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Wikitech-ambassadors January 2014

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Would any other wikis like to try out a new search?

by Nikolas Everett

Dear Ambassadors, I'm looking for volunteer wikis to try out the new search that Chad and I've been working on called CirrusSearch. <sales pitch>Be a part of the second wave of wikis and influence new search features!</sales pitch> Reality: * We're reasonably sure CirrusSearch's language support is better than the current search. [1] * CirrusSearch indexes expanded templates. * CirrusSearch indexes articles within a few seconds of when they are changed. Articles that contain a changed template take longer but they are also updated. * Most of the special search syntax is the same. You can read the syntax here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search/CirrusSearchFeatures What it means to volunteer: If you volunteer your wiki we'll turn CirrusSearch on in "secondary" mode where it'll keep itself up to date but all queries will still go through the old search. You'll be able to get search results from the new search engine for comparison by adding a url parameter to the search results page. If you and the community that you represent aren't immediately blown away by how much better it works we'll work with you to make it awesome. At some point, shortly after the new search has been deemed awesome, we'll switch CirrusSearch to "primary" mode and all queries will go through it. You'll be able to get at the old search results with a url parameter similar to the one that you used to test CirrusSearch. If anything goes wrong we'll switch you back to the old search. We'll keep that option open for a few months. So who is ready to help make search better? Nik Everett [1]: Some languages (20ish) will see a huge improvement because CirrusSearch understands their grammar and old search doesn't. Many other languages will see an improvement because CirrusSearch is happy to search all kinds of character sets while the current search isn't. Esperanto is very well supported by the old search so would get worse. eo wikis should probably wait until we've improved support.

10?years, 2?months

Localization and launch of GettingStarted extension outside English Wikipedia

by Steven Walling

Hi all, This is just an advance notice that we're getting much closer to being able to launch GettingStarted,[1] a tool for suggesting tasks to new editors after they sign up,[2] on non-English Wikipedias. In the next 24 hours or so, most of our major user-facing changes will be merged and ready to localize. About 10-15 languages are 80% or better on translatewiki already, so many are close. The more the better! Our current plan is to launch initially on all Wikipedias where localization is complete (or close to it, 90% or better is ideal). That will likely happen soon after our current iteration of work ends on February 5th, though I will keep people posted. Please let me know if you have any questions, 1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GettingStarted 2. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/

10?years, 3?months

Small update to button styles in MediaWiki core

by Steven Walling

Hi all, This is just a notice that we are making a small series of updates to the button styles in MediaWiki core. These buttons appear on login, account creation, search, and some other interfaces. This isn't a big change, but I didn't want anyone to be taken by surprise since there are some color changes and so on. On the positive side, those who think our blue action buttons are too Facebook-like may be pleased with the change. ;-) This is added to Tech News next issue,[1] and you will be able to see it on mediawiki.org as of Thursday, if you want to try it out before it is on your wiki. Thanks! 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/06 -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/

10?years, 4?months

Tech newsletter (2014, week 05)

by Guillaume Paumier

Hi, The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/05 . Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next . More information on how to contribute is available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute . You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Latest *tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News >* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/05 >are available. *Recent software changes* - Pages from Wikimedia sites now load faster in your browser thanks to "module storage", a way for your browser to save data like JavaScript and CSS on your computer to avoid downloading them again. See video< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ori_Livneh,_Site_performance_update,_J… >. [1]< http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-January/074140.html > - The code used to show videos has changed. You should be able to play the video on the page, with the play button on top of the video. If you see the play button on the right of the video, or if clicking on the video leads you to the original file, please file a bug< https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions… >or tell User:Bawolff < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:Bawolff >. [2]< https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/55550 > - The Special:ActiveUsers page will be removed because it's too slow. [3]< https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/107988 > - The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf11 >) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap >). *Problems* - On January 21, Universal Language Selector< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:UniversalLangua… >was turned off on all Wikimedia sites because it makes pages load slowly< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Language_Select… >. If you want to use web fonts, or write in scripts that aren't on your keyboard, you need to add it as an option in your preferences< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal >. It will be turned back on when the issues are resolved. [4]< https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/56433 > - For about 20 minutes on the same day, there were problems with CSS< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:Cascading_Style_Sheets >and JavaScript < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript > due to high server load. *Future software changes* - You can give comments < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Winter >about the new version of " Winter < http://unicorn.wmflabs.org/winter/ >", a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [5]< http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2014-January/001411.html > *Tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News > prepared by tech ambassadors < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors > and posted by MediaWiki message delivery < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d… > ? Contribute < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute > ? Translate < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/05 > ? Get help < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech > ? Give feedback < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News > ? Subscribe or unsubscribe < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass… >.* -- Guillaume Paumier Technical Communications Manager ? Wikimedia Foundation

10?years, 4?months

Wikimedia engineering report, December 2013

by Guillaume Paumier

Hi, The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in December 2013 is now available. Wiki version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/December Blog version: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/21/engineering-report-december-2013/ We're also proposing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of this report that does not assume specialized technical knowledge: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/December/s… Below is the HTML text of the report's summary. As always, feedback is appreciated on the usefulness of the report and its summary, and on how to improve them. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Major news in December include: - a retrospective on Language Engineering events< https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/10/language-engineering-events-language-… >, including the language summit in Pune, India; - the launch of a draft feature< https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/20/new-draft-feature/ >on the English Wikipedia, to provide a gentler start for Wikipedia articles. VisualEditor< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Portal > In December, the VisualEditor team worked to continue the improvements to the stability and performance of this interface that allows users to edit wiki pages visually rather than using wiki markup. Most of the team's focus was on major new features and fixing bugs. There is now basic support for rich copy-and-paste from external sources into VisualEditor, and a basic tool to insert characters not otherwise available on users' keyboards. Work also continued on a dialog for quickly adding references using citation templates. The Parsoid < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid > team, who is developing the parsing program that converts wiki markup to annotated HTML (and back) behind the scenes of VisualEditor, continued their relentless work to eliminate bugs and incompatibilities. Problems arose during the migration to node 0.10, the platform that runs Parsoid. The team rolled back the upgrade, investigated and fixed the issue. Testing has also been improved so that similar issues are caught in the future. Last, the team created several requests for comment< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment >concerning architectural components of the MediaWiki platform. Editor engagement < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_editor_engagement > In December, we enabled Flow < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow > to a few selected pages on mediawiki.org (Talk:Flow< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Flow >and Talk:Sandbox < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Sandbox >) and collected feedback about the features and design to date from the community (read the summary < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Research#Experienced_Users >). Throughout the feedback period, we worked on implementing design changes, such as a more compact view of the board and a different interface for topic and post actions, as well as different visualizations of history information, based on the comments of users testing the software. We also began a straw poll about launching Flow as a beta trial in the discussion spaces of WikiProject Breakfast, WikiProject Hampshire, and WikiProject Video Games on the English Wikipedia. Based on the outcome of these polls, we hope to deploy Flow to those pages in January. The Growth < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth > team spent time working on product development and research for upcoming Wikipedia article creation< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_article_creation >improvements. First and foremost, the team fulfilled a request from the English Wikipedia community to launch the new Draft namespace< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Draft_namespace >there. Pau Giner and others on the team simultaneously began design work on future improvements to drafts functionality< https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/20/new-draft-feature/ >, including recruiting for usability testing sessions. Mobile < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Mobile_engineering > During the last month, the Wikipedia Zero< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero >team continued to make it easier to configure partnerships with telecommunications carriers that offer access to Wikipedia at no data cost to their mobile subscribers. They also implemented a global landing page redirector for mobile Wikipedia website access. Last, the team started working on an HTML5 webapp proof of concept as an option for rebooting the Firefox OS app. The Mobile web projects < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_web_projects >team has been working on finishing the redesign of the overlays and mobile on-boarding. The "Keep going" feature has been changed to a workflow that asks users to add blue links and includes a tutorial. This is consistent with what we've learned about how guiding users helps accomplish more edits, and it fits into more of micro contributory workflow that we want to experiment with. We've also worked on an A/B test displaying an edit guider for users signing up from the left nav menu. This is mirroring the edit guider that displays for users signing up through the edit call to action. It also is consistent with the behavior that the desktop site will be displaying to users as a result of the OB6 A/B test< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Onboarding_new_Wikipedians/OB6 > . The mobile apps < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps > team added saved pages, article navigation, and language support to the mobile Wikipedia app. During the quarterly planning meeting, it was decided to postpone photo uploads from our market release plan in favor of text editing. -- Guillaume Paumier Technical Communications Manager ? Wikimedia Foundation https://donate.wikimedia.org

10?years, 4?months

Tech newsletter (2014, week 04)

by Guillaume Paumier

Hi, The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/04 . Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next . More information on how to contribute is available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute . You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Latest *tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News >* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/04 >are available. *Recent software changes* - The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf11 >) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap >). - You can now see relatively recent results on special pages like Special:DoubleRedirects< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:DoubleRedirects >, Special:UncategorizedPages< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UncategorizedPages >or Special:WantedCategories< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WantedCategories >. They were disabled before because they were very slow. The results are now updated once a month. [1]< https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15434 > - As of January 16, you can make and use guided tours< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Guided_tours >on the Asturian, Farsi and Russian Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it< https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-guidedt… >and ask in Bugzilla < https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org >. [2]< http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-January/0005… > [3] < https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/105997/ > - You can give comments on an idea to have a fixed toolbar< http://unicorn.wmflabs.org/navmod/ >at the top of wiki pages. [4]< http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2014-January/001377.html > - You can watch a video< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How_to_file_a_report_in_Bugzilla.webm >to learn how to report problems in Bugzilla. [5] < https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54606 > *VisualEditor news* - In the toolbar, the menu to edit the styles (like bold, italic, etc.) now has a down arrow ([image: VisualEditor - Icon - Text style.svg]< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Text_style.svg >[image: VisualEditor - Icon - Down.svg]< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Down.svg >). The order of the Insert menu has also changed a little. - You can now edit <gallery /> tags with a very basic tool. [6]< https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/107537/ > - You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu. [7] < https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52844 > - When you change categories, you will now see them when you save the page. [8] < https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48560 > - When you edit templates, you will now see the parameters in the right order. The ones that you must add have a star (*). [9]< https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51930 > [10] < https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53611 > - The page will now be saved faster, thanks to a new way of coding the text that sends 40% less text to the servers. [11]< https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59660 > - Your wiki can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TemplateData >. [12] < https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51734 > *Problems* - There was a problem with search on the English and German Wikipedias between January 6 and January 14. You could not see new pages and changes in search results. [13]< https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59979 > - There were "pool timeouts" errors on several wikis on January 13; it was caused by a code change that was made to fix another problem. [14]< https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59993 > - On January 17, Bugzilla and Wikimedia Labs were broken for about 20 minutes due to network problems. IRC channels with recent changes ( irc.wikimedia.org ) were broken for about two hours. [15]< http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-January/074050.html > *Future software changes* - If you have removed JavaScript in your web browser, you will soon be able to see the orange bar saying that you have new messages. If you have changed how the bar looks with a gadget, you may need to change the gadget again. [16] < https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56974 > [17]< https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/95102/ > - You will soon be able to add a given Flickr user to a blacklist so that their files can't be uploaded using UploadWizard< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard >on Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. [18] < https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/42770 > - You will see a warning when you try to delete a page included in at least one other page. [19] < https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/108188/ > - You will so longer see disambiguation pages in Special:LonelyPages< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:LonelyPages >. [20] < https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3483 > [21]< https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/106435/ > *Tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News > prepared by tech ambassadors < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors > and posted by MediaWiki message delivery < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d… > ? Contribute < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute > ? Translate < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/04 > ? Get help < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech > ? Give feedback < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News > ? Subscribe or unsubscribe < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass… >.* -- Guillaume Paumier Technical Communications Manager ? Wikimedia Foundation

10?years, 4?months

Guided Tours enabled on more wikis

by Steven Walling

Hi all, This is just a quick announcement that today we enabled the Guided Tours extension on the following Wikipedias: fawiki (Persian), astwiki (Asturian), and ruwiki (Russian). I'll also be posting to those wikis directly but wanted to send out a note here. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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Deployment and Roadmap highlights - week of January 20th

by Greg Grossmeier

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the deployment and roadmap highlights. Full up-to-date schedule, as always, can be found online at: < https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments > == Throughout the week == * The Technical Operations team will be bringing the west coast caching center ("ULSFO") online (again, after a failed first attempt due to connectivity limitations). This work will happen throughout the week. * On Thursday and Friday there is the MediaWiki Architecture Summit in San Francisco. See: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Summit_2014 * Due to the US public holiday on Monday (Martin Luther King Jr Day) and the Architecture Summit, the week of the 20th will be a low/no deploy week. As such, the only things on the calendar are placeholders for "Lightning Deploys" on Tues, Wed, and Thurs (Pacific time). Let me know if you have any questions, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

10?years, 4?months

Tech newsletter (2014, week 03)

by Guillaume Paumier

Hi, The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/03 . Below is the English version. In case you haven't seen it, I notably wanted to point to the blog post that was published last week about how Tech News is written, translated, assembled and delivered. Tech ambassadors are mentioned throughout the post: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/07/tech-news-fighting-technical-informat… You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next . More information on how to contribute is available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute . You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Latest *tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News >* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/03 >are available. You can read a recent blog post< https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/07/tech-news-fighting-technical-informat… >about how Tech News is put together, translated and sent to you across wikis each week. *Recent software changes* - The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf10< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf10 >) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 9. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 14, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 16 ( calendar < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap >). - Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons may be slow due to a search engine issue. [1]< https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/106537/ > *VisualEditor news* - VisualEditor will be added for all users on several Wikipedias on January 13. [2] < https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/102208/ > - You can now add and remove __NOTOC__, __FORCETOC__ and __NOEDITSECTION__ in the page metadata menu. [3]< https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56866 > [4] < https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56867 > [5]< https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57166 > *Problems* - For a few hours on January 6, it was not possible to edit pages using the Translate tool < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate >on Wikimedia Commons and the Wikimania 2013 wiki, due to a settings error. [6] < https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59740 > [7]< https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59739 > - For about 20 minutes on January 9, there were problems with CSS< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:Cascading_Style_Sheets >and JavaScript < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript > due to high server load. *Future software changes* - Wikidata will be added to all Wikisource wikis on January 14. [8]< https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_January_13 > - The new search tool (CirrusSearch< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search >) will be added as the second search method for the English Wikipedia on January 13. On Wikibooks and the German Wikipedia, you will also be able to test it by adding it in your Beta Features options< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeat… > . - You will soon be able to export page collections< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection >into other formats than PDF < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:Portable_Document_Format >. [9]< https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58151 > - It will soon be possible to upload groups of photos from Flickr< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:Flickr >using UploadWizard < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard >. [10] < https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43320 > [11]< https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/105393 > - The Wikimedia Foundation has shared a multimedia vision for 2016< http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/09/multimedia-vision-2016/ >. You are invited< https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/commons:Commons_talk:Multimedia_Features/Vi… >to comment. [12]< http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-January/073904.html > -- Guillaume Paumier Technical Communications Manager ? Wikimedia Foundation

10?years, 4?months

Deployment and Roadmap highlights - week of January 13th

by Greg Grossmeier

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the deployment and roadmap highlights. Full up-to-date schedule, as always, can be found online at: < https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments > == Monday January 13th == Search - < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search > * enwiki will have the new search as a secondary (opt-in via URL parameter) search backend, thus starting the indexing of those sites * dewiki and wikibooks wikis will have the new search as an opt-in BetaFeature. Visual Editor - < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor > * enabled by default on "phase 4" Wikipedias ** full list at: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#q,102208,n,z == Tuesday January 14th == Search * Upgrade the ElasticSearch backend to 0.90.10 ** < http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/0-90-10-released/ > MediaWiki - < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap > * group1 to 1.23wmf10: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites) Wikidata * Wikidata (phase1) will be enabled on Wikisource. In other words, this will enable support for Wikisource language links on Wikidata. < https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikisource > == Thursday January 16th == MediaWiki - < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap > * group2 to 1.23wmf10 (all Wikipedias) * group0 to 1.23wmf11 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki) As always, let me know if you have any questions. Best, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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