Hello Everyone!
Hope we're all doing great? This is a quick check-in to notify us all that
very soon, there will be a lot of activities happening on the AWMD phab
board. If you haven't created a Phabricator account, do so here:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ [1].
In addition, after you create your phab account, make sure to subscribe
(add yourself as a member) to the AWMD work-board here:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/members/2858/[2]. It's important
you add yourself as a member of the group (especially if you're from Africa
and a Developer) in order to follow activities going on to stay up to date.
We've some good news!
*Wikimedia has been selected to participate in Google Summer of Code 2018
as a mentoring organization. So if you intend to apply, join us on IRC
here: **#wikimedia-dev-africa.*
Don't miss this opportunity to apply for a project that interests you,
find some of them here:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/ [3]. Thanks
very much and if you have any questions, you can reply here or ping on IRC
:) Have a nice day!
*Kind regards,*
*Volunteer Developer @ Wikimedia*
*Co-founder & Technical Lead, Africa Wikimedia Developers*
*More Info: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alangi_Derick
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alangi_Derick>*
*(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.
Forwarded as Received
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I've been meaning to document this for a while.
If you're finding yourself visiting Special:Export/Import often for the
purpose of MediaWiki development there is a much better way to get content
into your local wiki for testing purposes.
This short video explains how MobileFrontend extension provides tooling to
help you debug live on-wiki content via $wgMFContentProviderClass [1]
https://youtu.be/uRQzjN0hBlY
Hope it saves someone lots of time!
[1]
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-
MobileFrontend/blob/master/README.md#wgmfcontentproviderclass
Jon Robson
Senior Software Engineer
--
Perside Rosalie
[image: https://]about.me/perside
<https://about.me/perside?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=emai…>
*Dear Wikimedia community,On behalf of this year’s Wikimania programme
committee,we are pleased to announce that Wikimania 2018, is now accepting
proposals for workshops, discussions, presentations, or research posters to
give during the conference. To read the full instructions visit the event
wiki and click on the link provided
there:https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
<https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions>Whether you are a
community member of one of the Wikimedia projects, or a fellow open content
creator or consumer, we welcome your proposal for a session. Please forward
this information to others you think might be interested in
presenting.Deadline for submissions is 23:59 UTC on Sunday March 18, 2018.
This is approximately 6 weeks away.ThemeThis year, the conference will be
taking place in Cape Town, South Africa, where the organisers are giving
this Wikimania an unique flavor—an explicit theme based in African
philosophy: “Bridging knowledge gaps, the ubuntu way forward.”Read more
about this theme, why it was chosen, what it means for the conference
program, at the Wikimedia blog
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/05/wikimania-cape-town-ubuntu/>.Throughout
the conference program, this theme will be tightly held, but loosely
defined - in order to encourage a diverse range of responses to the theme.
It is our hope that this change will give us the opportunity to further our
goal of creating the “sum of human knowledge”, by encouraging greater
diversity and inclusion in who participates, and what we discuss, at
Wikimania.To learn more, and to make a proposal for Wikimania Cape Town
2018, please visit:https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
<https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions>Sincerely, Program
committee co-chairs Felix Nartey, Emna Mizouni, and Liam Wyatt.*--
*Felix Nartey*
*Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin*
*Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>*
*+233242844987 | +447440959477*
*Skype:Flixtey*
*(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> *