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stats.wikimedia.org/wikistats
by Matthew Flaschen 29 Jul '15

29 Jul '15

Analytics needs to know which reports at stats.wikimedia.org people are using. They will be decommissioning it around the end of the year, but plan to re-implement/port the most important reports. Please comment at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107175 if you use any in particular. Aggregate User Agent information (which I think is the one I've used the most) is already listed. Matt

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IRC channel logging starting August 3rd
by Roan Kattouw 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

Starting Monday August 3rd, 2015 (a little over a week from now), we will start publicly logging the #wikimedia-collaboration IRC channel. Anything that anyone says in this channel will be visible publicly and forever(*) at http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-collaboration <http://bots.wmflabs.org/%7Ewm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-collaboration> A number of people have requested this, but because IRC logging is a controversial subject for some people, Matt and I decided to announce it well in advance. We will also announce this in the channel topic, and once logging is live a link to the log will appear in the channel topic as well.

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Weekly deployment update
by Roan Kattouw 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

Over the next few days, wmf14 will be deployed to WMF wikis. The highlights of what's new in wmf14 are: - WikiLove is no longer broken <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95464> on Flow boards. - WikiLove change tags now appear in recent changes again <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105444>. - The WikiLove button is now hidden when JavaScript is not enabled <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T49624>. - Flow topic summaries now list their authors <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103580>. - Flow topic creations no longer appear twice <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94360> in recent changes and history. - The template used to create mentions when using VE in Flow ({{ping}} on most wikis) is changing <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/223363/>, so we can get rid of the colon at the end <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99891>. The default name for the new template is {{FlowMention}}, but this name can be translated on TranslateWiki. We will create a standard version of this template on all wikis where it doesn't exist yet. - Special:EnableFlow and future Flow conversions now use a translated message <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93395> for naming archive subpages. Language communities should translate this message on TranslateWiki, and individual wikis will be able to override it <https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Flow-conversion-archive-page-name-f…> . Despite the fact that Wikimania is happening this week, wmf14 will follow the standard deployment schedule: - Tuesday 11am-1pm PDT: deployment to test wikis ("group 0"); for Flow, these are testwiki <https://test.wikipedia.org/>, test2wiki <https://test2.wikipedia.org/> and mediawiki.org <https://www.mediawiki.org/> - Wednesday 11am-1pm PDT: deployment to non-Wikipedia wikis ("group 1"); for Flow, these are meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/>, officewiki <https://office.wikimedia.org/> and wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/> - Thursday 11am-1pm PDT: deployment to Wikipedias ("group 2"); for Flow, these are the English <https://en.wikipedia.org/>, French <https://fr.wikipedia.org/>, Hebrew <https://he.wikipedia.org/>, Portugese <https://pt.wikipedia.org/>, Catalan <https://ca.wikipedia.org/>, Telugu <https://te.wikipedia.org/>, Russian <https://ru.wikipedia.org/>, Punjabi <https://pa.wikipedia.org/> and Chinese <https://zh.wikipedia.org/> Wikipedias

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WikiProject X and workflows
by Matthew Flaschen 17 Jul '15

17 Jul '15

James Hare put together some information at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_X/Workspace which is relevant to Flow workflows, especially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_X/Workspace#Solutions_.… . Matt

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wmf13 deployment update
by Roan Kattouw 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

I try to send out these emails on Tuesdays, apologies for the delay. Over the next few days, wmf13 will be deployed to WMF wikis. We mostly worked on small fixes this week and on the cawiki deployment, so there aren't that many exciting things in wmf13. Some of the more noteworthy things new in wmf13 are: - The table of contents dropdown ("Browse topics") in Flow was rewritten <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96890> and now looks a bit different. It also no longer appears in non-JS mode (where it already didn't work <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86844>). - Flow diff views now have an undo link <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101738> that lets you undo an edit to a post (undo links were already present in the history view). Diff views also no longer have <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/222356/> duplicate "Older edit" / "Newer edit" links. - Single lines in the grouped Recent Changes now have links <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104399> that let you patrol Flow posts, just like multi-line groups already did. wmf13 follows the standard deployment timeline, which is as follows: - Tuesday 11am-1pm PDT: deployment to test wikis ("group 0"); for Flow, these are testwiki <https://test.wikipedia.org/>, test2wiki <https://test2.wikipedia.org/> and mediawiki.org <https://www.mediawiki.org/> - Wednesday 11am-1pm PDT: deployment to non-Wikipedia wikis ("group 1"); for Flow, these are meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/>, officewiki <https://office.wikimedia.org/> and wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/> - Thursday 11am-1pm PDT: deployment to Wikipedias ("group 2"); for Flow, these are the English <https://en.wikipedia.org/>, French <https://fr.wikipedia.org/>, Hebrew <https://he.wikipedia.org/>, Portugese <https://pt.wikipedia.org/>, Catalan <https://ca.wikipedia.org/>, Telugu <https://te.wikipedia.org/>, Russian <https://ru.wikipedia.org/>, Punjabi <https://pa.wikipedia.org/> and Chinese <https://zh.wikipedia.org/> Wikipedias In other news, we also plan to convert most of the remaining LiquidThreads pages on mediawiki.org to Flow soon, now that the last email spam bug <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104087> is fixed. If everything goes well, this will probably happen late Thursday / early Friday UTC. We have already converted almost 300 pages; we plan to convert all remaining pages tomorrow, except for the Support desk <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk> and VisualEditor Feedback <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Feedback> pages. See the Phabricator task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92303> for details.

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Triaging the Echo board
by Kunal Mehta 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

Hi, As your inbox might have noticed, I spent some time triaging the Echo board <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/echo/>. I didn't really change priorities, mainly focused on the columns. The board now has 5 columns: * Backlog - default, untriaged. Should be empty most of the time, it isn't right now because I didn't finish. * Needs plan - still under discussion, doesn't have a clear direction or obvious reproduction steps. * Needs code - Ready for someone to pick up and write code! May not always be code related though (ex: "some images need to be reversed for RTL languages"). * In progress - in progress, should always have an assignee. * External - Things related to Echo we should be aware of, but not necessarily something we need to work on. This is based off of the board we've been using for the MediaWiki-API[1] project, which I've found generally works well. If I mis-triaged stuff, please re-triage as necessary :) [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-api/ -- Kunal

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Weekly deployment update
by Roan Kattouw 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

I try to send out these emails on Tuesdays, apologies for the delay. Over the next few days, wmf12 will be deployed to WMF wikis. We mostly worked on small fixes this week and on the cawiki deployment, so there aren't that many exciting things in wmf12. Some of the more noteworthy things new in wmf12 are: - Timestamp link in grouped recent changes now points somewhere useful <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102021> - Topic history pages are now full-width <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93028> wmf12 follows the standard deployment timeline, which is as follows: - Tuesday 11am-1pm PDT: deployment to test wikis ("group 0"); for Flow, these are testwiki <https://test.wikipedia.org/>, test2wiki <https://test2.wikipedia.org/> and mediawiki.org <https://www.mediawiki.org/> - Wednesday 11am-1pm PDT: deployment to non-Wikipedia wikis ("group 1"); for Flow, these are meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/>, officewiki <https://office.wikimedia.org/> and wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/> - Thursday 11am-1pm PDT: deployment to Wikipedias ("group 2"); for Flow, these are the English <https://en.wikipedia.org/>, French <https://fr.wikipedia.org/>, Hebrew <https://he.wikipedia.org/>, Portugese <https://pt.wikipedia.org/>, Catalan <https://ca.wikipedia.org/>, Telugu <https://te.wikipedia.org/>, Russian <https://ru.wikipedia.org/>, Punjabi <https://pa.wikipedia.org/> and Chinese <https://zh.wikipedia.org/> Wikipedias In non-wmf12-related news, we also enabled <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99117> Flow in the Viquipèdia Discussió namespace on Catalan Wikipedia yesterday. This happened between 21:55 and 22:15 UTC on June 30.

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