Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for a developer support channel

On Friday, November 17, 2017, Quim Gil wrote: > Hi, > > The Technical Collaboration team proposes the creation of a developer > support channel focusing on newcomers, as part of our Onboarding New > Developer program. We are proposing to create a site based on Discourse >

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2017 Community Wishlist Survey starts today!

Hey everyone, Just a quick reminder that if you want to post a proposal, you probably want to do it over the weekend: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey Make sure the Community Tech team works on the most worthwhile thing they could be working on.

[Wikitech-l] Proposal for a developer support channel

Hi, The Technical Collaboration team proposes the creation of a developer support channel focusing on newcomers, as part of our Onboarding New Developer program. We are proposing to create a site based on Discourse (starting with a pilot in discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org) and to point the many

[Wikitech-l] Help test longer edit summaries (and other comments) on Beta Cluster

I've just now enable the feature flag on the Beta Cluster[1] that allows MediaWiki to store comments longer than 255 bytes. The web UI has not been updated to allow longer comments in places where it enforces a limit, such as the edit summary box. But if you use the API to edit, or perform page

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thoughts for handy features

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:15 PM, John Elliot V wrote: > 2. For duplicated content it would be handy if you could define a bunch > of "variables" down the bottom of a page and then reference them from > elsewhere. I am aware of templates, but those are overkill and difficult > to

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki train for 1.31.0-wmf.8 is on hold due to a database failure

> There was a badly timed database failure today that has caused all > deployments to be on hold until the situation is resolved. The database incident[0] is resolved and we will resume the MW train on this coming Monday to catch up. Best, Greg [0]

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar, 2017-11-15

Hello all! Here are the minutes from this week's meeting: * Marko Obrovac joined the Technical Committee. We are looking forward to working with him. Welcome Marko! * Last Call: RFC on imported user names . After the public discussion on November 15,