Hello Samuel G,
Ohhh, this extension was built by Tony Thomas and Tina Johnson and a group
of other active volunteers and Wikimedia staffs. Here is a link to the
Extension: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Newsletter.
*Kind regards*
*Alangi Derick N*
*[image: https://twitter.com/AlangiDerick]
<https://twitter.com/AlangiDerick>
<https://www.facebook.com/derick.alangi> *
On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 9:35 PM, Samuel Guebo <samuelguebo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Kudos to you guys!
>
> On Sep 6, 2017 20:28, "Alangi Derick" <alangiderick(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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/w
>> iki/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.wiki
>> media.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
>> _______________________________________________
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>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
>>
>> Forwarded as received!!!
>>
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>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers
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> African-wikimedia-developers(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers
>
>
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
_______________________________________________
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Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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Forwarded as received!!!
Hello everyone,
Wikimedia is delighted to participate the eleventh time in the Outreachy
<https://www.outreachy.org/> internship program. The application period for
interns opens September 7th and will be due October 23rd. In the meanwhile,
we need your help -- we are looking for *suitable projects* and
*mentors*. Projects
could be anything ranging from programming, user experience, documentation,
illustration and graphical design, to data science.
If you would like to feature a project / become a mentor:
1. Get an overview of the selection process, and your responsibilities
before, during, and after the program
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors
2. Create a task, or modify an existing one on Wikimedia's Phabricator
<http://phabricator.wikimedia.org>. Make sure it includes: *Project
title, description (summary in 8-10 lines), skills required (Phabricator
tags are welcome), mentors (required two), micro tasks (link to
Phabricator
task that must be completed to become a strong candidate).*
3. Tag the tasks with #Outreach-Programs-Projects
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/2537/> and
#Outreachy-Round-15
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2957/> on Phabricator.
Some more helpful information:
-
View accepted projects from previous round
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_14
-
If you know a newcomer, who meets the eligibility criteria
<https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy#Eligibility>and would be a good fit
for the program, encourage them to apply and follow our participation
guidelines <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Participants>.
Cheers,
Srishti
--
Srishti Sethi
Developer Advocate
Technical Collaboration team
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)
Forwarded as received!
Hi!
I'd like to welcome you to join us at the CREDIT showcase next week,
Wednesday, 2-August-2017 at 1800 UTC / 1100 Pacific Time. We'd like to see
your demos, whether they're rough works in progress or polished production
material, or even just a telling of something you've been studying
recently. For more information on the upcoming event, as well as recordings
of previous events, please visit the following page:
<http://goog_1968694156/>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase
And if you'd like to share the news about the upcoming CREDIT showcase,
here's some suggested verbiage. Thanks!
*Hi <FNAME>*
*I hope all is well with you! I wanted to let you know about CREDIT, a
monthly demo series that we’re running to showcaseopen source tech projects
from Wikimedia’s Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery, Infrastructure and
Technology teams. *
*CREDIT is open to the public, and we welcome questions and discussion. The
next CREDIT will be held on August 2nd at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 18:00 UTC. *
*There’s more info on MediaWiki, and on Etherpad, which is where we take
notes and ask questions. You can also ask questions on IRC in the Freenode
chatroom #wikimedia-office (web-based access here). Links to video will
become available at these locations shortly before the event.*
*Please feel free to pass this information along to any interested folks.
Our projects tend to focus on areas that might be of interest to folks
working across the open source tech community: language detection,
numerical sort, large data visualizations, maps, and all sorts of other
things.*
*If you have any questions, please let me know! Thanks, and I hope to see
you at CREDIT.*
*YOURNAME*
--
Lani Goto
Project Assistant, Engineering Admin
Hello all,
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension
Bundle 2017.07. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki
1.27 and 1.28 or above and requires PHP 5.5.9 or above.
Next MLEB is expected to be released in 3 months. If there are major
changes or important bug fixes, we will do intermediate release.
Please give us your feedback at
[[Talk:MLEB|https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB]].
* Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBund
le-2017.07.tar.bz2
* sha256sum: c050c326bfa56d326fece072bed5e4be3e3ad3289b0a449313a2e7dbc451
4c55
Quick links:
* Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB
* Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n
* Report bugs to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/
* Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode
Release notes for each extension are below.
-- Kartik Mistry
== Highlights and upgrade notes ==
== Babel ==
* Information about the languages that the user knows is now cached to
improve performance. To load the data from the cache, use
getCachedUserLanguageInfo() instead of getUserLanguageInfo(), and
getCachedUserLanguages() instead of getUserLanguages().
* Language code are normalized when they are stored in the database.
So, for example, "ZH" and "zh" are now stored as the same code.
* It is now possible to load Babel information from a Babel box on a
global user page.
== CLDR, CleanChanges and LocalisationUpdate ==
* Localisation and maintenance updates only.
== Translate ==
* Translate extension no longer bundles spyc library. If you need
support for parsing and generating YAML files, and you don't have
phpyaml extensions installed (HHVM provides it in PHP compatibility
mode), then you can install spyc using composer update. (T75945)
* Niklas Laxström fixed a broken error propagation in translator
sandbox user creation in case of an invalid password. (T164912)
* User TerraCodes removed redundant dialog title from the message
group selector. (T165241)
* Niklas Laxström added informative warning message that warns about
non-existent message groups.
* Niklas Laxström fixed a bug that could cause translation completion
statistics to not update in some situations (e.g. translatable pages
within an aggregate message group).
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
* Amir Aharoni added to Compact Language Links the ability to show
languages that logged-in users specified in the Babel box. (T135371)
* Amir Aharoni improved the language database by making sure all
language autonyms are unique.
* Amir Aharoni fixed misaligned icons in the jquery.ime selector in
RTL. (T164474)
* Amir Aharoni added five African languages and one Asian language to
the language database.
* Amir Aharoni added five language of Taiwan to the language database.
* Amir Aharoni added Rangi language to the language database.
* Federico Leva added four new languages for translatewiki.net to the
language database.
* Federico Leva added variants for Hakka language to the language database.
=== Input methods ===
* Amir Aharoni added an input method for the Fula, Wolof language and
improved the keyboard for the Dagbani language.
* Amir Aharoni added input methods for Dinka, Bambara and Dagbani languages.
* Amir Aharoni renamed Akan keyboard and made it usable also for Twi.
* Kartik Mistry and Amir Aharoni merged numerous pull requests from
volunteers:
** Kannada language input methods now also work for the Tulu language.
** Added Tarandine language keyboard by User:Joetaras
** Added Piedmontese language keyboard by User:GatoSelvadego
** Fixes to the Odia transliteration keyboard by User:Psubhashish
** Added the Tulalip input method for the Lushootseed language by
[https://github.com/jcrowgey jcrowgey].
** Added Sambhota input method for Tibetan language by
[https://github.com/eroux Elie Roux].
** Added a Gothic input method by User:Bokareis
** Added added mm3 input method for the Burmese language by User:Lionslayer.
** Added input methods for the Mongolian language by
[https://github.com/hfl Feilong Huang].
** Fixes to the Tamil 99 input method for the Tamil language by
User:Balajijagadesh
--
Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_
{kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com
Dear all,
I am excited to introduce the African Wikimedia Developers Project (AWMD)
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project>.[1]
AWMD is a project that focuses on recruiting volunteer African Developers
for the benefit of the WIkimedia Movement. This idea was inspired by a
conversation with Quim Gil at Wikimania Esino Lario in 2016, and was
followed through to Wiki Indaba <http://2017.wikiindaba.net/> where talks
was concluded on how to further put this to work.
The project's main goal is to increase the number of volunteer developers
who can solve related Wikimedia issues on the continent and in the movement
at large. We intend to equip prospective volunteers through trainings and
the creation of a community of developers. We will work closely with
affiliate groups (user groups, chapters and thematic organisations) and
other aligned developer groups (GDG, Linux user groups, mozilla groups,
etc.) to push this agenda.
To ensure scalability of the program we intend to start our first training
in Ghana where we are adequately equipped to closely monitor and create a
useful learning pattern that may be applied to future events. We intend to
have this event from the 23 - 24 June, 2017 and we’ll closely monitor for
about 2 months before planning the next place of training. The next phase
of the project will involve moving to different countries and trying to
emulate the success of the project there. We encourage you to visit and
endorse the grant proposal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/African_Wikimedia…>
of our first training in Ghana here.[2]
All interested in developing and/or wish to share ideas on projects are
invited to join the mailing list
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers>,
our social media outfit (facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/> and twitter
<https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev>) or learn more via the MediaWiki page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project> of
the project.[3][4][5] We encourage all to share this within their
communities and to others who may be interested.
Stay tuned for more updates soon!
Cheers,
--
*Felix Nartey*
*Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin*
*Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>*
*+233242844987 <+233%2024%20284%204987> | +447440959477
<+44%207440%20959477>*
*Skype:Flixtey*
[1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project
[2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/
OFWA/African_Wikimedia_Developers
[3] - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-
wikimedia-developers
[4] - https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/
[5] - https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev
Hello guys
We would like to invite all WLAf 2016 team leaders to answer our Team
Survey.
This year, we decided to put it directly on meta (you will not get a google
form).
*LINK : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Team_survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Team_survey>*
Please provide a feedback at the very earliest convenience (strong emphasis
on "earliest")
-------
FOR ALL Africa community members
*P*lease directly head to the last question 3 below our team survey.* The
Theme for WLAf 2017*
*LINK
: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Team_survey#The_Them…
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Team_survey#The_Them…>*
Context: the committee approving the Projects Grant Requests is meeting
this week-end to make final decisions. You should know that Wiki Loves
Africa project is not yet approved for funding (crossing fingers) and that
our proposition for Wiki Loves Women funding has been rejected. The
committee did not consider it a worth-supporting project. Disappointing.
But fine.
Accordingly, we are boldly suggesting a theme that could be somehow tweaked
in such a manner that we could also address gender gap issues through Wiki
Loves Africa this year.
Our suggestion is to push for year 2017 the theme : PEOPLE AT WORK.
More context may be found here in a few pages, which I recommand you to
have a look:
* A really cool tool made by Envel after a conference I gave about Africa
and women, based on my suspicion that we mostly had biographies about porn
and sport women (lol) : http://tools.dicare.org/gaps/gender.php
* Explanation about the tool : https://www.lehir.net/a-tool-
to-estimate-gender-gap-on-wikidata-and-wikipedia/
* And category tree ... : https://commons.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Category:Women_at_work_by_occupation
Of course, if that theme, PEOPLE AT WORK, is chosen, we would not limit
ourselves for women. Men at work, women at work, transgendered at work,
children at work (unfortunately) etc. would be welcome.
What do you think ? Everyone feedback is welcome. This includes people who
did not participate to WLAf previous years. And this can include AfroCROWD
of course ;)
If there is enough support, there will not be a "call for themes and votes"
this year as we did last year. If we have a good enough support, we will
add the theme in the WLAf grant request asap.
Florence and Isla