Hello again,
This week saw a few updates from around the department.
==Highlights==
* A workshop was held in Germany on advanced search syntax on Wikipedia. [0]
* Added draft how to guides for using maps, maplink, mapframe and map
template as well as the terms of use landing page for the Maps project. [1]
[2] [3] [4]
==Discussions==
* Maps and graphs - should there be 'text' and a frame: Request for Comment
[5]
* Analysis discussion about how to [Dashboard] make backfilling of
dashboard data easier [6]
=== Analysis ===
* Wrapping up the final report for results of the second BM25 test [7]
* Completed analysis for looking at WDQS traffic data to find parallel
connection patterns [8]
=== Portal ===
* Portal language by articles were updated on Nov 22 to note that dewiki is
now over 2 million articles, yay! [9]
=== Interactive ===
* Bug fix Interactive mapframe not interactive in embed mode [10]
* Minor icon update Reduce the size of the hole in the maplink icon [11]
* Updating colors to be in alignment Align Kartographer to WikimediaUI
color palette [12]
* Work in progress: updating Grafana for better KPI tracking [13]
* Ops work: Deploy libmapnik3.0 deb package to all maps servers [14]
* Updated logging for KPIs by implementing second phase of map event
logging [15]
* Bug fix where the "marker-click" event sampling gets overriden - will go
out during week of Dec 6 [16]
== Other Noteworthy Stuff ==
* Fun music and neoswing [17]
[0]
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Technische_W%C3%BCnsche/Workshop_sp…
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/how_to:_maps
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/how_to:_embedded_maps
[3]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/how_to:_map_template
[4]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/terms_of_use
[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148706
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150915
[7]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147500
[8]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149963
[9]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546#2815592
[10]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150464
[11]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150924
[12]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150497
[13]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149723
[14]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150722
[15]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149834
[16]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152162
[17]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ueJ4-lTa1s
----
The full update, and archive of 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 Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation