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Not qualified to edit Wikipedia
by Quim Gil 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

This weekend I was at the Wikimedia stand in https://fosdem.org (+5000 free software geeks in Brussels). We asked every single person stopping by whether they had edited Wikipedia. The majority had not, thinking that they were not really qualified, or not knowing where to start. We showed them the "Help out" section at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_portal, which nobody had seen before, and they found it interesting. However, a significant minority had edited, but the conversation always had this pattern: - Have you edited Wikipedia? - Yes... (silence), but then my edits were gone (shrug with a kind of embarrassed smile). I didn't ask, but the average impression these people left me was that they believed that maybe they were not qualified to edit Wikipedia after all. What a missed opportunity for Wikimedia!!! During the whole weekend I only found one successful regular editor that was not involved in other Wikimedia activities. And one photographer that contributed to Commons contests. I'm not saying those reverts / deletions were wrong. However, maybe a better UI would not send new editors to a cliff so consistently? People seem to understand the benefit of starting with "Help out" types of action as a training, if only they knew such thing existed. Also, would it be useful to warn new editors adding more than NNN characters about the likely need of citations? PS: and another article about forking/federating Wikipedia as an alternative to deletionism http://blog.jonudell.net/2015/01/22/a-federated-wikipedia/ -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Collaboration team scrum notes, Tues Feb 3
by Danny Horn 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

*Matt*: Reviewed a core patch for Nuria about generating random IDs Put up two patches for GlobalUserPage issue Reviewed Today: Code review, start with Matthias' pagination patch Finalize GlobalUserPage *Erik*: Category support is mostly ready to go. Found a problem with moderation actions -- the links still appear even if the topic is invisible. Fixed that, going to code review today. Today: finish up category support, reviewing Matthias' Echo patch Erik has done a review of Matthias' search patches, comfortable with merging most of them if Nik & Chad are okay with them. Matt will ping Nik & Chad today for an update. The diacritics patch that improves signature detection looks good. There are some other issues, including users who link to subpages, but that's more a feature request than a bug. Erik & Matt will work together on P1 - Translatewiki problems. *Bug triage*: T88448 -- reported by Chris, NewPagesFeed broken -- Erik can't reproduce it, but Matt can. Matt will move it into the sprint, should only take an hour or so. Matthias has been traveling back from SF.

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Collaboration team scrum notes, Mon Feb 2
by Danny Horn 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

*Matt*: Vision quest meeting with Editing team, we're going to put in a spike card to figure out MVP Put in remaineder of Jquery upgrade fixes Worked on issue - red links for global user page extension. Taking a little longer than expected. Put up a fix for Phabricator notifications not going to IRC. Today: Finish global user page fix, then code review. *Matthias*: Fixed diacritics bug (Catalan) Working on P4, spike for notifications not sending. *Erik*: Working on P2 - Category support Reverting fix, to make links come from the topic rather than the board. This will help with moving topics between boards. (very interesting sounding discussion that I couldn't hear at all) talked to Aaron Schulz about a secondary data center. There's problems with our cacheing, and we'll have to re-evaluate how we're using it. We should probably move our cacheing to the database for now.

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Collab team scrum notes, Fri Jan 30
by Danny Horn 30 Jan '15

30 Jan '15

*Matt*: Worked with Bernd on Flow & Echo, showed him the ropes Looked at Echo test failure, Erik fixed it Fixed git commit problem Fixed about half of the JQuery issues, will fix the rest shortly Then: look at hiring backlog & code review *Matthias*: Worked on pagination on topic & post history, that's in Gerrit Lots of code review Working on Echo mentions notification bug *Erik*: Looked at lots of candidates, approved one to go forward Fixed a problem with Echo tests that was causing failures Went to Architecture brainstorming meeting

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Collab team scrum notes, Thurs Jan 29
by Danny Horn 29 Jan '15

29 Jan '15

We had our quarterly review today: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/presentation/d/1TcwzkCDxOKLbmvVZaVK… *Erik*: Fixed bug for Beta Labs -- database filling, it's in code review Updated two patches in code review with -1, they're up for review again Reviewing interview candidates, more Cherry-picked all Co-op fixes, they're good to go! Today: Parsoid/services quarterly review More interview stuff Code review Matthias' search work *Matt*: Change to OfficeWiki config for Sherry Reviewed VE/Parsoid patch, ready to merge Updated API docs based on Dev Summit Enabled Flow on test page for research Reviewed Qunit mobile test, ready to merge *Triage*: Community members helped us do our spike for the Echo mentions bugs, much appreciated. T87446 -- JQuery error affecting unit tests, filed as unbreak now -- both VE and Echo. We'll need to fix it. T75426 -- Comments w diacritics doesn't generate notifications. Important for Portuguese - put into this sprint.

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Collab team Flow scrum notes, Fri Jan 23
by Danny Horn 23 Jan '15

23 Jan '15

*Matthias*: Issue came up on En.wp yesterday -- someone moved an article page into the Topic namespace, and couldn't move it back. Matthias wrote a patch; Greg says okay to deploy it today. We can't currently find the page -- it's possible that it's been deleted. We''ll have to move it back (even if it's deleted) to the right namespace -- Matthias will look into it. Worked on lightncandy issue. Removed flag that was added in 0.18. Submitted a patch to lightncandy, we'll have to wait for it to be merged to us. Today: Worked on the moved page to topic namespace issue. Work on history pagination -- by the end of the day, it'll work on board history. Next working day, he'll make it work on topic history. *Matt*: Deployed 2 test pages on Portuguese. Looked into a Researcher user right that would let us see deleted content. Today: For Co-op: Configure WMF groups *Erik*: Lots of meetings & interviews. O4 - Flow fatal error in feedcontributions in code review, will get merged into core for next deployment. Did update on: summarize action should change to "Edit summary". Might need to knock it back for more work. Today: code review on Matthias' search code. Also: review and merge the Co-op bug today (T86612)

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Collab team scrum notes, Tues Jan 20
by Danny Horn 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

*Matt*: Did all the IE8 work, ended up fixing other stuff incl problem with handlebars. Reviewed Flow developer applications & tasks Fixed some Getting Started documentation Reviewed patch for thank extension so it doesn't keep breaking on mobile. *Erik*: Debugging reporting content link Reviewed Flow developer applications & tasks This morning, shipped ContentHandler to Config, so that's turned on everywhere. Today: Lots of meetings & interviews. After that, update patches with -1s. Matthias and Pau in SF starting tomorrow!

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Collab team scrum notes, Fri Jan 16
by Danny Horn 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

*Matt*: Worked on reported IE8 bug. Other bugs coming. WIP patch in code review. *Erik*: Worked on O5 - spike - managing Flow boards outside $wgFlowOccupyPages. It's going to be a pain. Matthias' search script is causing problems on Beta, Erik is containing it. Updating patches for O4 feedcontributions bug, also the Co-op's bug. I'm looking forward to seeing everybody in SF next week!

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X
by Pine W 17 Jan '15

17 Jan '15

Forwarding. Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "James Hare" <jamesmhare(a)gmail.com> Date: Jan 13, 2015 2:27 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X To: <lgbt(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, < wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Partnerships American Cultural North" <glam-us(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: (Standard apology for cross-posting.) Greetings everyone! I am pleased to announce a new project, WikiProject X, funded by a Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grant. WikiProject X's goal is to improve the experience of WikiProjects, which are subject-area (or goal-oriented) collaborative spaces on the English Wikipedia. By making WikiProjects easier to use and maintain, it will be easier to build sub-communities of like-minded people, giving editors a sense of community on a huge and daunting website like Wikipedia. This includes mechanisms for recruiting new participants and encouraging the creation of safe spaces where editors, new and experienced alike, can feel like they can participate in discussions without fear of intimidation or jargon. The project will begin with some research, both qualitative research in the form of interviews and case studies, and quantitative research based on Wikipedia’s database. Our focus will be on WikiProjects that have been successful in organizing editors, and learning more about what makes them work. Based on this research, we will develop new tools and interfaces that make WikiProjects easier to use and easier to maintain. Please note that this is an opt-in program for WikiProjects; no WikiProject will be required to make changes. I would like to invite the community to check out our new page on Wikipedia, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_X> (shortcut WP:WPX). There, you can share your experiences with WikiProjects and sign up to become a pilot tester. Community participation is crucial for the success of this project, and the more voices we hear, the better. If you want to sign up for more updates, sign up for our newsletter here: < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_X/Newsletter>. Please let me know if you have any questions. I am very much looking forward to working with everyone on making this project succeed! Cheers, James Hare Project Manager, WikiProject X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_X _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Collab team scrum notes, Thurs Jan 15
by Danny Horn 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

ToC is live on Mediawiki now! Feedback thread is here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:S9vyhwtxgz7z8ucf>. *Matt*: Patch to core was causing a timestamp problem, worked on that. Worked on IE8 bug (O3). Turns out there are some more IE8 problems as well, will fix those too. *Erik*: Yesterday, worked on Flow=enabled in flowinfo -- in code review. Spent time on O4 fatal error -- anybody with flow contribs, their contribs feed doesn't work. Also in code review. Doing code review on Matthias' code -- timestamps and hovers. Merged one, there's another coming. Will work on O5 -- spike about managing Flow boards outside $wgFlowOccupyPages. Is there a flow-admin page? How do you move or delete a board? *Matthias*: T67088: O2. No pagination on history pages Submitted small patch to allow CI to test Flow with other extensions (finally) merged patch that fixes content diff lengths Tomorrow: continue history pages pagination

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