Wikitech-l December 2016

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Rewrite of the Wikimedia Deutchland fundraising
by Jeroen De Dauw 03 Dec '16

03 Dec '16

Hey all, At Wikimedia Deutchland, we rewrote our fundraising application [0]. For this rewrite we took an approach rather different than what is typically done in Wikimedia-verse [1]. It is my hope that these differences and the lessons we learned are of interest to some on this list. [0] https://www.entropywins.wtf/blog/2016/11/24/rewriting-the- wikimedia-deutschland-funrdraising/ [1] https://www.entropywins.wtf/blog/2016/11/24/implementing- the-clean-architecture/ Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw Software craftsmanship advocate | Developer at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3

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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2016-11-28
by Chris Koerner 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

Hello again, This week saw a few updates from around the department. ==Highlights== * A workshop was held in Germany on advanced search syntax on Wikipedia. [0] * Added draft how to guides for using maps, maplink, mapframe and map template as well as the terms of use landing page for the Maps project. [1] [2] [3] [4] ==Discussions== * Maps and graphs - should there be 'text' and a frame: Request for Comment [5] * Analysis discussion about how to [Dashboard] make backfilling of dashboard data easier [6] === Analysis === * Wrapping up the final report for results of the second BM25 test [7] * Completed analysis for looking at WDQS traffic data to find parallel connection patterns [8] === Portal === * Portal language by articles were updated on Nov 22 to note that dewiki is now over 2 million articles, yay! [9] === Interactive === * Bug fix Interactive mapframe not interactive in embed mode [10] * Minor icon update Reduce the size of the hole in the maplink icon [11] * Updating colors to be in alignment Align Kartographer to WikimediaUI color palette [12] * Work in progress: updating Grafana for better KPI tracking [13] * Ops work: Deploy libmapnik3.0 deb package to all maps servers [14] * Updated logging for KPIs by implementing second phase of map event logging [15] * Bug fix where the "marker-click" event sampling gets overriden - will go out during week of Dec 6 [16] == Other Noteworthy Stuff == * Fun music and neoswing [17] [0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Technische_W%C3%BCnsche/Workshop_sp… [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/how_to:_maps [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/how_to:_embedded_maps [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/how_to:_map_template [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/terms_of_use [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148706 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150915 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147500 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149963 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546#2815592 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150464 [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150924 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150497 [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149723 [14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150722 [15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149834 [16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152162 [17] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ueJ4-lTa1s ---- 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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2016 Wikimedia Developer Summit videos now available on YouTube
by Chris Koerner 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

Hello, The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 videos have been published to YouTube (and Commons!). [1] [2] These videos cover the event earlier this year that saw MediaWiki and Wikimedia contributors come to gather to discuss the future of our shared technologies. Please enjoy and share. [1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeoTcBlDanyNOFQmVMVwpKUXeuw_-896K [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_De veloper_Summit_2016 A big thanks to the people who helped get these videos online to share. Particularly Husn Shujaat and Andre Klapper. Interested in more? Join us at the 2017 Wikimedia Developer Summit in January! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit -- Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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New-feature demo: smart Recent Changes filtering with ORES
by James Salsman 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

Who is speaking on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz_hJlkEqkc ? What is the URL to test it? I'm glad someone is using https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service#Edit_…

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Wikimedia Developer Summit Weekly
by Quim Gil 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

Original version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Td5wfd70vptn8eu4 The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017 is 13 weeks away! PARTICIPANTS * 68 people have requested an invitation. * 19 of them have requested travel sponsorship as well. Join us: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit. The deadline to request travel sponsorship is Monday, October 24th. PROPOSALS * 8 proposals submitted - https://phabricator.wikimedia. org/project/view/2205/ ** 1 in backlog ** 2 in Unconference ** 2 missing basic information ** 3 to be pre-scheduled https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_ Summit/Call_for_participation The deadline for submitting new proposals is Monday, October 31. MAIN TOPICS https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Program On track: * A plan for the Community Wishlist 2016 top results * Building on Wikimedia services: APIs and Developer Resources * How to manage our technical debt Missing basic information * A unified vision for editorial collaboration * Building a sustainable user experience together * How to grow our technical community Missing two facilitators * A unified vision for editorial collaboration * How to grow our technical community Missing one facilitator * Handling wiki content beyond plaintext * Building a sustainable user experience together * Artificial Intelligence to build and navigate content ORGANIZATION * Meet the Program committee. https://www.mediawiki.org/ wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/Program_committee -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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ArchCom Status & Meeting Minutes (WD48)
by Daniel Kinzler 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

Hi all! Here are the minutes from this week's ArchCom meeting. You can also find the minutes at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2016-11-30>. See also the ArchCom status page at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Status> and the RFC board <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-rfcs/>. Here are the minutes, for your convenience: * Brion put together a draft for an ArchCom charter draft for an ArchCom charter. Discussion to continue next week (possibly with Victoria present). Some agreement that ArchCom should... ** ...have a clearer scope ** ...be more proactive ** ...produce guidance documents ** ...have a well defined role in the resource allocation process * RFC board triage: ** Push back has based image URLs (T149847) ** Closing old (2016) working group task, we’ll discuss working groups in the context of the charter draft. ** Plan to revive content model storage RFC (T105652), which got tangled with multi-content-revisions. ** RFC on oldimage table refactoring ready to go on last call next week (T589) ** Deprecation policy (T146965) to be discussed next week (Dec 7) -- Daniel Kinzler Senior Software Developer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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Recently proposed patchsets by new contributors awaiting code review
by Andre Klapper 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

Your help is welcome to provide feedback (CR±1/2) and guidance: == mediawiki/core: == since 2016-11-21: Support Basic Auth on outgoing HTTP https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/320388/ == mediawiki/extensions/LdapAuthentication: == since 2016-09-27 (5th time listed here): Allow local user creation even if LDAP user creation is disabled https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/313019/ (Still no CR±1 decision but review comments by Tgr) Thanks in advance for your reviews! Of last time's 6 listed patches, 5 got merged. Thanks to FlorianSW and VolkerE! -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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WMF Language team office hour and online meeting on December 7, 2016 (Wednesday) at 1300 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

[x-posted announcement] Hello, The next online office hour session of the Wikimedia Language team is scheduled for next Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 at 13:00 UTC. This session is going to be an online discussion over Google Hangouts/Youtube with a simultaneous IRC conversation. Due to the limitation of Google Hangouts, only a limited number of participation slots are available. Hence, do please let us know if you would like to join in the Hangout. During the session, we will be taking questions from viewers only on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office. The channel will be open for interactions during the session. Our last online round-table session was held in September 21, 2016. You can watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXgMZ7myEA4 Please read below for the event details, including local time, youtube session links and do let us know if you have any questions. Thank you Runa == Details == # Event: Wikimedia Language team's office hour session # When: December 7, 2016 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20161207T1300) # Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2PgVNSmohE and on IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) # Agenda: Updates from the Language team and Q & A. -- Language Engineering Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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Phabricator monthly statistics - 2016-11
by communitymetrics＠wikimedia.org 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

Hi Community Metrics team, This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail. Accounts created in (2016-11): 218 Active users (any activity) in (2016-11): 858 Task authors in (2016-11): 464 Users who have closed tasks in (2016-11): 262 Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on their workboard in (2016-11): 229 Tasks created in (2016-11): 2408 Tasks closed in (2016-11): 2105 Open and stalled tasks in total: 32551 Median age in days of open tasks by priority: Unbreak now: 52 Needs Triage: 227 High: 390 Normal: 551 Low: 839 Lowest: 723 (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 described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 . Yours sincerely, Fab Rick Aytor (via community_metrics.sh on iridium at Thu Dec 1 00:00:15 UTC 2016)

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