Wikitech-l June 2016

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Fwd: You are invited to the Hackthon Showcase Saturday 18:00-19:00
by Siebrand Mazeland 24 Jun '16

24 Jun '16

This may be of interest to the complete developer population. The etherpad for the hackathon showcase is at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/T132719 and the contents will be copied to Phab:T132719 afterwards. It looks like we may not be able to live stream the showcase, although we are exploring a possibility of a 360 degrees broadcast. We will keep you updated. Cheers! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rachel Farrand <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 4:06 PM Subject: You are invited to the Hackthon Showcase Saturday 18:00-19:00 To: wikimania16attaccom(a)wikimedia.org, wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org During the pre-conference days, there were two days of hackathon where 160 people worked on the software that we use in our Wikimedia projects. Tomorrow, Saturday, from 18:00-19:00, the hackathon showcase will be held in the school's main hall (venue 52). During this showcase, many participants will present their hackathon accomplishments in brief presentations. This session is fast paced, and chock full of useful and understandable information. Developers: please register at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/T132719 to participate in the showcase. Because of an unfortunate crash of the Etherpad database server, we think that three submission may have gotten lost, so please double check your entry. We hope to see you there! Rachel Farrand Siebrand Mazeland -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wikimania 16 Attendee Accommodations" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikimania16attaccom+unsubscribe(a)wikimedia.org. -- Siebrand Mazeland Kitano ICT M: +31 6 50 69 1239 Skype: siebrand

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Brazilian Wikipedia Science Conference - CCBWIKI
by Rodrigo Padula 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

Hello everyone! The Wikimedia Brazilian Group of Education and Research[1] will host on October 13th and 14th in Rio de Janeiro the "1st Brazilian Wikipedia Science Conference" This event aims to bring together students, teachers and researchers with projects and publications about Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects and their dynamics. We are almost done and soon we will announce our official website and call for papers. Articles and poster will be accepted. The Wikimedia Foundation has validated our logo [2] and the use of the Wikipedia brand in the event name. We are using as inspiration the events organized by Wikimedia UK[3] and OpenSym[4]. We are trying to bring to Brazil some important keynotes from our movement. If someone from this list is interested in coming to visit us, let's keep in touch! That event is under organization in a very organic and experimental way, with no funding from WMF to see the impact and interest from the local academic community. Based on the results and impacts we will try to do something bigger in 2017. All the content produced during the event will be published in CC licenses (photos, videos, interviews, publications). Soon we will have more news! You can check our planning page here[5] [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BR-ER [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Science_Conference [3] https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikipedia_Science_Conference [4] http://www.opensym.org/os2016/ [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BR-ER/Events/Congresso_Científico_Brasileir… Best regards Rodrigo Padula Coordenador de Projetos Grupo Wikimedia Brasileiro de Educação e Pesquisa http://www.wikimedia.org.br 21 99326-0558

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ORES going into production
by Aaron Halfaker 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

Hey folks, We (The Revision Scoring Team[1]) are happy to announce the deployment of the ORES service[2] in production at a new address: https://ores.wikimedia.org. This will replace the old Wikimedia Labs address soon: https://ores.wmflabs.org. Along with this new location, we are running on more predictable infrastructure that will allow us to increase our uptime and to make the service available to MediaWiki and extensions directly. We've also begun deploying the ORES review tool[3] as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia in order trial the fully integrated extension. Once enabled, the ORES review tool highlights edits that are likely to be damaging in Special:RecentChanges to help you prioritize your patrolling work. ORES is an experimental technology. We encourage you to take advantage of it but also to be skeptical of the predictions made. Please reach out to us with your questions and concerns. We'll soon begin to deploy the ORES review tool to more wikis. Next up are English, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch and Turkish Wikipedias. We can deploy to these wikis because those communities have completed Wiki labels[4] campaigns that help train ORES' classifiers to differentiate good-faith mistakes from vandalism. If you'd like to get the ORES review tool deployed in your wiki, please reach out to us for help setting up or completing a Wiki labels campaign on your local wiki. Wikimania participants can also attend our workshop[5] during the hackathon to get setting up ORES for your local wiki. Documentation: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES_review_tool * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ORES * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service Bugs & feature requests: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/revision-scoring-as-a-service-backlog/ IRC: #wikimedia-ai[6] 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service#Team 2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service 3. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES_review_tool 4. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_labels 5. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134628 6. https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-ai Stay tuned for an update about deprecation of ores.wmflabs.org and announcements of support for new wikis. Please feel free to reach out to us with any questions/ideas. -Aaron

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Update: Upload to Commons Android app
by Josephine Lim 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

Hi all, A quick update re: the Upload to Commons Android app: - We are now considered an 'official' app and have been granted permission by WMF to use the Wikimedia Commons logo and name. As such, the app is now named "Wikimedia Commons" < https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons> instead of "Upload to Commons", and its icon has been changed to the Commons logo. Ownership of the app should also soon be transferred to the WMF Google Play account. On a practical basis, there should be no change in the use of the app and it will still be maintained by volunteers. - I am happy to announce that my IEG proposal for further work on the app < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Improve_%27Upload_to_Commons%27_…> has been selected. :) I will be starting work on it shortly, so there will be regular releases planned for the next 6 months. Bug/crash reports and feedback are welcome on our Google Groups forums < https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/commons-app-android> and GitHub page <https://github.com/nicolas-raoul/apps-android-commons/issues> as always. Have a great day! Cheers, Josephine

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2016-06-22 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes
by Grace Gellerman 22 Jun '16

22 Jun '16

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-06-22 = 2016-06-22 = == Product == === Reading === ==== iOS ==== * 5.0.5 ** Through regressions - a bug was found and fixed - regressions start again today ** Expected release this week * 5.1 ** In development - expected release early August ** Potential blocker for release is GeoData API improvements https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137178 We are working with Discovery to get this in for our release ==== Android ==== Still working on the feed, no blockers/blockees. ==== Mobile Content Service (MCS) ==== * Adding content format versioning to Content-Type header for better pre-generation and backwards compatibility. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138018 ==== Reading Web ==== * Going to be deploying lazy images to more small/medium wikis during this last sprint ==== Reading Infrastructure ==== === Editing === ==== Multimedia ==== * Mark not present today, but wanted to add mostly empty update * Not blocking, not blocked * No real updates, work continues as ever ==== Language ==== * Compact Language Links deployment started in phases === Discovery === * '''Blocking''': none * '''Blocked''': https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135029 need help with scripts * Portal discussion: Should HTML formatting/DOM manip (presentation, responsiveness) be done in JS (frontend) or in PHP (backend) ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136458) * TextCat A/B test running on enwiki, frwiki, eswiki, dewiki and itwiki * Discernatorn updated: https://discernatron.wmflabs.org === Interactive === * Launched on Wikidata, Commons - no more referrer check, we are open to experementations * RU-Wikivoyage switched * Implementing "get geo object" service * In process of setting up 4 more backend servers (current production 4 backend + 16 caching) == Technology == === RelEng === * No longer blocked: ** gitblit is going away (finally) on the 29th. *** Already announced, patches reviewed and coordinated with tech ops. ** arcanist packaged for debian! Thanks to fgiunchedi for packaging help. *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137770 * Blocked on tech ops ** Phase out gallium.wikimedia.org (T133300) *** We need feedback from ops about the architecture changes proposed on phabricator *** Tyler summarized in the most recent comment: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133300#2394279 === Technical Operations === * '''Blocking''': ** None * '''Blocked''': ** None * Updates: ** nodejs security release this thursday ** labs team @wikimania, skeleton crew ** appservers and api reimaging, live in eqiad, no outstanding issue ** jessie jobrunner and imagescalers live ** Decomming some 50 db hosts

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Update: Upload to Commons Android app
by Dmitry Brant 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

Hi Paul, To be clear, the Commons app is still very much in the hands of volunteers. The WMF has simply allowed the app to use the Commons logo, which will make the app more recognizable and discoverable by users. In fact, this app *used* to be an official WMF project before we discontinued it nearly two years ago, and was subsequently picked up by these excellent volunteers. On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 1:04 AM, Paul Laan <paulvlaan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I think this is good news, but it also makes me wonder the following: > > We saw it happen a couple of times the last months, now the app is in > official WMF hands how long will it take before they kick the volunteers > out, and let the WMF devs work on it? > > I would rather have seen this volunteer (and other) volunteer projects in > the hands of volunteers. Every year the WMF asks for more money, and take > away more and more things the volunteers used to run for free. > > I would rather see things moved to volunteers instead of the other way > arround. > > Paul Vlaan > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dmitry Brant Senior Software Engineer / Product Owner (Android) Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering

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Update: Upload to Commons Android app
by Paul Laan 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

Hi, I think this is good news, but it also makes me wonder the following: We saw it happen a couple of times the last months, now the app is in official WMF hands how long will it take before they kick the volunteers out, and let the WMF devs work on it? I would rather have seen this volunteer (and other) volunteer projects in the hands of volunteers. Every year the WMF asks for more money, and take away more and more things the volunteers used to run for free. I would rather see things moved to volunteers instead of the other way arround. Paul Vlaan

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[Invitation]: OpenStreetMap Hack Weekend
by Jinal Foflia 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

Hey everyone, I wanted to invite all of you to the OpenStreetMap hackweekend on July 2 and 3 in Bangalore being hosted at the Mapbox office. We will spend two full days working on projects like iD, openstreetmap-website, JOSM etc. You can see all the projects and ideas in the wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bengaluru_Hack_weekend_July_2016. Pick one or propose your own. If you are in town and want to contribute to OpenStreetMap, this is a great opportunity to get started alongside expert developers on the open mapping stack! Wikimedia projects have already started integrating maps from OSM https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps and this can be a useful space to begin work on ideas for greater collaboration between the communities. Please RSVP (https://osmhackweekend.splashthat.com/) and let me know if you have any questions. Read more: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/osm-hackweekend/ Looking forward! Cheers, Jinal Foflia

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The revision scoring weekly update
by Aaron Halfaker 20 Jun '16

20 Jun '16

Hey folks, This is the 9th weekly update for the revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. The biggest news is that we've officially deployed the ORES review tool[1] to Persian Wikipedia and Wikidata[2,9]. We'll be posting a more complete announcement to Wikitech-l soon. New developments: - We generalized how the wsgi and celery applications are configured[4] - We fixed the way Special:Contributions is rendered so that the ORES review tool can work better there[6] Maintenance and robustness: - We documented some downtime for the ORES production service[3] - We untangled and simplified our deployment repositories[5] - An issue with Wikilabels accepting too many labels for a single task is fixed[7] - We brought our deployment of ORES in the beta cluster closer to production[8] - We solved an issue with how the ORES extension populates scores[10] Amir will be hosting a workshop for extending ORES support at Wikimania. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134628 for more details. 1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES_review_tool 2. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130210 3. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138248 4. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137820 5. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137819 6. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122537 7. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131997 8. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137821 9. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130212 10. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137854 -Aaron

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DNS, TLS change for RCStream (stream.wikimedia.org)
by Ori Livneh 20 Jun '16

20 Jun '16

== What is happening? == Secure connections to RCStream[1] currently use an SSL/TLS certificate[2] specific to stream.wikimedia.org. To streamline certificate management, we are moving RCStream behind our misc caching cluster, which will allow us to use the wildcard certificate[3] for *.wikimedia.org, making the RCStream-specific certificate redundant. This will reduce operating costs and improve performance in certain cases. == When will this happen? == June 23rd. == How could this affect me? == This change requires updating the DNS record for stream.wikimedia.org. We do not expect any service disruptions. It is conceivable (but unlikely) that you will need to restart your client. If your client is based on one of the published examples[4], you should be fine. If you are not sure, feel free to get in touch with me (ori(a)wikimedia.org). If you are connecting to RCStream over an insecure (http) connection, now would be a great time to migrate to https. http access to RCStream will eventually be disabled; migrating now will protect you from any interruptions down the line. In most cases, making your client use https is as simple as prefixing 'stream.wikimedia.org' with 'https://'. Sample client code on Wikitech[4] has been updated. == How can I track this work? == By following https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134871. [1]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCStream [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_certificate [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard_certificate [4]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCStream#Clients

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