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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2016-10-24
by Chris Koerner 28 Oct '16

28 Oct '16

Hello, Here is the Discovery status update for the week starting 24 October. Feedback and questions are welcome. == Discussions == * Show globe icon 🌐 next to all <maplinks> links [0] * Request for Comment - All map location names should be shown in the user's language [1] * Merge Kartographer with commons-on-osm [2] * Discussion and recommendations for the overall usability of the new search engine results page with the Design team [3] == Search == * Don't show the "results from other projects" box if empty [4] * Check to see if popularity_score is wrong in a lot of articles [5] * Disable highlighting on insource queries if experimental highlighter in not turned on [6] * Reindex search cluster for BM25 test [7] * Search works incorrectly when the query contains words used as namespace names and a colon (:) [8] * ask for translations for 'showing results from' (Polish, Dutch, Arabic and Chinese) [9] * Configure varnish to include wdqs nodes in codfw [10] * Started second BM25 A/B test (ja, zh, th) [11] * Turn on second BM25 test [12] * Fix in_array() expects parameter 2 to be an array or collection in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.28.0-wmf.22/extensions/CirrusSearch/includes/Search/RescoreBuilders.php on line 160 [13] * Communicate to community the upcoming BM25 release [14] * [Recurring task] CirrusSearch: what is updated during re-indexing [15] * Review and fix the description of autocomplete profiles (completion suggester) in the Search preference tab [16] * Enable cross-wiki backend search functionality on it.wikipedia - we made it faster [17] * Enable GC (garbage collection) logs on Elasticsearch JVM [18] * Argument 2 passed to SearchEngine::processCompletionResults() must be an instance of SearchSuggestionSet, Elastica\Response in SearchEngine class [19] * [bug] cirrussearch fatal in 1.28.0-wmf.23 - [20] == Analysis == * Compare ZRR for query features across other search engines [21] * Investigate what we'd need to do to ignore double quotes in search queries [22] * Maps Dashboard: fix and update [23] * Analyze the variance of user-agent's, country, and other useful metrics of google referred traffic with and without a search query available in referrer [24] * Add a PaulScore approximation to discovery.wmflabs.org [25] == Portal == '''''Portal updates that got code reviews after rebasing - thanks! ''''' * update logo for new branding guidelines [26] * add information for Wikipedia / Wikimedia apps availability [27] == Interactive == * Deprecate <slippymap> provided by MapSources in favor of Kartographer's <mapframe> [28] * Illegal and unheralded removal of MapSourcesHooks::wfgeoLink function hook on dewikivoyage [29] * More details button should appear when map is loaded [30] * maps1002 does not run latest kartotherian [31] * Snapshot service not working with empty groups param [32] * Kartographer no longer displays external data credits [33] * Graph behaves differently on PHP7 - was fixed automagically [34] * <mapframe>/<maplink>: Invalid GeoJSON code in wgKartographerLiveData prevents drawing of maps at Wikivoyage [35] * Don't pollute history with map hashes [36] * Fix Governor's demo - party affiliations (needed a fix with WDQS SPARQL query - thanks, Stas!) [37] * Show wikidata query results as map markers [38] * Support geomask externaldata in Kartotherian [39] * Geoshape service should return map mask polygon with holes [40] '''''Interactive tickets completed this week, but awaiting next train in order to be deployed: Nov 1, 2016:''''' * Use maps snapshot service until user interacts (click/mouseover?) [41] * Geoshape service should return map mask polygon with holes [42] * Show preview with static maps is broken [43] * [Bug] GeoData\Searcher fatal error in 1.28-wmf.23 [44] * Support data.get() with optional language param [45] * Remove static background from mapframes after going dynamic [46] == Interactive Ops Tasks == * WV layers dropdown bug on vem.wmflabs.org [47] * Maps - move traffic to eqiad instead of codfw [48] * Configure new maps servers in eqiad [49] * Unmet dependencies around postgis apt packages on maps* servers [50] * increase replication factor for system_auth keyspace on maps / cassandra [51] * Upgrade PostGIS on maps servers to version 2.2+ [52] * Maps-test was created with incorrect initial encoding [53] * Update Node on Maps to v4.6.0 [54] * elastic2020 is powered off and does not want to restart [55] * Maps - error when doing initial tiles generation: "Error: could not create converter for SQL_ASCII"" [56] [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145176 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112948 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149280 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139310#2748175 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96881 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148136 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148107 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147498 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148344 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143354 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146158 [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147495 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147497 [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148840 [14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147509 [15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147505: [16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148010 [17] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146179 [18] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134853 [19] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148978 [20] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149254 [21] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136377 [22] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149143 [23] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149127 [24] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128146 [25] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144424 [26] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144834 [27] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137495 [28] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136768 [29] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149288 [30] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148882 [31] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148881 [32] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149145 [33] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149154 [34] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148250 [35] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148971 [36] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144880 [37] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149281 [38] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134816 [39] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149151 [40] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146582 [41] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148070 [42] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146582 [43] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149070 [44] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149159 [45] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149149 [46] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149155 [47] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148865 [48] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145758 [49] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138092 [50] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147780 [51] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149074: [52] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144763 [53] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148114 [54] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148661 [55] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149006 [56] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148031 ---- The full update, and archive of past updates, can be found on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as Easy or Volunteer needed in Phabricator. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation 57 links‽ That has to be some kind of record.

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2016.10 release
by Kartik Mistry 28 Oct '16

28 Oct '16

Hello all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2016.10. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.26 and 1.27 or above and requires PHP 5.5.9 or above. Next MLEB is expected to be released in 3 months. If there are major changes or important bug fixes, we will do intermediate release. Please give us your feedback at [[Talk:MLEB|https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB]]. * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2016.10.tar… * sha256sum: f82ac16b1a71433d68066c684c2e67379d3c435d1938044a9f0f0582cb6549b3 Quick links: * Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB * Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n * Report bugs to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ * Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode Release notes for each extension are below. -- Kartik Mistry == Highlights and upgrade notes == * Easy way to access wikitext editor from Special:Translate. T48955 * Special:Translate now works with MobileFrontend. T102922 * Special:Translate now works better in mobile devices. T146134 * WebAPI module to query user's babel languages. * The style of ULS's dialogs have been updated and polished to be more streamlined (for real this time, was incorrectly claimed to be included in 2016.08). == Babel == * Kunal Mehta made is possible to store babel languages in the database for efficient querying if a configuration option is enabled. * Kunal Mehta added an WebAPI module to query user's babel languages. * Kunal Mehta made it possible to read user's babel languages from a central wiki if a configuration option is enabled. T95877 * Ricordisamoa added a configuration option that can be used to set namespace limits to restrict for which pages are automatically categorized to babel categories. T69334 * Niklas Laxström removed references to non-existing configuration option BabelPreferISO639_3. * Kunal Mehta made the new babel database table to start populating automatically if it exists. * Kunal Mehta changed the main babel category no longer include users who set the skill level to zero. T146909 == CLDR and LocalisationUpdate == * Maintenance and localisation updates only. == CleanChanges == * Niklas Laxström fixed a minor issue causing unnecessary code to load on certain configurations. T146476 == Translate == * Glaisher improved how Translate checks and enforces restrictions for non-translatable languages. * C0nnex taught Translate to support new authentication method for Microsoft Translate API. T46679 * Niklas Laxström removed the broken new line handling from Microsoft Translate API support. T60121 * Jon Robson and Niklas Laxström made Special:Translate work with Mobile Frontend. T102922 * Niklas Laxström polished Special:Translate to work better in mobile devices. T146134 * Glaisher added way to access wikitext editor from Special:Translate. T48955 * Federico Leva and Niklas Laxström made "hide own translations" button in Special:Translate only appear when relevant. T50972 * Erik Moeller added support for explicitly chosen namespace constant in wfAddNamespace. * Niklas Laxström fixed an issue causing email confirmation emails to be sent twice for sandbox users. T147570 * Erik Moeller added support for CLDR-style plural keywords to JSON file format support. == UniversalLanguageSelector == * Amir Aharoni changed "Language search" to "Search for a language". T138235 * New design implemented by Niklas Laxström was imported from jquery.uls. * Niklas Laxström improved language change tooltip positioning. T145483 * Amir Aharoni documented available hooks and added one new hook. T145755 * Fomafix improved and simplified the way the CSS is loaded for ULS triggers to avoid flash. * Ed Sanders updated beta feature image to use proper layout and colours. T144428 * Niklas Laxström fixed an issue that caused unparsed plural syntax appear in the compact language links. T148117 -- Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_ {kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com

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Labs and Wikitech outages Friday, 2016-10-28 at 15:00 UTC
by Andrew Bogott 28 Oct '16

28 Oct '16

In order to address a security issue, we are patching and rebooting many physical Labs hosts. The next round of this will begin at 15:00 UTC on Friday, which is 8:00AM San Francisco time. Interruptions will include: - A labs-wide network outage - Wikitech downtime - Horizon downtime - Possible failures in new instance creation None of the above should last more than a few minutes. For the most part Labs instances will be unaware of the outages, and no action is required from users. Apologies for any inconvenience caused! -Andrew

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2016W43 ArchCom-RFC meeting: Allow HTML in SVG?
by Rob Lanphier 28 Oct '16

28 Oct '16

Hi everyone, For [this week's ArchCom-RFC meeting][E325], let's talk about SVG. As you probably know, MediaWiki optionally allows for SVG uploads, which is allowed on many Wikimedia wikis (e.g. on Commons). However, in order to make this preference safe to use, we need to validate the SVG. One thing that's allowed in the SVG spec is to embed fragments of XHTML inside the SVG. This isn't just a obscure spec feature; this is understood to be the best way to embed a caption for a diagram that allows for word wrap when the image is scaled. Having XHTML support also would allow for greater compatibility between MediaWiki and real-world SVG editing tools (e.g. like draw.io) matmarex made a suggestion in [the bug for this][T138783]: > We have a HTML validation library (the Sanitizer class) and it could > probably be hooked up to validating HTML in SVG file uploads. But it > would definitely require some work. It's not officially an RFC, but I suggested it as a discussion topic in [last week's ArchCom planning meeting][3], and no one objected. Let's see if we can answer a couple of questions: 1. Is this a good idea in theory? i.e. is it possible/likely that an experienced developer could implement something that can pass security review, or is it conceptually flawed? 2. Is matmarex's suggested approach a good one? 3. Should we turn our SVG validation code into a proper library? 4. (if there's time) Let's step through the [brion's June 30 comment][4] This week it will be the usual time (Wednesday 21 UTC, 14 PDT, 23 CEST) and place (#wikimedia-office). Next week, things get complicated because of the end of [Summer Time in Europe][5]; an announcement about next week's meeting will hopefully find its way to the [ArchComStatus page][6]. Rob [E325]: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E325> [T138783]: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138783> [3]: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2016-10-19> [4]: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138783#2419210> [5]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Time_in_Europe> [6]: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ArchComStatus>

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8 am UTC Oct 29, maintenance for dataset1001 (dumps.wikimedia.org)
by Ariel Glenn WMF 28 Oct '16

28 Oct '16

On Saturday Oct 29, at 8 am UTC, the web server for the dumps and other datasets will be unavailable due to maintenance. This should take no longer than 10 minutes. Thanks for your understanding. Ariel

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[MediaWiki-announce] CentralAuth security update
by Gergo Tisza 27 Oct '16

27 Oct '16

A security bug [1] has been fixed in CentralAuth; the bug caused logouts to silently fail if the local account on the central login wiki was unattached. That does not happen under normal circumstances, so the vulnerability can only be exposed if some other error causes attaching accounts to fail; nevertheless you are advised to update your installations. The fix has been backported to all supported versions (those for MediaWiki 1.23, 1.26 and 1.27). Gergő https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Tgr_(WMF) [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137551 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki announcements mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce

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[MediaWiki-announce] OAuth security update #2
by Gergo Tisza 27 Oct '16

27 Oct '16

The recent OAuth security fix [1] had a bug [2] which caused some legitimate OAuth requests to be rejected. The affected versions have been updated to work properly. Apologies for the disruption. Gergő https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Tgr_(WMF) [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2016-October/00019… [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149194 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki announcements mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce

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Recently proposed patchsets by new contributors awaiting code review
by Andre Klapper 27 Oct '16

27 Oct '16

Your help is welcome to provide feedback (CR±1/2) and guidance: == mediawiki/extensions/Favorites: == https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:mediawiki/extensions/Favorites+s… 4 patches by same author. Extension might be unmaintained, looking at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EFAV/ ? == mediawiki/extensions/LdapAuthentication: == since 2016-09-27 (4th time listed here): Allow local user creation even if LDAP user creation is disabled https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/313019/ (Still no CR±1 but review comments by Tgr - thanks!) == mediawiki/extensions/MixedNamespaceSearchSuggestions: == since 2016-10-22 (patch has 3 lines): Fix Namespace Display in resources/ext.mnss.search.less https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/317325/ == pywikibot/core: == https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-May/085598.html might make me exclude Pywikibot from future emails, as its developers might not have a shared understanding when it comes to the importance of providing fast reviews quickly to new contributors. since 2016-09-25 (4th time listed here): Checks the type of isbn and modifies accordingly https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/312726/ (Still no CR±1 but a review comment by Whym - thanks!) since 2016-10-15: Silence warnings https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/316060/ Thanks in advance for your reviews! -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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Technical Design Intern Search | Job description
by Maria Cruz 27 Oct '16

27 Oct '16

Hello all, There is a new internship opportunity in the Community Engagement department for a Technical Design Intern. We are looking for a candidate who works and/or studies in the field of computer science and information systems, has experience in advanced wiki markup and design skills for web, and the ability to excel in a fast-paced, multitasking environment, among other qualifications. Knowledge and or experience with Wikimedia Projects a plus! The Technical Design Intern will work closely with the Communications and Outreach Coordinator (that would be me!) on the Wikimedia Resource Center, the redesign of the Evaluation Portal on Meta Wikimedia, and migration and archiving of L&E portal pages from existing namespaces to new namespace, among other tasks. You can find the complete job description here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/488570#.WBE6X-ErKRs If you are interested, please apply. If you know someone who might fit this position, please forward the email to them! Cheers, *María Cruz * \\ Communications and Outreach Coordinator, L&E Team \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_ <https://twitter.com/marianarra_>

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REMINDER: Wikimedia Developer Summit proposal submission deadline is in 5 days!
by Srishti Sethi 26 Oct '16

26 Oct '16

Hello all, Just a reminder that the deadline for the call for proposals for the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit> is *next Monday, October 31st, 2016*. To submit your proposal, please visit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/Call_for_particip…. We look forward to reading your proposals! Cheers, Srishti P.S. Ignore this message, if you have already submitted a proposal. -- Srishti Sethi Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)

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