Technical Advice IRC Meeting



Hello and welcome to the weekly Technical Advice IRC Meeting!

The meeting takes place every Wednesday from 3 to 4 pm UTC on.

The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers, topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project.

We will try to help you as best as we can.

All questions are welcome! If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting, so that we can prepare the meeting or ask an expert for your issue to join if needed. Of course it is always possible to check in spontaneously!

This meeting is an initiative by WMDE’s software development department.

Next meeting on Wednesday, May 2nd 2018
Time: 3 pm UTC

Join the meeting:. If you are new to IRC, here are instructions for how it works.


 * Hosts/Mentors: @Tonina_WMDE (User:Tonina Zhelyazkova (WMDE)), @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))


 * Spoken languages:

English, German

Bencemac (talk) 14:20, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Add your topic and name:
 * T189376: AutoWikiBrowser-related problem, affects characters using acute accent.
 * T185423: community wish on huWiki, finding a volunteer would be great.

Apr 25th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE)) @chiborg (User:Gabriel Birke (WMDE))
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Apr 18th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE)) @jakob_WMDE (User:Jakob Warkotsch (WMDE))
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 * Preannounced Topics
 * qacct Sun Grid Engine utility takes a very long time to display results. I am guessing that the log file is quite large. Maybe the log file could be pruned to the last month. --Bamyers99 (talk) 18:41, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Part usability, part frustration prevention of (OOUI) HTMLForms. &mdash; Mainframe98 talk 17:58, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Apr 11th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @addshore (User:Addshore) @Pablo_WMDE (User:Pablo Grass (WMDE))
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Apr 4th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup) @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))
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Mar 28th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup) @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))
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Mar 21th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
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Mar 14th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup) @Pablo_WMDE (User:Pablo Grass (WMDE))
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Mar 7th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
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Feb 28th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
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Feb 21st, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @addshore (User:Addshore) @chiborg (User:Gabriel Birke (WMDE))
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Feb 14th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Thiemo_WMDE (User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE)) @Pablo_WMDE (User:Pablo Grass (WMDE))
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Feb 7th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @addshore (User:Addshore) @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))
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Jan 31st, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
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 * Preannounced Topics
 * Caching services and implementing SalvageableService, specifically in a multi-wiki environment. &mdash; Mainframe98 talk 11:07, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Jan 24th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup) @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))
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 * Preannounced Topics
 * 0. Do you mean January 24? 1. A question that I asked a few days ago but that found no answer: does someone know a good channel/other way to resolve an enourmous heap of failed logins to my bot account [GiftBot@dewiki]? i'd like to have a way to see if my scripts cause those echo messages or some attacker – Giftpflanze (talk) 13:07, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Jan 17th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
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Jan 10th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
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Jan 3rd, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
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December 13th, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @Thiemo_WMDE (User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE))
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December 6th, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@Thiemo_WMDE (User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE)) @Amir1 (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))
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November 29th, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@Thiemo_WMDE (User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE)) @Amir1 (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))
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November 22nd, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@Thiemo_WMDE (User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE)) @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))
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November 15st, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
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November 8st, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
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November 1st, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
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Oktober 25th, 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
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Oktober 18th, 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
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Oktober 11th, 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
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 * Preannounced Topics
 * Spell checking: Plans (or not) for MediaWiki/tool/gadget support and use/customization of LanguageTool resources in the Wikimedia projects, beyond VisualEditor: highlighting of errors in normal views and/or code editors - T89107 and related - Is it worth to keep on developing Q6052051? -jem- (talk) 16:51, 9 October 2017 (UTC) (IRC: jem)

Oktober 4th, 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @Andrew-WMDE
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September 27th, 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
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September 20th, 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @Tobi_WMDE_SW (User:Tobias Gritschacher (WMDE))
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 * Preannounced Topics
 * Saving data in a Scribunto data module through a Scribunto script execution. More details are given in [Wikitech-l Is it possible to edit scribunto data module content through template edit popup of visual editor?] --Psychoslave (talk) 23:27, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

September 13th, 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @Tobi_WMDE_SW (User:Tobias Gritschacher (WMDE))
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September 6th, 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @Tobi_WMDE_SW (User:Tobias Gritschacher (WMDE))
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August 30rd, 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph Jauera (WMDE) @addshore (User:Addshore)
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August 23rd, 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph Jauera (WMDE) @addshore (User:Addshore)
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 * Preannounced Topics
 * Generelle Fragen zum Einstieg in die Programmierung für eine Wikipedia/-versity Anwendung (wie z.B. Umfragen/Technische Wünsche 2017/Projekte ehrenamtlicher Entwickler) --Mr N (talk) 12:38, 23 August 2017 (UTC)