Re: [Wikitech-l] Crediting the work of our community members

2016-07-06 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, No @author tags? But then we won't have treasures like this https://twitter.com/JeroenDeDauw/status/750841758733463552 :( Do you not somehow need them for the license info? Apart from that I can't think of a good reason to add them. Finding out who wrote some code is what git blame is for,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Crediting the work of our community members

2016-07-05 Thread Jon Robson
Yes! And thank you Brion for such a thoughtful well-thought out reply! On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Jon Robson

Re: [Wikitech-l] Crediting the work of our community members

2016-07-05 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Jon Robson wrote: >> I've created the following 2 actionable tasks: >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139300 >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139301 >> >> I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Crediting the work of our community members

2016-07-05 Thread Brion Vibber
On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Jon Robson wrote: > Sorry I dropped the ball on this. > I've created the following 2 actionable tasks: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139300 > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139301 > > I hope we can reach a decision somewhat promptly

Re: [Wikitech-l] Crediting the work of our community members

2016-07-04 Thread Jon Robson
Sorry I dropped the ball on this. I've created the following 2 actionable tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139300 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139301 I hope we can reach a decision somewhat promptly with this. Jon On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Scott MacLeod

Re: [Wikitech-l] Crediting the work of our community members

2016-06-07 Thread Scott MacLeod
Rob and Wikimedians, To further credit the work of Wikimedia community members, could we explore using the Douglas Adams' SQID example (which Markus shared with the Wikidata list recently ... [Wikidata] SQID evolved again: references http://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid/#/view?id=Q42 ) ... and build

Re: [Wikitech-l] Crediting the work of our community members

2016-06-07 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: > Is there a Phabricator task [associated with MediaWiki CREDITS file > membership] so this topic does not get forgotten? Not that I'm aware of. It's easy to get lost looking through the various attempts to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Crediting the work of our community members

2016-06-07 Thread Andre Klapper
Is there a Phabricator task so this topic does not get forgotten? andre On Mon, 2016-05-30 at 09:40 -0700, Jon Robson wrote: > "I came across a patch from a user who was keen to move himself from > "Patch contributors" to "Developers" in the MediaWiki  CREDITS file > [1]. It had been sitting

Re: [Wikitech-l] Crediting the work of our community members

2016-05-30 Thread David Gerard
Other projects don't do this, do they? Mozilla and LibreOffice just list *everyone* in alphabetical order. (I'm still in the Mozilla credits list for my work on the Mozilla 1.0 FAQ in 2002: https://www.mozilla.org/credits/ ) On 30 May 2016 at 17:40, Jon Robson wrote: > "I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Crediting the work of our community members

2016-05-30 Thread Brian Wolff
On Monday, May 30, 2016, Jon Robson wrote: > "I came across a patch from a user who was keen to move himself from > "Patch contributors" to "Developers" in the MediaWiki CREDITS file > [1]. It had been sitting there for over a year. He doesn't seem to > have been active

[Wikitech-l] Crediting the work of our community members

2016-05-30 Thread Jon Robson
"I came across a patch from a user who was keen to move himself from "Patch contributors" to "Developers" in the MediaWiki CREDITS file [1]. It had been sitting there for over a year. He doesn't seem to have been active since. I don't know what to do with it. It made me think. Do we have it