[Wikitech-ambassadors] Requests for comment/Bugzilla taxonomy
Hi, you might be interested in this discussion about improving the current taxonomy of products and components in WikiMedia's bugzilla: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Bugzilla_taxonomy You can watch the page and CC your selves at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38990 to follow the progress. Your feedback as bug reporters is welcome. -- Quim ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: Proposal: MediaWiki Group Marketing
fyi Original Message Subject: Proposal: MediaWiki Group Marketing Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:43:27 -0800 From: Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi, following the process for requesting the creation of a MediaWiki group, here is a proposal for MediaWiki Group Marketing http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/Marketing Your endorsements, improvements and feedback are welcome at the wiki page. Thank you! PS: see also http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: QA weekly goal: browser testing automation for Wikipedia Search
fyi Original Message Subject: QA weekly goal: browser testing automation for Wikipedia Search Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:42:14 -0700 From: Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org WHAT: Writing a Wikipedia search feature description in plain English for our automated testing process. Let's feed the Test backlog! WHEN: We will start with a video streamed demo on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 17h UTC [1] and we will be helping volunteers during the rest of the week. This is an ongoing activity: you can arrive / leave at any time. WHERE: #wikimedia-dev IRC channel. After joining on IRC, say Hello browser testers! and we will welcome you with instructions and a simple task. chrismcmahon, zeljkof and qgil will do their best covering timezones. You can also use the Discussion page to ask any questions. WHO: Anybody interested, including you! The only requirement is basic level of plain English in order to describe the features to be tested automatically. It is that simple. More details at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Browser_testing/Search_features [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130313T1700 -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: Sponsoring travel to Wikimedia Hackathon
fyi Please help making sure the gadgets templates developers plus the admins and other contributors to the tech avantgarde of your projects are aware of this. In an idea world all of them would follow wikitech-l but this is probably not the case today. Thank you! Original Message Subject: Sponsoring travel to Wikimedia Hackathon Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:05:53 -0700 From: Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi, you have probably heard about Wikimedia Hackathon 24-26 May in Amsterdam (Netherlands) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013 There are about 100 participants registered, and we have some room for more. Registration is free but you need to sign up. There is also some travel sponsorship budget left after a first round of approvals. If your free software contributions and your Wikimedia love is more valuable than the money you have in the bank, you can just register and apply for scholarship. Please include public URLs where we can see your open source licensed contributions (code, pixels, wise words...). A CV alone won't cut it, no matter how many avatars appear to endorse your skills. Hurry up! The organizers are reviewing applications as they come. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: [QA] First post (almost)
Hi, we have now a mailing list dedicated to software quality assurance: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/qa http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/ We hope this list will be useful to editors of Wikimedia projects interested in testing and software quality, and willing to volunteer in these activities. No technical experience is required as long as you don't mind some technical discussions and you are willing to learn. See the rationale and background below. Original Message Subject: First post (almost) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 15:14:15 -0700 From: Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: q...@lists.wikimedia.org Welcome to the QA list! This mailing list is an umbrella to host people and discussions focusing on software quality assurance in all its aspects: exploratory testing, browser automation testing, unit testing, continuous integration, the beta cluster, bug management and community QA activities. We hope this list becomes useful to integrate and retain people primarily interested in testing / QA. We are seeing many people interested in testing from different angles. Some people are current developers willing to learn and discuss more about this topic, best practices, etc. Some are people new to the community that see testing / QA as a way to contribute in technical tasks other than development. This specialized list follows the good results offered by precedents like the Analytics, Design of Editor Engagement lists. wikitech-l subscribers will still receive the deep wide QA related announcements. No teams comfortable with the status quo will be encouraged to change their current communication practices because of this list. There is a bit more background at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48057 Now, who's next? -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: Call for tech projects needing contributors
Hello ambassadors! Your help spreading this message in your communities is welcome. Thank you! Original Message Subject: Call for tech projects needing contributors Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 07:34:31 -0700 From: Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org The current round of Google Summer of Code FLOSS Outreach Program for Women is about to end, and it's time to start a new cycle of mentored projects in Wikimedia tech. Check and contribute to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects if you are * a Wikimedia project awaiting a specific software feature * an organization with budget for tech activities looking for a short term goal * a tech contributor with a cool idea for Wikimedia projects or MediaWiki in general Even if software development is a prominent activity, we also encourage proposals focusing on other technical areas: quality assurance, design, sysadmin, promotion... Post your proposal soon, edit it often. By submitting a proposal to the Possible Projects page you get attention and help from the tech community in the form of reality checks and contacts with possible mentors, interested projects and funding sources. 21 projects were selected in our last round, finishing now: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women We keep searching for more opportunities to channels these projects, both within the Wikimedia movement (Individual Engagement Grants, chapters...) and out there (internship programs encouraging free software and diversity in tech). We want to hear your feedback! Use the discussion page or reply here. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: URGENT call for geographical diversity in Wikimedia @ GSoC
Dear tech ambassadors, please help spreading this call for Google Summer of Code candidates in your projects. Thank you! -- Forwarded message -- From: *Quim Gil* q...@wikimedia.org Date: Thursday, March 13, 2014 Subject: URGENT call for geographical diversity in Wikimedia @ GSoC To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org Please forward this email wisely. Yes, we need your help getting the word out. So far, all our GSoC candidates come from only two (neighbor) countries: India and Sri Lanka. While we are very happy seeing how popular Wikimedia is among technical students in the Indian subcontinent, we are concerned about the lack of candidates from anywhere else. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014#Candidates GSoC 2013 had accepted students from 69 countries [1], and we have participants from eight.[2] We can discuss about the deep causes of this situation but... Considering that we have less than 9 days before the GSoC deadline for students (March 21 @ 19:00 UTC) we should focus on finding new candidates. There is still time to become a strong GSoC candidate for Wikimedia. Many project ideas in our GSoC page (linked above) have mentors available and no candidates yet. Go for them! Also, since our evaluation of candidates is based on their proposals published in mediawiki.org, Google's deadline is not a hard stop to keep improving your plans together with your mentors. April 7 is when we need to decide how many slots we will request, meaning how many teams (candidates and mentors with a common plan) we believe that can complete GSoC 2014 successfully. That date is more than three weeks from now. Diversity is an important factor for Wikimedia. We are putting a lot of effort promoting gender diversity in our outreach programs, and we are seeing good progress. It would be surprising to realize that a global project like Wikimedia has a serious problem with geographical diversity. Your ideas and actions to fix this situation are welcome. [1] https://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/ProgramStatistics [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013 PS: in comparison, FOSS OPW is doing a lot better, with five candidates from four countries https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_8#Candidates-- coincidence? -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Phabricator is coming, Bugzilla is leaving
Dear tech ambassadors, According to our plans, we are just a few weeks away from Wikimedia Phabricator Day 1. On that day, Bugzilla will be accessible in read-only mode, and all the bug reports will have been migrated to Phabricator. From that point, all bug reporting will be done in Phabricator. We are very excited about this move. Phabricator provides a friendlier environment to new/casual users while offering a powerful collaboration platform for software development and project management in general -- all at once! For instance, users can edit task descriptions, one task can be assigned to more than one project (or none), and tasks can be organized in project workboards (i.e. http://fab.wmflabs.org/project/board/31/ ). Learn about the launch at http://fab.wmflabs.org/T282. You can subscribe to this task to receive any updates. This Day 1 is also relevant for other migrations (RT, Trello, Mingle, even Gerrit at some point) but first of all we want to make sure that the Bugzilla migration is well communicated and understood across all Wikimedia projects. For that, we need your help. We are planning the communication activities at http://fab.wmflabs.org/T317 -- feedback and volunteers are welcome. Learn more about Wikimedia Phabricator, and how we got to the point we are now after nine months of discussion and work: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator If you need help using Phabricator or you see other users with problems, check/improve https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help. Support is provided at the related Talk page. We will continue sending major updates to this list between now and Day 1. As always, we welcome your questions and feedback. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Phabricator is coming, Bugzilla is leaving
On Sunday, September 7, 2014, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
Quim, can you point me to a well-written, useful page that describes the
steps needed to report a bug in Phabricator? This needs to include the
steps to register an account (assuming that is necessary)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Signing_in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Creating_a_task
I'm not sure about the well-written part, but you can help.
Creating tasks is actually pretty simple. Only title and description are
required. CC and Projects are optional. That's it, off you go.
The Wikimedia sign in doesn't work in the Labs instance (no https in Labs)
but you can test it at https://legalpad.wikimedia.org
all the way through to how to link to the bug on the WM wiki where it may
be being discussed.
Pending (help from template gadget ninjas is welcome):
Port {{tracked}} gadget to query Phabricator API
http://fab.wmflabs.org/T285
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: fab.wmflabs.org to go offline this Monday 18:00UTC
All users at fab.wmflabs.org have received this announcement. Forwarding it here just in case you or someone in your projects wants to give a first try to Phabricator only to find that it's down. -- Forwarded message -- From: phabannou...@phabricator.wikimedia.org Date: Sunday, September 7, 2014 Subject: fab.wmflabs.org to go offline this Monday 18:00UTC To: q...@wikimedia.org Summary: fab.wmflabs.org will be taken down this Monday 18:00UTC. Locally save tasks or workboards that you might rely on for the week. Verify your email address in fab.wmflabs.org if it's not already. The intention is for the Phabricator production instance to be available by Sept 12th. The Phabricator instance on fab.wmflabs.org has been used over the last few months for both real and test data. On Mon, Sept 8th 2014 18:00UTC this instance will be made unavailable to migrate content to the upcoming production instance on phabricator.wikimedia.org. The Labs instance will not come back online in the same form, if at all. We take the Labs instance down because we cannot make the Labs instance read-only while dumping its data. Neither can we easily display a banner on all pages warning you to not make any changes which would get lost anyway. Tickets from the following projects are marked for migration: Analytics-EEVS Architecture bugzilla-migration Chemical_Markup_for_Wikimedia_Commons Code_review_in_Phabricator Community-Engagement dev.wikimedia.org googlelogin Growth Human_Resources Language_Engineering logstash phabricator phabricator-request-project Release_Engineering rt-migration Triagers Trusted_User_Tool UI_Standardization UploadWizard_Refactoring Upstreaming_to_Phabricator.org Wiki-Release-Team Wikimedia_Phabricator_Day_1 wikimedia_phabricator_maintenance wikimedia_phabricator_rfc Some metadata[1] for tasks associated with the above should be populated in the new production system -- if the account used in fab.wmflabs.org has a verified email that is also verified in the production instance. If you are using an email but have not verified it to the Labs instance you can go here: http://fab.wmflabs.org/settings/panel/email/ and choose verify. An email will be sent with a link. If you do not have a verified email address yet, or for some reason cannot verify an email with the Labs instance the relevant content (tickets, comments) will still be migrated. However, it will not be associated automatically with any new account in the production instance. For questions catch us (chasemp and andre__) on Freenode IRC or drop into the #wikimedia-devtools channel. Thanks, Phabricator Team [1] metadata to be migrated: ticket: author, cc, assigned, blocking/blocked -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Phabricator is coming, Bugzilla is leaving
On Sunday, September 7, 2014, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bawo...@gmail.com'); wrote: On 9/7/14, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear tech ambassadors, According to our plans, we are just a few weeks away from Wikimedia Phabricator Day 1. On that day, Bugzilla will be accessible in read-only mode, and all the bug reports will have been migrated to Phabricator. From that point, all bug reporting will be done in Phabricator. Is there an actual day set? All I seem to be able to find is a vague - maybe end of september beginning of october. The draft timeline says Sept 29 - Oct 3: Bugzilla migration and this reflects the best of our knowledge today. http://fab.wmflabs.org/T282 As soon as we commit to a firm date we will share them with you. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: Phabricator update
For your information. Forward to your communities is welcome, especially if you know you have contributors using Bugzilla, a tool that is planned to be deprecated by Phabricator in a few weeks. -- Forwarded message -- From: *Quim Gil* q...@wikimedia.org Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 Subject: Phabricator update To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi, if you were wondering what is going on in Phabricator land... Summary: You can see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org , you can touch https://phab-01.wmflabs.org/ , you will have a chance to provide feedback about the Bugzilla migration before the migration, based on a test instance with a sample of bugs imported. In detail: * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org exists as a read-only instance and it contains the tasks that were migrated from the now decommissioned fab.wmflabs.org. Registration is disabled while we fix some tasks -- details at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Plan#Migration_plan . We will post here when the issues have been fixed. * We have a test instance at https://phab-01.wmflabs.org/ where you can play as much as you want. This instance is for testing and experimenting only. Anything in there can disappear in a whim. * When we open phabricator.wikimedia.org, the creation of new projects will be still disabled. Existing projects will be able to continue their work, but we are asking new projects to wait a few weeks, until we complete the Bugzilla migration. It's going to be still a bumpy road before Day 1, and we want to control the impact of these disruptions as much as possible. * RT migration will follow. Details will be shared in advance. * Bugzilla migration will follow. Details will be shared in advance as well, but we have a rough idea of the sequence of steps. Details available in the migration plan linked above, pasted here for convenience: 1. Earliest possible/expected date: October 06 but favoring Friday October 10 to interrupt engineering less (starting over the weekend). Bugzilla downtime expected of 1-3 days. Checklist: 2. Instructions to use Phabricator for bug reporting and project management. 3. Documentation of data and features that will not be available in Phabricator after the migration. Phabricator test instance available with a sample of Bugzilla reports imported automatically (say 1 of each 10, about 700 reports). 4. At least one week of margin to receive community feedback and implement improvements. 5. Documentation of the migration process detailing sequence of steps and timeline expected. 6. Go-NoGo meeting with the Phabricator team (Andre, Chase, Mukunda, Quim), Erik, Rob, MarkB, and Greg. Stay tuned. :) -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: Phabricator update
More Phabricator updates. The technical people in your communities might be interested in joining this session on Wednesday: The Very Basics of Phabricator https://plus.google.com/events/c8qe7l0vtf4v6u07k3o059du2lg More below. -- Forwarded message -- From: *Quim Gil* q...@wikimedia.org Date: Friday, September 19, 2014 Subject: Phabricator update To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org Important Phabricator news: A single migration timeline with all the important details is available. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator#Migration_timeline A video-streamed session The Very Basics of Phabricator is scheduled for Wednesday, September 24. https://plus.google.com/events/c8qe7l0vtf4v6u07k3o059du2lg Registration to phabricator.wikimedia.org is opening for those that really need access to work on any of the existing projects. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator#Access_to_phabricator.wikimedia.org -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: Bugzilla-Phabricator migration instance ready for review
For your information. -- Forwarded message -- From: Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org Date: Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 6:56 PM Subject: Bugzilla-Phabricator migration instance ready for review To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org Phabricator milestone! https://bugzillapreview.wmflabs.org/ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/versus_Bugzilla#Test_instance (please read) A test instance is available for review, showing a sample of 10% of all the Bugzilla reports, automatically migrated. Register with your Bugzilla email address, wait for your activity to be assigned to you (might take a while), and try to find problems that we should fix before the real migration happens. WE WANT YOUR FEEDBACK https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/bugzilla-preview/ Check the list of known issues before creating new tasks. We are leaving at least one week for feedback, or more if there are issues that require fixes and a second test. At the end of the review period we will be able to commit to a Bugzilla migration date. Thank you again to Chase, Mukunda, and Andre for opening a way that nobody has walked before. Big Thank You also to the growing number of contributors helping in this complex and terribly interesting migration process! -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: Two office hours about the Bugzilla to Phabricator migration
Hi, next week we will host two office hours to answer your questions about the Bugzilla to Phabricator migration: Tuesday 18 Novembre 16:00 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141118T16 Tuesday 18 Novembre 23:00 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141118T23 On #wikimedia-office IRC, as usual. The plan is to start the migration on Friday 21 November at 00:30 UTC. We will send more information about this, but in the meantime you can check the details at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/versus_Bugzilla -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: Let's recruit tech volunteers in your country via GSoC / OPW
Hi tech ambassadors, your help spreading the word in your communities is very appreciated. -- Forwarded message -- From: Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org Date: Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:56 AM Subject: Let's recruit tech volunteers in your country via GSoC / OPW To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimedia is planning to participate in Google Summer of Code 2015 and the simultaneous FOSS Outreach Program for Women round 10. We want to increase geographical diversity among candidates by involving local Wikimedia groups in the promotion of these programs. This, in turn, could help increasing the technical capacity of these groups. Interested? Please check Connect Wikimedia groups, Google Developer Groups, and computer science university departments https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T925 Italy, Russia, China, and Japan have been mentioned already. Adding other locations is up to you. We are looking for local drivers. The Engineering Community team and others can help from a distance, but this won't work without local promoters. PS: you can register to Phabricator with your Wikimedia account, and you can subscribe to tasks in order to receive updates -- see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] New software; Gendergap; FOSDEM; Government collaboration
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Edward edwardjlha...@gmail.com wrote: I'd be very interested in going to FOSDEM! It sounds brilliant, can I get some more information on it? FOSDEM 2015 was this weekend, and it is a bit early to discuss FOSDEM 2016, but you can subscribe to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88414 and receive notifications as soon as we start planning. ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: Wikimedia Hackathon travel sponsorship
A forward to Wikitech Ambassadors, who are very welcome to Wikimedia hackathons. -- Forwarded message -- From: Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org Date: Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:14 AM Subject: Fwd: Wikimedia Hackathon travel sponsorship To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org A forward for technical and tech-curious people not subscribed to wikitech-l. If you have or want to join a hackathon plan for Lyon (May 23-25), we want to know. Important note: Wikimedia Hackathons are not only for developers, as good software development requires many other profiles, including insightful users. Chapter people and other organized wikimedians, your help funding volunteer travel is welcome. Every year we are pooling more funds from more orgs, opening our hackathons to more volunteers from more places and areas of interest. Please send one volunteer or more to Lyon. More information and feedback at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88523 -- Forwarded message -- From: Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org Date: Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:02 AM Subject: Wikimedia Hackathon travel sponsorship To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi, we are hoping to open registration to the Wikimedia Hackathon in Lyon next week. Those of you relying on travel sponsorship can start preparing your requests already now: # Familiarize yourself with the goals of the hackathon: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons#The_Wikimedia_Hackathon_model # Join or propose a demo-able project in Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-hackathon-2015/ # Find a hackathon buddy in the Wikimedia communities or related projects out there: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lyon_Hackathon_2015/Buddies Here you have a draft form to get an idea of what questions you will be asked: http://goo.gl/forms/MPzx8q7BBz (not a real form; data submitted will be ignored and deleted) Your feedback about the process is welcome, especially in the related Phabricator task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88406 -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Superprotect is gone
Superprotect [1] was introduced by the Wikimedia Foundation to resolve a product development disagreement. We have not used it for resolving a dispute since. Consequently, today we are removing Superprotect from Wikimedia servers. Without Superprotect, a symbolic point of tension is resolved. However, we still have the underlying problem of disagreement and consequent delays at the product deployment phase. We need to become better software partners, work together towards better products, and ship better features faster. The collaboration between the WMF and the communities depends on mutual trust and constructive criticism. We need to improve Wikimedia mechanisms to build consensus, include more voices, and resolve disputes. There is a first draft of an updated Product Development Process [2] that will guide the work of the WMF Engineering and Product teams.[3] It stresses the need for community feedback throughout the process, but particularly in the early phases of development. More feedback earlier on will allow us to incorporate community-driven improvements and address potential controversy while plans and software are most flexible. We welcome the feedback of technical and non-technical contributors. Check the Q for details.[4] [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Superprotect [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Product_Development_Process [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Product_Development_Process/2015-11-05#Q.26A -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Looking for German speakers in this list
Hi, if you are a fluent German speaker, you might be interested in this task, inspired by my participation at WikiCon in Dresden this weekend: Distributing Tech News to the German-speaking communities https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113213 Please reply there instead of the whole list. Please help forwarding to Projektdiskussion and other places where interested Autoren might be found. Thank you! -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2016 scholarship applications open
For your information: "Applications are open until Saturday, January 09 2016 23:59 UTC." -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Rulsch <rulschmar...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 10:26 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2016 scholarship applications open To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" < wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List < wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org> Thanks again, Dan Garry, for pointing me on this again-ill formatted mail. Cheers, Martin Hi all, Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2016 which is being held in Esino Lario, Italy on June 22–27, 2016 are now being accepted. Applications are open until Saturday, January 09 2016 23:59 UTC. Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and shared accommodation. Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, who will determine which applications are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2016 scholarships, please visit: https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on: https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page and the associated FAQ ( https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ ) before submitting an application. If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org <wikimania-scholarsh...@wikimedia.org> or leave a message at: https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scholarships Please help us spread the word! Best regards, for the Scholarship Committee https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarship_committee ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Technical Collaboration goals for July - September 2016
Hi, the Wikimedia Foundation Technical Collaboration team (Community Liaisons + Developer Relations) is defining individual and team goals for the next quarter, July - September 2016. We welcome your feedback. Which tasks should we prioritize? Please share your suggestions, preferably at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131915 More: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Goals -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Technical Collaboration quarterly goals for October - December 2016
Hi, We are starting to discuss the Technical Collaboration <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration> team plans for October - December. If you or your communities have proposals about goals or other tasks this team should plan for, please share them at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142355 For more information about our quarterly goals, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Goals -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Developer Wishlist Survey: propose your ideas
Remember, the deadline for proposing developer wishes is TODAY, January 31 at 23:59 UTC <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20170131T235959=1440> . The Developer Wishlist voting phase is planned to start next Monday, February 6. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Wishlist#Timeline On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 12:00 AM, Srishti Sethi <sse...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > That's right! At the Wikimedia Developer Summit, we decided to organize a > Developer Wishlist Survey, and here we go: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Wishlist > > The Wikimedia technical community seeks input from developers for > developers, to create a high-profile list of desired improvements. The > scope of the survey includes the MediaWiki platform (core software, APIs, > developer environment, enablers for extensions, gadgets, templates, bots, > dumps), the Wikimedia server infrastructure, the contribution process, and > documentation. > > The best part: we want to have the results published by Wednesday, > February 15. Yes, in a month, to have a higher chance to influence the > Wikimedia Foundation annual plan FY 2017-18. > > There's no time to lose. *Propose your ideas before the end of January, * > either by pushing existing tasks in Phabricator or by creating new ones. > You can find instructions on the wiki page > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Wishlist>. Questions and > feedback are welcome especially on the related Talk page. > > The voting phase is expected to start on February 6 (tentative). Watch > this space (or even better, the wiki page). > > Cheers, > Srishti Sethi > Developer Advocate, Technical Collaboration team > Wikimedia Foundation > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF) > > > ___ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > > -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: Call for participation: Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017
Hi, the call for participation for the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017 is now open: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_ Summit/Call_for_participation We welcome especially proposals related to these main topics: * A plan for the Community Wishlist 2016 top results * Handling wiki content beyond plaintext * A unified vision for editorial collaboration * Building a sustainable user experience together * Useful, consistent, and well documented APIs * How to manage our technical debt * Artificial Intelligence to build and navigate content * How to grow our technical community If you want to propose an activity pre-scheduled in the Summit program, you have time until Monday, October 31. There is no deadline to propose Unconference sessions. ABOUT The Wikimedia Developer Summit is the annual meeting to push the evolution of MediaWiki and other technologies supporting the Wikimedia movement. We welcome all Wikimedia technical contributors and third party developers using the Wikimedia APIs or MediaWiki. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit (This information wants to be forwarded!) -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: Call for candidates to form the first Code of Conduct Committee
Hello tech ambassadors, Maybe you or someone in your wiki communities is interested in this call for candidates to form the first Code of Conduct Committee for Wikimedia technical spaces. We want to reach out to a wide variety of profiles and that includes e.g. bug reporters and other technical volunteers interested in bots, gadgets, templates, MediaWiki... -- Forwarded message -- From: Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 12:30 PM Subject: Call for candidates to form the first Code of Conduct Committee To: Wikimedia developers <wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org>, MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawik...@lists.wikimedia.org>, Development and Operations Engineers <engineer...@lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Labs <lab...@lists.wikimedia.org>, "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics." <analyt...@lists.wikimedia.org>, Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org>, "A list for the design team." <des...@lists.wikimedia.org> Dear Wikimedia technical community members, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct The review of the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces has been completed and now it is time to bootstrap its first committee. The Technical Collaboration team is looking for five candidates to form the Committee plus five additional auxiliary members. One of them could be you or someone you know! You can propose yourself as a candidate and you can recommend others *privately* at techconductcandidates AT wikimedia DOT org We want to form a very diverse list of candidates reflecting the variety of people, activities, and spaces in the Wikimedia technical community. We are also open to other candidates with experience in the field. Diversity in the Committee is also a way to promote fairness and independence in their decisions. This means that no matter who you are, where you come from, what you work on, or for how long, you are a potential good member of this Committee. The main requirements to join the Committee are a will to foster an open and welcoming community and a commitment to making participation in Wikimedia technical projects a respectful and harassment-free experience for everyone. The committee will handle reports of unacceptable behavior, will analyze the cases, and will resolve on them according to the Code of Conduct. The Committee will also handle proposals to amend the Code of Conduct for the purpose of increasing its efficiency. The term of this first Committee will be one year. Once we have a list of 5 + 5 candidates, we will announce it here for review. You can learn more about the Committee and its selection process at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee and you can ask questions in the related Talk page (preferred) or here. You can also track the progress of this bootstrapping process at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct# Bootstrapping_the_Code_of_Conduct_Committee PS: We have many technical spaces and reaching to all people potentially interested is hard! Please help spreading this call. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: New newsletter: Tech Showcase
Dear Tech Ambassadors, TLDR: Please give this a try, subscribe, and promote it in your communities: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Tech_Showcase. I am of course biased, but I do believe that this newsletter is interesting basically for any active contributors. The simplest and easiest way to know about interesting software being developed by staff or volunteers for our readers and our contributors. No tech knowledge needed and no time commitment required either. You will just receive one sentence notifications linking to the fresh software showcased. PS: This is a new concept of newsletter for experienced Wikimedians as well. The Technical Collaboration team hopes that these types of newsletters will reach new audiences and new voices beyond the power users following Village Pumps, mailing lists or Phabricator. -- Forwarded message -- From: Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 12:18 PM Subject: New newsletter: Tech Showcase To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org> Tech curious? This is for you: Tech Showcase <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Tech_Showcase> A newsletter (*) about fresh software for Wikimedia caught on the spot. Plans, prototypes, releases... Do you have a scoop? Tell us in the Talk page! Just click "Subscribe" and you will be notified in your preferred Wikimedia wiki. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Tech_Showcase (*) This is a newsletter powered by the Newsletter extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Newsletter>. Expect one sentence notifications linking to the tech showcased, not lengthy articles and prose. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Ambassador signup page during wikimania
Hi, On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 8:54 PM, zppix e <megadev44s.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > Okay so we signed up to ambassador a certain wiki during wikimania or > remotely on the metawiki page, is there more to be done or what? There > wasnt really any further explaination. > Signing up at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Ambassadors/List is just a way to communicate to others (and to yourself) ;) that you consider yourself an active tech ambassador for a specific community. What is expected from tech ambassadors in general is defined at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Community_collaboration_in_product_development/Tech_ambassadors_and_translators#Tech_Ambassadors_.28DRAFT.29 Different communities might have different needs, and different tech ambassadors might have different interests and priorities. If a tech ambassador wonders about the most useful work they could be doing, one possibility is to ask to their community in an appropriate place (i.e. the related Village Pump). If the questions are about activities in general, a good place to discuss is https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/Ambassadors Zppix, you have signed up as tech ambassador for English Wikipedia. Thank you! That is a big and complex community, and there are several volunteers who in a way or another are contributing as tech ambassadors, explicitly or not. One suggestion would be to ask in English Wikipedia (Technical Village Pump?) who else is interested in formalizing their tech ambassadors role and in improving the coordination of efforts. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: New Wikimedia Developer Support channel (test pilot)
Dear tech ambassadors, please check this new Wikimedia Developer Support channel and help us spreading the news among developers and other technical contributors having to deal with gadgets, bots, templates and the likes. -- Forwarded message -- From: Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 9:21 AM Subject: New Wikimedia Developer Support channel (test pilot) To: Wikimedia developers <wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org> (The HTML version of this announcement can be found at https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/t/welcome-to- wikimedia-developer-support/8 ) https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/ Wikimedia Developer Support offers a support channel for all developers working with MediaWiki or other Wikimedia related technologies: APIs, extensions, skins, gadgets, templates, bots, tools, apps, data sets… If you need help with a technical problem, just ask. This website is based on Discourse. If you have questions about how to use it, check https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discourse/Help Your feedback about this website is very important! Bug reports, feature requests and other suggestions are very welcomed. IMPORTANT Wikimedia Developer Support is a pilot project running on a test instance. This is not the final deployment. More about this project at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discourse * Although the migration of users and content to the production server is theoretically possible, at this point it is not guaranteed (T184461). * The authentication system for this test instance is not what will be used if this project makes it to production. * If you have a Wikimedia account, use the same email when registering here. This is how your username and content will remain yours if/when Wikimedia single sign-on is implemented (T124691). * Do not reuse your “real” passwords when creating an account in this test instance. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
