Wikitech-l July 2015

wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

97 participants
75 discussions

Min php version
by bawolff 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

According to our docs/internal checks, our min php version is 5.3.3. However as of 6e283d394f31, MediaWiki doesn't work with php 5.3.3 (You aren't allowed to implement an interface using an abstract method, on that version of PHP so you get "Fatal error: Can't inherit abstract function IDatabase::getType() (previously declared abstract in DatabaseBase) in git/includes/db/Database.php on line 32"). Is it time we up'd our version requirements (And does anyone know if that would affect lots of third parties?) Or should that change be reverted? --bawolff

14 23

2015-07-22 Scrum of Scrums notes
by Grace Gellerman 22 Jul '15

22 Jul '15

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2015-07-22

1 0

Re: [Wikitech-l] FYI: HTMLForm is now available in OOUI format
by Florian Schmidt 22 Jul '15

22 Jul '15

Yay :D Sent from my HTC ----- Reply message ----- From: "Bartosz Dziewoński" <matma.rex(a)gmail.com> To: "Wikimedia developers" <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikitech-l] FYI: HTMLForm is now available in OOUI format Date: Wed, Jul 22, 2015 15:45 It took a while, but most of the issues are ironed out now. OOUI still doesn't support subsections, as that would require some refactoring of gnarly old code. Everything else should work well enough. -- Bartosz Dziewoński _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

2 1

Phabricator board: reading-admin
by Adam Baso 22 Jul '15

22 Jul '15

Hi all - you've probably seen the reading-web, android, and ios related boards in Phabricator, but I wanted to share another with you: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/reading-admin/ This is a place the Reading management team adds and tracks more manager oriented tasks. As tasks get moved to Done, we will in the future probably actually want to check into whether they should be moved farther left in the board to be repeated / re-reviewed or figure out some appropriate lightweight workflow for such things. -Adam

1 0

FYI: HTMLForm is now available in OOUI format
by James Forrester 22 Jul '15

22 Jul '15

As part of the on-going UI standardisation work[0], we have just merged into MediaWiki master a patch that will allow users of HTMLForm[1] to easily switch over to use OOUI[2]. This allows you to make your code use the standard UI styling and components with very little effort, improving consistency and accessibility. To convert your code over from the existing styling of MediaWiki's HTMLForm (or its VForm version), you can replace the instantiation command of - $form = new HTMLForm( … ); - or: - $form = HTMLForm::factory( 'vform', … ); - with - $form = HTMLForm::factory( 'ooui', … ); … and everything Should Just Work™. This doesn't break anything for existing use of this code, and you can explicitly retain the existing styling by using $form = HTMLForm::factory( 'table', … ); or 'div' or 'vform' instead if you wish. Feel free to add your code to the epic task on Phabricator which is the central liaison point for this work[3]. Finally, please be careful to check your interfaces after converting them – although we have tested this and believe it works well, there may be some edge cases where it doesn't quite work. We're still missing a few features [4] (such as prettier radio buttons), which we're hoping to have ready in a week or two. If do you find any such issues, please report them so we can fix them. Also note that OOUI already implements the new "MediaWiki" theme for all users, so please ensure you advertise the visual changes as they roll out to minimise disruption. [0] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T49145 [1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HTMLForm [2] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85291 [3] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100270 [4] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100279 Yours, -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester

3 2

AccountAudit extension will be undeployed soon
by Legoktm 21 Jul '15

21 Jul '15

Hi, Now that SULF is over, we have no need for the AccountAudit extension anymore. If you have been relying on it for any statistics, please be aware that a) it is going away soon and b) the data is generally inaccurate for global users (which all users are now). Please follow <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105894> for updates. Thanks, -- Legoktm

1 1

Wikimedia authentication on an external website?
by Paul Arzelier 20 Jul '15

20 Jul '15

Hi! We're trying to use the collections (a beta wikipedia feature) on a wikimedia external website, http://wikijourney.eu, which delivers wikipedia-driven tourist tours. In order to use the collections' API, we need the user to log in his wikipedia account, and it would be nice to have a log-in form directly on the website. Does anyone know if it's possible?

4 4

VE plugin related questions
by Nischay Nahata 20 Jul '15

20 Jul '15

Hi all, I have been working on a small VE plugin that provides the functionality of adding SMW annotations. I am mostly done with the script but need to understand some minor coding practices for VE plugins to complete it. Would appreciate some help on these questions. When the script makes some changes to the document model, sometimes the "Save" button stays greyed out. Is there a way I should trigger the save button to become active? Or maybe I am doing something in the wrong way. The "undo" doesn't seem to automatically work for my code, what's the best way to develop that functionality? I have a couple more doubts, but these are the major ones right now. Here's my code if needed, its a mess right now and needs lot of refactoring, etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nischayn22/veSMW.js Thanks and regards, Nischay Nahata

2 1

Wikimedia video community editing tools & infrastructure status
by Brion Vibber 19 Jul '15

19 Jul '15

There were a fair number of folks interested in video chatting at Wikimania! A few quick updates: * An experimental 'Schnittserver' ('Clip server') project has been in the works for a while with some funding from ze Germans; currently sitting at http://wikimedia.meltvideo.com/ (uses OAuth, has a temporary SSL cert, UI is very primitive!) It is currently usable already for converting MP4 etc source footage to WebM! The Schnittserver can also do server-side rendering of projects using the 'melt' format such as those created with Kdenlive <https://kdenlive.org/> and Shotcut <http://www.shotcut.org/> -- this allows uploading your original footage (usually in some sort of MP4/H.264 flavor) and sharing the editing project via WebM proxy clips, without generational loss on the final rendering. Once rendered, your final WebM output can be published up to Commons. I would love to see some more support for this project, including adding a better web front-end for managing projects/clips and even editing... * Mozilla has an in-browser media editor thing called Popcorn.js <http://popcornjs.org/>; they're unfortunately reducing investment in the project, but there's some talk amon people working on it and on our end that Wikimedia might be interested in helping adapt it to work with the Schnittserver or some future replacement for it. Unfortunately I missed the session with the person working on Popcorn.js, will have to catch up later on it! * I'm very close to what I consider a 1.0 release of ogv.js <https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/>, my JavaScript shim to play Ogg (and experimentally WebM) video and audio in Safari and MS IE/Edge without plugins. Recently fixed some major sound sync bugs on slower devices, and am finishing up controls which will be used in the mobile view (when not using the full TimedMediaHandler / MwEmbedPlayer interface which we still have on the desktop). Demo of playback at https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo2/ A slightly older version of ogv.js is also running on https://ogvjs-testing.wmflabs.org/ with integration into TimedMediaHandler; I'll update those patches with my 1.0 release next week or so. * Infrastructure issues: I had a talk with Faidon about video requirements on the low-level infrastructure layer; there are some things we need to work on before we really push video: - seeking/streaming a file with Range subsets causes requests to bypass the Varnish cache layer, potentially causing huge performance problems if there's a usage spike! - very large files can't be sharded cleanly over multiple servers, which makes for further performance bottlenecks on popular files again - VERY large files (>4G or so) can't be stored at all; which is a problem for high-quality uploads of things like long Wikimania talks! For derivative transcodes, we can bypass some of these problems by chunking the output into multiple files of limited length and rigging up 'gapless playback', as can be done for HLS or MPEG-DASH-style live streaming. I'm pretty sure I can work out how to do this in the ogv.js player (for Safari and IE) as well as in the native <video> element playback for Chrome and Firefox via Media Source Extensions <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Build/Audio_and_video_delivery/Liv…>. Assuming it works with the standard DASH profile for WebM, this is something we can easily make work on Android as well using Google's ExoPlayer <https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/exoplayer.html>. DASH playback will also make it easier to use adaptive source switching to handle limited bandwidth or CPU resources. However we still need to be able to deal with source files which may be potentially quite large... * List and phab projects! As a reminder there's a wikivideo-l list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikivideo-l and a Wikimedia-Video project tag in phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-video/ Folks who are interested in pushing further work on video, please feel free to join up. There's a lot of potential awesomeness! -- brion

1 0

Slides from Lila's presentation at Wikimania
by Pine W 19 Jul '15

19 Jul '15

Courtesy of WMF Comms: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2015_presentation_by_Lila… Pine

3 4

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 July 2015