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Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 3-4 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.
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Hello!
With MediaWiki core now requiring PHP 7.0 or HHVM as the minimum
version, CodeSniffer will now also require the same, and targets those
versions as the minimum for the code it will be checking starting with
version 20.0.0.
19.0.0 contains new sniffs and bug fixes, and is the last version to
support PHP 5.5 and 5.6. I will have libraryupgrader upgrade all
repositories directly to 20.0.0. If you want to continue to support
older PHP versions in your project, upgrade your project to use 19.0.0
directly. libraryupgrader will skip projects using that version, since
it means you explicitly want to support older PHP versions.
Here's the changelog for 19.0.0:
* Add break and continue to ParenthesesAroundKeywordSniff (Umherirrender
)
* Check if the default of null is in the type list of @param
(Umherirrender)
* Do not enforce name for traits with phpunit annotations (Umherirrender
)
* Don't allow 'iterable' type hint (Kunal Mehta)
* Prevent usage of nullable and void type hints (Kunal Mehta)
* Prohibit PHP's vanilla execution (Max Semenik)
* Reorganize PHP 7.0 compatibility sniffs into a category (Kunal Mehta)
And for 20.0.0:
* Require PHP 7 or HHVM to run (Kunal Mehta)
* Document why we still need to keep ScalarTypeHintUsageSniff (Kunal
Mehta)
* Drop PHP7UnicodeSyntaxSniff sniff (Kunal Mehta)
- -- Legoktm
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*Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **today, Wednesday 3-4
pmUTC** 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 yourtopic to the next
meeting:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>Hope to see
you there!Michi (for WMDE’s tech team)-- Michael F. SchönitzerWikimedia
Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 BerlinTel. (030) 219 158
26-0http://wikimedia.de <http://wikimedia.de/>Stellen Sie sich eine Welt
vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allenWissens frei teilhaben kann.
Helfen Sie uns dabei!http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
<http://spenden.wikimedia.de/>Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur
Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des
Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unterder Nummer 23855 B. Als
gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt fürKörperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/681/51985.*
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Deborah Tankersley <dtankersley(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, May 21, 2018 at 11:47 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] [nominations needed] Wikimedia Technical Conference
To: wikitech-l <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, A public mailing list
about Wikimedia Search and Discovery projects <discovery(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>
*Hello,We recently announced the new Wikimedia Technical Conference
(TechConf) during the closing session of the Barcelona Hackathon on May 20,
2018. We are sending this email to give an update on the planning and
organization, and to also let everyone know how the nomination process will
work for those interested in attending. The Wikimedia Technical Conference
will take place in Portland, OR, USA on October 22-25, 2018. And, as
mentioned in previous emails [1][2] and on the wiki page [3], this
conference will be focused on the cross-departmental program called
Platform Evolution. We will be providing more information and context as we
go along in the process.For this conference, we are looking for diverse
stakeholders, perspectives, and experiences that will help us to make
informed decisions for the future evolution of the platform. We need people
who can create and architect solutions, as well as those who actually make
decisions on funding and prioritization for the projects.Later this week,
we will send out a form to provide more detailed information on the
nomination process and how to nominate people (or it can be yourself) to
attend this conference, along with the skills, experiences, and/or
backgrounds that we are looking for. Due to the time needed for visa
application and other constraints, the deadline for nominations will be
June 8th. Please make sure that you don’t miss the deadline!If you have any
questions, please post them on the talk page [4][1]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2018-April/047367.html
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2018-April/047367.html>
[2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-April/089738.html
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-April/089738.html>
[3] https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018
<https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018> [4]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018> *
*Cheers from the Program Committee:*
*Kate, Corey, Joaquin, Greg, Birgit and TheDJ*
--
deb tankersley
Program Manager, Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation
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Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 3-4 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 African Wikimedia Developers Group!
I have heard great things about you from Derek and Felix in the last few
months and hope that I can hire one of you to work on project during the
month of June. I have included the job description in the second half of
this email.
If you would like to apply, please send me an email off-list with your CV
and a link to a mobile-friendly gadget you have created, gerrit commits, or
a link to a GitHub repository. I need resumes by Thursday, May 17th.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Best,
Kacie
*Kacie Harold*
*Grants Program Officer*
*Wikimedia Foundation*
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Title: Contract Front End/UX Engineer (FormWizard)
Summary:
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Contract UX/Front End Engineer
for a short project to make usability improvements to FormWizard
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:FormWizard>. The contract engineer
will work independently with some guidance from members of the the
Community Resources, Design and Engineering teams.
FormWizard <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:FormWizard> is currently
used on the Grants portal as a way to create new grant proposals. This tool
doesn’t, however, work on mobile, which makes starting a grant proposal
from a mobile device almost impossible. The engineer working on this
project will support Foundation efforts to connect with users in emerging
communities, and engaging newcomers unfamiliar with wiki environment.
The contract engineer will make the following improvements to FormWizard:
-
Fixes:
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FormWizard should work on mobile phones
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FormWizard should work for non-logged in users
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Migrate code to MediaWiki extension
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Migrate to OOjs UI
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New features (nice to have):
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Simplify the workflow to register a new account through FormWizard
Skills:
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Required: Front end/UX engineer (CSS, javascript, knowledge of MediaWiki
software).
-
Nice to have: familiarity with Lua
Application instructions: Please include a link to a mobile-friendly gadget
you have created, gerrit commits, or a link to a GitHub repository.
Estimated time: 40 to 60 hours over 4 weeks.
Project dates: June 1 - June 30
--
*Kacie Harold*
*Program Officer*
*Conference Grants*
*Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>*