Re: [Wikitech-l] Call for candidates to form the first Code of Conduct Committee

Source: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct#Selection_process_for_CoC_Committee_candidates The call for CoC Committee candidates was announced one week ago. Here goes a status update. We have received some

Re: [Wikitech-l] ArchCom Monutes, News, and Outlook

On 16 March 2017 at 05:00, Legoktm wrote: > > As requested earlier, will these documents be moved to mediawiki.org or > is it now required to use Google's proprietary software to discuss the > architecture of MediaWiki? > If there's nothing private in there, which one can only assume there is not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of Technical Collaboration Guidance discussion

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 2:48 AM, Pine W wrote: > Quim, > > Thanks for the comments. > > A brief note about the goal of "there are no clashes between product > development teams and communities". That is an ambitious goal around here, > partly because there are changes planned and happening concur

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] [Breaking Change] MediaWiki-Vagrant now defaults to Debian Jessie

Another known issue is that Zotero doesn't work on Jessie because of its dependency on a now deprecated Mozilla library called XULrunner [1], and as a result citoid results will be a lot poorer. I'm not sure we ever really resolved how to deal with this. Zotero is going to be removing the dependenc

Re: [Wikitech-l] ArchCom Monutes, News, and Outlook

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:40 AM, Dan Garry wrote: > Google Docs is easier to spin up in the moment and edit collaboratively > than MediaWiki. Using proprietary software tools if they're a better fit > for the intended purpose is entirely consistent with the Foundation's > guiding principles > Do

Re: [Wikitech-l] ArchCom Monutes, News, and Outlook

On 16 March 2017 at 13:21, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > > Doesn't etherpad (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/) fit that need without > being proprietary? > Possibly. There are features that Google Docs has that Etherpad doesn't, but I don't know whether they're relevant since I'm not involved with

Re: [Wikitech-l] ArchCom Monutes, News, and Outlook

> Doesn't etherpad (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/) fit that need > without being proprietary? I found that I miss the comment feature, but it can be plugged in into etherpad. Jan 2017-03-16 14:21 GMT+01:00 Brad Jorsch (Anomie) : > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:40 AM, Dan Garry wrote: > > > Googl

Re: [Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

Hey folks! I should really stop calling this a weekly update because it's getting a bit silly at this point. :) But if it were a weekly update, it would cover the weeks of 42 - 46. *Highlights:* - 3 new models: Finnish Wikipedia (reverted) and Estonian Wikipedia (damaging & goodfaith)

[Wikitech-l] New A/B test for sister project search results

Hello, tl;dr - we’re running a second test for displaying sister projects in the search results (with new link highlights) on 8 wikis for a week; starting today, with apologies for sending to multiple email lists. As a follow up to a recent A/B test tha

[Wikitech-l] ElasticSearch 5 is alive!

Hello, After several months of hard work by the Discovery Search team, we're happy to announce that the CirrusSearch backend has been upgraded to ElasticSearch

Re: [Wikitech-l] ElasticSearch 5 is alive!

Congrats Discovery folks! Well done. -Toby On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Deborah Tankersley < dtankers...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello, > > After several months of hard work by the Discovery Search > team, we're > happy to announce

[Wikitech-l] Hardware​Donation Program

Forwarded as received. Dear Wikimedians, The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce a small new program called the Hardware Donation Program. In a word, it is a program designed to donate depreciated (but fully working) hardware from the WMF office to community members who would put it to g