Sorry for cross-posting!
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 3-4 pm
UTC** on #wikimedia-tech.
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topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over
"who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting:
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Michi (for WMDE’s tech team)
--
Michael F. Schönitzer
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
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Sorry for cross-posting!
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **today, Wednesday 3-4 pm
UTC** on #wikimedia-tech.
The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers,
topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over
"who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting:
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Hope to see you there!
Michi (for WMDE’s tech team)
--
Michael F. Schönitzer
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
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der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Sorry for cross-posting!
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 3-4 pm
UTC** on #wikimedia-tech.
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topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over
"who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting:
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Michi (for WMDE’s tech team)
--
Michael F. Schönitzer
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Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
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Hi everyone.
The Readers web team has recently begun working on exposing issue
templates on the mobile website. [0] Currently, details about issues
with page content are generally hidden on the mobile website. This
leaves readers unaware of the reliability of the pages they are
reading. The goal of this project is to improve awareness of
particular issues within an article on the mobile web. We will do this
by changing the visual styling of page issues.
So far, we have drafted a proposal on the design and implementation of
the project. [1] We were also able to run user testing on the proposed
designs. [2] The tests so far have positive results. Here is a quick
summary of what we learned:
* The new treatment increases awareness of page issues among
participants. This is true particularly when they are in a more
evaluative/critical mode.
* Page issues make sense to readers and they understand how they work
* Readers care about page issues and consider them important
* Readers had overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards Wikipedia
associated with learning about page issues
Our next step would be to start implementing these changes. We wanted
to reach out to you for any concerns, thoughts, and suggestions you
might have before beginning development. Please visit the project page
where we have more information and mockups of how this may look. [1]
Please leave feedback on the talk page. [3]
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Team
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues/Rese…
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
(cross-post)
Dear all,
we are really happy to announce that the new AdvancedSearch interface got
deployed as a beta feature to all wikis just now. [1]
The search has great options to perform advanced queries e.g. by using
keywords like "hastemplate" or "intitle", but often even experienced
editors don't know about it - this is what we found out in a workshop
series on advanced searches in 2016 and this is why we have built the
AdvancedSearch extension. [2]
AdvancedSearch enhances Special:Search through an advanced parameters form.
It serves as an interface for some of the search options that the Wikimedia
Foundation's search team has been implemented over the past years. The way
the interface works, users don't have to know the syntax behind each search
field, but they can learn about it if they want to.
*From small beta to full beta*
The feature already has been a beta feature on deWP, arWP, huWP, faWP and
mediawiki.org for more than 5 months. During this "small beta phase" (=
base version with a set of features, deployed to a few wikis, both ltr and
rtl wikis) support for more search options got added (searches in
categories and sub categories, searches for content in a specific language
in wikis that have the translate extension enabled, searches for subpages
of a page), the way how to select and configure namespaces got improved and
several bugs were fixed.
Everyone is invited to test the now full beta feature!
If you want to give us feedback or if you find a bug, please use the main
feedback page (or file a ticket in phabricator):
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:AdvancedSearch
If you want to learn more about the project, the functional scope of the
AdvancedSearch extension and the usage, please see
* the help page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:AdvancedSearch
*the main project page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/AdvancedSearch
* the list of supported search options:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/AdvancedSearch/Functi…
*Thanks, thanks, thanks :-)*A huge thanks to everyone who has tested the
feature and gave feedback over the last 5 months and to everyone who has
translated software messages and announcements - this is much appreciated!
And a huge thanks to the WMF's search team who has done all the backend
work and has built great options for advanced search queries that now can
be accessed through the AdvancedSearch interface. It was and is great to
work with you :-)
Looking forward to more testing and feedback to further improve the feature,
Thanks a lot,
Birgit
(for WMDE's Technical Wishes team)
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193182
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180147>(Deployment ticket)
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/AdvancedSearch
/Workshop
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/AdvancedSearch>
--
Birgit Müller
Community Communications Manager
Software Development and Engineering
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
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Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Sorry for cross-posting!
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 3-4 pm
UTC** on #wikimedia-tech.
The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers,
topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over
"who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting:
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Hope to see you there!
Michi (for WMDE’s tech team)
--
Michael F. Schönitzer
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
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Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
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der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.