Re: [Wikitech-l] Small Amendment to User-Agent Policy

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 12:44 AM, Marcel Ruiz Forns wrote: > ... > I think adding the word bot to the user-agent of bot-like programs is a > widely adopted convention. Actually, the word bot is already (for a long > time now) being parsed and used to tag requests as

[Wikitech-l] Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2016-03-14

Hello, Here is the Discovery department's weekly status update. * The completion suggester left beta and is now the default search-as-you-type for all wikis (except Wikidata). ** http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/17/completion-suggester-find-what-you-need/ * Last week we enabled Kartographer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reply: [GSoC 2016] Query about the ideas' project time

> > > Hi Linxuan, Thank you for your question: >... What does the "reputation score" in the description refer to? I've asked Priyanka to reply with her current design, but here is some of the advice I gave her: "Each reviewer needs, at a minimum, data indicating the number and proportion of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reply： [GSoC 2016] Query about the ideas' project time

On Tue, 2016-03-22 at 02:14 +0800, DJAKN wrote: > Thank you for your reply. I have read the instruction and the blog of > this project and have some ideas now. But there appears another > question: What does the "reputation score" in the description refer > to? Should we design it and make some

[Wikitech-l] Reply?? [GSoC 2016] Query about the ideas' project time

Thank you for your reply. I have read the instruction and the blog of this project and have some ideas now. But there appears another question: What does the "reputation score" in the description refer to? Should we design it and make some metrics, or just use the existed scoring standard?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Small Amendment to User-Agent Policy

John, thanks for your ideas! > As asked on the talk page over a month ago with no response... > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:User-Agent_policy#bot The responses are there now. Sorry for that, I forgot to watch the page. How does adding 'bot' help over and above including email

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2016] Query about the ideas' project time

Hi Li, On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 20:58 +0800, DJAKN wrote: > > I am interested in the "Accuracy Review" project, but there is a note > > saying the estimated time for a senior contributor is 3 weeks. Other > > projects in the idea list have the similar estimated time. So should > > we complete more

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2016] Query about the ideas' project time

Hi, thanks for your interest and welcome to Wikimedia! :) On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 20:58 +0800, DJAKN wrote: > I am interested in the "Accuracy Review" project, but there is a note > saying the estimated time for a senior contributor is 3 weeks. Other > projects in the idea list have the similar

[Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2016] Query about the ideas' project time

Hi, I'm Li Linxuan, a second-year student from Peking University, China. I'm familiar with using C/C++ and have experience of using Python. I have also participated in some projects including making games and game-bots. I am interested in the "Accuracy Review" project, but there is a note

Re: [Wikitech-l] Small Amendment to User-Agent Policy

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Marcel Ruiz Forns wrote: > Hi wikitech-l, > > After the discussion in analytics-l [1][2] and Phabricator [3], the > Analytics team added a small amendment [4] to Wikimedia's user-agent policy > [5] with the intention of improving the quality