Re: [Wikitech-l] Come develop Video, *the* video embedding extension for MediaWiki!

oEmbed indeed looks interesting; this is the first time I heard about it. :) I'll note for the record that while not exactly an oEmbed implementation, the YouTube extension [1] has allowed the youtubesome YouTube URL goes here/youtube syntax for embedding YT videos since late 2013 [2]. This isn't

[Wikitech-l] Need Guidance

Hello My name is Alisha Jain. I am an engineering student from Punjab, India. I came to know that your organization is participating in FOSS Outreach Program for Women this year. I have gone through your projects and would like to have opportunity to work with you. I am quite interested in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: The Very Basics of Phabricator: September 24

Reminder: this tech talk will be starting in one hour! On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Rachel Farrand rfarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: Please join us for the following tech talk: Tech Talk: The Very Basics of Phabricator Date: September 24 Time: 1800 UTC

[Wikitech-l] ***Security notice*** for IRC: vulnerability prior to September 15, change passwords

All, As you may have heard, Freenode found some compromised servers on their networks. Network traffic, including SSL traffic, may have been sniffed by a third party. This likely affects many Wikimedia IRC users, including users who do not speak English, so please forward this notice and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: The Very Basics of Phabricator: September 24

Great tech talk today! If you would like to view the talk at a later time you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fpkHyCGX1Y Thanks! On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Rachel Farrand rfarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: Reminder: this tech talk will be starting in one hour! On Fri,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator update

We are working on a page summarizing all what matters about the migration from Bugzilla to Phabricator: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/versus_Bugzilla Your feedback and edits today help us offering better information to our thousands of Bugzilla users tomorrow. -- Quim Gil

[Wikitech-l] the three phases of patch review

I just read http://sarah.thesharps.us/2014/09/01/the-gentle-art-of-patch-review/ and it made a lot of sense to me as a way to speed up the first response a new patch gets. Instead of putting off reviewing first-time contributions and thoroughly reviewing everything in the contribution at once, I

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.19.19, 1.22.11 and 1.23.4

Hello everyone, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.19.19, 1.22.11 and 1.23.4. This is a regular security and maintenance release. Download links are given at the end of this email. == Security == * (bug 69008) SECURITY: Enhance CSS filtering in SVG files. Filter style

[Wikitech-l] PHP Con Mexico: The parallel evolution of Mediawiki and PHP, and how you can contribute to the future of Mediawiki

Hello Spanish speakers of wikitech-l, In case you are interested, Andrew Russell Green from the growth team at the Wikimedia Foundation will be giving a talk at PHP Con Mexico 2014 http://www.phpcon.mx/. The conference will be in Spanish. *Date:* September 26, 2014 *Talk:* The parallel evolution

Re: [Wikitech-l] Howto get a patch merged?

Stephan, thank you for speaking up. It's incredibly frustrating and demoralizing when you work really hard on a gift (all volunteer contributions are gifts) and you just hear nothing back, or maybe just criticism with not even a thank-you. I'm sorry that this happened to you, that out of dozens of

Re: [Wikitech-l] the three phases of patch review

Great article. As further reading for anybody who is interested, there is a book called “Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review”. It addresses the various methods of code review and how to best tune it for your project. (It’s available online somewhere.) --  Tyler Romeo 0x405D34A7C86B42DF On

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

Thank you for your contributions to Wikimedia movement and Foundation. You will be missed. Best wishes for the future. Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: I write this email with regret to let you know that I've decided to