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Subject: QA weekly goal: browser testing automation for Wikipedia Search
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:42:14 -0700
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Organization: Wikimedia Foundation
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
WHAT: Writing a Wikipedia search feature description in plain English
for our automated testing process. Let's feed the Test backlog!
WHEN: We will start with a video streamed demo on Wednesday, March 13,
2013 at 17h UTC [1] and we will be helping volunteers during the rest of
the week. This is an ongoing activity: you can arrive / leave at any time.
WHERE: #wikimedia-dev IRC channel. After joining on IRC, say Hello
browser testers! and we will welcome you with instructions and a simple
task. chrismcmahon, zeljkof and qgil will do their best covering
timezones. You can also use the Discussion page to ask any questions.
WHO: Anybody interested, including you! The only requirement is basic
level of plain English in order to describe the features to be tested
automatically. It is that simple.
More details at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Browser_testing/Search_features
[1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130313T1700
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Hello!
This is your friendly weekly deployments highlight email.
For the week of March 11th (next week), here are some things to be aware
of:
* Scribunto (Lua) will be available on all wikis as of Wed the 13th
* HTTPS for all logged in users
This is planned to happen next week, but the exact deployment window
is still to be determined. I will inform wikitech-l and -ambassadors
when it is scheduled.
See this bug for more info:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39380
Best,
Greg
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| Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
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Subject: [Wikitech-l] Next bugday: Mar 07, 15:00-21:00UTC on General
MediaWiki bugs
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:36:40 +0100
From: Andre Klapper <aklapper(a)wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everybody,
Please join us on the next Wikimedia Bugday:
Thursday, March 07th, 15:00-21:00 UTC [1]
in #wikimedia-dev on Freenode IRC [2]
We are going to take a look at a subset [3] of MediaWiki bug reports
filed under "General/Unknown", trying to reproduce some plus provide
feedback. Currently these are about 90 tickets (see [4] for a list).
Everyone is welcome to join, and no technical knowledge needed! It's a
nice and easy way to get involved in the community or to give something
back.
Join IRC, say hello and that you're here for the bugday, and have fun.
This information and more can be found here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/20130307
For more information on Triaging in general, check out
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage
We look forward to seeing you!
andre
[1] Timezone converter: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
[2] See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC for more info on IRC chat
[3] with priority and severity set to normal or higher
[4]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?priority=Immediate&priority=High…
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Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
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Hello all,
As before, the regular
update<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-03-04_.28MW_1.21wmf…>
about
progress on the VisualEditor:
The VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.21wmf11
branch deployment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf11> on
Monday 4 March.
In the two weeks since 1.21wmf10, the team have worked on the new features
being added for wider launch of the VisualEditor as the default way users
will edit wikis. Part of this work has been some of the last infrastructure
changes expanding the capabilities of the 'document model' module,
including landing the last of the major re-write there
(45062<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45062>).
This has also covered letting the converter work with full HTML documents
rather than just fragments and be more robust, significant fixes to bugs
around list items being merged and un-merged wrongly, better support for
'meta' nodes, fixed handling of text that in normal MediaWiki would be
auto-linked (37940 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37940>),
and better documentation
(45264<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45264> amongst
others). The user interface through a major refactor and refresh now has
access to a much more consistent set of 'widgets' for the main interface
and for items like the link inspector as well as the to-come category,
template and references dialogs which are being designed.
The 'content editable' module has improved keyboard support, fixed the
ability to add new items in a list (due to an unfortunate typo) and add new
lines in pre-formatted blocks using Shift-Enter
(45344<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45344>),
added some changes to improve issues with selection of content in the
browser (especially "backwards" selection), will now hide the 'phantom'
overlays for non-editable content blocks if the mouse leaves the page
(43461<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43461>).
Additionally, the dependency on a key library called 'rangy' was
refactored, and the broken copy-and-paste support between VisualEditor
instances was removed, in anticipation of better copy-and-paste to work
with non-VisualEditor surfaces as well.
A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.21/wmf11
changelog <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf11#VisualEditor>,
and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period on Bugzilla's
list<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_status…>
.
If you have any questions, please do ask.
Yours,
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
Hello,
This is your weekly preview of higher-risk or general "you should be
aware of" items for the slew of deployments coming in the near term.
== Next week ==
* Monday March 4: first deploy of -wmf11 to production WMF cluster
** General MediaWiki deploy schedule for reference:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_depl…
* Wednesday March 6th: Wikidata Clients to all Wikipedias
== Near Term (Planned, may change) ==
* March 13th: Scribunto (Lua) to all Wikis
* March 27th: Wikidata phase II to Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian Wikipedias
Best,
Greg
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My apologies for not also sending here. Thanks, Federico, for the reminder.
This list is now on my "do not forget" list.
Greg
This is your weekly preview of higher-risk or general "you should be
aware of" items for the slew of deployments coming in the near term.
During the week of March 11th:
* Scibuntu (Lua) to all wikis
* upgrades to DNS software/config for better reliability
See the full Deployments page for regularly scheduled events and less
high-risk items:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Deployments
Best,
Greg
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| Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
| [[User:Greg G (WMF)]] A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
Uploading pictures from mobile devices to Wikimedia Commons must be
simple for everybody! The Wikimedia Mobile engineering team has fresh
software and you can help testing it.
WHEN
Kick-off on Monday February 25 at 17:30 UTC (9:30 PST - 23:00 IST).
The testing focus will continue during the rest of the week until Sunday
March 3.
WHERE
Online: for details see & watch
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_QA/Commons_uploads
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
