Wikitech-l May 2011

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RELEASE-NOTES renaming vs. svn diff
by jidanni＠jidanni.org 24 May '11

24 May '11

My script to show me the diffs, svn diff -r BASE:HEAD RELEASE-NOTES|wdiff -d -3 I suppose will now have to be for i in $(ls -r RELEASE-NOTES-*|sed 2q) do echo $i diff: svn diff -r BASE:HEAD $i|wdiff -d -3 done in order to not have to be rewritten each time a version number changes. Hmmm.

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Feedback on online communications around the Berlin hackathon (including remote participants)
by Guillaume Paumier 24 May '11

24 May '11

Hi, I just posted the last post in our series on the Berlin hackathon on the tech blog: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/05/16/developers-go-home-after-productive-be… I'm particularly interested in hearing about how people here felt about the communications around and during the event (whether they attended in person or followed the event remotely): e.g. did you watch and/or participate in the live video feed, live note-taking, IRCing, tweeting, blogging, and did you find it useful. Setting up the live video feed isn't easy, and taking notes in real time is pretty time- and energy-consuming, but we can make efforts to continue to do it in the future, if it's worth it. We'd just like to know how useful it is. Thanks! -- Guillaume Paumier

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secure not purging history pages
by William Allen Simpson 24 May '11

24 May '11

Hoping the hackathon is still running, or folks can discuss. Secure is pretty slow lately, day and night.... Sometimes, the revised articles don't show up for the non-logged-in, but that's easy to fix with &action=purge. I just have to remember to check after sessions. But lately, and fairly consistently, as I've checked the history to compare with Google's cache date (not logged-in), I've discovered an old history seems to be served. "&action=history&action=purge" doesn't fix it. Yeah, I've flushed my own local browser cache. That's not it. The only solution I've found is to log-in insecure, check the history, and then log out. Then, the history is up-to-date for non-logged-in. Why do we cache history?

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Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects on May 24
by Guillaume Paumier 24 May '11

24 May '11

Dear all, The Wikimedia Foundation will be performing network maintenance on Tuesday, May 24 between 13:00 and 14:00 (UTC) (see other timezones on timeanddate.com: http://ur1.ca/49cl2 ). During the maintenance period, you may experience intermittent connection issues to Wikimedia Foundation websites, including wikipedia.org. We have been experiencing router networking issues (and as a direct result, latency issues) since last week. After much investigation, and temporary fixes, the Operations team decided to update the router software and tune the configuration. We apologize for the inconvenience. -- Guillaume Paumier

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@font-face support for less-used scripts and maths
by Neil Harris 23 May '11

23 May '11

Some of the less common languages on Wikipedia use scripts which are not supported by default on most operating systems. In many cases, these scripts may be unavailable even to native speakers of that language. The same applies to mathematical fonts. For example, the following languages seem to use scripts currently not supported by the fonts installed by default on a MacBook running MacOS 10.6.7: bn, bpy, kn, ml, te, am, arc, dv, km, my, si, bug, got, lo, or, as, cu, ti Other operating systems may have even fewer scripts supported. However, all of these scripts appear to have Free font support, as shown by their all being rendered on my Linux box, after having installed a variety of Free Software fonts that are part of the Debian distribution [see note below]. As far as I can see, none of these appear to have significant font-shaping issues, with only the occasional glitch in some languages such as Oriya. This means that, on modern browsers with both @font-face and UTF-8 support, we should now be in a position to support all of these scripts, even if they are not supported by the user's installed fonts, by adding @font-face declarations for Free Software fonts supporting these scripts, and hosting these fonts on WMF servers. In addition, doing this for mathematical fonts would have immediate utility for all language versions of Wikipedia. Would anyone be interested in helping support this? -- Neil Note: the non-mathematical Debian font packages currently installed on my Linux box are as follows: ttf-alee ttf-arabeyes ttf-arhangai ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-bengali-fonts ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-bpg-georgian-fonts ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra ttf-devanagari-fonts ttf-dustin ttf-dzongkha ttf-farsiweb ttf-freefont ttf-gentium ttf-gujarati-fonts ttf-indic-fonts ttf-junicode ttf-kacst ttf-kannada-fonts ttf-khmeros ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-lao ttf-liberation ttf-malayalam-fonts ttf-mph-2b-damase ttf-opensymbol ttf-oriya-fonts ttf-paktype ttf-punjabi-fonts ttf-sazanami-mincho ttf-sil-abyssinica ttf-sil-charis ttf-sil-doulos ttf-sil-gentium ttf-sil-padauk ttf-sjfonts ttf-tamil-fonts ttf-telugu-fonts ttf-thai-tlwg ttf-thryomanes ttf-tmuni ttf-unfonts-core ttf-unifont ttf-uralic

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cruise control is back!
by Ashar Voultoiz 23 May '11

23 May '11

Hello, During the Hackaton, hexmode gave me access to the Cruise Control server. I have fixed the build configuration to exclude long tests, it seems to be running again correctly: http://ci.tesla.usability.wikimedia.org/cruisecontrol/ I think the IRC notifications are still broken. -- Ashar Voultoiz

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter 23 May '11

23 May '11

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for May 16, 2011 - May 23, 2011 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 168 Bugs ASSIGNED : 21 Bugs REOPENED : 30 Bugs RESOLVED : 126 Total bugs still open: 5763 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 91 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 6 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 12 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 9 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 5 Bugs marked LATER : 6 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component Site requests 7 Page rendering 4 SSL related 3 UploadWizard 2 Bugzilla 2 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 15 Wikimedia 14 MediaWiki extensions 15 Wikipedia Mobile 2 mwEmbed 1 Top 5 Bug Resolvers sam [AT] reedyboy.net 23 krinklemail [AT] gmail.com 20 mah [AT] everybody.org 8 bawolff+wn [AT] gmail.com 6 innocentkiller [AT] gmail.com 5

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Referent list of wikis?
by Milos Rancic 23 May '11

23 May '11

Do we have a referent list of wikis? Although it would be good to have the list of *all* Wikimedia wikis, just the list of content projects wikis would be fine. The page Complete list of Wikimedia projects [1] is not referent at all. It's not about the fact that it is on wiki, but exactly because of possibility that anyone can add whatever he or she thinks that it should be added. Just because of three letters code conflict between Swiss German and Albanian (als), I've realized that somebody listed Swiss German to have Wikinews edition (it is, actually, news portal at Wikipedia) and nobody bothered to remove it. If someone knows the right place where to find the referent list of wikis, please let me know. If such list doesn't exist, and if someone from tech staff could do something like "echo 'show databases' | mysql ...| grep "^wiki" > <some_public_file>" or so every 7 days (cron would be helpful) and give to me the location of that file, I could do the rest. [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Complete_list_of_Wikimedia_projects

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Persistent lock wait timeout
by Edward Z. Yang 22 May '11

22 May '11

Hello all, It's been a while since I've been by to mediawiki.org, and I find it quite interesting to find that I have 2,124 new messages! Wow! Unfortunately, I can't read them, because... ---- A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "User::invalidateCache". Database returned error "1205: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction (10.0.6.49)". ---- Just thought I'd let you know. This is http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:NewMessages ; you can probably check your query logs. Cheers, Edward

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Getlets: Transcluding a file (for example, a README file on SVN) on a page (for example: MediaWiki:Extension) page
by Thomas Gries 21 May '11

21 May '11

Hello, is there way similar to my Wikimania 2005 proposal of "Getlets" [1][2] - to transclude text content of a file denoted by a (if possible to limit: trusted) URL - if possible, after sanitizing the content of the file on MediaWiki pages ? Purpose: To avoid duplication of content, especially for documentation of extensions, I wish to transclude a README file from our SVN on a Mediawiki extension page or subpage such as http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID . What's your opinion ? Is is already possible ? Tom [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Workshop-TG3 [2] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Wikimania05_Workshop_TG3… seq.

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