[00:13:38] hmm, well [00:13:54] as long as the teacher encouraged them to join and do the tasks [00:14:25] I see no issue there [00:14:40] it would be quite different if the teacher did the tasks for them [00:15:59] Platonides: how dare you send tasks back, you evil person :P [00:22:45] xD [00:23:13] heh, it was assigned to the mentor team [00:23:35] thou shall not leave tasks that way [00:23:42] as any fault always comes from the students [00:23:46] ;) [11:53:18] hello [11:53:44] hi vivek__ [11:55:00] I'm new to open source and wish to contribute to the community, how can I start ? :p [12:16:39] * andre__ would point to the channel topic if folks were still around [12:16:44] * andre__ wonders how to make people read. [12:30:07] Niharika: Just FYI, I've played a bit with the MW API but found no way to get specific values from an "Extension infobox" template on mw.org. So I wrote myself a (cough) shell script to screenscrap and dump into a local DB, for the fun of it and as I'm not good in "proper" programming languages. [12:31:58] andre__: That's really cool! Does it automatically go over "Extension:" pages or that'll have to be manual? [12:33:44] Niharika: it pulls all pages in "Category:All_extensions". In theory. In practice I of course run into a bunch of issues (e.g. / in page names and my script does not convert them; or an apostrophe in an extension description also breaks adding that extension to the DB, because I need to learn how to escape that [12:33:57] it's been more of curiosity and an exercise for myself. :P [12:34:21] andre__: Sounds like you got yourself a perfect hackathon project. ;) [12:34:21] e.g. want to pull URLs listed under "Example" because many of them are 503 or 404 nowadays I guess. Things like these [12:34:25] ahaha [12:34:31] no. :D [12:35:02] I guess I'll work on that a bit more when I feel like, but it's been one of those "what to do tonight?" quick'n'dirty ideas [12:35:10] andre__: Wanna dump the code on Github? I'd like to see it! [12:35:52] I guess I should once I've cleaned up a bit more and get over my "this is really horrible and definitely the wrong programming language" feeling [12:37:08] :) Don't forget! [15:16:28] which language? ;-) [17:40:16] Niharika, oh and regarding extensions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173544 came to my mind, but no activity in there - just saying [19:21:03] "andre__ wonders how to make people read." -- in #wikimedia-cloud I added a channel entry message -- http://www.geekshed.net/2011/04/setting-a-channel-entry-message/ [19:21:36] it doesn't solve all the problems obviously, but its one more way to try to get attention [19:31:42] bd808: i use ircbot to say something to new users upon channel join [19:51:17] Interesting. Thanks!