Services October 2016

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Appreciation for Wikihow & Expecting WikiWhat and WikiWhy
by Parthasarathy P 27 Oct '16

27 Oct '16

Dear Wiki Team, I am Parthasarathy, Civil Engineer form INDIA, Am Using Wikipedia and Wikihow for more than 7 years, i sincerely want to thank you for your service. Wiki helped me in several occasions in my technical carrier and daily life style needs. I sincerely admit that Wiki is ultimate for any thing. I would like to suggest that Wikimedia need to launch "WIKIWHY" and "WIKIWHAT"in future to fulfill the needs for Daily lifestyle related quires with technically. I hope you will start those services soon. Thanks & Regards, Parthasarathy. +91 80983 24254

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SCB expanded to 4 nodes per DC
by Marko Obrovac 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

Hello, As of today, the SCB cluster consists of 4 machines in each DC, which spreads the load more evenly and allows for better handling of bad situations. Kudos to Alex who carried out the work of re-purposing the ex-SCA nodes (by previously moving Zotero to VMs)~[1]. The deploy repositories of SCB services have been updated~[2], so you don't have to adapt to the new situation - just deploy as normal, but see your service deployed to 8 instead of 4 nodes total :) Cheers, Marko [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148380 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147903 -- Marko Obrovac, PhD Senior Services Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

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Node v4.6.0 in production
by Marko Obrovac 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

Hello, Node v4.6.0 represents a security release of the current Node.JS LTS line. The package is already in our APT repo and we plan to upgrade production clusters soon. Please test your services with the new release. For the SCB cluster, I have tested all of the services and there is currently a blocker for proceeding with upgrade~[1]. As soon as that one is resolved, I will be uploading and merging changes for SCB-bound services, since the switch must be done for all services at the same time. Even though I tested all of the services, I invite you to double-check and make sure that your respective service does not suffer from any problems or regressions because of the imminent switch. If you notice any problems or have any questions or concerns, please let me know ASAP. Cheers, Marko [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147849 -- Marko Obrovac, PhD Senior Services Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

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The Wikimedia Developer Summit wants YOU!
by Srishti Sethi 19 Oct '16

19 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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[Node.JS] Deprecation of support for Node 0.1x
by Marko Obrovac 04 Oct '16

04 Oct '16

Hello, The Wikimedia Services team~[1] is strongly considering dropping the support for Node 0.1x~[2], which would soon impact all MediaWiki installations that use RESTBase~[3]. Eventually, the support for 0.1x would also be dropped for Parsoid~[4]. We want to know if making such a move would not be favourable to administrators running such installations. If this impacts you, please let us know on the task~[2] so we can discuss in detail the time-lines and possible solutions. Note that there are already services that require Node 4 or higher, such as Change Propagation~[5], Mathoid~[6] and the Mobile Content Service~[7]. If you are running any of these in your production environment, you are not affected by the outcome of this discussion in any way. Cheers, Marko [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Services [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134200 [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Change_propagation [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mathoid [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/RESTBase_services_for_ap… -- Marko Obrovac, PhD Senior Services Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

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