Wikitech-l March 2014

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Fwd: Mobile & Core Features front-end meetup technical notes
by Jon Robson 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Jon Robson <jrobson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > I agree Max, that would be a great patch to get finish. > > Pulling in wikitech for wider discussion since it seems Timo wanted a > wider discussion. > > tldr: Let's add a method of template/blob delivery into ResourceLoader > from server->client which is agnostic of which template library is > being used and allows Flow and MobileFrontend to share code rather > than running their own identical systems in 2 separate extensions. > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On 26.03.2014, 3:37 Jon wrote: >> >>> Gabriel's work is on a standard templating choice for all projects. >>> ResourceLoader support will inevitably be needed for that too. We >>> believe that upstreaming this code and making it agnostic to the >>> template language (which it will have to be if Flow is using >>> Handlebars in the meantime) will lead to a good generic piece of code >>> that Knockoff can be easily plugged into in future. >> >> I already experimented in this area: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/111250 >> would be great if we finished this... >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) >>

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SpecialPage::getTitle deprecated?!
by Jeroen De Dauw 06 Apr '14

06 Apr '14

Hey, Regarding https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/blob/793f17481ea937275898c91b9b… So now all extensions that want to retain compatibility with MediaWiki 1.22 and at the same time not have deprecation notices on 1.23 need to do an if-else for all calls to this method? That sucks big time. And for what? The old method is just forwarding to the new one. All this hassle for a rename? How about removing the wfDeprecated call and not annoying all extension maintainers? Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3

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[RFC] Isolate custom jQuery libraries
by Daniel Friesen 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

I've been bothered for awhile by the mess we have in resources/jquery/ – 3rd party libraries, custom libraries we have to maintain, and directly MW related code using mediaWiki.* APIs all mixed together in the same directory. So I went and audited the .js we have inside resources/jquery/ and have wrote up an RFC on it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Isolate_custom_jQuery_l… -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]

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RfC meeting Wednesday on scoped language converter
by Sumana Harihareswara 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

I need to finalize the time on this, but tentatively: 2100 UTC this Wednesday 2 April, we're talking about C. Scott Ananian's https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Scoped_language_convert… . There's room for one more; I'd love to get an update on Pau Giner's https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Grid_system . https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-04-02 -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation

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.wiki gTLD
by Derric Atzrott 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

ICANN just delegated the gTLD .WIKI yesterday. It's being managed by Top Level Design, LLC. I'm not entirely sure what that means for all of us exactly, but I suspect that the WMF is going to want to at least register Wikipedia.wiki and Wikimedia.wiki once the gTLD is open for registration. Some of the new gTLDs are already opening up for registration. .sexy and .tattoo will be opening for registration on 25 February. It looks like if we want to get .wiki domains we will be getting them sometime in May or June during the "sunrise" period.[1] ICANN also has a full list of new gTLDs that they have approved.[2] Thank you, Derric Atzrott Computer Specialist Alizee Pathology [1]: http://www.namejet.com/Pages/newtlds/tld/WIKI [2]: http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-strings

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives
by Tilman Bayer 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

Minutes and slides from Wednesday's quarterly review of the Foundation's VisualEditor team are now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_r… (A separate but related quarterly review meeting of the Parsoid team took place today, those minutes should be up on Monday.) On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi folks, > > to increase accountability and create more opportunities for course > corrections and resourcing adjustments as necessary, Sue's asked me > and Howie Fung to set up a quarterly project evaluation process, > starting with our highest priority initiatives. These are, according > to Sue's narrowing focus recommendations which were approved by the > Board [1]: > > - Visual Editor > - Mobile (mobile contributions + Wikipedia Zero) > - Editor Engagement (also known as the E2 and E3 teams) > - Funds Dissemination Committe and expanded grant-making capacity > > I'm proposing the following initial schedule: > > January: > - Editor Engagement Experiments > > February: > - Visual Editor > - Mobile (Contribs + Zero) > > March: > - Editor Engagement Features (Echo, Flow projects) > - Funds Dissemination Committee > > We'll try doing this on the same day or adjacent to the monthly > metrics meetings [2], since the team(s) will give a presentation on > their recent progress, which will help set some context that would > otherwise need to be covered in the quarterly review itself. This will > also create open opportunities for feedback and questions. > > My goal is to do this in a manner where even though the quarterly > review meetings themselves are internal, the outcomes are captured as > meeting minutes and shared publicly, which is why I'm starting this > discussion on a public list as well. I've created a wiki page here > which we can use to discuss the concept further: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_r… > > The internal review will, at minimum, include: > > Sue Gardner > myself > Howie Fung > Team members and relevant director(s) > Designated minute-taker > > So for example, for Visual Editor, the review team would be the Visual > Editor / Parsoid teams, Sue, me, Howie, Terry, and a minute-taker. > > I imagine the structure of the review roughly as follows, with a > duration of about 2 1/2 hours divided into 25-30 minute blocks: > > - Brief team intro and recap of team's activities through the quarter, > compared with goals > - Drill into goals and targets: Did we achieve what we said we would? > - Review of challenges, blockers and successes > - Discussion of proposed changes (e.g. resourcing, targets) and other > action items > - Buffer time, debriefing > > Once again, the primary purpose of these reviews is to create improved > structures for internal accountability, escalation points in cases > where serious changes are necessary, and transparency to the world. > > In addition to these priority initiatives, my recommendation would be > to conduct quarterly reviews for any activity that requires more than > a set amount of resources (people/dollars). These additional reviews > may however be conducted in a more lightweight manner and internally > to the departments. We're slowly getting into that habit in > engineering. > > As we pilot this process, the format of the high priority reviews can > help inform and support reviews across the organization. > > Feedback and questions are appreciated. > > All best, > Erik > > [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Vote:Narrowing_Focus > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB

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wikitech downtime Tuesday, April 1st 9AM PST (16:00UTC)
by Andrew Bogott 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

As part of the migration of labs from pmtpa to eqiad, I'll be redirecting wikitech to a new host in eqiad on Tuesday. This will require some downtime in order to make sure that the wikis are in sync between the two boxes. It should only take a few minutes, but don't be alarmed if things are off for an hour or so. -Andrew

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beta cluster migrated to eqiad
by Antoine Musso 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Hello, I have changed the DNS entries for the beta cluster to point to the instances hosted in our EQIAD datacenter. It seems most of the functions are working now beside SSL support. If you see anything that looks wrong, please fill in bugs in bugzilla against Wikimedia Labs > deployment-prep (beta). The DNS might take sometime to propagate. The IP addresses are: $ dig +short bits.beta.wmflabs.org 208.80.155.137 $ dig +short upload.beta.wmflabs.org 208.80.155.136 $ dig +short en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org 208.80.155.135 $ dig +short en.m.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org 208.80.155.139 $ Thanks to everyone that helped reconfigure the beta cluster from scratch! -- Antoine "hashar" Musso

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] mobile beta labs unreachable
by Arthur Richards 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

+wikitech-l/qa I presume this is a byproduct of the migration. This is urgent. On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>wrote: > http://en.m.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ has been giving me a 503 all > morning. I really need to be able to use it since we are deploying a change > this week that is specifically related to the cluster configuration > (specifically overriding the licensing messaging to support dual licensing > for the WMF projects). > > Bug filed: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63315 > > Ryan Kaldari > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687

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WikiConference USA May 30-June 1, scholarships available
by Sumana Harihareswara 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

You can now submit tutorial or talk proposals for WikiConference USA, and you can register and ask for a scholarship for your travel expenses (more information below and at http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Scholarships ). If it'll be hard for you to get to the Zurich or London hackathons this year, consider meeting up at WikiConference USA. Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:56:55 -0500 From: Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com> To: wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] WikiConference USA Announcement Message-ID: <CAJcrdm5+HquZyAYERJd_4sF4Zj2oKtq8PmYR78LJ23DzykJyHQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I am very pleased to announce that Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC are working in collaboration to host the first national Wikimedia conference in the United States! Here are the details for the conference: Dates: Friday, May 30, 2014 - Sunday, June 1, 2014 Location: New York Law School (185 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013) Website: http://wikiconferenceusa.org Email: wikicon(a)wikimedianyc.org Registration: http://wikiconusa.eventbrite.org/ For more information, please review our official press release below! We hope you will join us and help us spread the word! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCon_USA_2014_Press_Release_v1.p… Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) Wikimedia NYC

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