[Wikitech-l] Testing the new php mobile extension
Greetings all. We're moving into our first testing stage for the new mobile extension and we'd love your help. You can find all the details on todays blog post at http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/10/testing-mobile-prototype/ Come help test, develop, or just ask about our mobile efforts on irc freednode #wikimedia-mobile. For those new to the mobile projects check out http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects for background. --tomasz ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Testing the new php mobile extension
Tomasz Finc wrote: We're moving into our first testing stage for the new mobile extension and we'd love your help. You can find all the details on todays blog post at http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/10/testing-mobile-prototype/ Forgive me, but I don't understand the purpose of a prototype wiki that's not really a prototype: there are no images or templates. The home page (http://nomad.tesla.usability.wikimedia.org/index.php/Main_Page) seems to indicate that this is expected, but unless the goal is to have users test how well red links render on their phone, I'm not sure what testing can be done currently. Are the images and templates going to be imported? Looking at http://nomad.tesla.usability.wikimedia.org/index.php/Trump_criticizes_media _bias_towards_Obama,_especially_during_UK_state_visit, it's insanely slow to load, mostly as the images aren't being thumbnailed. From the HTML source: img alt= src=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Barack_Obama_Michell e_Obama_Queen_Elizabeth_II_Buckingham_Palace_London.jpg width=180 height=120 class=thumbimage / That's client-side resizing, which is painful enough on a full web browser, much less a mobile device. The wikicode specifies |thumb|, which should resize the image server-side, surely. I'm not sure what's going on there. Come help test, develop, or just ask about our mobile efforts on irc freednode #wikimedia-mobile. I don't think yet another IRC channel is a good idea. Surely this could go in #wikimedia-dev or #mediawiki. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Testing the new php mobile extension
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:39 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Tomasz Finc wrote: We're moving into our first testing stage for the new mobile extension and we'd love your help. You can find all the details on todays blog post at http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/10/testing-mobile-prototype/ Forgive me, but I don't understand the purpose of a prototype wiki that's not really a prototype: there are no images or templates. The home page (http://nomad.tesla.usability.wikimedia.org/index.php/Main_Page) seems to indicate that this is expected, but unless the goal is to have users test how well red links render on their phone, I'm not sure what testing can be done currently. Are the images and templates going to be imported? There's way more than red links there: there's paragraph on paragraph of text, with templates, images, category links, interlanguage links, references, etc. Some bits are indeed missing and ought to be cleaned up for further testing though -- and your feedback about that is valuable to the people setting up the tests. Just don't confuse giving feedback with blasting people into oblivion for not being perfect on the first round. [snip] That's client-side resizing, which is painful enough on a full web browser, much less a mobile device. The wikicode specifies |thumb|, which should resize the image server-side, surely. I'm not sure what's going on there. Awesome -- you found a bug! Apparently the system does work. :) We also have this nice bug that was reported on the RTL test, again confirming that this testing is helping to identify bugs: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29341 Come help test, develop, or just ask about our mobile efforts on irc freednode #wikimedia-mobile. I don't think yet another IRC channel is a good idea. Surely this could go in #wikimedia-dev or #mediawiki. That's a pre-existing channel that's been in use for a couple years. -- brion ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Testing the new php mobile extension
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 8:39 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: That's client-side resizing, which is painful enough on a full web browser, much less a mobile device. The wikicode specifies |thumb|, which should resize the image server-side, surely. I'm not sure what's going on there. MZMcBride Either the server doesn't have or the wiki wasn't setup to use the image scaling backends (GD/Imagikmagic) so it defaults to that. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Testing the new php mobile extension
Brion Vibber wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:39 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Tomasz Finc wrote: We're moving into our first testing stage for the new mobile extension and we'd love your help. You can find all the details on todays blog post at http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/10/testing-mobile-prototype/ Forgive me, but I don't understand the purpose of a prototype wiki that's not really a prototype: there are no images or templates. The home page (http://nomad.tesla.usability.wikimedia.org/index.php/Main_Page) seems to indicate that this is expected, but unless the goal is to have users test how well red links render on their phone, I'm not sure what testing can be done currently. Are the images and templates going to be imported? There's way more than red links there: there's paragraph on paragraph of text, with templates, images, category links, interlanguage links, references, etc. Some bits are indeed missing and ought to be cleaned up for further testing though -- and your feedback about that is valuable to the people setting up the tests. Just don't confuse giving feedback with blasting people into oblivion for not being perfect on the first round. I was asking if was a Friday at five issue or if it was intended. The Main Page seems to indicate that it's intended behavior, which doesn't make any sense. If you're calling on end users to participate in testing (through the Wikimedia blog), yes, the prototypes should be in reasonably working order first. Otherwise, put off the announcement until they are. I'm not trying to blast anyone anywhere, I just don't understand why you'd announce to the world that testing is ready when it isn't. I looked a bit closer at the prototype and can't really figure out which templates were and weren't imported. It also seems that importing doesn't update certain tables (e.g., Special:ListFiles is empty), which sucks. You must limit variables when testing, otherwise you'll end up with half the feedback being the page didn't render properly when it was simply a lot of known missing content. [snip] That's client-side resizing, which is painful enough on a full web browser, much less a mobile device. The wikicode specifies |thumb|, which should resize the image server-side, surely. I'm not sure what's going on there. Awesome -- you found a bug! Apparently the system does work. :) Well, no, the system doesn't work. That would be the bug. Most users are going to report site slow as shit or simply get frustrated and leave because they're downloading megabytes of images unknowingly. I think it's great to solicit user feedback on the mobile project, but I think if it's a muddled mess, the signal (actual problems in the extension) is going to be drowned out by the noise (endless reports of brokenness in the prototypes). Come help test, develop, or just ask about our mobile efforts on irc freednode #wikimedia-mobile. I don't think yet another IRC channel is a good idea. Surely this could go in #wikimedia-dev or #mediawiki. That's a pre-existing channel that's been in use for a couple years. Pre-existing in the sense that people have joined it before, I guess. It's not registered and I don't see why it's needed, particularly when #wikimedia-dev was supposed to encompass these types of Wikimedia-led projects. But okay. MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Testing the new php mobile extension
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:18 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 8:39 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: That's client-side resizing, which is painful enough on a full web browser, much less a mobile device. The wikicode specifies |thumb|, which should resize the image server-side, surely. I'm not sure what's going on there. MZMcBride Either the server doesn't have or the wiki wasn't setup to use the image scaling backends (GD/Imagikmagic) so it defaults to that. All the previous VMs on tesla have had GD/IM, and I believe point at commons as a ForeignApiRepo so we don't get a bazillion redlinked images. I imagine the same can be done here :) -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Testing the new php mobile extension
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 6:08 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Brion Vibber wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:39 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Tomasz Finc wrote: We're moving into our first testing stage for the new mobile extension and we'd love your help. You can find all the details on todays blog post at http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/10/testing-mobile-prototype/ Forgive me, but I don't understand the purpose of a prototype wiki that's not really a prototype: there are no images or templates. The home page (http://nomad.tesla.usability.wikimedia.org/index.php/Main_Page) seems to indicate that this is expected, but unless the goal is to have users test how well red links render on their phone, I'm not sure what testing can be done currently. Are the images and templates going to be imported? Plenty actually. Were already getting bug reports and feedback on the suggestions page so clearly people are able to use it. Importing more pages can easily be done. We imported all MediaWiki namespace messages and everything two levels deep from the MainPage of each Wiki mentioned. Since the prototype servers don't have as much space as the main cluster we have to balance the amount of content with the resources available. There's way more than red links there: there's paragraph on paragraph of text, with templates, images, category links, interlanguage links, references, etc. Some bits are indeed missing and ought to be cleaned up for further testing though -- and your feedback about that is valuable to the people setting up the tests. Just don't confuse giving feedback with blasting people into oblivion for not being perfect on the first round. I was asking if was a Friday at five issue or if it was intended. The Main Page seems to indicate that it's intended behavior, which doesn't make any sense. If you're calling on end users to participate in testing (through the Wikimedia blog), yes, the prototypes should be in reasonably working order first. Otherwise, put off the announcement until they are. I'm not trying to blast anyone anywhere, I just don't understand why you'd announce to the world that testing is ready when it isn't. As mentioned before, people have been happily testing and we can easily load in more content. No harm there. I looked a bit closer at the prototype and can't really figure out which templates were and weren't imported. It also seems that importing doesn't update certain tables (e.g., Special:ListFiles is empty), which sucks. You must limit variables when testing, otherwise you'll end up with half the feedback being the page didn't render properly when it was simply a lot of known missing content. [snip] That's client-side resizing, which is painful enough on a full web browser, much less a mobile device. The wikicode specifies |thumb|, which should resize the image server-side, surely. I'm not sure what's going on there. Awesome -- you found a bug! Apparently the system does work. :) Well, no, the system doesn't work. That would be the bug. Most users are going to report site slow as shit or simply get frustrated and leave because they're downloading megabytes of images unknowingly. I think it's great to solicit user feedback on the mobile project, but I think if it's a muddled mess, the signal (actual problems in the extension) is going to be drowned out by the noise (endless reports of brokenness in the prototypes). Actually people have been filing rtl, line spacing, and other issues instead of any speed issues. --tomasz ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
