Re: [Wikitech-l] Need example code in Javascript to login API

Yes, I'm not sure about the automatic replacement of words in pages other than the current one — something more along the lines of a spelling-checker, maybe? Where the dictionary can be customised per-work. Is Extension:SpellingDictionary

Re: [Wikitech-l] First release candidate for 1.28 (1.28.0-rc.0)

1.28 has a bunch of changes, but is rather bare and needs more people to fill it out and highlight the cool new things that were developed in this release cycle! -- Legoktm ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] What happened to RobLa?

Thanks Brian! That's exactly what this e-mail was for. I was also wondering, what happened to him personally, however, it's more than ok and his own decision to not say anything about it. However, like Brian wrote already, Robla had (as far as I know) a very good standing in the community and

Re: [Wikitech-l] What happened to RobLa?

> On Nov 3, 2016, at 4:07 PM, bawolff wrote: > > > There is also the more pragmatic question of how Robla's > responsibilities will be transferred. In this light the conversation should be less about him personally and more about the fulfillment of the roles which were

Re: [Wikitech-l] What happened to RobLa?

Robla obviously deserves his privacy if he wants that. However I think its rather natural for people to wonder "What happened" when an employee who is as much in the public spotlight as robla is, suddenly and unexpectedly leaves. Obviously just because it is "natural" doesn't mean we deserve

[Wikitech-l] Deployments: upcoming holidays and their impact

It's that time of year again; the holiday season. Different from last year: In the interest of both 1) giving engineers full time off at the end of the year (not needing to be aware of what code they wrote is being deployed) and 2) to keep the site reliable during our end-of-year fundraising

[Wikitech-l] New puppetmaster in deployment-prep

Hi all, Just so everyone using the deployment-prep instances are aware: deployment-puppetmaster has been retired in favour of deployment-puppetmaster02, which runs role::puppetmaster::standalone, which should behave much closer to how production puppetmasters and the labs default puppetmaster

[Wikitech-l] Search preference options for completion suggester

Hello, The search-as-you-type completion suggester, which powers the search function at the top right of every page (or in the sidebar in Monobook), can now be configured at Special:Preferences. The default setting includes our most recent improvements to search while the new options make it easy

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] CI maintenance on Thursday 3rd Nov 16:00 UTC

This is now completed. Everything should be back to normal (Jenkins voting on new changes). You may want to comment "recheck" on any Gerrit changes you pushed during this window to have Jenkins pick them up and process them. Thank you for your patience. And thanks to Daniel Zahn for helping. -

[Wikitech-l] The Revision scoring weekly update

Hey, This is 28th weekly update from revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. Publications: - *New dataset shows fifteen years of Wikipedia’s quality trends *posted in Wikimedia Blog [1,2] - Halfaker, Aaron (2016): Monthly Wikipedia article quality predictions.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Engaging student devs with another outreach event like GSoC, GCI

Hi Tony, Personally, I think only projects proposed by potential mentors should be >> considered at all, and that the documentation should state that clearly. >> I'm not aware of any GSoC projects where the student came up with the idea >> on their own and then executed on it successfully - with

Re: [Wikitech-l] What happened to RobLa?

+1 Petr. This thread makes me sad and uncomfortable. - J On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Toby Negrin wrote: > Thank you Petr. Well said! > -Toby > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 2:39 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I don't like to sound like a

Re: [Wikitech-l] What happened to RobLa?

Thank you Petr. Well said! -Toby On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 2:39 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > Hello, > > I don't like to sound like a bad guy, but I really find it quite > inappropriate to discuss this sort of stuff on a public mailing list. > This really is a personal matter. If he

Re: [Wikitech-l] Engaging student devs with another outreach event like GSoC, GCI

Wow. Thank you Dinu, Sumit and Yaron for the comments. Let me try commenting inline, without making a mess out of it. On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Yaron Koren wrote: > I see these as four unrelated issues, and actually I see only two of them > as real issues: #2 I don't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Engaging student devs with another outreach event like GSoC, GCI

Hi, I hit across this idea in the recent GSoC Mentors summit, and in the > discussion with Srishti and Sumit on the reducing usability and scope of > GSoC/Outreachy projects[1] among the years. > *The problem* > Students show up one or two weeks before GSoC or Outreachy, and propose a >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Need example code in Javascript to login API

Thank you very much for this idea! +1 for a gadget or maybe, in the future, a part of the ProofreadPage extension. An issue that we probably need to tackle when designing this tool: what about not-existing words that could be a typo of two different words? If we replace all instances of the

Re: [Wikitech-l] What happened to RobLa?

Hello, I don't like to sound like a bad guy, but I really find it quite inappropriate to discuss this sort of stuff on a public mailing list. This really is a personal matter. If he didn't post any dramatical announcement perhaps he wanted to "leave quietly"? You know, people sometimes do this

Re: [Wikitech-l] What happened to RobLa?

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 3:54 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > As a reminder on goodbyes, WMF HR used to announce everyone's last day at > https://identi.ca/wikimediaatwork (can't take more than a couple > minutes); then the announcements became monthly, then quarterly; then

Re: [Wikitech-l] Engaging student devs with another outreach event like GSoC, GCI

Hi all, On Wed, Nov 2, 2016, 12:29 PM Tony Thomas <01tonytho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I hit across this idea in the recent GSoC Mentors summit, and in the > discussion with Srishti and Sumit on the reducing usability and scope of > GSoC/Outreachy projects[1] among the years. > >