Technical Advice IRC Meeting



Hello and welcome to the Technical Advice IRC Meeting - the weekly support meeting for volunteer developers on !

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

Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about MediaWiki, gadgets, tools and more! 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 good 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!



Next meeting on Wednesday, September 25 2019,
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 * Hosts/Mentors: @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup) @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))
 * Spoken languages: English, Persian, German


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September 18 2019,

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)) @mutante (User:Mutante)
 * Spoken languages: English, German
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September 11 2019,

 * Hosts/Mentors: @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup) @nuria (User:NRuiz (WMF))
 * Spoken languages: English, Persian, Spanish
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Wednesday, September 04 2019,
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 * Cancelled

August 28 2019,

 * Hosts/Mentors: @bd808 (User:BDavis (WMF))
 * Spoken languages: English
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August 21 2019, 3pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup) @duesen (User:DKinzler (WMF))
 * Spoken languages: English, German, Persian
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Wednesday, August 7 2019,

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)) @tgr (User:Tgr (WMF))
 * Spoken languages: English, German, Hungarian
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Wednesday, July 31 2019,

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Amir1 (User:Amir Sarabadani (WMDE)) @cscott (User:CAnanian (WMF))
 * Spoken languages: English, Persian
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July 17 2019, 3pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)) @cscott (User:CAnanian (WMF))
 * Spoken languages: English, German


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 * Want to visit your meeting in person. Question: 3D / html5 / WebGL in Wikipedia / Wikimedia - status, possibilities @MichaelRieseBerlin
 * Andreg-p: I need help for the Popups extension. I'm working on the phabricator ticket T208758 and want to enable popups for mathematical expressions. I can generate the information for the popup via a SpecialPage.php. However, it turns out that the popup extension seems to avoid showing special pages. So I wonder if there is a reason why special pages should not be shown via popups. I try to enable the extension to do so, but in the end, the Popups extension uses Extension:TextExtracts and this extension itself fails to extract the text from special pages. Now I'm lost. I think there is a reason for this behaviour? Andreg-p (talk) 07:47, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Andreg-p: I need help for the Popups extension. I'm working on the phabricator ticket T208758 and want to enable popups for mathematical expressions. I can generate the information for the popup via a SpecialPage.php. However, it turns out that the popup extension seems to avoid showing special pages. So I wonder if there is a reason why special pages should not be shown via popups. I try to enable the extension to do so, but in the end, the Popups extension uses Extension:TextExtracts and this extension itself fails to extract the text from special pages. Now I'm lost. I think there is a reason for this behaviour? Andreg-p (talk) 07:47, 3 July 2019 (UTC)


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July 10 2019, 3pm UTC
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July 03 2019, 3pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE)) @nuria (User:NRuiz (WMF))
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June 26, 2019, 3pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @chiborg (User:Gabriel Birke (WMDE)) @milimetric (User:Milimetric (WMF))
 * Spoken languages: English, German, Romanian
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preannounced topics

 * If I can get unbanned on IRC following an enwiki socking incident, I'd like to ask about using the oauth api to get user ID and username in python. If not, might try Wikipedia:WP:Discord RhinosF1 (talk) 17:14, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
 * You may find most of the answer to this question in wikitech:Help:Toolforge/My first Flask OAuth tool. --BDavis (WMF) (talk) 22:47, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

June 19, 2019, 3pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE)) @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup)
 * Spoken languages: English, German, Persian
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June 12 2019, 3pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)) @tarrow (User:T Arrow)
 * Spoken languages: English, German
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June 5, 2019, 3pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE)) @bd808 (User:BDavis (WMF))
 * Spoken languages: English, German
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May 29, 2019, 3pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @awight (User:Adamw) @tgr (User:Tgr (WMF))
 * Spoken languages: English, Hungarian
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May 22, 2019, 3pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @alaa_wmde (User:Alaa Sarhan (WMDE)) @nuria (User:NRuiz (WMF))
 * Spoken languages: English, Arabic, Spanish
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May 8, 2019, 3pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @tgr (User:Tgr (WMF)) @chiborg (User:Gabriel Birke (WMDE))
 * Spoken languages: English, German, Hungarian
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May 1, 2019, 3pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @James_F (User:Jdforrester (WMF)) @mooeypoo (User:MSchottlender-WMF)
 * Spoken languages: English, Hebrew
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April 24, 2019, 3pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE)) @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup)
 * Spoken languages: English, German
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April 17, 2019, 3pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @chiborg (User:Gabriel Birke (WMDE)) @milimetric (User:Milimetric (WMF))
 * Spoken languages: English, German, Romanian
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April 10, 2019, 3pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup) @subbu (User:SSastry (WMF))
 * Spoken languages: English, Persian, Hindi, Kannada
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April 3 2019, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE)) @zeljkof (User:ZFilipin (WMF))
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March 27 2019, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @milimetric (User:Milimetric (WMF)) @chiborg (User:Gabriel Birke (WMDE))
 * Spoken languages: English, German, Romanian
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March 20 2019, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @halfak (User:Halfak (WMF)) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
 * Spoken languages: English, German
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March 13 2019, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @nuria (User:NRuiz (WMF)) @Thiemo_WMDE (User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE))
 * Spoken languages: English, German, Spanish
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 * Preannounced topics:
 * RhinosF1 on IRC (not sure when I'll get on):
 * New porn age verification rules in UK.
 * I've asked WMF Legal for their stance
 * How to monitor pages and some permissions logs via IRC
 * RhinosF1 (talk) 21:28, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

March 6 2019, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @milimetric (User:Milimetric (WMF)) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph Jauera (WMDE))
 * Spoken languages: English, German, Romanian
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February 27 2019, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @bmansurov (User:Bmansurov (WMF)) @Thiemo_WMDE (User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE))
 * Spoken languages: English, Uzbek, Korean, German
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February 20 2019, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Tonina_WMDE (User:Tonina Zhelyazkova (WMDE)) @tgr (User:Tgr (WMF))
 * Spoken languages: English, Bulgarian, Hungarian
 * Preannounced topics:
 * Determining wiki identifiers in a wiki family environment. (wfWikiId vs $wgDBName, and what about setups that rely on table prefixes?) &mdash; Mainframe98 talk 19:40, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Additionally, if there's time left: setting  on OOUI buttons when using   for an external domain. It's recommended on Wikimedia Security Team/Security reviews/What we are looking for, but doesn't seem possible.


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February 13 2019, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @milimetric (User:Milimetric (WMF)) @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup)
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February 06 2019, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Thiemo_WMDE (User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE)) @CindyCicaleseWMF (User:CCicalese (WMF))
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January 30 2019, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup) @Thiemo_WMDE (User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE))
 * Spoken languages: English, Persian, German
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January 23 2019, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Thiemo_WMDE (User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE)) @nuria (User:NRuiz (WMF))
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January 16 2019, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE)) @addshore (User:Addshore)
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Logs of the Technical Advice IRC Meetings of the year 2018 are in the archive.