Just a reminder theres a meeting in #wiki-dev-africa for all AWMD members and others who have worked with us, for more details please see, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183017
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Zppix
Volunteer Wikimedia Developer
African Wikimedia Developers Member and Mentor
Volunteer Wikimedia GCI2017 Mentor
enwp.org/User:Zppix
**Note: I do not work for Wikimedia Foundation, or any of its chapters.**
Hello all,
Just to make a kind reminder that Google Code In
<https://codein.withgoogle.com/> program is ending soon and students have
less than 5 days left to claim a new task. If you know a high school
student you can introduce to GCI, its time to do that. There are still some
few simple tasks. Its a great experience our juniors can have here.
Let introduce our junior ones to Open Source.
Thanks,
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Hello all thanks for the reminding. let's get ready for the meeting so.
On 9 Jan 2018 16:35, "Derick N. Alangi" <alangiderick(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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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)
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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!
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Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
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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.
(The HTML version of this announcement can be found at
https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/t/welcome-to-
wikimedia-developer-support/8
)
https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/
Wikimedia Developer Support offers a support channel for all developers
working with MediaWiki or other Wikimedia related technologies: APIs,
extensions, skins, gadgets, templates, bots, tools, apps, data sets… If you
need help with a technical problem, just ask.
This website is based on Discourse. If you have questions about how to use
it, check https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discourse/Help
Your feedback about this website is very important! Bug reports, feature
requests and other suggestions are very welcomed.
IMPORTANT
Wikimedia Developer Support is a pilot project running on a test
instance. This is not the final deployment. More about this project at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discourse
* Although the migration of users and content to the production server is
theoretically possible, at this point it is not guaranteed (T184461).
* The authentication system for this test instance is not what will be used
if this project makes it to production.
* If you have a Wikimedia account, use the same email when registering
here. This is how your username and content will remain yours if/when
Wikimedia single sign-on is implemented (T124691).
* Do not reuse your “real” passwords when creating an account in this test
instance.
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Perside Rosalie
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Im not going to forward all these but for new members i wanted to make this known that Wikimedia does this :)
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Zppix
Volunteer Wikimedia Developer
Volunteer Wikimedia GCI2017 Mentor
enwp.org/User:Zppix
**Note: I do not work for Wikimedia Foundation, or any of its chapters.**
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Johan Jönsson <jjonsson(a)wikimedia.org>
> Date: January 8, 2018 at 10:34:08 AM CST
> To: Wikitech Ambassadors <wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2018, week 2)
> Reply-To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects <wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> Hi,
>
> The latest technical newsletter is now available at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/02>. Below is the English version.
>
> You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.
>
> More information on how to contribute is available at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact me directly.
>
> As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
>
> ———————————————————————————
>
> العربية • čeština • English • español • suomi • français • עברית • magyar • italiano • 日本語 • polski • português do Brasil • русский • svenska • українська • Tiếng Việt • 中文
>
> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
>
> Recent changes
>
> On Wikidata, the "save" button when you edit is now called "publish". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Save page" to "Publish changes". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [1][2]
> Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [3]
> Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [4]
> Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [5][6]
> Problems
>
> Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [7]
> With the new filters in the recent changes, "Exclude selected" in "Namespaces" did not work for "Saved filters" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [8]
> The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [9]
> Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [10]
> Changes later this week
>
> Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not editWikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [11]
> The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [12][13]
> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
> WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [14]
> Meetings
>
> You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
> You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
> Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
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> //Johan Jönsson
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*Forwarded as received, sorry for the late entry*
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.
Dear Wikimedians,
Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2018
are open!
The hackathon will be taking place in Barcelona between 18 – 20 May 2018.
Scholarship applications are open until January 30, 2018.
- Register here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2018/Register_and_Attend
- Event details here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2018
Depending on your case and situation (e.g., applying for scholarship), you
might need to fill more than one form, please read carefully.
Do not hesitate to forward this announcement along to any relevant mailing
lists!
Looking forward to seeing you in Barcelona!
Hello everyone,
We hope you all are doing well and had a wonderful cross-over from the year
2017 to the year 2018. We'll use this opportunity to wish you all a happy
new year 2018 and hope that in this year, we all are going to collaborate
in an even more stronger way to make Africa and the world a better place
through programming and software development on MediaWiki and all other
interesting Wikimedia projects.
We'll also thank those who invested their efforts to volunteer for working
on bugs / tickets to solves issues related to projects in the Wikimedia
movement in various perspectives. Keep up the good work and hoping you keep
your volunteer hat on and be the change we need :) and for those who have
not yet engaged or engaged fully in the AWMD project's activities, we urge
you to make out time on a daily or weekly basis to contribute to projects
that touch/impact the life of people around the world in a positive way!
Not to take much of your time, we'll want to share again opportunities
about 2 upcoming conferences; Wiki Indaba 2018[1] and Wikimania 2018[2]
whose scholarships applications are already open, do apply and don't miss
it!
To round things up, do your best to put in even if it's 30mins - 1hour a
day as an African Wikimedia Developer on this project and let's together
work on making our skills better and create opportunities for ourselves as
the year 2018 goes on, you'll be surprised at the output of your work and
you won't regret doing it.
Thank you all for your time and have a splendid year 2018 and happy
hacking!!!
[1] http://bit.ly/2CcEC3d (short link)
[2] https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply
*At your service,*
*Felix Nartey - AWMD Project manager*
*Derick Alangi - Technical Lead*