Wikitech-l February 2012

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Please test on our deploy candidate server (test2)
by Rob Lanphier 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Hi everyone, Stage 0 of our deployment of MediaWiki 1.19 is complete, which is our deployment to "test2". This wiki is actually on the live cluster like any other wiki, which is about as close as it gets to what things are going to be like when we deploy it to production wikis like any others. Here's the URL: http://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page In fact, all 800 or so wikis run on the same set of Apache servers, whether they are 1.18 or 1.19, which means this isn't a truly isolated test. There's a small chance that we could accidentally break 1.18 wikis in the process of doing this testing. In particular, if you see something to the effect of "Internal 500 error" on any wiki (1.18 or 1.19), please let us know using the instructions here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_maintenance_notice (basically #wikimedia-tech or the talk page for the notice above) If all goes well, we should be making our first wave of deployments to 1.19 wikis in about 27 hours. Go forth and test! Thanks! Rob

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Welcome, Jon Robson - Software Developer (Mobile)
by Tomasz Finc 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Greetings all, I'm pleased to announce that the mobile team has a new team member. Jon Robson joins Yuvi, Patrick, Arthur, Phil, and Andre as a core member of the mobile team. In this role he'll provide the team with the strong front end development skills that we've been needing. Jon joins us from Osmosoft, a small open source web development team from BT, the UK's biggest telecommunication provider. Jon has spent just over 4 years working on various BT projects as well as being a core contributor in the open source projects TiddlyWiki [1], TiddlyWeb [2] and TiddlySpace [3] mainly as a client side developer but also working with Python and even fulfilling sys-admin duties! Jon is excited to join us after dissolving many of BT's open source myths despite times of being exposed to the full wrath of enterprise software [4] during his time in the corporate world [5]. He'll be working remotely from the UK for the first couple of months and we'll hopefully see him in San Francisco after. The mobile team stil has a couple of hires left so don't hesitate to send candidates our way. Welcome Jon! [1] http://tiddlywiki.com [2] http://tiddlyweb.com/ [3] http://tiddlyspace.com [4] https://twitter.com/#!/rakugojon/status/156720382542479360 [5] https://twitter.com/#!/rakugojon/status/144398575890219008 --tomasz

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New committers
by Sumana Harihareswara 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

* Jon Robson (jdlrobson) recently joined the Wikimedia Foundation mobile team as a contractor to work on front-end software development. * Kelly Anne Johnson (kellyanne), an OmniTI UI designer, will be working on the Article Feedback Tool project along with that team. * Audrey Tang (au), working on Parsoid as a volunteer and soon to start as a part-time contractor. Yes, it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang . All got extensions access (although this is going to be a somewhat meaningless distinction in our git future). Welcome, all! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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MediaWiki Skinning Tutorial
by Daniel Friesen 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

I finally have a tutorial on MediaWiki Skinning for 1.18+ online on Redwerks' Blog. http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/08/mediawiki-skinning-tutorial/ The tutorial covers the general conceptual areas of a skin, laying out the files for a skin, all the small boilerplate pieces used to output types of content, an overview of things you should test for in your skin when implemented, a bit on i18n and related info on variants and rtl, and a touch on accessibility. -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]

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Wikimania scholarship deadline: Feb 16
by aude 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Reminder that the deadline to apply for a Wikimania 2012 travel scholarship is February 16 (23:59 UTC). We encourage you to apply! We need developers and tech folks at Wikimania, including for the hackathon, the technical track, workshops and more. :) http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships Full travel scholarships, funded by the Wikimedia Foundation and chapters (France, UK, Israel, Austria), will cover transportation, hostel accommodations, and conference registration. Partial scholarships are also offered by WMF (and Wikimedia Hungary). Wikimania 2012 will take place July 12-15 at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. Wikimania hackathon is July 10-11. The call for participation is also open now (deadline: March 18), and registration is open. Cheers, Katie

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Welcome David Schoonover - Systems Engineer - Data Analytics
by Rob Lanphier 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Hi everyone, I'm pleased to welcome a new member of our analytics engineering team. David Schoonover starts today in the San Francisco office[1] as our new Systems Engineer for Data Analytics. David previously worked remotely for a company in McLean, VA in Virginia's Silicon...thing (not valley, forest or alley...what do they call it? "Silicon road to Dulles"?). Anyway, David's work was at Clearspring, the company responsible for the AddThis sharing widget that's installed across 10+ million domains servicing 60k+ requests per second. He and a co-worker built a scalable real-time analytics system to power the Share Count feature of their tools, which is part of a real-time dashboard you get as a user of their service. In addition to David's talent in database technology and software engineering, David also adds to our growing team of capable photographers in Platform Engineering. Because, after all, every good engineering organization should have plenty of great photographers. I've also found David will immediately will draw a dinosaur[2] on a whiteboard in whatever room he is in. So, those of you in our SF office, if you see a plesiosaur on the whiteboard near you, that probably means he's been there recently. Or maybe it's been there a while but now won't erase. Either way, he probably drew it. David will be joining Andrew Otto and Erik Zachte in the analytics group in Platform Engineering, working very closely with Diederik van Liere from Howie's new Product Management team. David, Andrew and Diederik (along with contractor Fabian Kaelin) are working on fixing up our reporting pipeline and report card. Welcome David! Rob [1] Yes, that's right, I've actually hired another person in San Francisco, and this time, I didn't have to convince him to move here. When I have team meetings, I'll have to get a conference room with THREE chairs. And a good phone. [2] Dinosaur samples: http://art.less.ly/dinosaurs/

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Mailing list for the huggle
by Petr Bena 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Hi folks, I would like to notify you that based on discussion between huggle developers, we created a new mailing list huggle(a)lists.wikimedia.org. It's for people who seek help or support for huggle, tool which is being used on a number of wikimedia projects and for developer talk, important changes will be announced there as well as beta versions, it's primarily for huggle project members and the support for the tool. Anyone is welcome to subscribe to this list. In case you have any questions, please ask! Thank you

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Phabricator
by John Du Hart 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Unless you've been living under a rock (If you have, how's the wifi under there?) we're moving to git soon. Along with this will come a change in how we do code review. However, some people have expressed concerns over the usability of gerrit. Therefore I'd like to propose an alternative. Phabricator is a code review tool written by and for Facebook that has been open sourced. For an introduction, see this: http://phabricator.com/docs/phabricator/article/Introduction.html I've written up some documentation about Phabricator for our uses here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator I would really like for some of our developers and reviewers to try this out as an alternative to gerrit. Personally I've found it much more pleasurable to work with than gerrit. If we think this might be a viable solution for us then I'd be willing to work on adding more integration (LDAP support and Unit testing integration). Let me know if you have any questions or feedback. Thanks! -- John

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RFC Complete Rewrite of Mobile Frontend & Rename MobileFrontend2
by Patrick Reilly 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

John DuHart has embarked on a complete rewrite of the current Mobile Frontend extension, and has decided to name it 'MobileFrontend2'. While we would prefer it if we could work cooperatively to resolve the existing open issues in the current MobileFrontend extension and maintain continuity. It's understandable why John would prefer to undertake his complete rewrite. (See Extension_talk:MobileFrontend#Issues_with_MobileFrontend_and_possible_rewrite_11940<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:MobileFrontend#Issues_with_Mo…> ) However, we feel that naming the rewrite 'MobileFrontend2' is problematic as users have already started to confuse it with the current extension. One thought was to name it to MobileSkin, but it appears that this extension already exists and we quickly reverted that rename attempt. We're curious to hear the rest of the engineering community's perspective and try to gain some consensus as to how best to proceed. — The Mobile Team

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MobileFrontend & John Du Hart's rewrite
by Sumana Harihareswara 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

John, Patrick, and anyone else who is interested in the MobileFrontend extension: John Du Hart is working on a rewrite, aiming to make it less Wikimedia Foundation-centric, and there is disagreement regarding whether his rewrite is desired. Please read and comment: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:MobileFrontend#Issues_with_Mo… (Can someone please forward this to mobile-l as well? Thanks.) -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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