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 :) -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtraceur(a)member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info

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(a)wikimedia.org>rg>: -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Mark Holmquist <mtraceur(a)member.fsf.org>wrote 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.

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Niklas Laxström <niklas.laxstrom(a)gmail.com> wrote: +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

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

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(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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(a)alizeepathology.com> wrote:

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

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Niklas Laxström <niklas.laxstrom(a)gmail.com> wrote: 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 [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Admin_tools_development

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. -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtraceur(a)member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info

+1

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