Wikitech-l February 2016

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Scheduled database maintenance (9 Feb)
by Jaime Crespo 10 Feb '16

10 Feb '16

Between 23:00 and 23:59 UTC, February 9th 2016 there is a scheduled maintenance window that will affect some of the wikis hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The maintenance is needed in order to perform necessary hardware, operating system and database upgrades. During the upgrade, content on affected wikis will be available at all times, but edits may fail during approximately 5 minutes within that schedule (these wikis will be in "read only mode"). The following wikis will be affected: bg.wikipedia.org bg.wiktionary.org cs.wikipedia.org en.wikiquote.org en.wiktionary.org eo.wikipedia.org fi.wikipedia.org id.wikipedia.org it.wikipedia.org nl.wikipedia.org no.wikipedia.org pl.wikipedia.org pt.wikipedia.org sv.wikipedia.org th.wikipedia.org tr.wikipedia.org zh.wikipedia.org All other wikis will *not* be affected by this maintenance. I apologize in advance for this disruption and will try to minimize the duration of the maintenance work. I will update <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planned_Maintenance-February_9_2016> after the maintenance has finished. -- Jaime Crespo <http://wikimedia.org>

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FOSDEM presentation (Converting LQT to Flow)
by Matthew Flaschen 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

I've uploaded my slides for my FOSDEM 2016 presentation (Converting LiquidThreads to Flow: Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the batch) to Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Converting_LQT_to_Flow_FOSDEM_2016.… Matt Flaschen

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Splitting out GUI repo for WDQS
by Stas Malyshev 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

Hi! OK, GUI files moved to wikidata/query/gui and patches now have to be submitted against it. I imagine it will also be easier to set up testing there given that it's no longer dragging unrelated Java module around. Please tell me if anything doesn't work. Thanks, -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org

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mediawiki +2 for Jan Zerebecki
by Jan Zerebecki 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

As is unwritten custom, I announce here on behalf of the Gerrit Administrators that per https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116506 Antoine "hashar" Musso gave Jan Zerebecki membership in the gerrit wikimedia group. Thx hashar. -- Regards, Jan Zerebecki

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2017 Wikimedia Hackathon: Looking for Proposals
by Rachel Farrand 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Hello! Is your organization interested in hosting and co-organizing the 2017 Wikimedia Hackathon? We are looking for proposals! There is a whole lot of new information available about hackathons, if you see anything missing or that needs to be clarified let me know. Specific to the 2017 Hackathon: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/2017_Decision_Process https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons#Hackathon_location_decision_proce… All Hackathons: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathon_101 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Hackathon_tips_for_organizers This year’s Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2016> will be held in Jerusalem in April. Ideally we will announce the host for 2017 before March 14th, 2016. If multiple chapters or organizations are interested, we hope to work together to figure out the the best solution. Any organizations interested in hosting should please create a Phabricator ticket and associate it with the Developer-Relations project. Example: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96826 Please include as much information as possible from: proposing a hackathon <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Proposing_a_hackathon> Please email me at rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org with any questions or concerns. I am not on the chapters@ list, so if there are any responses there please remember to keep me on CC. Looking forward to hearing from you!

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Tech Talk: A Hands-on Estimation Exercise, With Discussion: Feb 8th
by Rachel Farrand 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Please join for the following tech talk: *Tech Talk**:* A Hands-on Estimation Exercise, With Discussion *Presenter:* Joel Aufrecht *Date:* February 8th, 2016 *Time: *18:30 UTC <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+A+Han…> Link to live YouTube stream <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-zLwTez46M> *IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office *Summary: *Estimation is an unnatural activity for human brains, which tend to hide our own ignorance from us. This brown-bag begins with an exercise, adapted from Steve McConnell's software estimation training, in balancing accuracy with precision. The exercise is fully available to remotees. Facilitated discussion follows, on what we can learn from the exercise and on general estimation and forecasting topics as raised.

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GSoC'16 and Outreachy'12 is around the corner
by Tony Thomas 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Hello all, Google Summer of Code 2016 [1], and Outreachy'12 is closing in, and this year we have a few change in rules. We are lifting our intern participation limit of one GSoC/Outreachy with Wikimedia per student, from this year. This was discussed [2], and repeating configuration is expected to make sure continued work on ongoing projects, adding up to the goal of gathering in more long term contributors. Please note that a previous intern who had participated in one Outreachy project can still participate in 2 GSoC rounds with Wikimedia, but not three ( which would total 4 internships ). The change came after Google announced its new limitation of maximum 3 GSoC per student in one lifetime. We need to get all the previous interns and mentors back in action, and closely update the GSoC'16 board [3]. Find some interesting task that can be a possible tech project ? do update the Possible-Tech-Projects board [4]. Your thoughts are also welcome[5] on getting our previous interns+mentors back in action. [1] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline?hl=en [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124392 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/google-summer-of-code-2016/ [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/ [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125559 Thanks, Tony Thomas <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:01tonythomas> ThinkFOSS <http://www.thinkfoss.com> *"where there is a WiFi, there is a way"*

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Achievements in Wikimedia (6 months / Half year) anniversary
by Alangi Derick 06 Feb '16

06 Feb '16

Hi Everyone(Devs), Just want to share with you my achievements in WMF for the past 6 months i have been here. My stay here is so awesome that even myself is amazed about it, i have done so far the following things in this organisation and i really see it as a motivation to do more.. - Fixed more than(>) 20 bugs for the org in various extensions and in the mediawiki core(https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/owner:D3r1ck01+status:merged,n,z). - Mentored GCI #2016 that just ended some few weeks ago. - Authored one extension (Mailgun extension) for WM - Help in one way or the other to make sure that little problem on IRC are solved by new comers in the organisation and also doing the same thing to other new comers the way other great guys here did to me when i just came in. I feel so proud of myself and i want to do more and more contributions to the organisation. Please i will like you all to guide me so that i can stay on the right path and make the Foundation(movement) to be a better one. Your comments are highly appreciated. Thanks to all members of the WMF dev team :) Regards Alangi Derick Ndimnain

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Per-language URLs for multilingual wikis (RFC T114662)
by Daniel Kinzler 06 Feb '16

06 Feb '16

Hi all! During next Wednesday's RFC meeting on IRC, we are planning to discuss introducing "Per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis". This is an exploratory discussion, with no expectation of a final decision. We are looking for concerns and suggestions. If you care about improved support for multi-lingual wikis, please visit <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114662> and comment before next week's "live" meeting on IRC. And of yourse, join that meeting, if you like! Thanks, Daniel PS: Don't want to click the link? Let me copy&paste that for you... but please comment on phab rather than here. Context: Some wikis show page content depending on the user's interface language (for instance wikidata.org and commons.wikimedia.org, or other wikis using the Translate extension). All language versions (renderings) of a page are served from the same URL, which is problematic for web caching. This is the reason we currently do not allow anonymous users to change their interface language. This makes it hard for use multilingual wikis without logging in. See also for context: * {T114640} Proposal: * For multilingual wikis, the user language is part of the request path: e.g. we would use `/wiki-de/` instead of `/wiki/`. * The plain `/wiki/` path would act as a 302 redirect to the language specific path (based on the user's language, or a best guess or cookie as implemented by ULS) * When viewing a page via a language-specific path, all links on the page (both content and skin) point to pathes specific to that language. Both content and skin are shown in the user's ui language (as far as possible, using whatever mechanism for content translation or internationalization is available) * When viewing a page in a language different from the user's preferred language (according to user preferences or the cookie set by ULS), a warnign bar is shown at the top, giving the user the option to ## switch to the version in their own language (according to user preference) ## change their user language to the current page's language ## hide the bar for a while (a day, or the browser session, or so). Challanges: * Make the Linker class aware of the target language (probably needs a complete refactoring), so it generates links to the right path. * Make all code that generates links in the skin use the Linker class (directly, or via the Parser), so the path is consistent. * Allow efficient purging of the entire "bundle" of all the renderings of a given page when the page's content changes. * Should translated names for namespaces and special pages be supported on the language specific pathes? (would be nice, but tricky) * Provide a way to explicitly link to a specific language rendering from wikitext, e.g. `{{#link|Foo|lang=de-ch}}`

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Reading Q4 planning call for participation and updates
by Moushira Elamrawy 05 Feb '16

05 Feb '16

Dear all, Q4 planning is coming soon. Staff and community are invited to add their ideas and suggestions that align with the roadmap to the planning page here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Quarterly_planning/Q4 A brief summary for Reading team updates for the last quarter is also available here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Reading_team_updates_November_2015_-… Happy weekend everyone! M

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