Original web version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary#2015-11-05
Help develop the next summary here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary/Next! Software
- Wikimedia UI elements available in HTML + Bootstrap http://wikimedia-ui.wmflabs.org/ help you producing quick and visually accurate mockups. (demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNAQD4RCeWM&feature=youtu.be&t=1997, discussion http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.design/1390) - OOjs UI https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI 0.13.0 (breaking change, announcement http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/84712 ) - Kiwix http://www.kiwix.org/ for iOS 1.2 (announcement https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/offline-l/2015-October/001343.html , download https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kiwix/id997079563)
Events
- The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016 has 27 session proposals on track https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-developer-summit-2016/, 12 missing active discussion, 12 missing expected information. - By 2015-11-06 all Summit proposals must have active discussions and a Summit plan https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016#Submissions_and_selection_process documented in the description. - Invitation to Wikimania 2016 Scholarship Committee https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-November/079655.html (deadline: 2015-11-15) - Wikisource Conference 2015 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_User_Group/Wikisource_Conference_2015 (includes hackathon and technical workshops) on 20-22 Nov 2015 in Vienna. - Upcoming Lightning Talks https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#Upcoming_Lightning_Talks on 2015-11-24. You can sign up or propose a talk. - Video recording of Tech Talk: Nothing Left but Always Right: The Twisted Road to RTL Support https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/events/ck5ibgn8l2t056h5rii90fv6ne4
Documentation
- New: Presenting Wikidata knowledge https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Presenting_Wikidata_knowledge. Display multilingual information from Wikidata in your application by associating items with 'Q' entities.
Outreach
- After the deadline for submitting Outreachy round 11 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_11 proposals, Wikimedia mentors are evaluating 14 candidates https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreachy-round-11/. Community feedback is especially welcomed now. Selected participants will be announced on 2015-11-17. The proposals, sorted by order of submission: - Easier categorization of pictures in Upload to Commons Android app https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115101, by josephine_l https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/josephine_l/ - Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115585, by TasneemLo https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/TasneemLo/ - Add ZIM format support for OCG https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115907, by Minervaxox https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Minervaxox/ - Wiki 3d warehouse https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115987, by Jeeltcraft https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Jeeltcraft/ - Making Education Dash Program usable for all languages and projects https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116201, by Haritha28 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Haritha28/ - Implement HTML e-mail support in MediaWiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116223, by rosalieper https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/rosalieper/ - Extension to transclude Git content into Wiki Pages https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116277, by Galorefitz https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Galorefitz/ - Implement HTML e-mail support in MediaWiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116303, by Devirk https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Devirk/ - Add ZIM format support for OCG https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116482, by Adishaporwal https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Adishaporwal/ - Improving MediaWikiAnalysis https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116733, by Anmolkalia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Anmolkalia/ - Technology to transclude git content into wiki pages https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117167, by Akangupt https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Akangupt/ - Making Education Dash Program usable for all languages and projects https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117363, by Wdssilva https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Wdssilva/ - Making Education Dash Program usable for all languages and projects https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117372, by Kenua https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Kenua/ - Technology to transclude git content into wiki pages https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117426, by Shrutika719 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Shrutika719/
Community health
- The discussion about the Code of Conduct draft https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Draft welcomes feedback on Finishing the "Report a problem" section https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Finishing_the_.22Report_a_problem.22_section. Open topics: - "All reports will be processed confidentially" https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#.22All_reports_will_be_processed_confidentially.22 - If you send a report to maintainers, include a reference to this document https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#If_you_send_a_report_to_maintainers.2C_include_a_reference_to_this_document
Project management
- No news?
Code review
- Wikia https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikia has instituted a review process for sitewide JavaScript pages http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:JavaScript_review_process after experiencing two attacks http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:890734 that revoked certain permissions to admins. (source https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71445)
Metrics
- m:Gadgets https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gadgets offers monthly reports about usage of Gadgets in Wikimedia wikis. - Related, the announcement http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/84737 of the new Special:GadgetUsage report available in all wikis.
Gerrit
Key performance indicators https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics#Key_performance_indicators [1] http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/kpi_overview.html [2] http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/repository.html?repository=gerrit.wikimedia.org_mediawiki_core
- Median age of open changesets waiting for review: 36.4 days in October (was 36.2 in September, 54.4 a year ago) - MediaWiki core: 64.2 days (was 58.2, 65.1)
- Number of open changesets waiting for review: 1183 (was 1053, 1052) - MediaWiki core: 208 (was 200, 267)
- Number of new changesets submitted per month: 3421 (was 3703, 3164) - MediaWiki core: 508 (was 512, 526)
- Number of code uploaders per month: 212 (was 214) - Number of code reviewers per month: 195 (was 195) - Number of code committers per month: 131 (was 131)
Code repositories with slowest code review http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/gerrit_review_queue.html:
1. Wikistats https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:analytics/wikistats+status:open,n,z: 505 days, 5 changesets. (T113695 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113695) 2. BookManagerv2 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/BookManagerv2,n,z: 473 days, 21 changesets. (T117105 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117105) 3. BayesianFilter https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/BayesianFilter,n,z: 416 days, 1 changeset. 4. UploadWizard https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard,n,z: 383 days, 12 changesets. 5. extdist https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:labs/tools/extdist,n,z: 342 days, 1 changeset.
Phabricator
- 885 active users in Wikimedia Phabricator https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics during October, our highest number so far. - 348 new accounts in Wikimedia Phabricator https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics (was 363 in September).
That "Wikimedia UI" thing looks good! Except it seems to require third-party javascript (myfontastic?), which is not allowed on Tools Labs, IIRC. And it wants to run Flash. Why???
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 12:33 PM Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Original web version:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary#2015-11-05
Help develop the next summary here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary/Next! Software
- Wikimedia UI elements available in HTML + Bootstrap
http://wikimedia-ui.wmflabs.org/ help you producing quick and visually accurate mockups. (demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNAQD4RCeWM&feature=youtu.be&t=1997, discussion http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.design/1390)
- OOjs UI https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI 0.13.0 (breaking
change, announcement < http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/84712
)
- Kiwix http://www.kiwix.org/ for iOS 1.2 (announcement
< https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/offline-l/2015-October/001343.html%3E , download https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kiwix/id997079563)
Events
- The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016 has 27 session proposals on track <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-developer-summit-2016/
,
12 missing active discussion, 12 missing expected information. - By 2015-11-06 all Summit proposals must have active discussions and a Summit plan < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016#Submissions_a...
documented in the description.
- Invitation to Wikimania 2016 Scholarship Committee
< https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-November/079655.html
(deadline: 2015-11-15)
- Wikisource Conference 2015
< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_User_Group/Wikisource_C...
(includes hackathon and technical workshops) on 20-22 Nov 2015 in Vienna.
- Upcoming Lightning Talks
< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#Upcoming_Lightning_Talks%3E on 2015-11-24. You can sign up or propose a talk.
- Video recording of Tech Talk: Nothing Left but Always Right: The
Twisted Road to RTL Support < https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/events/ck5ibgn8l2t056h5r...
Documentation
- New: Presenting Wikidata knowledge
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Presenting_Wikidata_knowledge. Display multilingual information from Wikidata in your application by associating items with 'Q' entities.
Outreach
- After the deadline for submitting Outreachy round 11
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_11 proposals, Wikimedia mentors are evaluating 14 candidates https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreachy-round-11/. Community feedback is especially welcomed now. Selected participants will be announced on 2015-11-17. The proposals, sorted by order of submission: - Easier categorization of pictures in Upload to Commons Android app https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115101, by josephine_l https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/josephine_l/ - Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115585, by TasneemLo https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/TasneemLo/ - Add ZIM format support for OCG https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115907, by Minervaxox https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Minervaxox/ - Wiki 3d warehouse https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115987, by Jeeltcraft https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Jeeltcraft/ - Making Education Dash Program usable for all languages and projects https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116201, by Haritha28 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Haritha28/ - Implement HTML e-mail support in MediaWiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116223, by rosalieper https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/rosalieper/ - Extension to transclude Git content into Wiki Pages https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116277, by Galorefitz https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Galorefitz/ - Implement HTML e-mail support in MediaWiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116303, by Devirk https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Devirk/ - Add ZIM format support for OCG https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116482, by Adishaporwal https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Adishaporwal/ - Improving MediaWikiAnalysis https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116733, by Anmolkalia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Anmolkalia/ - Technology to transclude git content into wiki pages https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117167, by Akangupt https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Akangupt/ - Making Education Dash Program usable for all languages and projects https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117363, by Wdssilva https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Wdssilva/ - Making Education Dash Program usable for all languages and projects https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117372, by Kenua https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Kenua/ - Technology to transclude git content into wiki pages https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117426, by Shrutika719 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Shrutika719/
Community health
- The discussion about the Code of Conduct draft
< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Draft%3E welcomes feedback on Finishing the "Report a problem" section < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Finishing_the_.22R...
.
Open topics: - "All reports will be processed confidentially" < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#.22All_reports_wil...
- If you send a report to maintainers, include a reference to this document <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#If_you_send_a_repo...
Project management
- No news?
Code review
- Wikia https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikia has instituted a review
process for sitewide JavaScript pages http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:JavaScript_review_process after experiencing two attacks http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:890734 that revoked certain permissions to admins. (source https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71445)
Metrics
- m:Gadgets https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gadgets offers monthly
reports about usage of Gadgets in Wikimedia wikis. - Related, the announcement < http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/84737
of the new Special:GadgetUsage report available in all wikis.
Gerrit
Key performance indicators < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics#Key_performance_indicators
[1] http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/kpi_overview.html [2] < http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/repository.html?repository=gerrit.wikimedia...
- Median age of open changesets waiting for review: 36.4 days in October
(was 36.2 in September, 54.4 a year ago) - MediaWiki core: 64.2 days (was 58.2, 65.1)
Number of open changesets waiting for review: 1183 (was 1053, 1052)
- MediaWiki core: 208 (was 200, 267)
Number of new changesets submitted per month: 3421 (was 3703, 3164)
- MediaWiki core: 508 (was 512, 526)
Number of code uploaders per month: 212 (was 214)
Number of code reviewers per month: 195 (was 195)
Number of code committers per month: 131 (was 131)
Code repositories with slowest code review http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/gerrit_review_queue.html:
- Wikistats
< https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:analytics/wikistats+status:open,n...
:
505 days, 5 changesets. (T113695 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113695) 2. BookManagerv2 < https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/...
:
473 days, 21 changesets. (T117105 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117105) 3. BayesianFilter < https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/...
:
416 days, 1 changeset. 4. UploadWizard < https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/...
:
383 days, 12 changesets. 5. extdist < https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:labs/tools/extdist,n,...
:
342 days, 1 changeset.
Phabricator
- 885 active users in Wikimedia Phabricator
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics during October, our highest number so far.
- 348 new accounts in Wikimedia Phabricator
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics (was 363 in September).
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