Re: [Wikitech-l] Save the date! Coolest Tool Award 2020: December 11th, 17:00 UTC

Freenode IRC #wmhack <https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wmhack>. See you tomorrow! Joaquin, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2020 On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 5:23 PM Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > A reminder that the Coolest Tool Award > <ht

Re: [Wikitech-l] Save the date! Coolest Tool Award 2020: December 11th, 17:00 UTC

0 IST. More timezones in timeanddate.com <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20201211T17> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 6:01 PM Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > The second edition of the Coolest Tool Award >

[Wikitech-l] Save the date! Coolest Tool Award 2020: December 11th, 17:00 UTC

nes in timeanddate.com <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20201211T17> -- Joaquin Oltra Hernandez Developer Advocate - Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mail

Re: [Wikitech-l] Coolest Tool Award 2020: Call for nominations!

gt; <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award#What_is_a_tool?> by > October 14. > > Thanks! > > Joaquin, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2020 > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 8:05 PM Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < > jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Dear all, >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Coolest Tool Award 2020: Call for nominations!

ks! Joaquin, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2020 On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 8:05 PM Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > We’re really happy to announce the second edition of the Coolest Tool > Award <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coole

[Wikitech-l] Coolest Tool Award 2020: Call for nominations!

nt Thank you very much for your ideas & recommendation(s)! We will continue to spread the word over the next 1-2 days, but if you get the chance, please feel welcome to share this information with others too! Thanks :-) Joaquin, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2020 -- Joaquin Oltra Hernandez

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Completion of GSoC work : Achievements and Quiz module in Commons app

Congratulations Tanvi! 👏 On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 11:31 PM Srishti Sethi wrote: > Congrats Tanvi! Glad to hear you had a good time working on the project. > And, the recording shows neat implementation :) > > Thanks, Josephine and Vivek for mentoring Tanvi and supporting her work! > > > > > > On

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 12:05 PM Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Thanks Ori for sharing your perspective, you are alone. > Sorry, Ori, you are *NOT *alone. :/ > > Thanks Amir and Lucie for sharing your perspectives. They are very much > ap

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

Thanks Ori for sharing your perspective, you are alone. Thanks Amir and Lucie for sharing your perspectives. They are very much appreciated. We are people interacting with other people. We must never forget that and we should treat each other with respect, specially in the online spaces with writ

Re: [Wikitech-l] eslint compromised, reset your npm tokens

The postmortem is interesting: https://eslint.org/blog/2018/07/postmortem-for-malicious-package-publishes Recommendations > With the hindsight of this incident, we have a few recommendations for npm > package maintainers and users in the future: > >- Package maintainers and users should avoid

[Wikitech-l] [Blog post series]: Extension:Popups (Page Previews) front-end tooling

Hi! With the recent final release of Page previews (Extension:Popups), we have also published a series of technical blog posts about the frontend tooling that we have used for developing this extension. Master post: Extension:Popups (Page Previews) front-end tooling

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing project ‘Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture’

%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 7:40 PM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi! > > Over the next fiscal year, the Wikimedia Foundation Readers Web team will > be making technical improvements to the mobile web codebases >

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Announcing project ‘Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture’

ill get > > some TLC > > 4. It will close the mobile/desktop gap for whatever component you pick > > 5. it will close the mobile/desktop gap in general. > > > > Because I think that if you don't expand on your target codebase, the > > risk will be that you re

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Announcing project ‘Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture’

;t expand on your target codebase, the > risk will be that you remain more isolated than you should be. > > DJ > > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 7:40 PM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez > wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Over the next fiscal year, the Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-l] Announcing project ‘Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture’

skin” [3], described in the FY 2018-2019 plan. _____ Joaquin Oltra Hernandez Senior Software Engineer, Readers Web [1]: https://wikifarm.wmflabs.org/platformevolution/index.php/Plan:FY18-19/2/7 [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileF

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit login oddities

This is unfortunate and confusing :( If you are using Chrome, an easy way to clear just the gerrit cookies is this: https://i.imgur.com/DIyY7aX.gif If you have instructions for other browsers please share, I'm sure we would all appreciate them. On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 9:54 AM Giuseppe Lavagetto

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple overview image about how MW loads resources in clients

I personally use it as an example with other fruits like Apple, or some times with Phone or Bing because of the Raffi song *Bananaphone *which brings me good memories. It is also a very useful article name which has articles in many language wikis under

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple overview image about how MW loads resources in clients

r the overview. I've linked to the mediawiki.org docs that Krinkle mentioned in phab in the descriptions to have a way into more in depth docs. Thanks for the comments! > > On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < > jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > >

[Wikitech-l] Simple overview image about how MW loads resources in clients

Hi, We were having a session where we talked about resource loading, code entry points for the front-end, and how things work on MediaWiki, and we came up with a small pic to explain the lifecycle for people newer to MediaWiki. Maybe it could help some people get a better grasp about where files

[Wikitech-l] Using web fonts with good performance

A small TIL, Chrome has been championing this proposal, which I believe would solve the performance concerns that have been raised before about using web fonts, allowing us to have a more fine grained control about the behavior. Right now it is Chrome only, and Firefox and Webkit have it in develo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Recommending Firefox to users using legacy browsers?

I think that people using old browsers on desktop, are most surely doing it because they have to (company policy on locked down computers) and showing them a banner or similar is only going to detract from their experience with information they don't neither want nor need. In mobile the situation

Re: [Wikitech-l] More Detailed Browser Stats for Desktop Sites

indicates that that big 8.8% slice is neither Safari nor Chrome nor Android > nor Opera etc. But, in fact, this 8.8% includes all those browsers, it is > made of all those browsers. In my opinion those requests should be labelled > "Unknown" or "Sanitized" instea

Re: [Wikitech-l] More Detailed Browser Stats for Desktop Sites

Thanks for sharing. This is very useful information in so many ways. For contrast, for awareness, here is some info about the mobile site , which looks pretty different to desktop (last month's data): - Safari iOS is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upgrade to jQuery 3 is coming

Excellent work! 👏 > Breaking change and Feature: jQuery.Deferred is now Promises/A+ compatible Yay! There are subtle but important differences, I recommend reading the deferred section of the upgrade-guide , which does a good job explaining the chan

Re: [Wikitech-l] How does a build process look like for a mediawiki extension repository?

> > wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < > > > jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > > > >> *Context* > > >> > > >> We'd like to have a build script/process for an extension so that

Re: [Wikitech-l] @author annotations in files in the mediawiki codebase

There are also some newer initiatives for having a list of contributors that is more prominently featured on the readme or docs, and that also includes other kinds of contributions, not just code creation (docs, design, review, funding, tutorials...). I find the idea very appealing to recognize an

[Wikitech-l] How does a build process look like for a mediawiki extension repository?

*Context* We'd like to have a build script/process for an extension so that I can perform certain commands to install dependencies and perform optimizations on the extension sources. For example, on front-end sources. Some examples could be: - Installing libraries from bower or npm and bundli

Re: [Wikitech-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] Internet Explorer 9 will be JavaScript-less starting April 2017

Great news! Have we considered dropping IE 10 to grade C given Microsoft ended support for it more than a year ago and it seems to be as low as IE 9 (only a 0.24% *[1]*)? Also, a question. Does this mean we don't need to explicitly list the *es5-shim* any more? Thanks for the great work. *[1]*

Re: [Wikitech-l] MVVM/Single-State solution for our UIs?

Hi Jan, Regardless of UI framework, for state management I'd strongly recommend using redux , and after the fact pair it with whatever UI framework you prefer. Here are some of the reasons for using it: - Very popular and widely used - Excellent documentation (see htt

[Wikitech-l] WikipediaP2P

Hi, I saw this project and I thought it was very interesting: https://www.wikipediap2p.org/ Basically, it makes the clients connect to each other to share pages between each other using webrtc before going to the centralized server. It would probably be a bad idea to convert mobile devices into

Re: [Wikitech-l] Public Event Streams (AKA RCStream replacement) question

Why not expose the websockets as a standard websocket server so that it can be consumed by any language/platform that has a standard websocket implementation? https://www.npmjs.com/package/ws Pinning to socket.io versions or other abstractions leads to what happened before, you can get stuck on a

[Wikitech-l] Grouping phabricator notifications by task

Hi, I rely quite a lot on phabricator notifications for checking new activity on my subscribed tasks (I've found to suit me better than email). After using the unread view in phab quite a lot I noticed that I really wanted to see the notifications grouped by the task, since that let's me see the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Logging client JS exceptions to the server

Thanks! On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 12:27 PM, bawolff wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 6:22 AM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Are there any on-going efforts to log JavaScript errors to the server > logs? > > > > Every once in a while we s

[Wikitech-l] Logging client JS exceptions to the server

Hi, Are there any on-going efforts to log JavaScript errors to the server logs? Every once in a while we see very hard to reproduce errors in the console that we're not sure how often are actually happening, and that makes us think that there may be other errors happening that we're not coming ac

Re: [Wikitech-l] FW: File with an unknown copyright status on MediaWiki.org

I'm trying to fix the ones I've uploaded, but the {{Mediawiki screenshot}} template is not in mediawiki.org. Is just adding a license like {{cc-by-sa-4.0}} enough? On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Ricordisamoa wrote: > Why not move them to Commons after review? > They'd benefit from all the goo

Re: [Wikitech-l] WatchedItemStore - What, Why & How

Awesome work and blog post! Thanks a lot for sharing. On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Addshore wrote: > Over the past few months the TCB team at WMDE has been working on > re-factoring code in core surrounding watchlists. > > You can find a full blog post about what we did, why we did it and h

Re: [Wikitech-l] Docs, use of, and admin privileges for wikimedia github project?

As mentioned before Github's interface for searching, browsing, reading and linking to code is great, so it would be great to keep the mirrors. An option could be moving them to another organization, like wikimedia-mirrors maybe. Another very nice feature in the mirror repos IMO is the graphs tab.

Re: [Wikitech-l] productivity of mediawiki developers

I agree we should give recognition and encouragement to devs, but I think there are other ways to do it we could think about besides sheer number of commits, +2s or lines modified. I personally think that rewarding high numbers encourages quantity over quality (only big numbers are recognized) and

Re: [Wikitech-l] productivity of mediawiki developers

Lines added: Last 365 days: 20,176,017 Lines removed: Last 365 days: 14,378,469 Is this ^ right? Those are really big numbers! On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 10:39 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > For statistics, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development_statistics > . As a starting point to look

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] The future of Related Pages feature

Thank you for testing it Vituzzu. If I recall correctly the images got worse because of a change to the PageImages extension so that copyrighted images wouldn't be used outside of the main article page (which are usually the good representative images in a lot of articles in english wikipedia (fair

Re: [Wikitech-l] Guidance regarding project

Hi! For that specific project there is already an student interested that has been solving bugs and that is talking to community members to draft a proposal for the project (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Haritha28/). I'd suggest starting by working on *Easy

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mass migration to new syntax - PRO or CON?

PRO from me too. Doing it gradually is just going to make the codebase inconsistent, and tooling can help point patches to the old style to migrate to the new one. I'd rather do it quickly than have the inconsistency bleed through months or years. On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Alex Monk wrot

Re: [Wikitech-l] INFO: Reading web release process update

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > > > Feature flagging or using feature branches for certain things may be a > way > > to go for certain things, we're keeping that in mind definitely, thanks > for > > the reminder Greg. > > Just be clear: feature branches aren't feature f

Re: [Wikitech-l] INFO: Reading web release process update

Feature flagging or using feature branches for certain things may be a way to go for certain things, we're keeping that in mind definitely, thanks for the reminder Greg. I agree with you regarding releases Gergo. The good thing about the *release*s was mainly the curated changelog of changes for t

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

Thanks for the responses Federico & Peter. Federico, I fully agree that a video is not a replacement for data, but they serve different purposes. Peter expanded on it better than I what I could do, but basically data driven tests serve a great deal for development purposes to assessing impact of c

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

I understand, thanks for the response! I don't think in any case any implementation would mean splitting article content in the sense you mentioned here. As you said, it doesn't make sense. Cheers! On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Bernardo Sulzbach < mafagafogiga...@gmail.com> wrote: > A sectio

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

Can you clarify what you consider "splitting"? I'm interested in knowing more. I'm of the opinion that there's only so much that browsers can do, there's ways of serving the content like lazy loading that still get you the full content but help the browser do less work. I also think that it's res

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

Sure Bernardo, happy to share. This was the best take I got from around 4 runs. I have other video that I haven't uploaded that goes on for 4 minutes and tries to close chrome 3 times (it is painful and boring to watch). With high speed connections I haven't experienced this behaviour, the worst

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

Hi, Here's an interesting video that we didn't get to show on the Developer Summit. This is me with my Nexus 5 (Android 6) on 2G in Spain loading en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack Obama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1w0EcuiUjo Write your own conclusions, hopefully this will make us think. If y

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sharing JS code between NodeJS and browser

Hey Yuri, I think it would help knowing a concrete use case to help you figure out a reasonable solution. Daniel has provided excellent advice, but the best course of action depends more concretely on the exact situation to solve. As Daniel mentioned, simplest way is write common.js for all your

Re: [Wikitech-l] Because visualizations are cool

While we are at it, Mike Bostock's block's page is a wonderful place to wonder around and be amazed. The guy is the creator of d3, works at the NYT interactive news department and is just plain genius. http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock (scroll down for more, it has infinite scrolling) On Thu, Nov 26,

[Wikitech-l] Little "Photos of the month" web app

Hi! A couple of months ago I taught a workshop for learning ClojureScript at a conference, and for the second part I had the students play with a web app. I set up a scaffold and api fetching/cleaning the media of the month from commons so that they could code and test stuff. I thought I would s

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Pageview API

This is awesome. Congratulations! On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Alexandros Kosiaris < akosia...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > It's nice to finally this go live. Great work guys!! > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Dan Andreescu > wrote: > > Dear Data Enthusiasts, > > > > > > In collaboration wit

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Reading] October updates

As linked in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/projects/Read_more to the extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RelatedArticles, see first section how to use that shows the wikitext tags that enables this. I

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

No, stop and re-read Matt's email assuming good faith. It doesn't "come off with the wrong connotation" or "It sounds more like "you've already decided to do this"". ***We're in the process of*** developing a code of conduct... ...***This will be*** binding, and apply to all Wikimedia-rel

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Going to land ogv.js into TimedMediaHandler if no one objects

I've found some weird behavior: OSX 10.10.3 Yosemite Safari Version 8.0.6 (10600.6.3) Clicking on the play button triggers a download of the ogv file. No discernible JS errors in the console. Gif of what happens here: https://i.imgur.com/QmJXXBK.gif On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Brion Vibber

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW support for Composer equivalent for JavaScript packages

We should choose something, any of them is better than nothing, and manually copying files. My vote goes to npm, now that it tries (in v3) its best to flatten the node_modules folder. See the changelog ( https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v3.0.0) *Flat, flat, flat!* > Your dependencies wil

[Wikitech-l] Performance audit of the mobile site

TLDR: Performance audit of the mobile site, please help & chime in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105365#1477762 Hi, The Reading web team is focusing on performance of the site in one of our quarterly goal s, specially the mobile version to improve t

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Measuring performance

Thanks for the write up. It doesn't seem like we're missing anything other than performance regression tracking 👍 On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:51 AM, Jon Robson wrote: > The reading team are currently focusing energy on speeding up the site > for all our users (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Performance audit example

oads a lot of > what desktop does... > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez > wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I saw the other day a performance audit that Paul Irish did for the > mobile > > site of reddit. > > > > It is a great audi

Re: [Wikitech-l] interesting read: testing@LinkedIn

Hey Brian, Things seem to be trending up at WMF, especially w/ the Web engineers' big > strides in end-to-end testing. However, as the article suggests, you need > to attack the quality problem from both ends—perhaps even emphasizing unit > tests (shortest feedback, cheapest, least fragile). Co

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lightning Talks June 23

Hi, Is there a recording available for remotes? Thanks On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 8:07 PM, Dan Garry wrote: > Never mind. I followed the link to join and it guided me through the > download process. > > Dan > > On 23 June 2015 at 10:57, Dan Garry wrote: > > > On 23 June 2015 at 10:46, Rachel Far

Re: [Wikitech-l] Overriding Jenkins versus make-work patches

Option 2 makes the most sense to me: 1. Implement new behavior 2. Change dependent extensions to use new behavior 3. Deprecate old behavior That said Option 1 seems preferable to 3. On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Legoktm wrote: > On 06/17/2015 09:53 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > >1.

Re: [Wikitech-l] [reading-wmf] [WikimediaMobile] Wikigrok code no longer being worked on

I'm joining in disappointment too. Extreme coupling to an young platform like wikidata created a lot of trouble for making anything with the project, and kill all momentum and made it look bad. I feel like this kind of micro-contributions are the only effective way we are going to be able to engag