[Wikitech-l] Technical Decision-Making Retrospective and Consultation: Analysis published

to determine what changes to make to the TDMP. They will guide a process to solicit input and feedback on a proposal that will be open to staff and volunteer technical contributors. Thank you, Moriel, on behalf of the TDMP Retro Core Group. Core group: - Moriel Schottlender (chair) - Da

[Wikitech-l] Technical Decision-Making Retrospective and Consultation: Analysis published

l, on behalf of the TDMP Retro Core Group. Core group: - Moriel Schottlender (chair) - Daniel Kinzler - Chris Danis - Kosta Harlan - Temilola Adeleye -- Moriel Schottlender (she/her <https://pronoun.is/she>) Principal Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation https://wikim

[Wikitech-l] [action requested] Technical Decision-Making Retrospective Survey - REMINDER!

-making process in the technical spaces. Your voice and opinion are extremely important! Please consider taking the time to fill out the survey, or finish submitting it if you haven’t yet. Thanks, Moriel, on behalf of the TDMP Retro Core Group Core group: - Moriel Schottlender (chair

[Wikitech-l] Re: [action requested] Technical Decision-Making Retrospective Survey

skap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige. > Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se > > > Den tis 18 juli 2023 kl 21:28 skrev Moriel Schottlender < > mschottlen...@wikimedia.org>: > >> Thank you for spotting this! >> >> This is now fixed; it should not require an answer an

[Wikitech-l] Re: [action requested] Technical Decision-Making Retrospective Survey

bricator.wikimedia.org/T333235 >> >> >> How to contact the retrospective core team: >> >> >>- >> >>Write to the core team mailing list: >>tdf-retro-2...@lists.wikimedia.org >>- >> >>The Technica

[Wikitech-l] [action requested] Technical Decision-Making Retrospective Survey

iaWiki talk page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Technical_decision_making/Technical_Decision-Making_Process_Retrospective_and_Consultation_plan Thank you, Moriel, on behalf of the TDMP Retro Core Group Core group: - Moriel Schottlender (chair) - Daniel K

[Wikitech-l] Followup: Technical Decision Making Retro

> Here are the links to the relevant wiki page and Phab ticket: > >- Wiki page > > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_decision_making/Technical_Decision-Making_Process_Retrospective_and_Consultation_plan> >- Phabricator ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Introducing WikiContrib 1.0!

.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Moriel Schottlender (she/her) Senior Software Engineer Tech Lead | Co

[Wikitech-l] FYI: Renaming and refactoring of the Block class

://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219441 [2] Clean up code related to blocking https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225011 [3] Refactor Block to AbstractBlock, DatabaseBlock and SystemBlock https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222737 -- Moriel Schottlender (she/her) Senior Software Engineer Tech Lead | Community

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dynamically setting the content of a LayoutPanel in OOUI

> > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.

Re: [Wikitech-l] OOUI question

s not shown. Can someone > kindly look at my code and tell me what I am missing? > > Thanks, > > Huji > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikite

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Changes to the Block paradigm

erico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Moriel Schottlender, 08/01/19 03:53: > > The new “Partial Blocks” feature has fundamentally changed the way > > MediaWiki considers what “block” means; > > Given this was not fully considered before applying the change, the > safest way forwar

[Wikitech-l] Changes to the Block paradigm

://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative/Per-user_page,_namespace,_and_upload_blocking [2] Anti Harassment tools board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2660/ [3] For a discussion of this, see: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210475 -- Moriel Schottlender (she/her

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit as a shared community space

Heh, an apology here, my autocorrect "fixed" your name, Yaron. I apologize for that and should have caught it. ... The trouble of multilingual corrections. Moriel On Mon, Jun 11, 2018, 11:37 AM Moriel Schottlender < mschottlen...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I'm not going to g

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit as a shared community space

s that have a danger of being toxic, they're personally attacking you. Let's go back to the actual discussion at hand, instead. Moriel On Mon, Jun 11, 2018, 11:05 AM Yaron Koren wrote: > Hi, > > Moriel Schottlender wrote: > > Quite frankly, I don't blame people who regularly experi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit as a shared community space

in the CoC. They make a valid decision that this type of space is not for them. That's not a personal attack. that's a valid decision about where one wants to spend their time given the governing rules of the space. Moriel On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:24 AM Yaron Koren wrote: > Hi, > &g

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit as a shared community space

Yaron, On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 8:35 PM Yaron Koren wrote: > This looks to me like a violation of the Code of Conduct. I don't want to > cause more drama in this discussion, especially since it seems like a sort > of consensus has formed and we can all move on, but I do find it disturbing > that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit newcomer bot

Neat! this is great! Thank you for working on this, Srishti and anyone else involved! On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 12:34 PM, Niharika Kohli wrote: > Great work! I'm sure this will be incredibly helpful to a lot of new > developers. :) > > On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 11:45 AM Srishti

Re: [Wikitech-l] An update on map internationalization

Hi Strainu, Let me pitch in, at least from the technical point of view to some of your questions: On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 2:39 PM, Strainu wrote: > That's great news! I especially like the promise of replication within > minutes from OSM, it sounds wonderful. Just to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Try out the commit message validator

Not exactly the same, but worth mentioning, there's an npm package for grunt that was developed originally in the VE team and is used in some of our repos that's being used in some of our repos called grunt-tyops https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-tyops I don't think it can work on the commit

Re: [Wikitech-l] My own edits marked as unseen

Igal, I'm not sure what this is but a suspicion was raised as to a potential reason. Can you see if there's a difference in this between edits you're making in VisualEditor versus edits that are made through the wikitext editor? On Sun, Oct 29, 2017, 3:21 AM יגאל חיטרון

Re: [Wikitech-l] Previous mediawiki version test wiki

I see your idea here, Igal, but I don't think it's necessary. Developers usually have pretty good tools to see where a bug came from (for example, we have a tool called "git bisect"[1] that allows us to analyze not just which release the bug was introduced in, but a specific commit to "blame" for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Logs are down

I think this can be solved easily if you just add the URL of what you're looking at when you send an email or report such things. This will help everyone understand the context even if you aren't aware of all the other products or tools that we have. You need to understand that sending an email

Re: [Wikitech-l] use of @inheritdoc

Thanks for raising this question, I was thinking about something similar a little while back when I was reviewing some code without the explicit @inheritdoc on it. I personally think we'll gain a lot more if we stick to always documenting our methods, including @inheritdoc. Reasoning below. On

Re: [Wikitech-l] OOJS-UI: label/data mechanism in "OO.ui.ComboBoxInputWidget"

Hi Robert, In general, the 'data' property for items inside the GroupElement can be strings or objects, as they represent some state of your item. In OO.ui.mixin.GroupElement, the method "getItemFromData" can then return a specific item based on its data property. If you use an Object for the

Re: [Wikitech-l] I8n

There's no single repo for this, since translation files are per repository - but our translations are not being submitted directly through the repositories anyways, they are being fixed through translatewiki. If you want to provide translation fixes to various extensions, you should go to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Need example code in Javascript to login API

As a side note, chrome extensions can authorize a domain and use it as if they're requesting while on the site, it seems, to prevent cors errors. https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/declare_permissions That may require that your user login directly in Wikipedia rather than through your

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Your stand proposal for FOSDEM 2016 has been accepted

This is great, well done! Is this the first year we'll have a stand in FOSDEM, or did we have one in previous years? On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > The MediaWiki/Wikimedia stand has been accepted for FOSDEM. The main > coordination point

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Nothing Left but Always Right: The Twisted Road to RTL Support: November 2

I'm not sure about uploading the video to Commons properly, but this did remind me to upload the slides to commons. They're available here now: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nothing_Left_but_Always_Right_-_The_Twisted_Road_to_RTL_Support.pdf On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Andre

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Nothing Left but Always Right: The Twisted Road to RTL Support: November 2

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Legoktm wrote: > > I (independently) spoke with Rachel about doing this today, and have > uploaded this one to start with[1], and will work on uploading the rest > of them to Commons. > > [1] > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code of Conduct: Intro, Principles, and Unacceptable behavior sections

On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 4:11 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Am I supposed to know what a manfeeling is? It seems weird to me that the > push (perhaps a movement, who knows) to implement codes of conduct has > become so enmeshed with the ultra-liberal feminist movement. I think there >

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

Isn't this the point of this email chain and talk page, though? To open this up to the broader community for development...? The idea was picked up and developed in wikimania and is now being proposed as a starting point for development by the tech community on a broader scale. Seems to allow for

Re: [Wikitech-l] git-review 1.24 broken?

wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Moriel Schottlender mor...@gmail.com wrote: Worse, I seem to also get problems uninstalling and reinstalling git-review when I try to follow the directions in the first email Can you post more information? Željko

Re: [Wikitech-l] git-review 1.24 broken?

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and I get the same issues. Worse, I seem to also get problems uninstalling and reinstalling git-review when I try to follow the directions in the first email. I think that part might be local to my machine -- but the general git-review 1.24 problem doesn't seem to be

Re: [Wikitech-l] git-review 1.24 broken?

which package version do you have for 'python-setuptools', and what does this show: $ /usr/bin/easy_install --version I get 'setuptools 3.3' I reinstalled python-setuptools, and git review 1.24 is still working for me. :/ So, when I try 'sudo pip install -U git-review' I get (...) File

Re: [Wikitech-l] git-review 1.24 broken?

provide a complete backtrace for that exception? On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Moriel Schottlender mor...@gmail.com wrote: which package version do you have for 'python-setuptools', and what does this show: $ /usr/bin/easy_install --version I get 'setuptools 3.3' I

[Wikitech-l] Unlicking the cookie: ExtensionStatus extension

Hello community, tl;dr: I'd love to see if there's anyone in the community that can help me take charge of ExtensionStatus development, or take it over completely. Longer version: About 9 months ago, just before I started Google Summer of Code 2013, I developed ExtensionStatus, which checks

[Wikitech-l] GSoC2013 Summary: Right to Left Support in VisualEditor

Hello everyone! Google Summer of Code 2013 came to an official end today with final reviews and code submissions. I wrote a blog post summarizing the summer internship, the deliverables, and the thank-yous: http://moriel.smarterthanthat.com/tips/google-summer-of-code-2013-summary/ I'd like to

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

Hi everyone, Again, thank you to for all the comments, advice and criticism! I just wanted to send an update on the status of the extension -- I created a page for this extension on mw - http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php/Extension:ExtensionStatus where I also added a future/todo list, a

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:21 AM, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.comwrote: * Your RL module should have a remote path in addition to a local one, it's also proper to declare the media type for your css. You should also drop the `@CHARSET UTF-8`. * The wfMessage calls should probably

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:44 AM, Yury Katkov katkov.ju...@gmail.com wrote: I very much lie the idea of this extension: it's very useful to know what changes have been made in a software one is using. Does it only work with WMF's gerrit? Many extensions are not hosted there. I think that for

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Markus Glaser gla...@hallowelt.biz wrote: I like that idea very much. In the use case I have in mind, though, I do have actual releases. Do you think it's possible for your extension to also consider tags? I am thinking of something like a tagging convention,

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

an awesome extension ;) Please keep the comments coming! This is really helpful :) Thanks, Moriel On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.orgwrote: On 05/13/2013 12:26 AM, Moriel Schottlender wrote: I'd like to get your opinions and critique on my very first

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

at 11:26 PM, Moriel Schottlender mor...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I'd like to get your opinions and critique on my very first MediaWiki extension, which, I hope, will be helpful to other developers. I noticed that there's no easy way of seeing if extensions that we have

[Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

Hello everyone, I'd like to get your opinions and critique on my very first MediaWiki extension, which, I hope, will be helpful to other developers. I noticed that there's no easy way of seeing if extensions that we have installed on our MediaWiki require update, and there are even some

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git for idiots

Quim Gil qgil at wikimedia.org writes: On 05/08/2013 09:41 AM, Petr Bena wrote: I was using these tutorials in past, and they were pretty complicated for me to understand git. Have you checked recently these pages? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Getting_started

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC2013/OPW Proposal: VisualEditor RTL Support

James Forrester jforrester at wikimedia.org writes: On 28 April 2013 13:04, Moriel Schottlender moriel at gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, This is my second attempt for a proposal, but I think this is a project that is *much* better than my previous one, and has a much bigger demand

[Wikitech-l] GSOC2013 Project idea - WiPhys: Box2D Interactive Physics Engine Plugin

Hi everyone, I posted an idea earlier this weekend to the list and received feedback -- and I really appreciate it! It made me realize that the idea I proposed was a little vague and elaborate and sounded too complex. So I re-drafted it and simplified it a lot, and I would really appreciate your

[Wikitech-l] GSoC2013/OPW Proposal: VisualEditor RTL Support

as side projects, which rely heavily on javascript and html5. However, this is my first time applying for GSoC and it's my first time contributing to such a big project as MediaWiki and VisualEditor :) I'd love to hear your thoughts, ideas and feedback! Thank you again, Moriel Schottlender

[Wikitech-l] GSOC2013 project idea: Physics Image Rendering (request for feedback!)

Hi guys, I've had an idea for a GSOC project that doesn't appear in the project list. It's something I've been considering for a while, but before I write a full proper proposal with timelines and technical outlines, I want to see if this isn't just a random idea I am alone in wanting to see