Wikitech-l June 2017

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RFC call for comments on Reading List Service
by Corey Floyd 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

Hi all! The Reading Infrastructure Team has created an RFC for a Reading List Service to be used both by the platforms within Reading and by 3rd party developers as well. RfC: Reading List service <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164990> If you have used the Wikipedia Android app, you may already be using Reading Lists. While many Android users love Reading Lists, unfortunately there is no way to sync them across devices. This new service will allow users to sync these lists for the first time while keeping them private. The current plan is to develop this service for beta usage in the Android app. And then after testing and feedback, evaluate the service for roll out it out the rest of the reading platforms: iOS, mobile web, and desktop web with consultation from the community. For more details please check out the RFC and post comments and questions in there. Thanks everyone! -- Corey Floyd Engineering Manager Reading Wikimedia Foundation cfloyd(a)wikimedia.org

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CREDIT showcase, Wednesday 7-June-2017
by Lani Goto 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

Hi! I'd like to welcome you to join us at the CREDIT showcase next week, Wednesday, 7-June-2017 at 1800 UTC / 1100 Pacific Time. We'd like to see your demos, whether they're rough works in progress or polished production material, or even just a telling of something you've been studying recently. For more information on the upcoming event, as well as recordings of previous events, please visit the following page: <http://goog_1968694156/> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase And if you'd like to share the news about the upcoming CREDIT showcase, here's some suggested verbiage. Thanks! *Hi <FNAME>* *I hope all is well with you! I wanted to let you know about CREDIT, a monthly demo series that we’re running to showcaseopen source tech projects from Wikimedia’s Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery, Infrastructure and Technology teams. * *CREDIT is open to the public, and we welcome questions and discussion. The next CREDIT will be held on June 7th at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 18:00 UTC. * *There’s more info on MediaWiki, and on Etherpad, which is where we take notes and ask questions. You can also ask questions on IRC in the Freenode chatroom #wikimedia-office (web-based access here). Links to video will become available at these locations shortly before the event.* *Please feel free to pass this information along to any interested folks. Our projects tend to focus on areas that might be of interest to folks working across the open source tech community: language detection, numerical sort, large data visualizations, maps, and all sorts of other things.* *If you have any questions, please let me know! Thanks, and I hope to see you at CREDIT.* *YOURNAME* -- Lani Goto Project Assistant, Engineering Admin

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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2017-05-29
by Chris Koerner 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

Here is the update from the Discovery department for the past few weeks. == Discussions == === Search === * Updated code for enwiki's display of sister project snippets, production release is scheduled for the week of June 5th, 2017, users can test it out using the self-guided testing directions on MediaWiki.org. [0] [1] === Analysis === Moved Discovery's public datasets to a better, aggregated location [2] === Interactive === * Fixed a bug where maplink wasn't working [3] === Events and News === * The Discovery team had their annual offsite a few days before the Hackathon in Vienna in mid May 2017. [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163463 [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/self-g… [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166724 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166735 --- The archive of all 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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Scoring Platform Team update
by Aaron Halfaker 03 Jun '17

03 Jun '17

Hey folks, I'll be starting to post updates here on our new blog[1], but if you'd prefer to be notified via the mailing lists we used to post to, that's OK. I'll make sure that the highlights and the link to these posts gets pushed there too. We had a big presence at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2017 in Vienna. We kicked off a lot of new language focused collaborations (Greek, Tamil, Bengali) and we deployed a new Item Quality model for Wikidata. French and Finnish Wikipedias now have advance edit quality prediction support! ORES is available through api.php again via rvprop=orescores and rcprop=oresscores. Wiki labels now has a new stats reporting interface. Check out https://labels.wmflabs.org/stats We had a major hiccup when failing over to CODFW, but we worked it out and ORES is very happy again. See more details on our new blog: "Score all the things" https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/blog/view/8/ -Aaron Principal Research Scientist @ WMF Head of the Scoring Platform team

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Question re what-links-here
by Aran 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

Hello, I have some wikis which have had some of their content changed programmatically due to the code in a parser-function being changed. In the wikis that are MediaWiki 1.27, the links in the what-links-here didn't update after I ran the refreshLinks maintenance script. The ones that are 1.28's in the same situation the links updated fine after running the script... is this a known issue? is there any way I can update the links in the 1.27's without upgrading the wiki? Thanks, Aran

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Congratulations to accepted candidates for Google Summer of Code 2017 & Outreachy Round 14
by Srishti Sethi 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

Hello, Please join me in welcoming Wikimedia's accepted candidates for Google Summer of Code 2017 and Outreachy Round 14! Google Summer of Code 2017 1. Alexander Jones, Texas, United States, Implement Thanks support in Pywikibot <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161426> - John Mark Vandenberg 2. Amrit Sreekumar, Kerela, India, Improvements to ProofreadPage Extension and Wikisource <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161111> - Yann Forget, Tpt 3. Feroz Ahmad, New Delhi, India, Add a "hierarchy" type to the Cargo extension <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161609> - Yaron Koren, Nischayn22 4. Harjot Singh Bhatia, New Delhi, India, Adding Data storage feature and upgrading Quiz extension <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160257> - Marielle Volz, Sam Reed 5. Harsh Shah, India, Build a similar to @NYPLEmoji bot for Commons images - Dereckson, Ariel 6. Keerthana S, India, Automatic editing suggestions and feedbacks for articles in Wiki Ed Dashboard <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160840> - Sage Ross, Jonathan Morgan 7. Sejal Khatri, India, Provide enhanced usability for Wikimedia Programs & Events Dashboard managed by Wiki Education foundation < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161929> - Sage Ross, Jonathan Morgan 8. Siddhartha Sarkar, India, Single Image Batch Upload < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161670> - Basvb Outreachy Round 14 1. Ela Opper, Tel Aviv, Israel, "Remind me of this article in X days" MediaWiki notification <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161823> - Matthew Flaschen and Moriel Schottlender 2. Medha Bansal, New Delhi, India, WikiEduDashboard: Allow Programs & Events Dashboard to make automatic edits on connected wikis < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161568>- Jonathan Morgan, Sage Ross 3. Sonali Gupta, Rajasthan, India, Document process for creating new Zotero translator and getting it live in production < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161191> - Marielle Volz We would like to encourage accepted candidates to introduce themselves on this thread, share with us where they are coming from and give a brief overview of the project they will be working on. We’re so proud of the contributions they have made so far to our community, and we look forward to having a wonderful time working with them over the summer! Also, a huge shout-out to the project mentors for their enthusiasm and commitment! Thank you to Sumit and Anna for coordinating this round along with me! Best, Srishti -- Srishti Sethi Developer Advocate Technical Collaboration team Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)

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Arch Comm evolution plan needs your feedback
by Victoria Coleman 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

Hi everyone, I wanted to bring to everyone’s attention the plan for evolving the WMF Architecture Committee. We are clarifying and broadening the scope and mandate of the Committee and renaming it to the Wikimedia Technical Committee (T-Comm for short). We are excited to share the plan with you! We have published the draft charter at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Charter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Charter> and would appreciate your review and feedback over the next couple weeks. Looking forward to the discussion on the talk page! Victoria ( on behalf of the Arch Comm membership) Victoria Coleman Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105 +1-650-703-8112 vcoleman(a)wikimedia.org

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Join my Reddit AMA about Wikipedia and ethical, transparent AI
by Aaron Halfaker 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

Hey everybody, TL;DR: I wanted to let you know about an upcoming experimental Reddit AMA ("ask me anything") chat we have planned. It will focus on artificial intelligence on Wikipedia and how we're working to counteract vandalism while also making life better for newcomers. We plan to hold this chat on June 1st at 21:00 UTC/14:00 PST in the /r/iAMA subreddit[1]. I'd love to answer any questions you have about these topics questions, and I'll send a follow-up email to this thread shortly before the AMA begins. ---- For those who don't know who I am, I create artificial intelligences[2] that support the volunteers who edit Wikipedia[3]. I've been fascinated by the ways that crowds of volunteers build massive, high quality information resources like Wikipedia for over ten years. For more background, I research and then design technologies that make it easier to spot vandalism in Wikipedia—which helps support the hundreds of thousands of editors who make productive contributions. I also think a lot about the dynamics between communities and new users—and ways to make communities inviting and welcoming to both long-time community members and newcomers who may not be aware of community norms. For a quick sampling of my work, check out my most impactful research paper about Wikipedia[3], some recent coverage of my work from *Wired*[4], or check out the master list of my projects on my WMF staff user page[5], the documentation for the technology team I run[9], or the home page for Wikimedia Research[8]. This AMA, which I'm doing with with the Foundation's Communications department, is somewhat of an experiment. The intended audience for this chat is people who might not currently be a part of our community but have questions about the way we work—as well as potential research collaborators who might want to work with our data or tools. Many may be familiar with Wikipedia but not the work we do as a community behind the scenes. I'll be talking about the work I'm doing with the ethics of AI and how we think about artificial intelligence on Wikipedia, and ways we’re working to counteract vandalism on the world’s largest crowdsourced source of knowledge—like the ORES extension[6], which you may have seen highlighting possibly problematic edits on your watchlist and in RecentChanges. I’d love for you to join this chat and ask questions. If you do not or prefer not to use Reddit, we will also be taking questions on ORES' MediaWiki talk page[7] and posting answers to both threads. 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/ 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence 2. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES 3. http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/halfa… 4. https://www.wired.com/2015/12/wikipedia-is-using-ai-to-expand-the-ranks-of-… 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Halfak_(WMF) 6. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ORES 7. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:ORES 8. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research 9. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Scoring_Platform_team -Aaron Principal Research Scientist @ WMF User:EpochFail / User:Halfak (WMF)

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wiki-research-l] Video demos of upcoming changes to edit review / RC patrol
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

Hi Kerry, The short answer is yes! the Collaboration Team is working now to extend the new user interface so that it includes all the existing features on the Recent Changes page, Watchlist and a few related pages—along with some new tools users are requesting. We’re doing user testing right now of this extended functionality (which includes things like Namespace filters, Tag filters, User filters and, possibly, a Category filter). When we have it all working the way it should, we plan to bring the new UI and tools to Watchlist. This should happen in the next few months. However, it is also already possible to add a "On [my] watchlist" filter or highlight, to the results on the recent changes page. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&hidecategori… or https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&hidecatego… Further details are in the main documentation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements and pages linked in the side-navbox. Feedback appreciated at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_fo… Cheers, On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 8:00 PM, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raymond(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I only watched the first video but I can see it is useful addition to > managing a large number of recent changes. Is there any plan to offer a > similar service with watchlists? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wiki-research-l [mailto:wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] > On Behalf Of Pine W > Sent: Monday, 29 May 2017 7:42 AM > To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org; Wikimedia Mailing List < > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>; Wiki Research-l <wiki-research-l@lists. > wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Video demos of upcoming changes to edit review > / RC patrol > > I'd like to highlight two videos (some people may have already seen these) > that demo upcoming changes to edit review / RC patrol that take advantage > of ORES. I feel that that the changes look promising, and I hope that RC > patrollers, Teahouse hosts, newbie adopters, and others will find that the > changes make their work easier. I also hope for improved retention of > good-faith contributors. > > 0. A succinct overview by Joe Matazzoni (WMF): > https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ANew- > feature_demo%E2%80%94smart_Recent_Changes_filtering_with_ORES.webm > > 1. A more extensive overview, also by Joe, including valuable context, > from the WMF Metrics Meeting for May 2017: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAGwQdLyFb4 between 15:00 and 28:15. > > Pine > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liaison, WMF

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ArchCom Radar, 2017-05-31
by Daniel Kinzler 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

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/2017-05-31>. 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: * ArchCom Charter is up for discussion, please read and comment! <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Charter> * Last Call: Ladsgroup proposed adding an index to rc_this_oldid a year ago, <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139012>. We think it’s find, but if you have objections, or want to have more stuff changed in the recentchanges table, please speak up now! If all pertinent objections are addressed by June 14, this RFC will be approved for implementation. * Yesterday's RFC discussion: Making MW's PostgreSQL schema more similar to the MySQL schema: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164898> * Next week’s RFC discussion: Drop the requirement for every namespace to have a talk namespace: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165149> As always, the discussion will take place in the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Wednesday 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST). * Brad has posted an update to the RFC on storing long revision comments: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153333> * Tim is proposing to start using PHP namespaces consistently in MW core (PSR-4): <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166010> -- Daniel Kinzler Principal Platform Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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