Wikitech-l March 2016

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Improving Wikimedia's Code Review process
by Andre Klapper 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Hey everybody! At the Wikimedia Developer Summit there was a session about "Making Code Review not suck" [1]. The outcome are Phabricator (sub)tasks of the task "Define potential actions to reduce code review queues and waiting times" in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101686 The following potential actions items have been identified: * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129842 : Decide whether to have a "Code Review" committee / working group * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129067 : Agree on and document a structured, standardized approach for reviewing code contributions * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129068 : Improve code contribution guidelines for patch authors * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128370 : Update ownership list on [[mw:Developers/Maintainers]] * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128371 : Set up Code Review office hours * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128372 : Document use of Owners in Phabricator and advertise it * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115852 : Fix unclear maintenance responsibilities for some parts of MediaWiki core repository Discussion on each of those proposals is welcomed in the corresponding tasks! Thanks, andre [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114419 -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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Applications open for WikiCite (Berlin, May 25-26, 2016)
by Dario Taraborelli 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Citations and references are the building blocks of Wikimedia projects. However, as of today, they are still treated as second-class citizens. Structured data bases such as Wikidata offer a unique opportunity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData> to turn into reality over a decade of endeavors to build the sum of all citations and bibliographic metadata into a centralized repository. To coordinate upcoming work in this space, we're organizing a technical event in late May and opening up applications for prospective participants. *WikiCite 2016 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016>* is a hands-on event focused on designing data models and technology to *improve the coverage, quality, standards-compliance and machine-readability of citations and source metadata in Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects*. Our goal, in particular, is to define a technical roadmap for building a repository of all Wikimedia references in Wikidata. We are bringing together Wikidatans, Wikipedians, software engineers, data modelers, and information and library science experts from organizations including *Crossref*, *Zotero*, *CSL*, *ContentMine*, *Google*, *Datacite*, *NISO*, *OCLC* and the *NIH*. We are also inviting academic researchers with experience working with Wikipedia's citations and bibliographic data. WikiCite will be hosted in *Berlin* on *May 25-26, 2016*. Participation to the event is capped at about 50 participants and we expect to have a number of open slots for applicants: - if you were pre-invited and have already filled in a form, you will receive a separate note from the organizers - if you have not been invited but you would like to participate, please fill in this application form <http://goo.gl/forms/Yv6rve2wCt> to give us some information about you and your interest and expected contribution to the event. Please help us pass this on to anyone who has done important technical work on Wikimedia references and citations. *Important dates* - *March 29, 2016*: applications open - *April 11, 2016*: applications close - *April 15, 2016*: notifications of acceptance are issued (if you applied for a travel grant, we'll be able to confirm by this date if we can cover the costs of your trip) For any question, you can contact the organizing committee: wikicite(a)wikimedia.org The organizers, Dario Taraborelli Jonathan Dugan Lydia Pintcher Daniel Mietchen Cameron Neylon *Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>

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How to make a good MediaWiki distribution?
by Robert Vogel 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Hello everybody. I've opened up a task on phabricator (T130812) about the question of how to make a good MediaWiki distribution. And I'd like to ask anyone interested in this topic for thoughts, suggestions and advice. Your help is highly appreciated. Details can be found on the task page [1]. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130812 -- Robert Vogel

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(no subject)
by イノウエナオキ 27 Mar '16

27 Mar '16

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Wikitech two-factor authentication
by Chris Steipp 26 Mar '16

26 Mar '16

Hi all, tl,dr; if you enabled two-factor authentication on your wikitech.wikimedia.org account this past week (since 23 March, 22:03 UTC), the second factor may have been removed, and you should re-enable it. The long version: Several users in the past few days reported that they had 2FA required for their wikitech account, but had not enabled it. This was my fault-- we converted the database token format and didn't account for users who had previously clicked on the "enable two-factor authentication" but never finish the enabling process. These users (about 400, as best as we can tell) were unfortunately locked out of their accounts as a result, after we updated the token format. I've disabled 2FA for accounts that looked like they were affected by our update. Unfortunately, this may have disabled 2FA for users who recently enabled 2FA also. So if you enabled 2FA on your account this past week, you may need to re-enable it-- please login to wikitech and verify that 2FA is still enabled for you account. Apologies to everyone affected. Chris

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Hackathon buddy familiar with page content type stuff needed
by Danny B. 25 Mar '16

25 Mar '16

Hello, we're looking for a buddy to help / guidance with page-content-type handling extension at Jerusalem Hackathon. If you are familiar with it, but not coming to the hackathon, please let me know as well. Feel free to reply to me directly to not pollute the list. Thanks for help. Kind regards Danny B. [[meta:User:Danny B.]]

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Reading Team Q4 (April-Jun) Goals
by Jon Katz 25 Mar '16

25 Mar '16

Hi Folks, The Reading team's Q4 goals for 2015-16 are posted on Media Wiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Readi…. We arrived at these goals by taking the results of the Q4 brainstorming <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Quarterly_planning/Q4> and matching them against our strategy, speed and strengths. Below is a summary of what we aim to do in the April-June Quarter with more context than what you see on our goals page. You will notice a lot of cross-platform migration. That is no accident: we learn faster by launching on one platform and then migrating the idea to others. The goals are broken out by team or strategic theme. *Community Tech: Community Wishlist items* Ship features and fixes related to three wishes in the Wishlist Survey top 10 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey#The_top_10_w…> *Infrastructure: two-factor authentication*The infrastructure team will enable two-factor authentication <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_authentication> via AuthManager on the Wikimedia cluster. The goal here is to add another layer of security for accounts with important privileges. *New Readers (was: "reach new users in the global south")* *Web: decrease load time and cost for low-resource environments on mobile*This will be accomplished through lazy loading <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_loading> of images, and cutting default html size. This is in beta mobile channel by the end of this quarter and we plan to measure results and roll out to all users over the course of Q4. *Make a better encyclopedia experience* *Web: hovercards*Specifically, enable hovercards <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards> as default for logged-out desktop users on more than one wiki (this one is dependent on community approval). Hovercards represent a faster way of browsing Wikipedia that most readers prefer (as indicated by this survey <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards#Qualtrics_Survey_Re…>). It has been in beta for more than a year and the mobile version was recently launched to all users on our Android app. This is not as simple as turning on a switch, there are several improvements that will have to be made. One reason we are launching this is to clean up our beta site before picking up any new work. This is arguably "New Readers" as well, due to the performance gains from loading fewer pages. A community initiated proposal is being discussed to enable this on English Wikipedia. Please chime in! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Proposal:_… *Android: launch the feed*This quarter, the iOS team launched a feed on the app home screen and it looks great and early results suggest users are responding well to it. The goal is to drive user retention by giving readers a reason to open up Wikipedia even if they don't have a specific query in mind. The Android team will also be implementing backend services to support the feed across platforms. *iOS: Universal links*"Universal Links" (aka deep links) provide convenient re-entry to the app from links and OS search, but do not advertise or promote the app. This is something that is already live on Android and partially supported on iOS. It allows users who prefer the app to open it from links or an OS query, since that is how most users get to Wikipedia. *A Community of Readers (interactive Wikipedia)* This is the third pillar that came out of our strategy process. No active development work is planned here. Future direction for this part of our strategy is currently being explored via a community consultation here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_Interaction_Consultation Your feedback or questions are welcome. Thanks, J

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Goals for for Fiscal Year 2015-16, Q4 (April–June)
by Wes Moran 25 Mar '16

25 Mar '16

Hello everyone, The goals for the Technology and Product teams have been posted on Mediawiki.org <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals> for FY2015-16, Q4 (April–June) [1] Please feel free to engage with the respective owners identified in each area for feedback or additional information. Also teams provide additional information on their respective Mediawiki.org pages as well. Thank you, Wes [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals

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2016-03-23 Scrum of Scrums notes
by Grace Gellerman 24 Mar '16

24 Mar '16

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-03-23 = *2016-03-2**3* = == Product == === Community Tech === * '''Blocking''': ** None * '''Blocked''': ** Waiting for jcrespo to do schema change for category sorting: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130692 * '''Updates''': ** Pageviews Analytics tool is feature complete ( http://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/), talking to communities about adding links to it ** Deadlink logging API is finished, adding integration to Cyberbot === Reading === ==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * *AuthManager is still coming!* (see three weeks ago for details) ** Behind schedule though, but we think we're about there on the core patches. * It looks like we're getting close on the load.php thing, too. ==== Mobile Content Service ==== * '''Updates''': ** Fixed issue with lead paragraph transformation https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T65874 ** Starting rollout of Mobile Content Service to Android production app this Thursday https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126934 ==== Android ==== * 2.1.143 beta published. Expected to be promoted to production soon. ==== iOS ==== * '''Updates''': ** 5.0.1 was released today - all bug fix updates ** Hockey app is currently much happier - less crashes * '''Upcoming''': ** Enabling handoff from Mac browser to iOS app and credentials sharing by updating a file on the server ** No time frame for next release (but expect it within 3 weeks) - currently deciding whether to do another bug fix or do 5.1 with features * '''Blocking''': ** Nothing ====Web==== =====Done===== * Lazy loaded images rolling to beta mobile web * Structured Language Overlay - trying to push it to 100% stable * Language Switcher button - beta for now * Lazy loading references =====Upcoming===== * Bug fixes and tweaks to the Language Overlay * Ship the language switcher * Semi-structured sprint === Editing === ==== Collaboration ==== * '''Blocking''': ** External store work * '''Blocked''': * '''Updates''': ** Working on support for Flow notifications being properly hidden on moderation ** Work on the Echo special page ** Changed MobileFrontend to reuse Echo code ** Working on Flow bug fixes ==== Language ==== * '''Blocking''': ** None * '''Blocked''': ** New MT deployments blocked due to https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/277463/ (WIP) * '''Updates''': ** Work on ContentTranslation continue. ==== Multimedia === * '''Blocking''': ** None * '''Blocked''': ** None * '''Updates''': ** UploadWizard fixes and performance stuff on the way, currently in the works ** ImageTweaks is slow going, currently there's a patch in core that it depends on, probably won't be moving as quickly as we thought ==== Parsing === * '''Blocking''': ** None? * '''Blocked''': ** None * '''Updates''': ** Somewhat of a lull in activity last couple weeks (with vacation, time off, 20% work) ** But, heads up for VE, CX, Flow, Reading teams about https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78676 -- been filing dependent tasks for various teams. Parsoid side of the work should mostly be ready for merge in 2-3 weeks. But, other dependent tasks need to be resolved, performance and client blockers will be considered before enabling this in production. ==== VisualEditor === * No update. == Advancement == === Fundraising Tech === * No blocking/blockers * DonationInterface mw1.27 tests are failing on some i18n core change, but they're no longer voting * Raft of CiviCRM enhancements to make logging more robust and enable reverting contact merges * Testing new Latin American payment methods in previously unpestered countries * Pondering how to make payments use a more recent version of mediawiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130658 * More DonationInterface refactoring == Technology == === Release Engineering === * '''Blocking''': ** ??? * '''Blocked''': ** None * '''Updates''': ** Reminder: Code freeze & Dallas switchover week of April 18 ** Trebuchet -> Scap migration! Get in touch if you need it *** There is a super secret irc channel on freenode, cryptically named #scap3 *** scap 3.1 should be deployed soon, now with moar git-fat support. This will unblock some services switching from Trebuchet to scap. === Research === ==== Research and Data ==== * '''Blocking''': ** none * '''Blocked''': ** ORES blocked on MW core code review *** https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ores_extension_blockers *** What is the normal workflow for getting code reviewed? **** typical turn-around time? **** documentation for engaging +2 people? * '''Updates''': ** ORES downtime over the weekend *** https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160319-Ores *** tl;dr pip doesn't remove old versions when installing new wheels === Security === * '''Blocking''': ** ??? * '''Blocked''': ** ??? * '''Updates''': ** 2FA updates for wikitech today. 2FA available on SUL wikis to Staff next week. === Services === * '''Blocking''': ** none * '''Blocked''': ** Ops: change-prop deploy - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128463 * '''Updates''': ** RESTBase to start redirecting non-normalised titles and commons URLs ** DC switch-over for RESTBase && node services successful - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127974 ** Mathoid and RESTBase now support PNG generation ** Scap3: should have a guide soon for node.js services === Technical Operations === * '''Blocking''': ** Services on changepropagation deploy https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128463 * '''Blocked''': ** none * '''Updates''': ** All the rdb100* hosts (Redis Job Queue) have been re-imaged with Debian. ** ORES database hosts ready, looking for some help with scap3 and ORES ==== Discovery ==== * '''Blocking''': ** none * '''Blocked''': ** Ops: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127014 ** Security review: SVG sanitizer for graphs - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125382 * '''Updates''': ** ZRR down following completion suggester deployment: http://discovery.wmflabs.org/metrics/#failure_suggestions ** Working on scoring improvement for search and suggester ** Working on connection pooling for ES ** Join #wikimedia-interactive for interactions about interactive content!

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Internship opening: product management at WMDE
by Pine W 24 Mar '16

24 Mar '16

Forwarding info about an opportunity to intern in product management with Wikidata and the good people at Wikimedia Deutschland. Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Lydia Pintscher" <Lydia.Pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> Date: Mar 24, 2016 07:24 Subject: [Wikidata] internship opening: product management at WMDE To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." < wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Hey folks :) I am looking for someone to support me me with my product management work at WMDE as an intern. If you'd love to work with me and the rest of the team, love Wikidata and want to learn, this might be the thing for you. More details are here: https://wikimedia.de/wiki/Internship_Product_Management Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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