Hello everyone. It's my first mail in this watchlist. I hope it will be OK.
Yesterday the new mediawiki deployment was done in our (he)wiki. As result,
at least one gadget (and maybe more, and maybe more in other wikis will
come this eve) , WLM (Watchlist Manager) was destroyed. It's something very
powerful, with a lot of features, and a lot of users. It hides
automatically watched revisions, allows opening in a new window a diff for
all revisions since the last time you visited a page, marking some revision
as visited without a need to physically open a page if needed, marking any
watched revision as unwatched for later work and much much more. I spent
more than two months, at least 3-4 hours every day, to write it, and it
have a lot of glowing accounts.
But it does not work any more. Apparently, the watchlist html syntax was
changed. I tried to find something in the versions roadmap, but couldn't. I
tried a console, and saw, at least:
* Grouping view group members syntax was changed, the link to diff was
replaced by a link to cur.
* The "mw-enhanced-watched" css style was removed, and there is no way at
all any more to distinguish between watched and unwatched revisions.
And there are more bugs reported, so I believe there were more changes.
Could you tell me please, where can I find the full list of changes? And
what can I do to restore the spoken style? Otherwise, I'll just tell
everyone that the gadget is cancelled. Help!
Thank you,
Igal Khitron
Hi all,
Wikimedia Czech Republic and I are collaborating to organize a pre-hackathon
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/Prehackathon_Prague>
in Prague that runs from 12-14 May 2017, a week before the hackathon in
Vienna. There are a few scholarships available that will cover the return
trip to Prague/Vienna, and/or accommodation in Prague during the
pre-hackathon.
The topic of the pre-hackathon will be the improvement of the Wikimedia
Commons Android app <https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons>,
with focus on the "Nearby places that need pictures" feature. Further
details are currently still being discussed here
<https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/353>.
If you are interested, please register
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScvPa8LIz_YTOIcToaAAkAvnZ5OoJ2F5YU…>
as soon as possible and indicate if you would like to apply for a
scholarship in the application form. For any enquiries, feel free to send
me or Vojtech (CC'ed) an email, or post on our GitHub or wiki discussion
page.
Cheers!
--
Regards,
Josephine
Hi all!
Over the past few months the Reading Web team has spent a significant
amount of time refactoring the Page Previews feature. Page Previews,
previously called Hovercards, provide a preview of any linked article,
giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving
the current page. [0]
The refactor was focused on creating code that would be easier to maintain
in the future (an update on the technical implementation coming soon from
the Reading Web engineers). We also focused on fixing most outstanding bugs
for the feature in preparation for a major release including:
- Implementing a horizontal gradient to indicate the article continues on a
different page
- Fixing bugs around appearance/disappearance of previews
- Setting up settings and default behaviors for production
- Removing the “last edited” date based on conversations on the hover cards
talk page - we may reconsider this for the future based on recent feedback
- Focusing on performance of the feature
We’re enabling the feature as default for logged-out users in our first
phase of deployments. After consultation with the communities in December,
Page Previews will be enabled on the Catalan, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, and
Russian Wikipedias the week of 13 March.
After that we’ll approach the phase 1 group for discussion. [1]
The updates are now available on all wikis as a Beta feature. [2] Let us
know if you have any questions! [3]
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards#Rollout_Plan
[2]
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Beta_Features/Hovercards
Thanks!
Olga
--
Olga Vasileva // Product Manager // Reading Web Team
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-03-01
= 2017-03-01 =
== Call outs ==
* If you have something that you would like participants to take back to
their teams (examples: requests fo code review, Phab tickets to comment
on), please put it in this section in addition to your update
* Collation version numbering patch needs review
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/272419/(blockshttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47611 )
* Language: Still Blocked on mysterious and random Qunit test failures:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153038 (Who can help?), Schema changes
review needed from DBA: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146450 (TechOps)
== Product ==
=== Reading ===
====Android====
* Last week:
** v2.5.190 production released containing Wikidata description editing for
Catalan, Hebrew, and Russian Wikipedias
** UI updates to main bottom toolbar
** Library and tooling upgrades: T144252 (Gradle build system), Fresco
image library
** Consolidation of Android and iOS JavaScript code started T152991
** App language now changes chrome independent of system language T142019
** New saved page cache implementation in progress T156917
* Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ):
** Continue improving the offline experience
==== iOS ====
* Last Week
** Continued work on 5.4
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/
*** Dynamic text size for Places
*** Integrated design feedback to Places
*** Continued work on login and 2FA (two-factor authentication)
* This week
** Continue work on 5.4
*** Ship to external Beta
*** VoiceOver audit for Places
*** Other bug fixes & enhancements
==== Web ====
* Last week
** Update related pages schema to allow for current A/B test - T157375
** Deploy new mobile header to Catalan and Italian wikipedias - T156794
** Bug fixes related to the new branding work
* This week
** Mostly tech debt and bugfixes
====Reading Infrastructure====
* working on TemplateStyles, ORES
** about to wrap up TemplateStyles RfC:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155813
** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:css-sanitizer
* not blocking/blocked
* MCS: finished OnThisDay for the first four languages. Working on
expanding TFA (today's featured article) to more languages.
====Community Tech====
* No blockers
* Discussing best approach for Range Contributions, got DBA feedback
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156318
* Still testing cookie blocks, hoping for a enwiki deploy this or next week
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152952
* Popular pages report bot nearing completion, enwiki BRFA approved
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141154
* CopyPatrol now supports permalinks to specific record
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154811
* Notifications for unsuccessful login attempts
** Enabled preferences on loginwiki
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158871
** Testing LoginNotify extension on beta cluster
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158878
* Security fixes to Wikisource's IA Upload tool
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157784
* Extend length of edit summaries for non-Latin languages, may be handled
with with the ArchCom multi-content revision work
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153333
* Various fixes to PageAssessments:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158245https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157654https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154216
=== Editing ===
==== Language ====
* Work continue on OOjs UI migration for ContentTranslation.
==== Collaboration ====
* Blocked - None
* Blocking - None
* Updates
** Flow
*** Import dump: support importing a board that exists on another Wikimedia
wiki (cherry-picked and deployed earlier)
*** Styling changes
*** Front-end fixes
** RCFilters
*** Allow users to add custom highlighting depending on which filters apply
*** Many front-end fixes
** ORES
*** (Ladsgroup) Make wording of filters in Special:Contribs as the same as
ChangesLists
* Echo
*** Minor backend fixes and cleanup
==== UI Standardization ====
* This week
** MediaWiki Theme: Replace the down, up, next, previous indicators with
chevrons https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111550
** Further research on provide WikimediaUI Base's base.less in MW core
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123359
** Some OOjs UI accessibility task work planned
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/697/query/.o5Hlts6Hi1e/
* Updates
** OOjs UI:
*** 0.19.4 release with 6 different visual patches, also all widgets in
MediaWiki theme are now featuring solely colors from the WikimediaUI color
palette
*** ContentTranslation: Сontribution's dropdown menu
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157217 – done
==== Multimedia ====
* No blockers/blocking, thanks to everyone who helped the past few weeks
* Releasing Extension:3D to Beta this week or next, then moving on to prod
deployment. Heads up, we will be carefully watching load on thumbnailing
and usage patterns.
* Note: May enable chunked uploads on cross-wiki upload dialog. Could move
to change UploadWizard to core upload library after that. Stay tuned.
=== Discovery ===
* No blockers
* Working on ES5 upgrade & wikidata search
* ICU Folding is now effective on all English, French, Hebrew and Greek
wikis. Other wikis can be added on request. (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155515)
* New contentmodel search keyword is now operational on commons (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156371)
* Fixed portal issue with bad caching which resulted in blank page (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158782).
* Article statistics were updated for wikipedia.org, wikiquote.org and
wikiversity.org
* Wikidata Query Service upgraded to Blazegraph 2.1.5RC, various bugs
fixed, POST requests are enabled.
* Seeking nomination for SPARQL federation endpoints:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_federation_input
== Infrastructure ==
=== Analytics ===
* Hadoop cluster is being upgraded to CDH 5.10, everything going ok except
some problems with Oozie, sorting out now, lots of improvements with this
upgrade
* lots of Piwik improvements get rid of errors t
* datasets.wikimedia.org is being migrated to
analytics.wikimedia.org/datasets. We will do this slowly making sure we
get in touch with data owners. We'll post on the analytics mailing list
with details
* thank you to Chad and Reedy for help with Dashiki extension deploy,
dashiki configs are now like
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Config:Dashiki:VitalSigns
* evaluating Vue.js to build Wikistats 2.0, with standard mediawiki theme
as developed by UI Standardization
** Note from Wikidata: We are evaluating Vue.js too.
=== Security ===
* Security reviews this week:
* StopForumSpam
* mobile anniverseries endpoint
* CollaborationKit
=== Services ===
* Blockers: none
* Updates:
** Completely switched to new storage model for mobile content
** Preparing to switch to the new version of kafka driver
** Not much more, annual planning and vacations
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* No blockers
* DonationInterface
** deployed a streamlined way to redirect donors returning from credit card
processor forms https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153972
** first use of new Ingenico API almost ready to deploy
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128692
* CiviCRM: recurring payment timing tweaks (28 days hath February)
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159298
* CentralNotice: Looked at slow saves, was due to an underlying message
cache issue https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158084
* Filling out PCI paperwork
* Callouts
** Thanks to Reedy for pointing out that we can deprecate / remove a
vestigal part of the DonationInterface extension
== German Technical Wishlist ==
* No blockers.
* Continued to work on the search form prototype:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:TMg/advancedSearch
** Run into "prefix:" search parameter eating other parameters after:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159321
== Wikidata ==
* No blockers.
* Backend work for custom entity support (for Wiktionary) is making good
progress.
* Blocking ourself on a full labs setup to finally test the new Interwiki
extension. Callout to Adam.
== RelEng ==
* Blocking
** none
* Blocked
** None
* New version of scap just went out. Let us know in #wikimedia-releng if
you notice any problems.
Hi!
I'd like to welcome you to join us at the CREDIT showcase next week,
Wednesday, 1-March-2017 at 1900 UTC / 1100 Pacific Time. We'd like to see
your demos, whether they're rough works in progress or polished production
material, or even just a telling of something you've been studying
recently. For more information on the upcoming event, as well as recordings
of previous events, please visit the following page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase
And if you'd like to share the news about the upcoming CREDIT showcase,
here's some suggested verbiage. Thanks! -Adam
*Hi <FNAME>*
*I hope all is well with you! I wanted to let you know about CREDIT, a
monthly demo series that we’re running to showcase open source tech
projects from Wikimedia’s Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery,
Infrastructure and Technology teams. *
*CREDIT is open to the public, and we welcome questions and discussion. The
next CREDIT will be held on March 1st at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 19:00 UTC. *
*There’s more info on MediaWiki
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase>, and on Etherpad
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT>, which is where we take notes and
ask questions. You can also ask questions on IRC in the Freenode chatroom
#wikimedia-office (web-based access here
<https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23wikimedia-office>). Links to
video will become available at these locations shortly before the event.*
*Please feel free to pass this information along to any interested folks.
Our projects tend to focus on areas that might be of interest to folks
working across the open source tech community: language detection,
numerical sort, large data visualizations, maps, and all sorts of other
things.*
*If you have any questions, please let me know! Thanks, and I hope to see
you at CREDIT.*
*YOURNAME*
Apologies for cross-posting
Greetings,
I'm happy to announce that the program for the Enterprise MediaWiki
Conference Spring 2017 is now available on the conference page. [0]
The program covers all three days of the event, including our very special
list of presenters and social activities.
Registration is still open, so please register if you have not already. [1]
Ideas for short lightning talks are welcome for the Create Camp on the
third day.
We hope you can make it, and look forward to seeing you next week. For
folks who can't make it in person, live streaming will be available for
many of our sessions. Check the conference page in the near future for more
information.
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2017#Program
[1] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/emwcon-spring-2017-tickets-30356020675
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2017#Lightning_Talks
Yours,
Chris Koerner
clkoerner.com
Hi Community Metrics team,
This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail.
Accounts created in (2017-02): 283
Active users (any activity) in (2017-02): 829
Task authors in (2017-02): 461
Users who have closed tasks in (2017-02): 260
Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on
their workboard in (2017-02): 301
Tasks created in (2017-02): 2415
Tasks closed in (2017-02): 2005
Open and stalled tasks in total: 33936
Median age in days of open tasks by priority:
Unbreak now: 17226
Needs Triage: 249
High: 438
Normal: 616
Low: 889
Lowest: 813
(How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority)
TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as
described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 .
Yours sincerely,
Fab Rick Aytor
(via community_metrics.sh on iridium at Wed Mar 1 00:00:18 UTC 2017)