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Small issue on German Wikipedia
by Steven Walling 24 Nov '13

24 Nov '13

Hey all, I know there are some Wikimedia DE people on this list as well as some active German Wikipedians, so I thought I would ask... If you look at the signup form in German ( https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Anmelden&type=signup) you'll notice that the link to the username policy is very long. This message, which you can view at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Createacct-helpusername was customized locally by a German admin. I'd recommend that this message be shortened so that it doesn't overflow in to the next line like that. The message is designed to be on the right hand side of the label "Benutzername", and is meant to not be an entire sentence like that. Even something as short as "Help" could work I think. If anyone has recommendations for the easiest way to correct this, I'd appreciate your advice very much. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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Conference Alert: ICEEE2014 - Malaysia
by Jackie Blanco 23 Nov '13

23 Nov '13

The Third International Conference on E-Learning and E-Technologies in Education (ICEEE2014) March 18-20, 2014 Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The conference is part of The Second World Congress on Computing and Information Technology (WCIT2014) which aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications. The event will be held over three days, with presentations delivered by researchers from the international community, including presentations from keynote speakers and state-of-the-art lectures. TOPICS ARE NOT LIMITED TO: - Accessibility to Disabled Users - Assessment Software Tools - Authoring Tools and Content Development - Collaborative Learning - Computer-Aided Assessment - Distance Education - E-Learning Hardware and Software - E-Learning Success Cases - Errors in E-Learning - Higher Education vs. Vocational Training - Joint Degrees - Metrics and Performance Measurement - Ontologies and Meta-Data Standards - Security Aspects - Standards and Interoperability - Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning - Web-based Learning, Wikis and Blogs - AV-Communication and Multimedia - Blended Learning - Community Building - Context Dependent Learning - Course Design and E-Learning Curriculae - Digital Libraries for E-Learning - Distance and E-Learning in a Global Context - E-Learning Platforms, Portals - E-Testing and new Test Theories - Educating the Educators - Groupware Tools - Immersive Learning - Intelligent Tutoring Systems - International Partnerships in Teaching - Learning Organization - Medical Applications - Mobile Learning (M-learning) - Teacher Evaluation - Technology Support for Pervasive Learning - Virtual Labs and Virtual Classrooms BEST SELECTED PAPERS will be published in the INDEXED JOURNALS: - IJDIWC (ISSN: 2225-658X; IndexCopernicus, DOAJ, etc.) - IJCSDF (ISSN: 2305-0012; Scirus, EBSCOhost, etc.) - IJEEI (ISSN: 1947-8585; Cabell's Directories, DBLP, etc.) - IJISSS (ISSN: 1935-5688; INSPEC, SCOPUS, etc.) - IJESMA (ISSN: 1941-627X; Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, etc.) - Journal of Higher Education (e-ISSN 2146-7978) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: �� * Dr. Jacek Stando, Technical University of Lodz, Poland Keynote Title: An Intelligent Tutoring System Prototype for Learning Math * Dr. Jan Platos, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Keynote Title: The Parallelization of the Bio-inspired algorithm on the GPU * Dr. Katrin Y. Franke, Gj�vik University College, Norway PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: - Researchers are encouraged to submit their work electronically. - Full paper must be submitted (Abstracts are not acceptable). - Submitted paper should not exceed 15 pages, including illustrations. - All papers must be without page numbers. - Papers should be submitted electronically as pdf format without author(s) name. - Paper submission link: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/iceee2014/openconf/openconf.php � IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline: February 18, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: February 25, 2014 or 4 weeks from the submission date Camera Ready Submission: March 8, 2014 Registration: March 8, 2014 Conference Dates: March 18-20, 2014 Enquiries: cn2014(a)sdiwc.net Website: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/iceee2014/

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Re: [EE] [Analytics] Notifications dashboard
by Dario Taraborelli 23 Nov '13

23 Nov '13

A short post-mortem of the problem with missing notification data. tl;dr: the drop is not a real one and is being fixed. As some of you noticed, we had a sudden drop in Echo notification counts across all wikis for some categories of events as of November 7 [1]. The drop was only in the EventLogging data, not in the actual delivery of notifications on site or by mail. Here’s what happened: * a change was made to Echo’s instrumentation to log the revid associated with a notification [2] * when the change got merged, the schema ID was not updated in the config file * as a result, events started getting validated against a stale schema, which caused most types of notifications (anything except for page-linked and welcome) to fail validation These are the next steps we’re considering * Benny wrote a patch to bump the schema id [3] it hasn’t been pushed to production yet, but when it does we will have valid data in the MySQL log DB again (in a table called Echo_6081131) * We have a copy of the raw events stored as JSON on stat1, we may want to restore this data and import it into the DB * After the new log is in production, we will update the scripts generating the data dumps to query a union of tables (across multiple schema IDs). This is one of the potential limitations of using SQL as a store from which to extract EventLogging data to generate dashboards. * We will need to figure out whether passing additional fields that are not required and not specified in a schema should invalidate an event or we should relax the validation criteria. Dario [1] http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/graphs/frwiki_echo_category [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46045 [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/96901/ On Nov 21, 2013, at 2:51 PM, Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > yep, the majority of events are failing to validate against Schema:Echo since Nov 7. I’ll send a summary of our findings in a moment. > > On Nov 21, 2013, at 2:00 PM, Ori Livneh <ori(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> On Nov 21, 2013, at 12:50 PM, Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Jan Ainali <jan.ainali(a)wikimedia.se> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> What happened with the Notifications statistiscs on Swedish WP on Nov 8? >>>> >>>> http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/dashboards/svwiki-features >>>> >>>> No thanks, mentions, talk, reverts or review notfications since then, only >>>> link and system. >>> >>> >>> This problem is not unique to svwiki, you can see it also in de, it, etc. >>> >>> Dario will know more I think? >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: >>> good catch, I’ll look into this >> >> ERROR:root:Unable to decode: 159611 EventLogging >> {"event":{"version":"1.5","eventId":1641964,"notificationType":"reverted","notificationGroup":"negative","sender":"XXX","recipientUserId":XXX,"recipientEditCount":XXX,"deliveryMethod":"web","revisionId":XXX},"schema":"Echo","revision":XXX,"clientValidated":false,"wiki":"frwiki","recvFrom":"mw1163","timestamp":1385071015,"webHost":"fr.wikipedia.org"} >> ValidationError: Additional properties are not allowed (u'revisionId' >> was unexpected) >> >> (XXX = redacted) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >

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Beta Features Launch Worldwide
by Fabrice Florin 22 Nov '13

22 Nov '13

Hi folks, We're happy to let you know that the first version of Beta Features (1) has now been deployed worldwide on all wikis. Beta Features is a new program that lets you test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released widely. Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming changes and help designers and engineers make improvements based on their feedback. This first worldwide release includes these features: * Media Viewer — view images in large size (2) (7) * Typography Refresh — make text more readable (3) * Near this page — see what other pages are nearby (4) * VisualEditor Opt-in — edit pages without having to learn wiki code (5 - see below) * VisualEditor Formulæ — edit algebra or equations on your pages (6 - see below) (Note that Visual Editor Opt-in is only on a couple hundred sites where it was already available, but not enabled by default.) We invite you to test these new features on your sites and let us know what you think. You can share your feedback about this Beta Features program on its discussion page (8) -- or about individual features on their respective discussion pages (see links 2-6 below). And if you find any technical bugs, please report them on Bugzilla (9). We also invite you to join tomorrow's office hours IRC chat, this Friday, 22 November, 2013 at 18:00 UTC. (10) Many thanks to all the community and team members who made this program possible! We hope it can help us improve Wikipedia together and provide a better experience for all our users around the world. Enjoy, Fabrice -- on behalf of the Multimedia, Visual Editor and Design teams (1) About Beta Features: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer (2) About Media Viewer v0.1: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer (3) About Typography Refresh: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update (4) About Nearby Pages: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Nearby_Pages (5) About Visual Editor Opt-in: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/General (6) About VisualEditor Formulæ: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae (7) Media Viewer - New Version 0.2: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo (This new version displays larger images, for a more immersive experience. It is now on MediaWiki.org only and will be released to all wikis in early December.) (8) Discuss Beta Features: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features (9) Report a Bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions… (10) Office hours IRC chat - Friday, 22 November at 18:00 UTC: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours P.S.: If any community member would like to hide the 'Beta' link in their personal menu, they can easily remove it by going to their personal style page [[Special:MyPage/common.css]] and pasting in this CSS rule on a line by itself: "#pt-betafeatures { display: none; }" (do not include the quotes). ____________________________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)

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Notifications Update
by Fabrice Florin 22 Nov '13

22 Nov '13

Hi folks, Here's a quick update on today's notifications release on the English Wikipedia. The main features this week are new links to diff pages, which were requested by a number of power users for talkpage messages (1), as well as for mentions and thanks notifications. These diff links now appear both on the notifications flyout, near the timestamp ('View changes') -- as well as in the plain text emails. We are now working on a couple more features in coming weeks: * HTML Email notifications (2) * Improved Notification Structure (3) * More Metrics Dashboards (4) Once these final features are done, we plan to start deploying Notifications on more wiki projects, starting with Meta and a couple non-English Wikipedias. In the fall, we hope to take on more features, as time and resources allow. For more information about our next steps for this project, check our 2013 plan for the E2 team (5). I would like to take this opportunity to thank Ryan Kaldari for all his fine work on Notifications: he has now joined the Mobile team, where I am sure he will continue to amaze us with cool new features. Many thanks as well to Benny Situ, who will be leading our development work on Notifications going forward, and is the man to talk to about engineering questions for this project. Please let us know if you have any questions about notifications. Enjoy the new features! Fabrice, on behalf of the E2 team (1) Bugzilla Diff Links - Bug #48183: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48183 (2) HTML Email Spec: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_(Notifications)/Feature_requirements#HTM… (3) Improved Notification Structure: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_(Notifications)/Feature_requirements#Imp… (4) Notifications Metrics Dashboards: http://toolserver.org/~dartar/en/echo/ (5) Editor Engagement Features Plan: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editor_Engagement/2013_strategy_planning_(Fea… _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)

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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 13 Nov '13

13 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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