[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2019-09-25

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Discussed: Strategy for PHP interface changes < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193613>. This RFC proposes policies and strategies to mitigate problems arising from the need to change PHP interfaces that are implemented by

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2019-11-06

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Discussed: RFC: Where to implement Desktop Improvements project . This RFC discusses the approach for implementing broad UI changes to the desktop interface of Wikimedia projects. *

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2019-11-20

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Discussed: RFC OpenGraph descriptions in wiki pages < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213505>. This RFC discusses two approaches for generating wiki page descriptions in OpenGraph protocol. * Discussed: RFC Balanced templates <

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2019-12-04

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Discussed: RFC OpenGraph descriptions in wiki pages < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213505>. This RFC discusses possible approaches for adding and maintaining OpenGraph metadata for wiki pages, allowing for rich link previews.

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2019-10-23

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Approved: Core REST API namespace and version < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232485>. This RFC proposes a namespace and version policy for routes in the MediaWiki REST API. * Last call until 2019-11-06: RFC

[Wikitech-l] Up next: RFC discussion about common storage abstractions

This was already announced in the last TechCom Radar email, but in case you missed it: In an hour, we will be talking about the use of common storage abstractions in MediaWiki: You can join the discussion in the #wikimedia-office channel. -- Alex

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2019-10-16

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Discussed: Section header "share" link < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T18691>. This RFC aims to make it easier for readers to share links to sections on wiki pages. * Discussed: RFC: Where to implement Desktop Improvements

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2019-11-27

Hi all, Here are the minutes from last week's TechCom meeting: * Approved after last call beginning on October 23: ParallelMaintenance helper class for multi-process maintenance scripts . This RFC proposes a helper class for maintenance scripts that

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2019-10-09

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Announcement: Guidelines established by approved RFC Define criteria for setting explicit PHP support target for MediaWiki < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228342> are available at

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2019-10-02

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Approved: Drop IE6 and IE7 basic compatibility and security support . This RFC removes IE6 and IE7 from "basic" support in the MediaWiki compatibility table. * Discussed: Core REST API

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2020-02-19

Hi all, Here are the minutes from last week's TechCom meeting: * Discussed: RFC Standard method for feature-management in skins/extensions * Discussed: RFC 2019 Process amendments See the latest proposal at

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2020-03-04

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Last call for comments: Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki . Last call ends on March 18, 2020 at 20:00 UTC. * Discussed RFC: Standard method for feature-management

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2020-02-26

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Last call for comments: Stable interface policy < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193613>. Last call ends on March 11, 2020 at 20:00 UTC. Review the draft at . * Discussed

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2020-02-05

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Moved to under discussion: RFC Provide a suitable fallback for language access on all skins . This RFC impacts how responsive skins in MediaWiki display a page's available languages

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2020-02-12

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Discussed: RFC Re-evaluate librsvg as SVG renderer on Wikimedia wikis * Discussed: Config on the RequestContext may not be the same as the main config

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2020-01-15

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Moved to under discussion: RFC Port MobileFrontend Feature Management into core This RFC discusses the method of providing opt-in and opt-out functionality for improvements to the desktop

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2020-04-01

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Approved: RFC 2019 Process amendments * Moved to under discussion: RFC Wikimedia Push Notification Service * Moved to backlog: RFC Remove IE

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2020-04-29

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * On last call until 2020-05-13 at 20:00 UTC (13:00 PDT, 22:00 CEST): RFC Remove Android 2.0+ from basic support in compatibility matrix * Moved to resourcing phase: RFC A modern and

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2020-05-06

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * On last call until 2020-05-13 at 20:00 UTC (13:00 PDT, 22:00 CEST): RFC Remove Android 2.0+ from basic support in compatibility matrix * New RFC under discussion: HTML element for inline

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2020-03-18

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Approved: RFC Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki * Discussed: RFC The Great Namespaceization and Reorg * No public

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2020-05-20

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Discussed: Discussion re. `Trusted-Contributors` Gerrit group < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238651> Added background information to the task and proposed documentation updates. * Discussed: RFC HTML element for inline media

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2020-07-29

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: == RFC: Stop supporting legacy PHP entry point extensions == * New RFC by Kunal (Legoktm) that proposes gradually ending support for legacy PHP entry points * TS: The RFC proposes ending

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia Technical Talks] Retargeting extensions to work with Parsoid

Hi everyone, Just a reminder that this talk will take place today at 17:00 UTC. Hope to see you there! Best, - Alex On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 11:19 AM Sarah R wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Mark your calendars! Wikimedia Tech Talks 2020 Episode 6 will take > place on Wednesday > on 12 August 2020

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia Technical Talks] Retargeting extensions to work with Parsoid

This talk will be starting in 15 minutes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS1xPkERWCM See you soon! On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 8:00 AM Alexandra Paskulin wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Just a reminder that this talk will take place today at 17:00 UTC. > > Hope to see you

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2020-08-12

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: == RFC: Drop support for database upgrade older than two LTS releases == * New RFC * Moved from P1: Define to P2: Resource * TT: The “UPGRADE” documentation file has a warning about

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2020-07-01

Hi all, This week, we're sending out a more detailed version of the TechCom meeting minutes. Let us know if you find this helpful. Present: Dan Andreescu, Daniel Kinzler, Timo Tijhof, Alex Paskulin, Niklas Laxstrom == RFC Frontend build step == == *

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2020-06-17

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Moved from Phase 2 (Resourcing) to Phase 3 (Explore): Consolidate language metadata into a 'language-data' library and use in MediaWiki < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190129> * Discussed: Should HookRunner be in the service

[Wikitech-l] Up next: RFC discussion about hybrid extension management

Hi all, This was already announced in the last TechCom Radar email, but in case you have missed it: In an hour, we will be talking about the hybrid extension management: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250406 You can join the discussion on IRC in the #wikimedia-office channel. -- Alex

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2020-06-03

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Hosted Freenode discussion on RFC: Hybrid extension management < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250406> ** Minutes: < https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2020/wikimedia-office.2020-06-03-16.04.html > ** Log: <

[Wikitech-l] Changes to JavaScript documentation tools

Hi everyone, tl;dr The tools we use to document Wikimedia JavaScript code are changing. In the short term, you can read the complete MediaWiki core JavaScript docs using the 1.41 version[0] while we migrate to the new system[1]. If you use JavaScript documentation on doc.wikimedia.org, please

[Wikitech-l] Re: Changes to JavaScript documentation tools

://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187672 [5]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:JSDoc_WMF_theme On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 11:54 AM Alexandra Paskulin wrote: > Hi everyone, > > tl;dr The tools we use to document Wikimedia JavaScript code are changing. > In the short term, you can read the complete Me

[Wikitech-l] [Google Season of Docs] Call for documentation projects and technical writers

Hi all, We’re excited to announce Wikimedia’s participation in Google Season of Docs!  For the first time since 2020, Wikimedia is applying for Google Season of Docs[1]: a program that provides grants to technical writers to work on documentation for open-source projects. This year, we’ll be