All,
As before, the regular
update<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-10-10_.28MW_1.22wmf2…>
about
progress on VisualEditor (a little late this week; my apologies!):
VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.22wmf21 branch
deployment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf21> on
Thursday 10 October. In the week since 1.22wmf20, the team worked on fixing
bugs and stability improvements to VisualEditor.
When you delete or backspace over a node (like a template, reference or
image), the node will first will become selected before a second press of
the key will delete it, making it more obvious what you are doing and
avoiding accidental removals of infoboxes and similar (bug
55336<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55336>
).
If you hold down the ⇧ Shift key whilst resizing an image, it will now snap
to a 10 pixel grid instead of the normal free-hand sizing. A number of
improvements were made to the transactions system which make the undo/redo
system able to cope better with real-time collaboration, where multiple
users will be able to edit a page at the same time in one session.
The save dialog was re-written to use the same code as all other dialogs (bug
48566 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48566>), and in the
process fixed a number of issues. The save dialog is re-accessible if it
loses focus (bug 50722<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50722>),
or if you review a null edit (bug
53313<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53313>);
its checkboxes for minor edit, watch the page, and flagged revisions
options now layout much more cleanly (bug
52175<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52175>),
and the tab order of the buttons is now closer to what users will expect (bug
51918 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51918>).
The code for the action buttons on the right (RTL environments: left) of
the toolbar was re-written slightly to improve its flexibility. The display
of the help and edit notice menus is now improved, including the addition
of a close button (bug
52386<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52386>).
The width of the format drop-down was made adjustable so that long labels
don't cause it to break (bug
54870<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54870>),
and a bug that caused the toolbar's menus to get shorter or even blank when
scrolled down the page in Firefox is now fixed (bug
55343<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55343>
).
A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.22/wmf21
changelog<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf21/Changelog#VisualEditor>,
and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period are on Bugzilla's
list<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=V…>
.
If you have any questions, please do ask.
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
Hello!
You know the drill.
Full schedule:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_October_7th
== Monday ==
* VisualEditor turned on by default for the following 26 wikis for all
users:
Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Czech (cs), Danish (da),
Estonian (et), Basque (eu), Finnish (fi), Galician (gl), Croatian
(hr), Hungarian (hu), Indonesian (id), Latvian (lv), Malay (ms),
Norwegian - Nynorsk (nn), Norwegian - Bokmål (no), Simple English
(simple), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk),
Volapük (vo), Waray-Waray (war), Modern Greek (el), Neopolitan (nap),
Venetian (vec), Sicilian (scn)
* GettingStarted/GuidedTour bug fix
== MediaWiki Train ==
* Normal MediaWiki 'train' of upgrades. 1.22wmf20 to non-Wikipedia sites
(Commons, Wiktionaries, etc) on Monday. 1.22wmf20 to all Wikipedias on
Thursday. 1.22wmf21 branched and deployed to test wikis on Thursday.
See:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_depl…
Note: Yes, there isn't a whole lot of non-standard deploys next week,
hence only the call out of Monday's deploys.
Greg
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Forwarding to wikitech-ambassadors for info.
As a note, we hope that switching to provide VisualEditor to all users
(other than those who opt-out) will be a success for those wikis below.
However, if there is community consensus that your wiki does not want it
yet or is not ready, it can of course be reversed to "opt-in" - just file a
Bugzilla request or contact your local community liaison.
Yours,
J.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 27 September 2013 13:36
Subject: [Engineering] Deployment Highlights - week of September 30th, 2013
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Development and
Operations engineers <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello and here's your latest edition of the deployment highlights email!
Full schedule here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_September_30th
== Monday ==
* VisualEditor will be enabled by default for Logged-in users on the
following wikis:
Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Czech (cs), Danish (da),
Estonian (et), Basque (eu), Finnish (fi), Galician (gl), Croatian
(hr), Hungarian (hu), Indonesian (id), Latvian (lv), Malay (ms),
Norwegian - Nynorsk (nn), Norwegian - Bokmål (no), Simple English
(simple), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk),
Volapük (vo), Waray-Waray (war), Modern Greek (el), Neopolitan (nap),
Venetian (vec), Sicilian (scn)
See: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor#Timeline
* MediaWiki 1.22wmf19 will deployed to all non-Wikipedia wikis (eg:
Commons, Wikitionary, Wikisource, etc)
== Wednesday ==
* MobileFrontEnd: Of note: the Mobile Team will be transitioning to
simply 'riding the MW Core train' soon. This means there will not be a
separate Mobile Team deploy window each week but instead all of their
changes will ride along with the MediaWiki 1.22wmfXX version update.
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki 1.22wmf19 to group2 (all Wikipedias)
* MediaWiki 1.22wmf20 to group0
(test/test2/testwikidata/loginwiki/mediawiki/)
* Growth Team deploy window consisting of:
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Growth_Deployment_2013-10-03
Let me know if you have any questions,
Greg
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Hello folks!
*Name of pywikipedia or pywikipediabot is officially changed to
"pywikibot", please update local documentation
*Bug tracker of pywikibot is changed from sf.net to bugzilla. Open bugs was
imported from there by a bot that legoktm has written [1], So don't file
new bugs in sf.net anymore and keep tracking your reports (if you has
reported something) in bugzilla,
If you like you can hack some of the bugs and make it fixed! [2] and please
update local documentation
[1] https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/pywikibot%2Fsf-export.git
[2]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=236065&short_desc=.&reso…
Cheers
--
Amir
Hello,
This is reminder that the Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be
hosting an IRC office hour from 1700 to 1800UTC later today on
#wikimedia-office (FreeNode). Please see below for the event details.
Thanks
Runa
=== Event Details ===
What: WMF Language Engineering Office hour
When: September 25, 2013 (Wednesday). 1700-1800 UTC
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130925T1700
Where: IRC Channel #wikimedia-office on FreeNode
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 12:49 AM
Subject: Language Engineering IRC Office hour on September 25, 2013 at 1700 UTC
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org, MediaWiki
internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
[Cross-posted]
Hello,
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting an IRC office
hour on Wednesday, September 25, 2013 between 17:00 - 18:00 UTC. (See
below for timezone conversion and other details.) We will be talking
about some of our projects that are in development, a short round up
from Google Summer of Code and then taking questions for the remaining
time.
If there are things that you would like to bring to our attention then
this would be a good time to do so. Questions can also be sent to me
directly before the event. See you there!
Thanks
Runa
=== Event Details ===
What: WMF Language Engineering Office hour
When: September 25, 2013 (Wednesday). 1700-1800 UTC
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130925T1700
Where: IRC Channel #wikimedia-office on FreeNode
--
Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Heya folks :)
We have just enabled interwiki links for Wikimedia Commons via
Wikidata. This means they now no longer need to be stored in the
wikitext on Commons but instead can be stored in Wikidata together
with the links for Wikipedia and Wikivoyage.
Cheers
Lydia
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Community Communications for Technical Projects
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Obentrautstr. 72
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 27/681/51985.
FYI
----- Forwarded message from Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> -----
> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:48:00 -0700
> From: Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org>
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Development and Operations engineers <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Deployment highlights for the week of Sept 23rd
>
> Hello!
>
> Here's what's coming up, deployment-wise, next week!
>
>
> As always, full schedule here:
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments
>
>
> == Monday ==
>
> * MediaWiki 1.22wmf18 to all non-wikipedia project sites
> * WikiData will be enabled on Wikimedia Commons (interwiki links)
> * CirrusSearch (the new search backend) will be turned on as the default
> search backend for Italian Wikitionary and enabled as a secondary
> backend for English Wikisource and Catalan Wikipedia.
>
>
> == Tuesday ==
>
> * CirrusSearch will be enabled on the set of closed wikis (eg: old
> Wikimania wikis).
>
>
> == Thursday ==
>
> * MediaWiki 1.22wmf18 will be deployed to all Wikipedias
> * MediaWiki 1.22wmf19 will be deployed to the set of test wikis plus
> mediawiki.org
>
>
>
> Have a good weekend!
>
> Greg
>
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