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Devs, link your GitHub account!
by Dan Garry 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

I'd like to encourage every engineer in the Mobile Team to take five minutes, go to GitHub, and link your Wikimedia email address with your GitHub account. Once you've done that, all your commits that are merged will be automatically attributed to you the repository GitHub mirrors. This is particularly important for the Mobile Apps Team as we love to point people to GitHub so they have a one-stop shop to get their development environment set up, and there are few people missing from the list of contributors to the apps! Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation

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[Apps] Recruiting volunteer devs at the MediaWiki Developer Summit
by Dan Garry 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Hey everyone, The apps don't have much a volunteer developer base when you compare them to other MediaWiki projects. This is partially because the technology stack is different (Java/Objective C app, as opposed to PHP website). But we have lots of eager volunteer developers out there, and we should engage with them! To help accomplish the above, I've signed myself up to give an intro to mobile app development at the MediaWiki Developer Summit in January. It'd be great if those engineers on the mobile apps team who are interested and attending the summit could sign themselves up as well, so that we can help people who are interested. Or, if you're not an engineer but you're attending and you're curious, sign up too! Here's the link: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015#Developing_m… Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation

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moar section edit icons
by Amir E. Aharoni 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

Hi, Is there a reason why section edit icons only appear at <h2>s in MobileFrontend? When editing from my phone, I'd love to have them on all sections, but maybe I'm missing something.

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WikiGrok deployed
by Max Semenik 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Hi, WikiGrok[0] has been successfully deployed to the English Wikipedia. Along with it a first campaign[1] was deployed. Now database is being slowly populated with suggestions: MariaDB [enwiki_p]> select page_title, pp_value from page, page_props where pp_page=page_id and pp_propname='wikigrok_questions_v1' limit 100; +-------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | page_title | pp_value | +-------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Richard_Branson | a:1:{s:6:"author";a:2:{s:8:"property";s:4:"P106";s:9:"questions";a:1:{s:7:"Q482980";s:6:"author";}}} | | Tina_Fey | a:1:{s:6:"author";a:2:{s:8:"property";s:4:"P106";s:9:"questions";a:1:{s:7:"Q482980";s:6:"author";}}} | | Jon_Stewart | a:1:{s:6:"author";a:2:{s:8:"property";s:4:"P106";s:9:"questions";a:1:{s:7:"Q482980";s:6:"author";}}} | | Bill_Maher | a:1:{s:6:"author";a:2:{s:8:"property";s:4:"P106";s:9:"questions";a:1:{s:7:"Q482980";s:6:"author";}}} | | Jeff_Foxworthy | a:1:{s:6:"author";a:2:{s:8:"property";s:4:"P106";s:9:"questions";a:1:{s:7:"Q482980";s:6:"author";}}} | | Evadne_Price | a:1:{s:6:"author";a:2:{s:8:"property";s:4:"P106";s:9:"questions";a:1:{s:7:"Q482980";s:6:"author";}}} | | Dominic_Guard | a:1:{s:6:"author";a:2:{s:8:"property";s:4:"P106";s:9:"questions";a:1:{s:7:"Q482980";s:6:"author";}}} | | Dilsa_Demirbag_Sten | a:1:{s:6:"author";a:2:{s:8:"property";s:4:"P106";s:9:"questions";a:1:{s:7:"Q482980";s:6:"author";}}} | | J._Douglas_MacMillan | a:1:{s:6:"author";a:2:{s:8:"property";s:4:"P106";s:9:"questions";a:1:{s:7:"Q482980";s:6:"author";}}} | | Carol_Bowman | a:1:{s:6:"author";a:2:{s:8:"property";s:4:"P106";s:9:"questions";a:1:{s:7:"Q482980";s:6:"author";}}} | | Lianella_Carell | a:1:{s:6:"author";a:2:{s:8:"property";s:4:"P106";s:9:"questions";a:1:{s:7:"Q482980";s:6:"author";}}} | | G._K._Reddy | a:1:{s:6:"author";a:2:{s:8:"property";s:4:"P106";s:9:"questions";a:1:{s:7:"Q482980";s:6:"author";}}} | | Liù_Bosisio | a:1:{s:6:"author";a:2:{s:8:"property";s:4:"P106";s:9:"questions";a:1:{s:7:"Q482980";s:6:"author";}}} | | Matilde_Rodríguez_Cabo | a:1:{s:6:"author";a:2:{s:8:"property";s:4:"P106";s:9:"questions";a:1:{s:7:"Q482980";s:6:"author";}}} | +-------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 14 rows in set (0.42 sec) Pages are getting updated when edited (null edit works, but not action=purge). According to estimations made with WikiData Query[2], the number of potentially affected pages is approximately 33,000. If really needed, we could whip up a script to null-edit these pages from server side in a controlled manner, but I would like to have more data on performance and memory consumption first. == Monitoring == * Graphite: MediaWiki -> WikiGrok * Exceptions from WikiData: type:mobile in Logstash. == Firefighting == Most of potentially performance-scary/error causing code with can be disabled by commenting out $wgWikiGrokSlowCampaigns in wmf-config/mobile.php. If shit hits fan really hard, whole extension can be disabled through the usual means, with $wmgUseWikiGrok. == Next steps == I'm working on DB storage for questions[3] which will allow us to avoid abusing page_props and give features such as "find me pages that could use this type of fixes" and "find me a random page to fix". ---- [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiGrok [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/170453/ [2] http://wdq.wmflabs.org/ [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/170263 -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])

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Android Wikipedia apps releases
by Bernd Sitzmann 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Dear Android app users, I just published new beta[1] and production[2] app releases, which should be available through the store in a couple of hours. The changes are just bug fixes. No new features this time. Here are the changes: - Fixed possible crash during editing. - Fixed possible crash when retrieving Nearby pages. - Fix possible crash when detached from activity. - Fix top padding for 2.3 devices. Top of the screen was cut off. -Bernd [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.beta [2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia

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Dip in mobile beta opt-in
by Ryan Kaldari 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

http://mobile-reportcard.wmflabs.org/#other-graphs-tab Around the beginning of October our beta opt-in level declined significantly and has stayed at the new level. Did we change the UI? Just curious. Kaldari

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Google Code-In 2014: Become a mentor and add tasks!
by Andre Klapper 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Hi, Google Code-In (GCI) will soon take place again - a contest for 13-17 year old students to contribute to free software projects. Wikimedia wants to take part again. Last year's GCI results were surprisingly good - see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2013 We need your help: 1) Go to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Mentors.27_corner and read the information there. If something is unclear, ask! 2) Add yourself to the table of mentors on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Contacting_Wikimedia_men… - the more mentors are listed the better our chances are that Google accepts us. 3) Please take ten minutes and go through open recent tickets in https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org in your area of interest. If you see self-contained, non-controversial issues with a clear approach which you can recommend to new developers and would mentor: Add the task to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Proposed_tasks Until Sunday November 12th, we need at least five tasks from each of these categories (plus some less technical beginner tasks as well): * Code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code * Documentation/Training: Tasks related to creating/editing documents and helping others learn more - no translation tasks * Outreach/research: Tasks related to community management, outreach/marketing, or studying problems and recommending solutions * Quality Assurance: Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality * User Interface: Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction Google wants every organization to have 100+ tasks available on December 1st. Last year, we had 273 tasks in the end. Note that you could also create rather generic tasks, for example fixing two interface messages from the list of dependencies of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38638 Helpful Bugzilla links: * Reports that were proposed for GCI last year and are still open: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALL%20whiteboard%3Ag… * Open Wikipedia Mobile App tickets created in the last six months (if I got your products and components right): https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_statu… * 5 existing Wikipedia Mobile App "easy" tickets (are they still valid? Are they really self-contained, non-controversial issues with a clear approach? Could some of them be GCI tasks that you would mentor? If so, please tag them as described above!): https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_statu… * Open Mobile platform tickets created in the last six months (if I got your products and components right): https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_statu… * 4 existing Mobile platform "easy" tickets (are they still valid? Are they really self-contained, non-controversial issues with a clear approach? Could some of them be GCI tasks that you would mentor? If so, please tag them as described above!): https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_statu… Could you imagine mentoring some of these tasks? Thank you for your help in reaching out to new contributors and making GCI a success again! Please ask if you have questions. Cheers, andre PS: And in a future Phabricator world, Bugzilla tickets with the 'easy' keyword will become Phabricator tasks with the 'easy' project. -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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