Cloud January 2019

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Vandalism
by Thomas Stieve 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

Dear Listserv, Hope all is well. I am mapping IP address edits per country for 271 language Wikipedias. I would like to exclude IP addresses that are vandalism. I was thinking of using the ipblocks table for the IP addresses to be excluded. Because this project is in so many different languages and my programming skills are intermediate, I would like to use the Wikipedia tables or registers that the Wikipedians in those language use to mark vandalism. If anyone has another idea, I would be most grateful. Perhaps I am missing a way that Wikipedians across languages are using to mark vandalism. Thank you, Tom -- Thomas Stieve Ph.D. Candidate School of Geography and Development University of Arizona

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting for the first time of the year on **Wednesday 4-5 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 https://wikimedia.de Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissens der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! https://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 27/029/42207.

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[Cloud-announce] [Survey] Final Day - Help Improve MediaWiki Action API Technical Documentation
by Sarah R 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

Hello Everyone, Just a reminder: the MediaWiki Action API Technical Documentation Survey will close at 12:00 AM PST / 8:00 AM UTC. If you have a few moments today to share your knowledge and opinions to help improve technical documentation for the MediaWiki Action API, we would appreciate it! https://goo.gl/forms/Y5PGILb6b3awC3OJ2 *Notes about the Mediawiki Action API Survey:* *Survey Period: *December 6, 2018 - January 14, 2019 *Privacy Policy:* This survey will be conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Action_API_Survey_Privacy_S… . Thanks for your participation! Kindly, Sarah R. Rodlund Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy> srodlund(a)wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ 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] Toolforge: Trusty deprecation and grid engine migration
by Bryan Davis 12 Jan '19

12 Jan '19

Ubuntu Trusty was released in April 2014, and support for it (including security updates) will cease in April 2019. We need to shut down all Trusty hosts before the end of support date to ensure that Toolforge remains a secure platform. This migration will take several months because many people still use the Trusty hosts and our users are working on tools in their spare time. == Initial timeline == Subject to change, see Wikitech[0] for living timeline. * 2019-01-11: Availability of Debian Stretch grid announced to community * Week of 2019-02-04: Weekly reminders via email to tool maintainers for tools still running on Trusty * Week of 2019-03-04: ** Daily reminders via email to tool maintainers for tools still running on Trusty ** Switch login.tools.wmflabs.org to point to Stretch bastion * Week of 2019-03-18: Evaluate migration status and formulate plan for final shutdown of Trusty grid * Week of 2019-03-25: Shutdown Trusty grid == What is changing? == * New job grid running Son of Grid Engine on Debian Stretch instances * New limits on concurrent job execution and job submission by a single tool * New bastion hosts running Debian Stretch with connectivity to the new job grid * New versions of PHP, Python2, Python3, and other language runtimes * New versions of various support libraries == What should I do? == The Cloud Services team has created the Toolforge Trusty deprecation[1] page on wikitech.wikimedia.org to document basic steps needed to move webservices, cron jobs, and continuous jobs from the old Trusty grid to the new Stretch grid. That page also provides more details on the language runtime and library version changes and will provide answers to common problems people encounter as we find them. If the answer to your problem isn't on the wiki, ask for help in the #wikimedia-cloud IRC channel or file a bug in Phabricator[2]. [0]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge_Trusty_deprecation#Timel… [1]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge_Trusty_deprecation [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?title=Stretch… Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd808(a)wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Technical Engagement Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ 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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toolforge Python library 4.2.0 released
by Kunal Mehta 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

Hi, Version 4.2.0 of the "toolforge" Python library[1] has been released. You can upgrade to the latest version by running: pip install -U toolforge in your tool's virtual environment. There are two main changes in this version: * The toolforge.redirect_to_https() function is now deprecated, and does nothing (keeping it in is harmless). * toolforge.set_user_agent() now returns the new user-agent, for easier use with other libraries that need a user-agent (e.g. mwoauth). Thanks to Lucas Werkmeister for suggesting both improvements. [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm/toolforge_library -- Legoktm

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[Cloud-announce] VPS bastions updated
by Andrew Bogott 07 Jan '19

07 Jan '19

I've just moved the VPS bastions to new hosts. These hosts are in the new network region, and are also running Debian Stretch. This should be an almost fully-transparent change for all users. On your first use of ssh you may see a warning like: Warning: Permanently added the ECDSA host key for IP address '185.15.56.13' to the list of known hosts. That's just ssh adjusting to the new IP and is totally expected. If you are in the habit of running local commands on the bastions, you may see some changes in behavior due to the new OS version. But also, if you're in the habit of running local commands on the bastions, please don't do that :) Toolforge users should be unaffected by this. An equivalent change is coming up for toolforge but will be done at a later date. Let me know you find any breakage or unexpected issues from this change! -Andrew _______________________________________________ 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] Migrating tools.wmflabs.org to HTTPS
by Bryan Davis 03 Jan '19

03 Jan '19

Starting 2019-01-03, GET and HEAD requests to http://tools.wmflabs.org will receive a 301 redirect to https://tools.wmflabs.org. This change should be transparent to most visitors. Some webservices may need to be updated to use explicit https:// or protocol relative URLs for stylesheets, images, JavaScript, and other content that is rendered as part of the pages they serve to their visitors. More information is posted in out tech blog at: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/132/migrating_tools.wmfla…> If you need some help figuring out how to fix your own tool's output, or to report a tool that needs to be updated, join us in the #wikimedia-cloud IRC channel. Bryan (on behalf of the Wikimedia Cloud Services team) -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd808(a)wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Technical Engagement Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ 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] [Survey] Help Improve MediaWiki Action API Technical Documentation
by Sarah R 03 Jan '19

03 Jan '19

Hi Everyone, Over the last few months, the Wikimedia Developer Advocacy team has been working to improve technical documentation for the MediaWiki Action API <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page>. So far, we have: - Started efforts to revise, simplify, and reorganize the MediaWiki Action API pages on MediaWiki using a new documentation template for sub-pages: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Documentation_template - Updated the API navigation-template: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:API As we continue to make improvements to the technical documentation, we could use your help to better guide our efforts! Would you please take a few moments to complete the following survey and share your opinions and experiences with us? https://goo.gl/forms/Y5PGILb6b3awC3OJ2 *Notes about the Mediawiki Action API Survey:* *Survey Period: *December 6, 2018 - January 6, 2019 *Privacy Policy:* This survey will be conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Action_API_Survey_Privacy_S… . Thanks for your participation! Kindly, Sarah R. Rodlund Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy> srodlund(a)wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ 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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