In 2019 Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) decided to develop instructional material
for the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). The background for this decision was
that we see audiences to whom we introduce Wikidata become especially
enthusiastic when we present the Query Service, which offers quite a
unique feature within the landscape of information services available
today. This enthusiasm often dampens when audiences discover that querying
is not done using natural language but rather requires learning SPARQL.
We believe learning SPARQL is not rocket science, even for audiences with
no programming background. We created a step-by-step tutorial website to
give users an introduction and some basic lessons on how to use the query
service. While WDQS has a great Help section, this section might not be so
helpful to users who are new to Wikimedia platforms. We therefore built the
tutorial website on the WordPress platform which has a more familiar design
to most users. We believe this website will make the WDQS more accessible,
and hope this will be a way to expand Wikidata to new audiences. Currently
the site is in English but we are open for collaborations to add the
tutorial in other languages. We are also keen to hear feedback from those
involved in Wikidata Outreach.
Revital Poleg
Executive Director
Hello all,
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension
Bundle 2020.10. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.34 or above
and requires PHP 7.2 or above.
Next MLEB is expected to be released in 3 months. If there are very
important bug fixes, we will do an intermediate release. Please give
us your feedback at
[[Talk:MLEB|https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB]].
* Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2020.10.tar…
* sha256sum: 8a0b0282e3a1ef88b231f8c1fd8c922052eba6e0b55b75f87de940632f3730e1
* Signature: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2020.10.tar…
Quick links:
* Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB
* Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n
* Report bugs to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/
* Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode
Release notes for each extension are below.
-- Kartik Mistry
== Babel, cldr, CleanChanges and LocalisationUpdate ==
* Localisation and maintenance updates only.
== Translate ==
The Translate extension now requires MediaWiki 1.34 or above.
* Update the language selector on the Special:PageTranslation
({{Gerrit|616762}})
* Do not list all pages on marking a page for translation ({{Gerrit|621034}})
* Add API to fetch translation statistics ({{Gerrit|623169}})
* Replace PHPlot with Chart.js on Special:TranslationStats
({{Phabricator|T134634}})
* Fix mandatory deletion of sub pages when deleting translatable pages
({{Gerrit|636871}})
* Rename MessageValidator namespace to Validation ({{Gerrit|616069}})
* Legacy editor: remove various translation helpers, custom buttons
* Make Language stats appear better on mobile screens and the header
sticky ({{Gerrit|631979}})
* Tag untranslated translations units with lang and dir attributes
({{Phabricator|T254484}})
* Add magic word:
<code><nowiki>{{TRANSLATIONLANGUAGE}}</nowiki></code> for translatable
pages ({{Phabricator|T254486}})
* Avoid showing bdi tags on Special:Translate ({{Phabricator|T117852}})
* Add [[Help:Extension:Translate/Developer_guide|Developer guide]] for
Translate ({{Phabricator|T256873}})
* Fix "Translation page does not contain the latest translations/last
translation" ({{Phabricator|T255334}})
* Fix "This namespace is reserved for content page translations" when
trying to translate a recently created translation unit"
({{Phabricator|T221119}})
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
* Performance fixes.
* ULS now defines unsupported skins ({{Phabricator|T237036}},
{{Phabricator|T235712}})
* Hide ULS language settings in Minerva skin ({{Phabricator|T259037}})
* Remove configuration variables:
<code>ULSCompactLinksForNewAccounts</code> and
<code>ULSCompactLinksEnableAnon</code> ({{Gerrit|632721}})
=== Input Methods ===
* Add the macron character to the Igbo tilde keyboard.
=== Fonts ===
* Updated Bali fonts to fix spacing issue. ({{Gerrit|616598}})
* Added GochiHand font. ({{Gerrit|625664}})
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Kartik Mistry
This is the weekly TechCom board review in preparation of our meeting on
Wednesday. If there are additional topics for TechCom to review, please let
us know by replying to this email. However, please keep discussion about
individual RFCs to the Phabricator tickets.
Activity since Monday 2020-10-19 on the following boards:
https://phabricator.wiki09media.org/tag/techcom/
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom/>
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom-rfc/
Committee board activity:
-
T239742 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T239742>: Should npm packages
maintained by Wikimedia be scoped or unscoped? Support for the idea of
namespacing our npm packages has been expressed.
RFCs:
Phase progression:
-
T262946 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262946> Bump Firefox version
in basic support to 3.6 or newer.
Started the last call process. Some clarification requested, but no new
opposition.
IRC meeting request:
-
T263841 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263841> RFC: Expand API
title generator to support other generated data
Some guidance through the process is requested to techcom.
Other RFC activity:
- T119173 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119173>: RFC: Discourage
use of MySQL's ENUM type. A question was asked to the DBAs about using
ENUMs in maintenance
Cheers,
Giuseppe
--
Giuseppe Lavagetto
Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation
Hello people!
So the voting period is done now and the second proposal is the clear
winner.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_MediaW…
163 people participated and these are the top winners using Schulze method:
* 2: Gradient (translucent - CamelCase)
* 8: Yellow (solid - CamelCase)
* 6: Yellow (translucent - CamelCase)
Comparing 2 and 8, 92 people preferred 2 over 8 while 71 people preferred
the other way around.
Now we are in the legal clearance period (which hopefully will take a
month) and once it's over, we will start implementing the change, if 2
doesn't get cleared, 8 will be implemented and so on.
Thank you for everyone who participated (except myself, thanking myself
would be weird)
--
Amir (he/him)
Hello all,
I am pleased to announce that the GitLab consultation working group
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation#Working_Group>has
determined that migrating our code repositories from Gerrit to Gitlab is
the right decision.
For the last 3 weeks the working group has been summarizing the
feedback, working on initial GitLab documentation (work-flows, ACLs,
etc), and drafting other documentation that will be useful during this
migration. While we might not have all the problems figured out, the
group is confidentthat Gitlab is a better solution and that any concerns
can be sufficiently dealt with.
The GitLab consultation wiki page has been updated with the decision
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation#Outcome>and we’ve
created a new landing page for all things GitLab
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab>at Wikimedia.
For the immediate future nothing changes. The goal is to have a GitLab
installation ready with a few self-contained repositories moved to it by
this coming June, about 8 months from now. The roadmap
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab/Roadmap>, and its evolution, is
on wiki.
Thank you to everyone who engaged with this consultation; I truly
believe that we are in a better position because of all of the open and
constructive dialog.
I want to personally thank the members of the working group by name.
They all did amazing work and made working on this consultation as fun
as it could feasibly be. Thank you all for you great work!
* Scott Bassett
* Brennen Bearnes
* Daniel Cipolleti
* Tyler Cipriani
* Markus Glaser
* Derk-Jan Hartman
* Conny Kawohl
* Andre Klapper
* Niklas Laxström
* Effie Mouzeli
* Chase Pettet
* Lucas Werkmeister
Thank you, everyone, for your participation,
Greg
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