Wikitech-ambassadors May 2019

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[Breaking change] Important for Wikidata tools maintainers: wb_terms table to be dropped at the end of May
by Léa Lacroix 05 Jul '19

05 Jul '19

Hello all, This is an important announcement for all the tool builders and maintainers who access Wikidata’s data by *querying directly Labs database replicas*. In May-June 2019, the Wikidata development team will drop the wb_terms table from the database in favor of a new optimized schema. Over years, this table has become too big, causing various issues. This change requires the tools using wb_terms to be updated. Developers and maintainers will need to *adapt their code* to the new schema before the migration starts and switch to the new code when the migration starts. The migration will start on *May 29th*. On May 15th, a test system will be available for you to test your code. The table being used by plenty of external tools, we are setting up a process to make sure that the change can be done together with the developers and maintainers, without causing issues and broken tools. Most of the documentation and updates will take place on Phabricator: - In this Phabricator task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221764>, you can find a description of the changes and the process, and you can ask for more details or for help in the comments. This is also where updates will be announced if necessary. - On the Tool Builders Migration board <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wb_terms_-_tool_builders_migration> you will find all the details about the migration, how to update your tool <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221765>, and you can add your own tasks. - If you need to discuss with the Wikidata developers or get more specific help, we set up two dedicated IRC meetings and a session at the Wikimedia hackathon. More information in this task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221764>. We are aware that this change will ask you to make some important changes in your code, and we are willing to help you as much as our resources allow us to. We hope that you will understand that this change is made to avoid bigger issues in the near future. Note that this change is not impacting Wikibase instances outside of Wikidata. A dedicated migration plan and announcement will follow. We strongly encourage you to not wait until last minute to make the changes in your code. If you have any question or issue, we will be happy to help. In order to keep the discussions in one place, please ask questions or raise issues directly in the Phabricator task and board. Thanks for your understanding, Cheers, -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 28 May '19

28 May '19

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! 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 the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew) -- Michael F. Schönitzer Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissens der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! https://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 27/029/42207.

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Talk pages consultation: Phase 2 is ongoing
by Benoît Evellin (Trizek) 28 May '19

28 May '19

Hello The talk pages consultation is moving on. The first communities to participate have setup their pages: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Participant_gro… We are still looking for more communities to participate. you can follow the instruction on how to create a page on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Participant_gro… Please contact me if you need any assistance to create your local consultation. Thank you for your assistance! Benoît -- Benoît Evellin - Trizek (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Tech News (2019, week 22)
by Johan Jönsson 27 May '19

27 May '19

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/22>. 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: Bahasa Indonesia • ‎English • ‎français • ‎polski • ‎português do Brasil • ‎suomi • ‎svenska • ‎čeština • ‎српски / srpski • ‎українська • ‎עברית • ‎العربية • ‎فارسی • ‎中文 • ‎日本語 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/2019/22> are available. *Changes later this week* - [image: Advanced item] Big changes to the replica database <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Replication_(computing)> will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_Services_Introduction> will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223406>[2] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/cloud-announce/2019-May/000172.html> - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.7> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May ( calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap>). *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 29 May at 15:00 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190528T15>. 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/2019/22> • 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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Tech News (2019, week 21)
by Benoît Evellin (Trizek) 20 May '19

20 May '19

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/2019/21> are available: ‎français <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/21/fr> • ‎ polski <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/21/pl> • ‎português do Brasil <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/21/pt-br> • ‎ suomi <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/21/fi> • ‎svenska <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/21/sv> • ‎čeština <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/21/cs> • ‎русский <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/21/ru> • ‎српски / srpski <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/21/sr> • ‎українська <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/21/uk> • ‎עברית <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/21/he> • ‎العربية <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/21/ar> • ‎فارسی <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/21/fa> • ‎हिन्दी <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/21/hi> • ‎中文 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/21/zh> • ‎日本語 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/21/ja> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/21 *Recent changes* - The report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been published <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_consultation_2…>. Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_consultation_2…> on their wikis. *Problems* - File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222935>[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222954> - Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222857>[4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222628> *Changes later this week* - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.6> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May ( calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap>). *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 22 May at 15:00 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190521T15>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>. *Future changes* - The content translation tool <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/V2> on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Content_translation>. [5] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Content_translation/Translating/Transla…> - [image: Advanced item] The Wikidata wbeditentity API <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Application_programming_interface> endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [6] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-May/013051.html> *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/2019/21> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News>* -- Benoît Evellin - Trizek (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Talk pages consultation: Phase 1 report is published, Phase 2 is starting now!
by Benoît Evellin (Trizek) 18 May '19

18 May '19

The Wikimedia Foundation is currently conducting a global consultation about communication <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019>. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication. *Phase 1 of the consultation is over <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Phase_1_report>* – thank you to everyone who participated! – and we've published the Phase 1 report <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Phase_1_report>. The report summarizes what we've learned, proposes a direction for the project, and asks specific questions to explore in Phase 2. Very briefly, the proposed direction is that wikitext talk pages should be improved, and not replaced. We propose building a new design on top of talk pages that changes the page's default appearance, and offers key tools like replying, indenting and signing posts. To keep consistency with existing tools, the new design will be a default experience that existing users can opt out of. We also propose building features that experienced contributors want, including the ability to watchlist a single discussion, and the ability to move, archive and search for threads. Building these features may require some loss of flexibility, or small-to-medium changes in wikitext conventions. The goal is to only make changes that directly enable functionality that users really want. You can see more information and discussion about the proposed direction in the Phase 1 report <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Phase_1_report>, including the results of new user tests and some of the quotations from Phase 1 discussions that led to this proposal. *Now it's time to start Phase 2!* We have six questions to discuss in Phase 2, asking for reactions to the proposed direction, and pros and cons for specific changes that we could make. You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do: 1. First, sign up your group here. <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Participant_gro…> don't forget to coordinate with other users from your wiki to avoid creating multiple consultations on the same wiki! :) 2. Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. 3. Then start the conversation with the six questions listed in the Questions for Phase 2 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Phase_1_report#…> section of the report. 4. When the conversation is concluded, the host should write a summary of the discussion on the Phase 2 community discussion summaries page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Phase_2_communi…>, and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public. You can read more about the overall process <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019> on MediaWiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can leave feedback about the consultation process <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Talk_pages_consultation_2019> in the language you prefer. Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you. Best, Benoît On behalf of the talk pages consultation team -- Benoît Evellin - Trizek (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Today: Technical Advice IRC Meeting (special topic: wb_terms migration)
by Michael Schönitzer 15 May '19

15 May '19

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Today 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English, Arabic & Spanish! Today and next week we have the special Topic "Preparing Wikidata Tools for the wb_terms migration". If you have any tool that might be affected by this change feel free to join and ask! Other topics are welcome too. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! 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 the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew) -- Michael F. Schönitzer Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissens der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! https://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 27/029/42207.

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Tech News (2019, week 20)
by Johan Jönsson 14 May '19

14 May '19

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/20>. 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: Bahasa Indonesia • ‎English • ‎español • ‎français • ‎polski • ‎português do Brasil • ‎suomi • ‎svenska • ‎čeština • ‎Ελληνικά • ‎русский • ‎српски / srpski • ‎українська • ‎עברית • ‎العربية • ‎فارسی • ‎हिन्दी • ‎中文 • ‎日本語 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/2019/20> are available. *Changes later this week* - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.5> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May ( calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap>). *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 15 May at 15:00 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190514T15>. 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/2019/20> • 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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Translated VE interface strings displayed in english
by geraki 10 May '19

10 May '19

Since last week in elwiki "Cite" button (cite-ve-toolbar-group-label) and the "Add a citation" title are displayed in English. They are properly translated in translatewiki and the translation is present on wiki: https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Cite-ve-toolbar-group-label and it was displayed correctly in VE. I can't find what happened. Can someone think something before I report a bug in phab? -- Konstantinos Stampoulis geraki(a)geraki.gr https://www.geraki.gr ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Οι παραπάνω απόψεις είναι προσωπικές και δεν εκφράζουν παρά μόνο εμένα. Το μήνυμα θεωρείται εμπιστευτικό μόνο εάν το έχω ζητήσει ρητά, διαφορετικά μπορείτε να το χρησιμοποιήσετε σε οποιαδήποτε δημόσια συζήτηση.

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New Wikitext editor has problems with IMEs?
by Deryck Chan 09 May '19

09 May '19

Has there been a change to the 2017 Wikitext editor recently? User:恐狼博士 from the Cantonese Wikipedia reported that Chinese IMEs (Cangjie in his case) has been malfunctioning when used inside Wikitext mode. Predictive text no longer works. This malfunction started two weeks ago. He's unsure whether he was on old or new Wikitext mode before. Was there any significant change to the 2017 Wikitext editor in the last month? Deryck

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