Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to developer events in the WMF Annual Plan draft

2017-04-28 Thread Victoria Coleman
Hi there, Quim and his team have indeed thought through the totality of tech community events and I am sure he can respond here with his thoughts. Regarding the MediaWiki roadmap, the thinking is that by publishing it we a/make planning for 3rd party users much more feasible, b/inform the

[Wikitech-l] Proposal to deprecate parsing and diffs in the action API action=query=revisions

2017-04-28 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
TL;DR: I'm proposing deprecating a bunch of parameters. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164106. In the action API, there are two ways to parse a page/revision: using action=parse, or using the rvparse parameter to action=query=revisions. Similarly, there are two ways to get a diff: using

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to developer events in the WMF Annual Plan draft

2017-04-28 Thread zppix e
Victoria, Thanks for replying quickly, however what about the event I suggested, any thoughts on that? On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Victoria Coleman wrote: > Hi there, > > Quim and his team have indeed thought through the totality of tech > community events and I am

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to developer events in the WMF Annual Plan draft

2017-04-28 Thread Victoria Coleman
Hi there, I think I am having a(nother) senior moment! I don’t recall what event you have in mind. Sorry! Can you please remind me? Victoria > On Apr 28, 2017, at 2:25 PM, zppix e wrote: > > Victoria, > Thanks for replying quickly, however what about the event I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to developer events in the WMF Annual Plan draft

2017-04-28 Thread zppix e
Victoria, re-quoting from my original reply: "A suggestion would be to host a annual cloud (remote) hackathon type event where participants can join via hangouts. I'd be willing to help organize this if need be. I think it would help users that may not be comfortable traveling or don't feel like

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to developer events in the WMF Annual Plan draft

2017-04-28 Thread Victoria Coleman
Thank you Zppix. I think that’s an awesome idea! Let me work with Quim to see what is possible and when and I will get back to you. Best, Victoria > On Apr 28, 2017, at 3:52 PM, zppix e wrote: > > Victoria, re-quoting from my original reply: "A suggestion would be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to developer events in the WMF Annual Plan draft

2017-04-28 Thread zppix e
No problem, feel free to contact me further if needed. Thanks, Zppix Volunteer Developer for WMF www.enwp.org/User:Zppix On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Victoria Coleman wrote: > Thank you Zppix. I think that’s an awesome idea! Let me work with Quim to > see what is

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2017.04 release

2017-04-28 Thread Kartik Mistry
Hello all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2017.04. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.27 and 1.28 or above and requires PHP 5.5.9 or above. Next MLEB is expected to be released in 3 months. If there are major changes or important

Re: [Wikitech-l] Final Call for comments: RFC Canonical data URLs for machine readable page content

2017-04-28 Thread Daniel Kinzler
This RFC has been approved for implementation. No objections were raised during the final call period. IMplementation is being tracked at . -- daniel Am 13.04.2017 um 20:57 schrieb Daniel Kinzler: > This is a final call for comments on >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Final Call for comments: RFC Canonical data URLs for machine readable page content

2017-04-28 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Huh... if nobody tells me when I write "RDF" instead of "RFC", I'll start to think that nobody reads my mails ;) Sorry about that... Am 13.04.2017 um 20:57 schrieb Daniel Kinzler: > This is a final call for comments on > , "Canonical data URLs for

[Wikitech-l] Final Call for comments: Deprecate using PHP serialization inside MediaWiki

2017-04-28 Thread Daniel Kinzler
This is a final call for comments on , "Deprecate using PHP serialization inside MediaWiki". This RFC has seen quite a bit of discussion on Phabricator, but has not been discussed in an IRC meeting. ArchCom feels that the discussion was already quite

[Wikitech-l] ArchCom Radar, 2017-04-26

2017-04-28 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hi all! Here are the minutes from this week's ArchCom meeting. You can also find the minutes at . See also the ArchCom status page at and the RFC board