Hello all,
For your information, the voting phase of the WMF Community Wishlist Survey
has begun and will close on December 10th, 2017.
There are more than 200 proposals in several main categories (i.e.:
Search); click on the categories to view the proposal's write-up and
discussions. More information on the community wishlist survey is in the
forwarded email below.
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deb tankersley
Program Manager, Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Johan Jönsson <jjonsson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:01 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] You can now vote in the Community Wishlist Survey
Hey everyone,
The voting phase of the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has now started.
Read the proposals and support the ones you want to support to make the
wikis better:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey
Click on the categories to find the proposals. The voting will close on
December 10.
That's the important part of this email. Feel free to follow the link above
and starting voting right now.
The longer version:
The Community Wishlist Survey decides what the Wikimedia Foundation
Community Tech team will work on over the next year. The team is responsible
for addressing the top 10 wishes on the list, as well as some wishes from
smaller groups and projects that are doing important work, but don't have
the numbers to get their proposal into the top 10. The Wishlist is also
used by volunteer developers and other teams, who want to find projects to
work on that the community really wants.
Come help set the agenda.
If you want to see what the team has done in 2017, see the status report
from last month:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_
Survey/Status_report_1
What you can do now:
*) Vote. This is the most important thing.
*) Spread the word. We really want people to find this, of course, and
we'll work on finding the best balance between spreading the news to
everyone and not being annoying, but please do help to spread the
information in your local community – Village Pump equivalents, IRC
channels, social media groups and so on.
*) Help translating the pages. We want the process to be as available as
possible for everyone. It's not every available if it's only in English.
*) If you want to get short updates through the notification system, you
can sign up for the Community Tech Newsletter:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:The_Community_Tech_Newsletter
//Johan Jönsson
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(sorry for cross-posting ...)
Hello all,
we're really happy to announce that the new AdvancedSearch interface got
deployed as a beta feature to Mediawiki.org and test just 2 hours ago. [1]
AdvancedSearch enhances Special:Search through an advanced parameters form
and aims to make existing search options more visible and accessible for
everyone. [2]
The feature is a project by WMDE's Tech team and originates from the
Technical Wishes project. Many other people and teams helped making this
project happen, so stay tuned for the thank you section at the end of this
email :-) [3]
*Why AdvancedSearch*
The Search has great options to perform advanced queries, but often even
experienced editors don't know about it - this is what we found out when we
were conducting a workshop series on advanced search in several cities in
Germany in 2016. Together with contributors from German Wikipedia we've
discussed their desired search queries, explained how the syntax works and
how keywords like "hastemplate", "filetype" or "intitle" can be used and
combined to get the desired results.
The idea for the AdvancedSearch feature results out of these workshops,
where we not only discussed search but also designed first mocks for an
advanced search interface. [4]
*The first version, more deployments and other next steps*AdvancedSearch
supports some of the special search options the WMF's search team has been
implemented in the last years. The way the interface works, users don't
have to know the syntax behind each search field, but they can learn about
it if they want to. The first version of the feature comes with a first
selection of advanced search options, e.g. including support for
"hastemplate" or "intitle". The WMF's search team has started to work on a
'deepcat' functionality to make sub category search happen. We plan to add
support for this in the future, too.
If all goes well, we plan to deploy the beta feature on German and Arabic
Wikipedia by Wednesday, Nov 29. [5]
In the next 2-3 months we'd love to invite everyone to test the new feature
on those wikis: Comments, thoughs, bug reports ... - any feedback is much
appreciated!
Please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:AdvancedSearch for how to
use AdvancedSearch.
Deployments to other wikis can follow later.
*Thank you (finally!)*
This project was developed with the support from many different people from
the start, and this makes it very special to us: We would like to thank the
folks from the German Wikipedia community who participated in the workshops
and who were discussing and designing first ideas together with us. We
would like to thank all other people who gave valuable feedback on
Phabricator, onwiki and in real life. We would like to thank the Arabic
Wikipedia community for getting interested in AdvancedSearch, and for
offering to test this feature in an early stage. The credit for the
development work on AdvancedSearch goes to our FUN team, supported by the
team that usually works on Technical Wishes. Last but really not least we
would like to thank the great folks from the WMF's search team who have
supported this project from the start and who have done (and still do) the
necessary backend work that now got supported by the AdvancedSearch
extension.
Sorry for the long email, and thanks for reading :-)
Birgit (for the Technical Wishes team)
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180147 (Deployment ticket group 0)
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:AdvancedSearch
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/AdvancedSearch
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/AdvancedSearch/Worksh…
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180128 (Deployment ticket arwiki and
dewiki)
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Birgit Müller
Community Communications Manager
Software Development and Engineering
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
We’d like to notify our community about a few project updates and personnel
moves that will affect the Discovery team.
Earlier this year, the Discovery Department was split up into two main
teams - Search Platform that is under Technology and the Discovery team
that is under the Audiences:Readers umbrella. Now that the search frontend
UI/UX work has wrapped up and the Wikipedia.org portal has been modernized,
we are consolidating as a team focusing on the Search backend. Our frontend
responsibilities are moving onto other teams with the Readers team. Here’s
a breakdown by project:
-
We are putting the final touches on the automation of statistics and
translations updates for the Wikipedia.org portal page. This will enable
the stats and translations to be automatically updated on a weekly basis
with minimal involvement by humans. [1][2]
-
The Maps initiative will be moving to be a part of the Readers
Infrastructure team and we’re currently investigating a new open-sourced
backend map tile server replacement. [3]
-
We will be communicating soon about any impact this will have on
Discovery projects. [4]
-
The Search Platform team will continue enhancing and refining the
machine learning-to-rank backend functionality while expanding our language
support. [5]
Our frontend team members will be integrated into the rest of the
organization over the next few weeks:
-
Deb Tankersley will take on the Program Manager (Engineering) role in
Technology
-
Jan Drewniak will move to Readers Mobile Web
-
Paul Norman will move to Readers Infrastructure
-
Mikhail Popov and Chelsy Xie will remain in Readers and begin working on
new projects while assisting in a part-time basis with search analysis
Cheers,
The Discovery Team
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140159
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery
[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Search
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deb tankersley
Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
Cross-posting.
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deb tankersley
Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Brian Wolff <bwolff(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 1:48 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Language converter in external links change
(affects languages: zh, uz, tg, sr, shi, ku, kk, iu and gan)
To: wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi everyone.
Later today, I intend to make a change to the language converter
system. The language converter system is used in a couple languages,
most notably zh and sr, to interpret -{ in wikisyntax. Previously, -{
}- syntax would work inside external links. Now you must put it
outside external links.
For example, previously you could do:
[http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- mylink]
now you must do:
-{zh-cn: [http://foo.com mylink] ; zh-hk: [http://bar.com mylink] ;
zh-tw:[http://baz.com my link] }-
I'm hopeful this change will not be too disruptive. If you encounter
any new weird behaviour with language converter please let me know.
--
Brian Wolff
p.s. List of probably affected pages:
* http://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/langconv/sr.txt
* http://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/langconv/zh.txt
* http://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/langconv/zhwiktionary.txt
I don't believe anything outside of serbian wikipedia, chinese
wikipedia, and chinese wiktionary will be affected.
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Hello,
The slide deck from today's quarterly metrics presentation of the Wikimedia
Foundation's Readers team (which is an appendix to the main quarterly
check-in presentation) has been published. [1] [2]
This deck gives an overview of the core metrics regarding readership of
Wikimedia sites and including data about search, maps, and the Wikipedia
portal from the Discovery team.
[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AWikimedia_Foundation_Readers_metr…
[2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AAudiences_2_check-in_Q1_October_2…
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deb tankersley
Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation