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Fwd: DEADLINE EXTENDED: Wikimania 2017 call for submissions
by phoebe ayers 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

FYI all: deadline for presentations has been extended to April 10. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 9:53 PM Subject: DEADLINE EXTENDED: Wikimania 2017 call for submissions To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear all, We have extended the deadline for submitting presentations, panels, roundtables and workshops to Wikimania until *April 10*. The deadline for posters and birds-of-a-feather sessions remains *May 15*. Please see below for the call for submissions for Wikimania, and submit your ideas! Please also note, for those who have already submitted, there is now a field in the registration form for "completed" or "in-progress" submission. When you are ready to have your submission reviewed, please note that it is "completed". Thank you! Please contact us with any questions: wikimania-program(a)wikimedia.org best, Phoebe On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 10:10 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: > All, > I'm very pleased to send out the Wikimania Montréal Call for Submissions, > which can be found in French here: > https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/fr > and in English here: > https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/en > > On behalf of the Wikimania programme committee, > Phoebe Ayers > ----- > > Que vous soyez un membre de la communauté de l’un des projets Wikimédia > (tels que Wikipédia, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikimedia > Commons, Wiktionnaire, MediaWiki ou autres), un créateur de contenu libre > ou un consommateur, nous recevrons avec plaisir votre proposition pour une > session lors de Wikimania 2017. > > *dates importantes* > > Appel aux propositions ouvert : 2 février 2017 > Date limite de soumission des présentations (conférence, panneau, table > ronde et atelier) : *15 avril 2017* > Date limite de soumission des brefs exposés, affiches et réunions > d’oiseaux de la même plume : 15 mai 2017. > Notification d’acceptation des présentations : 20 avril 2017 > Notification d’acceptation des brefs exposés, affiches et réunions > d’oiseaux de la même plume : 10 juin 2017 > > *Types de soumissions & Comment soumettre: *https://wikimania2017.wikimedi > a.org/wiki/Submissions/fr > > *Des questions ?* Merci de contacter le Comité du programme par > wikimania-program(à)wikimedia.org. > > ---- > > Whether you are a community member of one of the Wikimedia projects (such > as Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikimedia Commons, > Wiktionary, MediaWiki or others), or a fellow open content creator or > consumer, we welcome your proposal for a session at Wikimania 2017. > > *Important dates* > > Call for proposals opens: February 2, 2017 > Deadline for submitting presentation (lecture, panel, roundtable and > workshop) submissions: *April 10, 2017* > Deadline for submitting lightning talks, poster, and birds of a feather > submissions: May 15, 2017 > Notification of acceptance for presentations: April 20, 2017 > Notification of acceptance for lightning talks, poster and birds of a > feather submissions: June 10, 2017 > > *Submission types & how to submit:* https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/en > > > *Any questions?* Please contact the Programme Committee at > wikimania-program at wikimedia.org > -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at> gmail.com *

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Request for Mentorship for Gsoc project
by Egbe Eugene 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

Hi All. while browsing the list of possible projects and i stepped on the project titled [1] Editor-focused dashboard gadget. I was requested by the co-mentor of the project to look for someone who may likely opt to act as primary mentor for the project. So please if you are willing to help me as the mentor of this project it will be highly appreciated. Thanks. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91655

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Filesystem directory structure for Mediawiki files
by Jeffrey Walton 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

Hi Everyone, This is an usual use case. I am an admin on the VM that hosts our Mediawiki. Our wiki used to allows ZIP uploads from the web but its not functioning at the moment. As an alternate procedure I would like to scp a ZIP file to my home directory, and then manually cp it into wiki. I'm not clear on the directory structure: # find images/ -name '*.zip' images/3/3a/GCM-AEAD-Test.zip images/3/3a/Cryptest-sh.zip images/7/7c/Oids.zip images/7/75/Twofish-CBC-Filter.zip images/7/77/SEC1.zip images/7/77/Blowfish-CTR-Filter.zip images/7/74/IDEA-CTR-Filter.zip images/0/07/Mersenne.zip images/0/09/AES_RNG.zip ... My questions are, (1) what is the directory structure I should use when performing the manual copy (how do I determine the intermediate directories)? Or, (2) what is the procedure to perform a manual copy (if I don't need to worry about the directory structure)? The use case is unusual because we could not find a Mediawiki security and hardening guide. We got a little overzealous and broke uploads during our effort to harden Apache, PHP and Mediawiki. At this point I know its more than ModSecurity because disabling it does not resolve the issue. Its no big deal to me since I can scp and cp files as needed. (And please don't get distracted about broken uploads from the web interface. I don't care about that problem, and it probably provides us a better security posture. I am happy to live with it). Thanks in advance. Jeff

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Proposal Outreachy-14: Document process for creating new Zotero translator and getting it live in production.
by Sonali Gupta 25 Mar '17

25 Mar '17

Hello, I am Sonali Gupta, an undergrad student of Computer Science and Engineering from India. I am interested in applying for Outreachy round 14 and have prepared a draft of my application. Project: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115158 Proposal:https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161191 Looking forward to hearing some reviews and suggestions on it. Thank you. *Sonali Gupta* *Vice Chairperson- Computer Society of India, Student Chapter* *member, The Literary Committee* *Undergraduate- Computer Science* The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur contact- +91-9462900363

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Wikimedia Strategy 2017
by Szymon Grabarczuk 24 Mar '17

24 Mar '17

I'd like to invite you to participate in the Wikimedia Movement Strategy discussions[1], about our wider movement's overall goals, "What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?". It's currently in the first stage, of broad discussion. There are further details in the related MetaWiki pages[2] (incl. FAQ[3], calendar and process[4], list of other simultaneous communities' discussions[5], etc). Also, if you're interested in helping facilitate and summarize the discussions on MediaWiki.org, and to bring back the summaries of what the other communities are discussing, in the weeks ahead, please let me know. Thanks. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Wikimedia_Strategy_2017 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017 [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Frequently… [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Process [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Outreach/L… *Szymon Grabarczuk* MetaWiki Strategy Coordinator

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WMF software dev internship opening for content translation UI
by Pine W 24 Mar '17

24 Mar '17

For anyone who's looking for a software dev internship: https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/634650 This is advertised as a 20 hours per week position. Pine

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2017-03-22 Scrum of Scrums notes
by Grace Gellerman 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

= 2017-03-22= contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering == Call outs == * CodeMirror extension (for syntax highlighting) needs security review https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108687 == Product == === Reading === ====Android==== * Last week: ** Many miscellaneous UI enhancements for better offline support ** New saved page cache implementation still in progress T156917 * Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ): ** Continue improving the offline experience ** Continue 2.5.x release https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2667/ ==== iOS ==== * Last Week ** 5.4 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/ *** Removed places from 5.4 so that updates can be made in response to user feedback *** Shipped release candidate for 5.4 * This week ** Release 5.4 *** Login enhancements *** Two factor auth *** Bug fixes ** 5.4.1 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2600/ *** Any fixes for 5.4 required after release *** JS consolidation ** 5.5 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/ *** Places updates in response to user feedback ====Reading Infrastructure==== * TemplateStyles: ** CSS sanitizer library https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:css-sanitizer ** RfC closed, discussing implementation plans for deduplicating <style> tags in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160563 * PageViewInfo: in production ** https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=info ** https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=pageviews&… ** https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&formatversion=2… |extracts|pageterms|pageimages|pageprops|revisions&explaintext=&exchars=512&wbptterms=description&piprop=thumbnail&pithumbsize=320 * ORES: ** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/336963/ (hooks + data attributes for change list items) *waiting for +2* * Mobile Content Service: ** deployed a couple of bug fixes for mobile-sections endpoint ** adding more languages to TFA (Today's Featured Article) in aggregated feed ==== Multimedia ==== * No blocking/blockers * Deployment work for Extension:3d stalled on deployment work for 3d2png. We're working through that now, and hopefully it won't take too long. * Obviously we're in a different section this week. Team is moving. More to come. ==== Web ==== * Sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/reading-web-sprint-94/ * Last week: ** Page Previews tech debt clean-up and bug fixes ** Print styles * This week: ** Reading Web off-site === Community Tech === * LoginNotify high-priority, aiming for an early April release https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T11838 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160094 * XTools going very well, "Articleinfo" and "Top Edits" working https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-dev/ ** Now working on the edit counter https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160481 * Cookie blocks all merged and on next week's deploy train, Tuesday we will test on Testwiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158129 * Popular pages bot now includes pageviews of all redirects to each page in the WikiProject https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160201 * Editing team graciously tested a solution to have CodeMirror (syntax highlighting) work in new wikitext editor, seems promising so we will test further https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161052 ** Blocker: Ready to move forward with adding it to old wikitext editor, but needs security review https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108687 === Editing === ==== UI Standardization ==== * This week ** Style guide work on components. Both technical and content-wise https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimediaui_style_guide/ ** Wikimedia UI/OOjs UI icon fundamentals: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135081, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141801and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139351 * Updates ** OOjs UI: *** Release of v0.20.0 (postponed from last week, due to Jenkins trouble) **** Huge improvement on/resolving almost entirely `em` sizing based interface issues across browsers **** Also including 11 UI touching patches (icon deprecations, removed icon flags, color amendments, vertical rhythm) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md ==== Language ==== * OOjs migration for ContentTranslation continue. * Team will ask Services help in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107914 (if needed) ==== Collaboration ==== * Blocked * Blocking * Updates ** RC Filters deployed to test.wikipedia.org and test2.wikipedia.org. Going to Portuguese and Polish on Tuesday. *** RC Filters GuidedTour *** Add ORES filters to new RCFilters *** Allow the ORES extension features to be 'on' by default *** RCFilters UI: Add a 'what's this?' link to filter groups *** More RC Filters UI improvements. E.g. **** Rework conflicts to be objects in filter or group context **** Create tooltips for filter states ==== Parsing ==== * Linter now deployed on small wikis; Bugs being fixed based on feedback / testing; Likely deployed to medium wikis this week * Planning rollout of ParserMigration extension to let editors compare Tidy output with its replacement (RemexHTML). * Based on visual diff testing of a language variants patch in core ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/333997/ ), we have identified some pages (primarily chemical element pages like enwiki:Isavuconazole and others on multiple wikis that use language variant markup that is being affected by this patch. We are thinking of updating the markup on these pages to nowiki the "-{" and "-}" that might be encountered there. Doing a dump grep to find these == Technology == === Analytics === * finished productionizing edit reconstruction jobs, Data Lake tables in Hive now have a "snapshot" partition column and will be updated regularly * not urgent but blocked on people to review mediawiki-config and mediawiki-extensions changes: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/344007/, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/342913/, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/336446/. Especially 342913, which solves errors in production on every edit. Some people seem to review these in their own time, but it would be nice to have organizational support, or should we get +2 rights on our team and do it? ** MF: Deployers have +2 for mediawiki-config. You may want to request at least one person on your team to become a deployer, for this and other reasons (e.g. running scripts and mwrepl in production). * ongoing: legacy pagecount metrics being added to AQS, will be queryable via the API soon * ongoing: wikistats 2.0 prototype with Vue, in a little over a week we are very comfortable with the framework, so great learning curve as advertised === Security === * Reviews: * 2FA login on iOS App * MediaWiki 1.28.1/1.27.2/1.23.16 nearly ready for release === Technical Operations === * Blocked * Blocking * Updates ** Special:Allpages outage incident report https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170320-Special… ** Labs: nfs-exportd not setting correct permissions on exports (resolved with patch) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160818 ** Adjusting Prometheus retention caused missing data https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160677 ** Mark on parental leave === Services === * Blockers: none * Updates: ** Node.js kafka driver upgraded for all services using kafka (Change-Prop, Trending, EventStreams) ** Cassandra client encryption enabled in RESTBase Cassandra cluster: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111113 ** Thanks to discovery maps updated to node 6 and the node migration is now complete === Discovery === * No blockers * All searches now served from ElastitcSearch 5.1.2. eqiad cluster upgrade soon. * Completion suggester temporarily disabled to accommodate a bugfilx for title length, will be reeenabled soon (probably today). * Second A/B test for displaying sister wiki results in search launched ( https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-March/087800.html) * Working on adding search to Special:Undelete ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109561) * Working on Wikidata search * Various updates to portal code & stats, see weekly for detals ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2017-03-13) === Fundraising Tech === * No external blockers * Blocking: DonationInterface vendor lib double-inclusion https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159099 ** Sounds like Reedy doesn't consider it high priority, mostly just annoying for IDEs to have two versions of classes * DonationInterface ** More tech debt work https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160385 * CentralNotice ** Banner Sequencing https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144453 ** Reducing cache purges for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154954 * CiviCRM ** Finishing up the address fixes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158268 ** Investigating importing 3rd party bulkmailer data * Opsy ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159289 ** Trying to get our last (and most complicated) Precise box migrated to Jessie ** Writing some wrapper scripts to run jobs using cron instead of via Jenkins *** Thanks for the interest and comments from releng!

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Translate, BlueSpiceFoundation, UserGroups extensions maintainers/devs
by zppix e 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

I couldn't think of a better way of notifying the devs for the aforementioned extensions, but if I could have you guys take attention to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160539 I'd be grateful! Thanks, Zppix WMF Volunteer Developer ZppixBot Maintainer Quarrybot-Enwiki Maintainer enwp.org/User:Zppix Sent from my iPhone

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Letting configurations override namespace registration of extensions
by Amir Tafreshi 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

Hey, There is a bug (or a feature, depends on how you see it) in mediawiki extension namespace registration [1]. If an extension registers a namespace, there is no way to override that. It can be problematic in cases when there is a conflict of IDs between two installed extensions or one extension and custom-defined namespaces. We want to change that but there are several approaches and each of them has benefits and issues: One (suggested by me) is to make IDs of namespaces registered by extension configurable using LocalSettings.php. This allows us to easily "move" a namespace without needing to touch other configurations related to that namespace but it also adds a global variable and also can't handle conflict in names of namespaces. Another approach (suggested by legoktm) is to skip registering a namespace from extensions when the namespace constant is already defined. This doesn't have problems that the first approach has but you need to duplicate the configuration when there is a conflict. Please contribute at the discussion and add your comments/concerns. Also feel free to suggest a new approach. [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160462 Best -- Amir Sarabadani Tafreshi Software Engineer (contractor) ------------------------------------- Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin http://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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March 2017 CREDIT showcase video and notes posted
by Adam Baso 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Hello! The CREDIT showcase video and notes from earlier this month have been posted. Enjoy! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase/2017-03-01 Here's what was covered: * Stephen Niedzielski, localized Android app independent of system language * Gergő Tisza, Developer Wishlist * Gergő Tisza, PsySH (much of the credit is due to Antoine Musso who could not participate) * Jan Drewniak - 'Explore Similar' feature for search results -Adam

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