Re: [Wikitech-l] RELEASE INFO -- Push Notifications

[Ramsey Isler]

Woohoo! I've been eagerly awaiting this day. Congratulations and great work
to all involved.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 2:46 PM Seve Kim  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
>> *Summary *Push Notifications are now available to enable on all wikis
>> for Android & iOS Wikipedia apps
>
>
> *Background:*
>
>- Wikimedia Product teams needed a new way to drive user engagement
>and retention for features like "Thank You's" and "Edit Reminders"
>- Similar to web and email notifications, editors receive quick
>notifications outside of using the native apps
>- Push notifications are a way to send messages to user devices
>without the user engaging with the application
>- The Product Infrastructure team[1] designed and built the underlying
>infrastructure[2] to provide the push notification capability for other
>product teams to leverage
>- This first release of v1.0.0 provides the following features:
>   - App users can now receive notifications sooner, even when the app
>   is not currently running
>   - App users can subscribe and unsubscribe to receive Echo
>   notifications
>   - Echo can send messages to the user via native Wikipedia apps for
>   Android and iOS
>   - The system can limit the rate and volume of messages to prevent
>   server overload
>   - Invalid subscriptions are automatically removed from the system
>   upon notification request failure
>   - You can find more information on our MediaWiki[2] and WikiTech
>pages[3]
>
> [1]
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product/Wikimedia_Product_Infrastructure_team
> [2]
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product_Infrastructure_team/Push_Notifications_Infrastructure
> [3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Push_notifications
>
> Best,
> --
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> Sr. Technical Product Manager
>
>
> 
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Completion of GSoC work : Achievements and Quiz module in Commons app

[Ramsey Isler]

Congrats, Tanvi! Good work :)

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 1:34 PM Tanvi Dadu  wrote:

> Greeting!
> I am Tanvi Dadu,  GSoC 2018 participant. For the past three months, I have
> been working on Achievements Module in Commons App and
> quiz
> and it gives me immense
> happiness to say that I have successfully completed it. Both of the
> features have been released as part of 2.8 version.  My works summary is
> present at my MediaWiki
>  >userpage
> .
>
> I would like to thank my Mentors ,Josephine Lim and Vivek Maskara, and the
> whole Commons team for helping and encouraging me throughout the summer. It
> feels very satisfying and amazing to be part of this community. I had an
> amazing experience with lots of learning involved and I can't thank enough
> to give this wonderful opportunity.
>
> Regards
> Tanvi Dadu
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Map internationalization launched everywhere, AND embedded maps now live on 276 Wikipedias

[Ramsey Isler]

Great news! Kudos to all involved for good, quick work.

/Ramsey

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 7:27 AM, Victoria Coleman 
wrote:

> +1! As a big fan of maps (like I read them for relaxation :-) I am super
> stoked to see this project come to fruition! You guys rock!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Victoria Coleman
>
> > On May 10, 2018, at 5:58 AM, Toby Negrin  wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Joe! I'd like to also express my gratitude to the Foundation
> > developers, Roan, Möriel, Stephane and Elena who were able to pick up
> this
> > project on short notice and provide the technical excellence it needed to
> > be released across the wikis. Thank you!
> >
> > -Toby
> >
> > On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 3:32 PM, Joe Matazzoni 
> > wrote:
> >
> >> As of today, interactive (Kartographer) maps no longer display in the
> >> language of the territory mapped; instead, you’ll read them in the
> content
> >> language of the wiki where they appear—or in the language their authors
> >> specify (subject to availability of multilingual data). In addition,
> >> mapframe, the feature that automatically embeds dynamic maps right on a
> >> wiki page, is now live on most Wikipedias that lacked the feature. (Not
> >> included in the mapframe launch are nine Wikipedias [1] that use the
> >> stricter version of Flagged Revisions).
> >>
> >> If you you’re new to mapframe, this Kartographer help page [2] shows how
> >> to get started putting dynamic maps on your pages.  If you’d like to
> read
> >> more about map internationalization: this Special Update [3] explains
> the
> >> feature and its limiations; this post [4] and this one [5] describe the
> >> uses of the new parameter, lang=”xx”, which  lets you specify a map’s
> >> language. And here are some example maps [6] to illustrate the new
> >> capabilities.
> >>
> >> These features could not have been created without the generous
> >> programming contributions and advice of our many map-loving volunteers,
> >> including Yurik, Framawiki, Naveenpf, TheDJ, Milu92, Astirlin, Evad37,
> >> Pigsonthewing, Mike Peel, Eran Roz,  Gareth and Abbe98. My apologies to
> >> anyone I’ve missed.
> >>
> >> The Map Improvements 2018 [7] project wraps up at the end of June, so
> >> please give internationalized maps and mapframe a try soon and give us
> your
> >> feedback on the project talk page [8]. We’re listening.
> >>
> >> [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191583
> >> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer
> >> [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018#
> >> April_18,_2018,_Special_Update_on_Map_Internationalization
> >> [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018#
> >> April_25,_2018,_You_can_now_try_out_internationalization_(on_testwiki)
> >> [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018#
> >> April_26,_2018:_OSM_name_data_quirks_and_the_uses_of_lang=%
> >> E2%80%9Clocal%E2%80%9D
> >> [6] https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_internationalization_examples
> >> [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018
> >> [8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Map_improvements_2018
> >> _
> >>
> >> Joe Matazzoni
> >> Product Manager, Collaboration
> >> Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco
> >>
> >> "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
> the
> >> sum of all knowledge."
> >>
> >>
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Re: [Wikitech-l] First step for MCR merged: Deprecate and gut the Revision class

[Ramsey Isler]

Fantastic news! Great work handling this behemoth of a technical challenge.

On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 2:26 AM, Daniel Kinzler  wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> Addshore last night merged the patch[1] that is the first major step
> towards
> Multi-Content-Revisions[2]: it completely guts the Revision class and
> turns it
> into a thin proxy for the new RevisionStore service. The new code is now
> live
> on beta.
>
> This is our second attempt: The first one, on December 18th, thoroughly
> corrupted the beta database. It took us some time and a lot of help from
> Aaron
> and especially Roan to figure out what was happening. A detailed
> post-mortem by
> Roan can be found at [3].
>
> Anyway - this stage of MCR development introduces the new multi-revision
> capable
> interface for revision storage (and blob storage) [4]. It does not yet
> introduce
> the new database schema, that will be the next step [5][6]. While doing the
> refactoring, I tried to keep the structure of the existing code mostly
> intact,
> just moving functionality out of Revision into the new classes, most
> importantly
> RevisionRecord, RevisionStore, and BlobStore.
>
> Beware that with the next deployment (due January 2nd) the live sites will
> start
> using the new code. Please keep an eye out for any strangeness regarding
> revision handling. Adam greatly improved test coverage of the relevant code
> (thanks Adam!), but it's always possible that we missed some edge case,
> maybe
> something about archived revisions that were partially migrated from on old
> schema or something similarly fun.
>
> Exiting times!
>
> Cheers
> Daniel
>
>
> [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/399174/
> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/
> Multi-Content_Revisions
> [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183252#3853749
> [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174025
> [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174024
> [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174030
>
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