[Wikimedia-l] Timeless: a grant proposal

[Isarra Yos]

Hi,

I'm Isarra, a volunteer MediaWiki developer, and I've submitted a grant 
proposal to the WMF to support my work on a new responsive skin designed 
for the Wikimedia projects, Timeless:


* Abstract: A new skin, Timeless, has been deployed to the Beta Cluster, 
but to make it worth eventual deployment to all projects, we need proper 
research into what's expected/needed from a better skin, and the ability 
to devote development resources to making it meet these 
expectations/needs. This grant, as part of a larger series of vaguely 
planned grants intended to work on many of the underlying issues with 
MediaWiki's user-facing interfaces, will serve to address this need.

* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Timeless

Timeless currently exists as fairly basic prototype, but I invite you to 
take a look at the current version:


* Wiki specifically for Timeless: 
https://timeless-skin.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page
* To see what it might look/act like in production, there is a copy of 
the Simple English Wikipedia on the Beta Cluster, where Timeless has 
already been deployed: 
https://simple.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page - you can 
create an account, set your skin to Timeless, and go through some of the 
things you might do here, or simply append the string ?useskin=timeless 
to the end of any page url to see what it would look like in Timeless

* Skin documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Timeless

If this looks like a project you would be interested in seeing happen, I 
would very much appreciate your feedback. This applies especially if you 
have any specific concerns about the skin or the proposal itself, or 
have faced particular problems on your own projects that you think this 
might be able to address, because the more of these are documented, the 
better they will be.


I look forward to working with all of you to redefine how we handle our 
project interfaces.


Thanks,

Isarra


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[Wikimedia-l] "New filters for edit review" Beta feature release

[Trizek]

Hello!

(Sorry for cross posting if you were already subscribing on
wikitech-ambassadors.)

*TL;DR*

Today (March 28) 13:00 UTC, the New filters for edit review
 beta
option will be released on the Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias, and also
on Mediawikiwiki.

This beta option adds an improved filtering interface and powerful
filtering and other tools to the Recent Changes page
 (and Recent Changes
Linked ).

On wikis where the machine-learning service ORES is enabled
, the project introduces two filter
groups—Contribution Quality and User Intent—that offer probabilistic
predictions about, respectively, whether or not edits are likely to contain
problems and whether the users who made them were acting in good faith.


*What is this new feature?*

This feature improves Special:RecentChanges
 and Special:
RecentChangesLinked
 by adding new
useful features that will ease vandalism tracking and support of newcomers:

   - *Filtering
   
*
-
   filter recent changes with easy-to-use and powerful filters combinations.
   - *Highlighting*
   

-
   add a colored background to the different changes you are monitoring, to
   quickly identify the ones that matter to you.
   - *Quality and Intent Filters*
   

-
   user ORES predictions to identify real vandalism or good faith intent
   contributions that need assistance.


You can watch a video

which
explains the principle of filtering and highlighting, based on the
prototype.

*What will happen?*

At the moment, the ORES beta feature is available in Beta preferences

on
certain wikis.

For those wikis, when the deployment will be done:

   - Users who have enabled the ORES beta feature will then use the New
   filters for Recent Changes Beta feature (no action needed, unless if you
   want to opt-out).
   - ORES predictions highlighting
    will
   be activated by default for all users (not in Beta anymore).
  - ORES redirections are symbolized by a "r" red (in English at least)
  in the RecentChanges pages for all users, like minor edits or not
  autopatrolled edits.
  - Users who want to change the accuracy level of ORES predictions
  will be able to do so in their preferences
  

  .
  - Users who want to change or hide the ORES predictions tags will be
  able to do so in their personal stylesheets
  
(via
  CSS).


If your wiki doesn't have ORES predictions highlighting
, the
filters will work anyway. However, the predictions filters will not be
available until the process to enable ORES predictions is completed for
your wiki. The deployment is not scheduled
at the moment for wikis without
ORES predictions but will happen soon -- however, MediaWiki wiki is
deployed today, as the first of them.

*How to prepare this change?*

You can discover the purpose of this project by visiting the quick tour
help page

.

Also, please check the documentation

(and
help to translate it). Please also have a look at the translations of the
interface on translatewiki.net. The messages are prefixed as rcfilters-and
ores-rcfilters-.

The next phase  is the
deployment of the new filters (as a Beta) on Persian, Dutch, Russian,
Turkish, Czech Wikipedias and Wikidata, scheduled for April 11. I've
already contacted these communities.



The feedback page is open

to
your comments. Please ping me if you have any questions.

On behalf of the Collaboration team
,
Benoît

-- 
Benoît Evellin (Trizek)
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Partners survey results

[Anna Torres]

Thanks Alex!

We are running a very similar one!! Thanks again!

2017-03-28 11:36 GMT+02:00 Àlex Hinojo :

> Hi all,
>
> Last December Amical Wikimedia, the thematic org promoting catalan culture
> and language, ran a survey among our >100 partners. We got 30% of answers,
> and we are very happy to share the results with you.
>
>
> English version:
> https://www.wikimedia.cat/2017/03/28/how-do-our-partners-see-us/
> Catalan version:
> https://www.wikimedia.cat/2017/03/20/com-ens-veuen-els-nostres-partners/
>
> It is always very useful to discover how others see you, in order to
> improve and learn
>
> Regards,
>
>
> --
> --
> Àlex Hinojo
> Executive Director | Amical Wikimedia
> alexhin...@gmail.com
> @AlexHinojo | @AmicalWikimedia
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[Wikimedia-l] Partners survey results

[Àlex Hinojo]

Hi all,

Last December Amical Wikimedia, the thematic org promoting catalan culture
and language, ran a survey among our >100 partners. We got 30% of answers,
and we are very happy to share the results with you.


English version:
https://www.wikimedia.cat/2017/03/28/how-do-our-partners-see-us/
Catalan version:
https://www.wikimedia.cat/2017/03/20/com-ens-veuen-els-nostres-partners/

It is always very useful to discover how others see you, in order to
improve and learn

Regards,


-- 
--
Àlex Hinojo
Executive Director | Amical Wikimedia
alexhin...@gmail.com
@AlexHinojo | @AmicalWikimedia
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