Hello,
As part of improving performance and stability of the recentchanges table,
we are addressing some tech debt. rc_new field was deprecated 13 years ago
and rc_type similarly was deprecated 11 years ago. We are moving forward
with dropping these columns in favour of rc_source field.
If you're querying rc_new or rc_type, please switch to using rc_source
instead. They will be removed from wikireplicas in a week.
This would allow us to consolidate several different indexes on this table
and improve performance of Special:Recentchanges and Watchlist plus
simplifying MediaWiki code.
To follow the work, you can check https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400696
and related subtickets.
Thank you and apologies for the inconvenience
Best
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Hello everyone!
We're excited to announce that the next Language Community Meeting is
happening soon - on August 29th at 15:00 UTC! If you’d like to join,
simply sign
up on the wiki page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…>
.
This is a participant-driven meeting where we share updates on
language-related projects, discuss technical challenges in language wikis,
and collaborate on solutions. For example, in our upcoming meeting, we plan
to hear from the Avro keyboard developers from Wikimedia Bangladesh, who
were recently awarded a national award for their contributions to this
keyboard.
Got a topic to share? Whether it’s a technical update from your project, a
challenge you need help with, or a request for interpretation support, we’d
love to hear from you! Feel free to reply to this message or add agenda
items to the document here
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-aug-2025>.
Also, we’d like to highlight that the 8th edition of the Language &
Internationalization Newsletter (July 2025)
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…>
is
now available. This newsletter provides updates from the April-June 2025
quarter on new feature development, improvements in various
language-related technical projects and support efforts, details about
community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects. To stay
updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…>
on
its wiki page.
Are you interested in contributing to the technical work around language
development? There are a few newcomer-friendly technical tasks waiting for
your contribution: T399682 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399682>.
Cheers,
Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
The Debian project released the latest version of their operating
system, version 13 or "Trixie", last weekend.[0] The new release is
now available for both Toolforge and Cloud VPS users.
On Toolforge, the following new pre-built images[1] take advantage of
the new runtime versions in Trixie:
* trixie (base image for compiled languages)
* jdk21
* mono6.12
* node20
* perl5.40
* php8.4
* python3.13
* ruby3.3
On Cloud VPS, a new "debian-13.0-trixie" image is available following
the usual naming scheme. Now is also a good opportunity to start
migrating VMs running Debian 11 ("bullseye") to newer versions, as we
will be starting the proper deprecation process for that in the near
future and creation of new Bullseye VMs is now restricted. Note that
any new VMs you create will now get IPv6 connectivity by default, see
[2] for more details.
[0]: https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809
[1]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Kubernetes#Available_con…
[2]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/2025_Cloud_VPS_VXLAN_IPv6_migration
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Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi!
We are working on upgrading one of the critical components of toolforge k8s[1],
and we will be rolling it out tomorrow at 10:00UTC on toolforge production.
There's no downtime expected, though upgrading this component specifically has
proven bumpy in the past, so we recommend to not run critical loads during
that time.
I'll reply to this email when starting the upgrade and when finishing it.
Thanks!
[1] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394787
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SRE - Cloud Services
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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On Monday next week we plan to expand the volume that stores PAWS
notebook files. PAWS will be down during the resize, possibly for as
long as an hour.
We are not planning to change the current restrictions on PAWS file
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support ongoing growth in usage without needing to purge existing old
and large-sized notebooks.
The resize will begin around 14:00 UTC.
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