Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

Also, the Tech team at the Foundation is investing in Technical Engagement team who I hope will be (amongst other things) become advocates for the tech debt that affects our communities. Best regards, Victoria Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 9, 2019, at 6:28 PM, bawolff wrote: > > Regarding: >

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP 7 is now a beta feature

This is fantastic news Giuseppe! A terrific milestone representing tons of work by many people! Kudos to all involved! Best regards, Victoria Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 28, 2019, at 6:31 AM, Giuseppe Lavagetto > wrote: > > Hi all, > > as some of you might know, HHVM has decided some time

Re: [Wikitech-l] A difficult goodbye

>> >> >> Em seg, 14 de jan de 2019 às 15:06, Isarra Yos >> escreveu: >> >>> Sad to see you go - from what I saw as a volunteer, things only improved >>> under your leadership here. We were lucky to have you. >>> >>> All the b

[Wikitech-l] A difficult goodbye

Dear all, I have some difficult news to share. A few months ago and completely out of the blue, an opportunity came up for me to exercise the full spectrum of my skills as the CEO of an early stage mission oriented startup. It has been a mighty struggle between my commitment to my team, the Fo

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Interesting article

Interesting article…. Should have sent to this list so correcting now! Victoria > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Bryan Davis > Subject: Re: Interesting article > Date: September 20, 2018 at 1:17:34 PM PDT > To: Victoria Coleman > Cc: Tech Dept Info > > On T

[Wikitech-l] Honor roll for Nuria Ruiz!

Hi everyone, I am delighted to share the news of our own Nuria Ruiz being recognized by Cnet as one of the 20 most influential Latinos in the tech industry in 2018! https://www.cnet.com/es/noticias/wikipedia-wikimedia-nuria-ruiz/

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Datacenter Switchover recap

Thank you Bryan and thank you Giuseppe. It is terrific to hear of such good work and even better to have it celebrated! Proud of you both! Victoria > On Sep 13, 2018, at 1:49 AM, Bryan Davis wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:16 AM, Alexandros Kosiaris > wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Today

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Datacenter Switchover recap

+! Great, steady progress! Best, Victoria > On Sep 12, 2018, at 3:54 PM, Toby Negrin wrote: > > Seriously -- this is some complicated, difficult stuff that one day may be > critical to keeping our projects available to everyone (but let's hope not) > > Well done indeed! > > -Toby > > On W

[Wikitech-l] C-team Statement on the Code of Conduct

Hello everyone, The executive leadership team, on behalf of the Foundation, would like to issue a statement of unequivocal support for the Code of Conduct[1] and the community-led Code of Conduct Committee. We believe that the development and implementation of the Code are vital in ensuring the

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

Hi everyone, I’ve been following this discussion from afar (literally from a remote mountainous part of Greece [1]) so please excuse the reflection. I saw this today: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/08/jeongpedia/566897/

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing TechCom’s Newest Members

Adding my congratulations to Niklas and Dan. You will bring a lot of wisdom, expertise and POVs to the committee. As we transform its mission and expand its scope, your contributions will be invaluable. Welcome! Victoria > On Jul 18, 2018, at 2:06 PM, Deb Tankersley wrote: > > Congratulatio

Re: [Wikitech-l] Batter maps in Wikistats2 and new metric: Legacy Pageviews (a.k.a Pagecounts)

Very nice work Nuria! Victoria > On Jul 11, 2018, at 1:26 PM, Nuria Ruiz wrote: > > Hello! > > Just a brief note to announce that we have two new things in wikistats > this quarter. We have reviewed maps by popular demand to give more precise > pageviews per country. > > Check, for example,

Re: [Wikitech-l] New feature deployed: Finding text changes in moved paragraphs in diffs

Very excited to see this get deployed widely. Very timely actually! Congrats to the team! Best, Victoria > On May 30, 2018, at 6:34 AM, Birgit Müller > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > over the past 1,5 years WMDE’s Technical Wishes team was working on a major > improvement of wikidiff2 [1] - the

[Wikitech-l] Announcing the Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Engagement team

is a new team in the Technology department of the Wikimedia Foundation reporting to the Foundation's Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Victoria Coleman. This new team has two sub-teams: the Wikimedia Cloud Services team and the Technical Advocacy team. Bryan Davis will manage the Technical

Re: [Wikitech-l] Map internationalization launched everywhere, AND embedded maps now live on 276 Wikipedias

+1! As a big fan of maps (like I read them for relaxation :-) I am super stoked to see this project come to fruition! You guys rock! Best regards, Victoria Coleman > On May 10, 2018, at 5:58 AM, Toby Negrin wrote: > > Thanks Joe! I'd like to also express my gratitude to

[Wikitech-l] Announcing the Core Platform team

Hi everyone, We are very pleased to be making three big announcements: 1. The Platform Evolution (PE) cross-departmental program (CDP) is approved in the annual plan for next fiscal year. This PE CDP was developed with input from staff across our organization in the Audiences and Technology

Re: [Wikitech-l] Meaningful work

Hi Pine, your note below definitely qualifies for my “What made me happy this week”! Our engineers are incredible people who make sacrifices in support of the mission every day. So it’s so awesome to seem them recognized in such a nice note! Warm regards, Victoria > On Feb 11, 2018, at 4:38

[Wikitech-l] TechOps update

Hi everyone. We are making some exciting changes in TechOps! The Technical Operations team in the Technology department is possibly the oldest team in the organization. Originating from a group of volunteers (Mark being one of them) that enjoyed building and maintaining this up-and-coming,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikistats gets a facelift - Alpha Launch of Wikistats 2

Nuria and team, fabulous work! Wikistats 2 is such a huge improvement! Thank you! Best wishes, Victoria Coleman Chief Technology Officer Wikimedia Foundation 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600 San Francisco, CA 94104 +1-650-703-8112 vcole...@wikimedia.org > On Dec 13, 2017, at 8:26

[Wikitech-l] Dev Summit submission reminder

Dear Dev Community, This is a reminder that the call for participation in the Developer Summit is ongoing, and and that the deadline for submitting position papers is coming up on September 29th. The topic this year is a reflection about the movement strategy and how our technology can suppo

Re: [Wikitech-l] HHVM vs. Zend divergence

> On Sep 19, 2017, at 6:56 AM, Gilles Dubuc wrote: > > Should we have a TechComm-driven meeting about this ASAP? > > Like others, I don't expect that there will be disagreement about the way > to go, but there is a lot to discuss about what needs to be done, > resourcing, etc. > > It would be

Re: [Wikitech-l] HHVM vs. Zend divergence

Sounds like a good idea. +Daniel for scheduling. Best, Victoria > On Sep 19, 2017, at 6:56 AM, Gilles Dubuc wrote: > > Should we have a TechComm-driven meeting about this ASAP? > > Like others, I don't expect that there will be disagreement about the way > to go, but there is a lot to discus

[Wikitech-l] HEADS UP: Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018: Technology for the Movement Strategy

Hi everyone, I wanted to give you all a heads up about the upcoming Dev Summit. This year the Summit will be held in San Francisco on January 22nd and 23rd, 2018. We are still finalizing the details and will be sending out the call for participation soon. But meantime, we wanted to share a prev

[Wikitech-l] We welcome Giuseppe Lavagetto to the TechCom

* by Victoria Coleman <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:VColeman_(WMF) <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:VColeman_(WMF)>> (Chief Technology Officer, Wikimedia Foundation) and Daniel Kinzler <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Kinzler_(WMDE) <https://m

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki 1.29 Available!

Well done everyone!! Victoria > On Jul 13, 2017, at 1:26 PM, Chad Horohoe wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I am happy to announce the availability the general release of MediaWiki > 1.29! > > MediaWiki 1.29 includes all changes released in the smaller 1.29.0-wmf.* > software deployments to Wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] ArchCom Radar, 2017-06-07

We should probably start calling this the TechCom Radar. Are there other places that we need to do “rebranding” once we are ready? Best, Victoria > On Jun 8, 2017, at 6:45 AM, Daniel Kinzler > wrote: > > Hi all! > > Here are the minutes from this week's ArchCom meeting. You can also find th

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Changes to Product and Technology departments at the Foundation

gée d’Affaires in the Talent & Culture department, to >> facilitate a consultation with both departments to identify their pain >> points, and better understand their cultural and structural needs. After >> collecting feedback from 93 people across the two departments, as well

[Wikitech-l] Arch Comm evolution plan needs your feedback

k page! Victoria ( on behalf of the Arch Comm membership) Victoria Coleman Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105 +1-650-703-8112 vcole...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] MediaWiki Documentation Day is tomorrow!

This is awesome! So glad it's happening! Victoria > On May 11, 2017, at 7:20 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > > Tomorrow (or today if you're in Asia/Australia) is the day to take a break > from writing code and instead devote some time to writing and updating > documentation. If you're not sure wha

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to developer events in the WMF Annual Plan draft

Hi Nemo, one of the ideas we were floating was to rename the event to the “Wikimedia Technology Conference” and maybe we’ll get there but the decision was to stick with the original name for this coming year. I do understand how the change we are making might not be immediately obvious in the a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to developer events in the WMF Annual Plan draft

o face". " > > Thanks, > Zppix > Volunteer Developer for WMF > www.enwp.org/User:Zppix > > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Victoria Coleman > wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I think I am having a(nother) senior moment! I don’t recall what event

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to developer events in the WMF Annual Plan draft

gt; thoughts on that? > > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Victoria Coleman > wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> Quim and his team have indeed thought through the totality of tech >> community events and I am sure he can respond here with his thoughts. >&

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to developer events in the WMF Annual Plan draft

together across all the different groups, and how scopes affect > them (regional, topical, etc)? This would also be useful for chapters/groups > planning their own events. > > How exactly is publishing a roadmap going to help facilitate community > contributions? > > -

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to developer events in the WMF Annual Plan draft

Hi Isarra, thank you for the question. We want to support our diverse technical communities in a variety of ways. One of our key tools are the hackathons, where we hope to welcome both seasoned and new volunteer developers. We want to support them not just by providing a series of events but al

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia REST API hits v1.0

Awesome! Well done Gabriel & team & everyone!! Victoria > On Apr 6, 2017, at 4:17 PM, Gabriel Wicke wrote: > > It is official: The Wikimedia REST API > , your scalable and fresh source > of Wikimedia content and data in machine-readable formats, is now re

[Wikitech-l] Introducing the MediaWiki Platform Team!

Hello everyone, I am pleased to share with you the news about the formation of the latest team in the Technology department, the MediaWiki Platform team![1] The MediaWiki Platform team will be tasked with leading maintenance and improvements related to the core MediaWiki platform codebase. That