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Volunteer needed for Wikitech project
by Steve Slevinski 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

Hi Cloud list, We are looking for a co-maintainer for the SignWriting project. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Signwriting <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Signwriting> There are two server that power the sign language Wikipedia projects on incubator and the SignWriting keyboard by Yair Rand. These servers need to be migrated from Debian Stretch to Debian Bullseye (or Buster). https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306095 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306095> The migration should be relatively easy. Copy over the www directory. The only requirements should be Apache, PHP, GD Graphics Library and SQLite. Thanks! -Steve

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Cloud Services Survey 2021 results published
by Seyram Komla Sapaty 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

Hi everyone! The 2021 survey collected feedback from Toolforge project members and Cloud VPS project administrators on how the services offered can be improved to help their development and maintenance needs. It ran from 2021-12-21 to 2022-02-05, and had 118 participants. Please find below the published result:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Cloud_Services_Annual_Surve… Thanks to everyone who participated and provided input and comments. They are very useful and instrumental in shaping the future and improvements for the cloud services. We will launch the 2022 Cloud Services survey in a couple of months following a similar methodology. Thank you! -- Seyram Komla Sapaty Developer Advocate Wikimedia Cloud Services

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Save the Date! Wikimania Hackathon August 12-14
by Haley Lepp 13 Jul '22

13 Jul '22

Hello everyone! Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon! The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon is a free, online event open to the general public to work together on technical projects, learn new skills, and meet other technical contributors. You can find more information about this on the Wikimania page <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2022:Hackathon>, which will continue to grow over the next few weeks. For more details, read below. *Schedule: * The Hackathon will take place virtually in three time blocks: 16- 22 UTC August 12 12-17 UTC August 13 A final showcase on August 14. *Format:* At the beginning of the event, anyone can present a technical project they plan to work on at the Pre-Event Showcase. This session will provide a space for people to find teams, brainstorm new ideas, and make plans for what to hack during the Hackathon. Throughout the following hours, there will be social sessions and training sessions run by the community, but the majority of the time will be spent hacking together. Attendees can also attend other Wikimania activities. At the end of the event, there will be a final showcase to present advances or new technical projects built during the Hackathon to all of Wikimania. *Accessibility:*If you have any accessibility or translation requests, please contact hlepp(a)wikimedia.org. Looking forward to spending time hacking together! Cheers, Haley and the WMF Developer Advocacy Team

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Password change on wikitech?
by Roy Smith 03 Jul '22

03 Jul '22

I couldn't log into wikitech or horizon this morning. A password reset fixed the problem. Did something happen to invalidate passwords?

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: [Wikidata] [Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, June 30th, 16:00 UTC
by Daniel Zahn 30 Jun '22

30 Jun '22

On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 2:54 AM Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Is there any sort of list of mothballed bots looking for good homes / maintainers? I think basically every bot in the list would benefit from (more) maintainers: IRC bots: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bots on wiki bots: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bot_accounts And in general bots that work on Gerrit probably need their equivalent in Gitlab and bots working on IRC might need their equivalent on Slack (which unfortunately became standard for many but lack both volunteers and bots).

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How to get django to serve robots.txt in toolforge?
by Roy Smith 20 Jun '22

20 Jun '22

I want to serve a robots.txt file from my django app (spt-tools). My settings.py file has: STATIC_ROOT = f'{WWW_DIR}/static/' so when I run "manage.py collectstatic", robots.txt ends up in $HOME/www/static/robots.txt. It needs to be one directory level up from there. I can think of several ways to fix this, but most of them involve adding additional steps to my install process, which I'd rather not have to do. I'm curious how other people have approached this.

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[Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, June 30th, 16:00 UTC
by Srishti Sethi 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

Hello everyone, The fifth workshop on the topic of "Hosting bots and scripts on Toolforge" is coming up - it will take place on Thursday, June 30th 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_host_a…> [1]. This workshop will introduce participants to Toolforge, how to create a developer account, access it via ssh, create and run bots and scripts, etc. You can add your discussion ideas in the etherpad doc linked from the workshops page. To participate in this workshop, you would need basic familiarity with using command-line tools and technical knowledge of bots. 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_host_a… *Srishti Sethi* Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Developer Portal is launched! Discover Wikimedia’s technical areas and how to contribute
by Birgit Müller 15 Jun '22

15 Jun '22

Hi All, We are happy to announce the launch of the Wikimedia Developer Portal <https://developer.wikimedia.org/> - a centralized entry point for finding technical documentation and community resources across Wikimedia’s key technical areas. The Developer Portal project <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal> is part of a broader initiative to improve the discoverability and overall quality of key technical documentation. Work on this project began in July 2020 and included research and feedback rounds <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal/History>, designing a content strategy <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal/Content_…> and user journeys <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal?tableofc…> to help people navigate and achieve their tasks, technical implementation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal/Implemen…> of the portal, developing a documentation review process <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation/Review_template>, and updating key documents. Wikimedia’s technical documentation spans a wide range of technologies, is distributed (and often duplicated) across mediawiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki>, wikitech <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org>, code repositories or other places, might or might not be up-to-date, and serves multiple audiences. This complex landscape can make it hard to find the information you need. The goal of the Developer Portal is to make it easier for developers and other technical contributors to: - Find the key documentation they need for common developer tasks. - Discover available tools and technologies. - Learn how to get started in Wikimedia technical areas. At its core, the Developer Portal is a navigation tool. It is an index of categorized links to key sources of technical information. These sources are hosted primarily on wikis—the portal itself contains no actual documentation. A major part of this project includes reviewing and updating the documents linked from the Developer Portal - the actual documentation (examples: Localisation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation>, Communication <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Communication>, Cloud Services introduction <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_Services_introduction>). This work will continue over the next year while also investigating how to improve and scale the process. The Developer Portal is a project by the Developer Advocacy team within the Technical Engagement group at the Wikimedia Foundation and has been developed by a project team of technical writers, engineers, and developer advocates (Alex <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:APaskulin_(WMF)>, Andre <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:AKlapper_(WMF)>, Bryan <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BDavis_(WMF)>, Sarah R <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SRodlund_(WMF)>, Tricia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TBurmeister_(WMF)>). The long term goal is to step-by-step move towards a future where Wikimedia’s technical documentation is discoverable, accurate, standardized, and continuously updated. Yes, this is big :-) — and yes, it will take a while. Hope you join us in realizing this collective effort of making it easier for people to contribute to the code and technical spaces. Thank you <3 This project would not have been possible without the support, knowledge, ideas and feedback of many! A huge thanks to: - the members of WMF and WMDE engineering teams who participated in exploratory interviews early in the process, - everyone who provided feedback at Hackathon 2021 & 2022, via private messages, on the Project page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal/Content_…> or gave input or help on Phabricator tasks <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4941/query/all/> - Developers and community members who participated in multiple rounds of user testing <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal/History#…> - the Design Strategy team <https://design.wikimedia.org/strategy/index.html> at the Foundation for helping us with designing a research study and recruiting a diverse group of users to test the final version of the site - people who helped with key doc improvements and content reviews: Haley <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:HLepp_(WMF)>, Kamil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:KBach-WMF>, Komla <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SSapaty_(WMF)>, Nick <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Quiddity_(WMF)>, Srishti <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)> - translators and translatewiki.net community, especially Abijeet <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:APatro_(WMF)>, Niklas <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nlaxstrom-WMF>, and Verdy_p <https://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:Verdy_p> - People who helped us with steps towards production and deployment: Alexandros <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:AKosiaris_(WMF)>, Andrew <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:AndrewBogott_(WMF)>, Brian <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BKing_(WMF)>, Ryan <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:RKemper_(WMF)>, Valentin <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:VGuti%C3%A9rrez_(WMF)> We hope that this new resource will be fun to explore and ultimately be useful for your work. If you are interested in learning more about the thinking behind the user journey design for the Developer Portal, please see the blog post on Diff <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/06/15/illuminating-pathways-to-technical-do…>. For more information about the technical implementation and design principles, please see the corresponding post on the techblog <https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/06/15/new-discovery-tool-for-technical-…>. All key information is also available on the project page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal> of the Developer Portal. Feedback, ideas and questions are more than welcome on the talk page of the project <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal>. Let's keep discussions in one place. :-) Birgit & the Developer Portal project team -- Birgit Müller (she/her) Director of Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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[Cloud-announce] Rstudio in PAWS
by Vivian Rook 14 Jun '22

14 Jun '22

Rstudio has an interest in system users existing that make it difficult to upgrade in PAWS, which doesn't have the same ideas about system users. Currently the single user container is blocked from being upgraded by Rstudio. There are some more Rstudio specific details in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302164 One simple solution would be to remove Rstudio. At the moment there is not a clear path forward for keeping it as a part of PAWS. Are there any opinions on this approach? Thank you -- *Vivian Rook (They/Them)* Site Reliability Engineer Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.…

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ECDSA host key
by John Shepherd 13 Jun '22

13 Jun '22

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