Wikitech-l January 2012

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for January 16, 2012 - January 23, 2012 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 208 Bugs ASSIGNED : 17 Bugs REOPENED : 29 Bugs RESOLVED : 130 Total bugs still open: 6982 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 78 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 7 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 14 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 20 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 7 Bugs marked LATER : 6 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component android 20 iphone 10 Site requests 9 Special pages 4 generic 4 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 26 Wikimedia 16 MediaWiki extensions 19 Wikimedia Mobile 34 Top 5 Bug Resolvers sam [AT] reedyboy.net 31 brion [AT] wikimedia.org 10 yaron57 [AT] gmail.com 7 mah [AT] everybody.org 6 tfinc [AT] wikimedia.org 5

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Congratulations and thanks
by William Allen Simpson 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

I'd like to personally thank the technical community for coming through on this solution. The ISP community has not reported mass calls to help desks. It really didn't seem too quick and dirty. I'm a Firefox HTTPS-Everywhere and NoScript kinda guy, and had no problems switching back and forth by turning scripts on and off. Both wikipedia and wikimedia js had to be turned on, though.... Why? Text-only users will even see the big edit notice on the main page! Next time, please consider adding a textual edit notice to Special:UserLogin, where the scripts don't load any banner. Perhaps that could be added to the proposed standard extension? My guess is there will be a next time. ;-)

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Mailing lists server migration today
by Mark Bergsma 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

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, -- Mark Bergsma <mark(a)wikimedia.org> Lead Operations Architect Wikimedia Foundation

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3 talks at FOSDEM 2012 by Wikimedia developers
by Sumana Harihareswara 22 Jan '12

22 Jan '12

http://fosdem.org/2012/ FOSDEM is 4-5 February in Brussels. Talks include Ryan Lane's "Infrastructure as an open source project", Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason's "Rapid real-world testing using git-deploy", and Jeroen De Dauw's "Semantic MediaWiki" (lightning talk). * http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/wikimedia_infra * http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/gd * http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/smw -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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New committer: abemusic
by Ryan Lane 22 Jan '12

22 Jan '12

Abe is working on our nginx udp logging module. Today he fixed a pretty annoying log format issue for us at the hackathon. - Ryan

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Re: [Wikitech-l] 2012 Q1 Extension Page Review Drive
by bawolff 21 Jan '12

21 Jan '12

> Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:39:20 +0200 > From: Niklas Laxstr?m <niklas.laxstrom(a)gmail.com> > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] 2012 Q1 Extension Page Review Drive > Message-ID: > <CAAVd=jayU7VGxAJ4yNRSjMMOLB37Uxp-qPMkKQqKw6B1k6UGMQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On 21 January 2012 05:21, Gregory Varnum <gregory.varnum(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > WikiProject Extensions is presenting our first ever "Extension Page Review Drive" - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:WikiProject_Extensions/Projects/Page_… > > I'm not convinced that the practice of listing all hooks used by the > extension in the extension page is useful. It's bound to be always > outdated and seems a lot of work for little benefit. > > Apart from that I updated one of my extensions and will probably do > few others :) > > -Niklas > -- > Niklas Laxstr?m Personally I can of like it when extensions list their hooks. The extension gets sorted into categories based on that. From there its easy to see: *Typical ways extensions use that hook (useful if you plan to modify something related to that hook. OTOH no replacement for just grepping through all the extensions) *Roughly how popular that hook is *A lot of places to find examples of how to use such a hook (useful if you're a newbie) Of course for things like FlaggedRevs with 2 million hooks, that starts to become impractical. -bawolff

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E:OggHandler status info
by Thomas Gries 21 Jan '12

21 Jan '12

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OggHandler Status is "beta". Shouldn't this be changed to "stable" ?

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Site Incident report - 1/20/12
by CT Woo 21 Jan '12

21 Jan '12

All, Earlier today, while fixing some network congestion problem with the bits servers, the varnish servers for bits.wikimedia.org went into an overload condition. While most affected users had incorrectly formatted wiki pages rendered due to missing javascript and css (the primary function of bits.wikimedia.org is to serve them), some experienced site slowness. The whole incident lasted for 10-15 minutes. The incident was investigated and documented, and now available at - http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Site_issue_January_2012 Regards, CT

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What happened to MediaWiki-CVS
by Niklas Laxström 21 Jan '12

21 Jan '12

I haven't received any new commit mails in the past 14 hours and the archives [1] are empty. [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-cvs/ -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström

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proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy
by Sumana Harihareswara 21 Jan '12

21 Jan '12

The Wikimedia Foundation is dedicated to a harassment-free conference experience for everyone. I'm proposing a fairly short and standard anti-harassment policy of the type that's becoming best practice for tech conferences and hackathons. Draft: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah/AHP I don't imagine I'll get much response on this, but just wanted to put it out there before implementing. I intend on putting this into place by the middle of next week, in time for the San Francisco hackathon (starting January 20th). Comments on the talk page, please. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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