[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Project management tools review: Help shorten the list of candidates

Hi all, If you haven't followed the teampractices@ list, here's an update on the Project management tools review that was started a couple months ago. We're still in the pre-RFC preparatory work, but if you're interested in this topic, we'd gladly welcome your help :) We're also happy to answer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adventures in creating new repos / jenkins jobs

Hi, On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 04:28:52PM -0800, Matthew Walker wrote: [ git repository creation and jenkins ] Would it make sense to have QChris / ^demon create the standard jobs when they create the repository? Yes, have ^demon do it :-) I know nothing about our job creation, but sounds

[Wikitech-l] Every version of GnuTLS found to be vulnerable to certification bypass.

not 100% specific for MediaWiki, but be informed *** to whom it may concern *** Every version of GnuTLS found to be vulnerable to certification bypass. See http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/125521/GNU-Transport-Layer-Security-Library-3.2.12.html and look on Twitter for gnutls The

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

Hoi, Given that you only researched Latin fonts, did you consider the coverage of these fonts for languages? Not all fonts are created equal, they often do not necessarily cover all the characters that are needed for specific languages. Consequently, you cannot apply your work to other languages

[Wikitech-l] Tool Labs migration instructions

Hello All, As should come as no surprise given the number of advance warnings sent over the past couple months, the time for migration of the tool labs project from pmtpa to eqiad is at hand! [This email applies to tools on the Tool Labs /only/; if you have projects in labs, then you want to

[Wikitech-l] Zürich Hackathon, hacking on what?

Dear Hackathon attendees, 101 people have filled the registration form of the Wikimedia Hackathon, hurray! This data point two months before the event plus the efficiency of Wikimedia CH allow us to say that participation and logistics are on track. Now, what about the content?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Zürich Hackathon, hacking on what?

On 03/04/2014 05:05 PM, Quim Gil wrote: If I understood correctly the proposals listed so far, we seem to have only one hacking sprint. It's difficult to classify some of the activities. I, for instance, will set up a 'Migrate to Tool Labs / work on Labs' corner intended to last the entire

[Wikitech-l] Travel sponsorship requests for the Zürich Hackathon

From the 101 people that has registered to the Wikimedia Hackathon in Zürich, 24 are requesting travel and/or accommodation sponsorship (a few of them apparently by mistake) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014/Scholarships The deadline for scholarship application is March

[Wikitech-l] RFC review tomorrow on TitleValue and passwords

Tomorrow, Chris Steipp will talk about the threat model for passwords https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Passwords , and Daniel Kinzler will discuss the new TitleValue patch https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/106517 and updated RfC

[Wikitech-l] Better test coverage

This is the first code-review advertisement: * You want better test coverage for Mediawiki? * You hate to see red error messages in math tags on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(.*) ? Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/112353/ ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] python bot/script with javascript as frontend

English Wikisource had a bot which would perform OCR on request by a user when the user pressed a button in the Wikisource website interface. Is that like what you are trying to achieve? I think it used categories as a work queue. JavaScript placed the page in a category, and the bot picked up