Wikitech-ambassadors January 2018

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Tomorrow: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 16 Jan '18

16 Jan '18

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 4-5 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers, topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project. If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting Hope to see you there! Michi (for WMDE’s tech team) -- Michael F. Schönitzer Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Where to find the ORES team?
by Dennis Tobar 16 Jan '18

16 Jan '18

Hi everyone: I'm trying to looking for ORES team to ask something related with training in eswiki but the email scoring-internal(a)wikimedia.org isn't working. 550 Address scoring-internal(a)wikimedia.org does not exist Is another way to reach the team using by email?. I asked in #wikimedia-ai in IRC without successful :(. I saw the email in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES/FAQ#Who_should_I_contact_about_ORES_stu… ? Thanks in advance. -- Dennis Tobar Calderón Ingeniero en Informática UTEM

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Tech News (2018, week 3)
by Johan Jönsson 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/03>. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>. More information on how to contribute is available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ——————————————————————————— العربية <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/03/ar> • čeština <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/03/cs> • Ελληνικά <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/03/el> • *English* • español <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/03/es> • suomi <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/03/fi> • français <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/03/fr> • עברית <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/03/he> • magyar <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/03/hu> • italiano <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/03/it> • 日本語 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/03/ja> • polski <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/03/pl> • português <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/03/pt> • português do Brasil <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/03/pt-br> • русский <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/03/ru> • svenska <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/03/sv> • українська <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/03/uk> • 中文 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/03/zh> Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/03> are available. *Recent changes* - Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Translate> is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184610> - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] There is a new Discourse test support channel <https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/> for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [2] <https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/t/welcome-to-wikimedia-developer-su…> *Problems* - Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:ASCII> characters when a page was edited. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184749> [4] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-January/089399.html> *Changes later this week* - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/wmf.17> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/Roadmap>). *Meetings* - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 January at 19:30 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=30&sec=0&…>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings>. - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 January at 16:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&d…>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>. *Future changes* - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Linter> categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RemexHtml>. This is to replace Tidy <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy>. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184656>[6] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy/FAQ#What_will_editors…> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/03> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.*

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Wednesday morning SWAT moved 1 hour earlier
by Greg Grossmeier 13 Jan '18

13 Jan '18

Hello, A recent incident post-mortem improvement was to create a one hour buffer between the last Service/SWAT deploys and the MediaWiki Train[0]. We addressed that on Tuesday already by removing the Morning SWAT window (was at 11am Pacific). Now we are addressing that on Wednesday by moving the Morning SWAT window one hour earlier (to 10am Pacific). This is effective as of next week (Jan 15th). As always, please see the Deployments calendar[1] for the canonical source of what is scheduled when. Best, Greg [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182733 [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | Release Team Manager A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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Tomorrow: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 09 Jan '18

09 Jan '18

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 4-5 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers, topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project. If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki .org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting Hope to see you there! Michi (for WMDE’s tech team) -- Michael F. Schönitzer Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Fwd: New Wikimedia Developer Support channel (test pilot)
by Quim Gil 09 Jan '18

09 Jan '18

Dear tech ambassadors, please check this new Wikimedia Developer Support channel and help us spreading the news among developers and other technical contributors having to deal with gadgets, bots, templates and the likes. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 9:21 AM Subject: New Wikimedia Developer Support channel (test pilot) To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> (The HTML version of this announcement can be found at https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/t/welcome-to- wikimedia-developer-support/8 ) https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/ Wikimedia Developer Support offers a support channel for all developers working with MediaWiki or other Wikimedia related technologies: APIs, extensions, skins, gadgets, templates, bots, tools, apps, data sets… If you need help with a technical problem, just ask. This website is based on Discourse. If you have questions about how to use it, check https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discourse/Help Your feedback about this website is very important! Bug reports, feature requests and other suggestions are very welcomed. IMPORTANT Wikimedia Developer Support is a pilot project running on a test instance. This is not the final deployment. More about this project at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discourse * Although the migration of users and content to the production server is theoretically possible, at this point it is not guaranteed (T184461). * The authentication system for this test instance is not what will be used if this project makes it to production. * If you have a Wikimedia account, use the same email when registering here. This is how your username and content will remain yours if/when Wikimedia single sign-on is implemented (T124691). * Do not reuse your “real” passwords when creating an account in this test instance. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Tech News (2018, week 2)
by Johan Jönsson 08 Jan '18

08 Jan '18

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/02>. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>. More information on how to contribute is available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ——————————————————————————— العربية <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/02/ar> • ‎čeština <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/02/cs> • ‎English • ‎ español <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/02/es> • ‎suomi <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/02/fi> • ‎français <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/02/fr> • ‎עברית <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/02/he> • ‎magyar <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/02/hu> • ‎italiano <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/02/it> • ‎日本語 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/02/ja> • ‎polski <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/02/pl> • ‎português do Brasil <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/02/pt-br> • ‎ русский <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/02/ru> • ‎svenska <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/02/sv> • ‎українська <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/02/uk> • ‎Tiếng Việt <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/02/vi> • ‎中文 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/02/zh> Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/02> are available. *Recent changes* - On Wikidata, the "save" button when you edit is now called "publish". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Save page" to "Publish changes". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161367>[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131132> - Some edits will get an automatic tag <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Tags> on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167656> - Special:UnusedFiles <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UnusedFiles> shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GloballyUnusedFiles> only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183673> - Structured discussions <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_Discussions> now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Structured_Discussions/Quick_tour#basics> . [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155861>[6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178719> *Problems* - Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182059> - With the new filters in the recent changes, "Exclude selected" in "Namespaces" did not work for "Saved filters" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183910> - The latest version of Google Chrome <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Google_Chrome> broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540#3830013> - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [10] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182322> *Changes later this week* - Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Server_(computing)>. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this *you will be able to read but not edit*Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Coordinated_Universal_Time> on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [11] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181645> - The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [12] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182320>[13] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing/Projects/Font_size_in_the_editing_wi…> - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/wmf.16> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/Roadmap>). - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [14] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165112> *Meetings* - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 January at 19:30 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=30&sec=0&…>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings>. - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 January at 16:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&d…>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>. *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/02> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.* //Johan Jönsson

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Tomorrow: Last Weekly Technical Advice IRC Meeting of the Year
by Michael Schönitzer 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

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