Re: [Wikitech-l] Please provide feedback on new discrimination and enforcement sections of Code of Conduct

2016-03-19 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > Please participate at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Circumvention_text_new_wording I put in my support for this. Thanks Matt and others who have worked on this. --tomasz

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using Wikipedia/Wikidata in a nonprofit search engine

2016-03-07 Thread Tomasz Finc
Greetings Sylvian, The Discovery department has been talking pretty actively with WMDE about this very topic. We've already explored WikiData descriptions in search results, brainstormed about how relevance functions could be affected by WikiData, seen great community tools like ppp-sparql

Re: [Wikitech-l] limited presence

2016-03-02 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote: > ive had a small accident with skiing. ill be fine, but because of it my > participation will be low for some while and though i am reading along with > some things, any answers will like be terse, and code

[Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Guillaume Lederrey to the WMF

2016-02-01 Thread Tomasz Finc
I am pleased to announce that Guillaume Lederrey joins WMF this week as Operation Engineer in the Discovery team. Guillaume will work closely with our operations team to support Elastic Search, Maps, and WDQS along with strengthening our experience with Java based services. Guillaume will be

[Wikitech-l] Search API @ Developer Summit

2015-10-06 Thread Tomasz Finc
The Discovery team is planning on running a session about the search api at the dev summit https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113540 and we'd love your feedback about what we should cover. Please comment on the phab task and let us know thanks to those who already have --tomasz

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing the launch of Maps

2015-09-18 Thread Tomasz Finc
s://revi.me > -- Sent from Android -- > 2015. 9. 19. 오전 9:27에 "Yuri Astrakhan" <yastrak...@wikimedia.org>님이 작성: > > > Please file a phabricator task, and add maps and operations on it > > On Sep 19, 2015 3:21 AM, "Yongmin Hong" <li...@revi.pe.kr> wr

[Wikitech-l] Announcing the launch of Maps

2015-09-17 Thread Tomasz Finc
The Discovery Department has launched an experimental tile and static maps service available at https://maps.wikimedia.org. Using this service you can browse and embed map tiles into your own tools using OpenStreetMap data. Currently, we handle traffic from *.wmflabs .org and *.wikivoyage .org

Re: [Wikitech-l] What happened to our user agent requirements?

2015-09-01 Thread Tomasz Finc
Tracking the overall issue On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Oliver Keyes <oke...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Specifically, the hypothesis that people are sending "-"? > > On 1 September 2015 at 12:58, Tomasz Finc <tf...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> Let's get a task i

Re: [Wikitech-l] What happened to our user agent requirements?

2015-09-01 Thread Tomasz Finc
Let's get a task in phab for this so that we can triage next steps. I'm curious about this as well. --tomasz On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > On 1 September 2015 at 12:42, John wrote: >> Could they be sending a non-standard

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Niharika Kohli

2015-05-25 Thread Tomasz Finc
Welcome! On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Bryan Davis bd...@wikimedia.org wrote: Community Tech is glad to welcome Niharika Kohli as a Software Engineer. Her first day will be 2015-05-26. Here's the great blurb she wrote for me to forward on to the lists: Niharika lives in New Delhi, India

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Frances Hocutt

2015-05-25 Thread Tomasz Finc
Great to have you on board full time On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Bryan Davis bd...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm excited to announce that Frances Hocutt has been hired as a Software Engineer on the Community Tech team starting 2015-05-26. She has gotten a good start on getting things done by

[Wikitech-l] Welcome Stephane Bisson to the Collaboration Team

2015-04-06 Thread Tomasz Finc
I am pleased to announce that Stephane Bisson joins WMF this week as a Software Engineer on the Collaboration Team! Stephane is an avid learner and traveler. He is passionate about history, cultures, and languages. He runs, cooks, and enjoys wine tasting. And is eager to travel to Napa with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moritz Muehlenhoff joins as Ops Security Engineer

2015-04-02 Thread Tomasz Finc
Welcome Moritz, great to have you here On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Mark Bergsma m...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, I'm very pleased to announce that as of stoday/syesterday, Moritz Mühlenhoff will be joining the Ops team in the role of Operations Security Engineer. We're excited as for

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

2015-03-30 Thread Tomasz Finc
I’m pleased to announce that Michael Holloway joins Wikimedia today as a Software Engineer for the Mobile App Team. Michael is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and will be working with us remotely. He'll join Dmitry Bernd to push our native Android development forward [1]. Michael has longstanding

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] VisualEditor on Wikipedia now faster with RESTBase

2015-03-19 Thread Tomasz Finc
Great job team On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Gabriel Wicke gwi...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello all, Earlier this morning, we made some good progress towards a faster VisualEditor experience by loading the HTML from https://rest.wikimedia.org/, the REST content API that entered beta

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Announcement: Tyler Cipriani joins Wikimedia as Release Engineer

2015-02-09 Thread Tomasz Finc
Welcome Tyler. Great to have you join. Best of luck. --tomasz On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello all, I’m delighted to announce that Tyler Cipriani[0] is joining the foundation as a Release Engineer (obviously joining the Release Engineering

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Florian for +2 on MobileFrontend?

2015-01-30 Thread Tomasz Finc
CC'ing wikitech-l@ to broaden the reach of this --tomasz On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: I've proposed that Florian gets +2 on the MobileFrontend repository. Florian has been an extremely active MobileFrontend developer (he is our 5th most active

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

2015-01-12 Thread Tomasz Finc
I am pleased to announce that Corey Floyd joins WMF this week as a Software Engineer for the Mobile App Team. Corey is based in Philadelphia where he will be working remotely. He previously worked as a mobile consultant, during which he developed iOS apps for organizations like the Human Rights

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

2015-01-12 Thread Tomasz Finc
I am pleased to announce that Brian Gerstle joins WMF this week as a Software Engineer for the Mobile App Team. Brian comes to us from Spotify, where he worked as an iOS developer—with a brief stint as a Quality Engineer. He's really excited to join the team and contribute to the WMF mission by

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] All non-api traffic is now served by HHVM

2014-12-03 Thread Tomasz Finc
This is fantastic. Great job team and do put up a blog post about this. --tomasz On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Giuseppe Lavagetto glavage...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, it's been quite a journey since we started working on HHVM, and last week (November 25th) HHVM was finally introduced to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Open source mobile image recognition in Wikipedia

2014-11-24 Thread Tomasz Finc
CC'ing mobile-l to let them know of this Exciting to see projects like this showing up. I do notice that it's not compatible with Nexus5, Nexus7, and a number of other standard devices. Looking at your manifest it should just work. Did you put in a Google Play restriction on which devices it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome our new FOSS OPW interns!

2014-11-12 Thread Tomasz Finc
Greetings to all the new faces --tomasz On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: The GNOME Foundation has announced the list of interns accepted in the FOSS Outreach Program for Women round 9: https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen/2014/DecemberMarch

[Wikitech-l] Please welcome Joaquín Oltra Hernández, Software Developer

2014-11-10 Thread Tomasz Finc
I am pleased to announce that Joaquín Oltra Hernández joining the WMF as a Software Engineer for the Mobile Web Team! In Joaquins own words ... --- I'm spanish, living in the sunny east coast. I've been working with web frontends, UIs and javascript for about 8 years. For the last year I've been

[Wikitech-l] Andrew Garret joins the Wikimedia Foundation

2014-11-03 Thread Tomasz Finc
I am pleased to announce Andrew Garret joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a full time Software Engineer Andrew has been contracting with the Wikimedia Foundation for over six years now and its only fitting to announce that now that he's done with his studies he'll be going full time at the

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] WikiGrok deployed

2014-11-03 Thread Tomasz Finc
Congrats Max and team. Eager to see how our users interact with this. On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, WikiGrok[0] has been successfully deployed to the English Wikipedia. Along with it a first campaign[1] was deployed. Now database is being slowly

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

2014-10-27 Thread Tomasz Finc
I am pleased to announce Marielle Volz joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Software Engineer for the Editing team. Marielle will be working remotely from London, UK. She made her first website[1] in 1997 with Adobe PageMill 2.0[2], which according to one review at the time, has terrific tables

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Mobile article preview gadget

2014-10-14 Thread Tomasz Finc
Excellent, this is exactly what was mentioned in https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2014-September/008013.html Eager to see our editors be able to use it. --tomasz On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: I've taken the liberty of adding this to

[Wikitech-l] First meeting of the front end standards group

2014-09-22 Thread Tomasz Finc
Several of the engineers and advisors developing components for front end standardization met Friday to check status, set direction, and identify upcoming obstacles Big take aways: = MediaWiki theme for OOjs UI = * Should be finalized this week by Trevor and Bartosz * Server side to follow in

[Wikitech-l] Update: Standardizing icons across projects

2014-09-16 Thread Tomasz Finc
Several front end engineers, designers, and others got together again to update on their progress to standardize icons across projects today. This was a follow to the previous conversation on 8/27 [1]. Big take aways: * Monte iterating and almost completing his SVG-Font python scripts * Trevor

[Wikitech-l] Jeff Hobson joins the Wikipedia Zero Engineering Team

2014-09-15 Thread Tomasz Finc
Greetings All, I'm very happy to welcome Jeff Hobson to the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikipedia Zero Engineering team. He'll be joining Yuri, Adam, and Dan Foy to continue the great work that the Zero team has been working on and focusing on building our carrier portal first. Today will be his

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] OOjs, MobileFrontend and Flow

2014-09-12 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: After this is done it would be good to sit down and document ways we can make better use of OOJS in mobile. Are you thinking of retooling existing features/infrastructure to use it first or making this a requirement for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Rachel Farrand joins the Engineering Community Team as Events Coordinator

2014-09-02 Thread Tomasz Finc
Great to see. Congrats Rachel On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: For almost three years, Rachel Farrand has been a regular contributor in the organization of public and internal Wikimedia events since she joined the Wikimedia Foundation as an Admin Assistant

Re: [Wikitech-l] logging out on one device logs user out everywhere

2014-07-30 Thread Tomasz Finc
Lots of great discussion and ideas here. Who's up for taking this on as a challenge or mentoring someone to do it? --tomasz On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: I think generally user's expectation (and imho desirable behaviour in general[1]) is that logging

Re: [Wikitech-l] GeoData Extension

2014-05-30 Thread Tomasz Finc
Max (CC'd) can help you on this one. --tomasz On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Matthias Hochgatterer matthias.hochgatte...@gmail.com wrote: I’m currently looking into the GeoData Extension to make location based Wikipedia queries. There are still some open questions - would be nice if sb

[Wikitech-l] Welcome Bernd Sitzmann as Software Developer to the Mobile App Team

2014-05-12 Thread Tomasz Finc
Bernd will be working remotely from Fort Collins, CO, where he has lived ever since emigrating from Germany many years ago. He joins the Wikimedia Foundation after developing software at HP in Germany and the US for many years. He's worked on both front-end and back-end components, developing

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Rob Moen takes on new role in Growth team

2014-05-07 Thread Tomasz Finc
Best of luck Rob with your new team. On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, I’m pleased to announce Rob Moen is moving from the VisualEditor team to the Growth team. In Growth, Rob will fill the team's third full-time engineer position,

Re: [Wikitech-l] OpenHistoricalMaps (was: GSoC and OPW participants announced)

2014-04-28 Thread Tomasz Finc
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 21/04/2014 22:00, Quim Gil a écrit : Jaime Lyn Schatz OpenHistoricalMaps and Wikimaps OpenHistoricalMaps is a totally crazy project. The idea is to attach to each point in the OSM

Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for feedback on IEG Proposal for 'Wikitrack'

2014-04-23 Thread Tomasz Finc
CC'ing mobile-l as i'm sure the'll be interested by this. --tomasz On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com wrote: 'Wikitrack' started out from an idea that I had about tracking edits on Wikipedia from mobile. I always felt that there's more to tracking edits and

[Wikitech-l] Welcome Dmitry Brant as Software Developer to the Mobile App Team

2014-04-22 Thread Tomasz Finc
I am pleased to announce that Dmitry Brant joins WMF this week as a Software Engineer for the Mobile App Team! Dmitry will be working remotely from Cleveland, OH, where he has lived ever since immigrating from Moscow, Russia many years ago. He joins the Wikimedia Foundation coming from a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile App Team

2014-04-22 Thread Tomasz Finc
--tomasz On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Gryllida gryll...@fastmail.fm wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, at 3:01, Tomasz Finc wrote: I am pleased to announce that Dmitry Brant joins WMF this week as a Software Engineer for the Mobile App Team! Mobile /App/ team? Why do we need mobile apps, if we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tomorrow: RfC review on reducing image quality on mobile

2014-04-17 Thread Tomasz Finc
CC'ing ops to answer some of the questions that came up. --tomasz On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 04/15/2014 11:56 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-04-16 Wednesday at

Re: [Wikitech-l] how to get better at doing code review

2014-04-04 Thread Tomasz Finc
nice write up. thanks On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: http://notwaldorf.github.io/posts/code-reviews/ One perspective. (was: Subject: Code review tasks for new contributors) -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] useskin=minerva

2014-03-12 Thread Tomasz Finc
I can't wait to see this live on en, ja, and pl wiki in a couple of weeks. Jon, update us when its finished on the train. On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: You can now apply the mobile skin to the desktop site [1]. Wa?! To cut a long story short, to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why is Cologne Blue still in core?

2014-03-10 Thread Tomasz Finc
A good time to revist https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Turning_off_outdated_skins and re-run https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Turning_off_outdated_skins/stats --tomasz On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: This may be controversial but hopefully there is logic

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Deployment highlights - week of November 25th

2013-11-22 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: Next week there will be no planned deployments as it is Thanksgiving in the US. All hail the lack of change and status quo. --tomasz ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tip for Sublime Text editors: DocBlockr plugin and conf for JSDuck

2013-11-19 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: DocBlockr Nice. I hadn't know about Package Control either. thanks --tomasz ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Operations team announcements: Ryan and Leslie

2013-10-16 Thread Tomasz Finc
Congrats both On Oct 16, 2013 12:40 AM, Ken Snider ksni...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello! I'm extremely pleased to announce that we've had two promotions within the Technical Operations team! Leslie Carr has been promoted to Senior Operations Engineer (Networking). As many of you know, along

Re: [Wikitech-l] FOSDEM update

2013-10-02 Thread Tomasz Finc
Excellent. This is a great opportunity for us. Thanks for shepherding this Quim. On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 09/25/2013 10:39 AM, Quim Gil wrote: Hi, about FOSDEM - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM Brussels / 1 2 February 2014 On 1 Oct

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bulk download

2013-09-27 Thread Tomasz Finc
Thanks for helping to distribute wikipedia more broadly Mihai. Do give Kiwix for Android [1] a shot as it does something very similar to your app. Perhaps you can even collaborate on the project. --tomasz [1] - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile On Tue, Sep 24,

Re: [Wikitech-l] FirefoxOS - free dev phones for porting HTML5 apps

2013-09-11 Thread Tomasz Finc
And if your not sure where to start then take a look at our own FirefoxOS App. https://github.com/wikimedia/WikipediaMobileFirefoxOS --tomasz On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/09/calling-all-app-ports/ If you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs instance going down in two weeks - backup time

2013-08-23 Thread Tomasz Finc
CC'ing staff as we might have some non engineers using this service who should know. On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Mark Holmquist mtrac...@member.fsf.org wrote: The day we have all equally hoped for and dreaded is come to pass: Etherpad Lite has now replaced Etherpad Classic in production,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: C. Scott Ananian joins Wikimedia as Senior Features Engineer

2013-07-11 Thread Tomasz Finc
Excellent. Glad to see you joined C. Scott. --tomasz On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that C. Scott Ananian[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer. Before joining us,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Videos on mobile

2013-06-24 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote: This sounds like something that might be good for the newly forming multimedia team to work on This is in the purview new multimedia team that Fabrice will be PM'ing (CC'ing him). I spoke with him today and

[Wikitech-l] Yuri Astrakhan Adam Baso join Mobile department partner team

2013-03-18 Thread Tomasz Finc
Greetings all, I'm pleased to announce that the mobile department has two new staff members. Yuri Astrakhan Adam Baso join as sr. software developers on the mobile partner team. In this role Yuri and Adam will support projects like Wikipedia Zero, SMS/USSD, and J2ME to further the reach of our

Re: [Wikitech-l] Naming our developer events

2013-01-23 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: MediaWiki Hackathon City As a team that doesn't exclusively work within MediaWiki what would you suggest for naming if someone wanted to run a hackathon on our mobile apps? Our mobile apps are fully decoupled from mw and only

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Completed ! Re: More Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target date is week of 1/22/13

2013-01-22 Thread Tomasz Finc
So seamless. Well done! --tomasz On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Ct Woo ct...@wikimedia.org wrote: All, The switchover work is done. The site was was available to readers throughout the migration work though it was in read-only mode for about 32 minutes, when Asher and Mark had to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Željko Filipin presenting at FOSDEM

2013-01-16 Thread Tomasz Finc
If you have any questions about presenting at FOSDEM then let us know. Many of us have presented about Wikimedia related projects at FOSDEM before. --tomasz On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Željko Filipin zfili...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Sébastien Santoro

Re: [Wikitech-l] Editor engagement mailing list

2013-01-11 Thread Tomasz Finc
The mobile team is working on lots of contributory activities as mentioned in http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/11/mobile-beta-a-sandbox-for-new-experimental-features/ . Does it make sense for us to post to this list too ? --tomasz On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Sumana Harihareswara

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?

2013-01-09 Thread Tomasz Finc
meeting seems as good a time as any. Or maybe attached as a few days before/after the Amsterdam hackathon. The developers actually involved think that April it's too late. Tomasz Finc and Max Semenik have the lead on our end. They are also convinced that it is better to organize

Re: [Wikitech-l] ganglia temporarily private

2013-01-03 Thread Tomasz Finc
What credentials can i use to get access ? --tomasz On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Daniel Zahn dz...@wikimedia.org wrote: re-enabled the password protection on ganglia per request ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sunday Nation (Kenya): Wikipedia sees future - and threat - in cell phones

2012-12-17 Thread Tomasz Finc
Blog post about all of this (photo upload, editing etc) is pending deployment. It'll have more detail. Fun stuff. --tomasz On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: How do I use the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Open Tech Chat stomorrow/s about NOW

2012-12-13 Thread Tomasz Finc
I tried to find the youtube archive link to this on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2012-12-13 but its set as TBD. Is the link up? --tomasz On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) smazel...@wikimedia.org wrote: Well, not really now, but starting in 15 minutes.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2012-11-28 Thread Tomasz Finc
It was here http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/tools/bugzilla-3.4.4/scripts/bugzilla_report.php?view=log My last correspondence was with one of our former engineers Priyanka who was going to integrate it back in 2010. Doesn't look like that ever happened before she left. --tomasz

Re: [Wikitech-l] There are maps for wikivoyage?

2012-11-26 Thread Tomasz Finc
The mobile team is picking the OSM buildout back on its roadmap. Stay tuned for updates. --tomasz On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 1:38 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 November 2012 21:36, Raylton P. Sousa raylton.so...@gmail.com wrote: I keep thinking that (particularly) the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed new WMF browser support framework for MediaWiki

2012-11-26 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:50 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.orgwrote: … which seems to be a little harsh on the mobile and tablet fronts, and overly- generous on the MSIE side given their exceptional costs to support per %age of users, but not too terrible. I worry less about it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed new WMF browser support framework for MediaWiki

2012-11-26 Thread Tomasz Finc
Correction. I was looking at the total Other/Unknown. Opera is actually 4.66% --tomasz On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:50 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: … which seems to be a little harsh

[Wikitech-l] Welcome Juliusz Gonera as Software Developer to the Mobile Team!

2012-11-19 Thread Tomasz Finc
I am pleased to announce that Juliusz Gonera joins WMF this week as a Software Developer (Mobile team) today. Juliusz has worked at the University of Virginia, developing software for a laboratory that studies the macromolecular structure of proteins. Before that he created a system for sending

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit replication (extensions)

2012-10-31 Thread Tomasz Finc
Keep it simple. Just put it into one place. --tomasz On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/31/2012 09:28 AM, Chad wrote: We should probably fix up both organization pages to point to the other. The plan I've had is to make wikimedia/* for our

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Seeking feedback on new Organizations feature on Ohloh

2012-10-22 Thread Tomasz Finc
That should have said These are only on github till we can test replication and have pull request support in gerrit. --tomasz On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/10/12 18:52, Tomasz Finc wrote: These are only on gerrit till we can test replication

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Seeking feedback on new Organizations feature on Ohloh

2012-10-19 Thread Tomasz Finc
I added a couple of highly visible but missing projects from github. --tomasz On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, the Wikimedia Foundation pages at Ohloh are starting to look nice. They are not public since this new feature of Ohloh is only available in a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki + Vagrant

2012-10-18 Thread Tomasz Finc
Since were getting serious about it let's move it to the Wikimedia repot On Oct 17, 2012 11:39 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:25 AM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote: Ok, I made it work, I think git clone https://github.com/atdt/wmf-vagrant.git

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Seeking feedback on new Organizations feature on Ohloh

2012-10-18 Thread Tomasz Finc
These are only on gerrit till we can test replication and have pull request support. On Oct 18, 2012 9:12 AM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/17/2012 11:49 AM, Tomasz Finc wrote: And here are the links with relevant stats https://www.ohloh.net/p/**WikipediaMobilehttps://www.ohloh.net

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki + Vagrant

2012-10-18 Thread Tomasz Finc
. — Patrick On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org(mailto: tf...@wikimedia.org) wrote: Since were getting serious about it let's move it to the Wikimedia repot On Oct 17, 2012 11:39 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org (mailto: e...@wikimedia.org) wrote

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Seeking feedback on new Organizations feature on Ohloh

2012-10-17 Thread Tomasz Finc
I like this as it generally raises the visibility of our projets. Having a top lovel *and* up to date view these days is next to impossible unless you follow multiple mailing lists and constantly read the monthly engineering reports. As a test I added our WLM and Wikipedia Cordova apps to Ohloh

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Seeking feedback on new Organizations feature on Ohloh

2012-10-17 Thread Tomasz Finc
And here are the links with relevant stats https://www.ohloh.net/p/WikipediaMobile https://www.ohloh.net/p/WLMMobile --tomasz On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: I like this as it generally raises the visibility of our projets. Having a top lovel

Re: [Wikitech-l] customizable IRC feed for bugzilla

2012-10-15 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: I can put it to #wikimedia-mobile, or you can do that :) I suppose you want all mobile related bugs there This would be awesome if you could add it. Lets start off with these two MF:

Re: [Wikitech-l] customizable IRC feed for bugzilla

2012-10-14 Thread Tomasz Finc
This would be great to get into the mobile channel. --tomasz On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote: This sounds pretty cool and very handy. How often does the bot poll the RSS feeds? Is this configurable? I tried to answer my own questions by looking

[Wikitech-l] Welcome Michelle Grover as QA to the Mobile Team!

2012-10-09 Thread Tomasz Finc
Greetings all, I am pleased to announce that Michelle Grover joins WMF this week as a Mobile QA contractor. Michelle has worked as a Java Developer, Software Developer in Test, Release Engineer for Adobe, and Mobile QA Automation Lead for Crowdfusion (They developed The Daily, TMZ, Telepictures

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal to add an API/Developer/Developer Hub link to the footer of Wikimedia wikis

2012-09-25 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote: Each entry could feature already in the Developer Hub the best showcases: - amazing apps using the API, - Wikipedia mobile, visual editor, article feedback. - amazing sites powered with MediaWiki. - amazing selection of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal to add an API/Developer/Developer Hublink to the footer of Wikimedia wikis

2012-09-19 Thread Tomasz Finc
I really wish I could just got to http://developer.wikimedia.org/ and/or http://developer.wikipedia.org --tomasz On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I think we should point to a developer hub but the current one needs to be massively revised! On Sep 19,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Lists you might not know about

2012-08-24 Thread Tomasz Finc
And mobile-l - Discussing upcoming changes for phones, tablets, app, etc. --tomasz On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: I've just updated https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mailing_lists and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: FOSDEM calls for devroom organizers and main track speakers

2012-08-13 Thread Tomasz Finc
Good news on this. I've been pitching this at the foundation ever since the last FOSDEM conference and Erik has green lit budget for it. We've been going back and forth with the organizers over the last couple of months to better understand what's possible. I imagine this will be similar to a dev

Re: [Wikitech-l] Responsive web design

2012-07-27 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: This would be best answered by Brandon.From a personal point of view if the mobile site still looks like a mobile site in a desktop browser at the start of next year I will be somewhat disappointed with myself. +1 I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Volunteers for Wikimania mobile app?

2012-06-03 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: Am 02.06.2012 23:05, schrieb Mr. Gregory Varnum: The good news is that it looks like making the mobile app already means making the wiki more mobile, and specifically PhoneGap, compatible. Going beyond the wiki to a mobile

Re: [Wikitech-l] Volunteers for Wikimania mobile app?

2012-06-02 Thread Tomasz Finc
Certainly take a look at the official Wikipedia and Wiktionary apps on github to see how we've bult them. https://github.com/wikimedia Stop by in #wikimedia-mobile if you need any help. --tomasz On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, As

Re: [Wikitech-l] The bugtracker problem, again

2012-05-21 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@wikimedia.org wrote: The Developer works with the Director to help the Director develop reasonable timelines.  Bugzilla's Milestones and the priority within a Milestone are especially suited for this. We tried the milestones and they

Re: [Wikitech-l] The bugtracker problem, again

2012-05-21 Thread Tomasz Finc
: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@wikimedia.org wrote: The Developer works with the Director to help the Director develop reasonable timelines.  Bugzilla's Milestones and the priority within

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: Special:SiteChanges for automatic deployment info

2012-05-02 Thread Tomasz Finc
As part of the pre flight steps the mobile team generates a list of gerrit changes that have gone into the deployment branch. We then throw it on a wiki page so that its much easier to trace back what changed. Our current list is here

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.19 release schedule?

2012-04-19 Thread Tomasz Finc
Incidentally, some folks are making efforts to update the status spaces on those activity pages more often, as you can see at the Platform Engineering hub page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Platform_Engineering and at the Features hub:

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] HTML history interface / api use for MobileFrontend

2012-04-04 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: I've been experimenting with the api that Max Semenik has been working on and the html5 history interface [1] to add javascript to the MobileFrontend extension so that any searches, link to other articles and section

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video codecs and mobile

2012-03-20 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: It would seem possible to bake Theora or WebM support into the iOS app and direct users there if browsing from mobile Safari. Performance would not be so great given it would only be software decoding (this is why I was asking

Re: [Wikitech-l] QA/testing project page exists

2012-03-19 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Chris McMahon cmcma...@wikimedia.org wrote: After doing a lot of research and visiting WMF for a week, I created a QA/testing project page here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/testing tl;dr: it is early days yet and lots of details to be worked out, but I

Re: [Wikitech-l] API requests on Wikimedia wikis

2012-03-15 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 15/03/12 15:17, MZMcBride wrote: Hi. I occasionally get asked about what a reasonable rate for querying the API of a Wikimedia wiki is for a particular script or tool. I don't really know the answer other than be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug Squad -- Activate

2012-03-13 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@wikimedia.org wrote: [...] I like Tomasz's idea of having mobile-focused bug squad activities.  I'd like to get input on how to do this.  Because I think it will work best with a low barrier to entry (an area where the KDE bug squad

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC project Improve our Android application

2012-03-12 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Yeshow Lao yesh...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you very much, Yuni and Marcin. Your advice is very helpful. I'm excited, and will consume the information and hope to set up the build environment on my PC and study the source code ASAP. Yeshow, did you manage to build

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-introducing UNCONFIRMED state to bugzilla

2012-03-12 Thread Tomasz Finc
Keep in mind that MediaWiki isn't the only software that we write. We already have a healthy beta group of Android and iOS testers. Perhaps some of them might want to be part of a bug squad team. --tomasz On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@wikimedia.org wrote: I set up

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2012-03-05 Thread Tomasz Finc
Given that i wrote it 4 years ago and haven't touched it since. I'm amazed that its still running ;) --tomasz On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@wikimedia.org wrote: Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr writes: Le 05/03/12 04:00, reporter a écrit : Top 5 Bug Resolvers

Re: [Wikitech-l] Database dump of Bugzilla

2012-03-03 Thread Tomasz Finc
Didn't robla do this same analysis about a year ago? Are his notes up somewhere so that we don't waste time on solutions that simply won't work. Finding those could make this go way faster. Adjusted for whatever has changed in the projects since his review of course. 02-03-2012 17:11 użytkownik

[Wikitech-l] Welcome Lindsey Smith - Mobile UI/UX Contractor

2012-03-01 Thread Tomasz Finc
Hi everyone, I'm pleased to welcome a new member of to the mobile engineering team. Lindsey Smith started this week as our new Mobile UI/UX contractor. She'll working with us in San Francisco helping us flush out the look, feel, and experience across all of our mobile projects. This fits a

[Wikitech-l] Developing an open source Wikipedia J2ME app for Symbian S40

2012-02-21 Thread Tomasz Finc
Cross posting to reach a larger audience. We've gotten word from the Global Development group that a lot of our partners are asking for an official Symbian S40 J2ME app for Wikipedia. Before talking to any potential development houses I wanted to reach out to both of these lists to see if anyone

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