[Wikitech-l] New web server for dumps/datasets, OLD ONE GOING AWAY

Folks, As you'll have seen from previous email, we are now using a new beefier webserver for your dataset downloading needs. And the old server is going away on TUESDAY April 10th. This means that if you are using 'dataset1001.wikimedia.org' or the IP address itself in your scripts, you MUST

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile MonoBook

Showing the navbox (a 1000px table) on a mobile device (320px) is a difficult problem and not skin specific as Brad quite rightly points out, but a template problem. Minerva shows navboxes on desktop resolutions - you can see for yourself:

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia contributors survey is here: share your feedback

Hi everyone, The Wikimedia Foundation is asking for your feedback in a survey. We want to know how well we are supporting your work on and off wiki, and how we can change or improve things in the future. The opinions you share will affect the current and future work of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile MonoBook

2018-04-04 23:41 GMT+03:00 Brad Jorsch (Anomie) : > On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 3:18 PM, Strainu wrote: > >> Skipping navboxes is a decision that was taken by the WMF team >> responsible for the mobile site (whatever it was called at the time) >> and can be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile MonoBook

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 3:18 PM, Strainu wrote: > Skipping navboxes is a decision that was taken by the WMF team > responsible for the mobile site (whatever it was called at the time) > and can be solved cleanly only at the skin level, but I don't expect > this to happen as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile MonoBook

2018-04-04 18:40 GMT+03:00 Brad Jorsch (Anomie) : > On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 6:52 PM, Strainu wrote: > >> but what I would particularly like to see is how it >> handles navboxes. Traditionally, they have been hidden on the >> Wikipedia mobile site,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Dumps] Dumps web service migration on 2018-04-04

The switchover is done now. Please let us know if you encounter any issues accessing dumps.wikimedia.org. On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 7:32 AM, Madhumitha Viswanathan < mviswanat...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Reminder: This is happening in a few minutes. > > On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 10:12 PM, Madhumitha

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile MonoBook

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 6:52 PM, Strainu wrote: > but what I would particularly like to see is how it > handles navboxes. Traditionally, they have been hidden on the > Wikipedia mobile site, prompting people to do all kinds of sick > workarounds that kind of work, but not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change for abstracts dumps, primarily for wikidata

I love this change, thank you! On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 4:33 PM Ariel Glenn WMF wrote: > Those of you that rely on the abstracts dumps will have noticed that the > content for wikidata is pretty much useless. It doesn't look like a > summary of the page because main

[Wikitech-l] Change for abstracts dumps, primarily for wikidata

Those of you that rely on the abstracts dumps will have noticed that the content for wikidata is pretty much useless. It doesn't look like a summary of the page because main namespace articles on wikidata aren't paragraphs of text. And there's really no useful summary to be generated, even if we

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Dumps] Dumps web service migration on 2018-04-04

Reminder: This is happening in a few minutes. On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 10:12 PM, Madhumitha Viswanathan < mviswanat...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello dumps.wikimedia.org users, > > The servers that host the dumps.wikimedia.org site are being replaced > with shiny new hardware! The web service

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Announcing project ‘Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture’

Hey Jonas, On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Jonas Kress wrote: > Hey, > > I am interested in improving the patrolling workflow for mobile users of > Wikidata and I wonder if you only plan to refactor[1] the code or if you > also will improve the user experience? >

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Announcing project ‘Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture’

Thanks for the kind words DJ. I want to clarify that the Readers Web team stopped being the Mobile Web team years ago, and doesn't only work on the mobile web extension and skin. We do routinely work on a variety of projects and codebases depending on our user and maintenance needs. That said,

[Wikitech-l] Today: Weekly Technical Advice IRC Meeting

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **today, 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 be the best

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Announcing project ‘Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture’

Hey, I am interested in improving the patrolling workflow for mobile users of Wikidata and I wonder if you only plan to refactor[1] the code or if you also will improve the user experience? Thanks, Jonas [1] https://dzone.com/articles/what-refactoring-and-what-it-0 2018-04-04 11:05 GMT+02:00

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Announcing project ‘Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture’

I really like all of these goals, but I have to say that many of them seem to be a recurring theme (which to me is understandable, but maybe not to others). I pose to you an additional challenge.. Don't do this just to mobilefrontend/minervaneue. Do it to a component of core/an extension as well