[Wikitech-l] Consolidating dashboards and data downloads on analytics.wikimedia.org

Hello! We would like to announce http://analytics.wikimedia.org the domain where the analytics team hopes to consolidate dashboards and data downloads (a work in progress) We have two dashboards to announce with data we hope you find interesting: 1. The new traffic reports with browser data for

[Wikitech-l] The revision scoring weekly update

Hi folks, This is the 8th weekly update for the revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. *New developments:* - ORES extension got deployed in Persian Wikipedia. [1] Give it a try! [2] - Article quality model ("wp10" model) is now working for Russian Wikipedia.

[Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-announce] Second release candidate for 1.27 (1.27.0-rc.1)

Hello everyone, I am happy to announce the availability of the second release candidate of the new MediaWiki 1.27 series! AuthManager has been backported!!! Since the first release candidate support for the new authentication/ authorization framework (AuthManager) was merged from master. This is

[Wikitech-l] Request for Feedback: Wikipedia.org to add mobile app download badges

Hello, The Discovery Portal team would like to add Wikipedia app download badges near the bottom of the wikipedia.org portal page and we're looking for your feedback. These new app badges will link to a free download of t

[Wikitech-l] Finishing "Cases" part of Code of Conduct

People are now working to conclude the "Code of Conduct/Cases" part of the draft Code of Conduct: * Section: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Page:_Code_of_Conduct.2FCases * Talk: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft * Alternatively, you can provide ano

[Wikitech-l] Exploring VP9 as a progressive still image codec

I spent some time between projects today exploring the idea of progressive image decoding using the VP9 video codec -- sort of a mashup of progressive JPEG and WebP. Like a progressive JPEG, each resolution step (a separate frame of the "video") encodes only the differences from the previous resol

Re: [Wikitech-l] Exploring VP9 as a progressive still image codec

This is really cool Brion. Clever idea and it could be really beneficial. It seems like something that might see even more benefits if native support was baked into the browser instead of implementing it as a sort of javascript hack, but it might be a good enough hack to be worthwhile even without