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Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published!
by Edward Galvez 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Hi everyone, I'm excited to share that our annual survey about Wikimedia communities is now published! This survey included 170 questions and reaches over 4,000 community members across four audiences: Contributors, Affiliate organizers, Program Organizers, and Volunteer Developers. This survey helps us hear from the experience of Wikimedians from across the movement so that teams are able to use community feedback in their planning and their work. This survey also helps us learn about long term changes in communities, such as community health or demographics. The report is available on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights/2018_Report For this survey, we worked with 11 teams to develop the questions. Once the results were analyzed, we spent time with each team to help them understand their results. Most teams have already identified how they will use the results to help improve their work to support you. The report could be useful for your work in the Wikimedia movement as well! What are you learning from the data? Take some time to read the report and share your feedback on the talk pages. We have also published a blog that you can read.[1] We are hosting a livestream presentation[2] on September 20 at 1600 UTC. Hope to see you there! Feel free to email me directly with any questions. All the best, Edward [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/09/13/what-we-learned-surveying-4000-c… [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGQtWFP9Cjc -- Edward Galvez Evaluation Strategist, Surveys Learning & Evaluation Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation -- Edward Galvez Evaluation Strategist, Surveys Learning & Evaluation Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation

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Python Flask app - localization
by Martin Urbanec 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Hi, I'm sometimes use Flask for my Toolforge tools. I'd like to localize them, ideally with messages directory in similar format like MediaWiki has in i18n directory. I know about Intuition for PHP, does anybody know about similar thing for Flask application? Best, Martin

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 18 Sep '18

18 Sep '18

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English & German. 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 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://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 27/681/51985.

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[Cloud-announce] 57 VPS projects are candidates for deletion
by Andrew Bogott 18 Sep '18

18 Sep '18

There are currently 57 unclaimed projects on https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cloud_VPS_2018_Purge. I will start shutting down unclaimed projects at the beginning of next month, and those projects will be left behind in the future network migration[1] and, eventually, deleted. If you see anything in this list that you care about, please indicate that the project is in use on the Wikitech page. Here are the 57 projects that are currently unmarked: aicaptcha bots bstorm-test chicotestproject ci-staging collection-alt-renderer contributors deep-learning-services discourse-wam download etytree fastcci glampipe globaleducation hat-imagescalers hound iiifls1 ircd jupyter maps maps-team matrix mcr-dev mediahandler-tests mediawiki-docker multimedia mw-api-testing mw-extension-ids newsletter nonfreewiki openocr orig pagemigration piwik project-smtp rdfiodev reading-lists redirects reportcard sentry services services-testbed t136871 test-twemproxy tor traffic wcdo wdq-mm wikibrain wikidata-page-banner wikidata-primary-sources-tool wikidumpparse wikifactmine wikimetrics wikisource-tools wikistream wlmjudging [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/112/neutron_is_finally_co… _______________________________________________ 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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Re: [Cloud] Looking into running job's output
by Martin Urbanec 18 Sep '18

18 Sep '18

Thank you very much for your reply and explanation. It's PWB bot actually, which is based on Python. And yeah, I should send such mails to the list instead of Bryan. So I'm CCing the list, so the reply is preserved forever. Thank you again, Martin Dne po 17. zář 2018 22:39 uživatel Bryan Davis <bdavis(a)wikimedia.org> napsal: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 11:50 PM, Martin Urbanec > <martin.urbanec(a)wikimedia.cz> wrote: > > Hi, STDOUT/STDERR from jobs is being added to jobname.{out,err} files > when > > the job is ended. Is it possible to monitor the output while the job is > > running? > > I believe that the logging of stdout and stderr is actually continuous > from the point of view of Grid Engine, but there are a couple of > things that may make it seem to be batched from the point of view of > you observing the files: > > * NFS server write aggregation and NFS client inode status updates > cause a several seconds to several minutes delay in a write by Grid > Engine to a log file being visible from a Toolforge bastion where you > are trying to read it. > > * Your application may actually be adding additional buffering of > writes to stdout/stderr that are not flushed through to Grid Engine to > send on to the NFS hosted log files until program completion (or the > buffer filling up). One common place that I have personally seen this > is with Python scripts. See > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/107705/disable-output-buffering > for some ideas on how to work around this if it is a problem for you. > If you do have a python script that does a lot of stdout/stderr output > completely disabling write buffering may have negative impacts on > shared NFS server performance. Finding a way to line buffer (hang on > to writes until you see a newline) will probably be much less > impactful on our limited shared resources than trying to write each > byte independently. > > Direct inspection of the raw stdout/stderr streams of a process > running under Grid Engine's control is technically possible, but would > require root permissions typically. You would have to know what exec > host the job is running on, ssh to that host, and then use `strace` or > a similar debugging tool to inspect the stream. This is not something > that a normal Toolforge user can accomplish themselves. > > Questions like this make great topics for the > cloud(a)lists.wikimedia.org mailing list. You can get help there not > just from me, but also from the larger Toolforge user community. It > also makes the responses easier for others to find when they have > similar issues. > > 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 >

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[Cloud-announce] Very brief NFS maintenance today 2018-09-17
by Brooke Storm 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

At 6pm UTC, we will be briefly resetting the main NFS server for tools and projects to upgrade the tooling around NFS there. This should cause a brief climb in processes waiting for IO and then that will settle out. If things don’t operate as expected, rolling back the change could take a few minutes, but that seems unlikely. Please let us know if there are prolonged issues in the #wikipedia-cloud channel. Brooke Storm Operations Engineer Wikimedia Cloud Services bstorm(a)wikimedia.org IRC: bstorm_ _______________________________________________ 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 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English, German & Persian. 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 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://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 27/681/51985.

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[Cloud-announce] Datacenter switchover on September 11
by James Hare 10 Sep '18

10 Sep '18

All, As you may have read about in other venues, the Wikimedia Foundation will be conducting a switchover of datacenters on September 11 and 12, with the switch back to occur on October 10 and 11. During the switchover and switch-back events, the wikis will be in read-only mode. Cloud VPS and Toolforge are not affected by these switchovers. However, if you run bots or scripts that make edits to the wikis, they may be unable to make edits during this time. This should appear to your bots as the standard read-only mode which occurs unplanned on the production wikis from time to time. Please let me know if you have any questions. ---- James Hare Associate Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org _______________________________________________ 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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Google Code-in 2018: Mentor some smaller tasks for young contributors!
by Andre Klapper 07 Sep '18

07 Sep '18

<tl;dr>: Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors and add your name to the mentors table and start tagging #GCI-2018 tasks. We'll need MANY mentors and MANY tasks, otherwise we cannot make it. Google Code-in is an annual contest for 13-17 year old students. It will take place from Oct23 to Dec13. It's not only about coding: we also need tasks about design, docs, outreach/research, QA. Last year, 300 students worked on 760 tasks supported by 51 mentors. For some achievements from last round, see https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/20/wikimedia-google-code-in-2017/ While we wait whether Wikimedia will get accepted: * You have small, self-contained bugs you'd like to see fixed? * Your documentation needs specific improvements? * Your user interface has some smaller design issues? * Your Outreachy/Summer of Code project welcomes small tweaks? * You'd enjoy helping someone port your template to Lua? * Your gadget code uses some deprecated API calls? * You have tasks in mind that welcome some research? Note that "beginner tasks" (e.g. "Set up Vagrant") and generic tasks are very welcome (like "Choose and fix 2 PHP7 issues from the list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120336" style). We also have more than 400 unassigned open #easy tasks listed: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/HCyOonSbFn.z/#R Can you mentor some of those tasks in your area? Please take a moment to find / update [Phabricator etc.] tasks in your project(s) which would take an experienced contributor 2-3 hours. Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors , ask if you have any questions, and add your name to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2018#List_of_Wikimedia_mentors (If you have mentored before and have a good overview of our infrastructure: We also need more organization admins! See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Admins ) Thanks (as we cannot run this without your help), andre -- Andre Klapper | ak-47(a)gmx.net https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting (Two time slots this Wednesday!)
by Michael Schönitzer 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **Wednesday at 3-4 pm UTC AND 11-12 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting (TAIM) 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 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://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 27/681/51985.

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