[Wikitech-l] Readers monthly update for September 2017

2017-10-04 Thread Chris Koerner
Greetings, I'm here again with the monthly update from the Readers department. **New**: You can now subscribe to receive theses updates as on-wiki notifications or opt-in email! Handy if you subscribe to the digest of this mailing list or don't visit the archive frequently. Subscribe on

[Wikitech-l] 2017-10-04 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

2017-10-04 Thread Grace Gellerman
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-10-04 *= 2017-10-04 =* contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering == Callouts == * Language: Need help to debug: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173801 further * 3D deployed to testwiki, feel free to upload STL files to

[Wikitech-l] Read-only Commons in preparation for 3D file support - 11 October

2017-10-04 Thread Chris Koerner
Hello, (I posted this on the the Commons Village Pump, apologies for cross-posting) The Multimedia team at the foundation is getting closer to enabling support for uploading and displaying 3D models on Commons. We have to do some work on the database to get ready for 3D file support. This means

[Wikitech-l] TechCom: No IRC meeting today

2017-10-04 Thread Kevin Smith
Greetings all, There will not be a TechCom/RFC discussion on IRC today. The committee had selected a topic, but it didn't get announced in time, and the RFC proposer is unable to attend. We will reschedule that topic, and we will be refining our processes to try to avoid having this happen in

[Wikitech-l] Canceled event: Tech Debt SIG - Session C - IRC only @ Wed Oct 4, 2017 09:00 - 09:50 (PDT) (wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org)

2017-10-04 Thread jbranaa
This event has been canceled and removed from your calendar. Title: Tech Debt SIG - Session C - IRC only Hello All, This is Technical Debt SIG session C - IRC only Where: #wikimedia-office Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/TechDebtSIG-20171004 Wiki page: https://www.mediawiki.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] [offtopic] Google Code-in: Get your tasks for young contributors prepared

2017-10-04 Thread Andre Klapper
On Wed, 2017-10-04 at 14:24 +0100, Fæ wrote: > Do we support any equivalent events which positively encourage > contributors from other age groups? Not sure how to interpret 'equivalent'. Outreach programs: I'm aware of Outreachy and Google Summer of Code. There might be more / other initiatives

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in: Get your tasks for young contributors prepared

2017-10-04 Thread Fæ
Do we support any equivalent events which positively encourage contributors from other age groups? Fae https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LGBT+ http://telegram.me/wmlgbt On 3 Oct 2017 22:49, "Andre Klapper" wrote: > (An early heads-up that Google Code-in 2017 has been

Re: [Wikitech-l] Person of interest to blame

2017-10-04 Thread יגאל חיטרון
Thank you all. ​Unfortunately, I can't create my wiki. I have no skills or ability to do this. I checked the list of tasks you sent, and maybe one of them fits, and maybe not. This one talks about the watchlist disign copyed to another engine, as far as I understood. Maybe during this move the bug

[Wikitech-l] Today: Weekly Technical Advice IRC Meeting

2017-10-04 Thread Michael Schönitzer
Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **today 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers, topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to