Google Code-in 2014 has started a few hours ago and the first Wikimedia
tasks got claimed and being worked on by students (one task already has
a patch in Gerrit)! GCI will run until January 19. Students are eager
and tasks get claimed quickly.
If you have not become a mentor yet:
WE WANT YOU TO BECOME A MENTOR AND ADD MORE TASKS!
* Provide 3 easy Phab tasks in your area that you could mentor
* OR: provide an easy clonable task (a type of task that is
generic and could be repeated many times - for example, Language
Engineering has several GCI tasks to write a help page for one
uncovered input method in ULS and the student has to choose and
mention the one input method s/he's going to work on)
* The tasks must include instructions and point to documentation
* You commit to answer to students' questions and to evaluate
their work within 36 hours (the better your task description the
less questions you get. And no worries, we're there to help you!)
Please check out
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Mentors.27_corner -
Don't hesitate to ask questions if something is unclear!
Thank you for giving young contributors the opportunity to learn about
and work on Free and Open Source Software projects!
andre
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Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
As noted in the server admin log [1], Phabricator is currently down due to
a network outage impacting one of our racks in the Ashburn data-center.
We're investigating and will aim to restore service ASAP.
Erik
[1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Server_Admin_Log
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Erik Möller
VP of Product & Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation
Google Code-in 2014 has started a few hours ago and the first Wikimedia
tasks got claimed and being worked on by students! GCI will run until
January 19. Students are eager and tasks get claimed quickly.
If you have not become a mentor yet:
WE WANT YOU TO BECOME A MENTOR AND ADD MORE TASKS!
* Provide 3 easy Phab tasks in your area that you could mentor
* OR: provide an easy clonable task (a type of task that is
generic and could be repeated many times - for example, Language
Engineering has several GCI tasks to write a help page for one
uncovered input method in ULS and the student has to choose and
mention the one input method s/he's going to work on)
* The tasks must include instructions and point to documentation
* You commit to answer to students' questions and to evaluate
their work within 36 hours (the better your task description the
less questions you get. And no worries, we're there to help you!
)
Please check out
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Mentors.27_corner -
Don't hesitate to ask questions if something is unclear!
Thank you for giving young contributors the opportunity to learn about
and work on Free and Open Source Software projects!
andre
--
Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
Wikimedia is planning to participate in Google Summer of Code 2015 and the
simultaneous FOSS Outreach Program for Women round 10. We want to increase
geographical diversity among candidates by involving local Wikimedia groups
in the promotion of these programs. This, in turn, could help increasing
the technical capacity of these groups. Interested? Please check
Connect Wikimedia groups, Google Developer Groups, and computer science
university departments
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T925
Italy, Russia, China, and Japan have been mentioned already. Adding other
locations is up to you. We are looking for local drivers. The Engineering
Community team and others can help from a distance, but this won't work
without local promoters.
PS: you can register to Phabricator with your Wikimedia account, and you
can subscribe to tasks in order to receive updates -- see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Hello all,
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension
Bundle 2014.11. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.23.7 and
MediaWiki 1.24.0 releases. It should also work with 1.22.14 but we no
longer test against it.
* Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.11.tar…
* sha256sum: 39b397a05561f743962cfb499f59a58219338607ea13ebfcc7a8806105e7dedc
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
== Babel, CleanChanges and LocalisationUpdate ==
* Only localisation updates.
== CLDR ==
* Fixed some time displays if CLDR had only partial localisation of time units.
== Translate ==
* Translate WebAPI documentation is now localized. Only works in
MediaWiki 1.24 and newer.
* Fixed a bug which prevented bootstrapping of shared TTMServer
database with the ElasticSearch backend.
* If you are using the '''Solr backend '''for the translation memory
or the translation search, please let us know. If there are no users
for the Solr backend, we will deprecate and later remove it in favor
of the better maintained ElasticSearch backend.
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
* ULS WebAPI documentation is now localized. Only works in MediaWiki
1.24 and newer.
* T67516: Removed font-size for ULS language selection panel buttons,
which caused tiny font sizes on the Monobook skin.
* Small compatibility fix when both ULS and VisualEditor are in use.
* About 20 new languages are now supported in the language selector
and a couple language names were changes.
* A JavaScript error no longer happens on pages without any headings.
* Added support for WOFF2 webfont format. Note that there are no WOFF2
webfonts in the font repository yet due to pending issues in WOFF2
font generation.
Thanks!
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