[Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki 1.26 Now Available

[Chad]

Hello everyone,

I am happy to announce the availability of the first stable release of the
new
MediaWiki 1.26 series.

MediaWiki 1.26 includes all changes released in the smaller 1.26wmf*
software
deployments to Wikimedia sites over six months, totaling approximately 3000+
commits by around 120 authors. This is a large release that contains many
new
features and bug fixes.

This is a summary of the major changes of interest to users and
administrators:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26

You can always consult the RELEASE-NOTES-1.26 file for the full list of
changes in this version.

Full release notes:
*
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_26/RELEASE-NOTES-1.26
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.26

**
Download:
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.26/mediawiki-1.26.0.tar.gz
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.26/mediawiki-core-1.26.0.tar.gz

GPG signatures:
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Public keys:
https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html

-Chad
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[Wikitech-l] Internationalization of discussion / Flow

[Thomas Douillard]

oHi everybody,

I don't really know if this list is the right place to start the
discussion, but I'll force my luck.

We have a usecase in Wikidata for property proposals where we use templates
to internationalize Property Proposals
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/

Wikidata is a central place for community, like commons, and it's important
for this place to make this place friendly for non english-speaker. Amongst
other problems it's a blocker for some Wikipedians, or it does not help at
least, to contribute or discuss in a different language than their home
language.

Discussions in Wikidata can lead to important or technical decisions, so
this is more important than say, in commons to handle correctly languages.

If we sum-up the stuffs we have to di this, we mainly have and use:
* The translate extension
* Ad-hoc template

The translate extension works, but it needs some administration to be
functional and this is not really adapted because to heavy for frenquently
updated pages like property proposals. It also requires interventions in
the initial page like wikitext annotations, and this unfortunately can be a
community problem - The translation of
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Taxonomy for
example does not exists because, apparently, one of the main contributors
thinks it complicates the editions of the project page and reverted the
attempts to prepare the page for translation.

Ad-hoc templates like https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:TranslateThis
are used to translate the property proposals atm. The actual problem that
pushed me to write this mail is related to this :
* each property proposal as its own section in the page
* it's convenient for discussions to point to a section in a link by using
the section name

But ... the titles are translated using translate this, which make the
title section not stable and can then break the links, make the histories
unreadable ... so there is (I think) an anchor added by the template. But
this make the history unreadable.

To address this problem Yair Rand proposed an ad-how hacky gadget to have a
cleaner history :
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Tools#Gadget_proposal:_User:Yair_rand.2FEditTranslatedSections.js

The subsequent discussion lead me there : Maybe Flow could be of some help
: its section ids are stable, but ... again we can't use template in Flow
titles.

So my question would be : I understood the Flow team switched to a more
"Workflow oriented" orientation. Where can we contact you/them to discuss
the needs like this one ? Can we be sure translations problematics will be
took into account in this Flow follos-up ?

Cheers, Tom
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Because visualizations are cool

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

On the slightly-more-whimsical-than-practical side, I enjoy
http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
(mouseover for images, once it finishes loading)

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Simon Heimler 
wrote:

> For a even more extensive collection of examples (often including the
> code), take a look at:
>
> http://christopheviau.com/d3list/gallery.html
>
> (Thats only D3.js bases visualizations)
>
> Best,
> Simon
>
> 2015-11-25 14:23 GMT+01:00 P. Josepherum :
>
> > Are you aware of the capabilities of Semantic MediaWiki? It along with
> > Semantic Result Formats can produce some wonderfully interactive graphs.
> >
> > On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:54 Quim Gil  wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Pine W  wrote:
> > >
> > > > P.S. In the multimedia domain, I'd like to have the ability to add
> > > > interactive visualizations to Wikipedia and its sister projects. For
> > > > example, imagine how engaging it would be to have interactive
> > > phylogenetic
> > > > trees that allow the user to zoom in and out and see images of
> species.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Related? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/I_Dream_of_Content
> > >
> > > --
> > > Quim Gil
> > > Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
> > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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> >
> > Love and waffles,
> > PJosepherum
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-- 
Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikitech-l] Developer Summit planning: code quality sessions

[Daniel Kinzler]

Hi all!

If you are interested in code quality and you are attending the Dev Summit,
please have a look at .

I would appreciate any input on which additional sessions you think are
important, or how you would prioritize and group them. Any session proposed at
 is fair
game, but they should fit into the "code quality" topic somehow (other proposals
will be discussed elsewhere).


Context:
The ArchCom is currently in the process of figuring sorting through the list of
proposed sessions, and trying to prioritize and group them. To this end, we have
identified 5 broad topic areas ("Content Format", "Access and APIs",
"Collaboration", "Software Engineering", and "User Interface" - see T119018 for
an overview).

My job is now to figure out which sessions we want in the "Software Engineering"
(aka "code quality") part of the event. I have started to do this at
. If you have any thoughts on how
these sessions should be prioritized or grouped, or what is missing, please 
comment.

Thanks,
Daniel


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Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki 1.26 Now Available

[Marcin Cieslak]

On 2015-11-25, Chad  wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_26/RELEASE-NOTES-1.26

> ResourceLoader now loads all scripts asynchronously. The top-queue and 
> startup modules are no longer synchronously loaded.

so we ship this now with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115692 open? ouch...

saper


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[Wikitech-l] Vision for Wikipedia

[Yuri Astrakhan]

I would like to share my vision for Wikipedia's future, as well as some
steps that could help us get there. I hope you find it useful. Please share
your feedback and ideas.

Vision: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/I_Dream_of_Content
Implementation:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/From_Dream_to_Reality

Thanks!

P.S. The first link was previously shared on a different mailing list.
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Please welcome Joe Matazzoni as Product Manager, Collaboration

[Ricordisamoa]

I hope he has at least some experience with the projects.
We are in desperate need of someone who is deeply rooted into the 
community to clean up the Flow mess.

Good luck.

Il 23/11/2015 21:00, James Forrester ha scritto:

Everyone,

It's my pleasure to welcome Joe Matazzoni to the Editing department as the
new product manager for the Collaboration team from today. Joe will help
the team develop aligned with the needs of our editors, prioritizing and
shaping the improvements we're making to notifications, watchlists, change
tracking, discussions and more. He replaces Danny Horn, who is now helping
the Community Tech team.

Joe has had a long career in digital publishing and media, particularly in
public broadcasting, first at NPR, where he helped rebuild the Web site and
then founded the Arts & Life section, and more recently at KQED, where he
created an Emmy-winning arts video team. Joe has a master’s degree in
interactive telecommunications from NYU and a background in UX design. He
was the director of UX at the Wall Street Journal, where he helped lead a
complete site and CMS redesign and relaunch.

After many years in New York and DC, Joe is delighted to be back in his
native Bay Area. He's a big reader, enjoys biking and swimming and likes to
dabble in the kitchen. He will be based in the office, which he plans to
commute to via the ferry from Marin, where he lives with his wife and
11-year-old son. Joe will be on IRC and of course on-wiki as [[User:JMatazzoni
(WMF)]].

Welcome, Joe!

Yours,


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