Wikitech-ambassadors May 2014

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Please help us check these CAPTCHAs for readability
by Vira Motorko 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

I had a look at Ukrainian captchas. Fine and funny, I'm eager to know what is the source for the words :) Nota bene: * usage of proper nouns may cause difficulties; * letters Л and П in cyrillic look very simmilar *Vira Motorko* Help save natural resources - please think twice before printing this e-mail or any attachments.

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Tech newsletter (2014, week 22)
by Guillaume Paumier 27 May '14

27 May '14

Hi, The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/22 . 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 at https://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: العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/22/ar> [image: 100%] • ‎čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/22/cs> [image: 94%] • ‎English [image: 100%] • ‎español<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/22/es> [image: 100%] • ‎suomi<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/22/fi> [image: 33%] • ‎français<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/22/fr> [image: 100%] • ‎ગુજરાતી<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/22/gu> [image: 94%] • ‎עברית<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/22/he> [image: 100%] • ‎日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/22/ja> [image: 67%] • ‎한국어 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/22/ko> [image: 78%] • ‎polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/22/pl> [image: 100%] • ‎українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/22/uk> [image: 100%] • ‎中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/22/zh> [image: 100%] Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/22> are available. *Recent software changes* - The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf6<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf6>) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap> ). - MediaViewer<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MultimediaViewer> will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer> is welcome. *VisualEditor news* - VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [1] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57699> [2]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133639/> [3] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57700> [4]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133637/> - A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week. [5]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65349> [6] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133897/> - VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [7]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64142> [8] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65292> - It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [9]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/120808/> - VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [10]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62229> *Future software changes* - Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [11]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-May/002562.html> - It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard> tool. [12] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54750> [13]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133434/> - Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [14]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133403/> [15] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133401/> [16]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133400/> - You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [17]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52673> [18] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133986/> *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 MediaWiki message delivery <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/2014/22> • 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 Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation

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Short Wikimedia IRC downtime - Monday June 2nd at 17:00 UTC
by Greg Grossmeier 24 May '14

24 May '14

Hello all, We have a short downtime planned for the Wikimedia IRC server coming in a couple weeks. This is irc.wikimedia.org, aka the IRC server that some bots follow as a recent changes feed. Why: We're moving the Wikimedia IRC service from the Tampa, FL datacenter to the Ashburn, VA datacenter. The new server is already in place and running. The downtime will just be people (bots) being kicked from the old server and reconnecting to the new one. Let me know 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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Roadmap and deployment updates - Week of May 26th
by Greg Grossmeier 23 May '14

23 May '14

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_May_26th> A quick list of notable items... == Monday == * No planned deploys ** US Holiday (Memorial Day) == Tuesday == * MediaWiki deploy ** group1 to 1.24wmf6: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites) ** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf6> * Flow enabled on <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cite-from-id> == Thursday == * MediaWiki deploy ** group2 to 1.24wmf6 (all Wikipedias) ** group0 to 1.24wmf7 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki) * MediaViewer ** Will be enabled on by default on all Wikisources ** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan#Timeline> == Friday == * WMF Labs downtime (~10 minutes) aiming to start at 18:00 UTC ** Addition of another bound network port to the NSF server ** Check the Wikimedia Labs mailing list for any updates as the date approaches: <labs-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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[Reminder] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on May 21, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 21 May '14

21 May '14

Hello This is a reminder that the Language Engineering IRC office hour is happening later today at 1700UTC on #wikimedia-office. Please see below for the original announcement and local time. Thanks Runa Monthly IRC Office Hour: ================== # Date: May 21, 2014 (Wednesday) # Time: 1700 UTC/1000PDT (Check local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140521T1700) # IRC channel: #wikimedia-office # Agenda: 1. Content Translation project updates 2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, May 19, 2014 at 4:11 PM Subject: Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on May 21, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC To: MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org [x-posted] Hello, The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting the next monthly IRC office hour on Wednesday, May 21 2014 at 1700 UTC on #wikimedia-office. The event is delayed this month as the team was traveling. In this office hour we will be discussing about our recent work, which has mostly been around the upcoming first release of the Content Translation tool[1]. We will also be taking questions during the session. Please see below for event details and local time. See you at the office hour. Thanks Runa [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation Monthly IRC Office Hour: ================== # Date: May 21, 2014 (Wednesday) # Time: 1700 UTC/1000PDT (Check local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140521T1700) # IRC channel: #wikimedia-office # Agenda: 1. Content Translation project updates 2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event) -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on May 21, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 19 May '14

19 May '14

[x-posted] Hello, The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting the next monthly IRC office hour on Wednesday, May 21 2014 at 1700 UTC on #wikimedia-office. The event is delayed this month as the team was traveling. In this office hour we will be discussing about our recent work, which has mostly been around the upcoming first release of the Content Translation tool[1]. We will also be taking questions during the session. Please see below for event details and local time. See you at the office hour. Thanks Runa [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation Monthly IRC Office Hour: ================== # Date: May 21, 2014 (Wednesday) # Time: 1700 UTC/1000PDT (Check local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140521T1700) # IRC channel: #wikimedia-office # Agenda: 1. Content Translation project updates 2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event) -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Tech newsletter (2014, week 21)
by Guillaume Paumier 19 May '14

19 May '14

Hi, The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/21 . 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 at https://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: العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/21/ar> [image: 100%] • ‎čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/21/cs> [image: 91%] • ‎English [image: 100%] • ‎español<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/21/es> [image: 100%] • ‎suomi<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/21/fi> [image: 100%] • ‎français<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/21/fr> [image: 100%] • ‎עברית<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/21/he> [image: 100%] • ‎日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/21/ja> [image: 45%] • ‎한국어 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/21/ko> [image: 68%] • ‎Nederlands <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/21/nl> [image: 50%] • ‎polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/21/pl> [image: 100%] • ‎українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/21/uk> [image: 100%] • ‎中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/21/zh> [image: 100%] Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/21> are available. *Tech News updates* - Tech News is one year old this week; thank you for being with us! *Recent software changes* - The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf5>) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap> ). - The jQuery <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:jQuery> JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work. [1]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-May/076340.html> [2] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44740> [3]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133477/> - MediaViewer<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MultimediaViewer> was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan>. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer> is welcome. [4] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132967/> [5]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/129828/> - VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betaf…> . [6] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65067> [7]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132409/> - You can read a summary<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_engineering_rep…> of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014. *VisualEditor news* - VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys. [8] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62337> [9]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/132979> - VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like {{cite_web}} and not just {{Cite web}}. [10]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63129> [11] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132725/> - VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it. [12]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55551> [13] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/125914> - VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit. [14]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50955> - The toolbar of the PageTriage<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageTriage> extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. [15]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56731> [16] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/133379> *Future software changes* - User ID number will no longer be visible in preferences<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences> . [17] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58626> [18]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132916/> *Problems* - For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem. [19]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65424> *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 MediaWiki message delivery <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/2014/21> • 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 Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation

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Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of May 19th
by Greg Grossmeier 16 May '14

16 May '14

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_May_19th> A quick list of notable items... == Monday == * Enable CirrusSearch as primary search backend on zh-yue wikipedia. ** <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search> * Enable anonymous editor acquisition experiment in GettingStarted on enwiki, dewiki, frwiki, itwiki and test wikis. == Tuesday == * MediaWiki deploy ** group1 to 1.24wmf5: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites) ** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf5> * Enable Flow at mw:Talk:Wikibase/Beta Features/Other projects sidebar, mw:Talk:Design, and mw:Talk:Phabricator/Help ** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow> == Wednesday == * Swapping GeoData to use Elasticsearch as its backend everywhere. ** <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData> == Thursday == * MediaWiki deploy ** group2 to 1.24wmf4 (all Wikipedias) ** group0 to 1.24wmf5 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki) * MediaViewer ** English, German, Italian and Russian Wikipedias, and all Wikisources, in stages. ** < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan#Timeline > Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome, Greg

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Upcoming A/B tests for anonymous editors
by Steven Walling 16 May '14

16 May '14

Hi all, I just wanted folks to get a heads up that starting next week, we'll be A/B testing new calls to register, directed at anonymous editors. These tests will be for at least one week on English, German, French, and Italian Wikipedias. I'm not sure it merits Tech News, since the delivery of the new UI is randomized and registered users will of course not see anything change. If you want to learn more about the project, there's a blog post with background and links at: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/16/anonymous-editor-acquisition/ -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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Request for comments: How to deal with open datasets?
by David Cuenca 15 May '14

15 May '14

Hi, During the Zürich Hackathon I met several people that looked for solutions about how to integrate external open datasets into our projects (mainly Wikipedia, Wikidata). Since Wikidata is not the right tool to manage them (reasons explained in the RFC as discussed during the Wikidata session), I have felt convenient to centralize the discussion about potential requirements, needs, and how to approach this new changing landscape that didn't exist a few years ago. You will find more details here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/How_to_deal_with_open_… Your comments, thoughts and ideas are appreciated! Cheers, Micru

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