Hi everyone,
We're planning to deploy Lua to a long list of wikis on Monday,
February 18, 23:00-01:00 UTC (stretching into Tuesday UTC), including
English Wikipedia.
Details here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lua
Jan Kučera (User:Kozuch) has placed notifications on many of the
wikis. Those notifications and general communications listed here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kozuch/Lua
This is a really exciting deployment for the projects. We're really
looking forward to seeing the great things that people do with this,
and looking forward to making editing and previewing more responsive
for template-heavy pages.
Rob
My apologies for not also sending here. Thanks, Federico, for the reminder.
This list is now on my "do not forget" list.
Greg
This is your weekly preview of higher-risk or general "you should be
aware of" items for the slew of deployments coming in the near term.
During the week of March 11th:
* Scibuntu (Lua) to all wikis
* upgrades to DNS software/config for better reliability
See the full Deployments page for regularly scheduled events and less
high-risk items:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Deployments
Best,
Greg
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Uploading pictures from mobile devices to Wikimedia Commons must be
simple for everybody! The Wikimedia Mobile engineering team has fresh
software and you can help testing it.
WHEN
Kick-off on Monday February 25 at 17:30 UTC (9:30 PST - 23:00 IST).
The testing focus will continue during the rest of the week until Sunday
March 3.
WHERE
Online: for details see & watch
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_QA/Commons_uploads
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Your help is welcome calling out for students, mentors and possible
projects in your communities. See below. Thank you!
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 - we'll apply
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:55:46 -0500
From: Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Organization: Wikimedia Foundation
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Google's announced that they will run Google Summer of Code again this
year, and we plan to apply. I've updated
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013 and I'd love for
potential mentors to add their ideas to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects .
Note that this year students are expected to work on their project June
17-September 23, so mentors would also be needed during that period, and
somewhat less April 8th-June 17th for talking with potential candidates
and helping with the community bonding period.
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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Looping wikitech-ambassadors back in.
If someone had to ask at all and they did ask on wikitech-ambassadors
then answer should go to wikitech-ambassadors too.
Anyway, the gist is:
Existing pages/templates will continue to work as they are. A new
(optional) way of writing templates will now be available which will
make server performance better (and give you faster responses when you
save some pages) and will also make writing some things possible if
not before or at least much simpler to implement. Over time editors at
the various wikis will convert some templates to use the new format.
-Jeremy
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 2:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Lua rollout to
en.wikipedia.org and a few others
To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
On 02/15/2013 06:03 PM, Sîrbu Nicolae-Cezar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What is Lua?
>
> Thanks,
> Sirbu Nicolae-Cezar
It is a programming language used for embedded scripting. Scribunto is
a MediaWiki extension that allows you to write templates in Lua (other
languages possibly coming later). Done right, this can be clearer, more
powerful, and more efficient than the current ParserFunction templates.
See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lua for more information.
Matt Flaschen
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This is happening today.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Watchlists are coming to mobile
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:52:20 -0800
From: Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:44 PM
Subject: Watchlists are coming to mobile
To: mobile-l <mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List
<wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
After a few months of development the mobile team is launching
watchlists to the mobile site tomorrow. The feature to start with will
give a simplified recent changes view a la the desktop site as well as
a reading list view for users who are simply interested in keeping
track of articles they are interested in reading.
This change also brings in login and account creation functionality to
all Wiki* projects.
This from my perspective is one of the most exciting mobile
developments so far as it makes the watchlist star a much more
prominent figure in the user interface and will hopefully encourage
new users to create accounts to use it, many of whom may be unaware
that Wikipedia can be edited. The hope is these new users will find
the feature useful and can be lured into the realm of becoming a
contributor to our projects via mobile.
Provided we don't run into any issues during deployment this should be
deployed tomorrow.
Please feel free to comment on this mail but if you experience any
bugs in the aftermath please raise them here:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions…
You can also try out the new feature a little early by opting into the
beta here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MobileOptions
Looking forward to all your feedback.
Screenshot:
http://imgur.com/jnl5XA4
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Jon Robson
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