Technical Advice IRC Meeting

Technical Advice IRC Meetings will not continue in 2020
The Technical Advice IRC Meeting was a weekly support meeting for volunteer developers on. It took place every Wednesday from 4 to 5 pm UTC, with two full-time developers available to help you with your questions about MediaWiki, gadgets, tools and more.

The team at Wikimedia Deutschland has decided to stop having weekly Technical Advice IRC Meetings (TAIM) at #wikimedia-tech after the final meeting on December 18th. In other words, Technical Advice IRC Meetings will not continue in 2020. We realized that the regular IRC meeting format has achieved the limits of its reach, and it is time for us to think about other means to better support as many volunteer developers as possible contributing to Wikimedia software.

At WMDE we’ll be dedicating our efforts in 2020 to constantly improve documentation of our products, including Wikidata and Wikibase, to allow easier usage and contribution. Our engineering teams are also exploring new possibilities to support volunteer developers in a more asynchronous way than regular IRC meetings. If you have any suggestions for this, please let us know on our talk page.

We'd like to send the warmest thank you to all the people who hosted TAIM meetings, all participants asking and answering questions, and all supporters of TAIM over the years. Have a great seasonal break and see you around in 2020!



Next meeting on Wednesday, December 18 2019,
Join the meeting:. If you are new to IRC, here are instructions for how it works.
 * Hosts/Mentors: @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
 * Spoken languages: English, German


 * Add your topic and name:

December 11 2019,

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))
 * Spoken languages: English, German
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December 4 2019,

 * Hosts/Mentors: @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE)) @James_F (User:Jdforrester (WMF))
 * Spoken languages: English, German
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November 27 2019,

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)) @James_F (User:Jdforrester (WMF))
 * Spoken languages: English, German
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November 20 2019,

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 * Spoken languages: English
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November 13 2019,

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))
 * Spoken languages: English, German
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November 6 2019,

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October 30 2019,

 * Hosts/Mentors: @nuria (User:NRuiz (WMF))
 * Spoken languages: English, Spanish
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October 23 2019,

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))
 * Spoken languages: English, German
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October 16 2019,

 * Hosts/Mentors: @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup)
 * Spoken languages: English, Persian
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October 09 2019,

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)) @duesen (User:DKinzler (WMF))
 * Spoken languages: English, German
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October 02 2019,

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)) @James_F (User:Jdforrester (WMF))
 * Spoken languages: English, German
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September 25 2019,

 * 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


 * Add your topic and name:
 * 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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 * Hosts/Mentors: @amir1 (User:Ladsgroup) @ottomata (User:Ottomata)
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July 03 2019, 3pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE)) @nuria (User:NRuiz (WMF))
 * Spoken languages: English, German, Spanish
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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))
 * Spoken languages: English, German, Hrvatski
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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)
 * Spoken languages: English, Persian
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February 06 2019, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Thiemo_WMDE (User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE)) @CindyCicaleseWMF (User:CCicalese (WMF))
 * Spoken languages: English, German
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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))
 * Spoken languages: English, German
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January 16 2019, 4 pm UTC

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