Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Yuvi Panda joins Ops

Awesome Yuvi. Congratulations! :D On Nov 6, 2014, at 10:47 PM, Danese Cooper dan...@gmail.com wrote: Woot! Way to go, Yuvi! D On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Mark Bergsma m...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, I'm very pleased to announce that as of this week, Yuvi Panda is part of

Re: [Wikitech-l] regarding gsoc 2015

, Niharika Kohli niharikakohl...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Arindam, There are 3 different ideas listed under Mediawiki extensions on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs/Possible_projects https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs/Possible_projects If you click

Re: [Wikitech-l] regarding gsoc 2015

Hello Arindam, There are 3 different ideas listed under Mediawiki extensions on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs/Possible_projects https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs/Possible_projects If you click on these, you’ll see a Phabricator task which explains the idea

Re: [Wikitech-l] regarding gsoc 2015

...? No issues. But I must tell you that if you want to apply for the current GSoC round, it's high time you start making a proposal and interacting with the mentors. Deadline isn't far. On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Niharika Kohli niharikakohl...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: On Mar

[Wikitech-l] Application period for GSoC and Outreachy now open!

Google Summer of Code 2015 and Outreachy Round 10 have kicked off. We have already received a few proposals and a lot of projects have received tremendous interest. But some of these projects still lack mentors and we're hoping you might be interested in being one. 1. Cross-wiki watchlists[1]: A

Re: [Wikitech-l] BounceHandler deployed 'everywhere' succesfully

Wow. That's awesome. Congratulations! It's so nice to see that you saw your project through to the end. :) On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Tony Thomas 01tonytho...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Happy to inform that we could successfully complete the global deployment[1] of

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Upcoming GSoC and Outreachy rounds

Hello! I am pleased to announce that Wikimedia has been selected as a mentoring organization for the upcoming Google Summer of Code (out of only 137 organizations selected for this round) and Outreachy rounds. Congratulations! We have a phabricator board for possible projects[1] students can

[Wikitech-l] GSoC and Outreachy Selection Process

Hi there, The application deadline for GSoC and Outreachy has passed. We have received: - 44 GSoC applications from 43 candidates - 10 Outreachy applications from 10 candidates including 5 who have also applied for GSoC Several of the projects have received multiple proposals, making it hard

[Wikitech-l] GSoC and Outreachy results out!

Hello everyone! After a long and intense selection process, Google and GNOME Foundation have finally announced the list of GSoC and Outreachy selects for the current round. I'm pleased to announce we have 9 interns for GSoC and 1 for Outreachy! Congratulations to everyone selected and to the

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Update about on-going work on Notifications, especially cross-wiki notifications

Hi Nick, Thanks for this update. I was wondering if cross-wiki watchlists are also something on the Collaboration team roadmap (since you mentioned examining Crosswatch)? Cheers. On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 6:21 AM, Rachel diCerbo wrote: > Thank you for the update! > > On

Re: [Wikitech-l] Would anyone be interested in a tech talk about how to make a mw skin?

I'd be very interested in this! I hope you schedule it keeping in mind remote remotees such as me (India). :) On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 4:06 AM, Christopher Wilson wrote: > I'd be interested as well. My employer is going to be rolling out a new > site design soon, and it'd

[Wikitech-l] GSoC & Outreachy IRC Showcase

Hello! Google Summer of Code 2015 and Outreachy Round 10 ended last month, and I'm happy to report that 9 of our initial 10 projects passed successfully. As a result, we have a couple of new features to Pywikibot - support for OAuth and Flow, two extensions for VisualEditor - language proofread

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2016

Hi Mehul, You can get your local MediaWiki setup for starters. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki-Vagrant#Quick_start The developer community hangs out on #wikimedia-dev and #mediawiki on IRC, in case you need help or have any

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] (no subject)

Congratulations, Josephine! :) On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 1:26 AM, Michael Holloway wrote: > Nice work, Josephine! > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:43 AM, Josephine Lim > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I've been working on a project to improve the

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2016] Query about the ideas' project time

Hi Li, On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 20:58 +0800, DJAKN wrote: > > I am interested in the "Accuracy Review" project, but there is a note > > saying the estimated time for a senior contributor is 3 weeks. Other > > projects in the idea list have the similar estimated time. So should > > we complete more

[Wikitech-l] Workaround for repetitive OAuth prompts for labs tools

Hi everyone, If you're tired of repetitively prompting your users to approve your tool (using MediaWiki oauth), here's a trick that might come in handy: you can hit ".../w/index.php?title=Special:OAuth/authenticate" in the second leg of the handshake instead of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Commons Android app update - new feature

Hey Josephine, Looks awesome. :) Thank you for your continued dedication for the project (way) after Outreachy ended. Very few people can do that! Best of luck. On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Josephine Lim wrote: > Thanks Binaris, that would be great! :) > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Previous mediawiki version test wiki

> > When filing a phab task with some new bug, > you always want to know - is it really new, or I just did not pay attention > to it before? What's the purpose of this information? If it's a bug, new or not, a ticket needs to be filed. And when I do know it's a new bug, I can open both versions

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikistats gets a facelift - Alpha Launch of Wikistats 2

This is awesome. Great job A-team! On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Victoria Coleman wrote: > Nuria and team, fabulous work! Wikistats 2 is such a huge improvement! > Thank you! > > > Best wishes, > > Victoria Coleman > > Chief Technology Officer > Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes of 2017!

Cross-posting. -- Forwarded message -- From: Danny Horn Date: Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 7:59 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes of 2017! To: Wikimedia Mailing List Hi everyone, The Community Tech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for a developer support channel

I'd like to add that having Discourse will provide the one thing IRC channels and mailing lists fail to - search capabilities. If you hangout on the #mediawiki IRC channel, you have probably noticed that we get a lot of repeat questions all the time. This would save everyone time and effort. Not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit newcomer bot

Great work! I'm sure this will be incredibly helpful to a lot of new developers. :) On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 11:45 AM Srishti Sethi wrote: > *Hello all,A quick update related to Gerrit -- you will notice a small > change on patches uploaded by new developers. There is a bot

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Changes to SWAT deployment policies, effective Monday April 30th

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 8:51 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > Will multi-file, single-directory syncs still be allowed? In other words, > can I deploy a change to the Foo extension that touches many files with > scap sync-dir extension/Foo ? > According to the task description,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Phabricator spam - account approval requirement enabled

On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 8:53 PM Greg Grossmeier wrote: > Hello, > > Unfortunately we are experiencing spam in our Phabricator instance > again and have decided to turn on the requirement for new account > approval by Phabricator admins as a mitigation step. > I'd request that it please be kept

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing MediaWiki code search

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 3:16 AM, Stephane Bisson wrote: > This is currently down with "502 Bad Gateway". > It's not broken. There was a maintenance reboot earlier today which seems to have caused this. The instance probably needs a manual restart by Lego. > It has

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tidy removed on all Wikimedia wikis (final update)

Congratulations! This is a huge win for everyone. Great job, Subbu and team! On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:54 PM Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > I'd like to offer additional thanks to Izno, who appears to be going > through all of the old Tidy-related tasks, meticulously testing to see if > they're

[Wikitech-l] GlobalPreferences now available on a wiki near you

Hello all, I'm happy to announce that GlobalPreferences is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. This project came out of the Wishlist Survey in December 2016 (

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Gerrit now automatically adds reviewers

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 6:12 PM Paladox via Wikitech-l < wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > What your saying is making me think I’m wasting my time on improving this > extension. > Also other users that have spoken to me have thought this extension is > great but could do with improvements

Re: [Wikitech-l] Being logged out of gerrit

I constantly face this too. Would really like for this to be fixed. On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 5:42 AM Amir Sarabadani wrote: > Hello, > I'm being logged out from gerrit basically every other day, I'm pretty sure > I use "Remember me" and because my passwords are secure, It's cumbersome to > login

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Feature from Community Tech: Enhanced Password Reset

Congratulations CommTech! You rock! :) On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 6:24 PM Toby Negrin wrote: > Congrats Community Tech! > > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 16:26 David Barratt > wrote: > > > Awesome!!! > > > > [image: Wikimedia-logo black.svg] *David Barratt* (he/him) > > Software Engineer,