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> On Nov 4, 2015, at 14:13, TParis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can you give my labs account access to the xtools project again? I’d like to > take a stab at articleinfo. > > From: Labs-l [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Maximilian Doerr > Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 9:08 AM > To: Wikimedia Labs <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Labs-l] Get those small bugs fixed by new contributors: It's > Google Code-In time! > > Artcleinfo is suffering from a huge bug that no one can find. I spent 2 > weeks looking at the code and couldn’t find it. When I managed to get it > working on my local installation I applied the fixes and it was still broken. > The code is too convoluted and stationary that it takes a lot of effort to > simply get it working else where. Thank you Hedonil. As such I can no > longer provide the time to maintain these tools as they are poorly documented > and too time-consuming for me to fix, and have as such lost interest in their > maintainence. > > I’m sorry everyone. > > Cyberpower678 > English Wikipedia Account Creation Team > Mailing List Moderator > > > >> On Nov 4, 2015, at 13:09, TParis <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Someone should go through the current edition of X!'s tools and make a list. >> Could be a great help. I hear articleinfo had been down for quite some >> time. >> >> >> >> Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note® 4, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone >> >> >> -------- Original message -------- >> From: Andre Klapper <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Date: 11/04/2015 2:37 AM (GMT-10:00) >> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> Subject: [Labs-l] Get those small bugs fixed by new contributors: It's >> Google Code-In time! >> >> Tool and Labs developers! >> >> * Do you have small, self-contained, "easy" bugs you'd love to get fixed? >> (Also see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs> ) >> * Does the documentation of your tool need improvements? >> * Do your old bugs welcome some testing? >> * Does your user interface have some small design issues? >> * Do you have some tasks that welcome some research? >> >> Google Code-In (GCI) will take place again in Dec+Jan: a contest for >> 13-17 year old students to provide small contributions to free software >> projects. >> Wikimedia will apply again to take part in GCI. The more tasks we can >> offer the likelier the changes Wikimedia will get accepted. >> >> Unsure about quality of contributions and effort? >> Read about tgr's post about Multimedia achievements in GCI 2014: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2015-January/001009.html >> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2015-January/001009.html> >> >> In short: >> * Add the project "GCI2015" + a comment to Phabricator tasks you'd mentor. >> * Tasks are welcome in five areas: Code; Outreach/Research; >> Documentation/Training; Quality Assurance; User Interface. >> * Make sure the task description provides pointers to help the student. >> * Add yourself to the table of mentors on the wikipage. >> * "Beginner tasks" (<30 min for an experienced contributor) also welcome. >> * "Generic" tasks also welcome (e.g. "Fix two user interface messages from >> the "Blocked By" list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40638 >> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40638> "). >> For all information, check >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015#Mentors.27_corner >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015#Mentors.27_corner> >> >> Can you imagine providing a helping hand to someone fixing tasks? >> >> Please ask if you have questions! >> >> Thank you! >> andre >> -- >> Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler >> http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ <http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Labs-l mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l >> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l> >> _______________________________________________ >> Labs-l mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l >> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l> > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l>
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