[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia engineering report, February 2014

2014-03-15 Thread Guillaume Paumier 
Hi,

The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in February 2014 is
now available.

Wiki version:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2014/February
Blog version:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/03/15/engineering-report-february-2014/

We're also proposing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of this
report that does not assume specialized technical knowledge:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2014/February/summary

Below is the HTML text of the report.

As always, feedback is appreciated on the usefulness of the report and its
summary, and on how to improve them.

--

Major news in February include:

   - a call for volunteers to test the upcoming multimedia
viewer
   ;
   - improvements to VisualEditor’s media and template editors;
   - the launch of the Flow discussion system on two pilot talk pages on
   the English Wikipedia;
   - the launch of guided tours to 31 more language versions of Wikipedia,
   including all of the top 10 projects by number of page views;
   - improvements to the tools and process used to deploy code to Wikimedia
   production sites;
   - the release of the first archive of the entire English Wikipedia with
   
thumbnails,
   for offline use.

*Note: We’re also providing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of
this report

that does not assume specialized technical knowledge.*

Engineering metrics in February:

   - 149 unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki.
   - The total number of unresolved
commitswent
from around 1320 to about 1453.
   - About 22 shell requests
were processed.

  Contents

   - 1 
Personnel
  - 1.1 Work with
us
  - 1.2 
Announcements
   - 2 Technical
Operations
   - 3 Features
Engineering
  - 3.1 Editor retention: Editing
tools
  - 3.2 Core
Features
  - 3.3 
Growth
  - 3.4 
Support
   - 4 
Mobile
   - 5 Language
Engineering
   - 6 Platform
Engineering
  - 6.1 MediaWiki
Core
  - 6.2 Quality
assurance
  - 6.3 
Multimedia
  - 6.4 Engineering Community
Team
   - 7 
Analytics
   - 8 
Kiwix
   - 9 
Wikidata
   - 10 
Future

 Personnel Work with us 

Are you looking to work for Wikimedia? We have a lot of hiring coming up,
and we really love talking to active community members about these roles.

   - VP of 
Engineering
   - Software Engineer –
Growth
   - Software Engineer – VisualEditor
(Features)
   - Software Engineer – Language
Engineering

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's accept Bitcoin as a donation method

2014-03-15 Thread David Gerard 
On 15 March 2014 13:31, Daniel Zahn  wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Nathan  wrote

>> It's hard to credit that people are still pushing for the WMF to accept
>> Bitcoin payments after the worlds major venue for trading them, the Magic:
>> The Gathering Online Exchange, crashed and "disappeared" $500m. Obviously
>> not a safe and secure payment modality right now, where is the rush to jump
>> into something so risky?

> The risk her was trusting a centralized place with being an escrow for your
> money though,
> not Bitcoin itself.


Functionally, a currency is its social structures and how it flows -
not just the objects deemed currency themselves. It's not money unless
it flows, and Bitcoin flows through exchanges that range from
laughably inept to criminal.


- d.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's accept Bitcoin as a donation method

2014-03-15 Thread Daniel Zahn 
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Nathan  wrote

>
> It's hard to credit that people are still pushing for the WMF to accept
> Bitcoin payments after the worlds major venue for trading them, the Magic:
> The Gathering Online Exchange, crashed and "disappeared" $500m. Obviously
> not a safe and secure payment modality right now, where is the rush to jump
> into something so risky?
>

The risk her was trusting a centralized place with being an escrow for your
money though,
not Bitcoin itself.

-- 
Daniel Zahn 
Operations Engineer
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