Wikitech-ambassadors March 2014

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Tech newsletter (2014, week 10)

by Guillaume Paumier

Hi, The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/10 . Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next . More information on how to contribute is available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute . You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/10>are available. *Recent software changes* - The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf16<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf16>) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 6 ( calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap>). - When users enable web fonts by default, Universal Language Selector<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Language_Select…>will now log if they don't have fonts to display pages correctly. This information will be used by developers to improve font support in the future. Read more about missing fonts<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/WebFonts#Font_de…>. [1] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/113876/> - You can now use Guided tours<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Guided_tours>on the Czech and Japanese Wikipedia. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it<https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-guidedt…>and ask in Bugzilla <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org>. [2]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-February/000…> [3] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115824/> - You can now use information from Wikidata<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/>in all Wikisource wikis. [4] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115393/> - The multimedia team is now posting weekly updates on their mailing list<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia>. [5]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-February/000071.html> *VisualEditor news* - You can now change image size to default for your wiki. If you add new images to pages, they will also be default size. [6]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47804> [7] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50379> [8]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/114420/> - If you switch from VisualEditor to wikitext editing, your edit will now be tagged. [9] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56465> - Template parameters now have a bigger, auto-sizing input box for easier editing. [10]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61289> - VisualEditor now has Arabic, Finnish and Kölsch icons for text styling. If you want icons for your language, ask in Bugzilla. [11]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115636/> [12] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115512/> [13]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115424/> *Future software changes* - The new tool for viewing media files<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultimediaViewer>will soon show a progress bar and a thumbnail while loading full images. [14] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/113963/> [15]<https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/146> - You will soon be able to make user contributions<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions>show only page creations. [16] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42026> [17]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115189/> - Article Feedback Tool<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5>will be removed from the English and French Wikipedias on March 3. It will also no longer be possible to add this tool to any Wikimedia wiki. [18]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-February/000…> [19] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61163> - Wikis using the new search tool <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search>will come back to the old tool for a few hours starting at 00:00 UTC on March 6. [20] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61879> *Problems* - For about an hour on February 23, there were problems with page loading due to a MediaWiki bug. [21]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/114994/> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by tech ambassadors <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors> and posted by MediaWiki message delivery <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/10> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.* -- Guillaume Paumier Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation

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Roadmap and Deployment highlight - week of March 3rd

by Greg Grossmeier

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Roadmap and Deployments update. See the full roadmap for next week and beyond here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_March_3rd Some important call outs: == Monday == The migration of WMF Labs from pmtpa to eqiad begins * new instance creation disabled in pmtpa, only available in eqiad * See the emails from Andrew and Marc for more details: ** http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-February/002152.html ** http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-February/002153.html We will be disabling ArticleFeedBack on all wikis. * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61163 == Tuesday == MediaWiki upgrades * group1 to 1.23wmf16: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites) * see also: ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_depl… ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf16 == Wednesday == The new search cluster will be upgraded (to ElasticSearch 1.0.1). * This will begin at 0:00 UTC March 6th/4pm Pacific March 5th and will take a few hours to complete. * All wikis currently using the new search (CirrusSearch) will be temporarily switched back to the old serach (lsearchd) * You shouldn't see much of a change in search behavior (CirrusSearch is mostly feature parity to lsearchd) if your wiki is on new search, but to see a list of wikis that currently have CirrusSearch enabled (and in what way: Beta Feature or Primary), see: ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search#Wikis == Thursday == MediaWiki upgrades * group2 to 1.23wmf16 (all Wikipedias) * group0 to 1.23wmf17 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki) As always, questions welcome, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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