Hi,
It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very busy year! :-)
I'll quote Sumana from last time:
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'll start off with thank yous to: * Addshore, for his awesome work on CatWatch and help with recent ExtensionDistributor improvements * YuviPanda, for coming up with unique and useful tools for Wikimedians, and then following through and building them * S Page, for consistently nagging me and other developers to improve documentation
-- Legoktm
I would like to thank:
*Legoktm: For starting this thread and his awesome work in SUL *Halfak: for his unstoppable drive to make wikipedia better *Lydia Pintscher and her amazing team: For the one and only Wikidata :)
Best
On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 11:56 AM Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very busy year! :-)
I'll quote Sumana from last time:
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'll start off with thank yous to:
- Addshore, for his awesome work on CatWatch and help with recent
ExtensionDistributor improvements
- YuviPanda, for coming up with unique and useful tools for Wikimedians,
and then following through and building them
- S Page, for consistently nagging me and other developers to improve
documentation
-- Legoktm
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* James F. and team: for the awesome work on VE and, especially, for the integration of most used extension parser tags * MatmaRex: for his work on OOJs-UI and ways to use it in MediaWiki core * Legoktm: for all the help I received, difficult to find "that" thing to thank * Jon Robson, Sam, Bmansurov, Jhernandez, JKatz: for the work on making MediaWiki better and better for mobile devices
Just some people I remember :]
Best, Florian
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Wikitech-l [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Legoktm Gesendet: Samstag, 5. Dezember 2015 09:26 An: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Betreff: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015
Hi,
It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very busy year! :-)
I'll quote Sumana from last time:
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'll start off with thank yous to: * Addshore, for his awesome work on CatWatch and help with recent ExtensionDistributor improvements * YuviPanda, for coming up with unique and useful tools for Wikimedians, and then following through and building them * S Page, for consistently nagging me and other developers to improve documentation
-- Legoktm
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Oooh! Great idea. Thanks to:
* DarTar: for being an awesome manager. My meeting load was cut in half over the last few months and that has let me work much more productively on the tech/science of Wikimedia. I should also mention the organizing work he is doing to turn citations and scholarly works into Wikimedia open knowledge items. I think this is going to be huge in the next couple of years. * YuviPanda: for his hard work and vision that is slowly rebuilding the core infrastructures for tool developers. Without Yuvi, we'd be building critical technologies on top of a technological house of cards. * Gwicke: for being very reasonable in our technological disagreements. It's important that reasonable people can disagree without thinking less of each other. We need more of that in our technical spaces. * rfarrand & qgil: for being an excellent resource around hackathons and other dev events. Also for driving us to be more social. Their buddy program has really helped me expand participation in my projects and allowed me to be a resource for newcomers. * joal: for finding time to help me with *really really* big data problems and for always being cheerful in whatever situation. You make all the work more fun just by being yourself. * milimetric: for his calm and consistent pressure on technical and social issues around Wikimedia. I owe a lot of sanity to milimetric's ability to balance long term vision with short-term needs explicitly. * mgalloway: for moving design and UI standardization work to-the-wiki and innovating on open processes for collaboration around design. * Ladsgroup: for his tireless work on making quality control in Wikidata work better. * J-Mo: for his hard work building a case for the Wikipedia Teahouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse and seeing it through.
There are more, but I figured I should stop at some point.
On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 2:25 AM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very busy year! :-)
I'll quote Sumana from last time:
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'll start off with thank yous to:
- Addshore, for his awesome work on CatWatch and help with recent
ExtensionDistributor improvements
- YuviPanda, for coming up with unique and useful tools for Wikimedians,
and then following through and building them
- S Page, for consistently nagging me and other developers to improve
documentation
-- Legoktm
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* Pau Giner, for helping me think better about design. * Mark Holmquist, for helping me think better about code. * Bartosz Dziewoński, for helping me think better.
—prtksxna
On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very busy year! :-)
I'll quote Sumana from last time:
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'll start off with thank yous to:
- Addshore, for his awesome work on CatWatch and help with recent
ExtensionDistributor improvements
- YuviPanda, for coming up with unique and useful tools for Wikimedians,
and then following through and building them
- S Page, for consistently nagging me and other developers to improve
documentation
-- Legoktm
Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Le 05/12/2015 09:25, Legoktm a écrit :
It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very busy year! :-)
I'll quote Sumana from last time:
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. :-)]
Thank you Adam, Jan, Kunal, Timo for the major CI overhaul done this year from refactoring jobs to introducing composer and more.
A special '''thank you''' to Paladox who have sent so many CI changes he ended up being the 4th contributor in less than six months. Learned from early mistakes and is now a strong contributor.
A side thanks to the OpenStack foundation infrastructure team which we borrow the CI stack from. They are always willing to help us fix up the Wikimedia specific installation.
All developers of the python wikibot framework who probably have the largest leverage when it comes to edits per dev ratio. Keep pollinating python software.
Thank you Tim, Giuseppe, Ori and all involved in the HHVM work. We switched a year ago and the long tail of the migration is almost done.
WMDE developers and Wikidata developers. I still have no idea how Wikidata/Wikibase works but I praise your professionalism when it comes to testing and deployment.
Finally, a huge thank to all volunteers being bold with the code. Countless changes and some piece of the infra are 100% volunteer driven.
Be bold!
Thenk you to Dan and Wes and Tomasz for making the Discovery team a good team to be in, Mikhail Popov for being a better student than I am a teacher, and Erik Bernhardson for his constant, chill acceptance of seemingly-arbitrary implementation demands for testing :)
On 7 December 2015 at 14:09, Antoine Musso hashar+wmf@free.fr wrote:
Le 05/12/2015 09:25, Legoktm a écrit :
It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very busy year! :-)
I'll quote Sumana from last time:
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. :-)]
Thank you Adam, Jan, Kunal, Timo for the major CI overhaul done this year from refactoring jobs to introducing composer and more.
A special '''thank you''' to Paladox who have sent so many CI changes he ended up being the 4th contributor in less than six months. Learned from early mistakes and is now a strong contributor.
A side thanks to the OpenStack foundation infrastructure team which we borrow the CI stack from. They are always willing to help us fix up the Wikimedia specific installation.
All developers of the python wikibot framework who probably have the largest leverage when it comes to edits per dev ratio. Keep pollinating python software.
Thank you Tim, Giuseppe, Ori and all involved in the HHVM work. We switched a year ago and the long tail of the migration is almost done.
WMDE developers and Wikidata developers. I still have no idea how Wikidata/Wikibase works but I praise your professionalism when it comes to testing and deployment.
Finally, a huge thank to all volunteers being bold with the code. Countless changes and some piece of the infra are 100% volunteer driven.
Be bold!
-- Antoine "hashar" Musso
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On 7 December 2015 at 11:17, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thenk you to Dan and Wes and Tomasz for making the Discovery team a good team to be in
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Dan
On 5 December 2015 at 00:25, Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very busy year! :-)
I'll quote Sumana from last time:
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. :-)]
Some quick thank yous:
- TheDJ and Brion for making some serious headway on improving and modernising our video playback; - Chris Steipp for his valiant care, attention to detail and continued passion; - Oliver K. for being a true and honest friend; - The Operations department, far too often the unsung heroes who make so much of what we do Just Work™; - Dan G. for clear and helpful advice on product management, and telling me when I'm wrong; - Salix alba, John Broughton, The Anome and many other editors who've helped us improve the editing tools we provide, in VE, in formulæ, in wikitext, in citations and further afield; - Andre for pushing me to be clearer, more open and more inclusive on Phabricator and elsewhere; - Nirzar for all his help on improving our work on design in VisualEditor and elsewhere, and Volker E. and May G. for their continued perseverance in maintaining and extending our standardisation efforts; - Sherry, Erica, Nick, Keegan, Benoît, Johan, Moushira and of course Rachel for providing as Community Liaison a strong, clear and true voice arguing for editors, holding me to promises, keeping me honest; - Reedy for helping us in his spare time, fixing the issues big and small; - Ori, Gilles, Aaron, Peter and Timo in the Performance team doing amazing things in faster shipping of faster software; - Bryan Davis for his commitment, candour and clarity of vision; - Quim and Rachel, for all they do in making in-person and online events not just great, but also better each time; - Yuri for unleashing the Graph extension on an unsuspecting cluster and giving a new way of presenting information to editors; - Greg Grossmeier and his team for capable, drama-free, reliable, dependable release engineering, and the drive to incrementally improve everything for each of us day after day and week after week; - Dan Andreescu and Aaron Halfaker for all their help, advice and support on improving our understanding of the world; - all the colleagues, volunteers and friends I've not mentioned; - … and, finally, all my teams in Editing, who've been wonderful to work with this year, including Lindsey Anne, Joe M., Thalia, Frédéric, David L., Neil, and Joel A., 'new' starters this year, and especially Trevor, our head.
J.
Perhaps a thanks to the people we don't think about, who we often never even work with. Volunteers and third-party developers who contribute to and maintain repositories not part of the big tickets. People who take the time to file bugs, and triage them, and sort things out. The ops who keep things running, even when on a plane. Those who comment on proposals, finding problems, expressing support. Liaisons, developers, designers who take the time to reach out and talk to the people affected by what they do, and take the time to listen.
And also a thanks to everyone on this list for keeping things fairly sensible and productive and not turning it into a massive drama fest every tuesday.
On 05/12/15 08:25, Legoktm wrote:
Hi,
It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very busy year! :-)
I'll quote Sumana from last time:
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'll start off with thank yous to:
- Addshore, for his awesome work on CatWatch and help with recent
ExtensionDistributor improvements
- YuviPanda, for coming up with unique and useful tools for Wikimedians,
and then following through and building them
- S Page, for consistently nagging me and other developers to improve
documentation
-- Legoktm
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* JGirault, TheDJ, Milimetric, and Ferdbold for their hard work on graphs * MaxSem, Akosiaris, bblack and johannesk_wmde for the maps
Everyone - for helping )
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 2:38 AM, Isarra Yos zhorishna@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps a thanks to the people we don't think about, who we often never even work with. Volunteers and third-party developers who contribute to and maintain repositories not part of the big tickets. People who take the time to file bugs, and triage them, and sort things out. The ops who keep things running, even when on a plane. Those who comment on proposals, finding problems, expressing support. Liaisons, developers, designers who take the time to reach out and talk to the people affected by what they do, and take the time to listen.
And also a thanks to everyone on this list for keeping things fairly sensible and productive and not turning it into a massive drama fest every tuesday.
On 05/12/15 08:25, Legoktm wrote:
Hi,
It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very busy year! :-)
I'll quote Sumana from last time:
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'll start off with thank yous to:
- Addshore, for his awesome work on CatWatch and help with recent
ExtensionDistributor improvements
- YuviPanda, for coming up with unique and useful tools for Wikimedians,
and then following through and building them
- S Page, for consistently nagging me and other developers to improve
documentation
-- Legoktm
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I could name a lot of individuals. I'll name these in particular: Peaceray, Bluerasberry, Siko, Rory, and the now-departed Gayle and Philippe. I'm grateful for them.
Pine
On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very busy year! :-)
I'll quote Sumana from last time:
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'll start off with thank yous to:
- Addshore, for his awesome work on CatWatch and help with recent
ExtensionDistributor improvements
- YuviPanda, for coming up with unique and useful tools for Wikimedians,
and then following through and building them
- S Page, for consistently nagging me and other developers to improve
documentation
-- Legoktm
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I would like to thank Andre Klapper, Johan Jonsson, Matthew Flaschen and Brian Wolff for the warm welcome and collaboration to my first patch contribution. I'm really grateful for them.
Billm
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:35 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I could name a lot of individuals. I'll name these in particular: Peaceray, Bluerasberry, Siko, Rory, and the now-departed Gayle and Philippe. I'm grateful for them.
Pine
On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very busy year! :-)
I'll quote Sumana from last time:
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'll start off with thank yous to:
- Addshore, for his awesome work on CatWatch and help with recent
ExtensionDistributor improvements
- YuviPanda, for coming up with unique and useful tools for Wikimedians,
and then following through and building them
- S Page, for consistently nagging me and other developers to improve
documentation
-- Legoktm
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