Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 35306: Global (to a wiki farm or family) message delivery (thoughts)

Necromancy? I'll jump on that bandwagon. On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: *The question: do we need an interim solution for message delivery, until a future-proofed solution is developed?* * * How I answer this question depends on questions that I

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

Congratulations, Ryan and Leslie! Glad to have you two running the place :) - Jonathan On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 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

[Wikitech-l] input requested re: metrics for hackathons

Hi all, OrenBachman has asked several questions about how to evaluate the impact of Hackathon events on the Evaluation Portal*[1]* and I'm hoping some folks from this list can share their advice and perspectives. Please read and respond there if you have input. Several outstanding questions are:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help on Research

Hi Igor, Sounds like an interesting worthwhile project. Have you heard about our upcoming Research Hackathon Day[1]? That could be a good opportunity for you to connect with community members and other researchers who might be able to assist with your study or connect you with people who you can

Re: [Wikitech-l] post project funding

Responses to BAWolf inline. On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/21/15, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: In general WMF has a conservative grant policy (with the exception of IEG, grant funding seems to be getting more conservative every year, and

Re: [Wikitech-l] GRAPH extension is now live everywhere!

This is wicked exciting. Thanks to everyone involved! - J On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Yuri Astrakhan yastrak...@wikimedia.org wrote: Starting today, editors can use *graph* tag to include complex graphs and maps inside articles. *Demo:*

Re: [Wikitech-l] Per-user search query limiting being deployed to wmf wikis

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Bahodir Mansurov bmansu...@wikimedia.org wrote: I doubt all 200 students will be making concurrent searches. I can easily imagine a scenario where 200 students in a large lecture classroom might be instructed to open their laptops, go to Wikipedia, and search

Re: [Wikitech-l] VisualEditor support for table copy-and-paste from Word

+1 on blog post. I think it's finally time to celebrate success here. I was using VE for table editing the other day, and it worked amazingly well. Nice job, y'all. - J On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Katherine Maher kma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Apr 16, 2015 6:55 AM, David Gerard

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator monthly statistics - 2015-03

Hi Pine, I understand your concern, but in all fairness Phabricator is used by a lot of people for a lot of different things, and without a better understanding of what kind of tasks are being marked as unbreak now (and by whom), I don't think it makes sense to set thresholds (which will always

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:52 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: What is Community Tech? How does it differ from the work the rest of the engineering and product team is doing? Are there people working for the Wikimedia Foundation who are doing design and development that is not for the

Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

I run GrantsBot, which is listed here. I've updated all GrantsBot API requests to use rawcontinue=1. But as I read through this thread, it's not clear to me that that's the problem. I can't find a single instance in my code where I'm actually continuing a query. Does this breaking change only

Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

Thanks Yuri and Brad! On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Yuri Astrakhan yastrak...@wikimedia.org wrote: It is much better than to use rawcontinue, because that flag will keep telling us someone needs the

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Frances Hocutt

Welcome, Frances! It was a pleasure working with (and learning from) you during our work on the Inspire campaign and the Co-op. I look forward to the opportunity to work together again soon! - Jonathan On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Bryan Davis bd...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm excited to

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Niharika Kohli

Welcome, Naharika! Your grant review application is awesome. I'm glad we get to keep drawing on your skills! Best, Jonathan 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

Re: [Wikitech-l] [recommended reading] the hamburger menu is broken

FYI Ori also shared this link on the design list today, and there's been some interesting discussion there: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2015-August/002366.html J On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 3:47 AM, Brian Gerstle bgers...@wikimedia.org wrote: Interesting article about how various

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Introduction to Free and Open Source Licensing at Wikimedia: October 23

I just watched this. Thanks, Stephen for the excellent overview! Very approachable. This may be slightly off-topic for this particular list, but: have there been any similar talks focusing on content licenses for article text and (perhaps especially) images? Jonathan On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at

Re: [Wikitech-l] mattermost.org (open source Slack alternative)

me too. I like IRC, but a lot of my colleagues aren't on it because it's... well, IRC. If there's a more inclusive OSS option, let's try it. J On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Stephen Niedzielski < sniedziel...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I think this might be a dividing subject. I speak only for

Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

+1 thanks for putting that list together! On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Mr. Stradivarius misterst...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sure there are still some out there, but probably not as many as you think. I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Brian Wolff wrote: > > I seriously doubt any form of technology will solve the problem of > independent groups with overlapping interests discussing things in > multiple venues. > > My reading of the original email is that they want to work on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ideas for tech-related IdeaLab Campaigns?

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Quim Gil wrote: > > On the collateral topic of where to publish project concepts... it's > complicated. I think this deserves its own discussion in the context > of the WMF product development process in the drafts. I have created a > topic at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feelings

I would start the conversation here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Teahouse/Host_lounge Cullen328 and DESiegel are probably the most experienced/involved hosts right now. Their voices are respected. But of course there's no leader :) Jonathan On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 12:08 PM, C.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feelings

one that had a > > demonstrable and substantial impact (AFAIK) was the Teahouse. > > > > The goal of the Teahouse initiative was "learning whether a social > approach > > to new editor support could retain more new editors there"; its stated > > design goal was t

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] The future of Related Pages feature

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Moushira Elamrawy wrote: > ... > In fact, we are not sure if an rfc is the best strategy to move forward > with product decisions, but lets see how the discussion evolves, and we > might explore the need for a different process, as we

Re: [Wikitech-l] New mirror of 'other' datasets

Awesome! Great to hear that we're making these resources more widely available. Nice to have good partners :) - Jonathan On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 5:33 AM, Ariel Glenn WMF wrote: > I'm happy to announce a new mirror for datasets other than the XML dumps. > This mirror comes to

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] Monthly page view stats that can now be queried via Pageview API.

Awesome. Thanks Analytics team! - J On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 3:19 AM, Thomas Steiner wrote: > > The Analytics team would like to announce that the Pageview API is able > to > > return monthly pageview stats as of this week. > > Thanks, Nuria and team, very useful addition to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Congratulations to {4} Outreachy'13 selects from Wikimedia

Thank you, Tony! This is a great set of projects, and I'm thrilled for the opportunity to help out this year. - Jonathan On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Tony Thomas <01tonytho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > Happy to announce that we have *four* selections for Outreachy'13 this time >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Developer Summit Weekly

Hi Quim, Could you provide a little more detail about what is required from session proposers for the Nov. 28th deadline? It says "Deadline for consolidating a discussion, regularly summarized in the proposal." But I'm not sure yet I'm expected to do. I see that a plurality of submissions are

Re: [Wikitech-l] What happened to RobLa?

+1 Petr. This thread makes me sad and uncomfortable. - J On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Toby Negrin wrote: > Thank you Petr. Well said! > -Toby > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 2:39 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I don't like to sound like a

Re: [Wikitech-l] What happened to RobLa?

are in my mind, and I think the minds > of others. It would be nice to get some reassurance about what is going to > happen next. > > -- > Brian > [To be 100% clear, posting with my volunteer hat firmly on] > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Jonathan Morgan <jmor...@wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] [AI] Scoring Platform Team update

Congratulations to the new Scoring Platform team! - J On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Aaron Halfaker wrote: > Hey folks! > > I just posted a new update to the blog. This update covers roughly the > last month. > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Congratulations to accepted candidates for Google Summer of Code 2017 & Outreachy Round 14

Welcome (back!) Sejal! - Jonathan On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Sejal Khatri wrote: > Hello Everyone! > > I am Sejal Khatri, a Final year undergraduate student of computer science > from India, graduating in 2017. I have been a part of Wikimedia Community > since

Re: [Wikitech-l] Congratulations to accepted candidates for Google Summer of Code 2017 & Outreachy Round 14

Congratulations! I think this will be a lot of fun for everyone involved :) - Jonathan On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Alangi Derick wrote: > Hello, > > I want to cease this opportunity to congratulate all selected GSoC + > Outreachy participants. Congratulations and do

Re: [Wikitech-l] Turkey ban

And now, this: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/2-chinese-writers-will-create-their-own-wikipedia-competitor/ On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 1:39 AM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > The Iranian government by blocking several major websites (youtube, > facebook, twitter)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sunsetting Trending Edits Service before the holiday

FWIW, I did the research comparing Trending edits to top pageviews, and I *also* think Trending edits is a promising tool and am glad to hear that it going forward in some fashion even if it's being pulled from production (for now?). I hope we can continue to develop the model, and I'm confident

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikistats gets a facelift - Alpha Launch of Wikistats 2

This is fabulous! Thank you, Erik Zachte, Analytics team, and everyone else involved in this project for giving us the powerful, usable stats dashboard we deserve :) - J On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 5:10 AM, Niharika Kohli wrote: > This is awesome. Great job A-team! > > On

Re: [Wikitech-l] A potential new way to deal with spambots

Couple thoughts: 1. ORES platform (ores.wikimedia.org) was designed to host a wide range of machine learning models, not just the ones built by Aaron Halfaker himself. So, if there is a computer scientist out there who is interested in training and maintaining a new bot-detection model, it can be

Re: [Wikitech-l] A potential new way to deal with spambots

Brian, I think we may be talking past each other. I'm Mr. Socio-technical systems. I thought what was being requested was a way to detect bots. I maintain my own bots, work extensively with product teams, and have a deep and abiding familiarity with the complexity of designing effective tools

Re: [Wikitech-l] A potential new way to deal with spambots

This may be naive, but... isn't the wishlist filling this need? And if not through a consensus-driven method like the wishlist, how should a WMF team prioritize which power user tools it needs to focus on? Or is just a matter of "Yes, wishlist, but more of it"? - Jonathan On Mon, Feb 11, 2019

[Wikitech-l] MOSS launches COVID-19 Solutions Fund

FYI: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/03/31/moss-launches-covid-19-solutions-fund/ From the announcement: *"Mozilla is announcing today the creation of a COVID-19 Solutions Fund as part of the Mozilla Open Source Support Program (MOSS). Through this fund, we will provide awards of up to $50,000

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change page’s content model

Thanks XaosFlux and Gergo, Gergo: Diego is working on the templates in his userspace, but our plan is to move them to the template namespace when we're done testing, etc. Thanks again for the quick turnaround on this! - J On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 11:14 AM Gergo Tisza wrote: > Hi Diego! > > On