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Wikitech-ambassadors February 2015

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Reminder: VisualEditor weekly triage meetings ? 2015-02-25/26

by James Forrester

As a reminder, this week's VisualEditor triage meeting will be at ?00 < http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150225T16&p1=224… > :00 UTC < http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150225T16&p1=224… > ? ? on Thursday ?26 February ( ?16 :00 PST on Wednesday 25 February) ? that's in approximately 5 hours' time. Joining instructions are on mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal#How_to_join_the_tri… > ?. Hope to see many of you there. Yours, -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester

9?years, 3?months

Fwd: Wikimedia Hackathon travel sponsorship

by Quim Gil

A forward to Wikitech Ambassadors, who are very welcome to Wikimedia hackathons. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:14 AM Subject: Fwd: Wikimedia Hackathon travel sponsorship To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> A forward for technical and tech-curious people not subscribed to wikitech-l. If you have or want to join a hackathon plan for Lyon (May 23-25), we want to know. Important note: Wikimedia Hackathons are not only for developers, as good software development requires many other profiles, including insightful users. Chapter people and other organized wikimedians, your help funding volunteer travel is welcome. Every year we are pooling more funds from more orgs, opening our hackathons to more volunteers from more places and areas of interest. Please send one volunteer or more to Lyon. More information and feedback at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88523 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:02 AM Subject: Wikimedia Hackathon travel sponsorship To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi, we are hoping to open registration to the Wikimedia Hackathon in Lyon next week. Those of you relying on travel sponsorship can start preparing your requests already now: # Familiarize yourself with the goals of the hackathon: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons#The_Wikimedia_Hackathon_model # Join or propose a demo-able project in Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-hackathon-2015/ # Find a hackathon buddy in the Wikimedia communities or related projects out there: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lyon_Hackathon_2015/Buddies Here you have a draft form to get an idea of what questions you will be asked: http://goo.gl/forms/MPzx8q7BBz (not a real form; data submitted will be ignored and deleted) Your feedback about the process is welcome, especially in the related Phabricator task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88406 -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

9?years, 3?months

Tech newsletter (2015, week 09)

by Guillaume Paumier

Hi, The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/09 . 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/2015/09/cs > ? ?English ? ?espanol < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/09/es > ? ?suomi < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/09/fi > ? ?francais < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/09/fr > ? ?????? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/09/he > ? ??????? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/09/hi > ? ?italiano < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/09/it > ? ?日本語 < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/09/ja > ? ?portugues < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/09/pt > ? ?русский < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/09/ru > ? ?укра?нська < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/09/uk > ? ?Ti?ng Vi?t < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/09/vi > ? ?中文 < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/09/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/2015/09 > are available. *Recent software changes* - All new accounts are now global < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Unified_login >. [1] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70069 > - Your Meta user page < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage > is now shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can report problems < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=PHID-PROJ… > if you see any. You can ask a bot < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Synchbot > to delete your old user pages. [2] < https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-February/00… > [3] < https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-February/00… > [4] < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:GlobalUser… > *Software changes this week* - The new version < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf18 > of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 25. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 26 (calendar < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap >). - It is now easier to see template fields in VisualEditor. The fields are bigger. [5] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89015 > - It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor. [6] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88483 > - Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed. [7] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86401 > - Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24. [8] < https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-February/080900.html > *Meetings* - You can read the notes < https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-February/080874.html > from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team. - You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 26 at 00:00 (UTC) < http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150225T16&p1=224… >. See how to join < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal > . *Future changes* - At the moment you need to log in to edit Wikimedia wikis on mobile devices. You can say < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Proposal:_restore_normal_ed… > if anyone should be allowed to edit on the mobile sites. The discussion ends on March 15. - Images in the interface will soon work better in Opera 12. [9] < https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-February/00… > *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/2015/09 > ? 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

9?years, 3?months

Global user pages deployed to all wikis

by Legoktm

Hello! Global user pages have now been deployed to all public wikis for users with CentralAuth accounts. Documentation on the feature is available at mediawiki.org[1], and if you notice any bugs please file them in Phabricator[2]. Thanks to all the people who helped with the creation and deployment (incomplete, and in no particular order): Jack Phoenix & ShoutWiki, Isarra, MZMcBride, Nemo, Quiddity, Aaron S, Matt F, James F, and everyone who helped with testing it while it was in beta. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalUserPage [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=PHID-PROJ…

9?years, 3?months

Fwd: Proposal: restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites

by Federico Leva (Nemo)

Please participate in the global discussion: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Proposal:_restore_normal_ed… ---- [...] What few know is that the mobile sites don't follow the standard permission system: instead, they override permissions and prevent unregistered users from editing at all. I propose to remove this exception to the rule, which was meant to be temporary and looks now technically unnecessary. Unregistered users will be allowed to edit on the mobile subdomain for a wiki, if they are allowed on the main domain. [...] ---- The discussion will be open until 2015-03-15. I'll send wider notifications in few days. In the meanwhile, sorry for the crossposting. Nemo

9?years, 3?months

Using mw.wikibase.getEntity? Read on!

by hoo

Hi Everyone, We provide an interface for the Scribunto extension (Lua modules) in Wikibase for quite some time now. Our integration with Scribunto was very basic initially and not future proof enough for things like arbitrary access or very big items. Due to that we at some point deprecated the old Lua function to access entities mw.wikibase.getEntity[0] in favor of mw.wikibase.getEntityObject[1] which is much more than just a plain Lua table and allowed us to introduce various convenience functions and to improve performance. We plan to extend on that in the near future to make arbitrary access possible, especially from a performance point of view. As that's not possible with the legacy mw.wikibase.getEntity function it would be nice if you could replace all of your usages of that function with the new function. Migrating shouldn't be hard, but there are two breaking changes between the output format of the two functions which you need to be aware of and potentially adopt your modules to. First of all the old entity format, as obtained from mw.wikibase.getEntity, includes all claims twice once with upper and once with lower case keys (so both "P123" and "p123" are present as keys). That has been removed in the new format in favor of just upper case keys ("P123"). The other breaking change is that in the new entity format the Lua tables are no longer numbered from 0 on, but from 1 on (which is the native Lua table enumeration). You can find a list of all Lua modules (potentially) using the old function sorted by number of transclusions on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P272 . Cheers, Marius [0]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua#mw.wikibase.ge… [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua#mw.wikibase.ge…

9?years, 3?months

Local account creation (unattached accounts) has been turned off

by Keegan Peterzell

Greetings, As the subject says, creating a local, unattached account has been turned off as part of the single-user login finalization process taking place over the next two months. This is to prevent any further usernames from being created that are going to clash with global accounts when the great renaming process happens[1]. Going forward, /all/ new user accounts on the public farm will be global in nature. I am sorry if this inconveniences anyone, feel free to contact me with questions. 1. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70069 -- Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Product Wikimedia Foundation

9?years, 3?months

[VisualEditor] 2nd weekly triage meeting; office hours in February and March

by Erica Litrenta

Hi everybody, and apologies for cross-posting. Here are some reminders and announcements about upcoming appointments related to VisualEditor. This Wednesday (18 February) the second *triage meeting* is scheduled for 4pm UTC [1]. You can find all the relevant information at mediawiki.org . [2] This email also serves as a reminder that the next VE *office hour* is on Thursday 19 February at 7pm UTC [3], in case you had not added it to your calendar yet! Please notice that March's appointment has been scheduled as well: we'll meet on Friday 27 at 3pm UTC [4]; previous logs and other information, including how to participate, can be found at Meta [5]. Talk to you soon! Elitre (WMF) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_(Product) [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&d… [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal#How_to_join_the_tri… [3] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&d… [4] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=15&min=00&sec=0&d… [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours

9?years, 3?months

Fwd: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki will avoid serving SVG images to Opera 12

by Erik Moeller

FYI - for any Opera 12 aficionados .. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bartosz Dziewo?ski <matma.rex(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:35 AM Subject: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki will avoid serving SVG images to Opera 12 To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Just a quick note that I have submitted a patch < https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/190819 > that will make MediaWiki avoid serving SVG images to Opera 12 (the old, Presto-based one) when a PNG fallback is available. We support it as a Grade A browser, which means that we should do our best to provide the best possible experience. In my opinion, the best possible experience involves not giving it any SVGs. Opera 12 has issues when rendering SVG background-images together with border-radius or background-size rules (see task < https://phabricator . wikimedia.org/T87504 > for details and examples), and both of these are becoming increasingly common in our codebase. One common complaint was the new MediaWiki UI checkboxes, where the check icon would sometimes not appear for Opera users. -- Bartosz Dziewo?ski _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Erik Moller VP of Product & Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation

9?years, 3?months

Tech newsletter (2015, week 08)

by Guillaume Paumier

Hi, The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/08 . 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/2015/08/cs > ? ?English ? ?espanol < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/es > ? ?suomi < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/fi > ? ?francais < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/fr > ? ?????? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/he > ? ?italiano < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/it > ? ?日本語 < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/ja > ? ?polski < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/pl > ? ?portugues < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/pt > ? ?русский < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/ru > ? ?укра?нська < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/uk > ? ?Ti?ng Vi?t < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/vi > ? ?中文 < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/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/2015/08 > are available. *Software changes this week* - The new version < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf17 > of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 18 (calendar < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap >). - On Wednesday your Meta user page < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage > will be shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. [1] < https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-February/00… > [2] < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:GlobalUser… > [3] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72576 > - You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using drag-and-drop. [4] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52809 > - In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply Changes" to citations and templates. [5] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T57976 > - The way the cursor moves in VisualEditor is changing. Your browser now handles the cursor directly. Most of you will see no change. In right-to-left text, the cursor now moves in a 'visible' rather than 'logical' way. This is like other sites but you may be surprised at first.? [6] < https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/177946/ > *Meetings* - The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal >. [7] < https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-February/080803.html > - You can join the second weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 18 at 16:00 (UTC) < http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150218T08&p1=224… >. See how to join < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal > . [8] < https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-February/076781.html > - You can join a meeting with the developers of the Content Translation tool. It will be on February 18 at 13:00 (UTC) < http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150218T1300 > . [9] < https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-i18n/2015-February/000973.h… > *Future changes* - You can comment on a proposal about abandoned Labs tools < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Abandoned_Labs_tools > . *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/2015/08 > ? 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

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