Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-l] Announcing the Core Platform team

Hi Victoria and Toby. Thank you for this information. I am a little hazy about a couple of points and I hope that you can provide more detail. 1. My understanding from your email is that the converged Core Platform Team will exist inside of the Technology Department, but the Platform Evolution

[Wikitech-l] Proposal to remove $wgValidateAllHtml and MWTidy::checkErrors() without deprecation

Hi, As part of the goal to have MediaWiki 1.31 default to using RemexHtml and replacing tidy, we want to remove MWTidy::checkErrors() and $wgValidateAllHtml as part of MediaWiki 1.31, without a deprecation period. MWTidy::checkErrors() basically ran the provided input through tidy, and checked

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcing the Core Platform team

Its been my privilege to work with Corey as a tech lead, then engineering manager and peer product owner for 3 years. We will miss Corey immensely in app land, and I will miss him personally as a day-in-day-out partner on our apps, but I am so glad to see Corey's "work ethic, thought leadership,

[Wikitech-l] Announcing the Core Platform team

Hi everyone, We are very pleased to be making three big announcements: 1. The Platform Evolution (PE) cross-departmental program (CDP) is approved in the annual plan for next fiscal year. This PE CDP was developed with input from staff across our organization in the Audiences and Technology

[Wikitech-l] pagecounts-ez missing April files (was Re: changes coming to large dumps)

If it's gone, that's coincidence. Flagging this to look into, thanks for the report. Please follow that ticket, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184258 for more info. On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 5:35 PM, Derk-Jan Hartman < d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems that the pagecounts-ez sets

Re: [Wikitech-l] changes coming to large dumps

It seems that the pagecounts-ez sets disappeared from dumps.wikimedia.org starting this date. Is that a coincidence ? Is it https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189283 perhaps ? DJ On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 2:42 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF wrote: > Here it comes: > > For the April 1st

[Wikitech-l] Tomorrow: Technical Advice IRC Meeting

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers, topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best

[Wikitech-l] Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces - Code of Conduct Committee - Candidates

Hello all, The Code of Conduct Committee has published the list of candidates for the next 6 months term: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee/Candidates/2018-I If nominated, these candidates will be trusted to enforce the code of conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces. You