Wikitech-l November 2016

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Introduction for Gsoc 2017
by MAYANK JINDAL 10 Dec '16

10 Dec '16

Hi, My name is Mayank Jindal. I am third year undergraduate student currently studying at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. I want to take part in Gsoc-2017 from Wikimedia. I have knowledge of C, C++, JAVA, Python, Android app development and Web development and beginner in *Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence.* I am very enthusiastic to learn new skills which would be required. Kindly guide me to proceed further. -- Kind Regards, Mayank Jindal, Third year undergraduate student, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Mobile : +91- 7076670299 || 8875432718

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Google Code-in 2016 just started and we need your help!
by Andre Klapper 03 Dec '16

03 Dec '16

Google Code-in 2016 just started: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2016 In the next seven weeks, many young people are going to make their first contributions to Wikimedia. Expect many questions on IRC and mailing lists by onboarding newcomers who have never used IRC or lists before. Your help and patience is welcome to provide a helping hand! Thanks to all mentors who have already registered & provided tasks! You have not become a mentor yet? Please do consider it. It is fun and we do need more tasks! :) * Think of easy tasks in your area that you could mentor. Areas are: Code, docs/training, outreach/research, quality assurance, and user interface. "Easy" means 2-3h to complete for you, or less technical ~30min "beginner tasks" for onboarding). * OR: provide an easy 'clonable' task (a task that is generic and could be repeated many times by different students). * Note that you commit to answer to students' questions and to evaluate their work within 36 hours (but the better your task description the less questions. No worries, we're here to help!) For the full info, please check out https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2016/Mentors and ask if something is unclear! Thank you again for giving young contributors the opportunity to learn about and work on all aspects of Free & Open Source Software projects! Cheers, andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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Wikimedia Developer Summit Weekly
by Quim Gil 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

Original version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Td5wfd70vptn8eu4 The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017 is 13 weeks away! PARTICIPANTS * 68 people have requested an invitation. * 19 of them have requested travel sponsorship as well. Join us: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit. The deadline to request travel sponsorship is Monday, October 24th. PROPOSALS * 8 proposals submitted - https://phabricator.wikimedia. org/project/view/2205/ ** 1 in backlog ** 2 in Unconference ** 2 missing basic information ** 3 to be pre-scheduled https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_ Summit/Call_for_participation The deadline for submitting new proposals is Monday, October 31. MAIN TOPICS https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Program On track: * A plan for the Community Wishlist 2016 top results * Building on Wikimedia services: APIs and Developer Resources * How to manage our technical debt Missing basic information * A unified vision for editorial collaboration * Building a sustainable user experience together * How to grow our technical community Missing two facilitators * A unified vision for editorial collaboration * How to grow our technical community Missing one facilitator * Handling wiki content beyond plaintext * Building a sustainable user experience together * Artificial Intelligence to build and navigate content ORGANIZATION * Meet the Program committee. https://www.mediawiki.org/ wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/Program_committee -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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December 2016 CREDIT Showcase in a week
by Adam Baso 30 Nov '16

30 Nov '16

Hello all - The next CREDIT showcase is a week from today - Wednesday, 7-December-2016 at 1900 UTC (1100 San Francisco). https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase If you have a demo, please add it here: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT Last month there were demos on offline, IFTTT, and File properties search & new WDQS visualizations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmfqtP3pr2Y&t=47 We welcome demos from Wikimedia community members and staff alike - from polished features to something you just got working last night. Hope to see you soon! If you would like to invite anyone to CREDIT, feel free to use this template. *Hi <FNAME>* *I hope all is well with you! I wanted to let you know about CREDIT, a monthly demo series that we’re running to showcase open source tech projects from Wikimedia’s Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery, Infrastructure and Technology teams. * *CREDIT is open to the public, and we welcome questions and discussion. The next CREDIT will be held on December 7th at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 19:00 UTC. * *There’s more info on MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase>, and on Etherpad <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT>, which is where we take notes and ask questions. You can also ask questions on IRC in the Freenode chatroom #wikimedia-office (web-based access here <https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23wikimedia-office>). Links to video will become available at these locations shortly before the event.* *Please feel free to pass this information along to any interested folks. Our projects tend to focus on areas that might be of interest to folks working across the open source tech community: language detection, numerical sort, large data visualizations, maps, and all sorts of other things.* *If you have any questions, please let me know! Thanks, and I hope to see you at CREDIT.* *-YOURNAME*

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2016-11-30 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes
by Grace Gellerman 30 Nov '16

30 Nov '16

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-11-30 = 2016-11-30 = == Product == === Reading === ==== Android native app ==== * Last week: ** Continuing Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions ** New fundraising announcement explore feed card in progress ** Fixing login and editing issues * Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/): ** More Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions (tutorial and polish) ====Web==== * Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/reading-web-sprint-86-%F0%9F%94%AA%F0… * This week: ** Stopped HoverCards A/B tests from Russian and Italian Wikipedias ** New readers work ** MobileFrontend regression fixes ** Make PageImages return the image in the lead section ** MobileFrontend tech debt ** Trending service ** Hovercards rewrite ====iOS==== * Last Week: ** Found and fixed notification bugs, crashes found in 5.3.0, ready for 5.3.1 release ** Finished announcement card updates, ready for 5.3.1 release ** Finished data layer updates, ready for beta in 5.3.2 ** Continued dynamic font size updates to the app * This week: 5.3.1 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2357/ & 5.3.2 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2281/ ** Ship 5.3.1 (any remaining bug fixes) ** Beta 5.3.2 ==== Mobile Content Service (MCS) ==== * Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mobile-content-service/ * added Wikibase ID to mobile-sections output * introducing eslint as part of the node template update ==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * working on random MediaWiki tech debt * not blocking * Still looking for reviews on the API error/warning i18n patches (see last week) === Community tech === * Blocked: Nope * Blocking: Nope * Updates: * Continued improvements to Copypatrol ( https://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol) * Community wishlist survey is in voting phase: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey == Editing == === Parsing === * Blocked: Tim asked for an ops person to work with him to puppetize HTML5Depurate service; yet to hear back as of y'day * Tim working on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151702 with Ops; * Arlo's work on Parsoid-native <gallery> extension is now merged. Once we update the specs at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Specs/HTML/1.3.0 and chat with Services folks, we'll deploy this. * Kunal continuing to work on the Linter extension (scheduled to be deployed in Q3 2016-17). * Scott busy with Dev Summit Planning this previous (short) week, but trying to finish up patches in Parsoid to parse language variant markup. == Technology == === Technical Operations === * Will not be able to attend, apologies! * '''Blocked''' ** None * '''Blocking''' ** None * Updates ** API outage investigation and actionables ongoing ** Q3 Goals discussion started, please inform ops of dependencies on them ** Goals on track, work ongoing === Analytics === * Auditing old logs on stat1002 for *deletion*, including: mobile-sampled, api-usage, sampled, edits (from webrequest), glam_nara, zero. More at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T84618 * Mediawiki history reconstruction project milestone: standard metrics ran against the imported data give very similar results with much simpler queries, test dataset loaded into Druid: https://pivot.wikimedia.org/#edit-history-test * Adding send-to-graphite functionality to Reportupdater * Wikistats 2.0 design starting tomorrow * New hire engineer will start December 12th * Ongoing: ** upgrading stat boxes and other out-of-warranty boxes ** optimizing last step of mediawiki history reconstruction ** public event streams work ** varnishkafka integration testing ** reaching out to analysts and evengelizing reportupdater and pivot === Release Engineering === * '''Blocked''' ** None * '''Blocking''' ** None? * '''Updates''' ** Reminder that the [ https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-November/086936.html deployments schedule gets weird] between now and the end of the year ** Phabricator replication should be a bit faster thanks to Mukunda ** Scap 3.4 is out -- see the [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MSCA/browse/release/debian/chan…] for details ** MediaWiki and extensions 1.28.0 tarball is now available === Security === * Security Reviews * LoginNotify completing from last week * Recommendations API started this week * One item need code review * CentralAuth special pages: https://gerrit.wikimedia.o <https://gerrit.wikimedia.o3rg/r/#/c/319055/>3 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.o3rg/r/#/c/319055/>rg/r/#/c/319055/ <https://gerrit.wikimedia.o3rg/r/#/c/319055/> === Fundraising Tech === * Watching logs, tuning fraud settings and queue jobs * Tweaking internal dashboard * Updated thank you email ** Parser output had some unexpected <br>s, wondering if that changed lately ** https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?page=Fundraising/Translation/Thank_you… === Discovery === * Load-testing crosswiki searching backend code proceeds, looks fine so far * New analysis of query features and performance published: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Query_Features_and_Search_Performan… * New analysis of BM25 scoring in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147500 - still working on how to best tokenize zh

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The Revision scoring weekly update
by Aaron Halfaker 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Hey, This is the 30th and 31st weekly update from the revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. We accidentally skipped a week again. *New development:* - We added a new "lowest" sensitivity level to ORES review tool. This new sensistivity level will only flag edits that ORES is very confident are actually damaging[1]. - We applied the MediaWiki standard color palette to Wikilabels[2] - We generated a manually censored public dataset of spam/vandalism/attack pages[3]. This will help others to develop spam, vandalism and attack page detection models. See the publication of the dataset[4]. - We've implement color-based confidence reporting for ORES damage detection[5] *Maintenance and robustness:* - We updated the version of OOjs-UI that gets bundled with Wiki labels[6] and moved the static assets to a new repositiory[7] - We fixed an issue in the recscoring library[8] that caused ORES to return invalid JSON and rendered the UI useless[9]. *Communications:* - We gave a 3 minute presentation on the state of ORES to Victoria Coleman, the WMF's new CTO[10]. - We performed a basic analysis of Wikipedia article quality trends using the dataset we released a few weeks ago[11]. We'll have a more substantial analysis soon. - We made a post on the ORES review tool talk page[12,13] detailing how we plan to incorporate a new filtering strategy into the ORES review tool. Please join the discussion there. 1. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150224 -- Add "Lowest" ORES sensitivity for fpr=0.1 2. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151119 -- Apply ui standardization color palette to Wikilabels 3. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150307 -- Create manually vetted dataset of spam/vandalism/attack pages 4. https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4245035 5. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144922 -- Visually report damaging confidence 6. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151222 -- Update bundled OOJS-ui with Wikilabels 7. https://github.com/wiki-ai/flask-oojsui 8. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150961 -- ORES ui is broken (text field disabled) 9. https://github.com/wiki-ai/ores/issues/177 10. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150544 -- ORES (a 2-3 minute presentation) 11. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151214 -- Basic analysis of Wikipedia quality using monthly predictions 12. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150858 -- Post about ORES review tool including ERI filters 13. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Tflhjj5x1numzg67 Sincerely, Aaron from the Revision Scoring team

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Scap 3.4.0-1 is live
by Tyler Cipriani 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Hi all, A new version of Scap has been released and with it comes a few changes. tl;dr highlights: * Old scap bin stubs (e.g., /usr/bin/sync-file, /usr/bin/sync-dir, /usr/bin/mwversionsinuse, etc) will now exit 1. Subcommands are now the only way to interact with scap, i.e., `sync-file` is now `scap sync-file`. * Scap3 (non-mediawiki) deploys will now announce deploys in IRC -- you can specify a message for IRC via: scap deploy 'A message for the SAL' * Scap lockfile errors now show you (a) who has the lockfile and (b) their deploy message. The output you'll see if another person is deploying looks like: sync-file failed: <LockFailedError> Failed to acquire lock "/var/lock/scap"; owner is "thcipriani"; reason is "scap 3.4 sync file" You can see a full changelog for both the 3.4.0-1 and the 3.3.1-1 release on phabricator[0]. If you spot any issues, file a phabricator task tagged with the `Scap3` project[1]. -- Your Humble Scap Toilers [0]. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P4523> [1]. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/scap3/>

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Upcoming changes to PageImages
by Olga Vasileva 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

Hello everyone! In preparation for getting hovercards ready for release, the reading-web team has been working on some changes to the PageImages extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageImages> to account for a number of bug reports on incorrect images or images that may appear out of context. We are working on the following changes: 1. Allowing Non-free images to appear (when allowed) 2. Allowing PageImages to select images only from the lead section or infobox of an article 3. Allowing editors to set the PageImage for a page >From these, we will be applying 1 and 2 within this quarter (and most likely by the end of this sprint). More details on the changes, including corresponding tasks can be found here - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/PageImagesChanges Thanks and let us know if there’s any questions! Cheers, - Olga -- Olga Vasileva // Product Manager // Reading Web Team https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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[MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki 1.28 now available!
by Chad Horohoe 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

Hello everyone, I am happy to announce the availability the general release of MediaWiki 1.28! MediaWiki 1.28 includes all changes released in the smaller 1.28.0-wmf.* software deployments to Wikimedia sites over six months, totaling approximately 2100 commits by around 120 authors. This is a large release that contains many new features and bug fixes. This is a summary of the major changes of interest to users and administrators: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28 You can always consult the RELEASE-NOTES-1.28 file for the full list of changes in this version. Full release notes: * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_28/RELEASE-NOTES… * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.28 ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.28/mediawiki-1.28.0.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.28/mediawiki-core-1.28.0.tar.gz GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.28/mediawiki-1.28.0.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.28/mediawiki-core-1.28.0.tar.gz.… Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html -Chad _______________________________________________ MediaWiki announcements mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce

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WikipediaP2P
by Joaquin Oltra Hernandez 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

Hi, I saw this project and I thought it was very interesting: https://www.wikipediap2p.org/ Basically, it makes the clients connect to each other to share pages between each other using webrtc before going to the centralized server. It would probably be a bad idea to convert mobile devices into network peers given the data restrictions and quality of connections but it seems like something very interesting for the desktop clients. Cheers

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