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GCI Has Ended
by perside rosalie 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

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*

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Tomorrow: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Alangi Derick 17 Jan '18

17 Jan '18

*(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.

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Join me on IRC *now* let's talk AWMD and hack a little bit on MW projects
by Alangi Derick 16 Jan '18

16 Jan '18

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> *

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AWMD IRC Channel moving from #wiki-dev-africa to #wikimedia-dev-africa
by Alangi Derick 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

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*

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Jan 12th 2018
by zppix e 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

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 -- 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.**

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Less Than a Week Left For GCI
by perside rosalie 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

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, -- Perside Rosalie [image: https://]about.me/perside <https://about.me/perside?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=emai…>

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Re: [AWMD] Tomorrow: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by drex drex 10 Jan '18

10 Jan '18

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: 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. _______________________________________________ African-wikimedia-developers mailing list African-wikimedia-developers(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers

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Tomorrow: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Derick N. Alangi 10 Jan '18

10 Jan '18

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.

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[Wikitech-l] New Wikimedia Developer Support channel (test pilot)
by perside rosalie 09 Jan '18

09 Jan '18

(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. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Perside Rosalie [image: https://]about.me/perside <https://about.me/perside?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=emai…>

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Fwd: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2018, week 2)
by zppix e 09 Jan '18

09 Jan '18

Im not going to forward all these but for new members i wanted to make this known that Wikimedia does this :) -- 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. > > > > //Johan Jönsson > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > Wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors

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