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-- Tomasz
Summary:
On Thursday July 11th we will be enabling a new centralized login
service to make the login experience for users more streamlined.
More detail:
To address the shortcomings of the current Single User Login (SUL)
system, the Platform team is making significant changes to the way that
CentralAuth logs users into other wikis on login:
* Users will be logged into a new, centralized domain when they login to
any public WMF wiki with a global account. This domain is
login.wikimedia.org
* Global accounts will no longer see the "Login Success" page after
login, instead they will be redirected back the article where they
came from. On the article page, we will transparently attempt to login
the user to all of the sister projects, instead of relying on the
images on the login success page.
* All of the public WMF wikis will use the central wiki to check
anonymous user's logged-in status, and transparently log the user in
if they are centrally logged in.
(Thanks to Chris Steipp for the above language.)
You can see the full rollout plan for this here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Auth_systems/SUL2#Rollout_Plan
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| Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
| identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
FYI, major update below. See the wiki for more details/links.
Greg
----- Forwarded message from Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> -----
> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:40:43 -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: WMF Engineering roadmap update
>
> Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap
> update.
>
> This is a larger update than normal as I missed sending this out the
> past two weeks (one week being the week of July 4th, and the other this
> was deprioritized due to other needs). My apologies.
>
> As always, you can see the full roadmap, with information links, here:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Roadmap
>
>
> == Flow ==
> * June: started architectual discussions.
> * July: have/or will hire for Front End engineers.
> * August: work on the API design.
> * September: First experimental release of the user-to-uesr discussion
> workflow (probably limited to an opt-in group).
> * December: Goal date for the full production release of the
> user-to-user discussion system.
>
> == Mobile Apps ==
> * July: Revised login, iOS multi upload, bug fixes, back to regular
> releases, New detail page, earliy campaign work.
>
> == Mobile Web ==
> * July: Watchlist thanking/reverting (in beta). Getting started for
> mobile in beta.
> * August: continued watchlist thanking/reverting. Getting started for
> mobile planned to be stable.
>
> == Language ==
> * July: ULS deployment to all wikis has been completed. Urgent bugfixes
> and performance patches are now being deployed during the weekly
> scheduled deployment window.
>
> == Ops ==
> * July: Analysis and testing of Ceph lead to probable decision of
> staying with Swift.
> * September: Migration to eqiad (datacenter in Virginia) from tampa
> should be complete.
> * December: Creation and setup of the west coast data center should be
> complete.
>
> == Platform/MW Core ==
> * July: ElasticSearch research (in addition to Solr). Review work of the
> GLAM Wiki Toolkit.
> * August: Deploy of either Solr or ElasticSearch to test2.wikipedia.org.
> Also, a deployment infrastructe sprint will begin.
> * September: An Admin Tool sprint begins.
> * October: goal date of new search to English Wikipedia. Also, HipHop
> deployment tentatively begins.
> * November: HipHop deployment tentatively completes.
> * December: A very tentative goal date for a centralized code repository
> pending other priorities.
>
> == QA ==
> * July: more Jenkins job executers for faster full suite runs. Trainings
> for test development and failure analysis. Target groups tbd.
> * August: Continued improvements of BetaLabs
>
> == Eng Community Team ==
> * August: Puppetize Bugzilla. QA training in automated testing for
> gadgets.
> * September: prep for next OPW round
> * October: Community metrics integration
> * December: run the application process for the next OPW round
>
>
> Best,
>
> Greg
>
>
> --
> | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
> | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
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| Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
| identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
Next week is a pretty normal week, expect... :)
(Probably) VisualEditor turned on for all English Wikipedia users on
Monday and updates to ULS to address reported bugs and performance
issues.
Thanks helping getting the word out!
Greg
----- Forwarded message from Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> -----
> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:54:25 -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: Weekly deployment highlights - week of July 15th, 2013
>
> Hello and welcome to this week's deployment highlights email for the
> week of July 15th.
>
> For the full list of deployments that are currently scheduled, see:
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_July_15th
>
>
> == Monday ==
> * Following the normal cycle, all non-Wikipedia sites (wiktionary,
> wikinews, etc) are upgrading to MediaWiki 1.22wmf10
> * Pending the go/no-go decision later this afternoon (Pacific time),
> VisualEditor will be enabled for all English Wikipedia users (both
> logged in and not).
>
> == Tuesday ==
> * UniversalLanguageSelector will be rolling out more bugfixes and
> performance improvements.
>
> == Thursday ==
> * test.wikipedia.org, test2., test.wikidata.org, login.wikimedia.org,
> and mediawiki.org will be upgraded to MediaWiki 1.22wmf11
> * The rest will be on 1.22wmf10
>
>
> As always, please reply if you have any questions!
>
> Greg
>
> --
> | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
> | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
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| Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
| identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
Cross-posting since there may be some things of interest, especially for
Italian, Polish, German, and French speakers.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:33 PM
Subject: Feature updates from editor engagement experiments today
To: WMF Editor Engagement Team <ee(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
Quick rundown of the changes we deployed today...
- We disabled the "micro-survey" of the gender of new accounts on
enwiki, and enabled the same survey on frwiki, dewiki, plwiki, and itwiki.
This survey will run for two weeks on those Wikipedias.[1]
- As a requirement of the above survey, we added guided tours extension
to plwiki and itwiki (it was already on the others). The test tour and
others may not be fully localized yet for Italian or Polish, but only the
gender survey is being delivered via default.
- We also enabled VisualEditor EventLogging on these other wikis to
capture the survey data. This also means that edit data for VisualEditor
will be captured per Schema:Edit [2].
1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Gender_micro-survey
2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:Edit
--
Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
The Disambiguator extension
(http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Disambiguator) is now deployed
to all WMF wikis. This will enable us to:
1. Remove disambiguation code from core, including
Special:Disambiguations (bug 35981)
2. Stop requiring wikis to maintain template lists at
MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage
3. Add features like warning users when they are linking to
disambiguation pages (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/70564)
4. Remove disambiguation pages from things like Special:Random and
Special:LonelyPages
4. Enable the development of more powerful 3rd party tools for dealing
with disambiguation pages
There is, however, one action required of each wiki that wants to make
use of the Disambiguator extension: Every disambiguation page on the
wiki needs to include the __DISAMBIG__ magic word (or an equivalent
alias). Typically, this only requires adding the magic word to a single
template that is included on all the disambiguation pages. For example,
on Commons, this was accomplished with the following change:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3ADisambig&diff=99…
On English Wikipedia, it was a bit more complicated:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3ADmbox&diff=560507118&…
Once you've made this change, you should start seeing pages appear on
Special:DisambiguationPages within 3 days. If you have any questions or
problems, let me know.
Ryan Kaldari
Wikimedia Foundation
I ask Wiktionary contributors on this list to look at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary and
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary_%28alternative_proposal%29
and comment on their talk pages.
"From before the start of the Wikidata project .... it became obvious
very early that Wiktionary would be one of the projects that would
benefit most – but be at the same time one of the more complicated
projects to support....
"To make it very explicit: this is not a plan to replace Wiktionary, but
rather to provide a first step towards supporting some of the structured
data already in the Wiktionaries. The goal is to reduce the maintenance
effort of the Wiktionary projects, and to enable the different language
editions of Wiktionary to share some structured data if they want so, in
decisions that would be done from entry to entry. Wiktionary, as it is,
provides a flexibility which goes well beyond what we aim to cover with
this proposal."
Denny Vrandečić's original email:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-June/002380.html
User:Francis Tyers and User:Micru suggesting a second approach today:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Wiktionary#Alternative_proposal
Thank you!
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation