Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:Gather launching on beta for English WP mobile users.

2015-03-26 Thread MZMcBride
Hi. Moushira Elamrawy wrote: The Extension will keep the name Gather and internally the team was more inclined to name the feature Stacks. However, a survey study has been carried out by the design research team and Collections, as a name for a feature, scored far better than the other suggested

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:Gather launching on beta for English WP mobile users.

2015-03-26 Thread Steven Walling
Thanks for the link Jon. It seems only fair that people actually try the feature before ripping it to shreds. Right? We've had extensions to create alternative content curation features in the past, such as books, and this is hardly the first time an experimental feature was launched on mobile

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:Gather launching on beta for English WP mobile users.

2015-03-26 Thread Brian Wolff
It seems only fair that people actually try the feature before ripping it to shreds. Right? In principle, no. People should rip things to shred early and often. After extension is done is the worst time to fix errors in the requirements phase. (Although if you mean this particular case, where

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:Gather launching on beta for English WP mobile users.

2015-03-26 Thread Brian Wolff
On Mar 26, 2015 9:58 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Hi. Moushira Elamrawy wrote: The Extension will keep the name Gather and internally the team was more inclined to name the feature Stacks. However, a survey study has been carried out by the design research team and Collections,

[Wikitech-l] Monthly MediaWiki releases

2015-03-26 Thread Thomas Mulhall
Hi it has been 3-4 months since the last mediawiki releases when will they have a new release since it has been a long time. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Monthly MediaWiki releases

2015-03-26 Thread Brian Wolff
On Mar 26, 2015 5:47 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: quote name=Thomas Mulhall date=2015-03-26 time=20:30:30 + Hi it has been 3-4 months since the last mediawiki releases when will they have a new release since it has been a long time. Sorry about the delay; the Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Monthly MediaWiki releases

2015-03-26 Thread Greg Grossmeier
quote name=Greg Grossmeier date=2015-03-26 time=13:46:57 -0700 We hope to have that security release out soon; we are working on it (the issues) in earnest. I know it's not the most helpful thing (because the blocking tasks are private, and have other blocking tasks that are also private) but

Re: [Wikitech-l] Monthly MediaWiki releases

2015-03-26 Thread Greg Grossmeier
quote name=Thomas Mulhall date=2015-03-26 time=20:30:30 + Hi it has been 3-4 months since the last mediawiki releases when will they have a new release since it has been a long time. Sorry about the delay; the Wikimedia Foundation had a third-party security audit of our site and code

Re: [Wikitech-l] Monthly MediaWiki releases

2015-03-26 Thread Florian Schmidt
By the way: This bug is linked from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24 in the Release schedule, too :) Best Florian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Greg Grossmeier Gesendet:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reminder: AjaxDispatcher and Sajax are deprecated

2015-03-26 Thread MZMcBride
Chad wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:21 AM Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: This is a reminder that AjaxDispatcher and the Sajax js library have been deprecated for a while now (many years). They are still around due to them having been exempted from our deprecation policy – this because

[Wikitech-l] Reminder: AjaxDispatcher and Sajax are deprecated

2015-03-26 Thread Krinkle
Hey all, This is a reminder that AjaxDispatcher and the Sajax js library have been deprecated for a while now (many years). They are still around due to them having been exempted from our deprecation policy – this because these features (as well as their deprecation) predate the existence of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reminder: AjaxDispatcher and Sajax are deprecated

2015-03-26 Thread Chad
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:21 AM Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, This is a reminder that AjaxDispatcher and the Sajax js library have been deprecated for a while now (many years). They are still around due to them having been exempted from our deprecation policy – this because

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:Gather launching on beta for English WP mobile users.

2015-03-26 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
On 26 mrt. 2015, at 15:19, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: Actually after reading the extension page, I'm a little confused. If the goal is to create private personal lists why are the lists public? I can understand the use case for private lists (watchlist). I understand the use case

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:Gather launching on beta for English WP mobile users.

2015-03-26 Thread Jon Robson
A few notes: * lists are public in the first version but there is APIs to make them private. Public lists is something that will have moderation problems and interesting to explore. * the feature is _launching_ on mobile. It's built to work on desktop and with a tiny bit of work I can turn it on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:Gather launching on beta for English WP mobile users.

2015-03-26 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: I do agree that its odd that this isnt developed in core for all users. The faq entry is unconvincing. +1. Last I had heard the extension was just a UI prototype. Now it's suddenly being deployed to production. The

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:Gather launching on beta for English WP mobile users.

2015-03-26 Thread Jon Robson
I should add you can opt into mobile beta using this link: http://en.m.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:MobileOptions The design still has kinks and the extension still needs work before. Releasing to mobile beta will get us an audience to identify those issues and fix them. I'd be keen to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:Gather launching on beta for English WP mobile users.

2015-03-26 Thread Brian Wolff
On Mar 26, 2015 11:04 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 26, 2015 9:58 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Hi. Moushira Elamrawy wrote: The Extension will keep the name Gather and internally the team was more inclined to name the feature Stacks. However, a survey