We will be performing maintenance on the Cloud VPS network next
Tuesday (2024-05-21) starting at around 14:00 UTC. During this window
we will be replacing some software on the Cloud VPS network router.[0]
During the maintenance window there will be a brief period during
which Cloud VPS and any services hosted there (including Toolforge and
PAWS) will not have any external network connectivity. Based on tests
done in our staging environment the full outage should last for less
than a minute assuming there are no unexpected issues.
There is no action required on your side, unless your tools are not
resilient to unexpected network outages - in that case you may need to
manually restart those tools after the maintenance is complete.
[0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T364459
Taavi (+ the rest of the WMCS team)
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Taavi Väänänen (he/him)
Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Services
Wikimedia Foundation
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Hello all,
The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st
at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can sign up on this wiki page: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Language_engineering/…
>.
This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific
updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues
related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions.
For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine
translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently
supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical
challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your
project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during
the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another
language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(a)wikimedia.org and add
agenda items to the document here: <
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-may-2024>.
We look forward to your participation!
Cheers,
Jon, Mary, Oscar, Amir and Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi,
You can ignore this message if your tools do not query abuse filter tables in Wiki Replicas.
In case you missed the announcement in Tech News <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/16>, I'm letting you know about the upcoming removal of four fields from two database tables.
The fields "af_user" and "af_user_text" of the "abuse_filter" table and "afh_user" and "afh_user_text" of the "abuse_filter_history" table are being removed in favor of the new "af_actor" and "afh_actor" fields, respectively. The new fields are already in sync with the legacy ones and available for read operations.
If you run queries involving those fields, you have to update them. The queries will now be structured the same way as, e.g., queries with "rev_actor" of the "revision" table (i.e., by JOIN'ing the new fields with "actor.actor_id"). There are examples of minimalistic migration of each field in the Phabricator task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361996> that tracks the migration.
No deadline has been proposed for the removal, but it will probably have been done by the end of May unless someone asks for more time.
Thanks,
Matěj Suchánek