Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. I am excited as well to be part
of the VE and the larger WMF team. I hope I can deliver the goods! :)
Have a great weekend,
Subbu.
> Yay Subbu! It is really awesome to have you on board. Now that the
> Parsoid team grew by 100%, we get to bounce ideas off each other and
> make the parser really shine ;) The next 80% after the first 80% are
> awaiting us..
>
> Cheers!
>
> Gabriel
>
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Terry Chay <tchay(a)wikimedia.org
> <mailto:tchay@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Subramanya
> Sastry is joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Senior Features
> Software Engineer. Initially, Subbu (as he is known by his peers)
> will work with the Visual Editor team to assist on building a new
> Parser. Maybe later we can get him interested in other
> architectural and structural performance engineering. ;-)
>
> Before joining us, Subbu worked with fellow WMFer, Fabrice Florin,
> as the engineering manager and lead engineer at NewsTrust
> <http://newstrust.net/>, a nonprofit social news network devoted
> to good journalism. More recently (and more relevantly), he has
> been contributing to JRuby <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JRuby> to
> build a next-generation higher performance runtime
> <http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2012/oss-grant-roundup-jruby-runtime/>.
> He has his Ph.D. in CS from U. Wisconsin-Madison and his Bachelors
> from IIT in Kanpur.
>
> Beyond that, he enjoys doing a lot of nonprofit and volunteer
> work. He’s worked at the Environment Support Group in Bangalore
> <http://esgindia.org> and with Asha for Education
> <http://ashanet.org/>, the Friends of River Narmada
> <http://narmada.org/ , and the India Institute for Critical Action
> Centre in Movement <http://cacim.net/> which focuses on critical
> engagement with social movements and their organizational
> politics. Most recently, he has been volunteering his time with
> Center for Earth and Energy Democracy <http://ceed.org>.
>
> Subbu comes highly recommended by his peers, who describe him as
> an outstanding and versatile engineer, as well as a wonderful team
> player. More importantly, he is deeply committed to social change
> — not just to technology for its own sake.
>
> He enjoys growing vegetables, cooking food, live music, movies on
> big screens, books, armchair philosophising and badminton.
>
> His first official day was May 14th (I rushed the paperwork so
> Gabriel could get his hands on him :-)), and he will be working
> remotely from Minneapolis, MN. (He's reading this mailing list as
> we speak so I haven't had time to scrub all the awful things we
> said about him. Sorry!)
>
> Please join me in welcoming Subbu to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
>
> Take care,
>
>
> Terry
>
> terry chay 최태리
> Director of Features Engineering
> Wikimedia Foundation
> “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely
> share in the sum of all knowledge.*That's our commitment.*”
>
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The triage was held on Wednesday, May 9, 16:00UTC in #mediawiki-i18n
on Freenode IRC. About 6 people participated, and about 15 lurkers
appeared in the channel. Thanks to all people that participated.
We had prepared[1] some 10 topics, and were able to cover about three.
Please find below the notes for the Meta and mediawiki.org translation
tools bug triage. The etherpad may provide additional information.
* https://bugzilla.wikedia.org/36591 -- Integration of CentralNotice
with Translate extension.
We expected a lot of support for this, and got it. We mainly tried to
get a good feel of what a Meta CentralNotice administrator does with
translations, and where the pain points are. The Localisation team
will be performing a functional analysis in the current sprint, and
document user stories for future development.
* Moving translated pages around between wikis.
Use case: Pages are translated at Meta-Wiki and have a target of
wikimediafoundation.org. There wasn't a clear consensus on if and how
this could be automated. Suggestions were made to use scary
transclusion, transwiki import, or plain copy-paste.
* New functionality for translator registration and translation
notification. Jon Harald Søby wrote an interesting post about this
today: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/translators-l/2012-May/002011.html.
This all resulted in the following new issues reported:
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/36820 -- The first field on
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:NotifyTranslators should only
contain non-discouraged pages
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/36821 -- Notification e-mail should
be more personal and specific
(1) Fix wording and parameters in sentence: "You are receiving this
e-mail because you signed up as a translator to [Your notified
language(s)] on SITENAME." (list of localised language names). If not
notified about all signed up languages, then only the matched
languages from Special:TranslatorSignup should be added.
(2) Change link part: language=FirstMatchedNotifiedLanguageCode. If
one is signed up for German, French and Spanish, and French and
Spanish are notified, then two links should be added in the e-mail;
one to French, one to Spanish (listed with * prefix?).
(3) Signature should be changed. Currently says "SITENAME staff". This
should be "SITENAME translation administrators".
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/36822 -- Add timestamp to talk page message
The talk page message must be updated.
(1) Items from bug 36821 also apply. Additionally:
(2) For talk page messages, a timestamp should be added after
"SITENAME translation administrators".
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/36823 -- Filter source language
signups from notifications
On Special:TranslatorSignup, users can sign up for only English, too.
That doesn't really make sense, but it's a valid use case. At least
then we know they cannot help in making translations :). However, it
doesn't make sense to ask them to visit something like
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ATranslate&taction=tr…,
as they'll get the message "English is the source language.".
(1) Translators signed up for a site's content language (or later
possibly the notified page's language) should not be notified. They
can of course get a notification in English for another language they
signed up for, because that's their primary language.
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/36824 -- Show only open production
wikis in the wiki selector on Special:TranslatorSignup
Not sure if this should be a CentralAuth feature request going
something like "Add method to only deliver list of open production
wikis with attached accounts". Feel free to refile. I wouldn't like to
have to filter in TranslationNotifications; that doesn't really make
sense. Special:TranslatorSignup currently shows a list with wikis with
attached accounts for the current user. For
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/siebrand, this for
example contains wikis like:
* test2.wikipedia.org (non-production)
* en.labs.wikimedia.org (non-production)
* wikimania[2009|2010|2011].wikimedia.org (outdated)
* ten.wikipedia.org (outdated)
* aa.wikipedia.org (locked)
(1) Provide a list with on Special:TranslatorSignup, through
CentralAuth that only contains open production wikis.
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/36825 -- Make translated page source
more easily accessible
On http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AMessageGroupStats&x=D….
if you could fix that somehow so that there's a direct link
tohttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/asthttp://meta.wikimedia.org/…
to view the source to copy
andhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terms_of_use/ast&action=hist…
to have a quick review of the history
Niklas suggests to provide a plain text export of the page source via
the Export tab.
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/36826 -- Add DISPLAYNAME in
translated page export
Depends on 36825. When this issue is resolved, also add
{{DISPLAYNAME}} to the exported text if the page display name has been
translated. Suggested by Niklas in during bug triage.
The following bugs are planned to be addressed short term: 36756,
36820, 36821, 36822, 36823, 36824.
[1] http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-i18n-2012-05
--
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Product Manager Localisation
Wikimedia Foundation
M: +31 6 50 69 1239
Skype: siebrand
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
I thought of studying my watchlist for a moment to understand why it was
the way it was, and I noticed the following:
1. My watchlist begins half the page down, because of the watchlist
options box, which btw I have never used or peered into.
2. The first link in each item is that of the current article. I have
never clicked this because I might as well go through the changes by using
(diff)
3. I have never clicked (hist) on the watchlist, I would first see the
(diff) and only then browse the history
4. 0 is colored grey making it disappear from the list. But that does
not mean the article never changed, it could be +400 -400 words but the net
is 0. The edit calculation can be highly misleading. I would rather want to
know how many characters were added and how many deletions. Articles which
have only additions are low on my priority list to patrol.
5. Before contacting any user or checking his (contribs), I would
always see what his edit was. I open the (diff) and (contribs) in new tabs.
This could have become integrated because its part of the same task. Same
goes for talk and the user page links littered all over my watchlist
6. Knowing whether a user/ip has a talk page or not is important for me
to identify a newbie or vandal
7. Reading each edit summary is really slow. Identifying where it begins
on a line is tough of all the information that precedes it.
8. I can jump to the specific section directly by clicking the tiny →
but not the section name itself. I have never used this link either as i
would rather see the (diff)
9. The (diff) gives me the diff with the entire article and image loaded
below. In most cases, all the info I need while patrolling is just in the
diff. I only need the article if i want to check if tables/images are
broken.
With that in mind I made this, which would solve most of my issues:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mw-ux-visual_watchlist.png
Let me know if it would work for you as well? I hope to put some more
thought on it and improving the idea.
--
Arun Ganesh
User:planemad
Congratulations, Subbu!
I am so glad that you are joining the engineering team at Wikimedia.
It will be a true pleasure to work with you again, and I am confident that you can make a big difference in improving our tools and features, so that more people can participate effectively on Wikipedia.
Everyone: I worked with Subbu for four years at NewsTrust.net, and can't say enough good things about him. He is a top-notch, one-of-a-kind developer and a really nice guy. He built a wide range of web services for our innovative social news network, where he was responsible for all our feature development and technical operations. We created some very cool services together and enjoyed an exceptional working relationship.
We are very lucky to have Subbu on our team, and I can't wait to see what he comes up with in his new role.
All the best,
Fabrice
__________________________________
Fabrice Florin
Product Manager,
Editor Engagement
Wikimedia Foundation
+1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6827 work
fflorin(a)wikimedia.org
On May 17, 2012, at 4:16 PM, wikitech-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
>
> From: Terry Chay <tchay(a)wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Subramanya Sastry joins Wikimedia as Senior Features Software Engineer
> Date: May 17, 2012 4:25:23 PM PDT
> To: Staff All <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Subramanya Sastry is joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Senior Features Software Engineer. Initially, Subbu (as he is known by his peers) will work with the Visual Editor team to assist on building a new Parser. Maybe later we can get him interested in other architectural and structural performance engineering. ;-)
>
> Before joining us, Subbu worked with fellow WMFer, Fabrice Florin, as the engineering manager and lead engineer at NewsTrust <http://newstrust.net/>, a nonprofit social news network devoted to good journalism. More recently (and more relevantly), he has been contributing to JRuby <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JRuby> to build a next-generation higher performance runtime <http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2012/oss-grant-roundup-jruby-runtime/>. He has his Ph.D. in CS from U. Wisconsin-Madison and his Bachelors from IIT in Kanpur.
>
> Beyond that, he enjoys doing a lot of nonprofit and volunteer work. He’s worked at the Environment Support Group in Bangalore <http://esgindia.org> and with Asha for Education <http://ashanet.org/>, the Friends of River Narmada <http://narmada.org/ , and the India Institute for Critical Action Centre in Movement <http://cacim.net/> which focuses on critical engagement with social movements and their organizational politics. Most recently, he has been volunteering his time with Center for Earth and Energy Democracy <http://ceed.org>.
>
> Subbu comes highly recommended by his peers, who describe him as an outstanding and versatile engineer, as well as a wonderful team player. More importantly, he is deeply committed to social change — not just to technology for its own sake.
>
> He enjoys growing vegetables, cooking food, live music, movies on big screens, books, armchair philosophising and badminton.
>
> His first official day was May 14th (I rushed the paperwork so Gabriel could get his hands on him :-)), and he will be working remotely from Minneapolis, MN. (He's reading this mailing list as we speak so I haven't had time to scrub all the awful things we said about him. Sorry!)
>
> Please join me in welcoming Subbu to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
>
> Take care,
>
>
> Terry
>
> terry chay 최태리
> Director of Features Engineering
> Wikimedia Foundation
> “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.”
>
> p: +1 (415) 839-6885 x6832
> m: +1 (408) 480-8902
> e: tchay(a)wikimedia.org
> i: http://terrychay.com/
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> aim: terrychay
>
>
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Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Subramanya Sastry is joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Senior Features Software Engineer. Initially, Subbu (as he is known by his peers) will work with the Visual Editor team to assist on building a new Parser. Maybe later we can get him interested in other architectural and structural performance engineering. ;-)
Before joining us, Subbu worked with fellow WMFer, Fabrice Florin, as the engineering manager and lead engineer at NewsTrust <http://newstrust.net/>, a nonprofit social news network devoted to good journalism. More recently (and more relevantly), he has been contributing to JRuby <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JRuby> to build a next-generation higher performance runtime <http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2012/oss-grant-roundup-jruby-runtime/>. He has his Ph.D. in CS from U. Wisconsin-Madison and his Bachelors from IIT in Kanpur.
Beyond that, he enjoys doing a lot of nonprofit and volunteer work. He’s worked at the Environment Support Group in Bangalore <http://esgindia.org> and with Asha for Education <http://ashanet.org/>, the Friends of River Narmada <http://narmada.org/ , and the India Institute for Critical Action Centre in Movement <http://cacim.net/> which focuses on critical engagement with social movements and their organizational politics. Most recently, he has been volunteering his time with Center for Earth and Energy Democracy <http://ceed.org>.
Subbu comes highly recommended by his peers, who describe him as an outstanding and versatile engineer, as well as a wonderful team player. More importantly, he is deeply committed to social change — not just to technology for its own sake.
He enjoys growing vegetables, cooking food, live music, movies on big screens, books, armchair philosophising and badminton.
His first official day was May 14th (I rushed the paperwork so Gabriel could get his hands on him :-)), and he will be working remotely from Minneapolis, MN. (He's reading this mailing list as we speak so I haven't had time to scrub all the awful things we said about him. Sorry!)
Please join me in welcoming Subbu to the Wikimedia Foundation. :-)
Take care,
Terry
terry chay 최태리
Director of Features Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation
“Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.”
p: +1 (415) 839-6885 x6832
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aim: terrychay
Hey,
I am not aware of any guidelines regarding the usage of PHP namespaces in
MediaWiki and di not find any on MediaWiki.org. Not surprising since 1.20
is the first release in which we can actually use it. So I'm curious on
peoples thoughts on how to use this new features, if at all, in core and in
extensions. As far as I get it, we cannot simply put it into core without
breaking compat all over he place, but could gradually introduce it for new
components. For new extensions it's a lot easier of course, which happens
to be the use case I'm currently facing, and wondering what to best do.
MediaWiki\ExtensionName seems like a reasonable NS for extension classes.
Cheers
--
Jeroen De Dauw
http://www.bn2vs.com
Don't panic. Don't be evil.
--
Everyone,
It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday
and will be joining us in San Francisco later this year as a staff
member.
James will help prioritize the short term and long term work log on
the Visual Editor, conduct user research, and incorporate community
feedback into the development process.
As many of you know, James is a long-time Wikimedian. He started
contributing to English Wikipedia in October 2002, and was a founding
member of their Arbitration Committee. He was also the movement’s
volunteer Chief Research Officer, helping shepherd the predecessor of
what is today the Research Committee, has for years been the
“gopher-in-chief” at the Wikimania community conferences, and helped
found Wikimedia UK in 2005.
James joins us following a successful career in the UK government,
where he implemented key open access and open government initiatives.
Most recently, he was the acting Head of data.gov.uk, and then the
Digital Engagement Policy Lead in the Government Digital Service, both
at the Cabinet Office. James holds a Masters of Engineering in
Computer Science from the University of Warwick.
Beyond technology, James has strong interests in international
politics, physics, communications, economics, law, the constitutional
history of Britain, and education.
Please join me in welcoming James!
Howie
