3 technical projects out of 7 Wikimedia Individual Engagement Grants. Good!
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] IEG 2013 Round 2
Grantees Announced
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 01:37:52 -0430
From: Harold Hidalgo <hahc21(a)gmail.com>
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Today were announcing the second round of Individual Engagement Grantees.
[1]
These grants from the Wikimedia Foundation support individuals and small
teams of Wikimedians to experiment with new ideas aimed at having online
impact on Wikimedia projects. Weve learned a lot from the first round of
IEG grantees over the past 6 months, and look forward to seeing what this
next group will accomplish.[2]
Seven projects have been recommended by the *Individual Engagement Grants
Committee*, a group of volunteers from across the Wikimedia movement who
reviewed a set of more than twenty proposals, and approved by the Wikimedia
Foundation for this round.[3][4] These selections represent a broad range
of projects focusing on activities from outreach to tool-building and are
all aimed at connecting and supporting our community.
Grantees are trying out new ways of engaging with women and young
Wikipedians, fostering participation in Africa, and supporting
cartographers, researchers and developers to better engage with projects
like Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, and Wikipedia.
The seven selected projects are:
*Wikimaps Atlas*
Led by Arun Ganesh and Hugo Lopez, funded at $12,500.[5] Hugo and Arun
will be building a system to automate the creation of maps in standardized
cartographic style using the latest open geographic data. With new
workflows and scripts, they aim to make it easier for Wikimedias
cartographers to generate and update maps for use in Commons, Wikipedia,
and beyond.
*Mbazzi Village writes Wikipedia*
Led by Paul Kikuba with collaboration from Dan Frendin, funded at
$2880.[6] This project is a collaboration between Mbazzi villagers,
Wikimedia
Sweden, and the Wikimedia Foundation to build a Wikipedia center in Uganda
where volunteers can to contribute to Luganda Wikipedia, particularly
focusing on articles related to sustainable development.
*What is about - C'est quoi. A series of communication tools about
Wikipedia in Cameroon*
Led by Marilyn Douala Bell and Iolanda Pensa with collaboration from Michael
Epacka, funded at 15,000.[7] The team in Douala, Cameroon will engage
local artists to create comics, video, and other materials to raise
awareness about Wikipedia and free knowledge.
*Visual editor gadgets compatibility*
Led by Eran Roz and Ravid Ziv, funded at $4500.[8] The team aims to map,
organize, and surface lists of gadgets used in different language versions
of Wikipedia to improve sharing of gadgets across language communities.
Theyll also be piloting and documenting an approach for adapting the
most-used gadgets for Visual Editor compatibility.
*Wikidata Toolkit*
Led by Markus Krötzsch with collaboration from students and
researchers at Dresden
University of Technology, funded at $30,000.[9] Markus team will develop a
demonstrator toolkit for loading, querying, and analysing data from
Wikidata. The project experiments with ways to give developers,
researchers, and Wikimedians easier access to use Wikidata in applications,
research, and other projects.
*Women Scientists Workshop Development*
Led by Emily Temple-Wood, funded at $9480.[10] Emily is piloting a model of
regular, incentivized editing workshops aimed at college-aged women to
encourage them to become regular contributors to Wikimedia projects and
combat systemic bias with quality content. If the approach is successful,
shell use lessons learned in order to develop a scalable kit for other
groups to use.
Finally, weve provisionally approved a seventh project:
*Generation Wikipedia*
Led by Emily Temple-Wood and Jake Orlowitz, funded at $20,000 - provided
that legal dependencies can be satisfied.[11] This project would pilot a
week-long summer conference for young Wikipedians and Wikimedians from
around the globe to connect, share skills and build leadership and
community capacity among our newest generation of editors.
The ten grantees from Cameroon, Uganda, India, Israel, France, Italy,
Germany and the United States will begin their projects in the new year;
most will run from January through June 2014. Theyll be regularly sharing
their progress, experience and lessons learned from their experiments
throughout this period, so please feel free to visit their respective pages
on Meta for project information and updates in the coming months.[4]
Thanks to everyone who boldly created a project idea or shared feedback and
suggestions in this round! The next round of IEG proposals opens on 1
March 2014. We look forward to seeing more of your ideas and engagement in
2014.[12][13]
Sincerely,
Harold A. Hidalgo
On behalf of the *Individual Engagement Grants Committee*.
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1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG
2. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/08/01/ieg-learnings-call-new-proposals/
3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee
4. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-engaging
5. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimaps_Atlas
6.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Mbazzi_Village_writes_Wikipedia
7.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/What_is_about_-_C%27est_quoi._A_…
8.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Visual_editor-_gadgets_compatibi…
9. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikidata_Toolkit
10.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_Scientists_Workshop_Develo…
11. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Generation_Wikipedia
12. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-applying
13. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Ideas
Hello,
For some nasty reason the Wikimedia Jenkins had to be restarted a few
minutes ago. It is currently busy reloading the configuration and
restarting, should be fully back up around 5:20pm UTC.
Meanwhile, jenkins-bot will whine in Gerrit that jobs have been LOST.
This is because it cant reach Jenkins to build the jobs and consider
they are not existent (ie lost).
Whenever Jenkins is back up, the jobs will have to be retriggered by
submitting a new patchset (for example fixing a typo in the commit
summaries of changes affected).
Sorry for the inconvenience.
--
Antoine "hashar" Musso
Yes! That's the idea. Identify what content is fundamental to put on the
homepage. Some people agreed that the contents of the homepage needs to be
directed to new users. And I wonder:
Which content will do new users love MediaWiki? Or what will arouse
interest in using and contribute immediately?
Regards,
Brena Monteiro
+55 27 98109 0123
@monteirobrena <http://twitter.com/monteirobrena>
Reflexões Brenianas <http://monteirobrena.wordpress.com>
Like Quim said, right now we are preparing the Design Document[1] and all
collaboration is welcome.
Best regards,
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Monteirobrena/OPW/Design_Document
Brena Monteiro
+55 27 98109 0123
@monteirobrena <http://twitter.com/monteirobrena>
Reflexões Brenianas <http://monteirobrena.wordpress.com>
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> 2. Re: Request for comments: Localisation format changes
> (Arthur Richards)
> 3. Re: FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be
> turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites (Quim Gil)
> 4. Re: FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be
> turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites
> (Amir E. Aharoni)
> 5. Bug Fixing: #21481 (Amanpreet Singh)
> 6. Re: MediaWiki Homepage Redesign (Quim Gil)
> 7. Re: OAuth currently broken on wikis with CirrusSearch
> (Nikolas Everett)
> 8. Announcement: Kunal Mehta joins Wikimedia as Features
> Contractor (Terry Chay)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 19:02:12 +0100
> From: Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=manuel.schneider@wik…>
> >
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=wikitech-l@lists.wik…>
> >
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Commons Video Uploads waiting (Bug
> #58155)
> Message-ID: <52A9FA24.1080508(a)wikimedia.ch<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=52A9FA24.1080508@wik…>
> >
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> Thanks a lot to Hashar and those who helped!
>
> I am very happy, I just added the videos to the program page of the
> conference and will send a mail to our community in a minute. They will
> be very happy as well!
>
> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCon_2013/Programm
>
> Regards,
>
>
> /Manuel
>
> Am 12.12.2013 18:36, schrieb Antoine Musso:
> > All files have been uploaded now! Please contact me if there is any
> > issue :-)
> >
> > Thanks to Ariel Glenn and Nemo bis for the useful commands.
> --
> Manuel Schneider - Chief Information Officer
> Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
> Lausanne, +41 (21) 340 66 22 - www.wikimedia.ch
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 11:04:56 -0700
> From: Arthur Richards <arichards(a)wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=arichards@wikimedia.…>
> >
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=wikitech-l@lists.wik…>
> >
> Cc: MediaWiki internationalisation
> <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=mediawiki-i18n@lists…>
> >
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for comments: Localisation format
> changes
> Message-ID:
> <
> CAG5YvhKbtUGgBBDvx4jabczh6x_GPY0AB9oPxvahe5PKHpprMg(a)mail.gmail.com<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=CAG5YvhKbtUGgBBDvx4j…>
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Cool!
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) <
> smazeland(a)wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=smazeland@wikimedia.…>>
> wrote:
>
> > We have also proposed to discuss this RfC in the upcoming RfC review
> > meeting of 2013-12-18[1]. As far as we know, no time has been set for
> this
> > meeting, yet.
> >
>
> The WMF Engineering calendar shows the RfC review meeting at 2-3pm PST on
> 2013-12-18.
>
> --
> Arthur Richards
> Software Engineer, Mobile
> [[User:Awjrichards]]
> IRC: awjr
> +1-415-839-6885 x6687
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:38:41 -0800
> From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=qgil@wikimedia.org>
> >
> To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=wikitech-l@lists.wik…>
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow
> gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites
> Message-ID: <52AA02B1.8080103(a)wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=52AA02B1.8080103@wik…>
> >
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> On 12/11/2013 11:21 AM, Chad wrote:
> > Sending wiki edits to Gerrit for review? Absolutely not.
> >
> > I'm totally cool with the idea of code review for Gadgets & so forth,
> just
> > not
> > using Gerrit. We considered it for Scribunto (and heck, I wrote half of a
> > proof
> > of concept) but shot it down because the idea totally sucked.
>
> I think I agree with your conclusion, but based on my assumptions. It
> would be useful to know why you think it sucked.
>
> Alright, not on Gerrit. Where?
>
> Even if projects enjoy their freedom to use and modify their gadgets, I
> don't think anybody particularly enjoys having to copy (and eventually
> localize) gadgets found in other projects. Definitely nobody enjoys
> having to fix or re-sync those gadgets years later, when something
> breaks and editors complain in the local village pump.
>
> The idea of global invocation and a central repository is being
> considered for templates [1]. Couldn't this be also an approach for
> gadgets? Still developed directly on top of MediaWiki, with or without
> mechanisms like flaggedrevs, but at least better coordinated and watched
> in a reference site. Then projects would be free to rely on those
> "upstream" gadgets directly, or to create their own forks, that could be
> still documented as such and be hosted in the central repository.
>
> Many times the copy of gadgets across projects involves localization of
> strings that are hardcoded, an extra obstacle for anybody willing to
> re-sync gadgets. Separation of code and strings for proper localization
> would be an addition that all non-English projects would welcome as
> well, allowing automatic resync of the code without translation blockers.
>
> In theory, mediawiki.org could be not only the central repository for
> extensions, but also for templates, gadgets, and bots. With a central
> catalog of software, quality assurance and user feedback could be better
> articulated. Wikimedia projects would benefit just as much as any
> MediaWiki instance out there, without stealing any freedom from them.
>
>
> [1] Bug 39610 - Scribunto should support global module invocations (
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39610
>
> --
> Quim Gil
> Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:46:18 +0200
> From: "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=amir.aharoni@mail.hu…>
> >
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=wikitech-l@lists.wik…>
> >
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow
> gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites
> Message-ID:
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> >
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> 2013/12/12 Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=qgil@wikimedia.org>
> >
>
> > On 12/11/2013 11:21 AM, Chad wrote:
> > > Sending wiki edits to Gerrit for review? Absolutely not.
> > >
> > > I'm totally cool with the idea of code review for Gadgets & so forth,
> > just
> > > not
> > > using Gerrit. We considered it for Scribunto (and heck, I wrote half
> of a
> > > proof
> > > of concept) but shot it down because the idea totally sucked.
> >
> > I think I agree with your conclusion, but based on my assumptions. It
> > would be useful to know why you think it sucked.
> >
> > Alright, not on Gerrit. Where?
> >
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gadgets_2.0 ?
>
> --
> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
> “We're living in pieces,
> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 00:40:24 +0530
> From: Amanpreet Singh <amanpreet.iitr2013(a)gmail.com<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=amanpreet.iitr2013@g…>
> >
> To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=wikitech-l@lists.wik…>
> Subject: [Wikitech-l] Bug Fixing: #21481
> Message-ID:
> <CAG1s+wpA6mhJn7DkhrG31h-5Y=mLdRjhNHC=
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> >
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> Hi, I am new to wikimedia,
>
> I want to start bug fixing for wikimedia so I have started from this
> annoying little bug
>
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21481
>
> Can somebody guide me from where to start and search for fixing this bug,
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 11:57:36 -0800
> From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=qgil@wikimedia.org>
> >
> To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=wikitech-l@lists.wik…>,
> Heather Walls
> <hwalls(a)wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=hwalls@wikimedia.org>
> >
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Homepage Redesign
> Message-ID: <52AA1530.1000106(a)wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=52AA1530.1000106@wik…>
> >
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> Hi Brena!
>
> We have already discussed in person (remotely) but here goes a public
> reply as well.
>
> On 12/02/2013 11:47 AM, Brena Monteiro wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I'm selected to participate of OPW and I will work at MediaWiki Homepage
> > Redesign project in which Quim and Heather are my mentors.
>
> Yes!
>
> To anybody interested: the goal is to have a proposal to replace the
> current mediawiki.org homepage by March 10 (end of Brena's OPW
> internship). Ideally this proposal will consist on a wiki page that can
> just be copied and pasted.
>
> The steps to get there are described at
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Monteirobrena/OPW#Deliverables
>
> Your feedback is welcome. We also want to identify reviewers willing to
> pay special attention to this project, contributing feedback and helping
> to reach decisions. If you are interested, please step in.
>
> > My first activity is identify the main problems at current homepage. I'm
> > watching the page: "Requests for comment/MediaWiki.org Main Page tweaks"
> > [1] and I would like to emphasise that all collaboration is welcome.
>
> After a chat yesterday between Brena, Heather and myself, we agreed that
> the next step is to agree on a design document.
>
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Project_Design_Review_Process#Design_Doc…
>
> We need to deal with one wiki page only (an important wiki page, but not
> as complex as the user interface of a full application), but still this
> document will be important to define what we want to do, and why.
>
> Then mockups. Then wiki implementation. Trying to sign off each phase
> reaching community consensus.
>
>
> For those willing to get involved now, at
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:Monteirobrena/OPW#Design_document
>
> I just created topics to discuss the renaming of
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Monteirobrena/OPW and set up its
> right scope...
>
> ... and also the actions to close officially
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/MediaWiki.org_Main_Page…
> after integrating the relevant details to the design document.
>
> Most of the communication will happen around those wiki pages. Brena
> will use this list for announcements and wider requests for feedback.
> You can also find us on #mediawiki IRC.
>
> --
> Quim Gil
> Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
>
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:08:40 -0500
> From: Nikolas Everett <neverett(a)wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=neverett@wikimedia.o…>
> >
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=wikitech-l@lists.wik…>
> >
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth currently broken on wikis with
> CirrusSearch
> Message-ID:
> <
> CAP+xBbXMANmT0FqfjAaSLkLZbUknLoEiqfOzFgUcHb0HZp7EqA(a)mail.gmail.com<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=CAP%2BxBbXMANmT0Fqfj…>
> >
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Nikolas Everett <neverett(a)wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=neverett@wikimedia.o…>
> >wrote:
>
> > Note that the wikis that say they were deployed on December 11th but do
> > not have a strike through them have Cirrus running, but their indexes are
> > still being built. I believe OAuth will be broken on those wikis as
> well.
> >
> > This requires two fixes to actually fix, both of which are in review
> state
> > pending approval, another test on beta, and eventual deployment. We
> should
> > have them out sometime in the next few hours.
> >
>
> I've just verified the fix in production. Please let me know if any of you
> are still seeing the error.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nik
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:08:18 -0800
> From: Terry Chay <tchay(a)wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=tchay@wikimedia.org>
> >
> To: "(All) WMF Staff" <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=wmfall@lists.wikimed…>>,
> Wikimedia
> developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=wikitech-l@lists.wik…>>,
> wmfsf
> <wmfsf(a)lists.wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=wmfsf@lists.wikimedi…>
> >
> Cc: kmehta(a)wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=kmehta@wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Kunal Mehta joins Wikimedia as
> Features Contractor
> Message-ID: <1E5E35BD-496E-4E92-80E2-9DE23111CA99(a)wikimedia.org<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=1E5E35BD-496E-4E92-8…>
> >
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Kunal Mehta[1] has
> joined the Wikimedia Foundation as contractor in Features Engineering.
>
> Before joining us (and currently), Kunal is a student in college,
> switching from computer science to business administration for reasons that
> I’m sure warrant more discussion.
>
> Kunal is currently a Wikipedia admin got involved working on the projects
> 8 years ago. He also helps writing and maintaining bots (legoktm <3’s
> pywikibot) and working on the nether regions of the volunteer developer
> community as part of the Volunteer Response Team, which he currently
> continues to do[2]. I met him at Wikimania through a Wikidata scholarship
> because apparently we were too cheap to spring for his ticket.
>
> Kunal will be working with the Core Features Team since MassMessage[3] and
> Echo[4] have overlapping concerns, and Flow[5] can use more development
> support now that it is out. When he isn’t doing that you’ll see him around
> adding this and that to core or the bots. :-)
>
> Kunal lives and goes to school in San Jose. Most importantly, he’s
> unlocked level 2 in Naan Sense on FourSquare[6]. From his username on the
> projects, I’d also bet he must like Lego Mindstorms[7].
>
> For the record, Kunal, I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
>
> As you have guessed from my usual tardiness and my drive to finish my
> announcements before the calendar year, his first official day was actually
> October 28th (Only two months ago? Not bad, not bad at all).
>
> Please join me in a belated welcome of Kunal Mehta to the Wikimedia
> Foundation.
>
> Take care,
> Terry
>
> [1]: [[User:legoktm]]
> [2]: https://github.com/legoktm
> [3]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MassMessage
> [4]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_(Notifications)
> [5]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow_Portal
>
> [6]: https://foursquare.com/legoktm/badge/51296de6e4b096ae4b48fb8e?ref=tw
> [7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms_NXT
>
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i make a gadget called hotkeyedit,which i add some hotkey in the wikitextbox,like control+1-6 make the title,ctrl+s switch the lish..ctrl+[ add a category,i think if i public it maybe some one others will like it,but i know how to publish extension,but how is gadget.
Regrades
Sen
From SLboat(http://see.sl088.com)
hi,i had a confuse,how can i pass a value to the js content script
for nowi,i use the way from msupload:
$wgOut->addScript("<script type='text/javascript'>var clipup_vars = $clipup_vars ;</script>\n");
it's work but sometimes it seems not work well,the js cant get the value clipup_vars.
it's any nature way to doing this?
Regrades
Sen
From SLboat(http://see.sl088.com)
Hello,
public mailing lists (even sometimes private ones) are target of
non-stop spamming. Some mailing lists decided to discard any mails
from non-members (that is not good, LGBT mailing has recently decided
this but admins were have to do it because of spams and they don't
want this) but some mailing list decided to use moderator (and that
causes another problem: I usually receive e-mails with this subject
because I'm a moderator in wikifa-l: "Wikifa-l post from xx(a)yy.com
requires approval" and the text of the e-mail is the text of that
e-mail which is obviously spam, so gmail usually consider this mail as
spam and after a while It consider wikifa-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org
as spammer and that's bad sometimes that become worse and gmail
consider the whole lists.wikimedia.org as spammer) and honestly I'm
frustrated of discarding spams
We really need to define a method to filter spams. specially a central
place to kill every e-mail that has been sent to more than three
mailing list or so many other methods. there are several methods [1]
Another thing: GNU mailman has introduced a spam-filtering system, but
I think we haven't updated to that version and our version is 2.1.13
which is released in 2009-12-22 [2] and last stable version of GNU
mailman has been released in 23-Nov-2013 [3]. Is there any reason for
not updating?
[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=spam+detecting+algorithm&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&…
[2]: https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1
[3]: https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/
Best
--
Amir