Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2013/December/summary/es


 * Este contenido se preparó para incluirlo en el Informe de la Fundación Wikimedia de diciembre del 2013. Es una versión más corta y sencilla del Informe de ingeniería de Wikimedia de diciembre del 2013 que no requiere conocimientos técnicos especializados.

Las noticias más importantes de diciembre son:


 * una retrospectiva sobre los eventos en Ingeniería del Lenguaje, que incluye la cumbre del lenguaje en Pune, India;
 * el lanzamiento de una función de borrador en la Wikipedia en Inglés, que proporciona un comienzo más suave a los artículos de Wikipedia.

VisualEditor
En diciembre, el equipo de VisualEditor continuó mejorando la estabilidad y el rendimiento de esta interfaz que permite a los usuarios editar las páginas wiki visualmente en lugar de usar código wiki. El equipo se centró en las principales funciones y en corregir errores. Ahora existe soporte para copiar y pegar de fuentes externas a VisualEditor, además de una herramienta básica para insertar caracteres que no están disponibles en el teclado del usuario. Se continuó trabajando en un diálogo para añadir referencias rápidamente utilizando plantillas de citas.

The Parsoid team, who is developing the parsing program that converts wiki markup to annotated HTML (and back) behind the scenes of VisualEditor, continued their relentless work to eliminate bugs and incompatibilities. Problems arose during the migration to node 0.10, the platform that runs Parsoid. The team rolled back the upgrade, investigated and fixed the issue. Testing has also been improved so that similar issues are caught in the future. Last, the team created several requests for comment concerning architectural components of the MediaWiki platform.

Editor engagement
In December, we enabled Flow to a few selected pages on mediawiki.org (Talk:Flow and Talk:Sandbox) and collected feedback about the features and design to date from the community (read the summary). Throughout the feedback period, we worked on implementing design changes, such as a more compact view of the board and a different interface for topic and post actions, as well as different visualizations of history information, based on the comments of users testing the software.

We also began a straw poll about launching Flow as a beta trial in the discussion spaces of WikiProject Breakfast, WikiProject Hampshire, and WikiProject Video Games on the English Wikipedia. Based on the outcome of these polls, we hope to deploy Flow to those pages in January.

The Growth team spent time working on product development and research for upcoming Wikipedia article creation improvements. First and foremost, the team fulfilled a request from the English Wikipedia community to launch the new Draft namespace there. Pau Giner and others on the team simultaneously began design work on future improvements to drafts functionality, including recruiting for usability testing sessions.

Mobile
During the last month, the Wikipedia Zero team continued to make it easier to configure partnerships with telecommunications carriers that offer access to Wikipedia at no data cost to their mobile subscribers. They also implemented a global landing page redirector for mobile Wikipedia website access. Last, the team started working on an HTML5 webapp proof of concept as an option for rebooting the Firefox OS app.

The Mobile web projects team has been working on finishing the redesign of the overlays and mobile on-boarding. The "Keep going" feature has been changed to a workflow that asks users to add blue links and includes a tutorial. This is consistent with what we've learned about how guiding users helps accomplish more edits, and it fits into more of micro contributory workflow that we want to experiment with. We've also worked on an A/B test displaying an edit guider for users signing up from the left nav menu. This is mirroring the edit guider that displays for users signing up through the edit call to action. It also is consistent with the behavior that the desktop site will be displaying to users as a result of the OB6 A/B test.

The mobile apps team added saved pages, article navigation, and language support to the mobile Wikipedia app. During the quarterly planning meeting, it was decided to postpone photo uploads from our market release plan in favor of text editing.