Next Tuesday we'll be performing a routine upgrade of the OpenStack
software in cloud-vps.
During the upgrade, Horizon will be disabled and many OpenStack API
calls will fail. VMs and Tools will be largely unaffected, but midway
through the upgrade there will be a very brief network interruption
which will definitely reset all network connections and may also cause
timeouts.
The entire upgrade should take around two hours.
-Andrew + the WMCS team
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Dear Wikimania Hackathon Attendees,
It was a pleasure spending the weekend hacking with you! I hope you had as
much fun as I did playing with WikiData games, learning about clever ways
to improve medical data on wikis, exploring Wikimedia Cloud Services, and
engaging with all the other cool projects and sessions.
If you missed the final showcase, it was recorded! You can watch it on
YouTube. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ2tKvv3Hfc>
The playlist of recorded sessions is also available. <
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3soxkz-0_y6xOBqgWuZXv4ZrGJTghXIA>
There’s also information about all the projects on the Wikimania wiki. If
you didn’t get the chance to present, you can still add your project there.
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon/Showcase>
Finally, please consider giving feedback on the event! If you have ideas,
things you liked, or things you’d like to see changed, this is your chance
to share that so we can improve in the future. <
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/2022WikimaniaHackathon-FB>
My best regards,
Haley and the Developer Advocacy Team
--
*Haley Lepp*
Technical Community Program Manager
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi,
Following a successful request[1], LucasWerkmeister is now a Toolforge
admin. Congrats Lucas!
And if you're looking for assistance with Toolforge things, there's now
one more person who can help with admin-y things :-)
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314527
-- Legoktm
Hello!
A friendly reminder that the feedback period ends on the 21st of August.
Please spare 5-10 minutes to leave feedback[0] on the Toolhub taxonomy[1].
Toolhub[2] is a catalog of 1500+ tools used by a wide range of Wikimedia
contributors: editors, developers, patrollers, researchers, admins and more.
We want to make finding and categorizing these tools as easy as possible.
The taxonomy is at the heart of how tool search works, and your feedback
would help improve it.
Whether you are a current user of Toolhub or hearing about it for the first
time doesn't matter – your input is valuable and much appreciated either
way!
=== How To Provide Feedback ===
Use the discussion page[3] of the feedback page to provide your responses
to the questions.
You will find more details on the feedback page.
=== Implementation ===
At the end of the feedback round, the team will evaluate and work on the
necessary improvements.
This is expected to be completed by the end of September 2022.
[0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Data_model/Feedback
[1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Data_model#Taxonomy_v2
[2]: https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/
[3]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub/Data_model/Feedback
Thanks
--
Seyram Komla Sapaty
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Cloud Services
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Hello everyone,
The sixth workshop on the topic of "How to maintain bots" is coming up - it
will take place on Friday, July 29th at 16:00 UTC. You can find more
details on the workshop and a link to join here: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops#How_to_mainta…>
[1].
This session will focus on best practices for maintaining bots and tools in
the Wikimedia ecosystem. It will cover a few practices that can help
developers run a bot or a tool with help from others, such as picking a
license, adding co-maintainers to the project, publishing source code,
writing docs, and much more.
To participate in this workshop, you would need basic familiarity with bots
or tools development. You can add your discussion ideas in the etherpad doc
linked from the workshops page.
We look forward to your participation!
Best,
Srishti
On behalf of the SWT Workshops Organization team
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops#How_to_mainta…
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Thanks to a profound disagreement between fingers and brain, I've just
accidentally rebooted several cloudvirts and they're associated VMs.
Everything will be back up shortly, and no action is needed from users
unless you have services that need manual restarting.
Sorry for the noise!
-Andrew
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Hi Wikimania Hackathon Attendees!
It has been such fun getting to know you all over the past 2 days. Thank
you to everyone who worked on projects and hosted sessions!
There is one more Hackathon Event- the Final Showcase! It will take place
at 15:55–16:45 UTC August 14. Please consider presenting what you worked
on! You can do so by adding information to this Etherpad: <
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wikimania2022-hackathon-showcase>
Finally, we would love your feedback on this event! If you have ideas,
things you liked, or things you’d like to see changed, this is your chance
to share that so we can improve in the future. <
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/2022WikimaniaHackathon-FB>
If you have any other questions, please leave a comment on the talk page or
on Telegram/IRC.
Hope to see you there!
The Developer Advocacy Team