Wikitech-ambassadors June 2018

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Tech News (2018, week 26)

by Johan Jönsson

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/26>. 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: العربية • ‎বাংলা • ‎čeština • ‎English • ‎español • ‎فارسی • ‎suomi • ‎français • ‎עברית • ‎हिन्दी • ‎italiano • ‎日本語 • ‎polski • ‎português do Brasil • ‎русский • ‎svenska • ‎українська • ‎中文 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/2018/26> are available. *Recent changes* - [image: Advanced item] PAWS <https://paws.wmflabs.org/>, our JupyterHub system, got an upgrade and a logo <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PAWS/News/2018-06-21>. Several bugs should be fixed. *Problems* - When a link text was in *italics* or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197213>[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196914> *Changes later this week* - Content translation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation> users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194467> - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/wmf.10> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 June (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/Roadmap>). *Meetings* - [image: Recurrent item] You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 June at 18:30 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180626T1830>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings>. - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 June at 15:00 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180627T15>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>. *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> 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/2018/26> • 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 --

5 years, 5 months

Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting

by Michael Schönitzer

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 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 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.

5 years, 5 months

IRC Office Hour - 25 June, Contribution tools on mobile web via exiting MediaWiki skin

by Chris Koerner

Howdy, There is an IRC office hour scheduled next week to discuss improvements to the mobile MediaWiki web site for contribution tools and workflows. It will be from 16:00-17:00 UTC Monday 25 June 2018. Links to join are on Meta. [0] The Readers web team would like to make more contribution tools (like Special: pages) available on mobile. Come talk to us about what you want to see the most. More information on what we'd like to discuss can be found on MediaWiki.org. [1] I hope you can make it. If not, please take a look at the project page and leave any comments on the talk page. [0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation

5 years, 5 months

Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting

by Michael Schönitzer

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 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 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.

5 years, 5 months

Tech News (2018, week 25)

by Johan Jönsson

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/25>. 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: العربية • ‎বাংলা • ‎čeština • ‎English • ‎español • ‎فارسی • ‎suomi • ‎français • ‎עברית • ‎हिन्दी • ‎italiano • ‎日本語 • ‎polski • ‎português do Brasil • ‎русский • ‎svenska • ‎українська • ‎中文 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/2018/25> are available. *Recent changes* - Syntax highlighting <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Syntax_highlighting> has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on CodeMirror <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror>. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185030> *Changes later this week* - There is no new MediaWiki version this week. *Meetings* - [image: Recurrent item] You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 June at 18:30 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180619T1830>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings>. - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 June at 15:00 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180620T15>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>. *Future changes* - Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:PlayStation_3>. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147202>[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196371> - The new filters for edit review <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements/…> tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Beta>. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181193>[5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195993> - [image: Advanced item] All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/RemexHtml> on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy>. You can help <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2018-June/001867…> fix remaining errors. [6] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy/FAQ#What_will_editors…> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> 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/2018/25> • 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 --

5 years, 5 months

Tidy replacement on final Wikimedia wikis on 5 July 2018

by Subramanya Sastry

Hello everyone, That time is finally upon us. [1] On 6 July 2017, we made an announcement [2] about our plans to replace Tidy with RemexHtml on the Wikimedia cluster. Over the last year, we have progressively replaced Tidy on about 800 wikis in a phased manner. [3] A year later, as announced and planned, on 5 July 2018, the last 100 or so wikis [6] will have Tidy replaced to complete this transition. [3] If you are an editor of one of these last remaining wikis, we have a query [4] which gives you counts of linter issues in the main namespace that might need fixing. Many thanks to all the hundreds of editors on all the wikis who have been fixing markup on pages and templates. You have enabled us to do this much-required upgrade of a key part of our core technical platform with the minimum of disruption to readers. If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a comment on the relevant Phabricator ticket [3] or leave a message on mediawiki.org. [5] Thanks, Subbu. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2017-July/001625… [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175706 [4] https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/27652 [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Parsing/Replacing_Tidy [6] List of wikis that will get Tidy replaced on 5 July 2018: Wikipedias ---------- af an ar as ast av az azb ba be bn bpy ce ckb cy da diq el en eo es eu fr fy gd gu hak hi hr hu hy id ja ka kk kn koi kv lrc lv mg mk ml mr ms myv nah nn oc pam pl pnb pt ro roa_rup sd sh simple sl sr su sw ta te tg th tr tt ug uk ur vi xmf yi yo zh zh_min_nan zh_yue Wiktionaries ------------ bg eo eu fr io ka lt mn ru th uz wa Wikibooks --------- en fr Wikisources ----------- ar en fa fr he ru sa sl sr sourceswiki Others ------ commons incubator

5 years, 5 months

Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting

by Michael Schönitzer

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 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 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.

5 years, 5 months

Tech News (2018, week 24)

by Johan Jönsson

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/24>. 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: العربية • ‎čeština • ‎English • ‎español • ‎فارسی • ‎suomi • ‎français • ‎עברית • ‎हिन्दी • ‎日本語 • ‎polski • ‎português do Brasil • ‎русский • ‎svenska • ‎українська • ‎粵語 • ‎中文 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/2018/24> are available. *Recent changes* - In the Wikipedia app <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps> for Android or iOS users can create reading lists <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Synced_Re…>. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [1] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Reading_list_browser_extension> - [image: Advanced item] There is a new version of Pywikibot <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Pywikibot>. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [2] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/pywikibot/2018-June/009842.html> *Problems* - The MonoBook skin <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:MonoBook> was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195625> *Changes later this week* - The new filters for edit review <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements/…> tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Beta>. For most wikis this will happen on 18 June. For the rest it will happen on 25 June. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181193>[5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195993> - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/wmf.8> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 June. It will be on all wikis from 14 June (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/Roadmap>). *Meetings* - You can join the Readers Web team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Team> IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180618T16>. See how to join <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IRC_office_hours>. - [image: Recurrent item] You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 June at 18:30 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180612T1830>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings>. - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 June at 15:00 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180613T15>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>. *Future changes* - You will be able to move local wiki files to Commons <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Mo…> and keep their original data intact. This is planned to come <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190716> to the first wikis in June. *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> 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/2018/24> • 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 --

5 years, 6 months

Queries regarding Wikimedia's Data Dumps.

by Nikhil Prakash

Hi there, This is Nikhil, an undergraduate student from India. And I'm trying to understand the Wikipedia's data dumps provided by Wikimedia. I'm working on 20180520 dumps. It contains many sections, each having different data. And I would like to know what each section's data represent. Although it's written in a brief, I don't get it clearly. Like in section "All pages, current versions only." Does each and every article's current version is present in this data? Because I just downloaded "enwiki-20180520-pages-meta-current1.xml-p10p30303.bz2", the first-page information is of "AccessibleComputing" but it does not have complete article's information in it? Hoping to get a quick reply. Thanks. Nikhil

5 years, 6 months

Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting

by Michael Schönitzer

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 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 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.

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