Re: [Wikitech-l] [reading-wmf] [WikimediaMobile] Wikigrok code no longer being worked on

I'm joining in disappointment too. Extreme coupling to an young platform like wikidata created a lot of trouble for making anything with the project, and kill all momentum and made it look bad. I feel like this kind of micro-contributions are the only effective way we are going to be able to engag

Re: [Wikitech-l] Open Help Conference & Sprints

Quim Gil wrote > Hi, anybody interested in participating at the > > Open Help Conference & Sprints > September 26-30 > Cincinnati, Ohio, USA > http://conf.openhelp.cc/ > > Lately we are focusing on users of our APIs, datasets, tools, > infrastructure... Would it make sense to organize something a

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Codesniffer 0.2.0 released

Hello! MediaWiki-Codesniffer 0.2.0 is now available for use in your MediaWiki extensions and other projects. Here are the changes since the last release (0.1.0): * Fixed sniff that checks globals have a "wg" prefix (Divya) * New sniff to detect unused global variables (Divya) * New sniff to detec

[Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

As has been announced several times (most recently at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-April/081559.html), the default continuation mode for action=query requests to api.php will be changing to be easier for new coders to use correctly. *The date is now set:* we intend to merg

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: What to know before next week's shortening of the deploy cadence

This was written with the WMF Engineering staff as the audience in mind, but it has equally important points for all mediawiki/wikimedia developers. - Forwarded message from Greg Grossmeier - > Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 13:44:54 -0700 > From: Greg Grossmeier > To: Development and Operations

Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

It means all compat bots will break and since pywikibot team won't support compat and won't change the code to support the new API, We are planning to deprecate it [1] So please compat bot operators, do update your codes to core, read [2] [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99365 [2]: https:/

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

This is something that the pywiki devs need to fix in compat. Please dont give me shit about moving to core. I have yet to have it not fatally error out in less than 10 minutes of using it. There are still a lot of features that core doesnt have, or that are poorly implemented. On Tue, Jun 2, 2015

[Wikitech-l] Post to a talk page without knowing whether it's old-style or Flow

Many user scripts and gadgets, such as Twinkle, UserMessages, etc., need to post on various talk pages. With the development of Flow, there are now two possible types of talk pages to deal with (not counting LQT, which this solution does not handle), old-style and Flow. User talk pages are al

Re: [Wikitech-l] [reading-wmf] [WikimediaMobile] Wikigrok code no longer being worked on

On 06/02/2015 06:00 AM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez wrote: Now there's a lot of skepticism towards the idea in any of its forms :( I still think micro-contributions are an important future direction (whether or not WikiGrok is re-activated). Given how successful the metrics were from WikiGrok, i

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] [reading-wmf] Wikigrok code no longer being worked on

I'm inclined to agree with Matt. In fact (and to answer Oliver's question), the team is already considering the next slew of micro-contribution projects. I think it is too early to say which projects will be next, but some ideas include: choosing lead images, editing wikidata descriptions, and re