Hello everyone,
On 6th July 2017, we made an announcement [1] about our plans to replace
Tidy
with RemexHtml on the Wikimedia cluster.
On 5th July 2018, we made the final switchover from Tidy [2].
For those of you interested, we published a blog post [3] documenting the
process and steps in this project.
What next?
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RemexHtml is the default in MediaWiki since 1.31.
We are in the process of removing all traces of Tidy from Wikimedia's
configuration files and from MediaWiki itself. We'll keep the
ParserMigration
extension enabled in its current form for another couple of months.
After this
period, the ParserMigration extension will be disabled completely
alongwith all
associated Tidy configuration. It will be re-purposed at a later time as
required
to compare impacts of other parser changes.
We haven't figured out the timeline yet, but at some point in the coming
weeks,
we'll disable most of the high-priority linter categories that only make
sense
in the context of replacing Tidy. If you have any thoughts about
retaining or
dropping these categories, please leave a note on
mw:Help_talk:Extension:Linter [4].
Thanks!
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As noted in the blog post [3], this was a collaborative effort between the
several teams at the Wikimedia Foundation and volunteer editing
communities on
various wikis. Everyone involved played important and specific roles in
getting
us to this important milestone. An active embrace by various wikis of this
effort has let the Foundation make this much-needed and important
upgrade of a
key piece of our platform.
In that context, I want to take this opportunity to specifically name
and thank
some of these individuals.
Tim Starling, C.Scott Ananian, Kunal Mehta, Arlo Breault, and yours
truly did
all the technical work in core, Parsoid, and the extensions. Erica Litrenta
and Sherry Snyder helped develop the community engagement plan with various
wikis and specific editors. Sherry, in particular helped a lot in the final
months as we were trying to get more wikis to fix pages. James Forrester
helped review and provide feedback at various stages, especially with the
phased deployment. A number of other developers and staff were involved in
review, feedback, during RFC discussions, and in helping with fixing
templates where I couldn't do so myself.
Here is a subset of users across several wikis that I had an opportunity to
interact with and observe who helped in various ways: developing bots and
gadgets, writing help pages, asking clarification questions, providing
feedback, reporting bugs on wiki and Phabricator, and fixing lots of pages
and templates on their home and other wikis.
User:Daimano Eaytoy, User:Sakretsu, User:Anamalocaris, User:Izno, User:Lsj,
User:xaosflux, User:PerfektesChaos, User:Lómelinde, User:Ikhitron,
User:星耀晨曦, User:Deryck Chan, User:Sunpriat, User:Stryn, User:MawaruNeko,
User:NicoV, User:Bdijkstra, User:Skalman, User:Shakespearefan00,
User:Billinghurst, User:MarcoSwart, User:Mackensen, User:Andriy.v,
User:Jonesey95, User:TheDJ, and the anonymous wiki user whoever you are. :-)
Obviously, there were a number of others users involved in this effort.
Please
feel free to raise your hand or recognize other's contributions on this
thread!
My thanks to you all!
Subbu.
1.
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2017-July/001625…
2. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175706#4399641
3. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/07/09/tidy-html5-replacement/
4. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:Linter
Hello,
The Release Engineering team will be expanding the set of people
responsible for the weekly MediaWiki train deployments[0] to include
people working normal European hours. Unfortunately, the current MW
train deployment window is too late in the day for them.
To address this we are adding a European-focused timeslot for the MW
train (and moving the current "EU SWAT window" 2 hours earlier to
accommodate).
The first planned use of the new window will be next week, the week of
July 9th.
For the avoidance of doubt: the normal MW train windows will not go
away, these EU-timezone ones are in addition to them and only used
during weeks that the train is conducted by someone in Europe. But, the
EU SWAT window will indeed be permanently moved for simplicity (IOW: not
dependent upon who's doing the train).
== European train window and changes ==
This would affect Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
* 1300-1400 CEST (1100-1200 UTC) - EU SWAT window (2 hours earlier)
* 1400-1500 CEST (1200-1300 UTC) - Break
* 1500-1700 CEST (1300-1500 UTC) - EU Train window
* 1700-1800 CEST (1500-1600 UTC) - Break
* 1800-1900 CEST (1600-1700 UTC) - PuppetSWAT (Tue/Thu only, no change)
Also, at the same time we'll be moving the Wednesday morning (SF time)
SWAT window on hour earlier to 9am Pacific. This is to alleviate a
contention with the weekly Scrum of Scrums meeting.
Best,
Greg
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/Roadmap
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Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 3-4 pm
UTC** on #wikimedia-tech.
This time in English and Farsi!
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.
Sorry for cross-posting!
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 3-4 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.