[Wikitech-l] Technical Conference 2019 - Call for participant nominations

Hello all, As you may have seen, the next Wikimedia Technical Conference[0] is coming up in November 2019. It will take place November 12-15th in Atlanta, GA (USA). As announced at the Hackathon and documented on-wiki[1] this year's event will focus on the topic of "Developer Productivity".

[Wikitech-l] OOUI v0.32.0 released – native dropdown mobile menu, frameless tabs, SelectFileWidget improvements and breaking changes

Hello everyone, I'm excited to announce that we've released OOUI v0.32.0 yesterday. Key highlights of this release (summarizing since v0.31.0): - DropdownInputWidgets now provide native OS menus on mobile. - Tabs are now also available in 'frameless' flavor and mobile behaviour has been

Re: [Wikitech-l] Kedu ihe na-eme gị obi ụtọ n'izu a? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 26 May 2019)

בתאריך יום ה׳, 30 במאי 2019, 01:01, מאת Pine W ‏: > I was happy to read this announcement > > by > Amir regarding improvements for typing in African languages on Wikimedia > projects. (I hope that the translation of the

[Wikitech-l] Kedu ihe na-eme gị obi ụtọ n'izu a? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 26 May 2019)

I was happy to read this announcement by Amir regarding improvements for typing in African languages on Wikimedia projects. (I hope that the translation of the subject of this week's email is correct.) I thought that this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad conversion tools (was Re: Scrum of scrums/2019-05-29)

As mentioned in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130970, the bullet lists the Etherpad edit surface are terrible, but if you use the export feature you get properly structured HTML which can be pasted into VisualEditor. A better solution would be to have the collaborative editing directly in

[Wikitech-l] Etherpad conversion tools (was Re: Scrum of scrums/2019-05-29)

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 11:49 AM Željko Filipin wrote: > To make meeting notes even easier to read, is there a tool that would > convert links to wikitext? > * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221177 to [[phab:T221177]] > * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/506043/ to >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Scrum of scrums/2019-05-22

Hi Pine, and thanks for the feedback! Comments are inline. Željko On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 8:38 PM Pine W wrote: > I like having the placeholders for teams so that I can get a sense of what > teams currently exist and how they are named. SoS meeting notes are not canonical list of teams.

[Wikitech-l] Scrum of scrums/2019-05-29

Hi, for HTML version, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-05-29 Thank you for feedback. As an experiment, this week's notes don't have any empty sections. That should make them shorter and easier to read. To make meeting notes even easier to read, is there a tool that would

[Wikitech-l] Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—June 5th

The Search Platform Team usually holds office hours the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about anything related to Wikimedia search! Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting. Details for our

Re: [Wikitech-l] "Patch-For-Review" tag in phabricator

On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 09:13 -0600, Stephen Niedzielski wrote: > you can identify messages from the bot in Gmail like: > > from:(Maintenance_bot no-re...@phabricator.wikimedia.org) > actor(@Maintenance_bot) > > You have to enable the "send stamps" option under Phabricator settings -> > email