Technical Advice IRC Meeting



Hello and welcome to the weekly Technical Advice IRC Meeting!

The meeting takes place every Wednesday from 4 to 5 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, February 21st 2018
Time: 4 pm UTC

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


 * Hosts/Mentors: TBD


 * Spoken languages:

English, German


 * Add your topic and name:

Feb 14th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @Thiemo_WMDE (User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE)) @Pablo_WMDE (User:Pablo Grass (WMDE))
 * Log: Full day log

Feb 7th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @addshore (User:Addshore) @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))
 * Log: Full day log

Jan 31st, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
 * Log: Full day log
 * 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))
 * Log: Full day log
 * 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))
 * Log: Full day log

Jan 10th, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
 * Log: Full day log

Jan 3rd, 2018

 * Hosts/Mentors: @addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
 * Log: Full day log

December 13th, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @Thiemo_WMDE (User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE))
 * Log: Full day log

December 6th, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@Thiemo_WMDE (User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE)) @Amir1 (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))
 * Log: Full day log

November 29th, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@Thiemo_WMDE (User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE)) @Amir1 (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))
 * Log: Full day log

November 22nd, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@Thiemo_WMDE (User:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE)) @Lucas_WMDE (User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE))
 * Log: Full day log

November 15st, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
 * Log: Full day log

November 8st, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
 * Log: Full day log

November 1st, 4 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
 * Log: Full day log

Oktober 25th, 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
 * Log: Full day log

Oktober 18th, 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
 * Log: Full day log

Oktober 11th, 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
 * Log: Full day log
 * 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
 * Log: Full day log

September 27th, 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph_Jauera_(WMDE))
 * Log: Full day log

September 20th, 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @Tobi_WMDE_SW (User:Tobias Gritschacher (WMDE))
 * Log: Full day log
 * 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))
 * Log: Full day log

September 6th, 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@addshore (User:Addshore) @Tobi_WMDE_SW (User:Tobias Gritschacher (WMDE))
 * Log: Full day log

August 30rd, 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph Jauera (WMDE) @addshore (User:Addshore)
 * Log: Full day log

August 23rd, 3 pm UTC

 * Hosts/Mentors:@CFisch_WMDE (User:Christoph Jauera (WMDE) @addshore (User:Addshore)
 * Log: Full day log
 * 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)