[Wikimedia-l] New beta feature: Syntax Highlighting!

2017-08-03 Thread Danny Horn
eferences. I hope you all love it and find it useful! If you've got feedback, you can click on the Discussion link in Beta features, or leave comments and questions on the Community Tech project talk page. [2] Thanks! Danny Horn Senior Product Manager WMF Community Tech [1] Communit

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New beta feature: Syntax Highlighting!

2017-08-03 Thread Danny Horn
Oh, a PS: We're going to post an announcement on some village pumps, but please feel free to share this with your community. Thanks! On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Danny Horn wrote: > Hi everyone, > > WMF's Community Tech team team is happy to announce that Wikit

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New beta feature: Syntax Highlighting!

2017-08-03 Thread Danny Horn
omments come in, making bug fixes and then making a plan for changes as we see what people have to say. Thanks again. Danny On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 4:07 PM Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 3 August 2017 at 23:21, Danny Horn wrote: > > > WMF's Community Tech team team is happy

[Wikimedia-l] New feature: LoginNotify

2017-08-18 Thread Danny Horn
Hi everyone, The Community Tech team has released a new security feature this week: LoginNotify, which gives you a notification when someone tries and fails to log in to your account. This project was wish #7 on the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey [1]. Here’s how it works: If someone tries and fa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New beta feature: Syntax Highlighting!

2017-08-23 Thread Danny Horn
Hi everyone, I've got some good news -- wikitext syntax highlighting is live again, and I'm almost completely sure it's staying live. :) You can now enable it as a Beta feature on all LTR wikis. On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Danny Horn wrote: > Hi Andy, > >

[Wikimedia-l] Global preferences: request for feedback

2017-08-23 Thread Danny Horn
//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Global_preferences#For_discussion:_Local_overrides and leave some feedback on the talk page. Of course, you can also feel free to post any questions, suggestions or comments about the feature. Thanks! Danny Horn Senior Product M

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New beta feature: Syntax Highlighting!

2017-08-24 Thread Danny Horn
he job. It would be > helpful if there were a user setting which allows longer wait time for > those of us who cannot get a faster computer or connection for economic or > geographical reasons. > Cheers, > Peter > > -Original Message- > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New feature: LoginNotify

2017-08-24 Thread Danny Horn
The only log is a temporary debug log, which we're using to investigate some bug reports. They're only accessible to people with shell access to the production servers -- Foundation staff, and people who have signed non-disclosure agreements. We won't retain them for longer than ninety days. Danny

[Wikimedia-l] Community Tech: 2016 Community Wishlist Survey status report

2017-10-05 Thread Danny Horn
report for information on all of these projects: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_ Survey/Status_report_1 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Status_report_1> The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey will start on November 6th! Stay tuned for mor

[Wikimedia-l] 2017 Community Wishlist Survey starts today!

2017-11-06 Thread Danny Horn
nglish, proposals are welcome in any language. I hope to see everyone there! Danny Horn WMF Community Tech ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2017 Community Wishlist Survey starts today!

2017-11-06 Thread Danny Horn
Darn, that link is last year's. It should be: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017 Community_Wishlist_Survey <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Danny Horn wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The third annual Community Wi

[Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes of 2017!

2017-12-13 Thread Danny Horn
Hi everyone, The Community Tech team is happy to announce the top 10 wishes from the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey! More than 1,100 people participated in the survey this year -- proposing, discussing and voting on 214 ideas. There was a two-week period in November to submit and discuss proposal

[Wikimedia-l] ACTRIAL Post-trial Research Report posted

2018-03-13 Thread Danny Horn
The Autoconfirmed article creation trial (also known as "ACTRIAL") has been running on English Wikipedia for the last six months, starting in mid September 2017. During the trial, article creation was limited to users with autoconfirmed status, meaning they had made at least ten edits and the accou

[Wikimedia-l] Community Tech survey on watchlist use

2016-03-25 Thread Danny Horn
esults on Meta.[2] Feel free to pass the link on, if you'd like to. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! Danny Horn Product Manager, WMF Community Tech [1] Info on the Community Wishlist Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey In

[Wikimedia-l] Community Tech: Status report on Wishlist progress

2016-10-17 Thread Danny Horn
Hi everyone, The WMF Community Tech team is starting to wrap up our work on this year's Community Wishlist projects, as we prepare for the new Community Wishlist Survey starting in November. We've got a new Status report to share, with an update on the work that's been done this year on the Commu

[Wikimedia-l] 2016 Community Wishlist Survey

2016-11-07 Thread Danny Horn
Hi everyone, The second annual Community Wishlist Survey starts today, and you're invited to post proposals for projects that you'd like WMF's Community Tech team to work on: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey The Community Tech team builds features and makes changes

[Wikimedia-l] Voting's open on 2016 Community Wishlist Survey

2016-11-28 Thread Danny Horn
F product team, so I hope everybody comes and participates! Danny Horn WMF Product Manager Community Tech ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimed

[Wikimedia-l] Voting on 2016 Community Wishlist Survey ends Monday

2016-12-08 Thread Danny Horn
ase come by and check it out while there's still time to vote! Danny Horn Senior Product Manager, Community Tech ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes of 2016!

2016-12-15 Thread Danny Horn
ice things to us recently, and to all people everywhere in time and space, on general principles. Danny Horn Sr Product Manager, Community Tech ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes of 2016!

2016-12-16 Thread Danny Horn
Yes, for sure. We don't want to impose anything on wikis that don't want or can't use it. On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:21 AM, pi zero wrote: > Just a general observation: Making things "global" can be good or bad for > non-wikipedia projects depending on how it's done; spreading uniformity > acros

[Wikimedia-l] Additional information on community health initiative and next steps

2017-01-26 Thread Danny Horn
ommunity-health-initiative-grant Danny Horn (Product Manager, Community Tech) and Patrick Earley (Manager, Support & Safety) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/November_2016_-_Statement_on_Healthy_Community_Culture,_Inclusivity,_and_Safe_Spaces [2] https://

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation receives $500, 000 from the Craig Newmark Foundation and craigslist Charitable Fund to support a healthy and inclusive

2017-01-27 Thread Danny Horn
The project has four focus areas, and blocking is just one of them. Here's the whole picture: * Detection and prevention: Using machine learning to help flag situations for admin review -- both text that looks like it's harassing and aggressive, as well as modeling patterns of user interaction, li

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation receives $500, 000 from the Craig Newmark Foundation and craigslist Charitable Fund to support a healthy and inclusive

2017-01-27 Thread Danny Horn
oisonous behavior. I'm just thinking out loud here, and others > may have much better approaches in mind (or actually work on them). > > Hope that clarifies a bit, > > Best, > Lodewijk > > 2017-01-27 17:24 GMT+01:00 Danny Horn : > > > The project has four focus ar

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

2015-09-05 Thread Danny Horn
We are planning to put Flow into public dumps this month, and work with all the remaining communities still using LQT about converting to Flow. I wanted to let this announcement settle for a minute before we talk to them. On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:23 PM, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: > On Sat, Sep

[Wikimedia-l] Community Tech: October report

2015-11-03 Thread Danny Horn
In the Community Tech team, we're constantly striving to make the world better by creating helpful things and fixing unhelpful things. We're basically superheroes, and we wear capes at all times. Here's what we've been up to this month. * We built a new Special:GadgetUsage report that's live on all

[Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey - proposals phase ending soon

2015-11-19 Thread Danny Horn
Hi everyone, There's just a few more days to add proposals on the Community Tech team's Wishlist Survey. We're looking for the most important features and fixes that our team can work on to help the core contributors on Wikimedia projects. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_S

[Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey - voting open

2015-11-30 Thread Danny Horn
Hi everyone, The Community Tech team's Wishlist Survey is now open for voting; come on over and upvote your favorites. We're looking for the most important features and fixes that our team can work on to help the core contributors on Wikimedia projects. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Commun

[Wikimedia-l] Community Tech: November report

2015-12-09 Thread Danny Horn
Hi everyone, here's what the Community Tech team's been up to lately. * Community Wishlist Survey: we've been running this survey to identify the most important features and fixes to work on in 2016; you might have heard about it because we've been spamming mailing lists and village pumps. If you

[Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

2015-12-16 Thread Danny Horn
es since their first survey in 2013. You can watch this page for further Community Tech announcements: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/News Thanks! Danny Horn Product Manager, WMF Community Tech ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

2015-12-16 Thread Danny Horn
> > wrote: > > > > > It's really cool to see community wish list coming together! > > > > > > > We're going to talk with the other Wikimedia product teams, to see if > > > they can take on some of the ideas the the community has expressed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

2015-12-17 Thread Danny Horn
hlist > > #8. Cross-wiki user talkpage > > > > And a mentor-friendly feature I've wanted for a long time: > > #10. Add a user watchlist > > > > SJ > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Danny Horn wrote: > > > > &g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

2015-12-28 Thread Danny Horn
e from human contributors, and that's hard to scale. Danny PM, Community Tech [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_articles_with_dead_external_links On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Henning Schlottmann wrote: > On 16.12.2015 21:12, Danny Horn wrote: > > > #1. Migra

[Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Status report #1

2016-01-20 Thread Danny Horn
the status report link again, for lots more information: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Status_report_1 Our team is really excited about the work that we'll get to do this year, and we're looking forward to talking and working

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An Open Letter to Wikimedia Foundation BoT

2016-02-20 Thread Danny Horn
You know, it's possible that the people who work for the Foundation might understand the situation in a more nuanced way than you do. I know it doesn't seem likely, but dare to dream. On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Anthony Cole wrote: > Thanks James. > > I'm not on staff, nor am I part of the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why we changed

2016-02-22 Thread Danny Horn
> Does anyone know when the board is meeting (has it met) to resolve this? I > don't want them to rush a poorly thought-through decision but, after a > while, inaction in a human crisis like this becomes negligent abuse. > Yeah, that happened four months ago. It's going great so far.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are we too rigid?

2016-02-23 Thread Danny Horn
If I remember correctly, I think that's how the Content Translation project started -- it was someone's personal project, which got more people and attention because it's a great idea and showed real success. It's hard to know what the mechanism would be for how to gauge community support at meani

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-15 Thread Danny Horn
Figuring out how Flow integrates with the watchlist and Echo is one of the toughest and most important parts of the project. The feedback that the team got from the last couple releases was actually pretty diverse, and showed us that there's going to be a lot of work ahead of us to figure out how t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-16 Thread Danny Horn
wiki/Flow#Roadmap [2]: EE mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Diego Moya wrote: > On 15 September 2014 19:24, Danny Horn wrote: > > Some people are seeing Flow messages as really important, something that > > they want to get