Hello,
My name is Christy and I am from San Francisco. I am really excited to take
part in this round of the FOSS Outreach Program and I am interested in
curating data on the Wikimedia Performance portal. My background is in
Economics/Mathematics, and I have experience working with Python data
modules.
I am in the process of submitting my first bug patch as well as connecting
with the Project's mentor. The project page doesn't include any micro-task
to complete, so I figured a general bug patch as well as research into
Wikimedia's metrics display standards are a good way to dive in.
Would anyone have any advice on what I should be doing instead, or am I on
the right track?
Thank you,
Christy
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_9#Wiki…
>
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E.Christy Okpo
ecokpo(a)gmail.com
909-801-4408
Hello everyone!
I am Ankita Shukla and am a Computer Science and Engineering student pursuing
the junior year of Bachelor of Technology.
I am interested in working on the project: Collaborative spelling dictionary
building tool, as given on the Featured Projects Section of MediaWiki OPW
page.
It'd be really great if I could get some guidance through this. Also, since
the project did not seem to mention any micro-task explicitly, could someone
suggest what I could take up as a micro-task?
I'd be really grateful for the help and support. :)
Thanks in advance,
Ankita Shukla
Hello!
We are happy to announce the MediaWiki Developer Summit 2015, which will be
taking place on January 26th and January 27th in San Francisco, California,
USA.
Registration is now open.
Details about the MediaWiki Developer Summit 2015 and a link to the
registration form can be found here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015
Hope to see you in San Francisco!
Rachel
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap and
Deployment update.
The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at:
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_October_13th>
A quick list of notable items...
== Monday ==
* 5% of reader (non-logged-in) traffic will be served by HHVM servers
** see: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HHVM/About>
* Otherwise, no deploys, it is a US Holiday.
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.25wmf1: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf3>
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.25wmf3 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.25wmf4 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,
Greg
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Greg Grossmeier
Release Team Manager
And it's over! We reached our immediate goal, "closing" all the lost
PediaPress tickets (80 before the bug day); and about 40 new bugzilla
reports were filed, including some tricky ones about language support.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/201410 has a dump
from the etherpad and will be updated with more precise information.
Give a look at the bugzilla reports!
Thanks to all the participants: Andre Klapper, Anomie, Azitrex, bawolff,
Helder, John Vandenberg, Kelson, Nemo, Raymond, Reedy, Rupert, saper,
Steinsplitter, csteipp, ebraminio, jem, josu, kepper, valhallasw`cloud.
(And probably someone else in bugzilla at the same time.)
Nemo
Federico Leva (Nemo), 08/10/2014 15:33:
> We start in 30 min from now :)
>
> Federico Leva (Nemo), 29/09/2014 19:51:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day:
>>
>> **2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia-tech on Freenode
>> IRC.[2]
>>
>> We will be triaging bug reports for the Collection extension (Book tool)
>> in general and PDF export in particular, which were just switched to a
>> new backend (OCG).[3] We have two immediate goals:
>> 1) recover 100 % of the relevant reports from the defunct PediaPress
>> tracker;[4]
>> 2) get a clean list of known PDF issues that the new backend didn't fix.
>>
>> Everyone is welcome to join any time these weeks, and no technical
>> knowledge is needed! It's an easy way to get involved or to give
>> something back.
>> We encourage you to record your activity on the etherpad [4].
>>
>> This information and more can be found here:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/201410
>>
>> For more information on triaging in general, check out
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage
>>
>> I look forward to seeing you there. Please distribute further by email,
>> talk pages etc. (Collection is used on almost 2 thousands wikis!)
>> Sorry for the crossposting,
>> Nemo
>>
>> [1] Timezone converter: http://everytimezone.com/#2014-10-08,120,5x1
>> [2] See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC for more info on IRC chat
>> [3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-July/077867.html
>> [4] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-Collection
Hello,
Please join us for the next monthly IRC office hour of the Wikimedia
Language Engineering team on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 at 1700 UTC on
#wikimedia-office.
We will be taking questions and discussing about our ongoing projects, and
upcoming plans.
Please see below for event details and local time.
Thank you.
Runa
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==================
# Date: October 15, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141015T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Project updates and plans
2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event)
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation