Hi, the call for participation for the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017 is
now open:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_
Summit/Call_for_participation
We welcome especially proposals related to these main topics:
* A plan for the Community Wishlist 2016 top results
* Handling wiki content beyond plaintext
* A unified vision for editorial collaboration
* Building a sustainable user experience together
* Useful, consistent, and well documented APIs
* How to manage our technical debt
* Artificial Intelligence to build and navigate content
* How to grow our technical community
If you want to propose an activity pre-scheduled in the Summit program, you
have time until Monday, October 31. There is no deadline to propose
Unconference sessions.
ABOUT
The Wikimedia Developer Summit is the annual meeting to push the evolution
of MediaWiki and other technologies supporting the Wikimedia movement. We
welcome all Wikimedia technical contributors and third party developers
using the Wikimedia APIs or MediaWiki.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit
(This information wants to be forwarded!)
--
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Cross posting to mobile-l and wikitech-ambassadors in case you don't follow
wikitech-l.
-Adam
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 2:34 PM
Subject: CREDIT Showcase, Wednesday, 5-October-2016 - call for demos
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Greetings -
The next CREDIT showcase is Wednesday, 5-October-2016 at 1800 UTC (1100 San
Francisco).
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase
We look forward to seeing your demos! Please add them to the Etherpad and
mark your calendars:
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
We welcome works in progress and would be thrilled to see works from
Wikimedia community members, as well as staff.
If you missed last month's CREDIT, here it is!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfBQ6H14_SM&t=54
Finally, 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 Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery,
Infrastructure and Technology.*
*CREDIT is open to the public, and we welcome questions and discussion. The
next CREDIT will be held on October 5th at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 18:00 UTC. *
*Here’s a link to the YouTube live stream
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCn-oeHQnpU>, which will be available
shortly before the event starts. There’s more info on MediaWiki.org
<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>). *
*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.*
*Thanks, and I hope to see you at CREDIT.*
-
*YOURNAME*
-Adam
Hi,
If your wiki has modified the "Citethispage-content" message, it may
need some small modifications to continue working properly.
Background: The CiteThisPage special page shows different citations for
wiki articles. It mentions two different times: the first being the time
the specific revision of the article was edited, and the second being
the current time.
Special:CiteThisPage modified the parser so that any of the {{CURRENT*}}
time magic words would use the revision timestamp, and anything wrapped
inside of a special <citation>...</citation> tag would use the current
timestamp. However there was a bug in this implementation where the
{{#time:...}} parserfunction would always use the current timestamp,
even if it was outside the <citation> tags.
That bug has now been fixed[1], and will be deployed to all wikis
starting on October 4th. To retain existing behavior, simply wrap any
{{#time:..}} in <citation> tags. I know this might be a little
confusing, so please let me know if this isn't clear.
[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/311627/
Thanks,
-- Legoktm
Hi everyone,
In the Community Wishlist survey[1] that the WMF Community Tech
team[2] did last year, the #5 wish was numerical sorting in
categories[3] (e.g. let 99 come before 101). This is now working and
has been rolled out to Swedish and English Wikipedia.
If your wiki wants it, the Community Tech team is happy to help, of
course. Re-sorting the categories is done using a script, which can
take a day or so to complete, depending on the size of the wiki.
During the time that the script is running, sorting in some categories
will be unreliable.This issue goes away when the script is done.
If you’d like numerical sorting on your wiki:
1) Please start a community discussion – RfC, vote, or however your
wiki normally decides these things – to make sure there’s support for
it.
2) Once you’re sure it has support, post on User:DannyH (WMF)’s talk
page on Meta to with a link to the discussion:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DannyH_(WMF)
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Numerical_sorting_in_categor…
Regards,
//Johan Jönsson, User:Johan (WMF)
--
Hi, this is a heads up about the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017. We want
to open the scope and participation of this event, bringing it closer to
i.e. volunteer developers and other technical contributors (like you)
active in Wikimedia communities but perhaps not so much in the
MediaWiki.org / wikitech-l groups. One important step is to assure that the
main topics of the Summit reflect better the priorities of these audiences.
Your participation is welcomed!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 9:24 PM
Subject: WikiDev'17 main topics -- more feedback needed
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Development and
Operations Engineers <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi, we need more voices and perspectives in the definition of the main
topics of the Wikimedia developer Summit 2017. Your participation is very
important!
RobLa went through the suggestions made and has proposed an organization
around main topics, and the discussion has started. Please check
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiDev17/Topic_ideas and the discussion
page.
Rachel and I have decided to make a soft-launch of the Summit by opening
the registration and travel sponsorship requests only, because we cannot
keep postponing this step. You should hear news from us tomorrow.
We will launch properly opening the call for participation and promoting
the Summit widely in Wikimedia channels and beyond hopefully next week,
when we have a "good enough" list of main topics.
--
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Due to the Wikimedia Technical Operations Team having their team offsite
that week and generally being less than normally available there will be
no non-emergency deploys the week of September 26th (aka: next week).
See also:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_September_26th
Normal schedule will resume the following week.
Teaser: The week of October 17th will be a "no train deploys" weeks as
the Wikimedia Release Engineering Team will be at their offsite that
week. I'll send a reminder about this as well closer to that date.
Best,
Greg
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| Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
| Release Team Manager A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
Hi,
On Monday (2016-09-12), I plan on deploying a change that allows most
users to change the "content model" of a page[1] (the "editcontentmodel"
user right). This functionality has been available to administrators for
a few months now. The permission is similar conceptually to "move", so
it is being granted to all groups that have the "move" permission (and
taken away from those that don't have "move"). Specifics can be seen in
the Gerrit change[2].
This functionality is mostly technical, and documentation can be found
at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:ChangeContentModel>. Currently,
the main usecase is to allow any user to create a MassMessage target
list[3], but others are planned in the future.
If you find documentation missing, or want to change your wiki's
configuration, or have questions in general, feel free to respond via
email, or file a task in the MediaWiki-ContentHandler project and CC me.
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85847
[2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/309066
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92795
Thanks!
-- Legoktm