Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Security Notification: Malware creating fake Wikipedia donation banner

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Should we include this in tech news, perhaps? I think this is vital information 
that should be sent in that newsletter. 

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> On Jan 24, 2019, at 8:02 AM, John Bennett  wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> In order to keep the community informed of threats against Wikimedia projects 
> and users, the Wikimedia Security team has some information to share.
> 
> Malware installed via pirated contented downloaded from sites such as the 
> Pirate Bay can cause web browsers compromised by the malware to create a fake 
> donation banner for Wikipedia users. While the actual malware is not 
> installed or distributed via Wikipedia, unaware visitors may be confused or 
> tricked by it's activities. 
> 
> The malware seeks to trick visitors to Wikipedia by looking like a legitimate 
> Wikipedia banner asking for donations. Once the user clicks on the banner, 
> they are then taken to a portal that leads them to transfer money to a 
> fraudulent bitcoin account that is not controlled by the Foundation.
> 
> The current version of this malware is only infecting Microsoft Windows users 
> at the time of this notification. To date, the number of people affected is 
> small. The fraudulent accounts have taken approximately $700 from infected 
> users. However, we strongly encourage all users to use and update their 
> antivirus software.  
> 
> Additional details and a screenshot of the fake donation banner on can be 
> found at Bleepingcomputer.com. [0]
> 
> [0] 
> https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-movie-file-infects-pc-to-steal-cryptocurrency-poison-google-results/
> 
> Thanks,
> John Bennett
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Thank you Tuesday

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Addshore, t51 patches exactly 2 years in a row... highly suspicious... 

Anyway for Thank you Tuesday, I want to thank Alangi Derick for the chance to 
help out a wonderful community of developers from Africa! I want to also thank 
again Victoria Coleman for everything she has done.  

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> On Jan 15, 2019, at 3:28 AM, Kunal Mehta  wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Following up on Andre's statistics[1] about the people writing/editing
> the code, I wanted to share some about the people reviewing the code
> (gathered by Nemo, thanks!).
> 
> The top +2'ers in MediaWiki core:
> 
> 582 Timo Tijhof 
> 475 James D. Forrester 
> 406 Kunal Mehta 
> 189 Aaron Schulz 
> 174 Bartosz Dziewoński 
> 164 Brad Jorsch 
> 107 Roan Kattouw 
> 
> And across all MediaWiki extensions:
> 
> 1898 James D. Forrester 
> 1365 Kunal Mehta 
> 1153 Umherirrender 
> 971 Thiemo Kreuz 
> 705 Robert Vogel 
> 626 Markus Glaser 
> 595 Timo Tijhof 
> 
> The full list is available at [2]. It's interesting to compare it to
> 2017[3] - special shoutout to Addshore who reviewed exactly 51
> MediaWiki core patches in 2017 and then again in 2018!
> 
> [1]
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-January/091282.htm
> l
> [2] http://federico.kapsi.fi/crstats/2018-merges.txt
> [3] https://federico.kapsi.fi/crstats/2017-merges.txt
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Re: [Wikitech-l] A difficult goodbye

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Victoria,
Thanks for all you’ve done i only hope this opportunity works out well for you. 
Regardless of what your future holds you will always have a place here, so as 
always for anyone feel free to check in and have a nice chat with us anytime. I 
think i can safely say on behalf of the Wikimedia community as a whole, thank 
you for your work and dedication to the movement, and good luck.


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> On Jan 10, 2019, at 6:48 PM, Pine W  wrote:
> 
> Thank you for your service, Victoria. I'm glad that your next steps sound
> like they will be good for you professionally and will be at another
> organization that does public service.
> 
> I've appreciated that you have been consistently responsive and polite in
> our interactions. I wish you the best on your journey. Perhaps we'll meet
> again.
> 
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: Add security researchers to CREDITS file & [[Special:Version/credits]]

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Good ideas, side note: I'm fairly certain the Credits special page just
pulls from CREDITS file.

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On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 3:34 PM, Brian Wolff  wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Currently we only credit people who report security vulnerabilities at
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Security_Team/Thanks (which
> basically nobody reads or knows exists) and sometimes in the commit message
> and release announcements. Given such people are instrumental in keeping
> MediaWiki secure, I think we should also credit them in the CREDITS file. I
> propose adding another section to the file - "Vulnerability Reporters",
> listing the names of everyone who has reported a security vulnerability in
> either MediaWiki or a bundled extension.
>
> Thoughts?
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Commons app - version 2.7 release

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I don't know any iOS developers, but I can ask some of the developers I
know if they do.

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On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 3:10 PM, Daniel Zahn  wrote:

> > - New "Nearby places that need pictures" UI with direct uploads (and
> associated category suggestions) -
>
> Woohoo. That's exactly what i was always missing and was so great about the
> old WikiLovesMonuments app.
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> >  Enabled two-factor authentication login
>
> Also very nice, just wondering what the second factor is on mobile, since
> usually that's a mobile app as well. Does that still make it 2 factors?
>
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Commons app - version 2.7 release

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Is there a plan to release to iOS?

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On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 4:25 AM, Josephine Lim 
wrote:

> Sorry about the lack of formatting - I am not sure why that happened. :( To
> rephrase, the new features are:
>
> * New "Nearby places that need pictures" UI with direct uploads (and
> associated category suggestions)
> * Enabled two-factor authentication login
> * Enabled viewing of Commons user talk messages
> * Real-time location tracking in Nearby
> * Improvements to UI of navigation drawer, tutorial, media details view,
> login and settings
> * Option to nominate picture for deletion in media details view
>
> Best regards,
> Josephine
>
> On 1 May 2018 at 19:17, Josephine Lim  wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We've just released version 2.7 of the Commons Android app ! \o/ The new
> > version is available for download on the Google Play Store[1] as well as
> > F-Droid[2].
> >
> > This update includes several new features:
> >
> > - New "Nearby places that need pictures" UI with direct uploads (and
> > associated category suggestions) - Two-factor authentication login -
> > Notifications activity to display Commons user talk messages - Real-time
> > location tracking in Nearby - Improvements to UI of navigation drawer,
> > tutorial, media details view, login and settings - Option to nominate
> > picture for deletion in media details view
> >
> > We are also thrilled to be mentoring two new contributors for this year's
> > GSoC - Tanvi Dadu and Ujjwal Agrawal. :)
> >
> > Thank you all for your support and encouragement thus far! More details
> > and screenshots can be found in my blog post[3]. Feedback, bug reports,
> and
> > suggestions are always welcome on our GitHub page[4].
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Josephine (project maintainer)
> >
> > [1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons
> > [2]: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=fr.free.nrw.commons
> > [3]: https://cookiesandcodeblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/21/commons-app-
> > version-2-7-beta-release/
> > [4]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Dead Links

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Welcome message needs updated unless there is @wikimedia.org alias

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On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 8:18 PM, Mark A. Hershberger 
wrote:

> ad...@gunsense.xyz writes:
>
> > dead link: "You can also use the gmane web interface for reading AND
> > posting to the list.
> > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/;
>
> GMANE's NNTP interface for reading mailing lists is still up (I'm using
> it), but the NNTP posting is down,
>
> It looks like the website itself is barely limping along.
>
> It is probably time to update that information.
>
> Mark.
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Unblocking 79 IPs blocked as open proxies 12 years ago (T189840)

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I suggest perhaps having this go out on tech news or make sure the proper 
admins are notified.

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> On Mar 21, 2018, at 1:52 PM, James Hare  wrote:
> 
> I think deleting those block records is acceptable, and if they need to be
> blocked again, we can just block them again. Instituting blocks like this
> seems like an anti-pattern we should avoid.
> 
> 
> On March 21, 2018 at 11:50:50 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) (
> bjor...@wikimedia.org) wrote:
> 
> In 2005–2006 a sysadmin blocked 79 IP addresses on all wikis as being
> automatically-detected open proxies, without recording them in the block
> log or attributing the block to any user account. These incomplete records
> are now causing errors when MediaWiki tries to access them in various
> places, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189840.
> 
> Since these are all over 12 years old, it seems reasonably likely that many
> of these are no longer open proxies. Rather than trying to fix the
> incomplete records, I'm just going to remove them.
> 
> Any existing blocks of these IPs that are not causing errors will not be
> removed. At first glance this seems relevant mainly to enwiki, where only 5
> of the IPs have incomplete records. 21 are currently blocked there with
> complete records (19 since 2005 or earlier), and the other 53 are not
> currently blocked there.
> 
> The list of IPs is at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P6876 in case
> anyone wants to review them for potential reblocking.
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing MediaWiki code search

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Thank you very much Kunal!

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> On Dec 21, 2017, at 8:25 AM, Bahodir Mansurov  wrote:
> 
> It's very fast!
> 
> Also, as far as I know, it's not easy to search all extensions at
> once on Github, which makes this tool even more valuable.
> 
> Thanks for sharing.
> 
> Amir Ladsgroup  writes:
> 
>> Kunal, you rock!
>> 
>> Best
>> 
>> ‪On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 1:50 PM ‫יגאל חיטרון‬‎ 
>> wrote:‬
>> 
>>> Wow, thanks a lot!
>>> Igal (User:IKhitron)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2017-12-21 14:09 GMT+02:00 Florian Schmidt <
>>> florian.schmidt.wel...@t-online.de>:
>>> 
 Kunal….. that is simply awesome! Big thanks for this new tool, this will
 make us in finding usages of deprecated methods, we would like to remove,
 much more easy!
 
 
 
 Best,
 
 Florian
 
 
 
 Von: Wikitech-l [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] Im
 Auftrag von Kunal Mehta
 Gesendet: Donnerstag, 21. Dezember 2017 05:15
 An: wikitech-l 
 Betreff: [Wikitech-l] Announcing MediaWiki code search
 
 
 
 Hi,
 
 MediaWiki code search is a fully free software tool that lets you
 easily search through all of MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins
 that are hosted on Gerrit. You can limit your search to specific
 repositories, or types of repositories too. Regular expressions are
 supported in both the search string, and when filtering by path.
 
 Try it out: https://codesearch.wmflabs.org/search/
 
 I started working on this because the only other options to searching
 the entire MediaWiki codebase was either cloning everything locally
 (takes up space, and need to manually keep it up to date) or using
 Github (not free software, has extraneous repositories). The backend
 is powered by hound, a code search tool written by etsy, based on
 Google's Code Search.
 
 Please let me know what you think! More documentation and links are
 at: .
 
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikistats gets a facelift - Alpha Launch of Wikistats 2

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Great Work I love the design. Can't wait for finished product!

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> On Dec 14, 2017, at 1:17 PM, Jonathan Morgan  wrote:
> 
> This is fabulous! Thank you, Erik Zachte, Analytics team, and everyone else
> involved in this project for giving us the powerful, usable stats dashboard
> we deserve :)
> 
> - J
> 
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 5:10 AM, Niharika Kohli 
> wrote:
> 
>> This is awesome. Great job A-team!
>> 
>> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Victoria Coleman >> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Nuria and team, fabulous work!  Wikistats 2 is such a huge improvement!
>>> Thank you!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Best wishes,
>>> 
>>> Victoria Coleman
>>> 
>>> Chief Technology Officer
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>> 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600
>>> San Francisco, CA 94104
>>> 
>>> +1-650-703-8112
>>> 
>>> vcole...@wikimedia.org
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
 On Dec 13, 2017, at 8:26 PM, Nuria Ruiz  wrote:
 
 Hello from Analytics Team!
 
 We are happy to announce the Alpha release of Wikistats 2. Wikistats
>> has
 been redesigned for architectural simplicity, faster data processing,
>>> and a
 more dynamic and interactive user experience. First goal is to match
>> the
 numbers of the current system, and to provide the most important
>> reports,
 as decided by the Wikistats community (see survey) [1].  Over time, we
>>> will
 continue to migrate reports and add new ones that you find useful. We
>> can
 also analyze the data in new and interesting ways, and look forward to
 hearing your feedback and suggestions. [2]
 
 You can go directly to Spanish Wikipedia
 https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/es.wikipedia.org
 
 or browse all projects
 https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/all-projects
 
 The new site comes with a whole new set of APIs, similar to our
>> existing
 Pageview API but with edit data. You can start using them today, they
>> are
 documented here:
 
 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/AQS/Wikistats
 
 
 FAQ:
 
 Why is this an alpha?
 There are features that we feel a full-fledged product should have that
>>> are
 still missing, such as localization. The data-processing pipeline for
>> the
 new Wikistats has been rebuilt from scratch (it uses
>>> distributed-computing
 tools such as Hadoop) and we want to see how it is used before calling
>> it
 final. Also while we aim to update data monthly, it will happen a few
>>> days
 after the month rolls because of the amount of data to move and
>> compute.
 
 How about comparing data between two wikis?
 You can do it with two tabs but we are aware this UI might not solve
>> all
 use cases for the most advanced Wikistats users. We aim to tackle those
>>> in
 the future.
 
 How do I file bugs?
 Use the handy link in the footer:
 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/?
>>> title=Wikistats%20Bug=Analytics-Wikistats,Analytics
 
 How do I comment on design?
 The consultation on design already happened but we are still watching
>> the
 talk page:
 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikistats_2.0_Design_
>>> Project/RequestforFeedback/Round2
 
 
 [1]
 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Wikistats/
>>> DumpReports/Future_per_report
 [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Analytics/
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing a new security testing tool for MediaWiki extensions "phan-taint-check-plugin"

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Brian,
When you were talking about it in IRC it sounded cool, looking at the current 
project is even better! However can I suggest maybe making this into a wmflabs 
tool so we can choose to run certain repos without using our own personal 
ram/resources? Thank you for all you do.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Years (Happy Holidays)

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> On Dec 11, 2017, at 7:40 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)  
> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Brian!
> 
> As an integrator, I'm often concerned about the quality of 3rd party
> extensions. This should be super useful. I hope to give feedback once I get
> this setup and run various checks with it.
> 
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Re: [Wikitech-l] FLIF for Wikimedia

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The library can be found here: http://flif.info/

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> On Dec 2, 2017, at 5:49 PM, Andre Klapper  wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> On Sat, 2017-12-02 at 22:20 +0100, RubenKelevra wrote:
>> There's a small JavaScript library which can be used until there's a
>> browser support given, so theres no need to wait until there is
>> browser-support.
> 
> Please provide a link to that library.
> 
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Try out the commit message validator

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I would be more than willing to help, keyword help, compile a common typo list. 
Just let me know and I could start up a spreadsheet or something.

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> On Nov 7, 2017, at 1:26 PM, Chad  wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 10:45 AM Faidon Liambotis 
> wrote:
> 
>>> On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 11:19:57AM -0700, Bryan Davis wrote:
>>> We could probably add checks for some common ones if someone compiled a
>> list.
>>> 
>>> Running a full spell check would be difficult because of the number of
>>> false positives there would be based on a "normal" dictionary. Commit
>>> messages often contain technical jargon (maybe something to try and
>>> avoid) and snippets of code  (e.g. class names like
>>> TemplatesOnThisPageFormatter) that would not be in any traditional
>>> dictionary that we could count on being on the local host.
>> 
>> Debian's lintian (lint tool for packages) has a check for common
>> typos/misspellings in its informational mode. The package ships with
>> /usr/bin/spellintian which is a simple spellchecker that can run
>> independently.
>> 
>> The benefit of using spellintian over e.g. aspell is that it addresses
>> the issues you already identified: a) it just identifies typos, not
>> complaining on unknown words it doesn't know, b) it's been created from
>> observing typos in source code and package descriptions in the wild, so
>> it's tailored to technical jargon and their misspellings. It could be a
>> good fit to git commit messages.
>> 
>> That doesn't mean it's free of false positives though, so I wouldn't
>> recommend to use it in a voting check in a CI pipeline.
>> 
> 
> Plus, you know, intentional misspellings:
> 
> "Fix misspelling of wikinedia -> wikimedia"
> 
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Re: [Wikitech-l] JADE needs your feedback

[zppix e]

I'd also like to add questions and comments are also welcome at #wikimedia-ai 
on freenode.net 
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> On Oct 5, 2017, at 5:52 PM, Keegan Peterzell  wrote:
> 
> ​I should add,
> 
> If you'd like to receive an occasional notice on-wiki when JADE needs
> feedback​, feel free to sign up on meta:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/JADE
> 
> ​Thanks again.​
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Recommending Firefox to users using legacy browsers?

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I personally use firefox on desktop and safari on my mobile (im lazy to install 
an web browser on mobile lol) but I don't think we should make users feel like 
we're pushing them towards a certain browser because someone(s) agree the 
browser is recommended. While yes people may see the list and get overwhelmed 
and not update but at the same time not showing them more than one option can 
cause the same thing because they feel we support one thing over another. All 
in all I have no issue recommending firefox i just have an issue not giving the 
user a feeling of choice of modern browsers.

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> On Sep 1, 2017, at 5:56 PM, Neil Patel Quinn <nqu...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 
> I understand the desire to avoid playing favorites by directing users to a
> list of browsers rather than a single one, but I think that cuts against *both
> *the goals of doing this in the first place.
> 
> The first goal is to nudge users to upgrade from an insecure, less-capable
> browser to a modern one. But if we present them a list of 10 alternatives
> (or even 2), they're far more likely to get stuck in choice paralysis [1]
> and far less likely to actually do what we want and upgrade.
> 
> The second goal is to strengthen non-profit, open-web-focused browser
> makers by increasing their market share. As I see it, the best way to do
> this is to nudge all our users towards a single, high-quality browser which
> already has significant market share, rather than distributing them across
> many different browsers with tiny market shares.
> 
> I'd suggest that the best areas for debate are (1) whether these are good
> goals, (2) whether their benefits justify interrupting users' browsing, and
> (3) which single browser would be the best destination
> 
> Obviously, my answers are (1) yes, (2) yes, and (3) Firefox, but some will
> disagree :)
> 
> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis
> 
>> On 1 September 2017 at 12:15, zppix e <megadev44s.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Why dont we link to an list of web browsers compatible with wmf projects
>> and let the user decide
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Sep 1, 2017, at 12:09 PM, Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 6:55 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> At least until a proper resource exists, just directing people to the
>>>> latest Firefox is probably the most reasonable option (we certainly
>>>> can't support the incumbent).
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> Is linking to Firefox and Chromium an option?
>>> 
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Recommending Firefox to users using legacy browsers?

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Why dont we link to an list of web browsers compatible with wmf projects and 
let the user decide

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> On Sep 1, 2017, at 12:09 PM, Chad  wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 6:55 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) 
> wrote:
> 
>> At least until a proper resource exists, just directing people to the
>> latest Firefox is probably the most reasonable option (we certainly
>> can't support the incumbent).
>> 
>> 
> Is linking to Firefox and Chromium an option?
> 
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator monthly statistics - 2017-07

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Probably just due to the name and update related things with iridium -->
phab1001

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On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Pine W  wrote:

> It seems that two messages were sent which should have covered July:
>
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-August/088550.html
>
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-August/088578.html
>
> Pine
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 8:54 PM,  wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi Community Metrics team,
> >
> > This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail.
> >
> > Accounts created in (2017-07): 432
> > Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2017-07): 888
> > Task authors in (2017-07): 499
> > Users who have closed tasks in (2017-07): 280
> >
> > Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on
> > their workboard in (2017-07): 293
> >
> > Tasks created in (2017-07): 2776
> > Tasks closed in (2017-07): 2267
> > Open and stalled tasks in total: 35271
> >
> > Median age in days of open tasks by priority:
> >
> > Unbreak now: 18
> > Needs Triage: 297
> > High: 536
> > Normal: 727
> > Low: 973
> > Lowest: 954
> >
> > (How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority)
> >
> > Active Differential users (any activity) in (2017-07): 24
> >
> > TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as
> > described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 .
> >
> > Yours sincerely,
> > Fab Rick Aytor
> >
> > (via community_metrics.sh on phab1001 at Tue Aug  8 03:54:29 UTC 2017)
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Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.30.0-wmf.12 deployment is blocked

[zppix e]

Will this  hold up wmf.13, or the train for .13 until all wikis are on .12?

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On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Mukunda Modell 
wrote:

> I've gone forward with 1.30.0-wmf.12 on all wikis except for Wikidata due
> to the ongoing issues mentioned previously. Wikidatawiki remains at
> 1.30.0-wmf.11 (with wikidata extension at wmf.10)
>
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Mukunda Modell 
> wrote:
>
> > Due to today's train deployment more than doubling the error rate seen in
> > fatalmonitor[1], I have rolled-back group 1 wikis to wmf.11. I've
> submitted
> > an UBN task T172320 [2] detailing the error, which appears to be fallout
> > from issues in Wikibase first noticed two weeks ago.
> >
> > I expect that this will be easily resolved once someone familiar with the
> > issue has had a chance to look into it and the train should be back on
> > track in time for tomorrow's deployment.
> >
> > 1. https://logstash.wikimedia.org/goto/5acde54fdb7b071b5723607c9f57eb9c
> > 2. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172320
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikilabels downtime due to maintenance

[zppix e]

Be advised, there was a typo in the original information the downtime is
actually expected to be approximately 5 minutes but the maintenance window
is set for 1 hour. Sorry for the confusion.

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On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 5:16 PM, zppix e <megadev44s.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> On  2017-07-11 at 1400 UTC
> <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20170711T14=0=155=137=179>
>  Wiki
> Labels will be going under DB maintenance. The expected downtime is approx.
> 60 seconds. See See T169933 <http://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169933> for
> our tracking task and T168584 <http://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168584> for
> the reboot task.
> You can also check out this
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_labels/2017-07-11>page on Meta, for
> information  as we get it.
> Thanks,
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[Wikitech-l] Wikilabels downtime due to maintenance

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Hello,
On  2017-07-11 at 1400 UTC

Wiki
Labels will be going under DB maintenance. The expected downtime is approx.
60 seconds. See See T169933  for
our tracking task and T168584  for
the reboot task.
You can also check out this
page on Meta, for
information  as we get it.
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Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki CI failed due to lack of tidy.so [solved]

[zppix e]

Thanks. Was wondering what went wrong.

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On Jun 27, 2017 1:55 PM, "Antoine Musso"  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Jenkins jobs relying on HHVM had troubles today exiting with:
>
>   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hhvm/extensions/20150212/tidy.so:
>   cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> The root cause is installing libtidy-dev ends up uninstall the HHVM tidy
> extension (hhvm-tidy).
>
> The issue occurred between 16:20 UTC and 18:45 UTC.  To the best of my
> knowledge it is fully solved.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience :(
>
>
> Ref:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169004
> Follow up task:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169008
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners [including non-techies!]

[zppix e]

maybe a wp-l post would help find translators?

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On Jun 25, 2017 4:16 AM, "Asaf Bartov"  wrote:

I'd like to specially praise *the Turkish volunteer User:Basak* for
creating the first *complete* translation of the subtitles for this 3-hour
tutorial.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:A_Gentle_
Introduction_to_Wikidata_for_Absolute_Beginners_(including_
non-techies!).webm.tr.srt

Thank you, Basak!

(if you find this talk useful, do consider contributing to the translation
effort (from the complete English subtitles), or help recruit someone who
can.)

   A.

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 8:32 AM Asaf Bartov  wrote:

> Here's the (3-hour) footage of the detailed Wikidata tutorial delivered
> today:
>
> on Commons:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Gentle_
Introduction_to_Wikidata_for_Absolute_Beginners_(including_
non-techies!).webm
>
> on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVrAx3AmUvA
>
> the slides:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_-_A_Gentle_
Introduction_for_Complete_Beginners_(WMF_February_2017).pdf
>
> It covers what Wikidata is (00:00), how to contribute new data to Wikidata
> (1:09:34), how to create an entirely new item on Wikidata (1:27:07), how
to
> embed data from Wikidata into pages on other wikis (1:52:54), tools like
> the Wikidata Game (1:39:20), Article Placeholder (2:01:01), Reasonator
> (2:54:15) and Mix-and-match (2:57:05), and how to query Wikidata
(including
> SPARQL examples) (starting 2:05:05).
>
> Share and enjoy. :)
>
>A.
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 4:35 PM Rachel Farrand 
> wrote:
>
>> Please join for the following talk:
>>
>> *Tech Talk**:* A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners
>> [including non-techies!]
>> *Presenter:* Asaf Bartov
>> *Date:* February 09, 2017
>> *Time: *19:00 UTC
>> <
>> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=
Tech+Talk%3A+A+Gentle+Introduction+to+Wikidata+for+Absolute+Beginners+%
5Bincluding+non-techies%21%5D+=20170209T19=1440=3
>> >
>> Link to live YouTube stream 
>> *IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office
>>
>> *Summary: *This talk will introduce you to the Wikimedia Movement's
latest
>> major wiki project: Wikidata. We will cover what Wikidata is, how to
>> contribute, how to embed Wikidata into articles on other wikis, tools
like
>> the Wikidata Game, and how to query Wikidata (including SPARQL examples).
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Re: [Wikitech-l] +2 request for Ladsgroup (Amir)

[zppix e]

congrats

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On Jun 19, 2017 9:50 AM, "Daniel Kinzler" 
wrote:

Excellent! Well earned!

Am 19.06.2017 um 10:32 schrieb Antoine Musso:
> On 13/06/2017 04:24, Legoktm wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ladsgroup filed a request[1] for +2 in mediawiki/* repos that I missed
>> until now, and hadn't been sent to this mailing list. Please comment if
>> you haven't already and I'll close it in a few days.
>>
>> [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165860
>>
>> -- Legoktm
>
> Hello,
>
> Amir now has +2 rights in Gerrit for the mediawiki/* repositories.
>
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Re: [Wikitech-l] ArchCom Radar, 2017-06-14

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Thank you for leaving us these notes to read, I enjoy reading them. It is
also very useful to help us to keep users informed that arent technical
contributors and are just editors on a project

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On Jun 16, 2017 9:01 AM, "Daniel Kinzler" 
wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> Here are the minutes from this week's ArchCom meeting. You can also find
> the
> minutes at  2017-06-14>.
>
> See also the ArchCom status page at
>  and the
> RFC board
> .
>
>
> Here are the minutes, for your convenience:
>
>
> * Final Call for comments, until June 28: Drop requirement for defining
> talk
> namespaces for custom namespaces https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165149
> If all pertinent objections are addressed by June 14, this RFC will be
> approved
> for implementation.
>
> * Discussion coming up next week, June 21: Making MediaWiki PSR-4 compliant
> (Tim) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166010
> As always, the discussion will take place in the IRC channel
> #wikimedia-office
> on Wednesday 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST).
>
> * Discussion on the T-Comm (ne ArchCom) Charter is ongoing, please
> participate:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Architecture_committee/Charter
>
> * Bryan Davis proposes some sort of framework for setting up more
> groups/committees like ArchCom, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.
> org/T164551
>
> * Krinkle revived the old discussion about using HTTP redirects for
> redirect
> pages: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53736. Current solution is not
> ideal;
> time to re-evaluate alternatives, even though none of them seems perfect
> either.
>
> * Work on MCR: Brad is working on revision comment storage, and Brion is
> working
> on normalized storage of user names (“actors”), see
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T15 and
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167246
>
> * Approved after Final Call: Add index to rc_this_oldid by Ladsgroup
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139012
>
> * Discussed this week, June 14: Readling list service architecture (Readers
> team) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164990
>
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Re: [Wikitech-l] [AI] ORES service is having trouble

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Myself and others are currently looking into a way to prevent this from
happening and going unoticed again in the future... If you want to keep up
with the progress, please check out,
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167830.

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On Jun 14, 2017 1:53 PM, "Daniel Zahn"  wrote:

> I merged Gabriel's patch to limit memory usage to 2G.
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Re: [Wikitech-l] @author annotations in files in the mediawiki codebase

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I agree @author tags should be removed and replaced with a mention (or
maybe even a new section) in CREDIT file

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On Jun 13, 2017 3:02 PM, "Stas Malyshev"  wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > MY understanding is that removing the @author @copyright tags in
> > MediaWiki code represent ownership of the original code placed under the
> > GPL. Subsequent modifications being derivative products.
>
> But there's no way to verify that the code is indeed an original
> creation of whoever is listed under @author, and not a derivative work
> of something else.
>
> > I am not a lawyer, but by dropping the copyright information, I highly
> > suspect that will be a breach of the license.
>
> AFAIK GPL itself does not protect attribution. It allows (optionally) to
> add clauses protecting attribution, but does not require it.
>
> I wonder though, given that Git has all the change history including
> authorship, what is the need to duplicate that information in the source
> code (and risk the two getting out of sync)?
>
> And if we are not considering Git logs to be part of the distribution,
> we're already violating this GPL clause:
>
> You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating
> that you changed the files and the date of any change.
>
> Since you can commit the change (thus causing original work to be
> modified) without such notice, except for Git metadata. We obviously
> consider Git metadata to be enough in this case, why not in any others?
>
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[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [AI] ORES operating at slightly reduced capacity

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-- Forwarded message --
From: "Aaron Halfaker" 
Date: Jun 12, 2017 12:00 PM
Subject: [AI] ORES operating at slightly reduced capacity
To: "Application of Artificial Intelligence and other advanced computing
strategies to Wikimedia Projects" 
Cc:

One of our worker nodes in CODFW went down (scb2005).  See
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167638 for details.

This should not affect the service except that we'll have a slightly
reduced capacity to handle high request rates.  Let us know if you see any
issues with ORES.

https://ores.wikimedia.org
https://mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES

-Aaron

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 167, Issue 15

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Hello can you come join us on IRC on channel #wikimedia-ai on
webchat.freenode.net

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On Jun 12, 2017 7:36 AM, "Kaartic Sivaraam" <kaarticsivaraam91...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 2017-06-12 at 12:00 +, wikitech-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org
> wrote:
> > On 8 Jun 2017 01:42, "zppix e" <megadev44s.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > Wikimedia's  AI team (side note: im unaffliated with wmf, was gaven
> > permission to send this email)  will need help with setting up some
> > wordlists for the tawiki ORES system (see T166052). If you have any
> > knowledge of the Tamil lang, please come join us at
> > chat.freenode.net,
> > channel #wikimedia-ai (webchat.freenode.net). Feel free to cross post
> > this
> > or ask users on-wiki.
> >
> I am native Tamil speaker. How could I be of help?
>
> --
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia-AI needs help with Tamil ORES deployment

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Shrinivasan,

Thats great news, thank you for the help. Please keep us updated :)

Zppix
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On Jun 11, 2017 12:56 PM, "Shrinivasan T" <tshriniva...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am working with Tamil Wikipedia team to get the details requested.

Will share details in a week.

On 8 Jun 2017 01:42, "zppix e" <megadev44s.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,
Wikimedia's  AI team (side note: im unaffliated with wmf, was gaven
permission to send this email)  will need help with setting up some
wordlists for the tawiki ORES system (see T166052). If you have any
knowledge of the Tamil lang, please come join us at chat.freenode.net,
channel #wikimedia-ai (webchat.freenode.net). Feel free to cross post this
or ask users on-wiki.

Thanks,

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[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia-AI needs help with Tamil ORES deployment

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Hello,
Wikimedia's  AI team (side note: im unaffliated with wmf, was gaven
permission to send this email)  will need help with setting up some
wordlists for the tawiki ORES system (see T166052). If you have any
knowledge of the Tamil lang, please come join us at chat.freenode.net,
channel #wikimedia-ai (webchat.freenode.net). Feel free to cross post this
or ask users on-wiki.

Thanks,

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Question re what-links-here

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Sounds like a decent comprimise. I'm not to familar with the code behind
maintaince scripts to do this myself, so I  could make a ticket if need be.

On Friday, June 2, 2017, Gergo Tisza <gti...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 7:38 AM, zppix e <megadev44s.m...@gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if maybe we should have refreshLinks.php invaldiate
> cache,
> > cause when I think of RefreshLinks.php I think it will update the links
> > instantly, not overtime.
> >
>
> On large sites that would have an unwelcome performance impact. Adding a
> command-line option to do so would make sense I guess.
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Congratulations to accepted candidates for Google Summer of Code 2017 & Outreachy Round 14

[zppix e]

I'm a little late to the welcome wagon, but I wanted to send a whole
hearted welome to GSoC and Outreachy candiates that were accepted, I'd like
to introduce myself to you, candiates, I'm Zppix (pronounced Ze-EP-Piks and
no thats not my real name) I'm from United States, I'm a volunteer
developer for WMF, and I also volunteer on en wiki, and occasionally other
projects, I'm usually around IRC in most development-related  WMF channels,
 under the nickname Zppix, so if you need to ask a question feel free to
ask me as well as your mentors, I really hope you enjoy your time here and
stay to help out far long after this round of GSoC/Outreachy is over. I
look forward in crossing paths during development or on phabricator, I hope
you all have a great summer as well.

Thanks,
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On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 6:18 PM, Alexander Jones 
wrote:

> Srishti Sethi wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Please join me in welcoming Wikimedia's accepted candidates for Google
> > Summer of Code 2017 and Outreachy Round 14!
> >
> > Google Summer of Code 2017
> >
> >1.
> >
> >Alexander Jones, Texas, United States, Implement Thanks support in
> >Pywikibot  - John Mark
> >Vandenberg
> >2.
> >
> >Amrit Sreekumar, Kerela, India, Improvements to ProofreadPage
> Extension
> >and Wikisource  - Yann
> >Forget, Tpt
> >3.
> >
> >Feroz Ahmad, New Delhi, India, Add a "hierarchy" type to the Cargo
> >extension  - Yaron Koren,
> >Nischayn22
> >4.
> >
> >Harjot Singh Bhatia, New Delhi, India, Adding Data storage feature and
> >upgrading Quiz extension 
> -
> >Marielle Volz, Sam Reed
> >5.
> >
> >Harsh Shah, India, Build a similar to @NYPLEmoji bot for Commons
> images
> >- Dereckson, Ariel
> >6.
> >
> >Keerthana S, India, Automatic editing suggestions and feedbacks for
> >articles in Wiki Ed Dashboard
> > - Sage Ross, Jonathan
> >Morgan 7.
> >
> >Sejal Khatri, India, Provide enhanced usability for Wikimedia Programs
> >& Events Dashboard managed by Wiki Education foundation <
> >https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161929> - Sage Ross, Jonathan
> Morgan
> >8.
> >
> >Siddhartha Sarkar, India, Single Image Batch Upload <
> >https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161670> - Basvb
> >
> > Outreachy Round 14
> >
> >1.
> >
> >Ela Opper, Tel Aviv, Israel, "Remind me of this article in X days"
> >MediaWiki notification  -
> >Matthew Flaschen and Moriel Schottlender
> >2.
> >
> >Medha Bansal, New Delhi, India, WikiEduDashboard: Allow Programs &
> >Events Dashboard to make automatic edits on connected wikis <
> >https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161568>- Jonathan Morgan, Sage
> Ross
> >3.
> >
> >Sonali Gupta, Rajasthan, India, Document process for creating new
> >Zotero translator and getting it live in production <
> >https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161191> - Marielle Volz
> >
> >
> > We would like to encourage accepted candidates to introduce themselves on
> > this thread, share with us where they are coming from and give a brief
> > overview of the project they will be working on.
> >
> > We’re so proud of the contributions they have made so far to our
> > community, and we look forward to having a wonderful time working with
> > them over the summer! Also, a huge shout-out to the project mentors for
> > their enthusiasm and commitment!
> >
> > Thank you to Sumit and Anna for coordinating this round along with me!
> > Best,
> > Srishti
> >
>
> (re-sent; apologies if this appears twice)
>
> It seems they've added additional requirements since 2015.
>
> My name is Alexander Jones. I edit as happy5214 on several wikis,
> primarily enwiki and Wikidata. I hail, though not originally, from San
> Antonio, Texas, also known as The Alamo City. I have received an associate
> degree in CS from my local community college, and I am currently pursuing a
> bachelor's degree in CS, with a minor in math, from UTSA.
>
> This year, I am adding Thanks support to Pywikibot. I have previous
> experience with Pywikibot, as I added Flow support to Pywikibot during
> GSoC 2015. With this project, I will be adding API calls for thanking
> users, integrating them with the existing class structure, and writing
> scripts to create aggregate lists of frequent thankers.
>
> Good luck to everyone, and I'll be busy catching up this week.
>
> Alexander
>
>
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Arch Comm evolution plan needs your feedback

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Good work, Arch Comm, thanks for all you do. I personally like the change
as it does make more sense (with the name arch-comm I kind of had to
actually look to see what in the world an Arch Comm was... However, T-Comm
will be  a easier to grasp and understand type name.

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On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Victoria Coleman 
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I wanted to bring to everyone’s attention the plan for evolving the WMF
> Architecture Committee. We are clarifying and broadening the scope and
> mandate of the Committee  and renaming it to the Wikimedia Technical
> Committee (T-Comm for short). We are excited to share the plan with you! We
> have published the draft charter at https://www.mediawiki.org/
> wiki/Architecture_committee/Charter  wiki/Architecture_committee/Charter> and would appreciate your review and
> feedback over the next couple weeks.
>
>
> Looking forward to the discussion on the talk page!
>
>
> Victoria ( on behalf of  the Arch Comm membership)
>
>
>
> Victoria Coleman
>
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> 149 New Montgomery Street
> San Francisco, CA 94105
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Question re what-links-here

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Tisza,

I was wondering if maybe we should have refreshLinks.php invaldiate cache,
cause when I think of RefreshLinks.php I think it will update the links
instantly, not overtime.

Thanks,
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On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 2:06 AM, Gergo Tisza  wrote:

> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Aran  wrote:
>
> > Strange, I've just noticed after coming back to it that the 1.27's are
> > looking fine now... does the refreshLinks script launch child processes
> > in the background or something?
>
>
> No, the script is fully synchronous. Refreshing the links does not
> invalidate the HTML caches though, so depending on your configuration you
> might not see the effect immediately.
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Join my Reddit AMA about Wikipedia and ethical, transparent AI

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I'll have to read up on what i missed but I also looked at the Metrics and
activites meeting from May 25th and I was wondering if its possible to  ask
the analytics team if they would be interested in perhaps looking into if
there is any more Kaliana Effects, in any WMF project. Honestly, I think it
could help volunteers such as myself on-wiki to know where we need to
improve and where we've done decent work on. Not to mention its very
encouraging to see the work of volunteers cause so much change in a short
time period. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, either
privately (at enwp.org/special:EmailUser/Zppix) or on this email (thread?).

Off-topic note: I know its 2017 I need to get up-to-date on email lingo. :P

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On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Aaron Halfaker 
wrote:

> The AMA is live.  Here's the link:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/6epiid/im_the_
> principal_research_scientist_at_the/
>
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Aaron Halfaker 
> wrote:
>
> > Hey everybody,
> >
> > TL;DR: I wanted to let you know about an upcoming experimental Reddit AMA
> > ("ask me anything") chat we have planned. It will focus on artificial
> > intelligence on Wikipedia and how we're working to counteract vandalism
> > while also making life better for newcomers.
> >
> > We plan to hold this chat on June 1st at 21:00 UTC/14:00 PST in the
> > /r/iAMA subreddit[1]. I'd love to answer any questions you have about
> these
> > topics questions, and I'll send a follow-up email to this thread shortly
> > before the AMA begins.
> >
> > 
> >
> > For those who don't know who I am, I create artificial intelligences[2]
> > that support the volunteers who edit Wikipedia[3]. I've been fascinated
> by
> > the ways that crowds of volunteers build massive, high quality
> information
> > resources like Wikipedia for over ten years.
> >
> > For more background, I research and then design technologies that make it
> > easier to spot vandalism in Wikipedia—which helps support the hundreds of
> > thousands of editors who make productive contributions. I also think a
> lot
> > about the dynamics between communities and new users—and ways to make
> > communities inviting and welcoming to both long-time community members
> and
> > newcomers who may not be aware of community norms.  For a quick sampling
> of
> > my work, check out my most impactful research paper about Wikipedia[3],
> > some recent coverage of my work from *Wired*[4], or check out the master
> > list of my projects on my WMF staff user page[5], the documentation for
> the
> > technology team I run[9], or the home page for Wikimedia Research[8].
> >
> > This AMA, which I'm doing with with the Foundation's Communications
> > department, is somewhat of an experiment. The intended audience for this
> > chat is people who might not currently be a part of our community but
> have
> > questions about the way we work—as well as potential research
> collaborators
> > who might want to work with our data or tools. Many may be familiar with
> > Wikipedia but not the work we do as a community behind the scenes.
> >
> > I'll be talking about the work I'm doing with the ethics of AI and how we
> > think about artificial intelligence on Wikipedia, and ways we’re working
> to
> > counteract vandalism on the world’s largest crowdsourced source of
> > knowledge—like the ORES extension[6], which you may have seen
> highlighting
> > possibly problematic edits on your watchlist and in RecentChanges.
> >
> > I’d love for you to join this chat and ask questions.  If you do not or
> > prefer not to use Reddit, we will also be taking questions on ORES'
> > MediaWiki talk page[7] and posting answers to both threads.
> >
> > 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/
> > 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
> > 2. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES
> > 3. http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_
> > and_Decline/halfaker13rise-preprint.pdf
> > 4. https://www.wired.com/2015/12/wikipedia-is-using-ai-to-
> > expand-the-ranks-of-human-editors/
> > 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Halfak_(WMF)
> > 6. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ORES
> > 7. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:ORES
> > 8. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research
> > 9. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Scoring_Platform_team
> >
> > -Aaron
> > Principal Research Scientist @ WMF
> > User:EpochFail / User:Halfak (WMF)
> >
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Notes on Mediawiki Hackathon 2017, Vienna, Austria

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While i was unable to attend, thanks for your notes and coming to the 
hackathon, feel free to continue your code contributions and bug fixing, if you 
ever need help, just ask! We're always around on chat.freenode.net (accessible 
via web, webchat.freenode.net ) on channel #wikimedia-dev  

Sent from my iPhone

> On May 22, 2017, at 5:20 AM, Jon Robson  wrote:
> 
> Very neat. Thanks for taking the time to share and for attending! I hope
> others share their experiences as well!
> 
>> On Mon, 22 May 2017, 11:48 am Jaime Crespo,  wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 3:39 AM, Shrinivasan T 
>> wrote:
>>> Hi friends,
>>> Will fix few issues and host it on a server soon. Till then try
>>> installing in your local computers and try it out.
>> 
>> That is really cool! Remember you have available hosting resources at
>> the Wikimedia infrastructure if you want them:
>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_Services_Introduction
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[Wikitech-l] Data centre switchover to Eqiad

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Hello,  as you may or may not already know there will be a datacentre
switch back to Eqiad, WMF's main data centre, on May 3rd at approximately
14:00 UTC. For approximately 20-30 minutes you will NOT be able to save
edits to any WMF project. If you have any questions feel free to reply back
to this email, or ask on IRC on freenode channel #wikimedia-tech. If there
any major issues that occur during this time please report them to
#wikimedia-tech on freenode!

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to developer events in the WMF Annual Plan draft

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No problem, feel free to contact me further if needed.

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On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Victoria Coleman <vcole...@wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> Thank you Zppix.  I think that’s an awesome idea! Let me work with Quim to
> see what is possible and when and I will get back to you.
>
> Best,
>
> Victoria
>
> > On Apr 28, 2017, at 3:52 PM, zppix e <megadev44s.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Victoria, re-quoting from my original reply: "A suggestion would be to
> host
> > a annual cloud (remote) hackathon type event where participants can join
> > via hangouts. I'd be willing to help organize this if need be. I think it
> > would help users that may not be comfortable traveling or don't feel like
> > applying for travel funds from WMF or don't have the funds in general. I
> > also think this would help users that aren't per say developers get their
> > issues heard and worked on without waiting months for a task to be
> > seen/replied/worked on. It could also be used by developers to talk with
> > WMF staff "face to face".   "
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Zppix
> > Volunteer Developer for WMF
> > www.enwp.org/User:Zppix
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Victoria Coleman <
> vcole...@wikimedia.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> I think I am having a(nother) senior moment! I don’t recall what event
> you
> >> have in mind. Sorry! Can you please remind me?
> >>
> >> Victoria
> >>
> >>> On Apr 28, 2017, at 2:25 PM, zppix e <megadev44s.m...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Victoria,
> >>> Thanks for replying quickly, however what about the event I suggested,
> >> any
> >>> thoughts on that?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Victoria Coleman <
> >> vcole...@wikimedia.org>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi there,
> >>>>
> >>>> Quim and his team have indeed thought through the totality of tech
> >>>> community events and I am sure he can respond here with his thoughts.
> >>>> Regarding the MediaWiki roadmap, the thinking is that by publishing it
> >> we
> >>>> a/make planning for 3rd party users much more feasible, b/inform the
> >>>> community about what the Foundation will be doing so that we can avoid
> >>>> overlap,  and c/hopefully incentivize broader participation by the
> >>>> community in the formulation and delivery of the roadmap.
> >>>>
> >>>> I hope this makes sense.
> >>>>
> >>>> Victoria
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Apr 27, 2017, at 11:35 AM, Isarra Yos <zhoris...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Different events serve very different purposes, though - hackathons,
> >> for
> >>>> instance, seem to be largely useful for onboarding newcomers and
> giving
> >>>> staff and other occupational contributors an opportunity to work on
> >>>> projects separate from their usual work, basically whatever they feel
> >> like
> >>>> doing, as opposed to what they have to. But these often don't do much
> >> for
> >>>> established volunteers, as a result, who generally just work on
> whatever
> >>>> they feel like all the time already. Have you looked into how the
> roles
> >> of
> >>>> these different events fit together across all the different groups,
> and
> >>>> how scopes affect them (regional, topical, etc)? This would also be
> >> useful
> >>>> for chapters/groups planning their own events.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> How exactly is publishing a roadmap going to help facilitate
> community
> >>>> contributions?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -I
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 27/04/17 03:11, Victoria Coleman wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi Isarra,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> thank you for the question. We want to support our diverse technical
> >>>> communities in a variety of ways. One of our key tools are the
> >> hackathons,
> >>>> where we hope to welcome both seasoned and new volunteer developers.
> We
> >>>> want to support t

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to developer events in the WMF Annual Plan draft

[zppix e]

Victoria, re-quoting from my original reply: "A suggestion would be to host
a annual cloud (remote) hackathon type event where participants can join
via hangouts. I'd be willing to help organize this if need be. I think it
would help users that may not be comfortable traveling or don't feel like
applying for travel funds from WMF or don't have the funds in general. I
also think this would help users that aren't per say developers get their
issues heard and worked on without waiting months for a task to be
seen/replied/worked on. It could also be used by developers to talk with
WMF staff "face to face".   "

Thanks,
Zppix
Volunteer Developer for WMF
www.enwp.org/User:Zppix


On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Victoria Coleman <vcole...@wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I think I am having a(nother) senior moment! I don’t recall what event you
> have in mind. Sorry! Can you please remind me?
>
> Victoria
>
> > On Apr 28, 2017, at 2:25 PM, zppix e <megadev44s.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Victoria,
> > Thanks for replying quickly, however what about the event I suggested,
> any
> > thoughts on that?
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Victoria Coleman <
> vcole...@wikimedia.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> Quim and his team have indeed thought through the totality of tech
> >> community events and I am sure he can respond here with his thoughts.
> >> Regarding the MediaWiki roadmap, the thinking is that by publishing it
> we
> >> a/make planning for 3rd party users much more feasible, b/inform the
> >> community about what the Foundation will be doing so that we can avoid
> >> overlap,  and c/hopefully incentivize broader participation by the
> >> community in the formulation and delivery of the roadmap.
> >>
> >> I hope this makes sense.
> >>
> >> Victoria
> >>
> >>> On Apr 27, 2017, at 11:35 AM, Isarra Yos <zhoris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> Different events serve very different purposes, though - hackathons,
> for
> >> instance, seem to be largely useful for onboarding newcomers and giving
> >> staff and other occupational contributors an opportunity to work on
> >> projects separate from their usual work, basically whatever they feel
> like
> >> doing, as opposed to what they have to. But these often don't do much
> for
> >> established volunteers, as a result, who generally just work on whatever
> >> they feel like all the time already. Have you looked into how the roles
> of
> >> these different events fit together across all the different groups, and
> >> how scopes affect them (regional, topical, etc)? This would also be
> useful
> >> for chapters/groups planning their own events.
> >>>
> >>> How exactly is publishing a roadmap going to help facilitate community
> >> contributions?
> >>>
> >>> -I
> >>>
> >>> On 27/04/17 03:11, Victoria Coleman wrote:
> >>>> Hi Isarra,
> >>>>
> >>>> thank you for the question. We want to support our diverse technical
> >> communities in a variety of ways. One of our key tools are the
> hackathons,
> >> where we hope to welcome both seasoned and new volunteer developers. We
> >> want to support them not just by providing a series of events but also
> with
> >> tools and WMF staff time. These are the key goals of our new Wikimedia
> >> Cloud Services team. They build and make labs and tools available and
> >> participate in the hackathons to onboard newcomers and in general assist
> >> volunteers. Another key change we are making this year is creating the
> >> MediaWiki Platform team who as well as  doing much needed work on the
> >> codebase will also facilitate contributions and planning with the
> volunteer
> >> community by publishing a roadmap. And as Quim notes below we are
> changing
> >> the nature of the Dev Summit to have it focus on the strategic
> technology
> >> issues and decisions the Movement is faced with. As such it is an event
> >> that might appeal more to the seasoned members of our community.
> Attendance
> >> for the summit will be decided on the basis of position papers for WMF
> >> staff and volunteers alike. I am personally excited about the lineup of
> >> events this coming year. But as always we learn and adapt. If we
> >> collectively decide to try for a different configuration the fol

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to developer events in the WMF Annual Plan draft

[zppix e]

Victoria,
Thanks for replying quickly, however what about the event I suggested, any
thoughts on that?


On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Victoria Coleman 
wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Quim and his team have indeed thought through the totality of tech
> community events and I am sure he can respond here with his thoughts.
> Regarding the MediaWiki roadmap, the thinking is that by publishing it we
> a/make planning for 3rd party users much more feasible, b/inform the
> community about what the Foundation will be doing so that we can avoid
> overlap,  and c/hopefully incentivize broader participation by the
> community in the formulation and delivery of the roadmap.
>
> I hope this makes sense.
>
> Victoria
>
> > On Apr 27, 2017, at 11:35 AM, Isarra Yos  wrote:
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Different events serve very different purposes, though - hackathons, for
> instance, seem to be largely useful for onboarding newcomers and giving
> staff and other occupational contributors an opportunity to work on
> projects separate from their usual work, basically whatever they feel like
> doing, as opposed to what they have to. But these often don't do much for
> established volunteers, as a result, who generally just work on whatever
> they feel like all the time already. Have you looked into how the roles of
> these different events fit together across all the different groups, and
> how scopes affect them (regional, topical, etc)? This would also be useful
> for chapters/groups planning their own events.
> >
> > How exactly is publishing a roadmap going to help facilitate community
> contributions?
> >
> > -I
> >
> > On 27/04/17 03:11, Victoria Coleman wrote:
> >> Hi Isarra,
> >>
> >> thank you for the question. We want to support our diverse technical
> communities in a variety of ways. One of our key tools are the hackathons,
> where we hope to welcome both seasoned and new volunteer developers. We
> want to support them not just by providing a series of events but also with
> tools and WMF staff time. These are the key goals of our new Wikimedia
> Cloud Services team. They build and make labs and tools available and
> participate in the hackathons to onboard newcomers and in general assist
> volunteers. Another key change we are making this year is creating the
> MediaWiki Platform team who as well as  doing much needed work on the
> codebase will also facilitate contributions and planning with the volunteer
> community by publishing a roadmap. And as Quim notes below we are changing
> the nature of the Dev Summit to have it focus on the strategic technology
> issues and decisions the Movement is faced with. As such it is an event
> that might appeal more to the seasoned members of our community. Attendance
> for the summit will be decided on the basis of position papers for WMF
> staff and volunteers alike. I am personally excited about the lineup of
> events this coming year. But as always we learn and adapt. If we
> collectively decide to try for a different configuration the following
> year, we can totally do that. Please keep the feedback coming!
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Victoria
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Apr 26, 2017, at 12:23 PM, Isarra Yos  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Regarding the Developers Summit in particular, how do you plan to
> reconcile making the event smaller with your goal of better retention of
> newcomers and volunteers in general when that's often the only venue they
> have at which to discuss the high-level technical issues with other
> stakeholders? Volunteer and third-party developers are not privy to most of
> the usual venues afforded to WMF staff such as inter-team meetings and
> events, and yet they make up an important part of the overall stakeholder
> community that these issues impact. They - we - need to be able to
> participate in these discussions, and the Developers Summit is one of very
> few opportunities even open to us where we can make our voices heard.
> >>>
> >>> -I
> >>>
> >>> On 20/04/17 07:28, Quim Gil wrote:
>  On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 1:14 AM, Quim Gil  wrote:
> 
> > Hi, the Wikimedia Foundation has published a draft of its Annual Plan
> > FY2017-18
> >  Annual_Plan/2017-2018/Draft>
> > and it welcomes your review.
> >
> > I want to highlight here the improvements that we are proposing to
> the
> > developer events (co)organized by the WMF. From local to global:
> >
> > The Technical Collaboration team proposes to combine multiple
> activities
> > (often disconnected) in a single program focusing on onboarding new
> > developers
> >  Annual_Plan/2017-2018/Draft/Programs/Community_Engagement#
> Program_12:_Onboarding_new_developers>. We
> > want to work with the Wikimedia technical community to bring a new
> wave of
> > 

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to developer events in the WMF Annual Plan draft

[zppix e]

A suggestion would be to host a annual cloud (remote) hackathon type event
where participants can join via hangouts. I'd be willing to help organize
this if need be. I think it would help users that may not be comfortable
traveling or don't feel like applying for travel funds from WMF or don't
have the funds in general. I also think this would help users that aren't
per say developers get their issues heard and worked on without waiting
months for a task to be seen/replied/worked on. It could also be used by
developers to talk with WMF staff "face to face". However, I do think as
well that WMF team meetings should be documented and transcribed (for
public viewing at least) keeping in mind obvious security concerns and such
redacted of course.
Any questions? Feel free to reply to me here, ask on freenode, or on my
User page on enwiki.


Thank you,
Zppix
Volunteer Developer for WMF
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On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 7:22 PM, NISHITH SHETTY <
shettynishith@mmcoe.edu.in> wrote:

> We are really excited to let you know about the Angelhack hackathon which
> is due to be hosted in Pune on MAY 20-21, 2017. The event access page is
> http://angelhack.com/angelhack-global-hackathon-series-pune/
>
> We would like you to be a part of the whole event as a non-profit and let
> the participants help you as part of the Code for a cause challenge.
>
> Code For A Cause is welcoming nonprofits worldwide to join us at our 10th
> Global Hackathon Series, to inspire our global community to leverage their
> skills for good and give back to their local communities.
>
> We’ll be rolling out the AngelHack-red carpet for nonprofits at each and
> every event, all we ask in return is that the nonprofits create a challenge
> to inspire our hackers! To nominate your nonprofit, please fill out this
> form
>  YY_m_n9pI50wLc/>.
> Selections will be accepted on a rolling basis.
>
> Thanks and regards
>
> Nishith Shetty
>
> 9527444568 <(952)%20744-4568>
>
> On Apr 27, 2017 08:42, "Victoria Coleman"  wrote:
>
> > Hi Isarra,
> >
> > thank you for the question. We want to support our diverse technical
> > communities in a variety of ways. One of our key tools are the
> hackathons,
> > where we hope to welcome both seasoned and new volunteer developers. We
> > want to support them not just by providing a series of events but also
> with
> > tools and WMF staff time. These are the key goals of our new Wikimedia
> > Cloud Services team. They build and make labs and tools available and
> > participate in the hackathons to onboard newcomers and in general assist
> > volunteers. Another key change we are making this year is creating the
> > MediaWiki Platform team who as well as  doing much needed work on the
> > codebase will also facilitate contributions and planning with the
> volunteer
> > community by publishing a roadmap. And as Quim notes below we are
> changing
> > the nature of the Dev Summit to have it focus on the strategic technology
> > issues and decisions the Movement is faced with. As such it is an event
> > that might appeal more to the seasoned members of our community.
> Attendance
> > for the summit will be decided on the basis of position papers for WMF
> > staff and volunteers alike. I am personally excited about the lineup of
> > events this coming year. But as always we learn and adapt. If we
> > collectively decide to try for a different configuration the following
> > year, we can totally do that. Please keep the feedback coming!
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Victoria
> >
> >
> > > On Apr 26, 2017, at 12:23 PM, Isarra Yos  wrote:
> > >
> > > Regarding the Developers Summit in particular, how do you plan to
> > reconcile making the event smaller with your goal of better retention of
> > newcomers and volunteers in general when that's often the only venue they
> > have at which to discuss the high-level technical issues with other
> > stakeholders? Volunteer and third-party developers are not privy to most
> of
> > the usual venues afforded to WMF staff such as inter-team meetings and
> > events, and yet they make up an important part of the overall stakeholder
> > community that these issues impact. They - we - need to be able to
> > participate in these discussions, and the Developers Summit is one of
> very
> > few opportunities even open to us where we can make our voices heard.
> > >
> > > -I
> > >
> > > On 20/04/17 07:28, Quim Gil wrote:
> > >> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 1:14 AM, Quim Gil  wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Hi, the Wikimedia Foundation has published a draft of its Annual Plan
> > >>> FY2017-18
> > >>>  > Annual_Plan/2017-2018/Draft>
> > >>> and it welcomes your review.
> > >>>
> > >>> I want to highlight here the improvements that we are proposing to
> the
> > >>> developer events (co)organized by the WMF. From local to 

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sitelink removal in Wikidata

[zppix e]

Interesting tool, I will definitely make sure enwiki anti-vandalism members
know about this... Thank you for  the hard work. :)

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Bináris  wrote:

> You may see the automatic edit comment here:
> https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q686894=
> next=472895901
>
>
> 2017-04-26 16:58 GMT+02:00 Amir Ladsgroup :
>
> > The edit is made and rollbacked in Wikidata which does have RC patrolling
> > if I understand you correctly.
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017, 6:49 PM Gergő Tisza  wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Amir Ladsgroup 
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > The tool excludes edits that are marked as patrolled but you need to
> > > > rollback (instead of undo/restore).
> > >
> > >
> > > Most flagrev wikis do not use patrolling.
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Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.29 blocker bugs

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Thank you for the list! Keep wrangling those bugs...
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On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 8:15 AM, Andre Klapper 
wrote:

> As 1.29 will appear in the next weeks [1], here are the open tasks
> tagged with #MW-1.29-release not scheduled for deployment [2].
>
> Help, comments, code welcome:
>
> Remove $wgDisableUserGroupExpiry feature flag
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162517
> Patch exists but needs improvement.
>
> Require manifest_version to be set in extension.json
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155610
> Patch welcomed to emit a deprecation warning when not set
>
> Don't put arbitrary extension attributes in the top level extension.json
> schema
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133627
> Initial patch exists in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/327882/
>
> Unactionable Notice: JobQueueGroup::__destruct: 1 buffered job(s) never
> inserted
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100085
> Needs investigation.
>
>
> Cheers,
> andre
>
> [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-
> April/088019.html
> [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2400/
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Editing JSON in MediaWiki

[zppix e]

That seems like a performance hog in the making in my opinion to not mention, 
mostly unneeded as far as I can tell.

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> On Apr 9, 2017, at 6:11 AM, Gergo Tisza  wrote:
> 
> You probably want to subclass JsonContentHandler and add wikitext transform
> and whatever else you need. For schemas, have a look
> at JsonSchemaContentHandler in EventLogging.
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Introducing the MediaWiki Platform Team!

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I'm willing to be a volunteer official team member if need be 
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Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 2, 2017, at 11:23 AM, Victoria Coleman  wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am pleased to share with you the news about the formation of the latest 
> team in the Technology department, the MediaWiki Platform team![1]
> 
> The MediaWiki Platform team will be tasked with leading maintenance and 
> improvements related to the core MediaWiki platform codebase. That includes 
> encouraging future development of the MediaWiki platform and addressing the 
> technical debt that has accumulated during the 15-year history of MediaWiki.
> 
> MediaWiki is an amazing, powerful, and complex open-source software platform. 
> The number and variety of extensions, and the wide variety of communities who 
> have adopted MediaWiki as their method for knowledge collection and 
> dissemination, are a testament to its strength as a software platform.
> 
> Like any significant codebase with a long development history, there are 
> remnants of design choices and experiments that are no longer in use, and 
> some areas of code are in need of modernization. However, at its core is a 
> large amount of highly functional, secure, performant code, capable of 
> supporting a robust platform through the use of extensions and hooks. There 
> is also a great amount of flexibility to adapt to new requirements.
> 
> This team will have a more focused purpose than the previous MediaWiki Core 
> team.[2]. While the previous team was at times spread too thin, many areas 
> are now covered by dedicated teams like Security and Performance. The new 
> MediaWiki Platform team will center their efforts on the core codebase. The 
> team will also have a dedicated Product Manager who will be creating the 
> platform roadmap in collaboration with the team, the Architecture Committee 
> and the MediaWiki user community. 
> 
> Specific goals for this team are to:
> 
> * Assist and encourage development of features for MediaWiki by providing 
> developers with a strong core.
> 
> * Undertake feature development work which is primarily architectural in 
> nature.
> 
> * Facilitate the development and publication of MediaWiki's roadmap to assist 
> coordination between internal and external users.
> 
> * Maintain and promote guidelines and standards for the MediaWiki core.
> 
> I am thrilled that Tim Starling has agreed to lead the team, reporting 
> directly to me. He will be joined by Brion Vibber, Kunal Mehta and Brad 
> Jorsch.  The team officially launches on Monday April 3, and will complete 
> the hiring and onboarding of additional team members in the coming months. 
> Their initial workplan will include core support for multi content revisions 
> for the Structured Data on Commons project and will be discussed in more 
> detail during the upcoming consultation for the Wikimedia Foundation 
> 2017-2018 annual plan.
> 
> I am excited by this latest evolution in the structure of the Foundation's 
> Engineering group. We will continue to learn from our collective knowledge 
> and expertise, and make adjustments to our composition and plans. I 
> appreciate the input provided by many in the community that helped inform 
> this decision. I also want to thank the members of the Wikimedia Foundation's 
> Product, Technology, and Community Engagement departments who were involved 
> in this process. In particular, I would like to thank Toby Negrin, Adam Baso, 
> and Trevor Parscal - whose support was critical in bringing this plan 
> together.
> 
> Join me in welcoming and celebrating our new team!
> 
> Victoria
> 
> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Platform_team 
> 
> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team 
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for Mentorship for Gsoc project

[zppix e]

I'm willing to just let me know
-Zppix


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> On Mar 23, 2017, at 3:10 PM, Egbe Eugene  wrote:
> 
> Hi All.
> 
> while browsing the list of possible projects and i stepped on the project
> titled [1] Editor-focused dashboard gadget. I was requested by the
> co-mentor of the project to look for someone who may likely opt to act as
> primary mentor for the project. So please if you are willing to help me as
> the mentor of this project it will be highly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91655
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[Wikitech-l] Translate, BlueSpiceFoundation, UserGroups extensions maintainers/devs

[zppix e]

I couldn't think of a better way of notifying the devs for the aforementioned 
extensions, but if I could have you guys take attention to 
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160539 
I'd be grateful! Thanks,

Zppix
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ZppixBot Maintainer
Quarrybot-Enwiki Maintainer
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces now out of draft state

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Thanks
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> On Mar 7, 2017, at 3:28 PM, Quim Gil  wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Brion Vibber  wrote:
>> 
>> Per the last round of discussion & votes closing on the amendments section
>> some days back, the draft period for the Code of Conduct for technical
>> spaces is complete.
>> 
>> I've taken the liberty of removing the 'draft' template and moving the
>> pages out of their "/Draft" subpage location to their final locations:
>> 
>> * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct
>> * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Cases
>> * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee
>> * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Amendments
>> 
>> As I understand, this means the committee will be bootstrapping soon --
>> Quim will have more information on the state of things there.
>> 
>> Thanks to everybody for all your input over the last many months.
>> 
> 
> Thank you very much, Brion!
> 
> I will announce a call for candidates to join the first Committee,
> explaining the next steps as described in the Code of Conduct.
> 
> The CoC content is frozen until the Committee starts exercising as such and
> the amendments process kicks off. Small edits to i.e. fix red links,
> improve navigation to subpages and similar technical improvements are
> possible, as long as the content remains untouched.
> 
> I also want to thank all contributors, also those who have been watching
> the process from a distance (this morning I was checking the page view
> statistics, quite impressive for a community of this size). Special thanks
> to Matt and Moriel , who have contributed so much, all along, since the
> beginning, every week.
> 
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Introduction

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Welcome Egbe!!! We are always around on irc at chat.freenode.net in 
#wikimedia-dev. Hope you enjoy your time as a volunteer developer!
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> On Mar 7, 2017, at 6:25 PM, Bryan Davis  wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Egbe Eugene  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I am Egbe Eugene. I come from Cameroon and i am quite new to the movement
>> as a developer. My thought towards contributing to the community is driven
>> by the impact which the foundation could bring to my country and Africa and
>> also what i will do in order that the movement be heard around the ends of
>> my country.
>> 
>> I will also wish to enhance my engineering skills while contributing to the
>> movement by working on the foundation's projects.
>> 
>> Hope to get more help to get started soonest.
> 
> Welcome Egbe! We can always use more help from technical contributors,
> and its especially nice to see people coming into the technical side
> of the movement to hone skills that they can put to use elsewhere in
> their lives as well. The
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker wiki
> page is a good place to start looking for ways to contribute.
> 
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