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by swalling 13y ago
If anyone is looking for a replacement tool to see nearby Wikipedia pages, we recently built this in as a permanent feature, accessible at: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby This is in the site navigation
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by swalling 13y ago
It may not make much of a difference to you, but I should point out that our colo in the Netherlands is mostly used for a Squid cache cluster, and is not a primary datacenter. Also, the citation you give is about phone tapping, not the kind
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by swalling 13y ago
"If the NSA wanted to snoop Wikipedia lookups it would force Wikipedia to install PRISM-like access devices to the site itself, secretly." Wikimedia employee here. FYI, we're headquartered in SF, but we have no datacenter her
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by swalling 13y ago
Nothing to see here. This is just an admin looking to stir up drama for Jimmy, and the discussion was closed accordingly. All he did was ask if Snowden had ever edited, that we know of. The answer is no.
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by swalling 13y ago
Edited accordingly.
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by swalling 13y ago
We've started experimenting with Sass for Wikipedia as well, and it's now in MediaWiki core. Check out mediawiki.ui in the core resources (git.wikimedia.org). Right now we're only using it for our upcoming signup/login redesign, but it's av
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by swalling 14y ago
"The site is now home to about 85 businesses, including the software firm Symantec, the insurance company eHealthInsurance, a patent law firm, a baby ultrasound center, an adoption service, a restaurant and a cafe." Anybody else a little de
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by swalling 14y ago
What is that browser in the intro page? Are they just trying to be neutral or...? I find it really distracting.
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by swalling 14y ago
Well put.
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by swalling 14y ago
"There's no visual cues to let me know that there's sub menus" It is a fairly common pattern in nav menus to have an indicator -- the unread count or down arrow in this case -- at the top level, but not at the second or third level, and ins
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by swalling 14y ago
This is particularly interesting in the context of the widespread accusation that flat UIs tend to have worse discoverability (example: http://www.nngroup.com/articles/windows-8-disappointing-usab... ). If you inspect the key navigational
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Parsoid: how Wikipedia catches up with the Web(blog.wikimedia.org)
11 points by swalling 14y ago|1 comments
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Building an onboarding process for Wikipedia(blog.wikimedia.org)
1 points by swalling 14y ago|0 comments
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Using Guiders.js at Wikipedia (blog.wikimedia.org)
3 points by swalling 14y ago|0 comments
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by swalling 14y ago
San Francisco, CA. Full time. H1B okay. Remote is a potential too. We're the experimental features team at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that supports Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. We're looking for full stack engin