Hi everyone,
I am Alangi Derick and a Web developer. Mostly, i work with the
following technologies; PHP, HTML/HTML 5, Javascript, jQuery etc. I am
also very good at using Git VCS and also at time SVN.
I am a senior student in the University of Buea, Cameroon and i am
currently interning at a software development company. I am working on
a project which i use Laravel 4.2 for developement and MySQL DBMS.
I want to take my skills to a next level by contributing to an open
source organisation and to a platform where my codes will be used by
the whole world to make it a better place. I found WikiMedia to be
that which fits my skills and i am very happy i got one. I will like
to develop for this organisation all the time and make WikiMedia a
better one. I will like the members of the development community to
offer me as much help as possible so that in little or no time, i will
fix bugs, add features, and more.. to Wikimedia. Thanks
Regards
Alangi Derick Ndimnain
For a while now, the Collaboration team has been working on Flow, the
structured discussion system. I want to let you know about some changes in
that long-term plan.
While initial announcements about Flow said that it would be a universal
replacement for talk pages, the features that were ultimately built into
Flow were specifically forum-style group discussion tools. But article and
project talk pages are used for a number of important and complex processes
that those tools aren't able to handle, making Flow unsuitable for
deployment on those kinds of pages.
To better address the needs of our core contributors, we're now focusing
our strategy on the curation, collaboration, and admin processes that take
place on a variety of pages. Many of these processes use complex
workarounds -- templates, categories, transclusions, and lots of
instructions -- that turn blank wikitext talk pages into structured
workflows. There are gadgets and user scripts on the larger wikis to help
with some of these workflows, but these tools aren't standardized or
universally available.
As these workflows grow in complexity, they become more difficult for the
next generation of editors to learn and use. This has increased the
workload on the people who maintain those systems today. Complex workflows
are also difficult to adapt to other languages, because a wiki with
thousands of articles may not need the kind of complexity that comes with
managing a wiki with millions of articles. We've talked about this kind of
structured workflow support at Wikimania, in user research sessions, and on
wikis. It's an important area that needs a lot of discussion, exploration,
and work.
Starting in October, Flow will not be in active development, as we shift
the team's focus to these other priorities. We'll be helping core
contributors reduce the stress of an ever-growing workload, and helping the
next generation of contributors participate in those processes. Further
development on these projects will be driven by the needs expressed by wiki
communities.
Flow will be maintained and supported, and communities that are excited
about Flow discussions will be able to use it. There are places where the
discussion features are working well, with communities that are
enthusiastic about them: on user talk pages, help pages, and forum/village
pump-style discussion spaces. By the end of September, we'll have an opt-in
Beta feature available to communities that want it, allowing users to
enable Flow on their own user talk pages.
I'm sure people will want to know more about these projects, and we're
looking forward to those conversations. We'll be reaching out for lots of
input and feedback over the coming months.
Danny Horn
Collaboration team, PM
Hello,
Zeljko and I will upgrade Jenkins on Monday Sept 7th at 8:00am UTC
(10:00am CET).
There will be roughly half an hour downtime. Zuul will keep queueing the
changes and trigger the jobs whenever Jenkins comes back up.
In case of crazy side effect, we will revert back to the current version.
Expected downtime is half an hour but I scheduled a two hours
maintenance window.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111326https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deployments&diff=176205&ol…
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Antoine "hashar" Musso
Hi,
Forrestbot has been renamed to ReleaseTaggerBot per T100811[1]. Just a
heads up in case you need to update your mail filters or ignore lists :)
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100811
-- Legoktm
Title says it all: https://firrre.com/ They're ZNC instances.
I've signed up and it works as advertised. It took a couple of days for
them to review my application.
It supports a bunch of ZNC modules too ( https://firrre.com/modules/ ),
configurable via the usual znc commands or through a web interface.
Including fancy things like push notifications.
Hi Community Metrics team,
this is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail.
Number of accounts created in (2015-08): 288
Number of active users (any activity) in (2015-08): 831
Number of task authors in (2015-08): 481
Number of users who have closed tasks in (2015-08): 258
Number of projects which had at least one task moved from one column
to another on their workboard in (2015-08): 192
Number of tasks created in (2015-08): 3338
Number of tasks closed in (2015-08): 2625
Number of open and stalled tasks in total: 25324
Median age in days of open tasks by priority:
Unbreak now: 15
Needs Triage: 105
High: 151
Normal: 301
Low: 698
Needs Volunteer: 16678
(How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority)
TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as described in T1003.
Yours sincerely,
Fab Rick Aytor
(via community_metrics.sh on iridium at Tue Sep 1 00:00:08 UTC 2015)
Hi!
This is just a heads-up to say that today we're deploying a significant
refactor of client-side CentralNotice code!
Please welcome ext.centralNotice.display, who will be taking over from
ext.centralNotice.bannerController. If all goes well, today will be
bannerController's last day on at the cluster. Thanks so much,
bannerController, for many billions of banners you've given to the
community over the years.
Also, ext.centralNotice.display's focus is slightly narrower, since
geoIP processing will now be handled by ext.centralNotice.geoIP.
Please let us know if you see any issues!
Finally, the campaign configuration needed to get unsampled data on
banner views has changed a bit. If everything's in order, we'll update
the configuration of a few active campaigns. (We'll send a link to some
documentation a little later!)
Many thanks!!!! Cheers,
Andrew
Hi everyone,
It's been a while since I've been involved here, and I've got a pretty good
excuse. I'm going to avoid going into too much detail, but in short, I was
involved in a pretty nasty traffic collision, and have only recently
returned to work. It turned out the way that a lot of bike versus car
collisions go, which is to say, I lost :-(
The good news (for me at least), I've largely recovered. The surgeons here
did a remarkable job putting me back together again. I returned to
part-time work a couple of weeks ago, and I'm getting back up to speed on
things. I still have a number of personal obligations that keep me from
working full-time, but I'll keep my user page on mediawiki.org
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:RobLa-WMF> updated with the latest (or
point you to where I plan to keep that info).
Though we hadn't announced it in April, we had *just* talked about making
my title "Director of Architecture" in the big reorg we had here at WMF.
We hadn't worked out exactly what that meant when I was in the wreck, but I
had a vague idea which I intend to flesh out. In the short term, I want to
facilitate the activity of the Architecture Committee
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture%20committee>. I've started
chairing the private meetings of that group, and I'm taking on a bunch of
the administrivia. I'll make things clearer as they become clearer in my
head :-) Well, maybe after that, and after I get a chance to write down
what I'm thinking.
I'm really happy to be back involved! \o/ If you have any questions, or
you simply want to wave back, feel free to drop a comment on my MediaWiki
talk page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:RobLa-WMF
Rob