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Thu, Mar 14

Astinson added a comment to T356153: Add a link to the Wikimedia Outreach Dashboard from the Wikimedia projects interface.

@M0tty exactly: the Event List and Registration are focused on the participant finding and registering for an event, but the Event Center and the Dashboard are for the organizer to create ways to register participants (Event Center) and track activity (Dashboard) -- for a "contribute" button focused on random user wanting to find an activity: searching through the Dashboard is not very helpful -- especially if most of the events don't have any description or readable information in your own language (remember we are supporting 300 languages, 600+ wikis), whereas the Event List T355666 will be meant to provide a one place, with translatable and searchable interface for finding events with features like sorting by the language you plan to contribute in, finding events for your geography, etc.

Thu, Mar 14, 5:09 PM · Language-Team, MediaWiki-Core-Skin-Architecture, Education-Program-Dashboard
Astinson added a comment to T356153: Add a link to the Wikimedia Outreach Dashboard from the Wikimedia projects interface.

@M0tty I recommend strongly against surfacing the dashboard: especially for non-English speakers, and for new-to-the Wikimedia movement, the interface of the dashboard is overwhelming (we have repeatedly encountered this in user feedback). I think what happened in the last ticket is that it focuses on the Organizer facing tool (Event center) where you probably want the participant facing tool at: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355666

Thu, Mar 14, 4:36 PM · Language-Team, MediaWiki-Core-Skin-Architecture, Education-Program-Dashboard

Mon, Feb 19

Astinson added a comment to T269349: Remove titles button on Special:EditWatchlist is in a very inconvenient place.

+1 this is super painful - it should be a floating button. There should be a sort to handle redlinks and redirects as well -- so you can focus on different types of content to remove from the list

Mon, Feb 19, 3:55 PM · Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team, MediaWiki-Watchlist

Feb 15 2024

Astinson added a comment to T357716: Organizer can use same event registration for all translated subpages.

This becomes more important as we try to roll out to Wiki Loves Campaigns on Commons as well.

Feb 15 2024, 7:46 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.22; 2024-03-12), Campaign-Tools (Campaign-Tools-Current-Sprint), CampaignEvents, Campaign-Registration
Astinson updated the task description for T357715: Data Request for Programs and Events Dashboard.
Feb 15 2024, 7:26 PM · Education-Program-Dashboard
Astinson created T357715: Data Request for Programs and Events Dashboard.
Feb 15 2024, 7:26 PM · Education-Program-Dashboard

Feb 7 2024

Astinson created T356912: Sort registrants in Event Registration .
Feb 7 2024, 8:14 PM · CampaignEvents, Campaign-Tools, Campaign-Registration

May 22 2023

Astinson added a comment to T322332: Participants can provide optional PII info when registering for an event (MVP).

@Iflorez +1 to everything you said -- make sense to me.

May 22 2023, 2:15 PM · Campaigns-Design, CampaignEvents, Campaign-Registration

Apr 26 2023

Astinson moved T331890: CentralNotice admin UI should display warnings on potential banner overload from Backlog to BannerContent on the MediaWiki-extensions-CentralNotice board.
Apr 26 2023, 12:19 PM · Fundraising-Backlog, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralNotice

Mar 31 2023

Astinson added a comment to T324849: Echo page link notification when clicked should direct the user to the diff.

@Lectrician1 I think the problem, is that this becomes the _main_ link in focus now on the notification, so encourages a behavior that is mostly useful for power users (i.e. people with way too much on their watchlist/content creation history). I would recommend that it not take most of 2/3s of the visible space on the page, consisder how smooth the design of the other notifications is.

Mar 31 2023, 8:50 PM · Growth-Team (Sprint 0 (Growth Team)), MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.2; 2023-03-27), Notifications

Mar 30 2023

Astinson added a comment to T328032: [SPIKE] How will we handle storage of PII data?.

As for starting registration for events: 56 days is super generous. I can't think of a situation where folks are registering more than 30 days out (you have to remember most of the "actions" that organizers want people to do are easy to forget about if you don't do it in a timely manner).

Mar 30 2023, 12:04 PM · Campaign-Tools (Campaign-Tools-Current-Sprint), CampaignEvents, Campaign-Registration

Mar 8 2023

Astinson added a comment to T322332: Participants can provide optional PII info when registering for an event (MVP).

We may want to include "which languages do you plan to contribute in?" in that its both technically easy to do (use the language lists from the projects) and will improve the signals that Irene and the P&E dashboard can create in terms of metrics (one of the problems right now is that most of the tracking tools in the movement require prior knowledge of the language someone plans to contribute in). This is unlikely to be common in small events, but international writing contests this is key for tracking.

Mar 8 2023, 11:17 PM · Campaigns-Design, CampaignEvents, Campaign-Registration

Mar 1 2023

Astinson created T330868: Create a Lua template for opening the registration dialogue from elsewhere in the page.
Mar 1 2023, 1:34 PM · Campaign-Registration

Feb 28 2023

Astinson added a comment to T322332: Participants can provide optional PII info when registering for an event (MVP).

A good example of this is that there are emerging communities of practice on both Human Rights and Sustainability topic areas which are impossible to map to the ORES models, and don't make sense for WikiProjects as a 1:1 especially as we get into broader multi-community activities.

Feb 28 2023, 2:46 PM · Campaigns-Design, CampaignEvents, Campaign-Registration
Astinson added a comment to T322332: Participants can provide optional PII info when registering for an event (MVP).

@ldelench_wmf topic of interest should come later once we start picking topic domains for events themselves -- we need the topic areas to be configurable in a flexible way -- the ORES taxonomy and the WikiProjects are both highly inaccurate and not useful for newcomers, especially when trying to form multilingual, multicultural cross community activities.

Feb 28 2023, 2:40 PM · Campaigns-Design, CampaignEvents, Campaign-Registration
Astinson added a comment to T329382: Define new campaign editor - for use in production to query for this metric.

So one thing to think about is that most of the new accounts will be created before an event, potentially immediately before registering (won't be the same workflow).

Feb 28 2023, 2:35 PM · User-Iflorez, Campaign-Registration, Campaign-Tools, Product-Analytics (Kanban)

Feb 22 2023

Astinson updated subscribers of T322332: Participants can provide optional PII info when registering for an event (MVP).

I believe that the standard to include "male, female, non-binary, and other" with an option not to be able to participate. @JStephenson may have more insight on how its being used now.

Feb 22 2023, 2:42 PM · Campaigns-Design, CampaignEvents, Campaign-Registration

Feb 9 2023

Dzahn awarded T233843: Convert glam@wikimedia.org OTRS into a Google Group a Like token.
Feb 9 2023, 3:47 PM · collaboration-services, WMF-Office-IT, SRE, Znuny

Aug 10 2022

Alicia_Fagerving_WMSE awarded T232038: [Bug] Campaigns do not include .tif images a Love token.
Aug 10 2022, 12:30 PM · ISA

Jul 6 2022

Eugene233 awarded T232038: [Bug] Campaigns do not include .tif images a Barnstar token.
Jul 6 2022, 11:57 AM · ISA

Nov 10 2021

Astinson added a comment to T287715: Analysis Request for Editor Growth due to Campaign Activity in Sub-Saharan Africa.

@ifried am not worried about the edits not coming from those countries: we know that the organizers are there, and they are running events -- especially in DRC, Uganda and Rwanda -- the challenge is often seeing their contributions -- of organized activity in general -- and then also we know that the organizers have some serious efficacy gaps in editing events in SSA (its hard to identify productive & persistent audiences, retaining those audiences is challenging, and leveling them up to the right skills is also challenging). We are also missing some of the most important campaigns for the region so far, WikiLoves Africa, Wiki Loves Women and WikiGap (at least according to the checklist).

Nov 10 2021, 12:54 PM · Campaign-Tools (Campaign-Tools-Sprint-4), Product-Analytics (Kanban)

Sep 3 2021

Astinson added a comment to T270784: App describing Spanish Wikipedia article "Cleopatra" as trending (due to default voice search test for Hello Google).

Appears to be driving traffic on English now as well: https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&range=all-time&pages=Cleopatra

Sep 3 2021, 3:02 PM · Wikifeeds, Product-Infrastructure-Team-Backlog-Deprecated

Jul 16 2021

Astinson added a project to T231891: Create a Generic List-building tool that can meet and exceed the applications of Pagepile: Campaign-Tools.
Jul 16 2021, 2:42 PM · Campaign-Registration, WMSE-Content-partnerships-support-2021-Software-development, Campaign-Tools, Technical-Tool-Request

May 22 2021

Astinson created T283429: Allow to mute Page Notice popup in VE.
May 22 2021, 6:56 PM · VisualEditor

Apr 29 2021

Astinson added a comment to T280011: Top read repeats.

@kzimmerman my partner set up her voice search for her new android phone -- I suspect it has all of the vowels that are common in spanish.

Apr 29 2021, 7:15 PM · Data-Engineering, Product-Analytics

Mar 15 2021

Astinson created T277502: Humaniki Bug.
Mar 15 2021, 7:36 PM · Humaniki
Astinson created T277501: Humaniki New Feature: Filter by <> # of biographies.
Mar 15 2021, 7:31 PM · Humaniki

Dec 3 2020

Astinson renamed T269349: Remove titles button on Special:EditWatchlist is in a very inconvenient place from Manual save button on Special:EditWatchlist is in a very inconvenient place to Remove titles button on Special:EditWatchlist is in a very inconvenient place.
Dec 3 2020, 12:24 PM · Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team, MediaWiki-Watchlist
Astinson renamed T269349: Remove titles button on Special:EditWatchlist is in a very inconvenient place from Manual edit of watchlist button is in a very inconvenient place to Manual save button on Special:EditWatchlist is in a very inconvenient place.
Dec 3 2020, 12:22 PM · Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team, MediaWiki-Watchlist
Astinson created T269349: Remove titles button on Special:EditWatchlist is in a very inconvenient place.
Dec 3 2020, 12:22 PM · Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team, MediaWiki-Watchlist

Sep 17 2020

Astinson updated the task description for T231891: Create a Generic List-building tool that can meet and exceed the applications of Pagepile.
Sep 17 2020, 1:57 PM · Campaign-Registration, WMSE-Content-partnerships-support-2021-Software-development, Campaign-Tools, Technical-Tool-Request

Aug 27 2020

Astinson added a comment to T261377: Consider restricting the 'usage' to certain namespaces.

Personally, I would just exclude a few of the namespaces or fork them into a seperate percentage (i.e. % used on Project and User pages): Project space (which is 4?) and user space (which is 2?) Neither of them is supposed to be used for "content" in the browsable sense -- for the GLAM tools, its less of a big deal that they track these secondary uses because the high level metric that most of them want to report is pageviews - but in this case, the usage rate is way more important because of the metric is an indicator of organizing success.

Aug 27 2020, 12:49 PM · Tool-wikiloves

Aug 19 2020

Astinson created T260791: LDAP Request Astinson.
Aug 19 2020, 12:57 PM · SRE, LDAP-Access-Requests

Aug 7 2020

Astinson created T259928: Gale URLs don't produce good Citations via Citoid.
Aug 7 2020, 9:00 PM · Citoid, The-Wikipedia-Library

Apr 1 2020

Astinson added a comment to T248127: Suggested tasks giving me "You must be logged in to view your private information".

So I am on the Beta app, and it stopped doing this in the most recent update.

Apr 1 2020, 4:24 PM · Android-app-Bugs, Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog
Astinson added a comment to T248128: [REQUEST] Baseline and develop analytics strategy for Gender Content Programs & Campaigns FY20-21.

@kzimmerman sounds like a good plan -- when should we do that? Do you want to pull aside some time in the next couple weeks?

Apr 1 2020, 4:19 PM · Product-Analytics

Mar 27 2020

Astinson awarded T158604: Investigate usefulness of SameSite cookies for logged-in accounts a Like token.
Mar 27 2020, 2:40 PM · Security, Security-Team, Traffic, SRE, MediaWiki-Core-AuthManager
Astinson added a comment to T158604: Investigate usefulness of SameSite cookies for logged-in accounts.

I keep getting hit by this on multiple tools that I use in my volunteer capacity: it keeps kicking me off outh in my normal workflows with this error:

Mar 27 2020, 2:39 PM · Security, Security-Team, Traffic, SRE, MediaWiki-Core-AuthManager

Mar 19 2020

Astinson created T248128: [REQUEST] Baseline and develop analytics strategy for Gender Content Programs & Campaigns FY20-21.
Mar 19 2020, 8:19 PM · Product-Analytics
Astinson created T248127: Suggested tasks giving me "You must be logged in to view your private information".
Mar 19 2020, 8:17 PM · Android-app-Bugs, Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog

Mar 6 2020

Astinson updated subscribers of T173346: Implement IIIF support on Wikimedia Commons in relation with Structured Data on Commons.

@EvanProdromou is the new owner of these kinds of conversations: how do you want to capture this?

Mar 6 2020, 4:42 PM · Wikidocumentaries, Wikidata, SDC General

Mar 3 2020

Astinson added a comment to T244587: Extend GapFinder to support WikiGap.

@Isaac and @bmansurov -- thank you so much this is awesome!

Mar 3 2020, 2:16 PM · Patch-For-Review, Research, GapFinder

Mar 2 2020

Astinson added a comment to T246335: Create URL campaign for Wiki for WikiGapFinder.

Awesome all -- thanks for this -- really a cool example of collaboration on a targeted topic like this :)

Mar 2 2020, 3:41 PM · Language-Team (Language-2020-January-March), ContentTranslation

Feb 28 2020

Astinson updated subscribers of T246335: Create URL campaign for Wiki for WikiGapFinder.

I think that works as long as @Isaac and @bmansurov can integrate it into the tool.

Feb 28 2020, 4:14 PM · Language-Team (Language-2020-January-March), ContentTranslation

Feb 24 2020

Astinson updated subscribers of T244587: Extend GapFinder to support WikiGap.
  • We are using the campaign WikiGapFinder to tag articles translated when using this tool -- i.e. we pass this tag to the Content Translation which then will make it an edit tag when the article is created. Is that okay? Will you be able to capture this through your dashboards still?
Feb 24 2020, 5:21 PM · Patch-For-Review, Research, GapFinder

Feb 18 2020

Astinson added a comment to T244587: Extend GapFinder to support WikiGap.

@bmansurov will you be able to track the number of uses during the campaign? It would be interesting to get the stats on effectiveness and usage.

Feb 18 2020, 12:40 AM · Patch-For-Review, Research, GapFinder
Astinson added a comment to T244587: Extend GapFinder to support WikiGap.

Nevermind, I purged my cache and it appears to be working now.

Feb 18 2020, 12:34 AM · Patch-For-Review, Research, GapFinder
Astinson added a comment to T244587: Extend GapFinder to support WikiGap.

@bmansurov When I left the language (by choosing espanol instead of svenska), it surfaced non-WikiGAP articles.

Feb 18 2020, 12:29 AM · Patch-For-Review, Research, GapFinder

Dec 2 2019

Astinson created T239626: Why are Commons Pageviews increasing? Is that cause by structured data or other indexing changes?.
Dec 2 2019, 3:53 PM · Pageviews-Anomaly

Nov 26 2019

Astinson added a comment to T239220: page-links-change EventStream doesn't appear to be outputting events.

I can see events when hitting https://stream.wikimedia.org/v2/stream/page-links-change, it just take a bit before they are visualized. https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/000000336/eventstreams?orgId=1&refresh=1m&from=now-30d&to=now shows an increase in usage, we might have some free connection slots issue, but I'd need to investigate more.

@Samwalton9 do you have a metric or something that I can check showing data missing from the 18th? Or was it reported by somebody? (trying to understand the problem sorry)

It was reported to us by Internet Archive, but also effects our tooling as well.

Can you tell me a bit more about your tools and if I can repro in some way? What error do you see?

Nov 26 2019, 7:13 PM · User-Elukey, EventStreams, Internet-Archive, MediaWiki-extensions-WikimediaEvents, The-Wikipedia-Library
Astinson added a comment to T239220: page-links-change EventStream doesn't appear to be outputting events.

I can see events when hitting https://stream.wikimedia.org/v2/stream/page-links-change, it just take a bit before they are visualized. https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/000000336/eventstreams?orgId=1&refresh=1m&from=now-30d&to=now shows an increase in usage, we might have some free connection slots issue, but I'd need to investigate more.

@Samwalton9 do you have a metric or something that I can check showing data missing from the 18th? Or was it reported by somebody? (trying to understand the problem sorry)

Nov 26 2019, 6:41 PM · User-Elukey, EventStreams, Internet-Archive, MediaWiki-extensions-WikimediaEvents, The-Wikipedia-Library

Nov 24 2019

Astinson created T239031: "Collections" link is not intuitive to find or clear what it is.
Nov 24 2019, 7:47 PM · Library-Card-Platform, The-Wikipedia-Library (Kanban)

Nov 13 2019

Astinson added a project to T238228: Internal error when undoing caption edit by IP: "Unsaved old revision passed": StructuredDataOnCommons.
Nov 13 2019, 4:25 PM · Wikimedia-production-error, MediaWiki-Core-Revision-backend, StructuredDataOnCommons
Astinson created T238228: Internal error when undoing caption edit by IP: "Unsaved old revision passed".
Nov 13 2019, 4:24 PM · Wikimedia-production-error, MediaWiki-Core-Revision-backend, StructuredDataOnCommons

Oct 31 2019

Astinson added a comment to T237048: [Bug] Commons Structured Data clicks through to Wikidata in Dropdown.

yeah, so I start typing, and try to select one of the options: but it opens a new tab. I am on Android devices, editing in Chrome, asking for the desktop version of the site so that I can edit the Structured Data -- in particular I would like to be able to do AC/DC while watching tv, while using a tablet :P

Oct 31 2019, 8:43 PM · MW-1.35-notes (1.35.0-wmf.23; 2020-03-10), Structured-Data-Backlog (Current Work), Wikidata, SDC-Statements, SDC General
Astinson created T237048: [Bug] Commons Structured Data clicks through to Wikidata in Dropdown.
Oct 31 2019, 7:37 PM · MW-1.35-notes (1.35.0-wmf.23; 2020-03-10), Structured-Data-Backlog (Current Work), Wikidata, SDC-Statements, SDC General

Oct 30 2019

Astinson created T236959: Visual Editor on Wikidata drops Wikidata: namespace prefix.
Oct 30 2019, 9:25 PM · Wikidata, VisualEditor

Oct 15 2019

Astinson added a comment to T230184: Wikidata Humans and Gender Data Tools.

@Maximilianklein we are building a prototype with @Slaporte at the WikiConference North America Hackathon: would be happy to workshop it there with you all? Are you going?

Oct 15 2019, 8:56 PM · Humaniki, Gender-Support, Wikimania-Hackathon-2019

Sep 25 2019

Astinson created T233843: Convert glam@wikimedia.org OTRS into a Google Group.
Sep 25 2019, 7:34 PM · collaboration-services, WMF-Office-IT, SRE, Znuny
Astinson added a comment to T158465: Automatic import and formatting of literature references from selected database sources.

@Mvolz this should be closed right?

Sep 25 2019, 7:13 PM · Citoid, Cite, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2016

Sep 24 2019

Astinson awarded T233707: A system for releasing data dumps from a classifier detecting unsourced sentences in Wikipedia a Love token.
Sep 24 2019, 2:00 PM · User-ArielGlenn, Research, Outreachy (Round 19)

Sep 12 2019

Astinson updated subscribers of T231891: Create a Generic List-building tool that can meet and exceed the applications of Pagepile.

Adding a few more people who might have ideas on applications or needs: @Fuzheado, @Multichill @SandraF_WMF @Lokal_Profil @Yarl

Sep 12 2019, 10:40 PM · Campaign-Registration, WMSE-Content-partnerships-support-2021-Software-development, Campaign-Tools, Technical-Tool-Request
Astinson added a comment to T231891: Create a Generic List-building tool that can meet and exceed the applications of Pagepile.

Another idea came to me:
What is it's not just "page lists", but any (general, of one of pre-defined types) tables?
One table type would be "page title/page namespace", giving us the above lists.
Others could be, say, Mix'n'match catalogs ("external ID/url/name/description/instance of").

Sep 12 2019, 9:59 PM · Campaign-Registration, WMSE-Content-partnerships-support-2021-Software-development, Campaign-Tools, Technical-Tool-Request
Astinson updated subscribers of T230184: Wikidata Humans and Gender Data Tools.

Hey all, so I wrote a requirement for something that could be a rewrite of the Monumental software by @Yarl and @Slaporte. I have been shopping around the idea, and there is a fair bit of interest for a "missing wiki women" type list building do: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LtBujK6kARbwxUzDyF6hpv445rJwk7Ka7rAlf7e9USg/edit -- I would be happy to talk with folks about it.

Sep 12 2019, 1:10 PM · Humaniki, Gender-Support, Wikimania-Hackathon-2019

Sep 5 2019

Astinson updated subscribers of T232038: [Bug] Campaigns do not include .tif images.

Yeah, you should be able to use one of the JPG preview files which can be served from each ".tif" file -- that is what the thumbnails on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Projects are. @Keegan do you know who would know/where to look?

Sep 5 2019, 4:30 PM · ISA
Astinson added a comment to T231891: Create a Generic List-building tool that can meet and exceed the applications of Pagepile.

Started some design notes of such a product: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gulp

Sep 5 2019, 3:32 PM · Campaign-Registration, WMSE-Content-partnerships-support-2021-Software-development, Campaign-Tools, Technical-Tool-Request
Astinson added a comment to T231891: Create a Generic List-building tool that can meet and exceed the applications of Pagepile.

Started some design notes of such a product: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gulp

Sep 5 2019, 3:20 PM · Campaign-Registration, WMSE-Content-partnerships-support-2021-Software-development, Campaign-Tools, Technical-Tool-Request

Sep 4 2019

Astinson renamed T232038: [Bug] Campaigns do not include .tif images from [Bug] Campaign not counting the right numer of items to [Bug] Campaign not counting the right number of items, possibly .tif?.
Sep 4 2019, 8:03 PM · ISA
Astinson moved T232038: [Bug] Campaigns do not include .tif images from Backlog to Incoming Bugs on the ISA board.
Sep 4 2019, 8:03 PM · ISA
Astinson created T232038: [Bug] Campaigns do not include .tif images.
Sep 4 2019, 8:01 PM · ISA
Astinson added a comment to T231891: Create a Generic List-building tool that can meet and exceed the applications of Pagepile.

That said, only ~3½% of piles are that large:

lucaswerkmeister@tools-sgebastion-07:~$ find /data/project/shared/pagepile/ -type f -printf '%s\n' | awk '{ if ($1 >= (2048*1024)) big++; else small++; } END { print small, big; }'
18783 668

(Though of course the SQLite file size is only an approximation of the corresponding wiki page size, especially as we haven’t decided on any particular format yet.)

Sep 4 2019, 7:54 PM · Campaign-Registration, WMSE-Content-partnerships-support-2021-Software-development, Campaign-Tools, Technical-Tool-Request
Astinson updated subscribers of T231891: Create a Generic List-building tool that can meet and exceed the applications of Pagepile.

Moreover pagepiles are static -- which means that they only output at one point, but the options for updating it mean you have to "regenerate" the list as a new output, even if its just an extension of the previous list (there is not "list history" so to speak -- instead each pile is a separate independent object). This means that "list owners" can't lean on these lists too update multiple other locations -- instead you have to recreate the list and manually update its use elsewhere. This kind of application is partially being solve by tools like Listeria, but that is entirely dependent on the Wikidata Query Service, but that only includes a subset of the criteria that you might use to form a list (with a tools like PattyPan, Quarry or Manual work).

Technically, anyone with Toolforge shell access can update a PagePile, I believe – they’re world-writable SQLite files. In the PHP API, this seems to be somewhat intended – you first create a fresh pile and then fill it with data, and nothing stops you from filling it with more data later. That doesn’t seem to be exposed through the web API, though.


I wonder if we need/want external storage for this at all. Could we simply store a list of pages on some wiki, either in Wikitext or as JSON? This gives us a history, a talk page, rate limiting, patrolling, authenticated editing (OAuth), and probably more, almost for free.

Sep 4 2019, 7:52 PM · Campaign-Registration, WMSE-Content-partnerships-support-2021-Software-development, Campaign-Tools, Technical-Tool-Request

Sep 3 2019

Astinson updated the task description for T231891: Create a Generic List-building tool that can meet and exceed the applications of Pagepile.
Sep 3 2019, 2:50 PM · Campaign-Registration, WMSE-Content-partnerships-support-2021-Software-development, Campaign-Tools, Technical-Tool-Request
Astinson updated the task description for T231891: Create a Generic List-building tool that can meet and exceed the applications of Pagepile.
Sep 3 2019, 2:50 PM · Campaign-Registration, WMSE-Content-partnerships-support-2021-Software-development, Campaign-Tools, Technical-Tool-Request
Astinson renamed T231891: Create a Generic List-building tool that can meet and exceed the applications of Pagepile from [EPIC] Create a Generic List-building tool that can meet and exceed the applications of Pagepile to Create a Generic List-building tool that can meet and exceed the applications of Pagepile.
Sep 3 2019, 2:48 PM · Campaign-Registration, WMSE-Content-partnerships-support-2021-Software-development, Campaign-Tools, Technical-Tool-Request
Astinson updated subscribers of T231891: Create a Generic List-building tool that can meet and exceed the applications of Pagepile.

ping @Samwalton9 @Ramsey-WMF @SandraF_WMF @LucasWerkmeister @Amire80

Sep 3 2019, 2:47 PM · Campaign-Registration, WMSE-Content-partnerships-support-2021-Software-development, Campaign-Tools, Technical-Tool-Request
Astinson created T231891: Create a Generic List-building tool that can meet and exceed the applications of Pagepile.
Sep 3 2019, 2:45 PM · Campaign-Registration, WMSE-Content-partnerships-support-2021-Software-development, Campaign-Tools, Technical-Tool-Request

Sep 1 2019

Astinson created T231751: Depicts selector too big.
Sep 1 2019, 3:45 PM · Wiki-Mentor-Africa, Patch-Needs-Improvement, ISA

Aug 26 2019

Astinson created T231193: Suggest most frequently use depicts statements .
Aug 26 2019, 10:23 AM · ISA
Astinson added a comment to T230210: Random unlabeled starting file?.

Thanks all!

Aug 26 2019, 10:19 AM · ISA

Aug 9 2019

Astinson created T230210: Random unlabeled starting file?.
Aug 9 2019, 3:31 PM · ISA

Nov 15 2018

Astinson added a comment to T207395: Return CTRL-Space hint text to Wikidata Query Tool.

I think I forgot that we have more completions than just for item and property labels, sorry… we have several other suggestions as well, including SELECT * WHERE { } for a blank query, so I guess that could be useful after all.

Nov 15 2018, 11:08 PM · Wikidata Query UI, Wikidata

Nov 12 2018

Astinson added a comment to T207395: Return CTRL-Space hint text to Wikidata Query Tool.

I guess for me the assumption that someone who answers the first part of the prompt "Input a SPARQL query" -- still might not know where to start, even if they are loosely familiar with SPARQL. Having a hint in the first screen that "ctrl+space can give you hints on where to start" would be super useful. I have found, in teaching sparql, its super useful to start from nothing -- so either having a blank filled out wrapper like SELECT ?item WHERE {?item } or having the ctrl+space hint which does that is the optimal thing for reminding someone who hasn't touched it in a while. Teaching from examples, in my experience, has only been good for demonstrating the power of Queries -- not for teaching folks how to actually use queries. And this interface is, in its very nature, assuming a bit of technical literacy -- so showing the hint early wouldn't hurt. It would be very different if we found that it confused brand new users -- but then maybe we need some type of guided tour hinting that folks should try out the examples menu.

Nov 12 2018, 1:58 PM · Wikidata Query UI, Wikidata

Nov 9 2018

Astinson added a comment to T207395: Return CTRL-Space hint text to Wikidata Query Tool.

@Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE it should probably appear before the : toast when there is an entirely blank screen -- otherwise completely new contributors to the tool get no hint on "where to start". The other option could be some type of guided tutorial popup when the screen is blank.

Nov 9 2018, 10:16 PM · Wikidata Query UI, Wikidata
Astinson added a comment to T201191: Opening PDF file pages on Android Chrome browser, results in an attempt to download, instead of viewing the page.

@TheDJ @Aklapper yeah -- I am not sure -- for me it seems like there should be a way to work around at our level just to make it less messy in the grand scheme of things -- @brion's idea or something similar (like pushing the file prefix elsewhere in the url) would prevent tools looking for file extensions at the end urls from making smart guess. I am not a developer though, and don't have a strong opinion on the how -- just that it creates a usability problem, especially when we are anticipating a largely mobile audience in the future.

Nov 9 2018, 3:29 PM · Browser-Support-Android-Google-Chrome, MediaWiki-General

Oct 9 2018

Astinson added a comment to T206576: Create new UI elements: ‘Download report’ menu, 'Popup format selector', Animated 'Working' Indicator'.

The prototype looks really slick! Thanks @Prtksxna

Oct 9 2018, 11:06 PM · Community-Tech-Sprint, Community-Tech, Event Metrics

Oct 3 2018

Astinson updated subscribers of T205363: [EPIC] Data definitions and logic for 'Pages Created' downloadable reports.

Have we thought at all about counting ref tags added? References are a measure of quality of content in some Wikipedias.

That is, I assume, the same as citations? If so, yes, we've debated quite a bit. Counting these would be very desirable but they are not in the metadata. So we would have to parse the wikitext, which is too slow and resource intensive.

Oct 3 2018, 2:49 PM · Community-Tech, Epic, Grant-Metrics, Event Metrics

Oct 2 2018

Astinson added a comment to T205363: [EPIC] Data definitions and logic for 'Pages Created' downloadable reports.

Have we thought at all about counting ref tags added? References are a measure of quality of content in some Wikipedias.

Oct 2 2018, 4:38 PM · Community-Tech, Epic, Grant-Metrics, Event Metrics
Astinson added a comment to T205363: [EPIC] Data definitions and logic for 'Pages Created' downloadable reports.

Words changed during event The net change in words to the page during the event period. Show all numbers with a + sign to indicate direction of change. In our discussions, the point was raised that this calculation may be feasible for some scripts/languages more than others. We will implement for the scripts where we can and leave others for later.
For scripts/languages where this calculation is not feasible, we can either 1) omit the column, which is preferred, or 2) answer=unavailable [@Mooeypoo, should I make a separate ticket to investigate this?]

This is definitely a separate ticket, and I am not sure it's that easy to do with our consideration for loads. This would mean we'll have to parse the diffs and more or less guess about words (using a space delimiter is a good start but is actually not entirely accurate, even in English :)
This is a significant change. I'd reconsider including this in the MVP. Either way, it requires a separate ticket.

Agreed that this will slow things down noticeably. But if we do get to it, I find parsing HTML content to be more exacting in getting word counts of prose, as then it is easier to exclude things like infoboxes and references. We do the same thing in XTools, available via the page/prose API endpoint. The MediaWiki text extracts API does something similar but we do not need content, just numbers.

Oct 2 2018, 4:33 PM · Community-Tech, Epic, Grant-Metrics, Event Metrics

Aug 6 2018

Astinson updated subscribers of T201177: Underreporting WikiSource edits?.

@Milimetric @Nuria The amazing @Samwalton9 came to my rescue with some scripting and API pulls and got pretty far. I think for the quick and dirty stuff I need right now, that will do for me.

Aug 6 2018, 5:44 PM · Analytics, Data-Engineering-Wikistats
Astinson added a comment to T201177: Underreporting WikiSource edits?.

@JAllemandou That is not clear on the labeling of that item -- it says "Sources" which suggests a plural set of projects.

Aug 6 2018, 2:16 PM · Analytics, Data-Engineering-Wikistats

Aug 3 2018

Astinson created T201191: Opening PDF file pages on Android Chrome browser, results in an attempt to download, instead of viewing the page.
Aug 3 2018, 5:49 PM · Browser-Support-Android-Google-Chrome, MediaWiki-General
Astinson added a comment to T201177: Underreporting WikiSource edits?.

I bet I know why that isn't working: the edit count may not be counting the contributions to the Proofread page extension namespaces?

Aug 3 2018, 2:49 PM · Analytics, Data-Engineering-Wikistats
Astinson created T201177: Underreporting WikiSource edits?.
Aug 3 2018, 1:27 PM · Analytics, Data-Engineering-Wikistats
Astinson created T201176: Getting historical country data for WikiSource.
Aug 3 2018, 1:06 PM · Analytics, Data-Engineering-Wikistats

May 30 2018

Astinson added a comment to T182674: [Epic] Facilitate community conversations around structured licenses and structured data about copyright statuses of media files on Wikimedia Commons.

One consideration might be that the Rightstatements.org community (http://rightsstatements.org/en/) is looking for a reasonable way to modify the need for license like http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en which are domain specific. Instead they would like a general "No Copyright based on X rationale". Perhaps an important stakeholder in this work is the Rightstatements community?

May 30 2018, 9:21 PM · MoveComms-Support (Apr-Jun-2020), Wikidata, Epic, SDC General

May 9 2018

Astinson added a comment to T193175: Implement UI for constructing 'depicts' search query.

The interface for Crotos (http://zone47.com/crotos/ ) suggests a number of good ways to do this:
*first as someone searches in the search bar, it suggests what properties/statements you might be wanting to interact with based on the frequency within the term
*As you start to get first results, you can browse some core metadata (including creator and depicts) in the down carrot drop menu which become additional facets for interacting with search results (and get displayed near the search bar as check box components).

May 9 2018, 6:58 PM · Structured Data Engineering (Depicts and other statements on a bicycle), Multimedia-Team-Working-Board, Discovery-Search, Epic, SDC General, Wikidata

May 7 2018

Astinson added a comment to T194040: New Image display in Wikidata, makes it hard to copy the file name without other fragments.

@hoo thanks!

May 7 2018, 11:33 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-WikibaseRepository, Wikidata
Astinson created T194040: New Image display in Wikidata, makes it hard to copy the file name without other fragments.
May 7 2018, 1:11 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-WikibaseRepository, Wikidata

Feb 8 2018

Astinson added a comment to T184030: Investigation: Ping users from edit summary.

(in my volunteer capacity): I would think that anyone pinging more than 3, is using the wrong channel for communication -- 5 probably gives enough wiggle room for other collabroations, but is likely to solicit complaints from some of the more active communities (thinking English).

Feb 8 2018, 9:47 PM · Community-Tech