[Wikitech-l] Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2017-08-21

[Chris Koerner]

Guten Tag,
This is the Discovery weekly update for the week of 21 August. As
always, feedback and questions are welcome.


== Discussions ==

=== Search ===
* Daniel added the ability to create derivative features in the
learning to rank plugin [0]
* Erik also built an oozie job to collect click data for the learn to
rank plugin [1]
* Jan fixed a minor UI bug with the sister project snippet display for
when TextCat determines that a user might be searching in a different
language [2]
* Trey wrote up an analysis of unexpected behavior when searching for
Japanese words on English Wiktionary. Input from Japanese speakers and
others who search for Japanese on wikis in other languages is welcome!
[3]

Some leftovers:
* Last week Trey disabled the indexing of punctuation on Chinese
Wikipedia. [4] The new language analyzer does a lot of good things,
but indexing punctuation isn't helpful and wastes a lot of space in
the index. We still need to re-index the Chinese wikis to make this
active. [5]

=== Analysis  ===
* Mikhail added map layer metrics to event logging for mapframe [6]
* Chelsy has the draft analysis ready for the A/B explore similar test [7] [8]
* Mikhail and Guillaume have been working on fixing the issue with
metrics not being available (due to a variety of reasons); it's not
completely fixed yet, but we're working on it [9]

=== Portal ===
* The Wikiversity logo was updated [10]
* The portal stats and translations were updated on Aug 24, 2017 [11] [12]

=== Maps ===
* TheDJ (community volunteer) migrated Kartographer to Leaflet 1.x as
part of the Montreal Hackathon 2017 [13]

== Did you know? ==
* You can activate ''all'' the possible search result options
(spelling correct, offer to create the page, a local result, sister
project results, and cross-language results) with the query ''max
planck wissenschaftliche sich night'' on English Wikipedia—it's too
much search awesomeness for one page to contain! And it's why we need
to figure out a general framework for dealing with everything before
adding more options, like "wrong keyboard" detection [14] [15]
* Everyone is encouraged to upload pictures of the solar eclipse from
Aug 21, 2017 to Wikimedia Commons. If you have pictures, share; if you
want to see some great pictures, there are already many there! [16]
[17]

[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168441
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162054
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172345
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173650
[4] 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Chinese_Analyzer_Analysis#Follow-up:_Punctuation_and_the_Scourge_of_Commas
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173464
[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171020
[7] https://wikimedia-research.github.io/Discovery-Search-Test-ExploreSimilar/
[8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164857
[9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174110
[10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160491
[11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546
[12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142582
[13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147347
[14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156019
[15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138958
[16] 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Don%27t_forget_to_upload_your_eclipse_pictures_to_Wikimedia_Commons.webm
[17] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Solar_eclipse_of_2017_August_21

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The archive of all past updates can be found on MediaWiki.org:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as "Easy" or
"Volunteer needed" in Phabricator.

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R

Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Update to web print styles

[Isarra Yos]

Are these changes in core, or in the skins themselves (Vector and 
Minerva)? In other words, will printing from other deployed skins such 
as MonoBook also see improvement, or is it up to the maintainers of each 
other skin to independently apply similar changes?


Thanks.

-I

On 03/08/17 20:42, Chris Koerner wrote:

Wiki articles can be printed by most modern web browsers.The design and
layout of printed articles by the web browser is controlled via a special
print style sheet. This is similar to, but not the same as, the "Download
as PDF" feature, which recently saw a similar update.

Our current print styles have issues printing tables that are common on
many articles. They also do not contain any reference to the Wikipedia
brand. The Readers team at the Wikimedia Foundation plans to update these
print styles with some improvements.

* Book-like styling similar to our current book (PDF) rendering option
* New layout of article content to reduce paper usage. This can potentially
reduce the number of pages printed by 20 to 25%.
* Clear printing of tables and infoboxes
* Better headings
* Project-specific branding

We are planning on deploying these styles in August 2017. For a comparison
of the old print styles and the new, please visit the project page on
MediaWiki.org. Comments and feedback can be left on the talk page there.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Print_Styles#Desktop_Printing

Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikitech-l] Blog Post: Wikipedia, search, and the “Цкщтп” keyboard

[Trey Jones]

Hi everyone,

Let me start by apologizing for that title to anyone who reads a language
written in Cyrillic. I hope no one sprained their tongue trying to say it
out loud.

To learn why it's an almost reasonable thing to write and more about how
your keyboard can betray you—and how we can use language identification
software to detect your keyboard's inevitable betrayal—head over to the
Wikimedia Blog and read all about it:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/08/28/wikipedia-search-phonetic-keyboards/

Questions and comments here or there are welcome!

—Trey

Trey Jones
Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikitech-l] Outreachy Round 15: Feature suitable projects and become a mentor

[Srishti Sethi]

Hello everyone,

Wikimedia is delighted to participate the eleventh time in the Outreachy
 internship program. The application period for
interns opens September 7th and will be due October 23rd. In the meanwhile,
we need your help -- we are looking for *suitable projects* and
*mentors*. Projects
could be anything ranging from programming, user experience, documentation,
illustration and graphical design, to data science.

If you would like to feature a project / become a mentor:


   1. Get an overview of the selection process, and your responsibilities
   before, during, and after the program
   https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors
   2. Create a task, or modify an existing one on Wikimedia's Phabricator
   . Make sure it includes: *Project
   title, description (summary in 8-10 lines), skills required (Phabricator
   tags are welcome), mentors (required two), micro tasks (link to Phabricator
   task that must be completed to become a strong candidate).*
   3. Tag the tasks with #Outreach-Programs-Projects
    and
   #Outreachy-Round-15
    on Phabricator.

Some more helpful information:

   -

   View accepted projects from previous round
   https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_14
   -

   If you know a newcomer, who meets the eligibility criteria
   and would be a good fit
   for the program, encourage them to apply and follow our participation
   guidelines .


Cheers,
Srishti

-- 
Srishti Sethi
Developer Advocate
Technical Collaboration team
Wikimedia Foundation

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)
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