Ask yourself:
* Does your documentation need improvements?
* Do you have small, self-contained, "easy" bugs you'd love to get fixed?
(Also see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs )
* Do your old bugs welcome some testing?
* Does your user interface have some small design issues?
* Does the Outreachy/GSoC project you finished welcome small tweaks?
* Would you enjoy helping someone port your template to Lua?
* Does your gadget use some deprecated API calls?
* Do you have some tasks that welcome some research?
Google Code-In (GCI) will take place again in Dec+Jan: a contest for 13-17 year old students to provide small contributions to free software projects. And Wikimedia will apply again to take part in GCI!
Unsure about quality of contributions and effort?
Read about tgr's post about Multimedia achievements in GCI 2014:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2015-January/001009.html
In short:
* Add the project "GCI2015" + a comment to Phabricator tasks you'd mentor.
* Tasks are welcome in five areas: Code; Outreach/Research;
Documentation/Training; Quality Assurance; User Interface.
* Make sure the task description provides pointers to help the student.
* Add yourself to the table of mentors on the wikipage.
* "Beginner tasks" (<30 min for an experienced contributor) also welcome.
* "Generic" tasks also welcome (e.g. "Fix two user interface messages from
the "Blocked By" list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40638 ").
For all information, check
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015#Mentors.27_corner
Wikimedia has more than 600 "easy" tasks available:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/609oZQR8EpOH/#R
Can you imagine helping someone fix one of these tasks?
Please ask if you have questions.
Thank you!
andre
--
Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
When I right-click on the image download link for
File:Commodore_Grace_M._Hopper,_USN_(covered).jpg the download I get is
only 269 bytes and it contains a 404 error in plaintext even though it's a
jpg file.
When I click on the image preview that's 480x600 pixels, I get an XSS
warning from Noscript.
All other images download ok for me.
Any knowledge of what the issue is with this one file?
Thanks,
Pine
Hi everyone,
I want to announce to everyone in the community that with respect to
the Outreachy program round 11, i have submitted a proposal with a
proposed solution on how to Implement HTML email support in MediaWiki.
Link to my proposal: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116223
Link to the project on phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T15303
I will encourage and like everyone in the community to go through the
proposal and make comments on how i can make the proposal a better in
order to be selected to implement my solution for this project.
Cheers, Rosalie
The Beta Cluster is currently read-only due to a database restoration in
progress.
This means that, of course, you can't edit any wiki on the Beta Cluster.
Which also means, obviously, that your automated browser tests will
fail.
We're sorry about the inconvenience.
See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116447 for more details and
updates.
Have a good weekend,
Greg
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| Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
| identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
Hello!
MediaWiki-Codesniffer 0.5.0 is now available for use in your MediaWiki
extensions and other projects. Here are the notable changes since the
last release (0.4.0):
* Add Generic.ControlStructures.InlineControlStructure to ruleset (Kunal
Mehta)
* Add IfElseStructureSniff to handle else structures (TasneemLo)
* Handle multiple # comments in Space Before Comment (TasneemLo)
* Sniff to check assignment in while & if (TasneemLo)
* Sniff to warn when using dirname(__FILE__) (TasneemLo)
-- Legoktm
Recently I upgraded my Mac to OSX 10.10.5 and upgraded a lot of other stuff
in the process. But now I can't get git-review to work. Whenever I try to
run it, it gives the following stacktrace:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/git-review", line 11, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/git_review/cmd.py", line 1522, in
main
_main()
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/git_review/cmd.py", line 1377, in
_main
(os.path.split(sys.argv[0])[-1], get_version()))
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/git_review/cmd.py", line 209, in
get_version
provider = pkg_resources.get_provider(requirement)
File
"/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.14-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py",
line 177, in get_provider
return working_set.find(moduleOrReq) or require(str(moduleOrReq))[0]
File
"/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.14-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py",
line 654, in require
needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
File
"/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.14-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py",
line 552, in resolve
raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: git-review
If I run "pip install --upgrade setuptools":
Requirement already up-to-date: setuptools in
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages
If I run "pip install -U git-review":
Requirement already up-to-date: git-review in
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages
Requirement already up-to-date: argparse in
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (from git-review)
Requirement already up-to-date: requests>=1.1 in
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (from git-review)
If I run "/usr/bin/easy_install --version":
distribute 0.6.14
I couldn't find any solution on Google or in our git-review docs. Any
suggestions?
Developers, we now have licenses for JetBrains' IDEA Ultimate
<https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/> (JavaScript, PHP, Python, ...) and CLion
<https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/> (C/C++). The IDE supports debugging in
Vagrant and on-the-fly static code analysis.
If you are a volunteer developer, and want to use an IDE, contact me for a
license. Those with access to the office wiki may register directly at the
licenses <https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/JetBrains> page.
Please try it for a bit before getting a license -- just in case you don't
like it.
P.S. This is only for those who want JetBrains' IDE. If you are happy with
Vim, good for you. If you like Atom or Sublime, great. If notepad is the
best text editor of all times, all the power to you. Bikeshedding should
go into a separate thread ))