Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the weekly Deployments and
Roadmps update.
For the full (and most up to date) schedule of planned deployments, see:
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments>
For next week, the highlights include:
== Monday ==
NO DEPLOYS - US Holiday (Presidents' Day)
== Tuesday ==
MediaWiki deploy window, currently following the 1.23 schedule
* group1 to 1.23wmf14: 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/wmf14>
== Thursday ==
MediaWiki deploy window, currently following the 1.23 schedule)
* group2 to 1.23wmf14 (all Wikipedias)
* group0 to 1.23wmf15 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf15>
* Wikidata Repository code updated on testwikidata
* Pending tests on testwikidata, Wikidata Repository code updated on
* wikidata.org
== Long term ==
You can see what is known to be upcoming here:
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Next_month>
As always, questions welcome,
Greg
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Hi,
The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in January 2014 is now
available.
Wiki version:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2014/January
Blog version:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/13/engineering-report-january-2014/
We're also proposing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of this
report that does not assume specialized technical knowledge:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2014/January/su…
Below is the HTML text of the report's summary.
As always, feedback is appreciated on the usefulness of the report and its
summary, and on how to improve them.
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Major news in January include:
- the transition of our search
engines<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/06/wikimedia-moving-to-elasticsearch/>on
Wikimedia sites to ElasticSearch;
- a presentation of how the Tech newsletter
works<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/07/tech-news-fighting-technical-informat…>,
including a historical perspective;
- an invitation to comment on the 2-year
vision<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/09/multimedia-vision-2016/>of
the multimedia engineering team;
- a request for
comments<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/23/rfc-should-we-support-mp4-video-on-ou…>on
whether the MP4 video format should be supported on Wikimedia sites.
VisualEditor<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Portal>
In January, the VisualEditor
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor>team continued their work
on improving the stability and performance of
this visual editing interface to edit pages on Wikipedia and its sister
sites; they also added some new features. You can now edit page settings
like whether to display a table of contents or whether to show section edit
labels. You can also specify the size of a media file manually, see a list
of keyboard shortcuts, and create and edit media galleries using a very
basic stand-in editor whilst the final form is being designed. Work also
continued on a dialog for quickly adding "citation" references based on
templates, more media and page settings, setting content language and
right-to-left indicators, and equation editing.
The Parsoid <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid> team (developing the
program that converts wikitext to annotated HTML, behind the scenes of
VisualEditor) did a lot of bug fixing around images, links, references and
various other areas. We also mentored students, participated in discussions
relating to the architecture of MediaWiki, and started to work on
"packaging" Parsoid to make it easier to install.
Editor engagement <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_editor_engagement>
This month, the Core Features team worked on integrating MediaWiki tools
for dealing with spam and vandalism (AbuseFilter and Spam Blacklist) into
Flow <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow>, a new wiki discussion system.
We also launched an updated visual design and user interface for Flow,
based on the first round of experienced user feedback last month, as well
as ongoing user testing with new users. Lastly, we created a script to
disable Flow and convert its content, so that we can begin testing Flow on
two WikiProjects that volunteered on the English Wikipedia while being able
to revert to wikitext if needed.
The Growth <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth> team improved the
GettingStarted <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GettingStarted>extension,
in part to support local configuration for different Wikipedias.
The latest version of GettingStarted and GuidedTour will be released in
English and 23 other languages in early February. The team also completed
several iterations of design and data analysis in support of upcoming work
on Wikipedia article
creation<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_article_creation>.
We presented new designs for the Draft namespace, and completed a series of
remote usability
tests<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Draft_namespace/Usability_testing>.
We also finalized and published extensive quantitative
analysis<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation>of
trends in article creation across the largest Wikipedias.
Mobile <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Mobile_engineering>
During the last month, the Wikipedia
Zero<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero>team worked on
supporting secure HTTPS connections for partners in the Zero
program, which allows mobile subscribers to access Wikipedia content at no
data cost. We also continued to work on a proof of concept HTML5 web app
for Firefox OS, fixed bugs in the legacy Firefox OS Wikipedia app, and
prepared alpha functionality for the integration of Wikipedia Zero with the
rebooted Android Wikipedia app. The team also met with the business
development team to plan for partners and Wikipedia Zero-related work at
large, and conducted tech facilitation to enable partner launches and align
approaches with current and future partners.
The Mobile web projects
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_web_projects>team has been
directing much of their attention over the last month at
delivering a tablet-friendly mobile experience. We've added support for
tables of contents, made some design improvements, and have worked towards
making VisualEditor work on tablets (in alpha for now). We have also
released our overlay UI improvements as well as an improved inline diff
view for MobileFrontend into stable. Finally, we have also been working to
expand our coverage of browser tests to facilitate quality assurance and
help prevent the introduction of bugs and regressions.
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Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
https://donate.wikimedia.org
Hello,
A quick reminder that the IRC office hour for Language Engineering is
happening later today at 1700 UTC on Freenode #wikimedia-office. More
details at the end of the mail.
See you there!
Thanks
Runa
Event Details:
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# Date: February 12, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 0900-1000 PDT (Check for local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140212T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net
Agenda:
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1. Universal Language Selector (ULS) update and developments
2. Q & A
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:49 PM
Subject: Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on February 12, 2014
(Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
To: MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[x-posted]
Hello,
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting the monthly IRC
office hour on February 12, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC/ 0900 PDT on
#wikimedia-office.
This time we would be talking about the recent changes made to the
Universal Language Selector (ULS) - the MediaWiki extension that provides
unified language configuration[1] - and the impact on the Wikimedia wikis.
We look forward to addressing any questions you may have about this. Please
see below for the event details.
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/Universal_Language_Selector
Event Details:
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# Date: February 12, 2014
# Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 0900-1000 PDT (
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140212T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net
Agenda:
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1. Universal Language Selector (ULS) update and developments
2. Q & A
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all,
This is just an advance notice that we're getting much closer to being able
to launch GettingStarted,[1] a tool for suggesting tasks to new editors
after they sign up,[2] on non-English Wikipedias.
In the next 24 hours or so, most of our major user-facing changes will be
merged and ready to localize. About 10-15 languages are 80% or better on
translatewiki already, so many are close. The more the better!
Our current plan is to launch initially on all Wikipedias where
localization is complete (or close to it, 90% or better is ideal). That
will likely happen soon after our current iteration of work ends on
February 5th, though I will keep people posted.
Please let me know if you have any questions,
1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GettingStarted
2. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians
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Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Hi,
bugzilla.wikimedia.org will be unavailable due to maintenance work on
Wednesday, February 12th from 22:00 UTC until max. Thursday, February
13th 01:00 UTC.
Plans include:
* upgrading Bugzilla to newer version
* moving Bugzilla to new server
* depending on how smooth things go, doing admin maintenance work
while bugmail is switched off for a moment, like
** merging the numerous 1.20.x version field entries into one
** mass-removing "wikibugs-l@" from CC lists of reports (see bug
47013) as it's set as a globalwatcher anyway
** maybe restructuring the taxonomy of Mobile components
(currently still discussed in the Mobile team)
Crossing fingers,
andre
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Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
[x-posted]
Hello,
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting the monthly IRC
office hour on February 12, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC/ 0900 PDT on
#wikimedia-office.
This time we would be talking about the recent changes made to the
Universal Language Selector (ULS) - the MediaWiki extension that provides
unified language configuration[1] - and the impact on the Wikimedia wikis.
We look forward to addressing any questions you may have about this. Please
see below for the event details.
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/Universal_Language_Selector
Event Details:
==========
# Date: February 12, 2014
# Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 0900-1000 PDT (
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140212T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net
Agenda:
======
1. Universal Language Selector (ULS) update and developments
2. Q & A
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation