FYI
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From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:05 PM
Subject: Help needed: Machine-readable metadata for local uploads
To: Wikitech Ambassadors <wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi folks,
as of yesterday, the CommonsMetadata extension is active on all wikis.
As the name suggests, it's optimized for providing API access to
metadata for files on Commons, but it will also work for project-local
uploads (e.g. fair use metadata on en.wp) -- provided that the
templates used for describing metadata emit the same machine-readable
information.
The format for emitting such machine-readable metadata is documented here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Machine-readable_data
The documentation page for the extension (which could use some cleanup
& examples BTW) is at:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CommonsMetadata
Help modifying local templates accordingly is appreciated.
All best,
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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)
Hi everyone,
I'm thrilled to announce that Aaron Arcos has agreed to volunteer for
the Wikimedia Foundation as a developer with our Multimedia team
through May. Aaron most recently worked at Google Switzerland (from
2005 until August 2013), where he was a frontend software engineer and
UX designer on several projects such as AdWords Template Center,
SafeSearchLock, GMail Themes and the recent GCalendar redesign. He
also served as a process and release master, in charge of defining,
improving and enforcing their development, testing and release
processes, and taught classes at Google about project management, user
experience and Google culture.
He decided to leave Google, and to give back to the community in a
number of ways, working for free for projects that do good for
humanity (like us!) His first stop was at nairobits.com, a project
that provides the economically-disadvantaged youth in Nairobi with web
design and programming skills, teaching PHP and Javascript. He plans
to return there in May. After that, he has other organizations that
he'd like to work with.
Prior to Google, Aaron worked at IMTF.com in Switzerland, Techasi
Ingénierie in Paris, Yahoo! and Electronics for Imaging in the Bay
Area.
He earned his Masters in Computer Engineering at University of
Washington and has a BS in Computer Engineering from UNAM in Mexico
City.
Aaron will be visiting the San Francisco office while he's
volunteering for us. He's "aarcos" on Freenode (and will often be on
#wikimedia-multimedia), and his email address is
aarcos.wiki(a)gmail.com. Welcome Aaron!
Rob
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