Hi I am intetested to know more about this recommendation function
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 8:32 PM CST (China) Jérémie Roquet wrote:
>Hi Steven, hi everyone,
>
>2014-09-05 3:12 GMT+02:00 Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>:
>> we'll be launching a new experiment aimed at helping newly-registered
>> editors, called task recommendations.
>
>It seems that not-so-newly-registered editors are concerned as well,
>and some of them are wondering how to disable this new feature¹. Any
>tip that doesn't involve dirty hacking with JavaScript and CSS?
>
>Thanks!
>
>¹ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Le_Bistro/12_septembre_2014#Re…
>
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Hello,
Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day:
**2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia-tech on Freenode IRC.[2]
We will be triaging bug reports for the Collection extension (Book tool)
in general and PDF export in particular, which were just switched to a
new backend (OCG).[3] We have two immediate goals:
1) recover 100 % of the relevant reports from the defunct PediaPress
tracker;[4]
2) get a clean list of known PDF issues that the new backend didn't fix.
Everyone is welcome to join any time these weeks, and no technical
knowledge is needed! It's an easy way to get involved or to give
something back.
We encourage you to record your activity on the etherpad [4].
This information and more can be found here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/201410
For more information on triaging in general, check out
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage
I look forward to seeing you there. Please distribute further by email,
talk pages etc. (Collection is used on almost 2 thousands wikis!)
Sorry for the crossposting,
Nemo
[1] Timezone converter: http://everytimezone.com/#2014-10-08,120,5x1
[2] See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC for more info on IRC chat
[3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-July/077867.html
[4] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-Collection
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_September_29th>
A quick list of notable items...
== Monday ==
* PDF Service conversion, see the announcement to wikitech-ambassadors
** <
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-September/0…
>
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.25wmf1: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf1>
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.25wmf1 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.25wmf2 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,
Greg
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Greg Grossmeier
Release Team Manager
Hi folks,
A change from our legacy PDF export infrastructure to a more
maintainable system has been a long time coming. Thanks to the work of
C. Scott Ananian, Matt Walker, Max Semenik, Brad Jorsch, and the
Parsoid/Services teams, we're close to disabling the old PDF rendering
and enabling the new as default.
The old "mwlib" (Reportlab-based) PDF service will be disabled on
September 29 [1], and the new "ocg" (Parsoid/XeLaTex-based) PDF
service will be enabled on the same date. The output looks very
different (two column LaTeX-generated output) and there are a few more
customization options, as well (visible when you use the "Create a
book" feature). This renderer has much improved rendering of non-latin
scripts and fixes many issues of the old PDF service.
There are still a number of bugs to work through, as well, which we
will do as a low priority. Most noticeably, tables are a mess - and
since we have such a large variety of them, that's a pretty long tail.
This is not a high priority project for us. We're looking for
co-maintainers, and we have some ideas how to improve the architecture
to make it easy for the community to optimize for different outputs --
if you're interested in joining the development effort, let us know
via the new services list (
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/services ), wikitech-l or
on #mediawiki-services on irc.freenode.net.
Please report any bugs against the "OCG" product in Bugzilla.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=OCG
If you want to more quickly test prior to deployment, you can add this
one-liner to your common.js/global.js, which will point the "Download
as PDF" link in the sidebar to the new renderer:
$('#coll-download-as-rl a').each(function() { this.href =
this.href.replace(/([&?]writer=)rl(&|$)/g, "$1rdf2latex$2") });
As part of this change, we will disable ZIM and EPUB export for the
time being. If you're interested in working on ZIM or EPUB support for
the new offline content generator, or other export formats, please let
us know via the above channels.
Thanks,
Erik
[1] See https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments for the
planned deployment window
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
TL;DR:
* Several deprecated methods in MediaWiki's JavaScript modules will be removed
in a few weeks' time.
* Ensure your code no longer uses these methods and update it if needed.
* Check and fix any gadgets or scripts you or your wikis rely upon.
As part of the regular update cycle, a number of deprecated methods in our
JavaScript modules will be removed in the MediaWiki 1.25 release. This is an
announcement to give people notice they should update any extensions, gadgets
and scripts they have written, maintain, or rely upon.
Usually we don't give this much attention to removal of deprecated methods,
but due to this being our first proper development cycle for our front-end
code base, I want to make sure this reaches everyone. You're likely not yet in
the habit of updating front-end code between MediaWiki releases.
Deprecated methods to be removed in MediaWiki 1.25:
* Remove mw.user.name() method. [1]
Deprecated since MediaWiki 1.20. Use mw.user.getName() instead.
* Remove mw.user.anon() method. [1]
Deprecated since MediaWiki 1.20: Use mw.user.isAnon() instead.
* Remove mediawiki.api methods' "ok" and "err" callback parameters. [2]
Deprecated since MediaWiki 1.23. Use the returned Promise interface instead.
* Remove mediawiki.api.category "async" parameter. [2]
Deprecated since MediaWiki 1.23. The ability to override $.ajax() to be
synchronous has been removed. The default (asynchronous) behaviour remains.
Use the Promise interface to retreive the fetched data from the API.
* Remove jquery.json module.
Deprecated since MediaWiki 1.24. [3] Use standardised JSON.stringify and
JSON.parse methods. And depend on the "json" module which will automatically
load a polyfill in older browsers.
## Timeline
These removals will land in MediaWiki 1.25alpha in early October 2014, and
deployed to Wikimedia wikis the week after from October 4th onwards (1.25wmf2).
The MediaWiki 1.25.0 stable release is expected to come out around
April 2015.
You should make sure that your code is updated before your wiki upgrades to
MediaWiki 1.25. If you know code you rely upon will be affected but don't know
how to fix it, please check with your wiki's community for local experts. If
none of them can help, you can ask for assistance on the wikitech-ambassadors
mailing list. [5]
## Reminders
In case you've missed the previous announcements:
* The migration period for jQuery core is still on-going and is also scheduled
for MediaWiki 1.25. [4] More about that in the mail from June 2014:
https://www.mail-archive.com/mediawiki-l%40lists.wikimedia.org/msg13651.html
* Learn about deprecation notices and how you can see them in your browser.
https://www.mail-archive.com/wikitech-l%40lists.wikimedia.org/msg72198.html
[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/111422/
[2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/118733/
[3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/140560/
[4] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/137168/
[5] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
-- Krinkle
PS: You can get a sense of the progress on our different migrations, past and
present, via these graphs: http://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/zyodJ/
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_September_22nd>
A quick list of notable items...
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.24wmf22: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf22>
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.24wmf22 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.24wmf23 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,
Greg
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