Hi all! This is a reminder that the language community meeting is coming up
this Friday, November 17th, from 16:00 to 17:00 (UTC).
Feel free to add any technical updates or challenges related to your
project that you would like to share during the meeting to the agenda
document.
Learn more details: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Language_engineering/…
>
Cheers,
Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 2:47 PM Ndahiro Derrick Alter <
ndahiroderric(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the invitation , for the technical issues around
> kinyarwanda wiki , I have to attend alongside my fellow kinyarwanda
> contributors
>
> derrick
>
>
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 at 00:32 Srishti Sethi <ssethi(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> The first language community meeting is coming up in a few weeks -
>> November 17th, 16:00 UTC.
>>
>> If you're interested, you can sign up on this wiki page: <
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Language_engineering/…>
>> [1].
>>
>> We would like to invite all of you who are involved in creating content
>> or managing technical aspects across different language communities. This
>> will be a participant-driven meeting, where we collectively discuss
>> specific technical issues related to our language wikis and work together
>> to find possible solutions. This could involve anything from fixing a
>> broken template on the Kurdish wiki to brainstorming ideas for growing
>> content on the Tulu Wiktionary, currently in the Wikimedia Incubator, or
>> celebrating the creation of Fon Wikipedia, to using MinT for content
>> translation.
>>
>> You can view the meeting structure and add ideas for discussion to the
>> notes document here: <
>> https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-november-2023>
>> [2]
>>
>> If you need interpretation support from English to another language,
>> please let us know by sending an email to ssethi(a)wikimedia.org.
>>
>> Looking forward to your participation!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Srishti & Jon
>>
>> [1]
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Language_engineering/…
>>
>> [2]
>> https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-november-2023
>>
>> *Srishti Sethi*
>> Senior Developer Advocate
>> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
>>
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Hello!
The 2022 Cloud Services results have been published!
We had 159 participants who responded and provided valuable feedback and
suggestions.
For the first time, we moved from Google Forms to using LimeSurvey.
Some of you have long requested for this change and we will continue to use
LimeSurvey going forward.
The publication of the results have delayed but it's finally here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Cloud_Services_Annual_Survey/2022
Thanks to everyone who participated and provided input and comments!
We will launch the 2023 Cloud Services survey next month!
Thank you!
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Wikimedia Cloud Services
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Hi,
Wikimedia Chat, is a mattermost instance hosted in chat.wmcloud.org and
meet is a jitsi instance hosted in meet.wmcloud.org (both are shut down
now).
I made these two services back in 2020 when we were all in lock-down and
stuck at our homes and virtual social tools were scarce. I wanted it to be
a way to connect to fellow wikimedians.
We are no longer in lockdown and a lot of virtual social tools have
emerged, I'm sure there are many many jitsi and mattermost instances out
there. and on top of that, I really don't have the capacity to maintain
these services anymore.
Here is a call for people who are willing to take over the maintenance, if
no one shows up by end of November, I'll hand over the projects for
deletion.
Best
--
Amir (he/him)
Hello all,
The first language community meeting is coming up in a few weeks - November
17th, 16:00 UTC.
If you're interested, you can sign up on this wiki page: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Language_engineering/…>
[1].
We would like to invite all of you who are involved in creating content or
managing technical aspects across different language communities. This will
be a participant-driven meeting, where we collectively discuss specific
technical issues related to our language wikis and work together to find
possible solutions. This could involve anything from fixing a broken
template on the Kurdish wiki to brainstorming ideas for growing content on
the Tulu Wiktionary, currently in the Wikimedia Incubator, or celebrating
the creation of Fon Wikipedia, to using MinT for content translation.
You can view the meeting structure and add ideas for discussion to the
notes document here: <
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-november-2023>
[2]
If you need interpretation support from English to another language, please
let us know by sending an email to ssethi(a)wikimedia.org.
Looking forward to your participation!
Cheers,
Srishti & Jon
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Language_engineering/…
[2]
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-november-2023
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi,
Toolforge's Harbor instance will briefly be down for a version upgrade from
2.5 to 2.9 this Wednesday at 8:00 UTC.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T346241
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T346241>
This should not affect any tools that are not using the new build service,
nor any tools that are already running.
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Build_Service
If you are using the builds service, you will not be able to run any new
builds, or start a job or a webservice from an image built with the
build service while Harbor is down.
We will send an update before starting maintenance work, and once
everything is back up and running.
--
Slavina Stefanova (she/her)
Software Engineer | Developer Experience
Wikimedia Foundation
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Hello,
The Toolforge admin team is happy to announce that the Toolforge Build
Service[0] is now available in open beta.
The Build Service is intended to allow more tools to migrate off the Grid
Engine and to make the process for deploying code to
Toolforge easier and more flexible, by building container images with the
specific dependencies for each tool.
Here are quick highlights of some of the current key features:
1. Build your tool from source code, using you language's dependency
management tool, no dockerfiles, no scripts, no manual steps
2. Use industry-wide standards[1] no vendor lock-in by using upstream
buildpacks
3. Support for many languages out of the box[2]
4. Envvars - Create and manage environment variables and secrets that are
available at runtime.[3]
5. Ability to install packages from the Ubuntu repositories[4]
6. Improved resiliency and resource usage by allowing NFS-less
webservices[5], if you don't need NFS
7. Test your image locally, or anywhere[6]
Please review the current known limitations here[7]
We also have a growing list of tutorials for various languages[8]
During this open beta, we invite you to actively participate and share your
feedback replying to this thread or through irc, and if you
find any issues or have any feature suggestions, you can use this task
template[9].
Your insights will help us enhance and tailor the Build Service to meet the
needs of your tools.
The plan is to have this phase run for the next months, and if no big
issues are found, promote it to global availability phase 1 (GA1)
while we work on adding automatic triggering and deployment, for which we
will do a second round of beta testing for those specific features.
This unblocks the last step to migrate out of the grid, so we request all
grid users to give it a try and report any issues they might find,
there's no big changes expected for the currently implemented features, so
any work done now will help later.
Thank you for being a part of this journey. We look forward to your
invaluable feedback and collaboration as we strive to provide a better
developer experience.
[0]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Build_Service
[1]: https://buildpacks.io/
[2]:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Build_Service#Supported_…
[3]:https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Envvars_Service
[4]:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Build_Service#Installing…
[5]:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Build_Service#Using_NFS_…
[6]:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Build_Service#Testing_lo…
[7]:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Build_Service#Known_curr…
[8]:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Build_Service#Tutorials_…
[9]: https://w.wiki/7kpi
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Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Cloud Services
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Hi!
There will be a small network interruption next Monday at around 13:00 UTC
as we will be doing some cleanup on the Openstack after network
re-architecture (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348140).
It will affect all the CloudVPS and other services hosted there (including
toolforge, PAWS, quarry and superset). VMs traffic to the internet will be
cut for a short period, hopefully for a few seconds, while internal traffic
will not be affected, but if you have any open ssh session to your VMs or
login.toolforge.org, it might timeout or get dropped, and any web access to
projects will not work during the downtime.
We will update on this email thread when we start and when we have finished.
This will help stabilize the network and avoid bigger outages in the
future, so thanks for your patience!
--
David Caro
SRE - Cloud Services
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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