Hi everyone,
Last year, the Community Tech team did a survey for a community wishlist to
decide what we should be working on throughout the year. Since it's useful
to have a list of tasks from the Wikimedia communities, it's also been used
by other developers, been the focus of Wikimedia hackathons and so on. You
can see what's been happening to the wishes if you look at the status
column here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results
We're now in the voting phase. It would be much appreciated if you could
take the time to spread the news about this in your community – post on the
Village Pumps and other relevant community pages, but also other channels
where Wikimedians might see this. Regional mailing lists, Facebook groups,
IRC channels and so on.
You and your communities can vote here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey
(We will be using a CentralNotice banner too, but it's very helpful if
people post in the communities where they're active if they think this is
worth spreading the word about – people pay more attention that way.)
Voting will close on December 12.
//Johan Jönsson
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-Adam
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From: Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 2:33 PM
Subject: December 2016 CREDIT Showcase in a week
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello all -
The next CREDIT showcase is a week from today - Wednesday, 7-December-2016
at 1900 UTC (1100 San Francisco).
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase
If you have a demo, please add it here:
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
Last month there were demos on offline, IFTTT, and File properties search &
new WDQS visualizations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmfqtP3pr2Y&t=47
We welcome demos from Wikimedia community members and staff alike - from
polished features to something you just got working last night. Hope to see
you soon!
If you would like to invite anyone to CREDIT, feel free to use this
template.
*Hi <FNAME>*
*I hope all is well with you! I wanted to let you know about CREDIT, a
monthly demo series that we’re running to showcase open source tech
projects from Wikimedia’s Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery,
Infrastructure and Technology teams. *
*CREDIT is open to the public, and we welcome questions and discussion. The
next CREDIT will be held on December 7th at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 19:00 UTC. *
*There’s more info on MediaWiki
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase>, and on Etherpad
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT>, which is where we take notes and
ask questions. You can also ask questions on IRC in the Freenode chatroom
#wikimedia-office (web-based access here
<https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23wikimedia-office>). Links to
video will become available at these locations shortly before the event.*
*Please feel free to pass this information along to any interested folks.
Our projects tend to focus on areas that might be of interest to folks
working across the open source tech community: language detection,
numerical sort, large data visualizations, maps, and all sorts of other
things.*
*If you have any questions, please let me know! Thanks, and I hope to see
you at CREDIT.*
*-YOURNAME*
Note: I intended to send this to this mailing list last week. Apologies for
the delay and duplication.
Hello,
Hovercards, currently a beta feature, is nearing release. [0] We'd like to
encourage communities to adopt Hovercards as a default option for
logged-out readers. [1] Hovercards provide a preview of any linked article,
giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving
the current page. The Reading web team recently completed a series of A/B
tests to gather information on how Hovercards are used.
* April 2015 - Catalan and Greek A/B test results [2]
* Summer/Fall 2016 Hungarian, Italian, and Russian Wikipedia A/B test
results [3]
* 2016 Reading team UX research [4]
As you can see the results of the tests were generally positive. A few key
highlights:
* During the Catalan and Greek A/B test, 79% of respondents either Agreed
or Strongly Agreed that Hovercards were easy to use, 76% of respondents
either Agreed or Strongly Agreed that Hovercards were useful for their
needs.
* Users are viewing approximately 0.99 hovercards per session, and
interacting with approximately 31% more pages each session. [5]
* The disable rate was very low: the rate of clicking the settings cog for
Hovercards was 0.02% for Hungarian, 0.034% for Italian, and 0.016% for
Russian Wikipedia. The rates for disabling the feature were even lower.
* In our qualitative tests, 13 out of 15 questionnaire participants
reported positive experiences with Hovercards.
== Rollout plan ==
The next step for Hovercards is to develop a plan for rolling the feature
out to all projects. We have created a draft proposal for which projects to
discuss Hovercards with and approximate timeline for deployments. [6]
The Reading Web team will be reaching out to the communities in the order
listed above to discuss how to implement the feature. We want to enable the
feature by default for logged-out users and we will respect the current
beta feature preferences for logged-in users.
Questions and feedback welcome at Beta Features/Hovercards. [7]
Thank you for your time.
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards
[1] Logged-out users would see Hovercards by default on wikis that opt-in.
Logged-out users may turn Hovercards off via the cog-icon displayed at the
bottom of each Hovercard. Logged-in users see Hovercards if they have
enabled the feature. New accounts created after the launch of Hovercards
would have it on by default (mimicking the default for logged-out users)
with the option to disable in Special:Preferences.
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards/GreekCatalanTest
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards/2016_A/B_Tests
[4]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Design_Research/Reading_T…
[5] With page interactions defined as the sum of average hovercards viewed
per session and average pages viewed per session
[6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards#Rollout_Plan
[7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Beta_Features/Hovercards
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi everyone,
Last year, the Community Tech team did a survey for a community wishlist to
decide what we shoudl be working on throughout the year. Since it's useful
to have a list of tasks from the Wikimedia communities, it's also been used
by other developers, been the focus of Wikimedia hackathons and so on. In
short, I think it matters.
Now we're doing the process again.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey
If you'd feel like spreading this in your communities, it would be much
appreciated.
*) This is when you can suggest things. This phase will last from 7
November to 20 November.
*) Editors who are not comfortable writing in English can write proposals
in their language.
*) Voting will take place 28 November to 12 December.
Thanks,
//Johan Jönsson
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> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:03:07 -0500
> From: Trey Jones <tjones(a)wikimedia.org>
> To: A public mailing list about Wikimedia Search and Discovery
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> Huji, thanks for the reminder about RTL wikis, which is always welcome.
>
> To expand on Deb's answer, searchers are randomly chosen to see new results
> in our A/B tests, so you can't volunteer yourself as a user. Unlike a beta
> feature, where motivated and knowledgeable users opt in, the random tests
> give us a better idea of how average users will react to the proposed
> changes.
>
> Deb (& Jan), have we looked at how the current design will work on RTL
> wikis? (With Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew being the three biggest by volume,
> according to a glance at the dashboards.) Some designs, like the result
> list on the side, may need extra design work to be made RTL-friendly.
>
> —Trey
>
> Trey Jones
> Software Engineer, Discovery
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Deborah Tankersley <
> dtankersley(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Huji, to answer your question - this will be a short series of
>> tests on Wikipedia that will display additional relevant search results
>> across wikis in the same language to a selected number of users that fall
>> into our bucketing schema. Not everyone will see the new results every time
>> if they land on a search results listing page.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Deb
>>
>>
>> --
>> deb tankersley
>> Product Manager, Discovery
>> irc: debt
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Huji Lee <huji.huji(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think it would be best if we test it in at least one RTL wiki. I will
>>> mention this in the VP of Persian Wikipedia (FA WP).
>>>
>>> If it is meant to only be shown for select users and has no impact for
>>> others, I am wiling to volunteer myself as a tester.
>>>
>>> Huji
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Deborah Tankersley <
>>> dtankersley(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> The Discovery Search team is looking for a few language specific
>>>> Wikipedia sites that would be interested in helping with A/B testing for
>>>> cross-wiki search results. These tests would evaluate if adding search
>>>> results across wiki projects in the same language would be useful,
>>>> relevant, and are of interest to users.
>>>>
>>>> We've written up the details
>>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements> [1],
>>>> came up with a multitude of designs
>>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design>
>>>> [2], and had many conversations on both talk pages and with our own
>>>> internal Design team. We have also outlined the initial tests
>>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing> [3]
>>>> that we'd like to run.
>>>>
>>>> These planned A/B tests would run for about a week and would only be
>>>> shown to a small subsection of users that visit the Wikipedia(s) that the
>>>> tests are running on. The analyzed results of these tests will be posted on
>>>> wiki so that everyone can see how they did in terms of usage and adoption
>>>> of the test group.
>>>>
>>>> We would like to know if there are any particular Wikipedias that would
>>>> want to help us test these new search results across projects in their
>>>> language. Interested community members might want to post something to
>>>> their project's Village Pump to build consensus. Wikipedias that are
>>>> related culturally or linguistically would also be of interest.
>>>>
>>>> Please post on our testing talk page
>>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/T…>
>>>> [4] if there are any questions, concerns, or volunteers!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements
>>>> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_
>>>> Improvements/Design
>>>> [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_
>>>> Improvements/Testing
>>>> [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_Search_Re
>>>> sult_Improvements/Testing
>>>>
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>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi all,
With this weeks deployment of MediaWiki to Wikimedia sites, you'll
notice that magic links[1] now add tracking categories to identify their
usage.
As discussed in an RfC, magic links have some problems[2], and we would
like to phase them out with interwiki links and templates instead.
Things like VisualEditor will still specially handle ISBN/RFC/PMID, but
generate the wikitext link format.
I would like to recruit the help of bot authors and operators in
updating their wikis to not use magic links. Is there anyone in your
community who would be interested?
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_links
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Future_of_magic_links#P…
Thanks,
-- Kunal / Legoktm