Wikitech-ambassadors January 2017

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CREDIT next week, and a survey
by Adam Baso 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Cross post. Hi everybody! As a reminder the CREDIT Showcase is next week on Wednesday, 1-February-2017 (see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase for details). Also, as I mentioned previously we're conducting a survey about CREDIT. We'd appreciate your feedback! Here is a link to the survey (which is hosted on a third-party service), and, for information about privacy and data handling, the survey privacy statement. https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedAtyPfcEhT6OVd26… https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/CREDIT_Feedback_Survey_Privacy_Stateme… . This email is being sent to several mailing lists in order to reach multiple audiences. As always, please follow the list link at the very bottom of this email in case you want to manage your list subscription options such as digest, unsubscribe, and so on. And, as usual, if you'd like to share the news about the upcoming CREDIT, here's some suggested verbiage. *Hi <FNAME>* *I hope all is well with you! I wanted to let you know about CREDIT, a monthly demo series that we’re running to showcase open source tech projects from Wikimedia’s Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery, Infrastructure and Technology teams. * *CREDIT is open to the public, and we welcome questions and discussion. The next CREDIT will be held on February 1st at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 19:00 UTC. * *There’s more info on MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase>, and on Etherpad <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT>, which is where we take notes and ask questions. You can also ask questions on IRC in the Freenode chatroom #wikimedia-office (web-based access here <https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23wikimedia-office>). Links to video will become available at these locations shortly before the event.* *Please feel free to pass this information along to any interested folks. Our projects tend to focus on areas that might be of interest to folks working across the open source tech community: language detection, numerical sort, large data visualizations, maps, and all sorts of other things.* *If you have any questions, please let me know! Thanks, and I hope to see you at CREDIT.* *YOURNAME* Thanks! Adam Baso Director of Engineering, Reading Wikimedia Foundation abaso(a)wikimedia.org

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Developer Wishlist Survey: propose your ideas
by Srishti Sethi 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

That's right! At the Wikimedia Developer Summit, we decided to organize a Developer Wishlist Survey, and here we go: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Wishlist The Wikimedia technical community seeks input from developers for developers, to create a high-profile list of desired improvements. The scope of the survey includes the MediaWiki platform (core software, APIs, developer environment, enablers for extensions, gadgets, templates, bots, dumps), the Wikimedia server infrastructure, the contribution process, and documentation. The best part: we want to have the results published by Wednesday, February 15. Yes, in a month, to have a higher chance to influence the Wikimedia Foundation annual plan FY 2017-18. There's no time to lose. *Propose your ideas before the end of January, * either by pushing existing tasks in Phabricator or by creating new ones. You can find instructions on the wiki page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Wishlist>. Questions and feedback are welcome especially on the related Talk page. The voting phase is expected to start on February 6 (tentative). Watch this space (or even better, the wiki page). Cheers, Srishti Sethi Developer Advocate, Technical Collaboration team Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)

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Tech News (2017, week 05)
by Johan Jönsson 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

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regis
by adriagusjo＠gmail.com 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

Enviado desde Correo para Windows 10

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Translation thanks
by Deborah Tankersley 25 Jan '17

25 Jan '17

Hello, We want to thank everyone who have translated the text of the Wikipedia.org <https://www.wikipedia.org/> Portal page - it looks great! Here's an image that we used recently during the Discovery team's quarterly review. It displays the portal page with the browser's primary language set to Armenian. [0 <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Discovery_Quarterly_Check-in_Q2-Q3_…>] [1 <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia.org_with_primary_browser_…> ] We've just added more text to be translated to translatewiki and we humbly ask for your help again. We would like the legal language (located in the portal page footer) [2 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153764>] and a new section for the mobile apps [3 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154350>] to be translated. For anyone who'd like to view which text has already been translated and what still needs translating, you can view the alphabetical list of languages [4 <https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3AMessageGroupStats&x=D&gro…>] by percentage untranslated here [5 <https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3AMessageGroupStats&x=D&gro…> ]. Thanks to everyone that has helped in the past and in the future! Cheers, Discovery Portal Team [0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Discovery_Quarterly_Check-in_Q2-Q3_… [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia.org_wi th_primary_browser_language_in_Armenian.png [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153764 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154350 [4] https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3AMessag eGroupStats&x=D&group=wikimedia-portals&language=ru [5] https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3AMessag eGroupStats&x=D&group=wikimedia-portals&language=ru#sortable:2=asc -- deb tankersley irc: debt Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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(sin asunto)
by adriagusjo＠gmail.com 25 Jan '17

25 Jan '17

Enviado desde Correo para Windows 10

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Tech News (2017, week 04)
by Johan Jönsson 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

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Minor change to SWAT windows
by Greg Grossmeier 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

tl;dr: I have removed the Tuesday 19:00 UTC SWAT window from the deployment calendar due to conflicts. Pick one of the other 11 SWAT windows. The (current) Tuesday 19:00 UTC SWAT window is directly before the 20:00 UTC MediaWiki train window. The nature of SWAT windows meant that the state of the deployed MW+Extension+Config code was changing while the creation of the new MW train version (eg: 1.29-wmf.8) was happening. This causes delays and confusion. The simple solution is to not have a normal SWAT window at that time. Other deploys (eg Services) are fine to happen at that time which is why I didn't just extend the MW train window to include that earlier hour. Luckily, you still have 11 SWAT windows to choose from. :) Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | Release Team Manager A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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Tech News (2017, week 03)
by Johan Jönsson 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2017/03>. 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: العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/ar> • ‎čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/cs> • ‎Ελληνικά <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/el> • ‎English • ‎español <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/es> • ‎فارسی <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/fa> • ‎suomi <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/fi> • ‎français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/fr> • ‎עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/he> • ‎italiano <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/it> • ‎日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/ja> • ‎नेपाली <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/ne> • ‎polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/pl> • ‎русский <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/ru> • ‎svenska <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/sv> • ‎тоҷикӣ <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/tg-cyrl> • ‎українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/uk> • ‎Tiếng Việt <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/vi> • ‎中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/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/2017/03> are available. *Recent changes* - You can now upload WebP files <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:WebP> to Commons. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T27397> *Problems* - video2commons <https://tools.wmflabs.org/video2commons/> was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153488> *Changes this week* - There is a new magic word <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words> called {{PAGELANGUAGE}}. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59603> - When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T34950> - You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <ce>. <ce> should be replaced by <chem>. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153606> - You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on Special:UncategorizedCategories <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UncategorizedCategories>. The list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Uncategorized-catego…> . [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126117> - The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.css>: #wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; } You can change the number 50 to make it look like you want to. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T26430> - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:localhost>. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreaso…>. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Labs>, including Tool Labs <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Tool_Labs> will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154698> - When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu. [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74399> - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.8> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap>). *Meetings* - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] 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 January 17 at 20:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&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 News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> 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/2017/03> • 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 Jönsson

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Tech News (2017, week 02)
by Johan Jönsson 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

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