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: I'll be updating [[Help:Wndialog]] within the next few days, I hope (having essentially completed my latest set of changes to the tools). That's most of the general documentation that currently exists for the tools (though there's some more technical stuff at [[MediaWiki talk:Wndialog/receive]]). --[[User:Pi zero|Pi zero]] ([[User talk:Pi zero|talk]]) 11:37, 9 August 2013 (UTC) |
: I'll be updating [[Help:Wndialog]] within the next few days, I hope (having essentially completed my latest set of changes to the tools). That's most of the general documentation that currently exists for the tools (though there's some more technical stuff at [[MediaWiki talk:Wndialog/receive]]). --[[User:Pi zero|Pi zero]] ([[User talk:Pi zero|talk]]) 11:37, 9 August 2013 (UTC) |
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== Wikinewsie.org service updates == |
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After (how many?) years running scoop at wikinewsie.org, we now have one definitive, well-defined, and well-understood, process flowing through the mailbox. [[Wikinews:Original Reporting|OR]]. |
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Scoop has left us with everyone mail was being distributed to having to set up their own filters; or, ''being '''damn silly''' and importing their emails into something like Gmail''. You can't say I [[Listening to you at last: EU plans to tap cell phones|didn't try to warn people about the perils]] with that (hashtag Snowden). |
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Scoop will be 'deprecated', and the recipients list trimmed back progressively as I — and other TWG board members — cull those who're not using it in any meaningful manner. My mailbox piles up at a frighteningly alarming rate as I have about a dozen lists hitting my own account. Some of those are pressers, which we're rarely picking up on. A new mailbox will be set up for incoming material that needs the attention of reviewers; I'll start by discussing that with Pi zero; as our main reviewer, how the mailbox works is "whatever he can best-work-with". --[[User:Brian McNeil|''Brian McNeil'']] / <sup>[[User talk:Brian McNeil|''talk'']]</sup> 10:55, 10 August 2013 (UTC) |
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Pywikipedia is migrating to git
Hello, Sorry for English but It's very important for bot operators so I hope someone translates this. Pywikipedia is migrating to Git so after July 26, SVN checkouts won't be updated If you're using Pywikipedia you have to switch to git, otherwise you will use out-dated framework and your bot might not work properly. There is a manual for doing that and a blog post explaining about this change in non-technical language. If you have question feel free to ask in mw:Manual talk:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit, mailing list, or in the IRC channel. Best Amir (via User:PiRSquared17). 13:08, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Visual editor
We need to develop a list of extensions, vital tools, templates that the Visual Editors need to look at and figure out how to address when trying to integrate VE into our project. For example, we probably need a technical explanation related to the peer review tool, for pi zero's tool he is developing, our templates that automatically load when creating a new article, etc. This information then needs to be passed along via a single language point to the VE team. It appears possible that Wikinews may be the next sister they implement VE on, and given our publishing methods, we really need to be clear up front. --LauraHale (talk) 09:33, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
- On the face of it, I think VE should not, in a sane world, ever be deployed on Wikinews, because its design goals, of debatable merit for Wikipedia, appear to be at odds with the nature of our project. Despite the fact, realistically, I would have gone along and been as helpful as I could if they had (as they should have, if they were thinking) approached us about beta-testing it here before deploying on Wikipedia.
- I'll be updating Help:Wndialog within the next few days, I hope (having essentially completed my latest set of changes to the tools). That's most of the general documentation that currently exists for the tools (though there's some more technical stuff at MediaWiki talk:Wndialog/receive). --Pi zero (talk) 11:37, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
Wikinewsie.org service updates
After (how many?) years running scoop at wikinewsie.org, we now have one definitive, well-defined, and well-understood, process flowing through the mailbox. OR.
Scoop has left us with everyone mail was being distributed to having to set up their own filters; or, being damn silly and importing their emails into something like Gmail. You can't say I didn't try to warn people about the perils with that (hashtag Snowden).
Scoop will be 'deprecated', and the recipients list trimmed back progressively as I — and other TWG board members — cull those who're not using it in any meaningful manner. My mailbox piles up at a frighteningly alarming rate as I have about a dozen lists hitting my own account. Some of those are pressers, which we're rarely picking up on. A new mailbox will be set up for incoming material that needs the attention of reviewers; I'll start by discussing that with Pi zero; as our main reviewer, how the mailbox works is "whatever he can best-work-with". --Brian McNeil / talk 10:55, 10 August 2013 (UTC)