I liked the interview (link below) of Cindy Cicalese by Yaron Koren. I learned information about Enterprise MediaWiki and about government use of MediaWiki that was new to me. Also, given Cindy's extensive experience with MediaWiki, I'm glad that WMF hired her to be the product manager for MediaWiki Core.
What's making you happy this week?
Pine https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine
P.S. For those who are unfamiliar with the history of "What's making you happy this week?", I believe that the concept of these threads in the Wikimedia ecosystem started in the *Wikipedia Weekly* Facebook group, and the concept was copied from there to Wikimedia-l. I'm being bold by expanding the distribution of this thread to Wikitech-l, which I hope will be accepted by Wikitech-l subscribers since there are often mentions of technical developments in these threads. If someone feels strongly that these threads shouldn't be shared on Wikitech-l, they're welcome to email me (on list or off list) or comment on my talk page. I feel that technical contributors are welcome to comment in these threads about what is making them happy this week, and I hope that WIkitech-l subscribers will generally like the concept.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yaron Koren yaron@wikiworks.com Date: Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 7:51 AM Subject: [MediaWiki-l] New MediaWiki podcast: "Between the Brackets" To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list < mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone,
I decided to start a podcast in which I interview developers and users from the MediaWiki community - it's called "Between the Brackets". The first episode was just published today - it's an interview with Cindy Cicalese, who worked with MediaWiki for a long time at MITRE and is now the Product Manager for the MediaWiki Platform at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Here it is:
http://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/
I hope you like it!
-Yaron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CatherineMunro/Bright_Places
The new gerrit skin, which is kind of meh on desktop but responsive and thus actually useful on mobile. (And it's enabled with a cookie so I can use it on mobile devices and keep the old look on desktop.) Also the new non-Phabricator-based repo browser linked from it, which has a much more logical UI and it's crazy fast. Clearly a lot of love went into the upgrade, thanks Chad for working on it!
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 1:31 AM Gergo Tisza gtisza@wikimedia.org wrote:
The new gerrit skin, which is kind of meh on desktop but responsive and thus actually useful on mobile. (And it's enabled with a cookie so I can use it on mobile devices and keep the old look on desktop.) Also the new non-Phabricator-based repo browser linked from it, which has a much more logical UI and it's crazy fast. Clearly a lot of love went into the upgrade, thanks Chad for working on it!
Thanks for the kind words Gergo. Gerrit is a vital part of our day-to-day work around here, so making it useful to folks is always high on my todo list.
Fun fact! The reason it works so nicely on mobile is actually a self-serving desire by Gerrit devs to allow engineers to do code review while on their commute to Mountain View ;-)
-Chad
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