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''Indholdet her er forberedt til indlemmelse i Wikimedia-stiftelsens januar 2013 rapport. Det er en kortere og simplere version af den fulde Wikimedia ingeniør-rapport for januar 2013 og kræver ikke specialiseret teknisk viden.''

De største nyheder i januar omfatter:
 * den vellykkede overflytning af vores vigtigste tjenester til vores datacenter i Ashburn, Virginia
 * nye funktioner er tilgængelige i vores mobile beta-version
 * fremskridt på input-metoder og vores kommende oversættelses-brugergrænseflade
 * annonceringen af GeoData, en funktion til at vedhæfte geo-koordinater til Wikipedia og Wikivoyage artikler
 * en test til vurdering af, hvordan VisualEditor håndterer ikke-latinske tegn.

VisualEditor
I januar arbejdede VisualEditor-holdet primært på gennemgang og oprydning af den kode, der blev oprettet på den engelske Wikipedia i december. De mødtes med deres kolleger fra Parsoid-holdet for at planlægge den næste fase af udviklingen, som har til formål at gøre VisualEditor til standard-redigeringsværktøj for alle sprogversioner af Wikipedia fra juli 2013. Alfa-versionen på mediawiki.org og den engelske Wikipedia blev opdateret to gange for at rette en række fejl, der var blevet rapporteret af fællesskabet og for at lave nogle justeringer baseret på tilbagemeldinger.

Parsoid-holdet (der skaber parser-programmet, som oversætter almindelig wikitekst til HTML, kommenteret til nem redigering, og vice-versa) har også renset deres kode og rettet fejl. Parsoid's funktioner blev justeret for at være mere robuste og for at udvide understøttelsen til wiki'er med forskellige konfigurationer (herunder andre sprog end engelsk). Holdet drøftede også den mere langsigtede strategi med Parsoid køreplanen, hvor de besluttede at fokusere deres indsats på præstations-forbedringer og HTML-lagring, i stedet for den præstations-orienterede C++ version af Parsoid.

Skribent engagement
I denne måned optrappede skribentengagerings-holdet udviklingen af Notits-projektet Echo, og opdaterede den første eksperimentelle udgivelse på mediawiki.org. Brugeroplevelsen af centrale funktioner er blevet forbedret (såsom badge, fly-out, alle-notitser siden og email-meddelelser) og udvikling af nye funktioner startede, såsom indstillinger. Holdet afsluttede arbejdet med HTML e-mails og begyndte udviklingen af en mere robust jobkø. En første-udgivelse på den engelske Wikipedia forventes i slutningen af marts, og i mellemtiden kan brugerne prøve den nuværende version på mediawiki.org.

Flow, a feed-like interface to enable users to better interact with their projects, entered the product design phase in early January. It has several "modules", one of which is a design for a structured user-to-user communication system. User research began in order to learn how user-to-user talk pages are handled, and how to improve them. Engineering discussions started about potential back-end and performance difficulties, the possible use of Wikidata's ContentHandler, and the evaluation of Wikia's MessageWall. A consultation with the community is planned for early February, with experienced and newer users alike.

Regarding Article Feedback v5 (a quality assessment feature), its code was cleaned up in January, and new features (simpler moderation tools and better filters) were developed. An internal feedback evaluation study suggests that about 39% of the feedback collected can be used to improve articles. Discussions happened on the English and French Wikipedia regarding the future use of the tool, and the German pilot program is expected to continue until May.

The Editor Engagement Experiments team ("E3") launched guided tours on the English Wikipedia, a feature allowing contributors to build tours to guide newer users. Guided tours are planned as a permanent addition to Wikipedia, with each tour implementation considered to be experimental. While building guided tours, the team also tested the Getting Started landing page and task list, measuring the effect it had on driving new contributions. Analysis showed that the onboarding experience is leading to small but statistically significant increases in new English Wikipedians attempting to edit, as well as saving their first edit. In addition to measuring the effects of the guided tour associated with this project, immediate plans are to redesign the landing page and add additional task types, to entice more new contributors. Work also continued on refining the reliability and precision of the data collected from the EventLogging extension. In particular, it was migrated to a dedicated database, and the team began collecting data to measure, for example, account creations on desktop and mobile.

Mobilitet
After its soft launch in December, GeoData was officially announced this month; this functionality, which attaches geo-coordinates to articles, will be particularly useful for the mobile "Nearby" feature (enabled on an experimental version of the site), to help contributors identify articles in need of photos not far from their location.

This month, the mobile web team also finished work on the watchlist feature, and focused their efforts on photo uploads by first adding basic uploading functionality: uploading images to Commons under a single Creative Commons license. A workflow was put in place to allow users to add a thumbnail of an image they just uploaded to the appropriate article on their local Wikipedia or sister project. These features are currently live on the Beta mobile site and are set to be released to the full mobile site in February.

Uploading photos was also the focus of the newly created "Apps team", who started to develop iOS and Android versions of an app to upload photos to Commons. The two basic apps can already upload, share and show the user's contributions.

In January, the Wikimedia Foundation was awarded a grant in the Knight News Challenge for our work in expanding Wikimedia mobile projects. Part of this grant will be used for Wikipedia Zero and the SMS/USSD projects to improve access to knowledge in the developing world. In addition, we've partnered with VimpelCom to provide Wikipedia Zero access to at least 100 million additional customers this year.

On other mobile platforms, we've begun to explore ways to reduce the memory and processor requirements of our J2ME app, to increase the number of phones that can use this application; we are also finishing work on capturing the metrics from the SMS server to learn usage numbers and determine how many sessions are completed.