Re: [Wikitech-l] Please provide feedback on new discrimination and enforcement sections of Code of Conduct

[Tomasz Finc]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Matthew Flaschen
 wrote:
> Please participate at
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Circumvention_text_new_wording

I put in my support for this. Thanks Matt and others who have worked on this.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Using Wikipedia/Wikidata in a nonprofit search engine

[Tomasz Finc]

Greetings Sylvian,

The Discovery department has been talking pretty actively with WMDE
about this very topic. We've already explored WikiData descriptions in
search results, brainstormed about how relevance functions could be
affected by WikiData, seen great community tools like ppp-sparql
connect natural language search and WikiData through WDQS [1], and
started to think about structured data on commons [2].

If any of those interest you, then please join us on irc
#wikimedia-discovery and we can chat more.

--tomasz

[1] - 
https://tools.wmflabs.org/ppp-sparql/#What%20is%20the%20population%20of%20Poland%3F
[2] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T68108

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Sylvain Zimmer
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some of you may be familiar with http://commoncrawl.org ; they are
> doing an excellent job of making large crawls of the web accessible to
> everyone.
>
> I've been working on an open search engine based on these crawls for a
> while, and I would love to have your feedbacks on the project:
> https://about.commonsearch.org/
>
> Specifically, I would be curious to know what you would consider to be
> the best possible integration of Wikipedia & Wikidata in a general
> search engine?
>
> As a first step, we have just started using the "official website"
> property from Wikidata and we are considering importing the Wikipedia
> abstracts next (https://github.com/commonsearch/cosr-back/issues/11).
>
> I'm looking forward to your feedbacks... or contributions! :-)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> PS: A few wikimedians recommended me to post on wikitech-l to keep the
> focus on the technical aspects of the project and hopefully avoid
> linking this project in any way to the KE stuff, which it actually
> predates by far (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6209088).
>
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Re: [Wikitech-l] limited presence

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On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman
 wrote:
> ive had a small accident with skiing. ill be fine, but because of it my 
> participation will be low for some while and though i am reading along with 
> some things, any answers will like be terse, and code will be none.

Ouch, I saw the photos. We'll be here when you get back. Rest up.

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[Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Guillaume Lederrey to the WMF

[Tomasz Finc]

I am pleased to announce that Guillaume Lederrey joins WMF this week
as Operation Engineer in the Discovery team. Guillaume will work
closely with our operations team to support Elastic Search, Maps, and
WDQS along with strengthening our experience with Java based services.

Guillaume will be working remotely from Lausanne (Switzerland) where
he lives with his 4 month old son and his mother. Guillaume has
previous experience with non profits, having worked for a year in
Rwanda for an NGO. Working to make the world a better place is what
motivates him to join WMF.

For the last 5 years, Guillaume has been working for Nespresso, taking
care of all things from performance and stability of the e-commerce
and backend stacks, challenging agile practices and introducing Puppet
as the main configuration tool to managing build tools, improving
automated code quality and bringing coffee to his coworkers.

On his free time, Guillaume is the maintainer of JmxTrans [1], the
missing piece to monitor JVM based applications.

Guillaume can be found on IRC under the nickname 'gehel'.

Please join me in welcoming him!

--tomasz

[1]: https://github.com/jmxtrans/jmxtrans

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[Wikitech-l] Search API @ Developer Summit

[Tomasz Finc]

The Discovery team is planning on running a session about the search api at
the dev summit https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113540 and we'd love your
feedback about what we should cover.

Please comment on the phab task and let us know

thanks to those who already have

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing the launch of Maps

[Tomasz Finc]

Thanks Yongmin,

Operations will need to update the referrer in Varnish ERB. Similar to

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/239279/

--tomasz

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Yongmin Hong <li...@revi.pe.kr> wrote:

> Done at T113122, but why operations?
>
> --
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> -- Sent from Android --
> 2015. 9. 19. 오전 9:27에 "Yuri Astrakhan" <yastrak...@wikimedia.org>님이 작성:
>
> > Please file a phabricator task, and add maps and operations on it
> > On Sep 19, 2015 3:21 AM, "Yongmin Hong" <li...@revi.pe.kr> wrote:
> >
> > > 2015. 9. 18. 오전 4:27에 "Tomasz Finc" <tf...@wikimedia.org>님이 작성:
> > > >
> > > > The Discovery Department has launched an experimental tile and static
> > > maps
> > > > service available at https://maps.wikimedia.org.
> > > >
> > > > Using this service you can browse and embed map tiles into your own
> > tools
> > > > using OpenStreetMap data. Currently, we handle traffic from *.wmflabs
> > > .org
> > > > and *.wikivoyage .org (referrer header must be either missing or set
> to
> > > > these values) but we would like to open it up to Wikipedia traffic if
> > we
> > > > see enough use. Our hope is that this service fits the needs of the
> > > > numerous maps developers and tool authors who have asked for a WMF
> > hosted
> > > > tile service with an initial focus on WikiVoyage.
> > >
> > > It is sad that incubator.wikimedia.org is not included. (Wikivoyages
> not
> > > ready for their own wikis resides on this domain under prefix Wy/**, so
> > > Korean one becomes [[Wy/ko]].)
> > >
> > > - snip -
> > >
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[Wikitech-l] Announcing the launch of Maps

[Tomasz Finc]

The Discovery Department has launched an experimental tile and static maps
service available at https://maps.wikimedia.org.

Using this service you can browse and embed map tiles into your own tools
using OpenStreetMap data. Currently, we handle traffic from *.wmflabs .org
and *.wikivoyage .org (referrer header must be either missing or set to
these values) but we would like to open it up to Wikipedia traffic if we
see enough use. Our hope is that this service fits the needs of the
numerous maps developers and tool authors who have asked for a WMF hosted
tile service with an initial focus on WikiVoyage.

We'd love for you to try our new service, experiment writing tools using
our tiles, and giving us feedback  .
If you've built a tool using OpenStreetMap-based imagery then using our
service is a simple drop-in replacement.

Getting started is as easy as
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps#Getting_Started

How can you help?

* Adapt your labs tool to use this service - for example, use Leaflet js
library and point it to https://maps.wikimedia.org
* File bugs in Phabricator

* Provide us feedback to help guide future features

* Improve our map style 
* Improve our data extraction


Based on usage and your feedback, the Discovery team
 will decide how to proceed.

We could add more data sources (both vector and raster), work on additional
services such as static maps or geosearch, work on supporting all
languages, switch to client-side WebGL rendering, etc. Please help us
decide what is most important.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps has more about the project and related
Maps work.

== In Depth ==

Tiles are served from https://maps.wikimedia.org, but can only be accessed
from any subdomains of *.wmflabs .org and *.wikivoyage.org.  Kartotherian
can produce tiles as images (png), and as raw vector data (PBF Mapbox
format or json):

.../{source}/{zoom}/{x}/{y}[@{scale}x].{format}

Additionally, Kartotherian can produce snapshot (static) images of any
location, scaling, and zoom level with

.../{source},{zoom},{lat},{lon},{width}x{height}[@{scale}x].{format}.

For example, to get an image centered at 42,-3.14, at zoom level 4, size
800x600, use https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,4,42,-3.14,800x600.png
(copy/paste the link, or else it might not work due to referrer
restriction).

Do note that the static feature is highly experimental right now.

We would like to thank WMF Ops (especially Alex Kosiaris, Brandon Black,
and Jaime Crespo), services team, OSM community and engineers, and the
Mapnik and Mapbox teams. The project would not have completed so fast
without you.

Thank You

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Re: [Wikitech-l] What happened to our user agent requirements?

[Tomasz Finc]

Tracking the overall issue

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Oliver Keyes <oke...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Specifically, the hypothesis that people are sending "-"?
>
> On 1 September 2015 at 12:58, Tomasz Finc <tf...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Let's get a task in phab for this so that we can triage next steps.
>> I'm curious about this as well.
>>
>> --tomasz
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Oliver Keyes <oke...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>> On 1 September 2015 at 12:42, John <phoenixoverr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Could they be sending a non-standard header of "-"
>>>
>>> Perfectly possible although also impossible to detect :(
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, September 1, 2015, Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:24 AM Oliver Keyes <oke...@wikimedia.org
>>>>> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > Is the
>>>>> > blocking of requests absent a user agent simply happening at a
>>>>> > 'higher' stage (in mediawiki itself?) and so not registering with the
>>>>> > varnishes,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> No, it's not done at the application level.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> > or is sending an /empty/ header simply A-OK?
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> Shouldn't be, unless the policy changed...
>>>>>
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Re: [Wikitech-l] What happened to our user agent requirements?

[Tomasz Finc]

Let's get a task in phab for this so that we can triage next steps.
I'm curious about this as well.

--tomasz

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Oliver Keyes  wrote:
> On 1 September 2015 at 12:42, John  wrote:
>> Could they be sending a non-standard header of "-"
>
> Perfectly possible although also impossible to detect :(
>
>>
>> On Tuesday, September 1, 2015, Chad  wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:24 AM Oliver Keyes >> > wrote:
>>>
>>> > Is the
>>> > blocking of requests absent a user agent simply happening at a
>>> > 'higher' stage (in mediawiki itself?) and so not registering with the
>>> > varnishes,
>>>
>>>
>>> No, it's not done at the application level.
>>>
>>>
>>> > or is sending an /empty/ header simply A-OK?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> Shouldn't be, unless the policy changed...
>>>
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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Niharika Kohli

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Welcome!

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Bryan Davis bd...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 Community Tech is glad to welcome Niharika Kohli as a Software Engineer. Her
 first day will be 2015-05-26.

 Here's the great blurb she wrote for me to forward on to the lists:

 Niharika lives in New Delhi, India where she's recently completed her
 undergraduate in IT. She's formerly been an OPW (now Outreachy) intern with
 Wikimedia for Round 7 where she had fun working on the compact language
 selector project with the Language Engineering team. She's also been a
 Google Summer of Code intern where she worked on a whacky Django project in
 a tiny five person organization.
 Niharika's been working as a contractor with the Foundation since November
 on the Wikimania Scholarships and Grants Review applications. She's also
 been having a lot of fun bullying around Wikimedia's GSoC and Outreachy
 interns (one of the perks of being an org-administrator).
 Niharika enjoys cooking Indian food in her spare time. She's also fond of
 travelling, roller coasters, board games, messing around with gadgets and
 other nerdy stuff like solving the Rubik's cube. She's thrilled to be
 working with Wikimedia which is her first real job.


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 [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]]  Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA
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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Frances Hocutt

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Great to have you on board full time

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Bryan Davis bd...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 I'm excited to announce that Frances Hocutt has been hired as a Software
 Engineer on the Community Tech team starting 2015-05-26.

 She has gotten a good start on getting things done by writing a great
 introduction blurb for me to forward on:

 Frances is looking forward to starting on a [new team doing cool but
 unspecified stuff]. Frances has been with the WMF for most of the last year,
 first as an OPW intern and then as a developer for Community Resources.
 Frances has primarily worked in the MediaWiki API ecosystem: she wrote the
 standard for API client libraries, evaluated a number of them, and developed
 wiki bots to support this Inspire campaign and the Co-op mentorship project
 on English Wikipedia. She also has contributed patches and product
 management to Wikimetrics. Before starting work in F/OSS, Frances worked as
 a medicinal chemist, studied organic chemistry and materials science, and
 founded a hackerspace. She moved to the Bay Area in January. She enjoys
 giving talks, mentoring new programmers, and practicing various fiber arts.

 Frances can be found as fhocutt on IRC, Fhocutt as a volunteer, and Fhocutt
 (WMF) officially.


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[Wikitech-l] Welcome Stephane Bisson to the Collaboration Team

[Tomasz Finc]

I am pleased to announce that Stephane Bisson joins WMF this week as a
Software Engineer on the Collaboration Team!

Stephane is an avid learner and traveler. He is passionate about
history, cultures, and languages. He runs, cooks, and enjoys wine
tasting. And is eager to travel to Napa with anyone who knows it well.

Professionally, Stephane spent 5 years writing software for the
manufacturing industry and another 5 years as a consultant for
ThoughtWorks. Ruby and Javascript have a very special place in his
heart.

Stephane will join the Collaboration team focusing on front-end
development and will be in SF with the team this week.

Please welcome Stephane!

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Moritz Muehlenhoff joins as Ops Security Engineer

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Welcome Moritz, great to have you here

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Mark Bergsma m...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 Hi all,

 I'm very pleased to announce that as of stoday/syesterday, Moritz
 Mühlenhoff will be joining the Ops team in the role of Operations
 Security Engineer. We're excited as for the first time we'll have an
 engineer on our team able to focus on enhancing the security of our
 infrastructure.

 Some of you Debian users may recognize his name; in his spare time
 he's very active in the Debian Security Team and sends out a large
 portion of their security advisory mails. ;)

 Moritz lives in Bremen, North Germany (internationally perhaps best
 known for being the home of Beck's beer) with his spouse Silvia and
 their 16 m/o son Tjark. Besides being a Debian Developer, he also very
 much enjoys Rugby Union and plays tighthead prop in his local club
 Union 60 Bremen in the third divison of Germany. He used to be a
 frequent visitor of film festivals such as the San Sebastian festival,
 but with the baby around home theatre has become more prevalent. :-)

 Moritz is working with us remotely, and can usually be found using his
 nick jmm on Freenode.

 Please join me in welcoming Moritz to the team!

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[Wikitech-l] Welcome Michael Holloway to the Mobile App Team

[Tomasz Finc]

I’m pleased to announce that Michael Holloway joins Wikimedia today as
a Software Engineer for the Mobile App Team. Michael is based in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, and will be working with us remotely. He'll join
Dmitry  Bernd to push our native Android development forward [1].

Michael has longstanding interests in the technical and social aspects
of information technology, and turned to software development
professionally after several years in the legal field. He believes
passionately in the revolutionary potential of free and open access to
information, and in Wikimedia’s vision of a world in which all can
share freely in the sum of human knowledge. Michael looks forward to
delighting users of the Android app, and to helping grow and diversify
Wikimedia’s user base.

When he’s not behind a keyboard, Michael spends his time bicycling,
cooking curries, and sampling craft brews.

Please welcome Michael!

--tomasz

[1] - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] VisualEditor on Wikipedia now faster with RESTBase

[Tomasz Finc]

Great job team

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Gabriel Wicke gwi...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 Hello all,


 Earlier this morning, we made some good progress towards a faster
 VisualEditor experience by loading the HTML from
 https://rest.wikimedia.org/, the REST content API that entered beta
 production a bit over a week ago [1]. Preliminary data shows a drop of mean
 client HTML load times by close to 40% from about 1.9 seconds to 1.2
 seconds.


 The reasons for this speed-up are primarily


 a reduction in HTML size by 30-40%, achieved by storing page metadata
 separately in RESTBase [2], and

 storing (rather than caching) the HTML of all Wikipedia articles, thus
 eliminating expensive cache misses.


 So far we have enabled this optimization on all Wikipedias. Other projects
 with VisualEditor support will follow over the next week. There are also a
 lot more optimizations in the pipeline. Eventually, we hope to completely
 eliminate the need to re-load the page for editing by using the same
 Parsoid-generated HTML for regular page views.


 While many people helped to make RESTBase and the content API a reality (see
 the original announcement [1]), I want to specially call out Marko Obrovac
 for doing much of the integration work with MediaWiki and the VisualEditor
 extension.


 I hope that you enjoy the newly faster VisualEditor experience as much as we
 do!


 Sincerely --


 Gabriel Wicke


 Principal Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation


 [1]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-March/081135.html

 [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase


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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Announcement: Tyler Cipriani joins Wikimedia as Release Engineer

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Welcome Tyler. Great to have you join. Best of luck.

--tomasz

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 Hello all,

 I’m delighted to announce that Tyler Cipriani[0] is joining the
 foundation as a Release Engineer (obviously joining the Release
 Engineering team).

 Tyler lives (and will continue to work remotely from) where you can see
 the Flatirons[1] in Colorado and comes to us from SparkFun[2] where he
 was a web developer and sysadmin.

 Along with the Wikimedia Foundation being a great fit professionally for
 Tyler (I’m biased maybe) he is also “thrilled to be working at an
 organization whose values seemingly so closely align with [his] own.”

 He’ll be at the San Francisco office the week of the 16th and is seeking
 any suggestions as to what he should do with his free afternoon on
 Presidents’ Day.

 Please join me in welcoming Tyler!

 Greg


 [0] https://tylercipriani.com/
 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatirons
 [2] https://www.sparkfun.com/

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Florian for +2 on MobileFrontend?

[Tomasz Finc]

CC'ing wikitech-l@ to broaden the reach of this

--tomasz

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 I've proposed that Florian gets +2 on the MobileFrontend repository.
 Florian has been an extremely active MobileFrontend developer (he is
 our 5th most active contributor).

 It would be great to have him helping out with merging patches. He
 also is based in Europe so it would strengthen our ability to get
 regressions fixed on different timezones quicker!

 You can support this by voting using the {{support}} template on:
 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Project_ownership#.2B2_for_Florian_Schmidt_on_mediawiki.2Fextensions.2FMobileFrontend

 Please show your {{support}} on the wiki page to make this happen!

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[Wikitech-l] Welcome Corey Floyd as Software Developer to the Apps Team

[Tomasz Finc]

I am pleased to announce that Corey Floyd joins WMF this week as a
Software Engineer for the Mobile App Team.

Corey is based in Philadelphia where he will be working remotely. He
previously worked as a mobile consultant, during which he developed
iOS apps for organizations like the Human Rights Campaign, Vimeo, and
Johnson  Johnson. Before joining Wikimedia, Corey spent the last year
helping to stand up the new mobile team at Urban Outfitters.

Corey is passionate about creating great user experiences and building
software that people love to use.

Prior to being an engineer, Corey was a meteorologist in the Air Force
and spent most days forecasting rain in Western Europe.

When not working, he reads way too much Apple news, plays a little
guitar, watches Scrubs on Netflix, and is learning to box. Both he and
his wife love to travel.

Corey is excited to join the Mobile Team as they take the Wikipedia
apps to the next level.

Please Welcome Corey

--tomasz

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[Wikitech-l] Welcome Brian Gerstle as Software Developer to the Apps Team

[Tomasz Finc]

I am pleased to announce that Brian Gerstle joins WMF this week as a
Software Engineer for the Mobile App Team.

Brian comes to us from Spotify, where he worked as an iOS
developer—with a brief stint as a Quality Engineer.  He's really
excited to join the team and contribute to the WMF mission by
polishing and innovating on the Wikipedia iOS experience for both
readers and contributors.  He's also looking forward to working on an
open-source project and hopes to get more involved in the FOSS
community.

Brian lives in Miami, Florida with his wife and 2 dogs.  Among his
many interests are: music (especially jazz), audio (was a recording
studio technician in a former life), science, health, and
sci-fi/fantasy (just started reading Name of the Wind).

Please Welcome Brian

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] All non-api traffic is now served by HHVM

[Tomasz Finc]

This is fantastic. Great job team and do put up a blog post about this.

--tomasz

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Giuseppe Lavagetto
glavage...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 Hi all,

 it's been quite a journey since we started working on HHVM, and last
 week (November 25th) HHVM was finally introduced to all users who didn't
 opt-in to the beta feature.

 Starting on monday, we started reinstalling all the 150 remaining
 servers that were running Zend's mod_php, upgrading them from Ubuntu
 precise to Ubuntu trusty in the process. It seemed like an enormous task
 that would require me weeks to complete, even with the improved
 automation we built lately.

 Thanks to the incredible work by Yuvi and Alex, who helped me basically
 around the clock,  today around 16:00 UTC we removed the last of the
 mod_php servers from our application server pool: all the non-API
 traffic is now being served by HHVM.

 This new PHP runtime has already halved our backend latency and page
 save times, and it has also reduced significantly the load on our
 cluster (as I write this email, the average cpu load on the application
 servers is around 16%, while it was easily above 50% in the pre-HHVM era).

 The API traffic is still being partially served by mod_php, but that
 will not be for long!

 Cheers,

 Giuseppe
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Open source mobile image recognition in Wikipedia

[Tomasz Finc]

CC'ing mobile-l to let them know of this

Exciting to see projects like this showing up. I do notice that it's
not compatible with Nexus5, Nexus7, and a number of other standard
devices.

Looking at your manifest it should just work. Did you put in a Google
Play restriction on which devices it works on?

--tomasz

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Adrien Maglo adr...@visualink.io wrote:
 Hello,


 I am not sure this is the right mailing list to introduce this project but I
 have just released Displee. It is a small Android app that allows to search
 for images in the English Wikipedia by taking pictures:
 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.visualink.displee
 It is a kind of open source Google Goggles for images from en.wikipedia.org.

 I have developed Displee as a demonstrator of Pastec http://pastec.io, my
 open source image recognition index and search engine for mobile apps.
 The index hosted on my server in France currently contains about 440 000
 images. They may not be the most relevant ones but this is a start. ;-)
 I have also other ideas to improve this tiny app if it has an interest for
 the community.

 Displee source code (MIT) is available here:
 https://github.com/Visu4link/displee
 Pastec source code (LGPL) is available here:
 https://github.com/Visu4link/pastec
 The source code of the Displee back-end is not released yet. It is basically
 a python3 Django application.

 I will be glad to receive your feedback and answer any question!

 Best regards,


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Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome our new FOSS OPW interns!

[Tomasz Finc]

Greetings to all the new faces

--tomasz

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 The  GNOME Foundation has announced the list of interns accepted in the
 FOSS Outreach Program for Women round 9:

 https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen/2014/DecemberMarch

 Seven interns will start working on Wikimedia projects with the help of
 (about) twelve mentors. A big applause and a warm welcome to all of you!

 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_9#Interns

 Neta Livneh and Roxana Necula have been accepted to collaborate on the same
 project (a new precedent): Wikipedia article translation metrics. Both have
 a genuine interest in metrics, and the plan is to assign them some extra
 work in the area of Analytics.

 Priyanka Jayaswal and Manpreet Kaur will help the PyWikiBot community with
 two projects: Compat to core migration, and Support to sites in the
 InterWiki Map, another wiki engine, and XML-RPC.

 Anke Nowottne will work on a Need-finding research for the Wikipedia
 Education Project, Ankita Shukla is set to deliver a Collaborative spelling
 dictionary building tool for VisualEditor, and Christy Okpo is ready to
 improve the Wikimedia Performance Portal.

 These teams will start their community bonding period now. The official
 internship period goes from 9 December to 9 March.

 Wikimedia is again the organization with more interns in this program,
 although it is comforting to see that other projects like OpenStack or the
 Linux Kernel are getting close. A total of 44 participants have been
 accepted by 16 free software projects.

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 Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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[Wikitech-l] Please welcome Joaquín Oltra Hernández, Software Developer

[Tomasz Finc]

I am pleased to announce that Joaquín Oltra Hernández joining the WMF
as a Software Engineer for the Mobile Web Team!

In Joaquins own words ...

---
I'm spanish, living in the sunny east coast. I've been working with
web frontends, UIs and javascript for about 8 years. For the last year
I've been freelancing and previously I worked for 3 years for the
trademarks and designs office for the European Union.

I love learning about new programming languages and paradigms, and
also the openness of the web front-end and how it allows us to create
useful open software and interfaces that everybody can use and
interact with directly.

On my free time reading mind expanding books [1], riding a mountain
bike, hiking up the mountain, and tinkering with small side projects
with new languages and libraries. I also love to travel, seeing and
learning about different countries and cultures [2].

You can find me on Freenode with the nick joakino

I'll be working remotely from Alicante in Spain.
---

Please welcome Joaquín!

--tomasz

[1] - Flow - The psychology of optimal experience  Status: Anxiety
[2] - https://www.flickr.com/photos/joaquinoltra
[3] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_web/Team

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[Wikitech-l] Andrew Garret joins the Wikimedia Foundation

[Tomasz Finc]

I am pleased to announce Andrew Garret joining the Wikimedia
Foundation as a full time Software Engineer

Andrew has been contracting with the Wikimedia Foundation for over six
years now and its only fitting to announce that now that he's done
with his studies he'll be going full time at the Wikimedia Foundation.

In the past six years, he's worked on a huge variety of projects,
ranging from user preferences and spam filtering to notifications and
two attempts to fix talk pages. He's passionate about making people’s
workflows and processes make sense, so in the coming months, he's
looking forward to having the time and energy to focus on software
that humanizes our projects, eliminates busy work, and makes life
easier for new and old contributors.

Right now Andrew is in the process of moving from Sydney to Maastricht
to be with his girlfriend
He'll be working from Maastricht; and from early next year, Prague.

So if you find yourself in one of those cities, you should let him know!

When not working, doing assignments, or packing bags, Andrew is busy
travelling or homebrewing.

He's currently supporting the Flow team and we're exploring where
he'll help next.

Please join me in celebrating Andrew going full time

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] WikiGrok deployed

[Tomasz Finc]

Congrats Max and team. Eager to see how our users interact with this.

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi, WikiGrok[0] has been successfully deployed to the English Wikipedia.
 Along with it a first campaign[1] was deployed. Now database is being slowly
 populated with suggestions:

 MariaDB [enwiki_p] select page_title, pp_value from page, page_props where
 pp_page=page_id and pp_propname='wikigrok_questions_v1' limit 100;
 +-+--+
 | page_title  | pp_value
 |
 +-+--+
 | Richard_Branson |
 a:1:{s:6:author;a:2:{s:8:property;s:4:P106;s:9:questions;a:1:{s:7:Q482980;s:6:author;}}}
 |
 | Tina_Fey|
 a:1:{s:6:author;a:2:{s:8:property;s:4:P106;s:9:questions;a:1:{s:7:Q482980;s:6:author;}}}
 |
 | Jon_Stewart |
 a:1:{s:6:author;a:2:{s:8:property;s:4:P106;s:9:questions;a:1:{s:7:Q482980;s:6:author;}}}
 |
 | Bill_Maher  |
 a:1:{s:6:author;a:2:{s:8:property;s:4:P106;s:9:questions;a:1:{s:7:Q482980;s:6:author;}}}
 |
 | Jeff_Foxworthy  |
 a:1:{s:6:author;a:2:{s:8:property;s:4:P106;s:9:questions;a:1:{s:7:Q482980;s:6:author;}}}
 |
 | Evadne_Price|
 a:1:{s:6:author;a:2:{s:8:property;s:4:P106;s:9:questions;a:1:{s:7:Q482980;s:6:author;}}}
 |
 | Dominic_Guard   |
 a:1:{s:6:author;a:2:{s:8:property;s:4:P106;s:9:questions;a:1:{s:7:Q482980;s:6:author;}}}
 |
 | Dilsa_Demirbag_Sten |
 a:1:{s:6:author;a:2:{s:8:property;s:4:P106;s:9:questions;a:1:{s:7:Q482980;s:6:author;}}}
 |
 | J._Douglas_MacMillan|
 a:1:{s:6:author;a:2:{s:8:property;s:4:P106;s:9:questions;a:1:{s:7:Q482980;s:6:author;}}}
 |
 | Carol_Bowman|
 a:1:{s:6:author;a:2:{s:8:property;s:4:P106;s:9:questions;a:1:{s:7:Q482980;s:6:author;}}}
 |
 | Lianella_Carell |
 a:1:{s:6:author;a:2:{s:8:property;s:4:P106;s:9:questions;a:1:{s:7:Q482980;s:6:author;}}}
 |
 | G._K._Reddy |
 a:1:{s:6:author;a:2:{s:8:property;s:4:P106;s:9:questions;a:1:{s:7:Q482980;s:6:author;}}}
 |
 | Liù_Bosisio |
 a:1:{s:6:author;a:2:{s:8:property;s:4:P106;s:9:questions;a:1:{s:7:Q482980;s:6:author;}}}
 |
 | Matilde_Rodríguez_Cabo  |
 a:1:{s:6:author;a:2:{s:8:property;s:4:P106;s:9:questions;a:1:{s:7:Q482980;s:6:author;}}}
 |
 +-+--+
 14 rows in set (0.42 sec)

 Pages are getting updated when edited (null edit works, but not
 action=purge). According to estimations made with WikiData Query[2], the
 number of potentially affected pages is approximately 33,000. If really
 needed, we could whip up a script to null-edit these pages from server side
 in a controlled manner, but I would like to have more data on performance
 and memory consumption first.

 == Monitoring ==
 * Graphite: MediaWiki - WikiGrok
 * Exceptions from WikiData: type:mobile in Logstash.

 == Firefighting ==
 Most of potentially performance-scary/error causing code with can be
 disabled by commenting out $wgWikiGrokSlowCampaigns in
 wmf-config/mobile.php. If shit hits fan really hard, whole extension can be
 disabled through the usual means, with $wmgUseWikiGrok.

 == Next steps ==
 I'm working on DB storage for questions[3] which will allow us to avoid
 abusing page_props and give features such as find me pages that could use
 this type of fixes and find me a random page to fix.


 
 [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiGrok
 [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/170453/
 [2] http://wdq.wmflabs.org/
 [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/170263

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[Wikitech-l] Marielle Volz joins Wikimedia as Software Developer

[Tomasz Finc]

I am pleased to announce Marielle Volz joining the Wikimedia
Foundation as a Software Engineer for the Editing team.

Marielle will be working remotely from London, UK. She made her first
website[1] in 1997 with Adobe PageMill 2.0[2], which according to one
review at the time, has terrific tables by today's standards for an
HTML editor, although they're not bad by any standard.[3]. When her
house finally got the internet in 1999, she first discovered the view
source button. It wasn't until 5 years later in 2004 that she
registered her first Wikipedia account, wherein she developed a lovely
addiction to that damnable website.

During a brief period of insanity (i.e. all of her undergraduate and
graduate education) she considered becoming a Scientist, before
realizing it's actually more fun to sit inside on a computer all day
editing Wikipedia articles about Science rather than Doing Science and
actually going outside, which, with the advent of vitamin D
supplementation, is wholly unnecessary, and perhaps one could even
say, *inadvisable*.

Only now, having recently become a member of the 10 year club, has
finally joined two of her passions: making internet stuff and
Wikipedia internet stuff to work on VisualEditor, an HTML editor. To
that end of continuing to edit articles about Science, and also making
internet stuff, she did the FOSS Outreach Program for Women program
this Summer[4], and started developing a node.js service Citoid[5] to
make it easy to insert citations using a URL/DOI/Title in VE/Wikitext.

She'll be continuing to do that, and maybe other things, but mostly
that, as a contractor starting last month.

Please join me in welcoming Marielle to the Wikimedia Foundation.

--tomasz

[1] 
http://web.archive.org/web/20030126114223/http://www.tufts.edu/as/engdept/mpwg/exhibits/stow/marielle.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMill
[3] 
http://web.archive.org/web/20080620021417/http://www.soc.org.uk/bulletin/pagemil2.htm
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mvolz/OPW_proposal_round_8
[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Mobile article preview gadget

[Tomasz Finc]

Excellent, this is exactly what was mentioned in

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2014-September/008013.html

Eager to see our editors be able to use it.

--tomasz

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 I've taken the liberty of adding this to the gadgets proposals page on
 en.wikipedia:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals#Mobile_sidebar

 If no objection I'll set it up tomorrow.

 Also I put the .js and .css files on github for easier patching:
 https://github.com/brion/MediaWiki-MobileSidebar

 -- brion

 On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Awesome! I've made some further updates, and there's now a toggle button
 on the tab bar, next to the watchlist star, so the mobile view can be turned
 on and off at will.

 Note that since it now uses an external stylesheet, to include the copies
 from  my meta page now takes two imports:

 // Mobile sidebar

 mw.loader.load('https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?action=rawtitle=User:Brion_VIBBER/mobile-sidebar.jsctype=text/javascript',
 'text/javascript');

 mw.loader.load('https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?action=rawtitle=User:Brion_VIBBER/mobile-sidebar.cssctype=text/css',
 'text/css');

 -- brion

 On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Prateek Saxena psax...@wikimedia.org
 wrote:

 On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org
 wrote:
  This shows the currently viewed page on the mobile view in an iframe
  sidebar, and captures link navigation within the iframe to navigate on
  the
  desktop window as well.

 I really like this :)


  Todo:
  * add an on/off switch
  * pretty it up

 I added just an off switch and prettied it up a little. I just refresh
 the page to turn it back on for now. I have an idea for putting the
 size selection UI which I'll add later.

 http://cl.ly/XzUa
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Prtksxna/common.js
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Prtksxna/common.css




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[Wikitech-l] First meeting of the front end standards group

[Tomasz Finc]

Several of the engineers and advisors developing components for front
end standardization met Friday to check status, set direction, and
identify upcoming obstacles

Big take aways:

=  MediaWiki theme for OOjs UI =
* Should be finalized this week by Trevor and Bartosz
* Server side to follow in the next couple of weeks

=  Icon system =
*  Bartosz has done the early work for a Grunt task that takes SVGs
and a JSON config to generate colored SVG and PNG renderings and the
corresponding LESS markup for them

Notes and additional items from the discussion can be found on mw.org [1]

Follow up items:
* Generate prospective roadmap [Trevor]
* Raise Template RFC w/ arch committee and make a decision [Brion]
* Find out if Derk-Jan (cc'd) can join us next time
* Discuss Server-side OOUI at next meeting

Please update as necessary if you attended and I've forgotten or
misrepresented anything.

thanks all

--tomasz

[1]  - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FrontEndStandardsGroup/Weekly-Sept_19_2014

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[Wikitech-l] Update: Standardizing icons across projects

[Tomasz Finc]

Several front end engineers, designers, and others got together again
to update on their progress to standardize icons across projects
today. This was a follow to the previous conversation on 8/27 [1].

Big take aways:

* Monte iterating and almost completing his SVG-Font python scripts
* Trevor  Bartosz finalizing an npm module for customizing SVG generation
* Jon needing additional support from Sam to move forward on mw ui icon markup

Notes from the discussion can be found on etherpad [2]

Follow up items:

* Finish up SVG2FONT2SVG script (hopefully done in a week) (Monte)
** Create manifest for padding and other small options (Trevor)
* Review Trevor's SVG/PNG generation (Everyone present once its out)
* Followup with Sam for standard icon html mark-up (Matt)
* Schedule team discussion follow up (Tomasz)

Please update as necessary if you attended and I've forgotten or
misrepresented anything.

thanks all

--tomasz

[1] - https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2014-August/007922.html
[2] - http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/IconStandardization

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[Wikitech-l] Jeff Hobson joins the Wikipedia Zero Engineering Team

[Tomasz Finc]

Greetings All,

I'm very happy to welcome Jeff Hobson to the Wikimedia Foundation and
the Wikipedia Zero Engineering team. He'll be joining Yuri, Adam, and
Dan Foy to continue the great work that the Zero team has been working
on and focusing on building our carrier portal first. Today will be
his first day.

Jeff will be working remotely from Blacksburg, VA, but hopes to
eventually venture out to the west coast to join us locally. Jeff has
been building websites for over 12 of his 22 years and practically
weeped tears of joy when HTML5 was first released. Aside from web
development, he's dabbled in Parallel Computing, AI, and even some
robotics. But the ever-changing nature of web development has kept him
coming back and he's excited to join WMF to work with all the
challenges mobile brings. In his free time Jeff enjoys skiing, riding
roller coasters, speed running, and playing the drums.

Please join me in welcoming Jeff

--tomasz

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] OOjs, MobileFrontend and Flow

[Tomasz Finc]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 After this is done it would be good to sit down and document ways we
 can make better use of OOJS in mobile.

Are you thinking of retooling existing features/infrastructure to use
it first or making this a requirement for new features?

This sounds like a good discussion to have during the quarterly
planning but I certainly think we shouldn't wait that long to do it.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Rachel Farrand joins the Engineering Community Team as Events Coordinator

[Tomasz Finc]

Great to see. Congrats Rachel

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 For almost three years, Rachel Farrand has been a regular contributor in
 the organization of public and internal Wikimedia events since she joined
 the Wikimedia Foundation as an Admin Assistant and then Project Coordinator
 with the Engineering department. This past year, Rachel has been the lead
 coordinator at the WMF for the Architecture Summit in San Francisco, the
 Wikimedia Hackathon in Zürich, the Wikimania Hackathon in London, most of
 the Tech Talks scheduled, and many on-site and off-site meetings. Those of
 us lucky to work with Rachel know that she is a reliable and patient team
 worker who excels at organizing activities for others to enjoy.

 For all these reasons and more, we have decided to evolve Rachel's role as
 Events Coordinator at the Engineering Community team. With this change,
 Rachel will be able to dedicate more time and attention to this area, where
 we are already playing good tactics but we need a more consistent strategy
 movement-wide. Rachel's current goals include merging our Architecture
 Summit, WMF Tech Days, and SF Hackathon into a single event this Winter;
 document a HowTo for hackathon organizers compiling our many lessons
 learned; and keeping a regular stream of online Tech Talks and on-site
 Wikimedia Tech meetups in San Francisco.

 She will also assist in the organization of our outreach programs (Google
 Summer of Code, FOSS Outreach Program for Women, Google Code-in):
 time-based activities that share many aspects with our technical events.

 It’s been a great process to work with Lynette on Rachel’s transition into
 the ECT team, and we are delighted Engineering Community events will have
 the dedication and focus Rachel brings to the work!.

 Congrats and Welcome Rachel!

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Re: [Wikitech-l] logging out on one device logs user out everywhere

[Tomasz Finc]

Lots of great discussion and ideas here. Who's up for taking this on
as a challenge or mentoring someone to do it?

--tomasz

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote:
 I think generally user's expectation (and imho desirable behaviour in 
 general[1]) is that logging out one session, does not affect other sessions.

 However I think it's a valid use case to be able to invalidate other sessions 
 remotely (e.g. you lost control over the device or it's inconvenient to get 
 at), as well as being able to invalidate all other sessions (paranoia, 
 convenience, clean slate, or  I can't remember what device that bloke had 
 when I needed to check my e-mail and forgot to log out).

 Both Gmail and Facebook currently implement systems like this.

 On Gmail, you have a footnote Last account activity: time ago with a 
 details link providing an overview of all current sessions (basically 
 extracted from session data associated with the session cookies set for your 
 account). It shows the device type (user agent or, if not cookie based, the 
 protocol, like IMAP/SMTP), the location and IP, and when the session was last 
 active. It has an option to Sign out all other session.

 On Facebook, the Security Settings feature has a section Where You're 
 Logged In which is similar. Though slightly more enhanced in that it also 
 allows ending individual sessions.

 They also have a section Trusted Browsers which is slightly different in 
 that it lists sessions that are of the Remember me type and also lists 
 authenticated devices that won't ask for two-step verification again. And the 
 ability to revoke any of them.

 — Krinkle

 [1] E.g. not expectation based on previous negative experience with other 
 sites.

 On 23 Jul 2014, at 16:45, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 On Tuesday, July 22, 2014, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:

 Chris Steipp wrote:
 I think this should be managed similar to https-- a site preference,
 and users can override the site config with a user preference.

 Please no. There's been a dedicated effort in 2014 to reduce the number
 of user preferences. They're costly to maintain and they typically
 indicate a design flaw: software should be sensible by default and a user
 preference should only be a tool of last resort. The general issue of user
 preferences-creep remains particularly acute as global (across a wikifarm)
 user preferences still do not exist. Of course in this specific case,
 given the relationship with CentralAuth, you probably could actually have
 a wikifarm-wide user preference, but that really misses the larger point
 that user preferences should be avoided, if at all possible.

 I'll start a new thread about my broader thoughts here.


 I think we have too many preferences also, no disagreement there.

 But like Risker, I too want to always destroy all my sessions when I logout
 (mostly because I log in and out of accounts a lot while testing, and I
 like knowing that applies to all the browsers I have open). So I'm biased
 towards thinking this is preference worthy, but I do think it's one of
 those things that if it doesn't behave as a user expects, they're going to
 think it's a flaw in the software and file a bug to change it.

 I'm totally willing to admit the expectations I have are going to be the
 minority opinion. If it's a very, very small number of us, then yeah,
 preference isn't needed, and we can probably get by with a gadget.

 Your proposal for account info and session management is good too. I hope
 someone's willing to pick that up.




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Re: [Wikitech-l] GeoData Extension

[Tomasz Finc]

Max (CC'd) can help you on this one.

--tomasz

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Matthias Hochgatterer
matthias.hochgatte...@gmail.com wrote:
 I’m currently looking into the GeoData Extension to make location based 
 Wikipedia queries.
 There are still some open questions - would be nice if sb could provide 
 guidance.

 - The release status of the extension is still experimental. Is it safe to 
 use it in production (mobile app)? Are there some hard limit how often I can 
 query the API? Just thinking when the app gets popular…

 - Is there a way to increase the search radius? E.g. When showing a continent 
 (Europe) on a map, I would like to display articles for all countries (sth 
 like `gsmindim` would be useful in this case too). I couldn’t find a way to 
 do this other than making multiple queries for different coordinates which 
 does not scale very well.

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[Wikitech-l] Welcome Bernd Sitzmann as Software Developer to the Mobile App Team

[Tomasz Finc]

Bernd will be working remotely from Fort Collins, CO, where he has
lived ever since emigrating from Germany many years ago.

He joins the Wikimedia Foundation after developing software at HP in
Germany and the US for many years. He's worked on both front-end and
back-end components, developing applications for enterprise management
software as well as consumer software (HP MediaSmart Server, WebOS
related work, and a couple of Android apps).

Bernd is very passionate about user experience and Android. He is
excited to contribute to open source projects. When not developing
Android apps, he also enjoys learning about some of the latest web
technologies, currently favoring Meteor.js. Afk he enjoys playing
volleyball, ultimate frisbee and soccer.

Bernd will join the Apps team working closely with Yuvi and Dmitry on
the rebooted native Android Wikipedia app.

Please Welcome Bernd

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Rob Moen takes on new role in Growth team

[Tomasz Finc]

Best of luck Rob with your new team.

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 Hello everyone,

 I’m pleased to announce Rob Moen is moving from the VisualEditor team to the
 Growth team.

 In Growth, Rob will fill the team's third full-time engineer position,
 joining Matthew Flaschen, Sam Smith, and Andrew Russell Green (who's
 collaborating with Growth on the Campaigns extension). With Rob's help, the
 team will be able to move faster on projects like its experiments acquiring
 anonymous editors and building features for new article creators.

 Rob has done amazing work on VisualEditor. Starting with when the team
 specifically requested him from Editor Engagement two years ago to work on
 the user interface features such as toolbars and inspectors and finishing up
 with mobile integration and major UploadWizard media integration changes.

 He’ll bring that deep knowledge of VisualEditor, OOJS, and OOUI to projects
 focused on experimentation and growth in the editor community. Besides being
 a rare combination of front-end and full-stack engineer with extensive
 MediaWiki experience, he’s also the only engineer in Growth in the same
 timezone as Steven Walling and the design team members.

 VisualEditor team is now looking for two candidates for open engineering
 positions, one of which will fill Rob's spot on the team. Check out the job
 description[0] especially if you can help refer someone.

 Take care,

 terry

 [0]:
 http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qSa9VfwQcs=9UL9Vfwtpage=Job%20Descriptionj=o8jyYfwHs

 terry chay  최태리
 Director of Features Engineering
 Wikimedia Foundation
 “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
 sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.”

 p: +1 (415) 839-6885 x6832
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Re: [Wikitech-l] OpenHistoricalMaps (was: GSoC and OPW participants announced)

[Tomasz Finc]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote:
 Le 21/04/2014 22:00, Quim Gil a écrit :
 Jaime Lyn Schatz
 OpenHistoricalMaps and Wikimaps

 OpenHistoricalMaps is a totally crazy project.  The idea is to attach to
 each point in the OSM database two new keys start_date and end_date.

 Potentially that means folks will be able to create maps of a city as it
 was at any given point in time and maybe one day let us generate
 animation of cities growing or road network expanding over time.   That
 is surely going to take a massive effort but will definitely be amazing
 to better understand the live we live in.

 https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for feedback on IEG Proposal for 'Wikitrack'

[Tomasz Finc]

CC'ing mobile-l as i'm sure the'll be interested by this.

--tomasz

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com wrote:
 'Wikitrack' started out from an idea that I had about tracking edits on
 Wikipedia from mobile. I always felt that there's more to tracking edits
 and their quality on Wikipedia. For one, we could zero-in on better
 contributors than just going by the edit counts. And doing that for mobile
 could be good for a tool that can be used on the go.

 WikiTrack in its initial version had been released last year for Wikipedia
 projects of few Indian languages, namely Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and
 Sanskrit for Android. The initial version allows the users to just track
 the Recent Changes, the diff between changes, their Watchlist and any
 user's contributions. Each of these have seen thousands of downloads (As of
 the day of sending  this email: WikiTrack Tamil[1] - 17345 downloads with
 an average rating of 4.2 out of 5, WikiTrack Kannada[2] - 14480 downloads
 with an average rating of 4.038 out of 5 and WikiTrack Malayalam [3] with
 7756 downloads with an average rating of 3.8 out of 5 on Google's Play
 Store) with thousands of active users tracking their favorite Wikimedia
 project using this application. The project so far has been self funded and
 the source code of the app has been released under GPL.

 I've put in an IEG Proposal[4] with a goal to consolidate these different
 apps into one and to provide support for all Indian languages and beyond
 (covering as many languages as possible), to rewrite the code, to make it
 better and to extend it further to improve the utility of the app including
 a release for iOS.

 The idea is to achieve the above goal and get it to a good shape before
 planning further on including other useful ways of allowing the editors to
 track Wikimedia projects from mobile and to keep them engaged.

 I realize that this is the very last minute request, but would love to hear
 feedback about it.

 [1]
 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saaranga.wikitracktamil
 [2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saaranga.wikikannada
 [3]
 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saaranga.wikitrackmalayalam
 [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/WikiTrack

 In case this is an incorrect list to post this, kindly accept my apologies
 and help by pointing me to the right one.

 Thanks!
 --
 Hari Prasad Nadig
 http://hpnadig.net
 http://twitter.com/hpnadig
 http://flickr.com/hpnadig
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[Wikitech-l] Welcome Dmitry Brant as Software Developer to the Mobile App Team

[Tomasz Finc]

I am pleased to announce that Dmitry Brant joins WMF this week as a
Software Engineer for the Mobile App Team!

Dmitry will be working remotely from Cleveland, OH, where he has lived
ever since immigrating from Moscow, Russia many years ago.  He joins
the Wikimedia Foundation coming from a previous life in speech
recognition software for use in military robots, UGVs, and medical
devices, and an even earlier life in software for controlling welding
equipment and industrial robotic cells.

Dmitry believes passionately in WMF's mission, and is excited to help
enhance the Wikipedia user experience on mobile platforms.

In his spare time he creates software for digital forensics and data
recovery [1]. In his other spare time, he's an avid guitar player,
blogger, and mushroom forager.

Dmitry will work closely with Yuvi to further enhance the user
experience for the upcoming native Wikipedia app.

Please welcome Dmitry!

[1] - http://diskdigger.org

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile App Team

[Tomasz Finc]

It's not a typo and the app team has been around for quite a bit now working on

* Wikipedia App (PhoneGap)
* Commons App
* Wiki Loves Monuments App (2013)

and is currently focused on a native Wikipedia app. Come say hello on
#wikimedia-mobile

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team

--tomasz

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Gryllida gryll...@fastmail.fm wrote:
 On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, at 3:01, Tomasz Finc wrote:
 I am pleased to announce that Dmitry Brant joins WMF this week as a
 Software Engineer for the Mobile App Team!

 Mobile /App/ team? Why do we need mobile apps, if we already have a Mobile 
 Team that is working on the wonderful mobile website? I'm assuming this is a 
 typo. :-)

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Tomorrow: RfC review on reducing image quality on mobile

[Tomasz Finc]

CC'ing ops to answer some of the questions that came up.

--tomasz

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Sumana Harihareswara
suma...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 On 04/15/2014 11:56 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-04-16

 Wednesday at 2100 UTC, we're discussing
 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Reducing_image_quality_for_mobile
 , Yuri's and Max's RfC. We also have room for one more if someone wants
 to bring something up; if Guillaume or Andre can come, maybe we can talk
 about Phabricator.

 We did not discuss Phabricator, just the image quality reduction
 proposal. Yuri is moving forward; see the summary at
 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-04-16#Meeting_summary
 .

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 Senior Technical Writer
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Re: [Wikitech-l] how to get better at doing code review

[Tomasz Finc]

nice write up. thanks

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Sumana Harihareswara
suma...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 http://notwaldorf.github.io/posts/code-reviews/

 One perspective. (was: Subject: Code review tasks for new contributors)
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 Senior Technical Writer
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Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] useskin=minerva

[Tomasz Finc]

I can't wait to see this live on en, ja, and pl wiki in a couple of weeks.

Jon, update us when its finished on the train.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote:
 You can now apply the mobile skin to the desktop site [1]. Wa?!
 To cut a long story short, to help MobileFrontend and VisualEditor
 integrate nicely with one another, we needed the mobile skin to be
 registered as a valid skin. We've previously avoided this as we didn't
 want to surface this in the Special:Preferences (a side effect of
 doing so). Kaldari however found a way we can supress it there, so
 thus we went and registered it [1].

 I encourage editors to check how their stuff looks in the minerva skin
 on a small window size. This should make mobile optimisation a lot
 easier for you! :)

 [1] 
 http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Forty-seven_Ronin?useskin=minerva
 [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/118037/

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Why is Cologne Blue still in core?

[Tomasz Finc]

A good time to revist

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Turning_off_outdated_skins

and re-run

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Turning_off_outdated_skins/stats

--tomasz

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote:
 This may be controversial but hopefully there is logic in what I'm about to 
 see.

 I just took a look at Cologne Blue and there are a huge host of CSS
 issues. It makes me wonder if anyone is actually maintaining it. All
 the other skins seems to render nicely. Coordinates overlap the header
 and the Echo button is overlapping other text. It just looks shoddy
 [1].

 Firstly is anyone actively maintaining it for Wikimedia sites?
 Secondly, how widely used is it on our production Wikimedia wikis?

 I suspect it would be a good idea to at the very least move it into
 its own extension and possibly disable it on some Wikimedia sites or
 all Wikimedia sites.

 From my personal opinion, the less skins we have to maintain on
 Wikimedia sites on the better, and if no one actively cares or uses a
 skin then it is silly to invest time in doing so...

 [1] http://imgur.com/hNZAFUb,bRHdhCS

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Deployment highlights - week of November 25th

[Tomasz Finc]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 Next week there will be no planned deployments as it is Thanksgiving in
 the US.

All hail the lack of change and status quo.

--tomasz

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Tip for Sublime Text editors: DocBlockr plugin and conf for JSDuck

[Tomasz Finc]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote:
 DocBlockr

Nice. I hadn't know about  Package Control either.

thanks

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Operations team announcements: Ryan and Leslie

[Tomasz Finc]

Congrats both
On Oct 16, 2013 12:40 AM, Ken Snider ksni...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Hello!

 I'm extremely pleased to announce that we've had two promotions within the
 Technical Operations team!

 Leslie Carr has been promoted to Senior Operations Engineer (Networking).
 As many of you know, along with Mark, Leslie has been instrumental in
 securing preferred rates and contracts with with connectivity providers and
 vendors on the networking side of our infrastructure - in a world where
 human connections are every bit as important as topographic ones, Leslie
 has maintained a vast network of contacts to help ensure that we're
 receiving competitive pricing, fair peering, and a plethora of other perks
 that come part and parcel with maintaining solid relationships in the
 networking arena, while also taking point on many of the technical aspects
 of our network infrastructure as well.

 We're lucky to have her, and I look forward to working with her as the
 team completes the setup of ULSFO and begins work on our next data-centre
 project.

 Ryan Lane has also been promoted to Senior Operations Engineer. Ryan has
 served as the lead on the Labs project, a component of our infrastructure
 that has become increasingly critical to projects both within WMF
 engineering (with Beta Labs), as well as with various volunteer projects
 (via Tool Labs). Ryan is about to head up the migration of this
 infrastructure from Tampa to Ashburn as part of our plan to sunset the
 Tampa data-centre.

 Additionally, Ryan has also played a key role in several non-labs-related
 projects, including most recently our HTTPS-as-default project, as well as
 work on integrating git-deploy into the mediawiki deployment pipeline.
 Ryan's work has been invaluable, and this promotion well-deserved.

 Thanks!

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Re: [Wikitech-l] FOSDEM update

[Tomasz Finc]

Excellent. This is a great opportunity for us. Thanks for shepherding this Quim.

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 On 09/25/2013 10:39 AM, Quim Gil wrote:

 Hi, about FOSDEM - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM

 Brussels / 1  2 February 2014

 On 1 Oct we will know whether our proposal for a Wiki DevRoom has been
 accepted or not.


 And the answer is... YES, ACCEPTED!

 We will receive instructions from the FOSDEM organizers soon, and then we
 will call a first meeting with Vincent (XWiki), Jean-Marc (Tiki) and whoever
 else wants to get involved in the organization of the devroom.

 If you are interested, watch  comment at
 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Events/FOSDEM#Wiki_devroom_ACCEPTED.21


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Re: [Wikitech-l] Bulk download

[Tomasz Finc]

Thanks for helping to distribute wikipedia more broadly Mihai. Do give
Kiwix for Android [1] a shot as it does something very similar to your
app. Perhaps you can even collaborate on the project.

--tomasz

[1] - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Mihai Chintoanu
mihai.chinto...@skobbler.com wrote:
 Hello,

 Thank you to all who have taken the time to answer.

 As more people have asked, here are some details about the project. We want 
 to build a feature in our smartphone app that allows users to read wikipedia 
 articles and we want to make the articles and their images available offline 
 to them, which is why we have to first download this content from wikipedia 
 and wikimedia. We have installed a wikipedia mirror locally and extracted the 
 desired article texts through the API. For the images, we first thought about 
 getting the image dump tarballs. However, the articles (and consequently the 
 images) are spread over more language domains, so this approach would have 
 been both inefficient and too much space consuming.

 I'll look into the rsync approach.

 Once again, many thanks for all your suggestions.
 Mihai

 -Original Message-
 From: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org 
 [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Baron
 Sent: 23 September 2013 17:12
 To: Wikimedia developers; Wikipedia Xmldatadumps-l
 Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Bulk download

 On Sep 23, 2013 9:25 AM, Mihai Chintoanu mihai.chinto...@skobbler.com
 wrote:
 I have a list of about 1.8 million images which I have to download from
 commons.wikimedia.org. Is there any simple way to do this which doesn't
 involve an individual HTTP hit for each image?

 You mean full size originals, not thumbs scaled to a certain size, right?

 You should rsync from a mirror[0] (rsync allows specifying a list of files
 to copy) and then fill in the missing images from upload.wikimedia.org ;
 for upload.wikimedia.org I'd say you should throttle yourself to 1 cache
 miss per second (you can check headers on a response to see if was a hit or
 miss and then back off when you get a miss) and you shouldn't use more than
 one or two simultaneous HTTP connections. In any case, make sure you have
 an accurate UA string with contact info (email address) so ops can contact
 you if there's an issue.

 At the moment there's only one mirror and it's ~6-12 months out of date so
 there may be a substantial amount to fill in. And of course you should be
 getting checksums from somewhere (the API?) and verifying them. If your
 images are all missing from the mirror than it should take around 40 days
 at 0.5 img/sec but I guess you probably could do it in less than 10 days if
 you have a fast enough pipe. (depends on if you get a lit of misses or hits)

 See also [1] but not all of that applies because upload.wikimedia.org isn't
 MediaWiki. so e.g. no maxlag param.

 -Jeremy

 [0]
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps#Media
 [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Etiquette
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Re: [Wikitech-l] FirefoxOS - free dev phones for porting HTML5 apps

[Tomasz Finc]

And if your not sure where to start then take a look at our own FirefoxOS App.

https://github.com/wikimedia/WikipediaMobileFirefoxOS

--tomasz


On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Sumana Harihareswara
suma...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/09/calling-all-app-ports/

 If you have an HTML5 web app related to Wikimedia, I encourage you to
 look into this. :)

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad Lite labs instance going down in two weeks - backup time

[Tomasz Finc]

CC'ing staff as we might have some non engineers using this service
who should know.

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Mark Holmquist mtrac...@member.fsf.org wrote:
 The day we have all equally hoped for and dreaded is come to pass: Etherpad
 Lite has now replaced Etherpad Classic in production, and the labs instance
 is on its way out.

 This is my as-wide-as-possible email warning to say that everything on the
 labs instance, as really should have been expected, is going to be gone soon.
 Not immediately - we intend to give you two weeks to get your important data
 off the instance and onto the new one at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/ -
 but you should _absolutely_ be moving things as soon as possible. We will
 also keep a data dump around, in case anything else needs to get pulled out
 of the pads, but I would suggest not relying on that if you don't have to.

 And in the future: If a URL has wmflabs.org in it...don't put anything,
 ANYTHING, important there. The purpose of labs is to let us experiment with
 new technology without having to worry about reliability.

 Thanks so much for your help and understanding in the course of this
 migration.

 tl;dr: http://etherpad.wmflabs.org is going down in 2 weeks, get yer stuff
 off it.

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

[Tomasz Finc]

Excellent. Glad to see you joined C. Scott.

--tomasz

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 Hello everyone,

 It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that C. Scott Ananian[1] has
 joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer.

 Before joining us, Scott was Director of New Technologies at One Laptop per
 Child where he, among other things, worked on Nell, a platform to allow
 unsupervised learning of early literacy skills on tablets used in places
 like Ethiopia[2], and the OLPC security mechanism to prevent kids’ laptops
 from being stolen in transit.  In between stints at OLPC, he worked as the
 Senior Architect at litl, LLC[3]. Clearly he has a thing for highly mobile
 PCs and applications (don’t tell Tomasz, he already stole Kaldari from
 Features :-P).

 He started volunteering work on the MediaWiki parser project (Parsoid) on
 February 12th and got his first patch merged on February 15th. He’s had over
 150 patches merged since then so it made sense that we should probably hire
 him ;-)

 As you probably guessed with my usual tardiness, his first official day was
 actually Monday, July 8. He is going to continue his work on the Parsoid
 team with Gabriel Wicke and Subbu Sastry. He is super-motivated and has been
 mission-aligned since before Wikipedia existed[4], so I expect you’ll see
 him range far from our text infrastructure work. When he was at OLPC he
 liked to say his job was to “build robust and reliable systems to allow kids
 to discover, share, and learn.”

 Scott lives and works in Cambridge, MA[5]. He is a square dancer[6] and
 theatrical lighting designer. I have it on good word that he’s a demon on
 MIT Mystery Hunt [7]—not sure if he’s on the same team as our Board Members
 or not [8], but if not…

 Please join me in welcoming C. Scott to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)

 Take care,
 Terry

 [1]: [[User:Cananian]]
 [2]: http://www.dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian_kids.php
 [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litl
 [4]: http://www.salon.com/2000/02/09/linuxdvd/
 [5]: tewwy: interested in relocating? :-)
 cscott: no, sorry.
 cscott: wife, kid, and house like where they are.  ;-)
 [6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_square_dance ;
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Squares
 [7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Mystery_Hunt
 [8]: [[User:Sj]] did, in fact, recruit him to the Codex team in 2009. Codex
 won in 2011.

 terry chay  최태리
 Director of Features Engineering
 Wikimedia Foundation
 “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
 sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.”

 p: +1 (415) 839-6885 x6832
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Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Videos on mobile

[Tomasz Finc]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Arthur Richards
aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 This sounds like something that might be good for the newly forming 
 multimedia team to work on

This is in the purview new multimedia team that Fabrice will be PM'ing
(CC'ing him). I spoke with him today and mentioned this thread. Expect
him to comment.

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

[Tomasz Finc]

Greetings all,

I'm pleased to announce that the mobile department has two new staff
members. Yuri Astrakhan  Adam Baso join as sr. software developers on
the mobile partner team. In this role Yuri and Adam will support
projects like Wikipedia Zero, SMS/USSD, and J2ME to further the reach
of our projects in geographic areas that have both financial and
technical impediments to access Wikipedia. They will be working
closely with Kul and Dan from the global development group.

Yuri has been heavily involved in Wikipedia-related projects 2005-2007
developing the API framework and querying subsystem, contributing to
pywikibot code, and making millions of changes as yurikbot, while at
the same time working as a software consultant for several large
banks. In 2008 Yuri joined a small hedge-fund to lead the development
of an automated trading platform. While there, Yuri continued various
open source projects such as time-series database (timeseriesdb).

After over five years, Yuri has rejoined the MediaWiki community and
will be working for us from New York.

Adam spent the past seven years working in the field of information
security, specializing in application security, identity management,
and encryption in the retail, government, and banking sectors. Adam
led the OWASP Minneapolis-Saint Paul chapter for a couple of years,
and proudly organized the OWASP AppSec USA 2011 conference. Adam and
his wife are relocating to San Francisco from Minneapolis-Saint Paul,
and they look forward to the opportunity to live in such a thriving
software-friendly community.

The mobile group is excited and proud to welcome both Yuri  Adam as
sr. engineers to the partner team.

This completes the team and allows them to work aggressively to reach
our 4 billion page target through outreach projects like Wikipedia
Zero.

Please join me in welcoming Yuri and Adam to the Wikimedia Foundation!

--tomasz

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Naming our developer events

[Tomasz Finc]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 MediaWiki Hackathon City


As a team that doesn't exclusively work within MediaWiki what would you
suggest for naming if someone wanted to run a hackathon on our mobile apps?
Our mobile apps are fully decoupled from mw and only use its API.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Completed ! Re: More Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target date is week of 1/22/13

[Tomasz Finc]

So seamless. Well done!

--tomasz


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Ct Woo ct...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 All,

 The switchover work is done.

 The site was was available to readers throughout the migration work though
 it was in read-only mode for about 32 minutes, when Asher and Mark had to
 migrate the database masters over from Tampa to Ashburn.

 We will cancel the reminding maintenance windows.

 Thank you all for your patience and understanding.

 Regards,
 CT Woo

 On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Ct Woo ct...@wikimedia.org wrote:

  All,

 We will be proceeding with the datacenter switchover plan this coming
 Tuesday (Jan 22, 2013), unless we discover some unexpected and
 insurmountable issues in our tests between now and then.

 During the 8-hour migration window on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th (from 17:00
 UTC to 01:00 UTC hours  / 9am to 5pm PST),  there would be times (lasting
 about 30 minutes) where the site would be set to read-only mode, to
 facilitate master database switchovers from one datacenter to another.
 While the site should be available to readers, no new contents could be
 created, edited or uploaded.

 We are aware of the inconvenience and we have put together plans to
 minimize such annoyances, e.g., automating much of the procedures,
 mitigating known risks,  and performing tests to identify issues prior to
 deployment. Given the scale and complexity of this migration, we do realize
 not all operational impact is predictable.  Some users could experience
 intermittent site unavailability and/or performance issues unfortunately.

 You can follow the migration on chat.freenode.nethttp://irc.freenode.net
 (and not irc.freenode.org as mentioned in previous email) in the
 #wikimedia-operations channel.

 Thanks,
 CT Woo

 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Ct Woo ct...@wikimedia.org
 Date: Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:07 PM
 Subject: Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target
 date is week of 1/22/13
 To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Development
 and Operations Engineers engineer...@lists.wikimedia.org


 All,

 The Migration team is in the last lap on completing the remaining tasks
 to ready our software stack and Ashburn infrastructure for the big
 switchover day.

 Per my last 
 update,http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-October/063668.html
 with the Fundraising activity behind us now, the team has scheduled the *week
 of 22nd January*, 2013 to perform the switchover. We are going to block
 a 8-hour migration window on the *22nd, 23rd and 24**th*.  During those
 periods, *17:00 UTC to 01:00 UTC hours (9am to 5pm PST*), there will be
 intermittent blackouts and they will be treated as 'planned' outages.  You
 can follow the migration on irc.freenode.org in the
 #wikimedia-operations channel.

 The team is putting the finishing touches to the last few tasks and we
 will make the final Go/No decision on 18th Jan, 2013. An update will
 send out then. For those interested in tracking the progress, the meeting
 notes are captured on this wikitech 
 pagehttp://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Eqiad_Migration_Planning#Improving_Switchover
 .

 *Please note that we will be restricting code deployment during that
 week, allowing only emergency and critical ones only.*

 Thanks.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Željko Filipin presenting at FOSDEM

[Tomasz Finc]

If you have any questions about presenting at FOSDEM then let us know. Many
of us have presented about Wikimedia related projects at FOSDEM before.

--tomasz


On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Željko Filipin zfili...@wikimedia.orgwrote:

 On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Sébastien Santoro 
 dereck...@espace-win.org
  wrote:

  Congratulations for your talk. It's nice to see a MediaWiki
  involvement in this conference.
 

 Thanks, I hope to see you there. :)

 This is not the only MediaWiki talk, I think there will be two more[1].

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Editor engagement mailing list

[Tomasz Finc]

The mobile team is working on lots of contributory activities as mentioned
in
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/11/mobile-beta-a-sandbox-for-new-experimental-features/
.

Does it make sense for us to post to this list too ?

--tomasz


On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Sumana Harihareswara 
suma...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 A list you can now subscribe to:

 https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee

 Discussion of initiatives that support new users and experienced editors
 on Wikipedia and MediaWiki projects (Editor engagement  Editor
 engagement experiments).  So, for instance, right now they're talking
 about Echo (the automated one-to-many notifications system), and I
 figure that they'll be talking about Flow (the user-to-user
 communication  subscription  commenting system that).

 Added to
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Overview#Interest_areas .
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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?

[Tomasz Finc]

Excellent. Were still very interested in sending some folks to this.

CC'ing MaxSem, Aude, and Tim (Kolossus) as I'd like to get them involved.

--tomasz


On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen 
o...@palnatoke.orgwrote:

 I have had some trouble getting the OSD people to reply, but wading into
 their irc channel helped :-)

 More details will follow.

 Ole


 On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote:

  (Since this is about a tech event, can we keep CCed wikitech-l only?)
 
 
 
   Anyone know if this is happening or not?  Sometime around the chapters
  meeting seems as good a time as any.  Or maybe attached as a few days
  before/after the Amsterdam hackathon.
 
 
  The developers actually involved think that April it's too late. Tomasz
  Finc and Max Semenik  have the lead on our end. They are also convinced
  that it is better to organize it next to an existing event in order to
 save
  organizational effort.
 
  This leaves us with
 
  Open Source Days, 9-10 March 2013, Copenhagen/Denmark
  http://www.opensourcedays.org/
 
  What we still miss is a confirmation of the organizers, but the event is
  held in a business school full of classrooms so I don't expect any
 problem.
  See the nice streetmap view of the building at
  http://www.opensourcedays.org/**2012/transport
 http://www.opensourcedays.org/2012/transport :)
 
  I have asked tfinc and MaxSem to forward the relevant emails so I can
  catch up and confirm the venue asap. Any help from Wikimedia Denmark is
  welcome, of course.
 
 
  Cristian, your proposal looks very interesting and the only reason not to
  take it is that the date of the chapters meeting doesn't fit with the
  developers plans. Would you be open for another tech activity in another
  occasion?
 
  Also, see how different this discussion could have been if we would have
  got active MediaWiki Groups in the cities mentioned, or the many place we
  haven't mentioned. Go for a local group and be ready to host the next
 cool
  hackathon in the pipeline!  :)
 
  https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/Groups
 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups
 
 
  --
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  Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgil
 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
 
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Re: [Wikitech-l] ganglia temporarily private

[Tomasz Finc]

What credentials can i use to get access ?

--tomasz


On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Daniel Zahn dz...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 re-enabled the password protection on ganglia per request

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Sunday Nation (Kenya): Wikipedia sees future - and threat - in cell phones

[Tomasz Finc]

Blog post about all of this (photo upload, editing  etc) is pending
deployment. It'll have more detail. Fun stuff.

--tomasz



On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote:

  How do I use the beta photo upload? Is that a specific app? Should I
  just browse to http://commons.m.wikimedia.org/ ?
 

 It is a little messy currently, I believe. You need to go to the Mobile
 site (en.m.wikipedia.org), Log In, Enable the Beta, and then you'll find a
 small bar saying 'upload first photograph for this article' on any article
 missing a photograph. Available only to logged in users who have enabled
 the beta, on select mobile browsers only.

 CCing Jon who did the feature.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Open Tech Chat stomorrow/s about NOW

[Tomasz Finc]

I tried to find the youtube archive link to this on
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2012-12-13 but its set as TBD.

Is the link up?

--tomasz



On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) 
smazel...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Well, not really now, but starting in 15 minutes. Details at
 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2012-12-13 and below.

 What: Wikimedia Open Tech Chat
 Where: Google Hangout/#wikimedia-dev (keep an eye on IRC or [1] for the
 hangout URL)
 Moderator: Rob Lanphier (robla on IRC)
 Presenters:
 * Chris McMahon: An update on browser test automation
 * Amir Aharoni: Internationalisation dos and don'ts
 * Pau Giner: Multilingual user testing

 Cheers!

 On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) 
 smazel...@wikimedia.org wrote:

  Hi there!
 
  Tomorrow at 20:30 UTC (12:30 PST, 21:30 CET, 02:00 IST) there will be
  another Wikimedia Open Tech Chat[1] on Google Hangout. This time there
 are
  three topics. I'd love to see you there. Please come!
 
  Topics:
  * An update by the Quality Assurance department on browser test
 automation
  * Internationalisation dos and don'ts: Why you should not merge your
  patch set, but request i18n/L10n review (Amir Aharoni)
  * Multilingual user testing for improving the Translate extension (Pau
  Giner)
 
  The Hangout URL will be published about 5 minutes in advance and QA can
  go through the #wikimedia-dev IRC channel on Freenode. If you're in San
  Francisco, consider joining in the flesh on the 6th floor of the
 Wikimedia
  Foundation SF office's Collab space. The session will last between 60
 and
  90 minutes.
 
  The session will be moderated by Rob Lanphier.
 
  [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2012-12-13
 



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Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

[Tomasz Finc]

It was here
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/tools/bugzilla-3.4.4/scripts/bugzilla_report.php?view=log

My last correspondence was with one of our former engineers Priyanka who
was going to integrate it back in 2010. Doesn't look like that ever
happened before she left.

--tomasz

--tomasz


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.orgwrote:

 On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 03:00 +, reporter wrote:
  MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for November 19, 2012 - November 26, 2012

 Trying to locate the script creating this weekly email, I found
 wikimedia/bugzilla/modifications/bugzilla-3.6.2/scripts/bugzilla_report.php
 in Gerrit.
 We're running Bugzilla 4.0 currently, and
 wikimedia/bugzilla/modifications/bugzilla-4.0/ does not include such a
 script.

 Does any historian know if it was just forgotten to drop the file in SVN
 (now Gerrit) in the bugzilla-4.0 folder?  Mark, maybe?

 Thanks,
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Re: [Wikitech-l] There are maps for wikivoyage?

[Tomasz Finc]

The mobile team is picking the OSM buildout back on its roadmap. Stay tuned
for updates.

--tomasz


On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 1:38 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 25 November 2012 21:36, Raylton P. Sousa raylton.so...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  I keep thinking that (particularly) the wikivoyage[1] could be much
  better if we had good maps similar to the dantonwiki[2] (that runs on
  localwiki[3]).
  Is there any similar map project in mediawiki that can be activated in
  small wikivoyage wikis?


 Something related to OpenStreetMap is the obvious candidate, if it
 won't melt their somewhat underpowered servers to link them too much.


 - d.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed new WMF browser support framework for MediaWiki

[Tomasz Finc]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:50 PM, James Forrester
jforres...@wikimedia.orgwrote:

 … which seems to be a little harsh on the mobile and tablet fronts, and
 overly-
 generous on the MSIE side given their exceptional costs to support per
 %age of
 users, but not too terrible.


I worry less about it being harsh and more that it needs to be lined up
with  which documents the mobile teams current support matrix [1].

Removing Opera support as a general rule is not an option for us as it
contributes a significant amount of readership traffic (6.69%) [2] .

--tomasz

[1] - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile/Testing_process
[2] - http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportDevices.htm
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed new WMF browser support framework for MediaWiki

[Tomasz Finc]

Correction. I was looking at the total Other/Unknown. Opera is actually
4.66%

--tomasz


On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:50 PM, James Forrester 
 jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 … which seems to be a little harsh on the mobile and tablet fronts, and
 overly-
 generous on the MSIE side given their exceptional costs to support per
 %age of
 users, but not too terrible.


 I worry less about it being harsh and more that it needs to be lined up
 with  which documents the mobile teams current support matrix [1].

 Removing Opera support as a general rule is not an option for us as it
 contributes a significant amount of readership traffic (6.69%) [2] .

 --tomasz

 [1] - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile/Testing_process
 [2] - http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportDevices.htm


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[Wikitech-l] Welcome Juliusz Gonera as Software Developer to the Mobile Team!

[Tomasz Finc]

I am pleased to announce that Juliusz Gonera joins WMF this week as a
Software Developer (Mobile team) today.

Juliusz has worked at the University of Virginia, developing software
for a laboratory that studies the macromolecular structure of
proteins. Before that he created a system for sending bulk SMS
messages for a Polish company. Juliusz is a proponent of open source
and agile methodologies and apart from a few projects of his own [1]
he contributes to open source software he uses. He has just moved to
San Francisco and earlier lived in Virginia, Spain and Poland.

The team would like to welcome him and wish him success.

[1] - https://github.com/jgonera

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit replication (extensions)

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Keep it simple. Just put it into one place.

--tomasz


On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 10/31/2012 09:28 AM, Chad wrote:

 We should probably fix up both organization pages to point
 to the other. The plan I've had is to make wikimedia/* for our
 WMF-specific stuff, and mediawiki/* for...MediaWiki stuff :)


 After all I heard at the WMF AllHands and in this list, I wonder whether
 it makes sense to keep this division in GitHub, when it doesn't exist in
 Gerrit, and you can find WMF and non-WMF developers in both sides.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Seeking feedback on new Organizations feature on Ohloh

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That should have said

These are only on github till we can test replication and have pull
request support in gerrit.

--tomasz


On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 18/10/12 18:52, Tomasz Finc wrote:
 These are only on gerrit till we can test replication and have pull request
 support.

 So you want to be only on github and drop wmf server? That's a very bad
 move. Those repositories fly out of the radar. Not only do people not
 know about things which are put there. I also remember looking for some
 project that I *expected* to be there, and failing. (It was indeed in
 github, but in a completely different place [user])

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Seeking feedback on new Organizations feature on Ohloh

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I added a couple of highly visible but missing projects from github.

--tomasz


On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi, the Wikimedia Foundation pages at Ohloh are starting to look nice. They
 are not public since this new feature of Ohloh is only available in a stage
 server.

 We need to make sure that no project is missing. I have compiled the list
 that Ohloh is currently aware of at

 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil/Ohloh

 (pasted below for convenience)

 There are projects missing, like

 * Limn - https://github.com/wikimedia/limn

 Can you please help checking out the list and filling the gaps? The wiki
 page has two sections, one for projects already in Ohloh but no linked to
 the Wikimedia Foundation and projects that are missing at Ohloh altogether.

 Question: there are projects available in gerrit.wikimedia.org and
 github.com/wikimedia: should we default to the gerrit repository in these
 cases or do you prefer to default to GitHub?

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki + Vagrant

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Since were getting serious about it let's move it to the Wikimedia repot
On Oct 17, 2012 11:39 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:25 AM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote:

  Ok, I made it work, I think
 
  git clone https://github.com/atdt/wmf-vagrant.git
  cd ./wmf-vagrant:
  git submodule update --init
  vagrant up

 And indeed, it works like magic. This is an awesome beginning, Ori -
 thanks so much for pulling this off. I really think this is a
 potentially great path to getting pre-built and optimized dev
 environments into people's hands.

 As for a permanent home, this isn't really operations and probably
 lots of folks should have merge rights on it, so perhaps a
 mediawiki/vagrant repo with a broad permission set would make sense?

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Seeking feedback on new Organizations feature on Ohloh

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These are only on gerrit till we can test replication and have pull request
support.
On Oct 18, 2012 9:12 AM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 10/17/2012 11:49 AM, Tomasz Finc wrote:

 And here are the links with relevant stats

 https://www.ohloh.net/p/**WikipediaMobilehttps://www.ohloh.net/p/WikipediaMobile

 https://www.ohloh.net/p/**WLMMobile https://www.ohloh.net/p/WLMMobile


 These projects point to https://github.com/wikimedia/*

 For sanity purposes, would it make sense to agree that Wikimedia projects
 in Ohloh should point to their canonical locations at Gerrit (unless they
 are only in GitHub, of course)?

 --
 Quim


 --tomasz


 On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org
 wrote:

 I like this as it generally raises the visibility of our projets.
 Having a top lovel *and* up to date view these days is next to
 impossible unless you follow multiple mailing lists and constantly
 read the monthly engineering reports.

 As a test I added our WLM and Wikipedia Cordova apps to Ohloh to see
 what they would look like. It would be far simpler if we could be
 added as an organization so that these get added automatically.

 --tomasz


 On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi, what about having Wikimedia features as organization in Ohloh?

 The proposal is interesting considering the current state of things:
 MediaWiki seems to be stalled with the SVN to Git migration, and it is
 close
 impossible to find out what other projects come from this community.

 This would help or quest on community metrics, so here goes my humble
 +1. I
 also volunteer with some work, basically following the steps of
 https://github.com/wikimedia and pinging Sumana / here for anything
 else.



  Original Message 
 Subject:Seeking feedback on new Organizations feature on Ohloh
 Date:   Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:22:54 +
 From:   Rich Sands rsa...@blackducksoftware.com
 To: metrics-wg@theopensourceway.**orgmetrics...@theopensourceway.org
 metrics-wg@theopensourceway.**org metrics...@theopensourceway.org



 Hi all,

 As I mentioned here recently, we're rolling out a new feature on Ohloh
 next week I thought might be interesting to this list. We're adding
 rollups of projects into Organizations, so project contributors and
 others could see for example all the projects in the FooBar Foundation,
 which ones are most active, the most active contributors, year over year
 summary statistics, etc. I know many of you or folks in your
 organizations have rolled your own metrics for watching your
 foundation's projects and their activity. This feature isn't intended to
 replace any of that, but rather to provide a view into how organizations
 are contributing to and influencing FOSS. We've spoken with a number of
 you who've expressed a need for this, and hope this new feature can be a
 valuable resource.

 We're rolling this out as a Beta feature and would love to get your
 feedback. There are two aspects we're looking at: which organizations
 steward which projects, and also which organizations contribute to which
 projects through developers affiliated with those organizations, whether
 they're for-profit, non-profit, governmental, or educational. Initially
 we're concentrating on the first aspect - projects in organizations. In
 a near-term iteration we'll add in the contribution bit, but for now
 we're not showing stats on which projects an organization contributes
 to.

 If you would like a preview of this feature before it is released, let
 me know and I'll send you a URL and a name/password combo so you can
 check it out. And if you'd like your organization to be one of the
 featured ones when we open this up, I'd be thrilled to add you. All I
 need is an organization name, a short description, a logo (if
 available), a homepage URL for the organization, and a list of projects
 to include. If your projects aren't already on Ohloh, I can help you add
 them as well.

 We're keen to make this useful, and we're rolling it out in a fairly raw
 state, so that the FOSS community can help it evolve. Also, please don't
 post about or publicize this new feature before it comes out next week.
 Looking forward to hearing from you!

 --  rms

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 Director of Developer Communities
 Black Duck Software, Inc.
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki + Vagrant

[Tomasz Finc]

Chip is trying to use Hangout/Youtube to make it happen.

--tomasz


On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Patrick Reilly prei...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 That's awesome! Will it be recorded tonight?

 — Patrick

 On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Woot! Thanks guys. I'll use my five-minute slot at the meet up tonight to
 demo its use.

 --
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 o...@wikimedia.org


 On Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Patrick Reilly wrote:

  Done and done... https://github.com/wikimedia/wmf-vagrant
 
  Staff team has the following permissions push  pull granted.
 
  — Patrick
 
  On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org(mailto:
 tf...@wikimedia.org) wrote:
  
   Since were getting serious about it let's move it to the Wikimedia
 repot
   On Oct 17, 2012 11:39 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org (mailto:
 e...@wikimedia.org) wrote:
  
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:25 AM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org(mailto:
 o...@wikimedia.org) wrote:
   
 Ok, I made it work, I think

 git clone https://github.com/atdt/wmf-vagrant.git
 cd ./wmf-vagrant:
 git submodule update --init
 vagrant up
   
   
   
And indeed, it works like magic. This is an awesome beginning, Ori -
thanks so much for pulling this off. I really think this is a
potentially great path to getting pre-built and optimized dev
environments into people's hands.
   
As for a permanent home, this isn't really operations and probably
lots of folks should have merge rights on it, so perhaps a
mediawiki/vagrant repo with a broad permission set would make sense?
   
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Seeking feedback on new Organizations feature on Ohloh

[Tomasz Finc]

I like this as it generally raises the visibility of our projets.
Having a top lovel *and* up to date view these days is next to
impossible unless you follow multiple mailing lists and constantly
read the monthly engineering reports.

As a test I added our WLM and Wikipedia Cordova apps to Ohloh to see
what they would look like. It would be far simpler if we could be
added as an organization so that these get added automatically.

--tomasz


On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi, what about having Wikimedia features as organization in Ohloh?

 The proposal is interesting considering the current state of things:
 MediaWiki seems to be stalled with the SVN to Git migration, and it is close
 impossible to find out what other projects come from this community.

 This would help or quest on community metrics, so here goes my humble +1. I
 also volunteer with some work, basically following the steps of
 https://github.com/wikimedia and pinging Sumana / here for anything else.



  Original Message 
 Subject:Seeking feedback on new Organizations feature on Ohloh
 Date:   Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:22:54 +
 From:   Rich Sands rsa...@blackducksoftware.com
 To: metrics...@theopensourceway.org metrics...@theopensourceway.org



 Hi all,

 As I mentioned here recently, we're rolling out a new feature on Ohloh
 next week I thought might be interesting to this list. We're adding
 rollups of projects into Organizations, so project contributors and
 others could see for example all the projects in the FooBar Foundation,
 which ones are most active, the most active contributors, year over year
 summary statistics, etc. I know many of you or folks in your
 organizations have rolled your own metrics for watching your
 foundation's projects and their activity. This feature isn't intended to
 replace any of that, but rather to provide a view into how organizations
 are contributing to and influencing FOSS. We've spoken with a number of
 you who've expressed a need for this, and hope this new feature can be a
 valuable resource.

 We're rolling this out as a Beta feature and would love to get your
 feedback. There are two aspects we're looking at: which organizations
 steward which projects, and also which organizations contribute to which
 projects through developers affiliated with those organizations, whether
 they're for-profit, non-profit, governmental, or educational. Initially
 we're concentrating on the first aspect - projects in organizations. In
 a near-term iteration we'll add in the contribution bit, but for now
 we're not showing stats on which projects an organization contributes to.

 If you would like a preview of this feature before it is released, let
 me know and I'll send you a URL and a name/password combo so you can
 check it out. And if you'd like your organization to be one of the
 featured ones when we open this up, I'd be thrilled to add you. All I
 need is an organization name, a short description, a logo (if
 available), a homepage URL for the organization, and a list of projects
 to include. If your projects aren't already on Ohloh, I can help you add
 them as well.

 We're keen to make this useful, and we're rolling it out in a fairly raw
 state, so that the FOSS community can help it evolve. Also, please don't
 post about or publicize this new feature before it comes out next week.
 Looking forward to hearing from you!

 --  rms

 Rich Sands
 Director of Developer Communities
 Black Duck Software, Inc.
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Seeking feedback on new Organizations feature on Ohloh

[Tomasz Finc]

And here are the links with relevant stats

https://www.ohloh.net/p/WikipediaMobile

https://www.ohloh.net/p/WLMMobile

--tomasz


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 I like this as it generally raises the visibility of our projets.
 Having a top lovel *and* up to date view these days is next to
 impossible unless you follow multiple mailing lists and constantly
 read the monthly engineering reports.

 As a test I added our WLM and Wikipedia Cordova apps to Ohloh to see
 what they would look like. It would be far simpler if we could be
 added as an organization so that these get added automatically.

 --tomasz


 On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi, what about having Wikimedia features as organization in Ohloh?

 The proposal is interesting considering the current state of things:
 MediaWiki seems to be stalled with the SVN to Git migration, and it is close
 impossible to find out what other projects come from this community.

 This would help or quest on community metrics, so here goes my humble +1. I
 also volunteer with some work, basically following the steps of
 https://github.com/wikimedia and pinging Sumana / here for anything else.



  Original Message 
 Subject:Seeking feedback on new Organizations feature on Ohloh
 Date:   Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:22:54 +
 From:   Rich Sands rsa...@blackducksoftware.com
 To: metrics...@theopensourceway.org metrics...@theopensourceway.org



 Hi all,

 As I mentioned here recently, we're rolling out a new feature on Ohloh
 next week I thought might be interesting to this list. We're adding
 rollups of projects into Organizations, so project contributors and
 others could see for example all the projects in the FooBar Foundation,
 which ones are most active, the most active contributors, year over year
 summary statistics, etc. I know many of you or folks in your
 organizations have rolled your own metrics for watching your
 foundation's projects and their activity. This feature isn't intended to
 replace any of that, but rather to provide a view into how organizations
 are contributing to and influencing FOSS. We've spoken with a number of
 you who've expressed a need for this, and hope this new feature can be a
 valuable resource.

 We're rolling this out as a Beta feature and would love to get your
 feedback. There are two aspects we're looking at: which organizations
 steward which projects, and also which organizations contribute to which
 projects through developers affiliated with those organizations, whether
 they're for-profit, non-profit, governmental, or educational. Initially
 we're concentrating on the first aspect - projects in organizations. In
 a near-term iteration we'll add in the contribution bit, but for now
 we're not showing stats on which projects an organization contributes to.

 If you would like a preview of this feature before it is released, let
 me know and I'll send you a URL and a name/password combo so you can
 check it out. And if you'd like your organization to be one of the
 featured ones when we open this up, I'd be thrilled to add you. All I
 need is an organization name, a short description, a logo (if
 available), a homepage URL for the organization, and a list of projects
 to include. If your projects aren't already on Ohloh, I can help you add
 them as well.

 We're keen to make this useful, and we're rolling it out in a fairly raw
 state, so that the FOSS community can help it evolve. Also, please don't
 post about or publicize this new feature before it comes out next week.
 Looking forward to hearing from you!

 --  rms

 Rich Sands
 Director of Developer Communities
 Black Duck Software, Inc.
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Re: [Wikitech-l] customizable IRC feed for bugzilla

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On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote:
 I can put it to #wikimedia-mobile, or you can do that :) I suppose you
 want all mobile related bugs there

This would be awesome if you could add it. Lets start off with these two

MF: 
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=152256resolution=---resolution=LATERresolution=DUPLICATEquery_format=advancedbug_status=UNCONFIRMEDbug_status=NEWbug_status=ASSIGNEDbug_status=REOPENEDcomponent=MobileFrontendproduct=MediaWiki%20extensions

WP App:

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=152257resolution=---resolution=LATERresolution=DUPLICATEquery_format=advancedbug_status=UNCONFIRMEDbug_status=NEWbug_status=ASSIGNEDbug_status=REOPENEDproduct=Wikipedia%20App

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This would be great to get into the mobile channel.

--tomasz


On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Arthur Richards
aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 This sounds pretty cool and very handy. How often does the bot poll the RSS
 feeds? Is this configurable? I tried to answer my own questions by looking
 at the code, but all I could find was a link to the SVN repo on the bot's
 wiki page (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wm-bot), but there have been no
 commits there since June - is the code being maintained somewhere else now?

 Thanks!
 Arthur

 On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:04 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:

 Petr Bena wrote:
  That means anyone should be able to create a custom irc feed for
  bugzilla and use it in any wikimedia related irc channel you want (for
  example, right now we have a bugzilla feed in #wikimedia-labs that
  reports only labs related bugs). You can generate RSS feed in
  bugzilla, just by creating a new search, then you can click link
  Feed which is on bottom of each search results page.

 This sounds neat. :-)

 I didn't realize Bugzilla had RSS feed support. Currently wikibugs (the
 Bugzilla -- IRC bot in #mediawiki) parses mailing list messages (sent to
 wikibugs -l). If there's a machine-readable format that can be used, that
 would be awfully nice.

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[Wikitech-l] Welcome Michelle Grover as QA to the Mobile Team!

[Tomasz Finc]

Greetings all,

I am pleased to announce that Michelle Grover joins WMF this week as a
Mobile QA contractor.

Michelle has worked as a Java Developer, Software Developer in Test,
Release Engineer for Adobe, and Mobile QA Automation Lead for
Crowdfusion (They developed The Daily, TMZ, Telepictures mobile
applications).  She's worked closely with agile teams (SCRUM and XP)
over the past 7 + years, Implemented Kanban and setup and configured
CI using Hudson,Team CIty and Cruise Control. She's been married 17
years and has a 6 year old son.  Currently lives in Monument, CO and
has spent a lot of time up in the mountains.

Michelle will help both the community and mobile team build out a
sound process for testing both the mobile web and our apps. The team
would like to welcome her and wish her success.

--tomasz

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal to add an API/Developer/Developer Hub link to the footer of Wikimedia wikis

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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote:
 Each entry could feature already in the Developer Hub the best showcases:

 - amazing apps using the API,
 - Wikipedia mobile, visual editor, article feedback.
 - amazing sites powered with MediaWiki.
 - amazing selection of ambassadors and contributors.

This really just highlights how much past MediaWiki we've gotten as a
development community. This is especially true with the Wikimedia
mobile apps like : Wiki Loves Monuments, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, etc.
Shifting from a home on MW.org to developers.wikimedia.org would
easily allows to grow our volunteer community to accurately reflect
the range of projects that we work on. Currently our mobile volunteers
join us on IRC and are on our mobile specific wiki pages but we'd love
to have a central place for all of this.

Does anyone have an issue broadening the topic base that we have on
our tech hub?

--tomasz

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal to add an API/Developer/Developer Hublink to the footer of Wikimedia wikis

[Tomasz Finc]

I really wish I could just got to http://developer.wikimedia.org/
and/or http://developer.wikipedia.org

--tomasz


On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote:
 I think we should point to a developer hub but the current one needs to be
 massively revised!
 On Sep 19, 2012 4:51 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote:
  If the primary target are app developers then
  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page + improvements is probably
  a better target. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub
 
  See full reasoning at
  https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33464#c8

 Generally, we want a single link that encapsulates everything a
 developer might be interested in (Gadgets, MediaWiki extensions, the
 web API, data dumps, bot infrastructure like pywikipediabot, MediaWiki
 core development, generally volunteering, etc).  API:Main_page (for
 better or worse) is focused on our web API.

 Rob

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Lists you might not know about

[Tomasz Finc]

And mobile-l - Discussing upcoming changes for phones, tablets, app, etc.

--tomasz


On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Sumana Harihareswara
suma...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 I've just updated https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mailing_lists and
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Overview#Mediawiki_and_technical
 .  Sorry for the spam, but you really should take a moment to skim and
 see whether there are lists there you should join.  I especially want to
 single out:

 design
 mediawiki-api-announce
 mediawiki-i18n -- localisation and internationalisation
 labs-l -- for when you have a question or request re Wikimedia Labs
 analytics
 wikitext-l -- the new Visual Editor  parser

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: FOSDEM calls for devroom organizers and main track speakers

[Tomasz Finc]

Good news on this. I've been pitching this at the foundation ever
since the last FOSDEM conference and Erik has green lit budget for it.
We've been going back and forth with the organizers over the last
couple of months to better understand what's possible. I imagine this
will be similar to a dev room / presentation track like Mozilla does
each year.

I'll let Erik jump in with the details but rest assured I've been
making sure this happens.

Stay tuned for more info.

--tomasz


On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Arthur Richards
aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 It would be awesome if we could put together a devroom at FOSDEM.

 Over the last couple of years, FOSDEM has become my favorite
 conference. The ethos of the conference is fantastic - totally
 grassroots, transparent, and open. It draws an unbelievable crowd. The
 technical breadth and depth of the talks is generally impressive. And
 the Wikimedia/Mediawiki-related talks pack the rooms - at least they
 did the last couple of years. We should have a much bigger presence at
 this event - from my perspective, it seems like it is a fantastic
 learning, community building, and recruiting opportunity - perhaps
 even more so than most of the other conferences at which we have a
 presence.

 If folks think this would be something cool to do, it might also be
 worth teaming with some other similarly-minded orgs with some overlap
 - like Mozilla, Creative Commons, OLPC, CiviCRM, etc. From the
 invitation for proposals, it sounds like this would increase our odds
 at securing a devroom, it would certainly help us further
 cross-pollinate, and ultimately strengthen the broader open source
 community.

 What do you all think?

 Arthur

 On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Siebrand Mazeland s.mazel...@xs4all.nl 
 wrote:
 Forwarded from fos...@lists.fosdem.org. Subscribe at
 https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/fosdem.

 Siebrand


  Original Message 
 Subject: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM calls for devroom organizers and main track speakers
 From:Tias Guns t...@fosdem.org
 Date:Sun, August 12, 2012 14:40
 To:  Fosdem Announce fos...@lists.fosdem.org
 --

  help spread the word and make FOSDEM awesome 


 FOSDEM is a non-commercial event offering open source communities a
 place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being
 highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over
 the world. FOSDEM will take place in Brussels, Belgium on the 2nd and
 3rd of February 2013.

 We invite proposals for *devrooms* and *main track talks*:


 *Main Track Talks*
 The main tracks host high-quality seminars for a broad and technical
 audience. Every track is organized around a theme (security, kernel,
 collaboration, ...). They are held in the two biggest auditoria and last
 50 minutes. Each of the talks is given by a speaker who gets their
 travel and accommodation costs reimbursed.

 To apply for a FOSDEM Main Track talk, visit
 https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_main_speakers.html

 To suggest a main track speaker that we should invite, mail
 prog...@fosdem.org


 *Devrooms*
 A devroom is a 'developer room' in which open source communities can
 organize their own schedule, made of presentations, brainstorming and
 hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer collaboration and
 cross-pollination between projects.

 Each year we receive more requests than we can host. To better achieve
 our goals, preference will be given to *proposals involving multiple,
 collaborating projects*. Projects with similar goals/domains that make
 separate requests will be asked to co-organize a devroom under their
 common theme.

 To propose organizing a devroom, visit
 https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_devrooms.html

 Note! Linux distributions should apply to the dedicated distribution
 mini-conference:
 https://fosdem.org/2013/distrominiconf.html


 *Key Dates*
 - 1 October: deadline for devroom proposals
 - mid October: devroom announcements
 - 1 November: deadline main track proposals
 - mid November: main track announcements
 - 2 and 3 February: FOSDEM 2013



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Re: [Wikitech-l] Responsive web design

[Tomasz Finc]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote:
 This would be best answered by Brandon.From a personal point of view if the
 mobile site still looks like a mobile site in a desktop browser at the
 start of next year I will be somewhat disappointed with myself.

+1

 I personally believe that mobile is the likely method for accelerating
 athenas development as there are less blockers to do that.

We should be looking at Athena (and other projects like it) as
guidance for how were going to approach contribution projects on
mobile. Our focus for the next year is to not just grow the readership
base but to also grow the contributor base. We've never had as many
eyes on Wikipedia as before who can't contribute. Mobile users can't
be second class citizens within the Wikimedia projects. We have to
build all new pipelines on mobile devices to make this happen. These
contributor methods may look drastically different then their desktop
counterparts.

Responsive design is an interesting technique for layout but it breaks
down for functionality. A mobile phone, a tablet, and a desktop/laptop
are used very differently. Mimicking the exact same functionality
means your failing to understand what's best for each device.

 A lot of the existing bottle neck from my perspective is due to a lack of
 volunteer developers in the many mobile projects which slows important
 things like this down. Aside from the new design we are also planning some
 cool stuff for Wiki loves monuments with image uploading via mobile phones
 to commons. Poke me off list if you are keen to give time/expertise to help
 accelerate important initiatives like this.

I'm going to re-iterate what Jon said here. We have numerous projects
going on now and we've been actively mailing, blogging, and tweeting
to get new testers/developers/etc. Were always eager to get more
people involved. If you need to catch up with what were working on
just check the mobile projects pages.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Volunteers for Wikimania mobile app?

[Tomasz Finc]

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote:

 Am 02.06.2012 23:05, schrieb Mr. Gregory Varnum:
  The good news is that it looks like making the mobile app already means
 making the wiki more mobile, and specifically PhoneGap, compatible. Going
 beyond the wiki to a mobile specific site seems unlikely and
 uncharacteristically duplicative.
 
  This would be for multiple platforms, not just iOS, and I'm not too
 concerned about app approval times.

 very interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhoneGap
 and of course http://www.phonegap.com/


And don't forget http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile/PhoneGap/Tutorial.
Thats a video tutorial that has all the info you would need to get started
with the Wikipedia PhoneGap app.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Volunteers for Wikimania mobile app?

[Tomasz Finc]

Certainly take a look at the official Wikipedia and Wiktionary apps on
github to see how we've bult them.

https://github.com/wikimedia

Stop by in #wikimedia-mobile if you need any help.

--tomasz


On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Gregory Varnum
gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote:
 Greetings,

 As someone involved with Wikimania programming - I'm wondering if there are 
 volunteers interested in developing a Wikimania mobile app.  It may not be 
 feasible given the short timeline, but I've seen a number of conference apps 
 coming out over the past week and figured it should at least be pondered.  :)

 Essentially the idea would be to include schedule, local info, maps, etc.  
 Things that can be pulled from the Wikimania 2012 wiki.  Perhaps something 
 PhoneGap based?

 Any thoughts or interest?

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Re: [Wikitech-l] The bugtracker problem, again

[Tomasz Finc]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 The Developer works with the Director to help the Director develop
 reasonable timelines.  Bugzilla's Milestones and the priority within a
 Milestone are especially suited for this.

We tried the milestones and they were worse then tracking bugs.
Sharing urls like this

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=117138resolution=---resolution=LATERresolution=DUPLICATEquery_format=advancedtarget_milestone=1.2%20releaseproduct=Wikipedia%20App

vs

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36745 is a pain. You
could save the search but then its only available to you. Quickly
seeing what's resolved/blocking your release without having to go back
to advanced search is key.

CC'ing Yuvi so that he can provide more context

We'll be switching away from milestones and back to tracking bugs for
the next app release.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] The bugtracker problem, again

[Tomasz Finc]

+1  If you guys can make it work then let the mobile team know.
Otherwise were sticking with what works for us.

--tomasz


On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote:
 Yeah but its a PITA.

 -Chad
 On May 21, 2012 6:25 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote:
  On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@wikimedia.org
 wrote:
  The Developer works with the Director to help the Director develop
  reasonable timelines.  Bugzilla's Milestones and the priority within a
  Milestone are especially suited for this.
 
  We tried the milestones and they were worse then tracking bugs.
  Sharing urls like this
 
 
 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=117138resolution=---resolution=LATERresolution=DUPLICATEquery_format=advancedtarget_milestone=1.2%20releaseproduct=Wikipedia%20App
 
  vs
 
  https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36745 is a pain. You
  could save the search but then its only available to you. Quickly
  seeing what's resolved/blocking your release without having to go back
  to advanced search is key.
 
 You can share your saved searches. I don't remember how it's done, but
 I seem to have searches in my list that were shared by Antoine and
 Sumana. Example URL:

 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=doremremaction=runnamedcmd=Day%20old%20patchessharer_id=11475list_id=117143

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: Special:SiteChanges for automatic deployment info

[Tomasz Finc]

As part of the pre flight steps the mobile team generates a list of
gerrit changes that have gone into the deployment branch. We then
throw it on a wiki page so that its much easier to trace back what
changed. Our current list is here

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend/Deployments

Formatting aside its become really useful to know exactly what's going
out without having to hound each developer about their changes.

This combined with Special:SiteChanges would be great in the glorious future.

--tomasz

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 In the Wikimedia wikis, right now, we succeed to a varied degree at
 letting communities know about deployments that affect them. We're
 definitely getting better, and the 1.20wmf1 page is an example of
 release notes done well:

 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.20/wmf1
 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.20/wmf1/overview

 A concise summary with translations in multiple languages, followed by
 a detailed list compiled from manually collected and curated commit
 summaries. Nifty. And so much work that it's unlikely to be
 sustainable. Indeed with wmf2 we're already taking shortcuts:

 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.20/wmf2

 No translations, no overview, less curation. And let's keep in mind
 that this covers only the regular two week cycle deployment -- major
 changes deployed between cycles aren't covered in either of those
 summaries.

 So how can we do better? I'd posit that it should be impossible to
 deploy code without leaving an exposed audit trail generated from
 commit messages, which can in turn be expanded by any interested
 volunteer into a human-readable and translated summary.

 I'd suggest exposing this information to a special page directly in
 the relevant wiki, say Special:SiteChanges. This special page would
 show an automatically generated summary like so:

 example
 == Wednesday May 2, 19:03 ==
 (2 hours ago)

 '''[[mw:WMF deployments/345|Write or translate a deployment summary]]'''

 Deployment 345 completed. The following changes are now running on this wiki.

 === In core ===

 * ca7eb5c - Removed intval for undelete reason in API - ''committed by
 Petr Onderka''
 * 5813680 - Few documentation/type hint updates - ''committed by Reedy''
 * e22a369 - Prevent sidebar links from jumping on page load -
 ''committed by Trevor Parscal'
 ...

 === In extension FlaggedRevs ===

 * ce146dc - Fixing up LSB related stuff.. Some code duplication, but
 meh for the moment (yay for us using static classes for hooks)

 === In extension DynamicPageList ===

 ..

 == Tuesday, May 1, 15:01 ==
 (1 day ago)

 ...
 /example

 I leave it up to your imagination whether the summary would be
 generated from the git repo the wiki resides in (in combination with a
 deployment log), or pulled from MediaWiki.org,  some combination
 thereof, or some other implementation strategy. Suffice it to say that
 we'd ideally want to:

 * Ensure that the process of recording this information is an
 automated part of deploying code updates
 * Filter extensions from the Special:SiteChanges summary that are not
 actually activated
 * Notice when new extensions are activated that were not active in a
 previous state
 * Enable anyone to write deployment summaries on MediaWiki.org
 * Enable anyone to translate those summaries
 * Load an existing summary in the correct language on Special:SiteChanges

 In the magical database backed configuration future,
 Special:SiteChanges might also be able to list out config changes, but
 that seems far fetched right now

 In the equally magical notifications for everything future, users
 would be able to opt into getting notified whenever a deployment
 occurs.

 But keeping it at a base level of functionality, does this seem like a
 feasible and desirable change? Like I said, I worry about our ability
 to keep up without automating this whole process, so IMO it would be
 good to incrementally start building out this functionality. Otherwise
 we're constantly fighting an uphill battle to ensure information gets
 disseminated in a consistent fashion. But it's possible I'm
 overlooking major issues that would make this too difficult to be
 worthwhile.

 All best,
 Erik

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Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.19 release schedule?

[Tomasz Finc]

 Incidentally, some folks are making efforts to update the status spaces
 on those activity pages more often, as you can see at the Platform
 Engineering hub page:
 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Platform_Engineering and at the
 Features hub:
 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Features_engineering .  You can
 help:
 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Project_documentation_howto

And the mobile projects page : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] HTML history interface / api use for MobileFrontend

[Tomasz Finc]

 On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 I've been experimenting with the api that Max Semenik has been working
 on and the html5 history interface [1] to add javascript to the
 MobileFrontend extension so that any searches, link to other articles
 and section expansions go via the api. It's something I'm very
 interested to do both from a usability and site performance
 perspective. The best example of what I'm trying to do can be seen on
 http://github.com . It's worth pointing out that this is not currently
 on the roadmap but it is something I'm very interested in us doing.


We've talked about this a number of times and it had been blocked getting
the API tested.


 The resulting prototype [2] has a few quirks (and a few things I
 haven't paid attention to e.g. page titles do not change) but I think
 is interesting as it is noticeably faster (please bear in mind this is
 a slow server) and reduces the load on the server in that any page
 loads after the first load will go via the api. Note devices which do
 not support the history api or jQuery are not effected by this code.

 It throws up some interesting challenges.
 1) It enables sub section expansion for which the existing design
 doesn't really seem to work. Also it means pages like History of China
 [3] look different when viewed normally to when retrieved via the api
 (the normal version only has expansion on the top level sections)
 2) Also the back button (at the moment) has no memory of which
 sections were opened/closed and instead goes back to the last loaded
 page.
 3) The first page is still wastefully loaded. It would be good if we
 could load all sections dynamically on the first page whilst not give
 a crummy experience to non-javascript users.
 4) Some sections just contain sub sections. So if I click a section
 with heading 'Section 1' that only contains 'Section 1.1' and 'Section
 1.2' there is a brief flash whilst it tries to load any text for
 section 1 (Please load- empty string). To see what I mean load the
 Japan page [4], load History of China via the link 'Chinese history
 texts' and click 'Prehistory' (observe 'loading content'). I guess it
 would be useful if the api let me know beforehand if a section was
 empty of any text so I didn't try to retrieve it.
 5) The api returns the heading in the text. For example in [5] the
 line Prehistory includes the heading in the text. This is unnecessary
 as I can determine this from toclevel and line. In my code I'm
 currently scrubbing this out every time I load.


The best way to balance all the pros/cons is to load the chrome+first
paragraph as fast as possible. *Then* load all subsequent sections
asynchronously *while* the user is reading the first section. That way we
have all the content by the time the user gets to each sub section. This
resolved you having to wait for each section as you tap but allows the page
to load as fast as possible.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Video codecs and mobile

[Tomasz Finc]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote:
 It would seem possible to bake Theora or WebM support into the iOS app
 and direct users there if browsing from mobile Safari. Performance
 would not be so great given it would only be software decoding (this
 is why I was asking if anyone is aware of OpenCL decoders).

If anyone wants to take this on then do let know. Were about to push a
brand new code base for the app so poke us on #wikimedia-mobile for
pointers.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] QA/testing project page exists

[Tomasz Finc]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Chris McMahon cmcma...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 After doing a lot of research and visiting WMF for a week, I created a
 QA/testing project page here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/testing

 tl;dr: it is early days yet and lots of details to be worked out, but I
 have a picture in place of an integrated, valuable QA/testing structure and
 process that revolves around Jenkins and the labs cluster wikis.  In the
 long run this should provide a reliable way to involve the global software
 testing community in WMF features testing, as well as involve WMF tech
 people in valuable testing activities.

 Comments and criticism most welcome!

Heads up that we a mobile specific version of this as well.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_QA with detail in
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_QA/Spec

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Re: [Wikitech-l] API requests on Wikimedia wikis

[Tomasz Finc]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 On 15/03/12 15:17, MZMcBride wrote:
 Hi.

 I occasionally get asked about what a reasonable rate for querying the API
 of a Wikimedia wiki is for a particular script or tool. I don't really know
 the answer other than be reasonable and specify an informative
 User-Agent. That's essentially what I said when asked here:
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Techdiff=3569658oldid=3569474

 If there's an authoritative answer (on Meta-Wiki or mediawiki.org or even
 wikitech), that'd obviously be ideal. I'd also settle for a mailing list
 post. I looked at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page to see if
 it mentioned limit or rate, but nothing came up. It's a fairly common
 question; it should probably be a bit easier to find.

 MZMcBride

 When people ask me that question, I tell them to limit the
 concurrency, not the request rate. You can't do much damage with a
 single thread, whether queries complete in 10ms or 10s. But you can
 certainly do a lot of damage if you send a query once per second that
 takes 100 seconds to complete, using 100 concurrent clients.

 This is especially relevant for people who write toolserver scripts
 and the like. It's easy to write a server-side script which
 accidentally allows 100 concurrent connections to Wikimedia, when 100
 people happen to use it at once, or if someone decides to try a DoS
 attack using the toolserver as a proxy.

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We already have an article on this :
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Etiquette.

Looks like it captures Tim's point about slamming us with concurrency.
For those that regularly get asked about this ... what's missing from
it and how can we make it more discoverable? Currently its linked from
the front of the API page.

I changed the text slightly from 'Etiquette' to 'Etiquette  Usage
Limits' so that its a quicker find. Updates as needed.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug Squad -- Activate

[Tomasz Finc]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@wikimedia.org wrote:
[...]

 I like Tomasz's idea of having mobile-focused bug squad activities.  I'd
 like to get input on how to do this.  Because I think it will work best
 with a low barrier to entry (an area where the KDE bug squad runs into
 problems), and because the mobile team is running on top of PhoneGap
 (http://phonegap.com/), I wonder if we couldn't set up a labs instance
 of the PhoneGap interface.

Seems simple to build a vm that would just start up the VM and uses
ant to build the app. Who's interested in taking this on?


 Tomasz, if we are able to do that, would that allow Bug Squad members to
 find some bugs without starting up an emulator?

That would remove the need for them to run it locally. Eventually you
might even be able to open the whole app within in a browser.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC project Improve our Android application

[Tomasz Finc]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Yeshow Lao yesh...@gmail.com wrote:
 Thank you very much, Yuni and Marcin. Your advice is very helpful. I'm
 excited, and will consume the information and hope to set up the build
 environment on my PC and study the source code ASAP.

Yeshow, did you manage to build our app? If so come by to
#wikimedia-mobile (freenode) and we can guide you along to some bugs
that need tending to.

--tomasz

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-introducing UNCONFIRMED state to bugzilla

[Tomasz Finc]

Keep in mind that MediaWiki isn't the only software that we write. We
already have a healthy beta group of Android and iOS testers. Perhaps
some of them might want to be part of a bug squad team.

--tomasz



On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 I set up Bugzilla today so that, by default, bugs would be in the
 UNCONFIRMED state.

 Next week, I plan to begin recruiting volunteers for the Bug Squad,
 who will help me to verify bugs by testing them against the Beta
 cluster.  The plan is that the Bug Squad will be able to verify these
 bugs and change them to the NEW state.

 The Bug Squad idea comes from KDE's Bug Squad
 (http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Bugsquad) and I've begun talking
 with them.

 If you have an interest in helping out with or participating in the Bug
 Squad, please contact me.

 --
 Mark A. Hershberger
 Bugmeister
 Wikimedia Foundation
 m...@wikimedia.org

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

[Tomasz Finc]

Given that i wrote it 4 years ago and haven't touched it since. I'm
amazed that its still running ;)

--tomasz


On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr writes:

 Le 05/03/12 04:00, reporter a écrit :
 Top 5 Bug Resolvers

 john.next [AT] gmx.com              63

 Top proof that this report is useless :-)

 Obviously we need to improve it so that spammers are removed.

 Mark.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Database dump of Bugzilla

[Tomasz Finc]

Didn't robla do this same analysis about a year ago? Are his notes up
somewhere so that we don't waste time on solutions that simply won't work.
Finding those could make this go way faster. Adjusted for whatever has
changed in the projects since his review of course.
02-03-2012 17:11 użytkownik John Du Hart compwhi...@gmail.com napisał:

 I'm currently investigating alternative bug tracker and project management
 software for MediaWiki. To do that I'll be installing some different
 software on the Labs and importing existing bugs for evaluation by the
 development team and users. The following software is planned for test:


   - JIRA http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/overview + Greenhopper +
   Bonfire
   - YouTrack http://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/
   - The Bug Genie http://www.thebuggenie.com/index.php
   - Redmine http://www.redmine.org/
   - ChiliProject https://www.chiliproject.org/

 If you have any suggestions for this list I'd be glad to hear it.

 Of course, this goes back to the original request. To do this I need a dump
 of the current Bugzilla install. Is it possible for me to get this and
 under what conditions? Thank you.

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

[Tomasz Finc]

Hi everyone,

I'm pleased to welcome a new member of to the mobile engineering team.
Lindsey Smith started this week as our new Mobile UI/UX contractor.
She'll working with us in San Francisco helping us flush out the look,
feel, and experience across all of our mobile projects. This fits a
critical need of the mobile team which has grown steadily over the
last couple of months in development capacity but has not grown enough
in design capacity. With the addition of Lindsey we'll have some keen
eyes on such key projects as our new navigational system, image
uploads, and numerous future projects.

Lindsey joins us as a mobile designer from Dallas, Texas who's
recently moved to the bay area with her husband and 2 border collies.
She's worked for Semaphore Mobile on a range of client applications
from restaurant review service Zagat to custom remote control
interfaces for Traxxas cars[1]. Her educational background is in
Software Engineering but she found her passion to be in UI/UX.

Welcome Lindsey!

[1] http://lsmith.me/projects

--tomasz

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[Wikitech-l] Developing an open source Wikipedia J2ME app for Symbian S40

[Tomasz Finc]

Cross posting to reach a larger audience.

We've gotten word from the Global Development group that a lot of our
partners are asking for an official Symbian S40 J2ME app for
Wikipedia. Before talking to any potential development houses I wanted
to reach out to both of these lists to see if anyone has a lead on any
open source developers who would want to contract for a project like
this and/or volunteer with us.

The feature set would be fairly basic including but not limited to

* Reading articles
* Bookmarks
* History
* Interwiki links

Now developing for J2ME is a beast unto itself as Derk-Jan
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32700#c1 points out but
the potential install base of these phones is still fairly large
making it a good strategic goal. We'd love to do this in PhoneGap but
its support starts at S60 and not S40.

I see two Symbian based apps here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Mobile_access#Symbian_applications
but their both just for offline reading

Curious to hear peoples thought/experiences.

--tomasz

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