Cross post. mediawiki-api-announce is highly recommended if you write code
consuming the Action API.
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From: Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 8:43 AM
Subject: [Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: Some missing parameter
error codes are changing
To: <mediawiki-api-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
It was noticed[1] that the error messages for "missing parameter" errors
were not including the module prefix, for example a query to
action=query&list=search could complain that the "search" parameter must be
set when the actual parameter name is "srsearch". This extends to the error
code, which in this example is "nosearch" rather than "nosrsearch".
This is now fixed, and should be deployed to Wikimedia sites with MediaWiki
1.32.0-wmf.15 and later. See
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/Roadmap for a schedule.
If your client is checking for specific missing parameter error codes, it
may need to be updated for the changed codes.
[1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200155
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi everyone,
We've released our latest update to the Wikipedia Android app
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia&hl=en>, now
available on the Google Play store. (For devices without Google Play
services, you may download
<https://releases.wikimedia.org/mobile/android/wikipedia/stable/wikipedia-2.…>
the app directly)
Here are the highlights from this update:
* *Multi-language support*: you may now select multiple languages
simultaneously to be your preferred languages in the app.
** When searching for a term within the app, you can easily switch between
preferred languages to see results in that language.
** The Explore feed now shows content in all of your preferred languages.
Customization of the feed has been expanded to include per-language
preferences for each type of feed content.
** When first installing the app, it automatically detects your languages
based on your system settings and keyboard locales.
* Per-platform app packages: when downloading or updating the app from the
Play Store, it will download an APK specifically tailored to your device's
platform. This reduces the download size from ~24MB to about ~*10MB*.
* Added a preference in Settings to restrict downloading reading list
articles only when on Wi-Fi, to conserve mobile data usage.
* A whole lot of miscellaneous bug fixes to improve stability and
performance (full change log
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/APAW/history/master/;r/2.7.237-…>
).
Cheers,
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Dmitry Brant
Senior Software Engineer (Android)
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering
Howdy,
There is an IRC office hour scheduled next week to discuss
improvements to the mobile MediaWiki web site for contribution tools
and workflows. It will be from 16:00-17:00 UTC Monday 25 June 2018.
Links to join are on Meta. [0]
The Readers web team would like to make more contribution tools (like
Special: pages) available on mobile. Come talk to us about what you
want to see the most. More information on what we'd like to discuss
can be found on MediaWiki.org. [1]
I hope you can make it. If not, please take a look at the project page
and leave any comments on the talk page.
[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation's iOS team today published a minor update to the
Wikipedia app. You can download it here:
https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=32471523…
This version, v5.8.2, contains a goodly number of usability improvements
and bug fixes, including:
- More responsive search box
- Larger font size options for large/super high resolution devices
- Support for pronunciation guides' embedded audio clips
- Fixes for swipe and force touch actions in many places, especially on
Saved pages
- Layout issues with widgets
Among many others!
Special thanks to volunteer Sedgie27 for the patch! As usual also many
thanks to our translators and testers.
Cheers,
Josh Minor
Product Manager, Wikipedia for iOS
Hi
We have published a new maintenance release of Kiwix for iOS 1.9 branch.
Here is the short changelog:
- Use Realm in replace of CoreData as database
- Added Wiktionary, Wikiquote and Wikisource categories
- Fix: unable to detect embedded index in some situations
- Fix: unable to cancel erroneous download tasks
The app is available on iTunes at http://ios.kiwix.org.
Enjoy
Emmanuel
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Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more
* Web: http://www.kiwix.org
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline
* more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication
The slide deck from last week's quarterly metrics presentation of the
Wikimedia Foundation's Audiences department has been published.[1]
This deck gives an overview over core metrics regarding readership and
contributors of Wikimedia sites, expanding the scope of the readers
core metrics presentations given in previous quarters. It can be
regarded as an appendix to the May 2018 quarterly check-ins of the WMF
Audiences department (in particular of the Readers and Contributors
teams). [2]
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Audiences_metr…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/Quarterly_…
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Tilman Bayer
Senior Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation
IRC (Freenode): HaeB
Hi everyone,
We've released our latest update to the Wikipedia Android app
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia&hl=en>, now
available on the Google Play store. (For devices without Google Play
services, you may download
<https://releases.wikimedia.org/mobile/android/wikipedia/stable/wikipedia-2.…>
the app directly)
This is a maintenance update that addresses a few minor issues and bugs:
* Respect the new {{shortdescription}} template in articles (no longer
offer to edit the Wikidata description if a local article description is
present).
* Fix possible latency issues due to incorrect cookie handling.
* Fix possible errors when synchronizing reading lists (when adding
articles from external deep links).
Cheers,
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Dmitry Brant
Senior Software Engineer (Android)
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering
Hello,
The Wikimedia Foundation's iOS team released a first beta of our next
update to TestFlight. This version, v5.8.2 contains a number of usability
and performance improvements, including:
- More responsive search box
- Larger font size options for large/super high resolution devices
- Support for pronunciation guide embedded audio clips
- Fixes for swipe and force touch actions in many places, especially on
Saved pages
And more...
If you are a beta tester, please install the update and let us know if you
spot any issues. If you'd like to become a beta tester please sign up here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfW7zFnUDYABvHLWlFclZ7O
JEK82WjVIjs_dSzwIDM0Hnz31A/viewfo
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfW7zFnUDYABvHLWlFclZ7OJEK82WjVIjs…>
rm
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfW7zFnUDYABvHLWlFclZ7OJEK82WjVIjs…>
Thanks,
Josh Minor
PM, Wikipedia for iOS