Greetings,
As you may have seen in Tech News, on the Wikimedia blog or at the
latest Metrics meeting, I'm currently leading a File metadata cleanup
drive, whose goal is to to fix file pages and tweak templates across
Wikimedia wikis, to ensure that multimedia files consistently contain
machine-readable metadata [1,2].
This initiative is a critical step in improving reuse and following
best practices for attribution in PDF prints, offline content like
Kiwix and third party tools like WikiWand, among others.
Some of you have already started adding the markers to information and
licensing templates (Thank you!) and I'm going around wikis to do the
same. We're making progress [3], but there's still a lot of work to do
because we have so many wikis.
I'd like to ask for your help in adding markers to the templates on
your wiki, since you probably speak many languages that I have trouble
deciphering. You're also more familiar with your wiki's templates, and
a distributed effort will be more efficient than just a handful of us
going around wikis :)
There's a detailed guide in many languages if you're not sure how to proceed:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/File_metadata_cleanup_dr…
I also recommend that you reach out to other editors on your wiki,
template authors, gadget maintainers, etc. since they may be able to
help, but may not know about this effort.
I'm also happy to help if you have questions. You can ask me off-list,
on the tech ambassadors list, on IRC (I'm guillom in #wikimedia on
freenode) or on my talk page on Meta. (Carrier pigeons are
discouraged.)
If you're helping, please consider adding yourself to the list of
participants, so others can see which wikis are actively fixing files
and templates: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_metadata_cleanup_drive/Participants
And if you're having difficulties, please do let others know on the
talk page so we can try and find a solution, both for your benefit and
for the benefit of others who might have the same problem:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:File_metadata_cleanup_drive .
I hope that you'll be able to help fix files and templates on your
wiki and give a hand in this distributed effort.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_metadata_cleanup_drive
[2] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/07/cleaning-up-file-metadata-for-humans-…
[3] https://tools.wmflabs.org/mrmetadata/historical_tallies.svg
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Guillaume Paumier
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Guillaume_(WMF)
Hello and welcome to the EARLY edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap
and Deployment update.
The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at:
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_December_1st>
A quick list of notable items...
== All Week ==
* Fundraising tests throughout the week (on-going through the rest of
the yearly fundraising)
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.25wmf10: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf10>
== Wednesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.25wmf10 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.25wmf11 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
Thanks and to our USian friends: Have a good holiday weekend,
Greg
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Greg Grossmeier
Release Team Manager
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap
and Deployment update.
The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at:
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_November_24th>
A quick list of notable items...
== All Week ==
* Firefox:
** Nov 25: Firefox 34 with default HTTPS search on Wikipedia (and
sometimes Wiktionary)
** <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758857>
* HHVM:
** Nov 25: dissolve the distinction between HHVM and Zend appservers
and progressively move every appserver to HHVM
* Phabricator:
** November 21st - 24th: Phabricator Bugzilla migration
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator#Migration_timeline>
* Fundraising tests throughout the week (on-going through the rest of
the yearly fundraising)
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.25wmf9: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf9>
== Wednesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.25wmf9 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.25wmf10 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
== Thursday ==
* No deploys, US Holiday (Thanksgiving)
Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,
Greg
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Greg Grossmeier
Release Team Manager
Important!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 8:00 PM
Subject: Bugzilla-Phabricator migration: 21 Nov at 00:30 UTC
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
We are polishing the last details before starting the Bugzilla migration to
Phabricator on 21 November at 00:30 UTC.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141121T0030
You can find all the details of what will happen next in the timeline at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/versus_Bugzilla
MIGRATION WEEKEND
Basically, Bugzilla access will be restricted to read-only, Phabricator
will be pulled, and we will start the migration. If all goes well, by
Monday 24 Phabricator will be back with about 75k tasks, and Bugzilla will
be archived in old-bugzilla.wikimedia.org.
During this period, we will redirect users to a page asking them to
postpone their bug reporting unless it is so urgent that it cannot wait
until Monday. In that case, they can use #wikimedia-bug2phab on IRC and
mediawiki.org's Support Desk.
If you registered in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org before the
migration, your Bugzilla activity will be probably assigned to you by the
time you check the site. Otherwise, you will still be able to register and
claim your activity, which will be assigned to you within a couple of hours
or a couple of days, depending of the queue.
KNOWN ISSUES
We are confident about the stability of Phabricator and also about the
reliability of the migration process. However, there are several known
issues related with data and features that will be missing next Monday.
We cannot assign to Phabricator tasks the same number as their Bugzilla
equivalents. Instead, automatic redirects will link old Bugzilla URLs with
their corresponding new Phabricator tasks. phabricator.wikimedia.org has
already >1300 tasks with numbers taken. The migration needs to be done by
batches of bugs instead of sequentially, which makes the mapping of numbers
more complicated. Still, smaller numbers will correspond to older bugs, and
we will do our best during the weekend to improve the sorting.
Votes and saved searches cannot be migrated. Users willing to have their
equivalent in Phabricator (tokens a new saved searches) will be able to
access their accounts in old-bugzilla.
A feature that we expect to be missed is suggestions for duplicates when
creating a new task. Even if Phabricator's search is powered by
Elasticsearch, we feel like it needs some fine-tuning to get to Bugzilla's
efficiency. Advanced Bugzilla users will also find that some actions take
more clicks (assigning blocker/blocking tasks, for instance). In general,
most fluent Bugzilla users new to Phabricator will need a few days to get
used to how things work in Phabricator.
There is a complete list of known issues at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/versus_Bugzilla#Known_issues --
and we will keep working on them after next Monday.
IMPROVEMENTS
We expect that the improvements will make the change worth right after the
migration, of course. A simpler and cleaner UI that works on mobile,
Wikimedia SUL, bugs and features living together, ability to associate
tasks to several projects, workboards, and many more features are waiting
for you! :)
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap
and Deployment update.
The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at:
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_November_17th>
A quick list of notable items...
== All Week ==
* HHVM:
** Monday 17th: 25% of anonymous users
** Thursday 20th: Remove cache separation between HHVM and Zend,
convert 1 appserver in the Zend pool
* November 21st - 24th: Phabricator Bugzilla migration
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator#Migration_timeline>
* Fundraising tests throughout the week (on-going through the rest of
the yearly fundraising)
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.25wmf7: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf7>
== Wednesday ==
* New Search (Cirrus) to English Wikipedia
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search>
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.25wmf7 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.25wmf8 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,
Greg
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Greg Grossmeier
Release Team Manager
