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Fwd: [Wmfall] February 2016 Lightning Talks
by Megan Neisler 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Megan Neisler <mneisler(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [Wmfall] February 2016 Lightning Talks To: "Staff (All)" <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Engineering list < engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Kevin Leduc <kevin(a)wikimedia.org> Hi everyone, Just a reminder that the February Lightning Talks <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#February_2016> start in *25 minutes.* Come join us in the 5th Floor Collab Space or follow along here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3fyCgBWvFc IRC: #wikimedia-tech Hope to see you there! Megan On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Kevin Leduc <kevin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > > The next Lightning Talks are scheduled for February 16th (two weeks from > today). We hope at least 4 people will sign up for the talks by Friday > February 12th otherwise we will postpone them another month. Lightning > Talks are an opportunity for teams @ WMF & in the Community to showcase > something they have achieved: a quarterly goal, milestone, release, or > anything of significance to the rest of the foundation and the movement as > a whole. > > > Each presentation will be 10 minutes or less including time for questions. > > Sign up here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#February_2016 > > > Next round of Lightning Talks: > > When: Tuesday February 16, 1900 UTC > <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Lightning+Talks&is…>, > 11am PST (We have added this Lightning Talk to the WMF Engineering, Fun & > Learning, and Staff calendars) > > Where: 5th Floor > > Remotees: On-Air google hangout will be provided just before the meeting > > IRC: #wikimedia-tech > > YouTube stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3fyCgBWvFc > > > Thanks! > > Kevin Leduc, Megan Neisler, Brendan Campbell > > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > > -- Megan Neisler Project Coordinator- Engineering Wikimedia Foundation mneisler(a)wikimedia.org <mguss(a)wikimedia.org> -- Megan Neisler Project Coordinator- Engineering Wikimedia Foundation mneisler(a)wikimedia.org <mguss(a)wikimedia.org>

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ImageTweaks demo now on display at Wikimedia Labs
by Mark Holmquist 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

Hi Multimedia enthusiasts, Commonists, and Wikitechers, The Multimedia team has been hard at work building a new extension for editing images on-wiki, and we believe we now have a workable demo running on Labs! You can find it on our Multimedia Alpha Wiki[0], where there are also instructions for testing. Note that we have a list of known bugs and failings on that wiki, and we are working on getting those fixed before we push the extension into any kind of deployment - our next steps will likely be to put it on test2wiki, then to push a BetaFeature to Commons if all goes well. We will keep you updated with the status of the project as we progress. If you find more bugs, or have concerns about this extension, you can share them on the Village Pump[1]. You can also file a Phabricator task against ImageTweaks[2] if you prefer to be in more direct contact with the team about a technical issue. Thanks for helping us test new stuff, and I look forward to getting this great tool out to you soon! [0] http://multimedia-alpha.wmflabs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#ImageTweaks_extensi… [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=ImageTwea… -- Mark Holmquist Lead Engineer Multimedia Team Wikimedia Foundation http://marktraceur.info

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Analysis and Concepts
by Derk-Jan Hartman 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

I've been doing a lot of thinking about products that have been built in the past years, discussions that we are having about current developments and about future projects. And I noticed that I really needed to put some of that down somewhere public. So I have created the following: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Interface/Analysis A place to analyse things we have right now, both in software, content and process. To figure out why they are how they are, what they mean, break them down into parts. Knowing things like this will help us build better products. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Interface/Concepts A place where I want to log some product ideas that I have been considering for a while. These places are meant to inspire discussion, strategy, design, as well as document. Additionally, I would like to point out that Risker has been writing down a checklist for products from her perspective, which I think is a great idea and welcome more people to do. Hopefully, such checklists can be consolidated into a more 'formalized' standard (a bit like we also have code conventions) eventually to be used for the WMF product development process <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_product_development_process>. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Risker/Risker%27s_checklist_for_content-… DJ

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Fwd: Fwd: February 2016 Lightning Talks
by Pine W 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

(cross-posting) Reminder that these lightning talks are happening tomorrow, Tuesday February 16, at 1900 UTC / 11:00 AM Pacific. Because there are 3 presenters and a 1-hour block of time, each presenter has about 15 minutes including time for questions. We might finish early. On the agenda: * Pine: "LearnWIki" Instructional video series on Wikipedia mechanics (Including VE and citoid) and community practices <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_vid…> * Madhu Viswanathan: "Counting unique devices accessing Wikipedia projects using Last access method" * Rosemary Rein: "Program Capacity and Learning-Building a Roadmap Together" <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Program_Capacity_and_Learning_Roadm…> Hope to see you there! Pine On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 5:47 PM, Kevin Leduc <kevin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Thanks for forwarding Pine! I welcome any 10 minute talks from GLAM and > Education as well. If you add your name to the list [1], email me as well > so I can contact you and forward notes for Lightning Talk speakers. > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#February_2016 > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Boldly forwarding* in case others would like to view or present a >> lightning talk. I plan to give a lightning talk about the video series >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_vid…> >> which I'm in the process of producing with the support of an individual >> engagement grant. >> >> Although these talks can be about technical topics like video formats, I >> think that there are education and GLAM activities that could fit under the >> umbrella as well, especially if they have technical or research aspects. >> For example, I'll probably focus much of my presentation on my background >> research and project design process. >> >> Hope to see you there! >> Pine >> >> * To boldly forward where no one has forwarded before >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Kevin Leduc <kevin(a)wikimedia.org> >> Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:23 PM >> Subject: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: February 2016 Lightning Talks >> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Kevin Leduc <kevin(a)wikimedia.org> >> Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:22 PM >> Subject: February 2016 Lightning Talks >> To: "Staff (All)" <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org> >> >> >> Hi All, >> >> >> The next Lightning Talks are scheduled for February 16th (two weeks from >> today). We hope at least 4 people will sign up for the talks by Friday >> February 12th otherwise we will postpone them another month. Lightning >> Talks are an opportunity for teams @ WMF & in the Community to showcase >> something they have achieved: a quarterly goal, milestone, release, or >> anything of significance to the rest of the foundation and the movement as >> a whole. >> >> >> Each presentation will be 10 minutes or less including time for questions. >> >> Sign up here: >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#February_2016 >> >> >> Next round of Lightning Talks: >> >> When: Tuesday February 16, 1900 UTC >> < >> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Lightning+Talks&is… >> >, >> 11am PST (We have added this Lightning Talk to the WMF Engineering, Fun & >> Learning, and Staff calendars) >> >> Where: 5th Floor >> >> Remotees: On-Air google hangout will be provided just before the meeting >> >> IRC: #wikimedia-tech >> >> YouTube stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3fyCgBWvFc >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> Kevin Leduc, Megan Neisler, Brendan Campbell >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> >

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Very short phabricator maintenance today
by Mukunda Modell 15 Feb '16

15 Feb '16

Puppet has been disabled on iridium (The server hosting phabricator.wikimedia.org) for some time now due to broken deployment configuration. We (Myself and Ariel) are going to attempt to re-enable puppet today at 20:00 UTC (Noon, Pacific), taking advantage of the lower than normal level of activity on Phabricator due to the US Holiday. There shouldn't be any noticeable downtime, however, phabricator might respond with 5xx errors or become unresponsive for a short time around 20:10. Maintenance should be finished before 20:30. I apologize for the short notice, this should have been sent out on Friday. Although I do not expect this to cause any issues, please do let me know if you notice any new issues after the maintenance is complete.

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Annual plan for developer events
by Quim Gil 15 Feb '16

15 Feb '16

Hi, we need to define our ask for WMF developer events in the next fiscal year. This includes the future of the Wikimedia Developer Summit. If you are interested in this topic, please check https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126972 -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Windows Single Sign-On Extension
by François St-Arnaud 15 Feb '16

15 Feb '16

Hello, To enable Single Sign-On to a MediaWiki hosted on IIS in a Windows Domain, the best MediaWiki extension I could find was NTLMActiveDirectory. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NTLMActiveDirectory However, I had two peeves with this extension: 1) Its name; I'm not doing NTLM, but Negotiate and Kerberos; and 2) Its use of LDAP; feels too much like a wart on Windows! See, I'm sitting on an IIS box on a Windows domain with Integrated Windows Authentication enabled. By the time the MW extension gets hit, IIS has already authenticated the user, so why not just leverage that instead? I therefore used NTLMActiveDirectory as a starting point, but threw out all the LDAP stuff and replaced it with a simple Web call to an IIS-hosted handler to get the AD group membership for the already authenticated user. Of NTLMActiveDirectory, I kept the AD / MW group mapping configuration required for authorization. Personally, I find this solution much simpler and intuitive for AD integration when hosting MW on a Windows/IIS box. Does this make sense to others in the community? Do others feel there was a need for a better AD integration extension? Would others in the community benefit from such an extension? If so, I would be happy to share my work, following instructions found here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_an_extension_for_deployment Regards, François

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Wikitech maintenance and CI downtime tomorrow, 2015-02-12 16:00 UTC
by Andrew Bogott 13 Feb '16

13 Feb '16

Executive summary: CI tests won't run for a while tomorrow. Also you won't be able to log into Wikitech. This will begin at 16:00 UTC (8:00 AM in California) and may take a couple of hours. Full story: As part of a long-overdue tech-debt payment[0], I'll be migrating all of the Labs project, membership and role data from ldap into mysql[1]. Keystone (the Labs Openstack authentication layer) will be shut off briefly, and subsequently will have incomplete data while things are gradually copied over from Ldap. At the same time, Alex will be rolling out a bunch of OpenStackManager patches[2] to cope with the new reality. I've tested these quite a lot, but no doubt there will be unexpected issues with such a big refactor. Existing, running labs and tools sessions should not be affected. New instance creation will be disabled for part of the window, which will prevent CI from starting new tests. Wikitech login will be disabled, and users will have to login afresh after logins are restored. There is, unfortunately, no user-facing improvement associated with this update. If all goes perfectly, Wikitech will be restored to its original state but be slightly slower. If, after the update, anyone encounters new Wikitech issues (and I emphasize the NEW), please open a phab ticket and inform me immediately. As always, in the worst case scenario you can refer to our doc site of last resort, https://wikitech-static.wikimedia.org -Andrew [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115029 [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Labs_keystone_roles [2] The patchset begins with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/252615/

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Looking for information about LUA loading/parsing
by Strainu 12 Feb '16

12 Feb '16

Hi, I plan to try and use a big (~67K entries) table as a "database" in a LUA script, with a basic lookup function. One call of the module would be well within the time and memory limits, but I'm worried for pages that might invoke the module several hundred times, so I did an experiment with only a single entry in the table and the results are encouraging: 1 call: Lua time usage 0.006/10.000 seconds Lua memory usage 513 KB/50 MB 10 calls: Lua time usage 0.010/10.000 seconds Lua memory usage 873 KB/50 MB 100 calls: Lua time usage 0.074/10.000 seconds Lua memory usage 1,35 MB/50 MB There are obviously some optimizations there and I would be curious what they are? Do you use some CoW or other trick to prevent loading that table 100 times? Do you have the loading/parsing process documented somewhere? Thanks, Strainu

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Developer Relations Weekly Summary
by Quim Gil 12 Feb '16

12 Feb '16

Developer Relations focus this week: * 2017 Wikimedia Hackathon: Looking for Proposals.[0] * Review Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 [1] travel sponsorship requests. * Wikimedia applications for Google Summer of Code 2016 [2] and Outreachy Round 12.[3] * Now Developer Relations is a subteam of Technical Collaboration,[4] see our quarterly goals,[5] annual plan [6] (WIP), strategy [7] (WIP), and planning process.[8] There is plenty more at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary#2016-02-12 [0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/85651 [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2016 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016 [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_12 [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Goals [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124420 [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Strategy [8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Relations/Planning -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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