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Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Please help test MediaWiki 1.19 now -
deployments may start in February
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:26:43 +0000
From: Thehelpfulone <thehelpfulonewiki(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On 26 January 2012 16:59, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>wrote:
> The developers of MediaWiki, the software Wikimedia sites run on, are
> wrapping up work on a new version, with hundreds of improvements and
> bugfixes. Description:
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19
>
> There is a draft schedule for deploying this software to all Wikimedia
> sites in February and March. The schedule is tentative and dates are
> going to shift and change. (See the "SCHEDULING" note below in this
> email.)
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19/Roadmap
>
> We want to do a lot of testing BEFORE the rollout, so that we catch
> potential problems before they affect readers and editors. Please help
> us! We have set up replicas of your wikis and installed the latest
> MediaWiki code on those replicas, so you can spot new problems in the
> software's behavior:
>
> http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org
>
> Please look at
> http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix and find
> wikis to test. Try reading, editing, and so on as you normally would;
> treat it as a giant sandbox. If you find a problem, please report it
> here: http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Problem_reports
>
> We are especially interested in finding out about problems that affect
> unique JavaScript user scripts or Gadgets, so we can help you fix them.
>
> SCHEDULING: Now is also a good time to let us know if there are going to
> be big news days or weeks in February where your community would be
> especially unhappy if you had a window with no access or no editability.
> For example, if there's an important national election happening in one
> of the countries you serve, we'd ideally like to avoid taking your site
> down for maintenance on that day.
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MediaWiki_1.19/Roadmap would be a
> good place to tell us that.
>
> If you have questions, please feel free to contact us in
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC or via the Wikimedia
> developers' mailing list at
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l .
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Sumana Harihareswara
> Volunteer Development Coordinator
> Wikimedia Foundation
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If you need any user rights (admin, crat..) for your testing, please feel
free to request on
http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Global_Requests#Permissions - I
can provide rights as needed (as can the other users on
http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:GlobalUsers/steward
although
they might be a bit more busy with testing), so feel free to ping me on IRC
(Thehelpfulone), email me or leave a message on my enwiki/metawiki talk
page if nobody has replied to your request.
Thanks.
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The developers of MediaWiki, the software Wikimedia sites run on, are
wrapping up work on a new version, with hundreds of improvements and
bugfixes. Description:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19
There is a draft schedule for deploying this software to all Wikimedia
sites in February and March. The schedule is tentative and dates are
going to shift and change. (See the "SCHEDULING" note below in this email.)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19/Roadmap
We want to do a lot of testing BEFORE the rollout, so that we catch
potential problems before they affect readers and editors. Please help
us! We have set up replicas of your wikis and installed the latest
MediaWiki code on those replicas, so you can spot new problems in the
software's behavior:
http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org
Please look at
http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix and find
wikis to test. Try reading, editing, and so on as you normally would;
treat it as a giant sandbox. If you find a problem, please report it
here: http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Problem_reports
We are especially interested in finding out about problems that affect
unique JavaScript user scripts or Gadgets, so we can help you fix them.
SCHEDULING: Now is also a good time to let us know if there are going to
be big news days or weeks in February where your community would be
especially unhappy if you had a window with no access or no editability.
For example, if there's an important national election happening in one
of the countries you serve, we'd ideally like to avoid taking your site
down for maintenance on that day.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MediaWiki_1.19/Roadmap would be a
good place to tell us that.
If you have questions, please feel free to contact us in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC or via the Wikimedia
developers' mailing list at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l .
Thank you.
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Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
I want to let you know of a new feature we now have on Wikimedia sites.
Please publicize this to wikis, and ask them for suggestions and
criticism, and pass that information along to Max. Thank you.
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Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Wikitech-l] FeaturedFeeds deployed
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:06:16 +0400
From: Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com>, Wikimedia developers
<wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Yesterday we deployed FeaturedFeeds[1] to the cluster (thanks,
Arthur!) Everything looks good so far, examples of feeds: [2], [3].
We haven't enabled feed links in the sidebar like on our staging wiki
at [4] - I wonder if we should enable them on opt-in or opt-out basis.
Overall, I'd apreciate your critics, comments, suggestions. Also,
please assist your local communities in seting up their feeds, especially
if you know less common languages.
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[1]
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/26/featuredfeeds-brings-syndication-feed…
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=featured&feedfo…
[3]
https://it.wikiquote.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=qotd&feedformat…
[4] http://mobile-feeds.wmflabs.org/w/index.php/Main_Page
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Best regards,
Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])
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https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/16/wikipedias-community-calls-for-anti-s…
"...the Wikipedia community has decided to black out the
English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00
UTC on Wednesday, January 18. The blackout is a protest against proposed
legislation in the United States —the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in
the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECTIP Act (PIPA) in the
U.S. Senate— that, if passed, would seriously damage the free and open
Internet, including Wikipedia....."
We'll be disabling editing via the web service API. You can ask
questions regarding the planning in #wikimedia-sopa .
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Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Mailing lists server migration today
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:54:00 +0100
From: Mark Bergsma <mark(a)wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi,
Today I will be migrating the mailing lists from a very old server
(lily) in Amsterdam, to a new server (sodium) in our new Ashburn data
center. Mailman will be upgraded to version 2.1.13 along the way.
During the migration, mail will be delayed as all data will need to be
transferred to the new host. No mail should go lost, but no new mails
will be sent out during the process until done, and the web interface
will be unavailable. This shouldn't take more than one hour, if all goes
well.
I will report here when things should be back up and running.
Afterwards, please let us know of any new issues, in bugzilla or on IRC
(#wikimedia-tech). We don't expect any problems, but as with any
software upgrade or migration, this can't be guaranteed...
Thanks,
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Lead Operations Architect
Wikimedia Foundation
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mark Bergsma <mark(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 09:41
Subject: [Wikitech-l] CANCELED: Mailing lists server migration today
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On Jan 13, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Mark Bergsma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Today I will be migrating the mailing lists from a very old server (lily) in Amsterdam, to a new server (sodium) in our new Ashburn data center. Mailman will be upgraded to version 2.1.13 along the way.
...and right after I sent this mail, I rebooted the new server once
more before starting the maintenance. But suddenly it refused to come
back up, or even reinstall. Likely the server has hardware issues.
Therefore the maintenance is canceled for today, until we've figured
out what the problem is. The migration will probably happen next week,
possibly using different hardware.
--
Mark Bergsma <mark(a)wikimedia.org>
Lead Operations Architect
Wikimedia Foundation
The maintenance for db9 was successfully completed but some follow up
maintenance is needed. As a result, you might have trouble with
Wikimedia's Etherpad or Bugzilla or CiviCRM sites/services tonight. If
interruption continues after 1820 PST (http://hexm.de/cg for local time)
please tell us in #wikimedia-tech on freenode
(Use http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-tech if you don't
have an IRC client handy)
Thanks,
Mark.
You might have trouble with Wikimedia's Etherpad or Bugzilla or CiviCRM
sites/services tomorrow. This is why. If interruption continues after
1820 PT -- http://bit.ly/tiaQDG for your localtime -- please tell us in
#wikimedia-tech on freenode IRC.
best,
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Wikitech-l] bugzilla + etherpad + misc service downtime - weds
21 dec, 18:00pst
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:17:50 -0800
From: Asher Feldman <afeldman(a)wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi,
We need around 20 minutes of downtime to all services that write to db9 for
replication maintenance. Outside of services that support the ops team,
this primarily means bugzilla, etherpad, and civicrm. It will remain
available for read queries, however, so read usage of services such as the
tech blog should continue along fine. I'm planning to start this on Weds
at 18:00 PST and will send follow-up mail at the start and completion of
maintenance.
-Asher
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Forwarding to wikitech-ambassadors. If someone thinks it's a bad idea,
this is the time to bring it up, not in several months, when deployed.
On 06/12/11 19:29, Brion Vibber wrote:
> Just a quick note: Antoine updated the diff view styles in trunk to use the
> green/blue scheme that's been in use on fr.wikipedia.org and others for
> some time:
>
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/105280>
>
> This should be a bit more consistent than the scheme we were using in 1.18,
> and is specifically designed to be legible to people with various types of
> color blindness as well as the general population.
>
> -- brion
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Final mobile switch-over
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:48:48 +0900
From: Philip Chang <pchang(a)wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wiktionary-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org,
wikiquote-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org,
wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org,
wikiversity-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wikispecies-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org,
wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org,
incubator(a)lists.wikimedia.org
TO: All Wikimedia Project Administrators
As a follow-up to this original blog post about the new mobile site:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/09/14/new-mobile-site-launched-on-wikipedia-…
Please note that the conversion to the new Mobile Frontend extension will
be completed in the week of November 28.
This means that by default any user of a mobile device will see the mobile
interface rather then the desktop version. Users will no longer have to add
the extra .m by hand.
This also means any home pages not yet designed for mobile viewing will
appear with a search bar only - unless you create a home page in the next
three weeks, which is very easy to do!
Instructions for creating a home page are here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/Mobile_Gateway#Mobile_homepa…
Please forward this email as necessary.
As always, the mobile-l and mobile-feedback-l mailing lists are available.
There will be many more announcements in the coming months on mobile-l, and
always feel free to send comments to mobile-feedback-l.
Thank you.
Phil
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Wikimedia Foundation
415-812-0854 m
415-882-7982 x 6810
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