[Wikitech-l] RFC Discussion Reminder: RFC: Modern Event Platform: Scalable Event Intake Service

Hi All, A friendly reminder that TechCom is hosting an IRC meeting tomorrow (Wednesday 26 September) regarding RFC: Modern Event Platform: Scalable Event Intake Service. This RFC outlines the current state of our event intake systems and some possible

Re: [Wikitech-l] Production Excellence: September 2018

Great writeup, Timo — I'm loving the very long (and very nicely laid out) list of helpers!  Cheers, Deb -- deb tankersley program manager, engineering Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 1:42 PM Krinkle wrote: >  Read this post on Phabricator at >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Production Excellence: September 2018

Thanks for this report Timo. It's great to celebrate successes like these and I appreciate the time you sre clearly taking to write about them. We don't do this enough. Thanks Umherirrender, Kosta and Dan and all others involved in this initiative! On Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 11:42 AM Krinkle wrote:

[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence: September 2018

 Read this post on Phabricator at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/live/1/post/119/ How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out! - Month in numbers. - Current problems. - Highlighted stories. ## Month in numbers

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikidata] Semantic annotation of red links on Wikipedia

This can be done with the special page "AboutTopic" with some additional logic. It has been discussed at a few projects, but the necessary logic isn't available. That means the redlink must be created with the q-id, and there is no well-defined process on how to clean it up afterwards. At nnwiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikidata] Semantic annotation of red links on Wikipedia

All that red makes the page look bad, and i would like to point out the abuse factor here, all those red links start edit wars,   and should be put there if any by people, The creation of the wikidata page also creats a problem, because it does not establis a lable which should be mandatory  

[Wikitech-l] Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English, Persian & German. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you