Dear tech ambassadors, another Phabricator announcement that you are
encouraged to spread.
We are very interested in testing the creation of accounts using non-Latin
and/or non-alphabetical in Wikimedia usernames. It should work now that we
have applied a fix, but more testing is welcome. For more details, see
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T547
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From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:34 PM
Subject: Wikimedia Phabricator is now open for everyone
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Today we celebrate an important milestone in the Phabricator project:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org is now open to all Wikimedia users!
Special thanks go to @chasemp and @mmodell, who lead us to this milestone
with their Phabricator expertise.
Please get your account and let us know if you find any problems.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Creating_your_account
explains how to register and how to claim your fab activity today (and your
RT and Bugzilla activity in the future).
You are invited to participate in existing projects. Creation of new
projects is closed until the completion of the Bugzilla migration -- see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Requesting_a_new_project
NEXT STEPS
We will set up a separate Phabricator instance containing a sample of
Bugzilla reports imported automatically, for your delight and criticism.
After this instance is announced, we will leave at least one week for
community feedback before deciding the next steps.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator#Migration_timeline
--
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_October_13th>
A quick list of notable items...
== Monday ==
* 5% of reader (non-logged-in) traffic will be served by HHVM servers
** see: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HHVM/About>
* Otherwise, no deploys, it is a US Holiday.
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.25wmf1: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf3>
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.25wmf3 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.25wmf4 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,
Greg
--
Greg Grossmeier
Release Team Manager
And it's over! We reached our immediate goal, "closing" all the lost
PediaPress tickets (80 before the bug day); and about 40 new bugzilla
reports were filed, including some tricky ones about language support.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/201410 has a dump
from the etherpad and will be updated with more precise information.
Give a look at the bugzilla reports!
Thanks to all the participants: Andre Klapper, Anomie, Azitrex, bawolff,
Helder, John Vandenberg, Kelson, Nemo, Raymond, Reedy, Rupert, saper,
Steinsplitter, csteipp, ebraminio, jem, josu, kepper, valhallasw`cloud.
(And probably someone else in bugzilla at the same time.)
Nemo
Federico Leva (Nemo), 08/10/2014 15:33:
> We start in 30 min from now :)
>
> Federico Leva (Nemo), 29/09/2014 19:51:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day:
>>
>> **2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia-tech on Freenode
>> IRC.[2]
>>
>> We will be triaging bug reports for the Collection extension (Book tool)
>> in general and PDF export in particular, which were just switched to a
>> new backend (OCG).[3] We have two immediate goals:
>> 1) recover 100 % of the relevant reports from the defunct PediaPress
>> tracker;[4]
>> 2) get a clean list of known PDF issues that the new backend didn't fix.
>>
>> Everyone is welcome to join any time these weeks, and no technical
>> knowledge is needed! It's an easy way to get involved or to give
>> something back.
>> We encourage you to record your activity on the etherpad [4].
>>
>> This information and more can be found here:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/201410
>>
>> For more information on triaging in general, check out
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage
>>
>> I look forward to seeing you there. Please distribute further by email,
>> talk pages etc. (Collection is used on almost 2 thousands wikis!)
>> Sorry for the crossposting,
>> Nemo
>>
>> [1] Timezone converter: http://everytimezone.com/#2014-10-08,120,5x1
>> [2] See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC for more info on IRC chat
>> [3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-July/077867.html
>> [4] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-Collection
And it's over! We reached our immediate goal, "closing" all the lost
PediaPress tickets (80 before the bug day); and about 40 new bugzilla
reports were filed, including some tricky ones about language support.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/201410 has a dump
from the etherpad and will be updated with more precise information.
Give a look at the bugzilla reports!
Thanks to all the participants: Andre Klapper, Anomie, Azitrex, bawolff,
Helder, John Vandenberg, Kelson, Nemo, Raymond, Reedy, Rupert, saper,
Steinsplitter, csteipp, ebraminio, jem, josu, kepper, valhallasw`cloud.
(And probably someone else in bugzilla at the same time.)
Nemo
Federico Leva (Nemo), 08/10/2014 15:33:
> We start in 30 min from now :)
>
> Federico Leva (Nemo), 29/09/2014 19:51:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day:
>>
>> **2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia-tech on Freenode
>> IRC.[2]
>>
>> We will be triaging bug reports for the Collection extension (Book tool)
>> in general and PDF export in particular, which were just switched to a
>> new backend (OCG).[3] We have two immediate goals:
>> 1) recover 100 % of the relevant reports from the defunct PediaPress
>> tracker;[4]
>> 2) get a clean list of known PDF issues that the new backend didn't fix.
>>
>> Everyone is welcome to join any time these weeks, and no technical
>> knowledge is needed! It's an easy way to get involved or to give
>> something back.
>> We encourage you to record your activity on the etherpad [4].
>>
>> This information and more can be found here:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/201410
>>
>> For more information on triaging in general, check out
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage
>>
>> I look forward to seeing you there. Please distribute further by email,
>> talk pages etc. (Collection is used on almost 2 thousands wikis!)
>> Sorry for the crossposting,
>> Nemo
>>
>> [1] Timezone converter: http://everytimezone.com/#2014-10-08,120,5x1
>> [2] See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC for more info on IRC chat
>> [3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-July/077867.html
>> [4] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-Collection
Different wikis often have different metadata formatting conventions
because it's just wikitext. How do the tracking categories know where to
find the information?
Deryck
>
> On 7 Oct 2014 00:03, "Gergo Tisza" <gtisza(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> starting this Tuesday (on Commons) or Thursday (all other wikis), files
which do not have machine-parseable author, source, license or description
will be automatically added to tracking categories (one category for each).
The name of the categories will be determined by the following messages:
>>
>> commonsmetadata-trackingcategory-no-license
>> commonsmetadata-trackingcategory-no-description
>> commonsmetadata-trackingcategory-no-author
>> commonsmetadata-trackingcategory-no-source
>>
>> Translatewiki link:
https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-commons…
>>
>> If you would rather not have these tracking categories on your wiki, you
can achieve that by setting the content of the local message to "-" (a
single dash character).
>>
>> Links to the local message pages are available from
[[Special:TrackingCategories]].
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list
>> Wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
>>
Hi all,
starting this Tuesday (on Commons) or Thursday (all other wikis), files
which do not have machine-parseable author, source, license or description
will be automatically added to tracking categories (one category for each).
The name of the categories will be determined by the following messages:
commonsmetadata-trackingcategory-no-license
commonsmetadata-trackingcategory-no-description
commonsmetadata-trackingcategory-no-author
commonsmetadata-trackingcategory-no-source
Translatewiki link:
https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-commons…
If you would rather not have these tracking categories on your wiki, you
can achieve that by setting the content of the local message to "-" (a
single dash character).
Links to the local message pages are available from
[[Special:TrackingCategories]].