Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lsjbot+Bot Acadeny
Hoi, The mail by Anners REALLY deserves attention. It quotes numbers that fly in the face of conventional wisdom that bots are bad. Evidently, it is quite the opposite. Given the effects of the Rambot generated articles this should not be a surprise really. Given that this subject has so prominently featured in the press, it is quite important to learn that the conventional wisdom consist only of opinions and is evidently wrong. Thanks, GerardM On 17 September 2014 04:36, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote: Lsjbot has now completed its run of generating articles for all species, with 310 000 on plants, making the total number generated above 1 300 000 (source used: Catalogue of Life). With Naskobot, having earlier generated some 85 000 articles on Swedish lakes and French communes etc., the total botgenerated articles on svwp are now 1,4 M The botgenerating efforts have received overwhelmingly positive feedback from the svwp community, with comments like: *for editors it has become more stimulating writing new articles on related subjects. When we write of a place in Sweden we know that all mentioned lakes have articles, making the article better and more correct (no lakes mentioned are spelled incorrectly any longer). Also photo safaris are more fun when all lakes, even very small ones, are relevant to take photos of and include in articles *experts are more attracted participating when they are guided to the stub from Google. Also we get feedback it is much easier to enter information on Wikipedia when the base skeleton is there already (taxobox, category, links in wikidata, picture, base sourceref). We see an increasing number of University classes in biology given he assignment to write (expand) articles on (not so known) species We are also gladdened by the hard numbers. Reader accesses show a healthy increase even from our already high number. And a trend of a slight decrease of editors has now turned into an increase. We can not say for certain why and it could be temporary but we believe the botgenerated articles has a part of this positive development. Encouraged by this, we will now start what we call Bot Academy. A dozen of our experienced editors will, with the support from WMSE, learn more of running bots. First by sessions on basics, common knowledge stuff, in order for us to be able to use bot as a complement in our editing efforts. And after that we will have sessions for advanced use, taking in the learning from Lsjbot and Naskobot, in order to see if also we can find areas where we from excellent sources can generate articles. For 2015 we are contemplating the following botgenerating efforts *lsj (sverker) will support other versions interested to run Lsjbot. He is now in discussion with Farsi and Arabic wp, where there are some interesting technical challenges related to the different alphabeticscript *we will scan best practices of bot generation on other versions (it, nl, id, vt, serbocroatia, farsi, ru etc) (it seems we have nothing to learn of this from the biggest seven...) *lsj will look into using the database used by Swedish libraries, with info of authors and books. Would it be feasible to generate articles on authors? *for myself I am continuing my initiative with the aim of fully integrate 10 article of Swedish geographic entities with wikidata, in order to by the end to generate, if wanted, up to 10 articles related to Swedish geography on 200 other versions. There is a lot needed of quality improvement of the articles first and also the Wikidata must get better before this can work, but perhaps it will be possible to get this going for a subset of articles in 2015 even if the full set will take some years longer before being ready to deploy Anders for examples, press slumpartikel (random artiicle) on https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Huvudsida ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Jessie's IDEO adventure
Dear friends and colleagues, Many of who have already heard from Jessie in multiple ways, but for those who haven't: Jessie Wild, who currently heads the Learning and Evaluation team in the Grantmaking department at WMF, is leaving for a year's fellowship with Ideo.[1] Her last day at the Foundation is tomorrow. We are going to miss her. Jessie has been an extraordinary and integral part of WMF for the last four years, and demonstrated her initiative, insight and leadership in each of the positions she’s ably held here. For many of you, you may remember Jessie's first role was part of the consultant team working on the 5 year strategy. Most recently and importantly, she’s led the Learning and Evaluation team in the past year to do some significant baseline research and impact analyses of our grants and programs across the movement. This is work that lays the foundation for a great deal of our strategic vision and direction going forward. Thank you so much, Jessie, for all your strategic leadership, but even more: thank you for who you are, and the heart you’ve always brought to your team, WMF and the communities we support. We are hoping that Jessie will rejoin us when she’s completed this brilliant opportunity at IDEO (she’s one of four chosen from over 450 applicants!). However, the work we are doing with all of you on impact and strategic outcomes for the movement is urgent and will need to be ramped up even further over this year. We will be opening up this position to lead the LE team soon, and keep you posted on it. Jessie, thank you again for all your manifold contributions. Warmly, Anasuya [1] http://www.ideo.org/fellows -- *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Jessie's IDEO adventure
I'll repeat what I said earlier on the IEGCom email list: I appreciate Jessie's positive approach to program evaluation. Also, the detail and scope of evaluation reports has ramped up significantly over the past year, which has been great to see. Thanks for all your work, Jessie. Pine On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Dariusz Jemielniak dar...@alk.edu.pl wrote: Jessie has been a tremendous help in the FDC process, and her professionalism will be difficult to replace. I hope she'll be back! Dariusz Jemielniak pundit On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear friends and colleagues, Many of who have already heard from Jessie in multiple ways, but for those who haven't: Jessie Wild, who currently heads the Learning and Evaluation team in the Grantmaking department at WMF, is leaving for a year's fellowship with Ideo.[1] Her last day at the Foundation is tomorrow. We are going to miss her. Jessie has been an extraordinary and integral part of WMF for the last four years, and demonstrated her initiative, insight and leadership in each of the positions she’s ably held here. For many of you, you may remember Jessie's first role was part of the consultant team working on the 5 year strategy. Most recently and importantly, she’s led the Learning and Evaluation team in the past year to do some significant baseline research and impact analyses of our grants and programs across the movement. This is work that lays the foundation for a great deal of our strategic vision and direction going forward. Thank you so much, Jessie, for all your strategic leadership, but even more: thank you for who you are, and the heart you’ve always brought to your team, WMF and the communities we support. We are hoping that Jessie will rejoin us when she’s completed this brilliant opportunity at IDEO (she’s one of four chosen from over 450 applicants!). However, the work we are doing with all of you on impact and strategic outcomes for the movement is urgent and will need to be ramped up even further over this year. We will be opening up this position to lead the LE team soon, and keep you posted on it. Jessie, thank you again for all your manifold contributions. Warmly, Anasuya [1] http://www.ideo.org/fellows -- *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- __ prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak kierownik katedry Zarządzania Międzynarodowego i centrum badawczego CROW Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego http://www.crow.alk.edu.pl członek Akademii Młodych Uczonych Polskiej Akademii Nauk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 10, Issue 36 -- 17 September 2014
In the media: Turkish Twitter outrage, medical translation, audience metrics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-09-17/In_the_media Traffic report: Tolstoy leads a varied pack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-09-17/Traffic_report News and notes: Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-09-17/News_and_notes WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-09-17/WikiProject_report Featured content: Which is not like the others? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-09-17/Featured_content Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-09-17 https://www.facebook.com/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Jessie's IDEO adventure
I have also seen some significant improvements in both the chapter reporting structure and the feedback loops, and of course this directly impacts the overall ability to achieve strategic goals just by being able to measure success and failure. Jesse will be sorely missed, but um, is this IDEO? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEO On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: I'll repeat what I said earlier on the IEGCom email list: I appreciate Jessie's positive approach to program evaluation. Also, the detail and scope of evaluation reports has ramped up significantly over the past year, which has been great to see. Thanks for all your work, Jessie. Pine On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Dariusz Jemielniak dar...@alk.edu.pl wrote: Jessie has been a tremendous help in the FDC process, and her professionalism will be difficult to replace. I hope she'll be back! Dariusz Jemielniak pundit On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear friends and colleagues, Many of who have already heard from Jessie in multiple ways, but for those who haven't: Jessie Wild, who currently heads the Learning and Evaluation team in the Grantmaking department at WMF, is leaving for a year's fellowship with Ideo.[1] Her last day at the Foundation is tomorrow. We are going to miss her. Jessie has been an extraordinary and integral part of WMF for the last four years, and demonstrated her initiative, insight and leadership in each of the positions she’s ably held here. For many of you, you may remember Jessie's first role was part of the consultant team working on the 5 year strategy. Most recently and importantly, she’s led the Learning and Evaluation team in the past year to do some significant baseline research and impact analyses of our grants and programs across the movement. This is work that lays the foundation for a great deal of our strategic vision and direction going forward. Thank you so much, Jessie, for all your strategic leadership, but even more: thank you for who you are, and the heart you’ve always brought to your team, WMF and the communities we support. We are hoping that Jessie will rejoin us when she’s completed this brilliant opportunity at IDEO (she’s one of four chosen from over 450 applicants!). However, the work we are doing with all of you on impact and strategic outcomes for the movement is urgent and will need to be ramped up even further over this year. We will be opening up this position to lead the LE team soon, and keep you posted on it. Jessie, thank you again for all your manifold contributions. Warmly, Anasuya [1] http://www.ideo.org/fellows -- *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- __ prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak kierownik katedry Zarządzania Międzynarodowego i centrum badawczego CROW Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego http://www.crow.alk.edu.pl członek Akademii Młodych Uczonych Polskiej Akademii Nauk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lsjbot+Bot Acadeny
This is wonderful news, Anders. It made me really happy to read this. Thanks to everyone who worked to make this happen! rachel On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote: Lsjbot has now completed its run of generating articles for all species, with 310 000 on plants, making the total number generated above 1 300 000 (source used: Catalogue of Life). With Naskobot, having earlier generated some 85 000 articles on Swedish lakes and French communes etc., the total botgenerated articles on svwp are now 1,4 M The botgenerating efforts have received overwhelmingly positive feedback from the svwp community, with comments like: *for editors it has become more stimulating writing new articles on related subjects. When we write of a place in Sweden we know that all mentioned lakes have articles, making the article better and more correct (no lakes mentioned are spelled incorrectly any longer). Also photo safaris are more fun when all lakes, even very small ones, are relevant to take photos of and include in articles *experts are more attracted participating when they are guided to the stub from Google. Also we get feedback it is much easier to enter information on Wikipedia when the base skeleton is there already (taxobox, category, links in wikidata, picture, base sourceref). We see an increasing number of University classes in biology given he assignment to write (expand) articles on (not so known) species We are also gladdened by the hard numbers. Reader accesses show a healthy increase even from our already high number. And a trend of a slight decrease of editors has now turned into an increase. We can not say for certain why and it could be temporary but we believe the botgenerated articles has a part of this positive development. Encouraged by this, we will now start what we call Bot Academy. A dozen of our experienced editors will, with the support from WMSE, learn more of running bots. First by sessions on basics, common knowledge stuff, in order for us to be able to use bot as a complement in our editing efforts. And after that we will have sessions for advanced use, taking in the learning from Lsjbot and Naskobot, in order to see if also we can find areas where we from excellent sources can generate articles. For 2015 we are contemplating the following botgenerating efforts *lsj (sverker) will support other versions interested to run Lsjbot. He is now in discussion with Farsi and Arabic wp, where there are some interesting technical challenges related to the different alphabeticscript *we will scan best practices of bot generation on other versions (it, nl, id, vt, serbocroatia, farsi, ru etc) (it seems we have nothing to learn of this from the biggest seven...) *lsj will look into using the database used by Swedish libraries, with info of authors and books. Would it be feasible to generate articles on authors? *for myself I am continuing my initiative with the aim of fully integrate 10 article of Swedish geographic entities with wikidata, in order to by the end to generate, if wanted, up to 10 articles related to Swedish geography on 200 other versions. There is a lot needed of quality improvement of the articles first and also the Wikidata must get better before this can work, but perhaps it will be possible to get this going for a subset of articles in 2015 even if the full set will take some years longer before being ready to deploy Anders for examples, press slumpartikel (random artiicle) on https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Huvudsida ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Rachel diCerbo Director of Community Engagement (Product) Wikimedia Foundation Rdicerb (WMF) https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Rdicerb_%28WMF%29 @a_rachel https://twitter.com/a_rachel ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Upcoming help sessions for drafting Individual Engagement Grant proposals
Hi all, As we announced earlier this month[1], September is the month to apply for an Individual Engagement Grant[2]. The deadline to submit a proposal is September 30. To help you turn your ideas and projects into successful proposals, we’re hosting a few IdeaLab Proposal Clinics in Hangouts and IRC this month.[3] The first one took place on September 16. Newcomers had a chance to talk to current and past grantees, as well as WMF Grantmaking staff, to workshop ideas and strengthen their proposals. If you have an idea you would like to submit, but feel unsure about how to draft or finalize your proposal, join a session! There are three events left before the deadline: * IRC office hours in #wikimedia-office - Sept 23, 1600 UTC (Tuesday) * Hangout - Sept 25, 1700 UTC (Thursday) [4] * Hangout - Sept 28, 1700 UTC (Sunday) [5] Join us next week to discuss your ideas, and bring any questions you have about IEG! Cheers, Siko [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-September/074239.html [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Events#Upcoming_events [4]IdeaLab Clinic II. Join via Hangout: https://plus.google.com/events/cvk8hivoih04ifc6pp3sl0se6s8?hl [5] IdeaLab Clinic III. Join via Hangout: https://plus.google.com/events/c82527nlv8jhkv17j963gs9gp6s?hl -- Siko Bouterse Head of Individual Grants Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Brasil] Jessie's IDEO adventure
Thanks so much to everyone! It has been such an honor to join this movement, and the things we have experimented with and done have been exciting and fruitful. I know we spend a lot of time talking about our problems welcoming in newbies, but I felt so supported by so many of you from my first day four years ago when I was brand new. Thank you for your openness, your innovative ideas, your challenges to my thinking, and your partnership in building things together. One point of clarification: I'll actually be working with IDEO.org http://ideo.org/, which is a spin-off of IDEO (and yes, Jane, that is the Wikipedia article for IDEO) It is a separate organization focused on partnering with people in need to design paths out of poverty. I'm very humbled for this opportunity, and look forward to sharing learning! I'm pasting some info below with the announcement. Obviously, stay in touch. I will be around :) We’ve had an action-packed spring at IDEO.org with lots of travel, a decision on our next class of Global Fellows, and a very exciting project from the archive heading to market. Here’s what we’ve been up to this spring and summer.WELCOME 2015 GLOBAL FELLOWSAfter reviewing 656 applications—all of which inspired and excited us—we’ve chosen the 2015 class of Global Fellows! They hail from Malawi, Ireland, Indiana, and the UK. They are doctors, inventors, entrepreneurs, and global connectors, all with a dedication to elevating the poor through design. Let us introduce William Kamkwamba, Rebecca Hope, Jessie Wild, and John Collery! We can’t wait to see what change they'll make, what good they’ll do. *Copyright © 2014 IDEO.org, All rights reserved.* On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga t...@okfn.org.br wrote: Congratulations, Jessie! It is super cool that you will bring your talent to other places! It was a pleasure to know and work with you! Thanks for everything you did for the Wikimedia movement and that you taught me whilst I had the opportunity to work together! You rock! P. S. We need create a page about IDEO in Portuguese, then I'll keep supporting you to learn our language. :P (could be a start!) Abraços! Tom 2014-09-18 14:30 GMT-03:00 Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.org: Dear friends and colleagues, Many of who have already heard from Jessie in multiple ways, but for those who haven't: Jessie Wild, who currently heads the Learning and Evaluation team in the Grantmaking department at WMF, is leaving for a year's fellowship with Ideo.[1] Her last day at the Foundation is tomorrow. We are going to miss her. Jessie has been an extraordinary and integral part of WMF for the last four years, and demonstrated her initiative, insight and leadership in each of the positions she’s ably held here. For many of you, you may remember Jessie's first role was part of the consultant team working on the 5 year strategy. Most recently and importantly, she’s led the Learning and Evaluation team in the past year to do some significant baseline research and impact analyses of our grants and programs across the movement. This is work that lays the foundation for a great deal of our strategic vision and direction going forward. Thank you so much, Jessie, for all your strategic leadership, but even more: thank you for who you are, and the heart you’ve always brought to your team, WMF and the communities we support. We are hoping that Jessie will rejoin us when she’s completed this brilliant opportunity at IDEO (she’s one of four chosen from over 450 applicants!). However, the work we are doing with all of you on impact and strategic outcomes for the movement is urgent and will need to be ramped up even further over this year. We will be opening up this position to lead the LE team soon, and keep you posted on it. Jessie, thank you again for all your manifold contributions. Warmly, Anasuya [1] http://www.ideo.org/fellows -- *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ WikimediaBR-l mailing list wikimediab...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediabr-l -- *Jessie Wild SnellerGrantmaking Learning Evaluation * *Wikimedia
[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to beta-test HHVM
(apologies for cross-posting) I'm happy to announce that HHVM is available on all Wikimedia wikis for intrepid beta testers. HHVM, you'll recall, is an alternative runtime for PHP that provides substantial performance improvements over the standard PHP interpreter. Simply put: HHVM is software that runs on Wikimedia's servers to make your reading and editing experience faster. You can read more about HHVM here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HHVM * How do I enable HHVM? You can enable HHVM by opting in to the beta feature. This short animated gif will show you how: http://people.wikimedia.org/~ori/hhvm_beta.gif. Enabling the beta feature will set a special cookie in your browser. Our servers are configured to route requests bearing this cookie to a pool of servers that are running HHVM. * How do I know that it's working? Opting-in to the beta feature does not change the user interface in any way. If you like, you can copy the following code snippet to the global.js subpage of your user page on MetaWiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ori.livneh/global.js If you copy this script to your global.js, the personal bar will be annotated with the name of the PHP runtime used to generate the page and the backend response time. It looks like this: http://people.wikimedia.org/~ori/hhvm_script.png Edits made by users with HHVM enabled will be tagged with 'HHVM'. The tag is there as a precaution, to help us clean up if we discover that HHVM is mangling edits somehow. We don't expect this to happen. * What sort of performance changes should I expect? We expect HHVM to have a substantial impact on the time it takes to load, preview, and save pages. At the moment, API requests are not being handled by HHVM. Because VisualEditor uses the API to save articles, opting in to the HHVM beta feature will not impact the performance of VisualEditor. We hope to have HHVM handling API requests next week. * What sort of issues might I encounter? Most of the bugs that we have encountered so far resulted from minute differences in how PHP5 and HHVM handle various edge-cases. These bugs typically cause a MediaWiki error page to be shown. If you encounter an error, please report it on Bugzilla and tag with it the 'HHVM' keyword. We're not done yet, but this is an important milestone. The roll-out of HHVM as a beta feature caps many months of hard work from many developers, both salaried and volunteer, from the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland, and the broader Wikimedia movement. I want to take this opportunity to express my appreciation to the following individuals, listed in alphabetical order: Aaron Schulz, Alexandros Kosiaris, Brad Jorsch, Brandon Black, Brett Simmers, Bryan Davis, Chad Horohoe, Chris Steipp, Erik Bernhardson, Erik Möller, Faidon Liambotis, Filippo Giunchedi, Giuseppe Lavagetto, Greg Grossmeier, Jack McBarn, Katie Filbert, Kunal Mehta, Mark Bergsma, Max Semenik, Niklas Laxström, Rob Lanphier, and Tim Starling. More good things to come! :) ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Invitation to beta-test HHVM
Ori and ... Aaron Schulz, Alexandros Kosiaris, Brad Jorsch, Brandon Black, Brett Simmers, Bryan Davis, Chad Horohoe, Chris Steipp, Erik Bernhardson, Faidon Liambotis, Filippo Giunchedi, Giuseppe Lavagetto, Greg Grossmeier, Jack McBarn, Katie Filbert, Kunal Mehta, Mark Bergsma, Max Semenik, Niklas Laxström, Rob Lanphier, and Tim Starling. .. amazing work, everyone. This is a huge milestone and it's wonderful to see the finish line come closer. Making and keeping our sites fast is hugely important, and all evidence so far suggests that HHVM will be one of the biggest gains ever. :) Please, do help spread the word and give it a spin, as we iron out remaining issues. Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
