Re: [Wikitech-l] Code of conduct

2015-08-06 Thread James Alexander
ds up being less and less enforced even where it should be). Yes a global policy would have a wide consultation or RfC type discussion before being but that's not the only thing we NEED here in order to get something that works. We need to see it in ACTION and be able to see what works and what

Re: [Wikitech-l] Urgent help needed from WMF admins

2016-09-22 Thread James Alexander
Thank you very much Max ( and Gergő and anyone else who helped here). James *James Alexander* Manager, Trust & Safety On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:15 PM Max Semenik wrote: > Fixed. > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Huji Lee wrote: > > > Please see https://phabricator

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Huggle] Huggle 3 released / Mac people needed

2014-06-03 Thread James Alexander
I'm going to be playing around over the next couple days trying to build a mac installer/dmg if anyone wants to help test it let me know (I'll post here when I have a beta too). James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Mon, J

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Strange mailing list behavior

2014-07-15 Thread James Alexander
gether. So far I'm not seeing a huge pile of queued messages on ganglia (though there was a bit of a bump earlier). James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur -- Forwarded message -- From: Pine W Date: Tue, Jul 15,

[Wikitech-l] Office Hours with VPE Damon Sicore - 9 October 2014 20:00 UTC / 13:00 PDT

2014-10-06 Thread James Alexander
re.com>. James [[cross posted on wikitech-l and wikimedia-l]] James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google thinks the Anonymous entry on enwp is hacked

2015-02-13 Thread James Alexander
use it as well as through the webmaster tools which did not contain any of the warning messages which would stick around even if it's a fleeting actual issue. James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:47 P

[Wikitech-l] WMF Elections are coming up - You may be eligible to vote

2015-04-30 Thread James Alexander
ease feel free to either forward or let me know so that I can reach out. [and for the benefit of those wondering: No, if you're eligible to vote for multiple reasons such as your employment and your edits you can still only vote once. The same thing applies if you are eligible on multiple

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: Mark Holmquist joins Wikimedia as Features Engineer

2012-09-26 Thread James Alexander
re, > > Terry > > [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EtherEditor > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_bridge > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour > [3] http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/ > > > ____

Re: [Wikitech-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

2012-12-12 Thread James Alexander
nt of feedback you get which can be really helpful. Personally I think we should do it on as many wikis as we can for major projects like this but it's obviously difficult to do on many because of both the language barriers and watching too many feedback channels. Yet another thing that once a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Brian Wolff's summer gig, with Wikimedia!

2013-06-03 Thread James Alexander
Someone else can very much correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding is that the difference is that this is as a normal contractor in that he's doing what is directed/needed rather then an accepted project on his own under a mentor like GSoC. James Alexander Legal and Communit

Re: [Wikitech-l] How's the SSL thing going?

2013-07-31 Thread James Alexander
Our data has more variation in it, > and the data is all publicly available) > > --bawolff > > Time to start adding a random amount of extra packets with each request? :) James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTTPS for logged in users on Wednesday August 21st

2013-08-20 Thread James Alexander
an http (non secure) login page such as zhWiki or faWiki you will be able to remain logged in while going to a non secure wiki page (http://en.wikipedia.org ) and not be forced to https (unless you selected that in your preference). On a side note: I assume the preference is wiki based rather

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTTPS for logged in users on Wednesday August 21st

2013-08-20 Thread James Alexander
't figure out where that's actually marked in the database...). If we are using that 'CentralAuth' definition we're going to have a lot of false negatives, a significant amount of people are marked off as their home being enWiki or somewhere else because it was the first place they

Re: [Wikitech-l] SUL broken? I'm logged in here, not there

2013-09-09 Thread James Alexander
ecause of https either, I was having issues before that). James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote: > Ever more often, lately, I find my self logged out > of various WMF wikis. Righ

Re: [Wikitech-l] Integrating "who's been awesome?" functionality to MediaWiki

2012-03-03 Thread James Alexander
> Dear Mr James Alexander, > > I am Eranga. I'm a 3rd year Computer Science and Engineering undergraduate > at University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka. I am interested in participating in > gsoc 2012 programme with MediaWiki. Currently I'm developing a multimedia > extension

Re: [Wikitech-l] Integrating "who's been awesome?" to MedaiWiki

2012-03-19 Thread James Alexander
your code where we can see it! :-) >> >> > But you can see some screenshots of my extension. >> > >> > Video sampling and content assigning special page >> > [image: Inline images 1] >> > >> > Video viewing special page >> > [image: Inline images 2] >> >> If you tell me your mediawiki.org username then I can ensure that you >> can upload those screenshots to mediawiki.org so everyone can see them. >> :-) >> >> > Undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering >> > University of Moratuwa >> > Student Member IEEE >> >> -- >> Sumana Harihareswara >> Volunteer Development Coordinator >> Wikimedia Foundation >> > > > > -- > > Undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering > University of Moratuwa > Student Member IEEE > > > -- James Alexander Manager, Merchandise Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Integrating "who's been awesome?" to MedaiWiki

2012-03-19 Thread James Alexander
And sorry wikitech :) if you didn't figure it out already this wasn't meant for the whole list (thought I was on a private thread). Carry on! Sent from my iPhone James Alexander Manager - Merchandise Wikimedia Foundation +1 415-839-6885 x6716 On Mar 19, 2012, at 6:51 PM, James

[Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012: Mentees interested in the 'Who's been awesome' proposal and mentors still looking for help

2012-04-04 Thread James Alexander
et as many of these great candidates as possible! James -- James Alexander Manager, Merchandise Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: Adam Wight joins Wikimedia as Fundraising Engineer

2012-06-07 Thread James Alexander
ttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tychay > aim: terrychay > > > ___ > Wmfall mailing list > wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > > -- James Alexander Manager, Merchandise Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: Adam Wight joins Wikimedia as Fundraising Engineer

2012-06-07 Thread James Alexander
I clearly am FAR too spacy today ;) Obviously Welcome ADAM Terry was already welcomed a while ago :P James On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:33 AM, James Alexander wrote: > Welcome Terry! Welcome to WMF and to fundraising, from my past experiences > I know you'll have fun :). > &

Re: [Wikitech-l] I hate to be that guy

2012-06-27 Thread James Alexander
esse for example.) > -C > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- James Alexander Manager, Merchandise Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofu

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: Matt Walker joins Wikimedia as Fundraising Engineer

2012-06-29 Thread James Alexander
kimedia.org/wiki/User:Tychay > aim: terrychay > > > ___ > Wmfall mailing list > wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > > -- James Alexander Manager, Merchandise Wikimedia Found

Re: [Wikitech-l] replacing Planet software soon

2012-08-26 Thread James Alexander
it. > > You can find the puppet code in ./manifests/role/planet.pp and > ./manifests/misc/planet.pp in the operations/puppet git repository. > And recent changes can be found under topic branch "planet". > > > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=operations/puppet.git;a=

Re: [Wikitech-l] Planet update is taking too long

2012-09-15 Thread James Alexander
list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- James Alexander Manager, Merchandise Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vector tabs at en.wikibooks

2010-11-26 Thread James Alexander
oldid=2220896 ) since we don't have any banners that need it and it was the closest we had... However the banner cache is clear at this point and I'm still getting the problem on Wikibooks. I'm poking through the code to try and find what it could be. Do you remember where in the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vector tabs at en.wikibooks

2010-11-26 Thread James Alexander
ng it all back now. Must have been being cached while I was refreshing. Thank you Darklama. -- James Alexander Associate Community Officer Wikimedia Foundation jalexan...@wikimedia.org +1-415-839-6885 x6716 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] How users without programming skills can help

2011-02-13 Thread James Alexander
r more complicated we make the reporting the more likely we are to scare someone away from taking the time to file the bug (which we want). I'm not totally sure where the best balance there is. -- James Alexander Associate Community Officer Wikimedia Foundation jalexan...@wikimedi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Jeremy Postlethwaite

2011-08-24 Thread James Alexander
n at WMF in San > Francisco. > > Welcome Jeremy! > > -- > Alolita Sharma > Director, Features Engineering > Wikimedia Foundation > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] Donate page on wikimediafoundation.org broken

2011-12-19 Thread James Alexander
d (it did so for every country but the fundraising chapters). James > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- James Alexander Business Analyst - Fundraising W