[Wikitech-l] Announcing 'Map improvements 2018'

2018-02-27 Thread Joe Matazzoni 
Hello,
Over the next four months, the WMF Collaboration team will be making 
improvements to mapping software (Kartographer) and related functions. The 
team’s engagement with maps was prompted in part by the overwhelming support 
the maps community gave the 2017 Community Wishlist proposal "Cartographer 
Improvements" [0]. The project, which we’re calling Map Improvements 2018,  is 
currently in its very early research and planning stages. It has a limited term 
that’s scheduled to conclude at the end of June.

The immediate goals of the Map Improvements project are:

* To ensure that Kartographer and the associated maps technology stack are 
stable and can be easily maintained as maps gain a wider audience.
* To accomplish the two “main wishes” named in the Community Wishlist proposal, 
along with as many of the other wishes as are possible in the time provided. 
The main wishes are  T112948 [2], “All map location names should be shown in 
the user's language” (an extremely challenging but crucial job), and T180907 
[3], “Add zoom level 19.”

Goals that relate to extending maps to a wider audience—such as bringing 
mapframe functionality to English Wikipedia (as requested by RfC) and making 
sure that mapframe works properly on wikis that use Flagged Revisions—are also 
under serious consideration.

Please visit the project page on MediaWiki.org  to learn 
more and share your ideas and questions. [4]

Joe
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Joe Matazzoni 
Product Manager, Collaboration
Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco

[0] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Miscellaneous/Kartographer_improvements
 

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018 

[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112948 

[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180907 

[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Map_improvements_2018 






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[Wikitech-l] Tomorrow: Technical Advice IRC Meeting

2018-02-27 Thread Michael Schönitzer 
Sorry for cross-posting!

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 4-5 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 be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project.

If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_
Advice_IRC_Meeting

Hope to see you there!
Michi (for WMDE’s tech team)


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[Wikitech-l] Global preferences available for testing

2018-02-27 Thread Keegan Peterzell 
Greetings,

Global Preferences [0], a result of the 2016 Community Wishlist campaign
[1], are ready for testing before being released to the wikis.

To test them out and leave feedback, login or register on a beta wiki such
as the English Wikipedia [2], German Wiktionary [3] or Hebrew Wikipedia
[4], then visit your global preferences [5]. After that you can wander
around the beta wikis, trying things out. If you find bugs or anything else
of note to comment on, you can leave feedback on the Help discussion page
[6].

Thanks, see you on the wikis.

​0. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalPreferences
1.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Categories/Miscellaneous#Global_settings
2. https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org
3. https://de.wiktionary.beta.wmflabs.org
4. https://he.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org
5. Special:GlobalPreferences (for example
https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:GlobalPreferences )
6. ​https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:GlobalPreferences

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Technical Collaboration Specialist
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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 18 February 2018)

2018-02-27 Thread mathieu stumpf guntz 
What's making me happy this week is joining the "Telegrafo" discussion 
for ELISo  and I also just 
found Six Degrees of Wikipedia 
.



Le 18/02/2018 à 23:12, Pine W a écrit :

What's making me happy this week is Isarra's persistence in working on the
Timeless skin. Timeless is based on Winter. [0] [1]

For anyone who would like to try Timeless, it's available in Preferences
under Appearance / Skin.

What's making you happy this week?

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Timeless
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Winter
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