[Wikitech-l] Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2018-02-05

[Chris Koerner]

Heya,

Below you'll find the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the
week starting 2018-02-05.

As always, feedback and questions welcome.


== Discussions ==

=== Search ===
* Gehel took on the task of porting elasticsearch metrics to Prometheus [0]
* Erik investigated a replacement for our automated relevance labeling and
created a potential summer of code task [1]

== Other Noteworthy Stuff  ==
* Trey deployed Cyrillic/Latin transliteration (using Language Converter
[2]) for Crimean Tatar–language wikis.[3]

== Did you know? ==
* There are an estimated 7,000+ languages [4] spoken or signed in the
world. Over 800 of them are found in Papua New Guinea, [5] making it the
most linguistically diverse place on earth. The most widely used language
of PNG is Tok Pisin, [6] which is a creole language, [7] which is a
language derived from a mixture of other languages. Tok Pisin takes much of
its vocabulary from English, but also from German, Malay, Portuguese and
local Austronesian languages.

[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181627
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186742
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Language_conversion
[3] https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%C5%9F_Saife
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_languages#Published_lists
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Papua_New_Guinea
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tok_Pisin
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_language

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[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R


Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikitech-l] Upstream is redesigning dashboard in gerrit - Any feedback?

[Paladox]

Hi, upstream are currently in the process of redesigning polygerrit to look 
more like [1].
Upstream have started to redesign the dashboard which was recently done, but 
upstream are now redesgning it again due to feedback that it looked old and not 
modern. See task https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=8362

Im writing this task as i've seen tasks related to improvements to gerrit's ui 
being filled (against gwtui).
Does anyone have any feedback?
We can forward this upstream as they are listening to everyone's feedback.
This is your perfect chance to get your feedback in so it could possibly be 
done in the gerrit 2.16 / 3.0 release.



[1] 
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17q-ygGioZi_5DITLyELa8oaOr22e15AHy8cq6XTZ0nY/edit#slide=id.g27f16618ec_0_139


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[Wikitech-l] Timeless grant resubmission

[Isarra Yos]

Hey all,

As many of you know, the Timeless skin was deployed for testing across 
all Wikimedia projects in late November last year. I submitted a Project 
Grant proposal at the time seeking funding to more actively support for 
this deployment as well as enable further development based on user 
feedback and the bugs that have been coming up in practice, but the 
proposal was ultimately vetoed in the late stages due to objections from 
WMF staff.


It is my understanding that these objections have since been withdrawn, 
and based on what happened, I have been recommended by relevant WMF 
staff to resubmit the proposal in the subsequent, now current, round of 
Project Grants. I have done this, and would like to invite anyone 
interested in this project to comment (again, even) on the current 
proposal, or ask any questions you might have on the talkpage. The 
current proposal can be found here: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Isarra/Timeless:_Post-deployment_support


As for some general background:

If you don't know me, I'm Isarra, a volunteer MediaWiki developer and 
designer, and a previous WMF grantee on another project, WikiProject X. 
I originally created the Timeless skin itself as a volunteer project for 
a Wikimedia Tech Talk in 2015; after that the skin just sort of sat 
there being ignored for the better part of 2016, and then Paladox found 
it, filed a bug saying it should be deployed to Wikimedia, and it turned 
out a lot of people agreed with him and we spent most of 2017 pushing it 
through various processes, reviews, and fixes to be deployed 
(https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154371).


If you haven't and would like to try out Timeless, you can enable it in 
your preferences under Appearance > Skin, or just add ?useskin=timeless 
to the end of most page URLs to see what that page looks like in Timeless.


Thanks,

Isarra

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[Wikitech-l] Gerrit login oddities

[Chad]

Hi,

Two quick things:

* First, we updated the cookie path for Gerrit to enable sharing
authentication with the new Gitiles repo browser--for most users this has
been transparent but a few people have reported problems with being able to
login. If this happens, try clearing out any cookies you have for
gerrit.wikimedia.org and try logging in anew.

* Second: if you use Lastpass for your password management...the update
last week seems to have added autocomplete="off" to the login form, which
makes the workflow for password managers a little annoying. I'll look into
this further.

<3

-Chad
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[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2018: Call for projects and mentors

[Srishti Sethi]

Hello everyone,

Wikimedia has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer
of Code 2018!

We already have recruited six project ideas and mentors, but we are looking
for a minimum of *14-15 ideas* more, as Google Summer of Code is a neat
platform to bring new developers :) https://www.mediawiki.org/
wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2018

If you are interested in mentoring a project, but not sure what the roles
and responsibilities of a mentor are like, take a look at our guide:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Mentors. Feel free to
propose your own idea, or help by mentoring one of the below listed,
curated from the possible-tech-projects workboard:

   1. Tools for volunteers to make it easier to improve the Wikispeech
   lexicon https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161310
   2. Notification your file was used https://phabricator.wikimedia.
   org/T77154
   3. Notify users about deletion tags being added to pages they created
   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123866
   
   4. Implement HTML e-mail support in MediaWiki
   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T15303
   
   5. Implement Internet Archive BookReader in Commons & Wikisource
   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154100
   
   6. Create tool to generate, track and show metrics for Tech News
   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91335
   
   7. Merge proofread text back into Djvu files
   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59807
   
   8. Allow having an on-wiki ToDo list per user
   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48103
   
   9. Allow contributors to update their own details in tech metrics
   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T60585
   
   10. Convert WikiLove from jQuery UI to OOUI
   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89815
   
   11. Add VisualEditor support to the Quiz extension
   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148972
   
   12. Pywikibot: Implement support for flagged revisions
   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T57081
   

Sidenote: These are only ideas, and we do not encourage students to pick
them unless we have recruited at least two mentors for a project.

We are also participating in Outreachy Round 16 and funding up to two
projects: https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/wikimedia/. Help us
spread the word about Wikimedia's participation in these programs :)

Cheers,
Srishti

-- 
Srishti Sethi
Developer Advocate
Technical Collaboration team
Wikimedia Foundation

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)
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