Wikitech-l February 2015

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Reminder: Weekly VisualEditor triage meeting tomorrow at 20:00 UTC (12:00 PST)
by James Forrester 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

[Apologies for cross-post] As a reminder, on Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC)[0] there will be the first of a weekly series of open triage meetings about VisualEditor. We will discuss the release criteria for VisualEditor, and jointly prioritise the work of the team, talking about the bugs and features which are most important to you. We particularly welcome the presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code. The joining instructions are available on MediaWiki.org[1]. Hope to see many of you there. [0] - http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150211T12&p1=224… [1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal Yours, -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester

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Fwd: [Wmfall] Wikimania Scholarship Application Deadline is Approaching!
by Quim Gil 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ellie Young <eyoung(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 8:55 PM Subject: [Wmfall] Wikimania Scholarship Application Deadline is Approaching! To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimania general list < wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Staff All <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org> The deadline for applying for a Scholarship to attend Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City on July 15-19 is a week away! ** Monday 16 February 2015 23:59 UTC ** Please spread the word to anyone you know who might qualify. A scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation, and conference registration as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection criteria by the Scholarship Committee, who will determine which are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2015 scholarships, please visit: https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships To apply for a scholarship, fill out the application form on: https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page and the associated FAQ before submitting an application. If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org or leave a message at: https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scholarships Thank you, Ellie Young WMF Conference Coordinator on behalf of the Scholarship Committee _______________________________________________ Wmfall mailing list Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Main themes of the Wikimedia and Wikimania hackathons this year
by Quim Gil 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

The MediaWiki Developer Summit had three main themes that helped structuring the schedule. These themes were useful, and they can be more useful for the hackathons in Lyon and Mexico City this year, since defining them indvance will help everybody organizing their travel. Anybody can propose a main theme at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89084 Good candidates include Wikimedia software priorities, project meetings, collaboration with external projects, topics of local relevance... Do not hesitate posting proposals even if they are just an initial idea right now. We want to agree on the main themes by the end of next week in order to help people organizing their travel plans. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Wikitech.wikimedia.org read-only, possible outage, 2015-02-10 0:00GMT
by Andrew Bogott 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

There were several short wikitech outages last week caused by heavy machine load on the server that (among other things) hosts the site. In an attempt to distribute load a bit more reasonably I'm migrating that web host to new hardware. The transition should be fairly graceful as the new host is already up and running. There will be a few interruptions in service, though: - During the move the new wiki will be read-only. This should only last about 10 minutes or so during the DNS switch-over. - After the move there will almost certainly be a series of mishaps involving the labs-controlling aspects of wikitech. I'll be scrambling to fix them and don't expect to spend more than hour or so; I'll follow up with another email if the interruption is an longer than that. - As usual, login sessions will probably be broken necessitating a fresh login to wikitech. This is scheduled for Midnight GMT Tuesday, February 10th. That's 4PM PST on Monday.

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Urlencoding strip markers
by Arlo Breault 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

Currently, while {{urlencod}}ing, content in strip markers is skipped. I believe this violates the expectation that the entire output will be properly escaped to be placed in a sensitive context. An example is in the infobox book caption on, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22F%22_Is_for_Fugitive There’s a brief discussions of the security implications of some proposed solutions in the review of, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/181519/ It seems best (I guess) to just drop the content (`killMarkers()`). Any opinions or better ideas? Thanks, Arlo

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Announcement: Tyler Cipriani joins Wikimedia as Release Engineer
by Kristen Lans 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

Welcome Tyler! Great to have you on board. On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Emily Blanchard <eblanchard(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Welcome Tyler! > > > > > > > Emily Blanchard > Talent Acquisition Team > Wikimedia Foundation > eblanchard@wikimedia. <eblanchard(a)gmail.com>org > Follow us on Twitter @wikimediaatwork > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home > Become a Contributor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse > Join Us: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us > Developers Join the Fun: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Communication > > > *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share inthe > sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!* > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Dan Duvall <dduvall(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Welcome, Tyler! I'm looking forward to working together. >> >> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I’m delighted to announce that Tyler Cipriani[0] is joining the >>> foundation as a Release Engineer (obviously joining the Release >>> Engineering team). >>> >>> Tyler lives (and will continue to work remotely from) where you can see >>> the Flatirons[1] in Colorado and comes to us from SparkFun[2] where he >>> was a web developer and sysadmin. >>> >>> Along with the Wikimedia Foundation being a great fit professionally for >>> Tyler (I’m biased maybe) he is also “thrilled to be working at an >>> organization whose values seemingly so closely align with [his] own.” >>> >>> He’ll be at the San Francisco office the week of the 16th and is seeking >>> any suggestions as to what he should do with his free afternoon on >>> Presidents’ Day. >>> >>> Please join me in welcoming Tyler! >>> >>> Greg >>> >>> >>> [0] https://tylercipriani.com/ >>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatirons >>> [2] https://www.sparkfun.com/ >>> >>> -- >>> | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | >>> | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Engineering mailing list >>> Engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Dan Duvall >> Automation Engineer >> Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Engineering mailing list >> Engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Engineering mailing list > Engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering > >

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Announcement: Tyler Cipriani joins Wikimedia as Release Engineer
by Greg Grossmeier 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

Hello all, I’m delighted to announce that Tyler Cipriani[0] is joining the foundation as a Release Engineer (obviously joining the Release Engineering team). Tyler lives (and will continue to work remotely from) where you can see the Flatirons[1] in Colorado and comes to us from SparkFun[2] where he was a web developer and sysadmin. Along with the Wikimedia Foundation being a great fit professionally for Tyler (I’m biased maybe) he is also “thrilled to be working at an organization whose values seemingly so closely align with [his] own.” He’ll be at the San Francisco office the week of the 16th and is seeking any suggestions as to what he should do with his free afternoon on Presidents’ Day. Please join me in welcoming Tyler! Greg [0] https://tylercipriani.com/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatirons [2] https://www.sparkfun.com/ -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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Beta bounce handling completed with new beta-mx
by Tony Thomas 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Hello, Happy to inform that beta got is now routing through its new working mx ( mx.beta.wmflabs.org ). We had discussions regarding adding a separate mx for beta back in[1] and [2]. Today, we have the mx records added for beta ( dig +short -t mx beta.wmflabs.org ) and beta is sending out mails with a $domain part set as beta.wmflabs.org and bounces coming right back to it. This would make us testing patches related to polonium easy as we never had a polonium equivalent in beta. BounceHandler is working perfectly in the cluster, and bounces are redirected to the API installed in deploymentwiki[3]. In the production cluster, we still have the deployment to group0 wikis[4], which we hope to get done soon. Thanks to Jeff, hoo, Yuvipanda and other devs for the fast deployment and discussions. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-October/002977.html [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88215 [3] deployment.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org [4] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/186242/ Thanks, Tony Thomas <http://tttwrites.wordpress.com/> FOSS@Amrita <http://foss.amrita.ac.in> *"where there is a wifi, there is a way" *

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Use of hreflang in the <head>
by Erik Moeller 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Hi folks, MediaWiki emits the hreflang attribute on language links, but only as part of the links in the body, and not in the <head> as recommended by Google [1]. The result of this is that Google (and possibly other search engines) doesn't interpret the hreflang attribute for purposes of prioritizing search results in the user's own language. >From a contact at Google we asked about this: "we currently don't use those annotations on the links, we need to see the hreflang link-elements in the head in order to understand that connection. The important parts there are the we need to have them in the "head", we need to have them confirmed from the other versions (so DE needs to refer to EN, and EN to DE -- it can't be one-sided), and it needs to be between the canonical URLs. (...) I imagine if you just added the cross-links as you have them in the sidebar as link-elements to the head then you'd be covered." This of course would add some additional payload to pages with lots of language links, but could help avoid results like [2] where the English language version of an article is #1 and the Indonesian one makes no appearance at all. Results vary greatly and it's hard to say how big a problem this is, but even if boosts discoverability of content in the user's language by only 10% or so, that would still be a pretty big win for local content. I'm curious if folks see any downside, other than the additional page payload, in adding this information to the page header. Given the time it takes for the index to be updated, we should be careful about any potential negative consequences. Thanks, Erik [1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en [2] https://www.google.co.id/?gws_rd=ssl#q=edison -- Erik Möller VP of Product & Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation

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jenkings merging
by Thomas Mulhall 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Hi how do I get my skins and extensions to be merged automatically by jenkings like it does on centralauth projects are at https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/mediawiki%2Fskins%2FMetrolook and https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FCollapsibleVector

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