[Wikitech-l] Small Amendment to User-Agent Policy

Hi wikitech-l, After the discussion in analytics-l [1][2] and Phabricator [3], the Analytics team added a small amendment [4] to Wikimedia's user-agent policy [5] with the intention of improving the quality of WMF's pageview statistics. The amendment asks Wikimedia bot/framework maintainers to

[Wikitech-l] Hackathon buddy familiar with page content type stuff needed

Hello, we're looking for a buddy to help / guidance with page-content-type handling extension at Jerusalem Hackathon. If you are familiar with it, but not coming to the hackathon, please let me know as well. Feel free to reply to me directly to not pollute the list. Thanks for help. Kind

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please provide feedback on new discrimination and enforcement sections of Code of Conduct

+1 Toby I'd also like to express my continued support for this work. I believe in ground-up projects, so I've always given staff space to work on them. However, especially as the CoC becomes more mature and complete, If there's anything more I can do to help, please let me know. - Trevor On

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improving Wikimedia's Code Review process

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > We have two swat windows every day. It's magical... I post a request for a > deploy on a Wiki page and someone deploys it. > > Could we try a similar thing with code review. Code review window (maximum > 1 patch per

[Wikitech-l] Microsoft Edge browser testing notes

I've noticed that a lot of my fellow MediaWiki devs using OS X or Linux don't have much experience with Windows 10's new 'Edge' browser, so I wrote up some notes about testing with it and what to expect regarding versioning and bug reporting: