Wikitech-l July 2016

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Missing Section Headings
by Marc Riddell 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

Hello, I have been a WP editor since 2006. I hope you can help me. For some reason I no longer have Section Heading titles showing in the Articles. This is true of all Headings including the one that carries the Article subject's name. When there is a Table of Contents, it appears fine and, when I click on a particular Section, it goes to that Section, but all that is there is a straight line separating the Sections. There is also no button to edit a Section. If I edit the page and remove the "== ==" markers from the Section Titles, the Title then shows up, but not as a Section Heading. Also, I don't have any Date separators on my Want List. This started 2 days ago. Any thoughts? Thanks, Marc Riddell [[User:Michael David]]

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How to make commits from mirrored Wikimedia repos show up on your GitHub profile
by Bartosz Dziewoński 28 Jun '24

28 Jun '24

I know it has been annoying a couple of people other than me, so now that I've learned how to make it work I'll share the knowledge here. tl;dr: Star the repositories. No, seriously. (And yes, you need to star each extension repo separately.) (Is there a place on mw.org to put this tidbit on?) ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Brian Levine" <support(a)github.com> (GitHub Staff) To: matma.rex(a)gmail.com Cc: Subject: Re: Commits in mirrored repositories not showing up on my profile Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:47:19 +0200 Hi Bartosz In order to link your commits to your GitHub account, you need to have some association with the repository other than authoring the commit. Usually, having push access gives you that connection. In this case, you don't have push permission, so we don't link you to the commit. The easy solution here is for you to star the repository. If you star it - along with the other repositories that are giving you this problem - we'll see that you're connected to the repository and you'll get contribution credit for those commits. Cheers Brian -- Matma Rex

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Research FAQ gets a facelift
by Dario Taraborelli 25 Jun '24

25 Jun '24

We just released a new version of Research:FAQ on Meta [1], significantly expanded and updated, to make our processes at WMF more transparent and to meet an explicit FDC request to clarify the role and responsibilities of individual teams involved in research across the organization. The previous version – written from the perspective of the (now inactive) Research:Committee, and mostly obsolete since the release of WMF's open access policy [2] – can still be found here [3]. Comments and bold edits to the new version of the document are welcome. For any question or concern, you can drop me a line or ping my username on-wiki. Thanks, Dario [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:FAQ [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research:FAQ&oldid=15176953 *Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>

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bluejeans
by Jeremy Baron 23 Feb '23

23 Feb '23

Hi, On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:36 PM, David Strine <dstrine(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > We will be holding this brownbag in 25 minutes. The Bluejeans link has > changed: > > https://bluejeans.com/396234560 I'm not familiar with bluejeans and maybe have missed a transition because I wasn't paying enough attention. is this some kind of experiment? have all meetings transitioned to this service? anyway, my immediate question at the moment is how do you join without sharing your microphone and camera? am I correct thinking that this is an entirely proprietary stack that's neither gratis nor libre and has no on-premise (not cloud) hosting option? are we paying for this? -Jeremy

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productivity of mediawiki developers
by rupert THURNER 30 May '17

30 May '17

hi, is there a statistics about mediawiki developer productivity? i just fell over a couple of pages and i am quite impressed i must say: * gabriel, https://github.com/gwicke, 2'300 commits last year * jeroen, https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw, 3'700 commits a year * ori, https://github.com/atdt, 1'700 * james, https://github.com/jdforrester, 1'200 * yuri, https://github.com/nyurik, 900 * matt: https://github.com/mattflaschen, 400 commits rupert

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Deploying the UrlShortener extension to Wikimedia wikis
by Legoktm 12 Nov '16

12 Nov '16

Hi, YuviPanda, prtksxna, and myself (with help from Tim and Aaron) have been working the UrlShortener extension, which is designed to implement the URL shortener RfC[1] (specifically Tim's implementation suggestion). I've filed T108557[2] to deploy the extension to Wikimedia wikis. We'd like to use the "w.wiki" short domain, which the WMF is already in control of. A test wiki has been set up mimicking what Wikimedia's configuration would be like: http://urlshortener.wmflabs.org/, and has an accompanying "short" domain at us.wmflabs.org (e.g. http://us.wmflabs.org/3). Please play with it and report any bugs you might find :) [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/URL_shortener [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108557 Thanks, -- Legoktm

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Need review on ContentHandler implementation, Newsletter extension
by Tony Thomas 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Hello all, We have a patch https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/295670/, which had its last review almost 28 days back, and is a major blocker for the deployment of Newsletter extension in production. The shift is tracked at T138462[1]. The patch is bit lengthy, and enable the extension to use ContentHandler, which help us use a lot of in-wiki features. I had pulled the change to the labs wiki at http://newsletter-test.wmflabs.org/, which is broken as of now, tracked in T138686[2]. It would be great if you devs can take a look at both the labs instance and the contenthandler change. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138462 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138686 Thanks, Tony Thomas <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:01tonythomas> Home <http://www.thomastony.me> | Blog <http://blog.thomastony.me> | ThinkFOSS <http://www.thinkfoss.com>

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Phab blogs
by Amir E. Aharoni 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

Hi, I only now noticed that Phabricator has blogs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/blog/ I couldn't find a way to subscribe to them in RSS. Is it possible? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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Shutting down deprecated rest.wikimedia.org by September 1st
by Gabriel Wicke 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

We are going to finally switch off the deprecated domain rest.wikimedia.org by September 1st. This should not affect any REST API users, as this domain has been officially deprecated since January & sunset since April [1]. Since then, requests to that domain have returned an error informing users about the move. Access to the REST API is exclusively through the main project domains, following the following pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc Thank you for your cooperation, -- Gabriel Wicke Principal Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation [1]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-April/085309.html

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Browser testing user satisfaction survey
by Željko Filipin 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

In order to improve browser testing tools, release engineering team has created browser testing user satisfaction survey: https://goo.gl/xS6mmV It should take you up to 5 minutes. Most of the questions have simple 5 level linear scale. There are 5 sections, and the last question in each section will be free form text field, so you can leave comments on anything we forgot to ask. For details about the survey, feel free to take a look at phabricator task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131123 Željko

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