Re: [Wikitech-l] Advance notice: I'm taking a sabbatical October-December

2013-08-30 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 08/28/2013 10:41 AM, Quim Gil wrote: PS: if we get bored here we will start collecting bugs to test you when you're back. ;) You might not even have to wait that long! If you see a Sumana Harihareswara contributing patches to pywikipediabot sometime in November, that'll be me

[Wikitech-l] Advance notice: I'm taking a sabbatical October-December

2013-08-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] New search backend live on mediawiki.org

2013-08-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
peaceful) 3b. You can use prefix searches with them (incategory:norma*) 3c. You can use them everywhere in the query (roger incategory:normans) Template expansion and category intersection search - so exciting! Thank you, Nik and Chad, for working on this. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering

Re: [Wikitech-l] unexpected error info in HTML

2013-08-22 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
'http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Google' Looks like something is wrong on Wikipedia side, anything need to fix? Thanks I checked with Jiang Bian and found out that this is still happening -- can anyone help Google out here? :-) -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Java-based Wiktionary Library (JWKTL) 1.0.0 released as open source software

2013-08-22 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Forwarding to the Wikidata tech list in case this makes a future Wiktionary collaboration easier. Original Message Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Java-based Wiktionary Library (JWKTL) 1.0.0 released as open source software (Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 96, Issue 22) Date: Tue, 20

[Wikitech-l] OxygenGuide (Wikivoyage offline): Android app seeking new maintainer

2013-08-21 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
to enhance the algorithm which transforms Wikivoyage wikicode into simple HTML. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] CirrusSearch live on test2wiki

2013-08-19 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
of where the search investigation was going. You can read more specifically about search at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search/status . Hope that helps. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-l] Marius Hoch concentrating on accessibility till 30 Sept

2013-08-19 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
to get his opinion on a change to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accessibility_guide_for_developers , now's a good time! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia's anti-surveillance plans: site hardening

2013-08-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
me in that capacity. My friend Sumana Harihareswara asked me to comment on Wikimedia's plans for hardening the encyclopedia against state surveillance. snip First of all, thanks for your input. It's much appreciated. As I'm sure Sumanah has already mentioned, all of our infrastructure

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC] IMPORTANT: Mentor Midterm Evaluations 29 July - 2 August

2013-08-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
All the mentor evaluations and student evaluations are in for our twenty GSoC projects, comfortably ahead of the deadline. Thanks for preventing potential stress-induced ulcers. :-) -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE: why editing a paragraph opens the whole page?

2013-08-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
wikitext-l is now just for parser/wikitext discussion. Sorry for the confusion. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Voting disabled in bugzilla for some products

2013-07-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
top-level bullet: Voting in Bugzilla: Some products support it, some don't. (That section has some ideas and links.) Andre will probably reply onlist once he gets in Monday morning Prague time, but I just figured I'd mention this quickly. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager

Re: [Wikitech-l] Happy Sysadmin Appreciation Day!

2013-07-26 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/Beta_cluster [6] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

[Wikitech-l] Pywikipediabot migrating to git today

2013-07-26 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Today the pywikipedia project is migrating from Subversion to Git. If you operate a bot, and you are currently checking out pywikipedia's source code from Subversion, please see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit to learn how to switch. Thank you, pywikipediabot

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration: complete

2013-07-26 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
it? And put a note in your calendar for sometime in 2019 or 2020 to suggest we move off Git... -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC] IMPORTANT: Mentor Midterm Evaluations 29 July - 2 August

2013-07-26 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
to come to me with pressing questions until then :) And as I said I will try to be available via email after that as well. Cheers Lydia Also, I have org admin powers for Wikimedia Foundation's GSoC project, and I am not traveling next week, so I can help out if needed. -- Sumana Harihareswara

[Wikitech-l] Toss around a project idea in IdeaLab, maybe get a grant?

2013-07-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
proposal Now is a good time to start so you can get a grant proposal in by the 30 September deadline, requesting up to USD 30,000. More information: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-learn Hope this is helpful! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] draft goals for Engineering Community Team for the next 12 months

2013-07-22 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 06/29/2013 10:23 PM, sankarshan wrote: On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 3:09 PM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: * Growing Tech Ambassadors membership, to improve two-way communication between

[Wikitech-l] quarterly review notes from Engineering Community Team

2013-07-22 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
for the next year here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2013-14_Goals#Wikimedia_Technical_Community Thank you. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why isn't hotcat an extension?

2013-07-18 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Derk-Jan, Thanks for that list; I know I'll be coming back to it as my team works to reach out to gadget and userscript developers in the future. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On 07/17/2013 06:22 PM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote: If people don't want

[Wikitech-l] English lessons today

2013-07-14 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Erika writer...@gmail.com personally. She's also interested in continuing this practice again in the next few months. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: C. Scott Ananian joins Wikimedia as Senior Features Engineer

2013-07-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 07/11/2013 05:53 PM, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: Hey, Welcome to community the Scott! Looks like we are one good engineer stronger now :) Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw Seconding this - welcome to WMF and thanks for joining us! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia

[Wikitech-l] request for help: JS userscript that uses MW edit API

2013-07-11 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
the Wikipedia:TWA/ subspace). There's more at the Village Pump page. Anyone have a little time to help? -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] draft goals for Engineering Community Team for the next 12 months

2013-07-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 07/01/2013 08:10 PM, Quim Gil wrote: On 06/29/2013 02:31 AM, Faidon Liambotis wrote: Hi Sumanah, On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 07:39:19PM -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2013-14_Goals#Wikimedia_Technical_Community Back in April, Quim

[Wikitech-l] conferences, Hacker School, Code for America

2013-07-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/fellows/apply/ has more. Deadline: July 31st. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] draft goals for Engineering Community Team for the next 12 months

2013-06-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
and security-related development and code review, to improve bottlenecks I welcome your comments here or on the talk page. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] Matma Rex (Bartosz Dziewoński) has +2 in mediawiki/core

2013-06-26 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
, please go ahead and add yourself to your interests in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Maintainers . :) Thanks for your past contributions, and best wishes for your future contributions. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Sean Pringle, our latest TechOps member

2013-06-24 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
in welcoming Sean! CT Woo Ken Snider CT and Ken, thanks for the announcement! Sean: welcome! It's especially great to have another person attending to the database layer - thank you for joining us! -Sumana -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Bugzilla admins

2013-06-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
to access security bugs or to get BZ admin access to edit the workflow, I believe (from my reading of the policy). But Andre would know more. Andre? -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing the Wikimedia technical search tool

2013-06-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
about Mozilla's codebase search tool: https://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/2013/06/13/dxr-digests-the-firefox-codebase/ Try it out: http://dxr.mozilla.org/ -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing

[Wikitech-l] CloudOpen Europe - July 21st talk deadline

2013-06-11 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/wiki/Participation:Support to put in your request. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Relaxing our TorBlock

2013-06-07 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 06/07/2013 08:43 AM, Asher Feldman wrote: https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/342922052841377793 Why not - would the patrol cost really be too high? Discussion from December: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/323006 Can we help Tor users make legitimate edits? -- Sumana

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome to Ken Snider, Wikimedia Operations

2013-06-07 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
! Welcome, Ken. And thank you CT for your dedication! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] PDF Download function for mobile version for storage on sdcards, Androids

2013-06-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Automatically listing public art Wikipedia articles near you

2013-06-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
those pages, the user will be prompted to illustrate the article, which they can do quickly and easily if they’re on a mobile device that supports taking and uploading photos. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-l] New template to help automate your wiki's main page

2013-05-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Tamil Wikipedia has gained an important tool - automated front page maintenance. The code for this was written using Lua by Surya Prakash under the guidance of Yuvipanda. If other wiki projects want to make use of this, it is available at http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Main_page. Please get

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tutorial on Semantic MediaWiki in Russian

2013-05-20 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
How about the Semantic MediaWiki wiki? http://semantic-mediawiki.org/ -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On 04/19/2013 09:36 PM, Yury Katkov wrote: Any ideas where to publish the English version? I was quite surprised when I found out

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC] tools for micromanagement

2013-05-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
; the project doc HOWTO gives you a bunch of useful functionality there. The GSoC mentors' mailing list probably has opinions on this, I bet. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] category intersection conversations

2013-05-09 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 05/09/2013 03:07 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: Just change mediawiki:pagecategories to tags and change some social conventions - boom you have tags. Just a reminder - customs and assumptions are sometimes harder to change than digital or physical environments. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering

[Wikitech-l] New developments in automated testing, including mobile browsers apps

2013-05-09 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
, although I could be wrong. Chris McMahon was at this conference and may have more specific we should do foo recommendations. :) -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] GLAM Wiki Toolset code review

2013-05-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
patchset up as of today in case anyone wants to take a fresh look. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] category intersection conversations

2013-05-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
on this anytime soon, but I would not be surprised if the Wikidata developer community or volunteers found this interesting enough to work on. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata Features

2013-05-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
worked on MediaWiki before? Have you started the steps in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker and potentially worked on a small bug suitable for novices? -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC Proposal - Incremental Data Dumps

2013-05-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
with MediaWiki at all before I have to ask: Have you started the steps in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker and worked on a small bug suitable for novices? -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: Let's move to a one-week deploy cycle

2013-05-07 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
with our Bugzilla tickets so often that it'd probably be a huge travail to thoroughly research the question I asked, and that would delay this decision beyond this week. So I'm fine with going on people's rough estimates and impressions instead of going the ALL DATA ALL THE TIME route. -- Sumana

[Wikitech-l] Submit OKCon talks by 24 May - travel subsidies available

2013-05-07 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Participation Support https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Support to put in your request. Thanks to Sarah Stierch for the heads-up. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Proposal: Let's move to a one-week deploy cycle

2013-05-06 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
cycle after the mediawiki.org deploy but before the non-Wikipedias deploy, that data might imply that we should structure a 1-week cycle differently -- perhaps with three stages rather than two. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global watchlist and watchlist wishlist

2013-05-06 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/16419/ [2] http://mw-watchlist.tumblr.com/ ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global watchlist and watchlist wishlist

2013-05-06 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
seem rather misguided... -bawolff On 2013-05-06 6:58 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 05/06/2013 05:26 PM, Aaron Pramana wrote: Brian Wolff bawolff at gmail.com writes: On 2013-05-06 1:31 PM, Quim Gil qgil at wikimedia.org wrote: On 05/06/2013 05:41 AM, Guillaume

Re: [Wikitech-l] Project proposal for GSOC

2013-05-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
. That is a reason I work on MediaWiki for Wikimedia. :-) -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2013 applications are closed

2013-05-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
We are no longer accepting applications for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2013. We are always accepting new volunteer contributors: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Connor Schlesiger GSoC Proposal

2013-05-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
experience and credibility for your own project. Good luck! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC: Incremental updates for Kwix Reader(offline wikipedia)- Application

2013-05-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
of some kind. * What are your plans for testing this on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS? Do you have test environments available for all those operating systems? * Have you done any measuring to figure out how much bandwidth this would save, given usual usage patterns? Thanks, Sumana -- Sumana

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC: MediaWiki-Moodle extension

2013-05-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
be a reasonable one to start with. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker should get you started. Good luck! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki API 2.0 (was GSoC Application)

2013-05-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
code https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/message:api+status:merged,n,z to see what the current trends are? * Can you tell us how long it has taken you to do similar projects in the past? * Who are your mentors? -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] «Improvement of glossary tools» idea for GSoC 2013

2013-05-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
were a GSoC student with us in 2011. In the time since then, have you contributed any code to MediaWiki or any of its extensions? -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC: Auto tagging using Semantic analysis Semi-Supervised Learning [was: Project Idea Proposal]

2013-05-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I've left some comments on the talk page. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On 05/01/2013 12:38 AM, Dheeraj Joshi wrote: Sorry for the previous unclear message : Here is the link to my proposal : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dheerajjoshi1991

[Wikitech-l] jQuery.IME onscreen keyboard for users (was: Submitted Proposal)

2013-05-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
review your proposal. Go ahead and say that -- and then read advice to people new to open source http://open-advice.org/ , complete the OpenHatch missions http://openhatch.org/missions/ , and start contributing https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute . -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering

Re: [Wikitech-l] File Licensing Guidelines

2013-04-26 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
in wet cement. Regardless, it's fine for David to opine that lawyers' opinions do carry more weight here than non-lawyers'. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] File Licensing Guidelines

2013-04-26 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Cool it, Chad. -Sumana On 04/26/2013 07:33 AM, Chad wrote: Look ma, I'm a lawyer! I'll note that yesterday I was a fireman. And an astronaut the day before. Isn't pretending fun? -Chad -Chad On Apr 26, 2013 7:25 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Luis

[Wikitech-l] open add-more-debugging-info bugs

2013-04-26 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
list: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=43086,37763,45514,45843,43869,45483 (Thanks to Andre Klapper for assembling this.) -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for VisualEditor plugin. (GSoC 2013, Bugzilla Bug 47742)

2013-04-26 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
the Community Bonding Period than you have allotted here.) Best of luck! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC Project

2013-04-26 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
it's under GSoC or not! Thanks, Sumana -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can you be my mentor for Outreach Program for Women?

2013-04-26 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
this helps! And if you want to chat in realtime, try our IRC channel: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Communication#Chat . -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Design] Making inter-language links shorter

2013-04-24 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accessibility has a list of People and organizations working on MediaWiki accessibility including Sami Mubarak, who works on the accessibility of MediaWiki for the blind (in Arabic). I've cc'd Sami. Hope this helps! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: Erik Bernhardson joins Wikimedia as Features Engineer

2013-04-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
that he is a HipHop contributor, maybe we could call him MC Erik? ;-) -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech

[Wikitech-l] Last day to register request scholarship for Amsterdam hackathon

2013-04-20 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013 Today is the last day to register for the Amsterdam hackathon (May 24-26) and request a scholarship. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Last day to register request scholarship for Amsterdam hackathon

2013-04-20 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013 Today is the last day to register for the Amsterdam hackathon (May 24-26) and request a scholarship. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moodle Wikiversity - new Moodle plugin interfaces with MediaWiki

2013-04-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
://sandbox.wikiversity.wmflabs.org/moodle is open for everybody to use and test it. I would be happy when as many as possible would test the plugin and report bugs to me. Best regards, Jan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Sumana Harihareswara [mailto:suma...@wikimedia.org] Gesendet

[Wikitech-l] Moodle Wikiversity - new Moodle plugin interfaces with MediaWiki

2013-04-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
that seeks to invite new contributors to the project. Thanks for working on this, Jan Luca and Wyk! I see the code is at https://github.com/JanLuca/Moodle_Wikiversity_plugin . Are you looking for help of any sort -- design, testing, localisation, etc.? -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community

Re: [Wikitech-l] Labs Shell Access Requests, 39 pending

2013-04-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
instances. - Ryan https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs has more. Come join us! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] What needs fixing re LevelUp; complain till Apr 16

2013-04-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Review_queue#Extensions [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_experience_review_queue [8] I feel that solving a problem is more interesting than finding a name for the solution. I realize that I stand in the minority of the open source community on this. -Kevin Maples -- Sumana

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: suggestions regarding my proposals for gsoc and outreach program

2013-04-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
on in order to better ensure your plan is doable and to ensure you're making something people can use! The design list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design would be helpful to consult. Hope this helps. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML versioning information in skins?

2013-04-11 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
clever automation to propose an update every time a relevant file is touched or a particular automated test breaks? Otherwise we have to thoroughly educate authors and reviewers to always update this, which sounds tedious. Thanks again. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia

[Wikitech-l] test gossip

2013-04-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
step_definitions/ with .rb files, each corresponding to a feature file. Look through those for some idea of the neat stuff we can do these days. If you want ideas for useful automated browser tests to write, try looking at recently fixed bugs. That way we'll catch regressions. -- Sumana Harihareswara

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pushing Technical changes to Wikimedia projects

2013-04-09 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
. I agree that emails to wikitech-ambassadors should definitely have a short, plain-English how this affects you summary. A link to a place to test also sounds ideal. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Socializing changes

2013-04-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
and asking them relevant questions * learning new facts and perspectives from the affected communities and using them to modify plans * negotiation So I am resigned to using socialization because I don't think there's a better succinct phrase for this. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community

Re: [Wikitech-l] A new project - Wikicards

2013-04-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Popups gadget (and spread it across all the wikis) to make use of the photo and summary sentence. That's just one idea for an approach that's more likely to succeed. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] A (21) day in the Labs

2013-04-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
?id=4734 ETA: 3/24/13 Since those dates are now in the past :-) can you help provide new estimated times of arrival? Thanks! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC: accepted! Mentors: apply, please

2013-04-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Malayalam Computing https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/smc which works on Malayalam-related software internationalisation. So, yay for new contributors to our larger community as well. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Taking out the garbage

2013-04-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
, what meter do you want that in? 4/4 ok? :D -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] This week: LevelUp IRC chats for results from last round, matchmaking for next round

2013-03-25 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours for details. If you're curious and aren't sure whether you're eligible, please come by! And to those of you who have emailed me asking LevelUp-related questions, I promise to answer them before the office hour Wednesday. :) -- Sumana Harihareswara

[Wikitech-l] MatmaRex requesting +2 in MediaWiki core

2013-03-25 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Please comment: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Project_ownership#Matma_Rex_.28Bartosz_Dziewo.C5.84ski.29_for_mediawiki.2Fcore -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Linking from Wikipedia articles to local library resources

2013-03-24 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/05/2013 08:20 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: See http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/glam/2013-March/000361.html http://everybodyslibraries.com/2013/03/04/from-wikipedia-to-our-libraries/ : how do we get people from Wikipedia articles to the related offerings of our local libraries

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for communicating changes in MediaWiki to WMF sites?

2013-03-22 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
and for MediaWiki (so, Greg hexmode), and product managers, who are staff members and volunteers. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Raw page view no longer showing language links for some pages?

2013-03-21 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
doesn't give you some of what you need for WWW::Wikipedia, please do file a bug. Thanks! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] Markus Glaser elected Chair of the Wikimedia Chapters Association Council

2013-03-19 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
, Markus. Please do let this list know if there's something WCA will be doing regarding technology development or skillshare for chapters! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2012/Documentation/Day_2/Coordinating-projects -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Yuri Astrakhan Adam Baso join Mobile department partner team

2013-03-18 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
-- we're lucky to have you! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] open positions at WMF (was: Call for Gerrit contractor)

2013-03-18 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
noticed that you have some OTRS expertise -- could you maybe check out https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22622 and let us know if you have some free time to volunteer your help? :-) Cheers, Sumana -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Identifying pages that are slow to render

2013-03-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
the performance gains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anomie/PP-report-Greasemonkey-script -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
. Basically, if you think a project might take about 2 weeks for you to code, go ahead and put it on that list. Students run into lots of problems, and your 2-week project is someone else's whole summer. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Asking For Introduction on Information Security

2013-03-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-March/067630.html . Hope this helps! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 guidelines??

2013-03-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_architecture. Hope this helps! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On 03/10/2013 07:57 AM, Tejas Nikumbh wrote: I created a bugzilla account but the process of going through the code and fixing bugs

Re: [Wikitech-l] A new feedback extension - review urgently needed

2013-03-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
data from a few dozen people. You won't be the first researcher who had to change the proposed experimental method for pragmatic reasons. :/ -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] A new feedback extension - review urgently needed

2013-03-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
://wikitech.wikimedia.org/ . -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering February 2013 report

2013-03-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
engineering efforts. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Submit a talk to Open Source Bridge by Mar 23rd, get WMF subsidy

2013-03-11 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/ They especially encourage inexperienced speakers. We already have proposals from or featuring Brandon Harris, Andre Klapper, Trevor Roan, me, Priyanka Nag, Quim Gil, Alolita Sharma, and Noopur Raval. Please forward. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing the Wikimedia technical search tool

2013-03-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l Cool! Thanks for making this! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Analytics] Reminder: EventLogging workshop tomorrow Thursday 3/7, 1.30-5 PT

2013-03-06 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Please do join us if you'd like to learn to instrument MediaWiki to log events, access and clean/test log data, and perform simple log data analysis. -Sumana Harihareswara Original Message Subject: [Analytics] Reminder: EventLogging workshop tomorrow Thursday 3/7, 1.30-5 PT

[Wikitech-l] Query performance - run code faster, merge code faster :-)

2013-03-06 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
worked on Semantic MediaWiki's performance for his GSoC project in 2012. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

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