Re: [Wikitech-l] Suggestions for tasks for new contributors during hackathon

2012-06-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 06/22/2012 10:53 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Chris McMahon cmcma...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On the QA front, this came up in a WMF discussion recently, and I proposed it as a Weekend Testing Americas session, but it would work equally well at Wikimania, and it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Suggestions for tasks for new contributors during hackathon

2012-06-23 Thread Krinkle
On Jun 23, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: On 06/22/2012 10:53 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Chris McMahon cmcma...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On the QA front, this came up in a WMF discussion recently, and I proposed it as a Weekend Testing Americas

Re: [Wikitech-l] bot activity in #mediawiki on freenode

2012-06-23 Thread Petr Bena
Yes, the bots are useful for devs, that's the reason why we made them and there is a little point to argue about that. But they aren't useful for other users of #mediawiki especially users who seek help. IMHO #mediawiki should be used for development (bots are probably ok), #wikimedia-dev for

Re: [Wikitech-l] bot activity in #mediawiki on freenode

2012-06-23 Thread Platonides
On 23/06/12 20:34, Petr Bena wrote: Yes, the bots are useful for devs, that's the reason why we made them and there is a little point to argue about that. But they aren't useful for other users of #mediawiki especially users who seek help. IMHO #mediawiki should be used for development (bots