Wikitech-ambassadors March 2016

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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia.org portal page update!
by Dan Garry 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

On 11 March 2016 at 10:52, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) <vp2007(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Failed my dream :( > > Any string in any language in any wikipedia project. How far is my dream? > I share your dream! :-) Unfortunately, the dream is quite far away from reality. Querying every search index would put a big performance strain on the search servers. Additionally, it would likely return you a bunch of really irrelevant results, so there's a lot of user experience implications that would need to be figured out as well. Discovery is not actively working on this at present. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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Wikipedia.org portal page update!
by Deborah Tankersley 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

Hello! I'm very pleased to announce that we've updated the Wikipedia.org <http://wikipedia.org/> portal page with a brand new search box that is more prominent and will now display meta data with images (as available) in the search results (link <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_searchbox_with_metadata.png>). This was a large effort by the Discovery Portal team to develop a JavaScript-only version of the language picker, so that JavaScript enabled browsers will see all the new meta data. Alongside that effort, we also ensured that in JavaScript (JS) disabled browsers (or older Internet Explorer versions), our visitors won't have a bad experience when choosing a language to search in. (Note 1: in older IE versions and JS disabled browsers, the type-ahead and meta data search results information will not be displayed.) We also implemented a shorter language code (ie: EN for English, ES for Spanish, etc) to allow for more characters to be typed into the search box. When a user toggles the language selector, the full language name will be displayed in the dropdown for easy finding of the language you prefer to search in. For the more technical minded - I've also uploaded, to Commons, a screenshot <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sample_browsers_tested.png> of one of the ways we test our code, visually. We're interested in hearing your feedback or if you have any questions! (Note 2: My apologies for not getting this email out yesterday, but I had had issues with size limitations of my screenshots.) On behalf of the very happy Wikipedia.org Portal Team, Deb -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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Password policy for users with advanced permissions
by Chris Steipp 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

Dear ambassadors, Next Tuesday, March 15th [1], we will begin enforcing the result of the Password policy RFC [2] that took place on meta and closed in January. After Tuesday, users with access to sensitive information, or the ability to change the mediawiki interface will be required to use an 8-byte [3] long password. This affects all users in the Administrator, Bureaucrat, Checkusers, and Oversight groups on all wikis, along with a few other groups on particular wikis[4]. Users covered by the new policy, whose password is not currently compliant, will be prompted to change their password the next time they login. Thanks, Chris (Wikimedia Security Team) [1] - https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Tuesday.2C.C2.A0March.C2.A0… [2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Password_policy_for_us… [3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Password_policy_for_us… [4] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Password_policy_for_us…

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Cross-wiki Notifications as a Beta feature on all wikis on March 10.
by Benoît Evellin (Trizek) 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

Dear wiki tech ambassadors, As you may have noticed on the last Tech News issue, Collaboration team is please to announce that *Cross-wiki notifications* <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Notifications/Cross-wiki> will be available as a Beta feature on all wikis by *March 20th*. Cross-wiki notifications will help you know about some activity on another wiki. *How does it work?* Imagine someone thanks you on Commons - the next time you open a page on your local wiki, you'll see that notification from Commons! We hope this will help everyone who is active on multiple wikis. You will find more information in the documentation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Notifications/Cross-wiki> (translations still welcome). Of course, it is a Beta Feature. We have tested many possible cases on test wikis, and then release that feature one month ago on MediaWiki.org, Commons, Wikidata, French and Hebrew wikis. That first release allowed us to solve encountered problems, but *if you experience some bugs* (and we are sorry about that), please report them on the dedicated page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Notifications> (in any language). That page is also dedicated to feedback and suggestions. To activate the feature, you will have to go on the 20th of March to your preferences <https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafe…>, Beta tab, and select the "Enhanced notifications" checkbox (or the equivalent <https://translatewiki.net/wiki/MediaWiki:Echo-pref-beta-feature-cross-wiki-…>in your language). You will then receive Notifications when they happen on any other wiki. You will receive these notifications only on the wiki where you have activated the feature. If you do not activate it, nothing will change on your Notifications panel. If you have any questions, please leave me a message on any wiki, I'll be notified with cross-wiki notifications. Please spread the word! :) Thanks, Benoît -- Benoît Evellin (Trizek) Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation

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Tech News (2016, week 10)
by Johan Jönsson 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/10>. 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: کوردیی ناوەندی <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/10/ckb> • ‎ čeština <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/10/cs> • ‎Ελληνικά <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/10/el> • ‎English • ‎ español <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/10/es> • ‎suomi <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/10/fi> • ‎français <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/10/fr> • ‎Avañe'ẽ <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/10/gn> • ‎עברית <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/10/he> • ‎日本語 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/10/ja> • ‎Ripoarisch <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/10/ksh> • ‎norsk bokmål <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/10/nb> • ‎português <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/10/pt> • ‎português do Brasil <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/10/pt-br> • ‎română <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/10/ro> • ‎русский <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/10/ru> • ‎svenska <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/10/sv> • ‎Tiếng Việt <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/10/vi> • ‎中文 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/10/zh> Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/10> are available. *Recent changes* - Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76614> - Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T49662> - The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eqiad_cluster> have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123711> - It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126848> - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications. <pages from= to= section=1> will parse as <pages from="to=" section="1"> instead of <pages from="" to="" section="1"> as it used to. Please use <pages from="" to="" section=1> or <pages section=1> instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108134> *Problems* - Phabricator <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Phabricator> has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [6] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/engineering/2016-March/000098.html> - The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128295> - The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108134> - You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon. [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124356> - Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes. [10] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128337> *Changes this week* - Cross-wiki notifications <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications/Cross-…> will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki. [11] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124234> - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.16> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap>). - Wikivoyages will get the Kartographer extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Kartographer>. Kartographer will allow <mapframe> and <maplink> tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the Maps talk page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Maps>. If you find any bugs, you can report them in Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=kartogra…> . [12] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127136> *Meetings* - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 March at 20:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&d…>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>. *Future changes* - The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [13] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110555> - The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change. [14] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124671> *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 bot <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/2016/10> • 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…>.* //Johan Jönsson

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