Dear Wikitech/Wikitech-Ambassadors,
Over the last few months, a small team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been
working on a project that has been discussed by many people in our movement
for many years: building ‘enterprise grade’ services for the high-volume
commercial reusers of Wikimedia content. I am pleased to say that in a
remarkably short amount of time (considering the complexity of the issues:
technical, strategic, legal, and financial) we now have something worthy of
showing to the community, and we are asking for your feedback. Allow me to
introduce you to the Wikimedia Enterprise API project – formerly codenamed
“okapi”.
While the general idea for Wikimedia Enterprise predates the current
movement strategy process, its recommendations [0] identify an enterprise
API as one possible solution to both “Increase the sustainability of our
movement” and “Improve User Experience.” That is, to simultaneously create
a new revenue stream to protect Wikimedia’s sustainability, and improve the
quality and quantity of Wikimedia content available to our many readers who
do not visit our websites directly (including more consistent attribution).
Moreover, it does so in a way that is true to our movement’s culture: with
open source software, financial transparency, non-exclusive contracts or
content, no restrictions on existing services, and free access for
Wikimedia volunteers who need it.
The team believes we are on target to achieve those goals and so we have
written a lot of documentation you get your feedback about our progress and
where it could be further improved before the actual product is ‘launched’
in the next few months. We have been helped in this process over the last
several months by the approximately 100 individual volunteers (from many
corners of the wikiverse) and representatives of affiliate organisations
who have reviewed our plans and provided invaluable direction. Pointing out
weaknesses and opportunities, or areas lacking clarity and documentation in
our drafts.
A essay describing the “why?” and the “how?” of this project is now on
Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise/Essay
Also now published on Meta are an extensive FAQ [1] and operating
principles [2]. Much of this documentation is already available in French,
German, Italian, and Spanish.
For technical specifics, the new documentation on MediaWiki.org describes
the product strategy and roadmap, work currently underway, design
documents, as well as infrastructure decisions and future plans:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise
The team is particularly interested in your feedback on how we have
designed the checks and balances to this project - to ensure it is as
successful as possible at achieving those two goals described above while
staying true to the movement’s values and culture. For example: Is
everything covered appropriately in the “Principles” list? Is the technical
documentation on MediaWiki.org clear? Are the explanations in the “FAQ”
about free-access for community, or project’s legal structure, or the
financial transparency (etc.) sufficiently detailed?
Meet the team and Ask Us Anything:
The central place to provide written feedback about the project in general
is on the talkpage of the documentation on Meta at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Enterprise
Equally, for technical comments or questions the talkpage on MediaWiki.org:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Enterprise
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Enterprise>
On this Friday (March 19) we will be hosting two “Office hours”
conversations where anyone can come and give feedback or ask questions:
- 13:00 UTC via Zoom at https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/95580273732
- 22:00 UTC via Zoom at https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/92565175760 (note: this
is Saturday in Asia/Oceania)
Other “office hours” meetings can be arranged on-request on a technical
platform of your choosing; and we will organise more calls in the future.
We will also be attending the next SWAN meetings (on March 21)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Wikimedia_Affiliates_Network, and
also the next of the Wikimedia Clinics
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Clinics
Moreover, we would be very happy to accept any invitation to attend an
existing group call that would like to discuss this topic (e.g. an
affiliate’s members’ meeting).
On behalf of the Wikimedia Enterprise team,
*Liam Wyatt [Wittylama]*
WikiCite <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite> Program Manager & Wikimedia
Enterprise <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Okapi> Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
[0]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise/FAQ
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise/Principles
// sorry for cross-posting
Hello everyone,
Here is another change from WMDE’s Technical Wishes team concerning syntax
highlighting:
Soon, line numbers will be shown in wikitext editors when you have the
syntax highlighting feature (CodeMirror
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeMirror> extension)
enabled.[1] The change will make it easier to detect line breaks and to
refer to a particular line in discussions. More information can be found on
this project page. [2]
We plan to deploy this with this week’s Mediawiki train, so it should be on
wikis from April 13-15. As a first step, it will be available on the
template namespace only. Deployment on other namespaces is planned for the
near future.
If you have any feedback, please let us know on the project’s talk page.
[3] We hope line numbering will be useful to you!
Johanna
for the Technical Wishes team
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeMirror
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Line_Numbering
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Talk_Technical_Wishes/Line_Numbering
--
Johanna Strodt
Projektmanagerin Kommunikation Communitys Technische Wunschliste
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
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Hello Ambassadors,
Is there a magic word that one can use on soft redirect templates (e.g.
interwiki to Wiktionary) such that they do not appear in article counts?
--Deryck
[[User:Deryck Chan]]
Hello all,
We'd like to inform you of a change coming in how media is structured in the parser's HTML output. It has been [in the works for quite some time][1]. The new structure was prototyped in Parsoid's output since its inception and outlined in [its specification][2].
The proposed change has gone through the [RFC process][3] and an implementation to output this new structure in MediaWiki's core parser was [recently merged][4], gated behind a flag. So far, it has been enabled on testwiki and testwiki2.
There are [a number of known issues][5] but we don't expect to see many rendering differences since we've done some [extensive visual diff testing][6]. Templates won't be impacted; the old CSS styles will remain, for now.
However, where we do expect work is needed is with code interacting with the page, be it user scripts, gadgets, extensions, bots, or other things.
If you'd like to help us out and get ahead of the changes before they have the potential to interfere with your workflow, please visit these wikis and test them out. You can file tasks in Phabricator with the Parsoid-Media-Structure project tag.
Thanks,
The Parsing Team
[1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Media_structure
[2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Specs/HTML/2.2.0#Media
[3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118517
[4]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/507512
[5]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/5428/
[6]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266149
Hi all,
finding, inserting and removing templates becomes now easier on a group of
wikis with the new bundle of changes from WMDE’s Technical Wishes team. All
other wikis will follow over the course of this year.
In the VisualEditor, 2017 wikitext editor and 2010 WikiEditor, an improved
search will help you find relevant templates even if you’re not sure of
their exact name. The search will look for matches for your keyword within
the entire template name, not just its beginning [1]. In VisualEditor, a back
button will be added to the “Insert a template” dialog, making it easier to
explore different templates [1]. For the same dialog, a warning will appear
if you have entered data and close the form without saving. In the past,
all changes were just lost [1]. Last but not least, it will be clearer how
to remove a template from a page with the new “delete” button next to the
“edit” button in a template’s context menu of the VisualEditor [2].
We plan to deploy these improvements on German, Greek, Malay, Twi, French,
Hungarian, Turkish, Hebrew, Finnish Wikipedia and English Wikivoyage &
Nauruan Wiktionary on 7th of July. If you have any feedback, please let us
know on the projects’ talk pages [3] [4].
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Finding_and_inserting…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Removing_a_template_f…
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Finding_and_inse…
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Removing_a_templ…
Timur
for the Technical Wishes team
--
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Technische Wünsche
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23–24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
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