Wikitech-l July 2018

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-l] New extension, VEForAll, enables VisualEditor for use in other textareas
by יגאל חיטרון 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

Hello and thank you. Does it mean I can add some code to my user common.js, so that VE will work in edit window on all namespaces? Igal (User:IKhitron) On Jul 18, 2018 03:29, "Yaron Koren" <yaron(a)wikiworks.com> wrote: Hi everyone, I'm very excited to announce the release of a new MediaWiki extension: VEForAll. Its name stands for "VisualEditor For All", and it provides something that some people have been asking about for a long time - a way to incorporate the VisualEditor interface into textarea inputs other than the one in the standard VisualEditor tab. The VEForAll extension works by providing a JavaScript function that, when called on a textarea input, adds the VisualEditor interface to it (if the VisualEditor extension is already installed). So the extension itself doesn't actually do anything - instead, it provides an API for other extensions to use. At the moment, two extensions can already make use of VEForAll if it's there: CommentStreams and Page Forms. (You need to use the latest version of either extension to get it working.) You can read more about VEForAll, and download it, here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VEForAll This extension has five credited authors, although most of the credit goes to the first two: Pierre Boutet and Clément Flipo of the consulting company Dokit, and the site Wikifab. I feel like I should give both the company and site a plug, in their honor: http://www.dokit.io/en/about-us https://wikifab.org/wiki/Accueil Please feel free to try out the extension, and let us know on the talk page if you run into any problems. -Yaron _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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API breaking change: email-blacklist and echo-notifications-blacklist
by Max Semenik 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

As part of work on T198935[1], the representation of preferences `email-blacklist` and `echo-notifications-blacklist` returned by API meta=userinfo has changed. Previously, they were by mistake returned as arrays, which is unheard of in the API and resulted in weird output, especially in XML: <email-blacklist> <_v>123</_v> <_v>456</_v> </email-blacklist> At the same time, to change these preferences, you still had to use the same format as DB storage, strings with newline-separated numbers. To address this as well as a few other problems with conversion of preferences on the storage-HtmlForm boundary, a fix[2] has been implemented that turned these preferences newline-separated strings everywhere. This fix will be deployed to WMF production next week. According to our API usage analysis, there are unlikely any users this might affect, however still please make sure you're ready. ---- [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198935 [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/444273/ -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])

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Discussion Tomorrow - Unify various deletion systems
by Kate Chapman 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

Hi All, A friendly reminder that TechCom is hosting a Public IRC Discussion on Unify various deletion systems <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T20493> Currently there are two systems for deletion of revisions: Page deletion and Revision delete. This RFC proposes to unify these methods. Currently the proposal is exploring to see if we can re-implement the logic behind "Page deletion" by using the same code and database logic that is used by "Revision delete". If this topic is of interest to you join us on 2018-07-18 in the #wikimedia-office channel at 2pm PST(22:00 UTC, 23:00 CET) you can find more information on how to connect and participate here: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#How_to_participate> If you are not familiar with the overall TechCom RFC process there is info here: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Process> Thanks, Kate -- Kate Chapman TechCom Facilitator (Contractor)

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia Technical Conference] Reminder: Deadline of nominations: June 14, 2018
by Birgit Müller 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

Hey all, a quick reminder: The deadline for nominations for the Wikimedia Technical Conference (Portland, USA, October 22-25, 2018) is tomorrow, *Thursday June 14, 2018. *So if you are a volunteer (or staff member) and think you (or the person you nominate) might be able to provide valuable feedback for the program, please use this form: https://goo.gl/forms/MKF682BE1OVI0pe63 to nominate yourself or someone else. You can find more information on the nomination process in the FAQ: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018/FAQ If you haven't heard about the conference at all by now, please see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018 for more information. Questions are very welcome on the talk page there: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018 Thanks to everyone who already has taken the time to nominate someone - your support is much appreciated :-) The Wikimedia Technical Conference Team 2018-06-02 1:36 GMT+02:00 Rachel Farrand <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org>: > Hello! > > As per the email below we are now opening up the nomination process for the > Wikimedia Technical Conference (WMTechConf), to be held in Portland, OR, > USA on October 22-25, 2018. > > *Please fill out the survey using this link to nominate yourself or someone > else to attend: *https://goo.gl/forms/MKF682BE1OVI0pe63 This nomination > form will remain open between June 1 and June 14, 2018. > > This survey is conducted via a third-party service, which may make it > subject to additional terms. For more information on privacy and > data-handling, see this survey privacy statement: https:// > wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_ > Conference_Survey_Privacy_ > Statement > > *If you have any questions, please post them on the event's talk page > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018>. > * > Thanks! > > The Wikimedia Technical Conference Team > > > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 3:47 PM, Deborah Tankersley < > dtankersley(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > *Hello,We recently announced the new Wikimedia Technical Conference > > (TechConf) during the closing session of the Barcelona Hackathon on May > 20, > > 2018. We are sending this email to give an update on the planning and > > organization, and to also let everyone know how the nomination process > will > > work for those interested in attending. The Wikimedia Technical > Conference > > will take place in Portland, OR, USA on October 22-25, 2018. And, as > > mentioned in previous emails [1][2] and on the wiki page [3], this > > conference will be focused on the cross-departmental program called > > Platform Evolution. We will be providing more information and context as > we > > go along in the process.For this conference, we are looking for diverse > > stakeholders, perspectives, and experiences that will help us to make > > informed decisions for the future evolution of the platform. We need > people > > who can create and architect solutions, as well as those who actually > make > > decisions on funding and prioritization for the projects.Later this week, > > we will send out a form to provide more detailed information on the > > nomination process and how to nominate people (or it can be yourself) to > > attend this conference, along with the skills, experiences, and/or > > backgrounds that we are looking for. Due to the time needed for visa > > application and other constraints, the deadline for nominations will be > > June 8th. Please make sure that you don’t miss the deadline!If you have > any > > questions, please post them on the talk page [4][1] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2018-April/047367.html > > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2018- > April/047367.html> > > [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018- > > April/089738.html > > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-April/089738.html > > > > [3] https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018 > > <https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018> [4] > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018 > > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018 > > > > * > > > > *Cheers from the Program Committee:* > > *Kate, Corey, Joaquin, Greg, Birgit and TheDJ* > > > > -- > > > > deb tankersley > > > > Program Manager, Engineering > > > > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > -- > Rachel Farrand > Events Program Manager > Technical Collaboration Team > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Birgit Müller Community Communications Manager Software Development and Engineering Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Old categorization data
by יגאל חיטרון 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

Hi. Is there a way to get caterization edits data from more than month ago? I found the last month in recentchanges SQL table, but that's all. I need to find pages that were added by specific user to specific category, doesn't matter when. Thank you. Igal (User:IKhitron)

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting (Wikimania Special!)
by Michael Schönitzer 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. This time with a Wikimedia Special[1] in English and German! The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers, topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project. If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting Hope to see you there! Michi (for WMDE’s tech team) [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199093 -- Michael F. Schönitzer Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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TechCom Radar 2018-07-11
by Kate Chapman 14 Jul '18

14 Jul '18

Hi All, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * IRC Meeting postponed until next week on 2018-07-18 in the #wikimedia-office channel at 2pm PST(22:00 UTC, 23:00 CET): Unify various deletion systems <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T20493> Currently there are two systems for deletion of revisions Page deletion and Revision delete. The current proposal would like to explore implementing the logic behind “Page deletion” by using the same code and database logic that is used by “Revision delete”. * Finalized selection of new committee members (public announcement coming soon) * IRC Meeting scheduled for 2018-08-01 in the #wikimedia-office channel at 2pm PST(22:00 UTC, 23:00 CET) RFC: Modern Event Platform - Choose Schema Tech <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198256> This RFC is looking at if Apache Arvo or JSONSchema should be used for the event schema and serialization method. 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/>. If you prefer you can subscribe to our newsletter here: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:TechCom_Radar> Thanks, Kate -- Kate Chapman TechCom Facilitator (Contractor)

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Using mwapi:srsearch for composite strings like "goat cheese" in WDQS
by Daniel Mietchen 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Hi, in the query examples at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Query_Service/User_Manual/MWAPI#Fin… , the way to search for "cheese" is <code> bd:serviceParam mwapi:search "cheese" . </code> What if the search string I want to use is a composite, e.g. "goat cheese"? I have tried single quotes, escaping the quotes, and replacing the spaces with plus signs, but non of these would guarantee that the search results only contain the search string (plus some grammatical variations) and not things like "This cheese was made from goat milk". Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks, Daniel

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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2018-07-02
by Chris Koerner 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Hello again, This is the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the weeks starting 2018-07-02 and 2018-07-09. Programming Note: With the Wikimania Hackathon, Wikimania proper, and resulting travel for folks in coming weeks, the next update will be for the week starting 2018-07-30. As always, feedback and questions welcome. == Discussions == === Search === * David and Stas worked on fine tuning of search configs to mediawiki-config for Wikidata [0] * Stas and Addshore helped to catch and clean up some bad lookups and report them properly [1] * A "Wrong document type" error was corrected by Erik by fixing Sanitizer MetaStore integration [2] * Erik worked on tracking queries that run on the Elastic Search clusters longer than both server side and client side timeouts by fixing some slow logging functionality [3] * There was a Meta-wiki error where search suggests non-existent title due to namespace/redirect mixup. Erik's note: "it's a bit awkward, but typing Help:Glo into autocomplete on metawiki suggests 'Global Account' from the main namespace, and selecting it takes you to Help:Unified login" [4] * In order to dispatch queries to a particular search setup (cirrus defaults vs wikibase custom query builder), David created a flexible way to classify queries, meant to replace the 'getSyntaxUsed' approach currently in SearchContext. [5] * Trey and a community volunteer, Athena, created a basic Mirandese analysis chain. It was tested on RelForge and pushed into production this week [6]. Trey kicked off, completed and tested the re-indexing of the Mirandese Wikis [7]. * The Re-Re-Index of the Serbian Wikis after refactored plugins were deployed has been completed [8] and the re-index of the Croatian, Serbo-Croatian, and Bosnian Wikis was also done [9] * We currently mix a tiny number of namespace documents into the regular indices, which seems inefficient; so Erik built a unified namespace index [10] * Erik updated the 'OtherIndex' to operate on a cluster other than the one holding the wiki [11] * Trey updated a variety of things on the Analysis Tools with lots little fixes and improvements as well as a few small errors in the analysis code that conflated post-analysis types and pre-analysis types [12] == Did you know? == * The period of this status update includes Friday, July 13, 2018. The fear of the number thirteen is called "triskaidekaphobia" [13]. There are two words for fear of Friday the 13th: "paraskavedekatriaphobia" [14] and "friggatriskaidekaphobia" [15]—the first maintains a consistent etymology with the Greek word for Friday, "Paraskeví", while the second invokes "Frigg", the Norse Goddess after whom Friday is named in English. [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182717 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198091 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197446 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196180 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115756 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197774 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194941 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197890 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196404 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196658 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192699 [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194678 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199273 [13] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/triskaidekaphobia [14] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paraskavedekatriaphobia [15] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/friggatriskaidekaphobia --- Subscribe to receive on-wiki (or opt-in email) notifications of the Discovery weekly update. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Discovery_Weekly 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 Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation

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Season of RevisionSlider: Join the volunteer dev team for 2 months to implement version 2.0!
by Birgit Müller 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Hello all, we’re happy to launch the Season of RevisionSlider - and very happy to invite you in! Are you a volunteer developer with JavaScript and jQuery skills?* And interested in: - working in a team for a limited period of time? - a project that is nice to work on, with a clear scope and different small tasks? - contributing to a MediaWiki extension that is deployed to all Wikimedia wikis? - helping to develop the version 2.0 of the RevisionSlider? Do you have a bit of time *from beginning of August to end of September 2018*? Then you might be the perfect fit for joining the Season of RevisionSlider :-) About the feature The RevisionSlider is a MediaWiki extension, developed bei Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team. It adds a slider to the diff page that allows to easily navigate through revisions. The feature got developed in 2016/2017, and is a default feature on all wikis since May 2017. [1] About Season of RevisionSlider: Implementing version 2.0 The work on a feature doesn’t stop in the moment it is deployed everywhere. It needs to be maintained, and continuous user feedback helps identifying new use cases that the feature could ideally address on top. We think it is time for realizing version 2.0 of the feature: Including general improvements and a few new features - for example, highlighting all edits of the same user. Why a Volunteer Dev team Finding good tasks to work on, getting people to review your patches, or just getting good advice can be very challenging. With *Season of RevisionSlider* we want to provide the chance to experience all of this the easy way - together with us :-) How to join We are looking for 4-5 people who would be interested to work as a development team over a period of 2 months. The team will be supported by a group of engineers, product management, design and communication. We plan a *kick-off meeting* via video call on *Thursday, August 2, 15:00 UTC* (so save the date!), and will continue with weekly check-ins until end of September. If you are interested, please let us know by July 26. Just subscribe to the ticket & say Hi! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199556 If you have any questions, please comment directly in the ticket. We’re really looking forward to meeting you :-) See you soon, Birgit (for WMDE’s Technical Wishes Team) * PHP basic skills and a basic understanding of CSS are nice to have, but it can work without [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RevisionSlider -- Birgit Müller Community Communications Manager Software Development and Engineering Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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