Friends,

This is a Scoring Platform technical update for the last couple of weeks of work.

Deployments

We completed a biweekly deployment today, adding models for quite a few new wikis. Congratulations, and a big thank you to everyone who helped us coordinate and gather the data to accomplish this!

Epic: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170485

New models

Albanian Wikipedia: new models for reverted, damaging, and goodfaith.

Bengali Wikipedia: new model for reverted.

Greek Wikipedia: new model for reverted.

Tamil Wikipedia: new model for reverted.

Romanian Wikipedia: new models for damaging and goodfaith.

Turkish Wikipedia: fixes to the article quality model ("wp10") (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170838 )

Service updates

Switched precaching from RCStream (deprecated) to new EventStreams, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166046

Better error handling for bad API params, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168920

Patched a DoS caused by a combination of bad regex and inadequate timeout code. Incident: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170623-ORES

Note that Albanian and Romanian Wikipedias will soon support ORES in their Recent Changes feeds. Subscribe to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170723 for updates.

Regards,

Adam