Hi folks,
We're happy to announce that Media Viewer is now live on all wikis hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation!
Media Viewer is testing well on all remaining Wikipedias (e.g.: Chinese, Arabic, Hindu, Indonesian, etc.) and sister sites (e.g.: MetaWiki, Wikibooks, Wikiquotes, Wikiversity, Wiktionary).
The multimedia team worked hard in the last few weeks to develop a range of final features, in response to frequent community requests. We hope you will try them out and let us know what you think on the Media Viewer discussion page (1).
1. Features on All Wikis
These features are now available on all wikis as of today:
* View original file (#630)
* Scroll down to see more info (#697)
* Show Commons link to logged out users (#429)
* Easy opt-out for registered users (#703)
* Opt-out for anons (#704)
You can test these features on this Featured Pictures page. (2)
2. Features on MediaWiki.org only:
These features are now available on MediaWiki.org and will be deployed to all wikis in coming days:
* Make it easier to find image information (#706)
* Prominent links to different image sizes (#664)
* Add more tooltips to Media Viewer (#546)
* Disable MediaViewer for certain images (#511)
* Track 'View original file’ and ‘Commons link' clicks (#715, #726)
* Track Media Viewer Opt-outs (/#558, #675)
You can test these features on this demo page (3) — and learn more on the updated help page (4).
3. Features in development
Other tasks in development or analysis include:
* Show attribution credits in download tool (#598)
* Make 'Commons link' and 'Use this file' more discoverable (#732)
* Click on image in Media Viewer to help view original file (#712)
* Improve Media Viewer UI on tablets (zoom/scroll) (#716)
* Remember the last selection for ‘Use this file' (#660)
You can view more details about these features on our planning site. (5)
4. Feedback
We keep getting generally positive feedback worldwide, with these latest results: (6)
* A majority of global respondents find the tool useful (60% average across surveys)
* Cumulative approval by language: English 29%, French 70%, Spanish 78%, Dutch 59%, Portuguese 81%, German 28%, Hungarian 62%, Catalan 71%
* Daily approval rates have increased on English Wikipedia from about 23% a day after launch to 39% two weeks after launch (and German approval has also increased from 23% to 56% in the same period).
* We anticipate further approval increases on these sites, as more new features get rolled out in coming days, based on community feedback.
We are also starting to track the opt-out rates to see how many people turn off Media Viewer in their preferences. As of June 16, about 875 users had disabled this feature on the English Wikipedia, two weeks after launch: this represents about 0.34% of all registered users who viewed images on the site since launch. We are sorry that this small minority of users don’t like the tool, but we are glad that so many other users are finding it useful.
Please let us know what you think of these new features on our main discussion page (1). Which do you like most? least? Are there other must-have features that need to be developed right away, before we move on to other projects?
Thanks to all the community and team members for all you’ve done to make Media Viewer possible. :)
Onward!
Fabrice — for the Multimedia Team
(1) Discussion page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer#New_featu…
(2) Featured Pictures:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures
(3) Demo page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo
(4) Help page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Multimedia/Media_Viewer
(5) Planning site:
http://ur1.ca/gtyrp
(6) Survey results:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Survey
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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
Hi everyone,
Apologies for the short notice, but we're delaying the deployment of
GlobalRenameUser for two weeks. The new rollout date is 1st July 2014,
moved back from 17th June 2014.
These two weeks are going to be used by Hoo man to do code quality
improvements which will be reviewed by Legoktm and Chris Steipp. So that
the deployment is not delayed indefinitely while we wait, we've agreed to
time box these improvements to two weeks, thus arriving at the new date of
1st July.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Dan
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Dan Garry
Associate Product Manager for Platform and Mobile Apps
Wikimedia Foundation
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_June_16th>
A quick list of notable items...
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.24wmf9: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf9>
* Mobile view
** Tablets will be sent to the mobile version of the project
websites. Previously they were sent to the desktop version. There is
a blog post and central notice drafted and ready to go out day of.
* CentralAuth Global Rename Tool
** CentralAuth will now provide an interface to rename global users.
** More info at: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:CentralAuth/Global_rename>
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.24wmf9 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.24wmf10 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
* MediaViewer
** Will be enabled on *all* wikis
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan#Timeline>
Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,
Greg
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Hi,
The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in May 2014 is now
available.
Wiki version:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2014/May
Blog version:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/06/15/engineering-report-may-2014/
We're also proposing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of this
report that does not assume specialized technical knowledge:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2014/May/summary
Below is the HTML text of the report's summary
As always, feedback is appreciated on the usefulness of the report and its
summary, and on how to improve them.
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Major news in May include:
- changes to the mobile site to better show the editors behind the
curtain
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/02/the-wikipedia-editors-behind-the-curt…>
;
- the announcement of CyrusOne in Dallas
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/05/wikimedia-foundation-selects-cyrusone…>
as
the location of the new Wikimedia data center;
- the Zürich hackathon
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/10/tech-wizards-behind-wikipedia-meet-in…>
and Lila Tretikov's perspective
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/15/hacker-osmosis-ideas-european-hackath…>
on
it;
- experiments by the Growth team to encourage more contributors to
register
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/16/anonymous-editor-acquisition/>;
- the one-year anniversary
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/20/celebrating-one-year-of-tech-news/>
of
the launch of Tech News;
- the launch of Wikipedia Zero in Nepal
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/22/wikipedia-zero-shall-accelerate-wikip…>
in
partnership with NCELL;
- the launch of a second request for proposals
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/27/request-for-proposals-mediawiki-relea…>
for
the release management of MediaWiki for third-party users.
VisualEditor
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Portal>
In May, the VisualEditor <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor> team
worked on the performance stability of the editor, rolled out a major new
feature to help users better edit articles, and made some improvements to
other features to increase their ease of use and understandability, fixing 78
bugs and tickets
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=318847&order=priority%2C…>.
The new citation editor is now available to all VisualEditor users on the
English, Polish, and Czech Wikipedias, with instructions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Citation_tool> on how to
enable it on other wikis. The citation and template dialogs were simplified
to avoid technical language and some outcomes that were unexpected for
users. As part of this, the citation icons were replaced with a new,
clearer set, and the template hinting system now lets wikis mark template
parameters as "suggested", as a step below the existing "required" state.
The formula editor
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae> is now
available to all VisualEditor users, and a new Beta Feature giving a tool
that lets you set the language of content
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Language> was
made available for testing and feedback. Following a new set of user
testing, the toolbar was tweaked, moving the list and indent buttons to a
drop-down to make them less prominent, and removing the gallery button
which is rarely used and confused users. The mobile version of
VisualEditor, currently available for alpha testers, was expanded to also
have the new citation editor available, and had some significant
performance improvements made, especially for long or complex pages. Work
continued on making VisualEditor more performant and reliable, and key
tasks like keyboard accessibility have progressed. The deployed version of
the code was updated five times in the regular release cycle.
Progress was also made on Parsoid <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid>,
the parsing program that works behind the scenes of VisualEditor. The team
continued with ongoing bug fixes and bi-weekly deployments. Besides the
user-facing bug fixes, we also improved our tracing support (to aid
debugging), and did some performance improvements. We also finished
implementing support for HTML/visual editing of transclusion parameters.
This is not yet enabled in production while we finish up any additional
performance tweaks on it. As part of the Google Summer of Code program, one
student is working on a wikilint project
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Linting/GSoC_2014_Application> to
detect broken/bad wikitext in wiki pages.
Editor engagement <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_editor_engagement>
In May, the Flow <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow> team prepared the
new front-end redesign of this new discussion system. We completed work on
sorting topics on a board by most recent activity, and changed hidden post
handling so that everyone can see hidden posts. Back-end improvements
include optimizations on how we handle unique identifiers and generate
standard URLs. We also accepted Special:Flow (a community-created
improvement that makes it easier to create redirects to Flow boards) and
made fixes for topic submission and replies for users without JavaScript.
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=File:Growth_team_update_(June_2…>
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Growth_team_update_(June_2014).pdf?page…>
Growth team presentation slides from the monthly Metrics meeting
The Growth <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth> team launched its A/B
test of two methods for asking anonymous editors to sign up
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anonymous_editor_acquisition/Signup_invites> on
the English, German, French, and Italian Wikipedias. Full analysis of the test
results
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Anonymous_editor_acquisition/Signu…>
is
expected in June, though preliminary data strongly suggests a positive
impact on new registrations. Last but not least, Growth released two
smaller enhancements to our data collection regarding article creation,
including adding page identifiers to MediaWiki's deletion logs and tracking
page restorations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:PageRestoration> across
all wikis.
Mobile <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Mobile_engineering>
This month, the Mobile Apps
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps> team
worked on a series of navigation improvements to the iOS and Android alpha
apps, focusing on the interface for searching, saving and sharing pages,
and navigating to the table of contents. We also worked on restyling the
global navigation menu and article content—typography, color, and
spacing—to create a standardized experience across the mobile web and apps.
In preparation for the launch of the Android app in June, we tackled a
number of user-reported crashing bugs to ensure a more stable and reliable
experience for our users.
The Mobile web <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_web_projects> team
continued to build out the basic features of VisualEditor for tablet users,
providing the ability to add references via VisualEditor. We hope to finish
refining the add and modify references workflow in preparation for
graduating VE for tablets to the stable mobile site sometime in July. On
the reader features side, we've made a number of tablet-related styling
improvements (typography, spacing, and Table of Contents) to the stable
mobile site. This should greatly improve the reading experience for tablet
users who are already accessing the mobile version of our projects, and it
is one of the last pieces of work we planned to get done before we begin
redirecting all tablet users to the mobile site mid-June.
The Wikipedia Zero <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero> team
worked on restructuring ZeroRatedMobileAccess
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ZeroRatedMobileAccess> into
several extensions, and added support for graceful image quality reduction
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Reducing_image_quality_…>,
and worked on a proposal to use GIF images
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Unfragmented_ZERO_design>
for
Zero banners instead of ESI
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_Side_Includes>. We also added necessary
library support to the reboots of the Wikipedia apps, performed limited app
code review, added support for Nokia (now MS Mobile) proxies, and started
work with the Design team on the final polish for the Wikipedia Zero
experience in the forthcoming apps.
In May we launched Wikipedia Zero with Ncell in Nepal, Sky Mobile (Beeline)
in Kyrgyzstan and Airtel in Nigeria. We also added Opera Mini zero-rating
in Umniah in Jordan. We served roughly 67 million free page views in May
across 30 partners in 28 countries. We met with community members from
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Jordan, as well as prospective partners in
Brazil, and kicked off the carrier portal design with Noble Studios.
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Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
Hi everyone,
We're rolling out an update to prevent Hovercards and Navigation Popups
from both being active at the same time for any given user. This unintended
interaction has been causing strange glitches and also a confusing user
experience.
Once the patch is live, if you've opted in to both Hovercards and
Navigation Popups simultaneously, then Navigation Popups will be disabled.
Once you disable Hovercards, Navigation Popups will begin to work again.
This will *only* affect you if you're one of the few users that has both
enabled. If you're using either Hovercards or Navigation Popups, or using
neither, you'll see no change.
Thanks!
Dan
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Dan Garry
Associate Product Manager for Platform and Mobile Apps
Wikimedia Foundation
The Hovercards Beta Feature [1] is inspired by the Navigation Popups
gadget. The goal of Hovercards is to make the reading experience better
for our readers. When readers hover over links to other articles, they
are provided a short summary and image. They can decide whether they
need to visit that subject more fully before continuing the current subject.
We are looking for local project wikis who are interested in turning on
the Hovercards feature for all readers, ahead of the future Beta Feature
graduation. Please let us know, if your wiki might be interested in this.
We're also looking for additional feedback on all aspects of the
extension.[2]
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[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Beta_Features/Hovercards
Sidenotes:
* The recent flickering-bug (primarily in Firefox) was fixed today.
* There is a gerrit patch which is examining the conflict of Navigation
Popups and Hovercards. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/120188/
* We also plan to suggest some potential updates to the styles in the
original Navpopups gadget, so that it has better usability and is
visually consistent with Hovercard and Reference-tooltip styles.
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Quiddity
Community Liaison
Hi folks,
Just a quick note to let you know that we are pushing back the Media Viewer release on All Wikis to next week, so we can focus on addressing more community requests for that final release.
So that deployment will take place on Thursday, June 19 instead of June 12.
Please let us know if you have any questions. Learn more on our release plan page. (1)
Thanks,
Fabrice
(1) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan#Timeline
_______________________________
Fabrice Florin
Product Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)