[Wikitech-l] Re: Reflecting on my listening tour

2023-04-17 Thread Dan Garry (Deskana)
Despite agreeing wholeheartedly that technical debt, product debt, ownership, and maintenance are persistent problems, here's a story about when this *didn't* happen, which maybe we can learn from. Disclaimer: this is from my memory of 2014! Warning, potential inaccuracy and rose-tinted glasses!

[Wikitech-l] Re: [Proposal] Disable setting the "Lowest" Priority value in Phabricator

2023-02-24 Thread Dan Garry (Deskana)
On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 at 11:20, Andre Klapper wrote: > * Personally I also assume Lowest priority is sometimes used instead >of honestly declining a task (means: "this is not a good idea"[5]). >But of course that is rather hard to prove. > This is anecodal, but when I was a product

[Wikitech-l] Re: Discussing two feature requests?

2022-06-26 Thread Dan Garry (Deskana)
Hi Siegfried, You are welcome to send emails to this mailing list in German, if you would prefer. Most people on this list write in English because it is understood by the most people and it has the largest audience, but this is a multilingual community and posts in any language are allowed. Of

[Wikitech-l] Re: Why does the train start on Tuesday?

2021-06-23 Thread Dan Garry (Deskana)
On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 at 23:10, Jon Robson wrote: > Apologies if I didn't make myself clear, but it seems I didn't given both > Amir's comments. I am very happy that we have these, and my question was *not > *why do we have them, but rather* why do we only have 2*. I want more of > them and every

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1st CfP: SEMANTiCS 2021 EU || Sep 6 - 9, 2021 || Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2020-12-25 Thread Dan Garry (Deskana)
I agree with Max. This conference is pretty much irrelevant for this list, as it has almost nothing to do with the topic of wikis generally. The only connection this conference has to this list is the existence of the Semantic MediaWiki extension; this list could quickly be overrun with conference

Re: [Wikitech-l] Backport and Config changes window (name change)

2020-06-17 Thread Dan Garry (Deskana)
On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 17:58, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > Until today if you wanted to get a backport or config change deployed to > production you used what was termed the "SWAT" window. > > As of today that window of time is now called the "Backport and Config" > window. This solves a few

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit outage

2019-03-19 Thread Dan Garry (Deskana)
On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 10:50, Lewis Cawte via Wikitech-l < wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Not everyone is aware that the process of cleaning up the vandalism/fixing > Gerrit includes Gerrit being down temporarily. > > Do I need to include a reminder link to WP:AGF / WP:DICK? > That

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

2019-03-09 Thread Dan Garry (Deskana)
Strainu, I, too, am glad for the discussion! On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 at 22:31, Strainu wrote: > Let me start with a simple question, to put the references to wmf into > context. You keep talking below about volunteer developers and how they can > take over any project. I'm confused by this. I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

2019-03-09 Thread Dan Garry (Deskana)
On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 at 11:26, Strainu wrote: > How many successful commercial projects leave customer issues unresolved > for years because they're working on something else now? > Almost all of them, they just keep it secret. Companies pay millions of dollars each year for support packages,

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP 7 is now a beta feature

2019-01-31 Thread Dan Garry (Deskana)
Cool! Thanks for developing this beta feature, it makes it easy to test. Is there anything in particular that you might expect to behave differently, or break, that you'd like us to test? Are you just looking for more general feedback? Thanks! Dan On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 14:31, Giuseppe

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Gerrit now automatically adds reviewers

2019-01-19 Thread Dan Garry (Deskana)
Something new was tried in the hopes it'd be good, it turned out not to be good, it was reverted, and now there's some discussion about how to make it better. That's a successful process, not an unsuccessful one. Given that this exact method of doing things is not only well-established on the

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

2019-01-11 Thread Dan Garry (Deskana)
On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 20:25, 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, so that

Re: [Wikitech-l] non-obvious uses of in your language

2018-10-05 Thread Dan Garry
- If you highlight some text, and add a link, the link is added to the highlighted text. How would you propose this feature be changed? Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing lis

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

2018-08-08 Thread Dan Garry
cussed on this list, nor any involvement in the Code of Conduct, all of which you are well aware. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/m

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

2018-08-08 Thread Dan Garry
On 8 August 2018 at 13:53, MZMcBride wrote: > > Ah, I found the e-mail: […] > This mailing list is not an appropriate forum for airing your grievances with the way the Code of Conduct Committee has handled this matter. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia F

Re: [Wikitech-l] The target revision does not exist

2017-09-05 Thread Dan Garry
> Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Garry Senior Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Recommending Firefox to users using legacy browsers?

2017-09-01 Thread Dan Garry
problem, since the site is fairly neutral in its assessment and recommendations. Dan -- Dan Garry Senior Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Log of nulledits

2017-07-25 Thread Dan Garry
_ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [discovery] Search update: sister project snippets are now in production!

2017-06-16 Thread Dan Garry
, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______ > discovery mailing list > discov...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > > -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Group 2 deployment regression: Watchlist breaking change

2017-06-14 Thread Dan Garry
ot of different factors. As James said, filing an "Unbreak Now!" ticket is the fastest and most reliable way to get attention; engineers doing deployments actively watch for these. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] @author annotations in files in the mediawiki codebase

2017-06-13 Thread Dan Garry
Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] ArchCom Monutes, News, and Outlook

2017-03-16 Thread Dan Garry
r they're relevant since I'm not involved with the Architecture Committee. Hopefully they can answer. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.or

Re: [Wikitech-l] ArchCom Monutes, News, and Outlook

2017-03-16 Thread Dan Garry
doc to mediawiki.org after the moment has passed does seem like a good idea in general. NB: I have nothing to do with Architecture Committee, I'm just an interested observer. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitec

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator monthly statistics - 2017-02

2017-02-28 Thread Dan Garry
ad that. Median number of days, not number of bugs. Still > > seems kind of high. > > > > Probably a bug? We don't have any open UBN tasks right now. > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.

[Wikitech-l] Secondary search results (e.g. language detection) now available over API

2017-01-07 Thread Dan Garry
format as before this change. Happy querying! Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Offering internationalized programming facilities within WM enviroment

2016-12-22 Thread Dan Garry
you work out the details of what would be needed to make it work, quickly becomes infeasible. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mail

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

2016-12-10 Thread Dan Garry
Let's not punish him for that. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [reading-wmf] Upcoming changes to PageImages

2016-11-28 Thread Dan Garry
gt; Olga Vasileva // Product Manager // Reading Web Team > https://wikimediafoundation.org/ > > ___ > reading-wmf mailing list > reading-...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-wmf > > -- Dan Gar

Re: [Wikitech-l] update: wikipedia.org portal

2016-05-26 Thread Dan Garry
gainst our mission > and values. I am available for help if you run into any issues during > the process. > Thanks for your offer, Niklas! I know the team is now talking to you about this, and your help is much appreciated. :-) Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Dis

Re: [Wikitech-l] update: wikipedia.org portal

2016-05-26 Thread Dan Garry
like i'm > reading arabic.. Thanks for the suggestion. I filed T136344 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136344> for this to be discussed. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing l

Re: [Wikitech-l] update: wikipedia.org portal

2016-05-26 Thread Dan Garry
On 24 May 2016 at 22:33, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > > Regarding portals other than www.wikipedia.org, perhaps you can respond at > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135929>? Sure, I can take a look at that task. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager

Re: [Wikitech-l] [discovery] [Translators-l] update: wikipedia.org portal

2016-05-24 Thread Dan Garry
portal is unacceptable. Special > powers on a Wikimedia domain must not be used to contradict and impoverish > the Wikimedia mission. The portal seize by a small WMF clique has shown its > failure and should immediately be reversed, as the Meta-Wiki administrators > have proven to be

Re: [Wikitech-l] update: wikipedia.org portal

2016-05-24 Thread Dan Garry
s not, we may need to deprioritise the work. We'll see. Thanks! Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] update: wikipedia.org portal

2016-05-24 Thread Dan Garry
straight from a git repo. If you > have links like that to the readme/meta page. > I'll pass this feedback on to the engineers working on the project. > 3: Update https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals> > I wasn't aware of

Re: [Wikitech-l] update: wikipedia.org portal

2016-05-24 Thread Dan Garry
munity that maintained it for > many years. Your actions have resulted in other portals such as > www.wiktionary.org falling out of sync with www.wikipedia.org. I wonder > how much community involvement and collaboration there is now that your > team has wrongfully seized ownership of this pa

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia.org portal page update!

2016-03-11 Thread Dan Garry
age-prominence factor... > I plan to worry more about the user experience implications that I mentioned once we're a bit closer to solving the technical feasibility questions. As you've shown, these are definitely solvable problems, but I don't want to put the cart before the horse, as it were

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia.org portal page update!

2016-03-11 Thread Dan Garry
ry search index would put a big performance strain on the search servers. Additionally, it would likely return you a bunch of really irrelevant results, so there's a lot of user experience implications that would need to be figured out as well. Discovery is not actively working on this at present.

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] New [[Main Page]] for Wikitech

2016-01-28 Thread Dan Garry
tech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page=203274>. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Close test2wiki?

2016-01-28 Thread Dan Garry
on wikitech. Feel free to review and improve. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Close test2wiki?

2016-01-27 Thread Dan Garry
ust make it clearer that test2.wikipedia.org is primarily intended for that purpose on that wiki's main page (or anywhere else thought appropriate). If there's some specific overhead to keeping test2 alive that might outweigh that benefit, now would seem to be the time to make it clear. :-) Dan -- Dan Gar

[Wikitech-l] New Beta Feature: completion suggester

2015-12-17 Thread Dan Garry
from regular contributors who use search to make sure that any of the basic feature requests for searching the main space can at least be addressed while in Beta Features. Thanks! Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improving CAPTCHA friendliness for humans, and increasing CAPTCHA difficulty for bots

2015-12-16 Thread Dan Garry
) unsatisfying answer is that you'd have to convince someone responsible for planning their team's work that working on the CAPTCHA is more important than what they had planned. That does not seem likely to happen right now. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-07 Thread Dan Garry
On 7 December 2015 at 11:17, Oliver Keyes <oke...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Thenk you to Dan and Wes and Tomasz for making the Discovery team a > good team to be in <333 Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikim

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2015-12-02 Thread Dan Garry
ntly structured, is pretty much unreadable for me. A short summary would work better for me. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikime

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2015-10-07 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

2015-10-09 Thread Dan Garry
I agree, I also find the email useful. Considering different lists, this could perhaps be sent to the WMF Engineering list (engineering@). But, that list is private, and for general transparency reasons I think it's better to be open about this and continue to send it to this list. Dan On 9 Oct

Re: [Wikitech-l] What is the status of Cirrus Search development?

2015-10-04 Thread Dan Garry
disappointing. Can we please have an update. > Thanks. > > Regards, Billinghurst > [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bee's_knees > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mentors and projects needed for Outreachy round 11

2015-09-28 Thread Dan Garry
such a person exists. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [reading-wmf] Reading web dashboard

2015-09-23 Thread Dan Garry
; going to be encouraging the Wikimedia reading web team to use this > frequently in our standups. > > Happy coding reviewing/submitting! :) > > ___ > reading-wmf mailing list > reading-...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.o

Re: [Wikitech-l] The "other" developers at the Wikimedia Developer Summit

2015-09-15 Thread Dan Garry
hoping to get from the participation of template creators, and what we hope they get from attending the summit. Perhaps several sessions around templates should be organised. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikit

Re: [Wikitech-l] +2 in mediawiki/* for Florian

2015-09-08 Thread Dan Garry
diawiki/* repos. Congratulations! > > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105612 > > -- Legoktm > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Garry

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Announcing the release of the Wikidata Query Service

2015-09-07 Thread Dan Garry
Apologies for cross-posting from wikidata-l, but this may be of relevance to readers of this list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Dan Garry <dga...@wikimedia.org> Date: 7 September 2015 at 15:29 Subject: Announcing the release of the Wikidata Query Service To: w

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

2015-09-02 Thread Dan Garry
ined is not correct. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Discovery Department A/B testing an alternative to prefix search next week

2015-09-01 Thread Dan Garry
y questions, let me know. Thanks, Dan [1]: The API is actually live on all wikis, but we only built the search indices for enwiki and dewiki since they're our biggest content wikis and this is an early test. Attempting to use the API on any other wiki will get you a cirrus backend error. -- Dan Garry

Re: [Wikitech-l] Discovery Department running A/B tests for search suggestions

2015-08-26 Thread Dan Garry
. Pine On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello! As part of our goal to reduce the zero results rate https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q1_Goals#Search , the Discovery Department is currently running an A/B test to try

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improving CAPTCHA friendliness for humans, and increasing CAPTCHA difficulty for bots

2015-08-25 Thread Dan Garry
, but no progress because this issue just isn't being worked on by anyone. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki user survey and un-reachable users

2015-08-14 Thread Dan Garry
did a better job than I would have. Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Garry Lead Product

Re: [Wikitech-l] Maximum search query length coming soon

2015-08-14 Thread Dan Garry
weeks. Please see the associated Phabricator task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107947 for more information. Dan On 11 August 2015 at 12:54, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: The patch implementing this functionality https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/230646/ was just merged. We therefore

Re: [Wikitech-l] Maximum search query length coming soon

2015-08-11 Thread Dan Garry
The patch implementing this functionality https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/230646/ was just merged. We therefore expect that this will therefore go out to production next week with the normal MediaWiki deployment train. Dan On 10 August 2015 at 14:36, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote

Re: [Wikitech-l] Where to store OAuth application information?

2015-08-11 Thread Dan Garry
/T58946 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T60193 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-l] Maximum search query length coming soon

2015-08-10 Thread Dan Garry
, this change should impact almost nobody. If you think you'll be adversely affected, please reach out to us and we'll work with you to figure something out. Thanks! Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Code of conduct

2015-08-10 Thread Dan Garry
, technical IRC channels, and Etherpad). The problem you're trying to solve is a difficult one. Thank you for your efforts. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] Discovery Department running A/B tests for search suggestions

2015-08-07 Thread Dan Garry
the associated Phabricator task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108103. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2015-07-29 Scrum of Scrums notes

2015-07-29 Thread Dan Garry
ggeller...@wikimedia.org wrote: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2015-07-29 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager

Re: [Wikitech-l] Provide a well-performing API to rotate an image

2015-07-16 Thread Dan Garry
would prevent it from continuing to run while it is being rewritten? Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech

[Wikitech-l] Search engine indexing of userspace - has something changed?

2015-07-06 Thread Dan Garry
for this that's happened recently, because I'd prefer to avoid piling hacks on and not address the root issue. Does anyone know of anything that's changed recently that might've changed the way that search engines index user space? Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Yandex?

2015-07-02 Thread Dan Garry
of the application to most users. Dan -- Dan Garry Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lightning Talks June 23

2015-06-23 Thread Dan Garry
Never mind. I followed the link to join and it guided me through the download process. Dan On 23 June 2015 at 10:57, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 23 June 2015 at 10:46, Rachel Farrand rfarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: Instructions to install BlueJeans: http://bluejeans . force.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lightning Talks June 23

2015-06-23 Thread Dan Garry
to not tell you how to install BlueJeans. What's the correct link? Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Modernizing our content platform: Kick-off meeting on Tuesday

2015-06-23 Thread Dan Garry
, Wikimedia Foundation ___ Engineering mailing list engineer...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering -- Dan Garry Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

2015-06-08 Thread Dan Garry
the API itself rather than the relevance of the results it returns; I plan to start a separate thread about the result relevance, since they're separate topics. If you have some feedback, please reply in this thread or reach out to me privately. Thanks! Dan -- Dan Garry Product Manager

Re: [Wikitech-l] [editing-department] Read the VisualEditor process review

2015-06-08 Thread Dan Garry
| ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Garry

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Simplifying the WMF deployment cadence

2015-05-28 Thread Dan Garry
Awesome! This will make many teams very happy since they'll be moving faster. What's the criteria by which you will evaluate the success of this? Thanks, Dan On 27 May 2015 10:19 pm, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, Starting the week of June 8th we'll be transitioning our

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome Michael Holloway to the Mobile App Team

2015-03-30 Thread Dan Garry
___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Needs Volunteer priority field value in Phabricator

2015-02-25 Thread Dan Garry
-- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing service-runner, a startup module / supervisor for node services

2015-02-23 Thread Dan Garry
On 23 February 2015 at 16:46, S Page sp...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm so excitoid S, you just made my day! Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback

2015-02-20 Thread Dan Garry
time this point is raised, and everyone gets put off. Build something that works for some subset of the use cases first, then we can worry about edge cases and scaling. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback

2015-02-19 Thread Dan Garry
with username working for the case where there is a one-to-one match between email and password, that's a *huge* step forwards. The many-to-one case can follow afterwards. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google thinks the Anonymous entry on enwp is hacked

2015-02-13 Thread Dan Garry
-be-hacked-wikipedia-120215 -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Scrum of Scrums notes 2015-02-11

2015-02-11 Thread Dan Garry
/mailman/listinfo/engineering -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Investigating building an apps content service using RESTBase and Node.js

2015-02-04 Thread Dan Garry
definitely open to anything that helps us move forwards at this stage. We'll start writing up an RfC and see where it takes us. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Investigating building an apps content service using RESTBase and Node.js

2015-02-04 Thread Dan Garry
meets the functional requirements, no more and no less. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Investigating building an apps content service using RESTBase and Node.js

2015-02-03 Thread Dan Garry
this issue well. It leaves users unable to see file pages. This issue is particularly prominent on apps since if the user never updates the app then they'll never get the fix. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-l] Investigating building an apps content service using RESTBase and Node.js

2015-02-03 Thread Dan Garry
iteration (i.e. for feature parity) and what APIs it needs to hit to do that - Timescale: Wed 4th Feb - Owner: Dan Garry - Start implementing the service and see whether it meets our needs - Timescale: Planning a spike for next apps sprint (16th Feb - 27th Feb) to perform

Re: [Wikitech-l] Brion's role change within WMF

2015-01-20 Thread Dan Garry
the infrastructure that Mobile, like many of us, are dependent on to succeed. Enjoy yourself, Brion! Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Corey Floyd as Software Developer to the Apps Team

2015-01-12 Thread Dan Garry
://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Brian Gerstle as Software Developer to the Apps Team

2015-01-12 Thread Dan Garry
--tomasz ___ Wmfall mailing list wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stance on Social Media

2015-01-09 Thread Dan Garry
, we rarely talk about how much a small increase in social referrals could offset that. Tweet a Fact functionality may be able to answer some of these questions; there is a ?source=app appended to the URL so we can see what kind of traffic these shares are driving. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stance on Social Media

2015-01-09 Thread Dan Garry
@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Visibility of action in API for deleted log entries

2014-12-09 Thread Dan Garry
the recent patch, and we'll just update the wording in the deletion UI to be more clear about what is being removed. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Garry

Re: [Wikitech-l] Our CAPTCHA is very unfriendly

2014-11-06 Thread Dan Garry
, 31% of them get the captcha wrong on their first try, and 17% of those people give up trying to create an account. The success rate for account creation is less than 50%, in no small part due to the captcha. I'd love to eliminate giving our users that headache. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product

Re: [Wikitech-l] Our CAPTCHA is very unfriendly

2014-11-06 Thread Dan Garry
the Wikipedia app? You're only creating extra hurdles for yourself by doing so. I've seen no evidence so far that anyone except humans use the Wikipedia app. Well, and Googlebot, but it reports itself to us using a special user agent and also only reads articles. :-) Dan -- Dan Garry Associate

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Marielle Volz joins Wikimedia as Software Developer

2014-10-28 Thread Dan Garry
about Science rather than Doing Science and actually going outside, which, with the advent of vitamin D supplementation, is wholly unnecessary, and perhaps one could even say, *inadvisable*. No kidding. I've had the same revelation myself. ;-) Welcome Marielle. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate

Re: [Wikitech-l] Looking for project status updates

2014-10-23 Thread Dan Garry
Winter Flow Citoid MV SUL Growth HHVM Mobile web Mobile apps etc. Thanks (: Pine ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Dan Garry
://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}

2014-10-07 Thread Dan Garry
), and when making an edit request is more appropriate (e.g. particularly complex templates which need review of changes). Dan On Tuesday, October 7, 2014, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 7, 2014 10:03 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org javascript:; wrote: Jon, Regarding editing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Registration Open: MediaWiki Developer Summit 2015

2014-09-18 Thread Dan Garry
___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering report, July 2014

2014-08-26 Thread Dan Garry
the same as Arthur. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering report, July 2014

2014-08-26 Thread Dan Garry
: This should now be fixed; Thank you for the bug report, and my apologies for the inconvenience :) -- Guillaume Paumier ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Garry

Re: [Wikitech-l] User rating for beta features (was Re: Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings)

2014-08-20 Thread Dan Garry
that the Hovercards talk page on mediawiki.org was, for a while, the most active Flow page *across the entire cluster.* So, I'm left a little unclear what the proposed improvement actually is. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] need for an app? (was: Future platforms, devices, and consumers)

2014-08-16 Thread Dan Garry
On 16 August 2014 00:29, svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au wrote: We don't need apps. Read this to find out why you're wrong: http://gigaom.com/2014/08/01/wikipedias-new-apps-are-good-for-you-but-theyre-even-better-for-the-developing-world/ Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile

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