Hi guys,
some time ago the '!' parser function was added in MediaWiki to replace
the homonym template. However, the latter still exists on lots of WMF wikis.
I've come up with a rough tool
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/cleanup/excl-template.php> to help
identifying the wikis on which it's still on use and the ones on which
it can be safely deleted. I've already made the server purge the link
cache for almost all of them.
But please don't use bots to nominate all those for speedy deletion,
only handle wikis you're familiar with ;-)
And don't forget to get the documentation page deleted too!
Greetings,
As many of you are aware, we're currently in the process of
collectively adding machine-readable metadata to many files and
templates that don't have them, both on Commons and on all other
Wikimedia wikis with local uploads [1,2]. This makes it much easier to
see and re-use multimedia files consistently with best practices for
attribution across a variety of channels (offline, PDF exports, mobile
platforms, MediaViewer, WikiWand, etc.)
In October, I created a dashboard to track how many files were missing
the machine-readable markers on each wiki [3]. Unfortunately, due to
the size of Commons, I needed to find another way to count them there.
Yesterday, I finished to implement the script for Commons, and started
to run it. As of today, we have accurate numbers for the quantity of
files missing machine-readable metadata on Commons: ~533,000, out of
~24 million [4]. It may seem like a lot, but I personally think it's a
great testament to the dedication of the Commons community.
Now that we have numbers, we can work on going through those files and
fixing them. Many of them are missing the {{information}} template,
but many of those are also part of a batch: either they were uploaded
by the same user, or they were mass-uploaded by a bot. In either case,
this makes it easier to parse the information and add the
{{information}} template automatically with a bot, thus avoiding
painful manual work.
I invite you to take a look at the list of files at
https://tools.wmflabs.org/mrmetadata/commons/commons/index.html and
see if you can find such groups and patterns.
Once you identify a pattern, you're encouraged to add a section to the
Bot Requests page on Commons, so that a bot owner can fix them:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bots/Work_requests#Adding_the_In…
I believe we can make a lot of progress rapidly if we dive into the
list of files and fix all the groups we can find. The list and
statistics will be updated daily so it'll be easy to see our progress.
Let me know if you'd like to help but are unsure how!
[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/
[4] https://tools.wmflabs.org/mrmetadata/commons/commons/index.html
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Guillaume Paumier
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_December_15th>
REMINDER:
After next week, there will be no more normal deployments until the new
year. In other words, there will be no more scheduled updates to
MediaWiki rolled out to production until January 6th.
A quick list of notable items...
== All Week ==
* Fundraising on-going through the rest of the year
* HHVM: reimaging servers to HHVM, should be completed by end of year
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.25wmf12: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf12>
== Wednesday ==
* Phabricator Maintenance (outage) from 4pm Pacific until midnight
** ie: 00:00 UTC - 08:00 Thursday
** To migrate RT (internal ticketing system used by WMF Operations)
** See: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174>
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.25wmf12 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.25wmf13 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,
Greg
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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_December_8th>
A quick list of notable items...
== All Week ==
* Fundraising on-going through the rest of the year
* HHVM: reimaging servers to HHVM, should be completed by end of year
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.25wmf11: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf11>
== Wednesday ==
* Phabricator:
** Enabling the "Sprint" extension:
** <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1322>
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.25wmf11 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.25wmf12 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,
Greg
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Greg Grossmeier
Release Team Manager