Wikitech-ambassadors April 2013

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Single User Login finalisation: some accounts will be renamed
by James Forrester 12 May '13

12 May '13

All, The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users (like cross-wiki notifications). These changes will mean users have the same account name everywhere, will let us give you new features that will help you edit & discuss better, and will allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the pre-conditions for this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis.[0] Unfortunately, some accounts are currently not unique across all our wikis, but instead clash with other users who have the same account name. To make sure that all of these users can use Wikimedia's wikis in future, we will be renaming a number of accounts to have "~” and the name of their wiki added to the end of their accounts' name. This change will take place on or around 27 May. For example, a user called “Example” on the Swedish Wiktionary who will be renamed would become “Example~svwiktionary”. All accounts will still work as before, and will continue to be credited for all their edits made so far. However, users with renamed accounts (whom we will be contacting individually) will have to use the new account name when they log in. It will now only be possible for accounts to be renamed globally; the RenameUser tool will no longer work on a local basis - since all accounts must be globally unique - therefore it will be withdrawn from bureaucrats' tool sets. It will still be possible for users to ask on Meta for their account to be renamed further, if they do not like their new user name, once this takes place. A copy of this note is posted to meta [1] for translation. Please forward this to your local communities, and help get it translated. Individuals who are affected will be notified via talk page and e-mail notices nearer the time. [0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login [1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Single_User_Login_finalisation_announcement Yours, -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester

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Breaking change notice
by Steven Walling 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

Hey all, This is a quick heads up that there is an upcoming change to the way section edit links are generated, and a relatively minor design update as well. There is a pretty comprehensive explanation of what this is, why, the timeline, etc. on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Change_to_section_edit_links -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Wikitech-l] Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias
by Matthew Flaschen 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

On 04/26/2013 03:14 AM, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: > I opted in, but I can't see anything else than the classical edit > option. I tryed on severa pages I never visited before and also to > refresh my browser cache, but steal no new option. Is there a URL param > I could try to see if it at least it works this way? Yes, veaction=edit . I don't know why the tab wouldn't show up, though. Matt Flaschen

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Fwd: Deployment Highlights - Week of April 29th
by Greg Grossmeier 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

Hello Ambassadors! Below is the full deploy highlights for next week, but really, the week of April 29th is fairly low key (versus this past week). The main highlights are: * The next update of MediaWiki is starting its deploy train with test.wikipedia, test2.wikipedia, and mediawiki.org on Monday, then all non-wikipedia project sites on Wednesday. Nothing major that changes much is included. ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_depl… * Notifications (formerly Echo) will be enabled on English Wikipedia on Tuesday the 30th. This was planned for yesterday (Thursday April 25th) but it was delayed. ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_%28Notifications%29 Thanks! Greg ----- Forwarded message from Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> ----- > Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:15:25 -0700 > From: Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Development and Operations engineers > <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Deployment Highlights - Week of April 29th > > Hello and welcome to the latest installment of the Deployment Highlights > email. > > The full calendar for next week lives at: > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_April_22nd > > For the week of April 22nd we have the following interesting > deployments (which is much less interesting than last week, thankfully > in some ways): > > == Monday == > > * MediaWiki 1.22wmf3 to 'phase 1' wikis (ie: test.wikipedia.org, > * test2.wikipedia.org and mediawiki.org) > ** > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_depl… > > > == Tuesday == > > * Internationalization team: > ** For bug 46716 we will run a script refresh-translatable-pages.php for > all wikis using the Translate extension. It will ensure that all > translation pages will be up to date. As a side effect, it will also > remove any fuzzy/outdated translations still left in translation pages > (many of those have already been removed due to updates triggered by > translation edits). > > * Editor Engagement Team (E2) > ** Notifications (formerly Echo) will be rolled out to English Wikipedia > after the planned deployment for Thursday April 25th was delayed. > > > == Wednesday == > > * MediaWiki 1.22wmf3 to 'phase 2' wikis > ** All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, > Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites > ** > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_depl… > > == Thursday == > > * Normal Editor Engagement and Editor Engagement Experiments deploy > * windows. > > > == Friday == > > * NO DEPLOYS! ;-) > > > == All week == > > * Lightning Deploys! > ** https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lightning_deployments > > > == Hat tip == > > * Thanks to Matt Walker for creating a lua template for use in the > * Deployments calendar! > ** http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:Deployment_schedule > > > Best, > > Greg > > -- > | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | > | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | ----- End forwarded message ----- -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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New login and account creation design
by Steven Walling 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

Hi all, We'll be doing a blog post and other (on-wiki) messages, but I wanted people on this list to hear earlier that we're close to having a new look for account creation and login in MediaWiki core. The first launch of this will be on an opt-in basis for testing by editors on their home wiki, and we're shooting for at least login to be ready by the next MediaWiki release on Monday. Right now, you can test a version of both on our Labs instance, http://piramido.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page, by applying the URL parameter &useNew=1 to either account creation or login. Please let me know if you have any questions or encounter a bug. One key item to note is that localization is likely complete yet. For background: this redesign is a product of testing by the Editor Engagement Experiments team of the account creation form over several months.[1][2] Our latest design is based on those A/B test results and subsequent internationalization needs. We're also applying the same design principles to the login page, in order to make them look and feel consistent. There's more detail in our specification on mediawiki.org.[3] Thanks! -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ 1. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/10/05/testing-new-signup-page-for-wikipedia/ 2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Account_creation_UX 3. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience

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Temporarily turning off WikiLove
by Sumana Harihareswara 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

Due to bug 47457, the Wikimedia Foundation is immediately disabling the WikiLove extension on all Wikimedia projects until the underlying issues with mw.loader are resolved. The following projects had WikiLove enabled and are thus about to be affected: arwiki commonswiki enwiki fawiki fawiktionary hewiki hiwiki huwiki incubatorwiki iswiki itwikiquote itwikivoyage jawiki mediawikiwiki mkwiki mlwiki nowiki officewiki orwiki ptwiki sewikimedia siwiki srwiki svwiki svwikinews trwiki urwiki zhwiki It will remain enabled on test.wikipedia.org for testing. During this outage, no one will be able to use WikiLove to give or receive comments, but all existing WikiLove talkpage entries will remain. We hope this outage will only be for a few days, but we don't have an estimate on when it will be resolved yet. Please help us to spread the word to the projects that will be affected. We can respond to comments and inquiries at the Bugzilla bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47457 (People using Firefox can't load user and user talk pages). Ryan Kaldari Software Developer, Wikimedia Foundation (forwarded by Sumana Harihareswara)

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Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias
by James Forrester 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

All, TL;DR: VisualEditor will be deployed on 14 new Wikipedias next week as an opt-in alpha. Your assitance is requested to inform your wikis about this and help get the software translated. Next week (on 25 April) we are going to deploy the alpha opt-in version of the VisualEditor to some non-English Wikipedias in the same way that it has been on the English Wikipedia since December 2012. This will let users get familiar with the VisualEditor, give us feedback on what works and what is broken, and help us prioritise further work ahead of the planned deployment as a 'default' editor for all users which we intend to do in a few months' time. Due to a number of issues we have been unable to release VisualEditor to non-English wikis until now, and we would very much like to get some great feedback from as many wikis as possible - especially for extended Unicode and RTL languages, but also other languages. Does the VisualEditor work in your language? Does it gel with your wiki's workflow? The initial languages we want to target are the "top 10" Wikipedias by way of scale - de, nl, fr, it, ru, es, sv, pl, ja - plus selected others to help us discover issues we anticipate: ar, he, hi, ko, zh. These will let us test most of the locales we are concerned about. If this goes well, we hope to deploy the opt-in alpha to all Wikipedias. Please tell your wiki colleagues that this is coming, especially if your wiki is in this list! Additionally, you can see how fully-translated the software is into your language in the stats at TranslateWiki.Net[0] - please encourage wiki colleagues to help translate the messages ahead of the deployment! As a note, we have just updated the VisualEditor integration so that the "Edit" tab goes to VisualEditor, and there is an "Edit source" tab to go to the wikitext editor. This change (which affects the English Wikipedia opt-in deployment and MediaWiki.org as well as the new deployments mentioned above) moves the way that VisualEditor integrates with the wiki's workflow to be closer to how it will appear when it is the 'default' editor. It is still easy to use the wikitext editor if that is what you want to do - the "Edit source" tab (at least for now) will be "above the fold" and not in the drop-down menu on Vector. Happy to answer any questions you might have! Yours, -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester

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Wikidata phase 2 live on all Wikipedias
by Lydia Pintscher 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Heya folks, I've been pretty bad so far about using this list for Wikidata and want to change that now. Sorry for not doing that earlier. Wikidata phase 2 has been rolled out to the remaining 274 Wikipedias a few minutes ago. I have sent a message to the village pumps with details using global announce and there is a short blog post at http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/04/24/wikidata-all-around-the-world/ I'm grateful for any help you can provide and am available for questions. Again sorry for not sending something earlier. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Technical Projects Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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New Extension: Score - Music Markup!
by Greg Grossmeier 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hello Ambassadors! I wanted to give you a heads up that there is a new extension available for use on Wikimedia project wikis; Score! http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Score It was enabled yesterday during the regularly scheduled MediaWiki deployment window. See what it can do at this English Wikipedia Help page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup#Musical_notation This is a long time request, first reported in August of 2004: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189 We'll announce this in a more wider fashion in a few days, but I wanted to give you all a heads up. Thanks, and as always, please do let me know if you have any questions. Greg Some bonus relevant links: You can learn more about Lilypond, the software that the Score extension uses, at: http://www.lilypond.org/introduction.html Their manuals: http://www.lilypond.org/manuals.html -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] New Extension: Score - Music Markup!
by Jean-Frédéric 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hello, I wanted to give you a heads up that there is a new extension available > for use on Wikimedia project wikis; Score! > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Score > > It was enabled yesterday during the regularly scheduled MediaWiki > deployment window. > > See what it can do at this English Wikipedia Help page: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup#Musical_notation > FYI: I quickly drafted earlier this stub help in French (If it can by of use to someone…) <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aide:Partitions> (stealing one example from Mark :-) Cheers, -- Jean-Frédéric

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