Wikitech-l September 2012

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Wikidata blockers
by Denny Vrandečić 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Hi all, here's our weekly list of Wikidata review items. Due to the hands-on meeting last week we refrained from sending it earlier. Now that most should be back home, I wanted to give an overview of the open items before our telco tomorrow. * ContentHandler. This one is seriously blocking us now, and we would need to get it reviewed. It is our highest priority right now. The review was promised for this week. We are eagerly awaiting the review and further input. Here's the bug: <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38622> * Sites. The RFC seems to be stable: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/New_sites_system> Chad was reminded one and half weeks ago to take a look, and since no further input has come in we assume that it is acceptable, which is why we started with the implementation work. Here's the link to the patch: <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/23528/> * jQuery table sorting improvements. This improves the UI on initial display of a sorted table. There has been some comments and updates, thanks to Krinkle for the review and comments. The work is ongoing here, the ball is in our courtyard, we are working on the new patchset: <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/22562/> * Towards nested transactions (2): <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/21584/> open with comments from Aaron Schulz. Got merged since last mail: * userWasLastToEdit improvement. <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/22049/> Yay! Thanks to Demon. * Towards nested transactions (1): <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/21582/> got merged! Yay! Thanks to Aaron Schulz. Thanks for everyone, especially to Demon, Krinkle, The DJ, Dantman, Matmarex, and Aaron Schulz for reviewing, and Rob, Tim, and Chad who participated in the phone conference last week. It would be crucial to get the first two items off this list as soon as possible. Cheers, Denny -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Fwd: WLM Android app v1.2.4 Daigo-ji
by Philip Chang 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Philip Chang <pchang(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:53 PM Subject: WLM Android app v1.2.4 Daigo-ji To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition < wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear WLM Members, The WLM Android app has been updated to v1.2.4, named Daigo-ji. Release notes: * Dynamically loads localization updates * Clears large image previews before taking another photo - may help with "out of memory" errors * Stops "Mobile to desktop upload" category from being added to uploads from the app - this category should be limited to desktop uploads from a mobile upload Please note: there are issues with the Cordova interface to the camera that are outside of our control (Cordova is the app framework used to build our mobile apps). There are a significant number of users experiencing crashes and we are limited in our ability to debug these problems, for several reasons: * We are not able to reproduce these problems on the same devices that seems to be experiencing the problems * Google Play captures a part of the error which does not include the Cordova aspects * Google Play does not allow us to contact reviewers or people reporting crashes Therefore, if you hear of any users having such problems, please have them contact us by email at: mobile-feedback-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org. Thanks for your support. Phil -- Phil Inje Chang Product Manager, Mobile Wikimedia Foundation 415-812-0854 m 415-882-7982 x 6810 -- Phil Inje Chang Product Manager, Mobile Wikimedia Foundation 415-812-0854 m 415-882-7982 x 6810

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Breaking changes in the Wikidata API
by John Erling Blad 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

There are a few upcoming breaking changes in the Wikibase API. * The items id as exposed to the outer world is now a numeric id. This will be prefixed with a letter and this letter will be used internally during lookup. Do not hardcode interpretation of this letter as it can be configured, but once configured it will be type-specific for the type of entity. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40381 * The encapsulating "items"/"item" in the reply will be replaced by "entities"/"entity" and it will be a new type-field in each entity. This field will have an identifier that says which kind of entity is in there. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40407 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40408 John Erling Blad

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Travel Project - Next Steps
by Erik Moeller 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

Hello all, As recently announced [1], WMF will move forward in creating a Wikimedia travel project based on community request and support. We’re currently in discussions with the Wikivoyage community, who’ve expressed interest in joining Wikimedia’s project family as part of this launch. We’re coordinating certain practical issues, such as content migration, account reconciliation, and attribution, with them directly. Please note that the new project will be subject to Wikimedia’s terms of use, privacy policy, and licensing policy. Like with any of our projects, the bulk of content-related policies and practices will be designed and managed by the community. Launch discussions are continuing here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Travel_Guide An additional open question is the project name. Wikivoyage has offered to contribute its name. So, we could stick with Wikivoyage, which is already established, and has a non-profit organization supporting it. We have also obtained a number of alternative domain names, as have individual community members. We’ll initially straw poll the "Wikivoyage yes/no" question as this seems like the simplest path forward if there’s wide agreement in favor; more on that in a separate note by Philippe. For the Wikivoyage content import and project launch, our current plan is to do an in-person sprint in San Francisco in late October to support the project launch (we may defer this based on everyone’s availability). There’s also plenty of work ahead of time. If you’d like to be part of the technical launch team, please sign up here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Technical_coordination We’ll also continue to monitor comments on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Travel_Guide and will engage there as the process continues. For the time being, I am coordinating the overall project launch, supported by Philippe. Questions/comments welcome. I look forward to getting this project off the ground. :-) As we’ve said before, we don’t view ourselves in competition with other providers of free knowledge, nor do we encourage anybody to leave any other site. The beautiful thing about free culture is that anyone who wishes to contribute to the corpus of freely available information about travel (or indeed any subject) can do so anywhere, and both information and people can flow freely between projects. All best, Erik [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-September/121897.html -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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IRC office hours with the Localisation team 2012-09-19 16:30 UTC
by Srikanth Lakshmanan (WMF) 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Hello everyone, You're invited to the IRC office hours with the Localisation team[1] at the Wikimedia Foundation. Date: 2012-09-19 Time: 16.30 UTC Venue: #wikimedia-office Agenda: 1. Project Milkshake update. 2. Language teams and tracking i18n metrics. 3. Q & A For more logistical info and time conversion links check the page on Meta.[2] To know what the localisation team has been up to recently, check out * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_Milkshake * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Localisation_team_Sprint_… * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Localisation_team_Sprint_… Thanks, and we hope to talk to you soon! [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Localisation_team [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours -- Srikanth L Wikimedia Localisation Team

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1.20 RC Tarball
by Mark A. Hershberger 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It is a week later than I originally said I would get to it, but I've finally managed to get the time together to construct a beta tarball to, as Rob said over a week ago, "help with pre-release practice". I've used the make-release script that Sam Reed pointed me to before, so I think I've done this using the same tools as he would have. I used the wmf1.2011 branch, so I think this is pretty sane. And just to verify this, I did a brief sanity check by running the installer. Hopefully, we can use this to start getting a 1.20 tarball out at the beginning of October. Download: http://mah.everybody.org/mediawiki-1.20.0beta0.tar.gz Release Notes: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/core.git;a=blob_plain;f=R… GPG signatures: http://mah.everybody.org/mediawiki-1.20.0beta0.tar.gz.sig Public key: http://mah.everybody.org/contact-info http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x7956EE477F901A30 (If there there is anyone with a PGP key in the Philadelphia/New York City area who can sign my key, let me know. I have to get some more signatures.) - -- http://hexmode.com/ Human evil is not a problem. It is a mystery. It cannot be solved. -- When Atheism Becomes a Religion, Chris Hedges -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iD8DBQFQVQtlc17xCi38v/URAnDvAJ9+yjY1AMntUzedWyzHyckSSc5C2gCggciH KcKJuNP3yEHIAm8esqPnNbw= =8g8S -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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IPv6 usage on Wikimedia?
by David Gerard 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Do we have any stats on IPv6 accesses and edits on Wikimedia sites? I see this page on stats, which suggests it's literally so small we can't even count it: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportCountryData.htm Is that actually the case? 'Cos we do know IPv6 edits occur, therefore IPv6 page views occur. - d.

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[Gerrit] Caught up on repository creations
by Chad 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Gerrit-users, All repositories that were pending creation on either[0] list[0] have been created. If you were waiting for a repository, please check out those lists to make sure I got you :) My sincere apologies to anyone who has been waiting. Between the Gerrit downtime and travelling, I had been letting new repo creation fall behind. -Chad [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/New_repositories/Requests [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Conversion/Extensions_queue

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Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML5, it's a coming (again)!
by Rob Lanphier 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

This change has been made now. Rob On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Rob Lanphier <robla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Forwarded as this is of potentially wider interest. This may be a > breaking change for some older bots that haven't been maintained. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sam Reed <reedy(a)wikimedia.org> > Date: Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:06 PM > Subject: [Wikitech-l] HTML5, it's a coming (again)! > To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > It's been a long time coming (for the nth time..), but we're scheduling a > deployment of HTML5 across the Wikimedia cluster [1]. This is set for Monday > 17th September at 18:00-20:00 UTC [2]. > > > > The intention is to set $wgHtml5 [3] to true everywhere. It's been running > on MediaWiki.org and our 2 test wikis for quite a while, and other sites > like translatewiki.net with no issues. > > > > The intention is to leave it enabled unless it causes major problems. If > you're running an application that screen scrapes, shame on you; you've had > enough notice to get it fixed! ;) > > > > Now is the time to fix up your scripts and programs (where necessary), tell > your friends! > > > > > > Sam > > > > > > [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27478 > > [2] http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Software_deployments#Week_of_Sept_17 > > [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgHtml5 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Disabling direct pushing to master for extensions
by Chad 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

Hi everyone, This is something I've been meaning to bring up for some time, but have just been delaying getting it done. For a bunch of reasons, we need to look at disabling direct pushing on the master branch for all extensions in Gerrit. This doesn't affect other branches, just master. There's a couple of big reasons this is a problem right now, and why we need to change: 1) Eventually, we'll be running tests for all extensions (at the very least linting if no phpunit tests have been written). Jenkins doesn't have the change to -1 a commit if you skip review. 2) It doesn't give anyone a place to complain about the patch. Every commit to master needs a place to say "Hey wait a minute" -- even if it's already been merged. 3) Changes that are directly pushed aren't searchable from Gerrit. This is more a feature request for Gerrit, but one that's easily worked around by just pushing through Gerrit. I realize that feature branches don't necessarily need the same level of scrutiny, but the "primary" branch for a repository needs to be as public as possible--direct pushing makes this difficult. I don't plan on changing this requirement for any branch that's not "master" or "wmf/" (the latter relating to deployment config). Before I make the change though, I wanted to ask about it publicly to make sure there's no major blockers to me doing so. Thanks for any feedback you can give. -Chad

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