[Wikitech-l] Medical leave

Dear all, I’m writing to give a heads-up that I expect to be taking medical leave from today through March 9, due in part to stress caused by the recent uncertainty and organizational departures. In my absence, my work will be in the capable hands of Ryan Kaldari and the rest of the Community

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Code of conduct consensus discussions update

Sarah Sharp has an excellent and relevant post on what makes for an active and welcoming open source community: http://sarah.thesharps.us/2015/10/06/what-makes-a-good-community/ I would like the Wikimedia technical community to get to Level 0, and this policy is one tool we can use to get there.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mentors and projects needed for Outreachy round 11

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: > That said, gsoc/opw usually doesn't reflect Wikimedia community > priorities all that much (imo). > Do you have any thoughts on why that might be? As I'm on the Community Tech team, I'd love to mentor someone working on a

[Wikitech-l] Link: useful article on in-person events

An excellent article on best practices and pitfalls for in-person technical events: https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/software-in-person This has some ideas and framings that can be useful for planning for the upcoming developer summit. -Frances ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code of conduct committee

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: But I strongly recommend we seek out people who have experience with organizing this sort of thing before we try cobbling together an enforcement committee on our own, just as we seek out people with domain expertise

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Code of conduct

Thanks for sharing this, Risker. If I were a casual contributor, I'm not sure that I would attend either--not because I'd expect that Wikimedia conferences/hackathons would necessarily be worse than other tech conferences, but because I'd have no reason to expect them to be better. Same with our

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code of conduct

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Alex Monk kren...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like Communicate about technology in public where possible. Private means of communication do exist, but prefer to use public places unless an exception is appropriate. has been removed and Publication of

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Code of conduct

I was also at the Wikimania session where we worked on this draft. I strongly support this effort. Best practices for codes of conduct include clearly defined consequences for breaches, as well as named behaviors that are unacceptable (as not everyone shares the same common sense, and people

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Code of conduct

, Aug 7, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Frances Hocutt fhoc...@wikimedia.org wrote: I was also at the Wikimania session where we worked on this draft. I strongly support this effort. Best practices for codes of conduct include clearly defined consequences for breaches, as well as named behaviors

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Frances Hocutt

Thanks so much, everyone! I'm looking forward to getting started, and also to figuring out what our team's scope and processes will look like. -Frances ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] looking for unit testing resources for bot development

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote: If you're using Pywikibot, you may want to have a look at its extensive unit tests :) Thanks. I'm not, but I'll take a look. -Frances ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] looking for unit testing resources for bot development

I'm working on cleaning up the code[1] for GrantsBot[2] and generally getting it into better and more robust shape. I've started writing basic unit tests to assist in the refactoring process. Since it interacts so heavily with the MediaWiki API, however, this isn't a straightforward process, and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome our new FOSS OPW interns!

Wonderful! Those look like interesting projects. I'm looking forward to hearing about how they go. -Frances Intern, OPW Round 8 On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: The GNOME Foundation has announced the list of interns accepted in the FOSS Outreach Program for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Yuvi Panda joins Ops

Congratulations, Yuvi! Frances On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Mark Bergsma m...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, I'm very pleased to announce that as of this week, Yuvi Panda is part of the Wikimedia Technical Operations team, to work on our Wikimedia Labs infrastructure. Yuvi originally

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Moriel Schottlender converts to Wikimedia staff

What wonderful news! Congratulations, Moriel. Frances On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:58 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: [Second one today!] I am delighted to announce that Moriel Schottlender [0] has converted to full time staff member status as a Software Engineer in Features

[Wikitech-l] OPW final report and thanks to you all

My (belated) final report for my OPW project is up on my progress reports page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Evaluating_and_Improving_MediaWiki_web_API_client_libraries/Progress_Reports#Final_report . Thank you to everyone who has helped me learn as much and contribute as much as I have this

[Wikitech-l] Help with runtime errors in JWBF bot?

I'm trying to write some basic test bots before I start writing patches for the Java Wiki Bot Framework (JWBF). I've been able to get one to compile, but I have persistent runtime errors. I've put the relevant information and things I've already tried in this gist:

Re: [Wikitech-l] ignore feature for mediawiki?

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Ignoring people by actually ignoring people tends to work pretty well. This depends on your background, your history with them, and why you are ignoring them. I'm more likely to just leave a discussion than to

Re: [Wikitech-l] OPW applicant introduction

://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Evaluating_MediaWiki_web_API_client_libraries On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 3:03 AM, Frances Hocutt frances.hoc...@gmail.com wrote: I have updated and expanded the scope of my OPW project [1], Evaluating and Improving MediaWiki Web API Client Libraries. Thanks to Sumana, Tollef, and Brad

Re: [Wikitech-l] OPW applicant introduction

, Frances Hocutt frances.hoc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! My name is Frances Hocutt, and I'm applying for the OPW internship program. Specifically, I'm interested in improving the documentation around the available Mediawiki API libraries, writing specifications for what makes a good one

Re: [Wikitech-l] Engineering Community Team changes

Congratulations to both of you! -Frances On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone, I'd like to announce some changes in the Engineering Community Team[1]. The headlines: * Quim Gil is taking over as the new Engineering Community Manager,

[Wikitech-l] OPW applicant introduction

Hello! My name is Frances Hocutt, and I'm applying for the OPW internship program. Specifically, I'm interested in improving the documentation around the available Mediawiki API libraries, writing specifications for what makes a good one, and generally making API:Client Code a more useful page