Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Bartosz Dziewoński joins Wikimedia as a Features Contractor

2014-10-07 Thread Brian Wolff
On 10/7/14, James Forrester wrote: > Hello all, > > It is my great pleasure to announce that Bartosz Dziewoński[0] has joined > the Wikimedia Foundation as a contractor in Features Engineering. > > > Bartosz has worked as a volunteer developer for several years, specialising > in front-end improve

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Bartosz Dziewoński joins Wikimedia as a Features Contractor

2014-10-07 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
W00t ! DJ > On 7 okt. 2014, at 19:54, Brion Vibber wrote: > > Welcome officially on board! :D > > -- brion > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:42 AM, James Forrester > wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> It is my great pleasure to announce that Bartosz Dziewoński[0] has joined >> the Wikimedia Foundat

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
Jon, 1: Get templateeditor rights on your volunteer account, you can edit the majority of templates with that, and you only need to proof your skill with templates for that, which is a reasonably low barrier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_editor 2: This whole stuff is mostly

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Design Research in Product Development: Oct 22

2014-10-07 Thread Pine W
Hi Rachel, Would it be appropriate to invite people who are outside of the Wikimedia universe to watch on Youtube and participate on IRC? This talk in particular may interest outsiders who are designers, PMs, researchers, or coders. Pine On Oct 7, 2014 3:40 PM, "Rachel Farrand" wrote: > Please

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Dan Garry
As members of the Mobile Team, it's our job to make the mobile platform the best it can be. If we have to edit templates to do that because they're causing significant display issues that are disrupting the platform, so be it. For example, let's say pie charts are completely broken on mobile and di

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Brian Wolff
On Oct 7, 2014 10:03 PM, "Dan Garry" wrote: > > Jon, > > Regarding editing specific templates, I'll echo Brion here. If a template > is causing difficulties for your work and you feel like you know enough to > fix it, then fix it! That's the wiki way. If you don't have the rights to > edit the tem

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Brian Wolff
On Oct 7, 2014 10:03 PM, "Dan Garry" wrote: > > Jon, > > Regarding editing specific templates, I'll echo Brion here. If a template > is causing difficulties for your work and you feel like you know enough to > fix it, then fix it! That's the wiki way. If you don't have the rights to > edit the tem

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Jon Robson
On 7 Oct 2014 18:15, "Jon Robson" wrote: > > > On 7 Oct 2014 18:03, "Dan Garry" wrote: > > > > Jon, > > > > Regarding editing specific templates, I'll echo Brion here. If a template > > is causing difficulties for your work and you feel like you know enough to > > fix it, then fix it! That's the

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Jon Robson
On 7 Oct 2014 18:03, "Dan Garry" wrote: > > Jon, > > Regarding editing specific templates, I'll echo Brion here. If a template > is causing difficulties for your work and you feel like you know enough to > fix it, then fix it! That's the wiki way. If you don't have the rights to > edit the templat

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Dan Garry
Jon, Regarding editing specific templates, I'll echo Brion here. If a template is causing difficulties for your work and you feel like you know enough to fix it, then fix it! That's the wiki way. If you don't have the rights to edit the template (e.g. because it's protected), then speak to Tomasz

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread K. Peachey
Templates aren't protected by default =). If they are protected there is generally a good reason such as heavy usage, you can always put a comment on the talk page and tag it with {{EditProtected}} which will summon someone with sysop rights. You can also setup a /Sandbox page with the proposed c

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Jon Robson
> The wiki way is not to ask and wait for someone else to act, but to act > directly in good faith and communicate what you did and why so that if > there is disagreement it can be resolved afterwards. Sadly I only have template edit rights on my staff account and I really don't like using that ac

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Jon Robson
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Bináris wrote: > Is there a techguide anywhere on how to style templates to avoid mobile > problems? There are a few notes here - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Writing_a_MobileFrontend_friendly_ResourceLoader_module#Styling_for_mobile but these appl

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC meeting this week

2014-10-07 Thread Tyler Romeo
If at all possible, if you could discuss Extension registration second, I would really appreciate it. I have something until 21:30 UTC so I will only be able to be online in the second half of the meeting. --  Tyler Romeo 0x405D34A7C86B42DF On October 6, 2014 at 22:08:47, Tim Starling (tstarl..

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Moriel Schottlender converts to Wikimedia staff

2014-10-07 Thread Frances Hocutt
What wonderful news! Congratulations, Moriel. Frances On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:58 PM, James Forrester wrote: > [Second one today!] > > I am delighted to announce that Moriel Schottlender [0] has converted to > full time staff member status as a Software Engineer in Features > Engineering, as of

[Wikitech-l] Announcement: Moriel Schottlender converts to Wikimedia staff

2014-10-07 Thread James Forrester
[Second one today!] I am delighted to announce that Moriel Schottlender [0] has converted to full time staff member status as a Software Engineer in Features Engineering, as of 1 October. Moriel has been working with us, initially as a GSoC 2013 student [1] and then as a student contractor in the

[Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Design Research in Product Development: Oct 22

2014-10-07 Thread Rachel Farrand
Please join us for the following tech talk: *Tech Talk**:* Design Research in Product Development *Presenter:* Abbey Ripstra, Design & Usability Research Analyst on The UX team at the Wikimedia Foundation *Date:* October 22 *Time:* 1900 UTC

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Isarra Yos
On 07/10/14 22:17, Isarra Yos wrote: On 07/10/14 22:02, Jon Robson wrote: On mobile we continuously get bugs related to inline styles in templates. For example: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68001 When these happen we usually spend time investigating, discover it is because of

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Brion Vibber
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Bináris wrote: > Is there a techguide anywhere on how to style templates to avoid mobile > problems? > I'll write up some notes... The first thing is to *test your pages on mobile*. The least one can do is fire up a page in *.m.wikipedia.org in a desktop browser

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Isarra Yos
On 07/10/14 22:02, Jon Robson wrote: On mobile we continuously get bugs related to inline styles in templates. For example: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68001 When these happen we usually spend time investigating, discover it is because of a troublesome inline style in the temp

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Bináris
Is there a techguide anywhere on how to style templates to avoid mobile problems? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Brion Vibber
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > On mobile we continuously get bugs related to inline styles in > templates. For example: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68001 > > When these happen we usually spend time investigating, discover it is > because of a troublesome

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Ryan Kaldari
One thing that would help tremendously would be encouraging template standardization on the wikis. For example, on en.wiki, we currently have 60 different quotation templates![1] And all of them have completely different inline styling (most of which don't work well on mobile). If there were only 1

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Jon Robson
(See also https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35704 for lots of examples of broken template/css combos) On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > On mobile we continuously get bugs related to inline styles in > templates. For example: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug

[Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Jon Robson
On mobile we continuously get bugs related to inline styles in templates. For example: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68001 When these happen we usually spend time investigating, discover it is because of a troublesome inline style in the template and then we communicate this on th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Branching extensions for 1.24

2014-10-07 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 18:11:15 +0200, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: Antoine Musso writes: Le 05/10/2014 21:06, Bartosz Dziewoński a écrit : I note that this is missing release branches for skins entirely, which we're also going to need. Can you bug fill this please? The script that creates

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Bartosz Dziewoński joins Wikimedia as a Features Contractor

2014-10-07 Thread Brion Vibber
Welcome officially on board! :D -- brion On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:42 AM, James Forrester wrote: > Hello all, > > It is my great pleasure to announce that Bartosz Dziewoński[0] has joined > the Wikimedia Foundation as a contractor in Features Engineering. > > > Bartosz has worked as a volunteer

[Wikitech-l] Announcement: Bartosz Dziewoński joins Wikimedia as a Features Contractor

2014-10-07 Thread James Forrester
Hello all, It is my great pleasure to announce that Bartosz Dziewoński[0] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a contractor in Features Engineering. Bartosz has worked as a volunteer developer for several years, specialising in front-end improvements to skins and core functionality, helping ga

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Phabricator is now open for everyone

2014-10-07 Thread Quim Gil
Thank you for the interest! On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:52 AM, wrote: > This is exciting. Let us know when smaller, newer projects would be able > to be set up as Phabricator guinea pigs. > The reasons to hold the horses (or guinea pigs) for new projects until the official launch are * minimize t