Hi Everyone,
It's time for Wikimedia Tech Talks 2019 Episode 10! This talk will take
place 20, November, 2019 at 6PM UTC.
*Title: *Wikidata, behind the curtain
*Speaker: *Amir Sarabadani, Software developer, Wikimedia Deutschland
*Summary:*
Wikidata is a complex and large-scale project. We all know how to use it
and how to contribute to it but it's a little bit hard to understand how it
actually works, how it scales and what parts are tricky about it. To lots
of developers, it's a black box and this is not good. This talk plans to
explain internals of Wikidata to other developers and explain future
changes to Wikidata on its technical layer.
The link to the Youtube Livestream can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWqKyC7gt0s
During the live talk, you are invited to join the discussion on IRC at
#wikimedia-office
You can watch past Tech Talks here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tech_talks
If you are interested in giving your own tech talk, you can learn more
here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event#Te…
*Note:*
*Please feel free to distribute this email to any lists that you feel are
appropriate!*
Hope to see you there!
Sarah R. Rodlund
Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy>
srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
Hello,
We have requested a 30 minutes read-only window for s1 (enwiki) (T234801)
for the 14th November from 05:00-05:30 AM UTC to switchover that section
primary database master (T234800)
db1067 is an old host and out of warranty that will be decommissioned
(T217396). The new master will be db1083
We are going to do this on Thursday 14th Nov from 05:00 to 05:30 AM UTC (we
do not expect to use the 30 minutes window, if everything goes as expected).
Impact: Writes will be blocked on the following wiki:
enwiki
Reads will remain unaffected.
Communication will happen at #wikimedia-operations
If you are around at that time and want to help with the monitoring, please
join us!
Thanks
Hi,
for HTML version see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-11-13
Željko
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= 2019-11-13 =
== Callouts ==
* Release Engineering: no train this and the next week because of Wikimedia
Technical Conference and team offsite
== Product ==
=== Editing ===
* Updates:
** Talk pages: developing high fidelity prototype for replying to comments
=== Growth ===
* Updates:
** Finalizing v1.0 of newcomer tasks recommendation module for release next
week
** Working with Scoring, Research and Search teams in the coming weeks to
implement topic-matching in the task recommendation module using ORES
modeling
=== iOS native app ===
* Blocked by:
**Core Platform
***Section headers in compare endpoint ([[phab:T236964]])
***Intermediate counts endpoint ([[phab:T234940]])
* Updates:
** moving 6.4.1 hotfix to 6.5
***3D touch fix in article view
** 6.5 wrapping up development - [[phab:project/view/4245]]
***History/diff endpoints are live 🎉 thanks all!
=== Android native app ===
* Updates:
**In the final stages of work towards a major release of SuggestedEdits
feature
**Re-started work on integrating with mobile-html endpoints for page
rendering ([[phab:project/view/4318]])
=== Product Infrastructure ===
* Updates:
** MachineVision extension is enabled for testing Computer-Aided Tagging
this week
=== Structured Data ===
* Blocking:
** Search Platform: Data dumps for SDC: [[phab:T221917]]
=== Parsing ===
* Blocking:
** We are partially blocking VE testing of Parsoid/PHP and maybe completely
blocking CX testing of Parsoid/PHP because of [[phab:T238161]]
* Updates:
** Thanks to Parsoid client teams (VE, CX, Flow, MCS) for starting to test
against Parsoid/PHP and reporting issues / filing bugs.
** We are considering enabling Parsoid/PHP on testwiki tomorrow / Monday to
enable additional testing in a production-like context.
** We are close to storing Parsoid/PHP content in RESTBase storage. We have
a couple issues to resolve before that.
== Technology ==
=== Analytics ===
* Blocking:
** Wikidata: [[gerrit:549859]]
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Updates:
** CiviCRM
*** More improvements to contact deduplication
*** Creating button to send end of year summary receipt on demand
*** Fixing more records of bulk mailing activity imported from Acoustic
** Payments-wiki
*** Getting a bunch of variants ready for testing during end of year
campaign
** CentralNotice
*** Rebasing and revising sub-national geotargeting
*** Refinement of processing for new impressions data pipeline
=== Core Platform ===
* Blocking:
** iOS native app
*** Section headers in compare endpoint ([[phab:T236964]])
** Intermediate counts endpoint ([[phab:T234940]])
* Updates:
** MW REST API live
** continue work on next version of API, OAuth 2.0, sessions
** planning for new
=== Engineering Productivity ===
==== Release Engineering ====
* Updates:
** half of the team at Wikimedia Technical Conference
** Train Health
*** Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.5 - [[phab:T233853]]
*** This week: no train because of Wikimedia Technical Conference
*** Next week: no train because of team offsite
=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by:
** Structured Data: Data dumps for SDC: [[phab:T221917]]
* Updates:
** WDQS is having high update lag for the last week - [[phab:T238229]]
** Commons search seems to have stopped indexing statements on 30 October
2019 - [[phab:T237849]]
** Search engine fails in Special:IndexPage - [[phab:T232710]]
** Make it possible to bypass automatic redirection to exact matches in
commons - [[phab:T235263]]
* Stuff no one else cares about:
** Warning: Deprecated field [inline] used, expected [source] instead -
[[phab:T237000]]
=== Security ===
* Updates:
** Next up: Security review for MachineVision libraries - [[phab:T237588]]
** In Progress: Review the FileImporter extension's load of config from
wiki pages for security concerns - [[phab:T202071]]
** In Progress: Security concept review for newcomer tasks on
Special:Homepage - [[phab:T235720]]
** Waiting: Security readiness review for the MachineVision extension -
[[phab:T227346]]
== Wikimedia DE ==
=== Wikidata ===
* Blocked by:
** Analytics: [[gerrit:549859]]
We've reached the point in deployment of the Multi-Content Revisions
changes where we're turning off the writing of data to deprecated fields.
In particular, rev_text_id and ar_text_id will be 0 in all revisions, and
rev_content_model, rev_content_format, and corresponding fields in the
archive table will always be null.
This has been the case on testwiki since October 29, and on the remaining
group 0 wikis since a few minutes ago. Assuming no issues turn up, we plan
to roll it out to group 1 on Thursday and group 2 early next week.
If you find any MediaWiki bugs that seem as if they might be related to
this change, please file them in Phabricator and tag #Core-Platform-Team.
Thanks!
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello community,
Myself Anant Jain, and I'm interested to be a mentor in Google Code-In 2019
Please let me know how to get started.
Thanks & Regards,
Anant Jain
https://anantjain.me
8800624328, 7011028147
Hey,
It happens quite often that people add a temporary config variable to the
code and then mediawiki-config repo, they remove it from code and forget to
remove the config in mediawiki-config. My quick check found these config
variables to be unused:
$wgSpamBlacklistEventLogging
$wgUseContributionTracking
$wgMFLazyLoadReferences
$wgMFExperiments
$wgDepictsQualifierProperties
$wgMediaInfoEnableOtherStatements
$wgGEHelpPanelSearchEnabled
$wgDisableRollbackConfirmationFeature
$wgCirrusSearchEnableSearchLogging
Unused config variables are bad because they make our overly large config
file even bigger (IS.php is already over 20k lines) and it can be confusing
(like https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225183). I will add more unused
config variables to the list by improving the search but please check and
remove them if you introduced any of the aforementioned variables.
Thanks
Best
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Amir (he/him)
Hello everyone. I am Joel and I am new in this mailing list. Please I wish to participate to the GsoC this year and I don’t now how to process. I am studying computer engineering in University of Buea (Cameroon). I have Experiences in HTML/CSS, JavaScript and PHP. Thank you beforehand.
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