[Wikitech-l] Readers Monthly update for April 2018

Hello again, This is the monthly update from the Readers team at the Wikimedia Foundation for April 2018. As always, feedback and questions are welcome. ==Highlights== * Synced Reading Lists are now available on both Android and iOS. [0] === Apps=== * ''Android -'' Synced reading lists are now

[Wikitech-l] Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2018-04-16

Here is another update from the Search Platform team. This one includes the week of 2018-04-16 and 2018-04-23 As always, feedback and questions welcome. == Highlights== * The Search team is looking for a volunteer to help with this easy ticket: T192458 Enable search result ranking in MySQL full

[Wikitech-l] Phabricator monthly statistics - 2018-04

Hi Community Metrics team, This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail. Accounts created in (2018-04): 292 Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2018-04): 914 Task authors in (2018-04): 502 Users who have closed tasks in (2018-04): 269 Projects which had at least one task

[Wikitech-l] Mapframe maps now work on English Wikipedia

English Wikipedians can now use the mapframe function to embed maps right on a page. (Here’s an example, showing the location of this year’s Wikimania conference. [1]). Mapframe was requested by the English community via RfC last year [2] and the request was reconfirmed this spring [3]. If

Re: [Wikitech-l] Introducing Quibble, a test runner for MediaWiki

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 9:05 AM, Jaime Crespo wrote: > * Support "real" (4-byte) UTF-8: utf8mb4 in MySQL/MariaDB (default in the > latest versions) and start deprecating "fake" (3-byte) UTF-8: utf8 > MediaWiki currently doesn't even try to support UTF-8 in MySQL. The

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Τι σας κάνει ευτυχισμένη αυτήν την εβδομάδα? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 22 April 2018)

Thank you for that information, Alexandros. :) I rely extensively on machine translation, and online resources like Wiktionary, when I do translations for these weekly threads in most languages. There will probably be more linguistic errors in the future. Comments regarding translations would be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Introducing Quibble, a test runner for MediaWiki

> MediaWiki currently doesn't even try to support UTF-8 I thought the installer gave the option to chose between binary and utf8 83-bytes)? It is ok if we support UTF-8 thought binary fields + custom library collations, but I think the sane approach would be to either move everthing to binary or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Introducing Quibble, a test runner for MediaWiki

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Jaime Crespo wrote: > > MediaWiki currently doesn't even try to support UTF-8 > > I thought the installer gave the option to chose between binary and utf8 > 83-bytes)? Hmm. Yes, it looks like it does. But if all fields are varbinary,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Τι σας κάνει ευτυχισμένη αυτήν την εβδομάδα? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 22 April 2018)

Or you could’ve just give a link somewhere with those messages to a page where someone could drop you a translation in their language ;-) Oleg On 30/04/2018 21:05, Pine W wrote: Thank you for that information, Alexandros. :) I rely extensively on machine translation, and online resources

[Wikitech-l] Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **the day after tomorrow, Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers, topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Τι σας κάνει ευτυχισμένη αυτήν την εβδομάδα? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 22 April 2018)

Aside from the actual content (it's nice to see the legal case in Greece ending), seeing the subject in Greek was one more reason I became happy. But I think a small correction is in place. A more appropriate way of saying "What's making you happy this week?" would be "Τι σας κάνει ευτυχείς αυτήν

Re: [Wikitech-l] Introducing Quibble, a test runner for MediaWiki

The fact that Mediawiki (I know, I think it is none of core, but some important extensions) doesn't work out of the box on the latest/distro-available versions of MySQL and MariaDB is worrying to me (specially when those were supposed to be the best supported systems(?)). I know there is lots of