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Would any other wikis like to try out a new search?
by Nikolas Everett 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Dear Ambassadors, I'm looking for volunteer wikis to try out the new search that Chad and I've been working on called CirrusSearch. <sales pitch>Be a part of the second wave of wikis and influence new search features!</sales pitch> Reality: * We're reasonably sure CirrusSearch's language support is better than the current search. [1] * CirrusSearch indexes expanded templates. * CirrusSearch indexes articles within a few seconds of when they are changed. Articles that contain a changed template take longer but they are also updated. * Most of the special search syntax is the same. You can read the syntax here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search/CirrusSearchFeatures What it means to volunteer: If you volunteer your wiki we'll turn CirrusSearch on in "secondary" mode where it'll keep itself up to date but all queries will still go through the old search. You'll be able to get search results from the new search engine for comparison by adding a url parameter to the search results page. If you and the community that you represent aren't immediately blown away by how much better it works we'll work with you to make it awesome. At some point, shortly after the new search has been deemed awesome, we'll switch CirrusSearch to "primary" mode and all queries will go through it. You'll be able to get at the old search results with a url parameter similar to the one that you used to test CirrusSearch. If anything goes wrong we'll switch you back to the old search. We'll keep that option open for a few months. So who is ready to help make search better? Nik Everett [1]: Some languages (20ish) will see a huge improvement because CirrusSearch understands their grammar and old search doesn't. Many other languages will see an improvement because CirrusSearch is happy to search all kinds of character sets while the current search isn't. Esperanto is very well supported by the old search so would get worse. eo wikis should probably wait until we've improved support.

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Moderation queue cleared
by Guillaume Paumier 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Hi, The recent stream of e-mails was me clearing up the moderation queue. No one was actively looking at the queue, so there were hundreds of messages blocked there from months ago. The queue is now empty and I've added myself to the notification list, so the moderation should happen more quickly now. If anyone's interested in helping with moderation, please let me know offlist. -- Guillaume Paumier Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation

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Tech newsletter (2014, week 11)
by Tomasz W. Kozlowski 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

Hi! The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/11 [1]. 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 [2]. More information on how to contribute is available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute [3]; you can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ------------------------- Latest tech news [4] from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations [1] are available. RECENT SOFTWARE CHANGES * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf17 [5]) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 13 (calendar [6]). * You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch [7]) on all Wikiquote projects. You can now enable it in your Beta options [8]. VISUALEDITOR NEWS * It is now easier to edit templates. Complex tools are now in the "advanced" mode. * It is also easier to edit images. You now have more options and they are explained better. * VisualEditor adds fake blank lines so you can put your cursor there. They are now smaller and animated to be different from actual blank lines. * We have improved the tool to add special characters. The buttons are now larger. More changes are coming. * You can now use new keyboard shortcuts to undo the last action, clear formatting, and show the shortcut help window. FUTURE SOFTWARE CHANGES * You will soon be able to use a Beta option [8] to show a shorter list of language links. That way, Universal Language Selector [9] will only show languages that are relevant to you. You will still be able to search for other languages. * CirrusSearch [7] will soon automatically index newly imported pages. * It will soon be possible to use CSS to style buttons [10] in templates on all Wikimedia wikis, without needing JavaScript [11]. * An IRC discussion [12] with the Wikimedia Foundation Language Engineering team will take place on March 12 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion [13]). _TECH NEWS [4] prepared by tech ambassadors [14] and posted by MediaWiki message delivery [15] * Contribute [16] * Translate [1] * Get help [17] * Give feedback [18] * Subscribe or unsubscribe [19]._ Links: ------ [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/11 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf17 [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeat… [9] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Language_Select… [10] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Default_modules#Buttons [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript [12] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours [13] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140312T1700 [14] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors [15] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d… [16] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute [17] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech [18] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News [19] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…

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Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of March 10th
by Greg Grossmeier 08 Mar '14

08 Mar '14

Welcome to the latest edition of the Wikimedia roadmap and deployments highlights email. Full schedule at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_March_10th Other than the usual allotment of standing deploy windows for various teams (eg Flow, Parsoid, Search, and WP Zero) there aren't any deployments of special note. This of course doesn't take into account last minute/exceptional things. There is the normal MediaWiki train, as always. Also, the WMF Labs migration continues. For more info, see: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-February/002152.html == Tuesday == MediaWiki upgrades * group1 to 1.23wmf17: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites) ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_depl… ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf17 == Thursday == MediaWiki upgrades * group2 to 1.23wmf17 (all Wikipedias) * group0 to 1.23wmf18 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki) ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf18 (branch/list of changes created on Thursday) As always, questions/comments welcome, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on March 12, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

[x-posted] Hello, The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting the monthly IRC office hour on March 12, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC/ 1000 PDT on #wikimedia-office. In this edition, we will be talking about our ongoing projects, like the Content Translation tool[1]. Also, we would like to extend this invitation specially to the students who are looking forward to participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2014 and Outreach Program for Women (OPW) - Round 8, for the Language Engineering projects[2] under Wikimedia. We will be happy to answer your questions about our work and projects. Please see below for the event details and check for local time at your location. Questions can also be sent to me before the event. See you all at the IRC office hour! Thanks Runa [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Intern… Event Details: ========== # Date: March 12, 2014 # Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 1000-1100 PDT (Check local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140312T1700) # IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net Agenda: ====== 1. Ongoing Projects - Content Translation tool 2. GSoC and OPW - open house for Language Engineering projects 3. Q & A -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Tibetan Wikipedia Font Need Increase
by Phurbu Tsering 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

Hello guys, Tibetan language local Wikipedia was now content more 10000 articles. Its been growing day by day. Its improving a lot compare to other language have same standard language. But one biggest problem we are facing now is, its Tibetan font look very much small, may be problem of Wikimedia technical issue. As consult with many technical people. Still they didn't take any action till now. Dzongka Wikipedia, which share same font as Tibetan Wikipedia, are looking much perfect than us. I saw that many people are taking interest with Dzongka Wikipedia, but ignore about Tibetan Wikipedia. Hope any one, have idea about Wikipedia technical issue. Please have a look at our issue and solve this problem as soon as possible, we are waiting very long time for it. Yours sincerely Phurbu tsering

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Tech newsletter (2014, week 10)
by Guillaume Paumier 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

Hi, The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/10 . 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/10>are available. *Recent software changes* - The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf16<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf16>) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 6 ( calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap>). - When users enable web fonts by default, Universal Language Selector<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Language_Select…>will now log if they don't have fonts to display pages correctly. This information will be used by developers to improve font support in the future. Read more about missing fonts<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/WebFonts#Font_de…>. [1] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/113876/> - You can now use Guided tours<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Guided_tours>on the Czech and Japanese Wikipedia. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it<https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-guidedt…>and ask in Bugzilla <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org>. [2]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-February/000…> [3] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115824/> - You can now use information from Wikidata<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/>in all Wikisource wikis. [4] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115393/> - The multimedia team is now posting weekly updates on their mailing list<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia>. [5]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-February/000071.html> *VisualEditor news* - You can now change image size to default for your wiki. If you add new images to pages, they will also be default size. [6]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47804> [7] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50379> [8]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/114420/> - If you switch from VisualEditor to wikitext editing, your edit will now be tagged. [9] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56465> - Template parameters now have a bigger, auto-sizing input box for easier editing. [10]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61289> - VisualEditor now has Arabic, Finnish and Kölsch icons for text styling. If you want icons for your language, ask in Bugzilla. [11]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115636/> [12] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115512/> [13]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115424/> *Future software changes* - The new tool for viewing media files<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultimediaViewer>will soon show a progress bar and a thumbnail while loading full images. [14] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/113963/> [15]<https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/146> - You will soon be able to make user contributions<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions>show only page creations. [16] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42026> [17]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115189/> - Article Feedback Tool<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5>will be removed from the English and French Wikipedias on March 3. It will also no longer be possible to add this tool to any Wikimedia wiki. [18]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-February/000…> [19] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61163> - Wikis using the new search tool <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search>will come back to the old tool for a few hours starting at 00:00 UTC on March 6. [20] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61879> *Problems* - For about an hour on February 23, there were problems with page loading due to a MediaWiki bug. [21]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/114994/> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by tech ambassadors <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors> and posted by MediaWiki message delivery <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/2014/10> • 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…>.* -- Guillaume Paumier Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation

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Roadmap and Deployment highlight - week of March 3rd
by Greg Grossmeier 01 Mar '14

01 Mar '14

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Roadmap and Deployments update. See the full roadmap for next week and beyond here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_March_3rd Some important call outs: == Monday == The migration of WMF Labs from pmtpa to eqiad begins * new instance creation disabled in pmtpa, only available in eqiad * See the emails from Andrew and Marc for more details: ** http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-February/002152.html ** http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-February/002153.html We will be disabling ArticleFeedBack on all wikis. * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61163 == Tuesday == MediaWiki upgrades * group1 to 1.23wmf16: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites) * see also: ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_depl… ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf16 == Wednesday == The new search cluster will be upgraded (to ElasticSearch 1.0.1). * This will begin at 0:00 UTC March 6th/4pm Pacific March 5th and will take a few hours to complete. * All wikis currently using the new search (CirrusSearch) will be temporarily switched back to the old serach (lsearchd) * You shouldn't see much of a change in search behavior (CirrusSearch is mostly feature parity to lsearchd) if your wiki is on new search, but to see a list of wikis that currently have CirrusSearch enabled (and in what way: Beta Feature or Primary), see: ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search#Wikis == Thursday == MediaWiki upgrades * group2 to 1.23wmf16 (all Wikipedias) * group0 to 1.23wmf17 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki) As always, questions welcome, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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GettingStarted and GuidedTour on additional projects
by Steven Walling 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Hi all, This is just a heads up that we've added GuidedTour and GettingStarted extensions to a few more wikis today. * Per bug 60270, we enabled GuidedTour on Czech Wikipedia. * We enabled GettingStarted and GuidedTour on Japanese Wikipedia, since translation was complete. * Per discussion with Swedish editors over IRC, we updated the GettingStarted configuration for Swedish Wikipedia to include their copyediting category for task suggestions. * Per bug 61192, we added GuidedTour to se.wikimedia.org. This is the Swedish chapter wiki. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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Tech newsletter (2014, week 09)
by Guillaume Paumier 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

Hi, The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/09 . 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/09>are available. *Recent software changes* - The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf15<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf15>) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 20. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 25, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 27 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap>). - The new search tool (CirrusSearch<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search>) was added to the Italian Wikiquote and all Wikiversity projects. Users can now enable it in their Beta options<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeat…>. [1] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/114156/> [2]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/114169/> - The Universal Language Selector<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Language_Select…>was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis again<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Language_Select…>. You can enable web fonts in your ULS options (see how<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ULS-font-checkbox.png> ). *VisualEditor news* - You will soon be able to add and edit __STATICREDIRECT__, __[NO]INDEX__and __[NO]NEWEDITSECTION__ in the page settings menu. [3]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57173> [4] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57167> [5]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57168> - You will soon be able to use the Ctrl+Alt+S or ⌘+Opt+S shortcuts to open the save window in VisualEditor. [6]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50897> [7] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110434/> - You will soon be able to preview your edit summary when checking your changes in the save window. [8]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42139> [9] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/112490/> *Future software changes* - You will soon be able to use the <categorytree> tag again. [10]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59798> - You will soon be able to post messages with the MassMessage<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MassMessage>tool in all talk namespaces. [11] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60132> [12]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/94698/> - Notifications <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_%28Notifications%29>will soon work in all namespaces. [13] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55491>[14]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56311> [15] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/93508/> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by tech ambassadors <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors> and posted by MediaWiki message delivery <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/2014/09> • 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…>.* -- Guillaume Paumier Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation

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