April 2019 - 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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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English & Hebrew! 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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Re: [Cloud] [Wikidata] [Wikidata-tech] wb_terms redesign
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 26 Apr '19

26 Apr '19

Alaa Sarhan, 25/04/19 17:38: > Full migration is not possible unfortunately due to the current capacity > of database master node. Can you clarify whether it would also be too much load to write both to the new table and the old wb_terms table for a transition period (controlled by a configuration setting)? (I'm not advocating for it, just asking because we did something of the sort in the past for other transitions.) Federico

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: Action API action=logout will require a CSRF token
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 25 Apr '19

25 Apr '19

With the merge of Icb674095,[1] use of API action=logout will require a CSRF token. This was considered a security issue, so the usual deprecation process was not followed. See T25227[2] for details. Clients that do not use a CSRF token with action=logout will receive a badtoken error message ***and will not be logged out***. This change should be deployed to Wikimedia wikis with 1.34.0-wmf.3. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap for a schedule. Overall client impact is expected to be relatively low, as gathered statistics indicate there are relatively few users of this API call. None the less, maintainers should check their code for use of action=logout and update as necessary to maintain expected operation. [1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/504565 [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.orgdo not use /T25227 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T25227> [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T25227#4902709 -- 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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[Cloud-announce] [Breaking change] Important for Wikidata tools maintainers: wb_terms table to be dropped at the end of May
by Bryan Davis 24 Apr '19

24 Apr '19

The 'wb_terms' table is being removed from the Wiki Replica databases. Please see Léa Lacroix's post on the wikidata mailing list [0] for additional details. TL;DR summary: * May-June 2019, the Wikidata development team will drop the wb_terms table from the database in favor of a new optimized schema * Migration will start on 2019-05-29 * A test system will be available starting 2019-05-15 * Details are available in Phabricator [1] [0]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-April/012987.html [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221764 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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[Cloud-announce] Partial toolforge and PAWS outages Monday
by Andrew Bogott 17 Apr '19

17 Apr '19

Tuesday starting at around 17:00 UTC I'm going to relocate the paws and kubernetes masters to the new network region. While the VMs are copying, launches of new kubernetes jobs and creation of new PAWS notebooks will fail. The outage should last about an hour -- less if everything goes well, somewhat more if not. Jobs that are already running when the copy begins should be unaffected. Apologies for any inconvenience caused! -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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Fwd: [Mediawiki-api-announce] Deprecation of list=allusers 'recenteditcount' result property
by Bryan Davis 16 Apr '19

16 Apr '19

Cross-posting for visibility. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 10:49 AM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api-announce] Deprecation of list=allusers 'recenteditcount' result property To: <mediawiki-api-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org> This deprecated property, announced in July 2014, will be removed in MediaWiki 1.34. On Wikimedia sites, the removal will likely be deployed with 1.34.0-wmf.2, which is scheduled for next week. If your client is still using the "recenteditcount" property rather than "recentactions", you should update your code ASAP. On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 3:48 PM Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > When list=allusers is used with auactiveusers, a property 'recenteditcount' is returned in the result. In bug 67301[1] it was pointed out that this property is including various other logged actions, and so should really be named something like "recentactions". > > Gerrit change 130093,[2] merged today, adds the "recentactions" result property. "recenteditcount" is also returned for backwards compatability, but will be removed at some point during the MediaWiki 1.25 development cycle. > > Any clients using this property should be updated to use the new property name. The new property will be available on WMF wikis with 1.24wmf12, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap for the schedule. > > > [1]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67301 > [2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/130093/ > > -- > Brad Jorsch (Anomie) > Software Engineer > Wikimedia Foundation -- 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 -- 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

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Re: [Cloud] [Cloud-announce] [Wikitech-l] Change to Wikitech logins: Username now case-sensitive
by Andrew Bogott 16 Apr '19

16 Apr '19

On 4/16/19 7:59 AM, Andrew Otto wrote: > Great! Is this just for Wikitech itself or all ldap/wikitech > authentication? This notice is related to a change in mediawiki code, so concerns direct logins to wikitech itself. That said, the 2fa key used by Horizon is stored in a the wikitech database, so it's vaguely possible that Horizon logins could be disrupted as well. Other services that rely on ldap for account creation (e.g. gerrit, icinga, etc.) are unaffected, although they may have unrelated case-(in)sensitive issues of their own. > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 7:56 PM Bryan Davis <bd808(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> A change was deployed to the Wikitech config 2019-04-15T23:16 UTC >> which prevents users from logging into the wiki with a username that >> differs in case from the 'cn' value for their developer account. >> >> This change is not expected to cause problems for most users, but >> there may be some people who have historically entered a username with >> mismatched case (for example "bryandavis" instead of "BryanDavis") and >> relied on MediaWiki and the LdapAuthentication plugin figuring things >> out. This will no longer happen automatically. These users will need >> to update their password managers (or brains if they are not using a >> password manager) to supply the username with correct casing. >> >> The "wrongpassword" error message on Wikitech has been updated with a >> local override to help people discover this problem. See >> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165795> for more details. >> >> Bryan, on behalf of the 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ 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] Change to Wikitech logins: Username now case-sensitive
by Bryan Davis 16 Apr '19

16 Apr '19

A change was deployed to the Wikitech config 2019-04-15T23:16 UTC which prevents users from logging into the wiki with a username that differs in case from the 'cn' value for their developer account. This change is not expected to cause problems for most users, but there may be some people who have historically entered a username with mismatched case (for example "bryandavis" instead of "BryanDavis") and relied on MediaWiki and the LdapAuthentication plugin figuring things out. This will no longer happen automatically. These users will need to update their password managers (or brains if they are not using a password manager) to supply the username with correct casing. The "wrongpassword" error message on Wikitech has been updated with a local override to help people discover this problem. See <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165795> for more details. Bryan, on behalf of the 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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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English, Persian, Hindi & Kannada! ⏰ Please note: due to European summer time change the meetings now start at 3 pm UTC! ⏰ 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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