Re: [Wikitech-l] Best practice for WIP patches to help code review office hours

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Chad wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 8:35 AM Daniel Kinzler > wrote: > >> Am 13.05.2016 um 18:23 schrieb Greg Grossmeier: >> > >> >> Gerrit also has drafts... >> > >> > Drafts are only visible to the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement

> > This is why I was hoping > that someone could explain the technicalities of the U.S. energy system to > me – can't we simply ask our datacenter providers to order renewable energy > for our servers, maybe for an extra charge? This is what you can do in > Europe, but I have a feeling things are

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd love to contribue. Can anyone help me get started?

Likewise if you want to help us do exciting stuff on wikipedia mobile web give me a shout on my email or via irc (irc.freenode.org #wikimedia-mobile) On 18 May 2016 3:40 p.m., "Brian Wolff" wrote: > On Wednesday, May 18, 2016, Ty Landercasper >

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd love to contribue. Can anyone help me get started?

On Wednesday, May 18, 2016, Ty Landercasper wrote: > I'm a self employed programmer who's taking a bit of time off from his > current project as a way to gain some fresh perspective and I thought I'd > use that free time to help out a community I really

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd love to contribue. Can anyone help me get started?

If you're interested in Android, the Android team is interested in your contributions! We try to make a card for anything we work on in Phabricator. Our planning board is here[0]. Anything tagged Easy and unassigned is usually ripe to pick up. Here's a recent example[1]. Check out our getting

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement

Some of this depends on geography. For example, in Washington State, we have significant hydroelectric capacity. (See http://www.eia.gov/state/print.cfm?sid=WA) My understanding is that some data centers are being placed in the far global north to take advantage of cold air or water

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd love to contribue. Can anyone help me get started?

Pine W gmail.com> writes: > > Hello Seattleite! There are some Wikimedians, many with technology > backrounds, who meet in the Seattle area. Please join our mailing list: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > > I think that your existing skill set might fit well

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement

You are right that our demand in bandwidth is comparably low, Ryan. But we do have an extremely strong brand, and the power of some really great people working and volunteering for Wikimedia. This is why I was hoping that someone could explain the technicalities of the U.S. energy system to me –

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd love to contribue. Can anyone help me get started?

If you're contributing to the Mediawiki framework, make sure you're learning the modern standards of PHP, along with how to make your PHP code HHVM and PHP7 compatable. One of the basic sites to get started on some concepts in PHP is: http://www.phptherightway.com/ Also you'l want to figure out

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd love to contribue. Can anyone help me get started?

Hello Seattleite! There are some Wikimedians, many with technology backrounds, who meet in the Seattle area. Please join our mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia I think that your existing skill set might fit well with WMF's interests in mobile apps and

[Wikitech-l] I'd love to contribue. Can anyone help me get started?

I'm a self employed programmer who's taking a bit of time off from his current project as a way to gain some fresh perspective and I thought I'd use that free time to help out a community I really appreciate. Wikipedia is one of the best things the internet has to offer and it has

[Wikitech-l] 2016-05-18 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-05-18 = 2016-05-18 = == Product == === Reading === Web Blocked on Ops - need ability to do a 50% roll out of lazy loaded images. BBlack is looking into this, waiting for his feedback. Popups (hovercards) A/B test to be run on

[Wikitech-l] [Breaking Change] Scap3 stage changes will break custom checks

This is a change that affects services that have moved to deployment via Scap3 (not MediaWiki deployments). The 3.2.0-1 release that is currently live makes an important change to the stages in which custom checks may be run. There is now a new stage called `restart_service` that occurs after the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Best practice for WIP patches to help code review office hours

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 8:35 AM Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Am 13.05.2016 um 18:23 schrieb Greg Grossmeier: > > > >> Gerrit also has drafts... > > > > Drafts are only visible to the author, unfortunately. > > And anyone the author adds as a reviewer. Works nicely in my

Re: [Wikitech-l] Best practice for WIP patches to help code review office hours

Am 13.05.2016 um 18:23 schrieb Greg Grossmeier: > >> Gerrit also has drafts... > > Drafts are only visible to the author, unfortunately. And anyone the author adds as a reviewer. Works nicely in my experience. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] some statistics about auto-inserted

Thanks Amir .. https://github.com/wikimedia/parsoid/blob/master/tools/fetch_ve_nowiki_edits.js is a quick hackjob of a script that I pulled together back in Oct 2015 which I used for a while to monitor counts (and the actual incidents) of nowikis ... This script could use a refresh and

[Wikitech-l] some statistics about auto-inserted

Hi, There's a thing I've been doing for exactly one year now, and some people on this list may find it interesting: I've been counting how many article space edits in the Hebrew Wikipedia added a tag. These tags are very rarely needed in articles, but they are often added in edits that go

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal to invest in Phabricator Calendar

Hi Faidon, On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > If we have spare budget for the FY, a good start, I think, would be > (properly) implementing https://secure.phabricator.com/T5000, by > I have reflected your request at

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki test speed up

Hello, We have more and more MediaWiki PHPUnit tests which is great, but the test runner is crippled with a lot of performances issues that makes it rather slow. One would have noticed that running 10k+ tests is no fun. What a surprise when this morning I noticed Ori Livneh (wmf Performance

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Rapid Grants

Dear Wikimedia technical community, If you ever thought of organizing a small event, print some stickers, or any other activity for the good of Wikimedia that costed money, now Rapid Grants might be the simple solution you were looking for. Details below. -- Forwarded message --

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phab blogs

2016-05-18 8:39 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni : > Hi, > > I only now noticed that Phabricator has blogs: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/blog/ > > I couldn't find a way to subscribe to them in RSS. Is it possible? Yes: Go to Actions->Manage Blog and you have

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phab blogs

On 18 May 2016 at 07:39, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > I couldn't find a way to subscribe to them in RSS. Is it possible? > I also can't find the button, but there is a magic trick. Change https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/blog/view/5/ into