Since 2008, we've offered a small feature to download printed books
from Wikipedia article. This is done in partnership with a company
called PediaPress.
They've sold about 15K books over that time period, not enough to
break even, and the support/maintenance burden for the service is no
longer worth it for them.
We'll disable this feature in coming weeks. We'd only continue to
offer it if there's 1) strong community interest in maintaining it,
and 2) a partner who steps up to provide the service.
We'll continue to provide PDF downloads (soon with a new rendering engine).
Thanks,
Erik
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VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Thanks for the update, Erik.
In the last years I and other volunteers tried our best to help the Italian
community to learn about and adopt the book creator, and I'd like to thank
PediaPress for their services and the support they provided so far <3
Even without the final step to get printed copies of the actual book
(although some of us are proud owners of them!), I've always seen value in
a tool allowing readers and editors to create their very own collections of
articles, especially on some "sister projects" (Wikivoyage comes to mind).
The new rendering engine looks very promising, and I would really love to
see the feature exporting collections in other open formats grow as well.
How can the communities show you their interest in the book creator? Can we
do anything to help you find a new partner? Is there room for volunteers to
furtherly maintain/develop the tool, maybe supported by a grant?
Thanks for your attention.
Elitre
Hello Ambassadors,
Would love to get your feedback and input on a proposed change to default
thumbnail size on wikis, a similar change was made about 2 years ago moving
the default from 180px to 220px, due to the increase in pixel density and
screen sizes, both on mobile devices and desktops/laptops users, especially
on mobile are feeling that images are too small, certainly out of step with
what they are used to other places on the web.
Based on research from the Analytics group "There are 15580 instances
logged across 393 wikis in log.PrefUpdate_5563398" to the preference that
stores thumbnail default size. On english Wikipedia the current value is
220px for "default" sized thumbnail images, the size logged in and logged
out users see if they haven't manually changed their preference. Of the
~15k users who have changes this preference the trend is to set the
preference to a larger size, usually 300px as seen by the graph included in
the bug for this issue eventually I'd love for us to move to responsively
sized images, but perhaps thats a seperate discussion.
If we could try to wrap things up mid-next week (July 16) so I can work
with Operations to make
Discussion on Technical Village Pump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Time_f…
Bug
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67703
*Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation
M +1 415 609 4043 \\ @jaredzimmerman <http://loo.ms/g0>
The 'jquery.json' module has been deprecated, and we plan to remove it
in MW 1.25. You can replace it with the 'json' module.
* In your extension or gadget's ResourceLoader dependencies, change
'jquery.json' to 'json'
* Use JSON.stringify instead of $.toJSON
* Use JSON.parse instead of $.parseJSON (the latter is actually part of
jQuery proper, and not being removed currently, but this allows you to
be consistent and us the standard ECMAScript 5 JSON API for both
directions).
There are some less commonly used JSON APIs in jquery.json. See the
code
(https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fcore.git/5ca4bea3d380911c458659e…),
and feel free to ask.
The benefit is that users with modern browsers (which have JSON
built-in), will not have to download any JSON implementation (currently,
they download jquery.json). Older browsers will still work, but they
will download the JSON implementation.
Thanks,
Matt Flaschen
Hello,
A quick reminder that the Language Engineering office hour is happening in
a few hours (1700 UTC) on #wikimedia-office. Please see below for the
original announcement, including local time and agenda.
Thanks
Runa
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==================
# Date: July 09, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700 UTC/1000PDT (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140709T1700)
# 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: Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:41 PM
Subject: Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on July 9, 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, July 09 2014 at 1700 UTC on
#wikimedia-office.
In this office hour we will be discussing about our recent activities
around the Content Translation project[1] and taking questions.
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: July 09, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700 UTC/1000PDT (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140709T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Content Translation project updates
2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event)
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
[x-posted]
Hello,
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting the next
monthly IRC office hour on Wednesday, July 09 2014 at 1700 UTC on
#wikimedia-office.
In this office hour we will be discussing about our recent activities
around the Content Translation project[1] and taking questions.
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: July 09, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700 UTC/1000PDT (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140709T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Content Translation project updates
2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event)
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap
and Deployment update.
This a special "early in the week" edition, so there might be more
changes to the below plan than normal.
The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at:
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_July_7th>
A quick list of notable items...
== Monday ==
* The mobile team will be submitting iOS app to AppStore
** There's an unknown review timeline from Apple
* CirrusSearch
** CirrusSearch will be turned on as primary on Commons
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.24wmf11: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf12>
*** This will include the "Support | as a magic word" patch and thus
ride the train
*** see: <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#q,136234,n,z>
== Wednesday ==
* CentralAuth GlobalRenameUser
** The new GlobalRenameUser tool will be enabled and usable.
* CirrusSearch
** CirrusSearch will be turned on as primary on Spanish Wikipedia
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.24wmf12 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.24wmf13 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,
Greg
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| Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
| identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
FYI
----- Forwarded message from Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> -----
> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 15:53:20 -0700
> From: Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wikitech-l] Search status and final rollout dates
> Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> We're in the home stretch with replacing the old search engine. I'd like to
> thank our many thousands of beta testers who opted in and provided their
> feedback throughout this process.
>
> You might have noticed we've been rolling it out as the primary search
> engine on progressively more wikis. We're down to 11 of the largest wikis
> based on search traffic and we've put together a timeline for these:
>
> commons - July 7
> eswiki - July 9
> nlwiki - July 14
> plwiki - July 16
> ruwiki - July 28
> svwiki - July 30
> zhwiki - August 13
> dewiki - August 18
> frwiki - August 20
> jawiki - August 25
> enwiki - August 27
>
> It's basically 2 per week starting Monday with a weird break for Wikimania.
> Unless we find any last minute blockers I think we'll be done by the end of
> August :) If you find anything that's still a problem in Cirrus at all,
> even if it's
> minor and not a blocker please let us know in Bugzilla.
>
> -Chad
>
> PS: Please feel free to forward this to appropriate other venues
> _______________________________________________
> Wikitech-l mailing list
> Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
----- End forwarded message -----
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| Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
| identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
All,
This may be of interest to you and your communities.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com>
Date: 1 July 2014 15:53
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Search status and final rollout dates
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
We're in the home stretch with replacing the old search engine. I'd like to
thank our many thousands of beta testers who opted in and provided their
feedback throughout this process.
You might have noticed we've been rolling it out as the primary search
engine on progressively more wikis. We're down to 11 of the largest wikis
based on search traffic and we've put together a timeline for these:
commons - July 7
eswiki - July 9
nlwiki - July 14
plwiki - July 16
ruwiki - July 28
svwiki - July 30
zhwiki - August 13
dewiki - August 18
frwiki - August 20
jawiki - August 25
enwiki - August 27
It's basically 2 per week starting Monday with a weird break for Wikimania.
Unless we find any last minute blockers I think we'll be done by the end of
August :) If you find anything that's still a problem in Cirrus at all,
even if it's
minor and not a blocker please let us know in Bugzilla.
-Chad
PS: Please feel free to forward this to appropriate other venues
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Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
