Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-12 Thread Bill Morrisson
I would like to thank Andre Klapper, Johan Jonsson, Matthew Flaschen and Brian Wolff for the warm welcome and collaboration to my first patch contribution. I'm really grateful for them. Billm On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:35 AM, Pine W wrote: > I could name a lot of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-10 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Vituzzu wrote: > *Wikidata developers which turned into solid reality one of the most > dreamlike ideas of our universe > +thousands to this. If I started on the full list of stuff I should say "thanks" for, I might never get around to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-10 Thread Pine W
I could name a lot of individuals. I'll name these in particular: Peaceray, Bluerasberry, Siko, Rory, and the now-departed Gayle and Philippe. I'm grateful for them. Pine On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Legoktm wrote: > Hi, > > It's been a while since we had one

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-10 Thread Vituzzu
My appreciation goes to: *Wikidata developers which turned into solid reality one of the most dreamlike ideas of our universe *Those developers who didn't forget their roots in daily building the encyclopedia *Those folks promptly responding to emergencies...even those caused by themselves :p

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-07 Thread Prateek Saxena
* Pau Giner, for helping me think better about design. * Mark Holmquist, for helping me think better about code. * Bartosz Dziewoński, for helping me think better. —prtksxna On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Legoktm wrote: > Hi, > > It's been a while since we had one

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-07 Thread Oliver Keyes
Thenk you to Dan and Wes and Tomasz for making the Discovery team a good team to be in, Mikhail Popov for being a better student than I am a teacher, and Erik Bernhardson for his constant, chill acceptance of seemingly-arbitrary implementation demands for testing :) On 7 December 2015 at 14:09,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-07 Thread Dan Garry
On 7 December 2015 at 11:17, Oliver Keyes 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 Wikimedia Foundation ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-07 Thread James Forrester
On 5 December 2015 at 00:25, Legoktm wrote: > Hi, > > It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very > busy year! :-) > > I'll quote Sumana from last time: > > > How about a little email thread for us to say nice things about each > > other?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-07 Thread Isarra Yos
Perhaps a thanks to the people we don't think about, who we often never even work with. Volunteers and third-party developers who contribute to and maintain repositories not part of the big tickets. People who take the time to file bugs, and triage them, and sort things out. The ops who keep

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-07 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 05/12/2015 09:25, Legoktm a écrit : > It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very > busy year! :-) > > I'll quote Sumana from last time: > >> > How about a little email thread for us to say nice things about each >> > other? Rules: be kind, thank someone, and say

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-07 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
* JGirault, TheDJ, Milimetric, and Ferdbold for their hard work on graphs * MaxSem, Akosiaris, bblack and johannesk_wmde for the maps Everyone - for helping ) On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 2:38 AM, Isarra Yos wrote: > Perhaps a thanks to the people we don't think about, who we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-07 Thread Kartik Mistry
On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Legoktm wrote: > It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very > busy year! :-) ie Appreciation thread of 2015! * Santhosh, Niklas and Amir: For all (hard) work on ContentTranslation! * Runa: For being awesome

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-05 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Oooh! Great idea. Thanks to: * DarTar: for being an awesome manager. My meeting load was cut in half over the last few months and that has let me work much more productively on the tech/science of Wikimedia. I should also mention the organizing work he is doing to turn citations and scholarly

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-05 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
I would like to thank: *Legoktm: For starting this thread and his awesome work in SUL *Halfak: for his unstoppable drive to make wikipedia better *Lydia Pintscher and her amazing team: For the one and only Wikidata :) Best On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 11:56 AM Legoktm

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-05 Thread Florian Schmidt
. Dezember 2015 09:26 An: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Betreff: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015 Hi, It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very busy year! :-) I'll quote Sumana from last time: > How about a little email thread for us

[Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-05 Thread Legoktm
Hi, It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very busy year! :-) I'll quote Sumana from last time: > How about a little email thread for us to say nice things about each > other? Rules: be kind, thank someone, and say why you're thanking > them. > [If you don't get