As most of you know (hopefully), anonymous editing on mobile has been
enabled for all projects (except Korean Wikipedia). One of the side effects
of this is that there has been an increase in vandalism that uses emoji (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji). Much of this vandalism is not caught
by existing AbuseFilter filters. I encourage all projects to add new
AbuseFilter filters for detecting emoji, and either showing a warning or
preventing such edits.
The Unicode range for all emoji characters is [🌀-🙏🚀-🛳☀-➿], although you
may need to customize this for your particular project. For example, the
emoji characters ★ and ☆ are commonly used in Japanese song titles.
Feel free to steal the filter currently in use on English Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/680
Kaldari
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Objet : [Engineering] Simplifying the WMF deployment cadence
Date : mercredi 27 mai 2015, 13:19:38
De : Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org>
À : Development and Operations engineers <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikitech-l <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
Starting the week of June 8th we'll be transitioning our MediaWiki +
Extensions deployment cadence to a shorter/simpler one. This will begin
with 1.26wmf9.
New cadence:
Tuesday: New branch cut, deployed to test wikis
Wednesday: deployed to non-wikipedias
Thursday: deployed to Wikipedias
This is not only a lot simpler to understand ("wait, we deploy twice on
Wednesday?") but it also shortens the time to get code to everyone (2 or
3 days from branch cut, depending on how you count).
== Transition ==
Transitions from one cadence to another are hard. Here's how we'll be
doing this transition:
Week of June 1st (next week):
* We'll complete the wmf8 rollout on June 3rd
* However, we won't be cutting wmf9 on June 3rd
Week of June 8th (in two weeks):
* We'll begin the new cadence with wmf9 on Tuesday June 9th
I hope this helps our users and developers get great new features and
fixes faster.
Greg
endnotes:
* The task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97553
* I'll be updating the relevant documentation before the transition
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Objet : [Wikimedia-l] GRAPH extension is now live everywhere!
Date : mardi 5 mai 2015, 23:24:43
De : Yuri Astrakhan <yastrakhan(a)wikimedia.org>
À : Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Starting today, editors can use *<graph>* tag to include complex graphs and
maps inside articles.
*Demo:* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo
*Vega's demo:* http://trifacta.github.io/vega/editor/?spec=scatter_matrix
*Extension info:* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph
*Vega's docs:* https://github.com/trifacta/vega/wiki
*Bug reports:* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ - project tag #graph
Graph tag support template parameter expansion. There is also a Graphoid
service to convert graphs into images. Currently, Graphoid is used in case
the browser does not support modern JavaScript, but I plan to use it for
all anonymous users - downloading large JS code needed to render graphs is
significantly slower than showing an image.
Potential future growth (developers needed!):
* Documentation and better tutorials
* Visualize as you type - show changes in graph while editing its code
* Visual Editor's plugin
* Animation <https://github.com/trifacta/vega/wiki/Interaction-Scenarios>
Project history: Exactly one year ago, Dan Andreescu (milimetric) and Jon
Robson demoed Vega visualization grammar <https://trifacta.github.io/vega/>
usage in MediaWiki. The project stayed dormant for almost half a year,
until Zero team decided it was a good solution to do on-wiki graphs. The
project was rewritten, and gained many new features, such as template
parameters. Yet, doing graphs just for Zero portal seemed silly. Wider
audience meant that we now had to support older browsers, thus Graphoid
service was born.
This project could not have happened without the help from Dan Andreescu,
Brion Vibber, Timo Tijhof, Chris Steipp, Max Semenik, Marko Obrovac,
Alexandros Kosiaris, Jon Robson, Gabriel Wicke, and others who have helped
me develop, test, instrument, and deploy Graph extension and Graphoid
service. I also would like to thank the Vega team for making this amazing
library.
--Yurik
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