Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Wikitech-l] Logging everyone out
Thanks Tim, 1. Does “saw the site” mean users actually had full or partial access to the accounts of other users, or simply were viewing a cached version of the site that appeared as if they were logged in as someone else? How many users were impacted? 2. Does the WMF hold incident review meetings and publish reports about what steps are taken to prevent repeat incidents with the same root cause? On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 7:44 PM Tim Starling wrote: > Everyone on Wikimedia wikis will shortly be logged out and will have > to log back in again. > > We are resetting all sessions because we believe that, due to a > configuration error, session cookies may have been sent in cacheable > responses. Some users reported that they saw the site as if they were > logged in as someone else. We believe that the number of affected > users was very small. However, we believe that resetting all sessions > is a prudent measure to ensure that the impact is limited. > > There are several layers of protection against something like this > happening, and we don't yet know how all of them failed, but we have > made a configuration change which should be sufficient to prevent it > from happening again. > > -- Tim Starling > > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Task recommendations for new editors
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Jérémie Roquet arkano...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that not-so-newly-registered editors are concerned as well, and some of them are wondering how to disable this new feature¹. Any tip that doesn't involve dirty hacking with JavaScript and CSS? Thanks! ¹ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Le_Bistro/12_septembre_2014#Recommandations Hi Jeremie, This is https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/70759 which strangely seem to be present on German and French Wikipedias, but not English. We'll be addressing this bug as our top priority today. However, we don't normally deploy code on Fridays (to avoid any further mess on the weekend) so it may have to wait till Monday. Either way, we will either fix the issue or disable the test temporarily while we debug. I can also give editors CSS to remove recommendations for themselves, if it's really bugging them. Thanks for your email, -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Task recommendations for new editors
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org wrote: This is a quick notice and a call for help from translators: likely next week, we'll be launching a new experiment aimed at helping newly-registered editors, called task recommendations. You can check out the UI by looking at the design specification ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Task_recommendations) and our research documentation ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Task_recommendations/Experiment_one ) The good news: the main interfaces are well translated enough for us to launch our A/B test in 12 languages... - English - German - French - Spanish - Italian - Russian - Chinese - Ukrainian - Swedish - Dutch - Hebrew The bad news: we needed to add some error messages for the rare occasion that something goes wrong. These are *almost* merged and will ideally also get translated too. If you speak these languages and/or know someone who is a translator on Translatewiki, then it would be great to keep an eye out for untranslated strings coming soon in the GettingStarted extension. Heads up that the error messages and other changes have been finished, so we are deploying these tests today. German and Hebrew are finished with 100% of translation, but rest of the list above needs to do the error messages as well. Thanks again for all the speedy help from translators. You're all amazing. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Task recommendations for new editors
Hi everyone, This is a quick notice and a call for help from translators: likely next week, we'll be launching a new experiment aimed at helping newly-registered editors, called task recommendations. You can check out the UI by looking at the design specification ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Task_recommendations) and our research documentation ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Task_recommendations/Experiment_one ) The good news: the main interfaces are well translated enough for us to launch our A/B test in 12 languages... - English - German - French - Spanish - Italian - Russian - Chinese - Ukrainian - Swedish - Dutch - Hebrew The bad news: we needed to add some error messages for the rare occasion that something goes wrong. These are *almost* merged and will ideally also get translated too. If you speak these languages and/or know someone who is a translator on Translatewiki, then it would be great to keep an eye out for untranslated strings coming soon in the GettingStarted extension. If you're curious about how the recommendations are generated or anything else, let me know. :) Thanks, -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Thumbnail style update
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: This will remove the zoom icon on thumbnails. I think there's a possibility that that will upset some people since that makes it more difficult to get to the file page for video files. Looking at this on a test page (like http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/0.11186127029575321) it seems like it takes three clicks to get to the File page. Play the video, open the menu, click the File link. Ultimately, a magnify icon should not directing people to a file description page, it should be magnifying the image. However, taking three clicks to get to the File page is a bit much. Just thinking out loud, I wonder if we might reset the alt click behavior to open the file in a new tab, rather just the expanded video player in a new tab? Bug tickets, ideas, and patches welcome. Additionally, the FAQ page doesn't address how the change affects the frame option for images. One assumes it will change the styling similarly. Is that correct? No, I believe it does nothing to any style that isn't thumb. Frame, frameless, border, etc. are not impacted. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of June 23rd
Also next week we will likely be ready to launch a second A/B test of a guided tour inviting anonymous editors to sign up. Design specification at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anonymous_editor_acquisition/Signup_invites_v2 On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap and Deployment update. The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_June_23rd A quick list of notable items... == Tuesday == * MediaWiki deploy ** group1 to 1.24wmf10: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites) ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf10 * The In other projects sidebar Beta Feature will be enabled. ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar == Wednesday == * The updated Android Wikipedia app will be released via Google Play == Thursday == * MediaWiki deploy ** group2 to 1.24wmf10 (all Wikipedias) ** group0 to 1.24wmf11 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki) Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome, -- | Greg GrossmeierGPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @gregA18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Deployment of tablet redirect to mobile interface (action needed)
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: Why not have a hook in mobile frontend and override the message via the WikimediaMessages extension? BTW, I don't think WikimediaMessages is entirely working as expected lately. See also: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65514 -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Upcoming changes to GuidedTour extension
Hi all, This is just a heads up that there are some design changes to the look-and-feel of guided tours,[1] as well as some backend changes relevant to people who've written their own tours. Design aspects that are changing, in no particular order... - Animations! Guiders that point at something will now animate using CSS. We really hope this will make guiders more pleasurable and easy to use. Tour authors will be able to turn this off if they want, and it will not animate if the guider is not above the fold already. - Button styles: we removed deprecated button classes and now use the mw.ui progressive class by default. We also added styles for a quiet button.[2] - The pokey, i.e. the triangle shape which points at stuff: this is now made in HTML/CSS instead of using images, and is smaller. - Border styles and shadows: we're making these less bold. Now that guiders animate they should stand out more, so heavy shadows/borders are less necessary. GuidedTour's backend has also undergone a major refactor, which is close to being merged. This is described in full at the commit, which is just waiting on us to update logging: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/116228/ The TL;DR is that you will not have to rewrite your tours for compatibility. However, for new tours, we now support non-linear progressions and other features. This means that we can do things like wait to trigger tour steps based on user actions (like asking to Save after a user types in VisualEditor). As far as I know,[3] the following wikis have local guided tours which could be updated: - Commons - English Wikipedia - Farsi Wikipedia - German Wikipedia - Portuguese Wikipedia - Wikidata I'm going to reach out to some tour writers personally to make sure they know about this, but any help you can provide would be good. 1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GuidedTour 2. Example is no thanks in: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_2014-04-16_of_anonymous_editor_acquisition_pre-edit_tour.png 3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:GuidedTour_usage -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] user ID no longer visible in user preferences
Hi all, This is prior notice that, per bug 58626,[1] the user ID number will no longer be visible in user preferences.[2] User ID is public information, and will continue to be accessible via the API or Special:Redirect. However, since user IDs are only relevant for technical purposes, there's really no reason the average non-technical user needs access via Preferences. I'm sure this will get added to Tech News, if it hasn't already. 1. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58626 2. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132916/ -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Remember my login preference removed
Hey all, This is just a prior notice that with the merge of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/94614/ we've removed the preference for Remember my login from your Special:Preferences. This preference was removed because it is redundant to the Remember me checkbox on the login form. This is also documented at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52342 This will show up next week, first to mediawiki.org and test wikis Monday, Tuesday to all non-Wikipedias, and Thursday to all Wikipedias. Thanks to all the volunteers and staff who time to code/review/test this. :-) Thank you, -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Typography update to Vector in core
Hey all, I wanted to give people an extra notice that we're updating the default typography across all Wikimedia sites, for users of the Vector skin. This was also mentioned in the last Tech News edition, and announced by Greg as part of the deployment roadmap. This will happen in the following order: 1. Test wikis and mediawiki.org tomorrow. That's Thursday, March 27th. 2. Non-Wikipedia projects on Tuesday, April 11th. 3. All Wikipedias on Thursday April 3rd. If people have questions, there is a summary of the changes and an extensive FAQ at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh. There will also be a post at blog.wikimedia.org tomorrow morning, and we have other messages to go out on-wiki. Wikitech-l subscribers: you may remember an extensive recent thread that mostly debated the use of non-free fonts like Helvetica Neue and Georgia as the primary fonts in the new font-family settings. We took this feedback to heart. Thanks to patches/testing led by Ryan Kaldari and Vibha Bamba, we released a new version a couple weeks ago, which puts a set of fine FOSS fonts first (say that ten times fast). For the curious, the relevant patch is gerrit 120978. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Engineering] Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of March 24th
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder ssny...@wikimedia.org wrote: I strongly recommend requesting watchlist notices on the larger projects, set to run for at least a few days before and after the deployment. That's less disruptive than a CentralNotice banner, and it will reach many of the active users (the users who are most likely to be fielding all the questions about the change). This is a easy request to fulfill... except for the translation issue. Do you just mean English? Or the larger versions across languages? I can do an English watchlist notice on our larger projects, but have never gotten these translated before. Feel free to advise off-list. I'll go ahead and charge forward with an English-language watchlist notice to run at least a week before the change is live on most Wikimedia projects. Erica, Jan, and others who do outreach to non-English communities may be able to help as well. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of March 24th
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: * As a part of the MediaWiki rollout the Typography Refresh beta feature will move from VectorBeta extension/Beta Feature to the Vector skin in MediaWiki core. This effectively updates the default skin for all users with improved readability. ** See the summary of changes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh#Summary_of_changes ** This will roll out with the 1.23wmf20 branch mentioned above, which means it will gradually roll out to all wikis following the normal progression (testwikis mediawiki.org on Thursday - non-wikipedias (eg Commons etc) on Tuesday - All wikis following Thursday). So folks know, other than publishing on Wikitech Deployments page, in Tech News, and these mailing lists, our communication plans include the following: 1. A MassMessage before the fact to Village Pumps, separate from Tech News and pointing to the translated FAQ 2. An article in the English Wikipedia Signpost 3. A short blog post on blog.wikimedia.org If there are other things you think we should be doing, please speak up. The overkill message of last resort is to use a CentralNotice banner, though that seems a little silly to me just to update fonts. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Guided Tours enabled on more wikis
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Edinwiki edinw...@gmail.com wrote: I translated the items for bswiki a few days ago. When should we expect this to get enabled? We can enable all of the newly-translated wikis in about two weeks. I'll let you all know via this list when we pick an exact date. :) Normally we could just do this next week right away, but there is a freeze on new software deployments since one day is a holiday in the U.S. and there are two days where many people will be at the MediaWiki architecture summit. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Guided Tours enabled on more wikis
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Nasir Khan nasir8...@gmail.com wrote: I want enable this featurr in Bengali wikipedia(bn). Where should I submit this request? And where can I translate the strings? As long as most (preferably all) of the strings for Guided Tour are translated via translatewiki.net, we can enable the feature. Once that's done, feel free to just email me or file a request in Bugzilla.[1] 1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Guided Tours enabled on more wikis
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Edinwiki edinw...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to enable this also on bswiki? Absolutely. We just need it translated. https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translategroup=ext-guidedtourfilter=%21translatedlanguage=bsaction=translate -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Small interface change to be aware of
Hi all, Just a quick note that per bug 54910, the wording of the left-hand sidebar will change from Toolbox to Tools in English, and may require a retranslation in other languages. As stated on the bug, we're trying to use a simpler, less anachronistic name for the section. In some non-English languages, such as German's Werkzeuge, the word was already translated to Tools. In others, such as French's Boîte à outils, it was literally translated to more awkward phrases meaning box of tools. I missed the deadline for the latest edition of Tech News, so this will go out to all Village Pumps with the next edition, after this change goes live. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Please create less user annoyance
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Romaine Wiki romaine_w...@yahoo.comwrote: In the past week a software change was executed which was in use by many users which gave negative responses as users do not know how to restore it for themselves. I understand that technical changes are needed and can't be prevented, but what can be prevented is they height of the annoyance. As technical ambassador I can explain why things change, but as I have not all the know how I was unable to deliver the code for the users vector.css (or common/vector.js) to repair the issue. I would suggest that developers/tech/everyone is aware of the consequences changes have for local users who daily have to deal with changes in the software. I am not sure if it is workable, but I still want to suggest: please have a page (or something) where I as tech ambassador or users can read how the change in the software can be restored in the personal settings. It happens too much that end users are much annoyed by changes while there is no direct answer for how to restore it in the common.css or .js, while such is possible. Romaine Hi Romaine, When giving feedback like this, it really helps to be specific about which issue you're talking about. Technical changes in MediaWiki can come from a large number of people, including: local site sysops, volunteer MediaWiki core or extension developers, Wikimedia Foundation technical staff, chapter technical staff, and others I may be forgetting. If you don't say what change we're talking about, the feedback is meaningless, because no one knows who it is addressed to. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: New make your first edit guided tour for VE
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org Date: Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:17 PM Subject: New make your first edit guided tour for VE To: WMF Editor Engagement Team e...@lists.wikimedia.org As promised,[1] today we deployed a guided tour that shows new users how to make their first edit using VisualEditor. This tour is a complement to the similar one we created, which shows users how to use the basic functions of the wikitext editor. Append ?tour=firsteditve to any article URL (where guided tours are available) to see it in action, like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornate_Cowfish?tour=firsteditve or https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphaenogaster_fallax?tour=firsteditve There are some bugs to iron out (like https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54352) and translations are partially complete at best, but this is one more step toward finalizing the GettingStarted onboarding experience for newly-registered editors, and rolling out across language editions of Wikipedia. For reference, this is one of the tours we will be delivering to basically all new editors in our next A/B test of GettingStarted.[2] -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ 1. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ee/2013-September/000659.html 2. mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians#Proposed -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Updates to guided tours: new languages and a new first edit tour.
Awesome! One more step toward being able to release GettingStarted and Guided Tours fully on Swedish Wikipedia. :) On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Jan Ainali jan.ain...@wikimedia.se wrote: I found it :) (and translated it). *Med vänliga hälsningar, Jan Ainali* Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverigehttp://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida 0729 - 67 29 48 2013/9/6 Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Jan Ainali jan.ain...@wikimedia.sewrote: 2013/9/6 Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org A new tour! In support of our work onboarding new Wikipedians,[2] we've launched a general make your first edit tour. Try it by appending ?tour=firstedit to an article URL.[3] This tour is brand new, and probably needs translation for non-English speakers. Yes, where do you find the text to translate the firstedit tour? It should be updated as translation strings on translatewiki. I'm seeing it as untranslated there now. (There's no rush FYI, since it's not getting delivered to users yet automatically in non-en wikis, unless someone adds the tour link to a common URL, like to the Sandbox.) -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Help translate guided tours
Hey everyone, I periodically try to check in on extensions my team maintains, to see if there are newly complete translations which can help us deploy on non-English wikis. I noticed that for GuidedTour,[1] Hebrew and Malay are complete now, while Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic are very close to being done (96%). If someone can finish translations in these languages, we can add guided tours to zhwiki, svwiki, jawiki, and arwiki on Thursday during our normal deployment window. We'll definitely add it to hewiki and mswiki. For those not familiar with it, Extension:GuidedTour lets either software developers or local admins create tooltip-based interactive tours of any feature or process on a wiki. If you want, you can actually create tours just like gadgets. There's more documentation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GuidedTour -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ 1. https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3AMessageGroupStatsx=Dgroup=ext-guidedtoursuppressempty=1language= ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Help translate guided tours
Only one hour later, and we've got Catalan, Spanish, and Swedish complete too. Thanks Jan and Quim! You rock. On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hey everyone, I periodically try to check in on extensions my team maintains, to see if there are newly complete translations which can help us deploy on non-English wikis. I noticed that for GuidedTour,[1] Hebrew and Malay are complete now, while Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic are very close to being done (96%). If someone can finish translations in these languages, we can add guided tours to zhwiki, svwiki, jawiki, and arwiki on Thursday during our normal deployment window. We'll definitely add it to hewiki and mswiki. For those not familiar with it, Extension:GuidedTour lets either software developers or local admins create tooltip-based interactive tours of any feature or process on a wiki. If you want, you can actually create tours just like gadgets. There's more documentation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GuidedTour -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ 1. https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3AMessageGroupStatsx=Dgroup=ext-guidedtoursuppressempty=1language= -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] SUL (Single User Login) deploy to all wikis on Thursday July 11th
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: Summary: On Thursday July 11th we will be enabling a new centralized login service to make the login experience for users more streamlined. More detail: To address the shortcomings of the current Single User Login (SUL) system, the Platform team is making significant changes to the way that CentralAuth logs users into other wikis on login: * Users will be logged into a new, centralized domain when they login to any public WMF wiki with a global account. This domain is login.wikimedia.org * Global accounts will no longer see the Login Success page after login, instead they will be redirected back the article where they came from. On the article page, we will transparently attempt to login the user to all of the sister projects, instead of relying on the images on the login success page. * All of the public WMF wikis will use the central wiki to check anonymous user's logged-in status, and transparently log the user in if they are centrally logged in. (Thanks to Chris Steipp for the above language.) You can see the full rollout plan for this here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Auth_systems/SUL2#Rollout_Plan Added to the next edition of Tech News. To avoid having users think login is broken or there's a security issue, we should probably make sure special Village Pump announcements go out where we can. -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: New designs for account creation and login rolling out gradually to all projects
Hey all, Per this email I sent last week, we're shooting to set the new account creation and login designs as the defaults for all remaining wikis soon. For the wikis that have already gotten the new version, listed below, there are already announcements and some fixups to local MediaWiki messages. If you have questions about how to try this out now on your wiki, including if you see red links that need fixing, there is comprehensive documentation at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience/Testing(I marked it as historical since for wikis that have it as default, it is out of date, however, you can still use these instructions for testing on any other project.) -- Forwarded message -- From: Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:05 PM Subject: New designs for account creation and login rolling out gradually to all projects To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi everyone, Per our blog post last month,[1] we've been testing redesigns for account creation and login across the projects. We've been doing so on an opt-in basis, but we've dealt with any major bugs and translations are complete for quite a few languages. Starting tomorrow and barring any last minute hiccups, we're going to start rolling out the new designs. Right now we're limiting it to about 30 projects, including the following... - Wikipedia in 21 languages, including English, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, Korean, Czech, Swedish, and others. - In English: Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wiktionary, and Wikiquote. - Wikimedia Commons - Wikidata - Meta - MediaWiki .org There are still local customizations that will need to be made in many of these, but they are the kind of thing that doesn't require a developer to do, just edits to the wiki. Look for announcements soon on your local Village Pump equivalent for more info, or check out our testing documentation.[2] I'll be around to help any of these wikis that don't have an admin handy to make requested changes. The remaining projects we have held off on because there are localizations still to be completed (on translatewiki) or there are problems with localizations already finished. Since the work of localizations is never 100% complete however, we are putting out a hard *deadline of June 5th*, after which we'll be turning on the forms for all projects, in all languages. If you're interested in learning more about which wikis in particular need help, please email me off-list or get in touch via my user talk page anywhere. Please speak up if you have any questions. You can still try these new forms on any Wikimedia project via the method mentioned in the two links below... 1. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/25/try-new-login-accountcreation/ 2. mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience/Testing -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ P.S. Sorry if there are odd linebreaks in this message. Has anyone figured out how to avoid this in Gmail? -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: Saturday: Weekend Testing Americas focusing on the new Account creation UX
For more context: This is a group of volunteers who are also very experienced software QA testers. We're going to be hunting for bugs in the new design of login and account creation on Wikimedia Labs. The next step, after that testing and any relevant bug fixing, is to enable the new look on an opt-in basis via a URL parameter, across the wikis. This will mean that editors will have the opportunity to test the new design on their home wiki and ensure there are no further bugs or problems with the localization, before we enable the changes as defaults. Look for a blog post and testing instructions aimed specifically at Wikimedians in the following week or two. I'll be sure to post here as well, of course. On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Please promote this activity in your projects, also to get your communities aware of the upcoming Account creation UX. Thank you! Original Message Subject: Saturday: Weekend Testing Americas focusing on the new Account creation UX Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:26:08 -0700 From: Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.**orgwikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org You are invited to join the Weekend Testing Americas session on the new Account creation user experience: Saturday, April 6, 2013 5pm UTC - 1pm EDT - 10am PDT. http://weekendtesting.com/**archives/2883http://weekendtesting.com/archives/2883 http://www.timeanddate.com/**worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=**20130406T1700http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130406T1700 We will play with the new Account creation user experience for Wikimedia and MediaWiki sites, and also with the new Login user experience. Check the full test plan: https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/QA/WTA_ACUX_Test_Plan_**Apr_6https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/WTA_ACUX_Test_Plan_Apr_6 This event is also part of QA weekly goals. Needless to say, you are also invited to our upcoming activities. https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/QA/Weekly_goalshttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Weekly_goals -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgilhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil __**_ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.**wikimedia.orgWikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-**ambassadorshttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
