---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark A. Hershberger mhershberger@wikimedia.org Date: Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:56 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Wikibooks and Wikisource triage report To: Wikitech List wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, wikitext-l@lists.wikimedia.org, textbook-l@lists.wikimedia.org

This past Wednesday, I held a triage focused on issues from the Wikibooks an Wikisource projects

** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/18861 - Search should give transcluded    text for the page

First, a confession.  I'm not an experienced Wikipedian.  So when I saw this bug, I didn't understand the benefit.  "Wouldn't you just need to add namespaces to the search index?" I thought.

Luckily, Roan was in this triage and offered a simple use case:

Wiktionary does crazy things like    {{buildATableOfAllInflections|word|inflectioncase}} — which will    produce a table of all inflections of "word", based on which case    applies to it.  So then if you search for an inflection of "word",    say "words", you won't find it.

With the help of this explanation, I was able to understand the usefulness and what was needed.  MWSearch needs to index *expanded* Wikitext rather than just raw Wikitext.

This would probably also fix that annoying bug where incategory:foo queries don't work properly with categories from templates

This has been proposed as a Summer of Code idea for 2012.

** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28277 - Error when importing pages from    English Wikipedia to Portuguese Wikibooks

This strange bug caused problems on the Portuguese Wikibooks project, and we were able to reproduce it during triage.  I put Helder.wiki's steps for reproducing this on the bug and hope to find a developer to work on it soon.

** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/189   - please find a solution for a    music module

After some discussion, I decided to close this bug (which has gotten over 115 comments) and focus any new effort on action items derived from it like "Make [[mw:Extension:LilyPond]] safe against DoS attacks" (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/29630).

Sumana is already using this issue as a possible area for volunteers to work on.

Side note: prior to this triage, the LilyPond Extension existed only on a MediaWiki page.  After the triage, I committed the LilyPond code to SVN and, almost immediately, it began getting valuable reviews and updates. http://hexm.de/80

I think this really shows the value of our code review process — especially as we've improved it over the past year or so.

** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/27256 - Correcting content page count at    en.wikibooks and pt.wikibooks

It looks like we spent a bit of time discussing this bug without any of us being aware of 1.18's new $wgArticleCountMethod.  I've updated the bug with the necessary information.

** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/22911 - Install    extension:SubpageSortkey on wikibooks

Bawolff has created an extension to solve Helder.wiki's original request ("Default 'sort key' for namespaces should be more namespaces with subpages should be customisable").  At this point it simply needs to be reviewed and deployed.

** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/15071 - Wikibooks/Wikisource needs    means to associate separate pages with books. ** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/2308  - ability to watch "bundles" of    sub-pages

These two bugs and Raylton's Extension:BookManager revolved around these projects' desire to treat books as entities that can be manipulated in the same way as wiki pages.  They'd like the ability to watch, delete, or move books as well as a have pages like Special:RandomBook.

Adding some of these features (watching, for example) to all pages in a category, might help admins in other projects besides these.

** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/30666 - Show subpages on page deletion

As Bawolff said, this looks like a sane feature request in general, not just for wikibooks.  Adrignola gave a couple of gadgets that enable subpage deletion, but the gadgets didn't provide a clean way to undelete sub pages en-masse.

This sparked a discussion on some other enhancements that would be good to have.  For example the ability to watch all articles in a category (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/1710)

** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/26881 - noinclude tag breaks Proofread    under Internet Explorer

This was a on the wishlist for wikibooks and included a patch.  I committed it (http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/98422).

** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/12130 - Edit form eats heading CRs    (leading blank newlines/whitespace) on save/preview

This bug keeps popping up and, while there are work-arounds, the behavior is non-intuitive.  Mediawiki erases the first (and only the first) blank like each time you click submit or preview.  After everyone in the triage meeting confirmed this, I showed the problem to Krinkle who agreed that this should be fixed and left a comment with an idea of how to fix it.

Next Triage: October 5th -- focus on Fund-raising issues http://hexm.de/81

Bug Triage calendar: http://hexm.de/TriageCal

-- Mark A. Hershberger Bugmeister Wikimedia Foundation mhershberger@wikimedia.org 717.271.1084

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