Hi,
My name is Anna Yuan and I am an undergraduate student working under the
supervision of Dr.Haiyi Zhu <https://haiyizhu.com/> in the HCI Department
at Carnegie Mellon University. Our team is currently conducting a research
study on Wikipedia's ORES system. Our research focuses on exploring
opportunities to better communicate the affordance of the ORES system and
thus help people effectively design and use ORES-based applications.
If you have developed or used any ORES-based application, we would love to
invite you to participate in this research. The research will be an
interview that takes approximately 45 minutes. During the research, I will
ask you about your background, your current experience of using ORES and
ORES-based applications, and your suggestion on how to improve the
ecosystem.
All participants will be offered $20 amazon gift cards. If you are
interested in taking part in this research or would like more information,
please reply to this email and let me know.
I am looking forward to your response.
Best,
Anna
Wiki Account: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bobo.03
FYI, I just noticed this message on Wikitech-l. Might be of interest to
some of you.
Maarten
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: [Wikitech-l] PyCon Financial Assistance and Development
Sprints Info
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:03:00 -0700
From: Brooke Storm <bstorm(a)wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Foundation Optional
<foundation-optional(a)wikimedia.org>, tech-all(a)wikimedia.org
Hello Folks!
For the Python enthusiasts on these lists, I’m signal boosting this
message with info on PyCon dev sprints and financial assistance for the
conference from a former Wikimedia colleague.
I plan to attend PyCon this year and am also hoping to figure out
setting up a development sprint around some Wikimedia Cloud Services and
Toolforge code.
Brooke Storm
SRE
Wikimedia Cloud Services
bstorm(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:bstorm@wikimedia.org>
IRC: bstorm_
--------- Forwarded message ————
<snip>
I wanted to mention - feel free to pass this on publicly and in personal
invitations - that PyCon North America, mid-April in Pennsylvania,
offers financial assistance to people who would like to attend:
https://us.pycon.org/2020/financial-assistance/
<https://us.pycon.org/2020/financial-assistance/>
The deadline for requesting financial assistance is 31 January.
PyCon loves to cross-pollinate with other free and open source
movements, and I know there are many Python developers in Wikimedia
tech. If Wikimedians want to use the April 20-23 in-person sprints
https://us.pycon.org/2020/events/sprints/
<https://us.pycon.org/2020/events/sprints/> (will be editable soon)
to work on Wikimedia-related Python tools together, that would be cool!
Best wishes.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Changeset Consulting
https://changeset.nyc <https://changeset.nyc/>
Hi,
In the last few days my bots get throttled for minutes and minutes (up
to 10, on the worse instances) on basically all sites I use (ro.wp,
commons, wikidata). I knew about write throttle and I use the default
setting there, but it seems that now I get throttled on read
operations as well. I use pwb from git, currently synced at
0924e1655ef9e61c86e98884226b18d8250da368.
I checked the server lag and it is 0 most times I see the throttling.
Any idea why do I get throttled for such long periods of time?
Thanks,
Strainu