[Wikitech-ambassadors] Re: Data center switch to happen on March 1

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 9:34 AM Benoît Evellin (Trizek) < bevel...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > A quick message to inform you of one change in the translation. One > sentence was changed to avoid future translation work. > > Direct link: >

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Re: Server switch, June 29

Hi Szymon, thanks for preparing the message! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translations:Tech/Server_switch_2020/11/en should be updated to use CEST instead of CET (not sure about the other zones). Also it should say Wednesday June 30, not 29.

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Is MassMessage ever used for delivering identical content to the same page multiple times?

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 9:07 PM Nick Wilson (Quiddity) < nwil...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I.e. It would make it impossible to send *exactly the same message* to > the *same page* regardless of timing. > I doubt the job queue would somehow deduplicate current jobs with already finished ones, so

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] New PDF Render decommissioned on 1st January 2020?

On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 1:40 PM Alex Monk wrote: > I could be misremembering but wasn't that the thing that nobody knew how > to reproduce the setup of and was one of the last things left in pmtpa? > Yeah, and also on Ubuntu Hardy (which was EOL for over a year by then).

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] New PDF Render decommissioned on 1st January 2020?

On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 12:50 PM Dirk Hünniger wrote: > A Chromium based solution is certainly one > of the best you can get. Its cheap in computational resources and > updates should be available for a long time. I think computationally it's actually more expensive (OCG transformed the

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] New PDF Render decommissioned on 1st January 2020?

There are two different PDF renderer tools: the single page PDF renderer ("Download as PDF" link in the sidebar, via the ElectronPdfService extension [1]) and the article collection renderer ("Create a book" link, via the Collection extension [2]). The single page renderer is today served by a

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Removal of unblockself rights on wiki

On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 7:51 AM stjn wrote: > I was endorsing the whole sentiment, not exactly the topic it belongs to. > But even then, self-unblocking was a default option, so it could’ve been > discussed what must be done with it. > You can still go to the Phabricator task and do that. (It

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Removal of unblockself rights on wiki

On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 7:47 AM stjn wrote: > The approach to major changes (not talking about some design fix) should > involve community and be entirely international > You *are* talking about some design fix. When blocking was added as a feature, it was only integrated with some actions - it

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Mass message delivery error code: readonly

See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139380 On Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 10:52 Deryck Chan wrote: > Hello ambassadors, > > Can someone explain this error message to me? > > 2018年10月4號 (四) 12:03 Delivery of "Reminder: No editing for up to an hour > on 10 October" to Wikipedia:城市論壇 (技術) >

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Grievances about future technical administrator group

Hi Oleg, I am sorry if the change or the way I communicated about it is frustrating to you . I'm happy to provide more insight into the motivation behind the change, if that helps. On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 12:41 AM Saint Johann wrote: > — Some tell that, apparently, after working for 2 years

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Code Review for new language converter?

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Trey Jones wrote: > > Since there was some discussion about changes to language converters here > a few days ago, I was hoping someone here could help me figure out who to > ask, or what to do to get code review from someone who is familiar

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Possible changes needed to MediaWiki:Citethispage-content

If a B/C break is needed anyway, wouldn't this be a good chance to kill that weird special behavior and just use {{#time:..format...}} for the current date and {{#time:...format|{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP for the last revision's date like on all normal pages? Undiscoverable easter eggs like this do

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] AuthManager getting enabled in production

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > You should probably work a bit on translations (and on getting them > backported to 1.27): for instance, there are currently only 17 translations > for the/a message one receives after entering an incorrect

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Urgent problem on the Beta Wikiversity

On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 7:21 PM, R W romaine.w...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure if this is appropriate here, but I do not know where to ask otherwise... On Beta Wikiversity someone is active now who uses the project as his personal notepad/sandbox. The pages created in Dutch are short