Hi all,
the Wikimedia Foundation's Reading Infrastructure team [1] is preparing to
work on exposing pageview data in the action API [2]. Pageview data is
already available as a standalone REST API [3] but we are hoping to make
access to that information more convenient by including it in the output of
other APIs as well.
This could include information like daily pageview totals for the wiki for
the last X day, monthly unique visitors, list of the most-viewed pages,
daily view totals for specific pages (integrated with other page
information the API provides).
It is important that we understand what use cases to expect when selecting
what information to include and making other design decisions; if you might
use such an API in the future, please leave a comment on the task [4] and
tell us how you would use it and what information you expect from it.
Thanks!
Gergő
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Tgr_(WMF)
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Reading_Infrastructure_team
[2] a.k.a. api.php or MediaWiki API - the one at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox
[3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/PageviewAPI
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144865
FYI
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From: Marti Johnson <mjohnson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 1:34 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Open call for Project Grant proposals (Sep
12-October 11)
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone,
The Wikimedia Foundation Project Grants program launches its second open
call today, September 12. We will be accepting proposals through October
11 for new ideas to improve Wikimedia projects.
Funds are available to support individuals, groups and organizations to
implement new experiments and proven ideas, whether focused on building a
new tool or gadget, organizing a better process on your wiki, researching
an important issue, coordinating an editathon series or providing other
support for community-building.
Ideas from the current Inspire Campaign on addressing harassment are very
welcome. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire>
Do you have have a good idea, but would like some feedback before
applying? Put it into the IdeaLab, where volunteers and staff can give you
advice and guidance on how to bring it to life. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab> Once your idea is ready,
it can be easily migrated into a grant request.
Marti Johnson and I will also be hosting weekly proposals clinics via
Hangouts for real-time discussions about the Project Grants Open Call.
We’ll answer questions and help you make your proposal better. Dates and
times are as follows:
* Fri, Sep 16, 1400- 1500 UTC
* Tues, Sep 20, 0100 - 0200 UTC
* Wed, Sep 28, 1400 - 1500 UTC
* Tue, Oct 4, 2200 - 2300 UTC
* Tues, Oct 11, 0200 - 0300 UTC
* Tue, Oct 11, 1600 -1700 UTC
Links for Hangouts are available here: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project>
We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and
make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into
motion, and submit your proposal between September 12 and October 11! <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Apply>
Please feel free to get in touch with me (mjohnson(a)wikimedia.org) or Alex
Wang (awang(a)wikimedia.org) with questions about getting started with your
project!
Warm regards,
Marti
*Marti JohnsonProgram Officer*
*Individual Grants*
*Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>*
+1 415-839-6885
Skype: Mjohnson_WMF
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Hi all,
The previous announcement stated the window for Tuesday 9/15, which is not
a thing. Our migration will be done tomorrow, Tuesday 9/13 1500-1700. Sorry
for the confusion.
Dan
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Dan Duvall <dduvall(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We'll be migrating all Beta Cluster databases to new Debian jessie based
> instances next Tuesday, September 15, from 1500-1700 UTC. All Beta Cluster
> wikis will be in read-only mode during the migration.
>
> Please contact someone from WMF Release Engineering (#wikimedia-releng on
> freenode IRC) if you have any questions or concerns regarding this
> maintenance operation, or refer to the Phabricator task (T138778).
>
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138778
>
> Thanks!
> Dan
>
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> Dan Duvall
> Software Engineer, Release Engineering
> Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org>
>
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Dan Duvall
Software Engineer, Release Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org>
Hi,
On Monday (2016-09-12), I plan on deploying a change that allows most
users to change the "content model" of a page[1] (the "editcontentmodel"
user right). This functionality has been available to administrators for
a few months now. The permission is similar conceptually to "move", so
it is being granted to all groups that have the "move" permission (and
taken away from those that don't have "move"). Specifics can be seen in
the Gerrit change[2].
This functionality is mostly technical, and documentation can be found
at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:ChangeContentModel>. Currently,
the main usecase is to allow any user to create a MassMessage target
list[3], but others are planned in the future.
If you find documentation missing, or want to change your wiki's
configuration, or have questions in general, feel free to respond via
email, or file a task in the MediaWiki-ContentHandler project and CC me.
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85847
[2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/309066
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92795
Thanks!
-- Legoktm
Hi all,
We'll be migrating all Beta Cluster databases to new Debian jessie based
instances next Tuesday, September 15, from 1500-1700 UTC. All Beta Cluster
wikis will be in read-only mode during the migration.
Please contact someone from WMF Release Engineering (#wikimedia-releng on
freenode IRC) if you have any questions or concerns regarding this
maintenance operation, or refer to the Phabricator task (T138778).
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138778
Thanks!
Dan
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Dan Duvall
Software Engineer, Release Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org>
Hi!
PHP 7.0 is now available and usable in CI. As a small starter, we have
added a job that runs "composer test" using PHP 7.0 for all repositories
that run some form of MediaWiki or unit tests or composer tests. It's
not enabled by default, so you'll need to run "check experimental" on a
patch to see if it passes (thought I doubt there will be a lot of issues).
You can follow [1] for progress on enabling those jobs by default, and
[2] for the next step of running MediaWiki unit tests under PHP 7.
Thank you to ops and the CI team for all of their help and work on this :)
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144961
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144962
-- Legoktm
Dear users, developers and all people interested in semantic wikis,
We are very happy to announce the program of the 13th Semantic MediaWiki
Conference in Frankfurt am Main, Germany! People from business, academia
and non-profit organizations will give a variety of very interesting
talks and presentations about applying semantic wikis as well as about
newest developments in the field.
We would also like to remind you of the upcoming end to the early bird
registration registration period on September 14, 2016. Please register
via Tito [0] if you have not done so already.
Important facts reminder:
* Dates: September 28th to 30th 2016 (Wednesday to Friday)
* Location: German Institute for International Educational Research
(DIPF), Schloßstraße 29, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
* Conference page: https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2016
* Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in
Semantic MediaWiki, e.g. users, developers, consultants, business
representatives and researchers.
News on the program:
* The tutorial program has been announced and made available [1]
* The conference program has now also been announced and made available
[2]. We are very happy that the keynote will be held by Prof. Dr. Sören
Auer of Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information
Systems IAIS, Enterprise Information Systems.
* A social program is also being prepared [3].
* We encourage contributions for poster sessions about semantic wikis;
for a list of topics, see [4]. Please add your proposals by e-mail to
one of the program chairs. (CC)
* Presentations will generally be video and audio recorded and made
available for others after the conference.
Organization:
* Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (DIPF)
[5] and Open Semantic Data Association e. V. [6] have become the
official organisers of SMWCon Fall 2016.
* Very special thanks go to Wikimedia Deutschland [7] for being our
platinum as well as ArchiXL [8] for being our gold supporter.
If you have questions you can contact Sabine Melnicki, Kendra Sticht and
Christoph Schindler (Program Chairs), Karsten Hoffmeyer (General Chair)
or Lia Veja (Local Chair) by e-mail (CC).
We will be happy to see you in Frankfurt!
Sabine Melnicki, Kendra Sticht and Christoph Schindler (Program Board)
[0] <https://ti.to/smwconfall2016/frankfurt>
[1] <https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2016/Tutorial_Day>
[2]
<https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2016/Conference_Days>
[3]
<https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2016#Social_program>
[4] <https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2016/Announcement>
[5] <http://www.dipf.de/en/about-us/contact>
[6] <http://www.opensemanticdata.org/>
[7] <http://www.wikimedia.de/>
[8] <http://www.archixl.nl/>
Dear community, this week we enabled <maplink> support on all Wikipedia and
sister projects. This means that now an article can have a link to a map,
and that map may contain highlighted regions and popups with information.
[1],[3]
Our next step is to add an informational sidebar to the map, similar to
what is being shown on the "geohack" page (map link in the upper right
corner of most location articles). Check out proposed screenshots [2]
We now also have a geoshapes service. So if Open Street Maps community has
defined a region and assigned it a Wikidata ID, you can draw it on the map
with that ID. Or you can use Wikidata Query Service (via SPARQL language),
to query for those IDs and draw them on the map, coloring them and adding
popup information. [3] Geoshapes can also be used for the graphs. [4]
[1] Maps docs: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer
[2] sidebar prototype: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131907#2616275
[3] US Governors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/maplink#/maplink/0
[4] Graph geoshapes
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Graph:Country_with_regions_and_capi…