[Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

2015-03-24 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi folks, First things first: I'm not burying the lede in this email, so if you aren't interested in the inner workings of WMF's Platform Engineering team, feel free to ignore the rest of this. :-) We're making a few changes effective in April for Platform Engineering, which you all care

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech] VisualEditor on Wikipedia now faster with RESTBase

2015-03-24 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 03/19/2015 06:05 PM, Gabriel Wicke wrote: Hello all, * * Earlier this morning, we made some good progress towards a faster VisualEditor experience by loading the HTML fromhttps://rest.wikimedia.org/, the REST content API that entered beta production a bit over a week ago [1]. Preliminary

Re: [Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

2015-03-24 Thread Pine W
Thanks for the updates. Speaking of multimedia, what is the likelihood of Wikipedia's capabilities supporting interactive content like Listen to Wikipedia in the near future? I can think of many articles in which reader engagement would benefit from interactive content. Thanks, Pine

Re: [Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

2015-03-24 Thread S Page
A reorg that makes sense without TLA buzzword decoding \o/ (Are you sure you didn't leave out the MediaWiki Platform Community API Core Features Development team :) ) Best wishes and high hopes for y'all. -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Can anyone please look on T72245 and T58063 issues?

2015-03-24 Thread Nasir Khan
Hi, I get a number of emails for my watchlist articles and face a issue of Mediawiki Email Formatting. I believe a lot of others are facing this issue too. To address and resolve this issue, two bug was submitted few months ago. Can anyone please look on these issues[1][2] and give me an idea if

[Wikitech-l] [Analytics] [Announce] New daily feed: media file request counts

2015-03-24 Thread Erik Zachte
FYI: Today WMF Analytics announces a new product: a daily feed of media file request counts for all Wikimedia projects. Details at analytics mailing list. https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2015-March/003685.html Erik Zachte