Wikitech-ambassadors September 2013

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Fwd: [Engineering] Deployment Highlights - week of September 30th, 2013
by James Forrester 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

Forwarding to wikitech-ambassadors for info. As a note, we hope that switching to provide VisualEditor to all users (other than those who opt-out) will be a success for those wikis below. However, if there is community consensus that your wiki does not want it yet or is not ready, it can of course be reversed to "opt-in" - just file a Bugzilla request or contact your local community liaison. Yours, J. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 27 September 2013 13:36 Subject: [Engineering] Deployment Highlights - week of September 30th, 2013 To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Development and Operations engineers <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello and here's your latest edition of the deployment highlights email! Full schedule here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_September_30th == Monday == * VisualEditor will be enabled by default for Logged-in users on the following wikis: Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Estonian (et), Basque (eu), Finnish (fi), Galician (gl), Croatian (hr), Hungarian (hu), Indonesian (id), Latvian (lv), Malay (ms), Norwegian - Nynorsk (nn), Norwegian - Bokmål (no), Simple English (simple), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk), Volapük (vo), Waray-Waray (war), Modern Greek (el), Neopolitan (nap), Venetian (vec), Sicilian (scn) See: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor#Timeline * MediaWiki 1.22wmf19 will deployed to all non-Wikipedia wikis (eg: Commons, Wikitionary, Wikisource, etc) == Wednesday == * MobileFrontEnd: Of note: the Mobile Team will be transitioning to simply 'riding the MW Core train' soon. This means there will not be a separate Mobile Team deploy window each week but instead all of their changes will ride along with the MediaWiki 1.22wmfXX version update. == Thursday == * MediaWiki 1.22wmf19 to group2 (all Wikipedias) * MediaWiki 1.22wmf20 to group0 (test/test2/testwikidata/loginwiki/mediawiki/) * Growth Team deploy window consisting of: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Growth_Deployment_2013-10-03 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 | _______________________________________________ Engineering mailing list Engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester

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VisualEditor weekly update - 2013-09-26 (MW 1.22wmf19)
by James Forrester 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

All, As before, the regular update<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-09-26_.28MW_1.22wmf1…> about progress on VisualEditor: VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.22wmf19 branch deployment <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf19> on Thursday 26 September. In the week since 1.22wmf18, the team worked on fixing bugs and stability improvements to VisualEditor. You can now drag-and-drop elements other than just images - references, reference lists, templates and other "nodes" should all be moveable with the mouse. Blanking the contents of a heading, pre-formatted block or other formatting block now deletes the block rather than leaving it empty, which is consistent with how OpenOffice and Google Docs behave (bug 50254<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50254> ). The page settings dialog was briefly broken in Firefox but now is restored (bug 54322 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54322>). A bug that meant that unnamed references got their names corrupted on using VisualEditor has also been fixed (bug 54351<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54351>). A regression in copy-and-paste which meant that copy-and-paste stopped working outside VE even once it was closed was corrected (bug 54375<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54375>), and the functionality was fixed to allow pasting images in Firefox (bug 54377 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54377>). Links are no longer possible to be applied to images, as this isn't possible to represent in wikitext (bug 53151<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53151>). A bug which means that VisualEditor selected both the "slug" (blank line) and the infobox at the start of an article on initialisation was fixed (bug 54446 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54446>). A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.22/wmf19 changelog<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf19/Changelog#VisualEditor>, and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period are on Bugzilla's list<http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VE…> . If you have any questions, please do ask. Yours, -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester

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Two updates about pywikibot (formerly pywikipedia)
by Amir Ladsgroup 25 Sep '13

25 Sep '13

Hello folks! *Name of pywikipedia or pywikipediabot is officially changed to "pywikibot", please update local documentation *Bug tracker of pywikibot is changed from sf.net to bugzilla. Open bugs was imported from there by a bot that legoktm has written [1], So don't file new bugs in sf.net anymore and keep tracking your reports (if you has reported something) in bugzilla, If you like you can hack some of the bugs and make it fixed! [2] and please update local documentation [1] https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/pywikibot%2Fsf-export.git [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=236065&short_desc=.&reso… Cheers -- Amir

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[Reminder] Language Engineering IRC Office hour on September 25, 2013 at 1700 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 25 Sep '13

25 Sep '13

Hello, This is reminder that the Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting an IRC office hour from 1700 to 1800UTC later today on #wikimedia-office (FreeNode). Please see below for the event details. Thanks Runa === Event Details === What: WMF Language Engineering Office hour When: September 25, 2013 (Wednesday). 1700-1800 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130925T1700 Where: IRC Channel #wikimedia-office on FreeNode ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 12:49 AM Subject: Language Engineering IRC Office hour on September 25, 2013 at 1700 UTC To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org, MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org> [Cross-posted] Hello, The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting an IRC office hour on Wednesday, September 25, 2013 between 17:00 - 18:00 UTC. (See below for timezone conversion and other details.) We will be talking about some of our projects that are in development, a short round up from Google Summer of Code and then taking questions for the remaining time. If there are things that you would like to bring to our attention then this would be a good time to do so. Questions can also be sent to me directly before the event. See you there! Thanks Runa === Event Details === What: WMF Language Engineering Office hour When: September 25, 2013 (Wednesday). 1700-1800 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130925T1700 Where: IRC Channel #wikimedia-office on FreeNode -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Commons now gets links via Wikidata
by Lydia Pintscher 23 Sep '13

23 Sep '13

Heya folks :) We have just enabled interwiki links for Wikimedia Commons via Wikidata. This means they now no longer need to be stored in the wikitext on Commons but instead can be stored in Wikidata together with the links for Wikipedia and Wikivoyage. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Technical Projects Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Fwd: Deployment highlights for the week of Sept 23rd
by Greg Grossmeier 20 Sep '13

20 Sep '13

FYI ----- Forwarded message from Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> ----- > Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:48:00 -0700 > From: Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Development and Operations engineers <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Deployment highlights for the week of Sept 23rd > > Hello! > > Here's what's coming up, deployment-wise, next week! > > > As always, full schedule here: > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments > > > == Monday == > > * MediaWiki 1.22wmf18 to all non-wikipedia project sites > * WikiData will be enabled on Wikimedia Commons (interwiki links) > * CirrusSearch (the new search backend) will be turned on as the default > search backend for Italian Wikitionary and enabled as a secondary > backend for English Wikisource and Catalan Wikipedia. > > > == Tuesday == > > * CirrusSearch will be enabled on the set of closed wikis (eg: old > Wikimania wikis). > > > == Thursday == > > * MediaWiki 1.22wmf18 will be deployed to all Wikipedias > * MediaWiki 1.22wmf19 will be deployed to the set of test wikis plus > mediawiki.org > > > > Have a good weekend! > > 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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Language Engineering IRC Office hour on September 25, 2013 at 1700 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 20 Sep '13

20 Sep '13

[Cross-posted] Hello, The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting an IRC office hour on Wednesday, September 25, 2013 between 17:00 - 18:00 UTC. (See below for timezone conversion and other details.) We will be talking about some of our projects that are in development, a short round up from Google Summer of Code and then taking questions for the remaining time. If there are things that you would like to bring to our attention then this would be a good time to do so. Questions can also be sent to me directly before the event. See you there! Thanks Runa === Event Details === What: WMF Language Engineering Office hour When: September 25, 2013 (Wednesday). 1700-1800 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130925T1700 Where: IRC Channel #wikimedia-office on FreeNode -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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unsubscribing - sabbatical
by Sumana Harihareswara 19 Sep '13

19 Sep '13

Hi folks. Just wanted to let you know I'm unsubscribing in advance of the start of my sabbatical - more info at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-August/071542.html . If you need to talk about Wikimedia technical community stuff or communication before January, please consult Quim Gil, qgil at wikimedia dot org, or Guillaume Paumier, gpaumier at wikimedia dot org. Thanks! Sumana Harihareswara, Engineering Community Manager at Wikimedia Foundation P.S. More about me and Hacker School: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2013/08/28/1

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Fwd: New "make your first edit" guided tour for VE
by Steven Walling 19 Sep '13

19 Sep '13

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:17 PM Subject: New "make your first edit" guided tour for VE To: WMF Editor Engagement Team <ee(a)lists.wikimedia.org> As promised,[1] today we deployed a guided tour that shows new users how to make their first edit using VisualEditor. This tour is a complement to the similar one we created, which shows users how to use the basic functions of the wikitext editor. Append ?tour=firsteditve to any article URL (where guided tours are available) to see it in action, like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornate_Cowfish?tour=firsteditve or https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphaenogaster_fallax?tour=firsteditve There are some bugs to iron out (like https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54352) and translations are partially complete at best, but this is one more step toward finalizing the GettingStarted onboarding experience for newly-registered editors, and rolling out across language editions of Wikipedia. For reference, this is one of the tours we will be delivering to basically all new editors in our next A/B test of GettingStarted.[2] -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ 1. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ee/2013-September/000659.html 2. mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians#Proposed -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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Fwd: Call for tech projects needing contributors
by Quim Gil 13 Sep '13

13 Sep '13

Hello ambassadors! Your help spreading this message in your communities is welcome. Thank you! -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for tech projects needing contributors Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 07:34:31 -0700 From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> The current round of Google Summer of Code & FLOSS Outreach Program for Women is about to end, and it's time to start a new cycle of mentored projects in Wikimedia tech. Check and contribute to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects if you are * a Wikimedia project awaiting a specific software feature * an organization with budget for tech activities looking for a short term goal * a tech contributor with a cool idea for Wikimedia projects or MediaWiki in general Even if software development is a prominent activity, we also encourage proposals focusing on other technical areas: quality assurance, design, sysadmin, promotion... Post your proposal soon, edit it often. By submitting a proposal to the Possible Projects page you get attention and help from the tech community in the form of reality checks and contacts with possible mentors, interested projects and funding sources. 21 projects were selected in our last round, finishing now: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women We keep searching for more opportunities to channels these projects, both within the Wikimedia movement (Individual Engagement Grants, chapters...) and out there (internship programs encouraging free software and diversity in tech). We want to hear your feedback! Use the discussion page or reply here. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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