Hi folks,
We've had at least a couple of site outages which we believe are due
to l10nupdate. The root cause is identified in a fairly old
ResourceLoader bug that seems to be biting us a little harder than it
normally does:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27320
Disabling l10nupdate means that changes from Translatewiki.net will
not propagate to our websites as quickly as they normally do.
Depending on how long it takes us to fix this, it could be multiple
days.
Brad Jorsch is going to take a closer look at this issue
today/tomorrow, and hopefully identify the root cause. If he's able
to find the cause quickly, we may not need to disrupt the service, but
we're going to plan for the worst here.
Thanks (in advance) for your patience!
Rob
Hello,
I am Gaurav Chawla, an undergraduate student at IIT Roorkee, India.
I am applying for this year's Google Summer of Code as a developer for
Wikimedia. For the past few days, I have been researching about any new
improvement or extension in funtionality that can be introduced to this
awesome wiki and finally came up with this idea: WikIcards - small
information cards.
I have drafted a project proposal with full description of WikIcards and
also a sample structure of it at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Grv99
I have also filed it as an extension request (Bug 46970) at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46970
I request you to go through this new project and give your suggestions and
feedback. You can give the feedback on the bug report. Alternatively, you
can also add your suggestions at "Suggestions section" near the end of the
project proposal page. Please comment on its feasibility too.
Hoping for a good response.
Thank you.
Regards,
Gaurav Chawla
Here are the highlights of the WMF Engineering roadmap updates for
today focusing on major activities in April:
Mobile
* iOS upload app delayed due to appstore snafu
* Community testing around Mobile this month
Ops
* build out for ULSFO datacenter, RFP for hardware in progress
Platform
* Redis JobQueue
* (finish) review/fixing of Score and Vipscaler extensions
Language
* TranslateUX improvements are out
* IE fixes will be rolled out today (4/10)
Full details at:
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aoizbfxc5g6KdE…
(shorturl: http://goo.gl/7611Q )
Greg
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Yesterday, I made the RC2 release and listed only one known bug in the
release. I decided to look through bugzilla for other
as-yet-unaddressed bugs. I'd like to get these fixed before the tarball
release May 15th. Please feel free to take them on so that we can get
them fixed.
* http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/46802
Enabling extensions during install process displays empty readonly
textbox on status page
* http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/46401
[Regression] mw.loader: Code should execute after styles being
loaded (wait for async cssText buffering)
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44907
ResourceLoader: Invalid argument supplied for foreach
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44568
bin/ulimit5.sh isn't UNIX compliant
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44524
update.php should invalidate ResourceLoader message cache
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/43817
Include short descriptions for extensions bundled in the release
Ideally, all of these would be fixed before Quim Gil's release testing
next week, but if we can't achieve that, it would be good to at least
have them looked at.
Thanks!
--
http://hexmode.com/
It is not the case that simple clear questions have simple clear
answers, not even in the world of pure ideas, and much less so in
the messy real world of everyday life.
-- Gregory Chaitin, "Paradoxes of Randomness"
Hello and welcome to your weekly deployment highlights email.
Here are some interesting and/or important deployments scheduled for
next week:
== Wikidata ==
* Wikidata to English Wikipedia on Monday
* Pending all OK on ENWP, Wikidata on all Wikipedias on Wednesday
== i10n ==
* Updates to the Translate Solr schema on Tuesday (at 08:00 UTC)
== Lightning Deploys! ==
* M-Th at 23:00 UTC (4pm Pacific) for 30 minutes
** Let me know if you plan on using one!
** And please do record what you did on the Deployments wiki, eg
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deployments&diff=65268&old…
(thanks Brad!)
** https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lightning_deployments#Process
As always, the full calendar can be found here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments
If you have any other expected deployments that are noteworthy, please
reply here.
Greg
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Hello,
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This is a reminder that the Language Engineering team will be hosting an
IRC office hour today, i.e. 10th of April 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT on
#wikimedia-office (Freenode). The agenda can be found in the section below.
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Thanks
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Runa
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Agenda:
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1.
Introductions
2.
Translate UX - Deployment and other news
3.
Language Mavens - an outreach initiative with the Wikimedia language
communities
4.
MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle (MLEB) Release
5.
Q/A - We shall be taking questions during the session. Questions can
also be sent to runa at wikimedia dot org <runa(a)wikimedia.org> before
the event and can be addressed during the office-hour.
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From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:07 PM
Subject: [Language Engineering] Office hour on 10th April 2013 at 1700
UTC/1000 PDT
To: mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Mailing List <
wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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Hello,
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team [1] invites everyone to join the
team’s monthly office hour on April 10, 2013. We have some exciting updates
about our ongoing projects, some of which have also been shared in our
recent blog posts[2]. During this session we would like to walk through
some of them. The team would also like to introduce a new outreach program
which was mentioned in the last office hour held on 13th March 2013 [3].
Event details and the general agenda is mentioned below.
See you all at the IRC office hour!
regards
Runa
Event Details:
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Date: 2013-04-10 (Wednesday)
Time: 1700 UTC, 1000 PDT
IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net
Agenda:
1.
Introductions
2.
Translate UX - Deployment and other news
3.
Language Mavens - an outreach initiative with the Wikimedia language
communities
4.
MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle (MLEB) Release
5.
Q/A - We shall be taking questions during the session. Questions can
also be sent to runa at wikimedia dot org <runa(a)wikimedia.org> before
the event and can be addressed during the office-hour.
[1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Language_Engineering_team
[2]
http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/technology/features/internationalization-and-lo…
[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2013-03-13
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
I have been drafting a proposal to attract new contributors, help them
settle in, and connect them to interesting tasks. It turns out that many
of these problems are not unique to new contributors. We suffer them as
well and we are just used to them.
The proposal has evolved into a deeper restructuring of our community
spaces. We're still drafting it, but a round of wider feedback is
welcome before opening the official RFC at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Wikitech_contributors
In summary:
* wikitech.wikimedia.org would become the one and only site for our open
source software contributors, powered by semantic software and an
ontology of categories shared across wiki pages, Bugzilla and hopefully
Gerrit.
* Semantic user profiles would identify interests, project membership
and preferences so users could get notifications about specific topics.
* Nodes would automatically structure links to the key information about
a specific topic: wiki pages, events, news, projects, bug reports,
Gerrit changesets, related contributors, and people interested.
* All project teams, whoever is in them, would have a standard way to
report goals, members, tasks and updates.
The proposal includes a draft plan for a first iteration, including
contracting out some software development and redesigning part of
wikitech and mediawiki.org.
Your feedback is welcome at the discussion page. I will be consolidating
there any feedback received here or through other channels. The official
RFC should follow pretty soon, maybe next week.
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
>
> On 09/04/13 04:19, Steven Walling wrote:
>
> On Monday, April 8, 2013, Waldir Pimenta wrote:
>
>> Apart from that, where were the results posted? All I found were
>> pictures from the event, spread across several categories. I've collected
>> them on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Iconathon_2013 and
>> cleaned up the other categories they were polluting (e.g. Category:I !!). I
>> would expect the results to be uploaded to
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Noun_Project but so far I
>> haven't seen any new icons there. Is this coming soon?
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> Waldir, the event just happened two days ago, and yesterday was a
> Sunday. Please show a little patience.
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> The main activity during the event was design work and critique that did
> not yet involve making permanent digital assets. The core part of this was
> not making simple black and white SVGs of icons, but churning out as many
> ideas for representing concepts as possible, which we did collaboratively
> in groups on paper. Then we sorted and assessed these ideas with lots of
> back and forth between designers, Wikimedians present, etc.
>
> Now that the idea phase is over and it's time to move toward execution,
> Vibha and others who ran this will be posting more updates this week. All
> relevant materials will of course be available for use on Commons.
>
>
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Isarra Yos <zhorishna(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the point Waldir was making was about a lack of information
> preceding the event, not so much the follow up.
>
Thanks, that was indeed my main concern. I was a little frustrated as I
would like to have at least watched parts of the event, and even accepted
that it wouldn't be possible due to the nature of the event, only to be
informed, after the fact (I didn't read wikitech-l in the hours prior to
the event) that some sort of remote participation was actually possible.
This led me to vent out a little more than I should in my message, and I
apologize for that (also, I didn't mean to imply that making black and
white icons is a simple matter and should be done quickly; sorry if that
was the impression I passed). Nevertheless, my concern still stands:
although several event pages were created (more than should have been, imo,
but that's another issue), none of them made any reference to either remote
participation, or how non-participants could expect to know about the
outcomes.