Wikitech-l September 2016

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WMF Language team office hour and online meeting on September 21, 2016 (Wednesday) at 1300 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 16 Sep '16

16 Sep '16

[x-posted announcement] Hello, The next online office hour session of the Wikimedia Language team is scheduled for next Wednesday, September 21st, 2016 at 13:00 UTC. This session is going to be an online discussion over Google Hangouts/Youtube with a simultaneous IRC conversation. Due to the limitation of Google Hangouts, only a limited number of participation slots are available. Hence, do please let us know if you would like to join in the Hangout. This time we will be taking questions from youtube viewers, only on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office. The channel will be open for interactions during the session. Questions can also be sent ahead of time to us. Our last online round-table session was held in June 2016. You can watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rANCUuJRTE8 Please read below for the event details, including local time, youtube session link and do let us know if you have any questions. Thank you Runa == Details == # Event: Wikimedia Language team's office hour session # When: September 21, 2016 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20160921T1300) # Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXgMZ7myEA4 and on IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) # Agenda: Updates from the Language team and Q & A. -- Language Engineering Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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Where has mw.log gone again?
by Strainu 16 Sep '16

16 Sep '16

Back when preprocessor optimization data was displayed on the preview page, one could see the output of mw.log and mw.logObject calls in the LUA code there. Right now, I can't find any place when I can do that any longer. I know about the debug console, but that is populated only when you introduce something there and it's almost impossible to exactly reproduce the parameters generated by passing through 3 templates and 2 other module calls. Thanks, Strainu

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Gerrit members can't add members anymore?
by Florian Schmidt 16 Sep '16

16 Sep '16

Hi all together, maybe I'm mistaken, but iirc, some time ago, as a member of a specific gerrit group (e.g. extension-GoogleLogin), I was able to add members to this specific group by myself. Does I remember correctly? If so, currently I'm not able to do this anymore. Was something changed or is this an error? Best, Florian

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Congratulations to all GSoC students (passed)
by Alangi Derick 15 Sep '16

15 Sep '16

Hi, I wish to use this opportunity to congratulate all the 6 students (including me) that made it to the end of the GSoC program 2016 in the Wikimedia foundation. It was not easy but we made it to the end. It was a great time working with the Wikimedia Foundation and I had a very great experience. Regards Alangi Derick Ndimnain

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img_auth.php and extensions
by Robert Vogel 15 Sep '16

15 Sep '16

Hello everybody, some time ago I've overtaken maintainership of extension "NSFileRepo", which allows to secure access to uploaded files based on namespace permissions set/managed by extension "Lockdown". It worked well with LTS release 1.23, but unfortunately due to some changes in "img_auth.php" [1] [2] it does not work in current LTS release 1.27. I've tried to rewrite the extension to fit into the new system [3], but it seems to be a hacky approach. There is already a Pabricator task (T140334 [4]) in which I've asked for support (and also got some good responses), but I want to draw some attention by writing to this mailing list. Any help, hints, comments are much appreciated. [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/127589/ [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/127701/ [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/308573/ [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140334 best regards, Robert Vogel

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2016-09-14 Scrum of Scrums notes
by Grace Gellerman 14 Sep '16

14 Sep '16

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-09-14 = 2016-09-14 = == Product == === Reading === ==== Reading Web ==== Current sprint: * Related pages preparation for mobile web deployments * Shipped wikidata descriptions in mobile web to all but top 6 wikis ==== Mobile Content Service ==== * Working on follow-up tasks from last week's Android app outage: * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160907-Android - * Set up monitoring tests for individual feed endpoints https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145223 - * Communicate steps on how to switch the app to use different backend servers. - * Investigate Icinga alert setup if the app experiences unusually high crash rates. * Heads-up: New service developement starting soon for new RESTBase service to get Trending edits: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/reading_web_trending_service/ ==== Android native app ==== Current sprint: 91 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2216/ * navigation overhaul: primary dev work is complete; now updating per design feedback. * beta release this week (probably) ==== iOS native app ==== Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2150/ * 5.2 * Adding iOS 10 Support ** Today Widgets - Top Read & Continue Reading and basic iOS 10 compatibility * Dropping iOS 8 support * Released to beta, releasing with iOS 10 Tuesday September 13 Next release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2188/ * Bug fix release for 5.2, scope still in discussion ==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * no blocking/blocked === Community Tech === * Blocking: none * Blocked: none * Working with Performance team to optimize refreshLinks job for PageAssessments roll-out to enwiki ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145473) * Finished work on Google OCR tool for WikiSource: https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Google_OCR ** Web interface: https://tools.wmflabs.org/ws-google-ocr/ ** Gadget: https://wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki:GoogleOCR.js * Working with DBAs on improving CentralAuth for cross-wiki watchlists ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141951) * Working on Education Program Dashboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125546 === Editing === ==== Collaboration ==== * Blocking ** Continuing work on Flow caching rewrite * Blocked * Updates ** Major work on seen time for Echo notifications. It is now a single global time, so when you open any notification popup, the time is updated globally. ** Continued work on using MessagePoster to allow for posting to wikitext or Flow boards more easily. NewUserMessage updated to use this, PageTriage is next. ==== Language ==== * Blocking: None * Blocked: None * Updates: ** Content Translation work continue. ** Apertium ready for Jessie migration, test this week, deployment likely next week. === Analytics === * Blocking: None * Blocked: None * Updates: ** Kasocki : Working on automating tests with jenkins ** New AQS cluster data is loaded, load-tests still to be run, then production integration ** Edit reconstruction: data for simplewiki is ready to be sent to Erik (not perfect, still improving), performance optimisations on the go for big wikis to run ** Pivot (druid based UI) is being productionized to be accessible for WMF staff (LDAP) ** Participation in A/B testing design - Looking good === Services === * Blocking: none * Blocked: none * Updates: ** Services config deploys via scap3 on the way ** Depooling and repooling services during deployment, instructions would be sent soon ** Change Propagation replaced RESTBaseUpdateJobs, extension undeployed ** EventBus deprecated events are not produced any more === Technical Operations === * '''Blocking''': none ** none * '''Blocked''': ** none * '''Updates''': ** Migrated to a new puppetmaster infrastructure for production, should make next DC switchover easier (among other things) *** TechOps offsite happening week of Sept 25 (last week of quarter), please work around this for deployments* ** wikitech features will get a deprecation announcement soon ** Partial traffic to thumbor to be enabled this week ** apertium reviews for LE are done. Migration of apertium service to SCB to happen next week. ** appserver migration to jessie ongoing. CODFW done, EQIAD to happen next ** New DBA, Manuel onboarded. === Discovery === * No blockers * BM25 A/B test is turned off, preliminary results ok, waiting for analysis * Working on multiwiki indexes, public comments sought at: ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design * Added ASCII-folding for French (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144429) * Had SPARQL workshop, materials at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/2016_SPARQL_Wor… * Had Discernatron lunch, a lot of useful feedback * Working on deploying codfw servers for WDQS ==== Interactive team ==== * <mapframe> to be deployed on non-large wikis soon === Fundraising Tech === * Investigating low response to WLM CentralNotice campaign in South Korea * Fixing CentralNotice MariaDB strict mode violations * Finishing up queue work * More donor data cleanup in CiviCRM - language preferences, placeholder emails and addresses === RelEng === * Blocking ** no * Blocked ** no * Updates ** Reminder: no deploys week of Sept 26th ** Changes to beta cluster puppetmaster cherry-pick process Coming Soon™ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135427

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Recently proposed patchsets by new contributors awaiting code review
by Andre Klapper 14 Sep '16

14 Sep '16

Your help is welcome to provide feedback and guidance: == All in "mediawiki/core": == since 2016-08-01: Incorrect redirect for titles starting with '/' in special cases https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/302088/ since 2016-08-02: Fix to incorrect calls of header () breaking saving some pages and login https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/302430/ since 2016-08-11: Change wording, change grammar in lang/en.json https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/304329/ since 2016-08-11: Cleaned up some unneeded wording in the english lang file, as well as minor wording changes. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/302061/ since 2016-08-11: Add Localisation to the links, add the link to Localisation in Languages/Language.php https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/304153/ Thanks in advance for your reviews. andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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No ArchCom IRC office hour planned for this week (2016W37)
by Rob Lanphier 14 Sep '16

14 Sep '16

Hi folks, Many of us at WMF will be at a Product and Tech meeting here in SF, so we decided not to hold the usual IRC office hour on #wikimedia-office. I've updated "upcoming meetings" part of the status page with some info on *next* week's meeting: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Status> Next week, on 2016-09-21, we plan to discuss Multi-Content Revisions.[1] If y'all want to join a channel for an informal conversation, it seems like #wikimedia-tech is usually a good place to find most of the people who frequent the IRC office hour. Rob [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multi-Content_Revisions

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RfC: Future of magic links
by Legoktm 14 Sep '16

14 Sep '16

Hi, I wrote an RfC to determine the future of the ISBN/PMID/RFC magic links feature (spoiler: I propose getting rid of them). Comments on the talk page would be appreciated! <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Future_of_magic_links> -- Legoktm

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The Revision Scoring weekly update
by Aaron Halfaker 14 Sep '16

14 Sep '16

Hey, This is the 21st weekly update from revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. New development - We received a request to get moving on Spanish Wikibooks support, so we dug in: - We deployed a new Wiki labels campaign[1] - We fixed an issue in Wiki labels that prevented requests from *. wikibooks.org[2] - We trained a basic "revert" detection model that seems to be pretty effective[3] - We also generated a dataset of article quality scores for English Wikipedia[4]. You can download it here: [5] This week, we invested in some long term tasks. If you review our phabricator board, you'll see substantial progress in improving our damage detection models with hashing vectorization strategies[6, 7], implementing a more robust model testing strategy[8], and implementing some advance natural language processing strategies[9, 10]. Stay tuned for the completion of these activities in the coming weeks. 1. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143962 -- Add uniqueness constraints to ores_classification 2. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145406 -- Fix CORS for wikibooks 3. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145428 -- Train/test reverted model for Spanish Wikibooks 4. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135684 -- Generate recent article quality scores for English Wikipedia 5. https://datasets.wikimedia.org/public-datasets/enwiki/article_quality/wp10-… 6. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128087 -- [Spike] Investigate HashingVectorizer 7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_hashing 8. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142953 -- Train on all data, Report test statistics on cross-validation 9. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144636 -- Implement PCFG features 10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_context-free_grammar Sincerely, Aaron from the Revision Scoring team

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