Wikitech-l March 2016

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Interest in contributing to Wikimedia Foundation
by Amate Yolande 05 Mar '16

05 Mar '16

Hello, My name is Yolande Amate from the University of Buea Cameroon. I am proficient in C, C++, PHP and Python. I am new to open-source and I would like to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2016 / Outreachy Round 12 with the Wikimedia Foundation. I am interested in working on the project "Python library for quiz data, with serialisation". Thanks Yolande

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Brownbag: Exiting New Improvements to Phabricator
by David Strine 05 Mar '16

05 Mar '16

There will be a brown bag Tuesday, March 1st at 1pm Pacific time. We will review some new changes to Phabricator. Many of these changes will be relevant specifically to advanced users. We will review: - where Phabricator administration conversations are happening - the custom forms feature - the updates to projects, sub-projects and milestones - other smaller changes We should have plenty of time for Q&A Blue jeans link [1] The Blue Jeans video will be recorded. The recording and slide deck will be posted to the Phabricator mediawiki pages [2]. [1] https://bluejeans.com/105994346 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator

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New maintenance window Mar 4 1 - 4 pm UTC (was Re: dataset1001 (dumps.wikimedia.org) maintenance window March 2 1-4pm UTC)
by Ariel Glenn WMF 04 Mar '16

04 Mar '16

Fallback is: cable up the old 1GB nic (Chris has done this and set up the port), PXE install on that, move to 10gb NIC once we're back up. Gross but it gets the job done. Set for tomorrow (Friday) 1 to 4 pm UTC, this time should be much smoother. Same caveats apply as before. Ariel On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF <ariel(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > PXE boot from non-embedded nic failed spectacularly despite our best > efforts. This means we'll have to schedule another window once we have > someting new to try. I apologize for the extra inconvenience. All services > are back exactly the way they were. > > Ariel > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 6:01 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF <ariel(a)wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Extending this downtime window because we ran into unexpected issues with >> PXE boot. >> >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF <ariel(a)wikimedia.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Dataset1001, the host which serves dumps and other datasets to the >>> public, as well as providing access to various datasets directly on >>> stats100x, will be unavailable tomorrow for an upgrade to jessie. While I >>> don't expect to need nearly 3 hours for the upgrade, better safe than >>> sorry. In the meantime all files will be accessible via >>> ms1001.wikimedia.org via the web, and all dumps and page view files >>> from our mirrors as well. >>> >>> Thanks for your understanding. >>> >>> Ariel Glenn >>> >>> >>> >> >

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Looking for more additions to SWAT (deploy) team
by Greg Grossmeier 04 Mar '16

04 Mar '16

As you know, one of the quickest ways of getting your fix backported to production (from master) is to use a SWAT window: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWAT_deploys And now, I ask for new volunteers! Would you like to help make developers happy and be a part of the crew of people who deploy during these windows? Of course you would! These happen twice a day every work day (except Friday, naturally) at 8:00 SF (16:00 UTC currently) and 16:00 SF (00:00 UTC). We're open to both those already familiar with deploying to Wikimedia servers and those who are not; we're friendly and willing to teach :) Requirements are: * A shell account on production ** See: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_shell_access * Availability during one of the two windows on a regular basis * A willingness to learn and being comfortable with asking for help/advice when you aren't sure, especially when you aren't sure what a particular patch will actually do in production. What you'll get: * Fancy access to deploy to "A Top 10 Web Property"(TM)(C) * Support from current SWATers to get started * A t-shirt and/or sticker if you end up breaking, AND FIXING, production Let me know if you're interested! Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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IEG proposal: Improve Upload to Commons Android app
by Josephine Lim 04 Mar '16

04 Mar '16

Hi folks, I've been working on the Upload to Commons Android app[1] for the past few months as an Outreachy project (which was recently completed successfully[2] :)). A few changes were made to the app to make categorization of pictures easier, via suggestion of nearby categories and more flexible category search. However, there are lots of improvements (documented on our GitHub page[3]) that we couldn't fit into the scope of the Outreachy project. I would love to be able to continue working on the app to improve it further - hence an IEG proposal. My IEG proposal for the app involves: - Fixing long-standing bugs and looking into old crash reports to try and prevent them from recurring, to provide a smoother user experience - Making several enhancements to the app to make it more user-friendly and newbie-friendly, new location-based features (e.g. a list of nearby articles lacking pictures), and further enhancing categorization. - Increasing awareness of non-Wikimedians about this app to grow the contributor base Several of the proposed features are based on previous suggestions by users, and I would very much appreciate more feedback and suggestions! If you are interested, please do take a look at the current proposal[4], feel free to ask questions and make new suggestions on the Discussion page, and review it as you see fit. If you would like to be part of the project, volunteers and additional advisors are always welcome. Thank you so much! [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126848 [3] https://github.com/nicolas-raoul/apps-android-commons/issues [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Improve_%27Upload_to_Commons%27_… -- Regards, Josephine

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Wikimedia accepted for GSoC '16
by Sumit Asthana 03 Mar '16

03 Mar '16

Greetings, Congratulations to all. Yet again, Wikimedia has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code program. The two programs GSoC '16 and Outreachy 12 are now in full swing and we require your support to make them successful! The timeline for GSoC '16 is [1]. We have a lot of project ideas in the Possible-Tech-Projects board[2], where students can look for projects. Some of them are already featured, while a lot more *require your love*. Feel free to add yourself as a mentor if you think you could help move any of the projects forward, especially in the "*Discussion*" and "*Missing mentors*" column. A lot of projects in the "*Missing mentors*" column have also been recently added, which are Community wishlist items, and stand a good chance of being featured. Enlisting some of the more discussed projects here - 1. Technology to transclude git content into Wiki pages - [3] 2. Improving static analysis tool for MediaWiki.[4] 3. Make the education program dashboard usable for all languages and projects.[5] Comments are *most welcome* in shaping these ideas into featured projects. Also, if you know of other projects/ideas which could be a good fit for a 3 month GSoC/Outreachy internship, just add #possible-tech-projects to them and we'll help in defining its scope. More info can be found out at the MediaWiki page for GSoC '16[6] Lets collaborate and help students turn some *ideas into reality*! [1] - https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline [2] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/ [3] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91626 [4] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89682 [5] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91676 [6] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016 -Thank You! -Sumit -Co-organizer of GSoC '16 and Outreachy 12 alongwith Tony Thomas

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Developer Relations Weekly Summary
by Quim Gil 03 Mar '16

03 Mar '16

The new Developer Relations Weekly Summary can be found at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary#2016-03-03 We have been focusing on * Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 travel and accommodation. * WikiArabia - technical sessions and Wikimedia Technical Workshop in Ramallah * Improvements in tech community metrics * Technical Collaboration's team strategy and Annual Plan -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Node.js services on SCB switched to Node 4.3
by Marko Obrovac 03 Mar '16

03 Mar '16

Hello, We have updated the nodejs package version from 4.2.4 to 4.3.0 on the SCB service cluster running in production. The services running there have been restarted and tested. I have also taken the liberty to update the build portion of the package.json's in the source repositories so that the respective build systems create node dependencies compiled with the correct version of the node binary. The affected services and their respective patch-sets are: - citoid: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/274688/ - cxserver: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/274685/ - graphoid: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/274687/ - mathoid: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/274684/ - mobileapps: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/274689/ Note that because of these changes, the next time you build the deploy repository it will take a while longer since the new version of Node.js needs to be downloaded and configured in the service's container image. The good news is that you don't have to do anything but wait a bit :) Thanks to Moritz Mühlenhoff from Ops for making this happen! Cheers, Marko -- Marko Obrovac, PhD Senior Services Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

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limited presence
by Derk-Jan Hartman 03 Mar '16

03 Mar '16

Hi all, ive had a small accident with skiing. ill be fine, but because of it my participation will be low for some while and though i am reading along with some things, any answers will like be terse, and code will be none. DJ

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Looking for more additions to SWAT (deploy) team
by Greg Grossmeier 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

<quote name="Madhumitha Viswanathan" date="2016-03-02" time="14:34:25 -0800"> > I'd love to help if you're looking for more people! Yay! (follow-up offlist...) -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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