Wikitech-l May 2016

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Wikimania Hackathon Registration Closing!
by Rachel Farrand 27 May '16

27 May '16

Hello Wikimedia Developers, We are quickly reaching capacity at the Esino Lario hackathon and will be closing registration for the hackathon next week on Tuesday, May 31. If you have not yet registered but plan on attending, now would be a good time to do so. Reminder: You need to register for BOTH the hackathon and the Wikimania main event if you are planning to attend both. We are not able to post a public list of everyone who has registered so please email the hackathon team: me, Nick & Simone (CCed) before Monday if you are unsure of your registration or have questions. More information about the event itself will go up on the event page linked below in the coming weeks and we will email all registered participants with further information as well. https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon Thanks! & See you in Italy! Rachel

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update: wikipedia.org portal
by Deborah Tankersley 26 May '16

26 May '16

Hello, The Discovery Team recently added descriptive text to the Wikipedia.org page footer in order to give visitors a better idea of what the sister wiki projects are really all about. Check it out at www.wikipedia.org or view a mobile screen capture here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Descriptive-text_sister_projects-wikipe…> . We also wrapped up a quick, one question survey that ran for a week on the portal to determine how visitors arrive at the page. The results showed that many of the visitors arrive by clicking on a bookmarked link or by typing in 'wikipedia' in their browser. We had many encouraging and uplifting comments as well - see the full results here <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Portal_Survey_-_May_2016.…> . In the coming weeks and months we'll be reaching out to many of those survey takers who graciously provided their name and email addresses to engage in deeper conversations on how they use the portal and Wikipedia in general. As always, more detailed information is available on wiki for the Wikipedia Portal <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal> and A/B testing <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal_A/B_testing>. On behalf of our happy little Wikipedia.org Portal team, Deb -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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Wikipedia.org article statistics updated
by Deborah Tankersley 26 May '16

26 May '16

Hello, Just a quick note: the Discovery Portal team updated the articles by language statistics on wikipedia.org this morning. I've attached a small screenshot to this email that displays the new numbers. Cheers, Deb -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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Wikimedia Git/Gerrit/Code Review technical documentation updates
by Andre Klapper 26 May '16

26 May '16

[For your info] I've spend some time in the last weeks rewriting and cleaning up our technical Git / Gerrit / Code Review documentation on mediawiki.org. 135 edits later, things feel a bit cleaner. :) === Changes === There is a central Git/Gerrit "Troubleshooting" page linked from the most relevant pages, instead of separate sections on three or four different pages which partially duplicated content (setting up Git and Gerrit on different operating systems had similar problems and missing central information). Some rather specific subpages were merged into existing pages (e.g. into "Gerrit/Advanced usage"). The entrance page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit has a "Prerequisites" section and the sections are now structured by usecase / type of user. Some "too much detail" content was also removed (like the history of the Git and Gerrit software; you can check Wikipedia as it's irrelevant if you want just to get your patch done). Full list of changes: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134256#2317711 === No changes === Some stuff I did not touch (as perfect is the enemy of good). For example, I'm still wondering about the role of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git_for_dummies compared to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Getting_started and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial . Plus I still consider the screenshots of command line text output distractive on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial . === Thank you === Thank you a lot to everybody who provided feedback, answers to my Gerrit questions, and helped editing those pages! === Next steps === After this technical documentation exercise, the next steps will focus on soft / social+organizational aspects of code review: * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129068 Improve code contribution guidelines for patch authors by fixing https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Code_review/Getting_reviews etc * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129067 Agree on + document a structured, standardized approach for reviewing code contributions by fixing https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Code_review etc. Needless to say, your help is very welcome. More information to come soon. Cheers, andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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FW: File with an unknown copyright status on MediaWiki.org
by Steinsplitter Wiki 26 May '16

26 May '16

Hello, I hope this is the right place to ask, if not please excuse. All files uploaded to MediaWiki.org must be available under a free license (no "fair use" or "noncommercial"). What we do with files with unclear copyright status (no license, no author, etc.) such as: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Scott_profile_pic.jpeg * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:EMWCon_Spring_2016_Mediawiki_in_the_Ent… * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:3d_extension_screenshot.png * a lot of other Nominating for deletion? Per the intro at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Upload such files must be deleted. We have {{Unknown copyright}} template, but it seems that nobody is working on it? Best, --Steinsplitter

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HTTPS only
by John 25 May '16

25 May '16

I am trying to double check my code and see if I have any remaining code using a non-secure connection. Do we have tools for assisting in this?

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Collaboration team scrum of scrums update
by Matthew Flaschen 25 May '16

25 May '16

====Collaboration==== * Blocking ** External Store work on Beta is back in our court. We'll resume soon. * Blocked ** We've asked for a schema change for new Echo functionality. Ops has started looking at this. * Updates ** Echo MVC refactoring merged ** Some deletion fixes to core and Flow

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ArchCom-RFC triage meeting later today (22:00 UTC/2pm PDT)
by Rob Lanphier 25 May '16

25 May '16

Hi everyone, We're planning on making today's RFC office hour[1] a triage meeting (at my request). The agenda I'm planning to use is to (reasonably) quickly step through the list of RFCs in the backlog column of the ArchCom-RFC board. A wiki copy of this is posted on mediawiki.org[3], which I invite edits to (albeit with the usual risk of edit conflicts). The goal of this meeting will be to get through as many of the RFCs, where I give a gut check for what the priority is, y'all tell me how wrong I am, and then I set the priority. For those of you that can't make it, don't sweat it. Nothing is set in stone; Phab tickets are easy enough to edit. Furthermore, I'd like to experiment with using a Phab Conpherence room for ongoing triage: Phab:Z425 [4]. Conpherence rooms are a bit more persistent than IRC conversations, are cognitively cheaper to set up and use than mailing lists, and they integrate nicely with Phab. If there's a comment about something we do in the E187 meeting that you wish you had been there to make, and you don't feel it's appropriate for a wikitech-l posting, the Z425 Conpherence room is a great place to make your comment. I'm looking forward to chatting with y'all! Rob [1] E187: RFC Meeting: triage meeting (2016-05-25, #wikimedia-office) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E187 [2] #ArchCom-RFC board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/archcom-rfc/ [3] Preliminary ordered list of items for triage: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_triage_2016-05-25 [4]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/Z425

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Upgrading HHVM to libicu52
by Giuseppe Lavagetto 25 May '16

25 May '16

Hi all, tomorrow, Thursday May 25th, I will be upgrading our HHVM servers to use a recent version of the ICU[1] library, a long-needed change that we are finally ready to perform: it allows us to stop maintaining an older version by ourselves, including having to patch it for any security issue. For details about the rationale and the long process involved, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86096 While the upgrade should be smooth, the ICU maintainers do not guarantee backward compatibility for collation, so to be sure that is addressed, we will need to run a maintenance script on all wikis that have $wgCategoryCollation set to anything including with 'uca', see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/OMWC/browse/master/wmf-config/I… Since this script takes quite a long time to run[2], there will be some user-facing effect, during the transition period, namely, citing what MatmaRex says on the ticket: "After ICU is upgraded, but before the updateCollation script finishes, articles newly added to categories may appear out-of-order on category listing pages. The headings on them might be wrong in funny ways, too. Nothing else should be affected." If no last-minute showstopper blocks the process, I will be starting the procedure around 8:00 UTC, and log in the SAL[3] every step of the process. Don't hesitate to contact me on IRC (#wikimedia-operations on freenode, user _joe_) if you see some strange behaviour. Thanks in advance for your patience Giuseppe [1] ICU stands for International Components for Unicode [2] It is actually much, much faster to run now than it ever was, thanks to the amaizing work others have done to improve it, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T58041 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130692 [3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Server_Admin_Log -- Giuseppe Lavagetto, Ph.d. Senior Technical Operations Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation

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FW: File with an unknown copyright status on MediaWiki.org
by Erica Litrenta 25 May '16

25 May '16

On Commons AFAIK https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:No_license_since is used, and the uploader is warned on their talk page that the file could be deleted after 7 days if no info is provided. E.

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