User talk:Sumanah

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thank you, Sumana for caring for people who care about MediaWiki! Sergey Chernyshev 07:34, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you for your great works in keeping the world a better place.

Anuandraj (talk) 18:17, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The MediaWiki Barnstar
	Hello This is for you, you have been doing a lot for MediaWiki Developments. And for coordinating Berlin Hackathon 2012. Cheers :-) ansuman (talk) 12:40, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

You're awesome. I was just reflecting on wikimania and thought of you. I hope you remember me(this is Lucian). In case you're wondering I'm working on wikipedia timeline visualizer that I'm planning to bring to the hackathon in January.

TheKaramanukian (talk) 05:04, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Happy kitty

Blobaugh (talk) 19:14, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

GSoC 2011

Hi Sumana, thank you for your private message on IRC. It was really helpful. :-) I assume that I should register as a mentor once the projects have been selected and assuming that my student's project is selected, right? Again, thanks for your help! Jack Phoenix _(Contact) 14:31, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Jack:

Who's the student whose proposal you're advocating?

best,

Sumana Sumanah 19:31, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Jack:

Who's the student whose proposal you're advocating?

best,

Sumana Sumanah 19:32, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

User:Zhenya; his proposal is to enhance Extension:SocialProfile by writing a new feature, UserStatus, that would allow users to provide Twitter/Facebook-like short status updates on their social profiles. Jack Phoenix _(Contact) 19:43, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Please sign up as a mentor via the formal system this week, so that you can look at the proposals and give students suggestions for improvement before the Friday deadline!

1) Go to http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/wikimedia

2) Under the photo of happy smiling people, click "Or register as a mentor".

3) You'll need a Google account to sign in (sorry). Sign in with that.

4) Fill out the form, which Brandon Harris calls the WORST form EVER. Sorry. Choose a "Link ID" (basically a username that you can't change later).

After you submit that, I'll see it and approve you as a mentor. And then you'll be able to comment, privately or publicly, on students' proposals, and I'll let you know when it's time to start evaluating them. Sumanah 21:14, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

OK, did that; my link ID is ashley_mw and as the Google account I used my jack@countervandalism.net e-mail address. Jack Phoenix _(Contact) 23:34, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Hackathon?

How come you contacted me?

Cheers, Dmb 20:48, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Dmb,

I contacted you about the developers' days/hackathon because my searches showed that you're a MediaWiki power user and that you might be interested in participating, and because I suspect you of being in North America (I could be wrong). It's going to be a few days of talking about and improving MediaWiki, and if you'd like to influence things, it would be great if you came! Of course there's no obligation or anything like that, but I bet it'll be fun.

Thanks,

Sumanah 21:35, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

IRC

Hi! I just wanted to let you know that we have created an IRC channel for women and Wikipedia: called Wikimedia-gendergap - I hope you'll join us. (And if you need any IRC help, just let me know!) See you there! SarahStierch 21:48, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Nola Hackathon Sunday notes

Hi Sumana, Just reading your notes about the New Orleans Hackathon. The link http://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/ under NOLA Hackathon/Sunday#Chad.27s test training doesn't seem to work. Thought I let you know and thanks for the notes ;-) Juttavd 22:31, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification, Juttavd, and I'm glad you're finding the notes useful!  :-) Fixed the link: http://integration.mediawiki.org/ci/ . Sumanah 05:15, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Creative Commons Wiki upgrade

Thanks for the offer of help! I haven't done anything with the CC Wiki for a while, and I'm merely a spam-fighter there, not actually a server admin -- who else have you contacted? I might be able to give you some suggested names. JesseW 22:00, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

I haven't contacted anyone else, and welcome names! Sumanah 22:11, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

JavaScript code review * invitation by Sumana

Thank you for your kind offer.

In 2011, I'm rather involved in projects of both real life and Wikis.

Recovering from New Year's Eve party in 2012 I do volunteer to pay attention to Special:Code/MediaWiki and I already read the Code review guide.

In my experience somebody on code review does something like a formal approval of his colleagues work; is there any membership or formal registration to do?

Greetings, PerfektesChaos 17:21, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

PerfektesChaos, thanks for your offer! I hope you are enjoying the code review guide, which has recently been rewritten.

As long as you have a mediawiki.org login, you can do nonbinding code review. Since you do not yet have the formal status of code reviewer, you would provide comments and feedback along with the "inspected" and "tested" checkboxes and use the "signoff" button. If you do that for a little while and then ask for coder & code reviewer status, you'll then be given the privilege of being able to change a revision's status from "new" to "ok," "FIXME", "deferred" and so on.

I hope that helps, and I hope you'll be interested in helping review some of our JavaScript code! Thank you! Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator 02:08, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Also, PerfektesChaos, you can now get Developer access and review code in our Git code repository -- I invite you to check out Git/Workflow and start helping out by reviewing code! Thanks! Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 12:22, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Resources for non-WMF extension developers?

I've noticed there is a wealth of resources and support for core developers and for extensions being submitted for deployment on WMF wikis, but not as much for folks running independent wikis or developing extensions for non-WMF wikis. I was curious if that was a common perception, if there are resources I may be missing, if there are any plans in the works I could assist with or help motivate along.  :) For example, it would be great if there was a similar review process for extensions not seeking deployment on WMF wikis, some sort of system for folks with commit access to maybe access test installations of the most recent versions of MW to provide more accurate compatibility information, more resources specific to the diversity of installations developers may face, etc. Just a thought - thanks! Varnent 05:10, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you Sumanah!

A local wiki methinks appropriate for the teachers work. It seems very useful for students' writing reports, contributions, and even projects. The wikipedia is simply too big. But, the job of installing the local wiki wasn't as easy as it looks like.

I already have installed Manual:Math on my pages (see Math Theory of Information in Serbian), with many difficulties. Now, I'm working with the other Extensions (is it something's wrong with Extension:JsMath?), and again with many difficulties. Sorry, for not being in form for this job.

Have you some simple instruction for installing the Wiki Extensions?

Best regards,

Elemenat 15:33, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Elemenat, thank you for writing to me.

I see that the JsMath extension is in beta, so yes, probably some things are wrong with it. It isn't ready for a polished release yet.

I suggest you look at Extensions#Installing_an_extension for help. If that does not help, try writing for help to the MediaWiki help email list at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator 02:04, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

IRC chat

had a good chat with you on irc , thanks for all information i would try and understand all the link's you gave . would contact you soon if not gsoc i would be really interested if you could give me a project that would help me prepare for GSOC for the next year Thanks Hammadhaleem 18:48, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

We have new instructions on our Summer of Code wiki page so please follow those suggestions! Best of luck. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator 20:42, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the links

Thank you for the information you posted on my talk page. I look forward to reviewing it and seeing what else I can do. In particular, it's already helped me find the information about ResourceLoader's debug option. Superm401 - Talk 22:19, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Glad it was useful! :-) Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 22:20, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

MediaWIki flyers

Hi Sumana, I made the flyers into letter-size PDFs for Pete, thought they might be handy for you:

heather walls (talk) 09:05, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Re: Berlin Hackathon 2012

Many thanks for the invitation to the Berlin Hackathon 2012, Sumana!
Berlin is not far away from me and a friend of mine lives there. My schedule is very busy, but I hope to see you in Berlin this summer.
All the very best. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 16:47, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Great! Glad to hear it. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 17:00, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for reminding. Done!  « Saper // talk »  22:58, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for inviting me as well. Sadly Berlin is too far away and I'm currently busy with my study. I would like to come, but maybe in the future hackathon. Again, thank you very much! --Kurniasan (talk) 20:29, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Please keep an eye on our upcoming events: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_developer_meetings . Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) 13:58, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

RE: Invitation to the Berlin hackathon

Thank you very much for your kind invitation! Unfortunately, I think the logistics would be infeasible for me to attend, from me not being able to afford the cost of travel to me possibly being on-call that weekend, etc. I hope to be in a place soon where I can accept invitations such as this and become a greater participant in the Wikimedia development community (and brush up on my German!).

Cheers! Madman (talk) 13:20, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind note! And I hope to see you around on IRC sometime (#mediawiki).

Best,

Sumana Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 05:04, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Invitation

Hi, Sumanah. Thanks for inviting me! Though I would love to go and I am an user of gadgets, scripts, (...), I am not a maker of any of these stuff. I'm sure that there are other users with a lot more technical knowledge than me. Thanks anyway. ‴ T_eleS (T _{M @ C S}) 04:46, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Teles -- thanks for your reply. If you want to learn how to write gadgets, hack MediaWiki, or do other stuff with Wikimedia technology, we're always happy to help you, online (in #mediawiki on Freenode IRC) or in one of our offline events. And please spread the word about the Berlin hackathon to your more technical friends. Thanks! Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 13:54, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Sure... I will talk to some of them : ) ‴ T_eleS (T _{M @ C S}) 22:00, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Invitation to the hackathon

Thanks for the invitation. Actually, I wanted to come this year, but I'm very busy in June. So I won't be able to come this summer. But maybe I will next year :) micki 07:28, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Micki. Yes, maybe next year! And even in the interim, perhaps you can come to one of the other developers' events, or join us in #mediawiki on Freenode IRC, or start your own event! Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 13:53, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Berlin Hackathon 2012

Hello there, will you be on irc next week? I need to talk to you about Berlin Hackathon 2012, i've seen the "spam" on some pt.wikipedia users, and i'm trying to translate the invitation to Portuguese, in order to "spam" it over the several tech discussion pages. I'll provably be off during the weekend, so will you be around irc next week? Alchimista (talk) 22:31, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I will be on IRC next week. I hope I haven't been too spammy. Thank you for the offer to translate -- I appreciate that a lot!

Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 22:32, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Berlin Hackathon

Hello,
Thank you for the invitation.

I'm indeed deeply interested in Lua and wikidata. If everything goes well IRL, I will participate. Lgd (talk) 08:18, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Fantastic! Hope to see you there. And even if you can't be there, I hope to see you in the wikidata-l mailing list and on IRC. :-) Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 10:54, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Call between Templates JS and Lua

I am probably too newbie in MW. My question is : Have you already talked about the call from Templates/JS/Lua to each others ? And perhaps also use variables in templates. My idea is we must do all, i explain here. Rical (talk) 10:36, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

I've asked Tim Starling, the leader of the Lua work for MediaWiki, to look at your question. Thanks for asking it. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 11:09, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Berlin Hackathon

Hi there Sumanah,

Thank you for the invitation, but I am currently living in Brazil and the logistics would be a bit complicated for me at this time. I'll spread the word at nowiki to see if anyone else want to go. Stigmj (talk) 22:25, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

My goodness - Brazil is a bit far from Germany, isn't it?  :-) I hope you are enjoying your time in Brazil. And thank you for publicizing the event!

Hope to see you around the #mediawiki IRC channel sometime.

Regards. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 02:07, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Invitation for Berlin Hackathon 2012

Hi

Thanks for the invitation. However, I won't be able to come. But my best wishes are there.

I am from as wiki (as.wikipedia.org), being a computer science teacher, in NIT silchar, I deal with a lot of Indic language speaker students here and would like to share the technical happenings there with my students and hence please forward me what technical discussions happened there.

If possible, I'll find if any of my students working in and near Berlin, and urge them to go there.

Psneog (talk) 07:01, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much for helping me with the outreach, Psneog! And please feel free to join us in IRC or share our technical tutorials (including exercises and videos) with your students. Best wishes! Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 12:21, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello. SVG and I have been discussing the thread you posted about my mentee on my talk page. Cheers! Jasper Deng (talk) 20:21, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Got it! Thanks for the heads-up. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 20:22, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, I'd just like further comment on what we'd do about contacting his parents if the need occurs, and I mentioned you in one of my comments. Just to give you a heads-up. No problems! Jasper Deng (talk) 20:27, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Unfortunately, with him disrupting translatewiki.net, and having used the alternate account BrandonSkyPimenta to disrupt enwiki, I think it's appropriate that something at that stage be done. Jasper Deng (talk) 03:41, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

And I've now opened a discussion about this kid at meta:Stewards' noticeboard about a possible global ban. Jasper Deng (talk) 04:26, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Reply: Berlin hackathon invitation

Hi, Sumanah. Thanks for inviting me! Even if I would like to go I'm not very practiced with these stuffs, I'm sure that there are users more exeperienced than me though. Even so, I appreciate your notice. Thank you anyhow! Frigotoni ...i'm here; 14:06, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Frigotoni, if you can make it to the event, and if you want to learn, you're welcome to come. And please spread the word to other people in your community who might be interested! Thanks for the reply. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 15:46, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Sure, I'll do it. Regards, Frigotoni ...i'm here; 19:23, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Re: Hackaton

Hi, thank you for your invite to the Berlin Hackathon, however it is outside of my field of interests. Regards, Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 08:19, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Understood. Thanks for your reply! Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 15:01, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Re: Berlin hackathon invitation

Hi Sumanah, thanks for the invitation! I plan on participating. Tgr (talk) 15:15, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Great! Thanks! Did you already register? Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 17:24, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the invitation. I am very busy at the moment and will not be able to attend. GoEThe (talk) 08:53, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Understood. Thanks! It would be neat if you could come to future meetups, or even host one when you're not so busy. Best wishes with all your endeavors. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 12:45, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Hello Sumana,

I've replied to your message at [1]. I think my lack of technical toolskills makes other people more suitable to attend. Mvg, Basvb (talk) 11:01, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Understood. Thanks for your reply. If you would be interested in coming to a future event that focuses more on learning these kinds of skills, feel free to let WMDE know and they might create one! Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 12:46, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Berlin Hackathon

Hello! Thank you for the invitation, I'd like to participate. Hunyadym (talk) 11:44, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for registering! I will respond to your registration soon. Thanks for your work. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 15:21, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Berlin hackathon

Hello Sumana ji, Thanks for the invitation. I really want to attend, but I don't think I can go to Berlin and I have no knowledge. I just copy templates and gadgets to Odia Wiki and modify a bit according to the requirements. I really appreciate your works you have been doing for the MediaWiki developments. Thank You! ansuman (talk) 12:27, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

ansuman, thank you for your reply.

If you believe that you are not technically skilled enough to find the event useful, then I understand and won't push you to register and attend.  :-) But please spend some time using our online learning resources, get as far as you can that way, and then apply for a seat again next year.

I understand that developers in your area don't yet have a critical mass of experienced Wikimedia technology experts. So I suggest that your community should hold some in-person trainings using the documentation that already exists:

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Tutorials
• http://openhatch.org/missions/
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikipediabot
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:A_quick_guide_to_templates

and communicating with the larger Wikimedia technical community instantaneously on IRC:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC

If you have any trouble finding the materials you need to learn a topic you want to learn, please tell me! It's my job to find or make those materials for you.  :-)

Best wishes. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 15:40, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. yes I will go through these resources for sure and will ping you if I get any doubt. All the very best for Berlin and other endeavours :-) ansuman (talk) 17:05, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Email

I've sent you an e-mail. Jasper Deng (talk) 00:20, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm forwarding it to the right channels. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 00:28, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Installing Git review on windows

I've just had a conversation with Roan about this at #mediawiki on IRC. According to the information he so helpfully provided, there's no workaround to installing git-review; since not having it will greatly lengthen git commands. This leaves the part where one has to install git-review. However, I was wondering if it would be possible to do that without having to install pip and then modifying the system PATH (that's the most annoying part of the process). http://pypi.python.org/pypi/git-review reads For installation from source simply add git-review to your $PATH

However, I don't really know what $PATH is here.

Roan says that even if this method was successful, bypassing pip could mean that some dependencies of git-review may not get installed; resulting in a broken git-review (depending on the python version).

Here's what I think:

Installing pip and then installing git-review through python requires running python commands in cmd and modifying the system PATH manually. If the $PATH being referred to here is in fact the system PATH, this installation could mean:

• right click, save link as, unzip, paste in so-and-so folder
• Modify system PATH

If we have to go about messing with PATH no matter we download pip or not, why bother with one extra download? Just seems a waste of time.

Also, installing pip is annoying. Git/Workflow#Windows gives the order as install pip first and then install the setuptools .exe while http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html#prerequisites says that setuptools is a prerequisite for installing pip.

It would be nice if installation of git-review could be made simpler. Since I'm a noob and have already spent a lot of time in the first install, I daren't try to test the above hypothesis (installing git-review without pip). Maybe you know an experienced user who'd give it a shot? Thanks Siddhartha Ghai (talk) 02:35, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Siddhartha Ghai, thanks for talking with Roan and writing up that summary of the issue. I suggest you send it to wikitech-l to see whether there's an experienced user who can boot up a VM and try out your hypothesis! Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 14:08, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Username

Apologies for not appending my Wikipedia username before. Helen Elen of the Roads (talk) 19:52, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

No problem, and thanks! Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) 00:27, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Message from another user

I am posting this on behalf of User:Adethya:

Hi Sumanah, My name is Adethya from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Please forgive me for editing your user page. I am not good at editing. So I might slip on a few ethics of editing. But the reason I wanted to edit this page, is to let you know that I wanna participate in Berlin Hackathon, 2012. I have no idea about how things work at a Hackathon, but I am deeply interested in getting involved. please let me know if there is still room for scholarships which I will be glad to use for the Hackathon.

You can reach out to me on adethyasjce@gmail.com. Or you can leave your number and I shall call you and discuss.

Thanks in advance, Ade. Jasper Deng (talk) 04:17, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Jasper. Will respond to this person. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) 14:24, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Re: Thanks!

Hello Sumana, thanks for stopping by and of course for your warm welcome! Btw, when you are available on IRC, can you please poke me? Please /query me directly. Thanks in advance for that! :-) — T. 15:00, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Labs access request

Hey Sumana, I filed the request as you asked. I see there is a backlog now or something. Can you take a look? Thanks very much in advance! — T. 07:54, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

My "note from foswiki"

Thanks for curating my about MongoDB!

But I was responding to a comment on the original User:Sumanah/Lua_vs_Javascript where I wrote that note, so I feel you've moved it somewhere less useful perhaps?

I was (perhaps clumsily) trying to counter the comment which implied that spidermonkey/V8 could not control their footprint programmatically. Of course, I might be wrong, given that I only have a cursory familiarity with MongoDB internals, and even less knoledge of MW's Lua/JS efforts.

But I am watching developments here with interest. Csirac2 (talk) 02:54, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, I see someone else removed it from where I had pasted it; that's unfortunate. May I suggest the Lua vs. JS talk page for you to re-paste it?

Thanks! And please do continue to chat with us. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) 02:55, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia aimed mapmaking

Sumanah, thanks' a lot for your interest (wp:en:User_talk:Yug#Mappers: software needs). The map and illustatrive sides of articles should indeed move to a more professional approach with comprehensive guidelines and sustainable, updatable allowed by centralized cloud technologies such as google-map. I'm currently finishing my master thesis of Chinese teaching, I will make a push and proposals to the WMF this summer. Best regards, Yug 10:12, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Yug. I hope to see your requests in Bugzilla and on the wikitech-l mailing list once you're done with your thesis. Best wishes for the success of your research and studies! Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) 11:58, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi Yug, I was wondering whether you have shared your ideas at the maps-l list? Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. I work with Sumana at the WMF trying to make happy contributors like you.  :). Qgil (talk) 23:29, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Gerrit project administrator

Hi Sumana,

As per discussion, Snaper said ...So forget about "branching gets much easier" part as far as Gerrit is concerned Gerrit project administrator can create Gerrit branches in the repository. ... I could not find any notion of a Gerrit project administrator on the Git page, so it would be helpful to know who is a Gerrit project administrator and how to get in contact with them.

On a further note maybe it should be considered to make branching easier for anything that is not mw.core since extensions don't really have to rely on whatever policy is necessary to keep mw.core afloat. Thanks MWJames (talk) 11:38, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

MWJames, thanks for your note. I don't control the branching policy, so do you mind if I move this discussion to the Git talk page? Also, you may find Git/Gerrit project ownership and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/groups/ useful. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) 11:57, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Is someone abusing your identity on Developer access?

Hey Sumana. I saw lots of requests on Developer access approved with your name by IP addresses. The IP addresses' notes were always: Done - do https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Access#Initial_log_in_and_password_change - Sumana

Could you please confirm that you made those edits? Tim (SVG) 08:47, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes, that was me - just had trouble logging in. Thanks. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) 16:54, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Ok. Tim (SVG) 22:00, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Yearly Berlin hackathon, 1-3 June.

Sorry for this late response but by the time I got the email it was impossible for me to leave Greece. I hope I get invited in future Hackathon's. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:27, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

You are hereby invited to our future hackathons! Keep an eye on the wikitech-l and wikitech-announce mailing lists and on the MediaWiki developer meetings page, and on @MediaWikiMeet ! Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) 00:53, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Lab account

Hello Sumana!!

Thanks for granting lab access to me that fast!! You used "Drtrigon" in order to create my account, this results for me in having 3 different nicks now. We should use either "drtrigon" for lower-case only and "DrTrigon" (with capital "T") else. Is it possible to rename (or if simpler delete and re-create) my account? That would be nice. Thanks and greetings DrTrigon (talk) 10:02, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

(I believe Ryan & Andrew took care of this.) Thanks DrTrigon! Sumana Harihareswara, Engineering Community Manager (talk) 14:38, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

SVN access for DPL maintenance

Hello Sumanah, I am the author of DPL (third party). Two years ago I published a stable release which somebody put into the SVN for me. Recently I published DPL 2.0 (which solves some major issues that had been open for a long time) and bawolff was so kind to check in the sources for me into SVN. I made my changes based on the last version which I had published (2 years ago). Now some changes have to be re-merged which have been made to DPL in SVN in the meantime by various people. Two years ago I had been applying for SVN access and finally it was granted. But by then I did not have time to spend any resources on the DPL project so I never used the account and lost my account data. Can you help me to regain access (I can be reached via gero.scholz(at)gmx.de). Algorithmix (talk) 05:00, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi, Algorithmix! Could you follow the directions at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access/Subversion#Updating.2Freplacing_your_SSH_key and send a note to commit-access-requests@wikimedia.org  ? That way we can get your access back. Thanks! Sumana Harihareswara, Engineering Community Manager (talk) 14:40, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Scribunto and fr.wikisource

Hi sumanah !

Several contributors in the French Wikisource are very interested by Scribunto extension and one, Rical have already written a module. Can fr.wikisource be one of the first wikis to use Scribunto extension ? We have talk about this idea on our Scriptorium (Wikisource's Village Pump) and most of people there are impatient to use it. If it happen we would be happy to share our experience about this extension in order to help other wikis to use it. Tpt (talk) 11:04, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Tpt, thanks for the note! That's pretty exciting. I think the meta page for requesting "shell" changes is a reasonable guide to filing a bug about this in Bugzilla (you may already know about that - sorry for redundancy). Once you file that bug, please cc me, Tim Starling, Sam Reed, Victor Vasiliev, and Rob Lanphier, and send a note to wikitech-l as well.

Thanks! Sumana Harihareswara, Engineering Community Manager (talk) 15:10, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your replies there and in the bug discussion ! You are amazing ! Tpt (talk) 20:16, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Email

Hello. I left you an email since 20 September, please, check up your inbox. Avocato (talk) 21:18, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Developer_access

Hi Sumanah! I have requested for Developer_access. Could you please process the request... Teju2friends (talk) 05:54, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

WikipediaMobile

Hi Sumana, I'm a developer and a Wikipedian (from en.wiki). I want to work with WikipediaMobile but instead using PhoneGap I'm more into conventional Eclipse IDE. So, where can I get code? Bill william compton (talk) 02:59, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi, please have a look at meta:Mobile_Projects/Contribute. There you can find links to the mobile apps source code, open bugs and other interesting information.

PhoneGap and Eclipse are orthogonal - see e.g. Getting started with PhoneGap in Eclipse for Android. As long as you are familiar with Javascript you are good to go.

The next steps for getting involved is joining #wikimedia-mobile ^connect IRC channel and mobile-l mailing list. There you can find the other mobile developers and get further advice from them. Qgil (talk) 21:33, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Qgil. I appreciate your taking the time to help. However, I figured it out by myself but other links you have provided are really helping. I guess I have to revise JavaScript as I'm mainly a Java programmer. I'm also a white box tester (usually work with JUNIT), how can I get involved? Bill william compton (talk) 01:53, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

The only MediaWiki corners I'm aware of where Java is used are:

• the Wikipedia app for Nokia Series40 (but the development is quite outsourced and even if open I wonder how easy is for external contributors to get in).
• the Lucene search library. fwiw we have an open full time position related to this. Interested? :) Otherwise feel free forwarding to your colleagues. Qgil (talk) 18:45, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

You could help us get Gerrit, our source code review system, more in line with our needs -- the list of open Gerrit issues upstream and our open Git/Gerrit bugs in Bugzilla would be good places to start. In our 24/7 chat channel, you can get more interactive suggestions! Sharihareswara (WMF) (talk) 18:49, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Converter for Karachay language

Hi Sumana, this document directed me here. I have asked for user experience design review two weeks ago. But I got no response from Howief. Can you poke him? Bouron (talk) 12:08, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Why not sharing your work at the Design mailing list? You can find there all the experts, including the WMF UX designers. Qgil (talk) 18:31, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

I am new in creating extensions for deployment. So I merely followed Writing an extension for deployment. Thanks for advise. Bouron (talk) 10:49, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

There is no question that you did the steps as suggested!

Seeing what happened to you (and may have happened to others) it is probably better to have a process not relying on single people. The creation of the Design list is more recent that the note about Howie at that page, and now it's probably just a better destination. Sumana, do you agree? I will also check with the Design list itself so they are aware of this possibility.

Bouron, thank you very much not only for contributing an extension to the MediaWiki community, but also to help us improving our processes. Qgil (talk) 16:36, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Gerrit project ownership request progress?

It's been more than four weeks, and I still see no comment on my Gerrit project ownership request. Thanks! Kroocsiogsi (talk) 20:27, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Sorry. Done now! Sharihareswara (WMF) (talk) 05:11, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Tour of Consumer Reports' laboratories

Wow! Laboratory tour!

On Tuesday January 15 at 3pm Wikipedians are invited to join a tour of laboratories at en:Consumer Reports in en:Yonkers, New York . If you would like to attend please RSVP at en:Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/January 2013 . If you have questions feel free to ask on that page or contact me on my talk page or by my office phone at 914.378.2684.

I am still working on that project I wanted to show you. Also, I have not made it to the Museum of the Moving Image and I still want to do that someday. It seems that neither of those things will be done soon - I am going to India for a month starting next week to meet Wikipedians there and in Bangladesh. You are welcome to come to this Consumer Reports thing if you like; it is a long way from Queens. I hope you are well. Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:24, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Pywikipediabot SVN access

Hi Sumanah! I already requested SVN access some time ago. However, I have problems checking out (getting a "server sent: publickey" response from the server). The account should be set up since I've already submitted my public key. I also see myself on the public list of users. It might be also be some Windows issue that I'm not aware of. I'm using TortoiseSVN and Pageant for my keys. Any help is welcome. Thanks! Edinwiki (talk) 21:10, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi, Edinwiki. Are you still having this problem? I don't use Windows myself so I won't be very good at helping you, sadly. You might be able to get better help from other Windows users in IRC. Good luck! Sharihareswara (WMF) (talk) 20:58, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Maalavika Manoj

Hi, at the "Today's articles for improvement" Nominations page I see you have shown "support" for the improving of the article Maalavika Manoj. Anyone who places the "support" tag there, seeks to improve the article. Is that what you meant? Please reply to me here. Kailash29792 (talk) 07:08, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Will reply where you requested. Sumana Harihareswara, Engineering Community Manager (talk) 15:53, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

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Missing i18n: identification of “need to translate” strings

From a very proprietary point of view, this thesis mentions: «If source code is available, tools and techniques, with varying quality of internationalization, can be used to internationalize an existing monolingual product that minimize costs and improve

efficiency. This includes the use of lexical analysis as shown by Peng et al., automated

identification of “need to translate” strings as shown by Wang et al., and the use of tools like GNU Gettext. See 4.4.5 and 4.5 for details.» http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/161183.pdf Nemo 17:02, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

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