Wikitech-l October 2016

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Community Tech: Status report on Wishlist progress
by Danny Horn 17 Oct '16

17 Oct '16

Hi everyone, The WMF Community Tech team is starting to wrap up our work on this year's Community Wishlist projects, as we prepare for the new Community Wishlist Survey starting in November. We've got a new Status report to share, with an update on the work that's been done this year on the Community Wishlist: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Status_repor… Here's a quick overview for the top 10 -- COMPLETED WORK on 5 wishes: * Wish #1: Migrate dead external links to archives, with volunteer dev Cyberpower678 -- currently on English Wikipedia, other languages coming * Wish #2: Improved diff comparisons, by WMF developer MaxSem, live on all wikis * Wish #5: Numerical sorting in categories, currently on English, Swedish and Macedonian Wikipedias, more languages coming soon * Wish #7: Pageview stats tool, live on all wikis * Wish #9: Improve the plagiarism detection bot, with volunteer dev Eran -- currently on English Wikipedia, other languages coming CURRENTLY WORKING on 1 wish: * Wish #4: Cross-wiki watchlist, currently in progress OTHER TEAMS ARE WORKING on 2 wishes: * Wish #3: Central repository for gadgets, templates and Lua modules, foundational work is underway by Legoktm * Wish #6: Allow categories in Commons in all languages, related work is underway by the Wikidata team DECLINED 2 wishes: * Wish #8: Global cross-wiki talk page * Wish #10: Add a user watchlist There's lots of information on the top 10, plus the work being done by WMDE's Technical Wishes team and the Technical Collaboration team, on the Status report page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Status_repor… And we hope that everyone will come and participate in the 2nd annual Community Wishlist Survey, starting November 7th! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey See you soon, -- Danny DannyH (WMF) Senior Product Manager WMF Community Tech Team

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[Deadline] Outreachy-13 prospective applicants
by Sumit Asthana 17 Oct '16

17 Oct '16

Dear Outreachy applicants, The deadline to submit Outreachy-13[0] proposals at[1] is October 17 7PM UTC. Please make sure that your initial draft is submitted before that deadline. The application can be edited till sometime afterwards. If not made initial contributions yet, kindly get in touch with project mentors and make initial contributions to projects of your interest or some part of MediaWiki soon and continue to work towards the proposal. This will make you a *strong* candidate for the project and help the mentors in the selection process. To start with initial contributions, set up your dev environment[2] and read the complete beginner's guide[3]. For anything else just ask :) [0] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_13 [1] - https://outreachy.gnome.org/?q=program_home&prg=7 [2] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial [3] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker -- -Thanks, Sumit <http://mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumit.iitp>

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Simplifying the use of update.php for wiki families
by Huji Lee 16 Oct '16

16 Oct '16

Dear all, I am working on a simple idea that would simplify how update.php can be used for wiki families. Please consider commenting on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147817 Thanks, Huji

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MediaWiki postgres users could we have your help to fix postgres in mw 1.28 please
by Paladox 15 Oct '16

15 Oct '16

Hi could could any postgres developer please help with task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147599 please. Postgres is currently broken in mw 1.28 and needs fixing please.

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Long summary upon reverting an IPv6 anon
by Bináris 15 Oct '16

15 Oct '16

(eltér <https://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C3%9Ajrahasznos%C3%ADt%C3%A1s&c…> | történet <https://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C3%9Ajrahasznos%C3%ADt%C3%A1s&c…>) . . a Újrahasznosítás <https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Ajrahasznos%C3%ADt%C3%A1s>‎; 07:59 . . (-22)‎ . . ‎Vépi <https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szerkeszt%C5%91:V%C3%A9pi> ( vitalap <https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szerkeszt%C5%91vita:V%C3%A9pi> | szerkesztései <https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speci%C3%A1lis:Szerkeszt%C5%91_k%C3%B6zrem%C5…> | blokkolás <https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speci%C3%A1lis:Blokkol%C3%A1s/V%C3%A9pi>)‎ (Visszaállítottam a lap korábbi változatát: 2A01:36D:119:A1B8:18B6:A5ED:816F:D9CB <https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speci%C3%A1lis:Szerkeszt%C5%91_k%C3%B6zrem%C5…> (vita <https://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Szerkeszt%C5%91vita:2A01:36D:119…>) szerkesztéséről [[User:Burumbátor|Buru…) This is the automatic summary of a simple revert as shown in recent changes. Half a sentence, and the previous aditor's name is hardly in it (would be truncated if it was a few characters longer). Should end with "[[User:Burumbátor|Burumbátor]] szerkesztésére." Is there a solution for this? Is it worth a bug ticket? -- Bináris

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CentralAuth MediaWiki-Vagrant
by Matthew Flaschen 15 Oct '16

15 Oct '16

If you use MediaWiki-Vagrant with CentralAuth, you may have noticed it stopped working. There was a recent schema change, and since CA does not use update.php, you have to do it manually (or destroy your box, but that will take a lot longer). If it's broken (huge red box and "Unknown column 'lu_local_id' in 'field list'") $ vagrant ssh $ mysql centralauth < /vagrant/mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth/db_patches/patch-lu_local_id.sql (This could be done via Puppet, but that would require writing that and then checking at runtime whether these columns exist forever.) I hope that helps, Matt

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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2016-10-10
by Chris Koerner 14 Oct '16

14 Oct '16

Greetings, This week is chock full of updates from Discovery. As always, feedback and questions are welcome. = Discussions = == Search == * Updated the search results page because the content overflows page boundaries [1] * Add accent squashing to Russian/Cyrillic analyser (with tests) [2] * Fixed Cyrillic 'Е' and 'Ё' equivalence not found by search [3] * Decided on the outcome of the recent BM25 A/B test, what our next steps on using BM25 will be [4] * Fixed issue where the search page content overflows the page boundaries on various browsers [5] * Updated where users prefer pages in their language in multilingual wikis [6] Search tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Oct 25, 2016: * Put SITENAME in search box placeholder "searchsuggest-search" like in MobileFrontend's "mobile-fronted-placeholder [7] * Integrate "did you mean" data collection into search satisfaction schema [8] == Analysis == * Completed analysis of the results of BM25 AB test (final report) [9] [10] * Search results page: how many visitors are on mobile vs desktop [11] - Mikhail ran a hive query for the last couple of weeks and discovered: * Analyze the variance of user-agent's, country, and other useful metrics of google referred traffic with and without a search query available in referrer [12] ** this was to analyze what the difference is between the requests that have a search term in the query and those that do not, to determine if those queries could be used as a representative sample. Turns out, they're not relevant at all. * Investigate recent spike in pageviews on wikipedia.org portal page [13] ** there has been a dramatic increase in the amount of page views since middle of Sep 2016 to the portal--it turns out that this increase is due to various issues: school starting up again, increasing bot traffic, and possibly several agencies/companies that might have loaded 'golden' copies of software onto their employees phones that have wikipedia.org as the default home page of their Android phone browsers. == Portal == * Updated articles by languages [14] * Centered 'the free encyclopedia' phrase on mobile devices [15] * Fixed the language link that broke unevenly [16] * Updated the portal text to use the new, approved shade of blue (partially completed) [17] * Fixed where `.lang-list-button` doesn't feature focus state [18] Portal updates that need code review: * update logo for new branding guidelines [19] * add information for Wikipedia / Wikimedia apps availability [20] == Interactive == * Maps with geoshapes now have a link to Wikidata item or query in the bottom attribution text (i.e.: externalData should show up as data source in credits) [21] * Migrated all map usage from "href" to "service" external data (about 50 pages) [22] * Simplified (and normalized) ExternalData parsing in Kartographer [23] * Geoshapes service URL is hardcoded [24] * Refactor data loader into a separate lib, as both Kartotherian (snapshot) and Kartographer need identical functionality, for a given map, we need to provide a fully expanded (no externalData) GeoJSON [25] * Fixed where failed ExternalData requests result in all maps on page being completely broken [26] * Set "maxzoom" to 14 on osm.tm2source, based on community feedback [27] * Defined KPIs and other interesting maps statistics about how we would like to gather to track and improve maps [28] * Ensure Maps servers can be installed easily (automation + documentation) [29] * maps-test* hosts running low on space [30] * Updated to postgresql 9.4.9 on all maps servers [31] * Created a pipeline for supplying data to static map service (Here is a sample URL) [32] [33] * Error "Maximum zoom is 18" (updated logging to be an 'info' message rather than an error) [34] * Fixed where the Sparql-based externalData maps are broken [35] Interactive tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Oct 25, 2016: * <mapframe> maximize button sometimes doesn't work [36] * buildHtml() should parse messages in parser output language [37] = Other Noteworthy Stuff = * The Search team created a new ticket to note what will be 'live' in production during the next full re-indexing: [Recurring task] CirrusSearch: what is updated during re-indexing [38] * Request for translation sent for Update CirrusSearch documentation [39] [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138108 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102298 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124592 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147008 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138108 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T68829 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144640 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138087 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143589 [10] https://wikimedia-research.github.io/Discovery-Search-Test-BM25/ [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147513 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128146 [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146214 [14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 [15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143241 [16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144007 [17] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146231 [18] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143127 [19] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144834 [20] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137495 [21] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145109 [22] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147530 [23] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147128 [24] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146494 [25] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147078 [26] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146400 [27] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147698 [28] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144239 [29] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138501 [30] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146848 [31] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138276 [32] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133247 [33] http://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,1,0,0,1000x1000.png?domain=www.media… [34] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146805 [35] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148237 [36] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147987 [37] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148082 [38] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147505: [39] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141156 ---- The full update, and archive of past updates, can be found on Mediawiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as Easy or volunteer needed in Phabricator. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R -- Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile JavaScript
by Dmitry Brant 14 Oct '16

14 Oct '16

Hi Denny, Speaking for the apps, we do not load any JavaScript, except for a few packaged scripts used for app-specific features (e.g. collapsing infoboxes). -Dmitry On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Two stupid questions, I couldn't find the answer on MediaWiki.org: > > 1) is MediaWiki:common.js being loaded on the mobile web view? Or any other > js? What about User:Name/common.js? > > 2) same question but for the Wikipedia app. Does the app run any js? > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dmitry Brant Senior Software Engineer / Product Owner (Android) Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering

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Mobile JavaScript
by Denny Vrandečić 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

Two stupid questions, I couldn't find the answer on MediaWiki.org: 1) is MediaWiki:common.js being loaded on the mobile web view? Or any other js? What about User:Name/common.js? 2) same question but for the Wikipedia app. Does the app run any js?

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wiki-research-l] Feature Requests: Suggeted new features
by Aaron Gray 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

Toby, Right thanks for the top level info, I am going to step back and think about this a bit. I have tried out the Hovercards beta which provides something like summaries and its very nice so have made a few suggestions regarding the idea. i.e. optional explicit summary markdown for overriding implicit summary generation behaviour. And summary types like simple and expert summaries and accessing summaries for terms from wikctionary. I am looking into the mechanics of whats involved in implementing both summary markup and classification "bread crumbs" as extensions. Regards, Aaron On 11 October 2016 at 17:17, Toby Negrin <tnegrin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi Aaron -- > > Thanks for your interest and suggestions! > > A bit late to the thread but I thought I'd point you at the WMF's annual > plan[1]. The Foundation puts forward a proposal to the community in the > March/April timeframe and after discussion it is approved by the board. > > This and the quarterly planning process[2] are good venues for feature > oriented discussions like some of your suggestions. > > -Toby > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_ > Annual_Plan/2016-2017/Final > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q2_Goals > > On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 5:37 AM, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Dear Wikipedia and MediaWiki people, >> >> Hers are some suggested ideas that may allow Wikipedia and MediaWiki to >> be organized better in the future and for the future of organizing the >> worlds open public information. >> >> *Summaries - popup summaries for pages* >> >> Using automated generation of content for the title attribute on the <a> >> tag containing a summary containing either the content from an >> <article><header><section id="summary"> or a designated section from >> Wikimedia markdown a popup summary could be generated for quick browsing >> for definition of terms on hyperlinks. This would vastly aid the user >> experience. >> >> >> *Categories - bread crumb like hierarchical and cross referencing >> categorization and navigation* >> By creating a set of categorical navigation pages the whole of fields of >> knowledge on Wikipedia could be categorized. >> >> By having a set of clickable list of hierarchical categories displayed >> like 'bread crumb' navigation lists under the page title the user could >> quickly navigate this hierarchy. >> >> By adding pop up menus to the separating chevrons with each subcategories >> elements cross category navigation would be made possible. >> >> Double clicking on chevrons should navigate to the categorical navigation >> page. >> >> *QuickLink - Quick Link Creation* >> >> A hotkey and JavaScript script could allow the creation of links from a >> selected highlighted bit of normal text to lookup a term, display its >> summary and allow the user to confirm the generation of a new hyperlink >> very quickly without having to edit markdown. >> >> *Move towards semantic content* >> >> By using new HTML elements like <article>, <section> and <header> and >> id's and classes more of a semantic mapping of content may be established. >> Tis maybe done incrementally and also for example by a bot auto generating >> new summary information that maybe verified by either users or editors for >> publishing. >> >> *API* >> >> API's from summaries, categories, and semantic content should be made >> available. >> >> More to come ... >> >> Regards, >> >> Aaron Gray >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >

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