[Wikitech-l] Re: [event] [crossposting] Wiki-based Business Process Tooling at NASA: The Need for Open CSP

[Erica Litrenta]

Reminder: this event will start soon (February 9, 1600 UTC).
Please see below for details!

On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 1:23 PM Erica Litrenta 
wrote:

> Hey everyone.
> I have been given a different link for this event, you'll be able to
> follow it on YouTube. [1]
> Apologies for the noise.
>
> *[1] https://youtube.com/live/kBkiNRJPLM8
> <https://youtube.com/live/kBkiNRJPLM8>*
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 1:55 PM Erica Litrenta 
> wrote:
>
>> The Tech Department at Wikimedia Foundation [1] invites you to a*
>> special event on February 09, 2023, at 1600 UTC* [2].
>>
>> *Richard Evans, Electronics & Data Systems Engineer At NASA Glenn
>> Research Center *[3], will be presenting on *how MediaWiki is being used
>> within NASA* to help manage the testing of very large spacecraft to
>> prove they can survive the harsh conditions of launch, orbit, and re-entry.
>> The management platform is built from MediaWiki and several key extensions
>> that provide workflow support. This evolving platform plans to incorporate
>> the extensions that form the MediaWiki-powered Open CSP platform [4]. This
>> talk will explain the architecture and benefits of the NASA platform and
>> motivate the need for Open CSP. We’ll also be recording the event to share
>> with those who can’t make it. You can join the event through Google Meet
>> [5].
>>
>> Looking forward to seeing you there,
>> *--on behalf of the Tech Department, Wikimedia Foundation.*
>> *(For follow-ups, please reach out to *lngu...@wikimedia.org.)
>>
>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology
>> [2] https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1675958415
>> [3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q618728#sitelinks-wikipedia
>> [4] https://www.open-csp.org/Main_Page
>> [5]
>> https://stream.meet.google.com/stream/ce81307c-cdb7-4a5e-9697-65c423f27614
>>
>> --
>>
>> 
>>
>>
>> Erica Litrenta (she/her)
>> Senior Manager, Community Relations Specialists (Product)
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>
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[Wikitech-l] Re: [event] [crossposting] Wiki-based Business Process Tooling at NASA: The Need for Open CSP

[Erica Litrenta]

Hey everyone.
I have been given a different link for this event, you'll be able to follow
it on YouTube. [1]
Apologies for the noise.

*[1] https://youtube.com/live/kBkiNRJPLM8
<https://youtube.com/live/kBkiNRJPLM8>*



On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 1:55 PM Erica Litrenta 
wrote:

> The Tech Department at Wikimedia Foundation [1] invites you to a* special
> event on February 09, 2023, at 1600 UTC* [2].
>
> *Richard Evans, Electronics & Data Systems Engineer At NASA Glenn Research
> Center *[3], will be presenting on *how MediaWiki is being used within
> NASA* to help manage the testing of very large spacecraft to prove they
> can survive the harsh conditions of launch, orbit, and re-entry. The
> management platform is built from MediaWiki and several key extensions that
> provide workflow support. This evolving platform plans to incorporate the
> extensions that form the MediaWiki-powered Open CSP platform [4]. This talk
> will explain the architecture and benefits of the NASA platform and
> motivate the need for Open CSP. We’ll also be recording the event to share
> with those who can’t make it. You can join the event through Google Meet
> [5].
>
> Looking forward to seeing you there,
> *--on behalf of the Tech Department, Wikimedia Foundation.*
> *(For follow-ups, please reach out to *lngu...@wikimedia.org.)
>
> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology
> [2] https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1675958415
> [3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q618728#sitelinks-wikipedia
> [4] https://www.open-csp.org/Main_Page
> [5]
> https://stream.meet.google.com/stream/ce81307c-cdb7-4a5e-9697-65c423f27614
>
> --
>
> 
>
>
> Erica Litrenta (she/her)
> Senior Manager, Community Relations Specialists (Product)
> Wikimedia Foundation
>


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[Wikitech-l] [event] [crossposting] Wiki-based Business Process Tooling at NASA: The Need for Open CSP

[Erica Litrenta]

The Tech Department at Wikimedia Foundation [1] invites you to a* special
event on February 09, 2023, at 1600 UTC* [2].

*Richard Evans, Electronics & Data Systems Engineer At NASA Glenn Research
Center *[3], will be presenting on *how MediaWiki is being used within NASA*
to help manage the testing of very large spacecraft to prove they can
survive the harsh conditions of launch, orbit, and re-entry. The management
platform is built from MediaWiki and several key extensions that provide
workflow support. This evolving platform plans to incorporate the
extensions that form the MediaWiki-powered Open CSP platform [4]. This talk
will explain the architecture and benefits of the NASA platform and
motivate the need for Open CSP. We’ll also be recording the event to share
with those who can’t make it. You can join the event through Google Meet
[5].

Looking forward to seeing you there,
*--on behalf of the Tech Department, Wikimedia Foundation.*
*(For follow-ups, please reach out to *lngu...@wikimedia.org.)

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology
[2] https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1675958415
[3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q618728#sitelinks-wikipedia
[4] https://www.open-csp.org/Main_Page
[5]
https://stream.meet.google.com/stream/ce81307c-cdb7-4a5e-9697-65c423f27614

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[Wikitech-l] Re: TDF is looking for community representatives

[Erica Litrenta]

(Sorry to "hijack" the thread, I am not personally involved in TDF but
since I was the original "messenger", I'm interested in learning more about
Daniel's POV.
The original email linked to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_decision_making/Community_representation
.
While I'm well aware that info a click away is not optimal, I'm definitely
more against walls of text that may be hard to understand for non-native
readers.
That page was marked for translation instead, and among other things, it
offered exactly the process you are describing, and the second email asked
specifically for recommendations.
We had /also/ asked for recs to a few dozens colleagues, and none of the
people pinged gave their availability.
Interested to hear what could have been done differently.)

On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 1:06 PM Daniel Kinzler 
wrote:

> Am 06.10.2022 um 08:52 schrieb Linh Nguyen:
>
> Kunal,
> I hear you but we only have 3 people who actually put the effort into
> applying for the position.  We are appointing people who are at least
> trying to help.  If you want to help in the process please feel free to put
> your name on the list.
>
> The original mail doesn't really make it clear what impact one might have
> by joining, or what would be expected of a member. Asking people to click a
> link for details loses most of the audience already.
>
> One thing that has worked pretty well in the past when we were looking for
> people to join TechCom was to ask for nominations, rather than volunteers.
> We'd then reach out to the people who were nominated, and asked them if
> they were interested.  Self-nominations were of course also fine.
>
> Another thing that might work is to directly approach active volunteer
> contributors to production code. There really aren't so many really active
> ones. Ten, maybe.
>
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> Principal Software Engineer, Platform Engineering
> Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikitech-l] Talk to the Community Tech Team, 14 September 2022 + mini-survey

[Erica Litrenta]

(This is a crosspost.)

Hi everyone!
I'm happy to announce that the beloved Community Tech team (the folks
behind the Community Wishlist, as you know) invite you to meet them on
2022-09-14 for a chat on Zoom.

All details are on Meta [1]; your support in translating the message and
getting the word out is welcome, as usual.
Bonus!
They have a mini-survey for you (also at [1]). Please consider taking a few
minutes to let them know what you would like to see covered in future
meetings. You can leave your thoughts on the talk page. [2]

For everything related to this announcement and the event, please contact
Karolin Siebert (ksieb...@wikimedia.org).
Thanks for your attention!

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey/Updates/Talk_to_Us_2022-09-14
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Wishlist_Survey/Updates/Talk_to_Us_2022-09-14


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[Wikitech-l] Re: TDF is looking for community representatives

[Erica Litrenta]

Hi everyone.

This is a reminder that the search for community representatives for the
Technical Decision Forum is still OPEN.

There are a few weeks left to apply and/or recommend someone who would be a
great fit for the role (learn more at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_decision_making/Community_representation
).

Please let us know if there are any questions we can answer before you
submit your application, or a friend's name! Email us at
tdfsupp...@wikimedia.org by Aug 12, 2022.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon…

The Technical Decision Forum.

On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 11:17 AM Erica Litrenta 
wrote:

> *(This email may not be written in your native language, and/or may be a
> crosspost: our apologies.)*
>
>
> Greetings, everyone.
>
> The Technical Decision Forum, or TDF (1), is seeking community
> representatives. Please visit the TDF Community Representation (2) page
> for more information, and email tdfsupp...@wikimedia.org by Aug 12, 2022
> to be considered for selection.
>
>
> Don't worry about the requirements listed on wiki, they are not set in
> stone; just provide your name, name of the group you "represent" if any,
> and a short sentence or two explaining your interest.
>
>
> For any questions, please post at *MediaWiki.org (3)*, or on the related
> Movement Strategy Forum topic (4), or simply email
> tdfsupp...@wikimedia.org.
>
> Thanks,
>
> The Technical Decision Forum.
>
> (1) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_decision_making/Forum
> (2)
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_decision_making/Community_representation
> (3) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Technical_decision_making/Forum
> (4)
> https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/technical-decision-forum-tdf-is-looking-for-community-representatives/1082
>
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>
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>
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[Wikitech-l] TDF is looking for community representatives

[Erica Litrenta]

*(This email may not be written in your native language, and/or may be a
crosspost: our apologies.)*


Greetings, everyone.

The Technical Decision Forum, or TDF (1), is seeking community
representatives. Please visit the TDF Community Representation (2) page for
more information, and email tdfsupp...@wikimedia.org by Aug 12, 2022 to be
considered for selection.


Don't worry about the requirements listed on wiki, they are not set in
stone; just provide your name, name of the group you "represent" if any,
and a short sentence or two explaining your interest.


For any questions, please post at *MediaWiki.org (3)*, or on the related
Movement Strategy Forum topic (4), or simply email tdfsupp...@wikimedia.org.

Thanks,

The Technical Decision Forum.

(1) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_decision_making/Forum
(2)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_decision_making/Community_representation
(3) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Technical_decision_making/Forum
(4)
https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/technical-decision-forum-tdf-is-looking-for-community-representatives/1082

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[Wikitech-l] Maps Modernization plan - FYI

[Erica Litrenta]

Greetings,

This is a follow up from our last email some months ago (and a crosspost).
You may already have seen today's announcement from Legal about the
upcoming changes to the Maps Terms of Use. Here is an extra heads-up
that Wikimedia
Maps are transitioning towards a more modern architecture. The first phase
of this transition will be replacing Tilerator [0] with Tegola [1] as our
vector tile server. This is a change in the Maps infrastructure, so there
should be little to no impact to the end users’ experience.

It is important that we are able to provide software that is sustainable to
support, before we can guarantee a reliable user experience. Wikimedia Maps
aim to provide Wikimedia users a consistent experience contributing to and
learning about geoinformation. To achieve this goal, we will empower those
engineers maintaining the Wikimedia Maps infrastructure to do so with ease
and low effort.

If you want to learn more, please head to mediawiki.org [2], where you will
also find a Questions & Answers section.

Thanks, and take care,

Erica Litrenta (on behalf of the Product Infrastructure team)

[0] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maps/Tilerator

[1] https://tegola.io/
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Maps/2021_modernization_plan

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Public API for Wikimedia map tiles to be discontinued in 45 days [crosspost from Maps-l] [final warning]

[Erica Litrenta]

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder that deprecation of the Maps API for third party referrers
happens next week. If you are using that API on a non-Wikimedia hosted
website for a Wikimedia affiliate or an established wikiproject, please
comment as soon as possible on Phabricator [1] linking to your domain and
providing an example of your usage of maps.

We appreciate your patience as this is our first step towards making maps a
reliable and consistent experience for contributors and readers, and we'll
share more about our plans in the next weeks.

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261694

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Public API for Wikimedia map tiles to be discontinued in 45 days

[Erica Litrenta]

>
>
> [crosspost from Maps-l]
>


Hi everyone,

here are a few clarifications about our prior announcement re: Maps API
deprecation for 3rd parties [1].

As stated, our plan is *not* going to have any impact on any
Wikimedia-hosted wikis. This means that nothing will change for maps, in
any namespace, on Wikipedia and any sister projects. Tools that are hosted
on Wikimedia services are also not going to be affected (i.e.,
Kartographer).

This said, we are aware that there may be map usage beyond such venues
where deprecation would still affect our community members and their
activities - for instance, the Wiki Loves Monuments website, and the
Wikimedia Poland chapter website both rely on our maps API.

Hence, over the 45 day deprecation period which ends in mid October: *if
you represent an affiliated free knowledge group that does regular work
with our maps (any Wikimedia affiliates, or established wikiprojects), or
if you are closely partnering with other entities who do, we welcome you to
reach out, either here on this announcement thread or on the dedicated
Phabricator ticket [2].*


We will work with you to understand your needs, and what alternatives
exist. For further questions, I encourage you to contact me off-list to
reduce noise.

Thank you.



[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/maps-l/2020-August/001729.html

[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261694


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[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Public API for Wikimedia map tiles to be discontinued in 45 days

[Erica Litrenta]

[crosspost from Maps-l]

Today the Wikimedia Foundation is announcing the deprecation of the public
API for Wikimedia map tiles. Around mid October the Foundation will end
support for the Wikimedia Maps Service API [1]. This change affects people
using Wikimedia maps on their own website or app. Maps on the Wikimedia
sites, in Wikimedia-hosted tools and gadgets, and on maps.wikimedia.org
won't be affected.

This decision was made based on recent outage incidents, primarily due to
spikes in third party usage, along with an analysis showing that more than
a third of maps provided are to non-Wikimedia services (including many to
for-profit organizations).

After the most recent incident [2], the service was limited so that only
cached maps tiles would be available. While this protected the servers, it
made the service unpredictable and highlighted the unsustainability of our
tile service. So, we have made the decision to discontinue the maps APIs
for non-Wikimedia users.

This change will allow our teams working on Maps to focus on the
sustainability of the maps used within Wikimedia projects.

You can follow the implementation of this change on Phabricator [3].

Best,

Erica Litrenta

[1] https://maps.wikimedia.org/osm-intl/

[2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20200204-maps

[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261424

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[Wikitech-l] Announcing a new sister project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia

[Erica Litrenta]

Hello.

(Apologies for cross-posting, and that you are likely not reading this
message in your native language: translations of the full announcement may
be available on Meta [1], and will be posted to all the wikis in the next
few days. Please consider helping with translations in the meantime.
Thanks!)

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has approved a new sister
project, temporarily titled "Abstract Wikipedia" [2].

Its goal is to generate baseline encyclopedic content in a multilingual
fashion, allowing more contributors and more readers to share more
knowledge in more languages. You can learn more on Meta [1] and can also
join the new dedicated mailing list [3].

Talk to you soon!

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Abstract_Wikipedia/June_2020_announcement

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Abstract_Wikipedia
[3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/abstract-wikipedia

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[Wikitech-l] FW: File with an unknown copyright status on MediaWiki.org

[Erica Litrenta]

On Commons AFAIK
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:No_license_since is used, and
the uploader is warned on their talk page that the file could be deleted
after 7 days if no info is provided.

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[Wikitech-l] Reminder: Tech Talk: "Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the technology behind it" later today

[Erica Litrenta]

Hello everyone,
TL;DR, learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system, by
creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Join the
Tech Talk about "*Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the
technology behind it"* with Sebastian Karcher later today.

All details at 
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-February/084840.html
.

Have a nice week,
Elitre (WMF)
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools repository

[Erica Litrenta]

>
> --
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:41:08 -0400
> From: Pine W 
> To: Wikimedia developers 
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools repository
> Message-ID:
> 

Re: [Wikitech-l] One Month Anniversary (Alangi Derick)

[Erica Litrenta]

Congrats for your "monthiversary", d3r1ck,
and thanks for your thorough report.
Sounds like you're enjoying the experience of contributing to the Movement,
so I certainly hope to read other enthusiastic updates from you in the
future.

Best,
Elitre (WMF)



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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:20:08 +0100
> From: Alangi Derick 
> To: Wikimedia developers 
> Subject: [Wikitech-l] One Month Anniversary
> Message-ID:
>  hyrpddbn8_7tc2qec...@mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> Hi Fellow Developers,
>Greetings to all my fellow developers and contributors to the wiki
> community. I am happy to write to you all and to pass my small piece of
> information about congratulating myself for making One month in the wiki
> community and for being and active contributor.
>
> I have been submitting patches to this organisation in for both the
> wiki-core and extensions like;
> Core
> 
> - WikiMedia Core
>
> Extensions
> =
> - Echo
> - Thanks
> - MobileFrontend
> - Mailgun ( authoring with Tony Thomas )
> - WikibaseJavascriptAPI
> - OOjs/UI
> - VisualEditor
>
> Linking you to my gerrit account's merged patches:
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/owner:D3r1ck01+status:merged,n,z .
>
> I am very happy for familiarizing myself with the following people who have
> been of very big help to me in making me learn the Wiki Media code base
> - Brian Bawolf
> - Reedy
> - Quim Gil (for his great advices)
> - Hoo Man (WikiData, for his inspiration)
> - Tony Thomas
> - jdlrobson (Mobile FE)
> - Glaisher
> - and more
>
> I wish to thank everyone who has helped me in one way or the other and i
> will do all my possible best to make sure Wiki grows to the highest height
> it can obtain. Wish you all the best Wiki Developers and contributors.
>
> Cheers Alangi Derick ( d3r1ck01, d3r1ck [irc] )
>
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[Wikitech-l] Please join the 2nd edition of the VisualEditor Translathon

[Erica Litrenta]

(Apologies for crossposting.)
Hello!
We're pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the *VisualEditor Translathon*.

It is a translation rally, focused on interface messages and help pages
related to VisualEditor [0].
In order to participate, you need to *sign up on the Translathon page* [1].
The top 3 contributors will each win a Wikipedia t-shirt of their choice
from the Wikipedia store [2].
Translations made between *July 15th and July 19th* (CDT time zone [3])
qualify [4].
If you are at Wikimania Mexico this year [5],  you are also welcome to join
a related sprint during the hackathon in *Workplace 1 - Don Américo,
Thursday 16 July at 4pm (CDT)* at the conference venue, so you can meet
other fellow translators and get support if you need some [6].

Interface messages have the priority. You will need to create an account at
translatewiki.net in order to work on them, if you don't have one. *It is
recommended to create the account ASAP*, so that it can be confirmed in
time.

You can also help translate documentation pages about VisualEditor on
mediawiki.org. You can use your Wikipedia account to work there.
You will find instructions, links and other details on the Translathon page
[1].

Thanks for your attention, and happy translating!
Elitre (WMF) and Trizek (WMF)

[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor
[1] https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Project:VisualEditor/2015_Translathon
[2] https://store.wikimedia.org/ . You can choose between any short-sleeve
shirt, or other items for the same value.
[3] http://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/cdt
[4] This means both new translations, and updates for messages in the
Outdated tab of the translation interface.
[5] https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania
[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91108
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[Wikitech-l] Please join the Making the Wiki Ed dashboard work for outreach projects hackathon session at Wikimania

[Erica Litrenta]

TL;DR, Whether you are an amateur or an expert coder, or if you are a
current or interested user of the WikiEduDashboard or of the Education
Extension,* please join us at a hackathon session at Wikimania on
Wednesday, 15 July in Workplace 2 - Don Genaro at 1pm. [0]*

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, the Wikimedia Foundation
developed Extension:EducationProgram. It did what we needed it to do at the
time, which was to provide a tool that helps organize classes that want to
edit Wikipedia articles for course credit. Since its release, the extension
has been deployed to 18 Wikimedia projects: it's on 4 sister projects in 16
languages.

Recently, the Wiki Education Foundation [1], led by project manager Sage
Ross - User:Sage (Wiki Ed), User:Ragesoss - developed a Ruby on Rails app
called the WikiEduDashboard [2], which they will use beginning this fall
instead of the EducationProgram extension, for the university courses that
they support on English Wikipedia.

We believe it is possible to use their freely-licensed code to create a
clone of this dashboard that can be used for non-Wiki Ed education program
courses and other group editing activities on English Wikipedia and,
ultimately, on other Wikimedia projects and in other languages.

We are asking for community support for this project since this is outside
the scope of WMF's engineering team for this year. We see the need for a
global dashboard tool and would love to have your help building it!

We're planning some exciting improvements to the Wiki Education Dashboard,
see Phabricator [3] for the full list.
* Full i18n, including right-to-left support.
* Generalize the UI to work for any wiki project and not only
university courses.
* Integration with the Gather extension, to render lists of articles
being written and reviewed.
* Integration with Campaigns, to track group membership and statistics.
* Improvements to the API to simplify some actions taken from the
Dashboard.
* Potentially using Wikidata as the backend for storing information
about courses and editing projects.

We look forward to working together to build this powerful tool which will
support more education and outreach programs in the movement!

Elitre (WMF),
on behalf of the WMF's Education team, + Andrew Green, Adam Wight, Sage
Ross.


[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103623
[1] http://wikiedu.org/
[2] https://github.com/WikiEducationFoundation/WikiEduDashboard
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/education-program-dashboard/
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[Wikitech-l] [VisualEditor] 7th weekly triage meeting; office hour for March

[Erica Litrenta]

Hello all,
and apologies for cross-posting.

Here are some reminders and announcements about upcoming appointments
related to VisualEditor.
A *triage meeting* for VisualEditor (the last one for this quarter) is
scheduled for* Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 19:00 UTC* [1].

For more information, and to learn how you can participate even if you're
not taking part to the Google Hangout, please see the relevant page at
mediawiki.org [2].

This *Friday 27 March at 15:00 UTC* an *office hour* about VE will be held
on IRC [3]. Previous logs and other information, including how to
participate, can be found at Meta [4].

Please notice it will be the last office hour in this format, but we'd like
to discuss alternative formulas which are more useful for everybody.
Therefore, please see and comment the related Phabricator task [5], or just
come and discuss the future of these conversations with us on Friday.

Looking forward to meeting you later this week!

Elitre (WMF)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_(Product)


[1]
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19min=00sec=0day=25month=03year=2015

[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal

[3]
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=15min=00sec=0day=27month=03year=2015

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours

[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92783
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[Wikitech-l] [VisualEditor] 2nd weekly triage meeting; office hours in February and March

[Erica Litrenta]

Hi everybody,
and apologies for cross-posting.

Here are some reminders and announcements about upcoming appointments
related to VisualEditor.
This Wednesday (18 February) the second *triage meeting* is scheduled for
4pm UTC [1]. You can find all the relevant information at mediawiki.org. [2]

This email also serves as a reminder that the next VE *office hour* is
on Thursday 19 February at 7pm UTC [3], in case you had not added it to
your calendar yet!
Please notice that March's appointment has been scheduled as well: we'll
meet on Friday 27 at 3pm UTC [4]; previous logs and other information,
including how to participate, can be found at Meta [5].

Talk to you soon!
Elitre (WMF)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_(Product)


[1]
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16min=00sec=0day=18month=02year=2015
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal#How_to_join_the_triage_meetings
[3]
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19min=00sec=0day=19month=02year=2015
[4]
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=15min=00sec=0day=27month=03year=2015
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
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[Wikitech-l] VisualEditor office hour for November and January

[Erica Litrenta]

Hi everybody,
and apologies for cross-posting.
This is a reminder that the VE office hour for this month is happening *today
in a few hours, at 1600 UTC* [0].

James Forrester will be available to answer any questions about recent
improvements and to provide details about ongoing and planned work. It is
also a pleasant occasion to share your experience; the team always looks
forward to hearing from you.

I'd also like to inform you that we are not going to have an office hour
next month, so the next appointment to discuss VE is in *January, Wednesday
7th at  2200 UTC* [1].

Previous logs and other information, including how to participate, can be
found at Meta [2].

Hope to see you in #wikimedia-office in a while.
Best,
Elitre (WMF)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_(Product)

[0]
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16min=00sec=0day=19month=11year=2014
[1]
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=22min=00sec=0day=07month=01year=2015

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
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[Wikitech-l] VisualEditor monthly newsletter is now multilingual

[Erica Litrenta]

(Apologies for cross-posting.)

Hi all,
I'm glad to announce that the *monthly VisualEditor newsletter* was
recently marked for translation for the first time: we had received several
related community requests.

The issue for September and October [0] was delivered in 10 languages to
the editors who signed up in the past months (please join them! [1]) in
addition to a list of relevant pages which includes at a minimum all the
Wikipedias where VisualEditor is already the default editor [2]. Future
time windows for translations will be announced through the Translators
mailing list [3], or personally to volunteers who want to help with this
task; please contact me off-list to indicate your availability. *The
November issue is now open for translations and will be delivered in a few
days [4]. *

Special thanks to our awesome community of translators, to Guillaume for
assisting me in setting up the whole mechanism, to Whatamidoing (WMF) for
providing the contents and to James F. for reviewing them.

Best,
Elitre (WMF)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_(Product)


[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter/2014/October
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Rollouts
[3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter/2014/November
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[Wikitech-l] VisualEditor office hours for October and November

[Erica Litrenta]

Hi everybody,
and apologies for cross-posting.
This is a reminder that the next VE office hour is on
Saturday 18th at 1800 UTC [1],
in case you want to add it to your calendar.

Please notice that November's appointment has been scheduled as well: we'll
meet on Wednesday the 19th, at 1600 UTC [2].

Previous logs and other information, including how to participate, can be
found at Meta [3].

Hope to talk to you on IRC in a couple of days,
Elitre (WMF)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_(Product)


[1]
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18min=00sec=0day=18month=10year=2014

[2]
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16min=00sec=0day=19month=11year=2014

[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
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