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Tech News: 2015-10

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• A Lua function to use Wikidata has changed. You need to update the pages that use it. [1]
• You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Uzbek and Minangkabau. You need to enable it in your Beta options.
• You can now hide banners if you don't have an account. [2] [3]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 4 (calendar).
• You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Punjabi and Kyrgyz. You can ask for the tool in other languages.
• Editing the fake blank line in VisualEditor is now simpler. This change also fixed a few bugs. [4] [5] [6] [7]
• The TemplateData editor now warns you if a related page already has TemplateData. [8]
• The TemplateData table now tells you if a template doesn't take any parameters. [9]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 4 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join technical meetings in France and Mexico this year. You will be able to ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [10]

Future changes

• You will be able to get a direct link for a section of a page. [11]

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16:42, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-11

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now create books on almost all wikis. It doesn't work yet on wikis using the language converter. [12] [13]
• VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed. [14] [15] [16]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 11 (calendar).
• In VisualEditor the "Edit ^beta" button is now called "Edit" on the English Wikipedia. [17] [18]
• The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs. [19] [20]
• You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading. [21] [22]
• You now see more information when you edit a link, a reference or other items in VisualEditor. You also see a clearer edit button in those tools. [23] [24]
• If you use the ContentTranslation tool you now see red links in the list of articles in other languages. The link is red if the article doesn't exist in the language of your options or of your browser. You can translate the article by clicking on the red link.

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a technical meeting in France in May. You can ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [25]

Future changes

• You can get help to become a developer. You can learn more on the Google Summer of Code and Outreachy pages. [26]
• You will soon be able to read technical reports in Phabricator. [27]

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Akan/Twi/Hausa ideas

Thanks for checking in! Yes, I'm still very interested in the articles to develop for those languages :) WhisperToMe (talk) 17:34, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nice. I would be happy to work with you.—M@sssly^✉ 17:37, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Alright! The idea behind this is to make stub articles that would be of interest to Akan and Hausa speakers as a way of enticing them to come to the Wikis. For instance the en:BBC has an edition in Hausa. This means there are likely Hausa speakers interested in the BBC, right? Therefore Wikipedia should also have a Hausa article on the BBC. When a Hausa speaker goes to the BBC article in English, she may encounter a big "Hausa" link and think "wow, there's an article on this in my language! That's so cool!"

My Hausa ideas are listed at ha:User:WhisperToMe - I would personally like to get the BBC, RFI, and CRI done first, and then in general do things related to northern Nigeria and the Nigerian federal government. Articles related to Boko Haram activity in northern Nigeria may warrant Hausa editions. I would personally love to see en:Suya in Hausa too since that Nigerian dish originates from the north (I eat it sometimes in Nigerian restaurants in Houston).

For Akan I have a list here: ak:Odwumanyɛni:WhisperToMe. I would prefer getting stuff about the Ghanaian federal government and the capital city of Accra done first, as there are likely to be many Ghanaian with internet access there. I would love to see an article on en:Kotoka International Airport done in Akan. WhisperToMe (talk) 18:19, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It would be fun creating those stubs. By "Therefore Wikipedia should also have a Hausa article on the BBC" and "she may encounter a big 'Hausa' link and think 'wow', there's an article on this in my language" I presume you'd ultimately want to see Wikipedia articles on any topic that appears on ha:BBC. I will use a translation tool to create drafts of those articles here and here so I can work on them quickly. FYI Ghana unlike Nigeria is a Unitary state. :)—M@sssly^✉ 08:43, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What I meant was that if an organization or company makes a Hausa page, it would be worthwhile to start a Hausa article on that company or organization. For instance the BBC has a Hausa website, so Wikipedia should have a Hausa article on the BBC. Having said that, it would be a great idea to get ideas for articles from browsing the BBC Hausa page, and using those BBC Hausa articles as sources for your articles. Anyway, thank you so much for your efforts! :) WhisperToMe (talk) 08:50, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2015-12

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images. [28]
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Problems

• Wikis were broken for a few minutes on Thursday due to a code error.

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• You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData. [34] [35]

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• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 18 at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The list of bad user names on your wiki will no longer work. The global list will replace it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [36] [37]
• You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [38]
• The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You can see the rules to rename accounts. [39]

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 2

For this month's issue...

Making sense of a lot of data.

Work on our prototype will begin imminently. In the meantime, we have to understand what exactly we're working with. To this end, we generated a list of 71 WikiProjects, based on those brought up on our Stories page and those who had signed up for pilot testing. For those projects where people told stories, we coded statements within those stories to figure out what trends there were in these stories. This approach allowed us to figure out what Wikipedians thought of WikiProjects in a very organic way, with very little by way of a structure. (Compare this to a structured interview, where specific questions are asked and answered.) This analysis was done on 29 stories. Codes were generally classified as "benefits" (positive contributions made by a WikiProject to the editing experience) and "obstacles" (issues posed by WikiProjects, broadly speaking). Codes were generated as I went along, ensuring that codes were as close to the original data as possible. Duplicate appearances of a code for a given WikiProject were removed.

We found 52 "benefit" statements encoded and 34 "obstacle" statements. The most common benefit statement referring to the project's active discussion and participation, followed by statements referring to a project's capacity to guide editor activity, while the most common obstacles made reference to low participation and significant burdens on the part of the project maintainers and leaders. This gives us a sense of WikiProjects' big strength: they bring people together, and can be frustrating to editors when they fail to do so. Meanwhile, it is indeed very difficult to bring editors together on a common interest; in the absence of a highly motivated core of organizers, the technical infrastructure simply isn't there.

We wanted to pair this qualitative study with quantitative analysis of a WikiProject and its "universe" of pages, discussions, templates, and categories. To this end I wrote a script called ProjAnalysis which will, for a given WikiProject page (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Trek) and WikiProject talk-page tag (e.g. Template:WikiProject Star Trek), will give you a list of usernames of people who edited within the WikiProject's space (the project page itself, its talk page, and subpages), and within the WikiProject's scope (the pages tagged by that WikiProject, excluding the WikiProject space pages). The output is an exhaustive list of usernames. We ran the script to analyze our test batch of WikiProjects for edits between March 1, 2014 and February 28, 2015, and we subjected them to further analysis to only include those who made 10+ edits to pages in the projects' scope, those who made 4+ edits to the projects' space, and those who made 10+ edits to pages in scope but not 4+ edits to pages in the projects' space. This latter metric gives us an idea of who is active in a certain subject area of Wikipedia, yet who isn't actively engaging on the WikiProject's pages. This information will help us prioritize WikiProjects for pilot testing, and the ProjAnalysis script in general may have future life as an application that can be used by Wikipedians to learn about who is in their community.

Complementing the above two studies are a design analysis, which summarizes the structure of the different WikiProject spaces in our test batch, and the comprehensive census of bots and tools used to maintain WikiProjects, which will be finished soon. With all of this information, we will have a game plan in place! We hope to begin working with specific WikiProjects soon.

As a couple of asides...

• Database Reports has existed for several years on Wikipedia to the satisfaction of many, but many of the reports stopped running when the Toolserver was shut off in 2014. However, there is good news: the weekly New WikiProjects and WikiProjects by Changes reports are back, with potential future reports in the future.
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Tech News: 2015-13

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 25 (calendar).
• The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it. It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color. Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page. [40]
• VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor. [41] [42] [43]
• When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it. [44]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on mediawiki.org will soon use the new system. [45]

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15:10, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

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The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 12 – 25 March 2015

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation adopts open-access research policy

• Op-ed: How my father's railroad image collection now benefits the world: the value of digitization

• Featured content: A carnival of animals, a river of dung, a wasteland of uncles, and some people with attitude

• Special report: Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014

• Traffic report: Oddly familiar

• Recent research: Most important people; respiratory reliability; academic attitudes

• Blog: The Wikipedia Library Team reflects on its new Visiting Scholars program

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Tech News: 2015-14

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [46]
• You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki. [47] [48] [49]
• All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [50]
• You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [51]
• VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [52]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 1 (calendar).
• VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias. [53]
• You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [54]
• You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create lists of articles. [55]
• You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [56]
• VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more. [57] [58] [59] [60]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on IRC on March 31 at 16:00 (UTC). [61]
• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 1 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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