Wikitech-ambassadors November 2012

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by Sumana Harihareswara

Thanks for being on this list and helping communicate about technology on Wikimedia sites. What kinds of discussions or notifications would you like to have on this list? Or in general, if you don't think they quite belong here? -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

11 years, 3 months

Easier patrolling, language fixes, sidebar change, & more in new MediaWiki version

by Sumana Harihareswara

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf5 This week and next week we're deploying a new version of MediaWiki to your wiki, as usual. This upgrade includes one-click (AJAX) patrolling, for both new page and diff patrol (see bug 7851). Also, I thought you'd want to know about these changes: Internationalisation/localization: * Now formatted numbers in Spanish use space as separator for thousands, as mandated by the Real Academia Española. * Kurdish formatted numbers now use period and comma as separators for thousands and decimals respectively. * Narayam: removed MyBest keyboard because of failing tests and no documented reference Template, user script, & skin hackers: * The <data>, <time>, <meta>, and <link> elements are allowed within wikitext for use with Microdata. * The HTML5 <mark> tag has been whitelisted. * jQuery upgraded from 1.8.2 to 1.8.3. * In your wiki's MediaWiki:<skin>.css, h4, h5, or h6 headings in the sidebar have to be changed to h3 to work (more details at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/30361/ and bug 457) Wikisourcers: * ProofreadPage gets an OAI-PMH API: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Proofread_Page#OAI-PMH As always, more at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf5 and deployment dates at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/Roadmap . Please let us know of any bugs! Thank you for your feedback! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

11 years, 3 months

VisualEditor fortnightly update - 2012-11-26

by James Forrester

All, As before, an update for the past two weeks' work on the VisualEditor project, as we get close to deployment: 2012-11-26 (MW 1.21wmf5)<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2012-11-26_.28MW_1.21wmf…> The VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.21wmf5 branch deployment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf5> on Monday 26 November. In two weeks since 1.21wmf4, the team have spent their time mostly working on finalising the code and preparing for its deployment in December as a test for users. A lot of work went into the 'Data Model' component that converts between the information that Parsoid <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid> gives us and a structure that the code can edit. This now supports HTML entities (so "ô", "ô", and "ô" do not get switched when users don't expect it - 42118 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42118>), HTML comments (so they don't get accidentally removed - 42124<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42124>; viewing and editing them is not yet supported), better handling for content that we don't yet recognise (42119<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42119>), fixing a bug with our integration with Parsoid (42121<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42121>), and supporting in production the "Change Markers" code that was worked on last iteration (41947 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41947> ). In the integration work, we removed the "Feedback" link as this would not work well with the code being deployed to multiple wikis (41722<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41722>) and unfortunately had to add Internet Explorer temporarily to the "blacklist" of browsers that the VisualEditor will not support for December, due to a number of critical issues that the team does not have time to fix (42335 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42335>) - post-December, the team will work to find a way around the various bugs and inconsistencies in Internet Explorer. We fixed bugs on handling "alien nodes" (items of content that we don't have a specific handler for yet, like templates), such as the floated alien-covering "phantoms" for selection purposes appearing wrongly in Firefox (42177 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42177>) and them not appearing at all for items that floated due to a class in Chrome 42134 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42134>). There was also some nasty bugs that we fixed, including when editing around inline (mid-paragraph) alien nodes (42212<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42212>) and the data model and the display getting out of sync sometimes when cutting-and-pasting (42219<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42219> ). Finally, a great deal of work was done to overhaul the link inspector's code and quash a large number of minor bugs with it, such as wrongly replacing links's spaces with underscores (42140<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42140> ). A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.21/wmf5 changelog <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf5#VisualEditor>, and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period on Bugzilla's list<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_status…> . An update for the Parsoid is available on its status page<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/status> . Hope this helps. J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester

11 years, 4 months

Fwd: Proposal: MediaWiki Groups

by Quim Gil

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 4:50 PM Subject: Proposal: MediaWiki Groups To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi, here you have a first draft about MediaWiki Groups, and implicitly MediaWiki reps: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil/MediaWiki_groups MediaWiki groups organize open source community activities within the scope of specific topics and geographical areas. They extend the capacity of the Wikimedia Foundation in events, training, promotion and other technical activities benefiting Wikipedia, the Wikimedia movement and the MediaWiki software. Imagine MediaWiki Germany Group, MediaWiki Lua Group... These groups may become a significant source of growth and wider diversity of our community. Please bring your ideas to the discussion page - or here. Thank you! -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

11 years, 4 months

Template sandbox - new feature to help you improve & make templates

by Sumana Harihareswara

"TemplateSandbox" lets you preview a page with a change in a template it uses. At the bottom of the edit form in the Template and Module namespaces, a new box will appear that allows you to preview other pages as they would appear if you saved the template/module you are currently editing. Example: try editing the sample "thank-you" template https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Thankyou . On the edit form, under the Save button, you'll see "Preview page with this template" -- try User_talk:Example_user . Or, go to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:TemplateSandbox and give it the "sandbox prefix" User:Sharihareswara (WMF)/sandbox and tell it to "render page" User_talk:Example_user . You'll see the ugly changes I made to the template in my sandbox. More information at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VPT#New_feature_needs_testing . You can check this out in the new version of MediaWiki, now live on mediawiki.org, but until we have more feedback and improvements we aren't pushing it live on the other sites. We figure this will make it easier for people to hack on templates, and to develop new Lua templates to replace wikitext templates. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

11 years, 4 months

Fwd: [Mediawiki-i18n] account creation change, and changes

by Federico Leva (Nemo)

-------- Messaggio originale -------- Oggetto: [Mediawiki-i18n] account creation change, and changes Data: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:37:17 -0800 Mittente: S Page <spage(a)wikimedia.org> Hi there. The Editor Engagement Experiments team wants to improve the account creation user experience[1]. One simple change is after someone successfully creates an account, instead of showing 'Login successful', make the page show 'Welcome, NewUser'. We filed a bug[2] and the change is mostly-merged (thanks Nikerabbit and IAlex) and should roll out with 1.21wmf5 over the next two weeks. This means the existing welcomecreation message splits into new welcomeuser and welcomecreation-msg messages. If a wiki has customized its MediaWiki:welcomecreation message then that will probably need adjustment. I thought about removing or replacing welcomecreation but the extensions ApiSignup and SpecialUserSignup (unused by WMF) and ./tests/parser/preprocess/ all refer to it. Do developers usually introduce a new message then obsolete the old one, or cut over in one commit? For your information, the E3 team has more substantial changes to user login, account creation, and onboarding (welcoming users after account creation) in development. I'll keep i18n people informed; I hope this is the right list for the changes. I figure any communication is better than throwing code onto 863 wikis and letting people figure it out :-) [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editor_engagement_experiments#Projects [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42215 -- =S Page software engineer on E3 _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-i18n mailing list Mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n

11 years, 5 months

Fwd: Apply for the FOSS Outreach Program for Women internships

by Quim Gil

Hi, I thought I had sent this email to this list, but it doesn't show up in the archives. Re-sending just in case. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:28 PM Subject: Apply for the FOSS Outreach Program for Women internships To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi, the FOSS Outreach Program for Women internships has started! The blog post: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/15/apply-for-the-foss-outreach-program-fo… The program: https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen The Wikimedia specific information: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women If you are following Wikimedia in Identica, Twitter, G+ or Facebook, you likes and shares are welcome. Please help out reaching out to women in tech out there! -- Quim -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

11 years, 5 months

Fwd: Please take this survey about new contributors

by Quim Gil

For your information. You are invited / encouraged to take this survey. Thank you! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:40 AM Subject: Please take this survey about new contributors To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi, if you joined the MediaWiki / Wikimedia tech community in 2010 or later please consider taking this survey: Newcomer experience and contributor behavior in FOSS communities https://limesurvey.sim.vuw.ac.nz/index.php?sid=65151&lang=en The survey is open for sporadic contributors or full time Wikimedia employees, developers or any other profile. Anybody is welcome to leave their feedback as long as you have started contributing to this community in the past 3 years. 11 mature and well established open source projects are taking part in this survey: Debian, FreeBSD, GNOME, Gentoo, KDE, Mozilla, NetBSD, OpenSUSE, Python, Ubuntu and Wikimedia. Some of them started some days ago and have more than hundred responses by now. The data of this survey is anonymous and will be released under a ‘share-alike’ Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL). Some background: >From Kevin Carillo, the researcher: http://kevincarillo.org/survey-invitation/ >From OpenHatch, a non-profit working on the bridge between free software projects and new contributors: https://openhatch.org/blog/2012/a-research-project-to-understand-what-does-… PLEA If you, like me, became a bit tired of survey requests like this please consider filling this one anyway. It focuses in a specific area where we don't have much data. As fresh technical contributor coordinator at the WMF I'm looking forward to the results of this research and the lessons it will bring. Thank you. :) -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

11 years, 5 months

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Wikitech-ambassadors Digest, Vol 13, Issue 4

by Romaine Wiki

Hello, I would expect those things that are needed to inform my communities on what is going on with updates and so. Also when complete projectbranches like Wikivoyage and Wikidata are launched or so. I need to be able to tell the users of the projects what is going to be changed, it would be nice if reasons are given for better understanding, and what they can do to solve it if problems continue. Greetings - Romaine > Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 14:15:55 +0100 > From: J?r?mie Roquet <arkanosis(a)gmail.com> > To: "Coordination of technology deployments across > languages/projects" > <wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] What would you like on > this list? > Message-ID: > <CAFOazAP0AJN=q_n7+U1+7m-eXgxe8gy+C36TzObk46PPhcM5yg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi, > > 100?% agree with previous answers :-) > > To sum it up in a few words: > - new features (including features available on request) > - future features (and demos) > - breaking changes (and workarounds) > - technical discussions go to wikitech-l, not here > > Best regards, > > -- > J?r?mie

11 years, 5 months

VisualEditor fortnightly updates - 2012-10-29 & 2012-11-12

by James Forrester

All, Apologies for sending two at once - I failed to do this for the late-October one when the focus was on the monthly update: 2012-10-29 (MW 1.21wmf3)<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2012-10-29_.28MW_1.21wmf…> The VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.21wmf3 branch deployment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf3> on Monday 29 October. In two weeks since 1.21wmf2, the team have continued to devote most of their time working on re-designing how the code integrates together and providing clean interfaces between them so new developers can re-use and extend VisualEditor in the future. Beyond the API work, we have worked to fix a number of serious bugs in the new code from the last release such as not being able to enter text in blank paragraphs in Firefox 41120<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41120>, as well as copy-and-paste (41055<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41055>) and cutting (41092 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41092>) both breaking, a JavaScript error being caused when editing a blank page ( 37843 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37843>), and not being able to change the formatting on two lists at once (41434<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41434> ). A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.21/wmf3 changelog <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf3#VisualEditor>, and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period on Bugzilla's list<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_status…> . 2012-11-12 (MW 1.21wmf4)<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2012-11-12_.28MW_1.21wmf…> The VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.21wmf4 branch deployment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf4> on Monday 12 November. In two weeks since 1.21wmf3, the team have spent their time mostly working on finalising the code in preparation for its deployment in December as a test for users. One of the major changes to the integration code is how the VisualEditor can be used; it now can work on other pages than just those in the VisualEditor: namespace. (This is configurable on a per-wiki basis, rather than defined in the code itself.) Amongst other things, this now means that editing the wikitext of VisualEditor: namespace pages can be done by anyone, and is no longer restricted to just sysops (as will be needed for the December deployment). The related bugs surrounding permission checks, filter checks, conflicts, *etc.* remain, and will be fixed in the next release. Part of the preparations involved entirely re-writing the user interface code including the way in which commands operate (40896<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40896>). Another aspect was the addition of "Change Markers" to the data sent to the Parsoid <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid> system to reduce any accidental changes that should not happen when users save. Finally, a bug with how the "save page" button worked on old revisions was fixed (41865<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41865> ). A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.21/wmf4 changelog <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf4#VisualEditor>, and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period on Bugzilla's list<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_status…> . An update for the Parsoid is available on its status page<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/status> . Yours, -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester | +1 415-839-6885 x6844

11 years, 5 months

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