--James, La gloria è a dio04:55, 27 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Wow, can't believe i don't already have something on my talk page. Thanks for the welcome.Bawolff04:59, 27 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

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Hi,

I really love mode="packed-hover" for galleries. It looks really great and is much better than the ugly normal gallery look. I think this is the best one. Maybe a simple css animation by using -transition, to let it look a bit nicer? I don't know if it's possible, but I'd like it.Wolf Lambert (talk)18:58, 26 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

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Hi Brian—I noticed thatthis patch that you submitted to mediawiki/core was merged today. It looks quite interesting to me, so can you add it to theFuture software changes section in the current issue of Tech News? Also, can you point me to a place where I can see it in action? I tried the Beta cluster, but without any satisfactory results… Thanks,odder (talk)16:58, 3 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

Thanks a lot :-)odder (talk)10:44, 4 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

Look how cute. --Nemo11:46, 15 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

Aww. Collaborative discussion without anger and everything!Bawolff (talk)17:08, 15 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

The Wikimedia Foundation recently created a new feature, "superprotect" status. The purpose is to prevent pages from being edited by elected administrators -- but permitting WMF staff to edit them. It has been put to use in only one case: to protect the deployment of the Media Viewer software on German Wikipedia, in defiance of a clear decision of that community to disable the feature by default, unless users decide to enable it.

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I'm notifying you because you participated in one of several relevant discussions. -Pete F (talk)22:01, 20 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

Onmailarchive:wikitech-l/2014-October/078993.html: usually I spend deeper care reviewing and commenting proposals which are a) most dangerous, i.e. with some chance of being approvedbut bad; b) most interesting to comment and review. There is no need to spend time on proposals which are clearly not going anywhere. --Nemo07:58, 12 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Rephabricator:T49832#1362175, we now discover that WMF Legal was involved; no wonder then the process was unnecessarily secretive and actively harmful. Poor ops... Among other things, a public process would have helped WMF not forget about the official communication venue they told people to watch, i.e.HTTPS. --Nemo07:25, 13 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

Sometimes there are good news to spread!phabricator:T92604. --Nemo20:07, 3 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Woo! Finally.Bawolff (talk)20:30, 4 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Hi! Is the information provided onticket T172875 sufficient to install the newsfeeds?Livenws (talk)15:45, 20 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hiuser:LIVE NIEUWS. Yes, that should be sufficient. We have to wait until Jan 2, as no non-emergency site changes are allowed during winter holidays.Bawolff (talk)16:31, 20 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

Good to know! Thanks :)Livenws (talk)16:55, 20 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

Another question, I saw that WikinewsEN is shownon Google News. Is it possible to do that for WikinewsNL and maybe others also? Do I have to create a Phabricator ticket for this?Livenws (talk)20:37, 11 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

You need to get the language accepted into google news. I'm not exactly sure how that was accomplished last time. I thinkUser:Brian_McNeil might know more details.User:Jalexander-WMF may also know something about it. Once its accepted, you can either use a google news sitemap, or you can ensure that articles have numbers in their url (using the DynamicPageListgooglehack=true option which adds ?dpl_id=<number>, on the dynamic page lists on the main page).Bawolff (talk)03:17, 12 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for emergency management, including (but not limited to) shutting API backdoors in numerous Wikimedia accounts. Also, your attitude on IRC can be praised too, and hence thistransparent image is awarded to you in recognition of your merit.Incnis Mrsi (talk)16:00, 10 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

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The news:

TheTimeless grant has been selected for funding, and the project is now underway!

While I've had a somewhat slow start working on the project for health reasons, I'm pleased to announce that everything described in the proposal is now either happening, or on its way to happening.

Current progress:

• The project now has ahub on Meta to serve as a directory for the various related pages, workboards, and local discussions and help pages. It's probably incomplete, especially with regards to specific language projects that might have local pages for Timeless, so if you know of others, please add them!
• Outreach: I've been talking to various people and groups directly about skinning, desktop/mobile interfaces, project management, specific component support, and other things, and have begun to compile a very shoddylist of skinning problems and random issues on mw.org based on this. Some of this may inform the direction of this project, or possibly this project will result in building a more proper list that can then be used for other things. We shall see.
• Some development - task triage, code review, bug fixing, and various rabbit holes involving...overflows.

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Essentially, the grant as written shall be carried out. This was the plan, and remains the plan. Timelines remain fuzzy, but while there have been some initial delays, I don't particularly expect the timeline for project as a whole to change a whole lot.

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Thanks for your staff time, enjoy your wikibreak, and will equally enjoy seeing your old hat back whenever that it will be.  —billinghurstsDrewth07:47, 29 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

Congrats. Permission to shimmyand moonwalk granted.  —billinghurstsDrewth04:47, 14 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Hi.

As someone who commented about mygrant request (including the talk page) last year requesting funding to create theGlobalWatchlist extension, I thought you might want to know that I have requested another grant to continue development. You can see the new request atGrants:Project/DannyS712/Continued work on GlobalWatchlist extension - if you support this, I hope you'll consider endorsing the request.

My apologies if you were already aware of the new grant request (I sent a similar message to the subscribers ofUser:DannyS712/Global watchlist/Updates - sorry for any duplicates).

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk)00:43, 19 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

You know, you make a fair point. I am an ardent crypto critic but crypto donations could indeed weaken demand for crypto in a roundabout way by generating (minimal) sell pressure2804:18:1840:29A2:1:0:CC14:F00010:32, 12 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hello Bawolff,
As the developer ofmw:Extension:CommonsMetadata, could you take a look at this phabricator ticket :

• phab:T312554 — Sign language video recordings appear as audio on Commons

The recorded video end up appearing as audio on MediaWiki and we don't know why. We provided logs to inspect for clues where CommonsMetadata shows up.Depending on the scope of your extension, you may have the relevant expertise to point us some relevant avenues to explore.
If not, feel free to inform us of the contrary or to refer this ticket to more relevant developers.Yug (talk)17:19, 24 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

Created per your IRC request --DannyS712 (talk)23:18, 13 April 2024 (UTC)Reply