[Wikitech-l] 17 hours to submit a talk to Open Source Bridge, get WMF subsidy

2012-03-30 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Please register for the Berlin hackathon - June 1-3, 2012

2012-03-30 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile, structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we want you to come! Details: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Berlin_Hackathon_2012 Thanks to Wikimedia Germany for hosting and coordinating this event. (Venue still to be determined.) -- Sumana

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd prefer that you didn't submit this

2012-03-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
. ( if we go with the yoda job ) I've combined a little bit of everyone's suggestions so far (other than Yoda). How does There is a problem with this patchset, please fix sound? -Chad Sounds good to me. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-l] Swipe search tool uses infoboxes, DBPedia to search Wikipedia

2012-03-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
on Wikipedia one day, says Atzori Just a heads-up. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator 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 project - books for Wikisource/Wikibooks

2012-03-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
mentions it as one in a list, I suggest Ashwini should simply choose ONE of the 5 topics listed on Ashwini's application -- something other than the books topic. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation On 02/11/2012 05:18 PM, Aashish Mittal wrote: Hello

[Wikitech-l] Growing our testing, bug reporting, triaging community

2012-03-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
in place to properly support a testing event like this yet, but that's a goal. Thanks to Tomasz, Yuvi, Alolita, and Chris for contributing to this discussion. Additional reading: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/It_boots_ship_it -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC Proposal: Watchlist Improvements

2012-03-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
skills, and which student has better communication skills). Therefore, you and Vivek should either choose to strive to make your applications regarding watchlist improvements the best it can be, or one of you should choose a different topic. Feel free to discuss with each other. -- Sumana

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC2012 Image_recognition

2012-03-27 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
If anyone can mentor this topic, please do say so by this Friday and add yourself to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012#Mentor_signup . Otherwise I'm going to take it off the ideas page -- it's just not worth the false attraction. Thanks. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code - Integrate upload from Flickr Taxobox (Ryan Kaldari)

2012-03-27 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
, hoping I can receive some feedback. Regards, Welcome, David, and good luck with your application. Do speak up in our IRC channel #mediawiki if you need any immediate help! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Communication -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-l] Students: apply for GSoC between now and April 6th

2012-03-26 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
If you want to participate in Google Summer of Code, you must submit an application via http://www.google-melange.com/ before April 6, 19:00 UTC. google-melange.com is now open and accepting applications. Wikimedia Foundation is the organization you're submitting an application to. -- Sumana

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration: documentation and short-term considerations

2012-03-22 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
correct--not everything has been migrated over yet. Specifically about planet: that was moved over to the puppet repo a couple of weeks ago. -Chad Some more details on that: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Conversion#Affected_development_projects -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer

[Wikitech-l] Who's been awesome synchronizing HTML5 video with slides

2012-03-19 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/Gerrit account for you (look in your email for a temp password) so you can follow these instructions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/New_repositories to put your extension hosted in our Git repositories. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code intro

2012-03-19 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
a Google Summer of Code project idea that appeals to you, start writing a proposal (a subpage of your mediawiki.org userpage would be a good place to put it), and share it here and on our IRC channel https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC . Best, -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer

[Wikitech-l] When/how we'll add, remove people from Gerrit project owner groups

2012-03-19 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
is related to MediaWiki and/or Wikimedia in some way. I hope this has been helpful. I suspect we won't have too much to discuss but if there are clarifications needed please speak up; then in a day or two I can put this up on the wiki to make it easier to reference. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code update how we'll run it

2012-03-18 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/10/2012 12:40 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I submitted our application to Google and we're just waiting for March 16th, when we'll hear whether we've been accepted. We were accepted. Students won't be able to formally apply till March 26th, but until then we encourage students

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mark Hershberger departing Wikimedia Foundation in May

2012-03-18 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
, Mark, for setting this example! I second this strongly. Mark, you have our gratitude. You've always had our community at the front of your thoughts and your heart. Thank you. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Auto-created gerrit accounts for users that had enough info in USERINFO

2012-03-18 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
=test/mediawiki/core.git;a=summary and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=test/mediawiki.git;a=summary You can view all the repositories at this link: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#admin,projects -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-l] New committer

2012-03-18 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Commit_access_requests ), but the pywikipediabot community wants to stay with Subversion for the time being so you'll see a trickle of those. :-) -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Auto-created gerrit accounts for users that had enough info in USERINFO

2012-03-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
. But then, maybe Alexander K. is not me after all. Alexander Sometimes the email takes about 5-10 minutes to arrive. Let us know if it doesn't and you need help. People who can help you with these problems are often on IRC: Ryan Lane (on IRC: Ryan_Lane), Sara Smollett, Sumana Harihareswara (sumanah

Re: [Wikitech-l] Auto-created gerrit accounts for users that had enough info in USERINFO

2012-03-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
gain goodwill and avoid a bunch of manual account creation in the future, so why not do so? Thanks. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Auto-created gerrit accounts for users that had enough info in USERINFO

2012-03-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/17/2012 02:50 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: it costs us nearly nothing to mass-create these accounts Well, I was wrong about that. Sorry, Ryan. Usernames are the tedious bit; existing USERINFO does not adequately specify what committers will want as their Gerrit/Labsconsole usernames

[Wikitech-l] Deadline extended: Submit a talk to Open Source Bridge, get WMF subsidy

2012-03-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/16/2012 11:36 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: On 03/10/2012 11:50 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: On 03/10/2012 08:25 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: This year I want the Wikimedia technical community to have a strong presence at Open Source Bridge http://opensourcebridge.org

[Wikitech-l] Deadline today: Submit a talk to Open Source Bridge, get WMF subsidy

2012-03-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/10/2012 11:50 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: On 03/10/2012 08:25 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: This year I want the Wikimedia technical community to have a strong presence at Open Source Bridge http://opensourcebridge.org/ in Portland, Oregon, USA, June 26-29. OSB is tech talks hack

Re: [Wikitech-l] We need to use git-review - need help packaging for Win/Mac (Gerrit)

2012-03-14 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
will help you. Thanks for all the docs improvements, everyone. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git, Gerrit and the coming migration

2012-03-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
translations) an automatic approver bot will auto-approve mergers to specific branches. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

[Wikitech-l] Submit a talk to Open Source Bridge by Mar 16th, get WMF subsidy

2012-03-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
performance on a shoestring budget, our git/gerrit migration, securing PHP-based webapps, various approaches to making our data more structured/semantic, collaborative design, lessons from our communities, JS hacks, hetdeploy, offline/mobile, geodata... Please forward. -- Sumana Harihareswara

Re: [Wikitech-l] Submit a talk to Open Source Bridge by Mar 16th, get WMF subsidy

2012-03-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/10/2012 08:25 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: This year I want the Wikimedia technical community to have a strong presence at Open Source Bridge http://opensourcebridge.org/ in Portland, Oregon, USA, June 26-29. OSB is tech talks hack sessions with hands-on technologists we want

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code update how we'll run it

2012-03-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
plans for running GSoC this year. Key points: People are more important than code; Hands-on mentorship and management; Quality over quantity, scope small. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] started 6th book in the MediaWiki Virtual Library (MVL): MediaWiki Git Guide (MGG)

2012-03-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
of the MediaWiki Virtual Library and to indicate what virtual books they're in. I don't have the expertise to do that myself with a bot, but if you want to do it, I think that's fine. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-l] We need to use git-review - need help packaging for Win/Mac (Gerrit)

2012-03-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
make native packages for git-review that work on Mac and Windows?[1] Thanks. [0] https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_bugs_that_matter#Issue_287:_Arbitrary_labels.2Ftags_on_changes [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35145 -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who can make Gerrit/Labsconsole accounts?

2012-03-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
no autolinking from Gerrit to Bugzilla yet, but we'll work on it (bug 35144). For now, when referring to a Git diff, please paste changeset Change IDs, or the changeset number in the Gerrit changeset URL, into the BZ comment. Both are globally unique. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git, Gerrit and the coming migration

2012-03-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
for it. If we don't do things like this, then the migration will be more painful and frustrating for lots of developers. Let's set ourselves up for success. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing a new project of community devs

2012-03-07 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
sure that the web-based version works well on mobile. So I'm cc'ing them. Best of luck! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Integrating who's been awesome? to MedaiWiki

2012-03-06 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
of Moratuwa Student Member IEEE -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Wikisource API and ProofreadPage

2012-03-05 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
on a Perl module which handles this automatically, which -- with many more tests -- will hopefully make it to CPAN some day. But the source code is up at Github: https://github.com/gaurav/henderson/tree/develop/WWW-Wikisource -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia

[Wikitech-l] Please submit workshop proposals for Strange Loop by 31 March

2012-03-04 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
, papers TBA, April/May) I'm happy to help people brainstorm write proposals for any of these. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation [0] http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2012/01/announcing-the-2012-call-for-proposals/ [1] http://gracehopper.org/2012

Re: [Wikitech-l] Integrating who's been awesome? functionality to MediaWiki

2012-03-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
, -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation On 03/03/2012 01:14 AM, James Alexander wrote: Thanks Eranga! It's great to see people interested so early and I'd love to share some of my ideas and see what yours are. This weekend I will get together the notes

Re: [Wikitech-l] PDF Download

2012-03-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Summer of Code project: ... Is [it] possible to apply GSoC for this issue. If this is the case, Santhosh, would you be interested in possibly mentoring Nasir? -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Participating in medaiwiki gsoc 2012

2012-03-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012 * Start going through the introductory steps to learn MediaWiki, and do the diff and patch, git, and Subversion training tutorials -- links are in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012#Student_signup Looking forward to seeing you learn! -- Sumana

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2012 Q1 Extension Page Review Drive

2012-03-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
a smart layperson could help with, even if s/he hasn't worked with MediaWiki before? * In your experience, about how long does it take to review and update a single extension page? Thanks for leading this! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome Lindsey Smith - Mobile UI/UX Contractor

2012-03-01 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Which WMF-deployed extensions need maintenance, patches reviewed?

2012-02-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
servers, the sources to use are https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Main_Wikimedia_extensions , http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/translatewiki/MediaWiki/WikimediaAgg.yaml?view=markup and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions_used_on_Wikimedia . -- Sumana Harihareswara

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who can make Gerrit/Labsconsole accounts?

2012-02-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
a patch in Bugzilla, we should encourage them to get a Gerrit account and just push there in the future. If I'm wrong on any of these, tell me. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] New committers schuellersa, netbrain, and thibaultmarin

2012-02-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
have extensions access. Also, Petr Bena now has core commit access. Congratulations and welcome! We have now responded to all our commit access requests and the queue is empty; if you are waiting for a response from us, please check your spam folder. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development

Re: [Wikitech-l] IIS Test Environment (Short URLs)

2012-02-27 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
? -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Who can make Gerrit/Labsconsole accounts?

2012-02-27 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
? How to make a Labs account: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/OpenStack#Wiki_access which I am about to merge into https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Access . -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-l] Git/Gerrit: workflow for casual, one-off pushes?

2012-02-26 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/issues#What.27s_the_workflow_for_drive-by_pushes.3F -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git/Gerrit: workflow for casual, one-off pushes?

2012-02-26 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 02/26/2012 10:11 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I'd like to know it so I can update docs. Whoops, didn't mean to make myself a bottleneck here. Anyone should feel free to start updating the documentation on mediawiki.org - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Conversion#March_2012 has

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git, Gerrit, and You! or, Gerrit training available starting Monday 27 February

2012-02-24 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 02/22/2012 08:53 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: Before the March 3rd migration of MediaWiki core + WMF-deployed extensions to git, we want all MediaWiki developers to feel comfortable with Git, git-review, and Gerrit. So I'm scheduling the first in some one-hour interactive training

[Wikitech-l] Git, Gerrit, and You! or, Gerrit training available starting Monday 27 February

2012-02-22 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
is at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Workflow by sometime this Friday. And then, after I've gotten the ball rolling, I hope other new experts will take the lead and start teaching. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-l] New committer

2012-02-21 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
apologies.) -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Where to host wikimedia related software projects

2012-02-20 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Petr, Thanks for bringing this up. I have some opinions on this, but I -- like many WMF engineering staff -- have today as a holiday (Presidents' Day). Can this decision wait until tomorrow? best, -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation On 02/20/2012

Re: [Wikitech-l] About page ID

2012-02-19 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
for deployment on Wikimedia wikis: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1450 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Review_queue -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] getting started with volunteer mediawiki development

2012-02-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
of your talk, that would be lovely. Thanks for doing this! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation On 02/16/2012 12:54 PM, Arthur Richards wrote: For the hackathon in Pune, I prepared an 'intro to hacking mediawiki' tutorial for novices. There are a few

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 project thoughts (Global User Preferences)

2012-02-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/ for #wikimedia-dev. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] getting started with volunteer mediawiki development

2012-02-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 02/16/2012 04:15 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks to Arthur, Andrew, Ryan Lane, c. for getting to this question before me! :-) Andrew, could you give a link to your old presentation about MediaWiki

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Revision tagging: use cases needed

2012-02-15 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Original Message Subject: Revision tagging: use cases needed Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:18:49 -0800 From: Dario Taraborelli dtarabore...@wikimedia.org We're getting to a point where we need to be able to flag specific revisions as generated via specific tools. For example if we

[Wikitech-l] Git migration - switchover from Subversion begins March 3rd

2012-02-15 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
free to forward this to affected communities.) -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] New committers

2012-02-14 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
on Parsoid as a volunteer and soon to start as a part-time contractor. Yes, it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang . All got extensions access (although this is going to be a somewhat meaningless distinction in our git future). Welcome, all! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer

[Wikitech-l] New committer

2012-02-14 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Another new committer: David Schoonover (dsc), new analytics staffer at the Wikimedia Foundation. Welcome to Subversion, David! (But don't get too used to it... https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Conversion#March_2012 ) -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome, Jon Robson - Software Developer (Mobile)

2012-02-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Welcome, Jon! Looking forward to working with you. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation On 02/13/2012 02:46 PM, Tomasz Finc wrote: Greetings all, I'm pleased to announce that the mobile team has a new team member. Jon Robson joins Yuvi, Patrick

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects

2012-02-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/User:Jorm Look at them and think about whether they would affect any of your designs or suggestions. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects

2012-02-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
at experimental status. Some of Akshay Agarwal's commits have received code critique and await improvement. Akshay is responding to those critiques and working towards the goal of deploying the extension on WMF wikis. CC'ing Akshay. Akshay, how is that going? -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer

[Wikitech-l] Oren Bochman's work on search, Lucene, and transducing

2012-02-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitext-l/2012-February/000580.html has more details. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration - updated schedule workflow descriptions

2012-02-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
so that Chad and I can work on an email and a blog post about 8 hours from now. Feel free to add your questions. (Example: what about gerrit? when will it be not a UX nightmare?) -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-l] MobileFrontend John Du Hart's rewrite

2012-02-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/wiki/Extension_talk:MobileFrontend#Issues_with_MobileFrontend_and_possible_rewrite_11940 (Can someone please forward this to mobile-l as well? Thanks.) -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Regarding GSoC 2012

2012-02-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
questions. Good luck! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Save the date: Wikimedia MediaWiki hackathon in Berlin, 1-3 June 2012

2012-02-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration - updated schedule workflow descriptions

2012-02-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On Feb 10, 2012, at 8:50 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: On 02/10/2012 08:10 AM, Chad wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks for sharing these Sumana. One thing I haven't really seen mentioned anywhere is what's going to happen

[Wikitech-l] New committers

2012-02-07 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
doesn't yet have a mediawiki.org account - I've asked for one and will link when she does.) Welcome, Elizabeth and Christian! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Baglama statistics/metrics/analytics now shinier

2012-02-06 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Magnus Manske just sent this message to another list and I thought you'd want to know. Baglama is a tool to View counts for pages using Commons images in certain category trees. It's especially useful for GLAM institutions: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM -- Sumana Harihareswara

Re: [Wikitech-l] Picture of the Year contest extension

2012-02-05 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
developers who have a bit of free time. Thanks! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Recommended way to register resources for skins

2012-02-04 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 02/03/2012 10:33 PM, Daniel Friesen wrote: On 12-02-01 5:11 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: On 02/01/2012 07:42 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote: I haven't been able to release the skinning tutorial I've been working on, but I have a new recommended file layout for non-core skins. Daniel, please

Re: [Wikitech-l] Recommended way to register resources for skins

2012-02-01 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
to be a bottleneck here as practically the only person who knows the skins system. Even an unfinished tutorial is better than nothing. Also, are you already working with Owen Davis the Wikia folks regarding their skin rewrite proposal? -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving forward with Lua

2012-02-01 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/p4sve/wikipedia_chooses_lua_as_its_new_templatemacro/ -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

[Wikitech-l] Git migration - updated schedule workflow descriptions

2012-02-01 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
as a blog post. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] New committers

2012-01-31 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
, and for TOCbot https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szerkeszt%C5%91:Bin%C3%A1ris/TOCbot . Welcome! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] Please help test MediaWiki 1.19 now - deployments may start in February

2012-01-26 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
to contact us in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC or via the Wikimedia developers' mailing list at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l . Thank you. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please help test MediaWiki 1.19 now - deployments may start in February

2012-01-26 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
effects? Let me know and I'll send a followup mail. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Want student help with your MediaWiki project?

2012-01-25 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 01/13/2012 06:09 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I've arranged for MediaWiki to get some interns this spring. Four bright college students -- they already know web development and have had internships at Facebook, Google, and Microsoft -- need a mentor. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Call for Papers - Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge. (29.6.-1.7., Berlin)

2012-01-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Deadline: March 31st. Special shout-out to those of you doing data analytics or visualization -- please take a look and consider submitting a talk. -Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation CALL FOR PAPERS - Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge

[Wikitech-l] Call for Participation - Wikimania 2012 - deadline March 18th

2012-01-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
what people want to work on or teach during the hacking days on Tuesday July 10th Wednesday July 11th. Please tell Katie and me so we can plan. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] 3 talks at FOSDEM 2012 by Wikimedia developers

2012-01-22 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/wikimedia_infra * http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/gd * http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/smw -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-20 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Thanks to all of you for your feedback on this. We've now finalized the policy and it now lives at https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech

[Wikitech-l] asking for three CSS/JS fixes by Saturday

2012-01-18 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
for these fixes? * Put the buttons on the same line * Make the examples box float over content instead of extending the table cell ** Below the buttons * Make the result box scroll properly on overflow Thanks. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-l] Kolkata Wikimedia event needs MediaWiki developer(s), 25 January

2012-01-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
If you can get to Kolkata, India on January 25th, you can help out an event that's hoping to learn about MediaWiki development. You can contact Sucheta for more information. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Netaji_Subhash_Engineering_College -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development

[Wikitech-l] Want student help with your MediaWiki project?

2012-01-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
it'd be about 5 hours a week, possibly more at the start as we ramp the students up. Please let me know as soon as possible, preferably today or Monday. I'd prefer that the students work on something that will be deployed on Wikimedia sites. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development

Re: [Wikitech-l] Want student help with your MediaWiki project?

2012-01-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
to start on installing MediaWiki and follow the https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker guide. If you can suggest some tiny bugs related to the project ideas now listed at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UCOSP_Spring_2012#Project_ideas please do! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Andre Engels

2012-01-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
an avid Go player, having reached the grade of 3 dan. I'm really honored to bring on such a long time community member to the Mobile team. Please join me in welcoming Andre! --tomasz I'm constantly awed at the caliber of people I get to work with. Welcome, Andre! -- Sumana Harihareswara

[Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
don't imagine I'll get much response on this, but just wanted to put it out there before implementing. I intend on putting this into place by the middle of next week, in time for the San Francisco hackathon (starting January 20th). Comments on the talk page, please. -- Sumana Harihareswara

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.18 learnings from a wiki admin extension writer

2012-01-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 01/12/2012 11:31 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote: So, here's the list of what we had trouble with, and what we did. I welcome any improvements to our fixes! Daniel, thank you so much for taking the time to list these out. And my sympathies that your upgrade was so troublesome! -- Sumana

[Wikitech-l] New committer

2012-01-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
MrBlueSky now has core and extensions access and aims on working on Core and extensions: small bugfixes and enhancements, adding and updating documentation (comments), writing unit-tests. In general: small things that need to be done. Welcome, MrBlueSky! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer

[Wikitech-l] New committer

2012-01-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Robert Vogel (rvogel, User:Osnard) is a web developer at Hallo Welt! and works on WindowsAzureSDK, WindowsAzureStorage, ClientSyntaxHighlighter, BibManager, and (probably soon) PagedTiffHandler. He's receiving extensions access. Welcome, Robert! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development

Re: [Wikitech-l] Rolling towards 1.19... scheduling a code freeze

2012-01-06 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
or refactoring commits that come in between now and [date]? -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome, Andrew Otto - Software Developer for Analytics

2012-01-06 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
of Virginia, but is still traveling the world. Right now, you'll find him in New York City. Please join me in welcoming Andrew to the team! I congratulated him IN PERSON five minutes ago, because we're coworking today. There's another New Yorker now, yay! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Better publicizing MediaWiki API and tool development with MediaWiki

2012-01-05 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
a volunteer to redo https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page incorporating the Quick start guide. I also devolved some of the less crucial bits to their topic pages. Take a look. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mass changes to bugs by Jan Kucera (Kozuch)

2012-01-05 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Two more easy patches, and commit access suggestion

2012-01-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=easy%2C%20patch%2C%20need-review%2C%20query_format=advancedkeywords_type=allwordslist_id=74205bug_status=UNCONFIRMEDbug_status=NEWbug_status=ASSIGNEDbug_status=REOPENEDproduct=MediaWikiproduct=MediaWiki%20extensions -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development

[Wikitech-l] New committer

2011-12-22 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Just gave Oren Bochman (User:OrenBochman, commitname oren) extensions access. He expects to work on the Lucene-search extension, adding morphology support for search in different languages, and dumpHtml bugs. Welcome, Oren! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia hackathon in Pune, India, Feb. 10-12 2012

2011-12-21 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/wiki/Grants:Participation ) -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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