Wikitech-ambassadors March 2013

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Deployment highlights - week of April 1st

by Greg Grossmeier

Hello all, Next week we'll be seeing the usual round of deployments, with these highlights: * For those that care about version numbers, we'll be starting 1.22wmf1 on Monday. :) * On Wednesday we'll be deploying Phase II of WikiData to English Wikipedia; expect big and good things! For all of the gory details, see: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_April_1st Thanks, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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Combining efforts to monitor and report noteworthy tech changes

by Guillaume Paumier

Hi! I've started a discussion at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/Ambassadors#Noteworthy_changes that I think would greatly benefit from your participation. I'd appreciate if you could take a few minutes to share your thoughts there. Thanks! -- Guillaume Paumier

9 years, 12 months

Projects for Google Summer of Code

by Quim Gil

Hello ambassadors! We are preparing our application to Google Summer of Code 2013. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013 We are identifying project ideas and we welcome proposals from Wikimedia projects. Currently there are some ideas specific to Commons, but maybe others are interested in pushing proposals as well? Your edits are welcome: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects If you have any questions just let me know. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

10 years

VisualEditor fortnightly update - 2013-03-18 (MW 1.21wmf12)

by James Forrester

Hello all, As before, the regular update<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-03-18_.28MW_1.21wmf…> about progress on the VisualEditor: VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.21wmf12 branch deployment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf12> on Monday 18 March. In the two weeks since 1.21wmf11, the team have worked on building infrastructure for the new features that we are adding for VisualEditor's wider launch as the default way users will edit wikis. In the way that the code integrates with MediaWiki, the save button now will be disabled if a user makes changes and then undoes all of them (42939<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42939>). When an error happens with the Parsoid server, those errors are split out so that the user can report what broke in a way that we can trouble-shoot their issue (44354 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44354>). When the Parsoid server is not responding, the code supplies a better error message for users (45916<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45916> ). When selections are auto-expanded to the current context (when a user double-clicks on a word), we now better cover the concept of a 'word boundary', working towards Unicode's definition (44085<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44085>). Lists now don't get corrupted for Parsoid when "unlist"ing their contents, removing their 'generated' property (45590<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45590> ). Leaving the link inspector no longer clears a link accidentally (46025<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46025>). The document model layer now presents categories (and other kinds of meta-content, like language links) for editing to other parts of the code base ahead of supporting user editing of categories in VisualEditor (39597<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39597>), which is one of the four major features planned before wider launch. A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.21/wmf12 changelog<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf12/Changelog#VisualEditor>, and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period on Bugzilla's list<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_status…> . If you have any questions, please do ask. Yours, -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester

10 years

Online support sessions this week: Lua scripts & templating

by Sumana Harihareswara

On the 13th, we enabled Lua scripting on all wikis. Editors can now use Lua, an innovative programming language, to generate sections of wiki pages on all our sites. (I'm sorry that I earlier misspoke as I thought this was just for the Wikipedias.) More information: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/14/what-lua-scripting-means-wikimedia-op… This is a reminder that we will hold two support sessions on IRC this week: * Wednesday http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=02&min=00&sec=0&d… (for Oceania, Asia & America) * Friday http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&d… (for Europe, Africa & America) Please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours for details. Please spread the word to your communities. If you can't make it to these, you can also get help at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Lua_scripting . Also, the Wikimedia Foundation hosted a one-hour presentation last week (video recording available https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrhzAtC8fCc ) in which people from the WMF and the Lua community gave an intro to Lua and explained how to use it on Wikimedia projects. (We’re working on copying the video to Commons.) -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

10 years

Please translate "Module" namespace name

by Federico Leva (Nemo)

Translation has been organised (not by me) at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lua_deployments/Localization_of_Module> Nemo

10 years

Lua rollout to en.wikipedia.org and a few others

by Rob Lanphier

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

10 years

Fwd: QA weekly goal: browser testing automation for Wikipedia Search

by Quim Gil

fyi -------- Original Message -------- Subject: QA weekly goal: browser testing automation for Wikipedia Search Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:42:14 -0700 From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> WHAT: Writing a Wikipedia search feature description in plain English for our automated testing process. Let's feed the Test backlog! WHEN: We will start with a video streamed demo on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 17h UTC [1] and we will be helping volunteers during the rest of the week. This is an ongoing activity: you can arrive / leave at any time. WHERE: #wikimedia-dev IRC channel. After joining on IRC, say Hello browser testers! and we will welcome you with instructions and a simple task. chrismcmahon, zeljkof and qgil will do their best covering timezones. You can also use the Discussion page to ask any questions. WHO: Anybody interested, including you! The only requirement is basic level of plain English in order to describe the features to be tested automatically. It is that simple. More details at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Browser_testing/Search_features [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130313T1700 -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

10 years

Deployment highlights - 2013-03-08

by Greg Grossmeier

Hello! This is your friendly weekly deployments highlight email. For the week of March 11th (next week), here are some things to be aware of: * Scribunto (Lua) will be available on all wikis as of Wed the 13th * HTTPS for all logged in users This is planned to happen next week, but the exact deployment window is still to be determined. I will inform wikitech-l and -ambassadors when it is scheduled. See this bug for more info: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39380 Best, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

10 years

Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Next bugday: Mar 07, 15:00-21:00UTC on General MediaWiki bugs

by Quim Gil

fyi -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Wikitech-l] Next bugday: Mar 07, 15:00-21:00UTC on General MediaWiki bugs Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:36:40 +0100 From: Andre Klapper <aklapper(a)wikimedia.org> Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi everybody, Please join us on the next Wikimedia Bugday: Thursday, March 07th, 15:00-21:00 UTC [1] in #wikimedia-dev on Freenode IRC [2] We are going to take a look at a subset [3] of MediaWiki bug reports filed under "General/Unknown", trying to reproduce some plus provide feedback. Currently these are about 90 tickets (see [4] for a list). Everyone is welcome to join, and no technical knowledge needed! It's a nice and easy way to get involved in the community or to give something back. Join IRC, say hello and that you're here for the bugday, and have fun. This information and more can be found here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/20130307 For more information on Triaging in general, check out https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage We look forward to seeing you! andre [1] Timezone converter: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html [2] See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC for more info on IRC chat [3] with priority and severity set to normal or higher [4] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?priority=Immediate&priority=High… -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Wikitech-ambassadors March 2013