Wikitech-l May 2013

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Deployment Highlights - Week of May 20th, 2013
by Greg Grossmeier 17 May '13

17 May '13

Hello and welcome to the latest installment of the Deployment Highlights email. The full calendar for next week lives at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_May_20th For the week of May 6th we have the following interesting deployments: == All Week == * Due to a security update to the Linux kernel, we will be upgrading and rebooting ALL machines throughout the week. This may affect your experience with some services, but it should be minimal. == Monday == * VisualEditor will be deploy a new extension, TemplateData, to all Wikipedias (<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44444>) in addition to a VisualEditor configuration change on mediawiki.org (<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48430>). * English Wikipedia will be updated to MediaWiki version 1.22wmf4, in addition to a WikiData client update on English Wikipedia. See <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Roadmap> * An update to HTCP purging will be rolled out by the WMF Operations team which might create momentary issues with some thumbnails. Please report any issues you experience. == Wednesday == * The rest of the Wikipedias will be updated to MediaWiki 1.22wmf4, thus completing the roll out of that version. The next version, 1.22wmf5, will start on Monday May 27th. See <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Roadmap> == Thursday == * The Editor Engagement team (E2) will rollout bugfixes to Notifications (Echo). See <http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/echo-release>. Best, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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don't show certain links with the help of Special:AllMessages
by Yury Katkov 17 May '13

17 May '13

Hi everyone! I think that Special:AllMessages and the idea that every message in the wiki has its own wikipage is just _awesome_. So, I can Replace the "disclaimer" label to smth different using MediaWiki:Disclaimers. That's great. However I haven't found the way to HIDE the element. For instance I don't need the "policy" link in my footer. Is that possible of should I use CSS? ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote

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New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)
by Moriel Schottlender 17 May '13

17 May '13

Hello everyone, I'd like to get your opinions and critique on my very first MediaWiki extension, which, I hope, will be helpful to other developers. I noticed that there's no easy way of seeing if extensions that we have installed on our MediaWiki require update, and there are even some extensions that get so little regular attention that when they do get updated, there's no real way of knowing it (unless we check specifically). It can be annoying when encountering problems or bugs, and then discovering that one of our extensions (probably the one we least expected) actually has an update that fixed this bug. So, I thought to try and solve this issue with my extension. Since MediaWiki's changes are submitted through gerrit, I thought I'd take advantage of that and perform a remote check to see if there are any new commits that appeared in any of the extensions since they were installed. How it works, briefly: the system compares the local repository date to the list of latest commits on gerrit's repo for the extension to see how many commits a user is behind on. If the user doesn't have a local git for the extension (or if they downloaded the extension manually) the system falls back to testing the local modification date for the files. It's not perfect, but it can give people a general idea of whether or not their extensions need some TLC. The extension is available on GitHub: https://github.com/mooeypoo/MediaWiki-ExtensionStatus along with screenshots and a short possible todo list. There's a list of things I plan to try and improve, some of them are meant to make the lives of newbie developers (like me!) easier, but I'd love it if I could get feedback from you all and see if you think this could be helpful to you. Would you like to see anything else in it? Do you think I'm in the right direction or am I doing it all wrong? Be merciless! Okay, maybe not *completely* merciless, but please don't hold back. This is my very first extension, and beyond wanting to make this a good extension, I also want to get a sense of whether or not I got into MW development right, and if there is anything I should have done (or be doing) differently. Please let me know what you think! Moriel (mooeypoo) -- No trees were harmed in the creation of this post. But billions of electrons, photons, and electromagnetic waves were terribly inconvenienced during its transmission!

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Tool for Google Summer of Code: Flower Dev Center
by Flower Platform Team 17 May '13

17 May '13

Hello GSoC Mentors, As you are participating to Google Summer of Code, I'm wondering if you could consider using Flower Dev Center [1] while working with students. Flower Dev Center is an online platform for UML modeling diagramming, with a strong focus on code synchronization, integration with dev tools (Git, SVN, etc) and real time collaboration on diagrams (and a little bit on code as well). We think Flower Dev Center can be helpful for both: mentors and students during Google Summer of Code. We have created an article on this topic (i.e. Flower Dev Center + GSoC): [2], [3]. If you have a couple of spare minutes, could you tell us if you would like to use Flower Dev Center? And/or raise topics that you think are important (based on previous GSoC participations) to be supported by Flower Dev Center? REMARK1: Right now, Flower Dev Center is closed source and offered for free to open-source projects. Starting with next version we'll begin to open its API and source code, so that anyone could write extension plugins, etc. REMARK2: The next version of Flower Dev Center, the 2.0.0 planned for June/July 2013, has major new features, that we did not demonstrate yet and that will improve even more the collaboration between developers. REMARK3: Flower Dev Center doesn't currently support PHP programming language. But if you are interested in using Flower Dev Center, we'll prioritize it's implementation and we'll work hard to do it ASAP, with Flower Dev Center 2.0.0. REMARK4: Flower Dev Center will support programming languages that are not object oriented, starting with 2.0.0 Thank you in advance! Best regards, Mircea @ The Flower Platform Team. [1] - Flower Dev Center web site - http://www.flower-platform.com [2] - Video “Flower Dev Center + Google Summer of Code” - http://learn-discuss.flower-platform.com/flower_dev_center/videos/flower_de… [3] - Text version with same content as the above video - http://learn-discuss.flower-platform.com/flower_dev_center/tutorials/flower…

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Backporting Reference
by Greg Grossmeier 16 May '13

16 May '13

Hello all, I just wanted to send a note about a reference doc on the MediaWiki wiki on backporting bug fixes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Backporting_Fixes It addresses the difference between backports to stable releases versus the code on the WMF cluster (as well as the special process for security related bugs). Of note: We now have backport "flags" in bugzilla to track the backport process. There is one for stable releases ("Backport_to_Stable") and one for the WMF cluster ("Backport_WMF"). I hope this can help to clarify some confusion around the backporting process. Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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VisualEditor - Paste Displayed Text UI
by Jiabao Wu 16 May '13

16 May '13

Hi I am trying to fix bug 48489 - Can not paste new link anchor for VisualEditor. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48489 I have been able to add the functionality to the link inspector to edit the displayed text. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/64055/ I have not worked on the appearance of the interface. What user interface the community would like to get? Which existing widgets if any should be included when adding this functionality? (currently just using InputWidget.js) Cheers, Jiabao

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[Extension:Score] Unable to create a single score from multiple pages
by David Cuenca 16 May '13

16 May '13

Hi, At ca-ws we have started creating musical scores and we have found out that when transcluding two pages into one, it is only possible to generate two independent audio files instead of one with the whole score. Example with two pages http://ca.wikisource.org/wiki/P%C3%A0gina%3A30_can%C3%A7ons_populars_catala… http://ca.wikisource.org/wiki/P%C3%A0gina%3A30_can%C3%A7ons_populars_catala… Transcluded score: http://ca.wikisource.org/wiki/Els_micalets_d%27Espanya Is there any way to combine multiple pages into a single file? I have tried to transclude each section independently, but I always get a wall of text with errors. Also interesting would be to give the user the option to save that lilypond file. Cheers, David --Micru

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Announcing the Flow Portal(s)
by Brandon Harris 16 May '13

16 May '13

Hello! As many of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation is now actively engaged in designing a next-generation discussion and workflow system called Flow, initially slated to replace user talk pages. Flow is an ambitious project (on par with the VisualEditor) and will touch nearly every aspect of the Wikimedia experience. We need ''your'' help and input. We have started a portal for information and discussion. You can find it on the English Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flow And on MediaWiki here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow_Portal (We'll be creating one on meta as well). At the Flow portal, you can read about what we're doing and why, as well as play around with an interactive prototype. We're desperately interested in your feedback and thoughts. There are things that we know, and things that we know that we don't know. But there are also things that we *don't* know that we don't know. And we want to reduce that lack of knowledge. We will also be conducting additional office hours for a variety of timezones - as many as we need to - and will also be open to having conversations via Google hangouts and/or Skype as need be. I am always around on irc (freenode, username "jorm") and am willing to answer any questions you may have. -b. --- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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MediaWiki 1.21 release delayed until May 18
by Mark A. Hershberger 16 May '13

16 May '13

Despite the my intention to release 1.21 today, I have to delay it until May 18. Yesterday someone pointed out a blocker to me. While we have a work-around for this, I don't have time to integrate it right now, so the release needs to be delayed until Saturday. On 05/13/2013 03:12 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > The final release candidate for MediaWiki 1.21 (rc5) is available for > download. See the end of this email for details. There are a number of > bug fixes in this release that were not in rc4. Please test this > version and report any problems. Barring any show-stoppers, the final > release will be on May 15 will be the same as this with just a change to > the version number and updated release notes. > > Changes since rc4: > > * Changes to JS/JSON value encoding were backed out. > * API: Fix parameter validation in setnotificationtimestamp > commit 18eb39ecb5b89518c3d4a6cc79834a2c121477ff > Author: Brad Jorsch <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org> > Date: Fri Mar 15 14:03:19 2013 -0400 > > * (bug 47271) $wgContentHandlerUseDB should be set to false during the > upgrade > * (bug 47489) Installer now automatically selects the next-best database > type if > the PHP mysql extension is not loaded, preventing fatal errors in some > cases. > * (bug 47202) wikibits: FF2Fixes.css should not be loaded in Firefox 20. > * (bug 46590) 'AbortChangePassword' hook added/documented (find bug) > * (bug 46848) toggleLinkPremade added linksPassthru > * (bug 47950) Fix IndexPager detection of "is first" state > * (bug 47304) added safeXmlEncodings to UploadBase for svg uploads > * (bug 46608) CoreParserFunctions::anchorencode should return a string > > > * Full release notes: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21 > > > ********************************************************************** > Download: > http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-core-1.21.0rc5.tar.gz > http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc5.tar.gz > > Patch to previous version (1.20.0), without interface text: > http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc5.patch.gz > Interface text changes: > http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc5.patch… > > GPG signatures: > http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-core-1.21.0rc5.tar.g… > http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc5.tar.gz.sig > http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc5.patch.gz.s… > http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc5.patch… > > Public keys: > https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-distributors mailing list > MediaWiki-distributors(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-distributors >

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Code style: overuse of Html::element()
by Max Semenik 15 May '13

15 May '13

Hi, I've seen recently a lot of code like this: $html = Html::openElement( 'div', array( 'class' => 'foo' ) . Html::rawElement( 'p', array(), Html::element( 'span', array( 'id' => $somePotentiallyUnsafeId ), $somePotentiallyUnsafeText ) ) . Html::closeElement( 'div' ); IMO, cruft like this makes things harder to read and adds additional performance overhead. It can be simplified to $html = '<div class="foo'><p>' . Html::rawElement( 'p', array(), Html::element( 'span', array( 'id' => $somePotentiallyUnsafeId ), $somePotentiallyUnsafeText ) ) . '</p></div>'; What's your opinion, guys and gals? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])

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