[Wikitech-l] Design statement of purpose reviewed

2016-12-15 Thread Pau Giner
Hi all, Some months ago we started to define a statement of purpose for design at Wikimedia. We shared our initial iteration and got useful feedback. Based on that feedback, we have updated a new version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design/Statement_of_purpose Please, feel free to check the up

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Design] Design statement of purpose reviewed

2016-12-15 Thread Arthur Richards
Thank you Pau, and to all of the folks involved in the process. In addition to the UX designers, design researchers, UX engineers, and brand folks in communications, the Team Practices Group and Community Liaisons were intimately involved. Internal stakeholders and folks from the broader community

[Wikitech-l] Communication about proposed and planned UI changes

2016-12-15 Thread Pine W
(Now forking this from the "Changes in colors of user interface" thread.) Hi Adam, Thanks for your email. I don't think that our interface evolves particularly rapidly, our interface makes me feel like it's 2003 again. I'd like to have our interface's usability and our workflows be much easier f

Re: [Wikitech-l] Arbitrary Wikidata querying

2016-12-15 Thread MZMcBride
Thank you for this e-mail. It was informative. Stas Malyshev wrote: >No, and there are tricky parts there. Consider >https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735712. Yes, Lex Luthor held the office >of the President of the USA. In a fictional universe, of course. But the >naive query - every Wikidata item w

[Wikitech-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes of 2016!

2016-12-15 Thread Danny Horn
Hi everyone, The Community Tech team is happy to announce the top 10 wishes from the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey! More than 1,100 people participated in the survey this year -- proposing, discussing and voting on 265 ideas. There was a two-week period in November to submit and discuss proposal

Re: [Wikitech-l] Arbitrary Wikidata querying

2016-12-15 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > Sure, but I'm not really worried about potential false positives. I'm > worried that we're building a giant write-only data store. Fortunately, we are not doing that. >> Unless you're talking about pulling a small set of values, in which case >> Lua/templates are probably the best venue. >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Communication about proposed and planned UI changes

2016-12-15 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Pine W wrote: > My proposal would be that proposed UI changes which affect large > proportions of the user base should be announced 3 months in advance. > This would provide plenty of opportunity for discussion, > synchronization, and testing of proposed changes.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Communication about proposed and planned UI changes

2016-12-15 Thread rupert THURNER
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 6:50 AM, Tyler Romeo wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Pine W wrote: > > > My proposal would be that proposed UI changes which affect large > > proportions of the user base should be announced 3 months in advance. > > This would provide plenty of opportunity for d

Re: [Wikitech-l] Arbitrary Wikidata querying

2016-12-15 Thread Eran Rosenthal
TL;DR: The ONLY practical solution today it to use Lua. This sucks,but it works and scale well [in WP sense] - hewiki uses it heavily in infoboxs - to show list of actors in movies, or musical band members etc. Long version: Actually, specifically for list of presidents you don't need bot. Here is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Arbitrary Wikidata querying

2016-12-15 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > Actually, specifically for list of presidents you don't need bot. Yeah, you are right, I was thinking about going through query route, but if your list is contained in one property (like Q30/P6) then using Lua is just fine. It's not always the case (e.g. "list of all movies where Brad Pitt

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimedia movement strategy process (#1!)

2016-12-15 Thread Pine W
Forwarding Katherine's email because this may also be of interest to technical audiences and Wikimedia affiliates who don't subscribe to Wikimedia-l. Also including Research-l because the strategy process will likely be influenced by existing research, and may involve new research initiatives. Pin

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2016-12-14 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

2016-12-15 Thread Gergo Tisza
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Grace Gellerman wrote: > * Eileen published our first real CiviCRM extension to > https://civicrm.org/extensions/unsubscribe-email-data-entry-screen > ** existing extensions are all actually Drupal modules, not publicized > except in gerrit > ** hope more of our