There will be a brown bag Tuesday, March 1st at 1pm Pacific time. We will
review some new changes to Phabricator. Many of these changes will be
relevant specifically to advanced users.
We will review:
- where Phabricator administration conversations are happening
- the custom forms feature
- the updates to projects, sub-projects and milestones
- other smaller changes
We should have plenty of time for Q&A
Blue jeans link [1]
The Blue Jeans video will be recorded. The recording and slide deck will be
posted to the Phabricator mediawiki pages [2].
[1]
https://bluejeans.com/105994346
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator
Hi folks,
An ArchCom RFC triage (per
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125865>) was penciled in for this
past RFC meeting (<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E144>), but I was
out for jury duty and wasn't able to make the push for this or
facilitate it if we stuck with my hasty plan. I'm done now, and would
be happy to accommodate assuming everyone is available and up for
helping out with a triage for this coming meeting on Wednesday
2016-03-02 (<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E146>)
The point of the triage would be to try to ensure that more RFCs have
assigned shepherds on ArchCom. That, in turn, would hopefully make it
more likely for an RFC to make it through the process more quickly.
Instead of having to ask all of ArchCom status about a particular RFC,
there would be a single ArchCom owner to check in with.
Any RFC that doesn't have a shepherd is not likely to move through the
process. There are always going to be several RFCs that don't have
shepherds. Just submitting an RFC doesn't guarantee that an ArchCom
member will think your RFC is important. Life is hard that way. Make
your case!
Note also: shepherd != slave. Even when an RFC has a shepherd,
there's no guarantee that the RFC is a high priority for the shepherd.
Certainly, the shepherd's credibility as a worthy ArchCom member is
potentially damaged by foot dragging, but don't bank on being able to
dump blame on the shepherd if your RFC isn't going fast enough for
your taste.
Thoughts?
Rob
Please join for the following tech talk:
*Tech Talk**:* Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the technology
behind it
*Presenter:* Sebastian Karcher (Syracuse University, Zotero)
*Date:* February 29th, 2016
*Time: *20:00 UTC
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+Autom…>
*Length:* 1 hour
Link to live YouTube stream <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltEL-kPURKs>
*IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office
*Summary: *The talk provides a very brief introduction to Marielle Volz's
Citoid, the tool providing Wikipedia's new automated citations.I then focus
on the technology underlying Citoid, Zotero translators, and discuss how
interested users/developers can help improve that functionality to better
serve the Wikipedia community.
Hello there,
We are importing a large zh-minnan dictionary into zh wikisource and it
requires some installation of dialect han script. We have a group of
engineer built a tool for this and it's been tested and ready to deploy on
wmflab. However there is a bug on the wmflab, although the engineers have
been requested to fix this on phabricator for a week, but it seems like
there is no response yet.
Please refer https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118094 . We really need
help to make it works. Thank you.
Liang (WMTW)
Hello, I have been selected as finalist for Women in Open Source by Red
Hat. Next is a public voting round where your votes will make a difference.
Please go to
https://engage.redhat.com/opensourceawards-winners-votingform-2016 , enter
your email address and cast your vote. Spread this among your friends.
Thanks a lot!
PS- Here's a list of the finalists (redhat.com/en/about/women-in-open-source).
And of course, vote for the best one you think deserves to win! :)
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Thanks and Regards,
Ankita Shukla
Computer Science Engineering
B.Tech Final Year (Senior)
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Searching for articles is getting a much needed boost in intelligence. When
searching for an article on any Wikimedia project, a list of possible
matches appear as you type. This incremental search
<https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Incremental_search> 'completion
suggester' helps narrow down possible results for your search query.
Currently the completion suggester is very literal - mistype a word and you
won't see any suggestions. The Discovery team has an update that will make
the search better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes. The list of
suggestions is also tends to be more accurate and relevant to the original
search query. You can see the improvement for yourself as a beta feature
<http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures>.
The plan is to begin rolling out this update in the coming month.
This improvement will impact all Wikimedia sites (with the exception of
Wikidata). With the initial rollout, there will be a few limitations. For
technical reasons, the completion suggester will only affect articles in
the mainspace, not other pages like policy or user pages. Those searches
will continue to use the existing incremental search. We're hoping to
expand the scope of the completion suggester to include other pages in the
future, but this will not be a part of the initial release.
Why are we making this change? The success of our A/B tests on the
completion suggester show a reduction in users who find zero results when
searching. We also have a fairly large number of Wikimedians (nearly 19,000
editors since December 2015) using the beta feature, and we've received
positive feedback on the feature so far. The completion suggester has the
potential of lessening the need for redirects based on spelling mistakes as
well.
The goal is to bring these updates to the default search across all
Wikimedia projects in the coming month. This change will affect the
completion suggester in the main search box on desktop, mobile apps, adding
links in VisualEditor, and the search box on the Wikimedia Portal.
Here are two animations showing the completion suggester before and after
(using a misspelling of "Abendessen", with a missing "s").
* Completion Suggester results for "Abendesen" on German Wikipedia before
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Completion-suggester-before-de.gif>
* Completion Suggester results for "Abendesen" on German Wikipedia after
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Completion-suggester-after-de.gif>
Since December 2015, nearly 19,000 editors have already opted into the
completion suggester beta feature. We encourage you to try it out and share
your feedback on the Completion Suggester discussion page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch/CompletionSuggester>.
If you'd like to read a little more about the work of the Discovery
Department and other improvements to search, please check out the Wikimedia
blog
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/23/search-and-discovery-on-wikipedia/> or
read about CirrusSearch
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch>, the Mediawiki
Extension that powers our search.
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Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
FYI
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ginevra Sanvitale <ginevra.esse(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 2:52 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Call for posters, discussions and trainings at
Wikimania opened
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List <
wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, chapters(a)wikimedia.ch
(Sorry for the crossposting)
Hi people,
the calls for posters, discussions and trainings for Wikimania 2016 are
officially opened, you can find all the relevant links on the conference
wiki:
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
The calls will be closed on March 20.
Posters will be reviewed just to make sure that there aren't things
which are too much out of scope. Since we have a whole village we will
surely find places to attach them, even if we they will be a lot!
Discussions will be managed by a guiding committee who will work on the
wiki to meld all the proposals and suggestions.
Trainings will be reviewed by the programme committee. Please note that
we request that each training has at least 3-5 interested attendees in
order to be put in the programme.
By the beginning of April we will have a first list of all the accepted
proposals.
If you have questions we suggest you to ask them on the discussion pages
on wiki, so that everyone will be able to see them (and their answers,
of course).
We are looking forward to read your ideas!
Ginevra
Wikimania 2016 Programme Committee
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