Wikitech-l February 2016

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[GSoC2016] Automatically create a summary of wiki articles
by Ultimate Supreme 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

Hello, As we know, wiki (mainly wikipedia) articles go into a lot of details about the subject. They often tend to become verbose. Sometimes individual sections become as long as articles. The information about a topic is split across various pages which are linked in the article.We have to open several such links to get a good understanding of the article. Navigation popups/Hovercards make it a bit simpler. But the info provided by them is often out of context .They are more about an introduction to the linked article rather than the intended page and their connection; which makes it disconnected and muddled. It helps a reader figure out the importance of a page, but not its relevancy. As part of GSoC project, I was thinking of making a summarization tool that could automatically create a wholesome summary of the article. The links, categories, infoboxes and other unique wiki things make it much different and interesting than simple text summarization. It makes it easier to gauge the context and relevancy of articles and the linked structure make it possible to crawl to relevant pages (like Hovercard). Finally, combining only the important and relevant information (from all sections), we can form a coherent and lucid summary for the reader. The intro paragraphs just provide an introduction to the article whereas the script will provide a jist of the entire article (and hence would be bigger in most cases) Though there has been some independent research <http://lms.comp.nus.edu.sg/sites/default/files/publication.../acl09-yesr.pdf> done on it, the possibility of such a tool was never discussed at length on wikimedia. So, I want to ask the opinion of all the members towards such a tool, in the above or some other form. Also does it seem like something that can be done as a GSoC project (MVP)? Would there be any mentors interested?

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pt.wikimedia.org - database naming
by Alex Monk 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

Hi all, A request has come up (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126832) to re-create pt.wikimedia.org on the wikimedia cluster. Unfortunately it was previously hosted there and so the 'ptwikimedia' database name is already taken. Since database renaming does not really appear to be an option, does anyone have any objections to using 'pt2wikimedia' (or similar, suggestions welcome) instead for the new wiki? I know this doesn't fit the existing pattern so I'm unsure about just going ahead without asking for input from a wider audience. Alex

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Please provide feedback on suggested improvements to the Code of Conduct
by Matthew Flaschen 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

Thanks to everyone who’s helped work on the Code of Conduct so far. People have brought up issues they feel were missed when working on "Unacceptable behavior" ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Unacceptable_behavior ) and "Report a problem" ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Report_a_problem ). Consultants have also suggested changes in these same sections. These are important sections, so please take a look at the proposed changes ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Suggested_changes). I apologize that this feedback arrived later than planned, but I think this will create a better document. If you prefer to give your opinion privately, feedback via e-mail is welcome at conduct-discussion(a)wikimedia.org. Thanks, Matt Flaschen

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External images in VE/Parsoid
by James Montalvo 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

I'm trying to make images from an external source, provided by a parser function, work with VisualEditor and Parsoid. For a very simplified illustration I added the following to the bottom of LocalSettings.php ``` $wgExtensionMessagesFiles['myPfTest'] = "$IP/myPfTest.php"; $wgHooks['ParserFirstCallInit'][] = function( &$parser ) { $parser->setFunctionHook( 'test_func', function ( &$parser ) { // Output a wiki image and an external image $output = "[[File:Test.png|frameless|300px]]" . "<br />" . "<img src='http://goo.gl/fh3yKh' />"; return array( $output, "noparse" => true, "isHTML" => true, ); }, SFH_OBJECT_ARGS ); }; $wgAllowExternalImages = false; $wgAllowImageTag = false; ``` To satisfy the $wgExtensionMessagesFiles requirement, I also added a file at $IP/myPfTest.php with the contents: ``` <?php $magicWords = array(); $magicWords['en'] = array( 'test_func' => array( 0, 'test_func' ), ); ``` When I add a page with wikitext `{{#test_func: }}`, the page displays the raw wikitext of the File:Test.png and shows the actual image for the external image. This is as expected. However, when I click "edit" for Visual Editor, File:Test.png DOES display (not expected), but the external image does not (also not expected). Instead the external image displays the raw text "<img src=' http://goo.gl/fh3yKh' />" Adjusting $wgAllowExternalImages and $wgAllowImageTag to all possible combinations has no effect. Adjusting "noparse" to true makes File:Test.png display in view-mode (expected) as well as VE (expected) but has no effect on the external image. "isHTML" appears to have no effect. Is there some way to make external images play nicely with VE and/or Parsoid? I've tested this on two configurations: MW 1.25.5 PHP 5.6.14 VE be84313 (head of the REL1_25 branch) Parsoid ba26a55 (latest commit I've been able to get working with REL1_25) MW 1.26.2 PHP 5.6.14 VE 34a21d8 (head of the REL1_26 branch) Parsoid 8976ab9 (latest commit as of a week or so ago, I think) Thanks, James

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GSoC 2016
by Mehul Sawarkar 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

Hello, I am Mehul Sawarkar, a Computer Science student from India . I want to be part of wikimedia in GSoC 2016.Pplease help me getting started .Is there any small bug that I can fix? Thanks, Mehul Sawarkar.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2016
by Bahodir Mansurov 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

Hi and welcome, Here are some easy tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/169/ Baha On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:04:28 -0500, Mehul Sawarkar <mehulsawarkar(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am Mehul Sawarkar, a Computer Science student from India . I want to be > part of wikimedia in GSoC 2016.Pplease help me getting started .Is there > any small bug that I can fix? > > Thanks, > Mehul Sawarkar. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Baha

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OOjs UI 0.16.0 release (breaking change)
by James Forrester 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

Hey all, I released OOjs UI 0.16.0 today. It will be in MediaWiki core from 1.27.0-wmf.15 which will be deployed to Wikimedia production in the regular train, starting on Tuesday 1 March. As there are four breaking changes (albeit some nominal) please look carefully over them to determine if they affect your code. Breaking and deprecating changes since last release: - DraggableGroupElement: Add default implementation of re-order (Ed Sanders) This mixin previously wouldn't re-oder its own contents, which instead needed to be implemented (and duplicated) by each downstream. We now provide a basic reorder() method, so that this is no longer needed. Widgets with more complex requirements can over-ride the method. The events which we previously emitted for downstream widgets to implement this themselves are still emitted but are deprecated and will be removed. The only known users of this are in Editing's own VisualEditor-MediaWiki and TemplateData, both of which we shall fix. - SelectFileWidget: Remove deprecated config 'dragDropUI' (Prateek Saxena) This option had been deprecated some time ago, in v0.12.7, but we (I) clearly forgot to remove it. :-) Prateek noticed this whilst doing wider clean-up for this widget, and so we're now (finally) removing it. This option has not been used by anyone since August last year, as far as we know. - MenuOptionsWidgets: Drop jQuery autoEllipsis support (Bartosz Dziewoński) This feature was very expensive in terms of both execution performance and in resource terms, and was only used as far as we know inside VisualEditor. Thus we have killed this feature, which only provided the option to add '…' inside labels rather than at their end when they didn't fit inside the menu. Thus we no longer support the 'autoFitLabel' configuration option, and the getLabel() call is now deprecated. - Element#scrollIntoView: Replace callback with promise (Ed Sanders) Having a callback for scrollIntoView was out of keeping with the architecture of the rest of the library, so we deprecated it with a returned promise which does the same. - Remove 'noimages' distribution (Bartosz Dziewoński) As part of our on-going work to slim down the library for wider usage, during the 0.15.x series of release we (mostly MatmaRex) split out the core parts in to a 'core' distribution, with the rest of the library's components available in other distributions. These changes removed the justification for retaining our 'noimages' distribution of the library without the images, as it was only of use to MediaWiki, which no longer needs it. This, this is only nominally a breaking change in the names of files to be loaded by downstream environments which should not have any effect on developers or end-users. - Require PHP 5.5.9+; drop old array syntax (James D. Forrester) We have simplified our server-side code, as we now require PHP version 5.5.9, or higher, for the execution environment. This change was done following that by MediaWiki, dropping of support for PHP 5.3.x, as the only significant user of the library. This is thus a nominal breaking change in the environments we support, which should not have any effect on developers or end-users. Additional details are in the full changelog[0]. If you have any further queries or need help dealing with deprecations, please let me know. As always, a general set of library documentation is available on mediawiki.org[1], and there is some comprehensive generated code-level documentation and interactive demos hosted on doc.wikimedia.org[2]. [0] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md [1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI [2] - https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/ J. -- James D. Forrester Lead Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester

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Issue with separate webserver port for Parsoid
by James Montalvo 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

The mw:Parsoid/Troubleshooting page ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Troubleshooting) says the following: > If your MediaWiki runs via SSL, make sure that your Parsoid server can access your MediaWiki without certificate errors. In other words; make sure that the certificate is valid and added to the certificate storage on your Parsoid-running system. Alternatively and similarly, you can set up your webserver to listen on another port, that is not open on your firewall, thus it can be standard http without SSL, therefore be accessed by Parsoid. I chose option two, using a separate port. My relevant Apache config is below: # standard https entry Listen 443 <VirtualHost *:443> SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /path/to/cert.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/key.key <Directory /opt/meza/htdocs> AllowOverride All Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Require all granted Options All -Indexes </Directory> DocumentRoot /opt/meza/htdocs ServerName Meza </VirtualHost> # parsoid entry (port 9000 not open in firewall) Listen 9000 <VirtualHost *:9000> <Directory /opt/meza/htdocs> AllowOverride All Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Require all granted Options All -Indexes </Directory> DocumentRoot /opt/meza/htdocs ServerName MezaParsoidEntryPoint </VirtualHost> Parsoid and VisualEditor are working great with this setup for everything except images. When I first add an image (VE --> Insert --> Media) it works as expected. The image displays and is configurable. When I save the page everything functions properly. However, when I click edit again the image does not show. Shortly thereafter the request for the image times out and I get the following error in the browser console: GET http://<my-domain>:9000/bme/img_auth.php/thumb/6/66/BME_sign.jpg/400px-BME_sign.jpg net::ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT Note that it's attempting to load the image over port 9000, not 443. Is there a way to tell images to load over the standard entry point? Thanks, James

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setting $wgDefaultUserOptions['language'] = 'de'; fails
by planetenxin 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

Hi, for technical reasons (Semantic), I need to set a wiki's (1.25.x) $wgLanguageCode to English but want to have the user's default language set to German. $wgLanguageCode = 'en'; $wgDefaultUserOptions['language'] = 'de'; The $wgDefaultUserOptions['language'] = 'de'; seems to be ignored. New users still get default 'en'. Did I miss something? Many thanks,

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New PHP profiling tool available on WMF cluster
by Ori Livneh 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

Hello, I set up XHGui on the Wikimedia Foundation's production cluster: https://performance.wikimedia.org/xhgui/ XHGui is a web application for browsing and analyzing PHP profiling data collected via the XHProf hierarchical profiler. It's now available on the Wikimedia Foundation's production cluster: https://performance.wikimedia.org/xhgui/ You can see an example of a profiled request here: https://performance.wikimedia.org/xhgui/run/view?id=56ca93be7ed6ccf971b5b693 I set things up so all requests which bear the X-Wikimedia-Debug header (see <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/X-Wikimedia-Debug>) are profiled and entered into XHGui's database. Anyone can use this setup to profile requests and view profiling data, but for the moment POSTing to XHGui (to add function watches, create custom views, etc.) requires WMF staff or NDA LDAP credentials. Note that cookie, client IP, form data, and all query parameters except 'action', are stripped from requests. Also note that the app server that handles X-Wikimedia-Debug requests is configured to process messages in all log channels, which grossly inflates the runtime of log-processing functions.

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