User talk:Tgr/Archives/2018

Getting started on Phabricator

Greetings, ambassador!

As recently discussed within this group, we are ready to experiment with setting up a project and its related workboard on Phabricator, the platform used in the Wikimedia movement for project management, software bug reporting and feature requests. It will help us coordinate and cooperate better on projects that should require ambassadors' involvement.

For the time being, I'm just asking that you please add your Phabricator nickname next to your name in the ambassadors' table (you can create an account now if you don't have one already). I will send you further information soon! Thanks for your patience as we get to the operational stage of this effort :) Best, --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 14:59, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Commond deletion bot requirements

I'm contacting you because you supported the Commons Deletion Bot proposal in the 2017 Community Wishlist. The Wishlist team has finalized the draft specifications for how the bot will work, and are seeking review in confirming or discussing the plans for the bot. If you have some time, please take a look and leave a comment. Thanks, happy editing to you. - Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:06, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Timeless Newsletter • Issue 1

Newsletter • July 2018

Welcome to the first issue of the Timeless newsletter! This issue is being sent or forwarded to everyone who has at some point expressed an interest in the project, give or take, as well as a couple of other potentially relevant pages, so if you would like to continue (or start) receiving this newsletter directly, please sign up for further updates on the meta page.

The news:

The Timeless 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 a hub 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 shoddy list 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.

General plan for the future:

• Triage the rest of the workboard.
• Catch up with all the talkpages and other bug reports that have been left various other places that are not the project workboard
• Do all the bug fixes/features/other things!
• Some proposals aimed at Commons and Wikisource in particular (maybe, we'll see)

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.

Also, for anyone at Wikimania right now: I am also at Wikimania. Come talk to me in person!

Thank you all for your interest and support thus far!

-— Isarra ༆ 12:23, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

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Consultation on interface administrator group

If you can, can you please reply to my email in wikitech-ambassadors in any sort of meaningful way? I also would like to mention post factum that some people interpret the list of ‘affected user groups’ on Phabricator as a sign that it requires all groups to have the same relation in terms of transition period, when one group was elected with knowledge of JS/CSS in mind and the other was not, and I urgently need a comment from you as an organiser on these. stjn^[ru] 13:02, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Hey @Saint Johann:, I've seen your mail but wanted to look at the ruwiki discission before replying. I'm traveling home from Wikimania so might not happen today. Can you clarify what "have the same relation in terms of transition period" means? --Tgr (talk) 13:50, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

• Alright, just wanted to clarify that you’ve seen it at all. What I tried to convey is that people read the list of affected groups and try to extrapolate from it that, in your opinion / opinion of developers, no one has a ‘trust as high as admins’ anymore (most disagreement comes from this particular wording being interpreted as it fits someone), and everyone, even the people that edited JS/CSS before the most, must go under a vote because, basically, it’s ‘what developers telling us’. stjn^[ru] 15:45, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Interface admins group

Dear Tgr, I have a question regarding the new permissions group of interface admins. In order to become an interface admin, does someone also have to be an administrator first? I do not like to block people, I am a developer and I am highly interested in creating gadgets. After several hundrends of hours of training, coaching and mentoring people to contribute in Wikipedia, I am creating tools out of my experience that help people contribute easily, like this one, and I am now preparing the next step beyond template code. Do I have to be an administrator to become an interface admin and develop and deploy gadgets? Best regards,   ManosHacker ^talk 20:18, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

@ManosHacker: that's up to the editors of your wiki to decide. There is no technical need for it; both require a high level of trust but a slightly different kind. (See also the email thread mentioned in the previous section.) --Tgr (talk) 17:49, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Commons deletion notification bot

Greetings,

You are receiving this message because you supported the Commons deletion notification bot in the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey.

Commons deletion notification bot is ready to be deployed to any Wikimedia wiki that wishes to use it. If your community is interested in the bot, you can leave a request on the project page on meta-wiki. The bot messages are available for translation on translatewiki.net, as part of preparing the bot for release.

Thank you for your participation in the Wishlist. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 17:29, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

SVG Translate Community wishlist survey project

Hello! Thank you for voting for the SVG Translate project that was proposed in the 2017 Wishlist survey. The Community Tech team in the Wikimedia Foundation is beginning to start their work on the project. We're currently looking for feedback on some open questions which will allow us to come up with preliminary designs for the tool. If you are interested in being involved, you can watch the project page and join in the discussions on the talk page. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and learning from your experiences. Thank you. -- NKohli (WMF), Product Manager, Community Tech (talk) 21:53, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Interface-admin migration term

Dear Gergo!

Could you please hint me where I can find the exact date, when Interface-admin rights will be removed from admins and engineers/template editors, particularly in Russian Wikipedia. I'm an arbitrator, who analyzes a respective case in Russian Wikipedia, so it would be handy to know the exact time, to know how much time we have to elaborate a preliminary ruling. Thank you! Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) 09:04, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

@Drbug: Today between 11:00 and 12:00 UTC (30–90 minutes from now). —Tacsipacsi (talk) 10:32, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

@Drbug: sorry, I didn't see this before. They have just been removed (the time was mentioned in Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS). --Tgr (talk) 11:20, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, colleagues! We thought so, but then there were some rumors that the deployment might be postponed, so that's why I asked. Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) 09:02, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

The Community Wishlist Survey

Hi,

You get this message because you’ve previously participated in the Community Wishlist Survey. I just wanted to let you know that this year’s survey is now open for proposals. You can suggest technical changes until 11 November: Community Wishlist Survey 2019.

You can vote from November 16 to November 30. To keep the number of messages at a reasonable level, I won’t send out a separate reminder to you about that. /Johan (WMF) 11:24, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Mistake

Sorry for accidentally rollback your support vote. Apologies.--Cohaf (talk) 05:10, 26 November 2018 (UTC)