineering.
>
> As we pilot this process, the format of the high priority reviews can
> help inform and support reviews across the organization.
>
> Feedback and questions are appreciated.
>
> All best,
> Erik
>
> [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Vote:Narrowing_Focus
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings
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>
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[Wikitech-l] Pre-release announcement for MediaWiki releases 1.23.6, 1.22.13 and 1.19.21

[Mark A. Hershberger]

Hello everyone,

This is a notice that on Wednesday, October 28, 2014, between
20:00-22:00 UTC, we will release maintenance updates for current and
supported branches of the MediaWiki software. Downloads and patches will
be available at that time.

Best,
Mark. A. Hershberger
(Wiki Release Team)

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