Dear Wikipedians,
We'd like to announce a major update of the Math (rendering) extension.
For registered Wikipedia users, we have introduced a new math rendering
mode using MathML, a markup language for mathematical formulae. Since MathML
is not supported in all browsers [1], we have also added a fall-back mode
using scalable vector graphics (SVG).
Both modes offer crisp rendering at any resolution, which is a major
advantage over the current image-based default. We'll also be able to make
our math more accessible by improving screenreader and magnification support.
We encourage you to enable the MathML mode in your Appearance preferences.
As an example, the URL for this section on the English Wikipedia is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering
For editors, there are also two new optional features:
1) You can set the "id" attribute to create math tags that can be
referenced. For example, the following math tag
<math id="MassEnergyEquivalence">
E=mc^2
</math>
can be referenced by the wikitext
[[#MassEnergyEquivalence|mass energy equivalence]]
This is true regardless of the rendering mode used.
2) In addition, there is the attribute "display" with the possible values
"block" or "inline". This attribute can be used to control the layout of the
math tag with regard to centering and size of the operators. See
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math/Displaystyle
for a full description, of this feature.
Your feedback is very welcome. Please report bugs in Bugzilla against the
Math extension, or post on the talk page here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Math
All this is brought to you by Moritz Schubotz and Frédéric Wang (both
volunteers) in collaboration with Gabriel Wicke, C. Scott Ananian,
Alexandros Kosiaris and Roan Kattouw from the Wikimedia Foundation. We also
owe a big thanks to Peter Krautzberger and Davide P. Cervone of MathJax for
the server-side math rendering backend.
Best,
Gabriel Wicke (GWicke) and Moritz Schubotz (Physikerwelt)
[1]: Currently MathML is supported by Firefox & other Gecko-based browsers,
and accessibility tools like Apple's VoiceOver. There is also partial
support in WebKit.
Hi Terry (or anyone who knows the answers),
It's been awhile since I've noticed a status update from the Growth that
team through the EE list or this list. The Meta page implies that the
Growth team disbanded on October 3. Is that true, and if so, does WMF still
have a single person leading tech-based growth initiatives?
Also, who is PMming Winter?
It would be helpful to have a unified high-level overview of the status,
relationships, plans, strategic goals, and contacts for projects like:
VE
Winter
Flow
Citoid
MV
SUL
Growth
HHVM
Mobile web
Mobile apps
etc.
Thanks (:
Pine
Following the activity of the Engineering Community team has never been
simple, not even for ourselves. Proposing Engineering Community tasks
effectively was even more complex. Here is an attempt to change this:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/engineering-community/
Since the beginning of this month, we are using Phabricator to organize the
Engineering Community team work.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ect-october-2014/board/
You can watch, comment, and get involved. You can also submit and claim
tasks. What should we be working on next month? How can we facilitate more
tech community work done by more people?
See you there.
--
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Minutes and slides from the recent quarterly review meeting of the
Foundation's MediaWiki Core team can now be found at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Quarterly_revi…
.
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> to increase accountability and create more opportunities for course
> corrections and resourcing adjustments as necessary, Sue's asked me
> and Howie Fung to set up a quarterly project evaluation process,
> starting with our highest priority initiatives. These are, according
> to Sue's narrowing focus recommendations which were approved by the
> Board [1]:
>
> - Visual Editor
> - Mobile (mobile contributions + Wikipedia Zero)
> - Editor Engagement (also known as the E2 and E3 teams)
> - Funds Dissemination Committe and expanded grant-making capacity
>
> I'm proposing the following initial schedule:
>
> January:
> - Editor Engagement Experiments
>
> February:
> - Visual Editor
> - Mobile (Contribs + Zero)
>
> March:
> - Editor Engagement Features (Echo, Flow projects)
> - Funds Dissemination Committee
>
> We’ll try doing this on the same day or adjacent to the monthly
> metrics meetings [2], since the team(s) will give a presentation on
> their recent progress, which will help set some context that would
> otherwise need to be covered in the quarterly review itself. This will
> also create open opportunities for feedback and questions.
>
> My goal is to do this in a manner where even though the quarterly
> review meetings themselves are internal, the outcomes are captured as
> meeting minutes and shared publicly, which is why I'm starting this
> discussion on a public list as well. I've created a wiki page here
> which we can use to discuss the concept further:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_r…
>
> The internal review will, at minimum, include:
>
> Sue Gardner
> myself
> Howie Fung
> Team members and relevant director(s)
> Designated minute-taker
>
> So for example, for Visual Editor, the review team would be the Visual
> Editor / Parsoid teams, Sue, me, Howie, Terry, and a minute-taker.
>
> I imagine the structure of the review roughly as follows, with a
> duration of about 2 1/2 hours divided into 25-30 minute blocks:
>
> - Brief team intro and recap of team's activities through the quarter,
> compared with goals
> - Drill into goals and targets: Did we achieve what we said we would?
> - Review of challenges, blockers and successes
> - Discussion of proposed changes (e.g. resourcing, targets) and other
> action items
> - Buffer time, debriefing
>
> Once again, the primary purpose of these reviews is to create improved
> structures for internal accountability, escalation points in cases
> where serious changes are necessary, and transparency to the world.
>
> In addition to these priority initiatives, my recommendation would be
> to conduct quarterly reviews for any activity that requires more than
> a set amount of resources (people/dollars). These additional reviews
> may however be conducted in a more lightweight manner and internally
> to the departments. We’re slowly getting into that habit in
> engineering.
>
> As we pilot this process, the format of the high priority reviews can
> help inform and support reviews across the organization.
>
> Feedback and questions are appreciated.
>
> All best,
> Erik
>
> [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Vote:Narrowing_Focus
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings
> --
> Erik Möller
> VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
>
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Tilman Bayer
Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications)
Wikimedia Foundation
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Hey all --
Announcement time!
The MediaWiki Architecture Committee has added two members by provisional
internal consensus:
* Roan Kattouw, Wikimedia Foundation (visual editor & core)
* Daniel Kinzler, Wikimedia Deutschland
Roan and Daniel are familiar faces with longtime contributions to
MediaWiki. They will be helping with relevant RfC reviews and approvals,
and giving advice and ideas as we continue to spin up work in the Arch
Committee.
These are in addition to the original three members:
* Mark Bergsma, Wikimedia Foundation (ops)
* Tim Starling, Wikimedia Foundation (core)
* Brion Vibber, Wikimedia Foundation (mobile)
We plan to have a more formal process for maintenance of the committee
membership ready for approval at the MediaWiki Dev Summit in January[1], as
well as a more fleshed-out roadmap of what we want the committee to
accomplish.
Other Arch Committee news:
* In the meantime we're concentrating on picking up MediaWiki RfCs to make
sure they don't go stale. Last week, Brion and Tim picked up the RfC for
styling in templates[2] with an eye to do clean scoping of the styles for
security and cleanliness purposes.
* We've been chatting with Trevor's Front-end Standardization Group about
some other RfC topics such as picking an HTML templating engine for
ResourceLoader modules[3]. Jon Robson from Mobile Web has started on a
changeset[4] integrating some of the interfaces from the Mantle extension,
starting with a basic HTML loader and with plans to include JS-side (and
later PHP-side) Handlebars-compatible template compilers. This is still a
work in progress as I understand.
Both of these RfC pages need to be updated for current status. Also I
totally understand that using the term "template" for both MediaWiki markup
templates and HTML UI templates is confusing!
* This week's RfC checkup meeting happening real soon now -- 21:00 UTC /
2pm Pacific Time -- in #wikimedia-office so come by and say hello!
Until next time.... arch on!
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015
[2]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Allow_styling_in_templat…
[3]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library
[4] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/165952/ and friends
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / bvibber @ wikimedia.org)
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 the Quality Assurance Group and Team
Practices Group hope you will join us for a meet-up at the WMF entitled
'Exploratory Testing for Complex Software; Lessons from Cloud Foundry' with
special guest speaker Elisabeth Hendrickson [1]. We will be discussing
testing in agile iterative software development, and in particular exploratory
testing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_testing> [0]. This will
be a lively and enlightening conversation, aimed at everyone concerned
about the overall quality of software - even those who do not necessarily
contribute code.
*When*: Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 6:00pm - 8:30pm (for WMF folks there
is a calendar event on the Engineering calendar)
*Where*:
Wikimedia Foundation
6th Floor, collab space
149 New Montgomery St.
San Francisco, CA
(Accessible for remote participation via Hangouts on Air; link TBA)
*From the meet-up invite
<http://www.meetup.com/wikimedia-tech/events/207856222/>*[2]:
In modern software development organizations, the days are gone when
separate, independent Quality Assurance departments test software only
after it is finished. Iterative development and agile methods mean that
software is constantly being created, tested, released, marketed, and used
in short, tight cycles. An important testing approach in such an
environment is called Exploratory Testing, and the Wikimedia Foundation has
made significant investments to support Exploratory Testing for its
software development projects.
Elisabeth Hendrickson is "test obsessed". She was an early adopter and
vocal proponent of all aspects of agile software testing. She has been
particularly instrumental in encouraging and defining the practice of
Exploratory Testing. Elisabeth's 2013 book "Explore It!: Reduce Risk and
Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing" is the standard reference on
the subject.
Join us in the Wikimedia Foundation collaboration space to hear Elisabeth
discuss her experience doing software testing for complex projects, with
particular examples of Exploratory Testing from her current work as
Director of Quality Engineering for Cloud Foundry.
This talk is for everyone involved in the overall quality of software, and
it will be of particular interest to Project Managers, Product Managers,
and those working with software development projects who do not necessarily
contribute code directly to the projects.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_testing
[1] Elisabeth Hendrickson is a tester, developer, and Agile enabler. She
wrote her first line of code in 1980, and almost immediately found her
first bug. In 2010 she won the prestigious Gordon Pask Award from the Agile
Alliance. She is best known for her Google Tech Talk on Agile Testing as
well as her wildly popular Test Heuristics Cheatsheet. In 2003, she learned
how to do Agile for real from Pivotal Labs while working as a tester on one
of their projects. In 2012 she decided it was time to take up permanent
residence in the Pivotal offices, where she is the Director of Quality
Engineering for Cloud Foundry, Pivotal's Open Source Platform as a Service
(PaaS).
[2] http://www.meetup.com/wikimedia-tech/events/207856222/
--
Arthur Richards
Team Practices Manager
[[User:Awjrichards]]
IRC: awjr
+1-415-839-6885 x6687
Please join us for the following tech talk:
*Tech Talk**:* Design Research in Product Development
*Presenter:* Abbey Ripstra, Design & Usability Research Analyst on The UX
team at the Wikimedia Foundation
*Date:* October 22
*Time:* 1900 UTC
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+Desig…>
Link to live YouTube stream <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYMTzzosUIw>
*IRC channel for questions:* #wikimedia-office
Google+ page
<https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/events/caiiagf75bvddr09…>,
another
place for questions
Talk description: The value of design research in product development is
being recognized more frequently these days. This talk will quickly
describe the innovation process, and how, when and why design research fits
into the different parts of the innovation process. For most of the talk,
Abbey will focus in on the product development part of innovation and
describe how, when and why to best utilize the various methodologies of
design research toward building intuitive, easy to use products that meet
the needs of users. Abbey will also talk about, and want to collaborate on,
the best ways to integrate design research, specifically, into product
development at Wikimedia Foundation.
Hi everyone!
My Name is Neta Livneh and I am a PhD Student in the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, doing my research the field of computational social science.
I am applying to the FOSS Outreach Program for Women round 9 to work on
the interesting project Wikipedia article translation metrics. I have a
background in data analysis, a bit of machine learning skills and a lot of
motivation to find some a way to pinpoint translated articles in Wikipedia.
If you want to help or guide just interested in hearing more about the
project, please contact me.
Cheers,
Neta