SeaGL is a ~250-person open stuff conference in Seattle. They'd love talks
by Wikimedians about tech and culture topics -- security, community,
devops, getting-started, tales of woe, etc. Submit an idea by July 15th -
and Deb Nicholson (see fwd) is totally happy to bounce ideas around with
you and help you with your proposal. http://seagl.org/schedule/2013.html
has last year's schedule.
Wikimedians are eligible to get travel/hotel subsidies to give talks at
SeaGL: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS
Sumana Harihareswara
Senior Technical Writer
Wikimedia Foundation
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From: Deb Nicholson <deb(a)eximiousproductions.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 3:54 PM
Subject: Seattle event this fall, CFP open now
To: Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>
Hi Sumana,
I'm helping to organize the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference this year. We are
particularly interested in having some fresh voices at SeaGL. I was
wondering if you would help me reach out to Wikipedians who might be
interested in speaking by forwarding the CFP info?
When: October 24 & 25
Who: The audience will be a mix of ~250 professionals, hobbyists and
students.
Where: The conference takes place in central Seattle -- a walkable
neighborhood with great food and coffee that is easy to get to on public
transportation.
Other cool news: Our keynote is Karen Sandler, a longtime free software
lawyer/activist/powerhouse.
Call for Participation: http://seagl.org/news/2014/06/20/CFP-Open.html
I'm happy to offer feedback on new-to-speaking people's proposals if that
helps them get over the hump. Thanks for your help!
Cheers,
Deb
I'm writing to communicate an upcoming major change in MediaWiki-Vagrant.
In the coming week, I'm going to upgrade the base image from Precise
Pangolin to Trusty Tahr, the latest version from Canonical. Trusty
integrates many new open-source software components, many of them
specifically targeting cloud and virtual environments. You can read more
about the release in the release announcement and the release notes:
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2014/04/17/ubuntu-14-04-trusty-tahr-released/https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes
This change to MediaWiki-Vagrant anticipates a migration of Wikimedia's
application server stack from Precise to Trusty, the groundwork for which
is already well underway. (Wikimedia's TechOps team, substantially assisted
by volunteer contributors, has completed a migration to Puppet 3, and has
made a Trusty image available on Labs).
I hope to keep the migration painless so as to not disrupt the work of
those of you who use this stack as your primary development environment.
The fact that a similar migration process is underway for Wikimedia's
production infrastructure will, I hope, foster increased collaboration
across Wikimedia and the broader developer community.
Micru's Associated namespaces RfC is up for discussion this week.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-04-23
(We also have room for 1 more RfC to discuss.)
Micru said about
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Associated_namespaces :
> The intended outcome would be:
> 1) find out if there is any objection against the "Namespace registry and
> association handlers" that Mark proposed
> 2) discuss possible problems with this approach
> 3) see if there would be any hands available to work on it; it is a
> delicate topic that might need someone with a deep understanding of MediaWiki
Micru also noted that we've had a previous suggestion for a namespace
manager https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Namespace_manager .
> AFIK, it never materialized because back then there was not such a great
> need as there is now - or at least the current use cases didn't exist back
> then.
> I hope this RFC moves forward because it affects important upcoming and
> already deployed projects (Commons migration, templates, Visual editor, WD,
> etc).
Come to #wikimedia-office at 2100 UTC this Wednesday
http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=2950159,2147714,5391959,100&h=29501…
or reply/comment with your comments/suggestions.
2300 Berlin
5pm New York
2pm California
7am Sydney
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Senior Technical Writer
Wikimedia Foundation
Later today, at 2300 UTC, we'll be in #wikimedia-office discussing Pau
Giner's grid system RfC.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Grid_system "to
simplify the creation of user interfaces and make them ready for multiple
screen sizes."
Check out the new patchset https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133683/
"It makes the log-in form responsive (adjusting layout, typography and
visibility to the current screen size). It does not leverage all the
potential of responsive design, but may be useful as a demo to help the
reviewers."
This is at a time meant to make it easier for Australia and China to
participate.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=23&min=00&sec=0&d…
Sydney: Tuesday 9am
Beijing: Tuesday 7am
San Francisco: Monday 4pm
I'm sorry for the late announcement of this one; for the next several weeks
I'll be haranguing authors to help me get discussions set up a few weeks in
advance. :)
More:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-06-02
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap
and Deployment update.
This a special "early in the week" edition, so there might be more
changes to the below plan than normal.
The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at:
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_July_7th>
A quick list of notable items...
== Monday ==
* The mobile team will be submitting iOS app to AppStore
** There's an unknown review timeline from Apple
* CirrusSearch
** CirrusSearch will be turned on as primary on Commons
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.24wmf11: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf12>
*** This will include the "Support | as a magic word" patch and thus
ride the train
*** see: <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#q,136234,n,z>
== Wednesday ==
* CentralAuth GlobalRenameUser
** The new GlobalRenameUser tool will be enabled and usable.
* CirrusSearch
** CirrusSearch will be turned on as primary on Spanish Wikipedia
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.24wmf12 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.24wmf13 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,
Greg
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Hi everyone,
We've been talking about the HTML templating RFC since the Architecture
Summit in January. And in the Mobile quarterly review the other day,
they said - see
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AMobile_Web_%26_App_Q…
- that they would love a decision soon. So it seems like we ought to
figure it out so it can get off the RfC docket. :-)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_libraryhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library…
I think this is what's up: Many developers like the work that Matt and
Gabriel have been doing on Knockoff, but we're currently lacking all of
the pieces necessary to make a final call. Some folks were testing it
out and need to report back to the list with their verdicts. In the
meantime, some developers (such as the Mobile and Flow teams) have
short-term needs that can't wait up for Knockoff to become a complete
solution, and so are working out interim standardizations outside of
this mailing list so that they can move forward while Knockoff work
continues. (Not sure what all of them are.)
Is this about right? Should I be saying Knockoff or Knockout? Can I put
the RfC decision meeting on the calendar for next week? :-)
Sumana Harihareswara
Senior Technical Writer
Wikimedia Foundation
I am unable to search using any of the options on
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search
This came to my attention when a user reported that they were unable to
search English Wikipedia's help files. It turns out that none of the
"advanced", "everything", "multimedia", or "content pages" search functions
are working.
All searches return the error "An error has occurred while searching: The
search backend returned an error:"
Pine
Hi could we discontinue support for internet explorer 6 and 7 because jquery ui 1.11.0 drops support for internet explorer 6 and 7. Windows xp support internet explorer 8. and so I think we can discontinue support for internet exporer 6 and 7.
Hi,
Fundraising would like the ability to snapshot or retrieve a CentralNotice
banner exactly as it was rendered at an earlier time, including the old
revisions of templates, which is tricky and AFAICT not supported by
MediaWiki-core.
I know this issue has come up before but it looks like development is
external and has died out. The most relevant code seems to be
Extension:BackwardsTimeTravel, which adds some expensive-looking hook
callbacks, and Extension:Memento, which is too far into the future and
amends how HTTP operates.
If ours is an unsupported usage, we'll have to implement a horrible kludge
such as taking a recursive snapshot of all transcluded pages.
Thanks,
Adam