Hi all!
Please comment on the draft of a best practices guideline for software design:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:DKinzler_(WMF)/Software_Design_Practices>.
I have been thinking of writing down some of my (personal, so far) golden rules
that have emerged in my work on MediaWiki over the years. So here it is. My plan
is to gather some feedback, then turn this into an RFC, and hopefully have some
future version adopted as an official guideline.
Please let me know about things you agree with, or disagree with, and stuff you
find just odd or cryptic.
Thanks!
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Daniel Kinzler
Principal Software Engineer, Core Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi Everyone,
Get ready, because it is time for *Wikimedia Tech Talks 2019* Episode 2!
This month's talk will take place *March 27, 2019 at 18:00 UTC. *
*Topic*
Ouch, I have an OOUI: Using OOUI without pain
*Speaker*
Moriel Schottlender
*Summary*
OOUI is the interface widget library we are using for UI in the Wikimedia
projects. The library is meant to allow implementers to create useful
interfaces that automatically answer internationalized needs that are
unique to the global nature of our projects. Right-to-left support,
supporting old browsers, accessibility, etc, are things that OOUI is doing
in the background for you.
This tech talk will present OOUI’s history, basic and advanced usage, and
demonstrate how to create great interfaces without (much) pain within our
wiki ecosystem.
YouTube stream for viewers: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQGfuLP9MqA>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_CUN2o4faw
During the live talk, you are invited to join the discussion on IRC at
#wikimedia-office
You can watch past Tech Talks here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tech_talks
If you are interested in giving your own tech talk, you can learn more
here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event#Te…
As always, feel free to reach out to me with any questions!
Kindly,
Sarah R. Rodlund
Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy>
srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
Hi!
Wikimetrics <https://metrics.wmflabs.org/> development has been frozen
since 2017, and we Analytics consider it's time to sunset this tool. Its
last day of operation will be March 24th, 2019.
If you're a Wikimetrics user, please consider working with Event Metrics
<https://eventmetrics.wmflabs.org/>, a newer tool that, like Wikimetrics,
allows to gather statistics on cohorts of wiki users. It has been running
for one year now, has great documentation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event_Metrics>, and is supported by
the Community
Tech <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech> team.
For more information, you can read this Phabricator task
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211835>.
Please, post any questions or comments in there.
Thanks!
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*Marcel Ruiz Forns** (he/him)*
Analytics Developer @ Wikimedia Foundation
Apologies for cross-posting
====
2nd Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK) conference
May 20-22, 2019
Leipzig, Germany
====
Call for Participation
With the advent of digital technologies, language data becomes more and
more valuable. In that context, we would like to draw your attention to
the 2nd Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK) conference which will be held
in Leipzig from May 20th till 22nd, 2019.
This new biennial conference series aims at bringing together
researchers from across disciplines concerned with language data in data
science and knowledge-based applications.
We invite practitioners, professionals, researchers and anyone with an
interest in language data to be part of this event in Leipzig and catch
up with the latest research outcomes in the areas of acquisition,
provenance, representation, maintenance, usability, quality as well as
legal, organizational and infrastructure aspects of language data.
# Keynote Speakers
We already have the following keynote speakers confirmed
- Keynote #1: Christian Bizer, Mannheim University
- Keynote #2: Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University
- Keynote #3: Eduard Werner, Leipzig University
# Associated Events
The following events are co-located with LDK 2019:
3rd Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data (SD-LLOD-19) from May
12th to 17th, 2019 at the Leibniz Center for Informatics in Wadern, Germany
Please find more information about the Datathon here:
https://datathon2019.linguistic-lod.org/
Workshops on the 20th May 2019
- Translation Inference across Dictionaries (TIAD)
- 3rd Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic web (WHiSe III)
- 2nd OntoLex Face to Face Meeting
Please find more information about the workshops here:
http://2019.ldk-conf.org/co-located-events/
DBpedia Community Meeting on the 23rd May 2019
- 13th DBpedia Community Meeting
https://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Leipzig2019
Further information on the LDK program can be found here:
http://2019.ldk-conf.org/events-programme/ To register and be part of
the LDK conference and its associated events, please go to
http://2019.ldk-conf.org/registration/.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Leipzig.
Kind regards
Your LDK-Team
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **(Wednesday) 4-5 pm UTC**
on #wikimedia-tech.
Question can be asked in English, German & Romanian.
⏰ Please note: due to summer time change this week will be the last meeting
at 4 pm UTC. Beginning with next week the meeting will start at 3 pm! ⏰
The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for volunteer
developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help
you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! 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 the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew)
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Michael F. Schönitzer
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissens der Menschheit
teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
https://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 27/029/42207.
//sorry for cross-posting
This week’s train will add a new option to the user preferences: People
with rollback rights can add a confirmation prompt to their rollback links,
if they want to.
While most people with rollback rights want to use them to revert vandalism
quickly, some people prefer a confirmation prompt. Contributors from German
Wikipedia have asked for this, because quite a lot of people on dewiki
accidentally click on the rollback link, e.g. when they want to thank
someone. But there are also people in other wikis who use various methods
to prevent themselves from accidentally rolling back.
Wikimedia Germany’s Technical Wishes team[1] has now built a confirmation
prompt that works inline, like the thanks notification.
- On German Wikipedia, the confirmation prompt for rollbacks will be
activated as a default. Users who want to rollback quickly can turn it off
individually in their user settings.[2]
- In most wikis, this confirmation prompt will be switched off by
default. In these wikis, you can turn it on individually if you want to.
[3]
The planned deployment date for the confirmation prompt is March 26-28 on
all wikis except dewiki. Please see the project page for more
information.[4] Feedback is always welcome on the central feedback page.[5]
Best,
Johanna
for the Technical Wishes team
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes
[2]
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Einstellungen#mw-prefsection-rendering
[3] e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Rollback
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Rollback
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Project Manager Community Communications Technical Wishlist, Wikimedia
Deutschland
The backlog for bugs are pretty large (that is an understatement),
even for bugs with know fixes and available patches. Is there any real
plan to start fixing them? Shall I keep telling the community the bugs
are "tracked"?
/jeblad
Hi everyone,
I am Adarsh Jasiwal, currently in 1st year B. Tech. CSE and i want to
contribute into your Wikimedia Foundation.
I know the basics of web development and have done some projects based on
it.
If you could possibly tell me how could I be of any help I will be very
Happy to help.
Thanks ,
Regards,
Adarsh Jaiswal.
Hi mailing list colleagues,
I'm not sure whether I should make this be public, but I tend to be a
frequent participant on mailing lists so maybe sharing this would be good.
I am taking a temporary break from participating on Wikimedia mailing
lists. Recently I am finding myself frequently experiencing frustration in
conversations on lists, and I am concerned that in my frustration I may
write something that I later regret. Also, I would like to be a generally
positive presence on the lists, and I think that a "reset" would be good.
I will remain in the Wikiverse for the foreseeable future. I like
Wikimedia's educational mission, and I like my current principal project. I
will continue to be a list subscriber, and may occasionally read list
discussions. Also, I will continue to read off list emails. Perhaps in a
month or two I will resume participating on lists.
Thanks for all that you do in support of the mission. The Wikiverse is
amazing and I am grateful to be a small part of it.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )