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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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Anonymous editing impact on mobile
by Jon Robson 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

Anonymous editing was enabled on mobile web on 30th March 2015 to all users (previous it was available in an experimental mode of the site). Now we have almost a month's worth of data I thought it would be a good time to check the impact... it's a little disappointing to be honest... but it depends what we are optimising and consider the most important. Quick summary: * All edits up 154% * Edits from logged in users down 152% * Errors up 600% * No noticeable impact on the new active editor graph [0] (editors that hit 5 edits in the month period) * First edits by logged in users down 176% (although this could arguably be said to be compensated by anonymous edits) * New account creation up by 192% Follow ups * Aaron H, it would be great if you could report back with some findings on the quality of the edits during this same period. * Can anyone provide theories why registrations jumped so much? This might be related to the change or because of something else Details on the queries I ran: In March for a 26 day period before the change: * 170,948 total edits [1] * 169,845 non-anonymous edits [6] ** by 40,658 distinct users [7] * 26,617 users completely their first ever edit [11] * 9,528 errors [8] * 219,012 accounts created on mobile [12] For a similar 26 day period in April * 263,986 total edits [2] * 136,079 non-anonymous edits [4] ** by 26,823 distinct users [5] * 15,109 users completely their first ever edit [10] * 58,394 errors [9] * 419,976 accounts created on mobile [13] [0] http://mobile-reportcard.wmflabs.org/ [1] select count(*) from MobileWebEditing_8599025 where event_action = 'success' and timestamp > 20150301000000 and timestamp < 20150327000000 [2] select count(*) from MobileWebEditing_8599025 where event_action = 'success' and timestamp > 20150401000000 and timestamp < 20150427000000 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97494 [4] select count(*) from MobileWebEditing_8599025 where event_action = 'success' and timestamp > 20150401000000 and timestamp < 20150427000000 and event_username is NOT NULL [5] select count(distinct event_username) from MobileWebEditing_8599025 where event_action = 'success' and timestamp > 20150401000000 and timestamp < 20150427000000 and event_username is NOT NULL [6] select count(*) from MobileWebEditing_8599025 where event_action = 'success' and timestamp > 20150301000000 and timestamp < 20150327000000 and event_username is NOT NULL [7] select count(distinct event_username) from MobileWebEditing_8599025 where event_action = 'success' and timestamp > 20150301000000 and timestamp < 20150327000000 and event_username is NOT NULL [8] select count(*) from MobileWebEditing_8599025 where event_action = 'error' and timestamp > 20150301000000 and timestamp < 20150327000000 [9] select count(*) from MobileWebEditing_8599025 where event_action = 'error' and timestamp > 20150401000000 and timestamp < 20150427000000 [10] select count(*) from MobileWebEditing_8599025 where event_action = 'success' and timestamp > 20150401000000 and timestamp < 20150427000000 and event_userEditCount = 0 [11] select count(*) from MobileWebEditing_8599025 where event_action = 'success' and timestamp > 20150301000000 and timestamp < 20150327000000 and event_userEditCount = 0 [12] select count(*) from ServerSideAccountCreation_5487345 where event_displayMobile = 1 and timestamp > 20150301000000 and timestamp < 20150327000000 [13] select count(*) from ServerSideAccountCreation_5487345 where event_displayMobile = 1 and timestamp > 20150401000000 and timestamp < 20150427000000

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Bugs to fix for MediaWiki 1.25.0
by Andre Klapper 29 Apr '15

29 Apr '15

The MediaWiki 1.25.0 tarball release is planned for 2015-05-25 [1],[2]. There are currently 21 open tickets in the "MW-1.25-release" project: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/BPlQRzYIEE31/#R Seven tickets have patches awaiting review: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/tfwMAVRECGaZ/#R The other 14 tickets welcome help / input / code: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/HWHn.kQ9k7xU/#R If you are aware of open tasks in Wikimedia Phabricator that must be fixed before releasing 1.25.0, please associate the "MW-1.25-release" to these open tasks (or create a dedicated task if none exists yet). Thanks for your help! andre [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25#Release_schedule -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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RFC meeting this week
by Tim Starling 29 Apr '15

29 Apr '15

In the next RFC meeting, we will discuss the following RFC: * Integrate file revisions with description page history <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96384> The meeting will be on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on chat.freenode.net at the following time: * UTC: Wednesday 21:00 * US PDT: Wednesday 14:00 * Europe CEST: Wednesday 23:00 * Australia AEST: Thursday 07:00 -- Tim Starling

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GSoC and Outreachy results out!
by Niharika Kohli 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

Hello everyone! After a long and intense selection process, Google and GNOME Foundation have finally announced the list of GSoC and Outreachy selects for the current round. I'm pleased to announce we have 9 interns for GSoC and 1 for Outreachy! Congratulations to everyone selected and to the mentors who have put in much hard work in selecting worthy candidates. Also thanks to those who put in hard work but could not be selected. We had limited projects and had to make some hard decisions. We hope you'll keep contributing to Mediawiki and try again for the next GSoC/Outreachy round. We have a general guide to being a successful intern at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs/Life_of_a_successful_proje… It's still under development and we'll be adding more details to it as we move forward in the program. The main pages for the respective programs are at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2015 and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_10 The students selected are: Outreachy: 1. Dibya Singh (Phenix303) from India Project: One-stop Translation Search Mentors: Nemo_bis and Nikerabbit Google Summer of Code: 2. Frédéric Bolduc (ferdbold) from Quebec Project: GraphData extension for VE Mentors: Mooeypoo and Mvolz 3. Ankita Kumari (ankita-ks) from India Project: Unified language proofing tools integration framework Mentors: Aharoni and Eranroz 4. Jiarong Wei (VcamX) from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Project: Implement OAuth support for Pywikibot Mentors: Jayvdb and Halfak 5. Tina Johnson (tinajohnson) from India Project: Newsletter Mediawiki Extension Mentors: Quim Gil and Tony Thomas 6. Vivek Ghaisas (polybuildr) from India Project: Extension to identify and delete spam pages Mentors: Yaron Koren and Jan 7. Sumit Asthana (codezee) from India Project: Wikivoyage Pagebanner Extension Mentors: Nicolas Raoul and Jdlrobson 8. Alexander Jones (happy5214) from United States Project: Implement Flow support in Pywikibot Mentors: Jayvdb and Mattflaschen 9. Jan Lebert (sitic) from Germany Project: An enhanced cross-wiki watchlist Mentors: Yuvipanda, Legoktm 10. Sarvesh Gupta (s1991) from India Project: Allow contributors to update their own details in tech metrics Mentors: Alvaro, Daniel Let's all welcome them into the Wikimedia family! Thanks, Niharika.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Social-media] Improving the security of our users on Wikimedia sites
by Pine W 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

Thanks for your work on this, Chris. Forwarding to Wikitech-l. Pine On Apr 20, 2015 4:58 PM, "Chris Steipp" <csteipp(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > On Apr 20, 2015 4:13 PM, "Andrew Sherman" <asherman(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > We just published "Improving the security of our users on Wikimedia > sites" to the blog. URL: > > > > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/20/improving-security-for-our-users/ > > > > Thanks to Chris for writing and helping us edit this post. > > > > Below are some proposed social media messages. Tweak as needed. > > > > Twitter > > > > We teamed up with @iSECPartners and @OpenTechFund to assess the security > of our sites. Check out the report here [link] > > > > FB/G+ > > > > We teamed up with iSEC Partners to assess the security of our sites and > protect the privacy of our users. Their engineers developed attacks against > the current version of MediaWiki to identify security flaws, in a new > report sponsored by the Open Technology Fund. [link] > > Maybe just "MediaWiki" instead of "the current version of MediaWiki", > since we did a release to specifically fix issues that they found. Might > confuse some people as is. > > > > > Thanks, > > -- > > Andrew Sherman > > Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation > > > > E: asherman(a)wikimedia.org > > WMF: ASherman (WMF) > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > Social-media(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > >

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Efficiently find the last content edit of an article?
by Daniel Barrett 27 Apr '15

27 Apr '15

What is the best way (in code) to locate the most recent revision of article in which the text actually changed? That is, the revision was not a "move" or other non-editing operation? I figure the logic would be something like: $r = GetTheMostRecentRevision(); IF $r NOT a "Move" THEN return $r ELSE walk the list of revisions until the SHA1 value changes but I don't know how to determine that a revision is a "Move." Thanks for any tips! DanB

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