Wikitech-l December 2015

wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

101 participants
96 discussions

How to get started?
by Devang Gaur 13 Dec '15

13 Dec '15

Hi there, I have some experience with PHP and Javascript and am also learning Node.js . I would like to contribute to the community with code. Need suggestions ,instructions or documentation to get started.Anybody? Thanks. Regards, Devang Gaur

2 1

Appreciation thread, 2015
by Legoktm 12 Dec '15

12 Dec '15

Hi, It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very busy year! :-) I'll quote Sumana from last time: > How about a little email thread for us to say nice things about each > other? Rules: be kind, thank someone, and say why you're thanking > them. > [If you don't get thanked and you feel mopey, email me and I'll > comfort you. :-)] I'll start off with thank yous to: * Addshore, for his awesome work on CatWatch and help with recent ExtensionDistributor improvements * YuviPanda, for coming up with unique and useful tools for Wikimedians, and then following through and building them * S Page, for consistently nagging me and other developers to improve documentation -- Legoktm

13 12

BetaFeatures and the wmgBetaFeaturesWhitelist
by Jon Robson 12 Dec '15

12 Dec '15

So I enabled a beta feature today that is part of reading web's quarterly goals (read more about read more here if interested [1]) When enabled it showed up in desktop beta features (yey) but the JavaScript module wasn't loading... Investigating I discovered that BetaFeatures::isEnabled consults a config variable called wgBetaFeaturesWhitelist This makes the feature return false if the feature is not in wgBetaFeaturesWhitelist Apparently however you make the feature show up in the GetBetaFeaturePreferences hook - so the whitelist doesn't actually apply to things we show to users (which I would say would be more important...) [2] The whitelist also asks when enabling to check with James Forrester and Greg and to note a date 6 months after the last major change. According to these comments all the listed beta features have passed their expiry dates. Will they live here forever - or is it time to talk about beta features? [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Read_more [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121182

2 2

Fwd: December Lightning Talks
by Kevin Leduc 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kevin Leduc <kevin(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:56 AM Subject: December Lightning Talks To: "Staff (All)" <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Engineering list < engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi All, December Lightning Talks are in less than 2 weeks (the same week as Christmas) and there are still a couple of spaces left to present. The talks are recorded and streamed for people not able to attend in person. Lightning Talks are an opportunity for teams @ WMF & in the Community to showcase something they have achieved: a quarterly goal, milestone, release, or anything of significance to the rest of the foundation and the movement as a whole. Each presentation will be 10 minutes or less including time for questions. Sign up here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#December_2015 Next round of Lightning Talks: When: Tuesday December 22, 1900 UTC <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Lightning+Talks&is…>, 11am PST (We have added this Lightning Talk to the WMF Engineering, Fun & Learning, and Staff calendars) Where: 5th Floor Remotees: On-Air google hangout will be provided just before the meeting IRC: #wikimedia-tech YouTube stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIqhGxtXFbg Thanks! Kevin Leduc, Rachel Farrand, Megan Neisler

1 0

WMF Discovery Dept Office Hour, Thursday, 17 December 2015, 19:00UTC
by Rachel diCerbo 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

Hello everyone, There will be an IRC office hour with members of the Discovery Department on Thursday, 17 December, at 19:00 UTC. This is an opportunity to talk with Tomasz Finc and other staff members in Discovery. You can read more about their work here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery Additional information, including your time zone, is listed on the here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours We hope to see you there :) Cheers, rachel -- Rachel diCerbo Director of Community Engagement (Product) Wikimedia Foundation Rdicerb (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rdicerb_%28WMF%29> @a_rachel <https://twitter.com/a_rachel>

1 0

Who owns (or should own) OOjs UI?
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 2015-12-04 18:59, Adam Baso wrote: > >> I do wonder though if we've spent much time studying the ease of getting >> at >> least some part of oojs-ui split out or making it so that new stuff going >> forward is part of the oojs-ui family but it's not as monolithich? >> > > Not any more than what is written at < > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113681#1673158>, as far as I know. > > OOjs UI doesn't have a dedicated team (or even a dedicated person) > supporting it. The changes are mostly driven by whatever the VisualEditor > or Design teams need, and what they are willing to implement themselves > (and to a lesser extent, Multimedia team and random people like Brad or > Florian). This makes it difficult to make any big changes happen. > If OOjs UI is the thing that we're supposed to be using in the future for our UI stuff, it's very concerning that further development is blocked on T113681 but no one is planning on working on that task or feels ownership for the thing. Is someone going to step up to actually own and maintain the thing? Or should we consider declaring it a failure and figure out a plan to move away from it, if no one wants to maintain our home-grown JS UI library anymore? -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

5 6

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015
by Kartik Mistry 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Legoktm <legoktm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote: > It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very > busy year! :-) ie Appreciation thread of 2015! * Santhosh, Niklas and Amir: For all (hard) work on ContentTranslation! * Runa: For being awesome manager. * Pau: For amazing design and being 'voice' of the team. * Alex (akosiaris) + Ops: For all help in Puppet and config. * Bryan Davis and Reedy and Chad: For helping in emergency deployment(s) when needed. Thanks! -- Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_ {kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com

3 2

Developer Relations Weekly Summary
by Quim Gil 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

Web version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary#2015-12-10 Plaintext version: === Developer Relations focus === * Google Code-in: program start [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111520] * WikiDev16 ** finalizing logistics (contracts, video, transport, social events, and more) [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111799] ** "must have" sessions and keynotes [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116024] ** cordinate Collaboration area [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119030] * Planning our quarterly goals for January - March 2016 [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Relations/Goals] * Code of Conduct: implications and legal requirements of reports affecting Wikimedia Foundation employees Check more details in #devrel-december-2015 [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/devrel-december-2015/] === Software === * Survey: Understanding third-party use of Wikipedia content [ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yUrHzyLABN419RCDbzepjoRWCbaWYV4wbtbKPa95C4… ] * Wikimedia IEG program will fund fourteen community-led projects (7 of them software based) (Wikimedia blog) [ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/04/ieg-funds-fourteen-projects/] ** Batch Uploader for small GLAM projects [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Batch_uploader_for_small_GLAM_pr… ] ** Pan Scandinavian Machine Assisted Content Translation [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Pan-Scandinavian_Machine-assiste… ] ** Wiki Needs Pictures [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wiki_needs_pictures] ** Wikimaps Warper 2.0 [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimaps_Warper_2.0] ** StrepHit: Wikidata Statements Validation via Reference [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Va… ] ** Semi-automatically generate Categories for Vietnamese Wikipedia [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Semi-automatically_generate_Cate… ] ** Proofreading semi-automatically the Catalan Wikipedia with LanguageTool [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Proofreading_semiautomatically_t… ] * Selection of media coverage of the release of the Objective Revision Evaluation Service (ORES) [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service] ** Artificial Intelligence and the Wisdom of the Crowd (HowStuffWorks, video) [http://shows.howstuffworks.com/now/wikipedia-trolls-video.htm] ** Artificial Intelligence Aims to Make Wikipedia Friendlier and Better (MIT Technology Review) [ http://www.technologyreview.com/news/544036/artificial-intelligence-aims-to… ] ** Wikipedia launches edit-checking artificial intelligence (BBC News) [ http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34982570] * The Wikipedia app for Android, selected among Best Apps of 2015 in Google Play. [https://play.google.com/store/info/topic?id=bestof2015_apps] === Events === ==== Past ==== * 2015-12-09: RfC meeting minutes [ https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.20… ] * 2015-12-09: Video of Tech Talk: Secure Coding For MediaWiki Developers [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKdufZQTTao] ==== Upcoming ==== * 2015-12-10: IRC office hour: Discussion about product development * 2015-12-14: Wikimedia Product showcase. [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product#Monthly_Product_Showcase] * 2015-12-15: Tech Talk: How to integrate user behavior to get better designs [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119958] * 2015-12-16: RfC meeting [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E107] * 2015-12-22: Upcoming Lightning Talks. You can sign up or propose a talk [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#Upcoming_Lightning_Talks] * 2016-01-04/06 San Francisco: Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016] ** "must have" sessions are being discussed and pre-scheduled [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119593] ** Planning for the non-pre-scheduled tracks is about to start [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120939] * 2016-03-30 / 2016-04-03 Jerusalem: Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2016] === Documentation === * New draft: Gadgets 2.0. [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gadgets_2.0] === Outreach === * Google Code-in 2015 started last Monday and will continue until 2016-01-27 [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015] ** Mentors and tasks are welcomed! [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015#Become_a_Wikimedia_GCI_m… ] ** Open tasks [ https://codein.withgoogle.com/tasks/?sp-organization=5505623550590976&sp-st… ] * Outreachy round 11: community bonding completed for Easier categorization of pictures in Upload to Commons Android app (report) [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119317] === Community health === * Working together on the problem of online harassment in Wikimedia communities (Wikimedia blog) [ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/03/working-together-on-online-harassment/] * Code of Conduct draft [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Draft] ** The page about handling cases welcomes edits and feedback [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Finalize_the_Case… ] ** Appeals [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Appeals] ** Removing detail in Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Responses_and_resolutions? [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Removing_detail_i… ] === Project management === * 2015 Community Wishlist Survey welcomes votes until Monday, December 14 [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey] * Of Great Pyramids and agile software development: how and why we developed Phragile (Wikimedia blog) [ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/08/why-we-developed-phragile/] * Ideas for tech-related IdeaLab Campaigns? [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Future_IdeaLab_Campaigns] === Code review === * Request for comment: Migrate code review and management to Phabricator from Gerrit. [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Migrate_code_review_and… ] === Metrics === * New metrics about downloads of extensions and skins via Extension Distributor [ https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/extension-distributor-downloads] ==== Gerrit ==== Key performance indicators [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics#Key_performance_indicators] * Median age of open changesets waiting for review: 49.3 days in November (was 39.3 in October, 63.8 a year ago) ** MediaWiki core: 61.2 days (was 62, 80.5) * Number of open changesets waiting for review: 1175 (was 1097, 1098) ** MediaWiki core: 239 (was 206, 266) * Number of new changesets submitted per month: 2369 (was 3367, 2863) ** MediaWiki core: 531 (was 519, 524) * Number of code uploaders per month: 201 (was 211) * Number of code reviewers per month: 181 (was 192) * Number of code committers per month: 125 (was 131) Code repositories with slowest code review: [ http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/gerrit_review_queue.html] # Wikistats: 535 days, 5 changesets [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113695] # BookManagerv2: 504 days, 19 changesets [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117105] # BayesianFilter: 416 days, 1 changeset [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118460] # TitleBlacklist: 367 days, 1 changeset [ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions… ] # Bootstrap: 341 days, 1 changeset [ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions… ] -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

1 0

Product Department Office Hour with Wes Moran, Thursday, 10 December
by Rachel diCerbo 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

Hi there, The WMF has scheduled an office hour with Wes Moran, VP of Product, for Thursday 10 December, at 20:00 UTC. We can use the time as an informal meet and greet, or ask questions about product process, strategy, and planning. You can participate in #wikimedia-office on Freenode, and logs will be posted afterwards. You can find the relevant information, including your timezone, here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours Hope to see you there :) rachel -- Rachel diCerbo Director of Community Engagement (Product) Wikimedia Foundation Rdicerb (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rdicerb_%28WMF%29> @a_rachel <https://twitter.com/a_rachel>

2 3

2015-12-09 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes
by Grace Gellerman 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2015-12-09 = 2015-12-09 = == Reading == === Android === * 2.1.135-beta-2015-12-03 published to beta only. * 2.1.136-* release candidate to be published as beta soon. ** Only bug fixes and polish since v2.1.135. ** New Wikipedia Maps promotion from beta to prod to appear in this release. ** Final planned release of 2015. === iOS === * Doing regression testing before wider, public beta distribution of Wikipedia 5.0.0 * Considering Mobile Content Service integration (perhaps as a beta experiment) as Q3 "reach" goal ** ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Quarterly_Planning/Q3#iOS_Goals_.28n…) === Mobile Content Service === * 10% of Android Beta App users use the RB based service for link previews (page summary) + page content === Reading Infrastructure === * We're concerned that oojs-ui is what we're supposedly wanting to move UI stuff to, but oojs-ui is apparently unowned and development is blocked on T113681 with no one planning to work on it (and people are being encouraged to shove stuff into mw.widgets to hack around that block). ** ApiSandbox is now theoretically blocked on Brad finding time to apply said hack, since we've determined oojs-ui isn't getting new functionality any time soon.. == Technology == === Security === * Reviews: ArticlePlacement (waiting for wikidata), Thumbor in progress, RevisionJumper this week * Secure Code training today, 3:30pm PST - https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-December/084213.html * Need help: T118769 (Ops, someone who can help with vcl) * Goals: 2FA for wiki accounts, and possibly changes to Javascript permisions (T120889, T120886) . Input welcome. ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Security_Team/Goals_201516#Q3_.28J… === Technical Operations === * Blocking: none * Blocked by: none * Updates: * Migration from OpenDJ to OpenLDAP successful. Some minor wake from the migration, solved today * ops get their yuvikeys one by one * moving on with scaling alerting monitoring * drafting Q3 goals === Services === * Actively working with RelEng on Scap3 :* Current goal: set up AQS in beta * RESTBase v0.9.0 released :* many config style changes :* Analytics - need to coordinate next deploy (config changes) :* move RESTBase to service::node - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/257898/ * EventBus :* extension emitting events now in Beta, after tests moving to prod (next week) :* need security review :* HTTP proxy service work continues (Analytics) :* working on change propagation * CXServer move to service-runner :* let's schedule the actual merge/deploy, Kartik, Alex * Goals for next Q: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118868 :* finalisation tomorrow :* if you have JobRunner jobs, we'd like to talk to you about moving them to the EventBus == Release Engineering == * *Blocking*: (none) * *Blocked by*: (none) * *Updates*: ** Scap3 refactoring and tech debt cleanup *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1449/ *** Deployed AQS in Beta Cluster *** Moving on to support Mathoid *** One Q3 goal is to support MediaWiki deployments ** Rolling responsibility of cutting MediaWiki branches *** Bear with noobs == Discovery == * Portal A/B test launched * Completion suggesters beta feature deployed soon * Working on Q3 goals * No blocking/blockers === Maps/Graphs === * interactive graphs are on the train - https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/DynamicGraph * Do not perform image quality reduction for any zero partners, or it may corrupt image URLs * Will push kartographer extension to beta cluster == Fundraising Tech == * Tiny, conservative fixes to Central Notice and payments-wiki * Bunch of new visualizations for the internal fundraising dashboard * Dealing with interesting behaviors of the new CiviCRM verison ** Actually upstreaming a bunch of fixes! * Watching donation streams and error logs * More testing of backup credit card processor * Gathering stats on donatewiki clicks ** Will replace 3rd-party email performance tracking, which has been redirecting users through weird-looking domains ==Community Tech== * Wrapping up Wishlist Survey * Working on Gadgets 2.0 * PageAssessments extension - need some help figuring out job/database scalability == Editing == === Parsing === * Discovered use of "wikitext as a database" page ( https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%85%D… ) that was being updated multiple times a minute by bots ** Let to a 80% and higher load on the Parsoid cluster over the last 4-6 hours because the DOM is larger than what Parsoid can reliably handle. ** Filed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120972: Introduce configurable wt2html/html2wt to deal with this; On the RESTBase end, there is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120971 (Blacklist automatic updates for especially expensive pages)

1 0

← Newer
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Older →

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

Wikitech-l December 2015