Wikitech-l July 2014

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Do we have a universal font in production?
by Yuri Astrakhan 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

I'm trying to render an image which uses characters from all of the languages supported by WP. Is there a single font deployed on production servers that include all scripts? Any simple font would do, preferably TTF arial-style. Thanks!

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Core and non-core skins finally at feature parity ($wgResourceModuleSkinStyles)
by Bartosz Dziewoński 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

For the longest time, core skins had a big advantage: they could use the 'skinStyles' parameter of a ResourceLoader module definition, in core's Resources.php file, to provide different looks for various built-in functionality. Non-core skin creators could achieve the same by putting the styles in main skin styles, but this has two big disadvantages: the styles would be loaded even if not needed on given page, and one often had to use ugly hacks to "reset" core styles. With [1] merged, non-core skins can finally do the same, and do it right, using the new $wgResourceModuleSkinStyles global (akin to $wgResourceModules): // Module defined in core or some extension $wgResourceModules['bar'] = array( 'scripts' => 'resources/bar/bar.js', 'styles' => 'resources/bar/main.css', ); // Styles defined in the skin $wgResourceModuleSkinStyles['foo'] = array( 'bar' => 'skins/Foo/bar.css', ); Documentation is available at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgResourceModuleSkinStyles>. I have already converted Vector to make use of this [2] and I am in the process of doing the same for Minerva [3][4] (the second patch still pending, reviews welcome) – MobileFrontend developers were forced to do some really bad things by the previous limitations ;) Perhaps someone would be interested in doing this for MonoBook, too? It currently uses the "everything in main style file" approach. Have fun! [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/141259/ [2] http://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fcore.git/1ebad72b0b45209ab0456271… [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/149780/ [4] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/150580/ -- Matma Rex

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Do we have a universal font in production?
by xiaoxiangquan 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

Maybe you can try GNU Unifont.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Unifont TTF format:http://www.lgm.cl/trabajos/unifont/index.en.html Original Message Sender:Yuri Astrakhanyastrakhan(a)wikimedia.org Recipient:Wikimedia developerswikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Date:Wednesday, Jul 30, 2014 05:33 Subject:[Wikitech-l] Do we have a universal font in production? I'm trying to render an image which uses characters from all of the languages supported by WP. Is there a single font deployed on production servers that include all scripts? Any simple font would do, preferably TTF arial-style. Thanks! _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Invitation: Research Hackathon on August 6 and 7
by Pine W 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

The Wikimedia Research Hackathon on August 6 and 7 takes place parallel to the general Wikimania Hackathon in London. Wikimania Hackathon information is available at https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon Research Hackathon information is available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Labs2/Hackathons/August_6-7th,_2014 >From the Research Hackathon info page: this "is an opportunity for anyone interested in research on wikis, Wikipedia, and other open collaborations to meet, share ideas, and work together. It's being organized by researchers in academia and the Wikimedia Foundation, but we want anyone interested in research to participate. Whether or not you consider yourself a researcher, or would ever want to be one, come with questions, answers, data, code, crazy ideas... or just your insatiable curiosity." Local participation will occur at Wikimania London and in Philadelphia, PA, US. Remote participation is possible and will include researchers and community members globally. Please see the Research Hackathon information page for scheduling and sign-up details. Further questions may be directed to Aaron Halfaker (ahalfaker(a)wikimedia.org) or Leila Zia (leila(a)wikimedia.org).* Pine *A $1 fine will be imposed by Oliver Keyes on anyone who misspells Leila's name or misdirects emails to the WMF Executive Director.

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Release Engineering team (new! improved!)
by Rob Lanphier 29 Jul '14

29 Jul '14

Hi everyone, I’d like to announce an organizational change at Wikimedia Foundation in the Platform Engineering group. For those that aren't terribly interested in how WMF's org chart looks, you can skip the rest of this email. :-) Yesterday, we formalized “Release Engineering” as a team, and promoted Greg Grossmeier to “Release Team Manager” with everyone on the team reporting to him. In addition to Greg, the new team comprises: * Antoine Musso * Chris McMahon * Dan Duvall * Mukunda Modell * Rummana Yasmeen * Sam Reed * Zeljko Filipin They are broadly responsible for the lifecycle of code from the point that a developer is ready to check it in through its deployment on our site, maintaining the processes and tools that reduce negative user impact of site software changes while simultaneously making software change deployment efficient and joyful. On a more detailed level, here’s just a few things the group is responsible for: * Code and bug report hosting - currently Gerrit and Bugzilla, but in the glorious future, Phabricator * Test infrastructure - the team maintains the Beta Cluster, with help from TechOps * Test automation - building the Cucumber/RSpec-based infrastructure for automating browser tests * Manual testing - actually looking at the product and making sure it does what all the robots tell us it should be doing * Test tools - tools that developers can use to test their own code such as Vagrant * Deployment tooling - the infrastructure we use to push code out to production, like scap More information about the team can be found here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_and_QA_Team You may notice that that page has been around a while (August 2013). Greg and Chris McMahon have been leading this as a “virtual team” for the past year, with a shared goal-setting and day-to-day organization. This has demonstrated that there is a strong case for creating a formalized team. Please join me in congratulating Greg and wishing the newly formalized team continued success! Rob

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Anonymous editors & IP addresses
by Gilles Dubuc 29 Jul '14

29 Jul '14

This interesting bot showed up on hackernews today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8018284 While in this instance the access to anonymous' editors IP addresses is definitely useful in terms of identifying edits with probable conflict of interest, it makes me wonder what the history is behind the fact that anonymous editors are identified by their IP addresses on WMF-hosted wikis. IP addresses are closely guarded for registered users, why wouldn't anonymous users be identified by a hash of their IP address in order to protect their privacy as well? The exact same functionality of being able to see all edits by a given anonymous IP would still exist, the IP itself just wouldn't be publicly available, protected with the same access rights as registered users'. The "use case" that makes me think of that is someone living in a totalitarian regime making a sensitive edit and forgetting that they're logged out. Or just being unaware that being anonymous on the wiki doesn't mean that their local authorities can figure out who they are based on IP address and time. Understanding that they're somewhat protected when logged in and not when logged out requires a certain level of technical understanding. The easy way out of this argument is to state that these users should be using Tor or something similar. But I still wonder why we have this double standard of protecting registered users' privacy in regards to IP addresses and not applying the same for anonymous users, when simple hashing would do the job.

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New PDF renderer live
by Matthew Walker 29 Jul '14

29 Jul '14

Ambassadors (and developers), I am tremendously happy to announce that the new PDF rendering service is live for testing on the cluster. At this time, while we shake out production bugs, it is only available via Special:Book using the 'e-book (PDF, ocg latex renderer)'. You can also render a specific page by mangling a 'Download as PDF' sidebar URL as shown in [1]. Specifically, you need to change the 'writer' GET param to rdf2latex. Among other things, this service should have significantly better RTL and non latin language support. We do have two known large bugs * We do not yet have table support * Lots of images fail to render -- this is a recent regression so we should have a fix quickly. If you have additional bugs to report; please file a bug in bugzilla under the Collection MediaWiki extension [2]. For fun plots see ganglia [3] or graphite [4] under the ocg/pdf node. Note: During the deployment the new renderer was available in the sidebar. This was reverted fairly quickly, but some pages may still have the link in cache. It will go away on the next page render / purge. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=render_arti… [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions… [3] http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/latest/?c=PDF%20servers%20eqiad [4] graphite.wikimedia.org ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation

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Linux distros or Solaris for MediaWiki
by Pine W 29 Jul '14

29 Jul '14

I have experience with Ubuntu but MediaWiki says that Ubuntu is unsupported. Which Linux distro would people recommend, and which distro of Linux does WMF use for MediaWiki? I am thinking about installing Debian but am open to any suggestions that have a friendly UX. Solaris is an option also. Pine

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MW+vagrant - js files loads with error
by Yury Katkov 29 Jul '14

29 Jul '14

Hi! I have the following setup: I develop on my local machine (PHPstorm) and I save the files in one of the Vagrant shared folders. I load my js files like that: public static function onBeforePageDisplay( OutputPage &$out, Skin &$skin ) { $out->addModules("ext.Pydio"); } The thing is that sometimes after I make a change I see that my javascript files is either not fully loaded (and I have undexpected end of file error), or loaded with some invisible characters (\u0) right after the end of the file (and I have "unexpected toke ILLEGAL" error). It looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/GGxtD89.png - my code in phpstorm http://i.imgur.com/I8UR8Ly.png - my error in Chrome developer tools The javascript itself is totally ok. In fact the problem can appear even when I just add a comment to the file. My first thought was that it's vagrant shared folders bug. It doesn't seem to be true - the file on the virtual machine looks normal. Can it be the ResourceLoader issue? Did anyone see this behavior before? Cheers, ----- Yury Katkov

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Anyone with downloaded pagecount-raw dumps?
by Osama Khalid 29 Jul '14

29 Jul '14

Hello Wikimanaias, This is Osama Khalid, from the Arabic Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. I was wondering whether anyone here has a good number of the raw pagecounts downloaded so I can copy them to a hard disk during Wikimania 2014. They have been very helpful for me in trying to determine which articles need the most attention, but my sample size has always been too small since they are very huge and dumps.wikimedia.org restricts parallel downloads. If you have a bunch of them that you can bring it, please let me know. Regards,

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