Hello,
The Maps team at the Wikimedia Foundation is getting closer to make it
possible to add interactive maps <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps> to
Wikipedia. If you've ever used services like Google Maps or Mapquest you
may be familiar with interactive maps. We’d like to invite editors to have
a conversation on how these maps might be used within articles. We've put
together information on how these maps and their style works from a
technical perspective
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Conversation_about_interactive_map_use>
– where the data comes from, how maps are styled, how to add an interactive
map, and a few example use cases.
In particular we would like to focus the discussion around three key
questions (open discussion outside these questions is welcome too).
* What types of articles would use interactive maps?
* How do these articles differ in their requirements?
* Are there any classes of articles whose map styling requirement is
fundamentally in conflict with other article classes, thus requiring
multiple styles?
If you are interested, please visit
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Conversation_about_interactive_map_use
to learn more and get involved.
--
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi,
We have a set of Jenkins jobs that run daily and execute Ruby+Selenium
tests. Recently, the way we run those jobs reached a point where we had to
do some serious refactoring[0]. The old jobs were named browsertests*[1],
the new are named selenium*[2].
Changes:
#1 The creation and deletion of jobs have been made simpler. Each
repository now
has only a single job defined in Jenkins. It is a multi configuration job
that spawns one or more child job based on a configuration in each
repository: `tests/browser/ci.yml`[3]. The main job will then spawn child
jobs based on its content.
#2 Jobs execute `selenium` Rake target (`bundle exec rake selenium`). It is
defined in the Rakefile of each repository and load the Rake task from
mediawiki_selenium
Ruby gem version 1.7.0[4].
What does it mean for you?
At this point, no action in needed. All required changes have already been
made. When the selenium* job passed for a repository, I have already
deleted the browsertests* legacy one. There is still a few repositories
(Flow, MobileFrontend, MultimediaViewer, Wikidata) that need to be moved,
but we are working on that.
If you have any questions, let me know.
Željko
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0: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128190
1: https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/BrowserTests/view/-Dashboard/
2: https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/Selenium/
3: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Continuous_integration/Entry_points#ci.yml
4: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Continuous_integration/Entry_points#Rake
Hi everyone
I am Alangi Derick and also d3r1ck on the IRC. I was selected in the GSoC
2016 program and was opportuned to work on the project titled "Integration
of IFTTT support for Wikidata" and I am very happy to be the first African
GSoCer in Wikimedia Foundation. This is indeed a priviledge and I wish to
thank everyone that guided me in this movement to attain this level.
I specially want to thank my mentors (Stephen Laporte, Marius Hoch, Lydia
Pintscher, Benedikt Seidl and Sam Tarling) for helping me before and within
this program. Also I won't forget to thank some very key org admins for
their great help when I just joined the movement (Quim Gil, Brian Wolf,
Andre Klapper), I really thank you all for your help.
I will love to keep working with you all so that I can better shape my
future in Wikimedia and also hope to see you all in person when the time
comes :) and also to all Wikimedia Developers, I shall keep in touch and we
all shall make the movement better in the future.
Cheers!!!!
Regards
Alangi Derick Ndimnain
FYI
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From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 9:37 AM
Subject: Developer metrics workshop next to OSCON
To: "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an
interest in Wikipedia and analytics." <analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Manrique Lopez <jsmanrique(a)bitergia.com>
Hi, is there anybody in this list planning to attend OSCON (Austin, May
16-19)?
http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-us
Next to that event there will be a workshop about Software Development
Analytics and the new Grimoire toolkit platform, on May 16th (10am - 1pm CDT
):
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-development-analytics-workshop-ticket…
The registration is not free, but the organizers (Bitergia, the developers
of http://korma.wmflabs.org/ ) are offering us a couple of invitations.
Andre and I are not attending OSCON (we have participated in the FOSDEM
edition of this workshop). If you or someone you know is interested,
contact me.
--
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Hi Community Metrics team,
This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail.
Accounts created in (2016-04): 227
Active users (any activity) in (2016-04): 863
Task authors in (2016-04): 493
Users who have closed tasks in (2016-04): 274
Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on
their workboard in (2016-04): 0
Tasks created in (2016-04): 2663
Tasks closed in (2016-04): 2420
Open and stalled tasks in total: 29610
Median age in days of open tasks by priority:
Unbreak now: 20
Needs Triage: 158
High: 262
Normal: 415
Low: 733
Lowest: 544
(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 Sun May 1 00:00:10 UTC 2016)