[Wikitech-l] Update from the Wikimedia Performance Team

Hi, This is the monthly report from the Wikimedia Performance Team for January 2016. ## Our progress ## ### Multi-datacenter * The central login system started to use DB slaves for some actions instead of master DB. * MediaWiki Special pages and Action classes now support defining DB query and

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wiki-research-l] ReplayEdits tool gets a shout-out in NYT

Cool. Forwarding this email. Pine On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Jonathan Morgan wrote: > Yesterday, 2013 IEG grantee Jeph Paul started seeing 1000s of hits on his > (grant-funded, volunteer-maintained) ReplayEdits tool which visually > replays edit histories of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

In regards to follow-up on the meeting about code review - That's partially my bad that there hasn't been any yet. During the meeting I said that I would pursue exploring the various options discussed, nag people, start further discussions and try to ensure the ball kept rolling. However, I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2015 is over. Congratulations everybody!

On 29 Jan 2016 4:49 am, "Andre Klapper" wrote: > > Google Code-in 2015 has come to an end. > > Thanks to our students for resolving 461 Wikimedia tasks. Thanks to our > 35 mentors for being available, also on weekends & holidays. Thanks to > everybody on IRC for your

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2015 is over. Congratulations everybody!

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:52 PM, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: > The same developer created the MediaWiki API endpoint mergehistory. Im not > sure whether it has been merged yet. > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/261617/ Not quite. I found one bug while testing it earlier.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2015 is over. Congratulations everybody!

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:52 PM, John Mark Vandenberg > wrote: > >> The same developer created the MediaWiki API endpoint mergehistory. Im not >> sure whether it has been merged yet. >> > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Pine W wrote: > Is there, or will there be, a page somewhere that describes the outcomes of > the Developer Summit? > I would love for the working group chairs to make the outcomes available from the main WikiDev16 page:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2015 is over. Congratulations everybody!

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: > Google Code-in 2015 has come to an end. > > Thanks to our students for resolving 461 Wikimedia tasks. Thanks to our > 35 mentors for being available, also on weekends & holidays. Thanks to > everybody on IRC for your

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] New [[Main Page]] for Wikitech

Thank you Bryan! Well done. (Gosh, now I envy you. Maybe we should just start updating the mediawiki.org homepage edit by edit.) On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Sam Smith wrote: > Nice work, Bryan. Thanks! > > -Sam > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 5:55 AM, Bryan Davis

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2015 is over. Congratulations everybody!

Thanks you too Quim Gil. It was really a good one as the community did not relent their efforts in helping the young ones to grow. I really enjoyed mentoring GCI. :) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2015 is over. Congratulations everybody!

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: > Google Code-in 2015 has come to an end. > > Thanks to our students for resolving 461 Wikimedia tasks. Thanks to our > 35 mentors for being available, also on weekends & holidays. Thanks to > everybody on IRC for your

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Pine W wrote: > >> Is there, or will there be, a page somewhere that describes the outcomes of >> the Developer Summit? >> > > I would love for the working group

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

Hi Rob, Code review seems to be a choke point and the subject of numerous concerns, so I'd like to see SMART goals for improvements to code review, and one or more individuals (probably WMF individuals) taking leadership for meeting those goals. Perhaps the conversation at the Summit will inform

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: February 2016 Lightning Talks

-- Forwarded message -- From: Kevin Leduc Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:22 PM Subject: February 2016 Lightning Talks To: "Staff (All)" Hi All, The next Lightning Talks are scheduled for February 16th (two weeks from today). We