*(forwarded as received)*
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 4-5 pm
UTC** on #wikimedia-tech.
The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers,
topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over
"who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting
Hope to see you there!
Michi (for WMDE’s tech team)
--
Michael F. Schönitzer
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985
Hi all!
I am sorry, I was absent these last days due to lack of Internet
connection. I think to be more active next week.
I appreciate all your effort for Africa.
Cheers,
--
Abel Lifaefi Mbula
Free Software Dev
Free Culture Enthousiast
Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send
OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/
Forwarded as received (copy pasted)
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **today, Wednesday 4-5 pm
UTC** on #wikimedia-tech.
The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers,
topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over
"who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/
wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting
Hope to see you there!
Michi (for WMDE’s tech team)
--
Michael F. Schönitzer
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Hello Everyone!
Hoping we're all doing great? As part of making sure there is a strong
reliability and support to developers across the entire Wikimedia movement,
WMF has made available a platform meant to support new developers to
connect and ask their questions and get the entire communities response
about it. The link to this platform can be access via:
https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/.
As a (new) developer, there is need for a place where questions can be
asked and answered and also the answers are kept so that others can refer
to it at some point in the future. On IRC, for example, after a question is
answered, it's gone and can be only reached via the logs which is quite
tedious. So with a platform like this to curate a list of so many questions
asked and answers (of various types) kept for future inference, it's just
wonderful and please let's to make use of this platform to clear our
Wikimedia software engineering doubts once and for all.
I urge you all to ask your questions when you are stuck on this platform,
this will go a long way to boost your performance and speed/reliability to
get answers to questions ASAP.
Thanks very much and have a nice day! :)
*PS: Here is the link again, https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/
<https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/>* :D
*Kind regards*
*Alangi Derick N*
*V. Developer @ Wikimedia*
*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alangi_Derick
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alangi_Derick> *
*[image: https://twitter.com/AlangiDerick]
<https://twitter.com/AlangiDerick>
<https://www.facebook.com/derick.alangi> *
Hello all,
This has been the largest GCI ever with 25 orgs, 710 mentors, and over 3500
students completing an astounding *16,437 *tasks -- There was a total of
1340 students complete 6,379 tasks in 2016 for reference.
Org admins are now selecting the program finalist (5 students) from the top
10 students.
These 5 students will all be considered as Finalists and will receive the
GCI finalist hoodie and a special certificate designating them as a
finalist for GCI 2017. The two Grand Prize Winners will receive a 4 day
trip for themselves and a parent or legal guardian to Google headquarters
in California.
Thank you all for your great work and participation. Special thanks to all
those here who volunteered to mentor GCI 2017 in Wikimedia.
*At your service,*
*AWMD Core Team*
*Felix Nartey - Project Manager*
*Derick Alangi - Technical Lead*
*Perside Rosalie - Program Coordinator*
*(Posting as received, copy/pasted)*
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 4-5 pm
UTC** on #wikimedia-tech.
The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers,
topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over
"who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting
Hope to see you there!
Michi (for WMDE’s tech team)
--
Michael F. Schönitzer
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Hello Everyone!
I'm currently on IRC idling while doing some work around Wikimedia
projects. Join me on IRC now let's talk AWMD and do some tech stuffs on
Wikimedia projects.
This isn't a formal meeting or a *must* call :D, just if you are idle and
want to talk a bit on Wikimedia Tech related stuff and AWMD, join me on IRC
now *** Looking forward to see you there!
*Kind regards*
*Alangi Derick N*
*V. Developer @ Wikimedia*
*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alangi_Derick
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alangi_Derick> *
*[image: https://twitter.com/AlangiDerick]
<https://twitter.com/AlangiDerick>
<https://www.facebook.com/derick.alangi> *
Hello Everyone!
Hope you're all doing great? The AWMD core team has had some requests and
internal discussions about the migration from #wiki-dev-africa to
#wikimedia-dev-africa since it's an official Wikimedia project and has to
be in the Wikimedia IRC channel namespace. To understand what this means,
see this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Channels.
Charitwo <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Charitwo> who is a member of
the IRC Contact group for Wikimedia Foundation filed a request about us
considering the migration since Wikimedia Foundation owns the #wikimedia-*
namespace, so the AWMD core team reconsidered to move.
>From now, anyone trying to join the old channel (#wiki-dev-africa) will be
redirected to the new channel automatically but it would be good to note
that this will only last for 60 days. So do well to practice joining the
new channel (by default) which is: *#wikimedia-dev-africa.* Also, all bots
which were attached to the old channel to help us track activities, we'll
patch it to redirect to the new channel.
We've solved this problem in such a way that hitches has been greatly
minimized. It's usually not an easy one :) In addition, we also apologize
for any inconveniences this would have caused you! Have a blissful day!
*At your service,*
*AWMD Core Team*
*Felix Nartey - Project Manager*
*Derick Alangi - Technical Lead*
*Perside Rosalie - Program Coordinator*