(*A translated version of this message may be available at Meta.*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Community_collabora…>
)
Greetings everyone,
Wikimedia Foundation’s community liaisons
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Liaisons> want to continue
improving the collaboration between WMF software development teams and our
communities. We want to include more and more diverse people to work
together in friendly environments. For this goal, tech ambassadors and tech
translators play a crucial role. How can we support them (you!) better?
We would like to strengthen the roles of tech ambassadors and tech
translators. Make these roles more visible to new potential volunteers,
more enjoyable to contribute to, and more recognized across the Wikimedia
movement.
For this reason, we are calling current and prospective contributors to
help us define not only a solid definition of the roles, but also related
metrics that we will adopt as part of our Key Performance Indicators. We
will also explore pain points and opportunities for improvement in the
workflow of these roles. This activity has already started with a review of
Tech News as a way to effectively disseminate technical information, and
will continue with a review of other major product newsletters, among other
things.
We are sharing a draft of role definitions and KPIs. Of course, the end
result might be much different, depending on your input!
The *feedback period goes from** Tuesday, August 8th to the 22nd**.* (Rest
assured that even if we may not be able to reply to each message, we will
read and consider all of them.)
You have the opportunity to share your thoughts in the following ways:
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*Online*, in the 2 megathreads at https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Talk:Technical_Collaboration/Community_collaboration_in_product_
development/Tech_ambassadors_and_translators
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Technical_Collaboration/Community_coll…>
;
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*Online*, by replying privately (not to the list, please!) to this
message;
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*In person* at Wikimania this week, by meeting us on Saturday 12,
3-3:45pm, in Salon 2, level 2 of the venue for a focused chat. Please
help us spread the word, as this meeting is not featured on the Programme!
(maybe retweet this
<https://twitter.com/Elitre/status/893510196726837248>?);
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*In person*, by meeting us at the Community Engagement table
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TP4_xzlxDm6rjNoDQNxEVZV62lefmuHaK8I…>
(#1 in map
<https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Village#Location>)
in Wikimania’s Community Village.
If you're already onboard with being more involved, testing new features,
giving or gathering feedback on more complicated issues, and generally
being your community's hero, just sign up instead in the tables:
*active tech ambassadors
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Ambassadors/List> - active tech
translators <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Translators/List> .*
We are looking forward to seeing where this will lead all of us!
Elitre,
Senior Community Liaison
Technical Collaboration team
PS: I'm about to jump on planes to Montreal: I plan to spread the word
about the initiative above
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Community_collabora…>
in other venues (such as specific pages on Meta) soon.
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Hi,
The Community Tech team are working on global preferences, to make it
possible to set preferences for all Wikimedia wikis instead of for
each one individually (which you’ll still be able to do – global
preferences will be optional). We're now investigating how important
it is to override global preferences locally, which would mean you set
a preference for almost all wikis but still have different settings on
one or a few wikis. Maybe because you’re more active on one wiki,
maybe because you edit in different ways there. The reason we're
asking is that this is technically complicated. We're now looking for
feedback:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Global_preferences
We've had this in Tech News, on wikimedia-l, posted on some Village
Pumps* (dependent on languages I and a couple of folks I pinged speak
well enough, really – English, German, French, Dutch, Swedish,
Italian). If you think folks in your local wiki community might have
missed this and would like to have opinions, please spread the word
there and ask them to comment on Meta (in English or, if they're not
comfortable doing so, in a language they speak better).
One of my English posts is here, if you'd like a template:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Global_pre…
Things you might want to stress: a +1 is good, it shows more people
need this; global preferences are optional, so even without exceptions
you won't have to have the same settings on all wikis, it's far better
if they reply on Meta than locally, as we can only take it into
account if we see it.
* Or equivalents thereof
//Johan Jönsson
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Cross post.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 11:29 AM
Subject: CREDIT showcase - replacing with smaller demos
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello -
I'm writing today to let you know that we're cancelling the recurring
CREDIT showcase (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase). Turnout
has been relatively low for a while, and it requires a fair amount of setup
each month.
Going forward, we'll return to the previous approach, which was having
individual teams sharing demo videos on their own. Please be on the lookout
for such demos along the way on wikitech-l.
In closing, I'd like to thank everyone who's participated in CREDIT in the
past. I've appreciated all of the hard work that goes into planning these
events and the neat things you've all shared along the way.
Thank you.
-Adam
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
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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
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Srishti Sethi
Developer Advocate
Technical Collaboration team
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)
Fantastic news! Thanks a lot to everyone who worked on it! :)
L.
Il 24 ago 2017 23:40, "Johan Jönsson" <jjonsson(a)wikimedia.org> ha scritto:
Syntax highlighting (based on CodeMirror) is a beta feature on all
left-to-right wikis:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Wikitext_
editor_syntax_highlighting
(It'll come to right-to-left wikis as soon as the RTL problems have been
fixed.)
There's not going to a big MassMessage to all the wikis about this,
but if you think it'll be helpful, please spread the word in your
community, on your local Village Pump etc.
//Johan Jönsson
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Syntax highlighting (based on CodeMirror) is a beta feature on all
left-to-right wikis:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Wikitext_editor_syntax_highl…
(It'll come to right-to-left wikis as soon as the RTL problems have been fixed.)
There's not going to a big MassMessage to all the wikis about this,
but if you think it'll be helpful, please spread the word in your
community, on your local Village Pump etc.
//Johan Jönsson
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An editor on the Cantonese Wikipedia has noticed that Special:RecentChanges
has stopped displaying interwiki links. Is that a permanent, deliberate
change? And if so, is it possible for an individual editor to re-enable the
display of interwikis on such special pages?
On-wiki discussion here:
https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3A%E5%9F%8E%E5%B8%…
Deryck
[[User:Deryck Chan]]
Admin & ambassador for yue.wp