Wikitech-l October 2017

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Tech Debt SIG IRC meeting...
by Jean-Rene Branaa 21 Oct '17

21 Oct '17

Hello All, For those of you that had shown interest in attending the IRC Tech Debt SIG kickoff meeting, my apologies for having to cancel it last minute. I had a minor family emergency to attend to. Unfortunately, the email I sent out only went to the internal email distribution lists. I've not yet reschedule the meeting as I was actually thinking of having the Tech Debt SIG kickoff be a topic during the first, yet to be scheduled, Code Health office hours. If you'd prefer that I set up a separate time for the IRC Tech Debt SIG kickoff, please let me know. Otherwise, please hold tight as I will be scheduling the Code Health office hours by Tuesday of next week. Cheers, JR

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TechCom Radar, 2017-10-18
by Daniel Kinzler 20 Oct '17

20 Oct '17

Hello all! Here are the minutes from this week's meeting: * Last Call: Bump PHP requirement to 5.6 in 1.31. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178538>. RFC discussion minutes: <https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2017/wikimedia-office.20…>. If no pertinent concerns remain unaddressed by November 1st, this RFC will be approved fro implementation. * Next week’s IRC discussion: Don’t use FauxRequest in production code. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169266> As always, the discussion will take place in the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Wednesday 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST). * CommTech is looking for input on allowing extensions more control over user preferences, so they can implement global preferences. RFC discussion upcoming. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178449> * We are seeing a big JobQueue backlog again from Commons. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173710> * PDF generation: OCG has been turned off. Electron is still available, but has stability problems. ChromeDriver is being considered as an alternative. You can also find our meeting minutes at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Minutes> See also the TechCom RFC board <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-rfcs/>. -- Daniel Kinzler Principal Platform Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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Roadmap for continued compatibility with MySQL
by Hogan, Michael C 20 Oct '17

20 Oct '17

How many years into the future is it reasonable to expect that MySQL will remain a recommended database server for "production use" along with MariaDB now that the Foundation has switched to using MariaDB internally? I know that MariaDB claims to be drop in compatible with MySQL, but the list of variances seems to be slowly growing. References... * Compatibility - [[mw:Compatibility]] * MariaDB support? - [[mw:Topic:R1hqki3kaytylml4]] * https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/ Other than [[mw:Compatibility]] on mediawiki.org is there anywhere else (wiki pages, Phabricator tasks/tags, etc.) that I should check for technical roadmap information before emailing wikitech-l? Thank you! Michael

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Fwd: OOjs UI 0.24.0 release (breaking change)
by Volker E. 20 Oct '17

20 Oct '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Volker Eckl <volker(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 6:41 PM Subject: OOjs UI 0.24.0 release (breaking change) To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello everyone, We've released OOjs UI 0.24.0, today. It will be in MediaWiki core from 1.31.0-wmf.4, which will be deployed to Wikimedia production in the regular train, starting on Tuesday 24 October. As there are five breaking changes in this release, at least nominally, please carefully consider if they affect your code. Breaking changes since last release: * Drop 'MediaWiki' backwards-compatibility theme (James D. Forrester) To better indicate usage focus, 'MediaWiki' theme got renamed to WikimediaUI' in v0.22.0. The remaining backwards-compatible alias has been dropped in this release. * icons: Drop 'stripeSideMenu' (James D. Forrester) 'stripeSideMenu' was renamed to 'draggable' and moved to 'movement' pack in v0.22.2. It's now completely dropped. Use it with it's new name from 'movement' instead. * icons: Remove 'eye'/'eyeClosed' icons (Volker E.) We want to use 'alerts' pack more deliberately in major products and moved 'eye'/'eyeClosed' out. They were deprecated in v0.23.0 in 'alerts'. Use icons from 'accessibility' pack instead. * icons: Remove 'signature' icon (Volker E.) Similar to above, we deprecated 'signature' in v0.23.0 in 'alerts'. Use icon from 'editing-advanced' pack instead. * icons: Remove 'sun' (James D. Forrester) 'sun' icon isn't in use in any of our products or products known to us, nor is it planned to be used. In order to keep things small, the icon, deprecated in v0.23.0, now has been removed. Please update your icon pack references accordingly in case you're using one of those icons. Additional details on the 4 new features, 29 code-level and accessibility changes, 24 styling and interaction design amendments, and all improvements since v0.23.0 are in the full changelog[0]. If you have any further queries or need help dealing with breaking changes, please let me know. As always, library documentation is available on mediawiki.org[1], and there is some comprehensive generated code-level documentation and interactive demos hosted on doc.wikimedia.org[2]. [0] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/ master/History.md [1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI [2] - https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/ Best, Volker -- Senior UX Engineer, Contributors Wikimedia Foundation volker.e(a)wikimedia.org | @Volker_E

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Last call: Bump PHP requirement to 5.6 in MW 1.31
by Tim Starling 19 Oct '17

19 Oct '17

Today's RFC discussion was T172165, a proposal for MediaWiki 1.31 to require PHP 7.0. There was no consensus on that proposal, due to the opinion from Ops that it is not feasible to migrate all application servers to Debian Stretch and PHP 7.0 by the expected release date of June 2018. However, there was consensus on the lesser goal of requiring PHP 5.6. So, we have created a new RFC for PHP 5.6 (T178538) and are hereby placing it into Last Call. The proposal is: MediaWiki should bump its PHP requirement to 5.6 as soon as possible, and at the latest in time for the 1.31 branch point (i.e. April 2018). "As soon as possible" means as soon as the few remaining uses of PHP 5.5 in the WMF cluster have been migrated to PHP 5.6 or later, or to HHVM. We'd like to see this migration work be given a high priority. If you have any objection to this proposal, please raise it on Phabricator before the end of the Last Call period, which will be October 31. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178538 -- Tim Starling

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CommTech Showcase happening today!
by Ryan Kaldari 19 Oct '17

19 Oct '17

Curious what the Community Tech team has been up to for the past few months? Come to our showcase presentation at 2pm PDT (9pm UTC) in room 112 (the super big conference room), or watch it on the public YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm02V1ytJ0Y We will be covering: * CodeMirror (syntax highlighting) * LoginNotify * Global Preferences * XTools * Popular Pages Bot * Internet Archive Upload Tool * Unicode Section IDs * and ACTRIAL

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Scoring Platform Team update
by Aaron Halfaker 19 Oct '17

19 Oct '17

Hey folks, We were way overdue for an update, so we just put one together. In the last 3 months, we added new language support for Bengali, Greek, and Tamil. New advance edit quality support for Albanian and Romanian. We cleaned up the old 'reverted' models where better support is available. We're working on moving to a new dedicated cluster. We improved some models by exploring new sources of signal and cleaning datasets. We started work on JADE and presented on The Keilana Effect at Wikimania. Read more on our blog https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/77/status_update_october_… -Aaron On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hey folks, > > I'll be starting to post updates here on our new blog[1], but if you'd > prefer to be notified via the mailing lists we used to post to, that's OK. > I'll make sure that the highlights and the link to these posts gets pushed > there too. > > We had a big presence at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2017 in Vienna. We kicked > off a lot of new language focused collaborations (Greek, Tamil, Bengali) > and we deployed a new Item Quality model for Wikidata. > > French and Finnish Wikipedias now have advance edit quality prediction > support! > > ORES is available through api.php again via rvprop=orescores and > rcprop=oresscores. > > Wiki labels now has a new stats reporting interface. Check out > https://labels.wmflabs.org/stats > > We had a major hiccup when failing over to CODFW, but we worked it out and > ORES is very happy again. > > See more details on our new blog: "Score all the things" > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/blog/view/8/ > > -Aaron > Principal Research Scientist @ WMF > Head of the Scoring Platform team >

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Post-deployment support for Timeless
by Isarra Yos 18 Oct '17

18 Oct '17

As you may be aware, the Timeless skin has been undergoing deployment to various Wikimedia projects over the past couple of months, thus far deployed to five french projects, with a pending deployment for five more hebrew, german, and english projects in the works. As the primary developer and designer on Timeless, it falls to me to address most of the issues as they come up, but to be quite blunt, I no longer have the financial stability to actually do this effectively, so I have submitted a grant proposal asking for funding for post-deployment support for Timeless. While the deadline for the community comments period is technically today, I have unfortunately been ill and unable to finish the proposal or get word out until now, and so would ask that anyone with comments, concerns, or other feedback (including and especially 'the proposal is completely incoherent'), please comment anyway within the next week (by the 24th) as this way it may be possible to incorporate and address them such that the grants Committee members will still be able to review them within the period. Even if not, comments and such may still prove useful for other purposes - task prioritisation, demonstration of support if needing to seek funding elsewhere, etc. Timeless skin documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Timeless Deployment task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154371 Grant proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Isarra/Post-deployment_suppo… Thanks! -Isarra

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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2017-10-09
by Deborah Tankersley 18 Oct '17

18 Oct '17

Hello all, Here is the Discovery weekly update for 2017-10-09. As always, feedback and questions are welcome. ==Highlights== * After active discussions on Spanish Wikipedia, mapframe has been enabled on that site. [0] * * The discussion on English Wikipedia on whether to ask for mapframe to be enabled has been resolved with a consensus of 'yes' to support the use of this functionality on enwiki. [1] * There is an ongoing discussion on English Wikivoyage about the use of mapframe and a draft maps policy has been created. [2] [3] * There is a discussion on Commons about deletion requests, specifically about maps, user-derived work and licensing of that work. [4] * The Search Platform team had a long discussion on how to improve search relevance surveys and A/B tests, highlights from the meeting can be read in and we'll use the information discussed in future tests. [5] [6] ==Discussions== === Search === * Gehel finished the investigation into why elastic@codfw alerted during codfw row B switch upgrade, determined it was that a check done on the LVS endpoint ended up being routed to the server that had just recovered network connectivity. [7] * A 'fix' was released last week that actually had un-intended results on the search results page by adding an icon to every autocomplete result in the main dropdown. Thanks, @Jdforrester for the quick fix! [8] * Trey finished up and deployed code to not use Generic language fallbacks in Mediawiki for Elasticsearch language analyzers, once we re-index various small wikis, this code will be in production. [9] [10] * The A/B test running on 18 wikis with > 1% of search traffic has been stopped and is ready for analysis [11] [12] === Analysis === * Mikhail finished up the Interleaved Search Results A/B test analysis [13] * Chelsy fixed an issue where the dashboard was counting events, not sessions, for mobile web events [14] [15] === Portal === * Continuing conversations on the handling of Chinese languages on the Wikipedia portal with the community [16] === Maps === * Paul finalized a few map styling issues: tunnels; implement all osm-bright.tm2 features in brighmed [17] [18] * The regeneration of map tiles in production finished up on Oct 10 [19] * Mapframe has been enabled on Spanish Wikipedia [20] [0] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuestas/2017/Mapas_din%C3%A1micos [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Should_we_… [2] https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Travellers%27_pub#.7B.7BMapframe.… [3] https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Map [4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Data_talk:Kual… [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155290 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171215#3677637 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170378 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177659 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177871 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147959 [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177490 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176493 [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171215 [14] http://discovery.wmflabs.org/metrics/#mobile_events [15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176811 [16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171647#3679370 [17] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154823 [18] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153400 [19] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176252 [20] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177695 --- Subscribe to receive on-wiki (or opt-in email) notifications of the Discovery weekly update. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Discovery_Weekly The archive of all 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 Cheers! -- deb tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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Tomorrow: Weekly Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers, topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project. If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting This meeting is an offer by WMDE’s tech team. Hosts of todays meeting are: @addshore & @CFisch_WMDE. Hope to see you there! Michi (for WMDE’s tech team) -- Michael F. Schönitzer Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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