[Foundation-l] Fundraising -- use your technical skills to help

2011-12-06 Thread Mark A. Hershberger

What:  Fundraising triage
When:  Wednesday, December 7, 2100UTC
   Time zone conversion: http://hexm.de/bc
   Where:  #wikimedia-dev on freenode
   Use http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-dev
   if you don't have an IRC client
 Etherpad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-funcom

Tomorrow, I'll be holding an IRC meeting on the open fundraising-related
issues that Arthur Richards and I identified today as things that could
benefit from community involvement.

If you are able to contribute any help on these issues -- several of
which are targeted to the CentralNotice system -- you will improve the
experience of many users of the Wikimedia projects.

* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/17108 Make Hide Cookies notice independent

* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/24950 Make CentralNotice option checkboxes 
sortable

* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/26026 Add API module for 
Special:FundraiserStatistics

* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/26387 Add better key to Fundraiser stats page

* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/30818 Special:FundraisingStatistics should 
display selected yea...

* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/32441 Year filtering on 
Special:FundraiserStatistics broken

* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/32536 CentralNotice API

Bring your javascript and PHP chops and I'll see you there!

Mark.

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[Foundation-l] IRC Bug Triage now

2011-06-28 Thread Mark A. Hershberger

We'll be holding a public IRC bug triage in about 2-3 minutes on
#wikimedia-dev for all who are interested.  We will be using
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-2011-06 to keep notes as well.

See you there!

Mark.

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Re: [Foundation-l] wiki for interwiki

2011-03-22 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
 On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
 ... So that's another opportunity to mention the request to enable it,
 open since September 2008:
 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15607

 Are there still any technical barriers to enabling it?

I opened a new blocker for #15607 (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28194)
that is based on Tim's comments on #15607 to make it easier to track the
which issues block the deployment of the Interlanguage extension.

Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org writes:
 I believe both interwiki transclusion and the interlanguage extension
 are on Mark Hershberger's, the Bugmesiter, to-do list.  He's the one
 who bothers the sysadmins to get things done. :-)

 I've CC'd him so he can hopefully chime in.

Thanks, Casey.  Finally subscribed.

I'm trying to find ways to track issues that are important to the
community *now* and raise them to the attention of the Foundation as
something the community cares about.  Casey, Gerard and others have
contacted via email and helped by pointing me to specific issues.  I
invite anyone who thinks there is an important issue that the Foundation
isn't addressing to send it to me.

Every week, I'm trying to send out a couple of emails to wikitech-l
about the bugs that the Foundation and MediaWiki hackers can focus on.

This past week, some mediawiki hackers helped me realize that my criteria
probably isn't the best (http://hexm.de/1d) and I tried to save myself
by refocusing on bugs that got the most votes (http://hexm.de/1e).

Developers haven't (and probably shouldn't) paid much attention to bugs
rated by popularity, but, since my job is help Foundation developers
and MediaWiki hackers remember to focus on the needs of the community, I
think I'll continue to look at the popularity of bugs as well as rely on
feedback from other people in the community.

By filling the Bugmeister position, the Foundation is (in part) trying
to increase its responsiveness to the community.  If you think there is
a specific item the Foundation isn't paying enough attention to, let me
know.  I can't promise that everyone who sends me an email will find the
attention of the Foundation is focused on their issue, but I can, at
least, make sure you are heard.

Mark.


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