I'd like to give a shout-out to some people who made my day better:
+ Brian Wolff (bawolff), for thoughtful commentary on code and on our social infrastructure + Lydia Pintscher, for diligent, thoughtful and cheerful shepherding of Wikidata conversation + Daniel Zahn, for adding Bugzilla tracking to http://status.wikimedia.org/8777/263658/Bugzilla
How about a little email thread for us to say nice things about each other? Rules: be kind, thank someone, and say why you're thanking them.
[If you don't get thanked and you feel mopey, email me and I'll comfort you. :-)]
I want to thank all of the GSoC developers who have been showing off the results of their labor. It's great to see so many positive outcomes and great work coming about.
Nabil
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah@wikimedia.org
wrote:
How about a little email thread for us to say nice things about each other? Rules: be kind, thank someone, and say why you're thanking them.
How about a little email thread for us to say nice things about each other? Rules: be kind, thank someone, and say why you're thanking them.
In the style of Drew Carey (the points don't matter):
Two thousand and twenty points to Timo (Krinkle) for his consistently insightful JavaScript review.
Seven hundred and nineteen points to Reedy for his omnipresence.
Pi to the fifth points to Chris McMahon for being awesome in many ways, most notably the recent EtherEditor testing he helped with.
I'm sure there are many other great people, but others will surely help to thank them all :)
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Mark Holmquist mtraceur@member.fsf.orgwrote
Pi to the fifth points to Chris McMahon for being awesome in many ways, most notably the recent EtherEditor testing he helped with.
Back atcha. Mark is cranking out a ton of code on several projects, is a go-to guy on IRC, contributing on every front.
And while I'm here:
Antoine Musso and Faidon Liambotis are handling some really huge issues so quietly and unobtrusively that you would never know there was an issue in the first place.
Matthias Mullie has replaced an entire boutique third-party dev shop on the AFTv5 project with grace and style.
Fabrice Florin is one of the best project managers I've ever worked with. Outstanding on every front, from documentation to communication to testing.
Finally, everyone chatting on #wikimedia-staff. As a remote person, that IRC channel is my link to the office and WMF culture, I learn a lot from everything that goes on there.
I'd like to amend my thanks to include Derk-Jan Hartman (thedj), who has done some awesome work today helping with bug triage, code review, and patches for UploadWizard. Great stuff! It should make our review/bug-closing sprint a lot quicker.
Even further thanks to Siebrand and Niklas for their stellar help in fixing a huge l10n regression today. The l10n folks do so much work to support so many people, and they're amazing at it. Bravo.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'd like to give a shout-out to some people who made my day better:
- Brian Wolff (bawolff), for thoughtful commentary on code and on our
social infrastructure
- Lydia Pintscher, for diligent, thoughtful and cheerful shepherding of
Wikidata conversation
- Daniel Zahn, for adding Bugzilla tracking to
http://status.wikimedia.org/8777/263658/Bugzilla
How about a little email thread for us to say nice things about each other? Rules: be kind, thank someone, and say why you're thanking them.
[If you don't get thanked and you feel mopey, email me and I'll comfort you. :-)]
Awww. Thank you! Ok so here's my list: + the whole i18n/l10n team for hitting us on the head gently (!) when we're doing it wrong and always being there to give advice when needed + Sumana for GSoC work (there are 1000 other things but I have to pick _something_) because I know how hard and important this is from experience ;-)
Cheers Lydia
What a great idea, Sumana!
I want to thank many people, but those who come into my mind immediately...
* RobLa, for diligently helping with the Wikidata blockers and nudging people to work together
* Sam Reed and Ryan Kaldari for teaching the Wikidata team a lot during their stays in Berlin
* Tim Starling for his heroic work with Daniel K on the infamous ContentHandler branch, and for his continued support of the Wikidata work - and the awesome work on Lua. I am excited to see what Lua+Wikidata will enable...
* Dantman for taking the fire out of the discussion two weeks ago around the Sites table and bringing it to a constructive continuation
* Siebrand and his team for the work on ULS, their support in using it, and his moral support
* the rest of the Wikidata team that I am blessed to call my colleagues, and who are a pleasure to work with. Thank you!
As said, this is an incomplete list, but it already got too long.
Cheers, Denny
2012/8/23 Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org:
I'd like to give a shout-out to some people who made my day better:
- Brian Wolff (bawolff), for thoughtful commentary on code and on our
social infrastructure
- Lydia Pintscher, for diligent, thoughtful and cheerful shepherding of
Wikidata conversation
- Daniel Zahn, for adding Bugzilla tracking to
http://status.wikimedia.org/8777/263658/Bugzilla
How about a little email thread for us to say nice things about each other? Rules: be kind, thank someone, and say why you're thanking them.
[If you don't get thanked and you feel mopey, email me and I'll comfort you. :-)] -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation
Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
On 23 August 2012 02:40, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:
How about a little email thread for us to say nice things about each other? Rules: be kind, thank someone, and say why you're thanking them.
* Sumana for this idea. * Peter, Asher, Siebrand, Oren, Alolita and others who have helped to forward translation memories for Translate on WMF. * Robin for being a honest gsoc student and improving language support. You taught me more than you know. * Harry for being a tireless gsoc co-student and going through my extra strict code review without complaints. * Siebrand for random act of kindness. * Chad for listening my harsh Gerrit feedback and still not hating me * Nemo_bis for being a pokemaster[1] for translatewiki.net, among other things. * Tim for substantive help with the CLDR plural rules project.
-Niklas
[1] Talking about developers, not pokemons here.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxstrom@gmail.com wrote:
- Sumana for this idea.
+1
Also: * Inez for writing code I intended to write, exactly the way I intended to write it, while I was busy with something else yesterday * Timo (Krinkle) for announcing he's back from vacation via the gerrit-wm bot * The rest of the VE team for being generally awesome * Aaron, Ariel, Ben and Faidon (and anyone else that's working on this that I'm forgetting) for their relentless work on the Swift migration this week
Roan
Many many many thanks Rob H, Peter Y, Leslie C, Ben H, Ryan L, Faidon, Daniel Z, Mark B, Chris J, and everyone else on the ops team that has put up with my IRC poking and prodding thus far. You guys are a huge help to the analytics team. Thanks for guiding me through and teaching me the systems, and for feedback for my puppet stuff. :)
On Aug 23, 2012, at 9:29 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxstrom@gmail.com wrote:
- Sumana for this idea.
+1
Also:
- Inez for writing code I intended to write, exactly the way I
intended to write it, while I was busy with something else yesterday
- Timo (Krinkle) for announcing he's back from vacation via the gerrit-wm bot
- The rest of the VE team for being generally awesome
- Aaron, Ariel, Ben and Faidon (and anyone else that's working on this
that I'm forgetting) for their relentless work on the Swift migration this week
Roan
Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Oh and thanks to Jeremy B too! He's been super helpful at directing my questions to the proper know-it-all.
On Aug 24, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Andrew Otto otto@wikimedia.org wrote:
Many many many thanks Rob H, Peter Y, Leslie C, Ben H, Ryan L, Faidon, Daniel Z, Mark B, Chris J, and everyone else on the ops team that has put up with my IRC poking and prodding thus far. You guys are a huge help to the analytics team. Thanks for guiding me through and teaching me the systems, and for feedback for my puppet stuff. :)
On Aug 23, 2012, at 9:29 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxstrom@gmail.com wrote:
- Sumana for this idea.
+1
Also:
- Inez for writing code I intended to write, exactly the way I
intended to write it, while I was busy with something else yesterday
- Timo (Krinkle) for announcing he's back from vacation via the gerrit-wm bot
- The rest of the VE team for being generally awesome
- Aaron, Ariel, Ben and Faidon (and anyone else that's working on this
that I'm forgetting) for their relentless work on the Swift migration this week
Roan
Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Oh and thanks to Jeremy B too! He's been super helpful at directing my questions to the proper know-it-all.
You know, that is something I don't think many of us think about on this list terribly often. We have quite a nice "brain-trust" going here. Between all of us, our knowledge is really quite extensive.
Its nice being able to enjoy conversation with very intelligent people on intelligent topics. I think that is something everyone on this list can probably appreciate right?
Thank you, Derric Atzrott
I respect very much the creators of Article Feedback extension: we have used it in our wikis and it really rocks. I also is very thankful to all semantic extensions community - the guys patiently answer my questions every single day and the work they do is just fantastic. ----- Yury Katkov
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Derric Atzrott datzrott@alizeepathology.com wrote:
Oh and thanks to Jeremy B too! He's been super helpful at directing my questions to the proper know-it-all.
You know, that is something I don't think many of us think about on this list terribly often. We have quite a nice "brain-trust" going here. Between all of us, our knowledge is really quite extensive.
Its nice being able to enjoy conversation with very intelligent people on intelligent topics. I think that is something everyone on this list can probably appreciate right?
Thank you, Derric Atzrott
Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxstrom@gmail.com wrote:
- Sumana for this idea.
Seconded.
Also thanks to: * Denny and Daniel for sending the very helpful summaries of Wikidata blockers, and being patient with us as we review their work * Jack Phoenix for the well-ordered task list on Admin tools development[1] * Tim for letting me cut to the front of the line with a last minute review request yesterday * Roan for jumping right on the jQuery issues this week
Of course, this is by no means comprehensive, just what I can think of right now.
Rob
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxstrom@gmail.com wrote:
- Sumana for this idea.
+1
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Mark Holmquist mtraceur@member.fsf.org wrote:
Two thousand and twenty points to Timo (Krinkle) for his consistently insightful JavaScript review.
+1
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Daniel Zahn dzahn@wikimedia.org wrote:
- To Mark H. for still replying to my Bugzilla questions even though
he is busy with non-wmf things
+1
Helder
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:
How about a little email thread for us to say nice things about each other? Rules: be kind, thank someone, and say why you're thanking them.
Thanks to Jeroen, because he fixes bugs super fast and it's been cool working with him to get the Education Program extension ready.
Thanks to Max, because his public poking and prodding and complaining help me (as a non-dev) understand better how our tech systems work.
-Sage
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:
How about a little email thread for us to say nice things about each other?
Completely random appreciation for whoever implemented the "undo" feature in MediaWiki, one of its many hidden gems. :-)
Slightly less random but no less impersonal appreciation for all devs who're going the extra mile to make our projects re-usable by third parties (i18n project milkshake, Visual Editor team, analytics team, etc.), and for contributing back upstream when we're building on code written by others.
Personal appreciation for Yuvi Panda for being a force of awesome and making a Wikipedia Signpost app. :-)
How about a little email thread for us to say nice things about each other?
Sumana for being such a kind person and deciding that it would be a good idea for us to remember that we need to show each other some love sometimes in order to stay sane.
MZMcBride for sparking some discussions that really needed to be discussed.
All of the people who have helped me troubleshoot that annoying email issue I was having before.
Everyone on this list for giving me something to do that breaks up my work day with something of interest to me personally.
Thank you, Derric Atzrott
On 08/24/2012 09:28 AM, Derric Atzrott wrote:
MZMcBride for sparking some discussions that really needed to be discussed.
I was thinking of who I appreciated and thought I would mention MZ, too.
I do, of course, appreciate every one else who has been mentioned, but I think it is important to mention MZ.
Although he is often seen as an irritant, the Foundation needs a community member like MZ who sticks around (so he is familiar to the people working in the Foundation) and who consistently and loudly reminds the Foundation how they could better serve the community.
MZ plays an important part: In an organisation like the WMF, groupthink can be a problem. MZ points out the problems that people would rather ignore or gloss over.
Mark.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
Completely random appreciation for whoever implemented the "undo" feature in MediaWiki, one of its many hidden gems. :-)
Looks like the main contributors to this were Andrew Garrett in July 2006 [1] and December 2006 [2], Aaron Schulz in March 2007 [3], and Andrew again in July 2007 [4].
So appreciation for them, the other old hands that have been around for such an incredibly long time, and all the other committers that created the tens of thousands of commits in MediaWiki's history [5]; it's always interesting to dig through them when looking up old stuff like this.
Roan
[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/core.git;a=commitdiff;h=f0... [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/core.git;a=commitdiff;h=c4... [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/core.git;a=commitdiff;h=0f... [4] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/core.git;a=commitdiff;h=d5... [5] For those of you wondering "shouldn't that be 'over 100k?': there were about 114k revisions in SVN at the time of the git migration, but those weren't all MW core. At the time of this writing, there were about 43k commits in the mediawiki/core.git history (excluding merge commits).
How about a little email thread for us to say nice things about each other? Rules: be kind, thank someone, and say why you're thanking them.
The order is random.
* To Victor Vasiliev (vvv) for his ongoing commitment to making the templates not suck.
* To SPQRobin for his ongoing commitment to making MediaWiki usable to users who speak all languages, no matter how small or exotic.
* To Krinkle, for being endlessly and tirelessly helpful, professional, eloquent and just plain nice.
* To Yuvi and the rest of the mobile team for solving so many bugs so quickly.
* Finally, to Katie, Lydia, Denny, Silke, Jens, Daniel and the rest of the Wikidata crew, for doing their Magick and for being Very Seriously Committed to making Wikidata no less than a Great Success.
I could go on for very long, but I'll stop here.
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
in random order:
* To James Alexander for fixing a lot of Planet URLs.
* To Ryan and Faidon for their replies on the mailing list archive issues
* To Ben for advice on all the benefits package paperwork i was not familiar with
* To Mark H. for still replying to my Bugzilla questions even though he is busy with non-wmf things
Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
How about a little email thread for us to say nice things about each other? Rules: be kind, thank someone, and say why you're thanking them.
I know a few people have thanked you for starting this thread, but I actually came to appreciate you and your work much more in your absence earlier this month. It wasn't as obvious how much you do (particularly in bug wrangling and poking and prodding) until you were taking a well-deserved vacation. "The reward for a job well done is another three jobs," as David Gerard says. Your ever-growing portfolio shows the truth in this. :-)
I'm also very grateful for the patience of the wikitech-l community (and more broadly the MediaWiki development community), who choose to put up with me and other Wikimedians. It's no secret that Wikimedians are a pain in the ass to work with: they're quite often hyper-critical, needy, insolent, and stubborn. They complain loudly and congratulate softly. And this of course doesn't get into the problems they cause by speaking far too many languages and wanting MediaWiki to do everything under the sun. ;-) But the developers take it all in stride and they do their best to make the user experience (software, hardware, and everything in between) better each iteration, all while dealing with a sometimes painfully unsociable lot of people. For that, I'm have a deep amount of appreciation and respect.
MZMcBride
Thank you to Sumana for all your hard work, including GSoC administration and much, much more -- and obviously for starting this thread. This is exactly the kind of positive community spirit we need!
Also thanks to the admin tools development team (Chris Steipp, Tim Starling, James Alexander, Guillaume Paumier) for all writing much needed new tools and making sure that they work and that communication between the team and the rest of the world happens. :-) Also thanks to Rob Lanphier for giving me the opportunity to act as the Product Manager for the admin tools development project, despite the fact that I lacked previous experience in the field.
MZMcBride definitely deserves to be thanked for saying out loud a lot of difficult and potentially controversial things, on-wiki as well as on various different mailing lists. It's important that the community has critical members who dare to question the current state of things, as well as the future direction of things and the reasoning behind those.
The above names are in no particular order and a lot of people who have worked on, are working on and plan to work on MediaWiki deserve a lot more praise than what they've gotten so far. So, thanks to everyone who ever has worked with MediaWiki in some way (not necessarily in software development) -- you folks make the Internet not suck.
Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer
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