EE November 2013

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Re: [EE] Beta Features and Media Viewer now on Commons and Meta
by Vishnu T 21 Nov '13

21 Nov '13

Hello, Thought you may find this interesting. From CIS-A2K we are putting efforts about spreading the news about Beta Features to many Wikimedians in India. Interestingly, it looks like, the news has percolated quite well among various Indian language communities :) Came across a news paper coverage in Tamil about the availability of Beta Features. See here [1]. It's all in Tamil but you will find the link to the Meta page at the end. It's rare for Indian language media to cover such technical aspects pertaining to Wikimedia. Was thrilled to see it :) Tamil Wikimedia community has quite many vibrant techies who would be interested in Beta Features. Cheers from India, Vishnu [1] http://tamil.thehindu.com/general/technology/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0… On 8 November 2013 05:26, Fabrice Florin <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm happy to let you know that Beta Features and Media Viewer have now > been released on Commons and MetaWiki, in addition to MediaWiki.org! > > Beta Features (1) is a new program from the Wikimedia Foundation that lets > you try out new features before they are released for everyone. Think of it > as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming > software and give feedback to help improve them. This special preference > page lets designers and engineers experiment with new features on a broad > scale, but in a way that's not disruptive. > > One of the first beta features we will be testing together is Media > Viewer (2), which aims to improve the viewing experience by displaying > images in larger size and with less clutter than the current file pages. > This first version 0.1 is still in early stages of development, with many > known bugs, but we invite community feedback right away for this feature, > so we can improve it together in coming months. For a sneak peek at the > next version 0.2 of the Media Viewer, check out these first mockups. (3) > > Beta Features and Media Viewer are now ready for early testing by > logged-in users on Wikimedia Commons (4), on Meta.Wikimedia.org (5) > and on MediaWiki.org (6). Based on test results, we aim to release these > beta features on all wikis worldwide on 21 November, 2013. > > Here are some of the other beta features in our pipeline: > • VisualEditor Formulæ — edit algebra or equations on your pages (only on > MediaWiki.org) (7) > • Typography Refresh — make text more readable (scheduled for first > release Thursday, 14 November) (8) > > Would you like to try out Beta Features and Media Viewer now? After you > log in, a small 'Beta' link will appear next to your 'Preferences'. Click > on it to see features you can test, check the ones you want, then click > 'Save'. After you've tested Beta Features, please let us know what you > think on this discussion page (9) -- or report any bugs here on Bugzilla. > > You're also welcome to join this IRC office hours chat on Friday, 8 > November at 18:30 UTC. (11) > > Beta Features and Media Viewer were developed by the Wikimedia > Foundation's Multimedia team, in collaboration with the Design, Mobile and > VisualEditor teams. Along with other developers, we will be adding new > features to this experimental program every few weeks. > > We are very grateful to all the community and team members who made these > projects possible — and look forward to many more productive collaborations > in the future. :) > > Enjoy, and don't forget to let us know what you think! > > > Fabrice > > > [ 1 ] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/07/introducing-beta-features/ > [ 2 ] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer > [ 3 ] > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer#Next_Version > [ 4 ] > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betaf… > [ 5 ] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeat… > [ 6 ] > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatu… > [ 7 ] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae > [ 8 ] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update > [ 9 ] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features > [10] > http://wmbug.com/new?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=BetaFeatures > [11] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours > > _______________________________ > > Fabrice Florin > Product Manager, Multimedia > Wikimedia Foundation > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia > > _______________________________________________ > EE mailing list > EE(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee > >

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Presentation about engaging new editors by reducing barriers
by Matthew Flaschen 15 Nov '13

15 Nov '13

Pau Giner, Vibha Bamba, Jared Zimmerman, and I presented the Wikimedia Diversity Conference (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference) about how we're working to increase participation by reducing barriers. If you're interested, the presentation slides are at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Engaging_new_editors_by_reducing_ba… , and the Etherpad is at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/reducing-barriers Matt Flaschen

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Fwd: Teahouse spec and mock-ups
by Matthew Flaschen 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

I thought people might be interested in hearing about progress on a Teahouse for German Wikipedia. This is only a very first draft for now. They are planning to make it a lot more specific in the next weeks in terms of interaction-concepts and design (including usertests). Matt Flaschen P.S. I apologize for resending. The first time, it did not forward correctly. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Teahouse spec and mock-ups Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 13:52:08 +0100 From: Tim Moritz Hector <timmoritzhector(a)t-online.de> Reply-To: timmoritz.hector(a)wikipedia.de To: Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> Dear listeners, thank you for your attention in my presenation about the Teahouse. As promised, I provide the very first teahouse-spec and mock-ups; please find that attached. We got a lot of feedback from our scientific advisor (Claudia Müller-Birn from the FU Berlin) and we'll put more work in it to make it more specific and do some user-tests about the design. So you have about 4 to 6 weeks to make any comments that have the chance to be regarded in our implementation. If you are interested, I will invite you to google-docs so it's possible for you to make your comments there – please just send me an email if you are interested in that. Best regards, enjoy the rest of the conference and Berlin! Tim -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards Tim Moritz Hector Kontakt: Vogelrohrsheide 61 D-48167 Münster (Westf) tel: +49 251 394 576 10 mailto: timmoritz.hector(a)wikipedia.de --- Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://www.wikimedia.de Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Help us! http://wikimediafoundation.org --- Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche oder rechtlich geschütze Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. This e-mail may contain confidential or priviliged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notivy the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.

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Fwd: Teahouse spec and mock-ups
by Matthew Flaschen 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

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Introducing Beta Features
by Fabrice Florin 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Hi all, We're pleased to announce Beta Features [1], a new program that lets you test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released for everyone. Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming software and give feedback to help improve them. This special preference page lets designers and engineers experiment with new features on a broad scale, but not in a disruptive manner. Beta Features is ready for testing now on MediaWiki.org [2]. This Thursday, we plan to also deploy it on Wikimedia Commons and MetaWiki. After careful testing, we aim to release it on all wikis worldwide on 21 November, 2013. Here are the first features you can test this week: * Media Viewer — view images in large size or full screen [3] * VisualEditor Formulæ — edit algebra or equations on your pages [4] * Typography Refresh — make text more readable (coming Thursday) [5] Would you like to try out BetaFeatures now? After you log in on MediaWiki.org, a small 'Beta' link will appear next to your 'Preferences'. Click on it to see features you can test, check the ones you want, then click 'Save'. Learn more on the BetaFeatures page. [1] After you've tested Beta Features, please let us know what you think on our discussion page [6] -- or report any bugs on Bugzilla [7]. For technical documentation, visit the BetaFeatures extension page. [8]. You're also welcome to join our IRC office hours chat on Friday, 8 November at 10:30am PST, 18:30 UTC. [9] Beta Features was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Design, Multimedia and VisualEditor teams. Along with other developers, we will be adding new features to this experimental program every few weeks. For now, we'd like to thank some key team members who made this project possible: Ed Sanders, Jon Robson, Gergő Tisza, May Galloway, Vibha Bamba, Aaron Schulz, Brion Vibber, Bryan Davis, Chris Steipp, Greg Grossmeier, Keegan Peterzell, Quim Gil, Guillaume Paumier, Erik Moeller, Rob Lanphier, Howie Fung and Tomasz Finc, to name but a few. We're also very grateful to all the community and other team members who helped create this system — and look forward to many more productive collaborations in the future. :) Enjoy, and don't forget to let us know what you think! Fabrice, James, Mark and Jared Wikimedia Engineering and Product Group [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/About_Beta_Features [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatu… [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features [7] http://wmbug.com/new?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=BetaFeatures [8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BetaFeatures [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia

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English Wikipedia considering a Drafts namespace
by Steven Walling 08 Nov '13

08 Nov '13

Relevant discussion at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Proposed_n… Fortuitously, my team has just started research and design work related to article creation fixes. We won't be starting development immediately by any means, but you can check out what we've written so far at: - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_article_creation and - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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Re: [EE] [Analytics] Analytics slave for s6 not replicating
by Dario Taraborelli 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

cross-posting to the internal research + ee lists as other public graphs for these wikis might be affected by the replication issue. Thanks for the heads up, Christian. Dario On Nov 1, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Christian Aistleitner <christian(a)quelltextlich.at> wrote: > Hi, > > just a quick heads up that the analytics slave for s6 (frwiki, jawiki, > ruwiki) seems to not be replicating since 2013-10-28 ~07:15. I filed > an RT ticket. But if your scripts rely on the slave, expect the > numbers to be off until the problem has been fixed. > > We know that at least the following graphs (and corresponding CSVs) > are affected: > http://gp.wmflabs.org/graphs/active_editors_total > http://gp.wmflabs.org/graphs/frwiki_editor_counts > http://gp.wmflabs.org/graphs/jawiki_editor_counts > http://gp.wmflabs.org/graphs/ruwiki_editor_counts > > We'll rerun data aggregation for them after the problem has been > fixed. So expect the numbers for >=2013-10-28 to jump after the fix. > > Best regards, > Christian > > > > -- > ---- quelltextlich e.U. ---- \\ ---- Christian Aistleitner ---- > Companies' registry: 360296y in Linz > Christian Aistleitner > Gruendbergstrasze 65a Email: christian(a)quelltextlich.at > 4040 Linz, Austria Phone: +43 732 / 26 95 63 > Fax: +43 732 / 26 95 63 > Homepage: http://quelltextlich.at/ > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics

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