[Wikitech-l] Announcing MediaWiki 1.32.0

2019-01-10 Thread Mukunda Modell
I'm pleased to announce the release of MediaWiki version 1.32.0. Release notes are updated and archives have been uploaded to releases.wikimedia.org. Thanks to everyone who helped out with this release, especially thanks to those who tested out the release candidates and provided feedback, as

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] [foundation-optional] A difficult goodbye

2019-01-10 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Thank you for your contributions to Wikimedia and the Wikimedia movement, Victoria, Regards, Scott - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Scott_WorldUnivAndSch On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 5:31 PM Traci Sigmon wrote: > That sounds like an incredible opportunity, Victoria. It was great working >

Re: [Wikitech-l] [foundation-optional] A difficult goodbye

2019-01-10 Thread Katherine Maher
Hi everyone, Many in the community may not have the chance to have met Victoria, so I want to start by sharing my thanks for her work. The Technology department at the Wikimedia Foundation does many things, but most simply understood, they're the ones who keep our projects running, every day of

Re: [Wikitech-l] A difficult goodbye

2019-01-10 Thread Pine W
Thank you for your service, Victoria. I'm glad that your next steps sound like they will be good for you professionally and will be at another organization that does public service. I've appreciated that you have been consistently responsive and polite in our interactions. I wish you the best on

[Wikitech-l] A difficult goodbye

2019-01-10 Thread Victoria Coleman
Dear all, I have some difficult news to share. A few months ago and completely out of the blue, an opportunity came up for me to exercise the full spectrum of my skills as the CEO of an early stage mission oriented startup. It has been a mighty struggle between my commitment to my team, the

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2019-01-09 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

2019-01-10 Thread Pine W
Hi Andre, When I read the SoS notes and I see nothing from some teams, this leaves me to guess what their current states are. I do not know whether teams are working on backlogs of bugs, developing a new feature, at a team retreat, conducting a post-deployment evaluation, designing an interface

[Wikitech-l] [Google Summer of Code 2019 / Outreachy Round 18] Call for projects and mentors!

2019-01-10 Thread Derick Alangi
Hello everyone, We are now recruiting projects to promote in Google Summer of Code 2019 and Outreachy Round 18! Both these programs have a similar timeline for the summer round. Accepted candidates will work with mentors from May to August 2019. Through both these programs, we bring new

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2019-01-09 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

2019-01-10 Thread Andre Klapper
On Wed, 2019-01-09 at 12:25 -0800, Pine W wrote: > I would like to request that every Audiences and Technology team > submit > highlights of recent and upcoming activities for inclusion in every > set of > SoS notes, even if no one personally attends the SoS meeting from a > particular team What

[Wikitech-l] [CfP] DBpedia meetup @ XML Prague

2019-01-10 Thread Sebastian Hellmann
Dear all, We are happy to announce that the upcoming DBpedia meetup will be held in Prague, Czech Republic. During the XML conference Prague, Feb 7-9, the DBpedia Community will get together on February 7, 2019. Tell us what cool things you do with DBpedia. If you would like to give a talk