I know it has been annoying a couple of people other than me, so now that I've learned how to make it work I'll share the knowledge here.
tl;dr: Star the repositories. No, seriously. (And yes, you need to star each extension repo separately.)
(Is there a place on mw.org to put this tidbit on?)
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From: "Brian Levine" <support(a)github.com> (GitHub Staff)
To: matma.rex(a)gmail.com
Cc:
Subject: Re: Commits in mirrored repositories not showing up on my profile
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:47:19 +0200
Hi Bartosz
In order to link your commits to your GitHub account, you need to have some association with the repository other than authoring the commit. Usually, having push access gives you that connection. In this case, you don't have push permission, so we don't link you to the commit.
The easy solution here is for you to star the repository. If you star it - along with the other repositories that are giving you this problem - we'll see that you're connected to the repository and you'll get contribution credit for those commits.
Cheers
Brian
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Matma Rex
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:36 PM, David Strine <dstrine(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> We will be holding this brownbag in 25 minutes. The Bluejeans link has
> changed:
>
> https://bluejeans.com/396234560
I'm not familiar with bluejeans and maybe have missed a transition
because I wasn't paying enough attention. is this some kind of
experiment? have all meetings transitioned to this service?
anyway, my immediate question at the moment is how do you join without
sharing your microphone and camera?
am I correct thinking that this is an entirely proprietary stack
that's neither gratis nor libre and has no on-premise (not cloud)
hosting option? are we paying for this?
-Jeremy
Phabricator users,
this is to let you know that the "aphlict" service has been disabled on
Phabricator (for now) because it caused stability issues.
This means you will not get realtime (pop-up) notifications on Phabricator.
(If you had those enabled in the first place).
Regular notifications (that do not pop-up) and emails are not affected by
this.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238593
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Daniel Zahn <dzahn(a)wikimedia.org>
Operations Engineer
A few days ago, Google Code-in 2019 ended.
194 students completed 715 Wikimedia tasks.[1]
Big thanks and congratulations to everybody!
Read about their GCI experience with Wikimedia in their blog posts:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2019#Wrap-up_blog_posts
Thanks to our 43 mentors for being available, also on weekends &
holidays. Thanks to everyone on IRC, Gerrit, Phabricator, mailing
lists, Github, etc. for your friendliness, patience, support and help.
Thanks to Wikimedia org admins for making this run really smoothly.
And thanks to Google for organizing this opportunity for young people
to learn about and contribute to free software and free knowledge.
Google will announce Grand Prize winners and finalists on February 10.
We also welcome everybody's feedback what Wikimedia could improve:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Lessons_learned#2019
Sharing some of the students' achievements, to give you an impression:
* WMCZ's Tracker software received 40 fixes and improvements
* 37 fixes and improvements to the WatchTranslations tool
* 24 fixes and improvements to the VideoCutTool tool
* 12 fixes and improvements to the WikiContrib tool
* Tasks to learn programming in Lua were completed 218 times (such as:
Introduction to Lua in Wikipedia, Working with modules, Calculations
and tests, Loops and tables, Lua libraries, MediaWiki libraries,
Wikibase client, Name formats, Date formats, Using Wikidata)
* 13 extensions got extension.json converted to manifest_version 2
* 8 extensions got jshint and jscs replaced with eslint
* 5 extensions got jsonlint replaced with eslint
* Blockly, Huggle, Phabricator, video2commons, and Wiki Ed Dashboard
got migrated to the new Translate validator framework
* Flask-JSONLocale received three bug fixes
* Watchlist notifications can be delivered as web notifications
through Echo (but not enabled yet on Wikimedia sites)
* Kiwix Android App has a button to search for a new article
* Quarry has a button to toggle syntax highlighting
* Wikilink tool has a namespace filter and can filter bot edits
* Commons Android App has screenshots in 14 more languages, the
username can be clicked in the navigation drawer, an improved share
message, and videos for best media upload practices were created
* Commons Mass Description tool: /users does not throw a fatal error
* EasyTimeline has a system message to track category description
* MediaWiki Core's UploadFromUrl::isAllowedHost has tests
* Google Drive to Commons tool allows removing files after selection
before uploading, and has a redesigned 'upload complete' screen
* Hashtags tool allows charts to be downloaded as images
* MobileFrontend extension allows turning on the lead paragraph in
other namespaces and the nav menu drawer received a CSS shadow
* DynamicPageList extension uses page images as the image in gallery
mode for pages which are not in the File namespace
* MassMailer tool has improved internationalization, its alerts are
dismissable, and is integrated with Translatewiki.net
* Map of Monuments tool can filter by country and language
* Wiki Education Dashboard Android App has better screenshots and a
placeholder for empty screens
* WikiEduDashboard has a git pull hook to update gems and packages,
and its ArticleViewer adds appropriate styling for Wikidata
* Music on Wikimedia pages was transcribed to LilyPond 9 times
* 4 templates on English Wikipedia received Documentation
* A web app to showcase a variety of tools hosted on Wikimedia
Toolforge was created
* meta:Research_on_open_source_team_communication_tools was expanded
* Hackathons of other FOSS orgs were researched, to improve ours
* 14 text files in MediaWiki core's /doc got converted to Markdown
* Logos designed for VideoCutTool tool, the MediaWiki FormWizard
Extension, the Friends of the Docs working group, and the Google
Drive to Wikimedia Commons Uploader tool
* Designs for "Personal Space Needed" and "Wikimedia Friends of the
Docs" stickers created
* HD logos were added for several Wikimedia project websites
Thanks for helping making free knowledge available to everybody. <3
On behalf of the org admins,
andre
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Statistics
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Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate
https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
On behalf of Open Labs Albania <https://openlabs.cc/en/> and the Wikimedia
Foundation Community Events Team we are pleased to announce that registration
for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2020
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2020/Register> is now
open for both scholarships and regular attendees!
The hackathon will be held at OFIÇINA <http://www.oficina.al/> in Tirana,
Albania between 9-11 May 2020 (please note that this is a Saturday through
Monday instead of the usual Friday - Sunday). Additionally, we encourage
attendees to stay in Tirana and attend the 7th annual Open Source
Conference Albania (OSCAL) <https://oscal.openlabs.cc/> which will be in
the same venue on May 16th and 17th, and will have a Wikimedia Track and
mission aligned organizations participating.
We have identified two focus areas
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2020#Hackathon_Focus_Are…>
for the event which we will continue to refine and clarify over the next
months. As usual, we welcome participants who plan to work on or learn
about any project that they like related to any area of Wikimedia
Technology.
If you have any questions or comments please contact:
wiki-hackathon(a)openlabs.cc Otherwise, please continue to follow our program
and organizational developments on Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 on Mediawiki
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2020>.
Please help us by forwarding this email to relevant lists and looking
forward to see you in Tirana!
--
Rachel Farrand
Senior Program Manager
Events Team
Wikimedia Foundation
As research for a potential presentation topic at EMWCon 2020 [0], I'm
polling the community.
What algorithms do you program into your wikis? I'm curious to learn about
technical methods, policies, and criteria for measuring "success". I'm
interested in this concept because of how algorithms are used in social
media tools and many have been called out for being "bad". So I wonder if
wikis are any better. And don't just limit the analogy to social media.
There's things like Amazon's suggested purchases or the stack exchange
voting system selecting a "correct" answer by election. For example, the
extension Watch Analytics recommends which pages need review based on how
many people have reviewed each changed page. I think there are
voting/rating systems for wikis. I wonder how those influence decisions. At
one time I was working on an extension that built on the idea of
contribution score, but I feared it would incentivize the "wrong"
behavior.
I'm looking for how algorithms influence content presented to users, but
also if algorithms are used to make decisions.
Here are some other examples of what I would consider algorithms in wikis:
- Human driven voting systems like stack overflow
- Category and Property driven - Using Wikibase, Cargo, or SMW to
determine a priority or to identify a missing value
- Machine-learning - Antivandalism/spam tools
- Suggestions for which wiki pages to watch based on links between wiki
pages
- Suggestions for which wiki pages to review based on watchlists and how
many people have seen the page since it was last edited
- Suggestions for which users to collaborate with based on pages each
person has edited
- Contribution scores drive users to make more edits and to edit more
pages. Is this what we really want?
- Other?
Of the algorithms you use in your wikis, how do you measure success? What
does it mean to say that your algorithm is "working" or "succeeding"?
How do you know your algorithm is not inducing bias in a bad way?
If you'd like to share any info on how you use algorithms and how you
measure success in using them, please reply directly to me (unless you want
to share with the list). I'd appreciate screenshots and other ways to help
me understand how your algorithm works and is used, so I can properly
represent it in my presentation. I hope to get enough responses to showcase
the flexibility of MediaWiki in how it can be used to drive decisions based
on knowledge.
Daren
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2020
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