I think by opt-in, James means that any user from any Wikipedia can opt
themselves in from Thursday onwards. Is that correct?
Deryck
On 22 April 2013 07:14, Nasir Khan <nasir8891(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Is it possible to include bn (Bengali Wikipeda) in the list ? i want to
> start the test earlier :)
>
> *
> --
> **Nasir Khan Saikat* <http://profiles.google.com/nasir8891>
> www.nasirkhn.com
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de
> >wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > The VisualEditor is going to be deployed in an opt-in version to several
> > Wikipedias on Thursday next week.
> >
> > I am planning to hold a BarCamp session this afternoon in the Milan to
> > discuss how chapters can support or facilitate a community communication
> > and feedback process in this regards.
> >
> > So anyone interested in this topic is welcome to join!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nicole Ebber
> > International Affairs
> >
> > http://wikimedia.de
> >
> > 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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Hello Ambassadors!
Below if the full Deployment Highlights update email for next week, but
I'll summarize a few things quickly that are (probably) more of interest
to you:
1) The Wikidata client will be rolled out to English Wikipedia on
Monday and then if all is well, to all WPs on Wednesday. This enables
the ability to use Wikidata properties in infoboxes.
A couple useful/helpful urls:
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Technical_proposal#Phase_2:_Infobox…
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions#Phase_2_.28inf…
2) ArticleFeedbackTool will be reenabled on English Wikipedia for a
subset of articles on Wednesday April 24th.
* Full details: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/AFT5-release
3) Parsoid will be deployed (an updated version) to 14 additional wikis
on Thursday April 25th, the wikis are: de, nl, fr, it, ru, es, sv, pl,
ja, ar, he, hi, ko, and zh.
4) Notifications (previously "Echo") will be released to English
Wikipedia on Thursday with the features described in:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ee/2013-April/000373.html
and
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ee/2013-April/000390.html
As always, please don't hesitate to ask for clarifications here.
All the best and have a good weekend,
Greg
----- Forwarded message from Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> -----
> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:13:55 -0700
> From: Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org>
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Development and Operations engineers (WMF
> only)" <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Deployment Highlights Update - Week of April 22nd
>
> 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:
>
> == Monday ==
>
> * MediaWiki 1.22wmf2 to English Wikipedia
>
> * Wikidata client update on English Wikipedia. Completion of Wikidata
> Phase II [0], which will allow for use of Wikidata properties in
> infoboxes. There is also an FAQ[1] about Phase2 that might answer your
> questions.
> [0] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Technical_proposal#Phase_2:_Infobox…
> [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions#Phase_2_.28inf…
>
>
> == Tuesday ==
>
> * ArticleFeedbackTool will be renabled to "on" on a subset of English
> Wikipedia, along with basic bugfixes to French and German Wikipedia.
> Details: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/AFT5-release
>
> * Mobile:
> ** First use of CentralNotice to display banners for users of the WP
> Commons Beta app.
> ** Deploy of a fix for the "X-Device" caching problem explained in
> this[2] email. Basically, reduce the cache-miss rate by not varying
> the cache by 21 different device types.
> [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-March/067967.html
>
>
> == Wednesday ==
>
> * MediaWiki 1.22wmf2 to all Wikis
>
> * Wikidata client update on all Wikipedia sites (tentative; depending on
> success of English Wikipedia deployment on Monday).
>
>
> == Thursday ==
>
> * VisualEditor/Parsoid alhpa to be enabled on additional 14 wikis (but
> not by default, still opt-in).
> ** WPs included: de, nl, fr, it, ru, es, sv, pl, ja, ar, he, hi, ko, zh
> ** Announcement:
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-April/000201…
>
> * Notifications: Releasing of the "Minimum Viable Product" on English
> Wikipedia. See these two ([3] & [4]) messages from the Notifications
> Product Manager, Fabrice Florin, outlining what features are
> included.
> [3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ee/2013-April/000373.html
> [4] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ee/2013-April/000390.html
> ** Full details:
> http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/echo-release
>
>
> == Everyday ==
>
> And of course, every day includes the Lightning Deploy window, which
> this week is ceremonially referred to as "Matt Walker's Deploy Window"
> as he was a heavy (and courteous) user of these windows this past week.
>
>
> Thanks and have a good weekend,
>
> Greg
>
> --
> | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
> | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
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Hi all,
This is a heads up that we've added a small new feature which hopefully
will make things less painful for users across the projects: the ability to
refresh the CAPTCHA you're presented without refreshing the entire page. It
should work everywhere ConfirmEdit can throw the image CAPTCHA at someone:
account creation, login, the edit form, etc. (It won't modify the simple
math CAPTCHA, and so on.)
The original enhancement request for this (
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14230) goes back to 2008. A
patch was submitted back in January by lalei:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/44376/
If you want to test this out yourself before it's deployed, you can use
http://toro.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page
Forgive my awful pun in the subject line,
--
Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
You are invited to attend this online session:
Thursday, February 28, 2013, 19:30 UTC (12:30 PDT), 60 minutes
Video streaming and IRC details at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2013-04-18
A first round of Wikimedia Individual Engagement Grants has been
completed and there were 3 technical projects selected. Let's know about
them, presented by their own promoters:
* The Wikipedia Adventure, by Ocaasi.
* MediaWiki data browser, by Yaron Koren.
* Replay Edits, by Jeph Paul.
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Hi, it would be great to have a good representation of your communities
in this survey:
Please find 5 minutes for this survey:
http://www.doodle.com/minqnd6ngz9npfdv
In an *average* week, when are you more available to volunteer a couple
of hours? Multiple choices are good. No registration required.
VERY IMPORTANT: select your timezone!
Deadline: end of Sunday, May 21.
We want to organize activities for technical volunteers at the times
that suit you best. But we have contributors with different habits in
different parts of the World. This survey will help us covering better
everybody's preferences.
Thank you!
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
There is scheduled database maintenance on Wednesday April 17th from
18:00 - 20:00 UTC (11am - 1pm Pacific) for Wikidata and the English and
German Wikipedias. During this window there may be brief (30 seconds - 2
minutes) moments where affected wikis are read-only.
The purpose for the maintenance is to update our "master" database
servers for those wikis to MariaDB (https://mariadb.org/). This is part
of our on-going migration to MariaDB from MySQL at the Wikimedia
Foundation (blog post forth-coming!).
Please report any issues after 20:00 UTC/1pm Pacific to
#wikimedia-operations or https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ (see this[1]
page for tips on reporting bugs).
Best,
Greg
[1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/18/how-to-create-a-good-first-bug-report/
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| Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
| identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
Ideal for potential technical contributors in your Wikimedia projects:
Do you want to know about new opportunities to contribute your technical
skills, but don't want to find them in a high traffic mailing list?
Subscribe to receive calls for action at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Recycling wikitech-announce for tech contributors
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:23:21 -0700
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Organization: Wikimedia Foundation
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi,
We were missing a way to notify tech contributors and volunteers about
new activities, and after some discussion [1] we have decided to recycle
the unused
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce
Subscribers will receive CALLS FOR ACTION ONLY e.g. for activities like
the ones listed at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar. No
announcements of new releases, features removed, etc. We have channels
already for that.
We will sync the announcements at wikitech-announce with with wikitech-l
and wikitech-ambassadors.
While this is not a big deal for current contributors following already
wikitech-l and a number of wiki pages etc, it will help potential
volunteers willing to get involved and know about opportunities to
contribute.
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_talk:New_contributors#How_to_solve_N…
PS: before clicking reply please read
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/282349 :)
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
A long long time ago, before there was a full API for write
operations, I implemented a hackish method for invoking an external
editor (e.g. emacs/vim) when editing wiki pages or manipulating
uploaded files. It depended on a Perl script reference implementation
which was later ported to Java.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors
This feature has been removed with the following changeset:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/30173/
The removal will go live on Wikimedia wikis in the two-week 1.22wmf2
cycle kicking off next Monday:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Roadmap
In addition to an antiquated design, this feature also had the
disadvantage that users would sometimes experimentally activate the
preference for editing all pages with an external tool and then find
themselves unable to edit, which is why there are scary warnings next
to the user preference.
Having nicer ways to manipulate content with desktop applications is
desirable, but any future approach this problem will likely look
entirely different.
All best,
Erik
--
Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
fyi
Please help making sure the gadgets & templates developers plus the
admins and other contributors to the tech avantgarde of your projects
are aware of this. In an idea world all of them would follow wikitech-l
but this is probably not the case today. Thank you!
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Sponsoring travel to Wikimedia Hackathon
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:05:53 -0700
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Organization: Wikimedia Foundation
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi, you have probably heard about
Wikimedia Hackathon
24-26 May in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013
There are about 100 participants registered, and we have some room for
more. Registration is free but you need to sign up. There is also some
travel sponsorship budget left after a first round of approvals.
If your free software contributions and your Wikimedia love is more
valuable than the money you have in the bank, you can just register and
apply for scholarship. Please include public URLs where we can see your
open source licensed contributions (code, pixels, wise words...). A CV
alone won't cut it, no matter how many avatars appear to endorse your
skills.
Hurry up! The organizers are reviewing applications as they come.
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil