Hello
*In short:* starting on 26 September, New Filters for Edit Review (now in
Beta
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatu…>)
will become standard on Recent Changes. They provide an array of new tools
and an improved interface. If you prefer the current page you will be able
to opt out. Learn more about the New Filters
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edi…>
.
Watchlists will get the filters, starting on 19 September.
I'm going to send this announcement soon on all wikis. Your help is welcome
to translate it locally, I've created a page marked for translation
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Us…>
to help it.
*What is this feature again?*
This feature improves Special:RecentChanges
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges> and
Special:RecentChangesLinked
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked> (and soon,
Special:Watchlist <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist> – see
below).
Based on a new design, it adds new features that ease vandalism tracking
and support of newcomers:
- Filtering
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit…>
-
filter recent changes with easy-to-use and powerful filters combinations,
including filtering by namespace or tagged edits.
- Highlighting
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit…>
-
add a colored background to the different changes you are monitoring. It
helps quick identification of changes that matter to you.
- Bookmarking
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit…>
to
keep your favorite configurations of filters ready to be used.
- Quality and Intent Filters
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit…>
-
those filters use ORES predictions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/ORES>. They identify
real vandalism or good faith intent contributions that need help. They are
not available on all wikis.
You can know more about this project by visiting the quick tour help page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit…>
.
*Concerning RecentChanges*
Starting on 26 September, *New Filters for Edit Review will become standard
on Recent Changes*. We have decided to do this release because of a long
and successful Beta test phase, positive feedback from various users and
positive user testing.
Some features will remain as Beta features and will be added later. Learn
more about those different features
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edi…>
.
If your community has specific concerns about this deployment or internal
discussion, it can request to have the deployment to their wikis delayed to
October 1, if they have s*ensible, consistent with the project, actionable,
realistic feedback to oppose* (at the development team's appreciation).
You will also be able to opt-out this change in your preferences.
*Concerning Watchlists*
Starting on September 19, the Beta feature will have a new option. *Watchlists
will have all filters available now on the Beta Recent Changes improvements*
.
If you have already activated the Beta feature "New filters for edit
review", you have no action to take. If you haven't activated the Beta
feature "New filters for edit review" and you want to try the filters on
Watchlists, please go to your Beta preferences
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatu…>
on
September 19.
*How to be ready*
Please share this announcement!
Do you use Gadgets that change things on your RecentChanges or Watchlist
pages, or have you customized them with scripts or CSS? You may have to
make some changes to your configuration. Despite the fact that we have
tried to take most cases into consideration, some configurations may break.
The Beta phase is a great opportunity to have a look at local scripts and
gadgets: some of them may be replaced by native features from the Beta
feature.
Please ping me if you have questions!
On behalf of the Global Collaboration team,
Benoît
--
Benoît Evellin (Trizek)
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
Sorry for cross-posting!
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **today 3-4 pm UTC** on
#wikimedia-tech.
The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers,
topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over
"who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/
wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting
This meeting is an offer by WMDE’s tech team. Hosts of todays meeting are:
@addshore & @Tobi_WMDE_SW.
Hope to see you there!
Michi (for WMDE’s tech team)
--
Michael F. Schönitzer
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Okay so we signed up to ambassador a certain wiki during wikimania or
remotely on the metawiki page, is there more to be done or what? There
wasnt really any further explaination.
Thanks,
Zppix
Volunteer Developer for WMF
www.enwp.org/User:Zppix
(*A translated version of this message may be available at Meta.*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Community_collabora…>
)
Greetings everyone,
Wikimedia Foundation’s community liaisons
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Liaisons> want to continue
improving the collaboration between WMF software development teams and our
communities. We want to include more and more diverse people to work
together in friendly environments. For this goal, tech ambassadors and tech
translators play a crucial role. How can we support them (you!) better?
We would like to strengthen the roles of tech ambassadors and tech
translators. Make these roles more visible to new potential volunteers,
more enjoyable to contribute to, and more recognized across the Wikimedia
movement.
For this reason, we are calling current and prospective contributors to
help us define not only a solid definition of the roles, but also related
metrics that we will adopt as part of our Key Performance Indicators. We
will also explore pain points and opportunities for improvement in the
workflow of these roles. This activity has already started with a review of
Tech News as a way to effectively disseminate technical information, and
will continue with a review of other major product newsletters, among other
things.
We are sharing a draft of role definitions and KPIs. Of course, the end
result might be much different, depending on your input!
The *feedback period goes from** Tuesday, August 8th to the 22nd**.* (Rest
assured that even if we may not be able to reply to each message, we will
read and consider all of them.)
You have the opportunity to share your thoughts in the following ways:
-
*Online*, in the 2 megathreads at https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Talk:Technical_Collaboration/Community_collaboration_in_product_
development/Tech_ambassadors_and_translators
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Technical_Collaboration/Community_coll…>
;
-
*Online*, by replying privately (not to the list, please!) to this
message;
-
*In person* at Wikimania this week, by meeting us on Saturday 12,
3-3:45pm, in Salon 2, level 2 of the venue for a focused chat. Please
help us spread the word, as this meeting is not featured on the Programme!
(maybe retweet this
<https://twitter.com/Elitre/status/893510196726837248>?);
-
*In person*, by meeting us at the Community Engagement table
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TP4_xzlxDm6rjNoDQNxEVZV62lefmuHaK8I…>
(#1 in map
<https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Village#Location>)
in Wikimania’s Community Village.
If you're already onboard with being more involved, testing new features,
giving or gathering feedback on more complicated issues, and generally
being your community's hero, just sign up instead in the tables:
*active tech ambassadors
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Ambassadors/List> - active tech
translators <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Translators/List> .*
We are looking forward to seeing where this will lead all of us!
Elitre,
Senior Community Liaison
Technical Collaboration team
PS: I'm about to jump on planes to Montreal: I plan to spread the word
about the initiative above
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Community_collabora…>
in other venues (such as specific pages on Meta) soon.
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Mail
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Sorry for cross-posting!
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **today 3-4 pm UTC** on
#wikimedia-tech.
The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers,
topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over
"who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting
This meeting is an offer by WMDE’s tech team. Hosts of todays meeting are:
@addshore & @Tobi_WMDE_SW.
Hope to see you there!
Michi (for WMDE’s tech team)
--
Michael F. Schönitzer
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.