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Wikitech-ambassadors October 2015

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Ready for translation: VisualEditor News #5 (2015)

by Erica Litrenta

Hi all, hope you're having/had a great start of the week. Heads up, a new issue of the VisualEditor newsletter is now open to translations. Current issue: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter/2015/October Direct translation link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-V… This will be delivered to the people who already signed up in the past months (please subscribe! [1]) in addition to a list of relevant pages on most WMF wikis. I plan to send it at the end of this workweek. Thank you for your invaluable help! Best, Elitre (WMF) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_(Product) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter

8?years, 7?months

Allowing empty list items

by Tim Starling

Currently, it is not possible to have an empty list item, for example, in: * A * * B or in: # A # # B The middle list item will be removed. We (the parsing team) would like to change that, since it is counter-intuitive and makes things difficult for VisualEditor. The challenge is that we suspect some templates are taking advantage of the removal of empty list items, as a shortcut to omit a list item when a parameter is empty. Such templates will have to be migrated to explicitly omit the affected list items. So we are planning on introducing logging and tools which will allow this problem to be quantified and fixed. A change was recently merged which causes empty list items to be hidden with CSS, instead of removing them altogether. This change will be deployed next week as part of the usual weekly release train. This should not cause any visible changes. However it does enable client-side tools to be developed which will show an article with empty list items included, the way we imagine it will ultimately be rendered. For more information, see: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/246148/ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T49673 -- Tim Starling

8?years, 7?months

Technical newsletter (2015, week 44)

by Johan Jonsson

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/44 >. 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. ????????????????????????????? Other languages: ?e?tina < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/44/cs > ? ?Deutsch < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/44/de > ? ?Ελληνικ? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/44/el > ? ?English ? ? espanol < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/44/es > ? ?????? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/44/he > ? ?Bahasa Indonesia < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/44/id > ? ?italiano < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/44/it > ? ?Ripoarisch < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/44/ksh > ? ?portugues < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/44/pt > ? ?portugues do Brasil < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/44/pt-br > ? ? svenska < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/44/sv > ? ? укра?нська < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/44/uk > ? ?Ti?ng Vi?t < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/44/vi > ? ?中文 < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/44/zh > Latest *tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News >* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/44 > are available. *Changes this week* - [image: Recurrent item] The new version < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.4 > of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap >). - The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [1] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108620 > - You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Insert file" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor.[2] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115748 >[3] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40031 > - When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [4] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T49742 >[5] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112617 > - [image: VisualEditor - Icon - Advanced.svg] Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [6] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54709 > *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 bot < 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/2015/44 > ? 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… >.* //Johan Jonsson

8?years, 7?months

Technical newsletter (2015, week 43)

by Johan Jonsson

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/43 >. 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. ????????????????????????????? Other languages: ?e?tina < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/43/cs > ? ?Deutsch < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/43/de > ? ?Ελληνικ? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/43/el > ? ?English ? ? espanol < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/43/es > ? ?francais < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/43/fr > ? ?????? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/43/he > ? ?italiano < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/43/it > ? ?Ripoarisch < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/43/ksh > ? ?polski < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/43/pl > ? ?portugues < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/43/pt > ? ?portugues do Brasil < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/43/pt-br > ? ? русский < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/43/ru > ? ?svenska < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/43/sv > ? ?укра?нська < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/43/uk > ? ?中文 < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/43/zh > Latest *tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News >* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/43 > are available. *Recent changes* - Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The [image: Recurrent item] icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The [image: For technical readers] icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News > on this change. - Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Coordinated_Universal_Time > (UTC). [1] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47988 > *Problems* - A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [2] < https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20151014-MediaWi… > - Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [3] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112281 > - The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen. [4] < https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-October/083598.html > *Changes this week* - Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [5] < https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_October_19th > - Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [6] < https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007106.html > [7] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108825 >[8] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109674 >[9] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115653 > *Meetings* - [image: Recurrent item] You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 October at 19:00 (UTC) < http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&d… >. See how to join < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings >. *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 bot < 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/2015/43 > ? 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… >.* //Johan Jonsson

8?years, 7?months

mohammadreza bangtavakoli

by Mohammadreza Bangtavakoli

i would like to bring it to your attention that dying past 6 months i been hake all the time never received any mail, please try to help me i am already appreciate .regards mohammadreza bangtavakoli

8?years, 7?months

announcing the WMF Community Tech team

by Ryan Kaldari

Hi everyone! Community Tech will be dealing a lot with technology relevant to Wikimedia editors. We figured we'd introduce ourselves here, hoping some of you might want to help out connecting us with the communities. We're a new team within the Wikimedia Foundation, focused on meeting the needs of active Wikimedia editors for improved, expert-focused curation and moderation tools. Making the lives of the people who spend a lot of time taking care of the Wikimedia projects a little bit easier. This is a small team: myself, Frances Hocutt and Niharika Kohli, with some support from Johan Jonsson as a Community Liaison. We'll focus on tasks that can be dealt with quickly and that will have a direct benefit for the core community and might be overlooked by the larger WMF development teams. To find our feet, we’ve mainly been knocking out bugs during the first weeks. At the moment, we're looking at tasks from previous surveys to see how we can benefit the communities. We are also working on developing a good process for soliciting new requests from the Wikimedians we're responsible for helping. As part of this effort, we have written up a draft proposal ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team/Community_Wishlist_Survey ) for a cross-project community wishlist survey that we would like to launch within the next month or two. Please take a look at the draft, share it with your communities, and let us know your thoughts on the talk page. You can find more information, such as the scope of the team, a roadmap, what we're doing and what we've done so far on our team page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team Ryan Kaldari Engineering Manager, Community Tech

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by Mohammadreza Bangtavakoli

8?years, 7?months

Technical newsletter (2015, week 42)

by Johan Jonsson

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/42 >. 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. ????????????????????????????? Other languages: ?e?tina < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/42/cs > ? ?Deutsch < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/42/de > ? ?English ? ? espanol < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/42/es > ? ?suomi < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/42/fi > ? ?francais < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/42/fr > ? ?????? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/42/he > ? ?italiano < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/42/it > ? ?Ripoarisch < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/42/ksh > ? ?portugues < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/42/pt > ? ?roman? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/42/ro > ? ?русский < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/42/ru > ? ?svenska < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/42/sv > ? ?укра?нська < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/42/uk > ? ?Ti?ng Vi?t < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/42/vi > Latest *tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News >* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/42 > are available. *Recent changes* - The database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [1] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114613 > *Changes this week* - The new version < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.3 > of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap >). - You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing. [2] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40030 > - Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [3] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104792 > *Meetings* - You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 October at 19:00 (UTC) < http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&d… >. See how to join < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings >. *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 bot < 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/2015/42 > ? 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… >.* //Johan Jonsson --

8?years, 7?months

Technical newsletter (2015, week 41)

by Johan Jonsson

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/41 >. 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. ????????????????????????????? Other languages: ?e?tina < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/41/cs > ? ?English ? ?espanol < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/41/es > ? ? francais < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/41/fr > ? ?????? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/41/he > ? ?italiano < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/41/it > ? ?Ripoarisch < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/41/ksh > ? ?lietuvi? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/41/lt > ? ?portugues < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/41/pt > ? ?portugues do Brasil < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/41/pt-br > ? ?roman? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/41/ro > ? ?русский < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/41/ru > ? ?svenska < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/41/sv > ? ?укра?нська < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/41/uk > ? ?Ti?ng Vi?t < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/41/vi > ? ?中文 < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/41/zh > Latest *tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News >* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/41 > are available. *Recent changes* - The link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [1] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101169 > - The description at Special:ChangeEmail < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ChangeEmail > now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [2] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98799 > *Changes this week* - The new version < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.2 > of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap >). - UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [3] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T51710 > - UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [4] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112764 > - A new Cite < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Cite > error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [5] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85386 > *Meetings* - You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 October at 19:00 (UTC) < http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&d… >. See how to join < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings >. *Future changes* - Wikidata requests your input on how to improve the editing of Wikidata's data in other locations < https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Client_editing_input >, such as Wikipedias. *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 bot < 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/2015/41 > ? 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… >.* //Johan Jonsson

8?years, 8?months

Fwd: [Wikidata] Input requested for 'editing on a client' project

by Lydia Pintscher

Hey ambassadors :) It'd be great if you could help me spread the word on the projects about this as their input for this is important. Cheers Lydia ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Charlie Kr <c.kritschmar(a)googlemail.com> Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:41 PM Subject: [Wikidata] Input requested for 'editing on a client' project To: wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi everyone, I'm currently working on a concept to improve the current editing situation of Wikidata's data on a client (e.g. Wikipedia & co.) in colaboration with Lydia Pintscher, in the scope of my Bachelor's thesis. It would be very appreciated if you could add your input and comments to the page below and pass this info to the other Wikis and their editors since their input is crucial to this project. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Client_editing_input Thanks! Charlie _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Forderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnutzig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt fur Korperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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