Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: A Hands-on Estimation Exercise, With Discussion: Feb 8th

2016-02-05 Thread Bernardo Sulzbach
On 02/05/2016 10:59 PM, Rachel Farrand wrote: *Summary: *Estimation is an unnatural activity for human brains, which tend to hide our own ignorance from us. This brown-bag begins with an exercise, adapted from Steve McConnell's software estimation training, in balancing accuracy with precision.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Status report #1

2016-01-20 Thread Bernardo Sulzbach
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Danny Horn wrote: > > 10. Add a user watchlist: We've heard significant pushback about the > vandal-fighting use case, because of the risk of enabling harassment. Interesting. I like the report and the idea behind it. -- Ber

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video: Loading Barack Obama on 2G from Spain on a Nexus 5

2016-01-13 Thread Bernardo Sulzbach
A section that looks only loosely related to the article could get an article of its own to make the article shorter. Literally, splitting it into multiple articles. However, I think that does not make sense in this case. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video: Loading Barack Obama on 2G from Spain on a Nexus 5

2016-01-13 Thread Bernardo Sulzbach
Thanks, Joaquin. I image how tiresome waiting 3 minutes of loading (for a web page!) must be. I just hope that no one decides that this makes a good reason for "splitting" the Obama article. I would expect more improvements from the browser itself, more on-the-fly rendering of the page as you get

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video: Loading Barack Obama on 2G from Spain on a Nexus 5

2016-01-12 Thread Bernardo Sulzbach
Brian, you seem off. Do you know that we are talking about loading the Obama page, right? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video: Loading Barack Obama on 2G from Spain on a Nexus 5

2016-01-12 Thread Bernardo Sulzbach
Would you mind sharing your own conclusions? I understand that it is a pain to say the least, but I can't think of any simple way to fix this without removing content from the page. Also, Nexus 5 has decent hardware, right? It can get much worse than that, which would likely slow it down even more

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia dumps

2016-01-11 Thread Bernardo Sulzbach
> about > what might be the same issue. For some reason, I did not subscribe to that list. Thanks for pointing it out. -- Bernardo Sulzbach ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia dumps

2016-01-10 Thread Bernardo Sulzbach
lso be interested. -- Bernardo Sulzbach ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l