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The Wikimedia Developer Summit wants YOU!
by Srishti Sethi 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Hello! The Wikimedia Developer Summit <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit> is the annual meeting to push the evolution of MediaWiki and other technologies supporting the Wikimedia movement. The next edition will be held in San Francisco on January 9-11, 2017. We welcome all Wikimedia technical contributors, third party developers, and users of MediaWiki and the Wikimedia APIs. We specifically want to increase the participation of volunteer developers and other contributors dealing with extensions, apps, tools, bots, gadgets, and templates. Important deadlines: - Monday, October 24: This is the last day to request travel sponsorship. Applying takes less than five minutes. - Monday, October 31: This is the last day to propose an activity. Bring the topics you care about! Subscribe to weekly updates: https://www.mediawiki.org/ wiki/Topic:Td5wfd70vptn8eu4 Please feel free to forward this email to anyone who might be interested in attending! Thanks, Srishti -- Srishti Sethi ssethi(a)wikimedia.org

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SoS followup
by Chris Steipp 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

>From the SoS this week, the only team who asked for help is Collaboration / Erik B, who is asking for some Cirrus reviews. They are blocked getting search for flow on them. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/owner:%22Matthias+Mullie+%253Cmmullie%25… Chad / Nik, can one of you take a look?

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Wikidata and Truth
by Nikolas Everett 25 Feb '15

25 Feb '15

Folks: so Stas and I've spent two days talking to the wikidata folks and I've learned some fun stuff. I'm sending this email to this mailing list, because, well, I just have to write this down and this list cares about things. Maybe they'll care about this thing. I'm not sending this to wikidata's mailing list because I'm not really confident enough to send this to experts yet. Anyway, the most interesting bit that I learned so far is that the Wikidata team claims that Wikidata doesn't describe truth. That might seem like a silly difference at first but you start to get into trouble when you want to query it and don't understand that. Think about it this way: there are multiple values for the Jesus's birthday <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302#P569> and wikidata actually doesn't claim that either of them are true, just that they are *according to some sources*. Look also at George Washington's spouse <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23#P26>. She has a qualifier - the date of their marriage. These qualifies are like preconditions to the truth. Kinda. They aren't always used that way but you can sort of pretend. But we can emerge from Cartesian doubt! Wikidata has some concept of "true enough for most uses" called "best rank" <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Ranking>. Its a reasonably simple concept that amounts to "the community decides". So the plan is to implement queries against that first. This should be good enough for wikigrok initially and faster to implement and query because it allows us to ignore things like qualifiers and references. Nik

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Extracting unit tests from mediawiki test suite
by Antoine Musso 04 Feb '15

04 Feb '15

Hello, The MediaWiki core tests are a bit of a mess, tends to be slow and require a working MediaWiki installation. We could certainly extract tests that exercise a single function and do not depend on having mw installed. Ie unit tests. Doing so, we could have devs and CI run the lightweight/fast unit tests and skip the slow tests, hopefully saving a lot of time. Another interest, is that the resulting unit tests suite will give us a good overview of our code coverage. We could probably generate a coverage report quite fast tricking people in writing more unit tests to enhance the metric. I am not sure whom to bring the subject to nor how to get a champion elected to pursue that Augeas cleaning. I am sure MediaWiki Core team will have some good ideas :-] There is a task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87781 cheers, -- Antoine "hashar" Musso

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Possible OAuth focus
by Bryan Davis 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

Chris has an epic in the mw-core backlog tracking OAuth fixes that we could focus on instead of SOA Auth. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86869 There are a few things that are compelling about considering a shift of focus to this for me: * We already have a list of things to work on! * Erik is *really* interested in improving OAuth * We started this project and know that there are things we'd like to polish up * This has a more visible impact than core code cleanup * We can probably come up with metrics to go along with it The down sides: * Authn/z will need work eventually * We need to keep working on SOA Auth RfC either way Thoughts? I'd be happy to have a conference call with the current team and anyone else who is interested to discuss this if it seems like that would be more efficient. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd808(a)wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855

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Having a phab ticket associated with all commits
by Bryan Davis 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

I was in a meeting with Damon today and he brought up something that might be interesting for us as a team to try out. He suggested that all gerrit commits should be traceable to a phabricator ticket. This is something that I have actually done at other companies to the point of having it be required for git to accept the patch. The point wouldn't be to have a direct one-to-one correlation between phab tickets and each commit, but to have some traceability about the larger goals that each unit of work is intended to serve. Obviously when we are fixing things in response to open issues this is easy. It takes a bit more practice to make sure that the spontaneous "I have to clean this up because my eyes are bleeding" commits have something in phab to associate the commit to. Thoughts? Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd808(a)wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855

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Nik less available than expected December 24th
by Nikolas Everett 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

Hi Team! My mom hand surgery today and its hit her a bit harder than we expected so I might be on nursing duty some tomorrow. I'll be online but might not be as responsive as I usually am. Nik

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Building HHVM on osmium
by Tim Starling 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Anyone building HHVM for install in /usr/local should get this patch first: https://github.com/hhvm/hhvm-third-party/pull/39 Before that change, installation would put a broken libpcre.a into /usr/local/lib, which would then be used in subsequent builds. Hence the errors "this version of PCRE is compiled without UTF support" we were seeing yesterday. FindPCRE.cmake would only enable unicode support in the bundled library if it was actually going to link against it. So if there was a system library available, it would compile and install the bundled library with the default configuration. -- Tim Starling

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Adjustment for the team board
by Bryan Davis 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

I have WP:BOLDly added a new "archive" column to the team phab board that is hidden by default. The reason for this is to give us a way to keep track of what has been finished in a given week without trying to keep ourselves and others from closing tasks when they are completed and without needing to create a new sprint tracking board each week. There are lots of closed tasks in the done column at the moment, but I will be moving them to the archive column as fast as my "omg irc spam" feelings will let me. Once this has been done we should be able to look at what was completed each week by viewing the board with the "All tasks" filter set. I'll take responsibility for being the grunt that moves things from done to archive following the weekly meeting each week. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd808(a)wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855

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Re: [MediaWiki-Core] Help on Bug 69362: Files disappear and give 404's for the full resolution, please
by Greg Grossmeier 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

(and of course I used the wrong MW Core list the first time) On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69362 > > It looks like Aaron was/is/did write a script to find disappeared > files but there hasn't been an update for a while. > > Help? > > -- > Greg Grossmeier > Release Team Manager -- Greg Grossmeier Release Team Manager

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