Re: [Wikitech-l] Looking for WikiDev Summit main topics and volunteers

[Bill Morrisson]

Hello,

I would love to volunteer, is there any particular task to do??

On Sep 8, 2016 11:08 AM, "Quim Gil"  wrote:

> Hi, this is a request from the organizers of the Wikimedia Developer Summit
> 2016 (San Francisco, January 9-11).
>
> We are looking for candidates to become main topics of the next Summit.
> Ideally complex topics with a high user impact (direct or indirect) and
> ramifications in multiple technical areas. Deciding a few main topics
> beforehand will help us inviting the people needing to be involved,
> especially non-WMF contributors requiring travel sponsorship.
>
> We are also looking for volunteers who want to get involved in the
> organization of the Summit, or want to provide feedback to improve our
> plans.
>
> If you have proposals for main topics and/or want to volunteer, please
> reply.
>
> Context: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2017 &
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-
> September/086476.html
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Developer metrics workshop next to OSCON

[Bill Morrisson]

Hello

I'm interested in attending OSCON if possible. Is there anything I can do?

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Quim Gil  wrote:

> FYI
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Quim Gil 
> Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 9:37 AM
> Subject: Developer metrics workshop next to OSCON
> To: "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an
> interest in Wikipedia and analytics." ,
> Manrique Lopez 
>
>
> Hi, is there anybody in this list planning to attend OSCON (Austin, May
> 16-19)?
>
> http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-us
>
> Next to that event there will be a workshop about Software Development
> Analytics and the new Grimoire toolkit platform, on May 16th (10am - 1pm
> CDT
> ):
>
> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-development-analytics-workshop-tickets-24878480204
>
> The registration is not free, but the organizers (Bitergia, the developers
> of http://korma.wmflabs.org/ ) are offering us a couple of invitations.
> Andre and I are not attending OSCON (we have participated in the FOSDEM
> edition of this workshop). If you or someone you know is interested,
> contact me.
>
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

[Bill Morrisson]

Thanks a lot for your input, my doubts are clear now :)

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Andre Klapper 
wrote:

> On Sat, 2016-01-09 at 12:13 -0800, Brian Wolff wrote:
> > On Saturday, January 9, 2016, Rob Lanphier wrote:
> > > As Danny said, this is a wonderful thing to point out, and his
> > > answer
> > > way more authoritative than mine.  Thinking back to my early MediaWiki
> > > contribution experience, I would have loved to have had a ranked list
> > > of "these are things that are really important" so that I knew my
> > > contribution would ultimately be appreciated and important to the
> > > project.
> > >
> >
> > RIP bugzilla votes...
>
> I consider votes within a separate developer-focused tool (Bugzilla,
> which required a separate account) less representative than on-wiki.
> The latter allows a broader variety of community members to participate
> and raise their voices in an environment they are familiar with.
>
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

[Bill Morrisson]

@Rob Lanphier I was asking on behalf of myself

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Bill Morrisson <billmorrisso...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks a lot for your input, my doubts are clear now :)
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Andre Klapper <aklap...@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2016-01-09 at 12:13 -0800, Brian Wolff wrote:
>> > On Saturday, January 9, 2016, Rob Lanphier wrote:
>> > > As Danny said, this is a wonderful thing to point out, and his
>> > > answer
>> > > way more authoritative than mine.  Thinking back to my early MediaWiki
>> > > contribution experience, I would have loved to have had a ranked list
>> > > of "these are things that are really important" so that I knew my
>> > > contribution would ultimately be appreciated and important to the
>> > > project.
>> > >
>> >
>> > RIP bugzilla votes...
>>
>> I consider votes within a separate developer-focused tool (Bugzilla,
>> which required a separate account) less representative than on-wiki.
>> The latter allows a broader variety of community members to participate
>> and raise their voices in an environment they are familiar with.
>>
>> andre
>> --
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>> http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
>>
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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

[Bill Morrisson]

Hello

I wish to ask if volunteer developers can participate in one of the top 10
wishes of the community wishlist or can only start working on those wishes
that are at the rest of the list or if volunteer developers need a
particular permission for that.

Thanks

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 3:26 AM, Danny Horn  wrote:

> Henning,
>
> If we're going to solve the problem of dead links, it needs to involve
> automation, at least for the heavy lifting. Obviously, if a human
> contributor can add a better source, that's great. But there are more dead
> links than people willing to replace them.
>
> On English Wikipedia, there's Category:All articles with dead external
> links, and it contains more than 134,000 articles[1] -- and those are just
> the pages where somebody's added the Dead link template. There are a lot of
> missing references -- not just on English WP, but on all the projects --
> and connecting those links to a live archive makes them useful again.
>
> For links that were moved, we may be able to collect and use that
> information -- I know that we're looking into what kind of metadata we can
> collect when a new link is added to the page. But I think finding
> alternative sources has to come from human contributors, and that's hard to
> scale.
>
> Danny
> PM, Community Tech
>
> [1]:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_articles_with_dead_external_links
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Henning Schlottmann <
> h.schlottm...@gmx.net>
> wrote:
>
> > On 16.12.2015 21:12, Danny Horn wrote:
> >
> > > #1. Migrate dead links to the Wayback Machine  (111 support votes)
> >
> > I really hope, you don't follow that wish, as it is detrimental to the
> > quality of Wikipedia.
> >
> > Switching dead links to the archive is a move to a dead end, instead of
> > looking for
> >
> > a) the new correct URL, as many links were just moved.
> > b) alternative sources for the same fact.
> >
> > Ciao Henning
> >
> >
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

[Bill Morrisson]

I would like to thank Andre Klapper, Johan Jonsson, Matthew Flaschen and
Brian Wolff for the warm welcome and collaboration to my first patch
contribution. I'm really grateful for them.

Billm

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:35 AM, Pine W  wrote:

> I could name a lot of individuals. I'll name these in particular: Peaceray,
> Bluerasberry, Siko, Rory, and the now-departed Gayle and Philippe. I'm
> grateful for them.
>
> Pine
>
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Legoktm 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very
> > busy year! :-)
> >
> > I'll quote Sumana from last time:
> >
> > > How about a little email thread for us to say nice things about each
> > > other?  Rules: be kind, thank someone, and say why you're thanking
> > > them.
> > > [If you don't get thanked and you feel mopey, email me and I'll
> > > comfort you. :-)]
> >
> >
> > I'll start off with thank yous to:
> > * Addshore, for his awesome work on CatWatch and help with recent
> > ExtensionDistributor improvements
> > * YuviPanda, for coming up with unique and useful tools for Wikimedians,
> > and then following through and building them
> > * S Page, for consistently nagging me and other developers to improve
> > documentation
> >
> > -- Legoktm
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[Wikitech-l] Page_counter patch

[Bill Morrisson]

Hello everyone
Submitted my first patch for gerrit review. You can take a look at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/257311/1/maintenance/oracle/tables.sql
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Contributing to Wikimedia Foundation

[Bill Morrisson]

Thanks Brian for the info. I'm realising that it has already been done but
the task was not closed

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The bug references ORACLE, so its probably maintenance/oracle/tables.sql
>
> --bawolff
>
> On 11/16/15, Bill Morrisson <billmorrisso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks to Andre and Johan for the welcoming message and the tips to start
> > out in the wikimedia community.
> > I have been taking my time to look at the different links Andre pointed
> me
> > to. Looking at this particular link
> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs, I looked at this
> > particular bug https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116759 and I'm
> confused
> > on which particular tables.sql file to modify for there are several
> > versions of it.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Andre Klapper <aklap...@wikimedia.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Bill,
> >>
> >> On Sun, 2015-11-01 at 22:22 +0100, Bill Morrisson wrote:
> >> > I want to contribute to Wikimedia's opensource projects. I am a newbie
> >> > in
> >> > PHP and MySQL(just started learning the language 8 months ago) and had
> >> > in
> >> > mind in contributing to the organization as soon as I am comfortable
> in
> >> the
> >> > languages.
> >> > I would like to contribute in PHP and looking forward to learn
> >> > javascript
> >> > on the go with other projects as well. I would love to hear from
> >> wikimedia
> >> > if there is anything I can do first.
> >>
> >> Great! Thank you for your interest!
> >>
> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute is an overview of all
> >> the many ways how to contribute to Wikimedia.
> >> As you state that you are interested in hacking,
> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub
> >> provides a high-level overview of MediaWiki development for hackers.
> >> It also links to
> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker
> >> for starters. If you are looking for some "easy" bugs to work on,
> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs
> >> is also linked from that page. It offers some queries for bug reports
> >> in Wikimedia's issue tracking system.
> >>
> >> Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions!
> >>
> >> Looking forward to your first patch contribution!
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> andre
> >> --
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> >> http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
> >>
> >>
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Contributing to Wikimedia Foundation

[Bill Morrisson]

Thanks to Andre and Johan for the welcoming message and the tips to start
out in the wikimedia community.
I have been taking my time to look at the different links Andre pointed me
to. Looking at this particular link
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs, I looked at this
particular bug https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116759 and I'm confused
on which particular tables.sql file to modify for there are several
versions of it.


On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Andre Klapper <aklap...@wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> On Sun, 2015-11-01 at 22:22 +0100, Bill Morrisson wrote:
> > I want to contribute to Wikimedia's opensource projects. I am a newbie in
> > PHP and MySQL(just started learning the language 8 months ago) and had in
> > mind in contributing to the organization as soon as I am comfortable in
> the
> > languages.
> > I would like to contribute in PHP and looking forward to learn javascript
> > on the go with other projects as well. I would love to hear from
> wikimedia
> > if there is anything I can do first.
>
> Great! Thank you for your interest!
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute is an overview of all
> the many ways how to contribute to Wikimedia.
> As you state that you are interested in hacking,
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub
> provides a high-level overview of MediaWiki development for hackers.
> It also links to
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker
> for starters. If you are looking for some "easy" bugs to work on,
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs
> is also linked from that page. It offers some queries for bug reports
> in Wikimedia's issue tracking system.
>
> Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions!
>
> Looking forward to your first patch contribution!
>
> Cheers,
> andre
> --
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> http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
>
>
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[Wikitech-l] Contributing to Wikimedia Foundation

[Bill Morrisson]

Hello,

I am Bill Morrisson, a 4th year Under graduate Student from Catholic
University Insitute, Buea, Cameroon.
I want to contribute to Wikimedia's opensource projects. I am a newbie in
PHP and MySQL(just started learning the language 8 months ago) and had in
mind in contributing to the organization as soon as I am comfortable in the
languages.
I would like to contribute in PHP and looking forward to learn javascript
on the go with other projects as well. I would love to hear from wikimedia
if there is anything I can do first.

Thank you
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