MediaWiki-l September 2019

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Obvious bug in maintenance/Maintenance.php since 1.31
by Otheus 19 Sep '19

19 Sep '19

REL 1_31 introduced 'mwdebug' option in Maintenance.php (in the code it mentions that --debug was taken by some script). The code incorrectly adds the option via addOption() by setting the 4th argument to true (takes an argument). This should be false. At least, the rest of the code is clear, and so is the intent: there is no option to be taken. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki/browse/REL1_31/maintenan… -- Otheus otheus(a)gmail.com +43.699.1049.7813

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skin indicator
by Bri 19 Sep '19

19 Sep '19

Quick question -- Is there a variable or magic word to indicate which skin is being viewed? I am wanting to use a grid-based skin, but allow for vector as well. I would like to have a conditional transclusion based on the viewer's skin. Something like: {{#switch: SKINNAME Pivot {{page/p}} Vector {{page/v}} default {{page/p}} }} Thanks in advance, Bri

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Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming Wikimedia Foundation’s new CTO, Grant Ingersoll
by Pine W 18 Sep '19

18 Sep '19

Forwarding to Wikitech-l and MediaWiki-l. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Katherine Maher <kmaher(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 10:44 Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming Wikimedia Foundation’s new CTO, Grant Ingersoll To: wikimediaannounce-l <WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, I’m excited to officially welcome Grant Ingersoll as our Chief Technology Officer! Grant will be starting September 23. He’ll be based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Grant comes from a long history of working on open source projects. Most recently, he served as the Chief Technical Officer of Lucidworks, an AI-powered open-source search services company which he co-founded. He is a Lucene and Solr committer, co-founder of the Apache Mahout machine learning project, and a long-standing member of the Apache Software Foundation. He’s an author, having written a book for Java developers on how to wrangle unstructured text for search, text-mining, and the like. He’s also a long-time, committed remotee, having worked with the distributed Lucidworks team from his home in North Carolina for nearly a decade. In Grant’s own words, “The power of learning and knowledge have always stood as key pillars in my career. I'm a big believer that access to free, trusted knowledge is of vital importance as society looks to tackle large scale challenges. My wife, Robin, and I recently moved from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, our home for 10 years, to Charlotte, North Carolina, where our daughter lives. We also just dropped our son off at college for his freshman year. We're adjusting to the empty nest life with our dog Allie (a black lab mix). When not traveling or exploring Charlotte, I can usually be found on a bike, out kayaking, or writing code.” Grant will be working with myself, Erika Bjune (who is transitioning to VP, Technology), and others in the leadership of the technology department to determine a set of priorities for his first year. I expect these will likely focus around evaluating our current capacities and co-creating a vision for the continued evolution of our technical platforms, supporting the staff of the department, working with the finance and operations folks on planning and budgeting for the future, and of course, getting to know our technical community and the broader movement. Under Grant’s leadership, we will continue the work of improving and modernizing our technical ecosystem to respond to our future needs, as laid out in the movement strategy. I’m thrilled to have the CTO role filled, and to bring Grant in at a time when the movement is digging into the question of what it means to “become the essential infrastructure of free knowledge.” From our first meeting, I was struck by his curiosity. He was genuinely interested in how Wikimedia works, and was willing to get into what I often think of “Wiki PhD” level conversations about the nuances of our community and values. I have generally found that the folks who bring that sort of openness and humility to their work are the folks who thrive in the challenges of our mission and movement. As our movement expands, I’m glad to have Grant’s experience, curiosity, and passion for building things on board here at the Foundation. I want to also thank Erika Bjune for her work as interim CTO. She passionately advocated for the importance of our platforms, embodied partnership and cooperation, and her expertise on the interview panel was invaluable. I’m thrilled she’ll be working so closely with Grant as we move forward. Please join me in welcoming Grant to the Wikimedia Foundation! Katherine -- Katherine Maher (she/her) Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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Between the Brackets episodes: Derk-Jan Hartman and Olga Vasileva
by Yaron Koren 18 Sep '19

18 Sep '19

Hi, There's a new episode of the MediaWiki podcast out today - and also I forgot to announce on this list the previous episode when it came out. So, the new episode is an interview of Olga Vasileva, a project manager in the Readers Web Team at the Wikimedia Foundation: http://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-43-olga-vasileva And the previous episode, from two weeks ago, is an interview of Derk-Jan Hartman ("TheDJ"), who is the first-ever true volunteer developer on the show: http://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-42-derk-jan-hartman I think both episodes came out well - I hope people will check out both. -Yaron

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16 Sep '19

I am getting the following error when I try to log in to my new wiki (v 1.33.0): "There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Please resubmit the form." I have tried with multiple browsers and get the same error. Any idea what is happening and how to fix it? -Bri

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Upgrade MediaWiki
by Eric Fetzer 14 Sep '19

14 Sep '19

Hi, I'm moving an old MediaWiki on to a new server, so I'm going through the MediaWIki Upgrade procedure (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading). I'm trying to do the alternate install so that our patch process keeps it up to date but I'm not finding mediawiki when listing. I set up EPEL so I can see the packages: rpm -Uvh https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm But then I look for the mediawiki packages like this, but nothing shows: # yum list 'mediawiki*' Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, rhnplugin, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite. Error: No matching Packages to list All I see is this: # yum list '*mediawiki*' Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, rhnplugin, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite. Installed Packages drupal7-mediawiki_api.noarch 1.0-0.14.rc1.el7 @epel libmediawiki.x86_64 4.10.0-7.el7 @epel libmediawiki-devel.x86_64 4.10.0-7.el7 @epel python-simplemediawiki.noarch 1.2.0-0.3.b2.el7 @epel What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Eric

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The Community Insights survey (for volunteer devs)
by Cindy Cicalese 11 Sep '19

11 Sep '19

Apologies for cross-posting, but this should be relevant for volunteer developers on this list as well. Thank you for your participation, Cindy ______________________________ Cindy Cicalese Product Manager, MediaWiki Platform Wikimedia Foundation ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Johan Jönsson <jjonsson(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 1:15 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] The Community Insights survey (for volunteer devs) To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hey folks, I'm helping Rebecca Maung (rmaung(a)wikimedia.org) distribute this request. Her words below: The Wikimedia Foundation is asking for your feedback in the annual Community Insights survey. We want to know how well we are supporting your work on- and off-wiki, and how we can change or improve things in the future. The opinions you share will directly affect the current and future work of the Wikimedia Foundation. If you are a volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please complete the survey. It is available in various languages and will take between 15 and 25 minutes to complete. Follow this link to the survey: https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0pSrrkJAKVRXPpj?Target=dev If you have seen a similar message elsewhere and have already taken the Community Insights survey, please do not take it twice. You can find more information about this survey on the project page and see how your feedback helps the Wikimedia Foundation support contributors like you. This survey is hosted by a third-party service and governed by this privacy statement. Please visit our frequently asked questions page to find more information about this survey. If you need additional help, send an email to surveys(a)wikimedia.org. Thank you! //Johan Jönsson --

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Reporting tool?
by Gregory Rundlett 10 Sep '19

10 Sep '19

I'd like to be able to report on the activity (contributions) of a group of editors. I simply want to know how many edits ea. made on a month by month basis. Is there any tool that would offer such functionality? It's labor intensive to view ea. user's contributions and compile the data manually. Thanks, Greg Greg Rundlett *principal consultant* eQuality Technology *Let's work together* https://equality-tech.com follow us: https://twitter.com/eQualityTech *creators of QualityBox <https://QualityBox.us>*

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Cannot change session name when headers already sent
by Jörn Clausen 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

Hi! I am new to MediaWiki and I try to install a test Wiki in this environment: NetBSD 8.1 Apache 2.4.41 PHP 7.3.9 PostgreSQL 11.5 MediwWiki 1.33.0 I have performed the installation dialogue (the database is filled, so it has done something) and added LocalSettings.php in the base directory. When accessing the Wiki, I am back at the installer page and see [adbcec82bb7466fe231a3192] 2019-09-09 08:48:02: Fatal exception of type InvalidArgumentException on that page. The Apache log shows [Mon Sep 09 10:48:02.036078 2019] [php7:warn] [pid 21348:tid 134915271573504] [client 129.70.200.212:60859] PHP Warning: session_name(): Cannot change session name when headers already sent in /usr/pkg/share/httpd/htdocs/mediawiki-1.33.0/includes/Setup.php on line 803 I found some info on this error, but nothing in the context of MediaWiki. What am I missing here? Thanks, Joern -- Jörn Clausen BITS - Bielefelder IT-Servicezentrum http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/bits

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Can Extension External Data get data from a SQL Stored Procedure
by Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000) 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Happy Friday - there is SQL application I'm trying to get data from using "Extension:External Data" and the SQL owner has told me that they can make a "Stored Procedure" available to me rather than grant me read access to the SQL database itself. Does anyone have any insight about how to use [1] to get data from a Stored Procedure on a SQL system? If so, please let me know on my Talk Topic [2] for [1]. Thanks! /Rich [[MW User:Revansx]] Note: MW: 1.30 + External Data 1.8.3 (2c8038c) 19:13, 4 September 2017 [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:External_Data [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:External_Data#What_about_"Stored_Procedures"_in_SQL_systems.

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