EE August 2015

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by Roan Kattouw

Over the next few days, wmf20 will be deployed to WMF wikis. The highlights of what's new in wmf20 are: - "Recently active topics" is now the default sort order <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108314> in Flow. - Searching the Topic namespace doesn't return any results, so it has been disabled <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109211> to avoid confusion. - A number of editor-related bugs and regressions in Flow were fixed: - Clicking "Reply" on a nested reply no longer opens multiple editors <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109748> - CAPTCHAs no longer appear as HTML <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109554> and can actually be submitted - Clicking the "preview" link in the wikitext editor scrolled to the top <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109664> - When switching between editors, the editor retains focus, and the cursor is put at the end <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97290>, not at the beginning - Translations for the Topic namespace were added in Western Balochi and updated in Mazandarani. Special page aliases were added for Persian. wmf20 is being rolled out according to the standard deployment schedule: - Tuesday 11am-1pm PDT (yesterday): 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 (about 2 hours ago): 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 (tomorrow): 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

8 years, 8 months

wmf19 deployment update

by Roan Kattouw

I apologize for not having sent these emails in a while. I'll send catch-up ones for wmf15 through wmf18 later today. But first, today's branch: wmf19. Over the next few days, wmf19 will be deployed to WMF wikis. The highlights of what's new in wmf19 are: - You can now expand the single topic view <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103584> to full width in Flow. - In Flow, posting a new topic, posting a new reply and editing a board's description now use the new, rewritten editor system <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/220665/>. This should only cause minor changes in appearance and behavior, but there may be bugs. Editing existing topics and replies, and editing summaries, still use the old editor system; they will be migrated to the new system later. Nice features of the new system include: - When switching from wikitext to VisualEditor <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101189> or vice versa <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97290>, the editor no longer loses focus. - You can cancel out of the editor by pressing Escape <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101178>. - If you click Cancel (or press Escape), then open the editor again, the text you wrote will still be there. - We fixed <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/231727/> a regression introduced in wmf14 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/221272/> that caused new Flow topics not to appear in the watchlist <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108396>. - Translations for the Topic namespace were added for Vietnamese (vi), Central Kurdish (ckb), Northern Luri (lrc), Mazandarani (mzn) and South Azerbaijani (azb), and the translation for Persian (fa) was corrected. wmf19 is being rolled out according to the standard deployment schedule: - Tuesday 11am-1pm PDT (6-8 hours ago): 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 (16-18 hours from now): 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

8 years, 8 months

Excluding topics from being linked to Wikidata

by Matthew Flaschen

There is a patch to exclude Flow Topics from being linked to Wikidata. I think this is fine (all talk namespaces are already excluded); just floating it in case I'm missing something (see https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/229197/). Matt

8 years, 8 months

Standup update

by Matthew Flaschen

Sorry for missing standup. My update is: * Figured out the InvalidDataException (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108972), worked around that symptom for the board view (it should expire out of cache for the topic view), and put up and deployed a patch to prevent it happening again. * Finished the support desk conversion. :) Non-Flow stuff * Worked on and put up a patch supporting the change to one year login expiration for 'Keep me logged in' (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109031 related to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T68699). * Merged Erik's patch to put BatchRowUpdate and friends in core. These are classes from Echo that we use all the time for maint scripts. Matt

8 years, 8 months

Fwd: Seeking comments and translations for proposed video project

by Pine W

(Cross-posting) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 1:56 PM Subject: Seeking comments and translations for proposed video project Dear Wikimedia colleagues: I am developing a proposal for a video series that's designed to introduce Wikimedia to new contributors (particularly in GLAM and education programs), and to motivate them to participate in the community in a constructive way. I would appreciate your input. The video is intended for translation into multiple languages; there are already volunteers for Spanish and German translation. The proposal's main draft page is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_vid… The proposal talk page is here; it includes a draft outline of specific subjects to cover: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants talk:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_video_to_introduce_Wikimedia Please note that the scope and budget of the project are still under consideration. At this point it would be especially helpful to have input on the subjects that the video should cover, and how best to cover them. This information will help as the project scope and budget are refined. Please add your questions and comments to the talk page. If you would like to support the project with your endorsement, please do so here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_vid… If you would like to volunteer to translate the video, please email me or comment on the talk page. Thanks and regards, Pine

8 years, 8 months

Flow disabled on English and Japanese Wikiversities due to namespace conflicts

by Kunal Mehta

I emergency disabled Flow on the English and Japanese Wikiversities due to conflicts with their "Topic" namespace and Flow making those pages inaccessible. As far as I can tell, fawikibooks and dewikivoyage *also* have namespace name conflicts but those pages are not broken...I've left Flow enabled there for now. Phab bug: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107846 -- Kunal

8 years, 8 months

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