Re: [Wikitech-l] Engineering Community Team changes

2014-03-17 Thread Scott MacLeod
Congratulations, Quim and Sumana! :) Scott On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Frances Hocutt frances.hoc...@gmail.comwrote: Congratulations to both of you! -Frances On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone, I'd like to announce some

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

2014-04-05 Thread Scott MacLeod
I'd be interested in working on this. Scott On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Denny Vrandečić vrande...@gmail.com wrote: Did anyone manage to get MediaWiki running on Google App Engine? I am a bit dense, it seems, and would appreciate a few pointers. Cheers, Denny

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Dmitry Brant as Software Developer to the Mobile App Team

2014-04-22 Thread Scott MacLeod
Welcome, Dmitry! Scott On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Welcome Dmitry! I'm looking forward to working with you :D On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: Welcome, Dmitry! Dan On Tuesday, 22

Re: [Wikitech-l] Do we have any data in wikidata / wiktionary that could be used for mechanic translations?

2014-05-22 Thread Scott MacLeod
If you Petr were going to take a rules' based approach to what you've outlined above, and use the already existing Wikidata interlinguality, which I think is based around the 'item with a label' (think a Wikipedia Encyclopedia article - is this correct?), and build on Wiktionary, could one

Re: [Wikitech-l] Do we have any data in wikidata / wiktionary that could be used for mechanic translations?

2014-05-22 Thread Scott MacLeod
Great ... looks like MediaWiki Content translation and Wiktionary may provide another important approach to a possible Universal Translator ... :) Scott On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: this isn't about translation of content of current wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Frontend standardization discussion continues Thursday

2014-07-10 Thread Scott MacLeod
Thanks Sumana for facilitating the Skins meeting today ... Great to see a Wikipedia developers' conversation in action ... Friendly regards, Scott On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Trevor's rewritten

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2014-09-13 Thread Scott MacLeod
Farewell, Sumana, Sorry you're leaving WikiMedia, appreciating your good spirits, and looking forward to staying in communication. Best regards, Scott http://scottmacleod.com https://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch http://worlduniversityandschool.org :'( Going to miss you Sumana! (Hopefully

Re: [Wikitech-l] TechOps welcomes Mike Wang...

2012-12-04 Thread Scott MacLeod
Welcome, Mike! Scott http://scottmacleod.com On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Welcome, Mike! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Translate extension design walkthrough

2013-02-28 Thread Scott MacLeod
Hello Pau and the Language Engineering team, I just noticed your email, Pau, so missed your presentation. Greetings from the San Francisco Bay Area. While I haven't looked at the YouTube video record yet, I would like to inquire how to collaborate further with the Language Engineering team. I'm

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moodle Wikiversity - new Moodle plugin interfaces with MediaWiki

2013-04-18 Thread Scott MacLeod
Hi Sumana, Jan, Quim and Wikimedia Developers, I just wanted to let you know that: MIT OCW-centric, free World University and School, in English, is soft-launched ... http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2013/04/world-university-and-school-in-english.html... for free (C.C.), online,

Re: [Wikitech-l] English lessons today

2013-07-14 Thread Scott MacLeod
Erika and Sumana, Is it ok to mention on this Wikimedia email list that I added your lessons to World University and School's English language wiki subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/English_language ? (WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, with free, university degrees planned).

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

2012-06-08 Thread Scott MacLeod
Welcome, Adam Wight! Scott On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 8:22 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone,        It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Adam Wight has joined the Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment of Wikidata

2012-07-10 Thread Scott MacLeod
Denny and Wikimedians, In what ways might World University and School (which is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW), with plans to be in all 3,000-8,000 languages, and 200 countries, each a school or beginning university as a wiki page, to begin, participate in this process? The English version

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment of Wikidata

2012-07-20 Thread Scott MacLeod
Wikidatans, Is there a possibility that we could also include German as a third language here for deployment testing? Not only are many Wikipedians on this list familiar with the German Wikipedia and are German speakers (for a sizable development community) but in beginning to develop World

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment of Wikidata

2012-08-05 Thread Scott MacLeod
Wikitechians, It's exciting that the Hungarian Wikipedia folks will be first to deploy in Wikidata, and the Italian Wikipedia people may be the 2nd! What's the deployment plan, for languages 10 through 285 (number of Wikipedia languages) through 7,358 (per The Ethnologue), particularly in terms

Re: [Wikitech-l] IRC office hours with the Localisation team 2012-09-19 16:30 UTC

2012-09-19 Thread Scott MacLeod
Hi Srikanth I'd like to participate in this meeting but am new to my IRC reader (Colloquy) ... hope to chat with all of you soon. Cheers Scott http://scottmacleod.com On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan (WMF) slakshma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:14

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Semediawiki-user] Colours of the sun (Was: [SMW-devel] Semantic mediawiki and map data)

2012-09-28 Thread Scott MacLeod
Scott, SMW does not have a special datatype for representing colours. You can encode wavelengths as numbers. Sound data is not supported, nor is any such support planned right now. Markus On 18/09/12 20:55, Scott MacLeod wrote: Markus and Semantic MediaWikians, Thinking broadly

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: SMWCon Fall 2012 Program

2012-10-10 Thread Scott MacLeod
Markus, Thanks for this, and great! Will any of this be streamed in real time? Cheers, Scott On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Markus Krötzsch mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote: [Forwarded from semediawiki-user, apologies for cross-posting] (This is about the Semantic MediaWiki User

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: SMWCon Fall 2012 Program

2012-10-14 Thread Scott MacLeod
after the conference. - Yury Katkov On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Scott MacLeod helia...@gmail.com wrote: Markus, Thanks for this, and great! Will any of this be streamed in real time? Cheers, Scott On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Markus Krötzsch mar...@semantic

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: SMWCon Fall 2012 Program

2012-10-24 Thread Scott MacLeod
:48 PM, Scott MacLeod helia...@gmail.com wrote: Markus, Thanks for this, and great! Will any of this be streamed in real time? Cheers, Scott On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Markus Krötzsch mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote: [Forwarded from semediawiki-user, apologies for cross-posting

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thoughts: stateless services with open servers?

2015-01-28 Thread Scott MacLeod
Gabriel and Wikimedia developers, In what ways might you be anticipating developments with SemanticMediaWiki, and in what ways not? Scott On Jan 28, 2015 9:52 AM, Gabriel Wicke gwi...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: Another

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thoughts: stateless services with open servers?

2015-01-28 Thread Scott MacLeod
, On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Scott MacLeod helia...@gmail.com wrote: Gabriel and Wikimedia developers, In what ways might you be anticipating developments with SemanticMediaWiki, and in what ways not? I definitely think that the mechanism needs to support the (optional) installation

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

2015-03-19 Thread Scott MacLeod
Gabrielle and All, Thanks for these great speedy innovations! Cheers, Scott On Mar 19, 2015 4:08 PM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: Amazing. Even for larger articles, it seems to load quicker, or at least as quick, as the classic edit box. Superb job! On Thu, Mar 19,

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC meeting this week

2015-03-04 Thread Scott MacLeod
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Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC meeting this week

2015-03-04 Thread Scott MacLeod
Thanks! On Mar 4, 2015 12:33 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 03/04/2015 02:27 PM, Scott MacLeod wrote: Brad, Legoktm and All, Interesting and thanks. And how does ContentHandler - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89733 - Allow ContentHandler to expose structured

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC meeting this week

2015-03-04 Thread Scott MacLeod
the process for wiki-adding languages here hypothetically? Thanks, Scott On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On 03/04/2015 10:55 AM, Scott MacLeod wrote: Tim: Can I please ask a general question about AuthManager and ContentHandler, since

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

2015-02-20 Thread Scott MacLeod
* ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Scott MacLeod http://scottmacleod.com http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ This email is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Modernizing our content platform: Kick-off meeting on Tuesday

2015-06-25 Thread Scott MacLeod
Gabriel and Wikimedians, Sorry I missed this meeting, but thanks for these followup Wikitech resources. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99088 https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#drafts/14e0d31ef6f33ad7?projector=1 Regards, Scott On Jun 23, 2015 4:01 PM, Gabriel Wicke gwi...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Read the VisualEditor process review

2015-06-13 Thread Scott MacLeod
Thanks, Greg, Joel and All, Best, Scott Best, Scott Hello everybody! For the past couple months, Joel Aufrecht and I have been working on a project to document and improve the VisualEditor team's processes; we just published a draft of our report

Re: [Wikitech-l] Updates on WMF product leadership

2015-10-09 Thread Scott MacLeod
ed us from Amazon where he worked with the A9 > search team. Please join me in congratulating Wes and Tomasz. > > Lila > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Crediting the work of our community members

2016-06-07 Thread Scott MacLeod
ement, so that > we don't have to rely on contributors confidently declaring that they > deserve acknowledgement. > > Rob > [1] > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/86127 > > ___ > Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] An early preview from WikiCite

2016-06-01 Thread Scott MacLeod
a.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016#Funding> by the Alfred P. > Sloan Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Crossref. > We'll be exploring the feasibility of a follow-up event in the next 6-12 > months to continue the work we started in Berlin and bring in more people >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using assignees for RFC shepherd

2016-02-04 Thread Scott MacLeod
oncerned with quickly pushing through a new feature (with > unknown user interface implications) than with solving the deeper > underlying problems we have with page lists. > > MZMcBride > > > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in the RFC decision making process

2016-01-28 Thread Scott MacLeod
g/rfcs/blob/master/text/1068-rust-governance.md > [3]: > https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1068-rust-governance.md#decision-making > > _______ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using assignees for RFC shepherd

2016-02-03 Thread Scott MacLeod
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Scope of ArchCom

2016-01-22 Thread Scott MacLeod
mailing list. > > Thanks > Rob > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - 415 480 4577 - http://s

Re: [Wikitech-l] Scope of ArchCom

2016-01-25 Thread Scott MacLeod
clear vision and leadership >- A governance structure that allows WMF to operate as a worthy peer > > We have healthy relationships with other upstreams (e.g. Phabricator, > Debian, Composer), and though we don't always agree with the choices of our > upstream, we striv

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement

2016-03-30 Thread Scott MacLeod
is an even > > > > better forum to discuss these questions? > > > > > > > > Finally, if you would like to support my project, please consider > > adding > > > > your name to this list > > > > < > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Envi

Re: [Wikitech-l] ArchCom RFC update #4

2016-04-08 Thread Scott MacLeod
> > T66214 Use content hash based image / thumb URLs & define an official > thumb > > API <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66214> (Brion) > > > > T113034 RFC: Overhaul Interwiki map, unify with Sites and WikiMap > > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113034> (Da

Re: [Wikitech-l] ArchCom RFC update

2016-03-24 Thread Scott MacLeod
ebody to actually take this on. > > T11 [RFC] Introduce notion of DOM scopes in wikitext > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T11> (Tim): Active related > discussion and prototyping at Balanced templates > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114445> and Hygienic transclus

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia in Pig Latin

2016-04-02 Thread Scott MacLeod
> Kaldari > > ___ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikite

Re: [Wikitech-l] ArchCom RFC update #5

2016-04-13 Thread Scott MacLeod
iki core > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54807> (no shepherd) > > T88596 Improving extension management > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88596> (Daniel) > > T11 RFC: Introduce notion of DOM scopes in wikitext > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Rob Lanphier appointed to the Architecture Committee

2016-04-26 Thread Scott MacLeod
info/wikitech-l > > > > > > -- > Quim Gil > Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Introducing Srishti Sethi, our new Developer Advocate

2016-10-12 Thread Scott MacLeod
gt; ___ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Looking for WikiDev Summit main topics and volunteers

2016-10-20 Thread Scott MacLeod
articipation#Selection_process > > -- > Quim Gil > Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailm