Your help is welcome calling out for students, mentors and possible
projects in your communities. See below. Thank you!
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Subject: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 - we'll apply
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:55:46 -0500
From: Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Organization: Wikimedia Foundation
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Google's announced that they will run Google Summer of Code again this
year, and we plan to apply. I've updated
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013 and I'd love for
potential mentors to add their ideas to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects .
Note that this year students are expected to work on their project June
17-September 23, so mentors would also be needed during that period, and
somewhat less April 8th-June 17th for talking with potential candidates
and helping with the community bonding period.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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Looping wikitech-ambassadors back in.
If someone had to ask at all and they did ask on wikitech-ambassadors
then answer should go to wikitech-ambassadors too.
Anyway, the gist is:
Existing pages/templates will continue to work as they are. A new
(optional) way of writing templates will now be available which will
make server performance better (and give you faster responses when you
save some pages) and will also make writing some things possible if
not before or at least much simpler to implement. Over time editors at
the various wikis will convert some templates to use the new format.
-Jeremy
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From: Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 2:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Lua rollout to
en.wikipedia.org and a few others
To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
On 02/15/2013 06:03 PM, Sîrbu Nicolae-Cezar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What is Lua?
>
> Thanks,
> Sirbu Nicolae-Cezar
It is a programming language used for embedded scripting. Scribunto is
a MediaWiki extension that allows you to write templates in Lua (other
languages possibly coming later). Done right, this can be clearer, more
powerful, and more efficient than the current ParserFunction templates.
See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lua for more information.
Matt Flaschen
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This is happening today.
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Subject: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Watchlists are coming to mobile
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:52:20 -0800
From: Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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From: Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:44 PM
Subject: Watchlists are coming to mobile
To: mobile-l <mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List
<wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
After a few months of development the mobile team is launching
watchlists to the mobile site tomorrow. The feature to start with will
give a simplified recent changes view a la the desktop site as well as
a reading list view for users who are simply interested in keeping
track of articles they are interested in reading.
This change also brings in login and account creation functionality to
all Wiki* projects.
This from my perspective is one of the most exciting mobile
developments so far as it makes the watchlist star a much more
prominent figure in the user interface and will hopefully encourage
new users to create accounts to use it, many of whom may be unaware
that Wikipedia can be edited. The hope is these new users will find
the feature useful and can be lured into the realm of becoming a
contributor to our projects via mobile.
Provided we don't run into any issues during deployment this should be
deployed tomorrow.
Please feel free to comment on this mail but if you experience any
bugs in the aftermath please raise them here:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions…
You can also try out the new feature a little early by opting into the
beta here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MobileOptions
Looking forward to all your feedback.
Screenshot:
http://imgur.com/jnl5XA4
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@rakugojon
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This got delayed and is actually being attempted today (probably around
17:00 UTC).
-Sumana Harihareswara
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Subject: [Wikitech-l] deployment of the first phase of Wikidata on enwp
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:53:46 +0100
From: Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: wikitech-l <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hey :)
Guillaume just reminded me that I have not yet posted this here but
only on the village pump and Signpost. Sorry. I'll fix that now with
this email.
Later today (evening UTC) we'll deploy the first phase of Wikidata on
the English language Wikipedia. We've already deployed the first
phase on the Hungarian, Hebrew and Italian Wikipedias and things there
went rather smoothly. We hope this is the case here too.
What is going to happen exactly?
* Language links in the sidebar will come from Wikidata if they exist there.
* Existing language links in the wiki text will continue to work and
overwrite links from Wikidata.
* For individual articles language links from Wikidata can be
supressed completely with the noexternallanglinks magic word.
* Changes on Wikidata that relate to articles on this Wikipedia will
show up in Recent Changes if the option is enabled by the user
* At the bottom of the language links list you will see a link to edit
the language links that leads you to the corresponding page on
Wikidata.
* You can see an example of how it works at
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie
* The second phase of Wikidata (which is about Infoboxes was started
on Wikidata but can't yet be used on any Wikipedia. This will follow
later.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Cheers
Lydia
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Community Communications for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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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.
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Watchlists are coming to mobile
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:52:20 -0800
From: Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:44 PM
Subject: Watchlists are coming to mobile
To: mobile-l <mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List
<wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
After a few months of development the mobile team is launching
watchlists to the mobile site tomorrow. The feature to start with will
give a simplified recent changes view a la the desktop site as well as
a reading list view for users who are simply interested in keeping
track of articles they are interested in reading.
This change also brings in login and account creation functionality to
all Wiki* projects.
This from my perspective is one of the most exciting mobile
developments so far as it makes the watchlist star a much more
prominent figure in the user interface and will hopefully encourage
new users to create accounts to use it, many of whom may be unaware
that Wikipedia can be edited. The hope is these new users will find
the feature useful and can be lured into the realm of becoming a
contributor to our projects via mobile.
Provided we don't run into any issues during deployment this should be
deployed tomorrow.
Please feel free to comment on this mail but if you experience any
bugs in the aftermath please raise them here:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions…
You can also try out the new feature a little early by opting into the
beta here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MobileOptions
Looking forward to all your feedback.
Screenshot:
http://imgur.com/jnl5XA4
--
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http://jonrobson.me.uk
@rakugojon
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As you know, the WMF publishes a monthly and very thorough summary of
all the "development" activity on mediawiki.org and the WMF blog.
Since a few months, Guillaume is also writing a human-readable summary
which contains the few things every Wikimedia projects editor should
really know.
It would be very nice to have it translated in more languages, because
many (1000+/month) read it rather than the long version.
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/January/su…>
Direct link to translate:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Wi…>
Nemo
P.s.: This would also help WMF's software development projects being
/slightly less/ anglo-centric, IMHO: this is the only way communities
have to give feedback on stuff before it's thrown on them irrecoverably.
Hello all,
As before, the regular
update<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-02-04_.28MW_1.21wmf…>about
progress on the VisualEditor:
The VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.21wmf9 branch
deployment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf9> on Monday 4
February.
In the two-and-a-half weeks since 1.21wmf9, the team have continued
planning for the next tranche of work, and working on the core changes that
will be needed in preparation for this. For the end of 2012/13, in line
with the strategic goals for the VisualEditor set out in the 2012/13
plan<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2012-13_Goals#Visual_E…>,
we are looking to provide VE as the 'default' editor for all users, capable
of letting them edit the majority of content without needing to use the
wikitext editor. This means adding support for at least basic templates,
references, categories and images, each of which is a very large piece of
work.
The initial focus has included a major expansion in the capabilities of the
'document model' module that converts between the HTML+RDFa rendered by
Parsoid <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid> and an editable document.
Other areas of work have covered editability of images in the
"ContentEditable" editing surface, refactoring the keyboard short-cut
command triggering system, and improving the documentation system used so
that the code is easier to extend.
A small number of changes have made it into the codebase for this release,
most notably adding support for Microsoft Internet Explorer v. 9 and above (
42847 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42847>), adding hints
of what keyboard short-cuts are available to each button
(42919<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42919>),
which can now vary more easily by platform
(44012<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44012>),
and internationalisation support for toolbar icons
(38551<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38551>
).
A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.21/wmf9
changelog <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf9#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,
--
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester