Wikitech-l March 2015

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Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group
by Rob Lanphier 25 Mar '15

25 Mar '15

Hi folks, First things first: I'm not burying the lede in this email, so if you aren't interested in the inner workings of WMF's Platform Engineering team, feel free to ignore the rest of this. :-) We're making a few changes effective in April for Platform Engineering, which you all care deeply about because you're still reading. We're looking to give the teams a little more clarity of scope. Previously, among other teams in Platform Engineering, we had a large MediaWiki Core team, and a smaller Multimedia team. We played a big game of musical chairs, and everyone from those teams is part of a new team. Additionally, the Parsoid team got into the fun, getting a new member as a result. - Performance - This team is shooting for all page views in under 1000ms <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MtDBNTH1g7CZzhwlJ1raEJagA8qM3uoV7ta…>. The team plans to establish key frontend and backend performance metrics and assume responsibility for their curation and upkeep, and get a handle on web page rendering performance. Right now, it's all about VisualEditor, but over time, this is going to be a more generalized function. - Members: Ori Livneh, Gilles Dubuc (soon!), now hiring! - Availability - Make MediaWiki backend failures diminishingly infrequent, and prevent end users from noticing the ones that do by making recovery as easy and automated as possible. This team does ops facing work that contributes to the overall stability and maintainability of the system. Things like multi-datacenter support, and migrating off of outdated technology to newer, more reliable tech. - Members: Aaron Schulz and Gilles Dubuc (for now, until he wraps up work on multi datacenter) - MediaWiki API - This team's goal wil be make user interface innovation+evolution easier and make life easier for our sites' robot overlords by making all business logic for MediaWiki available via well specified API. Some APIs will be in PHP and some external over HTTP depending on the needs of other teams. - Members: Brad Jorsch, Kunal Mehta, Gergo Tisza, Mark Holmquist. Stas Malyshev plans to join this team when his work on Wikidata Query wraps up. Bryan Davis plans to join as soon as his role as interim Product Manager for Platform wraps up. - Search - Provide unique and highly relevant search results on Wikimedia sites, increasing the value of our content to readers and providing tools that help editors make our content better. The team will continue working on existing backlog of the CirrusSearch/Elasticsearch bugs and improvements, plus Wikidata Query - Members: Nik Everett, Stas Malyshev (for now...), James Douglas, also now hiring! - Security - making life hard for the people that want to do harm to our sites or the people that use them. - Members: Chris Steipp, also now hiring! - Programs support - support our non-tech programs with tools that delight our users and maintain the privacy and security of our community, providing infrastructure for things like Wikimania scholarships, grant program applications, and ContactForm. - Members: Niharika Kohli, Bryan Davis(20%) - Parsing (renamed from "Parsoid") - There are a number of changes to our PHP parser that would make things easier for VisualEditor and Parsoid, while at the same time offering a more powerful and easy-to-use authoring environment for our editors (even those using wikitext). Having Tim on a rebranded “Parsing” team gives that team agency to start evolving wikitext again, in a way that is supported by Parsoid HTML from day one. - Members: Existing Parsoid team (Subbu Sastry, Marc Ordinas i Llopis, Arlo Brenault, and C. Scott Ananian), plus (new) Tim Starling You'll notice that some of these teams are pretty small, especially given their scope. This is likely to be at least a little fluid for a while as we make sure we have the balance of work right and as we figure out the FY 2015-16 budget. Let us know if you have any questions about this. I say "us" because I'll actually be traveling shortly. Feel free to ask the individual members of the teams what's up, or if you don't know who to go to, Bryan Davis will be filling in for my duties while I'm out. Thanks Rob

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[Analytics] [Announce] New daily feed: media file request counts
by Erik Zachte 24 Mar '15

24 Mar '15

FYI: Today WMF Analytics announces a new product: a daily feed of media file request counts for all Wikimedia projects. Details at analytics mailing list. https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2015-March/003685.html Erik Zachte

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Can anyone please look on T72245 and T58063 issues?
by Nasir Khan 24 Mar '15

24 Mar '15

Hi, I get a number of emails for my watchlist articles and face a issue of "Mediawiki Email Formatting". I believe a lot of others are facing this issue too. To address and resolve this issue, two bug was submitted few months ago. Can anyone please look on these issues[1][2] and give me an idea if it is possible to resolve or not? [1] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72245 [2] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T58063 thanks Nasir -- *Nasir Khan Saikat* www.nasirkhn.com

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Office hours for Flow - 23 March 2015 19:30 UTC / 12:30 PDT
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 23 Mar '15

23 Mar '15

Hello everyone, (my apologies for cross-posting) We'll be holding an Office hour for Flow on IRC, this Monday at 19:30 UTC / 12:30 PST.[1] It will take place in #wikimedia-office on Freenode IRC. You can find information on how to get online, including a link to a webchat option if you don't have an IRC client, on the meta office hours page.[2] The intended focus is for questions about the LQT -> Flow conversion on MediaWiki.org, as discussed in the related wikitech-l thread and onwiki.[3][4] Everyone is welcome for discussions and question answering. Logs will be posted on the meta office hour page afterwards. Thanks, Quiddity [1] Time conversion: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=30&sec=0&d… (30 mins later than previously mentioned) [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#How_to_participate [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sdoatsbslsafx6lw and at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/82069 [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation

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[VisualEditor] 7th weekly triage meeting; office hour for March
by Erica Litrenta 23 Mar '15

23 Mar '15

Hello all, and apologies for cross-posting. Here are some reminders and announcements about upcoming appointments related to VisualEditor. A *triage meeting* for VisualEditor (the last one for this quarter) is scheduled for* Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 19:00 UTC* [1]. For more information, and to learn how you can participate even if you're not taking part to the Google Hangout, please see the relevant page at mediawiki.org [2]. This *Friday 27 March at 15:00 UTC* an *office hour* about VE will be held on IRC [3]. Previous logs and other information, including how to participate, can be found at Meta [4]. Please notice it will be the last office hour in this format, but we'd like to discuss alternative formulas which are more useful for everybody. Therefore, please see and comment the related Phabricator task [5], or just come and discuss the future of these conversations with us on Friday. Looking forward to meeting you later this week! Elitre (WMF) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_(Product) [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&d… [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal [3] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=15&min=00&sec=0&d… [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92783

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Renaming two extension with same name
by Thomas Mulhall 23 Mar '15

23 Mar '15

Here are links to the extension. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_(Wikimedia) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_(third-party)

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GSoC 2015 participation
by Vicky 23 Mar '15

23 Mar '15

Hi all! I joined to this mailing list because I am a MediaWiki user and I like FOSS, I would like to contribute to Wikimedia Foundation by participating to GSoC 2015. >From the ideas list I liked more Extension to identify and delete spam pages and Newsletter MediaWiki extension, I like web development but I usually don't have much time to expand my knowledge, and this would be a very good occasion for me to both contribute to the community, learn more interesting stuff, know better Wikimedia community, and have the possibility to do this gorgeous stuff full time this summer :) I have recently completed Aerospace Engineering and I am student of Electronic Engineering right now, as hobby I have done web development and design, so I know HTML, CSS, JavaScript and various web development technology such as JQuery and AJAX, while I have basic knowledge of SQL, Python and PHP. I would know which of the ideas I like is priority? I am very motivated to do this project and I would definitely learn a lot of things, moreover i would like to continue to cooperate with Wikimedia community also after the GSoC ends Thanks for this possibility! Cheers! Vicky

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Regarding gsoc 2015
by Arindam Padhy 23 Mar '15

23 Mar '15

How can project ideas being assigned to a student before all students have submitted their proposal. i too wanted to put my proposal but my mentor says he has already selected one student for this project. this is not fair.

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Renaming two extension with same name
by Thomas Mulhall 21 Mar '15

21 Mar '15

Hi should we rename two extensions with the same name since it is confusing which one to use and since they have the same name the api would show the same extension twice and then wikiapriary would think your using both so if one had for example version 1.7 and the other 2.0 that would be confusing. the extensions are DynamicPageList (Wikimedia) and DynamicPageList (third-party) Should we change DynamicPageList (Wikimedia) back to intersection.

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retiring service: contacts.wikimedia.org
by Daniel Zahn 21 Mar '15

21 Mar '15

Hello, The service: https://contacts.wikimedia.org/ used to be a CiviCRM [1] (but _not_ the fundraising CiviCRM@) formerly used for donor contacts. It was an old ersion, running on a really outdated version of Drupal [2], and I have asked around and couldn't find any active users of it. Former users are either with the WikiEdu Foundation now or switched to Asana. [3] So i disabled the service but did not delete it yet for a grace period. This is the formal notification about retiring service. If you are an (unexpected) user of it or think you want a dump file, please speak up soon via the bug [4] or contact me. [5] Thank you, [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiviCRM [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90679#1102380 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90679 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Dzahn/ -- Daniel Zahn <dzahn(a)wikimedia.org> Operations Engineer

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