Wiki articles can be printed by most modern web browsers.The design and
layout of printed articles by the web browser is controlled via a special
print style sheet. This is similar to, but not the same as, the "Download
as PDF" feature, which recently saw a similar update.
Our current print styles have issues printing tables that are common on
many articles. They also do not contain any reference to the Wikipedia
brand. The Readers team at the Wikimedia Foundation plans to update these
print styles with some improvements.
* Book-like styling similar to our current book (PDF) rendering option
* New layout of article content to reduce paper usage. This can potentially
reduce the number of pages printed by 20 to 25%.
* Clear printing of tables and infoboxes
* Better headings
* Project-specific branding
We are planning on deploying these styles in August 2017. For a comparison
of the old print styles and the new, please visit the project page on
MediaWiki.org. Comments and feedback can be left on the talk page there.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Print_Styles#Desktop_Pr…
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello -
I'm writing today to let you know that we're cancelling the recurring
CREDIT showcase (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase). Turnout
has been relatively low for a while, and it requires a fair amount of setup
each month.
Going forward, we'll return to the previous approach, which was having
individual teams sharing demo videos on their own. Please be on the lookout
for such demos along the way on wikitech-l.
In closing, I'd like to thank everyone who's participated in CREDIT in the
past. I've appreciated all of the hard work that goes into planning these
events and the neat things you've all shared along the way.
Thank you.
-Adam
Hi everyone,
Let me start by apologizing for that title to anyone who reads a language
written in Cyrillic. I hope no one sprained their tongue trying to say it
out loud.
To learn why it's an almost reasonable thing to write and more about how
your keyboard can betray you—and how we can use language identification
software to detect your keyboard's inevitable betrayal—head over to the
Wikimedia Blog and read all about it:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/08/28/wikipedia-search-phonetic-keyboards/
Questions and comments here or there are welcome!
—Trey
Trey Jones
Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello everyone,
Wikimedia is delighted to participate the eleventh time in the Outreachy
<https://www.outreachy.org/> internship program. The application period for
interns opens September 7th and will be due October 23rd. In the meanwhile,
we need your help -- we are looking for *suitable projects* and
*mentors*. Projects
could be anything ranging from programming, user experience, documentation,
illustration and graphical design, to data science.
If you would like to feature a project / become a mentor:
1. Get an overview of the selection process, and your responsibilities
before, during, and after the program
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors
2. Create a task, or modify an existing one on Wikimedia's Phabricator
<http://phabricator.wikimedia.org>. Make sure it includes: *Project
title, description (summary in 8-10 lines), skills required (Phabricator
tags are welcome), mentors (required two), micro tasks (link to Phabricator
task that must be completed to become a strong candidate).*
3. Tag the tasks with #Outreach-Programs-Projects
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/2537/> and
#Outreachy-Round-15
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2957/> on Phabricator.
Some more helpful information:
-
View accepted projects from previous round
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_14
-
If you know a newcomer, who meets the eligibility criteria
<https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy#Eligibility>and would be a good fit
for the program, encourage them to apply and follow our participation
guidelines <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Participants>.
Cheers,
Srishti
--
Srishti Sethi
Developer Advocate
Technical Collaboration team
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)
Hi everyone,
I wanted to give you all a heads up about the upcoming Dev Summit. This year the Summit will be held in San Francisco on January 22nd and 23rd, 2018. We are still finalizing the details and will be sending out the call for participation soon. But meantime, we wanted to share a preview of the game plan with you so that you can hold the dates and begin to think about ways of participating.
This has been a year of strategy making for the Foundation and our communities. As the way forward becomes clearer, we, the technology community entrusted with delivering the products and infrastructure for supporting the community vision, need to reflect on what the movement strategy means for us and how to best prepare, plan and execute that support. This year, the Developer Summit is dedicated to this reflection. We invite technologists, managers and users to study, reflect and propose ways to support the strategic vision we are committed to. We would like you to capture your thoughts in a short position statement and join the conversation.
Specifically, we invite you to think about ways of imagining, creating, planning, building and maintaining the technology foundation needed to enable the key tenets of our strategy:
The infrastructure for open: We will empower individuals and institutions to participate and share, through open standards, platforms, and datasets. We will host, broker, share, and exchange free knowledge across institutions and communities. We will be a leading advocate and partner for increasing the creation, curation, and dissemination in free and open knowledge.
An encyclopedia, and so much more: We will adapt to our changing world to offer knowledge in the most effective ways, across digital formats, devices, and experiences. We will adapt our communities and technology to the needs of the people we serve. As we include other forms of free knowledge, we will aim for these projects to be as successful as Wikipedia.
Reliable, relevant information: We will continue our commitment to providing useful information that it is reliable, accurate, and relevant to users. We will integrate technologies that support accuracy at scale and enable greater insight into how knowledge is produced and shared. We will embrace the effort of increasing the quality, depth, breadth, and diversity of free knowledge, in all forms.
This direction poses key questions for our technical community. Here are some example topics we would welcome ideas and discussion in:
How do we maintain and grow the technical community and ready it for the mission ahead?
What should the role of open source be in the next 15 years of the movement? How does it help or hinder? How do we promote it or adapt it? How do we leverage it?
What are the foundational building blocks for the language technologies we will need in order to be present everywhere where there are people?
Scaling. What tools do we need as the movement and the community grow?
What are the implications of the strategic direction for our infrastructure? Do we have any key gaps in this infrastructure? How ready is our infrastructure for what is to come?
How should MediaWiki evolve to support the mission?
What technologies are necessary for embracing mobility?
We operate in parts of the world where access to free knowledge is blocked, hindered or plain dangerous. What tools do we need to support these at-risk communities?
How and with whom should we partner to create the technologies needed to support the mission?
How can we leverage machine learning and analytics to support the mission and our communities?
What are emerging trends in technology that will impact our mission in the next 5-10-15 years?
These conversations will be invaluable input to the next phase of the strategy process as we shift from exploration to definition to execution. We are energized, excited and hopeful for a great set of thoughtful, impactful conversations.
As we embark on this journey we want to have an open but focused dialog so we are aiming for a smaller participant cohort than previous Dev Summits. We want to encourage everyone to consider these questions and put forward ideas in the form of a short position paper or abstract. We are selecting a Program Committee that consists of respected technologists and best represents the diversity of our communities. The Program Committee will screen and evaluate the position papers in a blind review process and will select those that best fit the strategic intent of this Summit. The authors will then be invited to participate. We hope to attract those within our community who are passionate about the future, hold a point of view and have concrete ideas for how we best use technology to support the objectives of the movement through 2030. We will bring the ideas and learnings from the Summit to the broader technology community during the upcoming hackathons and related events in the tech calendar.
So stay tuned for the Call for Participation! Looking forward to seeing you in San Francisco!
Victoria & the TechCom
Hello Everyone,
Hope we all are doing great? I wish to announce the beta release of version
1.0 of the SendGrid MediaWiki extension[1] which enables MediaWiki to send
emails using the SendGrid API. I have been working on this extension for
some time now and finished up the first version last night :).
It's very simple to use and all you need is a valid SendGrid API key
(config in your LocalSettings.php file "wgSendGridAPIKey") and you are
done. In addition, this can be used also by user doing development locally
and wish to send emails from their local wiki. SendGrid offers 12,000
emails to its users for an unlimited time and this can come in handy when
you are not in deployment / production environment.
I wish members of the development community to try this extension out and
see how it works and give in their feedback. A work board for this project
/ extension has been has been requested [2] and will be up soon, but the
extension is okay for use :).
Extensions that perform a similar role are; Mailgun[3] & SwiftMailer[4]. We
need more of this mailer extensions to have various varieties. :)
Thank you and hoping to get some feedback.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SendGrid
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173922
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Mailgun
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SwiftMailer
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