Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikitech-l] CSS Regressions

2014-03-10 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I believe the Java Selenium driver can take screenshots. No idea about performing comparisons. Kaldari On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > I just wondered if anyone doing MediaWiki development had any > experience in catching CSS regressions? > > We have had a few issues recen

Re: [WikimediaMobile] reviewing the new licensing display in mobile

2014-03-27 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Finc wrote: > >> Moving to mobile-l >> >> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Ryan Kaldari >> wrote: >> > Whenever someone decides to review the new licensing stuff in mobile, >> let me >> > know. It requires updating both MobileFrontend and Wikimedi

[WikimediaMobile] mobile beta labs unreachable

2014-03-31 Thread Ryan Kaldari
WMF projects). Bug filed: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63315 Ryan Kaldari ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

[WikimediaMobile] Following up on the mysterious bad filename bug (62241)

2014-04-02 Thread Ryan Kaldari
o the UploadBase class to decipher it. If you have any questions about this, please let me know by the end of today. Ryan Kaldari ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

[WikimediaMobile] client-side storage plug-ins (opinions needed)

2014-05-05 Thread Ryan Kaldari
pinions on moving forward on this? Should mobile have it's own lightweight plug-in, should we modify jStorage in core so that it meets our requirements, or should we adopt Storer and push for it to replace jStorage in core? Ryan Kaldari ___ Mobile-l mail

Re: [WikimediaMobile] client-side storage plug-ins (opinions needed)

2014-05-06 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Shahyar just wrote a slimmed down version of Storer, so I think I'll work on collaborating with him rather than persuing our own solution. No sense having 3 different plug-ins for doing the same thing. Ryan On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > Recently, I decided to

[WikimediaMobile] micro-contributions on mobile via wikidata

2014-05-21 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Check out http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/ Most of these "games" would be great in a mobile context. Ryan Kaldari ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

[WikimediaMobile] Funding for development of WikiTrack mobile app approved

2014-06-09 Thread Ryan Kaldari
This is essentially an app that gives you a mobile-friendly interface for tracking Recent Changes, Watchlist Changes, and Contributions on Wikipedia projects. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/WikiTrack for more information. Ryan Kaldari

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Deployment of tablet redirect to mobile interface (action needed)

2014-06-18 Thread Ryan Kaldari
s, but the exemption was removed. Ryan Kaldari On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) > wrote: > >> Which I never asked about. Steven, you clearly don't know the answer to >> my question, but

[WikimediaMobile] Fwd: Results of mobile spike to investigate Knockoff-Tassembly templating system

2014-06-30 Thread Ryan Kaldari
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library/Knockoff_-_Tassembly/Mobile_spike If anyone has comments, feel free to reply with them. Ryan Kaldari ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/ma

[WikimediaMobile] smarter SVG compression

2014-07-01 Thread Ryan Kaldari
ciency. They do, however, allow our SVG files to retain a lot of legitimately useful information. Ryan Kaldari ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

Re: [WikimediaMobile] smarter SVG compression

2014-07-02 Thread Ryan Kaldari
hooks. Ryan Kaldari On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > I've been complaining lately about how our practice of running SVGs for > the mobile interface through SVGO to minimize them causes lots of problems: > * Stripping the XML declaration breaks renderi

Re: [WikimediaMobile] lazy-loading spike results

2014-07-28 Thread Ryan Kaldari
-lazy-load times varied by up to 1 second. Lazy-load times varied by over 2 seconds. So even though the fastest load times were from lazy-loading, so were the slowest. For small articles, the load times were very consistent for both load types. Ryan Kaldari On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:02 PM,

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Quicker = more edits on mobile

2014-09-26 Thread Ryan Kaldari
- 0.2%) New users post A-B test successful save events (15 days) B: 8530 A: 8529 (17059 saves in both groups, 1 more in group B - 0%) Ryan Kaldari On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > Ar badly named events > 'save' is actually hitting the preview button (th

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Analytics] Reportcards

2014-10-15 Thread Ryan Kaldari
There are other dashboards too, like http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/dashboards/enwiki-features# and http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/dashboards/enwiki-metrics# On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Dan Andreescu wrote: > Just curious... I just discovered http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/ which >> someho

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Analytics] Reportcards

2014-10-15 Thread Ryan Kaldari
There's a nice directory of the various dashboards and stats pages at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Statistics. ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Investigate expanding WikiGrok scope (Biographies)

2014-10-17 Thread Ryan Kaldari
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Bahodir Mansurov wrote: > *For Actors* > > * Was this person a [cast member, role] in this [movie, TV show]? > > 1) How would we generate potential claims of this type? > Get the list of titles from > http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_properties/Works

Re: [WikimediaMobile] MediaViewer on mobile

2014-10-20 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I can pan the zoomed image in Mobile Safari. Which browser are you using? Might be worth filing a bug for. On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Dan Garry wrote: > For clarity, this is referring to mobile web. We currently have no picture > displayer feature in the apps. > > Thanks, > Dan > > On 20

[WikimediaMobile] early WikiGrok data analysis

2014-10-22 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I took a look at the early data from the WikiGrok prototypes. None of this data is being posted to Wikidata yet since we want to get an idea of the quality level before we do anything with it. The bad news is we have very little data so far, the good news is that the response we do have are very hi

[WikimediaMobile] Dip in mobile beta opt-in

2014-11-03 Thread Ryan Kaldari
http://mobile-reportcard.wmflabs.org/#other-graphs-tab Around the beginning of October our beta opt-in level declined significantly and has stayed at the new level. Did we change the UI? Just curious. Kaldari ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wik

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Using jsbeautify in MobileFrontend

2014-11-21 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Personally, I like hideOverlay( this.stack[0].overlay ); Having spaces inside parentheses makes sense since parameters are usually words or word-like and it's easier to read words when they have spaces around them. Keys inside brackets are often just numbers, which I don't think really benefit fro

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Using jsbeautify in MobileFrontend

2014-11-21 Thread Ryan Kaldari
then tools like jsbeautify will > have to be adapted to respect that. > > All in favour? > > > On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Ryan Kaldari > wrote: > > Personally, I like hideOverlay( this.stack[0].overlay ); > > > > Having spaces inside parentheses makes s

Re: [WikimediaMobile] WG response table

2014-12-03 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Since we are still supporting WikiGrok version A for the time being, we will need to have a 'correct' column that is boolean. Although we will never push claims that have correct set to 'false', we may use such entries to evaluate whether 'true' entries should be pushed or not. For example, if ther

Re: [WikimediaMobile] WG response table

2014-12-03 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Yes, but part of that is deciding whether or not to push stuff. We can double-check with Maryana, but that's what I would recommend. On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Max Semenik wrote: > Didn't we decide that this table is only for actually pushing stuff? > > On Wed, Dec 3, 20

Re: [WikimediaMobile] WG response table

2014-12-03 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Yes, but part of that is deciding whether or not to push stuff. We can double-check with Maryana, but that's what I would recommend. On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Max Semenik wrote: > Didn't we decide that this table is only for actually pushing stuff? > > On Wed, Dec 3, 20

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Local instance with Wikidata?

2014-12-11 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I'll look into this further and see if there's some way to hack a fake ID into articles. On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > > Is there any easy way to store wikidata id inside my local pages? > Ideally I want to stop using: > > http://localhost:8080/wiki/Albert_Einstein?wikidata

[WikimediaMobile] WikiGrok test in stable now live

2014-12-11 Thread Ryan Kaldari
users.2C_en.wiki The test officially went live at 00:41 UTC (20141212004100). We will turn it off next Thursday. Ryan Kaldari ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

Re: [WikimediaMobile] WikiGrok test in stable now live

2014-12-11 Thread Ryan Kaldari
All devices with a screen width less than 768 pixels are eligible. There is a spike card in the current mobile web development iteration to investigate enabling it for tablets as well: https://trello.com/c/VYQxLlqP/14-spike-1-hour-investigate-supporting-wikigrok-on-tablet Kaldari On Thu, Dec 11,

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Local instance with Wikidata?

2014-12-11 Thread Ryan Kaldari
, you get a local Wikidata repo and client, so you could theoretically populate your own Wikidata with test data, but I imagine that would be a bit tedious. Maybe Max has some other ideas. Kaldari On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > > I'll look into this further and se

Re: [WikimediaMobile] WikiGrok test in stable now live

2014-12-12 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Maryana Pinchuk wrote: > w00t! Congrats, all, and thanks for overcoming all the obstacles to get this > live :) > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: >> >> After a few false starts, the WikiGrok test in stable has finally been >> activated

[WikimediaMobile] experimental error reporting interface for mobile

2014-12-29 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Thanks to finally having some time to write code during the holiday slow-down, I put together a little feature prototype as a research project: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/182082 The feature is just a simple interface for reporting errors on article pages (similar to what exists on the Span

Re: [WikimediaMobile] experimental error reporting interface for mobile

2014-12-29 Thread Ryan Kaldari
nal to noise ratio, as well as having an interstitial that encourages the user to fix the error themselves rather than reporting it. Kaldari On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Dan Garry wrote: > Is there a test instance anywhere for us to test this? > > Thanks, > Dan > > O

Re: [WikimediaMobile] experimental error reporting interface for mobile

2014-12-30 Thread Ryan Kaldari
t reports that are too short. That's one > thing you might consider adding to make this more useful/effective. > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Ryan Kaldari > wrote: > >> No, there is no reliable test interface for it until (if) the code is >> merged. >> >

Re: [WikimediaMobile] trouble running browsers tests

2015-01-23 Thread Ryan Kaldari
> that the very first test runs in the desktop site not mobile. (Fix @ >> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/186320 - please someone merge) >> >> It's essential the step "I am using the mobile site" is present in the >> tests, as otherwise the test will run on the d

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Web] WikiGrok code review session

2015-02-19 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I think doing clean-up might be premature as the WikiGrok UI may still have some significant UI changes coming soon. We had a meeting with Leila last week before I left town and discussed some challenges with implementing a usable aggregation model for WikiGrok version B. The main issue is that it

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Readability of the first sentence on Wikipedia articles

2015-03-07 Thread Ryan Kaldari
im losing his founder rights.[1][2] I would prefer that WMF Design emulate the relationship with the community that WMF Legal has cultivated rather than the relationship that Jimmy has cultivated. Let's actually talk to the community about content issues rather than always trying to work aro

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Readability of the first sentence on Wikipedia articles

2015-03-09 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Call me old-fashioned, but I would really hate to see the lead sentences of Wikipedia articles auto-generated by a program. Our text is dry and monotonous enough as it is :) On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Jane Darnell wrote: > I agree with Magnus that it should be Wikidata to the rescue for pro

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Readability of the first sentence on Wikipedia articles

2015-03-09 Thread Ryan Kaldari
com/interactive/2015/03/08/opinion/sunday/algorithm-human-quiz.html?_r=0 > > On Mar 9, 2015, at 2:17 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > > Call me old-fashioned, but I would really hate to see the lead sentences > of Wikipedia articles auto-generated by a program. Our text is dry and > mon

[WikimediaMobile] discussions with Wikidata community about WikiGrok edits

2015-03-23 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I've initiated discussion with the Wikidata community about having WikiGrok make edits to Wikidata. Here are the relevant pages if you want to follow along: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Help_verify_WikiGrok_data_before_bot_starts_running https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikida

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Gather 1.26wmf3 deployment

2015-04-29 Thread Ryan Kaldari
You can create prettier log lists with something like: git log --pretty=format:'%Cblue%h %Cgreen%cd %Cred%cr %Creset%s' --date=short -20 (hat tip to Joaquin for telling me this trick originally) On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Rob Moen wrote: > Here is a crude list of the changes that went out

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Skynet is winning the battle on IRC

2015-04-30 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I would favor having the bots on a separate channel as well. On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Brian Gerstle wrote: > I think the point is that it's unrealistic to expect people to handle this > on the "client side" and they should "opt in" for those > notifications/messages by joining that chann

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Removing upload interface code from MobileFrontend

2015-05-11 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I think killing our uploading interface is a probably a good idea (assuming maintaining it isn't going to be a priority any time soon). However, I think that if we kill it, we should at least clean up Special:Upload so that it works OK in Minerva (shouldn't take much work). This will give 3rd party

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Removing upload interface code from MobileFrontend

2015-05-12 Thread Ryan Kaldari
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:26 AM, Jon Robson wrote: > Note: Special:Upload currently works on mobile (well any device that > supports it). Not sure what work is seen as required there... > There are a couple things that need to be fixed on Special:Upload before it's ready for prime-time: * The de

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Extension Responsibility

2015-07-21 Thread Ryan Kaldari
If the MultimediaViewer extension is transferred to Editing (i.e. Multimedia), TimedMediaHandler should probably go with it, as they are both mainly for presenting media within pages. On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Adam Baso wrote: > Hi all - > > I've been reviewing a list of extensions with R

Re: [WikimediaMobile] What people think about Wikidata descriptions in search on mobile web beta, and a question about "arbitrary access" of Wikidata data

2015-08-21 Thread Ryan Kaldari
If the way to 'edit' the autodescription is by changing the claims for the item, I support the idea. I would oppose, however, the autodescription being another text field you can edit directly as I think this would be very confusing for Wikidata editors, as each item would effectively just have