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Docs, use of, and admin privileges for wikimedia github project?
by Brion Vibber 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

There seems to be extremely little documentation on Wikimedia's GitHub project https://github.com/wikimedia ... I can only find https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/GitHub which mostly says we mirror a bunch of stuff from gerrit. And I know we have continuous integration of some kind set up for some projects, but it doesn't seem to be well documented in a place I could find. There are also some repos that are mirrors of gerrit, and other repos that are primary repos, and it's a bit unclear what's what. More importantly, when folks have repos that they've been running on GitHub already and want to move into the wikimedia project (rather than switch to gerrit), what's the procedure? I'm an admin/owner so I can manually import people's repos but I'm not sure whether I'm supposed to... :) We also have a lot of admins, which I wonder is necessary: https://github.com/orgs/wikimedia/people?utf8=✓&query=role%3Aowner+ <https://github.com/orgs/wikimedia/people?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=role%3Aowner+> Do we do any security review / removal of old accounts, or have a procedure for adding new admins? -- brion

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Fwd: Texas Linux Fest 2016 CFP
by Quim Gil 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

Below there is an excerpt from one of the organizers of Texas Linux Fest. They are explicitly interested in Wikimedia participants / speakers. If you have a proposal for a session, please consider submitting it. Also remember that we have https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS for sponsoring travel costs in this type of situations. All the better if you are already in North America. :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Nate Willis here; amongst my other project pastimes, I'm one of the organizers of Texas Linux Fest, which is the leading community Linux-and-FOSS conference for Texas and the surrounding region. Our event is July 8th and 9th this year, in downtown Austin, TX. We'd really love it if folks from the WikiMedia project & surrounding community can be there—be they local or from out of town. I especially wanted to draw your attention to our call for participation. We're intent on attracting a wide variety of speakers representing open source and free software, both users and developers, from all corners. The details are here: http://2016.texaslinuxfest.org/call-for-papers and the deadline is approaching. Please consider submitting a talk proposal yourself, and we would doubly love it if you could help us spread the word by sharing the CFP with others in the community! If you have any questions, or if you want to know more about Texas Linux Fest this year or in general, please get in touch! Thanks, from me and on behalf of the entire TXLF 2016 team, Nate -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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ArchCom-RFC status update: 2016-04-27
by Rob Lanphier 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

Hi everyone, Below is the ArchCom-RFC status update for this week. This is copied from the notes for the ArchCom Planning Meeting, available at [[mw:Architecture_committee/2016-04-27]] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2016-04-27>. One update while I have your attention: on May 4, we plan to discuss T130528: RFC: PSR-6 Cache interface in Mediawiki core in the public IRC meeting next week. We discussed whether we should keep doing these updates in the ArchCom Planning meeting this week. I'd like to understand whether people find these useful. Feel free to discuss on this list, or (better) in reply to the on-wiki discussion here: [[mw:Talk:Architecture committee/Team practices]] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:T2zctt083izvx07l> Rob ---- RFC status update - Query for shepherd assignments <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/xc.j4DEYcjwu/#R> - Query for all ArchCom RFCs <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/search/query/lgPo47yENoTl/#R> - ArchCom-RfCs board <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/52/> Today's IRC session - April 27: Phab:E66/32 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E66/32> - T122942: RFC: Support language variants in the REST API <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122942> - Who is chairing this one? Tim today Queue for future RfC office hours - May 4: Phab:E66/33 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E66/33> - T130528: RFC: PSR-6 Cache interface in Mediawiki core <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130528> - Type of meeting: come to consensus. Daniel is on vacation for the May 4 meeting, though, so probably won't attend. Entering Final Comment Period Nothing currently slated to go into final comment. Under discussion - The inbox - T133462 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133462> standardize a way to make JS components be able to use different loaders - T133388 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133388> How to update JavaScript components - Around the table check-in with each of the ArchCom members - Absent: Brion, Roan, Timo - Daniel - Software Quality working group? - Working on Multi Content Rev Spec with Brion - Gabriel - T39902 RFC: Implement rendering of redlinks as post-processor <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T39902> (Gabriel): Solutions for highlighting links to non-existing pages in Parsoid HTML. Plan in place / agreed between Parsing and Services. Implementation in change propagation service under way. - T122942 RFC: Support language variants in the REST API <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122942> (Gabriel): Scheduled for office hour today. - T122825 Service ownership and minimum maintenance requirements <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122825> (Gabriel): Related mail discussion about OCG in the last days, exploring options for the way forward. - RobLa - ACTION (RobLa): clearer meeting agenda next week :-) - ACTION (RobLa): schedule an RFC triage meeting outside of ArchCom-RFC time - Tim - No update this week

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Videos from Jerusalem Hackathon & WikiArabia
by Pine W 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

Forwarding Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Brill Lyle" <wp.brilllyle(a)gmail.com> Date: Apr 28, 2016 11:14 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Videos from Jerusalem Hackathon & WikiArabia To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: In case you haven't seen these, the videos below were shared during today's WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting - April 2016. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_2016_Wikimedia_Hackathon_in_Jer… https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiArabia_tech_meetup_in_Ramallah_… Best, *Erika Herzog* Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle> Secretary, Wikimedia NYC <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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2016-04-27 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes
by Grace Gellerman 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27 Product[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ]Reading[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ]Reading Infrastructure[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ] - Merge of AuthManager pending security review (n.b., old code will become no-op upon feature flag enabled later on) Web[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ] - Pushed security fix for contributions page - Lazy loading references to beta. FYI for OPs: this may increase API requests to mobileview slightly let us know if you see anything problematic. Beta audience is small however so unlikely to be any impact. Android[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ] - *Blocking*: None - *Blocked*: - Question for Analytics: status of VCL pageview counting fix? - *Updates*: - Reading lists feature nearly finished; shooting for beta release by end of week. - Patch in review for compatibility with AuthManager login/account creation API changes. Will need updates when Captcha support lands. - Task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124229 - Patch: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/278035/ iOS[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ] - *Blocking*: None - *Blocked*: None - *Updates*: - 5.0.3 Code complete EOD April 26 - 5.0.3 Regression testing start and final extrernal beta release April 27 - 5.0.3 Expected release will be week of May 2 - 5.1 still in planning stage - expected to get scope defined next week - Expect to begin work on migrating to new Auth API after next week Mobile Content Service[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ] - Same as last week: planning for new feed related endpoints. Editing[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ]Collaboration[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ] - *Blocking*: - External store work. Now that data switchover is over, need to resync with Jaime. - *Blocked*: - Work on Flow dumps continuing; Ariel is working on this, and I don't think ops is waiting on us. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119511 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89398 . - *Updates*: - Continuing notification work on: - Special page released to explain how Notifications is configured: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration . There is also a related breaking change to a configuration variable. We took care of it for BounceHandler, which seemed to be the only affected WMF-deployed extension. But let me know if anything weird happens with notifications. - Moderation - Bundling refactoring - New MVC structure - Cross-wiki notifications coming by default in two weeks. - Added Vagrant roles for GlobalBlocking and TorBlock. Changed merged Monday to have GlobalBlocking return a Block object so the information is more machine-readable. Language[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ] - *Blocking*: None - *Blocked*: None - *Updates*: - Team offsite last week - cxserver service can read config from cxserver repo, so updating new languages/MT pairs are easier now. Parsing[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ] - Main update: Closer to being able to do visual diff testing with HTM5depurate (Tidy replacement). - OCG: Scott pushed a bunch of fixes y'day and might be pushing some more today. Time to reconnect with ops next week to reassess its status. Multimedia[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ] - No blockers, not blocking - Work on annotations and 3D, some upload dialog improvements coming. Fundraising Tech[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ] - looking at CentralNotice prod errors: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133765 - maybe a ResourceLoader issue? dependency ext.CentralNotice.display not being loaded, though it should be if there are any choices - deployment tooling - full-scale fundraising underway in new LATAM countries, fr-tech monitoring errors - migrating ActiveMQ-specific code to backend-agnostic wrapper - front-end work for upcoming Israel fundraising - enabled audit logging on one table in production CiviCRM, preparing to enable on all Technology[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ]Services[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ] - RESTBase serving redirects unless ?redirect=false is passed - rest.wikimedia.org is no more - Cassandra cluster expansion in eqiad done, codfw tbd soon-ish - use Scap3 - https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-April/085299.html - language: how are we doing with Apertium packages for Jessie? Release Engineering[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ] - Blocking: - Blocked: - Updates: - browsertest* jobs → selenium* jobs https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128190 Security[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ] - Reviews: AuthManager, json-schema, cross-wiki notifications, hovercards in progress - Release soon - Ops: ping to move T128819 forward? Technical Operations[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ] - *Blocking*: - None - *Blocked*: - None - *Updates*: - maps cluster updated to varnish 4 - maps varnish clusters (4x4 boxes) deployed - all eqiad core DBs upgraded to MariaDB 10.x Discovery[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ] - *Blocking*: none - *Blocked*: none - Preparing for ElasticSearch 2.0 migration - Deploying geospatial search for WDQS Interactive[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ] - *Blocked*: JSON schema validator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129426 - Thanks to ops, we now have 16 varnish servers. Analytics[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ] - Unique devices: - Lauched unique devices API, https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Unique_Devices#AQS_API <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Analytics/Unique_Devices&action…>, Easy way to get programmatics access to unique devices data - Soon to announce a javascript client for API, work done as of yesterday, working in visualizations - Pageview API: - A lot of operational unanticipated work with pageview API and replacement of nodes, chaging cassandra compaction strategy - Apps: - VCL changes for review regarding preview and pageview https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/285051/, doing audit found several values present on x-analytics not documented here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/X-Analytics#Keys <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=X-Analytics&action=edit&redlink…> - Piwik data collection still disabled for iOS - Misc: - Two team members at a conference this week, otto in SF - Need to announce wikistats hand off from erik zachte, waiting on creation of analytics.wikimedi.org domain Wikidata[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veac…> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&acti…> ] - Blockers: none. - Updates: Improving Wikidata Query Service UI. Fixing all the loose ends in Wikibase to get the MediaInfo prototype for Commons in shape.

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Planned downtime/maintenance for stat1001.eqiad.wmnet
by Luca Toscano 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

Hi all, as part of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76348 the Analytics team is going to re-image stat1001.wikimedia.org with Debian Jessie. The activity will start on Monday May 2nd at 14:00 PM CEST (UTC+2). Three major services will not be available during the downtime: - datasets.wikimedia.org - stats.wikimedia.org - metrics.wikimedia.org (also known as metrics.wmflabs.org) Notable consequences: - Datasets will not be available for download; - Dashboards using data from datasets.wikimedia.org (most dashboards) will not have data during this period; - Some html reports may not be available (examples: vital-signs.wmflabs.org, browser-reports.wmflabs.org, mobile-reportcard.wmflabs.org, ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/dashboards/enwiki-features, edit-analysis.wmflabs.org/compare) The downtime should last a maximum of four hours, but please refer to the aforementioned Phabricator task for up to date timings and information during the next days. A backup will be done before starting including all the home directories. For any issue or queries please reach out to the Analytics team mailing list or join the #wikimedia-analytics IRC channel on Freenode. Thanks! Regards, Luca

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Rob Lanphier appointed to the Architecture Committee
by Tim Starling 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

At the previous meeting of the MediaWiki Architecture Committee (April 20), the members present approved the appointment of Rob Lanphier to the committee. Rob was the main instigator in the formation of the committee in 2014. Lately he has been taking an active role, chairing the weekly meetings and writing the meeting agenda. In recognition of the excellent work he has been doing, and in the interests of transparency, we decided to formalise his membership. -- Tim Starling

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Security patch
by Jon Robson 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

A security vulnerability has been discovered in MediaWiki setups which use MobileFrontend. Revisions who's visibility had been alerted were showing up in parts of the mobile UI. All projects in the Wikimedia cluster have been since patched but if you use this extension please be sure to apply the fix. Patch file and issue are documented on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133700 Note there is some follow-up work to do which is tracked in: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133722

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Heads-up: "Write The Docs" conference in Sep 2016
by Andre Klapper 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

For those interested + working on Wikimedia documentation: There is a conf in Prague (Czech Rep) on Sep 18-20 "to explore the art and science of documentation" for "writers, developers, support folks". See http://www.writethedocs.org/conf/eu/2016 for more information. There is https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants which could be helpful when it comes to supporting travelling. I haven't attended the event myself but I've heard good stuff about it. :) Cheers, andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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ArchCom RFC update #6
by Rob Lanphier 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

Hi everyone, Here is the RFC status update from last week's ArchCom meeting (E165). This is pretty much what is posted on-wiki [1], where everything has links. Rob ---- ==== Today's IRC session ==== ** April 20 [[Phab:E66/31]] *** T91162: RFC: Shadow namespaces ==== Queue for future RfC office hours ==== ** April 27: [[Phab:E66/32]] *** T122942: RFC: Support language variants in the REST API ** May 4: [[Phab:E66/33]] *** T130528: RFC: PSR-6 Cache interface in Mediawiki core ==== Under discussion ==== :Daniel: [[Phab:T124752]] ::Let’s turn the “Changes Tags” refactoring proposed by [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/owner:cenarium.sysop%2540gmail.com+statu… Cenarium] into an RFC and get it unstuck. Chain of patches starts at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/201905/64; The patch refers to [[Phab:T91535]] but the topic is broader than that, and the ticket doesn’t fully describe the proposed solution. Needs work. : Tim: shepherding two for Parser. will pick another : Roan: [[Phab:T108655]] still need to split it so discussion can take place on part 2 ==== Other status ==== The "RFC inbox" was empty, nothing "Entering Final Comment Period", and we didn't discuss the "no activity" list [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2016-04-20#RFC_status…

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