Wikitech-ambassadors June 2014

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Fwd: First _draft_ goals for WMF engineering/product
by Erik Moeller 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 6:24 PM Subject: First _draft_ goals for WMF engineering/product To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, We've got the first DRAFT (sorry for shouting, but can't hurt to emphasize :)) of the annual goals for the engineering/product department up on mediawiki.org. We're now mid-point in the process, and will finalize through June. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals Note that at this point in the process, teams have flagged inter-dependencies, but they've not necessarily been taken into account across the board, i.e. team A may say "We depend on X from team B" and team B may not have sufficiently accounted for X in its goals. :P Identifying common themes, shared dependencies, and counteracting silo tendencies is the main focus of the coming weeks. We may also add whole new sections for cross-functional efforts not currently reflected (e.g. UX standardization). Site performance will likely get its own section as well. My own focus will be on fleshing out the overall narrative, aligning around organization-wide objectives, and helping to manage scope. As far as quantitative targets are concerned, we will aim to set them where we have solid baselines and some prior experience to work with (a good example is Wikipedia Zero, where we now have lots of data to build targets from). Otherwise, though, our goal should be to _obtain_ metrics that we want to track and build targets from. This, in itself, is a goal that needs to be reflected, including expectations e.g. from Analytics. Like last year, these goals won't be set in stone. At least on a quarterly basis, we'll update them to reflect what we're learning. Some areas (e.g. scary new features like Flow) are more likely to be significantly revised than others. With this in mind: Please leave any comments/questions on the talk page (not here). Collectively we're smarter than on our own, so we do appreciate honest feedback: - What are our blind spots? Obvious, really high priority things we're not paying sufficient attention to? - Where are we taking on too much? Which projects/goals make no sense to you and require a stronger rationale, if they're to be undertaken at all? - Which projects are a Big Deal from a community perspective, or from an architecture perspective, and need to be carefully coordinated? These are all conversations we'll have in coming weeks, but public feedback is very helpful and may trigger conversations that otherwise wouldn't happen. Please also help to carry this conversation into the wikis in coming weeks. Again, this won't be the only opportunity to influence, and I'll be thinking more about how the quarterly review process can also account for community feedback. Warmly, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation

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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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Upcoming changes to GuidedTour extension
by Steven Walling 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

Hi all, This is just a heads up that there are some design changes to the look-and-feel of guided tours,[1] as well as some backend changes relevant to people who've written their own tours. Design aspects that are changing, in no particular order... - Animations! Guiders that point at something will now animate using CSS. We really hope this will make guiders more pleasurable and easy to use. Tour authors will be able to turn this off if they want, and it will not animate if the guider is not above the fold already. - Button styles: we removed deprecated button classes and now use the mw.ui "progressive" class by default. We also added styles for a "quiet" button.[2] - The pokey, i.e. the triangle shape which points at stuff: this is now made in HTML/CSS instead of using images, and is smaller. - Border styles and shadows: we're making these less bold. Now that guiders animate they should stand out more, so heavy shadows/borders are less necessary. GuidedTour's backend has also undergone a major refactor, which is close to being merged. This is described in full at the commit, which is just waiting on us to update logging: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/116228/ The TL;DR is that you will not have to rewrite your tours for compatibility. However, for new tours, we now support non-linear progressions and other features. This means that we can do things like wait to trigger tour steps based on user actions (like asking to Save after a user types in VisualEditor). As far as I know,[3] the following wikis have local guided tours which could be updated: - Commons - English Wikipedia - Farsi Wikipedia - German Wikipedia - Portuguese Wikipedia - Wikidata I'm going to reach out to some tour writers personally to make sure they know about this, but any help you can provide would be good. 1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GuidedTour 2. Example is "no thanks" in: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_2014-04-16_of_anonymous_… 3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:GuidedTour_usage -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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Tech newsletter (2014, week 24)
by Guillaume Paumier 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

Hi, The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/24 . 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/2014/24/ar> [image: 100%] • ‎čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/24/cs> [image: 100%] • ‎English [image: 100%] • ‎español <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/24/es> [image: 100%] • ‎ suomi <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/24/fi> [image: 84%] • ‎français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/24/fr> [image: 100%] • ‎ગુજરાતી <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/24/gu> [image: 100%] • ‎עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/24/he> [image: 100%] • ‎日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/24/ja> [image: 16%] • ‎polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/24/pl> [image: 100%] • ‎português <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/24/pt> [image: 11%] • ‎українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/24/uk> [image: 89%] • ‎中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/24/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/2014/24> are available. *Recent software changes* - The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf8 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf8>) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap>). - You can now use guided tours <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Guided_tours> on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it <https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-guidedt…> and ask in Bugzilla <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/>. [1] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/137533/> [2] <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-June/000723.…> *VisualEditor news* - You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [3] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64715> [4] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/136436/> - The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [5] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65689> [6] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/136443/> [7] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/136599/> - You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [8] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64239> [9] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/136311/> *Future software changes* - MediaViewer <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MultimediaViewer> will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer> is welcome. [10] <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-June/000728.…> - You will be able to use information from Wikidata <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/d:> directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [11] <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-June/000728.…> - On wikis with the Translate <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Translate> extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate/Mass_migration_tools> tool to import existing translations to the new system. [12] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/137571/> [13] <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/translators-l/2014-June/002598.html> - You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/testwiki:File:Traffic-Experiment-Reveals-th…> , example audio <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/testwiki:File:Ar-%D8%A3%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%89.o…>). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [14] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/108203> [15] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/137535> - Templates containing <ref> or <references> tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [16] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31834> [17] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/99792/> [18] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/99793/> - You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Thanks> directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [19] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63509> [20] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125941/> - Hovercards <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards> will no longer flicker. [21] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65433> *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/2014/24> • 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 updates - week of June 9th
by Greg Grossmeier 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '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_June_9th> A quick list of notable items... == Monday == * ElasticSearch ** There will be an upgrade of the backend/server software of the new search system (to ElasticSearch 1.2.1). This should not have any user facing impact. == 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/wmf8> * WikiQuote/WikiData: WikiQuote will now have access to data in WikiData. == Thursday == * MediaWiki deploy ** group2 to 1.24wmf8 (all Wikipedias) ** group0 to 1.24wmf9 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki) * MediaViewer ** Will be enabled on by default on all Wikis ** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan#Timeline> 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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Tech newsletter (2014, week 23)
by Guillaume Paumier 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Hi, I'm so sorry, I was traveling on Monday and I forgot to send issue 23 of Tech News to this list. If you aren't subscribed to the global delivery, or if you haven't read it elsewhere (on wiki, RSS/Atom, etc.), you can find the full text below. The next issue of the newsletter will be sent on Monday, as planned. Other languages: العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/ar> [image: 100%] • ‎čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/cs> [image: 95%] • ‎English [image: 100%] • ‎British English <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/en-gb> [image: 0%] • ‎ français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/fr> [image: 100%] • ‎ગુજરાતી <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/gu> [image: 95%] • ‎עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/he> [image: 100%] • ‎日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/ja> [image: 21%] • ‎한국어 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/ko> [image: 89%] • ‎polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/pl> [image: 95%] • ‎српски / srpski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/sr> [image: 0%] • ‎ українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/uk> [image: 100%] • ‎中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/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/2014/23> are available. *Recent software changes* - The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf7>) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap>). - CirrusSearch <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search> was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [1] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/136132/> *VisualEditor news* - Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [2] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50964> - The toolbar of the PageTriage <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageTriage> extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [3] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65702> [4] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/135587/> - VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [5] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/134758/> - There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates and times in the ISO 8601 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:ISO_8601> format. [6] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132449/> *Future software changes* - MediaViewer <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MultimediaViewer> will be enabled on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer> is welcome. - You will soon see a warning if you visit a contributions <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions> page for a user that does not exist. [7] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60524> [8] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/117854/> - The search tab <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-searchop…> will soon be removed from user preferences. You will be able to set your search preferences onSpecial:Search <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=advanced> . [9] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52817> [10] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/131727/> - You will soon see a label next to the little triangle arrow for the *Actions* menu in the Vector <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Vector> skin (screenshot <https://bug-attachment.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=15540>). [11] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44591>[12] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/112236/> *Problems* - For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [13] <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-May/076736.html> *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/2014/23> • 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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GuidedTour released on additional wikis
by Steven Walling 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

Hi everyone, This is just a heads up that today we released GuidedTour on some additional Wikipedias, including Arabic, Bengali, and Norwegian. I already added this to the next edition of Tech News, at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/24 On Arabic there are some small styling issues because of a clash with local code (Tabs.js, if you're curious). We're working on a fix, but for now nothing is broken per se. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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Reminder: Tools only on Tool Labs from July 1
by Birgit Müller 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

Hi folks, please spread the word! From July 1, tools which haven't been migrated from toolserver to tool labs yet, will stop working. Further informations: About one year ago, we, Wikimedia Deutschland e. V., announced June 30th as the deadline of the Toolserver migration (Roadmap at [1]). This deadline is approaching. The Toolserver will stop working on June 30th. What will happen afterwards? Background information The Toolserver is a community based infrastructure that hosts software supporting Wikipedia and its sister projects. Over the years many active volunteers have developed helpful and great software tools that are running on several Wikimedia projects. The Toolserver is operated by Wikimedia Deutschland with assistance from the Wikimedia Foundation and several chapters. For many reasons, the Toolserver will be discontinued and replaced by Tool Labs [2], a platform operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Please see the reasons at [3]. For more than one year Wikimedia Deutschland has been coordinating the migration of software tools from Toolserver to Tool Labs. What editors should know The toolserver is a community-driven project. The tools shall be migrated by the developers resp. maintainers themselves. Many of them have already migrated their tools or have indicated that they will do so before the end of this month. We have a special agreement with the OpenStreetMap projects and with the developer of Merlbot [4] to ensure these tools don’t stop working. All other tools will stop working by July 1st. What editors can do On Tool Labs [2], you can look up if the tools that you use and need have already moved there. Talk to the developers of your favourite tools: It is important to let them know how much you appreciate their tools and that you need them to do your work. Contact us if you don’t know who these developers are or if you have any questions or if you want us to forward wishes or requests to tool developers. Contact information is given at the end of this text. Information for tool developers If you are still facing the migration of your tools, please keep in mind that lots of people use your tools. They are a great support for their daily work and will be missed when they fail. Please take the time to migrate them or poke us: WMDE can still support you during migration - what we can’t do is maintain abandoned tools in the long run. >From July 1st on, the toolserver admins will still hand you over your backups upon request and create redirects to Tool Labs for you. You won’t be able to log in to the toolserver anymore though. If anyone wants to have and reuse other people’s code, we recommend to seek approval from them directly, even if from a legal point of view there is no problem. Don’t hesitate to talk to us if you need a contact person. Here is a collection of the relevant links for you again: Tool Labs: http://tools.wmflabs.org Tool Labs help pages: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help How to create redirects to Tool Labs: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/.htaccess#.htaccess Magnus Manske’s migration manual: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Migrating_from_tools… Scripts to clean up your toolserver account]] after migration: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Main_Page Mailing list Labs-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l IRC channel #wikimedia-labs: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-labs Marc-André Pelletier (Coren) and Andrew Bogott (andrewbogott) are the WMF Tool Labs ops. Petr Bena (petan) and Tim Landscheidt (scfc_de) are voluntary Tool Labs admins. We invite you to join our IRC office hour in #wikimedia-office on Wednesday, June 11th, at 5 p.m. UTC. Contact: The migration is coordinated by Silke Meyer (WMDE). Birgit Müller supports her in communications. The two toolserver admins Marlen Caemmerer und Alexander Mette are glad to help you with advice. Marc-André Pelletier can answer all questions concerning Tool Labs. Contact us at Silke: silke.meyer(a)wikimedia.de, Talk page at [5], IRC: Silke_WMDE Birgit: birgit.mueller(a)wikimedia.de, Talk page at [6], IRC: Birgit_WMDE We hope that the transition will happen as smoothly as possible! [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Roadmap_en [2] http://tools.wmflabs.org [3] https://toolserver.org/ [4] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:MerlBot [5] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Silke_WMDE [6] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Birgit_Müller_(WMDE) -- Birgit Müller Team Communitys Community Liaison Volunteer Support Department E-Mail: birgit.mueller(a)wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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[BREAKING CHANGE] jQuery upgrade to 1.11 coming soon
by James Forrester 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

*TL;DR:* ** We have upgraded the version of jQuery in MediaWiki from 1.8.x to 1.11.x.* ** For a few months, a hack will keep old users scripts, gadgets etc. working.* ** The hack will be removed around September when MediaWiki 1.24 is released.* ** Before it is removed, make sure your wiki reviews any scripts and gadgets.* After a long time, we are finally upgrading the jQuery package that ships with MediaWiki, and so is used by many extensions, gadgets and site and user scripts. This upgrade fixes a lot of bugs, but also cleans up a lot of deprecated and dubious functionality from early versions of jQuery. Code which uses the removed functionality is currently working due to a short- term hack, jQuery Migrate, that provides the removed functionality and outputs a warning to the console log whenever it is activated. The jQuery Migrate hack will be removed in the (Northern Hemisphere's) Autumn of 2014. This means all extensions, gadgets, and user & site scripts on your wikis that still make use of jQuery legacy APIs will need to be upgraded before then or they will break. == What can I do? == If you are a developer, please follow the instructions in the posts to wikitech-l about how to check and upgrade your wiki's gadgets, site and user scripts [0] [1]. If your wiki uses copies of other wikis' gadgets, please make sure that your wiki is using the latest version. There is also a tracking bug for all the extensions deployed on Wikimedia wikis which use the old code, which will be fixed before the support hack is switched off. [2] If you are not a developer, you can check your browser's console log to see if there are any warnings tagged "JQMIGRATE". If you find any, please raise them in your community so you can work together to make sure they are addressed in time. If you are a wikiambassador, please make sure your community is aware of this change and that any developers, gadget authors or script experts who write code for your wiki know that this is coming and are working to fix any issues. If your community is unable to fix any issues you have, please ask for help on this list so that we can assist you. [0] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-May/076340.html [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-June/076842.html [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65399 Yours, -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester

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CirrusSearch update: Unicode normalization (finally!)
by Nikolas Everett 02 Jun '14

02 Jun '14

Ambassadors, Sorry for being silent for so long. I have a (maybe) important update for CirrusSearch. I'm currently in the process of pushing unicode normalization [0] to many languages [1]. In some languages this will (hopefully!) be great and in others it won't change anything. If this has broken anything please let me know. Reply or file a bug or whatever is easiest for you. Thanks for reading! Nik [0]: NFKC with case folding <http://unicode.org/reports/tr15/#Norm_Forms> for those who want to read more/already know and love unicode normalization. [1]: All languages _but_ these: arabic, armenian, basque, brazilian, bulgarian, catalan, chinese, czech, danish, dutch, finnish, french, galician, german, greek, hindi, hungarian, indonesian, italian, norwegian, persian, portuguese, romanian, russian, spanish, swedish, turkish, thai. Its a long story why they aren't getting it, but they will in time if everything goes well....

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