Welcome back TParis. :-) Cyberpower678 English Wikipedia Account Creation Team Mailing List Moderator
> 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]> 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]> > Date: 11/04/2015 2:37 AM (GMT-10:00) > To: [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 ) > * 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 > > 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 "). > For all information, check > 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/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
_______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
