Wikitech-l March 2015

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Reminder: VisualEditor weekly triage meetings – 2015-03-11
by James Forrester 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

As a reminder, this week's VisualEditor triage meeting will be at 19 <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150311T12&p1=224…> :00 UTC <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150311T12&p1=224…> ( 12 :00 PDT) – that's in approximately 24 hours' time (note the off-by-one-hour state because of Summer Time in the US). Joining instructions are on mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal#How_to_join_the_tri…> ; from this week onwards we're trying it via Google Hangouts, per request. Hope to see many of you there. J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester

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Hi-DPI site logo fun: patch adding $wgLogoHD option?
by Brion Vibber 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

Just checking if anybody has strong feels on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/195195/ This is a patch from Isarra adding a $wgLogoHD config setting which can list URLs for 1.5x and 2x-density images to supplement $wgLogo. They get loaded in MonoBook/Vector-like skins using CSS and media queries if used, and have no effect otherwise. This is roughly equivalent to how a hi-DPI logo is provided on English Wikipedia and a few other special-cases via custom CSS, but without the need to fudge around with custom site CSS. :) Downside: size-derivatives URLs must be specified manually in site config. Upside: when using SVGs rendered on-wiki, that's *real* easy to automate and create a suitable config to cut-n-paste. An alternative might be to fancy things up with a $wgLogo supplement that accepts an on-wiki file name, with the scaling managed internally by the wiki. But that might be a bit trickier. Any thoughts? This is an old "paper cut" issue that drives our designers nuts and I'd love to get it working one way or another. :) -- brion

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503 errors in Phabricator
by Pine W 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

I'm repeatedly getting 503 errors when attemping to search Phabricator. Can someone check into this please? Pine

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RFC meeting this week (new time)
by Tim Starling 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

In the next RFC meeting we will discuss the following RFCs: * Service split along presentation vs data manipulation line <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Service_split_along_pre…> * Support for user-specific page lists in core <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Support_for_user-specif…> The meeting time is the same as last week as measured in UTC, which means that it will be an hour later for people in the US who observe daylight savings time. The meeting will be on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on chat.freenode.net at the following time: * UTC: Wednesday 21:00 * US PDT: Wednesday 14:00 * Europe CET: Wednesday 22:00 * Australia AEDT: Thursday 08:00 -- Tim Starling

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Could not acquire (database)_message:en:status lock
by Justin Folvarcik 08 Mar '15

08 Mar '15

I've been having this problem with my production setup, and we are currently down because I can't seem to rectify it. Everything points to a cache issue, for which we use redis. I've tried restarting our redis server, as well as our MariaDB install and even nginx on both web servers. So far, I have yet to make the site usable. Can anyone at least point me in the right direction of how to start debugging? The site was working just fine and was actually running pretty quickly up until a few hours ago, when this error suddenly appeared and took down the site. This is with a load-balanced server setup including two web servers with nginx, a PHP-FPM server, a MariaDB server, a redis server, and an NFS file server which contains the codebase. All of them run on Ubuntu 14.04. Any help is greatly appreciated. ---- Justin Folvarcik

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Lua templating; module:fallback indexing a null value errors.
by Brenton Horne 07 Mar '15

07 Mar '15

Hi, On my local Wiki (i.e., @localhost) I have Scribunto installed, and I have copied several templates from Wikimedia Commons including Template:Derivative versions <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Derivative_versions>, Template:Autotranslate <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Autotranslate> and its Lua dependency, Module:Fallback <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:Fallback>. On my Wiki the Template:Derivative versions page, is giving the script error: Lua error in Module:Fallback at line 73: attempt to index a nil value. Backtrace: 1. *(tail call)*: ? 2. *Module:Fallback:73 <http://localhost/mediawiki/index.php?title=Module:Fallback&action=edit#mw-c…>*: in function "fallbackpage" 3. *Module:Fallback:99 <http://localhost/mediawiki/index.php?title=Module:Fallback&action=edit#mw-c…>*: in function "chunk" 4. *mw.lua:497*: ? 5. *(tail call)*: ? 6. *[C]*: in function "xpcall" 7. *MWServer.lua:87*: in function "handleCall" 8. *MWServer.lua:301*: in function "dispatch" 9. *MWServer.lua:40*: in function "execute" 10. *mw_main.lua:7*: in main chunk 11. *[C]*: ? Thanks for your time, Brenton

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Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of March 9th
by Greg Grossmeier 06 Mar '15

06 Mar '15

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap and Deployment update. The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_March_9th> For a longer term view, see the new Roadmap project in Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/roadmap/ A quick list of notable items for next week... == Week of... == * Deploy RESTBase (separate announcement to follow) ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89481 * Use RESTBase for Visual ditor from the MediaWiki Virtual Rest Service ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89066 == Tuesday == * MediaWiki deploy ** group1 to 1.25wmf20: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites) ** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf20> == Wednesday == * MediaWiki deploy ** group2 to 1.25wmf20 (all Wikipedias) ** group0 to 1.25wmf21 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki) Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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OOjs UI 0.9.0 Release
by Trevor Parscal 06 Mar '15

06 Mar '15

OOjs UI 0.9.0 was released on Wednesday. It will be in MW from 1.25wmf21+. As there are several breaking changes, please look carefully over them to determine if they affect your code. *Breaking changes since last release:* - [BREAKING CHANGE] Remove innerOverlay (Ed Sanders) We've tagged this as a breaking change, but this was an internal-only feature that we never made part of the public API. We no longer use it since the removal of iframe support in v0.7.0. - [BREAKING CHANGE] TextInputWidget: Remove 'icon' and 'indicator' events (Bartosz Dziewoński) Deprecated in v0.8.0, at which point they were already unused as far as we are aware. - [BREAKING CHANGE] Remove deprecated LookupInputWidget (Bartosz Dziewoński) Deprecated in v0.6.3, at which point they were already unused as far as we are aware. - [BREAKING CHANGE] Remove deprecated GridLayout (Bartosz Dziewoński) Deprecated in v0.7.0, at which point they were already unused as far as we are aware. *Deprecation changes since last major release:* - [DEPRECATING CHANGE] Rename setPosition to setLabelPosition (Ed Sanders) This function in TextInputWidget is probably only used privately on intialise, so it's unlikely to be a breaking change in the real world, but flagging here. Additional details are in the full change log <https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/oojs%2Fui.git/v0.9.0/History.md>. If you have any further questions or need help dealing with deprecations, please let me know. As always, general library documentation is available at mediawiki.org <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI> and generated code-level documentation at doc.mediawiki.org <https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/#!/api>. - Trevor

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New feature: tool edit
by Petr Bena 06 Mar '15

06 Mar '15

Hi, I think I proposed this once but I forgot the outcome. I would like to implement a new feature called "tool edit" it would be pretty much the same as "bot edit" but with following differences: -- Every registered user would be able to flag edit as tool edit (bot needs special user group) -- The flag wouldn't be intended for use by robots, but regular users who used some automated tool in order to make the edit -- Users could optionally mark any edit as tool edit through API only The rationale is pretty clear: there is a number of tools, like AWB and many others that produce incredible amounts of edits every day. They are spamming recent changes page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges can't be filtered out and most of regular users are not interested in them. This would make it possible to filter them out and it would also make it easier to figure out how many "real edits" some user has made, compared to automated edits made by tools. Is it worth implementing? I think yes, but not so sure. Thanks

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Wikimedia Hackathon Lyon: registrations opened
by Sylvain Boissel 06 Mar '15

06 Mar '15

Hi everyone, Wikimédia France invites all developers to the *Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 in Lyon, France*, from *23-25 May*. This event is the opportunity for all Wikimedia community developpers and sysadmins to come together, squash bugs and write great new features & tools. The event is open to a wide range of developers. We welcome both seasoned and new developers as well as people working on MediaWiki, tools, pywikipedia, Wikidata, maps, gadgets, extensions, templates … . Please suggest and discus topics at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/Wikimedia-Hackathon-2015/ We are also experimenting in pairing "*potes*" (buddies) to help newcomers mingle in the hackathon. You can read more about it on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons#Pairing_buddies and put your name on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lyon_Hackathon_2015/Buddies if you are interested. You can indicate that you're coming at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lyon_Hackathon_2015/Attendees (This doesn't replace registration, it's just to let others know what you're up to.) *The registration is now open* and also includes the possibility to apply for a travel, accommodation or full scholarship; You can find the form at https://dons.wikimedia.fr/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=8 Keep an eye on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lyon_Hackathon_2015 for updates! See you in Lyon, Sylvain. -- *Sylvain Boissel* ADMINISTRATEUR SYSTÈME ET RÉSEAUX *WIKIMÉDIA FRANCE* *Tél +33 1 42 36 97 72* *www.wikimedia.fr <http://www.wikimedia.fr/>* *40 rue de Cléry, **75002 Paris* <http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/691082430#map=19/48.86814/2.34683> *Imaginez un monde où chaque personne sur la planète aurait librement accès à la totalité du savoir humain. C'est notre engagement. Aidez Wikimedia France à en faire une réalité <https://dons.wikimedia.fr>.*

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