Re: [Wikitech-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] IE 8 will go JavaScript-less starting January 2016

On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 4:47 AM, Jon Robson wrote: > Why not? Whats wrong with a fixed width centered site? Because reading text like this is really annoying when you have gigantic amounts of wasted whitespace on either side. (And it's even worse if someone decides that

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Update about on-going work on Notifications, especially cross-wiki notifications

> > "Yes, we lack efficient and effective ways of cross-listing conversations" This is something we would love to address in our organization. Between email, chat, multiple wiki discussion/Flow pages, and issue trackers (like Phabricator/GitHub/GitLab), it's difficult to ensure everyone is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Contributing to Wikimedia Foundation

Thanks to Andre and Johan for the welcoming message and the tips to start out in the wikimedia community. I have been taking my time to look at the different links Andre pointed me to. Looking at this particular link https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs, I looked at this particular

[Wikitech-l] IRC office hour this Thursday: reconnecting with the shared hosting community

As part of T113210 [1], which is a broader discussion on track for the developer summit, I am hosting an IRC office hour [2] this Thursday at 19:00 UTC. Since shared hosting is a broad topic, this session will focus specifically on brainstorming ways to reconnect with the shared hosting

[Wikitech-l] Pageview API

Dear Data Enthusiasts, In collaboration with the Services team, the analytics team wishes to announce a public Pageview API . For an example of what kind

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia accepted in Google Code-in 2015 - Bring your tasks!

Wikimedia is among the 14 organizations in Google Code-in (GCI) 2015! In Dec & Jan, many young students will want to contribute to Wikimedia. Will you mentor some tasks? It's easy and fun. GCI is a great opportunity to let new contributors complete those small little tasks on your To-Do list!

[Wikitech-l] WMF Survey: Please help us understand third-party use of Wikipedia's content

Dear Wikipedia data/API user, The WMF’s Engineering, Product and Partnerships teams are conducting a short survey to help us understand how organizations are pulling and using data from our projects. This information will inform future features and improvements to our data tools and APIs. We

[Wikitech-l] Design and development principles

Hi all, Please note that what I'm about to talk about is informative to how the Wikimedia Foundation develops MediaWiki software. As you may have seen, engineering in the Wikimedia Foundation is working to define the software product development process to be used internally [0]. As part of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Contributing to Wikimedia Foundation

The bug references ORACLE, so its probably maintenance/oracle/tables.sql --bawolff On 11/16/15, Bill Morrisson wrote: > Thanks to Andre and Johan for the welcoming message and the tips to start > out in the wikimedia community. > I have been taking my time to look at

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] IRC office hour this Thursday: reconnecting with the shared hosting community

Hi Gilles, Thanks for leading this! My reading of your agenda leads me to believe that this is intended as a "problem solving" meeting, as described in User:RobLa-WMF/Meetings#Taxonomy. To quote that article: *Problem-solving* - Discuss a problem that we don’t know how to solve. >

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's the previous=yes parameter?

What did you do to get to a page that had that parameter? Parameters can come from anywhere, so its hard to say. But I would say most likely its from javascript (either common.js or gadget) [OTOH: searching for insource:previous doesn't give me anything]. Most of the time, MediaWiki would convert

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's the previous=yes parameter?

It comes up as the search result on a few Google queries, e.g. here: https://www.google.com/search?q=%D7%92%27%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%99+%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9F=%D7%92%27%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%99+%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9F=chrome..69i57j0.319j0j7=chrome_sm=91=UTF-8=he On Mon, Nov 16,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] IE 8 will go JavaScript-less starting January 2016

On 17 Nov 2015 12:28 a.m., "Brad Jorsch (Anomie)" wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 4:47 AM, Jon Robson wrote: > > > Why not? Whats wrong with a fixed width centered site? > > > Because reading > text like this > is really annoying > when you have >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Design and development principles

Thank you for this, Keegan - I'm looking forward to how this is iterated. It looks to be going well so far! On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > Hi all, > > Please note that what I'm about to talk about is informative to how the > Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] Pageview API

This is fantastic news - thank you so much, Analytics, Services, Ops, and the communities who supported/requested this! On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Dan Andreescu wrote: > Dear Data Enthusiasts, > > > In collaboration with the Services team, the analytics team

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] Pageview API

Grah, too early in the morning unselfishly of course !!! DJ > On 17 nov. 2015, at 08:10, Derk-Jan Hartman > wrote: > > Awesome !! > And once more a thank you to Henrik who selflessly maintained his > stats.grok.se for so many years !!! > > DJ > > >> On

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] Pageview API

Awesome !! And once more a thank you to Henrik who selflessly maintained his stats.grok.se for so many years !!! DJ > On 17 nov. 2015, at 04:40, Rachel diCerbo wrote: > > This is fantastic news - thank you so much, Analytics, Services, Ops, and > the communities who