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Tomorrow: Weekly Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Alangi Derick 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

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 This meeting is an offer by WMDE’s tech team. Hosts of tomorrows meeting are: @addshore & @CFisch_WMDE. Hope to see you there! Michi (for WMDE’s tech team) *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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Google Code-in: Get your tasks for young contributors prepared
by perside rosalie 11 Oct '17

11 Oct '17

(An early heads-up that Google Code-in 2017 has been announced.) GCI is an annual contest for 13-17 year old students. It will take place from Nov28 to Jan17 and is not only about coding tasks. For some achievements from last round, see https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/02/03/google-code-in/ For complete info about Google Code-in, check https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors While we wait whether Wikimedia will get accepted: * You have small, self-contained bugs you'd like to see fixed? * Your documentation needs specific improvements? * Your user interface has small design issues? * Your Outreachy/Summer of Code project welcomes small tweaks? * You'd enjoy helping someone port your template to Lua? * Your gadget code uses some deprecated API calls? * You have tasks in mind that welcome some research? Also note that "Beginner tasks" (e.g. "Set up Vagrant" etc) and "generic" tasks are very welcome (e.g. "Choose & fix 2 PHP7 issues from the list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120336 "). Because we will need hundreds of tasks. :) And we also have more than 400 unassigned open 'easy' tasks listed: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/HCyOonSbFn.z/#R Please take a moment to find / update [Phabricator etc.] tasks in your p roject(s) which would take an experienced contributor 2-3 hours. Check https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors and please ask if you have any questions! Thanks!, andre -- Perside Rosalie [image: https://]about.me/perside <https://about.me/perside?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=emai…>

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Ghana Developer Team
by Edward Afful 07 Oct '17

07 Oct '17

Good Day Developer, You may have attended the AWMD training organised at IMPACT HUB some weeks back by Open Foundation West Africa. It was awesome having you around. In view of the major discussions around strengthening the community with constant debugging to increase our bragging rights across Africa, we would want to know if you: - Would you be ready to work as an active volunteer developer on the (Africa Wikimedia Developer Project in Ghana) AWMD Ghana Team? We are looking at getting a Team that would work actively on solving bugs and continue the good work that was started. In so doing we would want to know your decision and if you are ready to put to use, the skills acquired from the training we had sometime back. - Can tell us if you think you can make time within your schedule to champion this great course? - Are familiar with github and slack? If not we can provide more insight and support to get you going smoothly. However, based on your response we would send you the details to our (collective/unified) github account and our slack account details so that we can get ""debugging"" :) :) Please confirm your email and contact number by writing it as part of your reply to this email. NB: This mail is to only Ghanaian developers. Regards, Edward Afful Lead AWMD Ghana Team

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Re: [AWMD] Ghana Developer Team
by Jnanaranjan Sahu 02 Oct '17

02 Oct '17

Hi everyone, I am not from Ghana but I am interested in helping with the good work. Please let me know if I can be a part of this. GitHub: gyana111(a)gmail.com Thank you. On 30-Sep-2017 16:36, "Alfred Afutu" <alfredafutu(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Yes I would love to actively contribute to the Wikimedia project. > > Email: alfredafutu(a)gmail.com > Contact: 0555501853 > > On Sep 30, 2017 09:15, "Edward Afful" <eddyafful(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Good Day Developer, >> >> You may have attended the AWMD training organised at IMPACT HUB some >> weeks back by Open Foundation West Africa. It was awesome having you >> around. In view of the major discussions around strengthening the community >> with constant debugging to increase our bragging rights across Africa, we >> would want to know if you: >> >> - Would you be ready to work as an active volunteer developer on the >> (Africa Wikimedia Developer Project in Ghana) AWMD Ghana Team? We >> are looking at getting a Team that would work actively on solving bugs and >> continue the good work that was started. In so doing we would want to >> know your decision and if you are ready to put to use, the skills acquired >> from the training we had sometime back. >> - Can tell us if you think you can make time within your schedule to >> champion this great course? >> - Are familiar with github and slack? If not we can provide more >> insight and support to get you going smoothly. >> >> However, based on your response we would send you the details to our >> (collective/unified) github account and our slack account details so >> that we can get ""debugging"" :) :) >> >> Please confirm your email and contact number by writing it as part of >> your reply to this email. >> >> >> NB: This mail is to only Ghanaian developers. >> >> Regards, >> Edward Afful >> Lead AWMD Ghana Team >> >> _______________________________________________ >> African-wikimedia-developers mailing list >> African-wikimedia-developers(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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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GSoC Announcement: Google Summer Of Code 2018
by perside rosalie 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

Hello all, We are pleased to announce Google Summer of Code 2018 <http://g.co/gsoc>, the 14th consecutive year of the program. We have announced <https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/09/announcing-google-summer-of-code-…> the main dates (org apps open, etc.) on the program timeline <https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline>. Additional dates will be added into the timeline later in 2017. Students -- Be sure visit the program site February 12th when participating mentoring organizations are announced. At that point it is in your best interest to research the organizations that have projects ideas that intrigue you and reach out to them early, before the student application process even starts. Communication is one of the most important parts of the program. Organizations -- If you would like to apply for the 2018 program please start thinking about the projects you would like students to work on and also reach out to your community members to ask if they would like to be mentors for the program. We are looking forward to another exciting year of GSoC! Last week we also announced the Google Code-in 2017 <http://g.co/gci> (GCI) contest for 13-17 year old students. GCI is open for past GSoC mentoring organizations to apply to be a part of this exciting contest from October 9th - October 24th. GCI opens for student participants on November 28th! You can read more about the contest on our blog <https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/09/announcing-google-code-in-2017.ht…> . For any questions about the programs please email us at gsoc-support(a)google.com Best, Google OSPO team -- Perside Rosalie [image: https://]about.me/perside <https://about.me/perside?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=emai…>

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Google Code-In 2017 is on!
by Alangi Derick 18 Sep '17

18 Sep '17

Hello, We are pleased to announce Google Code-in 2017 <http://g.co/gci>, the 8th straight year of the program for pre-university students ages 13-17. The GCI timeline, FAQs, Rules and flyers have been updated on the contest site <http://g.co/gci>. Organizations -- If you would like to apply for the 2017 program please start thinking about the tasks you would like students to work on and also reach out to your community members to ask if they would like to be mentors for the program. Applications open for GCI orgs very soon - on October 9th, and close 2 weeks later on October 24th. We will announce organizations on Thursday, October 26th giving orgs over a month to create their tasks before the contest begins on November 28th. We are looking to continue the growth of this program and reach a record number of teenagers this year! Read more on today’s blog post <https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/09/announcing-google-code-in-2017.ht…> . If you have any questions about Google Code-in please contact us at gci-support(a)google.com Best, Stephanie *Forwarded as Received!*

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[Outreachy Round 15] Applications now Open!
by Alangi Derick 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

Hello all, Applications for the Outreachy December 2017 to March 2018 internships are now open. If you are interested in participating, learn application process steps and ideas for Wikimedia projects here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_15 Help us spread the word among your friends <https://twitter.com/mediawiki/status/908648125979549696> about Wikimedia’s participation in Outreachy Round 15. If you are interested in learning in-depth about GSoC 2017 and Outreachy Round 14 projects <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/09/06/gsoc-outreachy-wikimedia-2017/>, attend the showcase on September 21st, at 17:00 UTC <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg= GSoC+2017+and+Outreachy+Round+14+Project+Showcase&iso= 20170921T17&p1=%3A&ah=1> via YouTube live (link to view the broadcast <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjMelgjYKFo>). Cheers, Srishti -- Srishti Sethi Developer Advocate Technical Collaboration team Wikimedia Foundation Forwarded as Received!

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OOjs UI 0.23.0 release (breaking change)
by perside rosalie 08 Sep '17

08 Sep '17

Hello everyone, We've released OOjs UI 0.23.0, yesterday. It will be in MediaWiki core from 1.30.0-wmf.18, which will be deployed to Wikimedia production in the regular train, starting on Tuesday 12 September. As there are five breaking changes in this release, at least nominally, please carefully consider if they affect your code. Breaking changes since last release: * Remove CardLayout and references in IndexLayout (Volker E.) CardLayout was renamed to TabPanelLayout in v0.21.3 and all its references updated back then; now its alias has been removed. * Remove FloatingMenuSelectWidget (Volker E.) FloatingMenuSelectWidget got deprecated in v0.21.3 and now has been removed. Use MenuSelectWidget instead. * Remove back-compat `OO.ui` prefix assumption in infusion code (Prateek Saxena) We've requested that infused data contained the full class name, rather than assuming the "OO.ui" prefix, since v0.12.0. Backwards-compatible `OO.ui` prefixing has been removed in this release. * icons: Remove 'caret' icons (James D. Forrester) The 'caretUp', 'caretDown', 'caretLast', and 'caretNext' icons were deprecated and replaced with the almost-identical 'collapse', 'expand', 'previous', and 'next' ones in v0.21.3 and are now removed completely. * icons: Remove 'wikitrail' icon (James D. Forrester) 'wikitrail' icon was renamed to 'mapTrail' for consistency in v0.20.1. Deprecations since last release: * BookletLayout: Rename `getClosestPage()` to `findClosestPage()` (Prateek Saxena) Renaming this getter for one of the 0+ items inside to `findClosestPage()` for consistency. Please switch over to the new name. * icons: Flag unused 'sun' icon as to be removed (James D. Forrester) 'sun' icon isn't in use in any of our products or products known to us, nor is it planned to be used. In order to keep things small, we'll remove the icon in next breaking release. * icons: Move 'eye'/'eyeClosed' to 'accessibility' (Volker E.) We want to use 'alerts' pack more deliberately in major products and gonna move certain icons to other packs. * icons: Move 'signature' to 'editing-advanced' (Volker E.) We want to use 'alerts' pack more deliberately in major products and gonna move certain icons to other packs. Please update your icon pack references accordingly in case you're using this icon. Additional details on the 11 new features, 63 code-level and accessibility changes, 28 styling and interaction design fixes, and all improvements since v0.22.0 are in the full changelog[0]. If you have any further queries or need help dealing with breaking changes, please let me know. As always, a general set of library documentation is available on mediawiki.org[1], and there is some comprehensive generated code-level documentation and interactive demos hosted on doc.wikimedia.org[2]. [0] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/ browse/master/History.md [1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI [2] - https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/ Best, Volker -- Senior UX Engineer, Contributors Wikimedia Foundation volker.e [at] wikimedia | @Volker_E -- Perside Rosalie [image: https://]about.me/perside <https://about.me/perside?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=emai…>

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The Newsletter extension is now enabled in MediaWiki.org
by Alangi Derick 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

Hi, after a long long journey... https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Newsletters ! The Newsletter extension is a tool to facilitate subscription and delivery of newsletters hosted on MediaWiki-based sites. You can learn more about this extension at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Newsletter Any newsletters within the scope of MediaWiki.org can be created. In previous discussions it was agreed to only allow administrators to create newsletters. Once a newsletter is created, their publishers can announce new issues at will without requiring administrators anymore. If you want to create a newsletter and you need an administrator to do it, we will be happy to help you at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Txn15jri131au12s If you want to report problems, request features, or get involved in the project, please check https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/888/ PS: BIG THANK YOU to everybody involved in this project. Proper attribution and celebration will come in a blog post summarizing these ~2,5 years of planning, development, testing, and deployment to a first Wikimedia wiki. -- 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 Forwarded as received!!!

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Summer Open School
by Felix Nartey 04 Sep '17

04 Sep '17

On 28 - 30 September 2017, Open Foundation West Africa will hold the first ever Summer Open School in the Sub Sahara African Region in Accra, Ghana at the Lancaster University. The Summer Open School seeks to bring together open advocates, tech enthusiasts and people with the desire to know more about Open resources under one roof, to afford these participants the opportunity to learn about the different open resources and to possibly become contributors and avid users of such resources. Again this will help participants and trainers alike to discuss critical issues, network and be abreast with the new trends within the Open movement. There will be different trainers who will lead different trainings, breakout out sessions and talks all aimed at promoting education, culture and heritage information and information and technology in Ghana through the use of free and accessible open source softwares. The Summer Open School will take participants through sessions on Wikipedia and other sister projects (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, etc), Creative Commons, Open Street Maps (OSM) and Mozilla. Developers or people desirous of knowing more about developer contributions to the open movement will be introduced to the software that holds various WikiProjects, MediaWiki. There will also be a session on Cryptocurrency specifically dedicated to PIVX to expose people to trends in cryptocurrencies, how enthusiasts could start mining and will be given a startup booster with a complimentary wallet. It is heartwarming to know that in pursuance of the mission of the open movement to making knowledge about open resources free and accessible to all, this event is going to be free to participants. There are however limited seats available and therefore participation is strictly by registration which is also subject to the approval by the organizing Team based on merits. Register today via www.summeropenschool.eventbrite.com Warm regards, -- *Felix Nartey* *Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin* *Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>* *+233242844987 | +447440959477* *Skype:Flixtey*

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