Cross-post in case you don't follow wikitech-l closely.---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org>Date: Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 7:05 AMSubject: CREDIT showcase Wednesday 1-March-2017To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>Hi!I'd like to welcome you to join us at the CREDIT showcase next week,Wednesday, 1-March-2017 at 1900 UTC / 1100 Pacific Time. We'd like to seeyour demos, whether they're rough works in progress or polished productionmaterial, or even just a telling of something you've been studyingrecently. For more information on the upcoming event, as well as recordingsof previous events, please visit the following page:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcaseAnd if you'd like to share the news about the upcoming CREDIT showcase,here's some suggested verbiage. Thanks! -Adam*Hi <FNAME>**I hope all is well with you! I wanted to let you know about CREDIT, amonthly demo series that we’re running to showcase open source techprojects from Wikimedia’s Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery,Infrastructure and Technology teams. **CREDIT is open to the public, and we welcome questions and discussion. Thenext CREDIT will be held on March 1st at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 19:00 UTC. **There’s more info on MediaWiki<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase>, and on Etherpad<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT>, which is where we take notes andask questions. You can also ask questions on IRC in the Freenode chatroom#wikimedia-office (web-based access here<https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23wikimedia-office>). Links tovideo will become available at these locations shortly before the event.**Please feel free to pass this information along to any interested folks.Our projects tend to focus on areas that might be of interest to folksworking across the open source tech community: language detection,numerical sort, large data visualizations, maps, and all sorts of otherthings.**If you have any questions, please let me know! Thanks, and I hope to seeyou at CREDIT.**YOURNAME*
Hello,Almost two weeks ago, the Technical Collaboration team invited proposalsfor the first edition of the Developer Wishlist survey!We collected around 77 proposals that were marked as suitable for thedeveloper wishlist and met the defined scope and criteria<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Wishlist#Scope>. These proposalsfall into the following nine categories: Frontend, Backend, CodeContribution (Process, Guidelines), Extensions, Technical Debt, DeveloperEnvironment, Documentation, Tools (Phabricator, Gerrit) and CommunityEngagement.Voting phase starts now and will run until *February 14th, 23:59 UTC*. Clickhere on a category and show support for the proposals you care for most<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Wishlist>. Use the 'Vote' and'Endorse' buttons next to a proposal to do so.*What happens next?*Proposals that will gather most votes will be includedin the final results which will be published on *Wednesday, February 15th*.These proposals will also be considered in the Wikimedia Foundation’sannual plan FY 2017-18.Cheers,Srishti--Srishti SethiDeveloper AdvocateTechnical Collaboration teamWikimedia Foundationhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)
Hi there, the CREDIT showcase video from yesterday is available on YouTubeand Commons. Also, another call for your responses on our short CREDITsurvey.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxjSQ0TGXswhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CREDIT_-_January_2017.webmTopics: responsive CSS on desktop, randomizing your locale during Wikipediafor Android development, on-wiki translatable training modules, and offlineZIM file integration for the Wikipedia for Android appAfter you've finished watching, I encourage you to take our CREDIT survey.We'd appreciate your feedback. Here is a link to the survey (which ishosted on a third-party service), and, for information about privacy anddata handling, the survey privacy statement.https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedAtyPfcEhT6OVd26Y-3v_jm3yM3ShvMqgAWBUPxb24u_Y9g/viewformhttps://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/CREDIT_Feedback_Survey_Privacy_Statement.This email is being sent to several mailing lists in order to reachmultiple audiences. As always, please follow the list link at the verybottom of this email in case you want to manage your list subscriptionoptions such as digest, unsubscribe, and so on.Thanks to everyone for their demos and support of CREDIT!-Adam
Cross post.Hi everybody!As a reminder the CREDIT Showcase is next week on Wednesday,1-February-2017 (seehttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase fordetails). Also, as I mentioned previously we're conducting a survey aboutCREDIT. We'd appreciate your feedback! Here is a link to the survey (whichis hosted on a third-party service), and, for information about privacy anddata handling, the survey privacy statement.https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedAtyPfcEhT6OVd26…https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/CREDIT_Feedback_Survey_Privacy_Stateme….This email is being sent to several mailing lists in order to reachmultiple audiences. As always, please follow the list link at the verybottom of this email in case you want to manage your list subscriptionoptions such as digest, unsubscribe, and so on.And, as usual, if you'd like to share the news about the upcoming CREDIT,here's some suggested verbiage.*Hi <FNAME>**I hope all is well with you! I wanted to let you know about CREDIT, amonthly demo series that we’re running to showcase open source techprojects from Wikimedia’s Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery,Infrastructure and Technology teams. **CREDIT is open to the public, and we welcome questions and discussion. Thenext CREDIT will be held on February 1st at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 19:00 UTC. **There’s more info on MediaWiki<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase>, and on Etherpad<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT>, which is where we take notes andask questions. You can also ask questions on IRC in the Freenode chatroom#wikimedia-office (web-based access here<https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23wikimedia-office>). Links tovideo will become available at these locations shortly before the event.**Please feel free to pass this information along to any interested folks.Our projects tend to focus on areas that might be of interest to folksworking across the open source tech community: language detection,numerical sort, large data visualizations, maps, and all sorts of otherthings.**If you have any questions, please let me know! Thanks, and I hope to seeyou at CREDIT.**YOURNAME*Thanks!Adam BasoDirector of Engineering, ReadingWikimedia Foundationabaso(a)wikimedia.org