The Wikimedia Foundation has been creating a new Article Feedback system,
and on Saturday 9 June from 10AM-noon Pacific time, WMF invites testers and
anyone else interested to participate in a "shakedown cruise" to test a
near-final version of the new Article Feedback system before the system is
rolled out to all of Wikipedia.
Following on May's successful test event with Weekend Testing Americas, WMF
is teaming up with the Open Source fans at OpenHatch.org for this event. I
am hoping that having experienced exploratory testers plus people
interested in improving Wikipedia articles will be a killer combination of
expertise and interest to shake out any final issues in this critical
aspect of the Wikipedia experience.
[1] the announcement from Openhatch:
https://openhatch.org/blog/2012/june-9-help-wikipedia-test-some-software-an…
Chris McMahon
QA Lead for WMF
Dear list subscribers,
Apologies for the late invitation - this meeting is in less than 24 hours.
It somehow fell off my todo list.
You are invited to the Localisation team development demo on Tuesday 29 May
2012 at 15:00 UTC (other time zones: 08:00 PDT, 17:00 CEST, 20:30 IST).
This meeting will take 40 minutes at most. In this meeting
the Localisation team will present its progress made during sprint 16[1].
We hope you can attend, and please invite any other colleagues or friends
you think would appreciate being present!
This meeting will be held using WebEx. Please ensure that you log in a few
minutes before the meeting starts, so that you have time to install any
required plug-ins or software. Connection details can be found below the
signature.
[1]
https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/internationalization/cards/708
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Wikimedia Foundation
M: +31 6 50 69 1239
Skype: siebrand
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Hi everone,
Forwarding an e-mail that Pau sent to wikitech, mediawiki-i18n and a
few other mailing lists (as he's not subscribed to translators-l and
wikitech-ambassadors).
Cheers!
Siebrand
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From: Pau Giner <pginer(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:44 AM
Subject: [Engineering] Introducing: Designs for the Universal Language Selector
Today we are announcing the designs and interactive prototypes for the
Universal Language Selector.
Wikipedia is available in 285 languages, and MediaWiki has been
translated to almost 400 languages.
Several language-related tools are available to support the
consumption and contribution of content in different languages.
These tools allow users to type text in a language for which their
keyboard is not prepared, download appropriate web fonts to display
non-Latin scripts properly and choose the language of their user
interface.
The Universal Language Selector is a tool that will allow users to
select a language and configure its support in an easy way.
When the number of languages in a list approaches 400, ease of use
becomes both a need and a challenge.
The design process for the selector started with the analysis of user
needs and the definition of representative scenarios to support.
Then, we explored different ideas in the form of sketches and
wire-frames through different iterations.
Finally, we have created interactive prototypes to test whether our
ideas work with real users, and we want to share them with the
community.
More information about the designs has been recently published at the
Wikimedia Foundation blog:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/21/introducing-designs-for-the-universal-…
We are announcing the availability of the Universal Language Selector
designs to gather feedback on the proposed solutions, and ask for
volunteers to test our prototypes.
If you want more details on the designs or want to have ideas for
improvement or criticism on the designs, feel free to do so on the
talk page for the Universal Language Selector:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector#Proposed_design
If you are a speaker of Arabic, Dutch, Hebrew or Hindi, you can also
request participation for the usability tests at http://goo.gl/QpWmu
In less than 30 minutes you can participate in the tests and
experience whether our proposed solutions work in practice for your
specific language community and context.
Pau
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Pau Giner
Interaction Designer
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear list subscribers,
You are invited to the Localisation team development demo on Tuesday
15 May 2012 at 15:00 UTC (other time zones: 08:00 PDT, 17:00 CEST,
20:30 IST). This meeting will take 40 minutes at most. In this meeting
the Localisation team will present its progress made during sprint
15[1].
We hope you can attend, and please invite any other colleagues or
friends you think would appreciate being present!
This meeting will be held using WebEx. Please ensure that you log in a
few minutes before the meeting starts, so that you have time to
install any required plug-ins or software. Connection details can be
found below the signature.
[1] https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/internationalization/cards/707
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Siebrand Mazeland
Product Manager Localisation
Wikimedia Foundation
M: +31 6 50 69 1239
Skype: siebrand
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
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2. If requested, enter your name and email address.
3. This meeting does not require a password.
4. Click "Join".
What: Meta and mediawiki.org translation tools bug triage
When: Wednesday, May 9, 16:00UTC
Time zone conversion: http://hexm.de/ir
Where: #mediawiki-i18n on freenode
Use http://webchat.freenode.net/ if you don't have an IRC
client
You are invited to a bug triage on Meta and mediawiki.org translation
tools hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation Localisation team. This will
be a one hour meeting. The intended audience is very broad:
translators, translation administrators, and developers. We will
discuss the current state of translation tools on Meta-Wiki and
mediawiki.org, and with your input we will try to map out which
features and issues will be most helpful to streamline the translation
process for things like documentation, policies, sitenotices,
fundraiser messaging and appeals, and other non-"primary project
content"* material that benefits from being available in as many
languages as possible.
Please forward this e-mail to anyone who may be interested. They are
most welcome to join in.
* Translating main namespace articles for Wikipedia and other projects
is still out of scope for now.
Cheers!
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Siebrand Mazeland
Product Manager Localisation
Wikimedia Foundation
M: +31 6 50 69 1239
Skype: siebrand
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
I suspect most of you follow the Wikimedia Foundation blog, but in case
you don't:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/12/mediawiki-1-20wmf1-deployment/
The bit that will affect your communities from now on:
"We plan to deploy the latest software every two weeks. Rather than
calling each version of the deployed software 1.20, 1.21, 1.22, etc
every two weeks, we'll be using a variation of the "1.20" moniker for
the next few months.
"We’re decoupling our deployment process (to Wikimedia sites like
Wikipedia) and our release process of standalone MediaWiki installer for
use on third-party sites. We plan to have MediaWiki 1.20wmf1 and
1.20wmf2 in April, 1.20wmf3 and 1.20wmf4 in May, etc., until we actually
release a new MediaWiki 1.20 installer this fall (probably October)."
Hope this is useful.
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Forwarding Robla message.
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Subject: Please test on our deploy candidate server (test2)
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:44:29 -0800
From: Rob Lanphier <robla(a)wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone,
Stage 0 of our deployment of MediaWiki 1.19 is complete, which is our
deployment to "test2". This wiki is actually on the live cluster like
any other wiki, which is about as close as it gets to what things are
going to be like when we deploy it to production wikis like any
others.
Here's the URL: http://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
In fact, all 800 or so wikis run on the same set of Apache servers,
whether they are 1.18 or 1.19, which means this isn't a truly isolated
test. There's a small chance that we could accidentally break 1.18
wikis in the process of doing this testing. In particular, if you see
something to the effect of "Internal 500 error" on any wiki (1.18 or
1.19), please let us know using the instructions here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_maintenance_notice
(basically #wikimedia-tech or the talk page for the notice above)
If all goes well, we should be making our first wave of deployments to
1.19 wikis in about 27 hours. Go forth and test!
Thanks!
Rob
Greetings,
The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki, the
software powering Wikipedia and its sister sites, to its latest
version.
The upgrade will happen in several stages over the month, starting this week.
You can still help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid
disruption and breakage.
More information:
* Announcement on the Wikimedia blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/11/mediawiki-1-19-deployment/
* The announcement in other languages:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19/Deployment_announcement
Thank you for your understanding.
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Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
FYI.
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From: Ben Hartshorne <bhartshorne(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Deploying Swift for thumbnails next Mon-Thurs Feb 6-9
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi Everyone,
Just to let you know, this deploy started this morning (with a few hiccups)
and Swift is now serving a small percentage of production traffic (about 6
queries per second). As before, please find me in IRC or leave a message
on the SwiftMedia/Issues page if you have bugs to report.
Thanks!
-ben (aka maplebed on IRC)
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Ben Hartshorne
<bhartshorne(a)wikimedia.org>wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Next week we're going to switch the back end system that hosts
> thumbnail[1] images. We have been using ms5<http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/latest/?r=day&cs=&ce=&m=&c=Miscellaneous+pmtpa…>(a Sun server running linux) to serve all thumbnails. We are switching to Openstack
> Swift <http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Swift>, a clustered object
> store. Though we have done testing and expect no problems, I want to
> publicize the change so that if issues do appear, they are quickly directed
> to the right place.
>
> Here's the schedule:
> * Monday Feb 6th: move 0.4% of all thumbnail traffic from ms5 to swift.
> Only thumbnails with "/thumb/a/a2/"[2] in the URL will be affected.
> * Tuesday: move 12.5% of traffic - thumbnails with "/thumb/a/" or
> "/thumb/b/" will be affected
> * Wednesday: move 50% of traffic - thumbnails with "/thumb/(a-f or 0 or
> 1)/" will be affected
> * Thundlay: move 100% of traffic - all thumbnails will be served from Swift
>
> Potential symptoms that might be related to this change on Monday:
> * a thumbnail image with /a/a2/ simply fails to load
> ** try changing the number preceding 'px' to generate a different size
> image[3]
> * you delete an image and the thumbnail is still available
> ** try purging the cache[4] and see if that makes it go away
> ** try changing the number preceding 'px' and see what happens
> * you move an image to a new name and it's still available at the old
> name, when either the new or old name has /a/a2/ in the URL
> ** please provide full URLs for both the new and old names
>
> If any of these things happen, or if something else odd happens with
> images or thumbnails and you feel it might be related, please join
> #wikimedia-tech in IRC and ping me (maplebed) or Aaron (AaronSchulz). If
> neither of us are available or you would prefer to just leave us a message,
> add a note to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/SwiftMedia/Issues. :) If
> things are severely broken, you can ask someone in the #wikimedia-tech to
> page me.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> -ben
>
> [1] In case you don't know what I mean by thumbnail images, I'm talking
> about all URLs that start http://upload.wikimedia.org/ and have /thumb/
> in the path. When an image is uploaded to a wiki (or commons), Mediawiki
> automatically generates scaled versions of the image. These are what I
> call 'thumbnails'. Nearly every time an image is used in a wiki page it is
> actually a thumbnail being used. Try going to any wiki page with an image,
> right click on the image, and choose 'view image'. You'll get something
> like
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Liberty_Head_Nicke… as the URL (this was taken from enwiki's featured article today)
>
> [2] For example, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons*
> /thumb/a/a2/*Little_kitten_.jpg/800px-Little_kitten_.jpg [6]
>
> [3] For example,
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Little_kitten_.jpg/
> *799px*-Little_kitten_.jpg
>
> [4] Find the URL for the main image file (rearrange the URL to find the
> original image - /wikipedia/commons -> commons.wikipedia.org) and add
> "?action=purge" to the end of the URL (eg
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Little_kitten_.jpg?action=purge
>
> [5] Image in the public domain
>
> [6] cc-by 3.0, Alexanderwdark<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Alexanderwdark&action=e…>
>
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