September 2018 - Cloud - lists.wikimedia.org

Upgrade to MariaDB 10.2
by Huji Lee 02 Jun '19

02 Jun '19

Hi all, Does anyone know when we will be upgrading the Clouds replica DBs to MariaDB 10.2? I am asking mainly because we are on 10.1.33, 10.3 is now out, and since 10.2 support for CTEs (WITH statements) has been added which is very handy. Thanks, Huji

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Comment/summary storage changes
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 16 Oct '18

16 Oct '18

As you may have been aware, we've been working on changing how MediaWiki stores comments: instead of having them as fields in each revision (rev_comment), log entry (log_comment), and so on, we're storing the text in a central "comment" table and referring to them by ID from other tables (log_comment_id and so on). We've been writing to the new fields and tables since the end of February 2018, and have back-populated them for old revisions, log entries, and so on. Now we're starting to look at stopping the writes to the old fields, starting soon with testing wikis such as test.wikipedia.org and also with mediawiki.org. Other wikis will follow, likely in October after the DC switch-back. For the most part wiki users shouldn't notice any changes, however if you notice something not displaying a comment or edit summary for new entries, on these wikis let me know. For users of the Data Services replicas, such as Toolforge, the views currently simulate the old columns for you. However this may change in the future. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181650#4581384 for details. MediaWiki developers should make sure code accessing comment fields makes use of the CommentStore class that was introduced in MediaWiki 1.30. You can watch https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166733 (and any subtasks) for more information on the deployment process. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

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[Cloud-announce] Network maintenance Thursday, 2018-10-04 at 16:00 UTC
by Andrew Bogott 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

Routine network upgrades are scheduled for Thursday which may result in brief WMCS service interruptions. In particular, Wikitech and Horizon may stop working, and instance creation/deletion/updating may briefly fail. The network engineers have reserved a two-hour window beginning at 16:00 UTC (9 AM Pacific time). Their worst case scenario is 30 minutes of downtime but if all goes well the interruption should not be noticeable, just the time to unplug a cable from one switch and plug it into another. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia Cloud Services announce mailing list Cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org (formerly labs-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud-announce

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[Cloud-announce] Ubuntu deprecation plans
by Arturo Borrero Gonzalez 29 Sep '18

29 Sep '18

Hi! We would like to share some information regarding Wikimedia Cloud Services plans for deprecating Ubuntu, specially Trusty. Ubuntu Trusty's end-of-life is April 2019 and the WMF decided to consolidate in a single operating system, which is Debian. In Cloud VPS, projects containing Ubuntu virtual machine instances have been contacted by means of a Phabricator task. Toolforge users aren't affected by this right now, because Toolforge itself is currently running Trusty. But we are already working on the next, Debian-based, Toolforge version. All this information, more details (and timelines), can be found on this Wikitech page: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Trusty_deprecation Please, let us know any question or doubt you may have. Best regards. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia Cloud Services announce mailing list Cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org (formerly labs-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud-announce

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[Cloud-announce] NFS maintenance this Thursday 2018-09-27
by Brooke Storm 25 Sep '18

25 Sep '18

At 6pm UTC, Thursday 2018-09-27, we’ll be taking the primary tools/project NFS system offline for a brief moment to attempt some upgrades, which should cause load to climb a bit and then settle. This should be a relatively low-impact change and has been thoroughly tested in a separate environment, but if anything goes wrong with the process, corrective action may cause a few minutes of problems. Brooke Storm Operations Engineer Wikimedia Cloud Services bstorm(a)wikimedia.org IRC: bstorm_ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia Cloud Services announce mailing list Cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org (formerly labs-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud-announce

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Deprecation of the disabletidy parameter to action=parse
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 25 Sep '18

25 Sep '18

Now that MediaWiki has a pure-PHP tidying implementation, we are deprecating non-tidy output.[1] Further, the future rewrite of Parsoid in PHP[2] and its merge to core will have "tidying" as an integral feature. Thus, the disabletidy parameter to action=parse is being deprecated and will be removed at some point in the future. Clients should stop using the parameter and begin using tidied HTML output. This change should be deployed to Wikimedia wikis with 1.32.0-wmf.24 or later, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/Roadmap for a schedule. [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198214 [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/parsoid-php/ -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api-announce mailing list Mediawiki-api-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 25 Sep '18

25 Sep '18

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English, Persian & German. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project. If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting Hope to see you there! Michi (for the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew) -- Michael F. Schönitzer Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published!
by Edward Galvez 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Hi everyone, I'm excited to share that our annual survey about Wikimedia communities is now published! This survey included 170 questions and reaches over 4,000 community members across four audiences: Contributors, Affiliate organizers, Program Organizers, and Volunteer Developers. This survey helps us hear from the experience of Wikimedians from across the movement so that teams are able to use community feedback in their planning and their work. This survey also helps us learn about long term changes in communities, such as community health or demographics. The report is available on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights/2018_Report For this survey, we worked with 11 teams to develop the questions. Once the results were analyzed, we spent time with each team to help them understand their results. Most teams have already identified how they will use the results to help improve their work to support you. The report could be useful for your work in the Wikimedia movement as well! What are you learning from the data? Take some time to read the report and share your feedback on the talk pages. We have also published a blog that you can read.[1] We are hosting a livestream presentation[2] on September 20 at 1600 UTC. Hope to see you there! Feel free to email me directly with any questions. All the best, Edward [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/09/13/what-we-learned-surveying-4000-c… [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGQtWFP9Cjc -- Edward Galvez Evaluation Strategist, Surveys Learning & Evaluation Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation -- Edward Galvez Evaluation Strategist, Surveys Learning & Evaluation Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation

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Python Flask app - localization
by Martin Urbanec 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Hi, I'm sometimes use Flask for my Toolforge tools. I'd like to localize them, ideally with messages directory in similar format like MediaWiki has in i18n directory. I know about Intuition for PHP, does anybody know about similar thing for Flask application? Best, Martin

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 18 Sep '18

18 Sep '18

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English & German. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project. If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting Hope to see you there! Michi (for the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew) -- Michael F. Schönitzer Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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