[Wikitech-ambassadors] Please help us check these CAPTCHAs for readability

2014-04-01 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Sanskrit (Devanagari script) * ml Malayalam * si Sinhala/Sinhalese * ta Tamil * th Thai This is a followup on Nemo's comment here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5309#c36 -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-ambassadors] unsubscribing - sabbatical

2013-09-19 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Quim Gil, qgil at wikimedia dot org, or Guillaume Paumier, gpaumier at wikimedia dot org. Thanks! Sumana Harihareswara, Engineering Community Manager at Wikimedia Foundation P.S. More about me and Hacker School: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2013/08/28/1

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] New search backend live on mediawiki.org

2013-08-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
you can copy templates and articles from your home wiki and then run the search to see if things work okay. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] resizing big images will get faster next week

2013-07-19 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 07/12/2013 07:59 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: Thursday July 18th, we're going to deploy something new on the sites: VipsScaler - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VipsScaler . Upside: Resizing big images will be faster and more reliable, leading to fewer errors -- no matter

[Wikitech-ambassadors] How should Wikidata and Wiktionary interact?

2013-07-01 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
#Alternative_proposal Thank you! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors

[Wikitech-ambassadors] New template to help automate your wiki's main page

2013-05-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Tamil Wikipedia has gained an important tool - automated front page maintenance. The code for this was written using Lua by Surya Prakash under the guidance of Yuvipanda. If other wiki projects want to make use of this, it is available at http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Main_page. Please get

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Announcing the Flow Portal(s)

2013-05-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
From: Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.org Hello! As many of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation is now actively engaged in designing a next-generation discussion and workflow system called Flow, initially slated to replace user talk pages. Flow is an ambitious project (on par

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: GSoC: accepted! Mentors: apply, please

2013-04-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
, and to transwomen and genderfluid people. I point these out because people I speak with have made wrong assumptions about those criteria in the past. :) -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On 04/09/2013 01:00 AM, Quim Gil wrote: Your help is welcome promoting Google

[Wikitech-ambassadors] What would you like on this list?

2012-11-09 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Thanks for being on this list and helping communicate about technology on Wikimedia sites. What kinds of discussions or notifications would you like to have on this list? Or in general, if you don't think they quite belong here? -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia