Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2012/December/summary/da


 * Indholdet her er forberedt til indlemmelse i Wikimedia-stiftelsens december 2012 rapport. Det er en kortere og simplere version af den fulde Wikimedia ingeniør-rapport for december 2012 og kræver ikke specialiseret teknisk viden.

De største nyheder i december omfattede:
 * Lanceringen af en alfa, operationel version af VisualEditor til engelsk Wikipedia, et projekt, som er mere komplekst, end det ser ud til;
 * Et forskningsstudium over brugen af artikel tilbagemeldings-funktionen;
 * Ny metrik for MediaWiki-fællesskabet;
 * Start på rekrutterings-programmet til kvinder;
 * Fortsat arbejde med forbedring af workflow and brugergrænsefladen for oversættere.

VisualEditor
I december aktiverede VisualEditor teamet på engelsk Wikipedia en alfa-version af VisualEditor, den kommende tekstvenlige brugergrænseflade, som vil gøre det nemmere at redigere wiki-sider. Erfarne skribenter kan nu teste den og give tilbagemelding om fejl og mangler. Teamet har fokuseret på at sikre, at den virkede ordentligt, ved at levere et specielt værktøj til at rapportere problemer ved redigering, og ved at behandle skribenternes rapporter og ideer efter implementeringen.

Denne vellykkede udgivelse var også en vigtig milepæl for Parsoid (parser program, som omsætter almindelig wikitext til HTML, kommenteret for nem redigering, og omvendt). Parsoid skal håndtere hele spektret af vilkårlig og kompleks eksisterende wiki-indhold, herunder skabeloner, tabeller og udvidelser. Den har gjort det godt, som det bevidnes ved mangelen af fejl indført af Parsoid i wikiteksten. Dette kan i vid udstrækning tilskrives holdets indsats med [//parsoid.wmflabs.org:8001/ automatiseret konverterings-tests] og færdiggørelsen af ​​en strategi til kun at konvertere de dele af siden, der var redigerede ("udvalgt serialisering").

Skribent-engagement
This month, the Editor engagement team (E2) continued to develop new features of the Notifications project (called "Echo"), and enabled a first experimental release on mediawiki.org. They worked on feature requirements, the user experience and developed interface and behind-the-scenes components. More features will be developed in January that are planned to be enabled on the English Wikipedia in early 2013. Help is welcome to test these features to provide feedback and find bugs.

A research study on the use of the Article Feedback tool on the English Wikipedia confirmed that many readers use this quality assessment feature, and a sizable number of them go on to register and become editors. Based on that research and other suggestions, new features were started to reduce the editor workload through better filters and simpler moderation tools. The activation of Article Feedback on all articles of the English Wikipedia is planned for March 2013. Some wikis like the German Wikipedia have started to evaluate this tool as well, while others like the French Wikipedia are discussing it.

No significant development activity happened on Page Curation (an interface for experienced contributors to review and improve newly created pages) following its release on the English Wikipedia, but its localization and adaptation for possible use on other wikis and in other languages is currently under consideration.

In December, the Editor engagement experiments team (E3) launched a new test aimed at Onboarding new Wikipedians; it offers an optimized task list immediately after sign up, inviting those without an idea of how to get started to choose an article and try their hand at editing. Development continued on the new account creation experience and a Guided Tours feature that which will be launched in January 2013.

To support these and future experiments, the EventLogging tool underwent heavy development, including the launch of a dedicated space on meta-wiki for defining the data collected in a public, collaborative manner. Development of a user metrics interface for programs also begun in order to standardize user metrics, and provide infrastructure and access to them.

Last, the E3 team collaborated with the Fundraising team to reach out to donors and readers as part of the annual fundraising campaign, via email and a "Thank You" banner which ran at the end of the year.

Mobil-teknologi
Det mobile udviklings og design-team arbejdede på at færdiggøre bidragspligtige og andre eksperimentelle skribent-fokuserede funktioner på beta-sitet (upload, redigering og overvågningsliste funktionalitet) med henblik på at bane vejen for mobile upload fra marts 2013. De har også arbejdet på at forbedre den potentielle læser og skribent-oplevelse ved at indføre funktioner rettet mod at uddanne og engagere brugere, såsom en menneske-læsbar seneste ændring indikator for artikler og overvågningslister og miniaturebilleder for at illustrere overvågningsliste-visningen. På grund af den store interesse genereret på beta-test-sitet, blev en alfa-site skabt til at huse meget tidlig arbejde på bidragspligtige funktioner, uden at forstyrre læseoplevelsen hos de over 100.000 beta-brugere.

Work continued on GeoData, a tool to store and retrieve GPS coordinates in Wikimedia databases, and it was deployed to all Wikipedia and Wikivoyage sites; it is expected to become officially operational shortly. This tool is a cornerstone of the discovery feature for the mobile site, allowing users to read about places around them.

Orange Congo joined the list of mobile carriers who enable free mobile access to Wikipedia via the Wikipedia Zero program. The Wikipedia Zero team resolved operational issues and continued to work on more partnerships. Two other initiatives to bring Wikipedia to mobile devices, the Wikipedia S40 J2ME app and the USSD service, are now ready to launch pending contractual negotiations with carriers.

Last, the Mobile quality assurance team started to work on an upcoming community testing event for Mobile features, and support for the MobileFrontend extension in the Beta cluster testing environment.

Andre nyheder

 * Community metrics are now generated every month to provide insights into the activity and health of the MediaWiki contributor community.


 * Six interns joined the technical community as part of the Outreach Program for Women. They will work full-time between January and March 2013 on projects ranging from coding to documentation to bug triage.


 * The Language engineering team continued to improve the workflow and interface for translators; this is done as part of an initiative to improve the user experience of the Translate extension, a tool used to translate software as well as content of wiki pages.