Wikitech-l November 2017

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[MediaWiki-announce] Security release: 1.29.2 / 1.28.3 / 1.27.4
by Sam Reed 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.29.2, 1.28.3 and 1.27.4! These releases fix nine security issues in core and one related issue in the vendor folder. Download links are given at the end of this email. Patches will be pushed to gerrit after this email is sent, and will land into the relevant branches as fast as our CI infrastructure allows. Git tags will follow soon after. All related tasks will be made public in phabricator too in the following few hours. Please note that this month is the End-Of-Life date for MediaWiki 1.28. This means that MediaWiki 1.28.3 will be the last security release for that version, barring any unforeseen issues. We would strongly encourage users of MediaWiki 1.28 to upgrade to MediaWiki 1.29, released in July 2017, or a yet newer version as soon as possible. MediaWiki 1.29 will be supported until July 2018. See <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle> for more information. This release also serves as a maintenance release for these branches. == Security fixes == * (T128209) Reflected File Download from api.php. Reported by Abdullah Hussam. (CVE-2017-8809) * (T165846) BotPasswords doesn't throttle login attempts. * (T134100) On private wikis, login form shouldn't distinguish between login failure due to bad username and bad password. (CVE-2017-8810) * (T178451) XSS when $wgShowExceptionDetails = false and browser sends non-standard url escaping. (CVE-2017-8808) * (T176247) It's possible to mangle HTML via raw message parameter expansion. (CVE-2017-8811) * (T125163) id attribute on headlines allow raw >. (CVE-2017-8812) * (T124404) language converter can be tricked into replacing text inside tags by adding a lot of junk after the rule definition. (CVE-2017-8814) * (T119158) Language converter: unsafe attribute injection via glossary rules (CVE-2017-8815) The following only affects 1.29: * (T180488) (T125177) "api.log contains passwords in plaintext" wasn't correctly fixed in all branches in the previous security release. (CVE-2017-0361) The following only affects 1.27 and 1.28: * (T180231) composer.json has require-dev versions of PHPUnit with known security issues. Reported by Tom Hutchison. (CVE-2017-9841) It is recommended to run `composer update --no-dev` after upgrading to MW 1.27.4 or 1.28.3 if you installed MediaWiki via git. If you are using the tarball, you are not affected, and you do not need to run this command. This will remove developer dependancies that production wikis do not require. If you require developer dependancies, run `composer update` which will update to a version of PHPUnit without known RCE. If you cannot run `composer update` for any reason, it is recommended that you delete the offending file as a minimum yourself using the following command: `rm -rf vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php` == Links to all mentioned tasks == https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128209 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165846 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134100 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178451 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176247 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125163 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180231 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125163 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124404 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119158 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180488 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125177 == Release notes == Full release notes for 1.27.4: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_27/RELEASE-NOTES… https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.27 Full release notes for 1.28.3: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_28/RELEASE-NOTES… https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.28 Full release notes for 1.29.2: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_29/RELEASE-NOTES… https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.29 For information about how to upgrade, see <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading> ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.27/mediawiki-1.27.4.tar.gz Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.27/mediawiki-core-1.27.4.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.27.3): https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.27/mediawiki-1.27.4.patch.gz GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.27/mediawiki-core-1.27.4.tar.gz.… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.27/mediawiki-1.27.4.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.27/mediawiki-1.27.4.patch.gz.sig Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.28/mediawiki-1.28.3.tar.gz Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.28/mediawiki-core-1.28.3.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.28.2): https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.28/mediawiki-1.28.3.patch.gz GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.28/mediawiki-core-1.28.3.tar.gz.… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.28/mediawiki-1.28.3.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.28/mediawiki-1.28.3.patch.gz.sig Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.29/mediawiki-1.29.2.tar.gz Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.29/mediawiki-core-1.29.2.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.29.1): https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.29/mediawiki-1.29.2.patch.gz GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.29/mediawiki-core-1.29.2.tar.gz.… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.29/mediawiki-1.29.2.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.29/mediawiki-1.29.2.patch.gz.sig Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html _______________________________________________ MediaWiki announcements mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce

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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2017-10-30
by Chris Koerner 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

Hello there, This is the Discovery weekly update for the week starting 2017-10-30 _and_ 2017-11-06 - so the last two weeks. == Highlights == * Blog post about searching using dashes and exclamation points when they're not part of the expected search syntax (by Trey Jones): ''"So -happy to meet you: Advanced searching techniques on Wikimedia sites"''. [0] == Discussions== === Search === * Trey wrote a blog post about advanced searching techniques, particularly dealing with dashes and exclamation points when they are *not* search syntax. [0] * Trey finished an analysis of enabling mapping hiragana and katakana for English- and Japanese-language wikis. There was less enthusiasm for the mapping and more problems on the Japanese side, so it is not going to be deployed there at this time. However, we're looking to enable it for other languages. [1] * David finished up refactoring the Searcher class and the SearchContext to allow easy code reuse [2] * Eric fixed an issue with a searchmatch span that was altering searches [3] * Eric and David finished up the work needed for evaluating the training speed and accuracy for 1M and 30M sample training sets and updated the resource usage docs [4] * Stas enabled disambiguation page demoting in Wikidata search and fixed several regressions in prefix search [5] [6] [7] [8]. === Analysis === * Chelsy finished up the analysis of the A/B test to test relaxing the retrieval query filter and the report has been published [9] [10] * After the quarterly metrics meeting at the end of October, there was a follow-up question that Chelsy answered [11] * Mikhail and Gehel finished up the creation of a Puppet profile/role for doing R-based heavy stats/ML on Wikimedia Cloud [12] === Portal === * The Wikipedia.org portal page was updated with new translations and new stats on October 30, 2017 [13] [14] === WDQS === * Stas fixed bug in RDF formatting of coordinates [15] * Stas implemented ordinal variable in WDQS calls to MWAPI [16] [0] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/11/06/searching-techniques/ [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176197 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178906 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178522 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170009 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148411 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179061 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179045 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179130 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177957 [10] https://analytics.wikimedia.org/datasets/discovery/reports/AB_test_to_test_… [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179449 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178096 [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142582 [14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 [15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179228 [16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177275 --- 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 Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation

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Tomorrow: Weekly Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 4-5 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 tomorrows 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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Fwd: Security pre-release announcement: 1.29.2 / 1.28.3 / 1.27.4
by Sam Reed 13 Nov '17

13 Nov '17

Hi all, Tomorrow we will be issuing a security release to all supported branches of MediaWiki. The new releases will be: 1.29.2 1.28.3 1.27.4 This will resolve 9 issues in MediaWiki core. Fixes will be available in these respective release branches, the currently unreleased 1.30.0 and also master. Tarballs will be available for the above mentioned point releases as well. 1.28 was previously announced as end of life, but 1.28.3 will be the final security and maintenance release barring any unforeseen issues. This security release includes fixes for MediaWiki core. --- Sam Reed

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New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers
by Olga Vasileva 13 Nov '17

13 Nov '17

The Readers web team will be deploying a new feature this week to make it easier to download PDF versions of articles on the mobile website. [0] Providing better offline functionality was one of the highlighted areas of focus based on the generative research done by the New Readers team in Mexico, Nigeria, and India. Over the past year, the New Readers and Readers Web teams created a prototype for mobile PDFs which was evaluated by user research and community feedback [1]. As the prototype evaluation received positive feedback and results, we went forward with development. [2] For the initial deployment, the feature will be available to Google Chrome browsers on Android with support for other mobile browsers to come in the future. For Chrome, the feature will use the native Android print functionality where users can choose to download a webpage as a PDF. Mobile print styles will be used for these PDFs to ensure optimal readability for smaller screens. [3] The feature will be available starting Wednesday, Nov 15. For more information, see the project page on MediaWiki.org. [0] [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_PDFs [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Offline [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Offline#Concept_testing_for_mob… [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Print_Styles#Mobile_Pri… -- Olga Vasileva // Product Manager // Reading Web Team https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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2017-11-08 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes
by Grace Gellerman 09 Nov '17

09 Nov '17

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-11-08 = 2017-11-08 = == Callouts == * No MW Train the week of the 20th due to Thanksgiving, SWATs will be open on Mon and Tuesday (Wednesday is “Friday” that week). * RelEng: Please port your browser tests to the nodejs framework. 7 repositories have not started yet (still in ruby, which is no longer maintained). [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139740 task] * Tidy replacement: if you are an editor on some wiki, please get the word out to your wikis to fix the high-priority linter issues. We want to get Tidy removed from the cluster sooner than later.A bunch of wikis (including mediawiki) no longer have Tidy, and a few 100 small wikis can get Tidy replaced based on stats about linter issues ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy/Linter/Stats/2017-11-… ). But would be good to get some largish wikis moved over so we can identify any lingering problems sooner than later. == Audiences == === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** 5.7.1 in the app store today (minor bug fixes) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3047/ ** Continuing work on 5.8 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2913/ (faster article loads, synced reading lists) ==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Released version 2.6.206 to production. ** Continuing to test / integrate with Reading List service. ==== Reading Web ==== * Blocked by: ** Ops&Release engineering - How to use Chromium in Puppeteer [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178570]+ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178189 *** Currently investigating on path forward in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180037. * Blocking: * Updates: ** Working on the Chromium-based PDF renderer service. *** Starting performance testing within two weeks. ** Researching behaviour around the "Download to PDF" button [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177969, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177969#3742056] ** Working product and technical documentation for Marvin ==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Continuing work on MCS summary, media (gallery) endpoints. ** Continuing with Reading Lists ==== Multimedia ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== Discovery ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** continuing work on portal automation. going well. ===== Maps ===== * Blocked by: N/A * Blocking: N/A * Updates: None === Contributors === ==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== Parsing ==== * section + figure-inline + html5-ids changes aren't going out this week after all -- reviews not yet finalized + we need thorough testing in beta cluster. We are still hoping to get it out next week. * Tidy replacement: if you are an editor on some wiki, please get the word out to your wikis to fix the high-priority linter issues. We want to get Tidy removed from the cluster sooner than later. A bunch of wikis (including mediawiki) no longer have Tidy, and a few 100 small wikis can get Tidy replaced based on stats about linter issues ==== Global Collaboration ==== * Blocked by: nobody * Blocking: ops maybe? There's the Flow dumps issue but not sure how much of a blocker that is * Updates: ** Going to roll out RCFilters to remaining (FlaggedRevs) wikis on Nov 15 ** Early work on using wikitext instead of HTML for storing Flow content, need something like pcache except 1) it's Parsoid HTML not PHP HTML 2) Flow comments aren't pages ==== UI Standardization ==== ** OOUI v0.24.1 & v0.24.2 released (missed last week's Scrum of Scrums), https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md;v…; among changes: *** UI design **** WikimediaUI theme with 3 changes: SVG markup (see below), MenuSectionOptionWidget clearer on long lists and ComboBoxInputWidget providing stronger user feedback on open * Ongoing: ** OOUI & relying products: *** icons: Work on icon set to be more harmonious and align to WikimediaUI Style Guide's guidelines https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177432 ** Unify SVG markup across Foundation products https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178867 === Community Tech === * Not blocking * Not blocked * Our annual survey is underway: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey * Fixing issues uncovered by Unicode sections rollout to Russian projects == Technology == === Analytics === * New kafka Jumbo cluster is up, for now mirror-ing topics from analytics cluster. * New DB hosts for eventlogging back in place, purging data out of compliance at a faster rate due to better hardware. * We have spark2 in cluster! * Still troubleshooting metric difference wikistats 1.0 on wikistats 2.0. Take a look edit metrics available now (some of them have a 5% difference, so not final yet): https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/am.wikipedia.org * Work on refining eventlogging data in hadoop continues so hadoop can be a easy to query backend for eventlogging data === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Deploying new English thank you letter ** Payments form validation improvements ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176501) ** Better API error handling for backup card processor ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177893) ** More stats reporting to prometheus ** CiviCRM UI improvements (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142549, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178003, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177873) ** CentralNotice: allow delaying impression reporting ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176334) === MediaWiki Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Performance === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Release Engineering === * Blocking ** ??? * Blocked ** Please port your browser tests to the nodejs framework. 7 repositories have not started yet (still in ruby, which is no longer maintained). *** See: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139740 *** Notably: Global Collaboration Team, Fundraising Tech, Wikibase, and Mulitmedia * Updates ** No MW Train the week of the 20th due to Thanksgiving, SWATs will be open on Mon and Tuesday (Wednesday is “Friday” that week). ** [TechDebt program] First pass of the service levels for component ownership was shared with the Code Health Group last week; feedback on-going. ** [TechDebt program] The next blog post should be posted Real Soon Now™ (done on our side). ** [SSD Program] Working on getting the mathoid tests running on submit. ** [SSD Program] A new release of Blubber is on the horizon. *** [SSD Program] Aside: what it is: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Deploymen… *** [SSD Program] Bubber: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/blubber/ ** [scap tech debt] Working to support both pre git-2.11 and post git 2.11 hosts (namely Trusty and Jessie (with backports)/Stretch, respectively) to let us use newer functionality (notably `--jobs`). ** [CI] Most tox jobs are moved to Docker containers ** [CI] Investigating why many docker containers are left behind after a SIGTERM === Research === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **frwiki -- ongoing issue. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179711 (should be fixed by SOS) **Draft quality data is coming to English Wikipedia (ping Commtech and Global Collab) ***You can use this to help patrollers sort new pages by (Spam, Attach, Vandalism/Hoax, or OK). OK == not immediately concerning but not necessarily good. ***[Reponse from Roan: we don't plan to use draftquality directly at this point] **Wikilabels getting some improvements. ***Links to on-wiki documentation for each campaign ("info" link) ***Statistics about labelers will have usernames **Amir is working on Icelandic language support. === Search Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Added hiragana<->katakana translations for English wiki (not for Japanese one) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176197 ** Implemented demoting disambig pages for Wikidata prefix search https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148411 ** Improved reusability of Searcher code https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178906 ** Improving completion suggester https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178474 ** Working on porting Selenium tests from Ruby to JS ** Working on upgrade to Elastic 5.5 ** Working on indexing Wikidata descriptions and adding them to fulltext search === Security === * Blocked by: None * Blocking: Everyone waiting for security reviews * Updates: ** Reviews: *** BeautifulSoup (done, comments will be added shortly) *** vue.js (done, same) *** mediawiki-services-chromium-render ** Preparing for MW security release === Services === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** Parsoid storage switched to new storage model for all but wikipedias ** Definitions storage switched to new model ** Planning on switching RecordLintJob to kafka-based JobQueue === Technical Operations === * Blocked by: ** Flow isAllowed gets actual revision text before it is needed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172025 * Blocking: * Updates: ** labsdb1001 storage crashed; Manuel got the dbs back up, but we are leaving in read-only - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179464 ** Turning up s8 databases for wikidata https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177208 ** wikidiff2 1.5.1 fully rolled out, enabled for group0 wikis, additional will be enabled by Adam Shoreland over the next weeks == Wikidata == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** getting rid of the Wikidata build (to deploy Wikibase etc. as normal extensions): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173818 *** changed how JS libraries are included (as submodules, instead of via composer) * work on Lexeme (persistence) * work on multi-content revisions * Coordinates in RDF exports are going to use xsd:double: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179228 == German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

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Simple overview image about how MW loads resources in clients
by Joaquin Oltra Hernandez 09 Nov '17

09 Nov '17

Hi, We were having a session where we talked about resource loading, code entry points for the front-end, and how things work on MediaWiki, and we came up with a small pic to explain the lifecycle for people newer to MediaWiki. Maybe it could help some people get a better grasp about where files are coming from and what why the load.php urls are as they are. Please, forgive any missing details, and if there is something very wrong I'd love to correct it, please let me know. Also to clarify, "Magic" is used as "Dynamic, runtime based, dependent on the state of your code/client cache/server state & extensions" to shorten things and in a humorous key. Links: - Phab: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/M232 - Imgur: https://i.imgur.com/DYLqtQf.png

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TechCom discussion in 90 minutes: Tweaking the RFC process
by Daniel Kinzler 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Hi all! As mentioned in the TechCom Radar mail earlier this week, today's TechCom IRC meeting will be about the RFC process itself. There is no concrete proposal to discuss (yet), this is intended to be a session for gathering questions, comments and suggestions. The meeting will start at 22:00 UTC (2pm PST, 23:00 CET) on #wikimedia-office. -- Daniel Kinzler Principal Platform Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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Try out the commit message validator
by Kunal Mehta 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Hi! tl;dr <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/commit-message-validator> Commit messages are pretty important - they make it easy to figure out what a change does without reading the entire diff. And because of that, we have some guidelines[1] on how to format your commit message in the standard way. But sometimes people aren't familiar with the guidelines, or more likely we make a typo somewhere. Here's where the commit-message-validator[2] comes in handy! $ git commit <type in commit message and save> commit-message-validator v0.5.1 The following errors were found: Line 1: First line should be <=80 characters Line 3: Bug: value must be a single phabricator task ID Please review <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Commit_message_guidelines> and update your commit message accordingly Or if you did a good job: commit-message-validator v0.5.1 Commit message is formatted properly! Keep up the good work! Installing it as a git hook is the recommended usage, and instructions on the wiki page[2] explain how to do so, even for people who aren't familiar with Python. The tool was written by Bryan Davis, Fabian Neundorf, and myself. Bugs/feature requests can be filed in the Phabricator project. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Commit_message_guidelines [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Commit-message-validator -- Legoktm

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Readers monthly update for October 2017
by Chris Koerner 07 Nov '17

07 Nov '17

Hello, Here is the monthly update for October from the Readers department at the Wikimedia Foundation. **Reminder**: You can now subscribe to receive theses updates as on-wiki notifications or opt-in email! Handy if you subscribe to the digest of his mailing list or don't visit the archive frequently. Subscribe on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Readers_Monthly Thanks for reading, as always, feedback and questions are welcome. === Apps=== * The iOS team released version 5.7.0. This version includes an updated share-a-fact, improved on-boarding for new users and lots of fixes for iPhone X. [0] * The iOS app was named an "Editors Choice" by Apple. This is the highest recognition Apple gives apps, and in their decision they particularly called out the improved quality of the app, and focus on accessibility. * The Android app went to beta with their latest update. This version adds app shortcuts, image dimming, theming improvements for Light and Dark mode, bug fixes for Simplified and Traditional Chinese and many other refinements. [1] * The apps teams participated in a 3 day "Offsite" in Philadelphia. Read about it on MediaWiki.org. [2] === Web === * Updated Print styles arelive [3] * Regrettably, we turned off OCG. Fortunately, this unblocked Ops's decommission of the service and servers. * We're working hard on a replacement service for the Electron-based PDF rendering service. [4] Follow our progress on Phabricator. [5] === Reading Infrastructure === * the API backend for Reading Lists is in beta [6] [7] === New Readers === * New Reader updates can be found at Meta. [8] === Multimedia === * Support for uploading and viewing 3D models is coming soon to Wikimedia Commons. The feature will support the .STL file format. [9] === Discovery === The Discovery team provides weekly updates. Here are their updates for the month. * 2017-10-02 [10] * 2017-10-09 [11] * 2017-10-16 [12] * 2017-10-23 [13] == Other Noteworthy Stuff == * Sam Smith: I'm currently investigating adding up/downstream bandwidth configuration to my micro-device-lab side project. [14] [0] https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=32471523… [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.beta [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Philadelphia_offsite/Offsite_… [3] https://twitter.com/jdlrobson/status/918264297343422465 [4] https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-services-electron-render [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176627 [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Reading_Lists [7] http://readinglists.wmflabs.org/wiki/VagrantRoleReadingLists [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Updates [9] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:3d [10] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2017-10-02 [11] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2017-10-09 [12] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2017-10-16 [13] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2017-10-23 [14] https://github.com/phuedx/micro-device-lab --- The archive of all past updates can be found on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Status_updates Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation

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