We have merged a couple changes so that jQuery UI is not loaded by code
that doesn't need it. See
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55550 for details.
That means gadgets and user scripts that use jQuery UI should explicitly
load the appropriate module.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gadgets has info on adding
gadget dependencies.
User scripts can use mw.loader.using
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RL/DM#mw.loader.using).
A list of jquery.ui modules is at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RL/DM#jQuery_UI .
There is one remaining issue that may affect a few wikis. If your wiki
uses jquery.ui buttons in wikitext, the styles will not be loaded unless
something explicitly loads or depends on jquery.ui.
If you notice styles missing from your wiki, you can add:
// Load jquery.ui.button so button styles work in wikitext
mw.loader.using( 'jquery.ui.button' );
to the site Common.js
Don't do this unless it's actually needed, since this does have a
performance impact (although it is not loading all of jquery.ui). If
you do add it, please include the comment so people know why it's being
loaded.
This will roll out to the test wikis, plus MW.org, 2013-10-31, the
remaining non-Wikipedia wikis the 4th, and the Wikipedias, the 7th.
Matt Flaschen
Hello,
A quick reminder that the Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be
hosting an IRC office hour from 1500 to 1600UTC later today on
#wikimedia-office (FreeNode). Please see below for the event details.
Thanks
Runa
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:40 AM
Subject: Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on November 13, 2013 at 1500
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 an IRC office
hour on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 between 15:00 - 16:00 UTC on
#wikimedia-office. (See below for timezone conversion and other details.)
We will be talking about some of our recent and upcoming projects and then
taking questions for the remaining time.
We also look forward to hear about anything that needs our attention.
Questions and other concerns can also be sent to me directly before the
event. See you there!
Thanks
Runa
=== Event Details ===
What: WMF Language Engineering Office hour
When: November 13, 2013 (Wednesday). 1500-1600 UTC
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20131113T1500
Where: IRC Channel #wikimedia-office on FreeNode
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi,
The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in October 2013 is now
available.
Wiki version:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/October
Blog version:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/12/engineering-report-october-2013/
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/2013/October/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 October include:
- A report on the Open Access Media
Importer<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/10/21/scientific-multimedia-files-get-a-sec…>,
a tool that transfers multimedia files from scientific publications to
Wikimedia Commons;
- A request for proposals for a new datacenter in the continental
US<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/10/21/rfp-new-datacenter-continental-us/>,
published by the Operations team;
- The creation of the Autonym
Font<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/10/28/the-autonym-font-for-language-names/>,
which allows language names to be displayed properly without degrading page
loading time.
*Note: We're also providing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of
this report
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/October/su…>
that does not assume specialized technical knowledge.*
VisualEditor<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Portal>
In October, the
VisualEditor<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Portal>team
continued to improve the stability and performance of the system, and
add new features. The version of the software present on Wikimedia sites
was updated five times. Beyond fixing bugs, the focus of the team's work
this month was to make the system more reliable and easier to extend.
They also continued to improve usability. For example, you now need to
press the "delete" key twice to delete a template, reference or image; the
first time, they only become selected, to avoid accidental deletion of
infoboxes and similar content. A new feature, allowing users to switch from
editing in VisualEditor to editing wikitext directly without having to save
the page, was also added.
In October, the Parsoid <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid> team
continued to work on the conversion between wikitext and annotated HTML for
unusual cases. Speed was improved by making the software run more requests
at the same time. The speed of the testing
server<http://parsoid.wmflabs.org:8001/>used to check for conversion
errors was also improved: we can now run tests
on 160,000 pages overnight. Support for private wikis was also added this
month.
Editor engagement <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_editor_engagement>
In October, we enabled Notifications
worldwide<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Release_Plan_2013#Completed>on
about 800 Wikimedia sites, including most of the remaining Wikipedia
wikis and 'sister projects'. Community members we've spoken to generally
find this tool helpful, across languages and world regions. Notifications
are also available on mobile devices, and seem to be adding value on these
platforms as well. We now plan a final release of Notifications on the
German and Italian editions of Wikipedia at the end of November.
In October, the Flow <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow_Portal> team
redesigned the prototype<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow_Portal/Interactive_Prototype>of
this new discussion system. We also continued to add basic features.
We
held a User Experience
workshop<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow_Portal/Team/Meetings/2013-10-15_Flow_wo…>,
primarily with users new to Wikipedia, to get feedback on the usability of
the new design. We're planning to demo the basic Flow product to interested
WikiProjects in November to get more feedback on what's needed for a first
trial on Wikipedia.
In October, the Growth <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth> team
completed its sixth and final major A/B test of the
GettingStarted<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GettingStarted>and
GuidedTour <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GuidedTour> extensions
for the onboarding new
Wikipedians<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians>project.
Data
analysis results <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/R:OB6> for this test were
also published, making way for rolling out the winning version on
non-English Wikipedias in November. This month, the team also completed
background research and early designs for its upcoming work on anonymous
editor acquisition<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Anonymous_editor_acquisition>and
Wikipedia
article creation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_article_creation>
.
Mobile <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Mobile_engineering>
Many changes were made to the iOS Commons
app<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Commons>in October.
Users can now select the license among the most common ones,
and swipe to delete categories on yet-to-be-uploaded images. A number of
visual and interface improvements have been made, notably for iOS 7
compatibility. Icon consistency has been improved throughout the app. The
app now also has better internationalization support, as well as better
landscape and iPad support.
The Wikipedia Zero <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero> team,
supporting the program to give Wikipedia access to mobile users at no cost,
worked on many features and enhancements as well. Part of their work
focused on reducing accidental data charges, for example by adding warnings
for users who don't benefit from the Zero program. They also made
improvements to the settings system that allows the configuration of
parameters for different mobile companies.
The mobile web <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_web_projects> team
has been focusing on many new features, as well as running tests about new
mobile editors. They've improved the general design for a better user
experience, and started to try to integrate VisualEditor to tablets. In
beta, user profiles are now available, as well as 'Keep Going', a series of
calls to action for new editors.
--
Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
https://donate.wikimedia.org
Hi folks,
this is a quick note that Universal Language Selector's automatic font
loading kicks in for any fonts required to render language name in
lists of languages which are _not_ standard interlanguage links in the
sidebar. So these are typically things like templates at the top or
bottom of pages. Sometimes these can be found on the Main Pages of
monolingual wikis, and often on pages in multilingual wikis.
The ULS team developed the autonym font, which only has a 50K payload,
to reduce font loading for these cases:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/10/28/the-autonym-font-for-language-names/
However, the CSS class "autonym" needs to be explicitly added to
relevant templates to enforce usage of the font. Community help is
appreciated in this process. Here's an example of a change to use the
autonym font for a list of language links on the English Wikipedia
Main Page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Wikipedia_languages/cor…
Changing language link templates to use the autonym font will make
pages load faster, so your help is much appreciated.
All best,
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
[x-posted]
Hello,
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting an IRC office
hour on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 between 15:00 - 16:00 UTC on
#wikimedia-office. (See below for timezone conversion and other details.)
We will be talking about some of our recent and upcoming projects and then
taking questions for the remaining time.
We also look forward to hear about anything that needs our attention.
Questions and other concerns can also be sent to me directly before the
event. See you there!
Thanks
Runa
=== Event Details ===
What: WMF Language Engineering Office hour
When: November 13, 2013 (Wednesday). 1500-1600 UTC
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20131113T1500
Where: IRC Channel #wikimedia-office on FreeNode
--
Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
