Wikitech-ambassadors November 2014

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Fwd: Two office hours about the Bugzilla to Phabricator migration

by Quim Gil

Hi, next week we will host two office hours to answer your questions about the Bugzilla to Phabricator migration: Tuesday 18 Novembre 16:00 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141118T16 Tuesday 18 Novembre 23:00 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141118T23 On #wikimedia-office IRC, as usual. The plan is to start the migration on Friday 21 November at 00:30 UTC. We will send more information about this, but in the meantime you can check the details at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/versus_Bugzilla -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

9 years, 5 months

Reminder: IRC support sessions for file metadata cleanup

by Guillaume Paumier

Hello, Reminder: I'll be available today (for the next ~12 hours, with a few breaks) in the #wikimedia and #wikimedia-commons channels on freenode IRC to help you if you need support or have questions about how to fix templates and images on your wiki, as part of the File metadata cleanup drive: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/File_metadata_cleanup_dr… I'll be available throughout the day, and in particular during two dedicated sessions in #wikimedia. The first one will be in an hour. On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Guillaume Paumier <gpaumier(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > *File information cleanup <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/File_metadata_cleanup_dr…>* - Reminder: You can help fix file information <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/File_metadata_cleanup_dr…> on your wiki. It will help robots understand the information <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/07/cleaning-up-file-metadata-for-humans-…>. After that, it will be easier for you to search files and re-use them. - You can join two IRC chats <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours> this week to learn more about the file cleanup project. One will be on Wednesday at 18:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&d…> and the other on Thursday at 04:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=04&min=00&sec=0&d…>. You can ask questions during the chat if you need help to fix files on your wiki. - You can see a list of files to fix on the Labs tool <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mrmetadata>. You can report bugs and ask questions on the talk page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:File_metadata_cleanup_drive>. -- Guillaume Paumier

9 years, 5 months

Huge change in the API documentation

by Jan Ainali

Recently there was a huge change in the API documentation at /w/api.php I found a notice here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api-announce/2014-October/0… Should this perhaps go into the tech newsletter (I couldn't find it in the last five)? *Best regards,Jan Ainali* Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige <http://wikimedia.se> 0729 - 67 29 48 *Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.* Bli medlem. <http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se>

9 years, 5 months

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] "Task recommendation" popup suggestion: wrap-up timeline?

by 云运算�|

请用母语为盼,!!!!!! 勇于挑战超越自我，乐于奉献创造第一！

9 years, 5 months

VisualEditor monthly newsletter is now multilingual

by Erica Litrenta

(Apologies for cross-posting.) Hi all, I'm glad to announce that the *monthly VisualEditor newsletter* was recently marked for translation for the first time: we had received several related community requests. The issue for September and October [0] was delivered in 10 languages to the editors who signed up in the past months (please join them! [1]) in addition to a list of relevant pages which includes at a minimum all the Wikipedias where VisualEditor is already the default editor [2]. Future time windows for translations will be announced through the Translators mailing list [3], or personally to volunteers who want to help with this task; please contact me off-list to indicate your availability. *The November issue is now open for translations and will be delivered in a few days [4]. * Special thanks to our awesome community of translators, to Guillaume for assisting me in setting up the whole mechanism, to Whatamidoing (WMF) for providing the contents and to James F. for reviewing them. Best, Elitre (WMF) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_(Product) [0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter/2014/October [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Rollouts [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter/2014/November

9 years, 5 months

Tech newsletter (2014, week 46)

by Guillaume Paumier

Hi, The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/46 . Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>. More information on how to contribute is available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute> . You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ————————————————————————————— Other languages: čeština <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/46/cs> • ‎English • ‎suomi <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/46/fi> • ‎français <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/46/fr> • ‎עברית <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/46/he> • ‎日本語 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/46/ja> • ‎português <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/46/pt> • ‎русский <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/46/ru> • ‎svenska <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/46/sv> • ‎українська <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/46/uk> • ‎中文 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/46/zh> Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/46> are available. *Recent software changes* - You may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [1] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend/WikiGrok> [2] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72465> - The MediaWiki API <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page> now shows information in a nice format. You can translate it in translatewiki.net <https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=mediawiki-a…> . [3] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api-announce/2014-October/0…> *File information cleanup <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/File_metadata_cleanup_dr…>* - Reminder: You can help fix file information <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/File_metadata_cleanup_dr…> on your wiki. It will help robots understand the information <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/07/cleaning-up-file-metadata-for-humans-…>. After that, it will be easier for you to search files and re-use them. - You can join two IRC chats <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours> this week to learn more about the file cleanup project. One will be on Wednesday at 18:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&d…> and the other on Thursday at 04:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=04&min=00&sec=0&d…>. You can ask questions during the chat if you need help to fix files on your wiki. - You can see a list of files to fix on the Labs tool <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mrmetadata>. You can report bugs and ask questions on the talk page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:File_metadata_cleanup_drive>. *Problems* - Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem. [4] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-November/003099.html> *Software changes this week* - The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf7 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf7>) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap>). - You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions. [5] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52181> [6] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52179> - The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More". [7] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/170126/> - The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs. [8] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52486> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by tech ambassadors <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/46> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.* -- Guillaume Paumier

9 years, 5 months

Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of November 10th

by Greg Grossmeier

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap and Deployment update. The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_November_10th> A quick list of notable items... == All Week == * Fundraising tests throughout the week (on-going through the rest of the yearly fundraising) == Monday == * New Search (Cirrus) to Chinese Wikipedia ** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search> == Tuesday == * MediaWiki deploy ** group1 to 1.25wmf7: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites) ** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf7> == Wednesday == * New Search (Cirrus) to German Wikipedia ** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search> * MediaWiki deploy ** group2 to 1.25wmf7 (all Wikipedias) ** group0 to 1.25wmf8 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki) == The Following Week == Heads up that on November 19th, new search (Cirrus) will be deployed to English Wikipedia. Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome, Greg -- Greg Grossmeier Release Team Manager

9 years, 5 months

"Task recommendation" popup suggestion: wrap-up timeline?

by Federico Leva (Nemo)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Task_recommendations#Results.… In what time frame will there be results of Research:Task recommendations/Experiment one? --Atlasowa (talk) 13:49, 21 October 2014 (UTC) Same question here. We've been serving a big popup after every edit to all new users since... September? Do you have enough data for this research? If you did, but there isn't enough analysis bandwidth now, it would be wise to disable the recommendations until they can be evaluated. --Nemo 08:01, 6 November 2014 (UTC) Nemo

9 years, 5 months

Tech newsletter (2014, week 45)

by Guillaume Paumier

Hi, The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/45 . Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next. More information on how to contribute is available athttps:// meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute . You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ————————————————————————————— Other languages: čeština <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/45/cs> • ‎English • ‎suomi <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/45/fi> • ‎français <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/45/fr> • ‎עברית <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/45/he> • ‎日本語 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/45/ja> • ‎português <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/45/pt> • ‎русский <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/45/ru> • ‎українська <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/45/uk> • ‎中文 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/45/zh> Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/45> are available. *Recent software changes* - The "Special:Cite <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CiteThisPage>" page is now called "Special:CiteThisPage <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CiteThisPage>". That way, you know it's to cite the page, not to add a reference. [1] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18081> - You can no longer use the insource: keyword for text searches <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/regular_expressions>. It caused issues with the new search tool <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch>. It will come back later. [2] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-October/001…> [3] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20141027-CirrusS…> *Problems* - There was a bug in VisualEditor with Internet Explorer. It hid tools like the link editor when you opened them. The bug was fixed on Monday. [4] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72392> - Issues with the new search tool caused geo data code to show up on pages on Monday and Friday. The mobile "nearby" tool was also broken. The problem is now fixed. [5] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72559> [6] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33704> [7] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20141027-CirrusS…> - HHVM caused server issues on Thursday. They are now fixed. *Software changes this week* - The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf5>) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4, and on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap>). - Some wikis have icons at the top of a page to show if it is protected or featured. Icons show up using CSS. You can now use the <indicator <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Page_status_indicators>> tag in these templates instead to add the icons. [8] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning#Page_status_indicators> [9] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23796> - VisualEditor now tells you if you're editing a re-used reference. This helps you avoid changing it if you just want to add a new one. [10] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52792> - The icons in VisualEditor's template editor tool for adding more fields are back, along with other fixes. [11] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63158> [12] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72191> [13] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/169293/>[14] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/168205/> [15] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/169296/> - After November 6, all wikis will have the tool to edit TemplateData <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateData>. [16] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateData> [17] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60158> [18] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/157478> *Future changes* - The new search tool <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:CirrusSearch> will come to the last wikis in the coming weeks. This includes Wikipedia in French, Chinese, German and English. [19] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-October/001…> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by tech ambassadors <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/45> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> •Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.* -- Guillaume Paumier

9 years, 5 months

Temporarily Disabled CirrusSearch Wikitext Regular Expression Search

by Nikolas Everett

We've temporarily disabled CirrusSearch's insource:// syntax because we believe it was that cause of two CirrusSearch outages this week. We'll reenable it when we're confident it won't break anything and we'll send another email to this list. Sorry for the inconvenience. Nik Everett aka manybubbles

9 years, 5 months

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