Wikitech-l February 2014

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Unlicking the cookie: "ExtensionStatus" extension
by Moriel Schottlender 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

Hello community, tl;dr: I'd love to see if there's anyone in the community that can help me take charge of ExtensionStatus development, or take it over completely. Longer version: About 9 months ago, just before I started Google Summer of Code 2013, I developed "ExtensionStatus", which checks the current status of all extensions that are installed in the given wiki and compares them with either their git branch info (if git is available) or scrapes data from the gerrit website. It gives sysadmins an at-a-glance dashboard so they can see what needs upgrading. There was a bit of interest, so I went on and started some testing, which seemed to go well for a while. But then I started GSoC and the project I worked on kept me quite busy. After the summer I went back to full-time grad school and a part-time job, both of which took me away from working on developing the extension any further than its extremely experimental state. In the last couple of days I started seeing a renewed interest in the extension, and I think it could be worth a second visit. I'd love to continue working on it, but with grad school and work, my time is really limited and I don't think I can take it on alone. Considering all of that, I thought I'd officially "unlick the cookie" and see if there is interest from the community to take it on either fully or partially. Here's the github repo: https://github.com/mooeypoo/MediaWiki-ExtensionStatus And here's the extension page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ExtensionStatus There's also an empty gerrit repo that is awaiting setup: https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FExtensionStatus (I didn't really have much experience with gerrit back then to set it up properly - and now I am not sure I'd have the time to develop, review, and approve code on my own.) So, does anyone want to join in and help revisit the code? Cheers, Moriel (aka 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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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter＠zirconium.wikimedia.org 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for February 17, 2014 - February 24, 2014 Status changes this week Reports changed/set to UNCONFIRMED: 6 Reports changed/set to NEW : 36 Reports changed/set to ASSIGNED : 27 Reports changed/set to REOPENED : 12 Reports changed/set to PATCH_TO_RE: 65 Reports changed/set to RESOLVED : 263 Reports changed/set to VERIFIED : 18 Total reports still open : 14013 Total bugs still open : 8232 Total non-lowest prio. bugs still open: 8020 Total enhancements still open : 5781 Reports created this week: 387 Resolutions for the week: Reports marked FIXED : 167 Reports marked DUPLICATE : 31 Reports marked INVALID : 20 Reports marked WORKSFORME: 27 Reports marked WONTFIX : 21 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics Created reports per component MediaWiki extensions Flow 25 Tool Labs tools Commons Delinker 25 VisualEditor Editing Tools 18 Wikimedia Logstash 16 VisualEditor General 13 Created reports per product MediaWiki extensions 154 Wikimedia 66 VisualEditor 36 Tool Labs tools 35 MediaWiki 34 Top 5 bug report closers jforrester [AT] wikimedia.org 28 gdubuc [AT] wikimedia.org 20 matma.rex [AT] gmail.com 17 aklapper [AT] wikimedia.org 16 hashar [AT] free.fr 14 Most urgent open issues Product | Component | BugID | Priority | LastChange | Assignee | Summary -------------------------------------------------------------- MediaWiki ext | CirrusSearch | 61752 | Highest | 2014-02-22 | innocentkiller[AT]gm | Beta search provides weird snippets f MediaWiki ext | Diff | 58274 | Highest | 2014-01-22 | wikibugs-l[AT]lists. | Implement an order-aware MapDiffer MediaWiki ext | Echo | 53569 | Highest | 2014-02-21 | wikibugs-l[AT]lists. | [Regression] Echo: Sending 2 e-mails MediaWiki ext | Flow | 58016 | Highest | 2014-02-20 | wikibugs-l[AT]lists. | Flow: Suppression redacts the wrong u MediaWiki ext | Flow | 61715 | Highest | 2014-02-21 | wikibugs-l[AT]lists. | Flow: title of suppressed topic and u MediaWiki ext | OAuth | 57336 | Highest | 2014-02-06 | wikibugs-l[AT]lists. | Make metawiki the central OAuth wiki MediaWiki ext | Translate | 60306 | Highest | 2014-02-03 | ori[AT]wikimedia.org | TypeError: mw.uls is undefined on [[m MediaWiki ext | WikidataRepo | 58166 | Highest | 2013-12-09 | wikidata-bugs[AT]lis | label/description uniqueness constrai MediaWiki ext | WikidataRepo | 57918 | Highest | 2014-01-13 | wikidata-bugs[AT]lis | show diffs for sorting changes MediaWiki ext | WikidataRepo | 60127 | Highest | 2014-01-17 | wikidata-bugs[AT]lis | Implement DB schema for query indexes MediaWiki ext | WikidataRepo | 52385 | Highest | 2014-02-03 | wikidata-bugs[AT]lis | Query by one property and one value ( VisualEditor | Editing Tools | 50768 | Highest | 2014-02-03 | tparscal[AT]wikimedi | VisualEditor: Implement a better vers VisualEditor | MediaWiki int | 48429 | Highest | 2014-01-21 | krinklemail[AT]gmail | VisualEditor: Support editing of sect Wikimedia | Apache config | 31369 | Highest | 2014-01-20 | bugzilla+org.wikimed | Non-canonical HTTPS URLs quietly redi Wikimedia | Bugzilla | 61453 | Highest | 2014-02-19 | wikibugs-l[AT]lists. | Bugzilla Weekly Report to wikitech-l[ Wikimedia | Mailing lists | 60215 | Highest | 2014-02-21 | wikibugs-l[AT]lists. | Mails to any wikimedia.org account/li Wikimedia | Shop | 61527 | Highest | 2014-02-20 | ccogdill[AT]wikimedi | JS error on shop's main page (unclose Wikimedia | Site requests | 60323 | Highest | 2014-02-11 | wikibugs-l[AT]lists. | Make ULS enabled by default for India Wikimedia Lab | Infrastructur | 48501 | Highest | 2014-02-21 | greg[AT]wikimedia.or | beta: Get SSL certificates for *.{pro

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How to ask for a python package into Labs
by Alex Brollo 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

I'd need internetarchive python package into Labs: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/internetarchive , a python bot for Internet Archive. I cant't find how to ask for installing it into Labs. Can you help me? It's an interesting package - it can be implemented into a pywikibot and manage both mediawiki pages and Internet Archive items both reading and editing metadata and uploading new items/pages. I've been encouraged to go on by Tpt. Alex brollo

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Deployment and Roadmap highlights - week of February 24th
by Brion Vibber 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

We bumped the releases back to make them more awesome (and include login & basic editing features in the first big release). Few more weeks. :) -- brion On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)wikimedia.org>wrote: > On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org>wrote: >> >> >> == Friday == >> >> New versions of the iOS and Android applications will be submitted to >> their respective markets. >> >> > I don't think that's happening? > > > _______________________________________________ > Engineering mailing list > Engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering > >

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Help: Upload without text revision - broken
by Manuel Schneider 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

Hi, I need help with an uploaded file on Commons which is broken: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caspary,_Daniel_%28de%29.webm This file was - among many others - uploaded to Commons using the Commonist. Now as you see the wikitext is completely missing and there is no way to add it. The wikitext revision seems to be missing, rendering the database broken. * the history is empty * trying to edit the page results in an edit conflict which is not resolvable (trying to overwrite just triggers the next edit conflict) Can someone please have a look at the database and fix this issue? Thanks, Manuel -- Manuel Schneider - Chief Information Officer Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 340 66 22 - www.wikimedia.ch

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Exit stats?
by Strainu 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

Hi, Does Wikipedia have any exit or click-through stats, like what links are the visitors following from an article? If yes, are those public? Thanks, Strainu

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Multimedia] ogv.js - JavaScript video decoding proof of concept
by Michael Dale 23 Feb '14

23 Feb '14

Amazing work. Added bug to integrate into TMH player. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61823 I can’t imagine anyone being against flash to deliver free formats! —michael On Feb 23, 2014, at 5:45 PM, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > In case anybody's interested but not on wikitech-l; looking for some feedback on possible directions for fallback in-browser video players. > > -- brion > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> > Date: Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 6:43 AM > Subject: Re: ogv.js - JavaScript video decoding proof of concept > To: Wikimedia-tech list <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > > Just an update on this weekend project, see the current demo in your browser[1] or watch a video of Theora video playing on an iPhone 5s![2] > > [1] https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/ > [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_qSfHPhGcA > > * Got some fixes and testing from one of the old Cortado maintainers -- thanks Maik! > * Audio/video sync is still flaky, but everything pretty much decodes and plays properly now. > * IE 10/11 work, using a Flash shim for audio. > * OS X Safari 6.1+ works, including native audio. > * iOS 7 Safari works, including native audio. > > Audio-only files run great on iOS 7 devices. The 160p video transcodes we experimentally enabled recently run *great* on a shiny 64-bit iPhone 5s, but are still slightly too slow on older models. > > > The Flash audio shim for IE is a very simple ActionScript3 program which accepts audio samples from the host page and outputs them -- no proprietary or patented codecs are in use. It builds to a .swf with the open-source Apache Flex SDK, so no proprietary software is needed to create or update it. > > I'm also doing some preliminary research on a fully Flash version, using the Crossbridge compiler[3] for the C codec libraries. Assuming it performs about as well as the JS does on modern browsers, this should give us a fallback for old versions of IE to supplement or replace the Cortado Java player... Before I go too far down that rabbit hole though I'd like to get peoples' opinions on using Flash fallbacks to serve browsers with open formats. > > As long as the scripts are open source and we're building them with an open source toolchain, and the entire purpose is to be a shim for missing browser feature support, does anyone have an objection? > > [3] https://github.com/adobe-flash/crossbridge > > -- brion > > > On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > TL;DR SUMMARY: check out this short, silent, black & white video: https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/ -- anybody interested in a side project on in-browser audio/video decoding fallback? > > > One of my pet peeves is that we don't have audio/video playback on many systems, including default Windows and Mac desktops and non-Android mobile devices, which don't ship with Theora or WebM video decoding. > > The technically simplest way to handle this is to transcode videos into H.264 (.mp4 files) which is well supported by the troublesome browsers. Unfortunately there are concerns about the patent licensing, which has held us up from deploying any H.264 output options though all the software is ready to go... > > While I still hope we'll get that resolved eventually, there is an alternative -- client-side software decoding. > > > We have used the 'Cortado' Java applet to do fallback software decoding in the browser for a few years, but Java applets are aggressively being deprecated on today's web: > > * no Java applets at all on major mobile browsers > * Java usually requires a manual install on desktop > * Java applets disabled by default for security on major desktop browsers > > Luckily, JavaScript engines have gotten *really fast* in the last few years, and performance is getting well in line with what Java applets can do. > > > As an experiment, I've built Xiph's ogg, vorbis, and theora C libraries cross-compiled to JavaScript using emscripten and written a wrapper that decodes Theora video from an .ogv stream and draws the frames into a <canvas> element: > > * demo: https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/ > * code: https://github.com/brion/ogv.js > * blog & some details: https://brionv.com/log/2013/10/06/ogv-js-proof-of-concept/ > > It's just a proof of concept -- the colorspace conversion is incomplete so it's grayscale, there's no audio or proper framerate sync, and it doesn't really stream data properly. But I'm pleased it works so far! (Currently it breaks in IE, but I think I can fix that at least for 10/11, possibly for 9. Probably not for 6/7/8.) > > Performance on iOS devices isn't great, but is better with lower resolution files :) On desktop it's screaming fast for moderate resolutions, and could probably supplement or replace Cortado with further development. > > Is anyone interested in helping out or picking up the project to move it towards proper playback? If not, it'll be one of my weekend "fun" projects I occasionally tinker with off the clock. :) > > -- brion > > > _______________________________________________ > Multimedia mailing list > Multimedia(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Deployment and Roadmap highlights - week of February 24th
by Greg Grossmeier 23 Feb '14

23 Feb '14

<quote name="Yuvi Panda" date="2014-02-23" time="11:52:49 +0530"> > On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > > > > == Friday == > > > > New versions of the iOS and Android applications will be submitted to > > their respective markets. > > > > > I don't think that's happening? First I've heard. Do let me know, member of the mobile team :) Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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Deployment and Roadmap highlights - week of February 24th
by Greg Grossmeier 22 Feb '14

22 Feb '14

Hello and welcome to your weekly deployments and roadmap update email. The full schedule for next week is at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_February_24th Highlights: == Week of == We will be upgrading Varnish (caching servers) instances to a newer version (previously deployed/tested at ulsfo) slowly over the week. == Monday == We will be fixing doc.wikimedia.org and integration.wikimedia.org http->https redirects * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/111917/ == Tuesday == MediaWiki deploy window, currently following the 1.23 schedule * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_depl… * group1 to 1.23wmf15: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, * Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites) ** includes the wikidata extension code updates (which includes a new Lua interface) to Wikivoyage, Commons, Wikisource. == Thursday == MediaWiki deploy window, currently following the 1.23 schedule) * group2 to 1.23wmf15 (all Wikipedias) ** includes the wikidata extension code updates (which includes a new Lua interface) to Wikipedias * group0 to 1.23wmf16 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki) == Friday == New versions of the iOS and Android applications will be submitted to their respective markets. As always, questions welcome, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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New Bingle feature - resolved bug reconciliation!
by Arthur Richards 22 Feb '14

22 Feb '14

I refactored a standalone script in bingle I wrote a while back called bingleResolved and integrated it with bingle proper. bingleResolved will attempt to reconcile bugs marked as 'resolved' (or some configurable status) with Mingle. That is, if you have bug cards floating around in some backlog in Mingle but they get marked as resolved in Bugzilla, bingleResolved will put them where you ask it to (for instance, into the 'accepted' column of your current iteration). This should help keep Mingle instances tidier and Mingle bug backlogs better in sync with Bugzilla. If you pull the latest Bingle (b1ff82f46e9d422d016335667556d2a4b23410d4) and want to use the resolved feature, make sure to update your bingle.ini (see changes in bingle.ini.example) and run bingle with -r. Happy Friday! -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687

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