Hi Everyone,
It's time for *Wikimedia Tech Talks 2019* Episode 3! This month's talk will
take place *April 24, 2019 at 18:00 UTC. *
*Topic: *Sharing global opportunities for new developers in the Wikimedia
community
*Speaker: *Sristhi Sethi, Developer Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation
*Summary: *Wikimedia offers a plethora of opportunities for newcomers to
get involved; however, as with many other free software projects, getting
involved with the Wikimedia technical community can be a daunting prospect
for newcomers. This talk is a gentle introduction to the Wikimedia
ecosystem, and gives pointers on how to get involved as a volunteer. I will
delve into the various ways newcomers can make successful contributions in
areas ranging from design to documentation, from programming to testing,
and much more.
YouTube stream for viewers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXyeRujCrAs
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQGfuLP9MqA>
During the live talk, you are invited to join the discussion on IRC at
#wikimedia-office
You can watch past Tech Talks here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tech_talks
If you are interested in giving your own tech talk, you can learn more
here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event#Te…
As always, feel free to reach out to me with any questions!
Kind regards,
Sarah R. Rodlund
Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy>
srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
SEMANTiCS 2019 extends the deadlines of the Research & Innovation Track
and the LegalTech/ Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Track as
follows:
* Extended: Abstract Submission Deadline: May 6, 2019 (11:59
pm, Hawaii time)
* Extended: Paper Submission Deadline: May 13, 2019 (11:59 pm,
Hawaii time)
* Notification of Acceptance: June 17, 2019 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 29, 2019 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
For details please go to: https://2019.semantics.cc/calls
With kind regards,
The Semantics Organization Team
Dear All,
I would need to create a developer account for a modification I'd like
to propose as per https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221149
I followed the documentation to this link
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount
I see the account creation is temporarily unavailable and I read why
this is happening.
What it is not clear to me is if there is any forecast for the
registration to be available again
And, in the meantime, is there any other way to request an account?
Thanks and have a nice day
Luca
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Dear Ms.,
I thank you for your efforts. The University of Sfax is interested in hosting the event. Located in Tunisia, the University of Sfax is among the best Computer Science research universities in Arab World and in Africa and has a large community of computer scientists and Wikimedia researchers.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36
GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, WikiResearch Tunisia
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb
Founder, TunSci
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De : Rachel Farrand <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org<mailto:rfarrand@wikimedia.org>>
Date : 2019/04/15 18:49 (GMT+01:00)
À : chapters(a)wikimedia.ch<mailto:chapters@wikimedia.ch>, Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org>>, eds(a)listen.wikimedia.de<mailto:eds@listen.wikimedia.de>, affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:affiliates@lists.wikimedia.org>
Objet : [Wikitech-l] Call for hosts: Wikimedia Hackathon 2020
Hello!
Is your organization interested in hosting and co-organizing the 2020
Wikimedia Hackathon? We are looking for co-organizers!
Details about the decision process can be found here:
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/2020_Decision_Process
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Proposing_a_hackathon#Hackathon_l…
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<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Proposing_a_hackathon#Hackathon_l…>
Details about what it takes to organize a hackathon can be found here:
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Handbook
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons
CHANGES FOR 2019
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Because of changes to the Wikimedia Foundation budgeting process, we are
still working on confirming exact budgeting and requirements for this
event. Generally we expect similar size and budget to previous years, but
this is not finalized.
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We are open & encouraging to bids from anywhere, but locations outside
of Europe and the USA will be given extra weight.
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Focus areas will be defined much further in advance, however
participants can work on whatever they like related to Wikimedia Technology
/ Development.
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We are continuing to work on changes around our newcomer support and
onboarding as well as our mentoring programs - this will continue to
develop until the event. At the same time we are still maintaining
additional focus on providing a well-facilitated and organized meeting
space for groups and the most active volunteers in the developer community
to collaborate face to face, with appropriate representation of Foundation,
affiliates, and volunteers, to discuss the future of Wikimedia technologies
in depth.
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We hope to expand our scholarship program to include more participants
from outside of the USA and Europe.
Ideally we will announce the host for 2020 by the Prague Hackathon in May.
If multiple chapters or organizations are interested, we hope to work
together to figure out the the best solution.
Any organizations interested in hosting should please create a Phabricator
ticket and associate it with the #Developer-Relations project, or email
rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org<mailto:rfarrand@wikimedia.org> with a proposal or questions. Srishti and I are
happy to assist in creating the ticket if needed.
Examples: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162836,
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96826,
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127050
Please include as much information as possible from: Proposing a hackathon
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Proposing_a_hackathon>
Additionally if you are interested in working together on a smaller
technical event focused around newcomers in your region please also let me
know! We are in the initial stages of building a program around this.
Please email me at rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org<mailto:rfarrand@wikimedia.org> with any questions or concerns. I
am not on the chapters@ list, so if there is anything that I should respond
to, make sure to keep me on CC. Also please forward this email anywhere
you think it might be useful.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
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Rachel Farrand
Events Program Manager
Technical Collaboration Team
Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi, with the future of Gerrit comes a bright future. Gerrit PolyGerrit has changed to Google Germany PolyGerrit team (created in january). Upstream are planning to ramp up development of PolyGerrit very soon. Gerrit has just had 3.0 branched within the last 2 hours! Which means that is going to be a big release. Gerrit 3.0 key features are no more db's making it easier to both backup and fail gerrit over in case of an emergency. Another key feature is that PolyGerrit is now the only UI in Gerrit. The old UI has been removed!
Let's move onto 2.16.
We plan to update to Gerrit 2.16 soon [1]. With this update, it will be one of the largest update's to have happened to Wikimedia's Gerrit! PolyGerrit's becomes the default UI. PolyGerrit's UI has changed a lot since 2.15 [2]. PolyGerrit's UI update also include improvements for new users, such as being guided with a screen like [3]. The user will also be told how to update their own change through a dialog on their change. This may improve their experience and help encourage new users to contribute!
With this email, i would like to encourage all users to try out the new ui which you can by doing: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/?polygerrit=1 or clicking "Switch to New UI" in the footer. Not all features are implemented like inline editing, project dashboard, editing of project access rules and more. You will find yourself needing to switch back to the OLD UI if you need to do any of that.
Once we switch to Gerrit 2.16, you will find your self switching virtually never switching to the OLD UI. Upstream (google) switched off the OLD UI last year and has been a great success!
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200739
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F28699064https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F28699068https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F28699070
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F28699002
