Hello,
I am one of the Google Summer of Code students and I will be working
on improving language support in MediaWiki (in particular with regards
to language names) and improving the usability of Wikimedia Incubator
(following my previous work on the Incubator-specific extension).
More information is available on
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SPQRobin/GSoC/application and I
will be posting progress updates on
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SPQRobin/GSoC/notes for who is
interested.
My first work will be the MediaWiki core part, for language names. I
will implement a language names cache (likely CDB) and I will make
English language names available in MediaWiki by default (as I once
proposed on wikitech), similar to the list currently in the Babel
extension (which would then be no longer needed). This would avoid
duplication and make language names consistent.
The biggest inconsistency currently is a difference between using
{{#language:xyz}} and {{#language:xyz|xyz}}, which both give native
names, but the first one only uses MediaWiki names and the second one
also additional data like CLDR. See
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:SPQRobin/languages for the
difference.
To make them consistent, I want to make our MediaWiki language names
(in Names.php) lowercase where this is usual (like: Français ->
français). I don't mind if it is displayed lowercase, but maybe others
do (for example in the interwiki sidebar). Plus, it might cause
problems for pages/templates using {{#language}} that depend on this
difference between MediaWiki and CLDR names.
Any idea, comment or feedback is welcome :)
Regards,
Robin
Hi,
I have recently made some changes to Proofread extension[1]. There are
more in the review queue[2]. This extension needs refactoring and I have
some free time to do it.
I prefer making small changes, so it is easy to review and test them.
However due to not clearly determined order of merging changes I have no
idea what should I choose as my baseline. I prefer to avoid solving
merge conflicts with myself. This usually happens when changes got
reviewed and merged in for example reverse order. It is clearly a waste
of time.
I know gerrit can use dependencies, so I can make a chain of dependant
changes: c1 <- c2 <- c3 <- c4. However if c2 and c3 got a positive
review and c1 needs some rework, c2 and c3 need to be reviewed again
after I submit c1. Sometimes another, unrelated change may be merged, so
the whole chain needs to be rebased against master.
The most ideal approach would be to review changes as soon as they are
submitted, but I am well aware, that there are not enough people to do
the review.
Any thoughts?
[1]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:closed+project:mediawiki/extensio…
[2]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions…
--
Thanks,
Beau
Hi,
I am confused by the following edit on the Simple English Wikipedia:
https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=April&oldid=2130
It is done by User:Ams80 it says, but the user does not exist. Also, when
you click on all the users contributions, you get an empty list -- also not
including the April article.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ams80
I am guessing that the Simple English Wikipedia was maybe started in 2003
with a copy of the English Wikipedia, and that the first edit is actually
done by a proxy editor name or something like that, that does not really
exist.
Anyone having a good memory?
Cheers,
Denny
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Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de
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Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
See change: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/6883/
Faidon and I have been lamenting some security concerns on labsconsole
and decided that two factor authentication could help. We quickly
threw together an extension for HMAC based One Time Passwords (HOTP).
If you've used two factor authentication on google login, then this
should be familiar to you.
There are clients available on most feature phones, smartphones and
desktops for HOTP. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOTP#Tokens
This is an initial implementation meant to work on labsconsole, so
it's still missing functionality to make it work standalone. I'll soon
add in the missing functionality (basically it's just a really
standard subclass of AuthPlugin, if someone wants to beat me to the
fix).
- Ryan
The past day I've seen a hand full of i18n related bug reports that mention WTA. I've replied to most, and also asked what WTA was. No replies yet. In total there have been some twenty reports, I think,
I found something on Chris McMahons talk page, and just found Chris' blog post on it: http://chrismcmahonsblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/weekend-testing-for-wikipedia… limking to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/WTA_Test_Plan. Noting in this mailing list's archive, though.
Most of them seemed related to content or of relative low quality accusing them not to be immediately actionable (missing details like steps to reproduce, observations and expectations, or screenshots).
I like the initiative. I do wonder if it could have been embedded in the community more. Any comments?
--
Siebrand Mazeland
M: +31 6 50 69 1239
Skype: siebrand
Hey,
I want to create some overview of text that people added to talk pages. So
the "add" part of the diff between new and old revision. I currently have
some code in a function handling NewRevisionFromEditComplete which gets
passed a Revision object but am unsure how to best get the info I want from
there. Is there any good way to get the text I want from this location or
some other hook?
Cheers
--
Jeroen De Dauw
http://www.bn2vs.com
Don't panic. Don't be evil.
--
Dear all,
My apologies up front for the long e-mail that follows. In this e-mail you
will find a comprehensive status overview of the recent WebFonts deployment.
On Monday December 12 at 18:00 UTC we deployed the extension WebFonts[1] to
40 wikis in 11 Indic languages and Wikimedia Incubator -- all wikis in
Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya,
(Eastern) Punjabi, Sankrit and Telugu have WebFonts now. WebFonts was not
deployed on Malayalam and Tamil projects. The reason for this was that
community members had requested us not to. We are confident that in time,
the communities will request that WebFonts is enabled on their projects.
WebFonts aims to resolve the issue that users see incomplete web pages,
because the fonts to properly render the page is not present in the local
system by downloading the font through the browser.
One of our great challenges developing this functionality is the multitude
of scripts and the low availability of freely licensed fonts that may be
modified and redistributed.
Over the past few months we have tried to build out a collection of fonts
in the extension mainly for Indic languages, and we have performed many
tests. We have solicited community involvement through messaging in village
pumps, e-mails on mailing lists, blog posts on personal blogs as well as on
the Wikimedia Foundation blog, at developer events, through personal
e-mails and through our bug tracker, and gotten some feedback, although
unfortunately not for all the languages we would like to have gotten it
for. We will of course continue our efforts in this area. Next to the
community involvement, we have had a two day session with the Red Hat
Localisation team in Pune, India.
Since the deployment, we have been criticised for not communicating enough
-- or not through the right channels, not with the right people, not in
time, or too soon, or not with the right messages. I'm not really sure how
to respond to that, except for uttering a general "mea culpa, mea maxima
culpa". We are working really hard in continuously improving the work that
we do, and the way that we do it. We make mistakes, we are human after all,
and when we become aware of our mistakes, we will do everything in our
power to make it better.
With our team we support the mission of the Wikimedia Foundation to
"imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge." I care about that -- a lot. We all care, and I am
pretty certain that we're not ignorant, dismissive or incapable. I
acknowledge that we as the Localisation team are a relatively new entity
within the MediaWiki development community and within the Wikimedia
Foundation, with a very wide scope, and that we are dealing with a lot of
technical details on which we are simply not able to assess the final
quality; there are after all 7.500 languages in this world of over 7
billion people that we theoretically all cover, some 350 of those languages
are supported in MediaWiki, and 280 within Wikimedia.
I accept that we cannot keep everybody happy -- doesn't keep us from
trying, though. I want to try and work with as many people as possible in a
constructive way. With these numbers, that's not always easy to coordinate.
To channel the input on languages, we have set up "Language Support
Teams"[2]. We do not yet have a language support team for every language.
Please sign up if you care about the technical facilitation of your
language in the Wikimedia movement. Let's use the mediawiki-i18n mailing
list[3] to have constructive discussions about language support. Let's use
the #mediawiki-i18n IRC channel[4] on Freenode to have real-time
discussions. Let's use bugzilla.wikimedia.org to report bugs[5]. Link [5]
explains the bug reporting procedure. If you already know how, report
issues quickly using this link: http://ur1.ca/6ov9a .
Since the deployment, we have been made aware of about 17 issues. Some very
serious in nature, others not requiring immediate attention. Yesterday an
issue with web fonts not loading in Firefox was resolved in the
infrastructure. Today around 15:30 UTC, we have deployed fixes for an
additional hand full of issues[6]: functionality disabled in IE6, IE8 on
Windows XP, selection buttons not working properly in IE7 and hiding the
Samyak fonts in the font selector. During our current sprint, we are
working on a framework for multi-lingual and localised user documentation
as well as feature based feedback functionality for WebFonts, Narayam and
Translate. In the future we will also explore what is known as "dark
launch" by some, a kind of hidden live deployment of a feature, only usable
be for example manipulating a URL. This would allow us to deploy a feature
in a live environment, without having the "full deployment" impact.
Thanks for reading through this. I am looking forward to working with you!
Please read on for details on all the issues that were reported on WebFonts
recently.
Cheers!
Siebrand Mazeland
Product Manager Localisation
Wikimedia Foundation
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Links
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[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WebFonts
[2] https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Language_support_team
[3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n
[4] https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:WebChat
[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla
[6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/106204
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Open issues
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https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33004 -- Old cached pages do not have web
fonts enabled
Priority: HIGH
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Wikimedia is able to serve this many pages with relative few servers
because of very aggressive caching strategies, especially for anonymous
users. WebFonts requires the addition of JavaScript for anonymous users,
which is not being done for pages that are in the squid cache at the moment
WebFonts was enabled. All squid cache objects for wikis on which WebFonts
was deployed need to be purged. An internal RT ticket created for the
Wikimedia Operations team to get anonymous squid caches purged. This may
take up to a week or longer to be resolved.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33018 -- Firefox 5 on Windows XP has script
time-outs
Priority: MEDIUM
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The Localisation team has tested this report, and was not yet able to
confirm the observation. The reason for using a non-recent version of
Firefox for the report was the alleged lower memory usage. Brion noted that
Mozilla has been actively working on lowering memory usage over the last
year, so the reporter may be better off with the current versions than the
old ones.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33110 -- Google Crome on Windows XP dispays
gibberish
Priority: LOW
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Observed very rarely on a page on Wikimedia Incubator, and we have not been
able to reproduce this observation, let alone reproduce it reliably. A
screenshot is present in the bug report. Except for reporting upstream, no
action is being taken on this issue at this point in time.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33054 -- Hinting issues in Lohit fonts
Priority: MEDIUM
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Confirmed in Windows XP. We can do something to the font by adding hinting,
but this is a lot of work if it needs to be done manually. The stem of the
Lohit glyphs could do with more width and darkness. This may not be
desirable for platforms (Linux) which render it perfectly, because it
already has hinting and anti-aliasing on an operating system level. Same
goes got Windows 7.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33100 -- Page crashes on Webkit browsers
with WebFonts enabled.
Priority: MEDIUM (could be HIGH if we find many occurances)
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A page in Nepali Wikipedia makes a tab on Mac OS X 10.7.2 with Google Crome
crash. This behaviour was also reported for Mac OS X 10.7.2 (11C74) with
Safari 5.1.1 (7534.51.22, r102522) [This is a webkit nightly build] by
thedj. This is most probably related to the WebFonts code, because if, as a
logged in user, web fonts is disabled in preferences, the page does not
crash Chrome.
Developer Derk-Jan Hartman was asked to report this bug in the WebKit.
Please make us aware of any additional pages that would cause this
behaviour in any wiki.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33102 -- OSX 10.7.2/Opera 11.60 has no
fallback for Latin characters
Priority: MEDIUM
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This is a bug that needs to be reported upstream. No technical measures
have been taken so far to mitigate this issue. One of the Localisation team
members has been in contact with a high level executive of Opera, and will
contact that person again. We're going to wait for a few days for an
outcome -- if there is no expectation of a relatively quick fix, we might
disable WebFonts for Opera completely. Opera unfortunately does not have a
public bug tracker.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33027 -- Narayam and WebFonts both loading
slows down page
Priority: MEDIUM
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The reporter claims that the functionality is quicker on
translatewiki.netthan it is in Wikimedia wikis. A commenter states
that more functionality
usually means more code, means more data that needs to be transferred, and
without changing bandwidth, that causes longer load times.
This currently isn't our highest priority, but eventually we will look into
this a little deeper. We're inviting volunteers to do some of the data
gathering and analysis for us. What is needed in our opinion is insight in
the data volume added by WebFonts, as well as an assessment of the code
quality with regards to size optimisation. All referenced properly, of
course :). There are alternate EOT conversion tools that have a good
compression ratio. Needs to be explored, but EOT is not required for modern
browsers since they started using WOFF fonts which are compressed OpenType
fonts.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33085 -- Integration of updated Lohit-Tamil
Font
Priority: MEDIUM
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Request to update WebFonts with a font that is updated upstream. This is
something the Localisation team checks regularly. Will probably be closed
this week, pending issues the have a higher priority.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/32942 -- Provide help page and bug report
link for WebFonts
Priority: HIGH
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More recently developed tools by the Wikimedia Foundation have often
included feedback mechanisms. The Localisation team plans on implementing
these for the functionality of the WebFonts, Narayam and Translate
extension. Besides that, we also want to provide multi-lingual and
localised documentation. This needs some thinking and some work to provide
in a structured and navigable way. We'll keep you posted. It will most
probably involve translatable *user* documentation on MediaWiki.org and
hopefully it is possible to have one feedback location per feature across
the multiple Wikimedia wikis -- this is something we're going to contact
the ArticleFeedback and MoodBar teams for.
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Closed issues
=======================================
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33025 -- When changing to a non-default web
font, the content does not
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This issue was a side effect of a feature to allow multiple web fonts to be
used using the "lang" attribute. It was resolved in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/105980 and has been
deployed.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33034 -- Web fonts not loading in Firefox
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Duplicate reports were 33038 and 33044. This issue originated from
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#same-origin-restriction. Almost all
browsers except for Firefox ignore that specification. A fix was designed
and deployed: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/106092,
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1501. Thanks to Roan, Brion and Ryan for
their help.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/32775 -- Gibberish in Internet Explorer 8 on
Windows XP
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This is an unexplained phenomenon only observed in Internet Explorer on
Windows XP. It is also hard to reproduce. One of the developers was able to
make something somewhat reproducible on a clean, fully patched installation
of Windows XP with Internet Explorer 8. See bug report for details.
Based on these observations we think it is a bad idea to keep supporting
WebFonts in Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP and we have disabled it in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/106172. This fix has
been deployed.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33096 -- Internet Explorer 6 does not have
font fallback
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IE6 not having font fallback causes Latin characters to display as squares
when a web font is loaded that does not contain glyphs for the Latin
script. A screenshot is available at
http://media.crossbrowsertesting.com/users/34057/screenshots/window/z669002….
Based on this observation, we think it is a bad idea to keep supporting
WebFonts in Internet Explorer 6 and we have disabled it in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/106172. This fix has
been deployed.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33024 -- WebFonts menu buttons not working
in IE7
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This was caused by the JavaScript $( '<input type="radio" />' ) . attr(
"name" ,"font"); not working in IE6 and IE7. Updating name attributes once
they have been created is not possible. We think there may be more
occurances of this in our code (one occurance in jQuery has already been
identified: resources/jquery/jquery.validate.js:59). A fix was made in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/106175. This fix has
been deployed.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33040 -- Overlap in Samyak font for Hindi
and Sanskrit
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This issue occurs in Windows XP and Windows 7 (possibly also in Windows
Vista) when using Google Chrome. It is not observed when using Chrome with
Mac OS X 10.7.2 or several Linux distributions (Debian and Fedora). Samyak
Devanagari is available as a non-default web font in Hindi, Marathi, and
Sanskrit. Samyak Gujarati is available for Gujarati as a non-default font.
This font needs to be corrected. The maintainers will be notified of the
observed issues, and mean while, the fonts will be removed from the
WebFonts selection list (but can still be used using the font-family
property. A fix was made in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/106179. This fix has
been deployed.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33039 -- Overlap in Madan font for Nepali
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This report was invalid. The reporter was not aware of the correct glyph
for the Nepali script.
Comments on this bug report resulted in two odd observations (Crome crash,
Opera font fallback), that have been split off into separate bug reports:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33100 and
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33102.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33095 -- WebFonts menu can expand off the
screen
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If the translations for "Select font" and "Login / Register" are really
short, like in http://mr.wiktionary.org, expanding the WebFonts menu for
anonymous users will display a menu that is partially off the screen. It
was resolved in http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/106186,
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/106197,
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/106201,
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/106202. These
revisions also depend on a few small UI changes of both WebFonts and
Narayam, and will be deployed on December 19, 2011.
<no bugzilla report> -- WebFonts menu expands under the control for
customised input method in IE6 on transliteration
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There are issues with the z index in IE6. Because of
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/106172, WebFonts is
no longer available in IE6, so this issue is obsolete. Observing that the
Hindi projects Wikipedia and Wiktionary are using an custom input methods
tool, we would like to invite them to test Narayam which contains many
input methods in a MediaWiki extension. We are very open to having the
Hindi input method InScript tested and add a transliteration input method
with some community representatives, as we have done with other Indic
languages. We hope this will eventually lead to Narayam being adopted by
the Hindi community, and the custom input method being abandoned.
Hey everyone,
I know there's a lot of people in the community who are very interested in
data about...everything. Since the old CodeReview has an API and this
kind of data was useful to people, I've thought that people would like to
know about `gerrit query`
If you've got an account on Gerrit, all kinds of interesting data can be
grabbed from Gerrit via this command line query tool.
For example, to get a list of open changes that have CodeReview+2 (and
are probably ready for merging):
`ssh -p 29418 gerrit.wikimedia.org gerrit query --format=JSON is:open
CodeReview+2`
This would be the same as querying "is:open CodeReview+2" in Gerrit[0],
but in a scriptable format. (There's also --format=TEXT if you're looking
for something a little more human-readable)
For full docs on the feature, see here [1]. Have a great week.
-Chad
[0] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/is:open+CodeReview%252B2,n,z
[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/Documentation/cmd-query.html
Hi everyone,
Its been quite some time since I posted any mail in this list, well this
time its regarding the project details that I would like to share with the
community.First of all let me explain it to all the people who are not
aware of what this extension does -- Convention Extension would help an
admin convert his wiki into a conference like website such as Wikimania. So
that means all of the features which you would normally find in a
conference management system could be set up with the help of this
extension on a wiki.
All of what has been done in this project is the result of a constructive
feedback from the members of wikimedia development community that I have
gotten till now, and I hope to be getting it all summer. Even though I may
have never contributed to open source community at such a scale but lately
the interactions that I had with the developers helped me understand the
importance of collaborative work.
Me and my mentor (Jure Kajzer) have prepared a schedule that I would be
following this summer to accomplish the tasks that I have set up in my
proposal which is to finish the basic workflow of this extension by the end
of this gsoc term. Later on (after GSOC) features like ranking proposal
system, payment gateway would be implemented as part of this project. In
the first few weeks , I would work on completing the back-end[1] part of
the architecture , and once that is finished my second job would be to
build UI interfaces for this extension. I have created a page under
mediawiki.org [2] which contains all the implementation details for this
project. Any one who feels the need of any other feature that they would
like being developed and shipped along with this extension can be amended
on the page mentioned before.(even though I only would be able to work on
these features after GSOC ).
Some important links:
[1] -
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Chughakshay16/ConventionExtension#Data_S…
[2] - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Chughakshay16/ConventionExtension
proposal page -
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Chughakshay16/GSOCProposal(2012)
Thanks,
Akshay Chugh
(irc - chughakshay16)
