Wikitech-l November 2015

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Ending RFC review meetings a little early
by Rob Lanphier 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

Hi folks, One idea that achieved consensus here at WMF, but was never discussed publicly (that I'm aware of) is the idea that meetings should use the Google Calendar speedy meeting option.[1] Since we didn't have a public discussion of this, it's technically not the standard for RFC review meetings. However, this led to the natural question "why not?" So....why not? Is there any opposition to us ending RFC meetings 5-10 minutes early? Rob [1] http://getsolid.io/blog/enabling-speedy-meetings-google-calendar/

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OOjs UI 0.14.0 Release (breaking change)
by James Forrester 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

Hey all, I released OOjs UI 0.14.0 today. It will be in MW from 1.27.0-wmf.8+, which will be deployed to Wikimedia production in the regular train starting on Tuesday 8 December. As there are a couple of nominal breaking changes and a deprecation, please look carefully over them to determine if they affect your code. *Breaking changes since last release:* - [BREAKING CHANGE] TextInputWidget: Remove old deprecated alias #setPosition (Ed Sanders) We deprecated the old function in v0.8.1 back in February when it was renamed to setLabelPosition, but we forgot to remove the aliases until now. There are no known uses of this old name. - [BREAKING CHANGE] Depend on OOjs v1.1.10, up from v1.1.9 (James D. Forrester) This is a breaking change because the library requires an environmental change. However, for MediaWiki users, this is already take care of and will have no effect. *Deprecating change since last release:* - [DEPRECATING CHANGE] InputWidget: Replace `#setRTL` with `#setDir` (Ed Sanders) This function was poorly named (LTR-centrism!) and would only let you set 'rtl', rather than 'auto' or explict 'ltr', so we replaced it with a better function that doesn't assume the whole world works in one direction. :-) For now, #setRTL will still work, but please switch over to #setDir before it is removed in OOjs UI v0.16.0. - [DEPRECATING CHANGE] ComboBoxWidget: Refactor into ComboBoxInputWidget (Bartosz Dziewoński) We changed ComboBoxWidget to inherit from TextInputWidget (rather than embedding one inside itself), and renamed it to match. This simplifies the library and reduces the scope for bugs. ComboBoxWidget will continue to work for now (as an alias), but please switch over to ComboBoxInputWidget before it is removed in OOjs UI v0.16.0. - [DEPRECATING CHANGE] De-duplicate 'trash' and 'remove' icons (James D. Forrester) As part of our on-going work to slim down the library, we have merged the old core 'remove' icon into the 'trash' one in the 'moderation' icon pack. For now, 'remove' will still work, but please switch over to 'trash' before it is removed in OOjs UI v0.16.0. - [DEPRECATING CHANGE] Duplicate icons: Unify 'picture' and 'image' (Ed Sanders) As part of our on-going work to slim down the library, we have merged the old core 'picture' icon into the 'image' one in the 'media' icon pack. We also renamed the 'photoGallery' icon to 'imageGallery' for consistency. For now, 'picture' and 'photoGallery' will still work, but please switch over to 'image' and 'imageGallery' respectively before they are removed in OOjs UI v0.16.0. - [DEPRECATING CHANGE] MediaWiki, Apex themes: Unify add/insert icons (Ed Sanders) As part of our on-going work to slim down the library, we have merged the old core 'insert' icon into the 'add' one in the 'editing-advanced' icon pack. For now, 'insert' will still work, but please switch over to 'add' before it is removed in OOjs UI v0.16.0. Additional details are in the full change log <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md> . If you have any further questions or need help dealing with deprecations, please let me know. As always, general library documentation is available at <http://goog_969668313/>mediawiki.org <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI> and generated code-level documentation and interactive demos at doc.mediawiki.org <https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/#!/api>. Yours, -- James D. Forrester Lead Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester

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Please help finish "Cases" page of CoC (+updates)
by Matthew Flaschen 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

We are now working on the "Cases" page of the draft Code of conduct. This will become a separate page (for readability of the final CoC), but is being drafted on the same page with the rest. This includes both the intro section, and all the sub-sections, which means everything that starts with "2." in the ToC. Currently this is "Handling reports", "Responses and resolutions", and "Appealing a resolution". However, the sections within "Cases" may change: * Section: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Page:_Code_of_conduct_… * Talk: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Finishing_the_Cas… * Alternatively, you can provide anonymous feedback to conduct-discussion(a)wikimedia.org . This is the best time to make any necessary changes to this page (and explain why, in edit summaries and/or talk) and discuss it on the talk page. Other updates: * The text of the "Report a problem" section has been frozen. Thanks to everyone who helped discuss and edit these sections. Participation (including both named and anonymous) helped us improve the confidentiality line. Thanks, Matt Flaschen

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Proposal: MediaWiki Group WikiWerkers (Dutch Mediawiki User Group)
by Bart Mulckhuijse 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

Hi, following the process for requesting the creation of a MediaWiki group, here is a proposal for: MediaWiki Group WikiWerkers - Dutch Mediawiki User Group http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/WikiWerkers <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/WikiWerkers> Your endorsements, improvements and feedback are welcome at the wiki page. Thank you! Bart Mulckhuijse PS: see also http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals

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Little "Photos of the month" web app
by Joaquin Oltra Hernandez 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

Hi! A couple of months ago I taught a workshop for learning ClojureScript at a conference, and for the second part I had the students play with a web app. I set up a scaffold and api fetching/cleaning the media of the month from commons so that they could code and test stuff. I thought I would share, it's pretty stupid but the result is clean and beautiful to read (because the pictures are beautiful). http://chimeces.com/photo-of-the-day/ (it's media of the month, excuse the url :p) Source is at https://github.com/joakin/photo-of-the-day If you want to learn the ClojureScript language you can try to follow the online version of the workshop: * http://chimeces.com/cljs-browser-repl/#/notebook/diving-into-clojurescript/… And play with this repo when you're done! Cheers, Joaquin

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ResourceLoader: Control caching
by Robert Vogel 23 Nov '15

23 Nov '15

Hi everyone! I've got a little question about how to control caching of a RL module. But first, my case: I've several (four) modules defined that depend on each other. Most of them are defined as a FileModule using $wgResourceModules with 'styles', 'scripts', 'messages', . One of them is implemented as a class that derives from ResourceLoaderModule (not ResourceLoaderFileModule). I've grouped (using the 'group' entry in $wgResourceModules) them so they all get loaded together in one request (and separately from other modules). This module group delivers pretty static content, but much of it (approx. 2MB). So it would be ideal to cache it on the client side. Unfornuately the load.php call always incudes a 'version' parameter with the current timestamp and the 'expires' header of the response is set to "now". So no client caching. I believe it has something to do with my custom ResourceLoaderModule subclass. I've already tried to override methods like "getModifiedHash" or "getModifiedTime" but without success. What can I do to get rid of the 'version' parameter in the load.php call and the 'expires' header? -- Robert Vogel

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GHC India 2015 - Community Bonding
by Ankita Shukla 23 Nov '15

23 Nov '15

Hi! I would be participating in the Grace Hopper Celebration - India Chapter <http://gracehopper.org.in> this year (Dec 2- Dec4, 2015) and wanted to know if there's anyone else from our community who'd be joining in the event? Till now, I am aware of only one other community member, Santoshi Tiwari, who would be there too. GHCI will have a lot of participants and particularly females. A lot of students would be attending too. It'd be great to know all the Wikimedians who would be attending GHCI and thus, plan in advance to make people aware about Wikimedia and how can they become contributors to the movement. Similar to the initiative in GHC, here is something for the Grace Hopper Celebration India. I have created a Slack community <https://ghci15.slack.com/> for the participants of GHC-India 2015. To join the Slack group, simply fill in this <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tjzN3u6C6aHDy7zJRrEbezlkwMOYF-Tk6cHmA1k1hj…> easy form and you'll receive an invite for the Slack community. After you join the Slack channel, you'll have the access to a Google doc with information of arrivals and departures per day to share, rides from and to airport and a lot of more information which will be build up by the participants. Also, please invite other participants you know who might be participating but are not enrolled on this mailing list. I also invite other ABI members to join the channel and share useful information with us. Special thanks to Nithya Pari for the original idea. :) -- Thanks and Regards, Ankita Shukla Computer Science Engineering B.Tech Final Year (Senior) Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

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Contributing to Wikimedia Foundation
by Bill Morrisson 23 Nov '15

23 Nov '15

Hello, I am Bill Morrisson, a 4th year Under graduate Student from Catholic University Insitute, Buea, Cameroon. I want to contribute to Wikimedia's opensource projects. I am a newbie in PHP and MySQL(just started learning the language 8 months ago) and had in mind in contributing to the organization as soon as I am comfortable in the languages. I would like to contribute in PHP and looking forward to learn javascript on the go with other projects as well. I would love to hear from wikimedia if there is anything I can do first. Thank you

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Readership metrics for the week until November 15, 2015
by Tilman Bayer 21 Nov '15

21 Nov '15

Hi all, here is the weekly look at our most important readership metrics, a bit belatedly this time. As laid out earlier <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2015-September/009773.html>, the main purpose is to raise awareness about how these are developing, call out the impact of any unusual events in the preceding week, and facilitate thinking about core metrics in general. We are still iterating on the presentation and eventually want to create dashboards for those which are not already available in that form already. Feedback and discussion welcome. For readers of this report who haven’t already seen it, I’d like to mention the exciting announcement <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2015-November/004529.html> of the new pageview API for per-article readership metrics. Now to the usual data. (All numbers below are averages for November 9-15, 2015 unless otherwise noted.) Pageviews Total: 540 million/day (+0.7% from the previous week) Context (April 2015-November 2015): (see also the Vital Signs dashboard <https://vital-signs.wmflabs.org/#projects=all/metrics=Pageviews>) Some may remember that back in September, this weekly report called <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2015-September/009794.html> out <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2015-September/009785.html> a “conspicuous 4.3% drop” in total pageviews during the week until Sept 20 (followed by another 0.7% decrease the following week). Well, last week the Analytics team solved that mystery <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114379#1802927>: An improvement in detection of web crawlers had caused much more pageviews to be classified as non-human, from Sept 16 on (e.g. for Commons, estimated human traffic dropped <https://vital-signs.wmflabs.org/#projects=commonswiki/metrics=Pageviews> from about 12 million to about 4 million per day). Desktop: 57.5% (previous week: 57.5%) Mobile web: 41.3% (previous week: 41.3%) Apps: 1.2% (previous week: 1.2%) Global North ratio: 77.6% of total pageviews (previous week: 77.5%) Context (April 2015-November 2015): New app installations Android: 55.3k/day (-8.8% from the previous week) Daily installs per device, from Google Play Context (last month): As already mentioned in last week’s report, the Android Wikipedia app got featured in the "New and Updated Apps" section of the Google Play store on November 5, enabled by the Android team’s recent update work and facilitated by the Partnerships team. The promotion lasted one week and we can now see that it was a huge success (with the effect on download numbers much more clearly discernible than in the case of the “Back to School” feature we discussed last month <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2015-October/009835.html>). Predictably, uninstalls went up slightly too, but most of the new users kept the app on their phone. What is a little concerning though is that after the promotion, install numbers fell below the previous baseline, with the install base even shrinking a tiny bit right afterwards. (One possibility is that we are seeing some sort of depletion effect, due to people who would have installed the app anyway around this time, but saw it earlier due to the promotion.) For that reason, we will wait a bit longer before estimating the overall impact of this promotion. iOS: 4.59k/day (+4.3% from the previous week) Download numbers from App Annie Context (last 12 months): No big news here - things are back to normal after the App Store feature last month. App user retention Android: 15.2% (previous week: 13.9%) (Ratio of app installs opened again 7 days after installation, among all installed during the previous week. 1:100 sample) Context (last three months): Recall that this metric lags one week behind, so to speak. I.e. the effects of the Play Store promotion are not fully visible yet above (spoiler though, having looked at a few more days of data already: retention for installs who had come in during the promotion does not appear to have been lower than usual, which is good news). In general, this data is quite noisy due to the low (1:100) sample rate. iOS: N/A (Ratio of app installs opened again 7 days after installation, among all installed during the previous week. From iTunes Connect, opt-in only = ca. 20-30% of all users) Unfortunately I encountered some data quality issues with this metric this week. Will investigate, and report iOS retention again once this is sorted out. (The numbers and charts provided in the iTunes Connect App Analytics appears to have changed quite a bit retroactively.) Unique app users Android: 1.217 million / day (+2.7% from the previous week) Context (last three months): A somewhat noticeable rise that could well be connected with the aforementioned Play Store promotion, but still needs a closer look once more data is in. iOS: 281k / day (+0.2% from the previous week) Context (last three months): No news here. ---- For reference, the queries and source links used are listed below (access is needed for each). Most of the above charts are available on Commons, too <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles&offset=20…> . hive (wmf)> SELECT SUM(view_count)/7000000 AS avg_daily_views_millions FROM wmf.projectview_hourly WHERE agent_type = 'user' AND CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) BETWEEN "2015-11-09" AND "2015-11-15"; hive (wmf)> SELECT year, month, day, CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) as date, sum(IF(access_method <> 'desktop', view_count, null)) AS mobileviews, SUM(view_count) AS allviews FROM wmf.projectview_hourly WHERE year=2015 AND agent_type = 'user' GROUP BY year, month, day ORDER BY year, month, day LIMIT 1000; hive (wmf)> SELECT access_method, SUM(view_count)/7 FROM wmf.projectview_hourly WHERE agent_type = 'user' AND CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) BETWEEN "2015-11-09" AND "2015-11-15" GROUP BY access_method; hive (wmf)> SELECT SUM(IF (FIND_IN_SET(country_code, 'AD,AL,AT,AX,BA,BE,BG,CH,CY,CZ,DE,DK,EE,ES,FI,FO,FR,FX,GB,GG,GI,GL,GR,HR,HU,IE,IL,IM,IS,IT,JE,LI,LU,LV,MC,MD,ME,MK,MT,NL,NO,PL,PT,RO,RS,RU,SE,SI,SJ,SK,SM,TR,VA,AU,CA,HK,MO,NZ,JP,SG,KR,TW,US') > 0, view_count, 0))/SUM(view_count) FROM wmf.projectview_hourly WHERE agent_type = 'user' AND CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) BETWEEN "2015-11-09" AND "2015-11-15"; hive (wmf)> SELECT year, month, day, CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")), SUM(view_count) AS all, SUM(IF (FIND_IN_SET(country_code, 'AD,AL,AT,AX,BA,BE,BG,CH,CY,CZ,DE,DK,EE,ES,FI,FO,FR,FX,GB,GG,GI,GL,GR,HR,HU,IE,IL,IM,IS,IT,JE,LI,LU,LV,MC,MD,ME,MK,MT,NL,NO,PL,PT,RO,RS,RU,SE,SI,SJ,SK,SM,TR,VA,AU,CA,HK,MO,NZ,JP,SG,KR,TW,US') > 0, view_count, 0)) AS Global_North_views FROM wmf.projectview_hourly WHERE year = 2015 AND agent_type='user' GROUP BY year, month, day ORDER BY year, month, day LIMIT 1000; https://console.developers.google.com/storage/browser/pubsite_prod_rev_0281… (“overview”) https://www.appannie.com/dashboard/252257/item/324715238/downloads/?breakdo… (select “Total”) SELECT LEFT(timestamp, 8) AS date, SUM(IF(event_appInstallAgeDays = 0, 1, 0)) AS day0_active, SUM(IF(event_appInstallAgeDays = 7, 1, 0)) AS day7_active FROM log.MobileWikiAppDailyStats_12637385 WHERE timestamp LIKE '201511%' AND userAgent LIKE '%-r-%' AND userAgent NOT LIKE '%Googlebot%' GROUP BY date ORDER BY DATE; (with the retention rate calculated as day7_active divided by day0_active from seven days earlier, of course) https://analytics.itunes.apple.com/#/retention?app=324715238 hive (wmf)> SELECT SUM(IF(platform = 'Android',unique_count,0))/7 AS avg_Android_DAU_last_week, SUM(IF(platform = 'iOS',unique_count,0))/7 AS avg_iOS_DAU_last_week FROM wmf.mobile_apps_uniques_daily WHERE CONCAT(year,LPAD(month,2,"0"),LPAD(day,2,"0")) BETWEEN 20151109 AND 20151115; hive (wmf)> SELECT CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) as date, unique_count AS Android_DAU FROM wmf.mobile_apps_uniques_daily WHERE platform = 'Android'; hive (wmf)> SELECT CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) as date, unique_count AS iOS_DAU FROM wmf.mobile_apps_uniques_daily WHERE platform = 'iOS'; -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB

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Improving categorization in Upload to Commons Android App
by Josephine Lim 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

Hi, I'm working on a project to improve the categorization of pictures in the Upload to Commons Android app <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115101> with Nicolas_Raoul and Niedzielski as part of the Outreachy Dec '15 program. I'm very much just starting out, so I'd love any feedback or suggestions that anyone might have. We are planning on two major phases/releases for app updates, with Phase 1 enabling category suggestions based on the picture's location, and Phase 2 enabling more flexible category search results. It would be a huge help if we had some volunteers to test these releases (planned for Jan and Feb respectively), so it would be great if anyone could download the app < https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons> and try it out. The source code and issues are stored on GitHub < https://github.com/misaochan/apps-android-commons>. Many thanks! :) Josephine

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