Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

I write all answers in one place: Brian: > So we are going to magically assume that somehow this block is going to change mcbride's behaviour when it took a 100 message email thread before he even found out the reason he was blocked (which differs from the implied reason in the email which was

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

lid to block people temporarily just > because the warnings arent working out. > > > -- > bawolff > On Tuesday, August 14, 2018, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > > That's very valid but you don't see the CoCC bans anyone who makes an > > unconstructive or angry comment. The problem

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

tually > clarify, or ask followup questions, or what have you. It's not off topic. > > -I > > On 14/08/18 19:41, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > > Hey Petr, > > We have discussed this before in the thread and I and several other > people > > said it's a straw man. > > > &

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

Hey Petr, We have discussed this before in the thread and I and several other people said it's a straw man. The problem is not the WTF or "What the fuck" and as I said before the mere use of profanity is not forbidden by the CoC. What's forbidden is "Harming the discussion or community with

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] C-team Statement on the Code of Conduct

Hey, As a member of Code of conduct committee I just wanted to express how much I appreciate your statement. The work we are doing is not fun, we are dealing with frustrations, harassments, trolling, and all sorts of the dark side of the Wikimedia movement but I genuinely believe that this type of

[Wikitech-l] Suggested amendment: Public logging of bans made by CoC

Hello, Based on the discussions that happened in the past couple of days. I started this amendment proposal. Feel free to contribute. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Uikcu1emvmw6e4z8 Best ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

Taking my coc hat off, I'm not representing the committee at all. Several things have been misunderstood imo. I want to address them. 1) The use of profanity is not prohibited by the COC, using them against others or for unconstructive reasons is. If you see the whole discussion, you could clearly

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

I disabled the account and now I disabled it again. It's part of a CoC ban. We sent the user an email using the "Email to user" functionality from mediawiki.org the moment I enforced the ban. We rather not to discuss details of cases publicly but I feel this clarification is very much needed.

[Wikitech-l] Help needed on fixing discrepancies in db schemas

Hey, As a pet project of mine, I have been trying to find and fix discrepancies between the database schema in the codebase (like tables.sql in mediawiki core) and production. I wrote a script to do a basic analysis and got the results but it was so big that I needed to cluster them so now we have

[Wikitech-l] Code of conduct committee resolution regarding CoC presence on Mediawiki

Hey, In the past couple of days, the committee has been asked about whether the CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md should exist in mediawiki extension and skins repos[1]. We had a meeting and the resolution is output of that meeting. [2] Feel free to comment and give us feedback about it on its talk page :) [1]:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit as a shared community space

Here's my 2 cents. License is one example for me, if you are using gerrit and all of WMF infrastructure (from jenkins to translatewiki integration) you have to publish your code with at least one OSI-approved license. You can't say "All rights reserved" and still use all the benefits that came

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change for abstracts dumps, primarily for wikidata

I love this change, thank you! On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 4:33 PM Ariel Glenn WMF wrote: > Those of you that rely on the abstracts dumps will have noticed that the > content for wikidata is pretty much useless. It doesn't look like a > summary of the page because main

[Wikitech-l] Code of conduct committee call for new members

Hello all, It's coming close to time for annual appointments of community members to serve on the Code of Conduct (CoC) committee. The Code of Conduct Committee is a team of five trusted individuals plus five auxiliary members with diverse affiliations responsible for general enforcement of the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Persian Wikimedia cryptocurrency mining incident

Translated and posted in Persian Wikipedia's WP:VP. [0] Posting the translation here, in case it would be useful: «در ۱۴ مارس ۲۰۱۸، اسنادی از استفاده از نرم‌افزار استخراج پول مجازی در ویکی‌پدیای فارسی کشف شد. این کشف توسط جامعه کاربران اتفاق افتاد و در کمتر از ده دقیقه بعد از اضافه شدن به وب‌گاه

Re: [Wikitech-l] What ways are there to include user-edited JavaScript in a wiki page? (threat model: crypto miners)

That already happened and the user got blocked indefinitely immediately after the incident. The JS was there for seven minutes which bad enough IMO. One thing is that Persian Wikipedia community is working to strip the right of editing mediawiki ns from the templateeditor user group:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata vandalism dashboard (for Wikipedians)

ricator.wikimedia.org/T176515>]) > >> doing regex queries on non indexed summary column of recent changes? > >> > >> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 6:48 PM, Dayllan Maza <dm...@wikimedia.org> > >> wrote: > >> > >> > This is great. Than

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata vandalism dashboard (for Wikipedians)

Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 5:54 PM Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hello, > > People usually ask me how they can patrol edits that affect their > Wikipedia > > or their language. The proper way to do so is by using watchlist and > > rece

[Wikitech-l] Wikidata vandalism dashboard (for Wikipedians)

Hello, People usually ask me how they can patrol edits that affect their Wikipedia or their language. The proper way to do so is by using watchlist and recentchanges (with "Show Wikidata edits" option enabled) in Wikipedias but sometimes it shows too many unrelated changes. Also, it would be good

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Code stewardship reviews, seeking feedback

I started the phabricator card for reviewing FlaggedRevs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185664 I hope I did it correctly, feel free to correct me if I made any mistakes. Best On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 9:39 PM Greg Grossmeier wrote: > Hello, > > Some background: > > The

Re: [Wikitech-l] Setting logged in user context on unit tests

I recently stumbled across a great test suite called ApiQueryWatchlistIntegrationTest https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/master/tests/phpunit/includes/api/ApiQueryWatchlistIntegrationTest.php I think that answers your question. Feel free to ask question if it's unclear. Best On Mon,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing MediaWiki code search

Kunal, you rock! Best ‪On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 1:50 PM ‫יגאל חיטרון‬‎ wrote:‬ > Wow, thanks a lot! > Igal (User:IKhitron) > > > 2017-12-21 14:09 GMT+02:00 Florian Schmidt < > florian.schmidt.wel...@t-online.de>: > > > Kunal….. that is simply awesome! Big thanks for this

[Wikitech-l] [CoC] Call for feedback on the proposed amendments

Hello, Based on the text of Code of Conduct in technical spaces "Every three months, the Committee collects the ideas proposed (if any) and organizes a call for feedback announced in the main technical spaces." [0] This is our first call for feedback on the proposed amendments and we humbly ask

Re: [Wikitech-l] Timeless skin now available on mw.org

It's fantastic, it will be my default skin when it gets deployed in Wikipedia. One thing: OOjs UI has a different theme for monobook (apex theme) and for vector the theme is "mediawiki", Are you planning to design another OOjs UI theme for this skin? Also it would be great to have it comply with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Turkey ban

The Iranian government by blocking several major websites (youtube, facebook, twitter) actually made people aware of anonymizers and people were able to use a wide range of them. Most popular ones that people in Turkey can use is: 1- Psiphon (a little bit slow, has an android app) 2- Hotspot

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sitelink removal in Wikidata

huwiki > */ > Fúriadüh > But the row is still visible after refreshing. > Is it possible to develop the tool so that it checks if the current version > has the removed link and in case of yes it omits the row from the list, so > that we don't have to check reverted items? &g

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sitelink removal in Wikidata

The edit is made and rollbacked in Wikidata which does have RC patrolling if I understand you correctly. On Wed, Apr 26, 2017, 6:49 PM Gergő Tisza <gti...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > &

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sitelink removal in Wikidata

Thanks Maarten! I think both can be used. Best On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 5:57 PM Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > The tool excludes edits that are marked as patrolled but you need to > rollback (instead of undo/restore). I can add an option that only > g

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sitelink removal in Wikidata

link and in case of yes it omits the row from the list, so > that we don't have to check reverted items? > > 2017-04-26 5:30 GMT+02:00 Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgr...@gmail.com>: > > > Hey, > > One common form of vandalism in Wikidata is removing sitelinks (we > alr

[Wikitech-l] Sitelink removal in Wikidata

Hey, One common form of vandalism in Wikidata is removing sitelinks (we already have an abuse filter flagging them). One of my friends in Persian Wikipedia (who is not a wikidata editor and only cares about Persian Wikipedia) asked me to write a tool that lists all Persian Wikipedia sitelink

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special:AllPages (temporarily) disabled on all wikis

You can add a note in Mediawiki:Allpages-summary in your wiki (only admins can do it) Best On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 7:11 PM Samuele Mantani wrote: > Is there a way to display a warning message on the page? > > Samuele2002 > > Il 20/Mar/2017 04:26 PM, "Sam Reed"

[Wikitech-l] Mediawiki core has reached to its 400th contributor

Hey, Today I was checking mediawiki/core in github: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki And number of contributors is now 400. It might be a little more if we count SVN era. To me, it's an important milestone. More important than number of commits or releases. It's about people not numbers or

Re: [Wikitech-l] +2 request for yurik in mediawiki and maps-dev

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think If someone has +2 rights before joining WMF, leaving WMF is not a reason to remove rights at all. If there was a case someone abuse their power and gets fired because of that. "The abuse" should be the reason to lose the right not "leaving WMF"/"being

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 3:19 PM Strainu wrote: For 3 reasons: 1. While MW is open source, what gets deployed on the WMF servers is the legal and moral responsability of the Foundation. They have responsibility but it's limited. 2. The WMF has an 8-person "Community

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

I just want you to stop there On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 2:07 PM Strainu wrote: > That's one way to put it. I would rather say that we reacted to yet > another slip-up in communication from the Foundation. Why is it so > hard for you guys to push the information to wikis? > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 12:37 PM Gergo Tisza wrote: > ​For reference, these are the changes being discussed: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F5022813 > > It returns permission error to me ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

ke this would be communicated and discussed > widely in the future and that an RfC would be undertaken before making > these kinds of changes to community wikis. > > Pine > > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hey

[Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

Hey, With the deployment of 1.29.0-wmf.5 which just finished on all wikis, several changes were made in user interface colors. * Gray boxes (TOC, Wikitables, catlinks, thumbnails, elements in history etc.) has changed from #f9f9f9 as background to #f8f9fa and #aaa as border to #a2a9b1. [1] This

[Wikitech-l] The Revision scoring weekly update

Hey, This is 28th weekly update from revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. Publications: - *New dataset shows fifteen years of Wikipedia’s quality trends *posted in Wikimedia Blog [1,2] - Halfaker, Aaron (2016): Monthly Wikipedia article quality predictions.

[Wikitech-l] ORES scores is injected to js configs

Hey, With deployment of I42300f9 [1] in wmf.23 which happened several days ago (depending on your wiki), ORES scores are injected to mediawiki javascript config variables. You can access ores data in Special:RecentChanges/Watchlist/Contributions using mw.config.get('oresData'). It opens up a whole

[Wikitech-l] O'Reilly free books

O'Reilly just published some of their popular books for free, either as part of open access movement or some kind of marketing (or both). I find them useful to Wikimedia developers. It supports several types of e-books so you can read it in your kindle, etc.: * Performance, Operations, Release

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit was down today

Chad wrote: However, since it appears it's a hardware problem, we're planning to migrate off of lead to a new machine (cobalt). The public IP addresses will not be changing. The plan right now is to do this migration tomorrow with a scheduled downtime at 17:00UTC (10:00 PST). TLDR: scheduled down

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Gerrit was down today

It was bothering to me but I'm guessing this is one of so so many flaws of gerrit itself and probably not fixable easily (other people are more qualified to comment) but i want to suggest speeding up the process to move to differential which is much better in handling such down times alongside

[Wikitech-l] ORES article quality data as a database table

One of ORES [1] applications is determining article quality. For example, What would be the best assessment of an article in the given revision. Users in wikiprojects use ORES data to check if articles need re-assessment. e.g. if an article is in "Start" level and now good it's enough to be a "B"

Re: [Wikitech-l] New DB_REPLICA constant; DB_SLAVE deprecated

Sorry for late question. I guess we should deprecate wfWaitForSlaves() and probably some other methods that still use this logic Best On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:22 AM Aaron Schulz wrote: > As of 950cf6016c, the mediawiki/core repo was updated to use DB_REPLICA > instead

[Wikitech-l] ORES review tool default sensitivity changed now

Hey all, We just deployed a change that changed default sensitivity of ORES review tool from "hard" to "soft" (meaning recall would drop from 0.9 to 0.75 but percentage of false positives drops too). You are still able to change it back in your preferences (Recent changes tab). Please come to us

Re: [Wikitech-l] [AI] Deployment of ORES review tool in Englis Wikipedia as a beta feature

ia:Labels/Edit_quality >>> >>> -Aaron >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Luis Villa <l...@lu.is> wrote: >>> >>>> Very cool! Is there any way for users of this tool to help train it? >>>> For example, the first four t

[Wikitech-l] Deployment of ORES review tool in Englis Wikipedia as a beta feature

We (The Revision Scoring Team ) are happy to announce the deployment of the ORES review tool as a beta feature

Re: [Wikitech-l] [AI] New models coming to ORES & notes

One small note: This will cause the ORES review tool to invalidate it's db cache. So we will probably need to run some maintenance scripts here and there. You might feel a few bumps in the tool in Wikipedia. We will let you know beforehand :) Best On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 3:10 AM Aaron Halfaker

[Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

Hey, This is the 17th weekly update from revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. New developments: - ORES review tool is now deployed in Polish Wikipedia [1] - ORES review tool shows "r" flag in user contributions too. This will be deployed this week [2] -

[Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

Hey, This is the 14th weekly update from revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. New developments: - We have a new grafana dashboard for requests that the ORES beta feature makes [1] [2] - There is a grafana chart in ORES service showing total number of

[Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

Hey, This is the (12 + 1)th [1] weekly update from revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. New developments: - ORES review tool is deployed as a beta feature in Turkish Wikipedia. Now six Wikis have this tool. [2] - CopyPatrol tool soon will show ORES scores if

Re: [Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

gt; I go on the English Wikipedia > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Labels>, it works™. But on the > French version <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Labels> it > doesn't. > > What did I missed? ^^ > > > Le 11/07/2016 à 21:40, Amir Ladsgroup a écrit :

[Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

Hey, This is the 12th weekly update from revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. New developments: - We deployed ORES review tool in Russian and Portuguese Wikipedia! [1] [2] - Basic support for English Wiktionary and Czech Wikipedia is live in labs.[3] Soon

[Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

Hey, This is the 11th weekly update from revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. *New developments:* - ORES review tool as a beta feature is enabled in Dutch Wikipedia. More wikis to come soon this week [1]. - We have basic edit quality model for Czech Wikipedia

[Wikitech-l] The revision scoring weekly update

Hey all, This is the 10th weekly update (yay!) from revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. We had Wikimania so it was a busy week. Sessions: - Lessons Learned building machine models for Wikidata [1] Video [2] Slides [3] - Hackathon: Supporting new languages in

Re: [Wikitech-l] ORES going into production

That link is enough :) Best On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 2:37 PM Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > Are links for data about worklist progress also moving? > > I am using http://labels.wmflabs.org/campaigns/hewiki/?campaigns=stats for > seeing how far is Hebrew from completion.

Re: [Wikitech-l] ORES going into production

Yeah, it'll be there in 16:00: https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon/Program On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 2:06 PM Strainu wrote: > Aaron, is this still in the Thater? Locations changed a lot today. > Thanks, >Strainu > > 2016-06-22 21:08 GMT+03:00 Aaron Halfaker

[Wikitech-l] The revision scoring weekly update

Hi folks, This is the 8th weekly update for the revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. *New developments:* - ORES extension got deployed in Persian Wikipedia. [1] Give it a try! [2] - Article quality model ("wp10" model) is now working for Russian Wikipedia.

[Wikitech-l] Revision scoring weekly update

Hey folks, This is the 7th weekly update for the revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. *New developments:* - The production version of ORES (ores.wikimedia.org) is live! We are still testing and it might break sometimes. [1] - Norwegian basic support is

[Wikitech-l] The Revision scoring weekly update

Hey, This is the fifth weekly update for revision scoring team that we sent to this mailing list. *New developments:* - We got Swedish basic model ready to deloy, likely to happen in the next week [1] [2] - We generated list of bad words for every Wikipedia with more than 100K

[Wikitech-l] Revision Scoring weekly update

Hey, Here is the weekly update for the Revision Scoring project for the week of May 9th through May 15th. *New developments:* - We do have a dedicated help page on how to request that we add support for new languages[1] - We deployed new version of revscoring and ORES, The biggest

[Wikitech-l] Weekly update #2

The second weekly update on the Revision Scoring project. *New developments* - ORES has graphite dashboard now [1,2] - Deploying new campaigns and testing Wikilabels got easier [3,4] - Revscoring feature extraction got about 13% faster [5] - We deployed new versions of ORES and

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Weekly update

Hey, this is the first weekly update on Revision Scoring project. In case you are not subscribed to ai-l -- Forwarded message - From: Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgr...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 7:02 PM Subject: Weekly update To: a...@lists.wikimed

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Migrating Node.JS services' deployment to Scap3

Awesome \o/ On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 6:55 PM Andrew Otto wrote: > > I think that’s the only python based service deployed via scap3 > EventLogging is python and deployed with scap3. > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list >

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Migrating Node.JS services' deployment to Scap3

I must note that ORES service in beta [1] uses scap3 deployment instead of fabric. I think that's the only python based service deployed via scap3, I'll be around at IRC if you have questions about migrating python-based services. [1]: https://ores-beta.wmflabs.org Best On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2017 Wikimedia Hackathon: Vienna, Austria!

The most beautiful city in the world. Congrats. To the team. I hope to have a super productive event. On 23:15, Mon, 14 Mar 2016 Rachel Farrand wrote: > Hello! > > The 2017 Wikimedia Hackathon Committee and the WMF Developer Relations team > are very pleased to announce

Re: [Wikitech-l] ORES extension soon be deployed, help us test it

-betafeatures [2]: An example: http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges=1 Best On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 7:48 PM Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's done, the patch is merged now and we should have it the beta cluster. > The only thing her

Re: [Wikitech-l] ORES extension soon be deployed, help us test it

at 10:06 AM, Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > We should make a patch like this > > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/269478/ > > but for testwiki AFAIK. > > > > testwiki is in the production cluster. For the beta cluster, make a similar &

Re: [Wikitech-l] ORES extension soon be deployed, help us test it

ter? > > -Aaron > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Antoine Musso <hashar+...@free.fr> wrote: > > > Le 19/02/2016 23:35, Amir Ladsgroup a écrit : > > > Hey all, > > > TLDR: ORES extension [1] which is an extension that integrates ORES > > service &

[Wikitech-l] ORES extension soon be deployed, help us test it

Hey all, TLDR: ORES extension [1] which is an extension that integrates ORES service [2] with Wikipedia to make fighting vandalism easier and more efficient is in the progress of deployment. You can test it in https://mw-revscoring.wmflabs.org (Enable it in your preferences first) You probably

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

I would like to thank: *Legoktm: For starting this thread and his awesome work in SUL *Halfak: for his unstoppable drive to make wikipedia better *Lydia Pintscher and her amazing team: For the one and only Wikidata :) Best On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 11:56 AM Legoktm

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community Tech: October report

As a Farsi speaker, Thank you :) Best On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 3:44 AM Legoktm wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/03/2015 03:39 PM, Legoktm wrote: > > On 11/03/2015 03:29 PM, Risker wrote: > >> Okay, so I'm not going to say they shocked me in fact, they're > pretty > >>

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Nothing Left but Always Right: The Twisted Road to RTL Support: November 2

Thanks Moriel. It was amazing. i shared it in Persian Wikipedia's technical village pump and several

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

Also Corss-wiki watchlists are good place to start. Best On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 2:35 AM Pine W wrote: > Thanks for the expanded update. > > I'm a big fan of Echo and am happy to hear that global notifications are > coming. > > If

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

I don't know if this is correct place to bring this idea, but [[Extension:PageTriage]] is good example of a starting point. Is there any plans to work on it by collaboration team? Best On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:50 PM Roan Kattouw wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 6:21 AM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Page Curation for other wikis

is not the blocker, here; the blocker is localising it to /each project/. The extension would need to be restructured to allow this and then rewritten for each wiki - that's a pretty big task. On 21 August 2015 at 05:56, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: I found this bug: https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Page Curation for other wikis

I found this bug: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T50552 But it has lowest priority. Why? On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 1:10 PM jay...@gmail.com wrote: This could be a good GSoC project. On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 18:08 Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Page Curation [1][2][3

[Wikitech-l] Page Curation for other wikis

Hey, Page Curation [1][2][3] is a project funded by WMF but strangely the product is only available for English Wikipedia. This is surprising because this tool is useful for all Wikis and I don't think i18n would be very hard. Is there any plans to add i18n and rolling it out in other languages?

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Code of conduct

I was trying to adapt such policy for technical spaces for two years, It is serious issue and it happens a lot, If it didn't happen to you, that doesn't mean it's not happening or doesn't worth being addressed. I'm working to adapt a CoC for pywikibot if this one fails [1] If you think it needs

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Pywikipedia-l] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

Can you name one? On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:02 AM John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote: This is something that the pywiki devs need to fix in compat. Please dont give me shit about moving to core. I have yet to have it not fatally error out in less than 10 minutes of using it. There are still

Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

It means all compat bots will break and since pywikibot team won't support compat and won't change the code to support the new API, We are planning to deprecate it [1] So please compat bot operators, do update your codes to core, read [2] [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99365 [2]:

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Pywikipedia-l] Connecting to github community

Based on talks in here I think it would be cool if we continue to work on this but more in a phabricator way. On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:38 AM Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! https://github.com/wikimedia/labs-tools-SuchABot did this and more - it was a full fledged gerrit - github

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Pywikipedia-l] Connecting to github community

in pywikibot and it worked well. quote name=Amir Ladsgroup date=2015-05-05 time=07:05:48 + Hey, Github has a huge community of developers that collaborating with them can be beneficial for us and them but Wikimedia codes are in gerrit (and in future in phabricator) and our bug tracker

[Wikitech-l] Connecting to github community

Hey, Github has a huge community of developers that collaborating with them can be beneficial for us and them but Wikimedia codes are in gerrit (and in future in phabricator) and our bug tracker is in phabrictor. sometimes It feels we are in another planet. Wikimedia has a mirror in github but we

Re: [Wikitech-l] [x-posting] Raising attention for the API bug

, Amir Ladsgroup a écrit : Hello, This bug https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87645 is more serious than it seems and it's blocked a huge part of our actions (e.g. creating pages outside of main namespace via API) Please someone take a look at this namespaceDupes.php did the magic

[Wikitech-l] [x-posting] Raising attention for the API bug

Hello, This bug https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87645 is more serious than it seems and it's blocked a huge part of our actions (e.g. creating pages outside of main namespace via API) Please someone take a look at this -- Amir ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] links to non-existent #sections

Aim of the bot is not fixing ALL broken section links, but to make human work as low as possible. Best On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 9:16 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Amir Ladsgroup wrote: I wrote a bot to fix broken section links based on history of target article, I ran it in several

Re: [Wikitech-l] links to non-existent #sections

I wrote a bot to fix broken section links based on history of target article, I ran it in several wikis including English Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Dexbot_1 I can run it in any wikis, It uses fuzzy logic and it should calibrated with the target

Re: [Wikitech-l] Major achievements during previous Mediawiki Hackathons

Reading this blog post by Lila is highly recommended: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/15/hacker-osmosis-ideas-european-hackathon-zurich/ In general I agree with Mark :) Best On 10/29/14, Mark A. Hershberger m...@nichework.com wrote: Sylvain Boissel sylvain.bois...@wikimedia.fr writes: I am

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tor and Anonymous Users (I know, we've had this discussion a million times)

Hey, Overall you are suggesting that WMF changes the policy about anonymity and accept anonymous users. In my view it's not a technical thing and it should be brought up in wikimedia-l. BTW: I need to add something about anonymous users and how the system treats them. When you block all open

Re: [Wikitech-l] FOSS OPW: looking for female technical contributors

I added two projects related to pywikibot: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Raw_projects Please check if anything is correct. Best On 9/17/14, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear wikimedians, The Free and Open Source Souftware Outreach Program for Women

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

You will be missed Sumana, I personally will never forget what you did in WMF to make Wiki a better place. Best wishes On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 sep. 2014, at 20:08, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: Hey

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bikeshedding a good name for the api.php API

UnicornPI (unicorn-pie) sounds good to me ;) On 8/7/14, Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.org wrote: something something Unicorn. On Aug 6, 2014, at 2:32 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: When api.php was basically the only API in MediaWiki, calling it the API

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bikeshedding a good name for the api.php API

Core API can be misleading since people may think other APIs are based on MW's API (i.e. It's core of other APIs) even though It's true in some cases but not necessarily for all. Am I wrong? Best On 8/7/14, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:15 PM, James Forrester

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pywikibot bug triage

Pywikibot bug triage is finished now and during the event 189 bugs were changed and 39 one of them were closed. Considering that pywikibot currently has about 450 bugs, that's quite good. A big thank you to people who joined and participated. Best On 7/3/14, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sysadmin appreciation day

On 7/25/14, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Today is the last Friday in July, so it's Sysadmin Appreciation Day. I thank all the people who have built and maintained Wikimedia's technical infrastructure since 2001 - volunteers, staff, and in between. :) I won't spam you too

[Wikitech-l] Remider: Next bug triage for pywikibot starts in less than 24 hours

Hello all, This e-mail is just a reminder for you that next bug triage for pywikibot https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/20140724 will start tomorrow 10:00 UTC. You are very welcome to join. For further information see this blog post

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remider: Next bug triage for pywikibot starts in less than 24 hours

*Reminder :D On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, This e-mail is just a reminder for you that next bug triage for pywikibot https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/20140724 will start tomorrow 10:00 UTC. You are very welcome

Re: [Wikitech-l] User agent policy for bots

I made a patch to add any customized user agent and (username would be default) and if the person doesn't want to add any user agent, they just can set it to https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/147381/ I would be happy for any comments regarding this patch Best On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 7:00

Re: [Wikitech-l] Winter, v. 0.6

This is awesome, thank you. but do you work on i18n? specially for RTL languages because in some languages (like Hebrew or Persian) it doesn't work correctly. Thank you Best On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Beautiful! When can we expect to be able to

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