Hello all,
This is an important announcement for all the tool builders and maintainers
who access Wikidata’s data by *querying directly Labs database replicas*.
In May-June 2019, the Wikidata development team will drop the wb_terms
table from the database in favor of a new optimized schema. Over years,
this table has become too big, causing various issues.
This change requires the tools using wb_terms to be updated. Developers and
maintainers will need to *adapt their code* to the new schema before the
migration starts and switch to the new code when the migration starts.
The migration will start on *May 29th*. On May 15th, a test system will be
available for you to test your code.
The table being used by plenty of external tools, we are setting up a
process to make sure that the change can be done together with the
developers and maintainers, without causing issues and broken tools. Most
of the documentation and updates will take place on Phabricator:
- In this Phabricator task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221764>,
you can find a description of the changes and the process, and you can ask
for more details or for help in the comments. This is also where updates
will be announced if necessary.
- On the Tool Builders Migration board
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wb_terms_-_tool_builders_migration>
you will find all the details about the migration, how to update your
tool <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221765>, and you can add your
own tasks.
- If you need to discuss with the Wikidata developers or get more
specific help, we set up two dedicated IRC meetings and a session at the
Wikimedia hackathon. More information in this task
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221764>.
We are aware that this change will ask you to make some important changes
in your code, and we are willing to help you as much as our resources allow
us to. We hope that you will understand that this change is made to avoid
bigger issues in the near future.
Note that this change is not impacting Wikibase instances outside of
Wikidata. A dedicated migration plan and announcement will follow.
We strongly encourage you to not wait until last minute to make the changes
in your code. If you have any question or issue, we will be happy to help.
In order to keep the discussions in one place, please ask questions or
raise issues directly in the Phabricator task and board.
Thanks for your understanding,
Cheers,
--
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC**
on #wikimedia-tech.
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)
--
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.
The Wikimedia Foundation is currently conducting a global consultation
about communication
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019>. The goal is
to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for
communication.
*Phase 1 of the consultation is over
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Phase_1_report>* –
thank you to everyone who participated! – and we've published the Phase 1
report
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Phase_1_report>.
The report summarizes what we've learned, proposes a direction for the
project, and asks specific questions to explore in Phase 2.
Very briefly, the proposed direction is that wikitext talk pages should be
improved, and not replaced. We propose building a new design on top of talk
pages that changes the page's default appearance, and offers key tools like
replying, indenting and signing posts. To keep consistency with existing
tools, the new design will be a default experience that existing users can
opt out of. We also propose building features that experienced contributors
want, including the ability to watchlist a single discussion, and the
ability to move, archive and search for threads. Building these features
may require some loss of flexibility, or small-to-medium changes in
wikitext conventions. The goal is to only make changes that directly enable
functionality that users really want.
You can see more information and discussion about the proposed direction in
the Phase 1 report
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Phase_1_report>,
including the results of new user tests and some of the quotations from
Phase 1 discussions that led to this proposal.
*Now it's time to start Phase 2!*
We have six questions to discuss in Phase 2, asking for reactions to the
proposed direction, and pros and cons for specific changes that we could
make.
You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:
1. First, sign up your group here.
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Participant_gro…>
don't
forget to coordinate with other users from your wiki to avoid creating
multiple consultations on the same wiki! :)
2. Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail
thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from
other people in your group.
3. Then start the conversation with the six questions listed in the
Questions
for Phase 2
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Phase_1_report#…>
section
of the report.
4. When the conversation is concluded, the host should write a summary
of the discussion on the Phase 2 community discussion summaries page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Phase_2_communi…>,
and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the
discussion is available to the public.
You can read more about the overall process
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019> on
MediaWiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can leave feedback about
the consultation process
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Talk_pages_consultation_2019> in the
language you prefer.
Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you.
Best,
Benoît
On behalf of the talk pages consultation team
--
Benoît Evellin - Trizek (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Today 3-4 pm UTC** on
#wikimedia-tech.
Question can be asked in English, Arabic & Spanish!
Today and next week we have the special Topic "Preparing Wikidata Tools for
the wb_terms migration". If you have any tool that might be affected by
this change feel free to join and ask!
Other topics are welcome too.
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)
--
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.
Since last week in elwiki "Cite" button (cite-ve-toolbar-group-label) and
the "Add a citation" title are displayed in English. They are properly
translated in translatewiki and the translation is present on wiki:
https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Cite-ve-toolbar-group-label and it
was displayed correctly in VE. I can't find what happened. Can someone
think something before I report a bug in phab?
--
Konstantinos Stampoulis
geraki(a)geraki.gr
https://www.geraki.gr
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Has there been a change to the 2017 Wikitext editor recently?
User:恐狼博士 from the Cantonese Wikipedia reported that Chinese IMEs (Cangjie
in his case) has been malfunctioning when used inside Wikitext mode.
Predictive text no longer works. This malfunction started two weeks ago.
He's unsure whether he was on old or new Wikitext mode before. Was there
any significant change to the 2017 Wikitext editor in the last month?
Deryck