[Wikitech-l] Phabricator access

Phabricator still has my wikimedia.de Email-Address and tries to confirm it's me by sending an Email to that address. Is there a way to reset the email? (The weird thing is that I seem to receive those Emails on my regular gmail account, but for logging in it still requires that I verify the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator access

Your Phabricator email can be changed at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/user//page/email/ -Original Message- From: Wikitech-l [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Denny Vrandecic Sent: 11/7/16 12:24 PM To: Wikimedia developers

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator access

On Mon, 2016-11-07 at 21:28 +, Dora Winterstorm wrote: > Your Phabricator email can be changed at https://phabricator.wikimedi > a.org/settings/user//page/email/ That is correct but will only work for accounts that already got verified by their owners. I'm afraid that's not the case here.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Engaging student devs with another outreach event like GSoC, GCI

This is probably a good thread to introduce a program we have been running in Indonesia called Besut Kode, funded by Ford Foundation. We noticed there were not many GCI/GSOC participants from Indonesia, and also not many Wikimedia devs from Indonesia, and are trying to fix that. We are using a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Engaging student devs with another outreach event like GSoC, GCI

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Yaron Koren wrote: > Hi, > > I hit across this idea in the recent GSoC Mentors summit, and in the >> discussion with Srishti and Sumit on the reducing usability and scope of >> GSoC/Outreachy projects[1] among the years. > > >> *The problem* >>

Re: [Wikitech-l] Engaging student devs with another outreach event like GSoC, GCI

Hi, bawolff wrote: I actually disagree somewhat - I think it can be very rewarding to fix > a problem that you yourself have, as opposed to fixing somebody else's > problem. This is a traditional ideology about open source - that it is > all about scratching your own itch. > Although arguably

[Wikitech-l] Shared localized maps data demo

I would like to show one of the projects that Interactive team has been hacking on: localizable maps data (GeoJSON), stored on Commons, and usable from multiple wikis. I hope we can get it polished and enabled in production soon enough - so far, lab's beta cluster only:

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia takes part in Google Code-in. Which small tasks do you plan to mentor?

Wikimedia is among the 17 organizations in Google Code-in (GCI) 2016!  GCI starts on November 28th. It's a contest for 13-17 year old students working on small tasks and a great opportunity to let new contributors make progress and help with smaller tasks on your To-Do list! What we want you to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Engaging student devs with another outreach event like GSoC, GCI

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Cyken Zeraux wrote: > Nischay makes a good point with the disconnect between education and > Mediawiki. > > What I meant was: getting to know about GSoC and WMF is hard, compared to a summer internship at a company which comes to campus. I

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-l] SecurePoll project needs your help

Looping in wikitech-l as well. > Dear all, > > SecurePoll is an important extension for the WMF community, yet not a whole > lot of attention has been given to it over the years. I recently became the > owner of the project, and would like to remind you that with the EN WP > ARBCOM elections

[Wikitech-l] 2016 Community Wishlist Survey

Hi everyone, The second annual Community Wishlist Survey starts today, and you're invited to post proposals for projects that you'd like WMF's Community Tech team to work on: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey The Community Tech team builds features and makes changes

Re: [Wikitech-l] Engaging student devs with another outreach event like GSoC, GCI

Thank you Brian, Nischay, John, Cyken and Yaron for the words. You people are doing a great job by keeping this thread and idea alive. I would want to agree to disagree at places like - 'hiring everyone of them' or things like that. If we are talking about making people stick, the model I am