Re: [Wikidata-l] Call for development openness

2015-02-17 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, As Lydia mentioned, we obviously do not actively discourage outside contributions, and will gladly listen to suggestions on how we can do better. That being said, we are actively taking steps to make it easier for developers not already part of the community to start contributing. For instan

Re: [Wikidata-l] Call for development openness

2015-02-17 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Ricordisamoa wrote: > Upd: I found https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseRepository, > https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseClient and > https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseLib, but they're marked as "experimental > splits" and have no commits since Oct 2014, so I suppose they're

Re: [Wikidata-l] Call for development openness

2015-02-17 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Ricordisamoa wrote: > Out of curiosity, was GitHub chosen because it fitted with your workflow? Several reasons but mostly exposure to other users of libraries that are not tied to MediaWiki and workflow. > Will you embrace Differential when it comes? That's a d

Re: [Wikidata-l] Call for development openness

2015-02-17 Thread Ricordisamoa
Il 17/02/2015 13:33, Ricordisamoa ha scritto: Il 17/02/2015 12:53, Lydia Pintscher ha scritto: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Ricordisamoa wrote: Hi. I recently started following mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase on Gerrit, and quite astonishingly found that nearly all of the 100 most recently

Re: [Wikidata-l] Call for development openness

2015-02-17 Thread Ricordisamoa
Il 17/02/2015 12:53, Lydia Pintscher ha scritto: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Ricordisamoa wrote: Hi. I recently started following mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase on Gerrit, and quite astonishingly found that nearly all of the 100 most recently updated changes appear to be owned by WMDE empl

Re: [Wikidata-l] Call for development openness

2015-02-17 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Ricordisamoa wrote: > Hi. > I recently started following mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase on Gerrit, and > quite astonishingly found that nearly all of the 100 most recently updated > changes appear to be owned by WMDE employees (exceptions being one change by > Lego

[Wikidata-l] Call for development openness

2015-02-17 Thread Ricordisamoa
Hi. I recently started following mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase on Gerrit, and quite astonishingly found that nearly all of the 100 most recently updated changes appear to be owned by WMDE employees (exceptions being one change by Legoktm and some from L10n-bot). This is not the case, for examp