Wikitech-l December 2013

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Summarizing the RFC clusters
by Rob Lanphier 27 Dec '13

27 Dec '13

Hi everyone, It would be extremely useful to have summaries for all RFC clusters[1] similar to the one I provided yesterday[2] for HTML templating. No, I'm not volunteering :-) As Diederik mentioned, we're going to have to figure out some way of prioritizing all of the RFC clusters in advance of the Architecture Summit. One way I believe we should gauge interest in these things is by whether or not someone has taken the time to write the summary, and what level of on-list response that summary gets. It's certainly not the sole means or even most important, but it's indicative of whether or not sufficient effort has been put into the online conversation. In general, the Architecture Summit is not meant as a replacement for mailing list conversation. It's meant as a means of accelerating conversations that are already happening on list, but need more than email conversation to push them more quickly to resolution. Therefore, it makes sense to prioritize the RFC clusters that are being talked about. Guidelines for writing these: be fair and reasonably generous to the authors of the RFCs. We're not shooting for encyclopedic NPOV, so it's ok and perhaps even helpful to state what you believe the various viewpoints are. It may also be the case that we got the organization wrong, and that a cluster of RFCs don't actually belong together as a cluster. If that's the case, it would be good to highlight as part of going through these. Anyone willing to help out with writing summaries? Rob [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Summit_2014/RFC_Clusters [2] "RFC cluster summary: HTML templating": http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/74544

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Question about the namespace alias redirection on de.wikipedia.org
by Qichen Tu 24 Dec '13

24 Dec '13

Hi All, I want to ask a question about the namespace alias redirection. On the de.wikipedia.org, Benutzerin is the namespace alias of Benutzer, so http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzerin:Melly42<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBenutzer…> should redirect to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Melly42<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBenutzer…> . But the real situation is http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Melly42<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBenutzer…> redirecting to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzerin:Melly42<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBenutzer…> . Anybody could tell me what happened? Thanks!

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FOSDEM news: accepted sessions and stand
by Quim Gil 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

Hi, some FOSDEM news: The Wikis devroom accepted sessions have been announced: https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/wikis-devroom/2013-December/000015.html (also pasted below) Erik Moeller has also been accepted as speaker of a main track session: The Wikipedia Stack https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/the_wikipedia_stack/ Finally, Dimitar Parvanov from communicated that the Wikimedia stand has been accepted! I will update https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM soon. Can someone start a list of participants, please? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Initial list of accepted sessions Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 14:48:53 -0800 From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> To: wikis-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org Hi, we have a you have the list of sessions accepted for the Wikis devroom at FOSDEM. Speakers must confirm their participation and polish the descriptions of the sessions. In some cases we will contact the speakers to fine tune the topic or the time available for their session. We will schedule the sessions as they are confirmed. All in a very wiki fashion, only on a tool (FOSDEM's Pentabarf) that we don't control quite yet. We will also start a discussion in this list to organize a panel session. Your feedback about this panel and your ideas to improve the schedule are welcome. SESSIONS * A comparison between MediaWiki, TWiki and XWiki communities Using metrics to measure communities * A web development runtime platform based on the wiki paradigm * Addressing the long tail of applications * Counting (on) views — Page views on Wikipedia * Coverage for basic language support components -- A Dashboard view * Crowdsourced translation using MediaWiki * Developing the XWiki software * Force Multiplication Victory through external tool writing * Hatta Wiki A Mercurial-based wiki engine * show.tiki.org project: facilitate bug reporting and solving The new Tiki infrastructure for facilitating bug reporting and solving * Useful and Necessary Mediawiki Gadgets * VisualEditor Wikipedia's new editing system for wikis and for the web * Wikidata What we learned in its first 2 years and what is in store for the future -- Quim Gil - Vincent Massol - Jean-Marc Libs

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Wikibase DataModel released!
by Jeroen De Dauw 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

Hey, I’m happy to announce the 0.6 release of Wikibase DataModel. This is the first real release of this component. The awesome thing about this release is that it finally makes the component ready for third party usage. You can find a short description of Wikibase DataModel, some history and highlights for this release at http://www.bn2vs.com/blog/2013/12/23/wikibase-datamodel-released/ Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. ~=[,,_,,]:3 --

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Mailing list etiquette and trolling
by Jeroen De Dauw 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

Hey, In recent months I've come across a few mails on this list that only contained accusations of trolling. Those are very much not constructive and only serve to antagonize. I know some forums that have an explicit rule against this, which results in a ban on second violation. If there is a definition of the etiquette for this list somewhere, I suggest having a similar rule be added there. Thoughts? (I'm now half expecting someone to claim this mail is a troll. Perhaps we ought to make a contest out of making the accusation first, at least then it will have general amusement value :D) Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. ~=[,,_,,]:3 --

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter 22 Dec '13

22 Dec '13

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for December 16, 2013 - December 23, 2013 Status changes this week Reports changed/set to UNCONFIRMED: 3 Reports changed/set to NEW : 17 Reports changed/set to ASSIGNED : 24 Reports changed/set to REOPENED : 7 Reports changed/set to PATCH_TO_RE: 67 Reports changed/set to RESOLVED : 254 Reports changed/set to VERIFIED : 0 Total reports still open : 13432 Total bugs still open : 7807 Total non-lowest prio. bugs still open: 7589 Total enhancements still open : 5625 Reports created this week: 355 Resolutions for the week: Reports marked FIXED : 177 Reports marked DUPLICATE : 22 Reports marked INVALID : 16 Reports marked WORKSFORME: 11 Reports marked WONTFIX : 22 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics Created reports per component Tool Labs tools tsreports 25 MediaWiki extensions Flow 22 Pywikibot General 21 Wikimedia Labs tools 15 MediaWiki extensions Translate 13 Created reports per product MediaWiki extensions 123 Wikimedia 54 MediaWiki 46 Tool Labs tools 30 VisualEditor 24 Top 5 bug report closers aklapper [AT] wikimedia.org 18 jrobson [AT] wikimedia.org 17 tomasz [AT] twkozlowski.net 15 s.mazeland [AT] xs4all.nl 14 jforrester [AT] wikimedia.org 14 Most urgent open issues Product | Component | BugID | Priority | LastChange | Assignee | Summary -------------------------------------------------------------- Analytics | Tech communit | 57038 | Highest | 2013-11-20 | acs[AT]bitergia.com | Metrics about contributors with +2 pe MediaWiki | JavaScript | 52659 | Highest | 2013-12-16 | wikibugs-l[AT]lists. | [Regression]: mediawiki.notification: MediaWiki ext | CentralAuth | 54195 | Highest | 2013-12-10 | csteipp[AT]wikimedia | CentralAuth not caching Special:Centr MediaWiki ext | Collection | 58151 | Highest | 2013-12-17 | mwalker[AT]wikimedia | Collection exports everything to PDF MediaWiki ext | Diff | 58274 | Highest | 2013-12-10 | wikibugs-l[AT]lists. | Implement an order-aware MapDiffer MediaWiki ext | Echo | 53569 | Highest | 2013-12-18 | wikibugs-l[AT]lists. | [Regression] Echo: Sending 2 e-mails MediaWiki ext | Flow | 58016 | Highest | 2013-12-17 | wikibugs-l[AT]lists. | Flow: Suppression redacts the wrong u MediaWiki ext | MassMessage | 57464 | Highest | 2013-12-16 | legoktm.wikipedia[AT | MassMessage thinks namespaces that do MediaWiki ext | MultimediaVie | 57842 | Highest | 2013-12-20 | wikibugs-l[AT]lists. | "Learn more on Wikimedia Commons" sho MediaWiki ext | Translate | 58710 | Highest | 2013-12-19 | wikibugs-l[AT]lists. | Create a user page when accepting a u MediaWiki ext | WikidataRepo | 52385 | Highest | 2013-12-04 | wikidata-bugs[AT]lis | Query by one property and one value ( MediaWiki ext | WikidataRepo | 58166 | Highest | 2013-12-09 | wikidata-bugs[AT]lis | label/description uniqueness constrai MediaWiki ext | WikidataRepo | 57918 | Highest | 2013-12-10 | wikidata-bugs[AT]lis | show diffs for sorting changes MediaWiki ext | WikidataRepo | 58850 | Highest | 2013-12-22 | wikidata-bugs[AT]lis | wbmergeitems isn't merging claims pro MediaWiki ext | WikiEditor | 57489 | Highest | 2013-12-11 | wikibugs-l[AT]lists. | document.selection replaced by window VisualEditor | Editing Tools | 50768 | Highest | 2013-12-16 | rmoen[AT]wikimedia.o | VisualEditor: Better reference UI for VisualEditor | MediaWiki int | 48429 | Highest | 2013-11-01 | krinklemail[AT]gmail | VisualEditor: Support editing of sect Wikimedia | Apache config | 31369 | Highest | 2013-12-10 | tstarling[AT]wikimed | Non-canonical HTTPS URLs quietly redi Wikimedia | Fundraising: | 58373 | Highest | 2013-12-18 | wikibugs-l[AT]lists. | Opting out of the annual fundraising Wikimedia Lab | Infrastructur | 48501 | Highest | 2013-12-20 | greg[AT]wikimedia.or | beta: Get SSL certificates for *.{pro

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OAuth Devlopment Training
by Chris Steipp 21 Dec '13

21 Dec '13

Hi all, For any developers who have been thinking about connecting their application to MediaWiki, but haven't gotten around to diving in, I'm going to have a short training/workshop session next week. I'll give a brief intro to using the version of OAuth that we're running, and walk through some quick demos in php and go. After that, I'm happy to walk any developer through getting their app connected, if anyone is struggling with a particular issue. It will be Wed, Dec 18th at 11am PST (1900 UTC). Please let me know if you're interested. We'll probably use a hangout for the session, but if that's not an option for anyone we can use a voice call and etherpad. Either way I'll probably send out invites individually.

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Suggested process for determining topics at the Architecture Summit
by Diederik van Liere 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

Hola, We wanted to update you with our proposal on how we are thinking on how to create a program for the Architecture Summit coming January. We started grouping the RFC's from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RFC into clusters at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Summit_2014/RFC_Clusters. This clustering is neither perfect nor complete and we would like to ask your help with finetuning the clustering. The idea is that a cluster contains RFC's that belong to each other -- this means if we discuss RFC A and therefore RFC B needs to be discussed as well then those two RFC's should be in the same cluster. Clusters should also be small, probably not more than 3 or 4 RFC's per cluster. Sometimes RFC's in the same cluster will offer alternative suggested implementations, sometimes, RFC's are closely related because they pursue a similar goal. Currently, we have one big cluster called 'General Mediawiki Functionality' and this list definitely needs to be broken up in smaller clusters. The 'Misc' cluster can probably also broken up in smaller clusters. Once we have nailed down the clusters of RFC's then we will run a strawpoll to gauge interest for the different clusters. The strawpoll will inform our decision which clusters should be discussed at the Architecture Summit. We want to launch this strawpoll at the latest on January 2nd, 2014. Summary: 1) Help us finalize the clustering of RFC's on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Summit_2014/RFC_Clusters 2) Participate in the strawpoll once it goes live (probably January 2nd), separate email will follow. If you have any questions, thoughts, suggestions, remarks, etc, etc please let us know! Best, Diederik

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Deployment highlights - week of December 23rd
by Greg Grossmeier 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

Hello and welcome to the special holiday edition of the deployment highlights email. == Week of Dec 23rd == ZERO DEPLOYS https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_December_23 == Week of Dec 30th == This week will be a partial deploy week (no deploys on Tuesday or Wednesday, Dec 31st and Jan 1st, respectively): https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_December_30 As such, the MediaWiki update that normally happens on Tuesday that week will instead occur on Monday (the 30th). See the MediaWiki schedule at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_depl… The other notable deployment the week of the 30th is the disablement of the pt.wikipedia.org 'emergency captcha'. See: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49860 for all of the details, especially: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49860#c75 (comment 75, by Erik Moeller). Thanks, and as always, have a good weekend, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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wikitech/labs outage
by Daniel Zahn 19 Dec '13

19 Dec '13

Hi all, we had an outage of Wikitech and Labsconsole / Labs. Apache on virt0 was broken. It was reported by S Page on IRC, the symptons were wikitech and labsconsole being down via HTTP(S) but pingable. We also had Icinga monitoring telling us about it. I went to virt0 and saw Apache running, shortly after restarted it and that fixed the issue. The root cause i found to be a bug in Phusion Passenger module that is used on virt0, as opposed to cluster Apache. from /usr/lib/phusion_passenger/passenger-spawn-server:61 *** Exception Errno::EPIPE in Passenger RequestHandler (Broken pipe) (process 23592): I made a copy of the full log and for now it is on virt0 in /root/apache2_error_log_20131219.log if you would like to see it all. So far i just blame https://www.phusionpassenger.com/ respectively libapache2-mod-passenger and didn't take any further action. I did tell the labs IRC channel but did not post on labs-l. Daniel -- Daniel Zahn <dzahn(a)wikimedia.org> Operations Engineer

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