Re: GnustepWeb Wikipedia page

2024-03-27 Thread Gryllida
rated by the FSF staff!" - perhaps this can be a useful venue to ask questions regarding the new entry. -- Gryllida

Re: Holiday Message

2023-12-26 Thread Gryllida
. -- Svetlana/Gryllida Marco Cawthorne : > Thank you Gregory, hope you're having a great end of 2023. > > See you all on the list in 2024 :) > > -- Marco > > >

Re: Building Pantomime of Ubuntu 16 / GNUstep

2019-06-17 Thread Gryllida
What version of gnustep are you using? ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T268: Decide on Priority field values for Maniphest tasks

2014-12-13 Thread Gryllida
Gryllida added a comment. This task can't be done by a volunteer. It's a configuration change that only an admin can do. If anything, it may be declined. And you should not give up on your original opinion just because some people insist; your first line is what really matters. TASK DETAIL

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T268: Decide on Priority field values for Maniphest tasks

2014-12-13 Thread Gryllida
Gryllida added a comment. I don't see how to programmatically say that it's related. But it is: - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78482 -Radar projects for Wikimedia family projects and languages + MediaWiki Stakeholders TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268 REPLY

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T268: Decide on Priority field values for Maniphest tasks

2014-12-11 Thread Gryllida
Gryllida added a comment. Imagine that you create the tasks (if such feature requests haven't been created already, didn't check), and imagine that you set them to High priority. So what? If we invent a way to properly indicate which of these tasks are off the Team radar, then anybody

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T268: Decide on Priority field values for Maniphest tasks

2014-12-11 Thread Gryllida
Gryllida added a comment. I take setting perfectly normal issues to lowest priority just because we don't want to work on them now more disorganized than your first paragraph. No, creating a separate tag doesn't solve this problem. I'll probably try to introduce people to this thread

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T268: Decide on Priority field values for Maniphest tasks

2014-12-11 Thread Gryllida
Gryllida added a comment. I might clarify: the Team may want to create a tag for itself, if it likes. One Flow tag and one Flow Team Took it tag. That would perhaps make more sense, since a Team taking an issue is a more peculiar thing than a random filing it. TASK DETAIL https

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T268: Decide on Priority field values for Maniphest tasks

2014-12-11 Thread Gryllida
Gryllida added a comment. Such Flow team took it tag would also make more sense, because random outsiders would file bugs from outside -- from wikimedia projects, from random internal and public wikis -- and creating a separate tag for each such input channel would be laborious, whereas

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T268: Decide on Priority field values for Maniphest tasks

2014-12-11 Thread Gryllida
Gryllida added a comment. But I could see the usefulness of i.e. Tech-Ambassadors-Radar or MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group as way to channel and consolidate the most relevant feedback from the communities, as long as these groups would be organized and could agree on the selection

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T268: Decide on Priority field values for Maniphest tasks

2014-12-11 Thread Gryllida
Gryllida added a comment. Ok, I understand, you want to set it to Lowest because you aren't taking it. I am now ok with setting a lowest-ever priority if a Team doesn't want to work on it now. It's relatively painless compared to manually maintaining tags. However, I'd rather say that any

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T268: Decide on Priority field values for Maniphest tasks

2014-12-10 Thread Gryllida
Gryllida added a comment. I can put a specific example. These two tasks have been ignored by the Flow team: - https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ee/2014-December/001319.html - https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ee/2014-December/001320.html Obviously, given how long ago I raised

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Changed CC] T268: Decide on Priority field values for Maniphest tasks

2014-12-09 Thread Gryllida
Gryllida added a subscriber: Gryllida. Gryllida added a comment. I disagree. Can we assign to a dummy needs volunteer or nodody account when a Team doesn't want to work on this? And rename needs volunteer priority to lowest. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268 REPLY HANDLER

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T268: Decide on Priority field values for Maniphest tasks

2014-12-09 Thread Gryllida
Gryllida added a comment. There are three states a task may take. A) We clearly know that if an issue is assigned, then someone (the team or a volunteer) took it. If an issue is not assigned, then either B) it's about to get assigned when someone from the team takes it, or C) it's something

[Wikitech-l] let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering community team! (brainstorming)

2014-08-05 Thread Gryllida
Gryllida. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikimedia-l] let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering community team! (brainstorming)

2014-08-05 Thread Gryllida
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering community team! (brainstorming)

2014-08-05 Thread Gryllida
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, at 20:48, Fæ wrote: On 5 August 2014 11:33, Gryllida gryll...@fastmail.fm wrote: Hi all. WMF Engineering is currently composed of individual teams as documented at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering . These teams look after the software that faces

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Effective censorship of Wikipedia by Google

2014-08-03 Thread Gryllida
On Sun, 3 Aug 2014, at 08:27, Fæ wrote: Re: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/02/wikipedia-page-google-link-hidden-right-to-be-forgotten If Google disappearing a Wikipedia article is a notable news event, It is not. They had processed a lot of such requests in July. The real

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Asking Google to output Wikipedia citation format in Scholar

2014-08-03 Thread Gryllida
Does the same apply to other sister projects? It could make sense to make such request for all... On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, at 03:14, Andy Mabbett wrote: Google Scholar search results each have a cite link, which generates citation text to copy-and-paste in three formats (MLA, APA, Chicago). Is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Anonymous editors IP addresses

2014-07-15 Thread Gryllida
Gryllida. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community RfCs about MediaViewer

2014-07-14 Thread Gryllida
that, as you may see at the rfc talk page, would make use of a structured and free approach with better software (and rather interestingly, potentionally input from users of various sister projects and languages). Gryllida. On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, at 15:40, Pine W wrote: Hi Gryllida, As I said

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interest in a community strategic planning meeting?

2014-07-14 Thread Gryllida
/ need or have trouble with (no, not learning the markup or getting articles or uploads in, unlike the current focuses). We need a lot more information/feedback here than a brainstorming session... Gryllida. On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, at 17:25, Pine W wrote: Hi community members, I'm wondering how

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community RfCs about MediaViewer

2014-07-13 Thread Gryllida
Pine and all, Please read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Media_Viewer/June_2014_RfC#Proposal_to_reach_consistency.2Fagreement_first.2C_before_actioning_this_RfC Gryllida. On Thu, 10 Jul 2014, at 15:03, Pine W wrote: This discussion has closed on English Wikipedia: https

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Syntax highlight for wikitext?

2014-07-05 Thread Gryllida
article editor?! I'm not talking about hilite wikitext in demos but real hilite when entering article content. Thanks, Diana Gryllida. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

[Bug 1313728] Re: Background color reset to #7f0000

2014-06-10 Thread Gryllida
Hi, I have this issue, except the color gets reset to black, not to 7f. Can you provide the output of: xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -lv user@laptop:~$ xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -lv /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/color1UNSUPPORTED

Re: [Labs-l] MediaWiki to LaTeX Compiler

2014-05-25 Thread Gryllida
steps I need to do. In particular since I need quite a high ram limit and I need a job that runs permanently. Yours Dirk How is it going - did you put this somewhere? Gryllida. ___ Labs-l mailing list Labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Design] Showing the number of talk topics on the article page

2014-05-23 Thread Gryllida
. Also I wonder if this is something Flow is thinking about. It is. There is no need to code things twice - as mobile interface is merely a skin. Gryllida. ___ Design mailing list Design@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Design] Showing the number of talk topics on the article page

2014-05-23 Thread Gryllida
, MobileFrontEnd is only a skin. Gryllida. ___ Design mailing list Design@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design

Re: [Jabref-users] Jabref could not start on Ubuntu 14.04

2014-05-16 Thread Gryllida
/bin/java 1073 manual mode Any ideas? Many thanks. JL It appears to need openjdk-6-jre or sun-java6-jre. When I try on Ubuntu, it installs openjdk-6-jre by default. Gryllida -- Accelerate Dev Cycles

[Wikitech-l] Craziness in diff algorithm

2014-05-16 Thread Gryllida
Please participate by providing insight on potential fixes or workarounds (don't expect me to be able to read the backend codebase of this software). Thanks. Gryllida. References 1. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13462 2. https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff

Re: [Wikitech-l] Craziness in diff algorithm

2014-05-16 Thread Gryllida
Hi All, To clarify: This software silently converted the message to plain text, so what I meant is clarified below. On Fri, 16 May 2014, at 21:22, Gryllida wrote: Hi All, Please excuse me for sending an HTML attachment to this list. There is a need to display some part

Re: [Wikitech-l] Affiliation in username

2014-05-09 Thread Gryllida
On Thu, 8 May 2014, at 6:22, Jared Zimmerman wrote: Affiliations change, and user names are quite difficult to change, this sounds like something that would be good for a structured profile, not for a user name. One of the times I wish I could rename a thread. Someone with spare time may want

[Translators-l] Translate wiki pages to another wiki

2014-05-01 Thread Gryllida
#Translate_wiki_pages_to_another_wiki Gryllida ___ Translators-l mailing list Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome Dmitry Brant as Software Developer to the Mobile App Team

2014-04-22 Thread Gryllida
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, at 3:01, Tomasz Finc wrote: I am pleased to announce that Dmitry Brant joins WMF this week as a Software Engineer for the Mobile App Team! Добро пожаловать, Дмитрий! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliation in username

2014-04-22 Thread Gryllida
be the norm. -I Removing the affiliation from the name itself could also help to keep a history of past affiliations and address issues raised by Risker earlier. Gryllida. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Subscribe to Tech News via a web feed

2014-04-20 Thread Gryllida
On Sat, 19 Apr 2014, at 0:17, Tomasz W. Kozłowski wrote: [...] At this point, the feed only provides the English version of the bulletin, so you'll need to click one of the links on top of the page to read a version in a different language — if you think that a per-language feed is a good

[Wikitech-l] Affiliation in username

2014-04-19 Thread Gryllida
): | | ___| | | - I.e. - | | | [ Gryllida (FOO) in large green font

[Wikimedia-l] Affiliation in username

2014-04-19 Thread Gryllida
): | | ___| | | - I.e. - | | | [ Gryllida (FOO) in large green font

Re: [Multimedia] Media Viewer Launches on First Pilot Sites

2014-04-17 Thread Gryllida
that they put effort into testing and discussing it first, and acknowledge that they appreciate it. Otherwise, if they disagree, they raise issues and you fix them as requested. Regards, Gryllida. On Fri, 18 Apr 2014, at 7:00, Fabrice Florin wrote: Hi folks, I’m happy to let you know that Media

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks to the people who made Echo, VisualEditor and Wikidata

2014-04-10 Thread Gryllida
With due thanks, I would like to specifically point to these two bugs, as I believe they're changing the style of talking unnecessarily. I would like you to see the potential for fixing these early. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49446 - Notifications: Linking a username in an

[Jabref-users] Appending entries from my web browser to the currently opened database

2014-04-08 Thread Gryllida
If you wanted me to specify full path to the bibfile, that's not what I want, as I may open different database in the first tab of JabRef. I would like you to recycle it, i.e. add to it, when I click 'export' in the web browser. Gryllida

Re: [Jabref-users] Appending entries from my web browser to the currently opened database

2014-04-08 Thread Gryllida
Sorry, from C:\Program Files (x86)\JabRef\JabRef.exe to C:\Program Files (x86)\JabRef\JabRef.exe --importToOpen bibfile On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, at 11:33, Gryllida wrote: http://jabref.sourceforge.net/faq.php Q: Is it possible to append entries from a BibTeX file, e.g. from my web browser

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: Transparency for Wikimedia paid volunteers

2014-04-04 Thread Gryllida
.3F Gryllida. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC proposal for A system for reviewing funding requests

2014-03-31 Thread Gryllida
Thanks! Gryllida. On Mon, 31 Mar 2014, at 8:12, Sastry aditya wrote: Hi Gryllida, I am extremely sorry I took so long to reply to your mail, I was down with typhoid and I am slowly recovering. I made corrections as you suggested. Thanks a lot for sparing your time. As instructed

[Wikispecies-l] Going full-screen on image click

2014-03-30 Thread Gryllida
#Please_do_not_go_full_screen Regards, Gryllida. ___ Wikispecies-l mailing list Wikispecies-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikispecies-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2014: Project Proposal for A system for reviewing funding request

2014-03-29 Thread Gryllida
to take the feedback into account. It's a challenging task there. The mentors would also provide you with code-base from a previous project which did similar tasks. Gryllida. On Sun, 30 Mar 2014, at 4:35, Maduranga Siriwardena wrote: @Gryllida, Again thank you for the reply and sorry

[Wikisource-l] Going full-screen on image click

2014-03-29 Thread Gryllida
#Please_do_not_go_full_screen Regards, Gryllida. ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Katherine Maher joins the Wikimedia Foundation as Chief Communications Officer

2014-03-28 Thread Gryllida
Добро пожаловать! ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Our next strategy plan-Paid editing

2014-03-26 Thread Gryllida
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, at 3:06, Anders Wennersten wrote: The discussion on the proposed amendment is now closed [1) I don't see my edit in the final archived version. Namely, the What to ask to disclose: paid contributions or COI? section I created. Link provided. I hope someone here can provide

Re: [Wikimedia-l] is Wikiquote in decline or just stagnant

2014-03-26 Thread Gryllida
, such as when I make a typo. I keep struggling to find means to reduce the edit count to make things easier for others to track. Gryllida. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Labs-l] Labs project migration *Important, deadlines approaching*

2014-03-25 Thread Gryllida
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, at 4:29, Andrew Bogott wrote: We've had a few hiccups, but project migration is going reasonably well. You can check on the current migration status of a project here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Labs_Eqiad_Migration/Progress About 20 or so

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC proposal for A system for reviewing funding requests

2014-03-25 Thread Gryllida
describe the time span over which you were helping that project. I gather there is some merit in conveying all of your relevant past experience in the application. Good luck! Gryllida. On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, at 11:17, Sastry aditya wrote: Hi all, My name is AV Aditya Sastry. I am a student at GITAM

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC Proposal System for reviewing funding requests

2014-03-25 Thread Gryllida
there)] You may want to be more detailed about your past experience. If you have none, you might want to try one of the https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs as an exercise, and include in your application. Gryllida. On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, at 5:16, Prashant G wrote: Hello Everyone

Re: [Wikitech-l] What are you looking for in CodeEditor ?

2014-03-25 Thread Gryllida
Ability to edit sections. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60438 On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, at 9:03, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote: I've been doing some work on the Lua/CSS/JS CodeEditor to make it and its toolbar a bit more usable, but I'm looking for some input on what YOU want. I've

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for GSoC 2014 - Implementing a To-do list

2014-03-25 Thread Gryllida
it. A setting could be an over-complication. Gryllida. On Sat, 22 Mar 2014, at 5:20, Hareesh wrote: Hi, I've submitted a proposal to implement a to-do list in the wiki projects. [1]. The project aims at: * Providing a To-do list to the users who opt in. * Facilitating the ease of maintaining

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2014: Project Proposal for A system for reviewing funding request

2014-03-25 Thread Gryllida
Great! On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, at 3:02, Maduranga Siriwardena wrote: @Gryllida Thank you for the reply. Sorry for misunderstanding. As it is mentioned that the Admin person who is creating the new grant campaign can create the review criteria, the area shown as a text box can be of different

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2014: project proposal for a system for reviewing funding request.

2014-03-25 Thread Gryllida
for implementing feedback from the Grant Committees on *each* *step* as it could improve your output. Your mentors would give such feedback to you. Regards Gryllida. On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, at 20:07, Rahul Mishra wrote: On 03/20/2014 01:36 PM, Rahul Mishra wrote: Hi, Please ignore my earlier mail

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSOC] A system for reviewing funding requests Details of project

2014-03-22 Thread Gryllida
somewhere closer to the top. Again thanks, Gryllida. On Sat, 22 Mar 2014, at 14:21, Kushal Khandelwal wrote: Thank you Gryllida. If you can have a look at the application and give me some feedback and your inputs. Thank you for your help. On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Gryllida gryll

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSOC] A system for reviewing funding requests Details of project

2014-03-21 Thread Gryllida
It's not just IEG Grants -- PEG Grants also I think. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants Good luck with your application! On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, at 8:51, Kushal Khandelwal wrote: Hi Community I am Kushal Khandelwal from India. Currently pursuing my undergraduate degree from BITS Pilani KK

Re: [Wikitech-l] Separating skins from core MediaWiki (GSoC proposal)

2014-03-21 Thread Gryllida
Thought the deadline is March 21. I also hope you find a second student to help with this, looks like a lot of great work. On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, at 7:34, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: I realize this has been discussed on this list rather recently (starting with Jon's CologneBlue question), and I

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Return address user-to-user e-mail

2014-03-19 Thread Gryllida
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, at 22:40, Ad Strack van Schijndel wrote: When using user-to-user e-mail the address of the sender is revealed to the addressee. I don't see a setting that can prevent this. Is there an easy way to prevent the address to be revealed in user-to-user e-mail? Kind

Re: [Design] Musing about canned edit summaries

2014-03-19 Thread Gryllida
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014, at 8:32, Jon Robson wrote: The app team showed a demo to the mobile web team today of the latest editing experience for the new Wikipedia app that is being worked on. The mobile app editing experience was very consistent with mobile web which is a great thing, that said it

Re: [Wikitech-l] A modern, scalable and attractive skin for MediaWiki (GSoC 2014 proposal)

2014-03-19 Thread Gryllida
Add mobile friendliness ('responsive CSS') to the list of requirements/goals? On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, at 14:46, Pavel Astakhov wrote: Hi, the link [4] was broken: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jack_Phoenix/A_modern,_scalable_and_attractive_skin_for_MediaWiki_(GSoC_2014_proposal)

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2014: Project Proposal for A system for reviewing funding request

2014-03-19 Thread Gryllida
The score really should be something different from a textbox imo. See more detail I could locate about this idea: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Application_scoring_system - roles and expectations @ IdeaLab (this is for any ideas, not just grants, ie GSoC things can also go

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2014 proposal for project A system for reviewing funding requests

2014-03-19 Thread Gryllida
Again the usual detail I share on this... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Application_scoring_system - a formal idea page for it to evolve (idealab is for all ideas, gsoc too, not just grants from wmf) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gryllida/sandbox - a spec (linked there)

Re: [Wikitech-l] A system for reviewing funding requests

2014-03-19 Thread Gryllida
Please see more detail I could locate about this idea: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Application_scoring_system - roles and expectations @ IdeaLab (this is for any ideas, not just grants, ie GSoC things can also go there) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gryllida/sandbox -

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2014: Project Proposal for A system for reviewing funding request

2014-03-19 Thread Gryllida
skills and add you in to the GSOC project. (I have found 3-4 students interested and forwarded them all so I hope you'll all make it to completion!) Gryllida. On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, at 22:35, Maduranga Siriwardena wrote: @Gryllida, Previously I checked the page [1]. But I couldn't find much

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Apparently corrupt administration of this list

2014-03-18 Thread Gryllida
On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, at 20:41, to...@iinet.net.au wrote: Steven, you don't put someone on moderation because they're asking uncomfortable questions. You provided no evidence of your accusations of personal attack. Just by evidence of two instances of such attacks in this thread? One of them

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC project: calculating the quality of editors and content (was Guidance for the Project Idea for GSOC 2014)

2014-03-07 Thread Gryllida
I oppose such idea or implementation, automating ranking of content sounds like a way to get people focus on the rank/score aggressively instead of human work on content. They already focus on 'number of GA reviews' and 'number of FAs I contributed to', relying on style and content guides for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More new editors?

2014-03-07 Thread Gryllida
At risk of not quite answering the question: To keep our editors properly, we should make the software sufficiently reasonable and flexibly to automate routine work people encounter... I couldn't get started at Wiktionary or Wikibooks easily due to my lack of linguistic or librarian

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC-2014 project A system for reviewing funding requests.

2014-03-06 Thread Gryllida
(as I'm assuming that the development will happen out in the open). [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG Gryllida On Thu, 6 Mar 2014, at 5:19, Karan Dev wrote: hi, I am B.Tech. (CS) 3rd year student from India. I have 4 years of programming experience. I am comfortable with c/c

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Bug 7148] Requesting watchlist for changes to category content.

2014-03-03 Thread Gryllida
It would seem to me that the Collection extension, which provides 'books' for various sister projects, could be adapted for favorites: 'Book:Username' where a user can stick favorite articles and group by sections. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection Thoughts? - Original

[Wikitech-l] Favorites for MW

2014-03-03 Thread Gryllida
OK, this was actually meant to have a more descriptive message subject. Ignore the previous message... - Original message - From: Gryllida To: wikitech-l Subject: Fwd: [Bug 7148] Requesting watchlist for changes to category content. Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 13:27:11 +1100 It would seem

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Syntax highlighting for Mediawiki code

2014-03-02 Thread Gryllida
wikEd does this, may be worth checking how, but it has an arcane bug regarding handling spaces which the developer says is not fixable (it replaces all utf8 spaces with the normal space or something I don't recall and couldn't find in my enwp contribs). Maybe try to make CodeEditor you linked

Re: [Wikitech-l] The Whole Wikipedia in English with pictures in one 40GB big file

2014-03-02 Thread Gryllida
On Sun, 2 Mar 2014, at 4:01, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote: Hi For the first time, we have achieved to release a complete dump of all encyclopedic articles of the Wikipedia in English, *with thumbnails*. This ZIM file is 40 GB big and contains the current 4.5 million articles with their 3.5

[Wikimedia-l] paid editing TOU amendment: disclose paid editing or coi?

2014-03-02 Thread Gryllida
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Terms_of_use/Paid_contributions_amendment#What_to_ask_to_disclose:_paid_contributions_or_COI.3F Please participate in this discussion and help produce a well-readable revision, if such change is necessary. Thanks!

Re: [Wikitech-l] one framework for *all* of that

2014-02-25 Thread Gryllida
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, at 17:52, Brian Wolff wrote: As it stands (i dont live in js land, correct me if I'm wrong), its widely agreed having hooks for user-scripts to hook into js-based extensions like upload wizard and other parts of mw is a good thing. Its not neccesarily agreed that having

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preview of the proposal for MediaWiki Homepage

2014-02-25 Thread Gryllida
Too many pictures. It does not fit my screen size anymore. I only see a part of the first image and have to scroll down for the rest; scrolling is poor design. Probably don't need to focus on Wikipedia in the as long as Wikipedia exists. It's all sister projects. Is it mobile-friendly? I made

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preview of the proposal for MediaWiki Homepage

2014-02-25 Thread Gryllida
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/Homepage_redesign/Preview/3 - no tables - usage of phrase wikimedia movement instead of wikipedia On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, at 7:54, Brena Monteiro wrote: Hello everyone, I would like to invite you to take a look the preview [1] of MediaWiki Homepage.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preview of the proposal for MediaWiki Homepage

2014-02-25 Thread Gryllida
Thanks for taking down the thoughts, Daniel; the translation and mobile friendliness got me amused too. On Wed, 26 Feb 2014, at 9:18, Daniel Friesen wrote: I'm definitely going to have to agree. The Feature bits are practically bs: - Publish: Talks about VisualEditor, HTML, and embedded

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Multimedia] Poll - would you like to see more traffic related to the Multimedia team's day-to-day work on this list?

2014-02-24 Thread Gryllida
/Templates/Interactive [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/UploadWizard:_scale_to_sister_projects Gryllida. On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, at 20:25, Gergo Tisza wrote: Hi all, the Multimedia team had some discussions recently about how to make our work more transparent and more open

[Wikitech-l] one framework for *all* of that

2014-02-24 Thread Gryllida
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, at 5:29, Mark Holmquist wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 01:35:33AM +1100, Gryllida wrote: ... With this in mind I would personally encourage heavy collaboration of all teams to build a framework which lets people script the MediaWiki software including media viewer

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l archives

2014-02-24 Thread Gryllida
Did that reflect on gmane? On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, at 10:48, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: The archives were rebuilt (and then restored up to January) under request of a user who shared private information in February. Old links are not broken and you can normally access the specific volumes:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] extend mediawiki software to allow append a group, and COI to an edit

2014-02-23 Thread Gryllida
. GerardM On 22 February 2014 21:13, Gryllida gryll...@fastmail.fm wrote: I do mind 5 and 6, since their submissions would be deleted aggressively. I feel that you may introduce a marker if you want, but not a separate queue. On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, at 2:25, rupert THURNER wrote

Re: [MediaWiki-l] How to do my first contribution to Wikimedia

2014-02-22 Thread Gryllida
Just choose what to edit, and edit it. It usually is something in a topic you know well and know what to add to it. If there's a problem, you have to be more specific. May https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory orient you also. gry On Sat, 22 Feb 2014, at 5:39,

Re: [MediaWiki-l] How to do my first contribution to Wikimedia

2014-02-22 Thread Gryllida
Sorry, discard previous message. I had misread the list name. gry On Sat, 22 Feb 2014, at 20:30, Gryllida wrote: Just choose what to edit, and edit it. It usually is something in a topic you know well and know what to add to it. If there's a problem, you have to be more specific. May

Re: [Wikitech-l] .wiki gTLD

2014-02-22 Thread Gryllida
That is a tough one, since most project names /start/ with wiki. pedia.wiki just sounds awkward, as do many others. On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, at 5:56, Derric Atzrott wrote: ICANN just delegated the gTLD .WIKI yesterday. It's being managed by Top Level Design, LLC. I'm not entirely sure what

Re: [Wikimedia-l] extend mediawiki software to allow append a group, and COI to an edit

2014-02-22 Thread Gryllida
I do mind 5 and 6, since their submissions would be deleted aggressively. I feel that you may introduce a marker if you want, but not a separate queue. On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, at 2:25, rupert THURNER wrote: hi, could wmf please extend the mediawiki software in the following way: 1. it should

Re: [Design] UX question about username choice on signup

2014-02-19 Thread Gryllida
From: Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org To: A list for the design team. design@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 21:49:05 -0800 On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Gryllida gryll...@fastmail.fm wrote: Seriously? User enters a username and the program silently registers him

Re: [Wikitech-l] Meetings vs mailing list (Re: Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?)

2014-02-19 Thread Gryllida
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Jon Robson wrote: Brad since you work for the for the foundation and seem to have a lot of expertise in this area and seem to have been one of the more vocal supporters of free fonts have you reached out to your work colleagues over video conferencing or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-Violent Communication

2014-02-19 Thread Gryllida
Derric Atzrott writes: Have any of you ever heard of Non-Violent Communication (NVC). NVC is amazing and I very much encourage anyone to take it up. It goes way beyond a method of thinking, it is a spiritual path. Like other spiritual paths that means it may work if you practise it yourself.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Meetings vs mailing list (Re: Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?)

2014-02-19 Thread Gryllida
From: Antoine Musso Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:28:33 +0100 Le 19/02/2014 09:34, Gryllida a écrit : For decision-making IRC is just more interactive and more ideas get conveyed and analyzed with less effort. [...] The meetings are nice when you want to start the process or to close

Re: [Design] UX question about username choice on signup

2014-02-18 Thread Gryllida
What problem are we trying to solve here? From reading the discussion the warning is unintrusive and doesn't impose any additional clicks when registering — thanks! — but it would be interesting to know whether any registered contributors experienced surprise about their username being

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to Contribute Page - More Specific and User Friendly

2014-02-18 Thread Gryllida
Good goals but I think you're doing several things wrong here. 1) Attempts to pose this as an external tool. Not many people who visit the wiki will ever learn about the external website. You're effectively opening a new contributors influx channel while not making the life of people who reached

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's improve our password policy

2014-02-13 Thread Gryllida
I like how we got these things done early in the process: - termed the proposal as 'improve password policy', in the subject, implying that the solution is good - instead of asking how to do it - put a single proposal, raising the requirement, instead of putting a few proposed changes and asking

[Wikinews-l] RFC: UploadWizard — scale to sister projects

2014-02-10 Thread Gryllida
Hi all, Apologies for cross-posting; please read and share thoughts: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/UploadWizard:_scale_to_sister_projects Gryllida ___ Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

[MediaWiki-l] RFC: UploadWizard — scale to sister projects

2014-02-10 Thread Gryllida
Hi all, Apologies for cross-posting; please read and share thoughts: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/UploadWizard:_scale_to_sister_projects Gryllida ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

[Commons-l] RFC: UploadWizard — scale to sister projects

2014-02-10 Thread Gryllida
Hi all, Apologies for cross-posting; please read and share thoughts: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/UploadWizard:_scale_to_sister_projects Gryllida ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

[Wikitech-l] RFC: UploadWizard — scale to sister projects

2014-02-10 Thread Gryllida
Hi all, Apologies for cross-posting; please read and share thoughts: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/UploadWizard:_scale_to_sister_projects Gryllida ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

[Wikitech-l] RFC: UploadWizard — scale to sister projects

2014-02-10 Thread Gryllida
Hi all, Apologies for cross-posting; please read and share thoughts: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/UploadWizard:_scale_to_sister_projects Gryllida ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

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