Wikitech-l May 2019

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by Aayush Sharma

4 years, 12 months

[FYI] Gerrit reviewer statistics available on https://wikimedia.biterg.io

by Andre Klapper

For those interested in development community metrics: https://wikimedia.biterg.io now offers a new dashboard under "Gerrit > Approvals" covering *review* activity in gerrit.wikimedia.org. You can query per reviewer, filter per code repository, filter per affiliation, etc. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151559#5172374 and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics for more information. Cheers, andre -- Andre Klapper | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

4 years, 12 months

TechCom Radar 2019-05-08

by Kate Chapman

Hi All, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * No Public IRC RFC Discussion next week due to Hackathon travel * Office Hours during Hackathon will provide link for remote video participation may also join via IRC #wikimedia-office 8:00 PT/15:00 UTC/17:00 CEST on May 17th * Reviewed Normalizing *links tables https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222224 and accepted as RFC You can also find our meeting minutes at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Minutes> See also the TechCom RFC board <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-rfcs/>. If you prefer you can subscribe to our newsletter here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:TechCom_Radar> Thanks, Kate -- Kate Chapman Senior Program Manager, Core Platform Wikimedia Foundation kchapman(a)wikimedia.org

4 years, 12 months

Scrum of scrums/2019-05-08

by Željko Filipin

Hi, for HTML version see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-05-08 Željko -- = 2010-05-08 = == Callouts == * RelEng: Changing a WikibaseCirrusSearch config default (to activate its functionality by default when installed) appears to break several browser tests in CI. Guidance requested on what to do about this: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseCirrusSearc… * SRE DBAs inform everyone of Parsercache: second key change scheduled for 14th May https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210725 * VE blocking Core Platform, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222639#5166947 * RelEng: some tests are really long: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222757 * Scrum of scrums ** looking for 1-2 backup facilitators (facilitator traveling next Wednesday) ** Meeting notes for the last 3 meetings archived at [[Scrum of scrums]] (apologies for the delay) ** Is this meeting useful? Should it be replaced with an e-mail? ** Ideas on how to improve the meeting? == Audiences == === Contributors === ==== Community Tech ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== Anti-Harassment Tools ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** Core Platform, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222639#5166947 * Updates: ** Summary: More improvements to the mobile experience using visualeditor, with the goal of making default on some wikis by the end of the quarter *** Fix switching without changes (task T221981) *** Replace the save button with a save tool (task T163142) *** Fix diffs in non-section-editing mode (task T222489) ==== Growth ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Planning Mobile version of Newcomer Homepage and iterations the Help Panel *** Add visible help link for Special:Notifications (task T200184) *** Convert PresentationModelSection from trait to class *** Pass viewing user as $3 to email subject messages (for GENDER) (task T219620) *** Add maintenance script to reserialize revision content (task T209120) *** Record multiple states for email module (task T219432) *** Translate Special:Homepage into Vietnamese (task T219284) *** Translate Special:Impact into Czech *** Remove now-unneeded override for email subject gender param *** Flow- Remove unused notification properties *** RecentChanges updated to use pseudo elements for presentation ==== Language ==== * Blocked by: ** RelEng: Add abi to l10n-watchers group in Gerrit ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222015) * Blocking: * Updates: ** Progress on making ContentTranslation v2 more stable: Dirty wiki markup, reference adaptation and MT thresolds. === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** v6.2.3 in app review *** Send CSFR token on logout - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221856 *** Keyboard editor fix - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221605 ** Continuing work on v6.3 *** Talk page MCS endpoint - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221148 *** Talk page native work - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215928 *** Link wizard in Editor - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213979 ==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== Readers Web ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== Readers Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** A patch is rolling out this week that adds new hasdescription & haslabel search keywords to WikibaseCirrusSearch, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:WikibaseCirrusSearch for docs ==== Multimedia ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** released depicts statements for UploadWizard this week ** qualifiers for depicts statements coming soon ** preparing for release of other statements ==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Overall: Over 60% of the porting complete. ** HTML -> WT: About 60% of the work done (and partially tested and verified). Waiting for all the pices to be ported before it can all be tested together. ** WT -> HTML: About 75% of the work done (and largely tested and verified) Starting to plan porting of the last big chunk of unported code here which is the "async" transformers that involve interaction with MediaWiki API (on the JS side). Likely to start on them this week. ==== UI Standardization ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** OOUI v0.31.6 released with 3 fixes, improved error message styling ** Collaborating on remaining AMC work for MobileFrontend/MinervaNeue ** Changing MinervaNeue to use a normalize.css inspired approach over reset.css ** Continuation on “Components” section work for Design Style Guide == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Upgraded more machines across payments cluster, dealing with some bugs that shook out ** Improving manual contact de-duplication workflow in CiviCRM ** Improving email opt-in UI and backend ** more work decoupling front-end forms from backend db ** might bug language team for help improving Thank You email translation workflow === Core Platform === * Blocked by: ** VE, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222639#5166947 ** Site Reliability Engineering: CPT on kask, working on it * Blocking: ** Performance, CR for ExternalStorage Access refactor. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/414968/ - is blocking https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/505468/ to make it easier to reason about in terms of maintenance. ** Reminder from Release Engineering (not blocked): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205361 is blocking removal of CodeReview * Updates: ** Remove section editing API https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216636 ** MediaWiki REST Routing pre-RFC ** Moving jobs to PHP7 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219148 ** Development of Phester === Performance === * Blocked by: ** Ops: mcrouter misconfigured (multi-dc broadcasts should be async, not sync) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/492948/ ** Core Platform: CR for ExternalStorage Access refactor. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/414968/ - is blocking https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/505468/ to make it easier to reason about in terms of maintenance. * Blocking: * Updates: ** Upgraded perf services to python-kafka 1.4.6. ** Enabled Feature Policy Reporting origin trial ** MediaWiki::getUrlDomainDistance optimization based on xhgui data ** localisation cache: Run benchmarks for proposed LCStore default for MW 1.34. – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218207 ** visualeditor: Perf fix landed for Msg->Exists() issue. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor/+/5047… === Release Engineering === * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** Callouts: Changing a WikibaseCirrusSearch config default (to activate its functionality by default when installed) appears to break several browser tests in CI. Guidance requested on what to do about this: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseCirrusSearc… ** Callouts: some tests are really long: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222757 ** Language: Add abi to l10n-watchers group in Gerrit ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222015) * Updates: ** We still exist. Sorry we weren't here recently. ** Reminder to SRE Traffic: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213769 is blocking removal of WikipediaZero (and others?) ** Reminder to CPT: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205361 is blocking removal of CodeReview ** Train Health *** Last week: 1.34.0-wmf.3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220728 *** This week: 1.34.0-wmf.4 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220729 **** All good *** Next week: 1.34.0-wmf.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220730 === Research === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Search Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Fixed job error while indexing: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219234 ** WDQS performance improvements deployed: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217897 ** Working on supporting Eastern Arabic numerals for search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117217 ** Working on ES cluster capacity planning: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221121 ** Working on cleaning up deprecations after ES6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218994 ** Working on CirrusSearch configuration for cloudelastic: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220625 ** Working on creating RDF export for SDC/MediaInfo: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221917 ** Working on WDQS bugs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153353 ** Working on supporting ChronologyProtector in WDQS Updater: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212550 === Security === * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates: Backlog ** Exploring outsourced reviews for OIT things, rewrites, JB to follow up, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155537, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156960, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148246, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187846 ** DoubleWiki, Brian to deploy as sec release, then push through gerrit, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131199 Active ** Leaving open for feedback, will monitor, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221907 ** Recruiting org SMEs, will start on basic analysis, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219831 ** A few more follow-up questions for requester, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221719 ** Planet wikimedia - assigned to Michal Anna, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207246 ** Wikisource ext, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217289 ** FormWizard extension, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201492 Waiting ** Wikibase Termbox, completed for now, possible follow-ups needed, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216419 ** Labs db/sanitarium and maintain-views.yaml audits, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169097, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103011 ** Audiences user-testing concept review, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220043 ** Audiences growth team emails concept review, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220242 === Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: ** None * Blocking: ** Wikidata on termbox SSR, working on it ** CPT on kask, working on it ** Performance: mcrouter misconfigured (multi-dc broadcasts should be async, not sync) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/492948/ ** Reminder from Release Engineering (not blocked) to SRE Traffic: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213769 is blocking removal of WikipediaZero (and others?) * Updates: ** Parsercache: second key change scheduled for 14th May T210725 == TechComm == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Wikimedia Engineering Architecture Principles approved: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Architecture_Principles == Wikidata == * Blocked by: ** Site Reliability Engineering: Wikidata on termbox SSR, working on it * Blocking: * Updates: == German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: == SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * Blocked by: ** Looking for 1-2 backup facilitators (facilitator traveling next Wednesday) * Blocking: * Updates: ** Meeting notes for the last 3 meetings archived at [[Scrum of scrums]] (apologies for the delay) ** Is this meeting useful? Should it be replaced with an e-mail? ** Ideas on how to improve the meeting?

4 years, 12 months

Patchsets by new Gerrit contributors waiting for code review and/or merge

by Andre Klapper

CR0: Please review and provide guidance if you are familiar with the code, and decide (CR±1 or CR±2): * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/Cargo/+/480039/ ** Added new feature: order virtual fields by the order they inserted to list on cargo store ** 2018-December-17 ** Maintainers/Stewards: ??? * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/GoogleAnalyticsMetr… ** fix: non-ascii page title bug ** 2019-January-20 ** Maintainers/Stewards: ??? * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/OdbcDatabase/+/4875… ** Fix OdbcDatabase to work under 1.32 and with current ExternalData ** 2019-February-02 ** Maintainers/Stewards: ??? * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/FirstSteps/+/492460/ ** Convert FirstSteps to use extension registration ** 2019-February-27 ** Maintainers/Stewards: ??? (unmaintained?) * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/pywikibot/core/+/492485/ ** [bugfix] Remove link to /edithistory from page's edithistory summary. ** 2019-March-17 ** Maintainers/Stewards: ??? (not sure where Pywikibot lists that) * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/498773/ ** db::views: Bring back abuse_filter_history table ** 2019-March-25 ** Maintainers/Stewards: WMCS? * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/Newsletter/+/499292/ ** Split API messages to a separate file ** 2019-March-26 ** Maintainers/Stewards: ??? CR+1: Please help make a decision (CR±1, CR±2) on these CR+1 patches: * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/PipeEscape/+/486043/ ** Convert PipeEscape to use extension registration ** 2019-April-20 ** Maintainers/Stewards: ??? * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/Push/+/492443/ ** Use addJsConfigVars instead of addInlineScript ** 2019-April-09 ** Maintainers/Stewards: ??? (mw.org says Unmaintained) * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/429533/ ** ApiEditPage: Don't swap undo and undoafter parameters ** 2019-April-01 ** Maintainers/Stewards: MediaWiki Platform team? Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Code_review#By_project how you can get notified of new patches in your code areas of interest. Thanks in advance for your reviews! Of last time's 20 listed patches, 1 got -1ed by Santhosh; 3 got +1ed by D3rick01, Thiemo Kreuz, WMDE-Fisch, Pastakhov; 9 got +2ed by D3rick01, Jforrester, Brian Wolff, Xqt, Volans, MarcoAurelio, EBernhardson, Umherirrender; 1 got abandoned. Maintainers/Stewards data taken from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Maintainers CR0 source: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/ownerin:newcomers+status:open+label:Veri… CR+1 source: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/ownerin:newcomers+status:open+label:Veri… -- Andre Klapper | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

4 years, 12 months

[Heads up] Proposal to disable Wikimedia Phabricator chat ("Conpherence") on 24 Jun 2019

by Andre Klapper

Hi everyone, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org offers a chat room functionality called "Conpherence". It is not much used. To avoid phragmentation of conversations I propose to disable Conpherence on June 24th, 2019. This means that existing chat rooms will become inaccessible (it's not easily technically possible to make them read-only). Data could still be accessed by Phab admins with CLI access, if needed in the future. Please see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127640#5154388 for reasons and more information. Please comment on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127640 if you have something to bring up which has not been mentioned / considered yet (or if you have thoughts in which other venues this should also be announced), to keep discussion centralized. Thanks a lot! andre -- Andre Klapper | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

4 years, 12 months

Self Introduction - Xin Chen

by Xin Chen

Hi, everyone! My name is Xin Chen. I'm a GSoC student working with the Vega team and being mentored by Dominik Moritz and Yuri Astrakhan. I'll submit patches to add support for Vega 5 and Vega-Lite because the current Vega 2 is outdated. I will be very happy for the community to review and help me in the next several months. Hope you can cooperate happily with me, too. Sincerely yours, Xin Chen

4 years, 12 months

Scrum of scrums/2019-05-01

by Željko Filipin

Hi, apologies for sending this really late. I was traveling and I'm still catching up. I didn't send meeting notes for the last three weeks. Sorry about that. I'll do my best in the future, so it doesn't happen again. Meeting notes from the last meeting are at the end of this message. For HTML versions of the last three meetings go to: - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-04-17 - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-04-24 - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-05-01 Željko -- = 2019-05-01 = == Callouts == * ... == Audiences == === Contributors === ==== Community Tech ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== Anti-Harassment Tools ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: * Summary: More improvements to the mobile experience, with the goal of making default on some wikis by the end of the quarter ** "Auto-save in local storage for StructuredDiscussions if your tab dies", ** "Re-apply accidentally lost paste sanitisation T221668", ** "Switching from mobile VE to mobile source mode with changes T128422", ** "Make save dialog in Timeless look more like Vector's", ==== Growth ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Special:Homepage goes live on Thursday (or Monday) to cs and kowiki ==== Language ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Updating screenshots this morning and submitting 6.2.3 minor version for review. *** Has sending CSFR token with logout fix https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221856 ** Continuing development on 6.3 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3890/ *** Media insert wizard in editor *** Link wizard in editor *** Talk Pages **** will include new Mobile Content Services endpoint - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221148 ==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== Readers Web ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Summary: deployed "sameAs" SEO changes at 100%, still trying to fixing browser tests, planning for next year, and continuing the advanced mobile contributions and the MobileFrontend architecture investment projects. ** Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend / Related Articles): *** Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions **** Style the history page for AMC users T219895 **** AMC Navigation - overflow menu T216418 **** Upgrade MobileWebMainMenuClickTracking to have an AMC field T218627 **** AMC Navigation - add new links to main menu with click tracking T216152 *** Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFro… **** Post-inheritance cleanup T217220 **** Abandon use of template partials in MobileFrontend for components within components e.g. Button, Icon and Anchor classes T149909 **** Nearby isn't a WatchstarPageList. Nearby has a WatchstarPageList. T217814 **** Switch Hogan for Mustache T220620 **** Remove "mediawiki.template.muhogan" from RelatedArticles T219846 **** Remove Page's View functionality T193077 **** Remove `hasLoadError` instance variable/logic from Overlay/OverlayManager T220869 *** Browser tests **** Rewrite MobileFrontend's browser tests from Ruby to Node T177260 **** AssertionError: false === true at thereShouldBeALinkToCreateMyUserPage on wmf-quibble PHP jobs T221860 **** Enable a MobileFrontend daily Selenium build T220659 *** Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T218809 T123328 T219320 T216961 T221624 *** SEO **** Deploy Schema.org Article linked data for all main namespace pages (previously 50% on most wikis, soon 100% on all wikis) on April 30th T209377 (thanks Leszek Manicki and WMDE!) ** Desktop website (Popups) *** Popups https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews **** WMDE reference previews review and support ** Planning *** Design and MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture planning for next fiscal year ==== Readers Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== Multimedia ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** released 'depicts' statements for File page on commons ** expecting to release 'depicts' statements on UploadWizard on commons next week ==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** HTML -> WT: Code refactoring on the JS side to enable incremental porting. ** WT -> HTML: All JS-side sync token transformers ported (or in gerrit); Majority of DOM transformers ported; None of the JS-side async token transformers ported yet. ==== UI Standardization ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Simplifying Wikistats treatment of deleted revisions: we will filter them out of all metrics, causing a drop in numbers. We will then add them back as an optional filter when the UI is ready to handle this more advanced type of interaction ** Pretty major update to mediawiki history, new/improved fields, schema changes, data stability and quality improvements ** Collaborating on a prototype for client error logging with Sentry === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Got a fixed version of the expense report back to Finance. Won't eat all our exchange rate query allowance, but does require a click to grant permission. ** Upgrading rest of the payments cluster to stretch ** More work on decoupling final direct link between front end forms and backend db ** Rewriting email subscription management pages ** Civi dedupe workflow improvements ** Optional 'employer' box on payments forms (to see if matching donations are offered) === Core Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: Performance, code review for ExternalStore Access refactor. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/414968/ and for LoadMonitor logic https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/394430/ * Updates: ** Route handler interface discussions (not yet an RFC) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221177 ** Data migrations for RESTBase split ** Kask session storage security review, deployment charts, performance testing ** First version of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215533 (session storage with Kask in MW) ** Moving electron to proton https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210651 === Performance === * Blocked by: ** Core Platform: code review for ExternalStore Access refactor. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/414968/ and for LoadMonitor logic https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/394430/ ** Editing: code review for making VE wikitext editor use edit stash - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189821 and for VE optimisation https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor/+/5047… ** Fundraising Tech: code review for CentralNotice ResourceLoader refactoring https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/CentralNotice/+/506… and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/CentralNotice/+/506… * Blocking: * Updates: ** Opera Mini is pretty bad! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221819#5147369 ** Some Save Timing regression issues fixed, but the bulk of the recent regression remains and the investigation continues === Release Engineering === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Research === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Search Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Fixed haswbstatement: and inlabel: on commons - now working https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221691 ** Upgraded some WDQS dependencies: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218801 ** Working on cleaning up deprecations after ES6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218994 ** Working on CirrusSearch configuration for cloudelastic: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220625 ** Working on WDQS performance improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217897 ** Working on supporting ChronologyProtector in WDQS Updater: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212550 === Security === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: == TechComm == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** No TechCom meeting this week == Wikidata == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: == German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: == SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

5 years

Gerrit: PolyGerrit is becoming the default UI

by Paladox

Hello, With the upgrade to 2.16, PolyGerrit will become the default UI. PolyGerrit is a rewritten UI based on Polymer [1] in Gerrit that is available from Gerrit 2.14, you can access this through ?polygerrit=1 or using the footer where it says "Switch to New UI". Note that you can still switch back to the old ui by doing ?polygerrit=0 (or again using the footer). The New UI is polished under 2.16 and implementing a lot of missing features such as project dashboards and the inline editor. PolyGerrit under 2.16 also redesigns the layout with new colours and styles! It also helps new users with creating there first change! A date has not been determined yet on when to upgrade, though a suggestion is for after the WMF Hackathon [2]. (This upgrade will be large and will also make the UI modern by default, encouraging new users to contribute and also users who left due to the ageing UI). [1] https://www.polymer-project.org [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200739#5165755

5 years

Congratulations to all interns selected for Google Summer of Code 2019 & Outreachy Round 18!!!

by Srishti Sethi

Hello everyone, Please join me in welcoming 16 projects that we have accepted through Google Summer of Code 2019 and Outreachy Round 18 :) We received around 100 applications for 18 projects we promoted during the application period through both programs, including two projects that were proposed by interns. See below for more information on the accepted projects: *Google Summer of Code 2019* *Name, Project <link> - Mentor(s)* 1. Aditya Jain, Create a subpage for statistics and charts related to a hashtag search <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218986> - Sam Walton 2. Amit Joki, Add Multi-wiki support to WikiEduDashboard < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220573> - Sage Ross, Wes Reid 3. Ankita Mandal, Improve the interface of Special:ViewData in the Cargo extension <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218353> - Yaron Koren 4. Jay Prakash, Develop code samples in PHP & Javascript to demonstrate the use of MediaWiki Action API modules < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219193> - Srishti Sethi, Sarah Rodlund 5. Muhammad Usman, Improve article recommendation pipeline < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218971> - Bahodir Mansurov 6. Priyanshu Varshney, Add an editable calendar interface to Page Forms extension <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217493> - Yaron Koren, Erik Biegert 7. Rammanoj Potla, Develop a tool for event organizers to track developer activity <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220254> - Suchakra Sharma, Srishti Sethi 8. Shivansh Bindal, Make notification counts update without page reload < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220324> - Kosta Harlan, Roan Kattouw 9. Ton Creus Costa, Integrate SVG translate with content translation < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220440> - Petar Petkovic, Sam Wilson 10. Ujjwal Agarwal, Create an Android app that acts as an alternative frontend for the WikiEducation Dashboard < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217202> - Sage Ross 11. Vanshika Arora, Add Structured Commons support to Commons Android app < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220198> - Nicolas Raoul, Ashish Kumar 12. Vasanth Gopa, Develop a tool to cut video in Wikimedia Commons < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220228> - James Heilman, Pratik Shetty, Hassan Amin *Outreachy Round 18* *Name, Project <link> - Mentor(s)* 13. Doris Zhou, Better understand impact of content translation tools < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217699> - Isaac Johnson 14. Jerop Brenda, Documentation improvements to the ~20 top ~70 most viewed MediaWiki Action API pages on-wiki < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218046> - Srishti Sethi, Sarah Rodlund 15. Khyati Soneji, Improve Programs & Events Dashboard for use in the #1lib1ref campaign <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220640> - Sage Ross 16. Silky Priya, Add leaderboard based on user’s edits using Commons Android app <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219053 > - Vivek Maskara, Ujjwal Agarwal You can stay up to date on the progress of selected projects by keeping an eye on: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2019 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_18 We wish all interns have a wonderful summer working on projects and a huge thank you to all the mentors involved in this edition! Cheers, Srishti, Pratyush & Derick (Wikimedia org admins) *Srishti Sethi* Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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