Hi folks,
We’d love to hear what you think of Media Viewer, our new multimedia browser, as we get ready to release it more widely in coming weeks.
Is Media Viewer useful to you? What do you like most? least? How can we improve this tool? Are there any critical improvements we should consider before launch?
Here are three ways you can share your feedback about this new viewing experience:
1. Join our IRC chat
We’re hosting a live IRC chat in a few hours, this Wed. Apr. 9 at 18:00 UTC on #wikimedia-office.
All are welcome! Drop by to meet the team, share your comments, ask questions about this release, or make suggestions for improvement.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
2. Discuss this tool
Meet other beta users from around the world on our Media Viewer discussion page. Here, we talk about new features, bugs and ideas with our community.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer
3. Take a quick survey
Can you tell us how Media Viewer works for you? It only takes a minute and means a lot to us.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/media-viewer-1?c=email
Hope to hear from you on one of these channels. Your feedback will help us improve the tool and launch it more smoothly.
Speak to you soon,
Fabrice — for the Multimedia Team
P.S.: If you haven’t tried Media Viewer yet, visit this test page on MediaWiki.org:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo
_______________________________
Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
Greetings,
This will impact users involved in reporting bugs and requesting
features, among others.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Andre Klapper <aklapper(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:02 AM
Subject: [teampractices] RfC on Product Management Tools and
Development Toolchain
To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Cc: teampractices(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi,
as previously announced [1], we've been facilitating a collective review
of Wikimedia's current product management tools and development
toolchain.
The most popular idea at the moment is to consolidate Wikimedia's
product management and infrastructure tools (such as Bugzilla, Gerrit,
RT, Mingle, Trello) into all-in-one Phabricator. We have therefore put
together a Request for comment to bring this up for wider discussion.
This discussion affects anyone who deals with bug reports, feature
requests and code changes in Wikimedia, so it's critical that you test
Phabricator for your own use and make your voice heard in the RFC:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Phabricator
We're compiling a list of Frequently asked questions at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Phabricator/FAQ ;
You're welcome to add more and help answer them :)
We'll host a few IRC discussions while the RFC is running to help answer
questions, etc. Our tentative times and dates are at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment/Phabricator#IRC_di…
Thank you for your input!
Guillaume and Andre
[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-March/074896.html
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http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
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Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
https://donate.wikimedia.org
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap
and Deployment update.
The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_April_14th
First, please read this blog post regarding the WMF's response to the
Heartbleed bug:
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/04/10/wikimedias-response-to-the-heartbleed…>
Other notable items...
== Monday ==
* Improvements to the new search (CirrusSearch).
** Two performance related and one broken feature.
* Revert font stack change in Typography Refresh to be just sans-serif
** <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125447/>
* VisualEditor fixes:
** Adding a reference adds an empty one; editing a reference inserts a
new one
** fix JS error on opening redirect pages
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.23wmf22: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf22>
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.23wmf22 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.23wmf23 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki
* Media Viewer:
** Second limited pilot release: Enable by default on a few small
pilot sites (batch 1: Catalan, Hungarian, Korean and Wikipedias,
English Wikivoyage)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan#Timeline>
Thanks, and as always, questions welcome,
Greg
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Greetings!
I am happy to let you know that we have just launched Media Viewer 0.2 on our first pilot site, MediaWiki.org, where it is now enabled by default for all users (previously, it was only available as a Beta Feature).
Media Viewer aims to improve the multimedia viewing experience on Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites, to display images in larger size and with less clutter — as well as invite more people to use our images.
We invite you to try out this new tool today, which you can do on this test page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo
Please let us know what you think on this discussion page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer
You can learn more about this new tool here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer
After this first pilot, we plan to enable Media Viewer by default for these next pilot sites:
• April 17 - Confirmed: Catalan, Hungarian, Korean, English Wikivoyage
• April 24 - Proposed: Czech, Estonian, Finnish, Hebrew, Polish, Romanian, Thai, Slovak, Vietnamese
Based on these first pilot results, we plan wider releases on larger wikis in the following weeks, with a goal to deploy to all wikis next month. Our release schedule will be based on new findings at each stage of deployment. If this product performs well and meets user needs, we may accelerate the deployment pace -- or we may slow it down for some sites, as needed.
More details are available in this release plan:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan
To discuss this release and review the final product together, we invite you to join our next IRC chat, on Wed. Apr. 9 at 18:00 UTC. We also invite you to try out the tool on your own wikis, where it is available for early testing as a Beta Feature in your user preferences, as described above.
Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments about this release. And many thanks to all the community members who helped create this feature with us in recent months!
We look forward to bringing a richer multimedia experience to your community very soon.
Regards as ever,
Fabrice
on behalf of the Multimedia Team
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia
_______________________________
Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
_______________________________
Fabrice Florin
Product Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
Hello,
A reminder that the Language Engineering IRC office hour will be
happening later today at 1700UTC/1000PDT on #wikimedia-office. Please
see below for the original announcement, local time and other details.
Thanks
Runa
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==================
# Date: April 9, 2014
# Time: 1700 UTC/1000PDT (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140409T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Translation file format changes
2. Other project updates
3. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:09 PM
Subject: Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on April 09, 2014
(Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
To: MediaWiki internationalisation
<mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers
<wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List
<wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[x-posted]
Hello,
The Language Engineering team will be hosting the next monthly IRC
office hour on Wednesday, April 9 2014 at 1700 UTC at
#wikimedia-office.
We will be discussing about our recent work and provide updates
related to changes in the translation file format (PHP to JSON) for
MediaWiki core and extensions. As always, we will be taking questions
during the session.
Please see below for event details and local time. See you at the office hour.
Thanks
Runa
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==================
# Date: April 9, 2014
# Time: 1700 UTC/1000PDT (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140409T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Translation file format changes
2. Other project updates
3. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event)
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Yesterday a widespread issue in OpenSSL was disclosed that would allow
attackers to gain access to privileged information on any site running a
vulnerable version of that software. Unfortunately, all Wikimedia
Foundation hosted wikis are potentially affected.
We have no evidence of any actual compromise to our systems or our users
information, but as a precautionary measure we are resetting all user
session tokens. In other words, we will be forcing all logged in users
to re-login (ie: we are logging everyone out).
All logged in users send a secret session token with each request to the
site and if a nefarious person were able to intercept that token they
could impersonate other users. Resetting the tokens for all users will
have the benefit of making all users reconnect to our servers using the
updated and fixed version of the OpenSSL software, thus removing this
potential attack.
As an extra precaution, we recommend all users change their passwords as
well.
Again, there has been no evidence that Wikimedia Foundation users were
targeted by this attack, but we want all of our users to be as safe as
possible.
Thank you for your understanding and patience,
Greg Grossmeier
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| Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
| identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap
and Deployment update.
The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_April_7th
Notable items...
== Tuesday ==
* The backend to the new search system (ElasticSearch) will be upgraded
* to 1.1.0
** This should not affect users in any negative way.
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.23wmf21: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf21>
* Wikiquote will get language links via Wikidata
** <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiquote>
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.23wmf21 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.23wmf22 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
* Media Viewer - First limited pilot release: Enable by default on
* MediaWiki.org
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer>
As always, questions welcome!
Greg
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