Wikimedia-l October 2014

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Alessio Guidetti, Cotton
by Andrea Zanni 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

It is with great sorrow that Wikimedia Italia announces the death of Alessio Guidetti, better known on the projects as Cotton. He has been treasurer of the organization for about five years, from 2009 until last April. Alessio started to contribute to Wikipedia at the end of 2006: after a few months he became already a sysop. He was a tireless translator of English articles in the most diverse fields, and also part of the small group of the patrollers -and, indeed, he continued his precious work until the last, even if invisible for most of the editors. >From the moment he joined Wikimedia Italia, Alessio was very keen to contribute effectively, guided by his well-known pragmatism. He run for the Board: as soon as he was elected, he took the role of treasurer, a difficult task and a fundamental one for us but little recognized. It was Alessio who took care of the most delicate and complicated tasks, and he did so in the years during which Wikimedia Italia was starting to grow big, the years of our quantum leap. This spring he decided to not run again for the Board, but he kept collaborating with his successor for an effective -and not only formal- handover. He took care of the accounting, donations and employees' paychecks till his very last days. He has been an incredible help: trustworthy, precious, always ready for a joke. Alessio has been a pillar of Wikimedia Italia: his pragmatism, his hardworking disposition, his sense of humor were, and are, a part of our organization. A part of how it was born and how it is growing. A part of what we are. Wikimedia Italia is close to the family and the friends of Alessio in this grievous moment. We will terribly miss him. Many of you have know Alessio in Wikimanias and conferences. If you wish, you can leave a last goodbye here on his userpage: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussioni_utente:Cotton#Ciao. Andrea Zanni on behalf of Wikimedia Italia

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Vandalism on photographs of living people
by Fæ 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Due to recent vandalism a new report on Commons for page patrollers has been started at <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:F%C3%A6/BLP_overwrites>. This page shows images actively used on English Wikipedia biography articles, where a new upload has overwritten the original by a "newbie"* account. The report should be automatically refreshed within 15 minutes of a new image upload/overwrite of this type. Instances of deliberate image vandalism of this type are rare, but important to handle promptly. If you have suggestions for improvement of this report, I would be happy to do my best to accommodate them. Notes: * For convenience newbie accounts have been arbitrarily taken as accounts with fewer than 200 edits on the English Wikipedia or fewer than 100 edits on Wikimedia Commons. * The report is maintained by Faebot and should be considered in a draft state as it may be moved to a more 'official' location or be taken on by more skilled bot operators. Cheers, Fae -- faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae

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Fundraising reports after 2011
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Since 2012 it's almost impossible to get information about the WMF fundraising... Does someone have insight in how WMF could be made again interested in fundraising transparency? Poking doesn't help. For instance: me, Perohanych and Mike Peel have been waiting 16 months for two simple and crucial pieces of information: how many times the fundraising banners have been displayed; what are the totals raised per country. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2012/Report Nemo

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[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia engineering report, August 2014
by Guillaume Paumier 18 Oct '14

18 Oct '14

Hi, The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in August 2014 is now available. My sincere apologies for the delay. Wiki version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Report/2014/August Blog version: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/18/engineering-report-august-2014/ Below is the HTML text of the report. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Major news in August includes: - the Wikimania 2014 conference <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/> in London, and the associated hackathon <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/hackathon> ; - a statement <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/01/wikipedia-zero-and-net-neutrality-pro…> on Wikipedia Zero and net neutrality; - progress on the new content translation tool <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/26/content-translation-100-published-art…> and its passing the milestone of 100 translated articles. Engineering metrics in August: - 160 unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki. - The total number ofunresolved commits <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#q,status:open+project:%255Emediawiki.*,n,z> went from around 1640 to about 1695. - About 22 shell requests <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Shell_requests>were processed. Contents - Personnel <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/18/engineering-report-august-2014/#Perso…> - Work with us <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/18/engineering-report-august-2014/#Work_…> - Technical Operations <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/18/engineering-report-august-2014/#Techn…> - Features Engineering <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/18/engineering-report-august-2014/#Featu…> - Editor retention: Editing tools <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/18/engineering-report-august-2014/_Editi…> - Services <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/18/engineering-report-august-2014/#Servi…> - Core Features <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/18/engineering-report-august-2014/#Core_…> - Growth <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/18/engineering-report-august-2014/#Growth> - Mobile <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/18/engineering-report-august-2014/#Mobile> - Language Engineering <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/18/engineering-report-august-2014/#Langu…> - Platform Engineering <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/18/engineering-report-august-2014/#Platf…> - MediaWiki Core <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/18/engineering-report-august-2014/#Media…> - Release Engineering <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/18/engineering-report-august-2014/#Relea…> - Multimedia <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/18/engineering-report-august-2014/#Multi…> - Engineering Community Team <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/18/engineering-report-august-2014/#Engin…> - Analytics <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/18/engineering-report-august-2014/#Analy…> - Wikidata <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/18/engineering-report-august-2014/#Wikid…> - Future <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/18/engineering-report-august-2014/#Future> PersonnelWork with us <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us> Are you looking to work for Wikimedia? We have a lot of hiring coming up, and we really love talking to active community members about these roles. - Senior Software Engineer – Services <http://grnh.se/748mr2> - Software Engineer – Services <http://grnh.se/k012qi> - Software Engineer – Maps & Geo – Mobile <http://grnh.se/4w5iyb> - Software Engineer – Mobile – iOS <http://grnh.se/j4gmk5> - Release Engineer <http://grnh.se/5fw24x> - Technical Writer <http://grnh.se/d86hti> - Full Stack Developer – Analytics <http://grnh.se/vfgr0t> - Research Analyst <http://grnh.se/r8ukg1> - Agile Coach/ScrumMaster – Team Practices Group <http://grnh.se/5h4jdv> - Operations Security Engineer <http://grnh.se/m65tn8> - Technical Project Manager <http://grnh.se/bu7wlt> - UX Senior Designer <http://grnh.se/47xrkn> - UX Senior Design Researcher <http://grnh.se/x2nsqv> - UX User Research Recruiter <http://grnh.se/sry6g0> - UX Visual Design Fellowship <http://grnh.se/783knf> - Mobile Partnerships Regional Manager <http://grnh.se/v75upy> - Project Coordinator – Engineering <http://grnh.se/d7gjcn> Technical Operations *Dallas data center* On August 21, our first connectivity to the new Dallas data center (codfw) came online, connecting the new site to the Wikimedia network. The following week, all network equipment was configured to prepare for server installations. The first essential infrastructure services (install server, DNS, monitoring etc.) were brought online in the days following August 25, and we are now working on deploying the first storage & data base servers to start replication & backups from our other data centers. Labs metrics in August: - Number of projects: 170 - Number of instances: 480 - Amount of RAM in use (in MBs): 2,116,096 - Amount of allocated storage (in GBs): 22,600 - Number of virtual CPUs in use: 1,038 - Number of users: 3,718 *Wikimedia Labs* Andrew fixed a few sudo policy UI bugs (68834 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68834>, 61129 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61129>). Marc improved the DNS cache settings and resolved some long-standing DNS instability (70076 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70076>). He also set up a new storage server for wiki dumps. This should resolve some long-term storage space problems that led to out-of-date dumps.Andrew laid the groundwork for wikitech to be updated via the standard WMF deployment system. We’re investigating the upstream OpenStack user interface,‘horizon’ <http://horizon-test.wmflabs.org/horizon>. Features Engineering <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Features_engineering>Editor retention: Editing tools *VisualEditor <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor>* In August, the team working on VisualEditor presented about VisualEditor at Wikimania 2014 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/2014>, worked with a number of volunteers at the hackathon, adjusted key workflows for template and citation editing, made major progress on Internet Explorer support, and fixed over 40 bugs and tickets <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=341542&order=priority%2C…> . Users of Internet Explorer 11, who we were previously preventing from using VisualEditor due to some major bugs, will now be able to use VisualEditor. Support for earlier versions of Internet Explorer will be coming shortly. Similarly, tablet users browsing the site’s mobile mode now have the option of using a mobile-specific form of VisualEditor. More editing tools, and availability of VisualEditor on phones, is planned for the future. Improvements and updates were made to a number of interface messages as part of our work with translators to improve the software for all users, and VisualEditor and MediaWiki were improved to support highlighting links to disambiguation pages where a wiki or user wishes to do so. Several performance improvements were made, especially to the system around re-using references and reference lists. We tweaked the link editor’s behaviour based on feedback from users and user testing <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Design/User_testing>. The deployed version of the code was updated three times in the regular release cycle (1.24-wmf17 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf17#VisualEditor>, 1.24-wmf18 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf18#VisualEditor> and 1.24-wmf19 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf19#VisualEditor>). *Editing <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing>* In August, the Editing Team presented at Wikimania 2014 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/2014> on better ways to develop and manage front-end software, improved the infrastructure of the key user interface libraries, and continued the planned adjustments to the MediaWiki skins system <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Redo_skin_framework>. The TemplateData GUI editor was significantly improved, including being updated to use the new types, and recursive importing of parameters if needed, and deployed on Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia. The volunteers working on the Math extension (for formulæ) moved closer to deploying the “Mathoid” server that will use MathJax to render clearer formulæ than with the current versions. The Editing team as usual did a lot of work on improving libraries and infrastructure. The OOjs UI <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI> library was modified to make the isolation of dialogs using <iframe>s optional, and re-organise the theme system as part of implementing a new look-and-feel for OOUI, to make it consistent with the planned changes to the MediaWiki design, in collaboration with the Design team. The OOjs <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs> library was updated to fix a minor bug, with two new versions (v1.0.12 and then v1.1.0) released and pushed downstream into MediaWiki, VisualEditor and OOjs UI. *Parsoid <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid>* In August, we wrapped up our face-to-face off-site meetup in Mallorca and attended Wikimania in London, which was the first Wikimania event for us all. At the Wikimania hackathon, we co-presented (with the Services team) a workshop session about Parsoid and how to use it. We also had a talk at Wikimania about Parsoid. The GSoC 2014 LintTrap project wrapped up and we hope to develop this further over the coming months, and go live with it later this year. With an eye towards supporting Parsoid-driven page views, the Parsoid team worked on a few different tracks. We deployed the visual diff mass testing service <http://parsoid-tests.wikimedia.org/visualdiff/>, we added Tidy support to parser tests and updated tests, which now makes it easy for Parsoid to target the PHP Parser + Tidy combo found in production, and continued to make CSS and other fixes. Services *Services and REST API <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Services>* August was mostly a month of travel and vacation for the service team. We deployed a first prototype of the RESTBase <https://github.com/gwicke/restbase> storage and API service in Labs <http://api.wmflabs.org/v1/en.wikipedia.org/pages/>. We also presented on both Parsoid and RESTBase at Wikimania, which was well received. Later in August, computer science student Hardik Juneja joined the team as a part-time contractor. Working from Mumbai, he dived straight into complex secondary index update algorithms in the Cassandra back-end. At the end of the month, design work resumed, with the goal of making RESTBase easier to extend with additional entry points and bucket types. Core Features *Flow <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Project_information>* In August, the Flow team created a new read/unread state for Flow notifications, to help users keep track of the active discussion topics that they’re subscribed to. There are now two tabs in the Echo notification dropdown, split between Messages (Flow notifications) and Alerts (all of the other Echo notifications). Flow notifications stay unread until the user clicks on the item and visits the topic page, or marks the item as read in the notifications panel. The dropdown is also scrollable now, and holds the 25 most recent notifications. Last, subscribing to a Flow board gives the user a notification when a new topic is created on the board. Growth *Growth <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth>* In August, the Growth team vetted CirrusSearch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Task_recommendations/Qualitative_e…> as back-end for personalized suggestions and prepared its first A/B test <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Task_recommendations/Experiment_one> of the new task recommendations <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Task_recommendations> system. This test will deliver recommendations to a random sample of newly-registered users on 12 Wikipedias: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Persian, Russian, Ukrainian, Swedish, and Chinese. Several Growth team members also attended Wikimania 2014 in London. At Wikimania, the team shared presentations on its work and conducted usability tests <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Task_recommendations/Usability_testing> of the recommendations system. Last but not least, design work began on the third major iteration of the team’s anonymous editor acquisition <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anonymous_editor_acquisition/Signup_invites_…> project. Mobile <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering> *Wikimedia Apps <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps>* In August, the Mobile Apps Team focussed on bug fixes for the recently released iOS app and for the Android app, as well as gathering user feedback from Wikimania. The team also had unstructured time during Wikimania, in which the engineers are free to work on whatever they fancy. This resulted in numerous code quality improvements on both iOS and Android. On iOS, the unstructured time also spawned a preliminary version of the feature “Nearby”, which lists articles about things that are near you, tells you how near they are to you, and points towards them. On Android, the unstructured time spawned a preliminary version of full text search, an improved searching experience which aims to present more relevant results. *Mobile web projects <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_web_projects>* This month the mobile web team, in partnership with the Editing team, launched a mobile-friendly opt-in VisualEditor for users of the mobile site on tablets. Tablet users can now choose to switch from the default editing experience (wikitext editor) to a lightweight version of VE featuring some common formatting tools (bold and italic text, the ability to add/edit links and references). We also began building a Wikidata contribution game in alpha that will allow users to add metadata to the Wikidata database (to start, occupations of people) directly from the Wikipedia article where the information is contained. We hope to graduate this feature to the beta site next month to get more quantitative feedback on its usage and the quality of contributions. *Wikipedia Zero & Partnerships* Wikipedia Zero page views held steady at around 70 million in August. We launched Wikipedia Zero with three operators: Smart and Sun in the Philippines (related companies) and Timor Telecom in East Timor. That brings our total numbers to 37 partners in 31 countries. Smart has been collaborating with Wikimedia Philippines for months, and they previously offered free access to Wikipedia on a trial basis. Just announced <http://www1.smart.com.ph/About/newsroom/press-releases/2014/09/04/smart-wik…>, Smart has now officially joined Wikipedia Zero and brought in their sister brand Sun, covering a combined 70 million subscribers in the Philippines. Timor Telecomlaunched <http://www.timortelecom.tl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=300…> Wikipedia Zero with a press event including the Vice Minister of Education and much promotion. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YTcbBY9B-M> Timor Telecom is keen to support growth in the Tetun Wikipedia by raising awareness in universities, with resources from the Wikipedia Education Program <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program>. In Latin America, we made progress toward app preloads by completing testing for the Qualcomm Reference Design (QRD) <https://qrd.qualcomm.com/> program. The Wikipedia Android app is now certified for preload on QRD. We made terrific connections with Global South community members at Wikimania, which will lead to more direct local collaboration between partners and Wikimedia communities. Smriti Gupta, partnerships manager for Asia, moved to India where she will work remotely. We’re recruiting our third partnerships manager <http://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/19649?t=v75upy#.VAh-8WRdXEs> to cover South East Asia and tech partnerships. Language Engineering <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering> *Language tools <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Language_tools>* Niklas Laxström (outside his WMF job) completed most of the work needed in Translate to Recover gracefully from session expiration <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69314>, a known pain point for translators. The PageMigration feature (a GSoC project mentored by Niklas) was (GSoC project mentored by Niklas) released . The team also worked on session expiry checking (to prevent errors in long translations), updated YAML handling, deployed auto-translated screenshots for the VisualEditor user guide <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:VisualEditor/User_guide> (a GSoC project mentored by Amir and done by Vikas Yaligar). They did internationalization testing of the new Android and iOS apps, as well as internationalization testing and bug fixes in VisualEditor, MobileFrontend and Flow. *Milkshake <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Milkshake>* Webfonts were enabled on the English Wikisource <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69655> and Divehi wikis <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69860>, following requests from the respective communities. *Language Engineering Communications and Outreach <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Language_engineering_communications_and_outr…>* The team was at Wikimania in London. Santhosh Thottingal and Amir Aharoni presented on *Machine-aided machine translation* <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6qvv3eJ_Ag&t=32m40s>, and Runa Bhattacharjee and Kartik Mistry on *Testing multilingual applications* <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hcjZvateZs&t=32m15s>*.*They conducted user testing for ContentTranslation in several languages (Catalan, Spanish, Kazakh, Russian, Bengali, Hebrew, Arabic), continued conversations with translators from Wikipedias in several languages, and published a retrospective <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/26/content-translation-100-published-art…> on ContentTranslation and Wikimania. *Content translation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation>* achine translation abuse algorithm was redone. The team also worked on reference adaptation improvements, refactoring the front-end event architecture and rewriting the cxserver registry to support multiple machine translation engines. Platform Engineering <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Platform_Engineering>MediaWiki Core *HHVM <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HHVM>* We migrated test.wikipedia.org to HHVM in early August and saw very few issues. Giuseppe shared some promising benchmarks <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-August/078034.html>. Re-imaging an app server was surprisingly painful, in that Giuseppe and Ori had to perform a number of manual actions to get the server up-and-running, and this sequence of steps was poorly automated. Doing this much manual work per app server isn’t viable. Mark submitted a series of patches to create a service IP and Varnish back-end for an HHVM app server pool, with Giuseppe and Brandon providing feedback and support. The patch routes requests tagged with a specific cookie to the HHVM back-ends. Tech-savvy editors were invited to opt-in to help with testing by setting the cookie explicitly. The next step after that will be to divert a fraction of general site traffic to those back-ends. The exact date will depend on how many bugs the next round of testing uncovers. Tim is looking at modifying the profiling feature of LuaSandbox to work with HHVM; it is currently disabled. *Admin tools development <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Admin_tools_development>* Most admin tools resources are currently directed towards SUL finalisation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/SUL_finalisation>. There was a roundtable <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Roundtable:_Admin_tool…> at Wikimania with developers and admins/tool users discussing some issues they’ve had, and feature requests they would like to see implemented. The GlobalCssJs <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GlobalCssJs> extension was deployed to all public Wikimedia wikis, allowing for proper user global CSS and JS. *Search <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search>* tarted deploying Cirrus as the primary search back-end to more of the remaining wikis and we found what looks like our biggest open performance bottleneck. Next month’s goal is to fix it and deploy to more wikis (probably not all). We’re also working on getting more hardware. *SUL finalisation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/SUL_finalisation>* The SUL finalisation team continues to work on building tools to support the finalisation. There are four ongoing streams of work, and the team is on track to have the majority of the work completed by the end of September. The ability to globally rename users was deployed a while ago, and is currently working excellently! The ability to log in with old, pre-finalisation credentials has been developed so that users are not inadvertently locked out of their accounts. >From an engineering standpoint, this form is now fully working in our test environment. Right now, the form uses placeholder text; that text needs to be ‘prettified’ so that the users who have been forcibly renamed get the appropriate information on how to proceed after their rename, and more rigorous testing should be done before deployment. A form to globally merge users has been developed so that users can consolidate their accounts after the finalisation. From an engineering standpoint, this form is now fully working in our test environment. The form needs design improvements and further testing before it can be deployed. A form to request a rename has been developed so that users who do not have global accounts can request a rename, and also so that the workload on the renamers is reduced. From an engineering standpoint, the form to request a rename has been implemented, and implementation has begun on the form that allows renames to rename users. Once the end-to-end experience has been fully implemented and tested, the form will be ‘prettified’. *Security auditing and response <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Security_auditing_and_response>* ecurity reviews of the Graph, WikibaseQuery and WikibaseQueryEngine extensions. Initial work was done to enable regular dynamic security scanning. Release Engineering <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team> *Quality Assurance <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Quality_Assurance>* Having completed the migration of our Continuous Integration infrastructure from a third party host to Wikimedia’s own Jenkins instance, we are thinking about improvements and changes for future work. We aim to improve performance for Jenkins and also for beta labs. We are looking into creating other shared test environments along with beta labs to better support changes like we did this month with HHVM and with a security and performance test project. We also continue to improve the development experience with Vagrant and other virtual machine technologies. *Browser testing <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Quality_Assurance/Browser_testing>* This month, we continued to build out and adjust the new browser test builds on Jenkins. We saw updates to tests and issues identified for UploadWizard, VisualEditor, Echo, and MobileFrontend. New tests for GettingStarted pointed out a need to update our Redis storage on the beta cluster. We are currently monitoring an upstream problem with Selenium/Webdriver and IE11 on behalf of VisualEditor, as VE support for IE11 is coming soon. Multimedia *Multimedia <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia>* <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Media_Viewer_-_New_Design_Proposal_…> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Media_Viewer_-_New_Design_Proposal_…> Media Viewer’s new ‘minimal design’. In August, the multimedia team had extensive discussions with community members about the various projects we are working on. We started with seven differentroundtable discussions and presentations <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Events> at Wikimania 2014 in London, including sessions on:Upload Wizard <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon#Upload_Wizard_Roundtable> , Structured Data <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon#Structured_Data_Roundtab…> ,Media Viewer <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon#Media_Viewer_Roundtable> , Multimedia <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Multimedia_Roundtable> ,Community <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Community_Meetup> and Kindness <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/A_Culture_of_Kindness>. To address issues raised in recent Requests for Comments, we also hosted a one-week Media Viewer Consultation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_(Product)/Media_Viewer…>, inviting suggestions from community members across our sites. The team also worked to make Media Viewer <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer> easier to use by readers and casual editors, our primary target users for this tool. To that end, we created a new ‘minimal design’ including a number of new improvements <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Improvements>such as a more prominent button linking to the File: page, an easier way to enlarge images and more informative captions. These new features were prototyped <http://multimedia-alpha.wmflabs.org/wiki/Rapa_Nui_National_Park> and carefully tested this month to validate their effectiveness. Testers completed easily most of tasks we gave them, suggesting that the new features are now usable by target users, and ready for development in September. This month, we prepared a first plan for the Structured Data <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data> project, in collaboration with many community members and the Wikidata team <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/>: we propose to gradually implement machine-readable data on Wikimedia Commons, starting with small experiments in the fall, followed by a wider deployment in 2015. We also continued our code refactoring for theUploadWizard <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UploadWizard>, as well as fixed more bugs across our multimedia platform. To keep up with our work, join the multimedia mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia>. Engineering Community Team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Engineering_Community_Team> *Bug management <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management>* Daniel made Bugzilla use ssl_ciphersuite to add HSTS <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/154978/> and removed a superfluous STS header setting <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/155649/>. Andre worked around a Bugzilla XML RPC API issue <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69747> which created problems for exporting Bugzilla data for a Phabricator import. In Bugzilla’s taxonomy (components, descriptions, default CCs, etc.) some smaller changes took place <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=69882,69696,69631,69427,6…> . *Phabricator migration <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Migration>* The project is getting close to Day 1 of a Wikimedia Phabricator production instance. For better overview and tracking, the Wikimedia Phabricator Day 1 project was split into three projects: Day 1 of a Phabricator Production instance in use <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/phabricator-production-instance>, Bugzilla migration <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/bugzilla-migration>, and RT migration <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/rt-migration/>. Furthermore, the overall schedule was clarified <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174>. In the last month, Security/permission related requirements got implemented (granular file permissions and upload defaults <https://secure.phabricator.com/T4589>, enforcing that policy <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298>,making file data inaccessible and not only undiscoverable) <https://secure.phabricator.com/T5685>. In upstream, Mukunda added API to create projects <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318> and Chase added support for mailing lists as watching users <https://secure.phabricator.com/D10193>. Chase worked on and tested the security <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T50>and data migration <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259> logic. Mukunda continued to work on getting theMediaWiki OAuth provider merged into upstream <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368>. Chase and Mukunda also worked on the Project Policy Enforcer action for Herald <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/154850>, providing a user-friendly dropdown menu to restrict ticket access when creating the ticket. A separate domain for user content was purchased <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367>. Chase also worked on the scripts to export and import data <https://git.wikimedia.org/tree/phabricator%2Ftools.git> between the systems andsupport for external users in Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52> and the related mail setup <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244>. Chase and Chad also took a look at setting up Elasticsearch for Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378>. *Mentorship programs <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs>* All Google Summer of Code <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014> and FOSS Outreach Program for Women <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_8>were evaluated by their mentors as PASSED, although many were still waiting for completion, code reviews and merges. We hosted a wrap-up IRC meeting <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GSoC_%26_FOSS_OPW_wrap-up_meeting> with the participation of all teams except one. We are still waiting for some final reports from the interns. In the meantime, you can check their weekly reports: - Tools for mass migration of legacy translated wiki content <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate/Mass_migration_tools/Pro…> - Wikidata annotation tool <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_annotation_tool/updates> - Email bounce handling to MediaWiki with VERP <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VERP/GSOC_Progress_Rerport> - Google Books, Internet Archive, Commons upload cycle <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Books,_Internet_Archive,_Commons_uplo…> - UniversalLanguageSelector fonts for Chinese wikis <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Fonts_fo…> - MassMessage page input list improvements <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MassMessage/Page_input_list_improv…> - Book management in Wikibooks/Wikisource <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Book_management_2014/Progress> - Parsoid-based online-detection of broken wikitext <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Hardik95/GSoC_2014_Progress_Report> - Usability improvements for the Translate extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Kunalgrover05/Progress_Report> - A modern, scalable and attractive skin for MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jack_Phoenix/GSoC_2014> - Automatic cross-language screenshots for user documentation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Automatic_cross-language_screenshots/progress> - Separating skins from core MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Separating_skins_from_core_MediaWiki/Progress> - Chemical Markup support for Wikimedia Commons <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chemical_Markup_support_for_Wikimedia_Common…> - Improving URL citations on Wikimedia <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mvolz/Weekly_Reports> - Historical OpenStreetMap <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:JaimeLyn/Weekly_Reports> - Welcoming new contributors to Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Welcome_to_labs/Progress_Reports> - Evaluating, documenting, and improving MediaWiki web API client libraries <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Evaluating_and_Improving_MediaWiki_web_API_c…> - Feed the Gnomes – Wikidata Outreach <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Thepwnco/OPW_Reporting> - Template Matching for RDFIO <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RDFIO/Template_matching_for_RDFIO/…> - Switching Semantic Forms Autocompletion to Select2 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms/Select2_for_autocom…> - Catalogue for Mediawiki Extensions <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Adi.iiita/Gsoc2014/Report#Weekly_Report> - Generic, efficient localisation update service <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LocalisationUpdate/LUv2/Updates> . *Technical communications <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_communications>* In August, Guillaume Paumier <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Guillaume_(WMF)> attended the Wikimania conference and the associated hackathon. He gave a talk <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Tech_news> about Tech News <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News> (video available on YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqGDTNkVgLI&list=UURXe4cgJPTVHcDH6ZGwOT3A#t…>) and created a poster summarizing the talk. He also continued to write and distribute Tech News every week, and started to contribute to the Structured data <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data> project. *Volunteer coordination and outreach <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Volunteer_coordination_and_outreach>* We ran the Wikimania Hackathon <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon> in an unconference manner together with the Wikimania organizers. The event went well in a unique venue, and we are compiling a list of lessons learned to be applied in future events. Together with other former organizers of hackathons, we decided that the next Wikimedia Hackathon in Europe will be organized by Wikimedia France (details coming soon). Also at Wikimania, Quim Gil gave a talk about The Wikimedia Open Source Project and You <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_Wikimedia_open_sou…> (video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5tJdQCnGWQ&list=UURXe4cgJPTVHcDH6ZGwOT3A#t…> –slides <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Wikimedia_Open_Source_Project_a…> ). Analytics <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics> *Wikimetrics <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Wikimetrics>* Following the prototype built for Wikimania, the team identified many performance issues in Wikimetrics for backfilling Editor Engagement Vital Signs (EEVS) data. The team spent a sprint implementing some performance enhancements as well as properly managing sessions with the databases. Wikimetrics is better at running recurring reports concurrently and managing replication lag in the slave DBs. *Data Processing <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_Processing>* The team continued monitoring analytics systems and responding to issues when [non-critical] alarms in went off. Packet losses and kafka issues were diagnosed and handled. Hadoop worker nodes now automatically set memory limits according to what is available. Previously all workers had the same fixed limit. This allows for better resource utilization. Logstash is now available at https://logstash.wikimedia.org (Wikitech account required). Logs from Hadoop are piped there for easier search and diagnosis of Hadoop jobs. Some uses of udp2log were migrated to kafkatee. The latter is not prone to packet losses. In particular Webstatscollector was switched over and error rates were seen to drop drastically. Eventually, the “collecting” part of Webstatscollector will be implemented in Hadoop, a much more scalable environment to handle such work. *Editor Engagement Vital Signs <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Editor_Engagement_Vital_Signs>* The team implemented the stack necessary to load EEVS in a browser and has a rough implementation of the UI according to Pau’s design <http://pauginer.github.io/prototypes/analytics-dashboard/index.html> . The team also made available to EEVS two metrics already implemented on Wikimetrics: number of pages created, and number of edits. *Research and Data <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Research_and_Data>* This month we hosted the WikiResearch hackathon <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Labs2/Hackathons/August_6-7th,_2014>, a dedicated research track of the Wikimania hackathon. 3 demos <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhRifTmPfSI> of research code libraries were broadcast during the event and several research ideas <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Labs2_project_ideas>filed on Meta. Highlights from the hackathon include: Quarry <http://quarry.wmflabs.org/> (a web client to query Wikimedia’s slave databases on Labs); wpstubs <https://github.com/theopolisme/wpstubs> (a social media bot broadcasting <https://twitter.com/wpstubs> newly categorized stubs on the English Wikipedia); an algorithmic classification <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Screening_WikiProject_Medicine_art…> of articles due to be re-assessed from the English Wikipedia WikiProject Medicine’s stubs. We gave or participated in 8 presentations <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Wikimania_2014> during the main conference. We published a report on mobile trends <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mobile_trends> expanding the data <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Mobile_Trends.pdf> presented at the July 2014 Monthly Metrics meeting. We started work on referral parsing <https://github.com/Ironholds/Rferer> from request log data to study trends in referred traffic over time. We generated sample data <https://trello.com/c/VW6LMOrq/325-edit-conflict-instrumentation> of edit conflicts and worked on scripts for robust revert detection. We published traffic data <http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/pageviews/categorized/wp-medicin/WikiP…> for the Medicine Translation Taskforce, with a particular focus on traffic to articles related to Ebola <https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/document/d/1mSw9kldXtv5tiDk24s1v8mu…> . We wrote up a research proposal for task recommendations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Task_recommendations> in support of the Growth team’s experiments on recommender systems. We analyzed qualitative data to assess the performance of Cirrus Search “morelike” feature for identifying articles in similar topic areas <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Task_recommendations/Qualitative_e…>. We provided support for the experimental design of a first test of task recommendations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Task_recommendations/Experiment_one>. We performed an analysis of the result of the second experiment on anonymous editor acquisition <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Asking_anonymous_editors_to_regist…> run by the Growth team. We hosted the August 2014 research showcase <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Research_and_Data/Showcase#August…> with a presentation by Oliver Keyes on circadian patterns in mobile readership <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Everything_You_Know_About_Mobile_Is…> and a guest talk by Morten Warncke-Wang on quality assessment and task recommendations in Wikipedia <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Article_Curation_-_Unders…> . We also gave presentations on Wikimedia research at the Oxford Internet Institute, INRIA, Wikimedia Deutschland (slides <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Managing_Open_Production_at_Scale_(…>) and at the Public Library of Science (slides <http://www.slideshare.net/dartar/crossing-the-streams-social-and-technical-…>). Aaron Halfaker presented at OpenSym 2014 a paper he co-authored on the impact of the Article for Creation workflow on newbies (slides <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Accept,_Decline,_Postpone_(OpenSym%…> , fulltext <http://www.opensym.org/os2014-files/proceedings/p602.pdf>). Wikidata <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata> *The Wikidata project is funded and executed by Wikimedia Deutschland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/en>.* August was a very busy month for Wikidata. The main page was redesigned and is now much more inviting and useful. A lot of new features were finished and deployed. Among them are: - Redirects: allowing you to turn an item into a redirect. - Monolingual text datatype: allowing you to enter new kinds of data like the motto of a country. - Badges: allowing you to store badges for articles on Wikidata. This includes “featured article” and “good article”. More will be added soon. - *In other projects* sidebar as a beta feature: allowing you to show links to sister projects in the sidebar of any article. - Special:GoToLinkedPage: allowing you to go to a Wikipedia page based on its Wikidata Q-ID. This will be especially useful if you want to create links to articles that don’t change even if the article is moved. - Wikinews: Wikinews has been added as a supported sister project. Wikinews can now maintain their sitelinks on Wikidata. Access to the other data will follow in due time. - Wikidata: Sitelinks to pages on Wikidata itself can now also be stored on Wikidata. This is useful to connect for example its help pages with those on the other projects. - Change of the internal serialization format: The internal serialization format changed to be consistent with the serialization format that is returned by the API. In addition, the team worked on a lot of under-the-hood changes towards the new user interface design and started the discussions around structured data support for Commons. The log of the IRC office hour <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2014-09-03> is available. FutureThe engineering management team continues to update the *Deployments <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments>*page weekly, providing up-to-date information on the upcoming deployments to Wikimedia sites, as well as the *annual goals <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals>*, listing ongoing and future Wikimedia engineering efforts. ------------------------------ *This article was written collaboratively by Wikimedia engineers and managers. See revision history <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_engineering_report/20…> and associated status pages. A wiki version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2014/August> is also available.* -- Guillaume Paumier _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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Wikimedia DC Annual Report for 2013-14
by Kirill Lokshin 18 Oct '14

18 Oct '14

Hi everyone, Wikimedia DC's Annual Report for 2013-14 has now been published at http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Annual_report_(2013–2014). As always, we welcome any comments or suggestions! Regards, Kirill -- Kirill Lokshin Secretary, Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org

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Wiki Loves Earth Brasil - Exhibition
by Rodrigo Padula 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

Hello fellows! Concluding our participation and activities on Wiki Loves Earth, we organized an exhibition during the event "Paraty em Foco" in the historical city of Paraty - Rio de Janeiro. During the event (Sep 24-28) the exhibition received near 1.500 visitors daily and the exhibition continued until October 12. The exhibition was exhibited inside the Casa da Cultura, an historical building constructed during the 18th century (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Loves_Earth_Brasil_2014_-_Exhi…) that is a cultural reference in the region. Students from the near islands/beaches visited the exhibition during Paraty em Foco, as you can see here http://migre.me/mihhY I've published some pictures and information about the exhibition here https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2014/Brasil/E… (in portuguese) We received a lot of visibility during the WLE, generating excellent results for Wikimedia Commons. Near 900 new users and 7.000 photos uploaded. The contest and exhibition was published in many sites and blogs, including a printed magazine with 50.000 copies distributed around all Brazilian states. Some important links: Casa da Cultura de Paraty - Official website: http://www.casadaculturaparaty.org.br/ - Introduction: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casa_da_Cultura_-_Paraty_-_Introduc… Paraty em Foco - http://paratyemfoco.com/ (oficial web site) The WLE contest and exhibition were organized through the Brazilian Program with the support of Ação Educativa(local WMF's partner). Best regards Rodrigo Padula

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Wikimédia France AGM: new board announcment
by Benoît Evellin 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

Dear movement fellows, Wikimedia France held its Annual General Meeting on October 11th, 2014. During this AGM, we elected 6 board members, of which 4 are new. Benjamin Smith and Rémi Mathis were not running for a new term. Wikimedia France board is thanking them a lot for their dedication, energy, thoughts, ideas and every single awesome thing they brought to the board during their terms: * Benjamin had been on the board for two years and a half, serving as deputy treasurer then secretary. Among other awesome things, he had been key in the recruitment process of our ED last year. * Rémi had been on the board since 2009, and serving as chair since 2011. He has been the public face of the chapter for many years − including our fundraising banners in 2011 and 2012. He was named Wikipedian of the Year by Jimmy Wales at Wikimania 2013 for reasons that shall not be named here. Of course, considering their overall awesomeness, we are not letting them go anywhere ; they plan to remain active members of the chapter, and we as board look forward to continuing working with them. Christophe Henner and Jean-Frédéric Berthelot were running again and were reelected. As a reminder: * Christophe is 29, hardly needs introduction, currently lives in Aurillac where he is Head of Marketing for the biggest French video game website (top 3 in the World). He has been around in the movement forever, and at the board of Wikimédia France for seven years − serving as vice chair since 2012. His focus lies on the internal organisation and international affairs. You may refer to his Wikidata item [[Q18219536]] for more information. *Jean-Frédéric is 27, a research engineer in Lille (North) currently relocating to London, UK. He is a dedicated Commonist, focusing on GLAM − especially upload of collections to Wikimedia Commons − and Wiki Loves Monuments. He has been serving as a board member since May 2012. His interests lie in quality management and impact evaluation, coopeating & sharing our awesomeness at the international level, and fostering Cuteness in the Wikimedia movement. In his free time he enjoys geocaching, curating commonscat.tumblr.comand baking pastries to his colleagues and chapter fellows. Now, we would like you to welcome returning and new board members: * Sébastien Beyou is 28 and is living in Rennes (Brittany), PhD in applied mathematics and now a self-employed Web developer. He edit(ed) French Wikipédia from 2005 to 2011, and is a member of Wikimédia France since 2007, mainly active in tech and communication topics. He was member of the Board from 2011 to 2012 and served as deputy treasurer; in particular he co-organised the Finance Meeting in February 2012, whose the discussion there contributed to the creation of the FDC. During his free time, he enjoys explaining Wikipedia to public and promoting (often surprising) physical-life-actions linked to Wikipedia. * Pierre-Selim Huard is 31 and living in Toulouse. PhD in computer science with a background in aeronautics, he works as a R&D engineer in green aviation development. A rugby and photography lover, he is a dedicated Commonist and OTRS agent. He is active in programmatic actions such as Wiki Loves Monuments or local actions in Toulouse, and is thus one of the craftsmen of our long-standing project with the Museum de Toulouse; he also had been a board member of our organisation previously. As a board member, his main focus are documentation, quality and evaluation. You may have had the pleasure to meet him during one of the last three Wikimanias. * Samuel Le Goff is 40 and living in Paris. He works as a journalist, former assistant of a MP for several years. His interests lie in relationship with French authorities, and contributions to public consultations, to expose Wikimédia positions in public debates in France and European Union. * Benoît Prieur lives in Lyon where he is an engineer. He has a background in computer science and sociology. He is a regular contributor on supported projects and especially on Wikipedia (but not only!). He participates in events supported by Wikimedia France and particulary likes editathons. Our board is now structured as follow: * Christophe Henner, Chair * Émeric Vallespi, Vice-chair * Guillaume Goursat, Treasurer * Sébastien Beyou, Deputy treasurer * Benoît Évellin, Secretary * Pierre-Selim Huard, Deputy secretary * Jean-Frédéric Berthelot, Board member * Alexis Marise Bique, Board member * Léa Lacroix, Board member * Samuel Le Goff, Board member * Ludovic Péron, Board member * Benoît Prieur, Board member Please welcome these newcomers and do not hesitate to join us in expressing your gratitude to our former board members! All the best, Benoît

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Post limits
by Austin Hair 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

Toward the end of the month, I normally start watching the post count, since I know that thirty-post limit has a way of sneaking up on some people. Some months, this gets out of hand quickly, but I was surprised when the current count was brought to my attention just halfway through the month. Pine has tipped the scales pretty heavily, and not for the first time. I've placed him on moderation for the rest of the month, with the usual conditions. A few others are getting close; it's probably worth taking a look at http://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/ScanMail/Wikimedia-l.html to see if you're one of them. Austin

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Editor interaction data sets and visualizations
by Pine W 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

Dear colleagues, As you may have heard, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Editor_Interaction_Data_Extracti… is an individual engagement grant proposal. I am working on this proposal with volunteer assistance and advice from Aaron Halfaker (WMF), Haitham Shammaa (WMF), and Fabian Flöck (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlsruhe_Institute_of_Technology>). We are still developing this proposal, and plan to have it finalized in the next few days. We would greatly appreciate your comments on whether you support or oppose the general concept of this project, and any suggestions about how to refine the proposal. Additionally, we would like to hear from you about which sets of editor interaction data, and what visualizations of editor interaction data, would be most relevant to your interests. We intend to prioritize our outputs with your comments in mind. Please comment on the proposal talk page. Questions and feedback, both positive and critical, are helpful to us as the proposers, and also help the Individual Engagement Grants Committee [1] to assess the proposal. Regards, Pine [1] I am a member of the Individual Engagement Grants Committee. I am recusing from reviewing proposals in this funding round.

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[Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 10, Issue 40 -- 15 October 2014
by Wikipedia Signpost 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

Op-ed: Ships—sexist or sexy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-10-15/Op-ed In the media: College player falsely linked to sports scandal by Wikipedia; the Nobel Prizes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-10-15/In_the… Traffic report: Now introducing ... mobile data http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-10-15/Traffi… Featured content: Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-10-15/Featur… Arbitration report: One case closed and two opened https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-10-15/Arbit… WikiProject report: Signpost reaches the Midwest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-10-15/WikiP… Technology report: Attempting to parse wikitext http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-10-15/Techno… Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-10-15 https://www.facebook.com/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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