Hello everyone,
I’m happy to announce that the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has
awarded an exploratory grant of $250,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation’s
Discovery department [1], in order to conduct research and prototyping to
improve how people discover and engage with information on Wikipedia and
Wikimedia projects.
The Discovery team has begun six months of research and prototyping, with
the goal of building better experiences to help people discover knowledge.
You can learn more about the team’s work here
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/23/search-and-discovery-on-wikipedia/>.
Our deliverables include:
- User testing and research on current user flows to understand the
search and discovery experience
- Creation and maintenance of a dashboard of core metrics to use in
product development
- Research on search relevancy and the possibility of integrating open
data sources
- Open discussion with the Wikimedia community of volunteer editors
- Creation of sample prototypes to showcase discovery possibilities
The need to improve our search experience has long been recognized across
the Wikimedia projects. We need better ways to help everyone discover the
most relevant, reliable information on Wikipedia and its sister projects. For
example, while people can search within one project (like Wikipedia or
Wikimedia Commons), they can’t easily search across the different projects.
Some people still receive zero results if they search and do not include
the right words in a search. There are open data sources that have the
potential to improve how people find information, and that should be
explored.
We look forward to discussing these projects with communities and anyone
with an interest. You can collaborate with the Discovery department in the
following ways:
- Subscribe <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery> to
the Discovery team’s public mailing list
- Read about these projects and others at the MediaWiki Discovery
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery> page
- Reach out to the Discovery team on their IRC channel:
#wikimedia-discovery on Freenode <https://freenode.net/>.
A press release and blog post will follow shortly, and more information in
the form of an FAQ has been posted here [2].
Wes Moran, VP of Product
User: WMoran_(WMF)
[1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery
[2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/KnightFAQ
Hello readers of this list :)
tl;dr
MediaWiki's wfMsg*() functions were removed in MediaWiki 1.27.
Long version:
Maybe someone has already seen the work on the wfMsg*() deprecation task:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70750
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70750>
A little bit of background:
MediaWiki provides different functions to get a localised message string,
the one you normally choose is wfMessage, which creates a Message object.
However, there are other global functions (including wfMsg(),
wfMsgForContent(), wfMsgHtml() and so on), too, which was deprecated in
MediaWiki 1.18 (with deprecating notification in 1.21) in favour of
wfMessage. Unfortunately, a lot of (maybe unmaintained) extensions still
used the old deprecated functions to get a localised message.
After a huge amount of changes to these extensions (tracked in the linked
task), we now hope, that all usages of these functions are replaced by it's
modern wfMessage-counterpart, at least we did our best to find affected
extensions :)
Now, the time has come, that the change to mediawiki/core, which removes
the old deprecated functions[1], was merged. This notification is mostly
for people, who still use these functions, if you're sure you don't, you
can stop reading here :P
If you're a maintainer of an extension, please make sure, that you don't
use these wfMsg*() functions anymore (if your extension is hosted in
Wikimedia Gerrit, you probably mentioned a change named "Remove wfMsg*
calls", so we already did the work for you. If not, please take some
minutes to find out, how you can migrate to the new wfMessage function to
keep compatibility with newer MediaWiki releases. If you want to replace
your usage of wfMsg* functions your best friend (mostly) is the
documentation page[2], which describes appropriate replacements with the
actual message functions. However, it's possible, that your case of usage
isn't mentioned there, and if so, you could first try to find a better
approach using the Message object (returned by wfMessage()), which is
documented on doc.wikimedia.org <http://doc.wikimedia.org> [3], or, if you
really don't know, what to do, ask in #wikimedia-dev or on this mailing
list :) I think you'll get help as soon as possible.
I hope this answers all questions, if not, feel free to answer this e-mail
:)
Best,
Florian
[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/262333
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/262333>
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Messages_API#Help_
with_replacing_deprecated_wfMsg.2A_functions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Messages_API#Help_with_replacing_depr…>
[3] https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/
html/classMessage.html#
<https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/html/classMessage.html>
fyi
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Date: Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 3:05 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania '16 Scholarship & Submission Deadlines are
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Hi Community Metrics team,
This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail.
Accounts created in (2015-12): 358
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(How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority)
TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as
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