Wikitech-l May 2014

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Database dumps
by Byrial Jensen 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Until some weeks ago http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html used to show 4 dumps in progress at the same time. That meant that new database dumps normally was available within about 3 weeks for all databases except for enwiki and maybe dewiki where the dump process due to size took longer time. However the 4 dumps processes at one time become 3 some weeks ago. And after massive failures at June 4, only one dump has been in progress at the same time. So at the current speed it will take several months to come thru all dumps. Is it possible to speed up the process again using several dump processes at the same time? Thank you, Byrial

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User-Agent:
by Domas Mituzas 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Hi! from now on specific per-bot/per-software/per-client User-Agent header is mandatory for contacting Wikimedia sites. Domas

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EBNF grammar project status?
by Steve Bennett 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

What's the status of the project to create a grammar for Wikitext in EBNF? There are two pages: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitext_Metasyntax http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec Nothing seems to have happened since January this year. Also the comments on the latter page seem to indicate a lack of clear goal: is this just a fun project, is it to improve the existing parser, or is it to facilititate a new parser? It's obviously a lot of work, so it needs to be of clear benefit. Brion requested the grammar IIRC (and there's a comment to that effect at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7 ), so I'm wondering what became of it. Is there still a goal of replacing the parser? Or is there some alternative plan? Steve

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Missing Section Headings
by Marc Riddell 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

Hello, I have been a WP editor since 2006. I hope you can help me. For some reason I no longer have Section Heading titles showing in the Articles. This is true of all Headings including the one that carries the Article subject's name. When there is a Table of Contents, it appears fine and, when I click on a particular Section, it goes to that Section, but all that is there is a straight line separating the Sections. There is also no button to edit a Section. If I edit the page and remove the "== ==" markers from the Section Titles, the Title then shows up, but not as a Section Heading. Also, I don't have any Date separators on my Want List. This started 2 days ago. Any thoughts? Thanks, Marc Riddell [[User:Michael David]]

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How to make commits from mirrored Wikimedia repos show up on your GitHub profile
by Bartosz Dziewoński 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

I know it has been annoying a couple of people other than me, so now that I've learned how to make it work I'll share the knowledge here. tl;dr: Star the repositories. No, seriously. (And yes, you need to star each extension repo separately.) (Is there a place on mw.org to put this tidbit on?) ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Brian Levine" <support(a)github.com> (GitHub Staff) To: matma.rex(a)gmail.com Cc: Subject: Re: Commits in mirrored repositories not showing up on my profile Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:47:19 +0200 Hi Bartosz In order to link your commits to your GitHub account, you need to have some association with the repository other than authoring the commit. Usually, having push access gives you that connection. In this case, you don't have push permission, so we don't link you to the commit. The easy solution here is for you to star the repository. If you star it - along with the other repositories that are giving you this problem - we'll see that you're connected to the repository and you'll get contribution credit for those commits. Cheers Brian -- Matma Rex

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New RFC: better JS minification
by Max Semenik 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

Hi, I'd like to present a new RFC for your consideration: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Minifier It is about how we can shave 10-15% off the size if JavaScript delivered to users. Your comments are highly welcome!:) -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug in the Wikipedia main web page
by Sukyoung Ryu 25 May '15

25 May '15

Thank you for the quick fix! Best, -- Sukyoung On Jan 29, 2014, at 9:55 AM, Nathan wrote: > FYI in case you aren't subscribed to the list. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Yair Rand <yyairrand(a)gmail.com> > Date: Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:25 PM > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug in the Wikipedia main web page > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > > Thank you for pointing out this bug. Your suggested change to > MediaWiki:Gadget-wm-portal.js has been implemented by Meta-Wiki > administrator User:PiRSquared17. > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Sukyoung Ryu <sukyoung.ryu(a)gmail.com>wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > We are researchers at KAIST in Korea working on finding JavaScript bugs in > > web pages. While analyzing top websites from Alexa.com, we found an issue, > > which seems to be a bug, on the Wikipedia main web page (wikipedia.org). > > We would be grateful if you can either confirm that it is a bug and even > > better fix it or let us know what we're missing. > > > > Here's the issue. When a user selects a language in which search results > > are displayed via the language selection button from the Wikipedia main web > > page, the following JavaScript function is executed: > > > > 1 function setLang(lang) { > > 2 var uiLang = navigator.language || navigator.userLanguage, date > > = new Date(); > > 3 > > 4 if (uiLang.match(/^\w+/) === lang) { > > 5 date.setTime(date.getTime() - 1); > > 6 } else { > > 7 date.setFullYear(date.getFullYear() + 1); > > 8 } > > 9 > > 10 document.cookie = "searchLang=" + lang + ";expires=" + > > date.toUTCString() + ";domain=" + location.host + ";"; > > 11 } > > > > Depending on the evaluation result of the conditional expression on line > > 4, "uiLang.match(/^\w+/) === lang", the function leaves or dose not leave > > the selected language information on the user's computer through a cookie. > > But we found that the expression, "uiLang.match(/^\w+/) === lang", always > > evaluates to false, which results in that the function always leaves > > cookies on users' computers. We think that changing the contidional > > expression, "uiLang.match(/^\w+/) === lang", to the expression, > > "uiLang.match(/^\w+/) == lang", will solve the problem. > > > > This problem may occur in the main web pages of all the Wikimedia sites. > > Could you kindly let us know what you think? Thank you in advance. > > > > Best, > > Changhee Park and Sukyoung Ryu > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >

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Upcoming jQuery upgrade (breaking change)
by Krinkle 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

Hey all, TL;DR: jQuery will soon be upgraded from v1.8.3 to v1.11.x (the latest). This major release removes deprecated functionality. Please migrate away from this deprecated functionality as soon as possible. It's been a long time coming but we're now finally upgrading the jQuery package that ships with MediaWiki. We used to regularly upgrade jQuery in the past, but got stuck at v1.8 a couple of years ago due to lack of time and concern about disruption. Because of this, many developers have needed to work around bugs that were already fixed in later versions of jQuery. Thankfully, jQuery v1.9 (and its v2 counterpart) has been the first release in jQuery history that needed an upgrade guide[1][2]. It's a major release that cleans up deprecated and dubious functionality. Migration of existing code in extensions, gadgets, and user & site scripts should be trivial (swapping one method for another, maybe with a slight change to the parameters passed). This is all documented in the upgrade guide[1][2]. The upgrade guide may look scary (as it lists many of your favourite methods), but they are mostly just addressing edge cases. == Call to action == This is a call for you, to: 1) Get familiar with http://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/. 2) Start migrating your code. jQuery v1.9 is about removing deprecated functionality. The new functionality is already present in jQuery 1.8 or, in some cases, earlier. 3) Look out for deprecation warnings. Once instrumentation has begun, using "?debug=true" will log jQuery deprecation warnings to the console. Look for ones marked "JQMIGRATE" [7]. You might also find deprecation notices from mediawiki.js, for more about those see the mail from last October [8]. == Plan == 1) Instrumentation and logging The first phase is to instrument jQuery to work out all the areas which will need work. I have started work on loading jQuery Migrate alongside the current version of jQuery. I expect that to land in master this week [6], and roll out on Wikimedia wikis the week after. This will enable you to detect usage of most deprecated functionality through your browser console. Don't forget the upgrade guide[1], as Migrate cannot detect everything. 2) Upgrade and Migrate After this, the actual upgrade will take place, whilst Migrate stays. This should not break anything since Migrate covers almost all functionality that will be removed. The instrumentation and logging will remain during this phase; the only effective change at this point is whatever jQuery didn't think was worth covering in Migrate or were just one of many bug fixes. 3) Finalise upgrade Finally, we will remove the migration plugin (both the Migrate compatibility layer and its instrumentation). This will bring us to a clean version of latest jQuery v1.x without compatibility hacks. A rough timeline: * 12 May 2014 (1.24wmf4 [9]): Phase 1 – Instrumentation and logging starts. This will run for 4 weeks (until June 9). * 19 May 2014 (1.24wmf5): Phase 2 – "Upgrade and Migrate". This will run for 3 weeks (upto June 9). The instrumentation continues during this period. * 1 June 2014 (1.24wmf7) Finalise upgrade. == FAQ == Q: The upgrade guide is for jQuery v1.9, what about jQuery v1.10 and v1.11? A: Those are regular updates that only fix bugs and/or introduce non-breaking enhancements. Like jQuery v1.7 and v1.8, we can upgrade to those without any hassle. We'll be fast-forwarding straight from v1.8 to v1.11. Q: What about the jQuery Migrate plugin? A: jQuery developed a plugin that adds back some of the removed features (not all, consult the upgrade guide[2] for details). It also logs usage of these to the console. Q: When will the upgrade happen? A: In the next few weeks, once we are happy that the impact is reasonably low. An update will be sent to wikitech-l just before this is done as a final reminder. This will be well before the MediaWiki 1.24 branch point for extension authors looking to maintain compatibility. Q: When are we moving to jQuery v2.x? A: We are not currently planing to do this. Despite the name, jQuery v2.x doesn't contain any new features compared to jQuery v1 [3]. The main difference is in the reduced support for different browsers and environments; most noticeably, jQuery 2.x drops support for Internet Explorer 8 and below, which MediaWiki is still supporting for now, and is outside the scope of this work. Both v1 and v2 continue to enjoy simultaneous releases for bug fixes and new features. For example, jQuery released v1.11 and v2.1 together[4][5]. -- Krinkle [1] http://blog.jquery.com/2013/01/15/jquery-1-9-final-jquery-2-0-beta-migrate- final-released/ [2] http://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/ [3] http://blog.jquery.com/2013/04/18/jquery-2-0-released/ [4] http://blog.jquery.com/2014/01/24/jquery-1-11-and-2-1-released/ [5] http://blog.jquery.com/2013/05/24/jquery-1-10-0-and-2-0-1-released/ [6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/131494 [7] https://github.com/jquery/jquery-migrate/blob/master/warnings.md [8] http://www.mail-archive.com/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg72198.html [9] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap

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People with knowledge of English swear words needed :o
by Petr Bena 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Are you good in swearing? WE NEED YOU Huggle 3 comes with vandalism-prediction as it is precaching the diffs even before they are enqueued including their contents. Each edit has so called "score" which is a numerical value that if higher, the edit is more likely a vandalism. If you want to help us improve this feature, it is necessary to define a "score words" list for every wiki where huggle is about to be used, for example on English wiki. Each list has following syntax: (see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Huggle/Config&diff=573…) score-words(score): list of words separated by comma, can contain newlines but comma must be present example score-words(200): these, are, some, words, which, presence, of, increases, the, score, each, word, by, 200, So, if you know english better than me, which you likely do, go ahead and improve the configuration file there, no worries, huggle's config parser is very syntax-error proof. If you have any other suggestion how to improve huggle's prediction, go ahead and tell us!

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Recommended viewing: talk on Cognitive Science and Design
by Derk-Jan Hartman 17 Aug '14

17 Aug '14

I just love this Google I/O 2013 talk on human perception and cognition, and its implications for interactive and visual design. It is accessible, but with a lot of information and applies very well to us I think. I'm sure that many designers know all about this and some have probably seen the clip before, but it is also very good for developers, because many of these things we know subconsciously, but it's not really part of our vocabulary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2exxj4COhU DJ

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