Wikitech-l May 2018

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IRC Meeting for RFC "Come up with a strategy for handling interface changes"
by Kate Chapman 07 May '18

07 May '18

Hi All, We ended up scheduling this a little late so it didn't go out on the TechCom Radar. There is a IRC meeting on 2018-05-09 at 2pm PST(22:00 UTC, 23:00 CET) on #wikimedia-office channel for RFC: Come up with a strategy for handling interface changes <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193613> Thanks, -Kate -- Kate Chapman TechCom Facilitator (Contractor)

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Introduction : Ujjwal Agrawal ( GSoC 2018 )
by Ujjwal Agrawal 07 May '18

07 May '18

Hello Everyone! I am Ujjwal Agrawal, third-year B.Tech. Undergraduate at Indian Institue of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, and I've been selected for GSoC 2018. I have a keen interest in Android App development and I will be implementing a feature to browse/search the Wikimedia Commons Repository from Commons App <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188597 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189788#4153895>>, as a part of my intern program. I’d like to thank my mentors Nicolas Raoul and Neslihan for giving me this wonderful opportunity! Regards Ujjwal Agrawal

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Adding a category to json page
by יגאל חיטרון 07 May '18

07 May '18

Hello. Is there a way to add a category to json contentmodel page? Thank you. Igal (User:IKhitron)

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GSoC 2018 Introduction: Prssanna Desai
by prssanna desai 06 May '18

06 May '18

Greetings, I'm Prssanna Desai, an undergraduate student from NMIMS University, Mumbai, India and I've been selected for GSoC '18. *My Project:* *Improve Data Explorer for query.wikidata.org <http://query.wikidata.org>* The project consists of making usability improvements to the Explorer Dialog and the Graph Explorer of WDQS. You can read my full proposal here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189669 I’d like to thank my mentors Jonas Kress, Stas Malyshev and Lucas Werkmeister for giving me this wonderful opportunity! Regards, Prssanna Desai

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TechCom Radar 2018-05-02
by Kate Chapman 04 May '18

04 May '18

Hi All, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Public IRC Meeting on Colorable SVG <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106240> occured minutes available here: <https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2018/wikimedia-office.20…> * RFC Approved Tracking dependencies for multiple Content objects per page (MCR) <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190063> * Discussed reviewing development policies and then using RFC process to update: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190379> You can also find our meeting minutes at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Minutes> See also the TechCom RFC board <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-rfcs/>. -- Kate Chapman TechCom Facilitator (Contractor)

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Thank you for participating in the global Wikimedia survey!
by Edward Galvez 03 May '18

03 May '18

Hello everyone, I would like to share my deepest gratitude for everyone who responded to the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors Survey. The survey has already closed for this year. The quality of the results has improved because more people responded. We heard from over 200 people who work in volunteer developer spaces like Phabricator, IRC, Mediawiki, mailing lists, and many others, which is a solid increase from last year. We are working on analyzing the data already and hope to have something published on meta in a couple months. Be sure to watch Community Engagement Insights <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights> for when we publish the reports. We will also message those individuals who signed up on the thank you page or sent us an email to receive updates about the report. Feel free to reach out to me directly at egalvez[at] wikimedia.org or at my talk page on meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:EGalvez_(WMF)>. Thank you again to everyone for sharing your opinions with us! -- Edward Galvez Evaluation Strategist, Surveys Learning & Evaluation Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation

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Scribunto localization/code review request
by Martin Urbanec 03 May '18

03 May '18

Hello all, can somebody with +2 on Scribunto please review&merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/403603 for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184512? Thanks! Martin

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Τι σας κάνει ευτυχισμένη αυτήν την εβδομάδα? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 22 April 2018)
by Pine W 03 May '18

03 May '18

*"To be, or not to be"* A phrase from Shakespeare's *Hamlet <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet> *is "To be, or not to be, that is the question"*.* Chris Koerner from WMF Discovery published some interesting information about the verb "to be", and how on-wiki search deals with it, in this issue <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2018-April/001652.html> of the *Discovery Weekly Update*: "The English verb "to be" is kind of weird—the infinitive "be" and participles "being, been" start with "b-", while the preterite forms "was, were" start with "w-", and the present forms "am, is, are" start with vowels. The conjugations originally come from three or four different verbs! Why "three or four"? Wiktionary disagrees with itself a bit, listing four on the etymology of "is" [5] and three on the etymology of "be". [6] The conflation goes back at least to Proto-Germanic, [7] so German is similarly weird. [8] Dutch has a greatly simplified paradigm, but still shows some trace of the multiple sources. [9] Other languages, including ASL, Arabic, Bengali, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian at least partly avoid this mess by having a zero copula. [10] For search on-wiki, we deal with this problem in part with stemming [11] and stop words. [12] "[5] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/is#Etymology_1 [6] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/be#Etymology [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language [8] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sein#Conjugation [9] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zijn#Inflection [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_copula [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words" *Legal case ends well for Greek Wikipedia administrator*From the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/18/greece-legal-case-ended/ *Photos from the 2018 Wikimedia Conference in Germany* Some photos of the 2018 Wikimedia Conference are available on Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Conference_2018>. Here are a few: * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_ Conference_2018,_Group_photo.jpg * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_ Conference_2018_by_ZUFAr_01.jpg * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMCON18_Sweets_Table_1.jpg * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMCON18_by_Rehman_-_Posters_(2).jpg * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Conference_2018_%E2%80%93… What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any language. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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[MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki 1.31.0-rc.0 now available
by Chad Horohoe 02 May '18

02 May '18

Hi, I'd like to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.31.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for 1.31.x. Links at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. This is not a final release and should not be used for production websites. There's several major outstanding bugs on the workboard. As always please do try out the release candidate in a test environment. It's how we find bugs that didn't surface in initial development :) Full release notes: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_31/RELEASE-NOTES… https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.31 ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.31/mediawiki-1.31.0-rc.0.tar.gz Core only, no extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.31/mediawiki-core-1.31.0-rc.0.ta… GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.31/mediawiki-core-1.31.0-rc.0.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.31/mediawiki-1.31.0-rc.0.tar.gz.… Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html -- Chad Horohoe _______________________________________________ MediaWiki announcements mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce

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Scoring platform status update
by Adam Wight 02 May '18

02 May '18

We've summarized our technical work over the last three months, please see the blog post for details: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/104/status_update_may_2_2… Our novel, collaborative auditing system "judgment and dialogue engine" (JADE) is deployed to the beta cluster and is now available for tool developers to explore and integrate with. Read more here, https://mediawiki.org/wiki/JADE A dynamically updated table of ORES support is now available for anyone tracking our progress: https://tools.wmflabs.org/ores-support-checklist/ Regards, Adam

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