Hi everyone,
I'd like to welcome Sumana Harihareswara as a consultant helping out
with some tasks that we eventually plan to hire a Volunteer
Development Coordinator to handle. Specifically, she's going to focus
on our participation in Google Summer of Code, as well as helping plan
WMF's participation in the Berlin Developer meeting happening later
this year. This announcement is a little late in coming since she
already has a running start on this work, and I'm sure many of you
have already seen her on IRC (sumanah).
Sumana is currently also a writer and editor for GNOME Journal, a
blogger at GeekFeminism, and is a long time participant in open source
communities. She has worked at Collabora, Fog Creek Software, and
Salon.com, and contributed to the AltLaw, Empathy, Miro, and Zeitgeist
open source projects. She's written a weekly newspaper column and
has performed (and taught) stand-up comedy.
I can go on here, but you can learn much more about her on her website:
http://www.harihareswara.net
We're really excited to be working with her. Welcome, Sumana!
Rob
If there are any schema changes you want done on Wikimedia in the next
batch, let me know. I have the following patch files queued up, to be
run in the next few days:
* patch-rd_interwiki.sql
* patch-categorylinks-better-collation.sql
-- Tim Starling
Hello,
I noticed code review lagging a bit in trunk, which I was expecting
since 1.17 have kept guru busy for the last month. When I started code
reviewing in October or November 2010, I have spent hours and hours
reviewing trivial revisions that mostly anyone could have marked ok.
In attempt to get more people to review the code, I have started marking
my own trivial commits with the tag 'easy'. It would be a good way to
start being confident in reviewing code if you have not yet tried :)
The list is at:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/tag/easy
It would be great if other developers can tag their commits with the
same tags and we could start shy developers in reviewing more.
cheers,
--
Ashar Voultoiz
Hi everyone,
some of you might have been aware of the Hackathon that was held in
Amsterdam in honor of Wikipedia's 10th birthday in early january.
At that event Krinkle and i hacked together a WordPress plugin that
makes it possible to easily search and include Wikimedia Commons
pictures in your blog posts. It's far from production ready, but we'd
like to give you a sneak peek and ask for your input, thoughts and of
course bugzilla tickets and patches ;)
Installation instructions and a link to the download can be found here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PhotoCommons
Let us know what you think, and feel free to tweet and blog about it,
of course using the plugin to find a freely licensed image for your
blog post ;)
Thanks,
-- Hay / Husky