Hi All,
I'm a bit late to the game in posting this to the list, but I'm proposing a
project for the FOSS Outreach Program for Women with Wikidata, and I'd love
any feedback.
See here for the draft of my application:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Emaemura/OPWProposal
While submissions are due March 19, I'm hoping to incorporate feedback from
the community as I go.
thanks!
Emily
Hello!
I was a terrible maintainer, and forgot to migrate grrrit-wm to eqiad
tools before the cutoff date. As a result, it will be down for a few
hours as Coren does a batch migrate of all the things. Apologies for
the disruption
--
Yuvi Panda T
http://yuvi.in/blog
Adding wikitech and Mark / Markus. Please subscribe to
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging if you are interested
in WMF packaging efforts!
On 03/18/2014 11:22 AM, Gabriel Wicke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a while ago we agreed to set up a public Debian repository for WMF-developed
> software (MediaWiki, Parsoid, ...). To make progress on this we need to make
> a decision on the repository layout and versioning scheme for major projects
> like MediaWiki core. To get the discussion on this going again, I created a
> wiki page summarizing the options at
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Packaging
>
> The main candidates are
>
> * major versions in package names ('apt-get install mediawiki-1.22' plus
> 'mediawiki-stable' meta package), and
> * separate repository sections for major releases.
>
> I'm looking forward to your input on wiki or here,
>
> Gabriel
>
Hello all,
I am Dinu Kumarasiri from Sri Lanka. I am interested in the project
"Welcoming new contributors to Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs " project for
OPW. Following is the links to my project page and detailed proposal:
[1] Project Page : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Welcome_to_labs
[2] Detailed Proposal :
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Labs_-_Project_Proposal
I hope to hear some feedback on this and any improvements i can make on
this proposal.
I am also interested in the Wikidata Outreach project for which I have
previously discussed on this mailing list.
Thanks in advance!!
Best Regards,
Dinu
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Dinu Kumarasiri*,*
*Undergraduate,*
*Department of Computer Science and Engineering,*
*University of Moratuwa*
Hi, Maduranga Siriwardena! Thank you for being interested in Wikimedia and
in open source software.
First, a quick tip: it's better to include a subject line when you email
people, especially on mailing lists. Please see
http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCStudentGuide/ch014_communication-best-practi…
guidance.
Now, as you see at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#A_syst…,
some basic requirements have already been listed. What more do you
need
to know in order to start your proposal? (Performance benchmarks to hit?
Standalone web app vs. extension to an existing system? Perhaps something
else?) Asking specific questions is going to be a better way to get answers.
I hope this helps!
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Maduranga
Siriwardena <maduranga.siriwardena(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm Maduranga Siriwardena, 3rd year computer Science and Engineering
> Undergraduate at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Currently I'm in my
> internship at WSO2, which a opensource middleware company.
>
> While going through the project ideas, the idea of "A system for reviewing
> funding requests" impressed me. But as I'm new to the wikimedia project, I
> don't have much idea how to proceed. Please describe the requirements of
> the project and other requirements needed to proceed with this project.
>
>
> Thank you
> --
> Maduranga Siriwardena
> Undergraduate
> University of Moratuwa, Faculty of Engineering
> Department of Computer Science and Engineering
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Hi everyone,
I'd like to announce some changes in the Engineering Community
Team[1]. The headlines:
* Quim Gil is taking over as the new Engineering Community Manager,
effective immediately
* Sumana Harihareswara is stepping into a new role as Senior Technical
Writer, also effective immediately
The details:
The Engineering Community Team (ECT) is made up of Andre Klapper,
Guillaume Paumier, Quim Gil, and Sumana Harihareswara. We started ECT
with Sumana leading the group back in 2012. The ECT team has
flourished under Sumana's leadership. Our internship programs have
scaled up pretty dramatically, all of the while increasing in quality
of output and diversity of students. We've also gotten steadily
better in engineering communications, with weekly engineering updates
(translated even!) and great two way communication around software
bugs and other site issues. She would be the first to point out that
a lot of this was driven by members of the team, but she set up the
conditions for many of the team's achievements (e.g. getting us
involved in Outreach Program for Women, tirelessly recruiting and
nurturing new volunteers, and working with the team to hammer out
requirements for the new things they've rolled out).
Sumana led the team until taking a three month sabbatical to attend
Hacker School in New York starting in October of last year. In the
interim, Quim Gil stepped in to lead ECT. After coming back from
sabbatical, Sumana has decided that she would like to take on a role
with more of a technical emphasis to utilize her newly honed skills.
As it turned out, we also independently identified the need to hire a
technical writer (even going so far as advertising an RFP while Sumana
was out, though we weren't able to fill the role). Sumana's increased
focus on technical work combined with her background as a professional
writer made this a pretty obvious fit for the role. Her current
project is organizing RFC review[2] and documenting the process, using
the process for reviewing MediaWiki architectural changes as a means
for documenting our architecture.
Thankfully, Sumana hired a ready-made successor with Quim Gil, who was
until now our Technical Contributor Coordinator. In the past couple
of years, he overseen a big increase in the number of interns that get
involved in our projects via Google Summer of Code and Outreach
Program for Women. Quim has deep experience in engineering community
management, and kept things working really well during Sumana's
absence.
With Sumana moving into a different role that then one vacated by
Quim, Quim will hold onto many of his previous technical contributor
coordination responsibilities. So, for things you used to contact
Quim about, please still contact Quim.
Congratulations Quim and Sumana on your new roles!
Rob
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Engineering_Community_Team
[2] RFC review: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment
Hello,
I am Vikas S Yaligar[1]. I wanted to make cross-language screenshot for
user documentation automated, which would help document maintainer. I have
made a proposal[2] for it as a part GSOC project. It would be great to get
comments on it.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Vikassy
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Vikassy/GSoC14
Regards
--
Vikas S Yaligar
(9481543789)
IT Department
NITK Surathkal