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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2019-02-25
by Chris Koerner 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

Hello, This is the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week starting 2019-02-25. As always, feedback and questions are welcome. == Discussions == === Search === * New extension WikibaseCirrusSearch [0], encapsulating search code from Wikibase [1], is deployed on Beta [2] and will be tested on production next week [3]. *New phan checks are enabled for CirrusSearch and WikibaseCirrusSearch === Wikidata Query Service === * Stas fixed issues with small negative data display [4] and breakage in short URLs due to Bootstrap security fixes [5]. == Events and News == * We'll be holding our next Search Platform Office Hours on Wednesday, March 6th: **Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-9:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET **Etherpad: [6] **Google Meet link: [7] [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikibaseCirrusSearch [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190022 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215684 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217276 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211007 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217161 [6] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours [7] https://meet.google.com/vyc-jvgq-dww ---- 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 (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation

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1.33.0-wmf.20 schedule this week
by Antoine Musso 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

Hello, I will be updating MediaWiki this week. I am Europe based, and here is my planned schedule: Tuesday March 05 13:00 UTC: cutting branch wmf/1.33.0-wmf.20 14:00 UTC: rebuild, sync, deploy to test.wikipedia.org Wednesday March 06 Due to personal convenience, I will deploy in my evening. 20:00 UTC: deploy to group1 Thursday March 07 14:00 UTC: deploy to all other wikis The deployment task is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206674 which I should keep updated as we progress this week. Thank you. -- Antoine "hashar" Musso

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Project Grants program will fund 20 community-led projects
by Pine W 02 Mar '19

02 Mar '19

Forwarding in case people are interested in seeing what was funded. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Chris "Jethro" Schilling <cschilling(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 9:06 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Project Grants program will fund 20 community-led projects To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi folks, In the latest round of Project Grants, the committee has recommended 20 projects for a total of approximately $678,666 USD in funding. We received 42 proposals for review, the largest round of proposals we’ve received in a single round. Please join me in congratulating the applicants! I’d also like to express my thanks to all applicants this round for their hard work and engagement with their proposals, and to the Project Grants Committee for their careful diligence in reviewing and providing crucial feedback during this round. Without further ado, here’s what we’re funding:[1] ==Software: five projects funded==* Commons Android app v3: This third version of the Commons mobile uploader app aims to increase app stability, improve a recommendations feature for nearby places, maintain a limited connectivity mode, and provide better outreach to underrepresented communities. [2] * Scribe: Scribe is an editing tool to support underserved Wikipedia editors, helping them to plan the structure of their new articles and to find references in their language.[3] * Culture Gap Monthly Monitoring: The Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory (WCDO) proposes a set of solutions to regularly assist communities and individual editors to increase the cultural diversity in their language editions’ content.[4]. * GlobalFactSyncRE: GlobalFactSyncRE will extract all infobox facts and their references to produce a tool for Wikipedia editors that detects and displays differences across infobox facts in an intelligent way to help sync infoboxes between languages and/or Wikidata. The extracted references will also be used to enhance Wikidata.[5] * Wikidata & ETL: This project aims at improving management and increasing automation of processes loading data into Wikidata, and proposes a tool as a platform for creation of repeatable processes for bulk loading data into Wikidata and other Wikibase instances from various data sources.[6] ==Online organizing: four projects funded==* Wiki Loves Monuments international team/2019 coordination: The international coordination team for Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) [7] proposes to strengthen the foundation for healthy and sustainable WLM competitions across the world. In this grant, the team will focus considerable effort on increasing the sustainability of these events by addressing known issues around developing best practices, resourcing local teams to run successful events, and adapting to mobile engagement.[8] * CEE Spring 2019: This annual international article writing contest generates content from every country and region in Central and Eastern Europe on 30+ Wikipedias. CEE Spring’s remarkable community spirit plays a central role in fostering a thriving, collaborative volunteer base in the region. The grant will continue incentivizing content creation focused on similar themes from last year, including closing the gender gap, and expanding minority language Wikipedias, and showcasing the cultural heritage of Central and Eastern Europe. [9] * WM HU/Editor retention program: This grant will fund the editor retention program in the Hungarian Wikipedia. The project helps the Hungarian Wikipedia community in decreasing the negative experiences and strengthening the positive experiences of the contributors; improving the community atmosphere and strengthening the community cohesion, the Wikipedia identity, the sense of mission and pride in Wikipedia.[10] * VisibleWikiWomen2019: Whose Knowledge?, in partnership with Wikimedians and women’s and feminist organizations around the world, is organizing a campaign to add more diverse and quality images of women to Commons and Wikipedia throughout March 2019 to celebrate International Women’s Month. This year, the organization plans to take what they have learned from 2018 #VisibleWikiWomen and grow the campaign, creating more materials and connections that will be useful for this year’s campaign and many more years to come.[11] ==Offline outreach: ten projects funded==* Smithsonian Wikimedian-in-Residence for Gender Representation: This project will establish a Wikimedian-in-Residence for the Smithsonian Women's History Initiative, and increase the representation of women on Wikimedia projects, and seek ongoing support for a permanent Wikimedian-in-Residence at the institution.[12] * Action Plan for Wikipedia + Libraries Training in Mexico: OCLC will investigate the viability of and approach to a Wikipedia+Libraries training program for library staff in Mexico, to leverage the libraries in support of the Wikimedia Foundation’s New Readers initiative. This project will identify a Mexico-based organization that would lead the training, develop an advisory group, and produce an action plan for how to design and deliver the training.[13] * Offline Wikipedia in Senegal Schools: The problem this project plans to address is the absence of an easy, rapid and reliable way to access the treasure-trove of information contained in Wikipedia. The Offline Wikipedia in Senegal Schools project is a Train the Trainers project: trainers will attend a seminar teaching them about offline Wikipedia the Kiwix program. They will then go out to remote schools in and in turn run a seminar presenting Kiwix to the teachers. This seminar will be part of the certification process.[14] * Heritage GLAM: This project will focus on growing successful GLAM partnerships with government institutes, capacity building and documenting rare archives, books and artwork of historical and cultural importance to North India with no or little online presence via our project Wiki Loves Heritage. A part of the project will also be focused on integration of content with Wikisource and Wikipedia.[15] * Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO 2019-2020: Past engagement with UNESCO has demonstrated that working with Wikipedia to share knowledge allows UNESCO to reach a far wider public with detailed information that traditional report publication. The applicants have prepared a roadmap to mass adoption of open licensing and sharing of content on Wikimedia projects across the UN. By the end of this grant in early 2020, the project will result in policies, documentation and processes in place to share knowledge from across the UN on Wikimedia projects. [16] * Wiki Loves Africa 2019: Funding for this project will support prize distribution efforts associated with local contests supported by Wiki Loves Africa 2019, an annual public contest where people across Africa can contribute media (photographs, video and audio) about their environment to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.[17] * Wiki Kouman 2019 en Côte d'Ivoire (Local langua in Côte d'Ivoire): The aim of the WikiKouman project is to increase the visibility and content of Côte d'Ivoire’s local languages through the Wiktionary and other related projects. WikiKouman derives its etymology from Dioula, one of the local languages, in which "Kouman" means "to speak"[18] * History of Quebec and French-speaking North America: This Wikimedian-in-Residence project with the Fondation Lionel-Groulx (FLG) aims to build and support the community of individuals and organizations interested in developing and improving wikimedia contents pertaining to the history of Quebec and French-speaking North America.[19] * Wikipedia Women and Ancestral Knowledge from the Global South in the Colombian context: In collaboration with Centro de Internet y Sociedad Universidad (ISUR), this project is aimed at supporting indigenous communities in Colombia to participate on Wikipedia and enhance the participation of women through promotion of digital skills and article development on multiple Wikipedia projects to represent their knowledge.[20] * Editathons in Pistoia district: The project centers on an edit-a-thon series in the Pistoia district of Italy. This grant is a way to get a complete deep-level coverage and to develop a model for localized work for other regions in Italy.[21] ==Research: one project funded== * Machine Learning to Predict Wikimedia User Blocks: This project will involve investigating user misconduct on English Wikipedia using machine learning techniques to better understand and predict what circumstances lead to user blocks. [22] With thanks, Chris Schilling 1. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Browse_applications> 2. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Commons_app/Commons_Android_… > 3. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Scribe:_Supporting_Under-res… > 4. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/WCDO/Culture_Gap_Monthly_Mon… > 5. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/DBpedia/GlobalFactSyncRE> 6. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/MFFUK/Wikidata_%26_ETL> 7. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_interna… > 8. <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments> 9. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikimedians_of_CEE/CEE_Sprin… > 10. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/WM_HU/Editor_retention_progr… > 11. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Whose_Knowledge/VisibleWikiW… > 12. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Effie_Kapsalis/Smithsonian_W… > 13. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/OCLC/Action_Plan_for_Wikiped… > 14. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Offline_Wikipedia_in_Senegal… > 15. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikilover90/Heritage_GLAM> 16. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/UNESCO/Wikimedian_in_Residen… > 17. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Yorg/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2019> 18. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Modjou/Wiki_Kouman_2019_en_C… > 19. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/History_of_Quebec_and_French… > 20. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/ISUR/Wikipedia_women_and_anc… > 21. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Editathons_in_Pistoia_distri… > 22. < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/University_of_Virginia/Machi… > Chris "Jethro" Schilling I JethroBT (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)> He/His/Their Program Officer, Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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TechCom Radar 2019-02-27
by Kate Chapman 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Hi All, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * On Last Call ending March 6 1pm PST(21:00 UTC, 22:00 CET) RfC: Standards for external services in the Wikimedia infrastructure <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208524> * Approved: Update to Gerrit privilege policy <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216295> (also approved by CTO) * IRC meeting next week March 6 2pm PST(22:00 UTC, 23:00 CET) in #wikimedia-office RFC: Abstract schemas and schema changes <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191231> * Scheduling IRC discussion soon RFC: Add a frontend build step to skins/extensions to our deploy process <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199004> * Scheduling IRC discussion soon RFC: Let's stop using QUnit as a mechanism for integration tests <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212521> * RFC: Store WikibaseQualityConstraint check data in persistent storage <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214362> reviewed and needs further discussion. * There was no IRC meeting this week 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 Senior Program Manager, Core Platform Wikimedia Foundation kchapman(a)wikimedia.org

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Code sniff for verbose conditionals
by Daimona 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Currently, there's a patch under review [0] to enable a PHP sniff which would detect so called "Pointless conditionals". These are conditionals (if...else or ternary) where both branches only assign or return a boolean value, and which could potentially one-lined using the if condition. T

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Phabricator monthly statistics - 2019-02
by communitymetrics＠wikimedia.org 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Hi Community Metrics team, This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail. Accounts created in (2019-02): 400 Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2019-02): 1008 Task authors in (2019-02): 537 Users who have closed tasks in (2019-02): 295 Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on their workboard in (2019-02): 285 Tasks created in (2019-02): 2343 Tasks closed in (2019-02): 1775 Open and stalled tasks in total: 41104 Median age in days of open tasks by priority: Unbreak now: 14 Needs Triage: 470 High: 845 Normal: 1058 Low: 1421 Lowest: 1375 (How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority) Active Differential users (any activity) in (2019-02): 9 TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 . Yours sincerely, Fab Rick Aytor (via community_metrics.sh on phab1001 at Fri Mar 1 00:00:24 UTC 2019)

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