Wikitech-ambassadors August 2013

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New search backend live on mediawiki.org
by Nikolas Everett 13 Sep '13

13 Sep '13

Today we threw the big lever and turned on our new search backend at mediawiki.org. It isn't the default yet but it is just about ready for you to try. Here is what is we think we've improved: 1. Templates are now expanded during search so: 1a. You can search for text included in templates 1b. You can search for categories included in templates 2. The search engine is updated very quickly after articles change. 3. A few funky things around intitle and incategory: 3a. You can combine them with a regular query (incategory:kings peaceful) 3b. You can use prefix searches with them (incategory:norma*) 3c. You can use them everywhere in the query (roger incategory:normans) What we think we've made worse and we're working on fixing: 1. Because we're expanding templates some things that probably shouldn't be searched are being searched. We've fixed a few of these issues but I wouldn't be surprised if more come up. We opened Bug 53426 regarding audio tags. 2. The relative weighting of matches is going to be different. We're still fine tuning this and we'd appreciate any anecdotes describing search results that seem out of order. 3. We don't currently index headings beyond the article title in any special way. We'll be fixing that soon. (Bug 53481) 4. Searching for file names or clusters of punctuation characters doesn't work as well as it used to. It still works reasonably well if you surround your query in quotes but it isn't as good as it was. (Bugs 53013 and 52948) 5. "Did you mean" suggestions currently aren't highlighted at all and sometimes we'll suggest things that aren't actually better. (Bugs 52286 and 52860) 6. incategory:"category with spaces" isn't working. (Bug 53415) What we've changed that you probably don't care about: 1. Updating search in bulk is much more slow then before. This is the cost of expanding templates. 2. Search is now backed by a horizontally scalable search backend that is being actively developed (Elasticsearch) so we're in a much better place to expand on the new solution as time goes on. Neat stuff if you run your own MediaWiki: CirrusSearch is much easier to install than our current search infrastructure. So what will you notice? Nothing! That is because while the new search backend (CirrusSearch) is indexing we've left the current search infrastructure as the default while we work on our list of bugs. You can see the results from CirrusSearch by performing your search as normal and adding "&srbackend=CirrusSearch" to the url parameters. If you notice any problems with CirrusSearch please file bugs directly for it: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions… Nik Everett

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Problem with <gallery mode=packed>
by Adam Cuerden 31 Aug '13

31 Aug '13

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_of_Pook%27s_Hill#Original_illustrations The last line (at most widths) is much taller than the others, which is aesthetically ugly. I honestly cannot think of any case where having the lines be different heights would be preferable. I could see not using the full width available to even out multiple lines, but not making one line much larger. This mode is meant to replace the old mode, but such unaesthetic behaviour would make this impractical. -Adam

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Fwd: Deploy schedule - Week of September 2nd, 2013
by Greg Grossmeier 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

FYI for the below. Let me know if you see anything odd or have any questions! Greg ----- Forwarded message from Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> ----- > Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:08:33 -0700 > From: Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Deploy schedule - Week of September 2nd, 2013 > > Deployment Schedule and Highlights > Week of September 2nd, 2013 > > Full schedule: > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_September_2nd > > > == Monday == > No deploys! US holiday! (Labor Day) > > > == Tuesday == > * E2: Deploying updates/bug fixes to Echo and PageTriage > * MediaWiki Core: We'll be deploying 1.22wmf15 to all non-Wikipedia > sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, > Wikiversity, and a few other sites) > ** See the release notes here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf15 > > > == Wednesday == > * Wikipedia Zero: Finalizing their intended code > * MobileFrontEnd: Graciously moved to Wed to allow MWCore on Tuesday. > * Gerrit: The machine that hosts Gerrit will be swapped for a much more > powerful machine. This should not cause any issues to end users if > things go to plan. > > > == Thursday == > * MediaWiki Core: Version 1.22wmf15 will be deployed to all Wikipedia > language sites. > * MediaWiki Core: The next release of MediaWiki, 1.22wmf16, will be > deployed to the test wiki group (test.wikipedia, test2.wikipedia, > test.wikidata, and mediawiki.org) > * E3 is deploying bug fixes to GuidedTour and GettingStarted. > > == Friday == > No deploys! It's Friday! > > > Have a good weekend and 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 | ----- End forwarded message ----- -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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[En-wiki] Wikipedia Signpost Tech report
by Adam Cuerden 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

This is the planned Tech report for the next Wikipedia Signpost. Have I missed anything important? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-08-28/Techn… Cheers, Adam Cuerden

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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Wikitech-l] HTTPS enabled for all logged-in users
by Erik Moeller 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > After many months of struggle, WMF takes one big step towards a more secure > Wikipedia. Good job everybody! Agreed - fantastic to see this out the door :-). Thanks to everyone who made it happen. Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation

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HTTPS enabled for all logged-in users
by Greg Grossmeier 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

== HTTPS enabled by default for logged-in users on Wikimedia sites == Today, August 28, the Wikimedia Foundation is making a change to the software that powers the Wikimedia projects: By default, all logged-in users will now be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. What this does is encrypt the connection between the Wikimedia servers and the user's browser so that the information sent between the two is not readable by anyone else. This is in response to the recent concerns over the privacy and security of our user community, and we explained the rationale for this change in our post about the future of HTTPS at Wikimedia[0]. ===What this means for you === How this works is simple: If a user wants to log in, they will be redirected to use HTTPS for the login, thus keeping their username and password secure. After they are logged in, they stay on the HTTPS version of the Wikimedia site they are using. === Excluded Countries === Some users live in areas where HTTPS is not an easy option, most times because of explicit blocking by a government. At the request of these communities, we have made an explicit exclusion for users from those affected countries. Simply put, users from China and Iran will not be required to use HTTPS for logging in, nor for viewing any Wikimedia project site ===Disabling=== Are you having a slow or unreliable experience while browsing Wikimedia sites over HTTPS? Then you can turn HTTPS off in your user preferences, under the "User profile" tab: Uncheck "Always use a secure connection when logged in". You will need to log out and log in again for the preference to take effect. But remember, you will still need to log in using the secure HTTPS process. ===HELP!=== For further details, please see the HTTPS[1] page on Meta-Wiki, which is available in several languages. Are you unable to log in and edit a Wikimedia wiki after this change? Please contact the Wikimedia Foundation Operations team via any means you find comfortable, including this blog post's comments section, on IRC in the #wikimedia-operations channel, or via the https(a)wikimedia.org email address. Greg Grossmeier [0] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/08/01/future-https-wikimedia-projects/ [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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[Language Engineering] Reminder: Bug triage for RTL bugs today August 28, 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT
by Runa Bhattacharjee 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hello, This is a reminder that the Language Engineering team will be hosting an hour long bug triage for R-T-L bugs later today, i.e. August 28, 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT on the IRC channel #mediawiki-i18n (Freenode). etherpad link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/BugTriage-i18n-2013-08 Thanks Runa ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:56 AM Subject: Language Engineering bug triage session for RTL language bugs - Aug 28th 2013, Wednesday 1700 UTC/1000PDT To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello, The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting a bug triage session on Wednesday, August 28th 2013 at 17:00 UTC (10:00 PDT) for some of the bugs that exist in languages written from Right-to-Left (RTL). During this 1 hour session we will be using the etherpad linked below to collaborate. We have already listed some bugs, but please feel free to add more bugs (or file new ones!), and comments about what you’d like to see addressed during the session. You can send questions directly to me on email or IRC (nick: arrbee). Please see below for the event details. Thank you. regards Runa === Event Details === # What: Bug triage session for RTL language bugs # Date: August 28, 2013 (Wednesday) # Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 1000-1100 PDT (Timezone conversion: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130828T1700 ) # IRC Channel: #mediawiki-i18n (Freenode) # Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/BugTriage-i18n-2013-08 Questions can be sent to: runa at wikimedia dot org -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Call for translations (was Re: CodeEditor deployment)
by Greg Grossmeier 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hello Ambassadors! Thread below, but, the gist of it is: On Thursday (Aug 29th) we'll enable the CodeEditor extension for all CSS and Javascript on Wikimedia project sites. This should be a great improvement for people editing code on-wiki. MZ started a page on metawiki describing CodeEditor and what purpose it serves (thanks MZ!) and was looking for translations and wider exposure. I agreed with him that it's a good idea (better documentation and communication is always good ;) ). https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CodeEditor With that, I ask: Please do help translate that page and share it where you deem appropriate. Questions here or on the article talk page welcome! Thanks! Greg ----- Forwarded message from MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> ----- > Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:01:55 -0400 > From: MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] CodeEditor deployment (was [Wikitech-ambassadors] > Deployment highlights for the week of August 26th) > Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > Helder . wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> > >wrote: > >> == Thursday == > >> * CodeEditor support will be enabled for all JS and CSS on all wikis > > > >Without fixing the bug which makes it use spaces instead of tabs? > >Seriously? > >https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39616 > > This bug is now resolved/fixed. :-) Thanks to Alex M. and Ori L. for > working on this. > > I created <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CodeEditor>. Any help getting > this page translated and advertised (to the ambassadors mailing list, > etc.) would be great. It should possibly be merged with > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeEditor> in the future, but > for now it seemed more right to keep the two separate. > > There was a fleeting thought of having the WikimediaMessages extension > hook into the CodeEditor extension to add a header message above the edit > window if CodeEditor is activated. This header message could be used to > explain what CodeEditor is and link to more information about it, but... > it's probably more trouble than it's worth to implement this. > > And I came across <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/53300> today (CodeEditor > and UniversalLanguageSelector don't seem to play very nicely together). > It'd be cool to get that bug resolved before Thursday. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ----- End forwarded message ----- -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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Tech newsletter (2013, week 34)
by Guillaume Paumier 25 Aug '13

25 Aug '13

Greetings, The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2013/34 . Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter, and we welcome volunteers. 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/2013/34>are available. *New features* - The previous version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf13<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf13>) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 15. It was enabled<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Roadmap>on non-Wikipedia sites on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 22. [1] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79212/> - The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf14<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf14>) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 22. It will be enabled <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Roadmap> on non-Wikipedia sites on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 29. [2]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80418/> - You can now use new styles of galleries<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images#mode_parameter>. Please give feedback to User:Bawolff<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bawolff>. [3] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/67885/> - You can now visit a random page in a category, for example Special:RandomInCategory/Science<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:en:Special:RandomInCategory/Science>. (25931 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25931>) [4]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/71997/> - You can now use the <wbr><http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/text-level-semantics.html#the-wbr-element>HTML5 tag to say where a word can be cut. ( 52468 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52468>) [5]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/63408/> - Gadget authors: you can now use the wikipage.content hook, so that your scripts are re-run when a page is changed after the document-readyevent (for example using Ajax). ( 30713 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30713>) [6]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74313/> *Problems fixed* - There was a bug where file redirects didn't work when a file was renamed; it is now fixed. There is still an issue with purging, but it should be fixed soon. (52200<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52200> ) - Rapports de maintenance<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages#mw-specialpagesgroup-m…>provided by special pages will now all be updated on each wiki every six months. This will for example give you recent information on uncategorized pages, unused templates and most wanted pages (see details<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15434#c70> ). - There was a bug that caused false positives for anti-blanking edit filters; it is now fixed. (52077<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52077>) [7] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76082/> *VisualEditor<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Portal>news * - The "edit" and "edit source" tabs and section edit links can now be changed more easily; for example, some wikis are using "edit source" for wikitext editing, and "edit beta" for VisualEditor. You can ask for the same change in bugzilla<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimedia&component=Si…> . - You can now edit references that are added inside a <references>block. ( 51741 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51741>) - You can now test on mediawiki.org <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/>new basic tools to add and edit struck text (with the [image: VisualEditor - Icon - Strikethrough-a.svg]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Strikethrough-a.…>button for the <s> tag), lower text ([image: VisualEditor - Icon - Subscript.svg]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Subscript.svg>for <sub>), upper text ([image: VisualEditor - Icon - Superscript.svg]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Superscript.svg>for <sup>), underlined text ([image: VisualEditor - Icon - Underline-a.svg]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Underline-a.svg>for <u>), computer code ([image: VisualEditor - Icon - Code.svg]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Code.svg>for <code> and <tt>), math text ([image: VisualEditor - Icon - Equation.svg]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Equation.svg>for <math>), Egyptian hieroglyphs<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:en:Egyptian_hieroglyphs>([image: VisualEditor - Icon - Hieroglyphics.svg]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Hieroglyphics.svg>for <hiero>), and to say that text is in another language ([image: VisualEditor - Icon - Language.svg]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Language.svg>for lang="ar" dir="rtl"). (51609 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51609>, 51612 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51612>, 51611<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51611>, 51590 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51590>, 51610<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51610>, 52352 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52352>) - You can now use VisualEditor with the Opera browser. [8]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36000> *Future* - Starting on August 26, you will be able to use data from Wikidata on Wikivoyage sites. [9]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-August/00033…> - Starting on August 27, you will also get notifications on the mobile site if you're logged in to a wiki using notifications. [10]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-August/00035…> - Starting on August 28, all users with an account will be using HTTPS<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:en:HTTPS>to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. Some countries (like China) will not use HTTPS. If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us on meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS>. [11]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-August/00034…> - Starting on August 29, you will get the code editor interface to edit JavaScript and CSS pages on all wikis. [12]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-August/00035…> - The plan to use Solr <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:en:Solr> for search in MediaWiki was changed; instead, Elasticsearch<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:en:elasticsearch>is now planned. [13]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-July/070496.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 Global message delivery <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery> • Contribute<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2013/34> • 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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CodeEditor deployment (was Deployment highlights for the week of August 26th)
by Helder . 25 Aug '13

25 Aug '13

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > == Thursday == > * CodeEditor support will be enabled for all JS and CSS on all wikis > Without fixing the bug which makes it use spaces instead of tabs? Seriously? https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39616 Helder

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