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accounts must be globally unique - therefore it will be withdrawn from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
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
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
>
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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
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)
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
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
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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.
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
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