Re: [Wikitech-l] Communication about proposed and planned UI changes

Quim, I like your line of thought here. The Newsletter extension could be useful in all kind of ways, and I was glad to see that it's apparently still in active development. It would be helpful for me to have proposals shown in the newsletter divided by approximate time horizon (next week, next

[Wikitech-l] Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2016-12-12

Greetings, Here is another weekly update on the work of the Discovery department. If you have questions, please ask! == Highlights == * Published Maps Terms of Use [0] == Discussions == === Search === * The time needed to restart our elasticsearch clusters is improving [1] * Fixed a rare edge ca

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Design] [Wmfall] Design statement of purpose reviewed

Very happy to see the progress as well as the team work on the statement of purpose and look forward to the next steps. Thank you also to the guidance and facilitation by Arthur. On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Grace Gellerman wrote: > +1 to Anna's :) > > Good job everyone! > > On Fri, Dec 16,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Design statement of purpose reviewed

+1 to Anna's :) Good job everyone! On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Anna Stillwell wrote: > :) > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 3:09 AM, Pau Giner wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Some months ago we started to define a statement of purpose for design at >> Wikimedia. We shared our initial iteration and go

[Wikitech-l] Making Wikipedia speak to you

*Cross posting on purpose, no excuses made.* Hi, At Wikimedia Sverige we have been working on an extension called Wikispeech. It will be a text-to-speech solution which aim to make the information on Wikipedia more accessible for people that have limited abilities to read. This is Wikimedia Sver

Re: [Wikitech-l] Arbitrary Wikidata querying

I strongly support "native" Wikipedia lists using Wikidata queries, and by that I mean proper SPARQL, not Lua hacks. Listeria is used "in production", e.g. on Welsh (about 17.000 lists in articles, see https://tools.wmflabs.org/listeria/botstatus.php), but it was always intended as a proof of conc

Re: [Wikitech-l] Development on img_auth.php

img_auth.php is used in some private Wikimedia wikis, so you might be able to get WMF people to review your changes. It also means that they will be scrutinized more closely before they're merged. -- Bartosz Dziewoński ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wik

[Wikitech-l] Final Call for Comments on the new Deprecation Policy for PHP code

Hi all! At the ArchCom office hour (aka RFC IRC meeting) on December 14, we discussed Legoktm's proposal for a deprecation policy for PHP code [1]. This would supersede the current guideline [2], allowing deprecated code to be removed after a couple of releases, even if it may still used by some e

[Wikitech-l] Draft Goals for for Fiscal Year 2016-17, Q3 (January - March)

Hello everyone, The draft goals for the Technology and Product teams at the Wikimedia Foundation have been posted on MediaWiki for FY2016-17, Q3 (January–March) [1] Goals for this quarter will become final the beginning of January. The Product and Technology teams regularly post draft goals a

[Wikitech-l] Development on img_auth.php

Hello! Recently I've worked on some MediaWiki setups with enabled "img_auth.php". During that work I've noticed a few things that I think can be improved, to make an extension developer's life easier. I know that this feature is mostly used by private/intranet wikis, so there are only limited r

Re: [Wikitech-l] Communication about proposed and planned UI changes

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Quim Gil wrote: > Imagine the same approach for new projects/features, security reviews, new > betas, release plans... This is a good way to scale communications without > drowning central spaces like Tech News, wikitech-ambassadors or your > nearest Village Pump.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Communication about proposed and planned UI changes

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 12:51 AM, Pine W wrote: > The issue which I am attempting to address is not a UI change itself > (good or bad) but rather communication about proposed and upcoming UI > changes. Communication of proposals and changes is a problem indeed. Not just for UX, the problem is c

Re: [Wikitech-l] Communication about proposed and planned UI changes

On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, at 04:18 PM, Gergo Tisza wrote: > * write a detailed list of everything you intend to do in March > * in that month, avoid doing anything that you did not think to put on > that list > I think you will gain some insights about the cost of trying to organize > things far ahead i

Re: [Wikitech-l] Communication about proposed and planned UI changes

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Pine W wrote: > My proposal would be that proposed UI changes which affect large > proportions of the user base should be announced 3 months in advance. > So here is a fun experiment: * choose an activity you do a lot (say, editing Wikipedia pages) * write a deta