Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2014/March/summary/ms


 * Kandungan ini telah disediakan untuk disertakan dalam laporan Yayasan Wikimedia Mac 2014. Ia ialah versi yang lebih ringkas dan mudah bagi Laporan kejuruteraan Wikimedia bagi bulan Mac 2014 penuh yang tidak menggunakan pengetahuan teknikal khusus.

Berita utama pada bulan Mac termasuk:
 * Sebuah gambaran tentang fon sesawang, dan kelebihan dan cabaran menggunakannya di halaman-halaman Wikimedia;
 * Sejumlah karangan yang telah ditulis oleh pelajar-pelajar Google Code-in yang mengongsikan tanggapan, kekecewaan dan keterperanjatan mereka setelah mereka menemui komuniti teknikal Wikimedia dan MediaWiki;
 * Kad Apung kini tersedia sebagai satu ciri Beta di semua wiki-wiki Wikimedia, membolehkan para pembaca untuk melihat rumusan ringkas tentang sebuah rencana hanya dengan mengapungkan kursor ke satu-satu pautan;
 * Perubahan tatahuruf yang tidak ketara merentasi halaman-halaman Wikimedia untuk kebolehbacaan, ketekalan dan kebolehcapaian yang lebih baik;
 * Rumusan dari naik taraf dan penghijrahan daripada perisian penjejak pepijat kami.

VisualEditor
Pada bulan Mac, kumpulan VisualEditor meneruskan kerja mereka dalam memperbaik kestabilan dan prestasi alat visual ini untuk menyunting laman-laman wiki. Mereka juga telah menambah beberapa ciri-ciri baru dan pemudah-pemudah, membantu pengguna-pengguna menyunting dan mencipta laman dengan lebih cepat dan mudah. Menyunting templat kini lebih mudah, memindahkan kebanyakan daripada kawalan-kawalan lanjutan yang para pengguna selalunya tidak perlukan ke dalam satu versi istimewa dalam tetingkap itu. Dialog media telah diperbaik dan diselaraskan untuk membuatkan ia jelas untuk apa kawalan-kawalan itu berfungsi. Reka bentuk dialog dan kawalan-kawalan telah diperbaik secara keseluruhannya untuk menjadikan ia lebih lancar, seperti dwiklik satu-satu blok untuk membuka dialognya. Sistem baru untuk menyisipkan dan menyunting nukilan (rujukan berdasarkan templat) secara cepat dan mudah akan siap tidak lama lagi dan akan didayakan dalam bulan hadapan.



The Parsoid team continued with a lot of bug fixing and tweaking of this parsing program that converts wikitext to annotated HTML, behind the scenes of VisualEditor. Media and image handling in particular was improved. In the process, we discovered a lot of edge cases and inconsistent behavior in the PHP parser, and fixed some of those issues there as well.

We revamped our round-trip test server interface that compares the wikitext code of a page before and after it's been converted into annotated HTML, and back into wikitext. We fixed some issues in the round-trip test system, and improved our error logging system.

We also designed and implemented a HTML templating library which combines correctness, security and performance. This will notably be used to evaluate HTML templating for translation messages and eventually wiki content.

Editor engagement
This month the Core Features team focused on improvements to how the new Flow discussion system works with key MediaWiki tools and processes. We made changes to the history, watchlist, and recent changes views, adding more context and bringing them more in line with what experienced users expect from these features. We released a thank feature in Flow, allowing users to thank each other for posts, and began work on a feature to close and summarize discussions. Lastly, we continued work on rewriting the Flow interface to make it cleaner, faster, and more responsive across a wide number of browsers/devices.

In March, the Growth team primarily focused on bug fixing, design enhancements, and refactoring of the GettingStarted and GuidedTour extensions, which were recently launched on 30 Wikipedias. We updated icons and button styles, rewrote the interface text, and refactored the interface to be more usable in non-English languages. We also began to refactor of the GuidedTour API, in order to support interactive tours that are non-linear. Non-linear tours will not depend on a page load to run, which will notably enable better support for tours in VisualEditor. Last but not least, we made progress on measuring the impact of GettingStarted across all wikis where it is deployed, with results for the first 30 days of editor activity expected in early April.

Mobile
The Wikimedia Apps team worked on logged-out editing to logged-in editing, and table of contents refinements.

The Mobile web projects team worked on the link inspector for VisualEditor on tablets, and a switch between VisualEditor and wikitext on tablets. Both are in alpha.

During the last month, with the assistance of the Operations and Platform teams, the Wikipedia Zero team set up the upcoming Partners Portal and continued work on reducing image size for the mobile web. Additionally, the team added Wikipedia Zero detection to the Wikipedia for Firefox OS app, as well as contributory features support for users on partner networks supporting zero-rated secure connections. With the assistance of the Apps team, new features were added to the forthcoming reboots of the Android and iOS apps; proof of concept for full-text search was started on iOS.

Smart, the largest mobile operator in the Philippines, is giving access to Wikipedia free of data charges through the end of April. We arranged a meeting with local community members and Smart to explore ways to collaborate in support of education. The partnerships team started to review the 27 existing Wikipedia Zero partners, to update the implementation, identify opportunities for collaboration in corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives and get feedback on the program. The account reviews will continue for the next few months.