Wikitech-l May 2013

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Querying the database
by Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W. 23 May '13

23 May '13

I do a lot of maintenance tasks on Commons, and many tasks require some sort of database query to find the oddball cases. The queries can be done through one of several ways: 1) Using CatScan and CatScan2[2] tools 2) Database query service [3] 3) Weekly Database reports [4] Unfortunately lately some of those ways are breaking down. CatScan and CatScan2 rarely work failing in many different ways: usually due to exceeding the 'max_user_connections' (30 for magnus's CatScan2, and 15 for Daniel's CatScan), but otherwise with some timeout or no-connection errors, or can work on a query for hours (or days if you let it) and never returns anything. I developed some CatScan2 based queries for Creator template maintenance, that worked fine 2-3 years ago, but always time-out since. That might be due more and more images on Commons. Similarly, Database query service seems also very inactive. There are many requests and few replies, like my request from April 2 [5]. For example, lately I was searching for images on Commons that do not have any license templates (sometimes since 2007 or earlier), see [5]. At some point Magnus was helping me with that query, however after it failed several times with "server not found" error we gave up. It seems like less and less can be done with current infrastructure. So are there any non-toolserver based alternatives for database queries? I was trying to read about Wikimedia Labs looking for tools based on them. Ideally there would be some CatScan2 like tool that is based on different database, with higher number of users allowed. Jarek T. User:jarekt [6] [1] http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php [2] http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php [3] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/DBQ [4] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Database_reports [5] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/DBQ-201 [6] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jarekt

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jQuery.IME extensions for Firefox and Chrome
by KAUSHAL SINGH 23 May '13

23 May '13

Hello, Resolved and Committed on the Issue 163:Adding Keyboard navigation in jQuery.IME's language selection dropdown list.https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime/issues/163 Here is the Commit:https://github.com/kaushalsingh11/jquery.ime/commit/3ba4a427f8b50432… Have also sent the pull request. Have already posted on BugZilla on 18th May -- With Kind Regards, Kaushal Kumar Singh B.tech Part III Electronics Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, B.H.U, Varanasi INDIA PIN-221005 Mo: +91 - 9839203380 E-Mail : kaushal.ksingh.ece10(a)iitbhu.ac.in kaushal.singh07(a)gmail.com Skype : kaushal.singh07

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Moving a GitHub Pull Request to Gerrit Changeset manually
by Yuvi Panda 23 May '13

23 May '13

Hello! So I tried converting https://github.com/wikimedia/qa-browsertests/pull/1 into a Gerrit changeset (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/54097/) , and was mostly successful. It is also a relatively painless process - at least for single commits. This assumes you (person doing the GitHub -> Gerrit bridge) have a Gerrit account. I wrote a small script that sortof makes this easy: https://gist.github.com/yuvipanda/5174162 This only does things one time - it moves a set of commits in a pull request to a squashed single commit on gerrit, assuming your current directory is a cloned version of the gerrit repo you want to commit to. It should not to be too hard to write an actual, idempotent sync script that maintains a 1-to-1 correspondence between Pull Requests and Gerrit Changesets, and I'll attempt to do that tomorrow. Note that this is a shitty bash script (to put it mildly) - but that seems to be all I can write at 5:30 AM :) I'll probably rewrite it to be a proper python one soon. That should also allow me to use the GitHub API to also mirror the GitHub Pull Request Title / Description to Gerrit. I also offer to manually sync pull requests into gerrit as they come until the automatic Gerrit integration is ready. Shall be writing another small script tomorrow to have me 'watch' all the wikimedia/* GitHub repositories. Thank you :) I'll update this thread as the script gets less shitty. Do let me know if you have build a far more complete script :) -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog

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Fwd: [QA] First post (almost)
by Quim Gil 23 May '13

23 May '13

Hi, we have now a mailing list dedicated to QA specific topics: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/qa http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/ Please forward to your colleagues interested in testing and in contributing to Wikimedia! See the rationale and background below. -------- Original Message -------- Welcome to the QA list! This mailing list is an umbrella to host people and discussions focusing on software quality assurance in all its aspects: exploratory testing, browser automation testing, unit testing, continuous integration, the beta cluster, bug management and community QA activities. We hope this list becomes useful to integrate and retain people primarily interested in testing / QA. We are seeing many people interested in testing from different angles. Some people are current developers willing to learn and discuss more about this topic, best practices, etc. Some are people new to the community that see testing / QA as a way to contribute in technical tasks other than development. This specialized list follows the good results offered by precedents like the Analytics, Design of Editor Engagement lists. wikitech-l subscribers will still receive the deep & wide QA related announcements. No teams comfortable with the status quo will be encouraged to change their current communication practices because of this list. There is a bit more background at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48057 Now, who's next? -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter 22 May '13

22 May '13

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for May 13, 2013 - May 20, 2013 Status changes this week Reports changed/set to UNCONFIRMED: 0 Reports changed/set to NEW : 0 Reports changed/set to ASSIGNED : 0 Reports changed/set to REOPENED : 0 Reports changed/set to RESOLVED : 0 Reports changed/set to VERIFIED : 0 Total reports still open : 10296 Total bugs still open : 5642 Total non-lowest prio. bugs still open: 5463 Total enhancements still open : 4654 Reports created this week: 229 Resolutions for the week: Wikimedia Bugzilla report (FAILED), Query failure FAILED Query failure

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MediaWiki Security Release: 1.20.6 and 1.19.7
by Chris Steipp 21 May '13

21 May '13

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.20.6 and 1.19.7. These releases fix a security related issue that could affect users of MediaWiki. Download links are given at the end of this email. * MediaWiki user Marco discovered that security checks for file uploads were not being run when the file was uploaded in chunks through the API. This option has been available to users who can upload files since MediaWiki 1.19. <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48306> Full release notes for 1.20.6: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.20> Full release notes for 1.19.7: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.19> For information about how to upgrade, see <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading> ********************************************************************** 1.20.6 ********************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.20/mediawiki-1.20.6.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.20.5): http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.20/mediawiki-1.20.6.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.20/mediawiki-1.20.6.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.20/mediawiki-1.20.6.patch.gz.sig Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html ********************************************************************** 1.19.7 ********************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.7.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.19.6): http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.7.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.7.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.7.patch.gz.sig Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html

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GSoC Virtual Keyboard
by Siddha Ganju 21 May '13

21 May '13

Hi! As had been planned I have started making the keyboards and first I implemented the Hebrew language. I have created a new repository[1]. Links: GitHub link for Hebrew Keyboard: [1] https://github.com/SiddhaGanju/Hebrew-Keyboard -- Siddha Ganju 2nd Year Undergraduate Student Computer Science and Engineering Department National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur - 177005 E-mail Id : siddhaganju(a)gmail.com

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Is it possible to set revision tags from the API?
by Jamie Thingelstad 21 May '13

21 May '13

I've looked into this and my conclusion is that it isn't possible, but I would really like to do this so I figured I would ask. I have a bot making edits via the API and I would like to use revision tags with the bots edits. Is this possible from the API? I see where I can retrieve them in revisions, and get them as properties for a number of things. But I can't seem to see anyway that I can associate a tag with a given revision or edit. Jamie Thingelstad jamie(a)thingelstad.com mobile: 612-810-3699 find me on AIM Twitter Facebook LinkedIn

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State of MediaWiki's render action (parameter to index.php)
by MZMcBride 21 May '13

21 May '13

Hi. https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?diff=597288&oldid=579490 https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?diff=691576&oldid=686908 These two diffs explain what happened better than I could. I think this was the best outcome, but I'm posting on this list in case I missed some other discussion about the render action and it is, in fact, now deprecated. I checked the talk page, but didn't see anything. MZMcBride

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Pre-Release Announcement for MediaWiki 1.19.7 and 1.20.6
by Chris Steipp 21 May '13

21 May '13

This is a notice that on Tuesday, May 21st between 20:00-21:00 UTC (1-2pm PDT) Wikimedia Foundation will release security updates for current and supported branches of the MediaWiki software. Downloads and patches will be available at that time, with the git repositories updated later that afternoon. Although MediaWiki does not have the vulnerable feature enabled by default, most wiki using common advanced features will want to patch for this issue.

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