Hi,
The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/26%3E. Below is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next%3E.
More information on how to contribute is available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute%3E. You can also contact me directly.
As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
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Latest *tech news https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/26 are available.
*Recent changes*
- [image: Advanced item] PAWS https://paws.wmflabs.org/, our JupyterHub system, got an upgrade and a logo https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PAWS/News/2018-06-21. Several bugs should be fixed.
*Problems*
- When a link text was in *italics* or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197213[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196914
*Changes later this week*
- Content translation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194467 - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/wmf.10 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 June (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/Roadmap).
*Meetings*
- [image: Recurrent item] You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 June at 18:30 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180626T1830. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings. - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 June at 15:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180627T15. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.
*Tech news https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News prepared by Tech News writers https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers and posted by bot https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery • Contribute https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute • Translate https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/26 • Get help https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech • Give feedback https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News • Subscribe or unsubscribe https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors.*
//Johan Jönsson --
Hi Johan,
I want to thank you for the great work on Tech News. In particular with regards shoving short description sentences for each feature that is affected, and use of simple language. This is an underestimated talent and it’s very important here.
Are there others routinely involved with this aspect that I may thank as well?
— Timo
On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 at 00:12, Johan Jönsson jjonsson@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi,
The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/26%3E. Below is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next%3E.
More information on how to contribute is available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute%3E. You can also contact me directly.
As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
———————————————————————————
Other languages: العربية • বাংলা • čeština • English • español • فارسی • suomi • français • עברית • हिन्दी • italiano • 日本語 • polski • português do Brasil • русский • svenska • українська • 中文
Latest *tech news https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/26 are available.
*Recent changes*
- [image: Advanced item] PAWS https://paws.wmflabs.org/, our
JupyterHub system, got an upgrade and a logo https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PAWS/News/2018-06-21. Several bugs should be fixed.
*Problems*
- When a link text was in *italics* or had other formatting you could
sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197213[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196914
*Changes later this week*
- Content translation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194467
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/wmf.10 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 June (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/Roadmap).
*Meetings*
- [image: Recurrent item] You can join the next meeting with the
Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 June at 18:30 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180626T1830. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings.
- [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 June at 15:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180627T15. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.
*Tech news https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News prepared by Tech News writers https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers and posted by bot https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery • Contribute https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute • Translate https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/26 • Get help https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech • Give feedback https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News • Subscribe or unsubscribe https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors.*
//Johan Jönsson
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 2:15 PM, Krinkle krinklemail@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Johan,
I want to thank you for the great work on Tech News. In particular with regards shoving short description sentences [..]
This was meant to be "with regards __to having__ short description sentence [..]".
-- Timo
Sent from a phone.
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 3:15 PM, Krinkle krinklemail@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Johan,
I want to thank you for the great work on Tech News. In particular with regards shoving short description sentences for each feature that is affected, and use of simple language. This is an underestimated talent and it’s very important here.
Are there others routinely involved with this aspect that I may thank as well?
Thanks. (:
Nick (Quiddity) and Benoît (Trizek) fill in when I'm away. Matěj Suchánek will often fix small mistakes, James (Jdforrester) is very good at adding already simplified items, IKhitron will often point out when he thinks something needs to be clarified and ... well, it's a wiki, plenty of people routinely help out (not least the translators), but maybe mainly in other aspects of the newsletter, and I'm not even going to try to list all of them.
//Johan Jönsson --
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 4:07 PM Johan Jönsson jjonsson@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 3:15 PM, Krinkle krinklemail@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Johan,
I want to thank you for the great work on Tech News. In particular with regards shoving short description sentences for each feature that is affected, and use of simple language. This is an underestimated talent and it’s very important here.
Are there others routinely involved with this aspect that I may thank as well?
Thanks. (:
Thanks as well. :)
Nick (Quiddity) and Benoît (Trizek) fill in when I'm away. Matěj Suchánek
will often fix small mistakes, James (Jdforrester) is very good at adding already simplified items, IKhitron will often point out when he thinks something needs to be clarified and ... well, it's a wiki, plenty of people routinely help out (not least the translators), but maybe mainly in other aspects of the newsletter, and I'm not even going to try to list all of them.
The best place to thank everyone would be on the talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News And we are as always looking for new people to help us. It can be just by fixing small things, adding a news or helping on the overall process: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute
Benoît
//Johan Jönsson
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