Wikitech-l May 2015

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Voting open for Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015
by Gregory Varnum 17 May '15

17 May '15

Greetings, Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Board will continue during the voting. The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons. If you would like a translated ballot, you can change your language for Meta-Wiki on the Universal Language Selector or in your Preferences before clicking the 'jump to next wiki' button on SecurePoll. You may also click the vote banner from your home wiki or select your preferred language from the language box above the ballot. The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31. To vote: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/339 More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Board_electi… On behalf of the Elections Committee, -Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent) Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee Translations of this message: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/MassMes…

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Roadmap / Deployment update - Week of May 18th (normal train next two weeks)
by Greg Grossmeier 16 May '15

16 May '15

Spoiler: Next week is a normal MediaWiki deployment schedule. Why is that a spoiler? Because the entire Release Engineering team will be at an offsite next week in France, BUT, Mukunda will unfortunately not be joining us (stupid borders) so he'll continue running the train. See the schedule here: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_May_18th> See the #roadmap project in Phab here: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/sprint/board/1109/> See many of you in Lyon at the Hackathon! Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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Why doesn't en.m.wikipedia.org allow framing?
by Jacek Wielemborek 15 May '15

15 May '15

Hello, I tried to discuss this on #wikimedia-mobile on Freenode, but nobody could explain this to me: I'm building a website that allows the users to view Wikipedia changes correlated to rDNS names of their editors and I wanted to implement a "random mode" that allows thm to see all edits made by a given rDNS domain - the user would just press F5 and see the editor in context like this: http://wikispy.wmflabs.org/by_rdns_random/plwiki/.gov.pl I would definitely prefer to use the mobile version of Wikipedia though or at least Special:MobileEdit, but both disallow framing. Is there any specific reason for that? I would guess that this is for security, but I have to admit I don't know what could be gained by showing the MobileDiff in a frame. Cheers, d33tah

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Tech Talk: Graphs! Visualize maps and data graphs live on Wikipedia - May 14
by Rachel Farrand 14 May '15

14 May '15

Please join us for the following tech talk: *Tech Talk**:* Graphs! Visualize maps and data graphs live on Wikipedia *Presenter:* Yuri Astrakhan and Dan Andreescu *Date:* May 14th *Time:* 2100 UTC <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+Graph…> Link to live YouTube stream <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7DTn9jHnI0> *IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office Google+ page <https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/events/cjm55bm8ifohmbpu…>, another place for questions *Talk description: *Thanks to many great contributors, we are proud to present the Graphs <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo>... because wiki pages with SVG and PNG images is so last century. Graph extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph> allows content authors to insert a data-defined graph or a map in a wiki page. Graph is described using Vega visualization grammar <http://trifacta.github.io/vega/> ( demo <http://trifacta.github.io/vega/editor/>), and allows very complex data transformations, filtering, and soon even animation & interactivity. Combine that with the power of wiki template parameters and Lua scripting, and the results could be stellar. Up to you really. Vega+d3 gives us a huge list of charting options and maps with numerous projections and ability to highlight individual regions. Lastly, graphs could be rendered either in a browser (more interactivity), or on the server (faster load). Demo will be served. Special thanks goes to milimetric, krinkle, Brion, and gwicke, without whose help this project would have been a lot harder, and to Vega and other open source teams who build such great libraries.

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Mailing list maintenance window - 2015-05-19 17:00 - 19:00 UTC
by Rob Halsell 14 May '15

14 May '15

Please note that we will be working on a few open tasks for mailing list server maintenance, next Tuesday, May 19th from 17:00 to 19:00 UTC. During this time, all mailing list traffic, as well as online archives, may become unavailable. Once the window has ended, all mail routing should resume normally, and any messages sent during the window will then be delivered accordingly. All associated tasks and changes are linked from https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99098. This mail has (initially) been send to all list administrators, and wikitech-l. Please feel free to forward to any other lists or parties that would need to know about this maintenance window. -- Rob Halsell Operations Engineer Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. E-Mail: rhalsell(a)wikimedia.org Office: 415.839.6885 x6620 Fax: 415.882.0495

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Please welcome Jaime Crespo
by Mark Bergsma 14 May '15

14 May '15

Hi all, I'm very pleased to announce that we've recently hired Jaime Crespo as Sr. Database Administrator. Jaime has joined the Technical Operations team to strengthen our DBA capacity. He will be working closely with Sean, and will join responsibility for our production database infrastructure, the Wikimedia Labs replicas and the Analytics/research databases. His addition to the team will also allow us to support our developers better with code review and advice about database queries and schema tuning. Before he joined us Jaime has been a MySQL/MariaDB DBA consultant, both at Percona and later as an independent contractor. In that role he has supported many database environments, large and small. Being a fan of the free software and open data movements, Jaime is excited to be employing his experience in such an environment. Jaime lives in the Zaragoza area in Spain, and will be working with us remotely from home. Outside of work, he is an active contributor to the Spanish Wikipedia and the OpenStreetMap projects as well. His other hobbies include photography, cycling, astronomy, reading and acting in theater. Jaime can be found on IRC under the nickname 'jynus'. Please join me in welcoming him! -- Mark Bergsma <mark(a)wikimedia.org> Lead Operations Architect Director of Technical Operations Wikimedia Foundation

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2015-05-13 Scrum of Scrums notes
by Grace Gellerman 13 May '15

13 May '15

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2015-05-13

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Multimedia team?
by Pine W 13 May '15

13 May '15

As a part of the engineering reorganization, will there be a multimedia team within the readeship or power users groups? For some time I have been hoping to get Wikipedia the ability to provide interactive visualizations. Also, this article[1] suggests that VR may see widespread adoption in the next few years, and a multimedia team could capitalize on the trend. Pine [1] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30924022

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Replace [Tracking bugs] with [Projects] in Phabricator
by Yuri Astrakhan 11 May '15

11 May '15

I would like to propose that we remove all tracking bugs, and instead use Phabricator projects (e.g. with an Umbrella icon). Some of the benefits: * Discoverable - projects are more intuitive and easier to add to a bug with the auto-complete * Manageable - within the project, tasks can be broken down into columns by categories/priorities specific to the project * Searchable - easier to search for tasks that belong to multiple projects

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Connecting to github community
by Koerner, Chris L 11 May '15

11 May '15

Another open-source community<http://wordpress.org> is working on integrating their repository with Github<http://ma.tt/2014/10/sotw-2014/> for the very reasons you mentioned (Ctrl+F for the mention of github). WordPress' tool, Trac, is SVN and therefore a bit of a bigger transition IMHO. The work is still ongoing. There is a lively community that currently exists on Github. Encouraging folks to participate with tools that they are comfortable with is a win for wiki tech. I would say that this is a smart move and agree with others that focusing on Phabricator as that’s the system with a longer life. -Chris K. This electronic mail and any attached documents are intended solely for the named addressee(s) and contain confidential information. If you are not an addressee, or responsible for delivering this email to an addressee, you have received this email in error and are notified that reading, copying, or disclosing this email is prohibited. If you received this email in error, immediately reply to the sender and delete the message completely from your computer system.

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