Wikitech-l September 2016

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Issues with image rendering?
by Strainu 18 Sep '16

18 Sep '16

In the last day I've seen quite a few images that throw errors when trying to view them (for example, [1]). Already-existing thumbnails work, but when one tries to force rendering new sizes, the server throw an error message: "Error! Our servers are currently experiencing technical difficulties". Is this a know issue? It doesn't seemn to be anything wrong with the images themselves, because they were previously used in articles. Strainu [1] https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Cele_mai_%C3%AEnalte_cl%C4%83diri…

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measuring time to proofread wikipedias and the Making Work Pay Tax Credit
by James Salsman 17 Sep '16

17 Sep '16

I am pleased to announce that, thanks to Google Summer of Code student Priyanka Mandikal, the project for the Accuracy Review of Wikipedias project has delivered a working demonstration of open source code and data available here: https://github.com/priyankamandikal/arowf/ Please try it out at: http://tools.wmflabs.org/arowf/ We need your help to test it and try it out and send us comments. You can read more about the project here: https://priyankamandikal.github.io/posts/gsoc-2016-project-overview/ The formal project report, still in progress (Google docs comments from anyone are most welcome) is at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_AiOyVn9Qf5ne1qCHIygUU3OTJcbpkb14N3rIty… This allows experiments to measure, for example, how long it would take to complete proofreading of the wikipedias with and without paying editors to work alongside volunteers. I am sure everyone agrees that is an interesting question which bears directly on budget expectations. I hope multiple organizations use the published methods and their Python implementations to make such measurements. I would also like to suggest a proposal related to the questions in both of the following reviews: http://unotes.hartford.edu/announcements/images/2014_03_04_Cerasoli_and_Nic… http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1748-8583.12080/abstract The most recent solicitation of community input for the Foundation's Public Policy team I've seen said that they would like suggestions for specific issues as long as the suggestions did not involve endorsements of or opposition to any specific candidates. My support for adjusting copyright royalties on a sliding scale to transfer wealth from larger to smaller artists has been made clear, and I do not believe there are any concerns that I have not addressed concerning alignment to mission or effectiveness. I would also like to propose a related endorsement. The Making Work Pay tax credit (MWPTC) is a negative payroll tax that expired in 2010. It has all the advantages of an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) but would happen with every paycheck. Reinstating the Making Work Pay tax credit would serve to reduce economic inequality. This proposal is within the scope of the Foundation's mission because reducing economic inequality should serve to empower people to develop educational content for the projects because of the increased levels of support for artistic production among a broader set of potential editors with additional discretionary free time due to increased wealth. This proposal is needed because economic inequality produces more excess avoidable deaths and leads to fewer years of productive life than global warming. This proposal would provide substantial benefits to the movement, the community, the Foundation, the US and the world if it were to be successfully adopted. For the reasons stated above, this proposal will be seen as positive. Here is some background and supporting information: * MWPTC overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Work_Pay_tax_credit * MWPTC details: http://tpcprod.urban.org/taxtopics/2011_work.cfm * Problems with expanding the EITC: http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/eitc-expansion-backed-obama-and-ryan-… * Educational advantages of expanding the EITC: https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/this-policy-would-help-poor-kids-more-th… * Financial advantages of expanding the EITC: http://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/strengthening-the-eitc-for-childle… * The working class has lost half their wealth over the past two decades: https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/finance/why-people-are-angry/ * Health effects of addressing economic inequality: http://talknicer.com/ehlr.pdf * Economic growth effects of addressing economic inequality: http://talknicer.com/egma.pdf * Unemployment and underemployment effects of addressing economic inequality: http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/bitstream/2445/33140/1/617293.pdf For an example of how a campaign on this issue could be conducted based on the issues identified in the sources above, please see: http://bit.ly/mwptc Please share your thoughts on the wikipedias proofreading time measurement effort and this related public policy proposal. I expect that some people will say that they do not understand how the public policy proposal relates to the project to measure the amount of time it would take to proofread the wikipedias. I am happy to explain that in detail if and when needed. On a related note, I would like to point out that the project report Google doc suggests future work involving a peer learning system for speaking skills using the same architecture as we derived from the constraints for successfully performing simultaneous paid and volunteer proofreading. I would like people to keep that in mind when evaluating the utility of these proposals. Sincerely, Jim Salsman

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How to login with API?
by Bináris 17 Sep '16

17 Sep '16

Hi, I use Pywikibot compat (the old version), which is now broken, and nobody wants to correct it. So I tried to to it myself. The error is with the API login. The original method (which worked previously) is: 'action': 'login', 'lgname': self.username, 'lgpassword': self.password, With this I get an error. Thr resulting data strucure has a warnings key, and I printed the value of warnings: {u'login': {u'*': u'Fetching a token via action=login is deprecated. Use action=query&meta=tokens&type=login instead.'}} Then I went to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Login. Here is stated something completely else: action=clientlogin So which one is right? What is the next step? My wiki is Hungarian Wikipedia. -- Bináris

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Outreachy-13 mentors needed
by Sumit Asthana 17 Sep '16

17 Sep '16

Hello Wikimedians, Gnome's Outreachy-13 <https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy> is round the corner and Wikimedia is again participating in yet another internship season ( Dec 6 to March 6 ). The application deadline is *Oct - 17*. Its interesting to see that candidates have already started to ping on projects and show their interest! Our Outreachy-13 board <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2207/> till now has only three projects. A lot of projects are sitting in possible-tech-projects <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/> board waiting to be mentored. Many of them are tagged as *community-wishlist* showing the community consensus. The *community wishlist* items which could use some love are: 1. Make Special:Listfiles show the quantity of globalusage for a file - T120748 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120748> 2. Category suggestions based on filename, description and location - T120437 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120437> 3. Create a Timer based reminder for workflows - T88781 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88781> Some others which look interesting: 1. Dark archive for Commons - T120454 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120454> 2. Create a CAPTCHA that is also a useful micro edit - T87598 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87598> 3. Fix TreeViews to provide pageviews statistics for all articles of any wikiproject etc. - T56184 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T56184> 4. Stash unsaved drafts of articles - T89235 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89235> 5. Merge proofread text back into Djvu files - T59807 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59807> Its a gentle request to please go through the projects, and if you could mentor any of those, add yourself to the task as a mentor, and we'll do the rest. Also, if you have a lingering task to finish or a new interesting feature waiting to get implemented, add *possbile-tech-projects*, and we'll make sure to feature it. The only scope requirement is that it should take 2-3 weeks for an experienced developer to finish. Please come forward to mentor some of the enthusiastic students so that we can welcome new members into our community :) -Thanks and Regards, -Sumit, B.Tech Final Year, Dept. of CSE, IIT Patna

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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2016-09-12
by Chris Koerner 16 Sep '16

16 Sep '16

Hello, Here is the Discovery status update for the week starting 12 September. Feedback and questions are welcome. == Discussions == * We had a Discernatration demo on Tuesday, Sep 13 that was a success! [1] * Several Discovery team members attended a Product and Tech on-site two day meeting in the SF office * Mikhail and Chelsy attended an Analyst on-site two day meeting in the SF office == Interactive == * You can now insert a link to a popup map with overlays on all wikis - <maplink> [2] * Map frame support is now enabled on all Wikipedia sister projects, but not Wikipedia itself, except for HE,MK, and CA wikis - <mapframe> [3] == Portal == * updated language article stats on Wikipedia.org [4] * updated the language list dropdown button phrase to now display: Read Wikipedia in your language [5] * updated the metadata description for Wikipedia to read: "Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation." [6] == Search == * Automagically fixed ÿ in Spécial:IndexPages search by implementing ascii-folding in French [7] [8] * Tried to update to to ElasticSearch plugins to 2.4.0 but found out we couldn't because our analysis plugins are not compatible [9] * Added defaultsearchkeys to wiki search autocomplete [10] * Fixed bug - mwgrep and "insource:" search is missing lots of pages in its index [11] * Make elasticsearch actually have shard allocation awareness [12] * Fixed bug - "You may create the page" suggestion does not appear if search contains 'AND', 'OR', 'NOT' anywhere in search even when these are not used as special syntax [13] * Updated WikimediaMaintenance/addWiki.php to create cirrus indices on all available clusters [14] == Analysis == * Tried finding ways to combine cirrus search logs with engagement data [15] * Added event logging for the Wikipedia portal to capture the language selected in the search box [16] * Added updated the mobile dashboard for new features added in event logging [17] * Added 'other' pageviews to the dashboard accounting for 'keep alive' and other hits to the Wikipedia.org page [18] * Updated data access guidelines search logs from flourine to hive [19] == Wikidata Query Service == * Materials and videos from the SPARQL Workshop on September 8th are published [20] == Other Noteworthy Stuff == * We started to experiment with ORES WP10 as new relevance factor in fulltext search queries T145644 [21] * There's a new glossary of search-related terms available on mediawiki.org. Feel free to request additional definitions! [22] [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144026 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer#.3Cmaplink.3E [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer#.3Cmapframe.3E_u… [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143244 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143239 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141216 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144429 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145199 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134978 [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127788 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143571 [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122309 [14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142181 [15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145124 [16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143149 [17] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143726 [18] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143605 [19] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145149 [20] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/2016_SPARQL_Wor… [21] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145644 [22] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Search/Glossary ---- The full update, and archive of past updates, can be found on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as Easy or Volunteer needed in Phabricator. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R -- Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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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 14 Sep '16

14 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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