[Wikitech-l] CREDIT Showcase Wednesday, 7-September-2016 - call for demos

Hello! The next CREDIT showcase is Wednesday, 7-September-2016 at 1800 UTC (1100 San Francisco). https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase We look forward to seeing your demos! Please add them to the Etherpad and mark your calendars: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT CREDIT is a

Re: [Wikitech-l] to be enabled tomorrow

We tried to deploy it yesterday, but ran into some issues, so will try again next week. Please keep an eye on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144062 On Fri, Sep 2, 2016, 12:03 Strainu wrote: > Hi Yuri, > > This does not seem to have happened. Is there a new ETA for this?

[Wikitech-l] Congratulations to all GSoC students (passed)

Hi, I wish to use this opportunity to congratulate all the 6 students (including me) that made it to the end of the GSoC program 2016 in the Wikimedia foundation. It was not easy but we made it to the end. It was a great time working with the Wikimedia Foundation and I had a very great

Re: [Wikitech-l] [QA] Browser testing user satisfaction survey

Interesting patterns there. Is the plan to follow-up with these with particular actions? That said, it seems to me a bit muddy as to what activities would best serve the responses. I suppose education/support work for those that don't feel they know *e.g.* how to use the rake/grunt entry points,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Grouping phabricator notifications by task

This is really great. I've twice attempted build a bookmarklet to do exactly that, however, I never got it looking good. Your userscript looks really nice, I can't quite understand why phabricator doesn't have this feature built in. Kudos and well done! You might consider adding a link to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phab blogs

The phame blogs are simply a convenient way to get phabricator related announcements posted on the from page of phabricator. The topics posted their are also cross-posed to this list as the intended audience is mostly the same. On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Quim Gil wrote:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Congratulations to all GSoC students (passed)

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Alangi Derick wrote: > Hi, > > I wish to use this opportunity to congratulate all the 6 students > (including me) that made it to the end of the GSoC program 2016 in the > Wikimedia foundation. It was not easy but we made it to the end. It

Re: [Wikitech-l] Congratulations to all GSoC students (passed)

Hi Bryan Davis, Thanks. I find FLOSS that way. :) Regards Alangi Derick Ndimnain On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Bryan Davis wrote: > On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Alangi Derick > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I wish to use this opportunity to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Opening up MediaWiki dev summit in January?

On 09/01/2016 03:35 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > However, no one was present at the dev summit who used LanguageConverter on their home wiki, and few folks who rely on Content Translation routinely. (Maybe one or two were present, but not enough to have a reasonable discussion about the future

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Translators-l] Purodha passed away

On Sat, 3 Sep 2016 02:43 Amir E. Aharoni, wrote: > This is very sad. > > He was not only a prolific translator, but a prolific bug reporter, too. > > May he rest in peace. Indeed. Also developed patches. His activity can be seen here:

Re: [Wikitech-l] to be enabled tomorrow

Hi Yuri, This does not seem to have happened. Is there a new ETA for this? Thanks, Andrei 2016-08-31 23:19 GMT+03:00 Yuri Astrakhan : > Seems we have no more blockers for tag on all Wikipedias. We will > enable it tomorrow, Sept 1st. tag allows editors to add a

[Wikitech-l] How to check in wikipedia that a page is an article or not ?

Hi, How to check if a Wikipedia page is article or not using the API? -- Regards, Abdulfattah Safa Senior Software Engineer Mobile: (+972)(599)231600 Skype: fattah.safa *P **Please consider the environment before printing this email* ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Browser testing user satisfaction survey

Survey report is now available: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Browser_testing/User_satisfaction_survey Questions? Comments? Željko On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Željko Filipin wrote: > In order to improve browser testing tools, release engineering team has >

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to check in wikipedia that a page is an article or not ?

This is actually a bit complicated. If you have the title of an article, like "Earth", you would want to do an API query like: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query=Earth=pageprops You would then need to check 3 different things in the result: 1. Is the page in the main namespace ("ns":