Hi Folks,
We encourage each and everyone of you to create a program submission. You can submit an interactive workshop or panel, a lecture, a short lighting talk or a poster for our dedicated poster session. Submissions are catered to both onsite and online (live or pre-recorded) or a hybrid combination. We at the Core Organizing Team would like to see a program submission related to projects related to mobile devices.
The theme for this year's Wikimania is Diversity, Collaboration, Future. Topics that strengthen collaboration especially future-thinking topics like Wikimedia products and services on mobile devices are topics we like to see this year.
Session submissions for Wikimania 2023 are open until 28 March.
Visit the following links for further info:
Wiki page: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program/Submissions
Diff post: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/02/28/be-part-of-the-wikimania-2023-program/
Program Submission Form: https://pretalx.com/wm2023/cfp
Kind regards,
Butch Bustria
Chair, Program Subcommittee
Event lead, ESEAP Wikimania 2023 Core Organizing Team
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From: Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 4:45 AM
Subject: Service Decommission Notice: Mobile Content Service - July 2023
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
TL;DR: The legacy Mobile Content Service is going away in July 2023. Please
switch to Parsoid or another API before then to ensure service continuity.
Hello World,
I'm writing about a service decommission we hope to complete mid-July 2023.
The service to be decommissioned is the legacy Mobile Content Service
("MCS"), which is maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation's Content
Transform Team. We will be marking this service as deprecated soon.
We hope that with this notice, people will have ample time to update their
systems for use of other endpoints such as Parsoid [1] (n.b., MCS uses
Parsoid HTML).
The MCS endpoints are the ones with the relative URL path pattern
/page/mobile-sections* on the Wikipedias. For examples of the URLs see the
"Mobile" section on the online Swagger (OpenAPI) specification
documentation with matching URLs here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#/Mobile
== History ==
The Mobile Content Service ("MCS") is the historical aggregate service that
originally provided support for the article reading experience on the
Wikipedia for Android native app, as well as some other experiences. We
have noticed that there are other users of the service. We are not able to
determine all of the users, as it's hard to tell with confidence from the
web logs.
The Wikimedia Foundation had already transitioned the Wikipedia for
Android and iOS apps to the newer Page Content Service ("PCS") several
years ago. PCS has some similarities with MCS in terms of its mobility
focus, but it also has different request-response signatures in practice.
PCS, as with MCS, is intended to primarily satisfy Wikimedia
Foundation-maintained user experiences only, and so this is classified with
the "unstable" moniker.
== Looking ahead ==
Generally, as noted in the lead, we recommend that folks who use MCS (or
PCS, for that matter) switch over to Parsoid for accessing Wikipedia
article content programmatically for the most predictable service.
The HTML produced by Parsoid has a versioned specification [2] and because
Parsoid is accessed regularly by a number of components across the globe
tends to have fairly well cached responses. However, please note that
Parsoid may be subject to stricter rate limits that can apply under certain
traffic patterns.
At this point, I do also want to note that in order to keep up with
contemporary HTML standards, particularly those favoring accessibility and
machine readability enhancements, Parsoid HTML will undergo change as we
further converge parsing stacks [3]. Generally, you should expect iteration
on the Parsoid HTML spec, and of course as you may have come to appreciate
that the shape of HTML in practice can vary nontrivially wiki-by-wiki as
practices across wikis vary.
You may also want to consider Wikimedia Enterprise API options, which range
from no cost to higher volume access paid options.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise#Access
== Forking okay, but not recommended ==
Because MCS acts as a service aggregate and makes multiple backend API
calls, caveats can apply for those subresources - possibility of API
changes, deprecation, and the like. We do not recommend a plain fork of MCS
code because of the subresource fetch behavior. This said, of course you
are welcome to fork in a way compatible with MCS's license.
== Help spread the word ==
Although we are aware of the top two remaining consumers of MCS, we also
are not sure who else is accessing MCS and anticipate that some downstream
tech may break when MCS is turned off. As we are cross-posting this
message, we hope most people who have come to rely upon MCS will see this
message. Please feel free to forward this message to contacts if you know
they are using MCS.
== Help ==
Although we intend to decommission MCS in July 2023, we would like to share
resources if you need some help. We plan to hold office hours in case you
would like to meet with us to discuss this or other Content Transform Team
matters. We will host these events on Google Meet. We will provide notice
of these office hours on the wikitech-l mailing list in the coming weeks
and months.
Additionally, if you would like to discuss your MCS transition plans,
please visit the Content Transform Team talk page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Content_Transform_Team
Finally, some Content Transform Team members will also be at the Wikimedia
Hackathon [4] if you would like some in-person support.
Thank you.
Adam Baso (he/him/his/Adam), on behalf of the Content Transform Team
Director of Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Specs/HTML
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Parser_Unification/Updates
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023
Hello all,
The Android team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android> has heard many
requests from the community to have ways to ensure that the edits made in
the apps are of good quality. With the team's recent release
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/Communication>
of a native watchlist, contribution history, and edit history, as well as
the addition of the undo and rollback button on the diff screen, there is
an opportunity to create a moderating solution in the app. We would like to
do this in partnership with the community. We would like to invite you to
test the first iteration of the patrolling tool designs. Your input at this
stage will allow us to improve the tool before development as well as
gather important feedback for the second iteration of the tool.
If you are interested in joining, please reply to this email.
Respectfully,
*Amal Ramadan* (She\Her)
Sr. Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Cross posting the announcement about office hour for the mobile apps. Find more details below.
-------- Original Message --------
From: Amal Ramadan <aramadan(a)wikimedia.org>
Sent: 7 March 2023 2:52:03 pm IST
To: wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikitech-ambassadors] App's Office Hour - 2023
Hey all,
I would like to invite you to the first office hour for the mobile apps
team in 2023.
It will take place on the 24th of March at 5 pm UTC.
You can check your zone’s exact time through this zone stamp
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1679677247>.
The host will be Jazmin Tanner, Sr. Product Manager of the apps team, with
a number of our software engineers.
You can join at the mentioned time through this link:
https://meet.google.com/aww-miri-kik.
And the meeting will be recorded.
You can add your questions and thoughts about Wikipedia’s mobile apps here
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/10xejqvocsr3suSmGkwpEcMiGsFSed1AqU9ES9vd…>,
and the last date to add your input will be on the 20th of march at 12:00
UTC; feel free to spread the word about the office hour to your communities.
We will be waiting for you all!
Respectfully,
*Amal Ramadan* (She\Her)
Sr. Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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Sivaraam
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.