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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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_
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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/
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Wikimedia Foundation
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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)
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Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
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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
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Community Engagement
Wikimedia Foundation
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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
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)
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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.