Wikitech-l April 2015

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How to make commits from mirrored Wikimedia repos show up on your GitHub profile
by Bartosz Dziewoński 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

I know it has been annoying a couple of people other than me, so now that I've learned how to make it work I'll share the knowledge here. tl;dr: Star the repositories. No, seriously. (And yes, you need to star each extension repo separately.) (Is there a place on mw.org to put this tidbit on?) ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Brian Levine" <support(a)github.com> (GitHub Staff) To: matma.rex(a)gmail.com Cc: Subject: Re: Commits in mirrored repositories not showing up on my profile Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:47:19 +0200 Hi Bartosz In order to link your commits to your GitHub account, you need to have some association with the repository other than authoring the commit. Usually, having push access gives you that connection. In this case, you don't have push permission, so we don't link you to the commit. The easy solution here is for you to star the repository. If you star it - along with the other repositories that are giving you this problem - we'll see that you're connected to the repository and you'll get contribution credit for those commits. Cheers Brian -- Matma Rex

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Re: [Wikitech-l] VisualEditor support for table copy-and-paste from Word
by Koerner, Chris L 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

This drag and drop from a CSV and other mentions of VE neatness would make a great blog post. I would love see a post about being productive in VisualEditor. Tips and tricks as it were. -Chris K. This electronic mail and any attached documents are intended solely for the named addressee(s) and contain confidential information. If you are not an addressee, or responsible for delivering this email to an addressee, you have received this email in error and are notified that reading, copying, or disclosing this email is prohibited. If you received this email in error, immediately reply to the sender and delete the message completely from your computer system.

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New RFC: better JS minification
by Max Semenik 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

Hi, I'd like to present a new RFC for your consideration: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Minifier It is about how we can shave 10-15% off the size if JavaScript delivered to users. Your comments are highly welcome!:) -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])

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Bikeshedding a good name for "the api.php API"
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 11 Aug '15

11 Aug '15

When api.php was basically the only API in MediaWiki, calling it "the API" worked well. But now we've got a Parsoid API, Gabriel's work on a REST content API, Gabriel's work on an internal storage API, and more on the way. So just saying "the API" is getting confusing. So let's bikeshed a reasonably short name for it that isn't something awful like "the api.php API". I'm horrible at naming. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

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ContentTranslation gets to 2000
by Amir E. Aharoni 06 Jun '15

06 Jun '15

[ cross-posted to MediaWiki-i18n, Wikimedia-L and Wikitech-L ] Dear Wikimedians, The 2000th article that was written using the ContentTranslation extension was published today. Article #2000 was translated from English to Greek, and it's about Škocjan Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Slovenia. Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0kocjan_Caves Translated: https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%80%CE%AE%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%B1_%C… In case you're wondering what ContentTranslation is, here's a brief summary: ContentTranslation is an extension that helps Wikipedia editors to create articles quickly and easily by translating them from other languages. It's being developed by the Language Engineering team. Its design started in the summer of 2013 and its coding started in early 2014. You can find more info at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CX as well as in the following blog posts: * http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/10/content-translation-beta-coming-soon/ * http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/20/try-content-translation/ * http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/06/content-translation-improved-my-edits/ * http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/08/the-new-content-translation-tool/ Some more data about ContentTranslation: * Our first deployment was in mid-January to Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, Esperanto, Norwegian Bokmal, Danish, Indonesian and Malay. Now we support 43 languages, and this number is growing every week as we extend the deployment (a special thank-you to the Ops and Release Engineering people, who continuously and tirelessly support our deployment effort). * In all the Wikipedias in which ContentTranslation is deployed, it is currently defined as a Beta feature, which means that it is only available to logged-in users who opted into it in the preferences. * The 1000th article was written on April 10th, so it took much less to get to 2000 than to 1000. * The language into which the most articles were translated is Catalan: 762. The Catalan Wikipedia community always had a strong inclination to translation, it was the first one that volunteered to test the tool in labs in the summer of 2014 and provided a lot of useful feedback, and it also has good machine translation support thanks to the Freely-licensed Apertium engine. * The second most popular target language is Spanish. It started slowly in the first couple of months, but it's quickly growing since March. * Other target languages that are quickly growing lately are French, Portuguese and Ukrainian. * The language from which the largest number of articles is translated is English. It is followed by Spanish, from which a lot of articles are translated to the closely related Portuguese and Catalan. * The total number of people who published at least one translated article into any language is 663. * Of more than 2000 articles that were created, about 60 were deleted, so we have a reason to think that the quality of the created articles is pretty OK. * In Catalan we see that ContentTranslation has some influence on the number of articles created per day - it was usually between 60 and 90 before 2015, and in January and February it was over a 100. It's too early to say how does it influence other languages, but we are optimistic ;) * A community discussion about enabling the tool in the French Wikipedia ended with 50 "votes" in support of the tool and 0 "votes" against it ;) Some of our plans for the coming months are: * Enabling more languages, including big ones like English, Russian and Italian, as well as right-to-left languages. * Improving the support for links. * Creating support for smart suggestions of articles to translate, as well as "task lists" for translation projects. * Starting to get the tool out of beta status :) I'd like to thank all the Wikimedia volunteers around the planet who are participating in this effort by translating articles, translating the extension's user interface, testing the tool, assisting other wikipedians to translate, organizing translation workshops, reporting useful bugs, submitting patches, and generally proving day after day what an incredible community they are - hard-working, massively-multilingual, helpful, patient, creative and talented. Thank you - we have a lot more to achieve together \o/ -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug in the Wikipedia main web page
by Sukyoung Ryu 24 May '15

24 May '15

Thank you for the quick fix! Best, -- Sukyoung On Jan 29, 2014, at 9:55 AM, Nathan wrote: > FYI in case you aren't subscribed to the list. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Yair Rand <yyairrand(a)gmail.com> > Date: Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:25 PM > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug in the Wikipedia main web page > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > > Thank you for pointing out this bug. Your suggested change to > MediaWiki:Gadget-wm-portal.js has been implemented by Meta-Wiki > administrator User:PiRSquared17. > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Sukyoung Ryu <sukyoung.ryu(a)gmail.com>wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > We are researchers at KAIST in Korea working on finding JavaScript bugs in > > web pages. While analyzing top websites from Alexa.com, we found an issue, > > which seems to be a bug, on the Wikipedia main web page (wikipedia.org). > > We would be grateful if you can either confirm that it is a bug and even > > better fix it or let us know what we're missing. > > > > Here's the issue. When a user selects a language in which search results > > are displayed via the language selection button from the Wikipedia main web > > page, the following JavaScript function is executed: > > > > 1 function setLang(lang) { > > 2 var uiLang = navigator.language || navigator.userLanguage, date > > = new Date(); > > 3 > > 4 if (uiLang.match(/^\w+/) === lang) { > > 5 date.setTime(date.getTime() - 1); > > 6 } else { > > 7 date.setFullYear(date.getFullYear() + 1); > > 8 } > > 9 > > 10 document.cookie = "searchLang=" + lang + ";expires=" + > > date.toUTCString() + ";domain=" + location.host + ";"; > > 11 } > > > > Depending on the evaluation result of the conditional expression on line > > 4, "uiLang.match(/^\w+/) === lang", the function leaves or dose not leave > > the selected language information on the user's computer through a cookie. > > But we found that the expression, "uiLang.match(/^\w+/) === lang", always > > evaluates to false, which results in that the function always leaves > > cookies on users' computers. We think that changing the contidional > > expression, "uiLang.match(/^\w+/) === lang", to the expression, > > "uiLang.match(/^\w+/) == lang", will solve the problem. > > > > This problem may occur in the main web pages of all the Wikimedia sites. > > Could you kindly let us know what you think? Thank you in advance. > > > > Best, > > Changhee Park and Sukyoung Ryu > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >

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4/29/15 Scrum of Scrum notes
by Grace Gellerman 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2015-04-29

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2015.04 release
by Kartik Mistry 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

Hello all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2015.04. * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2015.04.tar… * sha256sum: 0aaae92b987130068b9fc03595428286d96541a947cbd137147ae7c0f50d9241 Quick links: * Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB * Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n * Report bugs to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ * Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode Release notes for each extension are below. -- Kartik Mistry == Babel == * T95157: Restore compatibility with MediaWiki 1.24 and older version. == CLDR == * T96650: Update to CLDR 27.0.1 == LocalisationUpdate and CleanChanges == * Localisation updates only. == Translate == * Avoid unneeded warnings on stable MediaWiki releases. * T54728: Small optimizations to Special:SupportedLanguages * Styled search result navigation buttons in Special:SearchTranslations * Fixed Special:PagePreparation, now works better and has autocompletion == UniversalLanguageSelector == * T76196: Show the Common language section only if the list is long enough. * Fixed the regions for some languages. * T88279: Make ULS IME working in Content Translation. * Added support for Talossan in ULS. Thanks! -- Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_ {kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com

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[x-post] Next Language Engineering IRC Office Hour is on 5th May 2015 (Tuesday) at 1430 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

[x-posted announcement] Hello, The next IRC office hour of the Language Engineering team of the Wikimedia Foundation will be on May 5, 2015 (Tuesday) at 1430 UTC on #wikimedia-office. We missed a few of our regular monthly office hours, but from May onwards we will be back on schedule. There has been significant progress around Content Translation[1] and it is now available as a beta feature on several Wikipedias[2]. We’d love to hear comments, suggestions and any feedback that will help us make this tool better. Please see below to check local time and event details. Questions can also be sent to me ahead of the event. Thanks Runa [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/08/the-new-content-translation-tool/ [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Languages#Available_lang… Monthly IRC Office Hour: ================== # Date: May 5, 2015 (Tuesday) # Time: 1430 UTC (Check local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150505T1430 ) # IRC channel: #wikimedia-office -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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WMF Elections are coming up - You may be eligible to vote
by James Alexander 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

TLDR: You are eligible to vote in the upcoming elections <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015> if you have at least one merged commit to WMF utilized git repos in the past 6 months, you can verify if your account is automatically on the voter list because of edits on this tool <https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/accounteligibility/> and if it isn't (and you think you might vote) you can email me, privately, to ensure you're on before or during the election. Also, apologies to WMF Staff who already received a different version of this email. Hello Wikitech-l, As many of you have probably already realized while browsing the Wikimedia projects the 2015 WMF Election <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015> process is underway to elect the Funds Dissemination Committee <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee> and the WMF Board of Trustees <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees>. There are multiple ways <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015#Informa…> to become eligible to vote in the elections with the majority of these eligible voters being enfranchised by virtue of their edits (53,712). However, you are also eligible if you are either a Wikimedia server administrator with shell access or have made at least one merged commit on WMF utilized git repos between 15 October 2014 and 15 April 2015. These are two separate elections but they use the same voter list and so if you plan to vote in either election this email is for you. *The Elections* The first election, starting on Sunday (UTC, so 5pm Pacific on Saturday) and running for 8 days is the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) election. The purpose of the FDC is to make allocations to FDC-eligible Wikimedia entities, based on an assessment of the extent to which requested funding will enable those entities to have an impact on realizing the mission goals of the Wikimedia movement. There are 5 members of the committee (The majority of a 9 person committee) up for election at this point and you can read the candidates statements on meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/FDC_election…> (there are currently 6 candidates but others may apply before the deadline in about 15 hours). There is also 1 spot up for election for the FDC Ombudsperson <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/FDC_Ombudspe…> who assists the board investigating complaints about the process. Unfortunately there are no candidates <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/FDC_Ombudspe…> for that position at the moment and so that particular election may be called off. The 2nd election, starting on May 17th and running for 15 days is the election for 3 members of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. The Board's role (and legal obligation) is to oversee the management of the organization and ensure that it fulfills this role. In the end they are ultimately responsible for its success. You can read the candidate statements on meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Board_electi…> to learn more about the 7 people currently running and remember that users have about a week left to decide to run and I anticipate that quite a few more will ( for example I know of at least a handful who have accepted private nominations submitted to the election committee but not yet posted their official candidacy). Historically there is always a bit of a rush in the last couple days to submit statements. *What can you do?* 1. *You can ask questions* - You can ask questions for the FDC candidates to answer on meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/FDC_election…> both now and throughout the election process. - You can ask questions for the Board candidates to answer on meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/FDC_election…> both now and throughout the election process including a week and a half specifically dedicated for questions and discussion that starts next Tuesday. 2. *You can vote, and make sure you're on the voter list.* - We will be doing what we can to ensure that eligible developers are already on the voter list when the election time comes however those methods are in no way foolproof. - You can verify if your account is automatically on the voter list (because of your edit count) by typing your username into this tool <https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/accounteligibility/>. - If you are not automatically eligible and think you are likely to vote in one or both of the elections you can email me (privately) so that I can double check that you're on the eligible voter list. Other then that the elections will start, with banners and emails to notify eligible voters, on Sunday (for the FDC) and on May 17th (for the Board). If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to send me an email! If there are any other lists which would reach eligible developers please feel free to either forward or let me know so that I can reach out. [and for the benefit of those wondering: No, if you're eligible to vote for multiple reasons such as your employment and your edits you can still only vote once. The same thing applies if you are eligible on multiple accounts such as a volunteer account and a work account. :) ] James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur

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