Hi,
With the release of MediaWiki 1.27, the lifetime of MediaWiki version
1.25.x has come to an end.
Users still using MediaWiki 1.25.x are advised to upgrade to version
1.27.0, the latest stable and
LTS version.
--Chad Horohoe
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Hi everyone,
With Wikimania and associated summer travel, this is going to be a rough
week to get everyone together at our usual time for the weekly
ArchCom-RFC IRC office hour:
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E224>
There are a couple of RFCs that might make good short-term choices:
- T137926 - Require 'curl' PHP extension for MediaWiki[1]
James filed this a couple of weeks ago as a "μRfC". The hope is
to enable greater use of MultiHttpClient.
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137926>
- T136866 - Improve the per-programming-language listings for our
tools[2]
Quiddity plans to expand this documentation in the coming quarter.
A clearer idea about the status quo would help us guide developers
about which languages we hope to attract new development in.
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136866>
However, we would welcome suggestions for others. Please comment here:
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E224>
If nothing else, we can use this week's meeting as a triage discussion.
Rob
p.s. Updates continue on Architecture_committee/Status:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Status>
Hello again,
>From the Wikimedia Foundation Discovery department here's this week's
updates.
* Trey took a quick look at detecting when users on English and Russian
Wikipedias were using the wrong keyboard. It looks like more than 1% of
Russian Wikipedia queries may be in Russian but typed on the English
keyboard! [1]
* We're still discussing how to handle query-final question marks. Comments
and suggestions welcome on the Phab ticket. [2]
* Testing software upgrade for logstash.wikimedia.org at kibana4.wmflabs.org
* Installed 16 new servers in our elasticsearch cluster to replace the
older ones
* Katie, Deb and Jan are in Esino Lario for Wikimania 2016 along with many
other WMF members and about 1,000 of our closest friends all sharing in the
sun, fun and humidity. [3] [4]
** The Hackathon was well attended: about 160 people all collaborating
together for two days; there will be a showcase of some of the efforts
tomorrow night. [5] [6]
** Friday, Saturday and Sunday are all about the main program and it's
gonna be grand! [7]
*** Best highlight so far (to be fair, it's only end of day Friday as I'm
writing this): Simone Cortesi talking about OSM and some of the great work
that the Discovery Interactive team has done to get maps into the wiki
projects, specifically Wikivoyage. [8]
* <mapframe/maplink> no longer need zoom and location - it can figure out
the location on its own if missing, based on the geojson data.
* Most of the geoshapes backend code is now in place, and should be
available soon - it will allow both graphs and maps to get "geoshapes" -
location outlines (e.g. state of New York, or a park, or the whole country
- as a geometry, based on Wikidata ID.
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Typing_on_the_Wrong_…
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133711
[3]
http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/it/map/wikimaniaesino_45461#17/45.99447/9.33327
[4] https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
[5] https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon/Program
[6] https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon/Program#Showcase
[7] https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme
[8]
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_digest/Projects:_Wikisource,_…
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Feedback and suggestions on this weekly update are welcome!
The full update, and archive of past updates, can be found on Mediawiki.org:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates
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Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
Forwarding from mobile-l:
Dear Mobile Wikimedians,
The Android app recently upgraded to the latest version (24.0.0) of the
Android support library, which requires Java 8 in order to build.
Accordingly, Java 8 is now required to build the Android app.
As of about an hour ago, our CI jobs have moved from using Java 7 to Java
8. Details are here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138506
Big thanks to @hashar for making the CI change!
Warmly,
Michael
The elasticsearch servers that run logstash.wikimedia.org will soon be
upgraded from 1.7 to 2.3. As part of this upgrade we also need to upgrade
kibana (the web interface that runs on logstash.wikimedia.org). The current
version uses elasticsearch features that have been long deprecated (since
1.4) and as of 2.0 have been removed. I've setup a test environment in the
beta cluster running this new version of elasticsearch along with the new
version of kibana.
Be warned, kibana 4 is a complete rewrite. It needs to be evaluated for our
purposes and we need to make sure it does what we need. I've recreated most
of the dashboards that were linked from the homepage of
logstash-beta.wmflabs.org to help with the evaluation. The first few took a
short while, but due to the way kibana re-uses visualizations it became a
good bit faster/easier after that.
The main feature i've noticed missing from our old dashboards is the trends
panel. This is the part that told you how the volume of messages compared
to the previous hour/day/week/etc. There is a long standing github issue
about replacing this functionality but it has been stalled out. I don't
personally use that part of the visualization much, but perhaps you do?
Please try it out, and give some feedback. https://kibana.wmflabs.org/
Erik B
Hello,
MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.7 has not been fully deployed this week due to a
regression the time to save an edit. I have speculated it might be due
to a recent change made to AbuseFilter (T138550)
Hence for now the train is frozen, potentially the issue will be figured
out today or over the week-end. Release engineering team is meeting on
Monday at 4pm UTC and we will discuss about future steps.
There are two scenarios:
* If we get a fix available on Monday we will push 1.28.0-wmf.7 on all
wikis and then resume the usual train with 1.28.0-wmf.8 cut on Tuesday.
* Else, we will most probably freeze the train until the regression is
figured out and thus postpone the next branch for a week.
Stay tuned on the following tasks, and any help is welcome to figure out
the save time regression!
1.28.0-wmf.7 save time regression
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138550
MW-1.28.0-wmf.7 deployment blockers
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136973
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Antoine "hashar" Musso