Re: [Wikitech-l] Contributing as Wikimedia employees

-- which required users to be labelled either as staff or non-staff -- a little tricky. Harry -- Harry Burt User:Jarry1250 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Commit summaries

) if that's something people would use. -Chad This would be great, particularly if we can surface them in the release notes, where having a bug number attached turns out to be a really good heuristic for this is an important change you should take a look at. Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250

[Wikitech-l] Commit summaries

clear commit summaries regardless of whether or not they're directly committing to core/master, if not overly time-consuming. This would make it a lot easier for people like me who wade through the automated release notes Thanks! Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/w

Re: [Wikitech-l] Section numbering

of years). Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review statistics and trends

I realise that many contributors are WMF staff, and many WMF staff work a relatively predictable 5-day week, but the new changesets graph still seems a little spiky to my eyes. Given the +- 10 changesets range, how much confidence should I be placing in these numbers? Thanks, Harry -- Harry

[Wikitech-l] GSoC wrapup report: TranslateSvg

: there are simply far too many to properly remember. Once again, thanks everyone and I hope to keep you posted over the coming months about further progress. Regards, Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) [1] I think this is particularly worth flagging up because I can't be the only student whose

Re: [Wikitech-l] midsummer updates from GSoC students?

authors of the Translate extension, which TranslateSvg layers on top of. I hope to have a live working demonstration wiki installation up and running within the next fortnight, after phase 3 is complete. I'd love to hear any comments either then or now :) Thanks, Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250

[Wikitech-l] This week's Signpost Technology Report

Hey all. As some of you may already know, I have a busy real-life period coming up in the next two weeks. As such, I'm unable to write my regular Technology Report [1] for the English Wikipedia-based (but cross-project) ''Signpost'' online newspaper. I know plenty of people on this list are

[Wikitech-l] Deprecating individual parameter combinations

practice with regard to softening the transition in order to avoid non-Gerrit-tracked extensions breaking. I've thrown up one idea at http://pastebin.com/Jw109j4a . Any pointers appreciated, Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] TranslateSvg progress update

:) Thanks everyone! Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) WMF GSoC student [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TranslateSvg/2.0 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Multiple image versions with fallback

Magnus Manske wrote: In continuation of the recent discussion, might this work for showing SVGs directly in browsers that can do so, etc.? Magnus I would argue that SVGs are a poor use case here (a better one being high-density JPGs such as those used by Retina displays). Specifically,

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC -- TranslateSvg: Bringing the translation revolution to Wikimedia Commons

Hey all, thanks for your replies. Unfortunately I wasn't able to read them until today, so the official GSoC proposal has now been sent off. That said, I'm no less enthusiastic about reaching out to knowledgeable people involved with translation, and, if necessary, adapting the way GSoC works out

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git/gerrit and RELEASE-NOTES-1.20 merge conflicts

On 05/04/12 10:53, Daniel Friesen wrote: I thought this might be problematic to have everyone install. But thinking about it again. Gerrit is the one doing merges. If that can handle the RELEASE-NOTES format that we uses. Then theoretically installing it on the server gerrit uses and then

[Wikitech-l] GSoC -- TranslateSvg: Bringing the translation revolution to Wikimedia Commons

Hey all, Now I have more of the details sorted out, I'd like to invite feedback on my Google Summer of Code proposed project, entitled *TranslateSvg: Bringing the translation revolution to Wikimedia Commons *.[1]. Obviously the deadline for submissions is rapidly closing in, but comments would

[Wikitech-l] TranslateSvg extension

Hey all. I'm looking for comments regarding an extension I knocked up today and its viability for Wikimedia wikis: https://github.com/Jarry1250/TranslateSvg The extension removes the need for duplicating a file (an administrative nightmare) when you want to translate it. It does this by

Re: [Wikitech-l] page view stats redux

Ariel T. Glenn wrote: I think we finally have a complete copy from December 2007 through August 2011 of the pageview stats scrounged from various sources, now available on our dumps server. Great news! I do think there should be a note about the systemic under-reporting that made statistics

[Wikitech-l] Proposed chat system

Hey wikitech-l, I finally got around to reading the August engineering report, which, as ever, is a very useful read. However, one item did stick out to me: [Visual editor] Ian Baker http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Raindrift investigated and started to work on a chat system to be integrated