Wikitech-l January 2017

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Localizable cross-wiki templates
by Yuri Astrakhan 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

TLDR: Templates can now use datasets on Commons for all their localizable messages, making it possible to copy/paste templates between wiki without any changes. If you look at the Graph:Lines template [1], there is a small link under each graph that points to the data source. That link is automatically localized on enwiki and ruwiki because the actual messages are stored in a Commons' Dataset, while the template itself is identical on both wikis. The magic happens in the Module:TNT (hoping it won't blow up): *{{#invoke:TNT | msg | DatasetDict.tab | message-key | param1 | param2 | ... }}* I would love to support template doc pages too, but I'm not sure how well VE and other tools will work with the <templatedata> This is an experimental thing, just hacking on it in my free time, and would love to get your feedback on the viability of this approach. Thanks! Links: enwiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Graph:Lines ruwiki: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Graph:Lines TNT: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:TNT Dictionary: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:Original/Template:Graph:Lines.tab

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pywikibot troubleshooting in recitation-bot
by Anthony Di Franco 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Hi all, I'm doing some renovations on recitation-bot and running into trouble when the time comes for pywikibot to upload article data to wikisource and commons. The thread doing so hangs without any sort of informative error. I made sure that the unix user under which the web service that is using pywikibot is running is logged into each wiki per Max's advice but I still have the problem. I'm going to try to get more information about what's going on but would also appreciate pointers about what might be going wrong. Particularly, the web service is now running under Kubernetes rather than sun grid engine, so I suspect that the login state might not be making it into the container - can anyone advise on where the login state is maintained and whether this will be transferred into the kubernetes container? Thanks, Anthony

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Team Practices Coaching Clinic during 2017 Developer Summit
by Joel Aufrecht 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Team Practices Group Clinic TPG will be offering 15-minute consultations on team practices and collaboration topics of your choosing; for example: task tracking, improving communication between or within teams, or communicating with geographic diversity. See TPG_Clinic <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/TPG_Clinic> to get more information. This is open to anyone attending the Summit. *-- Joel Aufrecht* Team Practices Group Wikimedia Foundation

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Gerrit downtime tomorrow evening / early morning
by Chad Horohoe 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

Hi, Doing a (minor) point release upgrade to Gerrit tomorrow evening to deal with a data loss bug we can potentially hit. While we're offline, we're going to push out a change that enables logging to Logstash. Window is 17:00-19:00 SF time (that's 01:00-03:00 UTC). Thanks for your patience :) -Chad

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More Google Code-in 2016 achievements
by Andre Klapper 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

We have entered the last two weeks of Google Code-in: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2016 More than 250 tasks have been resolved by students so far. PLEASE HELP: We expect an increase in activity in the last week. So if you have one or two more tasks in mind to mentor, add them. It's now or never! To list some students' achievements in the last two weeks: * Converted Special:RecentChanges to OOUI * Allowed users to apply change tags as they make logged actions using the MediaWiki API (for 'imagerotate' and 'revisiondelete') * 'mw-changeslist-legend' is not present anymore on Special:RecentChanges in MediaWiki's Minerva skin * Disabled the statistics update when running 'maintenance/importDump.php' (to improve its performance) * Added 'UnblockUser' + 'UnblockUserComplete' hooks to Special:Unblock * Fixed a PHP error when transwiki'ing Special:Import via a redirected interwiki URL * Added a $wgHTTPImportTimeout setting for Special:Import * Fixed a variable interpolation in MediaWiki's Echo extension * Added an id attribute to the "mw-error-cannotundelete" error message * Removed /* @noflip */ Leaflet's CSS fixes * Removed the deprecated WebRequest::checkSessionCookie() method in MediaWiki 1.29 * Fixed coding standards and added phpcs checks in the IDS extension * Added ability to configure the web service endpoint in IDS * Updated screenshots in VE's user guide about editing galleries * Added GeoData + WikiHiero extension screenshots to their home pages * Number of observations for Wikipedia's "idwiki" database set to 100000 in the Edit Quality Prediction model * Glossary wiki pages on mw.org follow the formatting guidelines * Added showThumbnails attribute to slideshow galleries Again, congratulations to all our hard-working students and thanks to all our mentors providing tasks and reviewing them quickly. As usual: Please contact us if you need help or have questions! Thanks, andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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2017-01-04 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes
by Grace Gellerman 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-01-04 = 2017-01-04 = == Product == === Reading === ====Web==== * Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2405/ ** Allow users who have the NavPopups gadget to use PagePreviews https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151058 ** Start working towards Wikipedia branding on the mobile site https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148514 * Next sprint: ** MobileFrontend tech debt ** New readers prototype work - Allow collapsing of sections ** Wikipedia branding on the mobile site ====Android==== * Last week: ** Holiday * Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ): ** Work towards release of Wikidata description editing =====Reading Infrastructure==== * working on TemplateStyles, tech debt https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133408 * not blocking * blocked: ** WMDE on the last API i18n patch before we can move to hard deprecation: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/321464/ ==== Mobile Content Service (MCS) ==== * Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1323/query/open/ * To be deployed: ** Add additional information to file and user pages clients can use for rendering https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148118 ** Ordered news link to have "most relevant" article in a news story appear first in list * Working on: ** Adding isDisambiguation flag https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151241 ** New endpoint for "On This Day" https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143408 ==== iOS native app ==== * Last Week ** Released 5.3.3 ** Continued work on 5.4 ** Fixed bugs found in 5.3.3 * This week ** Release 5.3.4 ** Contine work on 5.4 - Nearby, Login enhancements === Community Tech === * Blocking/Blockers: None * Wikimania scholarships application has been updated and deployed * Beginning to do investigative work on top 10 from the wishlist this week (I'll be skipping the meeting today, sorry!) === Editing === ==== Parsing ==== * Not blocking anyone or no blockers on anyone as far as I know * Preparing for Dev Summit sessions * Will soon start work on supporting audio/video in Parsoid * Work ongoing with language variants ( had to revert a patch in core because of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153761 ) ==== UI Standardization ==== * Updates ** Replace deprecated mediawiki.UI Less variables with current ones. All, but one patch on Flow alread merged https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154362 ** Echo Notifications Thank You uses outdated PNG icon instead of SVG. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149352 ** Further research on: Improve form layouts in OOjs UI MW core forms for better user experience. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136790 ** Preparing for Dev Summit and UI Standardization Design offsite * Blocked ** OOjs UI's ButtonWidgets should use `box-sizing: border-box` https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146962 ** Devise a generic way for theme-agnostic stylesheets to adapt to the current theme https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112747 – Needs feedback from core developers ==== Collaboration ==== * Blocked: None * Blocking: None * Updates ** userExpLevel RecentChanges filter ** Other than that, mostly bug fixes to Echo and Flow, including Flow DB inonsistency fixes == Technology == === Analytics === * Public EventStreams launch (hopefully early) this quarter ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130651) ** Blocked on ops (they know! :)) ** Need review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/325589/ (Timo?) === Security === * Security Reviews: ** TwoColConflict (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149808) ** InterwikiSorting (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149083) ** Cognate (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149082) === Technical Operations === * '''Blocked''': ** None * '''Blocking''': ** None * Updates: ** LabsDB goal successful ** Kubernetes goal successful ** Ganglia/Prometheus goal successful ** ** Work starting on the data center switchover preparation === Performance === * Blocking/blockers: none * Started work on defining alerts for performance regressions * Implemented PoolCounter support in Thumbor, undergoing review === Discovery === * No blockers * Quatery goals update: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q2_Goals#Disco… * Continuing work on crosswiki searching, refactoring Special:Search * Merged patch allowing extensions to define query keywords == Wikidata == * Preparing for the Dev Summit in SF. The Wikidata team is looking forward to meet you all! * Gaining speed again after holiday weeks. Working hard on federation (ground work for structured Commons) as well as Lexemes (for Wiktionary). * RfC: Drafted an alternative for the deprecated PHPUnit::assertTag: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T69122 * Slow progress on phasing out UsageException: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153359 Given that it was deprecated just a few days ago we do not consider this high-priority at the moment. == Fundraising Tech == * Reviewing payment processor performance and fraud rates * Reviewing banner impressions anomalies (neatly explained by internet.org proxies in Ireland) * CiviCRM bug fixes and minor version upgrade * little holiday scramble to deploy phpmailer CVE fixes ** Does security or releng want to look into using an automated composer.lock version vulnerability checker, e.g. https://security.sensiolabs.org/api ? *** Darian says ^^^ is already in place for mediawiki core, and he can help us set it up for all the fundraising components.

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Gerrit authentication denied - help
by Daniel Barrett 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

I am using Gerrit for the first time and am getting an authentication failure when I run "git review -R". Any help appreciated. I've successfully created a developer account, installed my SSH public key, and run "ssh -p 29418 dbarrett(a)gerrit.wikimedia.org" to confirm that it works. I successfully cloned a repository (git clone https://dbarrett@gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/DynamicPageList), created a branch, made a change, and committed it to the branch with a standard commit message, all following the directions at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial. But when I try to push, I get: $ git review -R Password for 'https://dbarrett@gerrit.wikimedia.org': <enter password for developer account> remote: Unauthorized fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://dbarrett@gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/DynamicPageLis…' (Frankly, I'm surprised to see password authentication at all, given the SSH key is installed, and the private key is added to my ssh-agent.) What should I try next? Thank you very much. DanB

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I want to write an extension, let us consult its syntax and API
by Victor Porton 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

I want a small popup to be displayed when I hover over a link to a certain namespace. Note that the popup has nothing to do with the page to which it links. So for example, I want a link to A:X and when I hover the mouse over it I want to display B:X in a small popup (where A and B are namespaces). Note that B:X is a short page, it should be displayed in the popup completely (not just its announce or description). Note also that I need the popup to be "stable" enough, so that I could move the mouse (without the tooltip disappearing) and click a link in the tooltip. --- I am considering to write a new extension for this myself. But first I want to consult its syntax and API. For me personally the best mode of functionality is the following: In LocalSettings.php write an associative array mapping of namespaces: A=>B, etc. Then make popups for ALL links to objects in A (on every page which links to namespace A). However, other users may want different API and syntax, for example: <span popup="B:X">[[A:X|X]]</span> Please discuss with me which APIs and syntaxes should be available. -- Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org

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Happy New Year.‎ בּוֹרֵא מְאוֹרֵי הָאֵשׁ.
by Y its Ha'CK Kent you CK why 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

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Phabricator monthly statistics - 2016-12
by communitymetrics＠wikimedia.org 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

Hi Community Metrics team, This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail. Accounts created in (2016-12): 227 Active users (any activity) in (2016-12): 867 Task authors in (2016-12): 471 Users who have closed tasks in (2016-12): 269 Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on their workboard in (2016-12): 252 Tasks created in (2016-12): 2329 Tasks closed in (2016-12): 1987 Open and stalled tasks in total: 32965 Median age in days of open tasks by priority: Unbreak now: 30 Needs Triage: 236 High: 410 Normal: 579 Low: 856 Lowest: 754 (How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority) TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 . Yours sincerely, Fab Rick Aytor (via community_metrics.sh on iridium at Sun Jan 1 00:00:15 UTC 2017)

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