Greetings,
As you may have seen in Tech News, on the Wikimedia blog or at the
latest Metrics meeting, I'm currently leading a File metadata cleanup
drive, whose goal is to to fix file pages and tweak templates across
Wikimedia wikis, to ensure that multimedia files consistently contain
machine-readable metadata [1,2].
This initiative is a critical step in improving reuse and following
best practices for attribution in PDF prints, offline content like
Kiwix and third party tools like WikiWand, among others.
Some of you have already started adding the markers to information and
licensing templates (Thank you!) and I'm going around wikis to do the
same. We're making progress [3], but there's still a lot of work to do
because we have so many wikis.
I'd like to ask for your help in adding markers to the templates on
your wiki, since you probably speak many languages that I have trouble
deciphering. You're also more familiar with your wiki's templates, and
a distributed effort will be more efficient than just a handful of us
going around wikis :)
There's a detailed guide in many languages if you're not sure how to proceed:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/File_metadata_cleanup_dr…
I also recommend that you reach out to other editors on your wiki,
template authors, gadget maintainers, etc. since they may be able to
help, but may not know about this effort.
I'm also happy to help if you have questions. You can ask me off-list,
on the tech ambassadors list, on IRC (I'm guillom in #wikimedia on
freenode) or on my talk page on Meta. (Carrier pigeons are
discouraged.)
If you're helping, please consider adding yourself to the list of
participants, so others can see which wikis are actively fixing files
and templates: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_metadata_cleanup_drive/Participants
And if you're having difficulties, please do let others know on the
talk page so we can try and find a solution, both for your benefit and
for the benefit of others who might have the same problem:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:File_metadata_cleanup_drive .
I hope that you'll be able to help fix files and templates on your
wiki and give a hand in this distributed effort.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_metadata_cleanup_drive
[2] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/07/cleaning-up-file-metadata-for-humans-…
[3] https://tools.wmflabs.org/mrmetadata/historical_tallies.svg
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Guillaume Paumier
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Guillaume_(WMF)
Hey all,
On 3 Jun 2014, Krinkle wrote:
> TL;DR:
> * We did not make the breaking change last week for Wikimedia; it is postponed.
> * MediaWiki 1.24.0 will ship with jQuery Migrate switched off.
> * Wikimedia & non-Wikimedia wikis can enable jQuery Migrate if needed.
> * When MediaWiki 1.24 is released, we will switch off jQuery Migrate for Wikimedia wikis.
>
This is now due. [0]
The change [1] will land in master after the branch cut next week. It will roll out in 1.25wmf12, which will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis starting Wednesday 10 December: [1]
* It will affect mediawiki.org and test wikis on Wednesday 10 December.
* It will affect sister projects on Tuesday 16 December.
* It will affect Wikipedias on Wednesday 17 December.
For non-Wikimedia wikis, this will ship in MediaWiki 1.25.0.
Thanks for all the help so far!
Best,
— Krinkle
[0] https://www.mail-archive.com/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg76236.html
[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/137168/
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap
Greetings,
Just a quick note to let you know that there won't be a technical newsletter
today due to Thanksgiving.
The regular publication schedule will resume this week, with the translation
being done at the end of the week and #50 being sent next Monday.
--
Guillaume Paumier
Hi tech ambassadors, your help spreading the word in your communities is
very appreciated.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:56 AM
Subject: Let's recruit tech volunteers in your country via GSoC / OPW
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Wikimedia is planning to participate in Google Summer of Code 2015 and the
simultaneous FOSS Outreach Program for Women round 10. We want to increase
geographical diversity among candidates by involving local Wikimedia groups
in the promotion of these programs. This, in turn, could help increasing
the technical capacity of these groups. Interested? Please check
Connect Wikimedia groups, Google Developer Groups, and computer science
university departments
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T925
Italy, Russia, China, and Japan have been mentioned already. Adding other
locations is up to you. We are looking for local drivers. The Engineering
Community team and others can help from a distance, but this won't work
without local promoters.
PS: you can register to Phabricator with your Wikimedia account, and you
can subscribe to tasks in order to receive updates -- see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
